Thomas Lifson

Thomas Lifson

  • New York Times goes bipolar on Trump’s border control success

    March 17, 2025

    New York Times goes bipolar on Trump’s border control success

    I confess to a tiny drop of pity for Trump-haters within the tidal wave of amusement I experience watching them deal with the successes President Trump already has experienced. The worst of it for TDS sufferers right now must be the border, where wit...

  • CNN wants you to know that Biden did not strand the astronauts Musk is rescuing

    March 15, 2025

    CNN wants you to know that Biden did not strand the astronauts Musk is rescuing

    Now that Elon Musk is on Trump’s team and the latest two-minute hate (and vandalism) target, he must not be allowed to look heroic in the media. But the spectacle of his SpaceX stepping up to rescue the astronauts who have been left in orbit at...

  • Schumer caves on shutdown after Dem private lunch erupted in a shouting match

    March 14, 2025

    Schumer caves on shutdown after Dem private lunch erupted in a shouting match

    Yesterday, I told Republicans that they could relax about this year’s battle of Democrats to blame Republicans for a so-called federal government shutdown. Hours later, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer validated my advice by surrendering, a...

  • Schumer’s attempted shutdown will backfire bigly

    March 13, 2025

    Schumer’s attempted shutdown will backfire bigly

    Republicans, accustomed to being blamed by the media for federal government shutdowns, should not worry about Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s plan to oppose cloture on the “clean” funding bill Speaker Johnson’s House ju...

  • Why a former Columbia professor is glad that the feds have yanked $400 million in funding from it

    March 11, 2025

    Why a former Columbia professor is glad that the feds have yanked $400 million in funding from it

    I almost cheered out loud when I read that the Trump administration has cancelled $400 million in funding for Columbia University, despite the fact that when I taught there about three-and-a half-decades ago, I no doubt directly benefitted from feder...

  • The Upside Of A Terminal Illness

    March 8, 2025

    The Upside Of A Terminal Illness

    I doubt that anyone forgets the moment when a doctor tells them that they are never going to recover from the illness that brought them in and led to all those diagnostic tests. It’s terminal and it’s only a matter of time before you die....

  • Trump and the Democrats: The shtarker and the shtoonks

    March 5, 2025

    Trump and the Democrats: The shtarker and the shtoonks

    Watching President Trump speak to both Houses of Congress, two colorful Yiddish words kept floating into my mind. I believe that each captures an aspect of the reality of that unprecedented gathering that the English language fails to convey with the...

  • Finding value that others ignore is Donald Trump’s superpower

    February 12, 2025

    Finding value that others ignore is Donald Trump’s superpower

    President Trump is the master of spotting hidden value, whether in a piece of property or a nation’s sometimes hidden strengths. We see it in one of his brilliant past real estate deals and in his current approach to trade negotiations. The ...

  • Whatever Happened to Thomas Lifson?

    November 7, 2024

    Whatever Happened to Thomas Lifson?

    A number of readers have noted the absence of my byline on the American Thinker homepage, and those that investigated the “About Us” page saw that I am now credited as “Founder and Editor Emeritus.” Some have written AT asking...

  • UCLA appeals federal judge’s injunction barring it from discriminating against Jewish students

    August 15, 2024

    UCLA appeals federal judge’s injunction barring it from discriminating against Jewish students

    It’s not a good look for the Regents of the University of California to almost immediately appeal a court order barring it from religious discrimination. Especially when the preliminary injunction used language making clear the extent of UCL...

  • Trump triumphs in his acceptance speech wrapping up the GOP convention

    July 19, 2024

    Trump triumphs in his acceptance speech wrapping up the GOP convention

    There must be a lot of sour stomachs among Democrats in the wake of Donald Trump’s acceptance speech Thursday night. He did what he had to do: we saw a convincing portrait of a man whose essence remains the same but who has been simultaneously ...

  • A rare showing of the best-ever American anti-communist movie tonight on TCM

    July 13, 2024

    A rare showing of the best-ever American anti-communist movie tonight on TCM

    You are in for a treat if you set your DVR to Turner Classic Movies at midnight tonight (Eastern, 9 PM Pacific) to record The Woman on Pier 13, initially released as I married a Communist. If you miss that showing, it will be repeated at 10 AM EDT Su...

  • Accompanied by 2 vice principals, Berkeley public school students march to Jewish Community Center and chant slogans at <em>preschoolers</em> inside

    May 12, 2024

    Accompanied by 2 vice principals, Berkeley public school students march to Jewish Community Center and chant slogans at preschoolers inside

    Just as Hamas targeted young children, even babies, for unthinkable torture and death, pro-Hamas demonstrators in Berkeley targeted a Jewish Community Center (NOT an Israeli facility) with preschool students in class as they chanted slogans through a...

  • Biden and the Jewish vote

    May 10, 2024

    Biden and the Jewish vote

    AT co-founder Richard Baehr was interviewed for nearly an hour by Caroline Glick, the renowned journalist based in Israel, on the prospects for the Jewish vote turning away from its pattern of strong support for the Democrats in the November presiden...

  • Jews fight back at UCLA and then Mayor Karen Bass sends in the police

    May 1, 2024

    Jews fight back at UCLA and then Mayor Karen Bass sends in the police

    The Democrat mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Bass, didn’t send police onto the campus of UCLA when pro-Hamas demonstrators took over parts of it and prevented Jews from entering, just as Nazis once blocked Jewish students from the University of Vie...

  • Two catastrophic airline disasters in the space of 3 days narrowly averted as controllers apparently not up to the job

    April 23, 2024

    Two catastrophic airline disasters in the space of 3 days narrowly averted as controllers apparently not up to the job

    Are you aware that there have been two near-catastrophes at major American airports (DC Reagan and NY JFK) where airplanes were cleared to cross runways as another airplane was taking off? YouTube screengrab (cropped) A runway collision on ...

  • Hezb’allah tries to explain away the wipeout of Iran’s attack on Israel

    April 14, 2024

    Hezb’allah tries to explain away the wipeout of Iran’s attack on Israel

    The stunning defeat of Iran’s first direct attack on Israel from its own territory must be a major humiliation for the mullahs’ regime, and as well for its proxies like the Houthis, Hamas, and Hezb’allah. These terror entities depen...

  • Democrat Mayor of Baltimore accidentally concedes that ‘DEI’ is already completely discredited

    March 28, 2024

    Democrat Mayor of Baltimore accidentally concedes that ‘DEI’ is already completely discredited

    The left has lost a major battle for the hearts and minds of Americans. Even as some corporations (and especially federal agencies) continue to proclaim their DEI policies as if they were a good thing, the public has returned a negative verdict. We k...

  • FDA takes down its propaganda demonizing ivermectin as a treatment for Covid

    March 23, 2024

    FDA takes down its propaganda demonizing ivermectin as a treatment for Covid

    We will never know how many Covid sufferers died because they shunned treatment with ivermectin, but at least the FDA has stopped spreading the lie (aka, disinformation) that the medicine is for animals, not humans, as this now-deleted tweet did: ...

  • DEI is destroying the future competitiveness of Chip industry

    March 11, 2024

    DEI is destroying the future competitiveness of Chip industry

    DEI is hobbling the effectiveness large organizations throughout our economy.  Nowhere is this more evident and urgent than the semiconductor chip industry, which is vital to our competitiveness as an advanced economy and our military security. ...

  • Court document alleges Fani Willis tried to tamper with a witness

    March 5, 2024

    Court document alleges Fani Willis tried to tamper with a witness

    A fellow Georgia prosecutor has come forward after viewing the televised testimony in the Fani Willis disqualification hearing, alleging what amounts to witness tampering on the part of the DA in Atlanta. If the account is truthful, that would make F...

  • Harvard suddenly ‘exploring’ issuing $1.65 billion in bonds, suggesting donor falloff is really pinching its finances

    February 28, 2024

    Harvard suddenly ‘exploring’ issuing $1.65 billion in bonds, suggesting donor falloff is really pinching its finances

    The systemic institutional antisemitism exposed by Rep. Elise Stefanik’s grilling of former Harvard President Gay is turning out to be a catastrophe for the oldest and formerly most prestigious university in the United States. The backlash of d...

  • An entirely plausible (and chilling) scenario for how and when the Dems will drop Biden from the ticket and run Michelle for president

    February 17, 2024

    An entirely plausible (and chilling) scenario for how and when the Dems will drop Biden from the ticket and run Michelle for president

    Heather Higgins has done her homework and put together a very smart prediction of how the Dems will thread the needle and eject Biden from the ticket and substitute their ideal replacement candidate, Michelle Obama.  I’ve been a skeptic th...

  • Pierre Poilievre, leader of Canada’s Conservative Party, once again makes fools of liberals

    February 16, 2024

    Pierre Poilievre, leader of Canada’s Conservative Party, once again makes fools of liberals

    The unbearably oleaginous Justin Trudeau has been Canada’s prime minister since 2015, so there hadn’t been much pleasure in watching politics there for quite a while. But just over two years ago, Pierre Poilievre became leader of the Cons...

  • D.C. jury unjustly finds Mark Steyn liable for defamation of Michael Mann, awards $1 million in punitive damages.

    February 9, 2024

    D.C. jury unjustly finds Mark Steyn liable for defamation of Michael Mann, awards $1 million in punitive damages.

    Global warming doomsayer Michael Mann of Penn State University has won his defamation lawsuit against critics Mark Steyn and Rand Simburg, proving that conservatives cannot get fair verdicts from District of Columbia juries. This is a huge, structura...

  • Denny’s joins In-N-Out Burger abandoning its sole Oakland store due to crime

    February 2, 2024

    Denny’s joins In-N-Out Burger abandoning its sole Oakland store due to crime

    Oakland, California, is ceding control of its local commerce to criminals, due to a Soros-backed prosecutor and chronic short staffing at the Oakland PD, which cannot recruit enough new cops to replace retirements and resignations -- despite six-figu...

  • Well-financed and highly touted news website ‘The Messenger’ collapses and vanishes

    February 2, 2024

    Well-financed and highly touted news website ‘The Messenger’ collapses and vanishes

    It always used to amaze me when purportedly intelligent people completely miss obvious signs that their new business ventures are doomed.  RCA, dominant in electronic communications and one of the highest profile corporations for half of the las...

  • North Korea shows every sign of becoming the trigger for World War 3

    February 1, 2024

    North Korea shows every sign of becoming the trigger for World War 3

    The prospect of Joe Biden being defeated by Donald Trump is a signal to every hostile foreign power that the next 50 weeks may be their last opportunity to take military action exploiting POTUS's and his national security team's weakness, ind...

  • January 2, 2024

    Harvard Crimson reports Claudine Gay has resigned as president

    The student-run daily newspaper at Harvard, the Harvard Crimson, reports that in the face of continuing discovery of plagiarism evidence in her published work, Claudine Gay has resigned: Harvard President Claudine Gay will resign Tuesday afterno...

  • December 23, 2023

    GM driving about half of its Buick dealers out of business with demand for upfront cash investment to handle electric vehicles

    The decline and fall of General Motors, which sees it heading toward liquidation from its status as arguably the most powerful corporation on earth more than half a century ago, is entering a new phase. The federal government's mandated conv...

  • October 2, 2023

    Newsom’s bottomless cynicism reflected in his appointment of a black, lesbian, Maryland voter to fill remainder of Feinstein’s Senate term

    It’s impossible to be too cynical about Gavin Newsom, the Brylcreem-topped governor of California who lusts after the Democrats’ nomination for president, even as he publicly mouths support for Biden. This is a man who bedded his best fri...

  • September 24, 2023

    Why the DeSantis campaign isn’t taking off

    The candidacy of Ron DeSantis has fallen to fifth place in the latest New Hampshire poll, the latest bad news for a campaign that has not fulfilled its early promise.  Byron York writes in the Washington Examiner reports: “A new poll ...

  • September 20, 2023

    The end of fair trials thanks to racial polarization

    A horrifying story from a major trial in Florida, where a $1.3 billion tax fraud trail is foundering, illustrates the degree to which racial polarization is dissolving civil society and destroying the justice system.  David Voreacos of Bloomberg...

  • September 19, 2023

    Mark Levin’s The Democrat Party Hates America

    Once again, Mark Levin has done a great service to the Republic by writing a fully documented, highly pointed book on a topic of vital national interest. Published today by the Threshold Editions imprint of Simon & Schuster, The Democrat Party Ha...

  • September 19, 2023

    IRS freezes new applications for the Employee Retention Credit for employees kept on during the COVID lockdown

    The constant stream of ads for firms telling employers they can collect $26K from the feds for every employee they kept on during the unnecessary COVID lockdown is disappearing from the talk radio and cable news stations I favor.  Alan Rapp...

  • September 19, 2023

    Not just birds and whales: Windmills threatening extinction for jaguars and pumas in Brazil

    The climate hoax is taking a horrendous toll on not just the cost of electricity and reliability of the grid, but also the survival of many species of animals, from birds to whales to the magnificent big cats of Brazil.  The Wall ...

  • September 18, 2023

    Columbia University quietly slinks away from its responsibility for the illiteracy crisis it helped impose on generations of Americans

    Illiteracy is a serious and growing problem in the United States: 21% of adults were illiterate in 2022, and 54% of adults have a literacy below sixth-grade level.  Illiteracy traps people (and nations) in poverty. ...

  • September 16, 2023

    Heavily armed man posing as federal agent arrested at RFK Jr. campaign event, as Secret Service protection continues to be denied to his campaign

    In an exclusive report, The Epoch Times writes: An armed man was arrested by police at an event attended by Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., according to the Los Angeles Police Department. Photos provided to ...

  • September 16, 2023

    Your Saturday feelgood video: Police dog attempts CPR

    I make no secret about being a dog lover, so please indulge me, or else click away if you don’t appreciate Man’s Best Friend. The tweet (or X) below comes with no context provided, but I infer that this was part of a demonstration at a...

  • September 13, 2023

    The decline and fall of the Spanish (and American?) empires

    To the extent that Americans think about historical analogies for our position in the world and our fate as a global power, we tend to look to Britain and Rome to provide clues as to how to maintain our position as world leader and avoid the decline ...

  • September 13, 2023

    Pakistan International Airlines reportedly on the verge of collapse

    A nation with more than 230 million people and a huge diaspora in Europe and the Gulf states ordinarily would be well positioned to support a thriving national carrier. But Pakistan – a country with nuclear weapons – is a shambles, and it...

  • September 11, 2023

    A blunt and chilling (but accurate) appraisal of where our government schools are taking us

    When I came across this X thread written by John Hayward of Breitbart (hat tip: Ace of Spades Headquarters), I was deeply impressed by its use of language and the scope of its overview.  Like many conservatives, I have come around...

  • August 16, 2023

    The sexualization of children in Germany, too

    The United States may have the dubious distinction of being the "leader" in pushing trans ideology and the sexualization of children, but sexual leftists in other leading countries are pursuing the same destructive goals. Pro Familia is ...

  • August 16, 2023

    Report: State official refused to release water to fight Lahaina fire until too late

    The website Civil Beat covers Hawaiian politics and is funded by lefty billionaire Pierre Omidyar, so keep that in mind as you read this explosive allegation from writer Stewart Yerton: With wildfires ravaging West Maui on Aug. 8,...

  • August 16, 2023

    Massachusetts couple denied foster care eligibility because they are believing Catholics

    When I first moved to Massachusetts in 1969 from Protestant-dominated Minnesota, I was struck by the awesome power the Catholic Church wielded there.  Reverent media attention was afforded the cardinal, the legendary Richard Cardinal Cushin...

  • August 16, 2023

    Why is Ron DeSantis faltering in the polls?

    I had high hopes for the presidential candidacy of Ron DeSantis.  Not because I am a NeverTrump, though.  I simply want the GOP to nominate a candidate who can win in the general election.  My suspicion is that too many ...

  • August 15, 2023

    All those Dems nattering on about protecting 'our democracy'? It’s just a scam

    We are living through an ongoing coup in which the fundamental protections of our constitutional order are being destroyed, one by one. To cover this radical “re-set” aimed at a totalitarian state in which dissent is suppressed and the mi...

  • August 15, 2023

    KJP’s terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day at the WH press room podium

    Face it, Karine Jean-Pierre does have a tough job, unless you think her real job is simply to be the first black, female LGBTQWERTY press secretary, in which case she doing splendidly by remaining female (and she does have choices, we are told), Blac...

  • August 14, 2023

    The underground populist workingman's protest song that's gotten millions of plays

    See also: 'Rich Men North of Richmond': A Stirring Ballad for the Real Forgotten Man Seemingly out of nowhere, a solo performance by Oliver Anthony of his song of protest on behalf of the working class has accumulated many millions of...

  • August 14, 2023

    Sad: Community group in Chicago pleads with gangbangers: '9 AM - 9 PM no shooting'

    Things have gotten so bad in Chicago that the most a well-meaning and sincere community group can aspire to is getting the gangbanger community to confine its shooting to the overnight 12 hours of 9 P.M. to 9 A.M.  A kind of daylight curfew...

  • August 14, 2023

    Huge increase in death rate among younger Americans: A crisis that the goes officially unnoticed and unexamined

    Insurance actuaries were the first to notice an unprecedented rise in life insurance claims among the healthiest sector of society: working-age people with group life insurance policies.  Dr. Pierre Kory writes about the obscene (my word, n...

  • August 13, 2023

    Mandatory intersectionality: Elite Black author tells heterosexual Blacks that they have an ‘obligation’ to attend pride events

    If you wanted to exemplify the Black aristocracy of America, you could not do better than to point to Caroline Randall Williams, graduate of ultra-elite St. Paul’s prep school and Harvard, with three generations of nationally prominent authors ...

  • August 13, 2023

    Lefty long knives come out for Kamala

    With Joe Biden’s physical and mental health an obvious issue, his sex and race-driven choice of Kamala Harris as his veep is worrisome for the less delusional Democrats. They know that the prospect of her inheriting the presidency might scare a...

  • August 4, 2023

    Chicago's Mayor Johnson scolds reporter for calling mass looters a 'mob,' says 'large gathering' is 'appropriate'

    I don't know which is more discouraging: that the mayor of Chicago actually tried this verbal flim-flammery or that the assembled media at his press conference didn't erupt in laughter at his attempt to blackwash rampaging looters. ...

  • August 3, 2023

    Tucker Carlson interviews Devon Archer in surprisingly relaxed and open encounter

    Tucker Carlson scored an impressive “get” with the posting to Twitter at 1 AM this morning of the first half of a two-part interview with Devon Archer (embedded below), following his closed-door testimony earlier this week. I wonder how h...

  • August 1, 2023

    Auto carrier ship burning off Holland now reported to have had nearly 500, not 25 electric vehicles on board

    The saga of the Fremantle Highway, a special purpose auto carrier ship that has been on fire off Holland for almost a week, killing at least one crew member, now raises even deeper suspicions about the role of lithium ion batteries, used in elec...

  • July 31, 2023

    What NASA and the European Space Agency are admitting but the media are failing to report about our current heat wave (bumped)

    Bumped from Sunday: The current heat wave is being relentlessly blamed on increasing levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, but there is a much more plausible explanation, one that is virtually endorsed by two of the world's leading scien...

  • July 31, 2023

    Did the Justice Department try to jail Devon Archer before he could testify to Congress Monday?

    One can't rule out anything when it comes to the behavior of Department of Justice officials functioning as partisan protectors of the Democrats and their current figurehead, Joe Biden.  So it is not out of line for close students of th...

  • July 31, 2023

    Precision parachute teams: Harder than it looks

    We are watching morale and recruiting for the United States Armed Forces crumble before our eyes, as a top-down indoctrination program forces tans-sexualism and homosexuality into the services.  This concerted effort follows a vast purge of...

  • July 31, 2023

    Chase away those Monday blues with some schadenfreude for Mark Zuckerberg

    Mark Zuckerberg's hundreds of millions of tax-deductible "Zuckbucks" that boosted turnout in heavily Democrat areas in 2020 made him my enemy.  I feel no shame at reveling in his mounting misfortunes in business, even as Meta,...

  • July 29, 2023

    Oakland NAACP publishes amazing letter denouncing ‘defund the police’ and Soros DA’s unwillingness to prosecute criminals

    Crime is the explosive issue in the 2024 election, and unless vote fraud reaches heretofore undreamed of levels, it should propel the GOP to sweep many elections. That’s a big “if” of course. The letter copied below just sent by ...

  • July 29, 2023

    Biden finally acknowledges his 4-year-old granddaughter Navy

    Navy Roberts has been rescued from her nonperson status with her grandpa, who is the President of the United States.  The 4-year-old offspring of Hunter Biden and former stripper Lunden Roberts has been completely shunned by Joe and Jill Biden, ...

  • July 27, 2023

    Takeaways: What the spectacle of the collapse of Hunter’s plea deal showed us

    The drama that unfolded at the Wilmington, Delaware Federal Courthouse yesterday, where courageous Judge Maryellen Noreika rejected the plea deal purportedly agreed to by Hunter Biden and Delaware US Attorney David Weiss’s prosecutors, has taug...

  • July 26, 2023

    Plea deal falls apart, Hunter pleads ‘not guilty’ as DOJ and defense counsel continue talks with court-imposed 14-day deadline

    Federal Judge Maryellen Noreika refused to accept the sweetheart plea deal that the Department of Justice was prepared to sign off on with no prison time and only misdemeanor charges. One major issue for Judge Noreika was ambiguity over whether furth...

  • July 25, 2023

    85 seconds of video that hilariously show what a liar Fauci was about Covid’s origins

    The short video from Matt Orfalea embedded below brilliantly summarizes the evidence that Dr. Fauci bullied scientists into changing their minds about what their research showed: that Covid was the product of a lab, not a naturally occurring virus. I...

  • July 25, 2023

    Vaxxed and double-boosted Senator Dick Durbin gets Covid a third time within a year

    I wish the best for Senator Dick Durbin, who has just announced that he has come down with Covid… for the third time in the space of a year. No schadenfreude here over the 78-year-old’s latest bout with the illness. At his age, there is ...

  • July 25, 2023

    Weiss knew in 2020 that the FBI had corroborated the confidential informant’s story of Biden bribery

    David Weiss, the US Attorney for the District of Delaware charged with investigating Biden, has a lot of explaining to do when he testifies before Congress in September or October. Thanks to the efforts of Senator Grassley, the public now has the FBI...

  • July 24, 2023

    The most inexplicable chant surfaces in Berlin demonstration

    I understand the progressives' concept of intersectionality, but does that include supporting people who want to kill you? I refer to a phenomenon found many places, but which cropped up Saturday in Berlin.  People at a "queer p...

  • July 24, 2023

    Millions of cars daily analyzed by artificial intelligence for 'suspicious' behavior

    Dystopian surveillance is here and providing a growing market for tech entrepreneurs.  Police agencies are daily using artificial intelligence to identify "suspicious" patterns of behavior in millions of random cars caught on surv...

  • July 23, 2023

    The solution to the problem of doctors sexually mutilating gender-confused youngsters is at hand

    Very, very slowly (but surely) the genius of our Founders is working its way and providing a countervailing force to stem the epidemic of genital mutilation and hormonal poisoning blocking normal sexual development in young people confused about thei...

  • July 23, 2023

    Houston school district downsizing thousands of jobs

    Well, as the old joke about lawyers puts it, “It’s a good start.” Kevin Haggerty at BizPac Review writes: Texas’s largest school district aimed to balance the scales amid worsening student enrollment with tough news fo...

  • July 22, 2023

    Heart-rending video from 'de-transitioning' castrated boy who tried to become a female and now regrets the permanent damage he's done

    Kudos to Fox News digital for posting a video from a boy who deeply regrets his decision to try to "transition" to a female habitus as a hoped-for solution to his emotional stresses.  The entire 20-minute-plus video is e...

  • July 21, 2023

    Progressive-dominated college town to pay $300K to Christians arrested for outdoor church service during COVID restrictions

    Very slowly, a reckoning is taking place for outrageous tyrannical government restrictions imposed on the populace during the COVID panic.  The zeal with which certain public officials tried to restrict basic freedoms in response to a virus...

  • July 21, 2023

    The imposition of transgender madness: The bottom-up approach

    The astounding speed with which a delusional fantasy has been imposed on society — that people can become the opposite sex simply by saying so — requires explanation.  This obliteration of nature's (and God's) most funda...

  • July 20, 2023

    What if Biden's dementia accelerates and becomes impossible to hide?

    I’m far from an expert on dementia, but it looks to my layman’s eye that the pace of President Biden’s decline is picking up.  So, what if something awful happens and nobody can deny with a straight face that he is impaire...

  • July 19, 2023

    A small but significant breakthrough: Israel's flag raised and national anthem publicly performed for the first time in Saudi Arabia

    With Joe Biden's incompetent diplomatic team driving away Saudi Arabia and into the eager hands of Xi Jinping, I'll eagerly celebrate any good news coming from the regime in Riyadh.  And despite many hedges and limitations...

  • July 19, 2023

    Dem bill in House seeks to scrub words 'husband' and 'wife' from federal law

    Democrats understand the lessons of George Orwell's 1984 and treat it as an instruction manual, not a warning.  In his appendix to that book, titled "Principles of Newspeak," Orwell states that the "express...

  • July 19, 2023

    Progs outraged and Country Music Television censors song by country music superstar Jason Aldean

    Bowing to the politically correct progressive censors, Country Music Television has pulled from broadcast the newest release by one of the true superstars of the genre.  Billboard broke the story Tuesday:   CMT has pulle...

  • July 18, 2023

    Unsolved Mysteries, DC Edition

    The old TV series Unsolved Mysteries apparently lives on, streaming on Hulu (I don’t subscribe, so can’t verify that it is currently available). But everyone loves a mysterious story that remains a puzzle. Except when the solution ...

  • July 18, 2023

    Canadian PM Trudeau, caught between his enthusiasms for trans and Muslims, steps in a giant cowpie

    The needle on my schadenfreude meter jumped so hard to the right that it’s stuck there in red zone, where my soul is endangered by excessive pleasure in the suffering of another. It must be because I find Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Tr...

  • July 17, 2023

    Incompetent teachers get rich, kids suffer

    Public schools (I prefer the term "government schools") in Democrat-run cities have become a racket, plundering taxpayers' funds and failing to deliver even a minimally acceptable education.  The fact that Americans spend more...

  • July 17, 2023

    Black Georgia state rep who left the Democrat party reveals shockingly racist blowback from disappointed donkeys

    A few days ago, Georgia state representative Meisha Mainor, an African American who represents a deep blue district, announced her decision to leave the party of slavery and become a Republican.   My name is Rep. Meisha Mainor and toda...

  • July 17, 2023

    Sound of Freedom box office receipts soar 37% in second weekend of release

    It is very rare for a movie's popularity to grow after the first weekend of wide release.  Studios routinely expect a significant decline, after the eager fans have already attended and the impact of the marketing blitz fades. ...

  • July 17, 2023

    China is moving in to replace the US with Gulf oil monarchies

    It's hard to overstate the potential impact of a move underway that — thanks to Biden's catastrophic diplomacy — could result in China replacing the U.S. as a security guarantor with the petro-monarchies that control so much of th...

  • July 16, 2023

    What happens if the 25th Amendment is invoked on dementia-ridden Biden?

    Yesterday’s blog post on the need to start pressuring Biden’s cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment drew a lot of readers and commenters, with much concern expressed about what happens next. Because the 25th has never been invoked, there i...

  • July 15, 2023

    The most disturbing Biden weirdness yet

    Joe Biden’s dementia is rapidly advancing and the nation is in great peril. Proof of his decline came in a creepy moment during his brief visit to Helsinki, where he assaulted (that is the proper word) a child, a little girl who happened to att...

  • July 15, 2023

    Kamala Harris links reducing population to cleaner air and water

    Was this a gaffe or a Freudian slip? In a Baltimore address promoting the Biden Administration’s energy policy, Kamala Harris said the following: "When we invest in clean energy and electric vehicles and reduce population, more of ...

  • July 15, 2023

    Joe Scarborough says Biden ‘is so sharp’ and even wife Mika Brzezinski has a hard time with it

    Although the video clip below from Grabien goes on and on for almost 4 minutes, the first minute will give you the gist if you’ve just eaten or have a weak stomach. For reasons unknown to me, former Republican Congressman Joe Scarborough, now t...

  • July 15, 2023

    The inside story of how the FBI’s top brass intervened to protect top Democrats

    Jerry Dunleavy, an excellent political reporter at the Washington Examiner, has used Twitter to publish what he correctly labels a “scoop,” and he has crafted a must-read. Using my words, not his, he found a source, “a former FBI of...

  • July 14, 2023

    Angel Studios, distributor of Sound of Freedom, denies any problem with air-conditioning at AMC Theatres

    There were many reports of movie-goers encountering a lack of air-conditioning when trying to attend Sound of Freedom, the box office smash that was shelved for five years by Disney, only to become a hit when distributed by Angel Studios.  ...

  • July 14, 2023

    Secret Service sacrificing its reputation to protect drug offender in the White House

    See also: The case of the missing fingerprint Another formerly revered federal agency joins in disgrace the politicized FBI, IRS, and Department of Justice.  The Secret Service took just 11 days to close its investigation of the class A illeg...

  • July 14, 2023

    The case of the missing fingerprint

    See also: Secret Service sacrificing its reputation to protect drug offender in the White House Sherlock Holmes famously found a clue in the dog that didn’t bark in The Adventure of Silver Blaze. I wonder if we may have a similar clue in the...

  • July 13, 2023

    San Francisco’s famed Anchor Brewery, fountainhead of the craft beer industry, closes

    Bud Light is far from the only beer brand with big trouble. Anchor Brewery, purchased in 1965 by washing machine heir Fritz Maytag and turned into a national phenomenon by marketing its distinctive rich, amber suds widely, sparking a national craft b...

  • July 11, 2023

    Are theatres turning off air-conditioning to suppress the box office for Sound of Freedom?

    We have received multiple emails from people saying that theaters are telling patrons that air-conditioning is broken in the auditoriums showing the hit movie Sound of Freedom and offering another movie or a refund.  Many people fear t...

  • July 10, 2023

    China's 'cognitive warfare' program

    A reader who must remain anonymous calls our attention to an article in the Times of India, written by S.D. Pradhan, whose biographical information lends credibility to his analysis of what he calls China's "neuro-strike" warfare: ...

  • July 10, 2023

    Are you worried that the US may send cluster munitions to Ukraine?

    At this very odd moment in US history, with a cognitively impaired president controlled by a shadowy group of unelected and unaccountable advisors, an important line in the sand may be crossed.  The United State is openly discussing sending...

  • July 10, 2023

    Trump and the first GOP debate

    A reader who must remain anonymous, a strong Trump-supporter, has come up with an intriguing idea for how he could resolve the question of whether or not to participate.  I quote this well established professional with a business that must ...

  • July 10, 2023

    Just another sunny summer day in the 'hood in Chicago

    AT co-founder Richard Baehr has quipped that the poor marksmanship of Chicago's gangbangers has saved thousands of lives over the years.  As anyone perusing the data provided by the website heyjackass.com can confirm, they are mostly po...

  • July 9, 2023

    A French Algerian explains the riots there clearly and concisely

    For the most part, the American media aren’t much interested in the riots consuming France. But since images of burning cars and buildings are too dramatic to ignore, and because it is the height of the tourist season in a European destination ...

  • July 8, 2023

    Karine Jean-Pierre: Racial preferences are an 'important constitutional right'

    Employing the euphemism "affirmative action," President Biden's press secretary claimed that there is a constitutional right to receive preferential treatment based on one's race.  She was discussing recent Supreme Court d...

  • July 7, 2023

    White House cocaine disarray as story keeps changing and one faction implies Kamala might be the fall-gal and she surrenders to hysterical laughter

    As more anonymous leaks muddy the waters on where the cocaine was found in the White House, one thing becomes clear: Biden’s handlers are divided on how to handle the scandal that now deserves the moniker “Cocainegate.” It’s p...

  • July 7, 2023

    Four potent signs that we are winning the fight against woke corporate power

    The strategy of the American Marxists seeking to impose a cultural revolution has been top-down, derived from the work of Antonio Gramsci, taking control of the "commanding heights" of institutional power and imposing their vision on what o...

  • July 6, 2023

    Eight reasons to believe a cover-up is underway on the cocaine found in the White House

    The discovery of a stash of cocaine in the White House became public because a hazmat team was sent in on the possibility that the white powdery substance might have been anthrax or some other deadly terror weapon.  Were it not for the hazm...

  • July 6, 2023

    Democrats and demography: From destiny to decline (if the GOP can ever gets its act together)

    Democrats believed not so long ago that ongoing demographic shifts in the ethnic makeup of the U.S. destined them to a nearly permanent majority.  Oversimplifying, thanks to massive immigration (legal and illegal) and declining birthrates a...

  • July 5, 2023

    In rare Independence Day ruling, federal judge forbids federal agencies from contacting social media sites to censor posts

    This is a huge victory for free speech, though it must be kept in mind that the injunction issued by U.S. District Court judge Terry A. Doughty is a preliminary injunction that almost certainly will be appealed and will take a long time to be finally...

  • July 4, 2023

    Leftist mag Mother Jones: Let's celebrate govt. bureaucrats on Fourth of July

    It sounds exactly like a Babylon Bee parody, but this article in the far-left magazine Mother Jones, "For July 4th, Let's Celebrate Great American Patriots: Government Bureaucrats," offers an important lesson for conservatives to note w...

  • July 2, 2023

    Watch as Gavin Newsom runs away from questioner on his presidential campaign’s Achilles Heel

    Gavin Newsom tried to run away from a questioner pressing him about the young people seeking to “de-transition” from life-altering medical measures taken when they were children and thought for a moment that they were then ...

  • June 30, 2023

    Harvard vows to 'preserve ... our essential values' (meaning affirmative action) following landmark SCOTUS ruling

    It's not quite as dramatic as George Wallace standing in a schoolhouse doorway sixty years and 19 days ago, trying to block the enrollment of the first two blacks at the University of Alabama, but the incoming (tomorrow) president of Harvard...

  • June 27, 2023

    Someone is lying

    Either the attorney general of the United States or the U.S. attorney for the District of Delaware is lying about the investigation into Hunter Biden's alleged tax crimes.  Jonathan Turley laid the situation out three days ago: ...

  • June 27, 2023

    Biden: 'I sold a lot of state secrets'

    At a meeting with India's Prime Minister Modi on Friday, President Biden said something shocking — so shocking that he quickly added that he was joking.  But because the "joke" came as he trailed off his words on another...

  • June 27, 2023

    Rachel Levine: Not just 'pride month,' but 'summer of pride'

    From the "Give 'em an inch" Department.  Obsession with cross-dressers and other alphabet people is too important to confine to a mere single month, apparently.  First a month, then a season.  What's ne...

  • June 27, 2023

    Becerra threatens states and medical providers with loss of Medicare dollars if they don't provide genital mutilation surgeries

    Despite two circuit courts ruling against HHS regulations seeking to compel genital mutilation surgeries by health care providers, HHS secretary Xavier Becerra threatens to find ways around the judicial restraints. Biden HHS Secretary Xavier Bec...

  • June 26, 2023

    Sen. Ted Cruz points out Biden admin is now officially boycotting Israel

    This dramatic and important policy change almost slipped by unnoticed (for now), but you can bet Israel's mortal enemies, the ones who want to drive the Jews into the sea, have noticed and are saving this concession for use when most impactful....

  • June 26, 2023

    Suspect arrested in brutal murder of SJW activist; her estate asks for no incarceration

    The social justice warrior (SJW) wheel has come full circle in Oakland, California.  Four months ago, I wrote about the brutal murder of a well known SJW activist and proprietor of a popular bakery there: The large and influe...

  • June 26, 2023

    Bombshell revelation: Hunter paid for secret $300/month 'global phone' used by VP Biden while in office

    Shades of Hillary Clinton's "home brew" email server!  Ace sleuth Peter Schweizer, who has an impeccable record digging up revelations of the Biden crime family's misdeeds, revealed to Maria Bartiromo's outstanding Sun...

  • June 26, 2023

    Michigan state House passes censorship bill to make free speech a felony based on the feelings of someone hearing or reading it

    Democrats run the state government of Michigan, with majorities in the House and Senate of the state Legislature and Democrat Governor Gretchen Whitmer with the ability to sign bills into law.  That's why a bill already passed by the st...

  • June 24, 2023

    More evidence the media got the signal to turn against Biden

    Yesterday, I noted the fascinating media response to the IRS whistleblowers’ testimony to the House Ways and Means Committee, where obvious evidence of Biden corruption was presented. The leading organs of establishment propaganda that signal t...

  • June 24, 2023

    Suddenly, the White House counsel drops claim that Joe 'never discussed business' with Hunter

    The IRS whistleblowers’ testimony, temporarily overshadowed by media focus on the “search” for survivors of the Titan submersible – which the Navy already knew was crushed Sunday -- was an inflection point signaling that the c...

  • June 23, 2023

    MSM pilot fish like NYT, WaPo, CNN, and CBS signal that Biden is on his way out

    It took over eight hours for the biggest of the bigfoot corporate media to decide to publicize the evidence of Biden family criminality exposed by the IRS whistleblowers.  But when they did, they did it big time.    The IR...

  • June 23, 2023

    Navy knew of Titan's implosion on Sunday, but allowed wall-to-wall media coverage to overshadow bad news for Biden and the Democrats

    Of course, the now-politicized Navy is claiming they didn’t have definitive knowledge that it was the sound of the implosion Titan that it picked up on Sunday, so that’s why the public was kept in the dark and the media were allowed to ob...

  • June 22, 2023

    The left's control over the language of sexuality finally meets resistance

    George Orwell taught us that control over the terms used to discuss consequential subjects is a key element of tyranny.  It's a lesson that the left took to heart as a weapon, not as a caution against despotism. No better example exi...

  • June 21, 2023

    News the major media don't want you to see: 'A dead man in drag, drugs, dildos, and 4 kids' discovered in housing project apartment

    Apparently as a counterpart to the ongoing lavish media attention paid to "Pride Month," a media black hole has opened up and swallowed a horrifying story of four children, ages five to ten, rescued from a transsexual sex party in a Boston ...

  • June 21, 2023

    Joe Biden now relegated to the back door of Air Force One

    The sight of a president of the United States ascending or descending the stairs to the entrance of Air Force One, often waving from beside that thick door with the Seal of the President of the United States visible on it inside, is one of the iconic...

  • June 20, 2023

    Tucker Carlson reportedly hiring 9 staffers leaving Fox News

    If these reports from someone close to Tucker Carlson are true — and I bet they are — some very talented people seem to regard Fox News as a sinking ship and are hopping off. Chadwick Moore, a frequent guest on Tucker Carlson's for...

  • June 20, 2023

    As Biden's dementia advances, he had to be pulled offstage after stumbling through a teleprompter speech

    The frequency with which puzzling nonsense escapes Joe Biden's lips is increasing, and so are his obvious disorientation and need of help to navigate the ordinary challenge of walking toward  where he wants to go.  The worst-k...

  • June 19, 2023

    Why Hollywood's woke movies do so badly at the overseas box office

    The movie industry has plenty of problems, but some of the biggest ones are related to the pushing of politically correct woke themes on a public that doesn't want to be lectured to when it lays out close to twenty bucks per person for a theatric...

  • June 19, 2023

    Intel bets $25 billion on Israel

    Bibi Netanyahu must have been beaming when he announced to his Cabinet via television that Israel is to receive its biggest foreign investment yet: a $25-billion commitment from Intel to build a new chip-making factory and other facilities ...

  • June 19, 2023

    Dem in Congress said the quiet part out loud on MSNBC, that Trump 'needs to be shot'

    Call it a "Freudian slip," where a person accidentally says what she really is thinking.  Stacey Plaskett is a non-voting member of Congress, a delegate representing the U.S. Virgin Islands in the House of Representatives. ...

  • June 19, 2023

    Biden's self-abasement toward China risks provoking an invasion of Taiwan

    In multiple ways, President Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr. is signaling to Xi Jinping and the rest of China's leadership that he is accepting a status as subordinate to them.  In the context of China's openly proclaimed goal of taking ...

  • June 18, 2023

    Mass shooting near Chicago’s Lincoln Park Zoo leaves 5 injured

    Formerly one of the safest neighborhoods in Chicago, the lakefront area near Chicago’s Lincoln Park and its famous zoo has now become another shooting gallery. CWB Chicago reports: A mass shooting left five people injured, four critically,...

  • June 18, 2023

    Are you ready for the Juneteenth federal holiday tomorrow?

    Monday, the nineteenth of June, is our newest federal holiday (just 2 years old), Juneteenth, and federal workers get yet another day’s pay without having to work for it. Since the federal workforce is heavily overrepresented with black workers...

  • June 18, 2023

    Dem puppet masters double down on incoherence, and put Fetterman and Biden together on a podium

    A confession: I may have completely misunderstood the importance of a basic command of the English Language, even elementary standards of coherence, to political success in Weimar America. After all, the puppet masters that installed Joe Biden in the...

  • June 17, 2023

    Washington Post helps those who are intimidating lawyers into not working for Trump

    The right to counsel for defendants is sacred to our democratic republic.  Preventing defendants from obtaining counsel clearly adds to the darkness that the Washington Post endlessly tells us is fatal to democracy. A highly organize...

  • June 17, 2023

    Senator Fetterman needs to resign and seek the medical help he deserves

    As a stroke victim, Senator John Fetterman has my deep sympathy.  As well, he has my best wishes for recovery, a task to which he should devote himself full-time.  But as he demonstrated yesterday in a hearing covering the damage ...

  • June 17, 2023

    Agency that sets accreditation standards for private schools is pushing transgender surgery

    The National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS) exerts powerful influence on the private schools in the United States, particularly on the elite and expensive prep schools that feed their students into the elite universities, from which they o...

  • June 15, 2023

    California state senator urges parents to 'flee California'

    See also: California Democrats propose bill to confiscate parents' children if they oppose gender change State senator Scott Wilk has issued a startling warning for parents, one for which I cannot think of any parallel in U.S. history. ...

  • June 15, 2023

    The Democrat party has a big Kamala problem

    The Democrats have a huge problem named Kamala Harris, and it's getting worse. I don't expect Joe Biden to be on the 2024 presidential ballot because the cabal that installed him as the 2020 nominee, and that engineered the "shadow ca...

  • June 14, 2023

    Move over, fentanyl: Here comes xylazine

    I had picked up from the media that a drug called "trank" was showing up and killing people the way that fentanyl does: by being mixed in with other street drugs that are purchased by primarily young people who don't know any better....

  • June 14, 2023

    Sen. JD Vance says he will block all DOJ nominees over Trump indictment

    In the face of a virtual wall of silence among Senate Republicans, Senator J.D. Vance of Ohio has announced that he will place a hold on confirmation of nominees to Justice Department positions to protest the indictment of Donald Trump: Until Me...

  • June 13, 2023

    What percentage of political donations from self-identified fact-checkers go to Democrats?

    Most conservatives understand that so-called journalists who call themselves "fact-checkers" function as enforcement arms for the current Narrative being pushed by the Democrat-media complex.  But there are plenty of other people,...

  • June 13, 2023

    Stop the presses! Ron DeSantis's perspiration glands work well to cool him off, as nature intended

    Talk about a scandal!  Newsweek has an eye for the stories that really don't matter at all in an article titled "Ron DeSantis' Sweaty Appearance Raises Questions."  Khaleda Rahman writes: Ron DeSantis...

  • June 12, 2023

    Why indict Trump when it is clear that documents for the National Archives documents have been commonly mishandled?

    Donald Trump seems to be the only senior government official who has gotten into serious trouble over his handling of documents.  Thomas Lipscomb, writing at Real Clear Politics, examines the turnaround underway at the National Archive...

  • June 12, 2023

    Biden and Dems go all-in on Pride Month and trans agenda

    Even as resistance grows and the public turns more conservative in the face of aggressive grooming of young children, the Biden administration and the Democrats boast of their commitment to that agenda.  The words "largest White House ...

  • June 12, 2023

    The public opinion tide begins to turn against electric vehicles

    We have been swimming upstream for years here at American Thinker, arguing that conversion of the automobile fleet to electric vehicles is a mistake, harming the environment more than helping it, and utterly impractical for a variety of reasons, incl...

  • June 9, 2023

    Tucker and taboo

    Tucker Carlson apparently is planning daily posts in his "Tucker on Twitter" series.  Despite Fox News's efforts to stifle him, Tucker is forging ahead.  Most likely, the series will be Monday through Friday, gi...

  • June 9, 2023

    7 reasons to be highly skeptical of the legitimacy of the indictments of Trump

    One The timing of the announcement — controlled by the Justice Department’s decision to inform President Trump — coincides with evidence of serious allegations of a $5-million bribe of then–vice president Biden by...

  • June 8, 2023

    Toyota study shows electric vehicles may be unnecessary to lower CO2 emissions

    Virtually alone among major auto manufacturers, Toyota has been a skeptic about the conversion of vehicle fleets to battery-powered electric vehicles.  For people incapable of thinking two or three steps ahead, E.V.s are "zero emission...

  • June 8, 2023

    San Francisco's doom loop accelerates

    The owner of two major San Francisco hotels, including the city's largest hostelry, has announced that it is walking away from its mortgage on the two properties, surrendering them to the lender. Park Hotels & Resorts Inc....

  • June 6, 2023

    Cornell West announces third party run for president

    I doubt that anyone thinks former Harvard professor and now Princeton University professor emeritus Cornell West has a chance to win the presidency, but he could well pull black and radical leftist votes from the Democrats' nominee.  He...

  • June 6, 2023

    Another humiliating rout of women's soccer team by males undermines the trans dogma that males should compete in women's sports

    NBC Sports made a major commitment to a soccer tournament modestly named "The Soccer Tournament" (TST) in the Research Triangle area. 27 games from the The Soccer Tournament (TST) will be aired across NBC Sports' platforms in ...

  • June 6, 2023

    Why ‘Pride Month’ has escalated its in-your-face tactics this year

    Plenty of people have noticed that the public promotion/celebration of “Pride Month” has escalated considerably from previous years. Target’s placement of trans and gay merchandise aimed at children at eye level near the entrance of...

  • June 6, 2023

    Tucker is back, with his alt. view of the Kakhovka dam collapse in Ukraine and our media’s lies

    Tucker Carlson has begun his new video presence on Twitter, complete with a “Tucker on Twitter” logo and a video labeled as “Ep. 1.” And it’s a doozy. The former cable news ratings champion was moved to take to Tw...

  • June 5, 2023

    Video leaked of men firing machine guns up a Chicago street, killing a 14-year-old boy and injuring others

    Chicago, which has some of the strictest gun control laws in the country, has become a nightmarish shooting gallery.  Now, in video leaked to CWB Chicago, we see how much worse matters have become, with two machine gun–armed men ...

  • June 5, 2023

    Stunning TV interview (in Australia!) on the Hunter Biden laptop evidence

    You are not supposed to know about the contents of the laptop computer that Hunter Biden neglected to retrieve from a repair shop in Delaware.  The 2020 election was fixed by the suppression of the evidence on it, and the Deep State —...

  • June 5, 2023

    Taxpayer-funded museum says its plants are 'queer'

    I know that lots of people like to anthropomorphize animals, especially their pets.  Heck, I think of our dog as a member of the family and attribute all kinds of motives and emotions to her that aren't exactly based in science.  And I ...

  • June 4, 2023

    Biden’s foreign policy bungling is creating a massive long-term crisis

    If a hostile power were secretly influencing US foreign and domestic policy in order to weaken us and our war-making capacity, what would it be seeking that is different from what is currently being pursued? The question is worth keeping in mind, esp...

  • June 4, 2023

    Snopes is forced to concede that yes, in-utero babies do smile

    Certain images have power that goes way beyond what a thousand words can convey. One example is an image tweeted on June first this year by LifeNews.com showing a smile on a baby that hasn’t been born yet next to a similar smile on the baby aft...

  • June 3, 2023

    10-year sentence for man that Soros DA Kim Foxx initially refused to prosecute because the other guys shot back

    It was remarkable news in 2021 when the Cook County State’s Attorney Office, run by Soros-supported Kim Foxx, refused to prosecute any of the 5 people arrested after a gang shootout on the streets of Chicago. The reason given would have in effe...

  • June 2, 2023

    Biden's fall was but one of several indications there that he is now unfit for the responsibilities he carries

    Once again, the president of the United States has fallen down at a public event, this time after delivering the graduation speech at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs. YouTube screen grab (cropped). Anyone can slip and fall, but when...

  • June 2, 2023

    Chesa Boudin and Lori Lightfoot failing upward at 2 of the nation’s most prestigious universities

    Two politicians who were emphatically rejected by their constituents have received faculty appointments at two of the nation's most prestigious universities.  It's almost as if elite academics are extending the single-digit salute t...

  • June 1, 2023

    Tax-exempt nonprofit censoring leading conservative author

    We received the following email from Brian Anderson, editor of the estimable City Journal, on the censorship being imposed on author Christopher Rufo, a major writer of important conservative work.  This is alarming, and probably violates t...

  • June 1, 2023

    Matt Walsh commemorates 'Pride Month'

    Okay, I get it: the idea behind "Pride Month" — which really means homosexual pride month — is a defiant rejection of the shaming of same-sex...uh...sex (?) that has been characteristic of many (but not all) societies and cultur...

  • June 1, 2023

    Walgreens debuts new-style anti-theft store in Chicago

    Stand by for inflationary price hikes, as costs will soar with a labor-intensive format for new thief-resistant drugstores in the face of skyrocketing urban crime.  And you thought inflation might ease? YouTube screen grab (cropped). ...

  • May 31, 2023

    Bud Light sales decline 'accelerating' — parent company shares fell nearly another 5% in worst day yet on Wall Street

    There was a widespread expectation that the outrage over Bud Light’s pushing of transgender icon Dylan Mulvaney would fade over time, as often happens with boycotts. But not this time.  Nielsen, which tracks sales scanner data released new...

  • May 31, 2023

    Crime hits home for Chicago mayor Brandon Johnson: Brutal murder across the street from his house

    It’s no secret that crime is out of control in Chicago, with murder at the top of the list. But when a gruesome murder takes place across the street, it’s hard not to experience a shiver of dread or worse, even for those who see the polic...

  • May 31, 2023

    ABC television network devoting two prime-time hours to 1619 Project 'documentary' arguing for slavery reparations

    There seems to be no end to the destructive propaganda emanating from the Walt Disney Company. Tonight, its wholly-owned subsidiary ABC Television will be airing a two-hour documentary created by the infamous 1619 Project. The Twitter account of 1619...

  • May 30, 2023

    People are now fed up with obnoxious climate protest disruptors — and fighting back

    One big problem with the apocalyptic language used by advocates of the anthropogenic global warming (AGW) theory based on flawed computer models is that it convinces those who believe it that they are battling extinction, and therefore any and a...

  • May 30, 2023

    Dylan Mulvaney, after wrecking Bud Light, announces, 'I may be a little bit romantically interested in women'

    I have long suspected that Dylan Mulvaney, who has been creating endless publicity for supposedly transitioning to woman over the past year, saw the 1982 movie Tootsie and took its career lesson to heart.  If you're not famili...

  • May 30, 2023

    Stunning poll on COVID vaccine-refusers and Ukraine war

    I came across a poll showing the views of people who self-report being unvaccinated on possible future responses to the war in Ukraine.  It is a poll of Canadians, but I doubt that the results would be very different in the USA.  ...

  • May 29, 2023

    Bud Light rebate is paying customers a profit to take their beer out of stores

    Beer distributors' warehouses must be overflowing with unsold Bud Light.  Just keeping inventory in stock costs money — the capital tied up in the product and keeping the lights on, property taxes paid, and the opportunity costs a...

  • May 29, 2023

    Arrest of Chicago 'Peacekeeper' police substitute demonstrates the folly of 'defund the police'

    A man wearing the vest of the new "Peacekeeper" corps deployed over the Memorial Day weekend, to stem the mayhem on a holiday weekend that has become an opportunity for murder tallies to soar, was arrested for a violent attack.  D...

  • May 28, 2023

    'Clarice's Pieces' will return June 11

    The many fans of Clarice Feldman's Sunday feature article, "Clarice's Pieces," will have to wait until June 11 for their next treat. Clarice is taking a well-deserved vacation and traveling. We all miss her, but wish her and her fam...

  • May 28, 2023

    Elon Musk withdraws Twitter from European Union’s ‘voluntary Code of Practice on online disinformation’

    With no pesky First Amendment to deal with, the bureaucrats of the European Union have a relatively easy time dictating what the truth is, and what is not allowed to be part of the public conversation. But “free speech absolutist” Elon Mu...

  • May 28, 2023

    Stabbing, shots fired, and 50 people brawl as ‘Somali Culture Night’ held at high school in Minneapolis

    A Thursday evening event held at Washburn High School in Minneapolis, located in an upscale neighborhood, was planned as a “Minnesota nice” event, celebrating diversity and the arrival over the last 3 decades of a Somali immigrant communi...

  • May 27, 2023

    Dashcam video of stolen Jeep on 100 MPH joy ride through Chicago shows how thieves get their jollies

    A broken but still functional dashcam has yielded video of a Jeep stolen from a parking garage in downtown Chicago buzzing through stoplights, passing a police car (that didn’t offer a chase), missing a pedestrian, hitting an estimated 100 MPH,...

  • May 27, 2023

    CBS News suddenly turns against Biden — a sign that he is being pressured to drop his re-election plans?

    See also: As Biden bugs out of town during debt ceiling negotiations, Karine Jean-Pierre struggles to justify it and snaps at reporters I was shocked when CBS News aired an interview with the IRS whistleblower who revealed what looks like preferen...

  • May 27, 2023

    As Biden bugs out of town during debt ceiling negotiations, Karine Jean-Pierre struggles to justify it and snaps at reporters

    Something doesn’t smell right about the Biden administration hyping end-of-the-world catastrophe if the federal debt ceiling isn’t raised by June first, and then taking off from D.C. as those negotiations are in their last few days. ...

  • May 25, 2023

    NY governor Hochul floats idea of housing illegals in dorms at state universities

    Uh-oh!  It turns out that actually experiencing an inflow of illegal aliens can force even the bluest of blue-state Dem politicians to risk angering their equally blue constituents.  Spectrum News reports: Gov. Kathy Hochul...

  • May 24, 2023

    Professor who cursed students and destroyed pro-life display fired only after threatening the life of a reporter

    The pernicious rhetoric of the left that words are "violence" justifying actual violence may have inspired a radical professor at Hunter College (part of the City University of New York) to destroy a pro-life display on school grounds....

  • May 24, 2023

    California Reparations Task Force member: 'Let's just chill and pay your bill. Your sin bill'

    Perhaps impatient and frustrated that critics point out that California never had slavery and entered the Union as a free state opposed to slavery, and Californians fought and died in the Civil War to end slavery, a prominent member of Cali...

  • May 24, 2023

    Biden’s former nuke waste chief, non-binary Sam Brinton, finally to see the inside of a slammer

    Until this week, Sam Brinton, formerly hailed as the first “non-binary” senior federal official as head of nuclear waste management has avoided jail or prison, despite two guilty pleas for luggage theft at airports in Las Vegas and Minnea...

  • May 23, 2023

    Trump super-PAC has already spent more money attacking DeSantis than spent on backing GOP candidates in the 2022 midterms

    MAGA, Inc, the well funded super-PAC supporting Donald Trump's 2024 candidacy, apparently never heard of Ronald Reagan's eleventh commandment: "Thou shalt not speak ill of another Republican." I wonder how many others who would h...

  • May 22, 2023

    Bilderberg Group meeting underway in Lisbon includes heads of ChatGPT creator OpenAI, Pfizer, Microsoft, Goldman Sachs, and...Stacey Abrams

    You don't have to indulge in any conspiracy theories to find it interesting who got invited to this year's Bilderberg Group meeting underway in Lisbon.  The meetings are secret, with no notes or recordings taken of formal sessions (...

  • May 22, 2023

    KT McFarland: FBI, DOJ, and CIA rigged the last 2 elections...and they will rig 2024

    Former deputy national security adviser K.T. McFarland, who worked for General Michael Flynn — unjustly forced from office — offers a chilling and highly realistic view of what we face: a coup by the Deep State that they are planning to r...

  • May 22, 2023

    The GOP can never win the ballot-harvesting game, so restore mail-in voting to a rare practice only when necessary by illness or absence

    Perhaps the most consequential political outcome of the COVID panic that was engineered is the widespread use of mail-in voting in place of actually showing up at a polling station on Election Day.  On the spurious grounds that standing in ...

  • May 22, 2023

    Debt-ridden Chinese cities face brutal cutbacks

    The debt trap is ensnaring many of China's cities.  While Americans properly worry about the ballooning federal debt, China is already beginning to experience a crisis due to debts incurred by local governments.  Bloomberg...

  • May 22, 2023

    Overseas, China springs the debt trap on loans to a dozen countries

    Even as high debts are impoverishing its local governments, China is playing hardball with foreign borrowers, many of them participants in the Belt and Road Initiative, who incurred massive debts to build infrastructure projects to connect their...

  • May 21, 2023

    MSNBC labels Ron DeSantis ‘pro-white supremacy’

    When a potential GOP presidential candidate has a brilliant track record -- so attractive that new residents flee Dem-ruled areas to his state by the hundreds of thousands, and he turns a narrow first term victory into a double-digit rout for re-elec...

  • May 21, 2023

    Chicago subway passengers subdue violent, threatening, apparently deranged half-naked man with ‘chokehold’ as security guards stand by

    When the police fail to protect the citizenry, vigilantism is the inevitable response. Self-defense is not only a natural, God-given right, it is an imperative that drives behavior, even in the face of adverse consequences. The well-publicized arrest...

  • May 20, 2023

    7 years after Obama commuted his life sentence, Chicago man charged with shooting on an expressway leaving a woman 'brain dead'

    The Democrats' war on "the war on drugs" has new casualty in Chicago.  Convinced that the higher rate of incarceration for drug offenses African Americans experience is proof of racism and has nothing to do with different patt...

  • May 20, 2023

    Biden reverses himself, allowing F-16s to be sent to Ukraine

    The United States has unilaterally decided to escalate the war between Russia and Ukraine, apparently in the belief that the war will drag on for a considerable time, since training Ukrainian pilots will not be a quick or easy process. A U.S. F-...

  • May 19, 2023

    Sam Brinton, ex-Biden nuclear waste top official, arrested as 'fugitive from justice' in third alleged airport luggage theft

    Sam Brinton, the “non-binary” former head of nuclear waste management entrusted with that awesome responsibility by the Biden administration, has so far escaped jail time for the two previously reported thefts of luggage he has been found...

  • May 19, 2023

    Disney fail: Company announces cancellation of two big projects as media pounce to falsely blame DeSantis for one

    Shareholders in the Walt Disney Company have a lot to be unhappy about lately. Anyone unlucky enough to have purchased its stock on March 12, 2021, has lost over 52% of his investment at yesterday’s closing price.  Simply Wall Street comme...

  • May 19, 2023

    AOC's call for trucker boycott of Florida an embarrassing flop

    Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has humiliated herself, apparently in the false belief that truckers care what she thinks. She took to Twitter to call for a trucker boycott of shipments to Florida because of what she terms “anti-immigra...

  • May 18, 2023

    Fox News desperately needs new blood

    If the Drudge Report leak (see Peter Barry Chowka’s coverage of it here) about the new lineup at Fox News is correct, the network is stumbling very badly. Sticking with its existing talent (moving Hannity to Tucker’s old time slot) will n...

  • May 18, 2023

    What Durham’s report avoided

    There was so much detail in the Durham report that the first round of responses quite naturally focused on what was included. Even if the report basically confirmed what conservatives have said for years about Russiagate, it was good to have it on th...

  • May 18, 2023

    Starbucks goes full Bud Light in India with commercial promoting trans ideology

    In a startling example of cultural imperialism, coffee colossus Starbucks is promoting transsexualism in India, with a slickly-produced 2-minute video ad. First, Starbucks exported their crappy overpriced coffee model to India. Now, they are ...

  • May 17, 2023

    Michelle Obama is peddling sugary drinks that don't meet the nutrition standards she advocated as first lady

    According to this Bloomberg article, Michelle Obama is "a co-founder and strategic partner at Plezi Nutrition, a maker of sweetened beverages for kids ages 6 and up," which I take to mean that she is profiting directly from the sale of...

  • May 16, 2023

    Durham proved a vast conspiracy to deceive voters about Trump and Russia, but won't indict anyone, so media can bury the story

    John Durham's report issued yesterday after three-plus years of investigation paints a damning picture of a conspiracy among federal officials, leading legacy media, and the Hillary Clinton campaign and Obama administration.  But by iss...

  • May 16, 2023

    It sure looks like Michelle Obama is being pressured to run for president, forcing Biden out of the 2024 race

    It's obvious to anyone in the Democrat camp not totally delusional that Joe Biden's declining mental faculties make him almost impossible to re-elect in 2024.  Douglas Schoen and Andrew Stein are two Democrats who have a good grasp ...

  • May 15, 2023

    The federal government's Catch-22 strategy to cover up its spying on Sharyl Attkisson

    We've been covering the incredible story of Sharyl Attkisson, the award-winning journalist, who discovered that her computer was being not just spied upon, but remotely taken over by the federal government.  This was ten years ago, as s...

  • May 15, 2023

    Comer reveals that the informant on Biden corruption can't be located

    It's too soon to push the panic button, but the news that House Oversight Committee chairman James Comer revealed to Maria Bartiromo Sunday morning is alarming.  The key informant, who provided material about Biden being bribed by a for...

  • May 15, 2023

    Netflix series Queen Cleopatra depicting the ancient monarch as black receives the lowest audience score in history

    When Netflix debuted its Queen Cleopatra 4-part series that has a black actress in the title role, it caused a furor in Egypt.  We now know that, for whatever reason, Netflix subscribers and reviewers aggregated on Rotten Tomatoes have not ...

  • May 15, 2023

    Perfect: MSNBC uses white liberal guest to explain that Hispanics are becoming 'white supremacists'

    The left obviously thinks that "white supremacy" is the boogeyman to scare the public into voting Democrats into permanent power.  President Biden just told an overwhelmingly black audience that white supremacy is the ...

  • May 14, 2023

    Trump cancels his Iowa rally… and DeSantis trolls him there

    Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis were both supposed to be in Iowa Saturday, with separate rallies. But unexpectedly, the Trump rally was cancelled owing to a tornado watch: Trump says he’s been forced to cancel his outdoor rally tonight in De...

  • May 14, 2023

    Trans tyranny in Chicago

    For the third Sunday in a row, a demonstration is planned in front of a resale/antique store called Boho Barbie in the far northside of Chicago neighborhood of Rogers Park. The aim of the demonstrators is to drive the store out of their neighborhood....

  • May 14, 2023

    Daniel Penny’s legal defense fund closing in on $1.5 million

    As of this writing (5:23 AM EDT), the legal defense fund established at GiveSendGo.com is a few thousand dollars short of $1.5 million, at $1,473,253. I am afraid that the hero Marine will need every penny and more if he is to beat this awful ma...

  • May 14, 2023

    Brawl breaks out between supporters of two rival Muslim candidates at Dem political convention in Minneapolis

    Mass immigration from Third World countries has certainly changed the politics of Minneapolis. The New York Post reports (hat tip: Scott Johnson of Powerline) A Minneapolis Democrat endorsing convention was completely derailed after supporters f...

  • May 13, 2023

    Alvin Bragg didn't trust a grand jury to indict Daniel Penny for the death of Jordan Neely

    In New York City, everybody but the richest few percent rides the subway, and they know how bad things have gotten in the wake Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg treating arrests as inequitable since African Americans are disproportionately arrested. Jordan...

  • May 13, 2023

    Since when do illegal alien invaders get priority over needy Americans?

    When did unvetted foreigners violating our border rise to the top of the list of priorities for receiving taxpayer-funded services? And when did homeless veterans, many of whom are homeless because of traumas they endured while serving our country in...

  • May 11, 2023

    Propaganda media doing their best to stonewall Comer's evidence of massive Biden corruption in the pay of foreign countries

    As a friend emailed me yesterday, “In a reasonable world, this would be the biggest story about the biggest corruption episode at the highest level in our history.” Accordingly, now that the former news media of this country have been rep...

  • May 11, 2023

    The threat of Tucker Twitter to the progressive media oligopoly has got them scared

    It’s becoming a lot of fun to watch the propaganda organs react to the recently announced plan of Tucker Carlson to use the recently liberated Twitter as his future platform, post-Fox. The combination of Elon Musk, who has become a free speech ...

  • May 11, 2023

    Dems starting to discover that reparations demands are a political trap

    It must have seemed to Democrats like a good idea at the time to encourage the idea that their most solid political base, African Americans, deserve payment from taxpayers for the harm that slavery did to their ancestors. Particularly when Donald Tru...

  • May 10, 2023

    RFK Jr. breaks yet another taboo, this time with profound Second Amendment implications

    Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. must be driving the progressives, who formerly adored him, nuts. I realize that he has taken a lot of abhorrent positions; for example, his demand that the Koch Brothers be imprisoned because they are "treason...

  • May 9, 2023

    Oklahoma governor vetoes funding for state's PBS TV stations

    This is a great first step in stopping the use of taxpayer funds to provide left-wing propaganda.  Fox News reports: EXCLUSIVE – Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt, R., has strong words for critics after he vetoed a bill la...

  • May 8, 2023

    Comer to reveal evidence Wednesday on Biden family receiving money in exchange for policy

    As a friend put it after watching House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer’s 14-minute interview with Maria Bartiromo Sunday, “Either Comer is totally delusional or the Biden family, including Joe, is going down.”   ...

  • May 7, 2023

    Exposing a media propaganda campaign via graphical data

    Mass media in the United States have degenerated into a neo-Soviet status as propaganda organs for the ruling clique. Most Americans, other than Democrats whose propaganda is being pushed, understand.   Just 7% of Americans have "a gre...

  • May 7, 2023

    Why gagging Tucker Carlson won’t work

    As has now been widely reported, Tucker Carlson wasn’t fired by Fox news; he was merely removed from its broadcast schedule while continuing to draw his salary (reported to be as much as $20 million a year). It is widely speculated that noncomp...

  • May 6, 2023

    The curious case of the Biden voters who 'somewhat disapprove' of him

    An article by Amy Walter of the Cook Political Report focuses on a puzzling phenomenon: [A]t this point, the share of voters who say they would vote for Biden over Trump is significantly higher than his job approval rating.  ...

  • May 6, 2023

    Biden's handlers roll out the fighting version of an electoral scrapper

    We got a chance yesterday to see a perfectly medicated version of Joe Biden, one that didn't wander off aimlessly or fail to complete sentences — or even words.  The meds lasted throughout the interview.  Recalling the v...

  • May 6, 2023

    Was the Chicago mayor victory of radical leftist Brandon Johnson an inside job?

    Writing on John Kass's website, Pat Hickey posits the theory that the moderate Democrat opposing the victorious radical teachers' union candidate, Brandon Johnson, was undone by his campaign manager, Joe Trippi, a veteran Democrat campai...

  • May 6, 2023

    Soros fund in buyout of Vice media

    The already vast influence of George Soros's billions will get a steroid infusion as his hedge fund, Soros Fund Management, joins in buying Vice Media Group out of bankruptcy for a reported $400 million.  The Wall Street Journal...

  • May 5, 2023

    Judge in Trump's 'hush money' trial engages in blatant dissimulation

    My assessment of the probability of Donald Trump receiving a fair trial on the highly questionable charges (falsifying business records) brought against him by Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg just plummeted to subterranean levels.  The judge in the cas...

  • May 5, 2023

    Echoes of Fauxcahontas Elizabeth Warren as fake Indian professor uncovered at Cal Berkeley, facing demands to resign

    Another high-profile female at one of America’s most prestigious universities has been outed for having falsely claimed Native American heritage and thereby illicitly benefitted from affirmative action, as well as deceiving research subjects wi...

  • May 4, 2023

    Does the Murdoch family have a new preferred presidential candidate?

    The Murdoch-owned Wall Street Journal sent out an invitation yesterday to a $299-a-day festival for its well heeled subscribers to attend that strikes me as...well, think of it this way: if the New York Times were putting on a similar festival today,...

  • May 3, 2023

    The Tucker Carlson bidding war begins at $100 million

    A public offer has been made to engage the services of Tucker Carlson at a total of $100 million. Patrick Bet-David, an entrepreneur reportedly worth $200 million, tweeted out the offer:   Dear @TuckerCarlson, our offer from @Valuetainme...

  • May 2, 2023

    CNN's top-rated host takes on Fauci

    Uh-oh!  Tony Fauci's protective shield from the corporate media just cracked.  A really interesting portent is the treatment he got yesterday on CNN's top-rated show, Upfront with Erin Burnett.  Here is...

  • May 2, 2023

    Leak campaign against Tucker Carlson begins with a misfire that damages Fox, not Carlson

    A scorched earth campaign against Tucker Carlson has been anticipated, and the first leak of behind-the-scenes video has dropped, fed to Soros-funded Media Matters, which long has been trying to get both Carlson and Fox News silenced. So...

  • May 2, 2023

    Why the Bud Light disaster could cripple the entire company’s many brands for years

    The damage done by the casual embrace of a transsexual by Bud Light came at an extremely bad time for not just the brand, but for all the brands sold in the US by the parent company,  Anheuser-Busch InBev (ABI). The reason is rooted in a critica...

  • May 1, 2023

    Newt Gingrich warns GOP that Michelle Obama may run for president to avoid 'kamikaze' Biden re-election effort

    Joe Biden's announcement that he is running for re-election has put the Democrats in a pickle.  Not only is Biden visibly declining into senescence at an accelerating pace, but he has also re-upped his commitment to Kamala Harris as his...

  • May 1, 2023

    Prophetic words on Russia from George Kennan a quarter-century ago

    George Kennan was one of the most consequential American diplomats of the 20th century, widely credited as the author of the "containment strategy" for keeping communism at bay (and eventually defeating it under President Reagan) in the uph...

  • May 1, 2023

    Bernie Sanders: Government should confiscate all wealth over $999 million

    No billionaires at all!  Not American ones, at least.  That's the newly proclaimed policy of Bernie Sanders, who most definitely is not challenging the Democrats to nominate him for president in 2024, as he did in 2020. ...

  • May 1, 2023

    AP redefined 'insurrection' to include J6 protests, then redefined it again to exclude TN and MT protests that disrupted legislatures

    Apparently, Humpty Dumpty has taken a senior editing position with the Associated Press.  Lewis Carroll's character from Alice in Wonderland famously intoned, "When I use a word ... it means just what I choose it to ...

  • May 1, 2023

    Teacher at Stanford daycare center arrested at naptime — for murder

    The embarrassing news just keeps coming for Stanford University.  A teacher at the Children's Center of the Stanford Community, an on-campus daycare center, was arrested as her tiny students were napping.  The charge: murder. ...

  • April 30, 2023

    J.P. Sears takes on the sexualization of kids in children’s TV

    One of the most important satirists and commentators today, J.P. Sears, has become an enormously popular and influential conservative media star without benefit of a Fox News contract (take note, Tucker Carlson fans). Usually, he skewers his targets ...

  • April 30, 2023

    Tucker’s choice: Three basic options for his future platform

    It appears that Tucker Carlson may be hamstrung for the moment, unable to negotiate a move to a new home because Fox News reportedly still has him under contract, paying him $10 to $20 million a year while blocking him from creating and broadcasting ...

  • April 30, 2023

    James Woods mocks the unarmed ‘safety ambassadors’ that have replaced armed cops in West Hollywood

    The City of West Hollywood, California is renowned for its trendy dining and entertainment scene, liberal politics, and a heavily gay population. Its city council also voted to replace four armed peace officers (Los Angeles County Sheriff’s dep...

  • April 29, 2023

    Saturday Schadenfreude: CNN aired an amazing confrontation that devastated Randi Weingarten

    As Fox News moves leftward, CNN, the sick man of cable news, just aired a segment that would hearten any alienated FNC viewers that happened to catch it. Is this a portent of things to come? The New York Post reports on the confrontation that must...

  • April 29, 2023

    ABC News censors RFK Jr. interview remarks on Covid vax problems, may have violated federal law

    Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is a bigger problem for the Democrats and their media arm than they realized.  The blowback from an interview with Linsey Davis that aired Thursday on ABC demonstrates the nature of the problem. You see, before airing the ...

  • April 29, 2023

    Vivek Ramaswamy attacks Ron DeSantis and offers far-reaching school reform program

    It looks to me like Vivek Ramaswamy hopes to be Donald Trump’s running mate. Yesterday, in tweets 6 hours apart, he delivered a sharp attack on the governor of Florida, who is apparently feared and detested by Donald Trump, the overwhelming fav...

  • April 29, 2023

    Dylan Mulvaney reveals his totalitarian side

    Just for writing the headline of this piece (“Dylan Mulvaney reveals his totalitarian side”), I ought to be incarcerated, according to its subject.  My crime: using the correct masculine pronoun. Far from being merely a clownish...

  • April 27, 2023

    Montana Legislature learns the lesson from Tennessee and bans disruptive insurrectionist solon from the chamber, but does not expel him

    Republicans are working their way through the New Rules Democrats proclaimed on January 6, 2021. From now on, any disruption of a legislative process is a grave crime, meriting the use of the word “insurrection” to describe the intent of ...

  • April 26, 2023

    Trump rejects GOP presidential candidate debates

    I am dismayed that Donald Trump seems to be adopting the tactics of the Biden-dominated DNC and rejecting the opportunity for voters to hear directly from candidates for their parties' nomination in a presidential debate.  In a pos...

  • April 26, 2023

    With a COVID vaccine reckoning coming, Canada's PM Justin Trudeau tries a 'limited hangout'

    The mRNA gene therapies sold to the public as "vaccines" don't prevent the spread of the COVID virus, as even CDC director Rochelle Walensky testified under oath, and have led to serious side-effects.  It doesn't take...

  • April 25, 2023

    Bud Light sales decline is ‘staggering’ according to beer industry research firms

    AB-InBev, the corporate parent of Bud Light, is silent on the subject, but according to outside industry researchers, Bud Light’s sales collapse is “staggering” in the wake of protest over its engagement of Dylan Mulvaney as an ...

  • April 25, 2023

    Tucker’s departure has been brewing a long time. So has his next move.

    Both Tucker Carlson and Fox News remain mum on the departure of Fox News’s most popular host beyond the terse initial announcement. While I have little doubt that Tucker was fired because he promised to see viewers on Monday during what ended...

  • April 24, 2023

    AOC accuses Tucker Carlson of 'very, very clearly' inciting violence, flaunts her stunning ignorance of government regulation

    It will surprise absolutely no one who reads American Thinker to learn that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is utterly ignorant on a topic she discussed in an interview with Jen Psaki on MSNBC and that she flung baseless serious charges at a ...

  • April 24, 2023

    House Committee to investigate Pelosi's grab of $200 million park maintenance slush fund

    According to the House Committee on Natural Resources, former speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi personally directed that $200 million appropriated for deferred maintenance projects in national parks be spent entirely on one park in her district....

  • April 23, 2023

    Evidence mounts that the problems at Bud Light and its parent go far beyond Alissa Heinerscheid

    If I were still teaching at Harvard Business School, I’d already be putting together material for a case study on the Bud Light marketing disaster, and I am reasonably sure that I would have plenty of company at HBS and elsewhere. The fiasco is...

  • April 22, 2023

    Decoding the Bud Light disaster as marketing VP Alissa Heinerscheid 'takes leave of absence'

    See also: Evidence mounts that the problems at Bud Light and its parent go far beyond Alissa Heinerscheid Knocking 6 billion dollars off the market value of one's employer normally would result in heads rolling.  The inevitable has j...

  • April 21, 2023

    Transportation secretary Buttigieg blames transportation problems on...climate change

    It's hard not to laugh at the deadly earnest, self-righteous inanities spouted by former South Bend, Indiana mayor Pete Buttigieg, who, primarily because of his sexual orientation, was chosen to lead the Department of Transportation, despite havi...

  • April 20, 2023

    Rift among conservatives over Bud Light response has clarified that it's hardball time for the GOP

    Unexpectedly and unintentionally, the hiring of Dylan Mulvaney as a celebrity endorser of Bud Light has provided a clarifying moment for conservatives.  Two prominent Trump administration veterans have emerged as embodiments of the two stra...

  • April 20, 2023

    Fetterman returns to Senate duties and proves himself totally incapable of discharging them

    Senator John Fetterman deserves our compassion for his struggles with the after-effects of his stroke.  But compassion is not a sufficient basis for keeping a seat in the United States Senate in the hands of someone incapable of discharging...

  • April 20, 2023

    More evidence that Biden will not be allowed to run for re-election in 2024

    Now that we live in a political system run by the shadowy figures, we have to look to indirect indicators of what is really going on among our rulers.  The people who decided that since Bernie Sanders would lose to Donald Trump in 2020, the...

  • April 19, 2023

    Will the Dems dump Kamala for Susan Rice?

    Kamala Harris is a big problem for the Democrats as Joe Biden’s senility becomes harder and harder to disguise. Harris is widely disliked, if not regarded as an embarrassing joke, with her trademark cackle betraying an utter unsuitability for h...

  • April 19, 2023

    Non-binary former nuclear waste czar Sam Brinton will serve no jail time for felony theft of luggage at 2 airports

    As he did in Las Vegas, where security cameras captured him stealing a stranger’s suitcase with thousands of dollars’ worth of clothing inside, Sam Brinton has escaped any jail time for a similar theft at Minneapolis-St. Paul Internationa...

  • April 18, 2023

    Media (including Fox News) boycotting mention of David Horowitz's bestselling new book

    The book-buying public may be snapping up copies of David Horowitz's newest book: Final Battle: The Next Election Could Be the Last, but the media's cultural gatekeepers are doing their best to prevent more people from buying it....

  • April 18, 2023

    Pete Buttigieg just can't stop calling highways racist

    Our transportation secretary, Pete Buttigieg, can't tell us enough times how racist our highways are.  Pete prefers bicycles (even if he has his bicycle dropped off at a spot near the White House so he can be photographed riding a bike ...

  • April 17, 2023

    Bodyguard foils attempted assassination of Japanese PM Kishida

    In the wake of the assassination of former prime minister Shinzo Abe less than a year ago, another wannabe assassin was thwarted by a quick-acting bodyguard protecting the current prime minister, Fumio Kishida.  Ryan Saavedra of the...

  • April 17, 2023

    Pro-DeSantis super-PAC runs ad telling Trump to 'fight Democrats'

    I have been deeply distressed by the TV ad currently running that attacks Ron DeSantis for supposedly wanting to cut Social Security.  The ad comes from a group that has "Make America Great Again" in its name, so obviously it is a...

  • April 17, 2023

    Rep. Katie Porter attacks Riley Gaines, gets her head handed to her by Piers Morgan and Bill Maher as audience applauds

    Rep. Katie Porter (D-Calif.) is supposed to be very smart, what with Yale undergraduate and Harvard Law degrees and a tenured professorship in her background.  But she was made a fool of on national TV, perhaps because she spends too much t...

  • April 14, 2023

    Biden nuclear fuel and waste official, nonbinary Sam Brinton, gets no jail time for felonious luggage theft at Vegas airport

    I am outraged by the favoritism enjoyed by (now former) top Biden administration nuclear fuel and waste official Sam Brinton, who wantonly (and we know repeatedly) stole luggage from strangers at airport baggage claim areas.  The U.K. ...

  • April 12, 2023

    World Health Organization is sexualizing children

    They are coming for our children.  Openly, but for the moment obscurely, U.N. health bureaucrats are pushing the sexualization of young children.  It starts (naturally) with the children of Europe, where organized religion is weak...

  • April 12, 2023

    Kamala Harris announces what amounts to a stealth reparations plan

    In a little-noted speech last week, V.P. Kamala Harris revealed that the federal government will be giving out gifts amounting to $1.7 billion to "minority" businesses.  This amounts to a stealth reparations plan, as the recipient...

  • April 12, 2023

    2 expelled TN insurrectionist legislators have some mighty embarrassing skeletons in their closets

    You won't be seeing any of this information on the CNN, MSNBC, or ABCNBCCBS, I bet.  But the two Tennessee state legislators expelled from that body last week over their disruption of the business of that body are no angels. Oddly en...

  • April 10, 2023

    The problem of nonprofit organizations

    The normal response of most people hearing about a large donation to a nonprofit charity is admiration and goodwill.  After all, giving away one's hard earned money so that others may benefit seems noble. But the problem is that when...

  • April 10, 2023

    Bud Light's VP of marketing explains her strategy

    Alissa Heinerscheid, the vice president of marketing for the Bud Light brand, part of the Belgian InBev global brewing empire, is featured in a Twitter video (hat tip: Steven Hayward of Powerline) explaining her approach to convincing enough customer...

  • April 10, 2023

    It may be heretical to think so, but Daniel Perry's murder conviction in Austin, Texas might be legally sound

    (For a counterpoint, suggesting that the prosecutors committed a grave reversible error regardless of the gun evidence, see here.) From what I at first read, saw, and heard, I figured that Army sergeant Daniel Perry was the victim of a Soros-...

  • April 10, 2023

    The common denominator in the recent big problem banks: ESG

    Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank both were multi-billion-dollar bank failures.  First Republic and Credit Suisse were multi-billion-dollar banks that required large cash infusions to avoid failure.  Writing in the Washi...

  • April 9, 2023

    Incoming Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson can collect $1.1 million teacher’s pension despite having taught only 4 years in Chicago Public Schools

    Newly elected as mayor of Chicago, former teacher and union organizer Brandon Johnson, exemplifies why the State of Illinois faces a $210 billion unfunded public employee pension liability, thought by some independent expert observers to be even larg...

  • April 8, 2023

    Swiss government withdraws all recommendations for COVID vaccines

    Dr. Robert Malone calls this "big news." This is big news! "Switzerland stops the Covid vaccinations: All vaccination recommendations have been withdrawn""https://t.co/1WTuthz7sN — Robert W Malone, MD (@RWMalone...

  • April 8, 2023

    After NYT publicizes possible Trump campaign hiring of Laura Loomer and blowback from MTG, campaign says it's not hiring her

    Maggie Haberman is just about the last person you'd expect to do Donald Trump a favor.  But the Trump-hating star political reporter for the New York Times, along with Jonathan Swan, a highly regarded White House reporter, may have save...

  • April 7, 2023

    Why would a beer company pick Dylan Mulvaney to endorse its product?

    It's pretty clear that Bud Light has set off a firestorm by using Dylan Mulvaney, a man who pretends to be a woman, to promote its product. Gareth Boyd, the marketing & PR director at Forte Analytica, says Bud Light lit its bra...

  • April 7, 2023

    Report: Amazon Studios dropped audience ranking of series because 'audiences found queer stories off-putting'

    The Hollywood Reporter and its at-large editor and veteran reporter Kim Masters are the last places one would expect to see anything even hinting that catering to LGTBQWERTY sensibilities might explain poor performance with audiences.  Holl...

  • April 7, 2023

    As Gavin Newsom launches stealth campaign for Dem presidential nomination, he clamps down on media access to Cali government data

    It's obvious that Gavin Newsom is running for Joe Biden's job on the assumption that the geriatric mediocrity will not run for re-election or that he can be defeated if he does run.  Polls show that a majority of Democrats would rat...

  • April 7, 2023

    LBJ Library releases tapes proving his first election to the Senate was stolen

    Kudos to the LBJ Presidential Library in Austin for posting to the web copies of tapes that prove that Lyndon Baines Johnson stole his seat in the Senate when first running for it. Johnson went on to absolutely dominate the Senate as Majority Leader,...

  • April 6, 2023

    Your tax dollars at work: Translating dictionary 'of LGBTQ terms' into Spanish

    In the space of just a few years, the federal government — along with the commanding heights of corporations, universities, and nonprofits — has been transformed into a propaganda and promotion vehicle for homosexuality and gender confusi...

  • April 6, 2023

    Twitter labels NPR 'state-affiliated media' and the government-funded network squeals like a stuck pig

    Elon Musk's Twitter has provoked a spasm of media outrage by adding the works "state-affiliated media" to tweets coming from the main account of the indisputably federally funded radio network. To be sure, financially beleag...

  • April 6, 2023

    NC Dem state rep switches to GOP, saying, 'The modern-day Democratic Party has become unrecognizable to me'

    The central political fact of our era is the radicalization of the Democrat party, which has been stealthily taken over by American Marxists, devoted to what Obama called the "fundamental transformation" of America.  They are...

  • April 5, 2023

    Chicago elects a new mayor who defended looting

    Not quite one third of registered voters (33.2%) bothered to vote in Tuesday's election for the next mayor of Chicago, and the non-voting two thirds may soon regret their electoral passivity.  Brandon Johnson, a far-left radical, has wo...

  • April 5, 2023

    TN GOP legislators play hardball, strip committee assignments and may expel 'insurrection' Dems from state Legislature

    Most people know that it's dangerous to poke a bear because once aroused, the beast can be fearsome.  Democrats are only beginning to realize that the same principle is starting to hold true for elephants of the GOP variety.  ...

  • April 3, 2023

    Bill introduced in Congo to ban the only politician with Jewish heritage (and the frontrunner) from presidential race

    Politics in the Democratic Republic of Congo and the United States have something in common: efforts to knock formidable competitors for the presidency out of the race via state action. The Jewish Voice reports: A law barring the Democra...

  • April 2, 2023

    Trump’s indictment creates a new era for the GOP. Swamp Republicans hardest hit.

    The indictment and pending arraignment of Donald Trump signals a new era for the Republican Party. The move by Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg, not coincidentally timed to push aside discussion of documentary proof of bribes funneled by China to Biden famil...

  • March 30, 2023

    Gavin Newsom is cornered by the reparations clown show he unleashed

    California’s Governor Gavin Newsom finds himself in such an awkward position that he is refusing comment on a gathering storm that will not go away, and which has the possibility of turning his presidential ambitions to ashes. Newsom is know...

  • March 29, 2023

    Prog icon Cenk Uygur tells trans people to 'get guns' because 'right wing lunatics are going to attack them'

    Following the slaughter of Christians in Nashville by a trans-identifying female posing as male, and on the eve of an Antifa-sponsored "Trans Day of Vengeance," progressive icon Cenk Uyger seems uncomfortably close to "yelling fire in ...

  • March 29, 2023

    Tucker decries 'trans movement targeting Christians,' FBI denies Nashville terror link as perp's 'manifesto' remains hidden

    Last night, Tucker Carlson made a case that the trans movement is targeting Christians, claiming that the two movements are antithetical to each other.  "The trans movement is the mirror image of Christianity, and therefore its natural...

  • March 27, 2023

    The Biden disgrace that unleashed the ongoing torrent of foreign policy disasters

    In case you haven't noticed yet, the foreign policy of the United States is a catastrophe after two years of Biden's stewardship.  A brutal war is killing tens of thousands of Ukrainians and Russians, and China is openly threatening...

  • March 27, 2023

    Another disaster on Kamala's watch

    Kamala Harris's portfolio as Border Czar notably includes Honduras, part of the northern triangle of Central American countries sending us waves of illegal aliens: FACT SHEET: Strategy to Address the Root Causes of Migration in Central Ameri...

  • March 25, 2023

    Do Iran's mullahs have a sense of humor, or do they lack all self-awareness?

    My money's on no self-awareness, but opinions vary about a tweet from Iran's foreign minister, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, that is laugh-out-loud funny when you consider the violent, lethal repression of anti-government demonstrations all over ...

  • March 25, 2023

    Trump posts then deletes item threatening 'death and destruction' if indicted, showing him holding baseball bat with Bragg's head nearby

    Coming off the best week he's had in a long time, playing Manhattan D.A. Alvin Bragg for a chump by predicting his arrest last week, dominating the news and raising legitimate questions about the weakness of the case, Donald Trump has shot himsel...

  • March 24, 2023

    Likely next mayor of Chicago refuses to condemn looting during the 2020 riots, blames corporations

    It looks like Brandon Johnson, the radical leftist candidate supported by the teachers' union, will win the runoff election and become Chicago's next mayor, despite losing to centrist-leaning Paul Vallas by 11 points in the primary. ...

  • March 24, 2023

    Putin was peddling BS in his threat of nuclear escalation over use of depleted uranium shells

    I confess: I took Vladimir Putin at his word, and that was mistake.  A couple of days ago, I reported that Putin threatened nuclear escalation over the use of depleted uranium (D.U.) shells by Ukraine, and I termed the U.K.'s ...

  • March 24, 2023

    Gun-grabber hypocrisy 1: Bloomberg's gun control stooge forced to squirm over non-prosecution of Hunter Biden for gun law violations

    See also: Gun grabber hypocrisy 2: NPR gushes over trans group arming up and forming gun club 'Rainbow Reload' Michael Bloomberg may not outrank George Soros in the list of malign billionaires, but according to all reports, he's f...

  • March 24, 2023

    Gun-grabber hypocrisy 2: NPR gushes over trans group arming up and forming gun club 'Rainbow Reload'

    See also: Gun grabber hypocrisy 1: Bloomberg’s gun control stooge forced to squirm over non-prosecution of Hunter Biden for gun law violations National Public Radio (NPR) has no shame over using taxpayer funding to push the political agenda ...

  • March 24, 2023

    Gun grabber incoherence: Joe Biden can’t explain whose hands he wants to keep guns out of

    The dementia of the sitting President of the United States is now so severe that he can’t remain coherent nearly every time he speaks in public. The entire world knows that leadership of the United States is in the hands of a shadowy group that...

  • March 22, 2023

    UK recklessly sticking a toe across Putin's nuclear 'line in the sand'

    Has insanity gripped the U.K.'s Ministry of Defense?  What else could explain playing chicken with Putin, a dictator with the world's largest nuclear arsenal and hypersonic missiles that can't be intercepted?  A man wh...

  • March 20, 2023

    Mark Levin utterly trashes DA Bragg's case against Trump

    On Fox & Friends Sunday, Mark Levin did a 15-minute guest appearance in which he demolished the case that may (or may not) result in an indictment against Donald Trump in New York.  With the mind of a constitutional scholar and the plai...

  • March 20, 2023

    Most underreported story: Evidence of the Biden family's $ millions from China now documented with bank records

    It comes as no surprise that the propaganda arm of the Democrats called the "mainstream media" has no interest in informing the American people of the gravity of the evidence piling up that Joe Biden has been bought off by the Chinese Commu...

  • March 20, 2023

    Stanford Law students who shouted down federal judge demand reporter hide their names and obscure their faces

    Apparently, you don't have to be that bright to get into Stanford's law school, formerly regarded as highly competitive and demanding in its legal education.  The budding totalitarians there who don't believe in free speech for ...

  • March 20, 2023

    Five Black men dressed as women complain about 'cultural appropriation'

    Progressives generally do not understand irony.  The deeper the mental and emotional commitment to an ideology that defies nature and common sense, the less likely the individual is to have any self-awareness or appreciation of how ridiculo...

  • March 20, 2023

    After billions in US aid (including a recent $1-billion pledge), South Africa is conducting joint military exercises with Russia and China

    South Africa, alas, is not our friend.  Despite decades of financial and moral support from the United States, South Africa is drifting into alignment with our rivals for global supremacy.  Daniel Greenfield reports for Front...

  • March 20, 2023

    New York Times beclowns itself with its latest prediction of climate doom

    Having learned nothing from Greta Thunberg’s quiet deletion of her 5 year old tweet predicting doom this year, The New York Times heedlessly is adding yet another doom prognosis in just a few years.   The Times also has obviously le...

  • March 19, 2023

    Calamity Joe: Geopolitical Catastrophes Multiply as American Power and Influence Crash to New Postwar Lows

    In only two years, Joe Biden’s presidency has produced multiple catastrophes from which recovery will be difficult, if it is even possible. Domestically, we see the banking system teetering on insolvency, as the rapid escalation in interest rat...

  • March 19, 2023

    Professor Turley exposes the incredible weakness of the Trump indictment

    Professor Jonathan Turley, one of the few brave honest liberals in academia, is far too nice a person to speak with utter contempt in his voice. But the substance of what he has to say about the indictment and pending arrest of former President Donal...

  • March 18, 2023

    Tucker Carlson lets it all hang out

    I admit that I am not very knowledgeable about podcasts, so I had never heard of the Full Send podcast, despite it having close to 2 million subscribers on YouTube and, for all I know, more on other platforms.  It is hosted by Kyle For...

  • March 17, 2023

    Greta Thunberg quietly deletes tweet from 5 years ago predicting only 5 years left to save us from climate apocalypse...and Tucker pounces

    One of the more delightful aspects of being a dissident from the absurd apocalyptic climate doom cult is the ability to laugh at the decades' worth of failed, yet quite specific predictions of disaster from purported "experts" that the ...

  • March 17, 2023

    NYT op-ed denouncing 'disgrace' of American poverty wears blinkers

    The New York Times just loves denouncing the United States for not spending enough money on the poor — all the more so when it uses words like "disgrace" and invidiously claims that our spending is less than other nations.  ...

  • March 17, 2023

    Georgia Dems reportedly less than thrilled that Stacey Abrams wants to run again

    I wonder how many Georgia Democrats have going through their minds the old classic from Dan Hicks and his Hot Licks, “How can I miss you if you won’t go away?” Laurel Duggan reports for the Daily Caller News Foundation: Fo...

  • March 16, 2023

    Tucker goes there — predicts a hot war with Russia (and maybe China) leading to wartime crushing of political dissent

    Love him or hate him, Tucker Carlson has become the most important political analyst of our era.  The release to him of suppressed J6 Capitol footage that contradicted the Democrat/media narrative dominated political news until Carlson'...

  • March 16, 2023

    Was the US drone supplying reconnaissance data for Ukraine to target Russian forces and territory?

    If you take seriously Tucker Carlson's warning about the headlong rush to outright war with Russia that would justify the crushing of political dissent at home, then it is especially important to examine what Russia has to say about its...

  • March 15, 2023

    Newark, NJ scammed into signing a sister city agreement with a fake country

    Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, son of the infamous anti-Semitic playwright and poet Amiri Baraka (formerly Leroi Jones), evidently does not sweat the details when it comes to official duties.  His city finally fessed up a few days ago to having b...

  • March 15, 2023

    J6 defendant who walked into Capitol through an open door, spent less than a minute inside, and left when asked by a Capitol cop faces prison

    By any standard, the treatment of January 6 defendants has been a disgrace to the Department of Justice, the D.C. federal bench, and the Constitution.  Scores of people have been held in inhumane conditions in the D.C. Gulag, denied their c...

  • March 14, 2023

    Connecting the dots on Nordstream sabotage and China's sudden emergence as a Middle East peace broker

    The shocking announcement that China had brought together bitter rivals Shiite Iran and Sunni Saudi Arabia to resume diplomatic relations in a deal negotiated in Beijing is a stunning defeat for America, threatening the basis of our Middle Eastern an...

  • March 14, 2023

    Maxine Waters keeps saying 'Silicone Valley Bank'

    Until a few months ago, Rep. Maxine Waters, (D-Calif.) was the chair of the House Financial Services Committee, and she currently is the ranking member of the minority.  She represents a district in the very state that contains Silicon Vall...

  • March 13, 2023

    Must-see TV: Mark Levin exposes 'the scandal no one is talking about'

    My hat is off to Mark Levin for his opening statement in Sunday's edition of Life, Liberty and Levin.  While Mark's show is always worth watching, this particular segment is clearly in the must-see category for anyone concerned...

  • March 13, 2023

    House Oversight Committee has 'documents that show just exactly how the Biden family was getting money from the Chinese Communist Party'

    Documentary proof of an American president getting paid off by our greatest strategic rival, if not enemy, is no small matter. James Comer, chair of the House Oversight Committee, said some pretty important things yesterday, appearing on Sunday Mo...

  • March 13, 2023

    Indiana University Medical School caves to trans extremists in required course for all MD students

    The New Dark Age that is sending Western Civilization into decline scored an important victory at the highly-regarded  Indiana University Medical School in Bloomington, Indiana, where the UK Daily Mail reports:  Indiana University...

  • March 12, 2023

    Shameful New York Times hit piece on Ron DeSantis reveals panic over his political appeal

    The New York Times ran a lengthy hit piece, titled, “Inside Ron DeSantis’s Politicized Removal of an Elected Prosecutor,” that demonstrates how fearful Democrats are of his appeal in an era when crime is on the mind of so many voter...

  • March 9, 2023

    70% of Senate Dems vote to override DC bill softening penalties for murder and carjacking, and paralyzing the courts

    The Democrats have sent a vivid message to the GOP on their fear of the crime issue, if only the party has the wit to exploit it.  They know that the explosion of crime is enough to scare voters into supporting the GOP, and as a result, 36 ...

  • March 9, 2023

    Ron DeSantis destroyed critics of his so-called 'book banning' with a master class in jujitsu on hostile media

    Ron DeSantis's work to protect Florida's schoolchildren from hetero- and homosexual grooming via pornographic books in their libraries and classrooms has provoked outrage and brought nasty labels.  (See below for the worst of it.)...

  • March 8, 2023

    DeSantis's State of the State address to the Florida Legislature Tuesday sure looked like a campaign item

    Governor Ron DeSantis currently is the only credible rival to Donald Trump for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination.  As such, his State of the State address on Tuesday was a de facto part of a campaign that has not even been announced. ...

  • March 8, 2023

    National Review plays defense for J6 Committee, attacks Tucker Carlson

    I know, I know; National Review is still the outfit that published the infamous "Against Trump" issue as a last-ditch effort to foil the successful 2016 candidacy that led to four years of peace, prosperity, low inflation, and disproportion...

  • March 8, 2023

    The Democrats' strategy to dismiss the uncensored J6 videos evolves

    The New York Times, which has become a semi-official house organ of the Democrats, also serves as a pilot fish for the rest of the establishment media.  So, when it failed to mention Tucker Carlson's first screening of censored J6 video...

  • March 7, 2023

    Biden makes a joke so self-unaware and so close to the truth that fact-checkers suspected a deep fake

    Self-deprecating humor can be charming when the person making the joke is being modest — dimming the brightness of his own shining light for the purpose of being humble.  But in a person whose stature is already questionable, self-dep...

  • March 7, 2023

    DC City Council tries to undo the damage it inflicted on Biden and the congressional Dems

    When the Washington, D.C. City Council overrode the veto of Mayor Muriel Bowser and made into law a "criminal justice reform" bill that would have reduced mandatory minimum sentences, made serious felonies into misdemeanors, and overwhelmed...

  • March 6, 2023

    India's PM Modi goes a little bit North Korean with pervasive cult of personality posters in cities

    I am just back from a bucket list trip to India (with a stopover in Istanbul on the way home), and while I am far from an expert on this vast, complex, and highly diverse country, I want to offer a few observations in this and in some other forthcomi...

  • March 6, 2023

    A great question nobody is asking about Biden's student loan giveaway plan

    I am vehemently opposed to Joe Biden's illegal assumption of the power to force taxpayers to assume the burden of student loan repayments on college tuition obligations voluntarily entered into.  It's wrong constitutionally, and it...

  • February 15, 2023

    Joe diGenova and Victoria Toensing need your help

    I trust that nearly all AT readers know who Joseph diGenova and Victoria Toensing are.  I have long admired both of them as brilliant and tireless conservative thinkers who also happen to be legendarily effective lawyers, usually fighting f...

  • February 15, 2023

    Head of Scotland's government unexpectedly resigns after trans prisoner issues explode

    A veteran politician who unreservedly served the trans agenda shocked the political world there with a sudden and completely unanticipated resignation from office as the head of government.  The U.K. Daily Mail reports: Nicol...

  • February 13, 2023

    KJP's latest train wreck: Can't explain NORAD and calls our cold neighbor to the north 'Canadia'

    Conventional wisdom has it that Karine Jean-Pierre owes her position as Biden's press secretary to affirmative action.  She is black, female, and lesbian, all of which make her a "pioneer" and a shatterer of "glass ceilin...

  • February 13, 2023

    Super Bowl ad causes creator of The Daily Show to lose it talking about Greg Gutfeld's late-night triumph

    You can tell that the progs who have monopolized late-night comedy are scared out of their wits by the triumph of Gutfeld!, the Fox News competitor that has grabbed ratings leadership, despite a visibly smaller production budget and distribution...

  • February 11, 2023

    A Biden Labor Dept. rule change could force your retirement nest egg to be invested in Solyndra-like green and woke companies

    Joe Biden is opening the door for the investment management companies that handle the retirement funds of 152 million Americans to no longer seek the best financial returns, but instead fund companies, like Solyndra, that pledge to advance the progre...

  • February 11, 2023

    Tucker nails it: Apocalyptic climate doom is the religion of urban atheists and now has become the official state religion

    Friday night's opening monologue on Tucker Carlson Tonight was a further demonstration of why Mr. Carlson is the most important political commentator in the United States.  He takes on and explains political issues in ways that cla...

  • February 10, 2023

    Anti-incarceration SJW activist dies after brutal robbery in Oakland

    The large and influential social justice warrior community in the San Francisco Bay Area is reeling with the news of the death of one of their prominent members, 48-year-old Jennifer Angel.  Ms. Angel was the founder and owner of a well kno...

  • February 9, 2023

    Report: Biden admin removing surveillance balloons from southern border

    Coming in the wake of Biden allowing a Chinese surveillance balloon to traverse the United States, this report is hard to swallow. The United States will be junking the very same, highly effective surveillance technology that our prime strategic comp...

  • February 7, 2023

    Biden's SOTU puffery of his achievements will fall on deaf ears as polls show majority think he's accomplished little or nothing

    The annual State of the Union address is a chance for presidents to claim credit for great achievements and outline plans for the future.  With the memory of China's spy balloon crossing our most sensitive military installations unmoles...

  • February 7, 2023

    Biden and balloons

    I find this tweet from Alan Jacoby utterly hilarious.  It combines Biden's visible helplessness with the specter of sinister balloons. pic.twitter.com/ZAHMS4vTnm — Alan Jacoby рџЋ™рџ‡єрџ‡ё (@AlanJacoby1776) February 4, 2023 ...

  • February 7, 2023

    Stock market rewards oil major that promises to slow its shift to low-carbon energy

    Stock market investors know that alternative energy doesn't pay off, despite the constant hectoring about it being the wave of the future.  So, when one of the oil majors announced that it was slowing down its previously announced effor...

  • February 6, 2023

    Pete Buttigieg, Secretary of Suck-Up

    It's obvious that Pete Buttigieg does not take his duties as secretary of transportation seriously.  Indulging in a secret "paternity leave" (for an infant acquired from a woman) shortly after assuming office, only to have a m...

  • February 6, 2023

    NY Times signals Kamala that her White House ambitions are hopeless

    In the old days of the USSR, Kremlinologists used to figure out who was in and who was out in the power struggles at the top by looking at the reviewing stand for the May Day military parades. Proximity to the leader was the criterion. With today...

  • February 5, 2023

    Wind power makers suffer huge losses, want to abandon major project

    The greenies’ dream of “clean” (except for millions of dead birds) energy from wind farms is dying in the face of the poor economics (even with tax subsidies) and unreliable technology. The big players in constructing wind turbines ...

  • February 5, 2023

    Popularity of Italy’s PM Giorgia Meloni is a rebuke to EU bureaucrats and European MSM

    It turns out that the conservative/populist Prime Minister of Italy, Giorgia Melonia, widely decried in media and leftist circles as fascist or “fascist-adjacent”, is a hit with Italian voters a hundred days into office. John Hinderaker o...

  • February 5, 2023

    The best reason of all to never, ever give in to Antifa’s demands

    Attention, leftists! Put aside your hatred of Trump, conservatives, and all things not dedicated to advancing your vision of utopia. Think for a moment about practical matters (I know, it’s hard….) But believe me, it’s in your s...

  • February 5, 2023

    Sunday schadenfreude: 96% of Disney’s 32,000-member Florida union reject its contract offer

    The Walt Disney Company is in a world of hurt in Florida. Having inserted itself into Florida politics by advocating injecting homosexual sex into K – 3rd grade classrooms, the company just lost its special privilege to act as the local governm...

  • February 5, 2023

    Guess what’s missing from Adam Schiff’s latest mailer to constituents?

    You probably have read that Adam Schiff is running for the US Senate in 2024, even though the incumbent Democrat, Dianne Feinstein has not indicated she will not seek re-election. But it is a very open secret in DC that Feinstein, who is 89 years old...

  • February 4, 2023

    January's 'too good to be true' jobs report was based on 'adjustments'

    Bloomberg, which exists to serve active traders on Wall Street, is throwing shade on the January jobs report that “surprised” a lot of people with its positive numbers. Before addressing the technical factors used to produce the rosy numb...

  • February 4, 2023

    Biden outright lies about inflation, blaming Trump

    Joe Biden yesterday committed an utterly blatant lie, one that was obviously prepared in advance and offered only because he knows the corrupt, partisan media will not point it out. He knows that inflation is badly hurting the vast majority of Americ...

  • February 4, 2023

    Harvard ditches 'misinformation' research program, severs ties with its director who doubted Hunter's laptop was genuine

    The entire concept of “misinformation” is a subterfuge to disguise outright censorship, and there are signs that the public has caught on to the con.  The remaining institutions capable of feeling shame may be backing away from their...

  • February 3, 2023

    How long will 'climate change' trump other green and progressive causes?

    The Wall Street Journal reviewed a heartbreaking account of children and adults in the Congo exploited to work in the cobalt mines of Congo, in a book titled Cobalt Red, by Siddharth Kara.  Mark P. Mills writes: [He] wit...

  • February 3, 2023

    Tucker makes a stunning case on Biden's children

    Tucker Carlson began his top-rated Fox News program with a startling and disturbing comparison of the treatment of Joe Biden's family with the way that children of dictators are treated in places like Iraq under Saddam.  (Hasty transcri...

  • February 3, 2023

    It sure looks like CNN is greasing the skids under Don Lemon, preparing to dump him

    One of the unsavory aspects of our current era is that firing a member of a "protected class" — racial and sexual minorities, plus women of any race — almost inevitably leads to cries of racism, sexism, homophobia, etc. ...

  • February 2, 2023

    Mark Steyn reveals he had 2 heart attacks and has recovered

    Mark Steyn has been lamentably missing from his regular appearances and occasional guest-hosting of Tucker Carlson's Fox News show, having signed on for a weekday program at the U.K.'s GBNews.  Thus, many of his American fans, ...

  • February 2, 2023

    Running out of money to pay his legal bills, Hunter Biden goes on the offense

    Hunter Biden's lawyers took a new tack yesterday, hot on the heels of news that his artwork isn't selling very well and that he may be planning to raise money for a legal defense fund (would the donors' names be p...

  • February 1, 2023

    Biden's new appointee to Intelligence Advisory Board suffered 'acute mental health crisis' and was unable 'to get out of bed'

    Is it wise public policy to appoint someone like this to an ultra-sensitive intelligence advisory board?  The apparent motives behind this move are as questionable as the appointment itself. Joe Biden's handlers are attempting to sel...

  • January 31, 2023

    Thousands of federal bureaucrats defrauded taxpayers to double their paychecks with Covid aid meant for the unemployed

    Downsizing the federal bureaucracy is an urgent priority, and an easy first step is in sight thanks to the larcenous behavior of federal bureaucrats who have nominated themselves for swift termination. Jordan Boyd reports at The Federalist: ...

  • January 30, 2023

    Black History Month theme this year set to aggravate racial tensions

    Don Surber points out this morning that Black History Month, which begins February 1 st, is this year celebrating the official theme of “Black Resistance.” Even worse, the poster that they have chosen features a couple of very bad role mo...

  • January 30, 2023

    Behold the face of obsessive white guilt

    I am not a psychiatrist, and this is only my opinion, but the woman who made a 38-second video picked up by Libs of TikTok is an example of pathological white guilt.  What she says, via Grabien:   I got a message today for so...

  • January 30, 2023

    Progs protest as Megyn Kelly calls out Jill Biden following her attending the NFC championship game and being called 'Dr. Jill' on TV

    First Lady Jill Biden was unaccompanied by her husband, President Joe Biden, when she attended the NFC championship game in Philadelphia.  Joe went to their Wilmington mansion (looking for more classified documents?), so Jill sat next to NF...

  • January 30, 2023

    Big name lefties, Bill Kristol and pre-Musk Twitter all complicit in the ‘Hamilton 68’ fraud tarring conservatives on Twitter as ‘Russian bots'

    Jon Levine of the New York Post does a good job explaining a massive fraud uncovered by Matt Taibbi that spread disinformation (as the progs like to call it) claiming that Russian bots were pushing stories that the progs didn’t like.   ...

  • January 30, 2023

    Florida homeowner shoots burglars. Police chief warns other potential crooks, 'Most people are armed'

    This story makes me want to move to Polk County, Florida.  Where I live in California, a homeowner who shoots an intruder would be prosecuted unless he could prove a reasonable fear of violence and no means of escape.  God help yo...

  • January 29, 2023

    A nuclear World War III may be closer than you think

    A United Nations body apparently thinks nuclear war may be imminent. Tim Newcomb of Yahoo News writes: A new World Health Organization (WHO) report calling for an increased global preparedness for radiological and nuclear emergencies doesn...

  • January 29, 2023

    Farewell to straws?

    Two of the biggest sellers of drinks normally consumed with straws are testing out plastic lids that have no hole for a straw.  Steven Masso writes: Sip on this: McDonald’s is testing new, strawless lids in an effort to reduce the use...

  • January 29, 2023

    More proof that the reparations hustle is all about greed and inciting race war

    Demands for “reparations” for the wrongs of slavery are poisonous, and can only lead to heightened racial conflict, which no doubt is the intent of some advocates.  But as official bodies like San Francisco's African Am...

  • January 28, 2023

    Karine Jean-Pierre tells 'both sides to de-escalate' after being told of the attack on a Jerusalem synagogue that killed 7

    This exchange at yesterday's White House press briefing is so repulsive that it ought to result in the firing of Karine Jean-Pierre, despite the loss to comedy that would result. Transcript via Grabien: Reporter: "We just heard that ...

  • January 28, 2023

    Memphis cops' violence and the problem of culture

    Two of the smartest and most insightful commentators today, both of whom happen to be black, have spoken words of great wisdom about the outrageous behavior of the Memphis cops who beat to death Tyre Nichols.  Both men cite culture, though ...

  • January 27, 2023

    Pfizer executive goes thug on James O’Keefe after realizing he had been recorded boasting about ‘mutating’ Covid virus for profit

    The incredible undercover video of a senior Pfizer executive boasting about “mutating” the Covid virus released Wednesday by Project Veritas is making waves, even though the corporate media have completely ignored it as Google suppresses ...

  • January 26, 2023

    In rare instance of Cook County justice, a sentence of 3 years in prison given to man convicted of anti-Semitic hate crimes

    Cook County, Illinois may be notorious for lenient sentence handed to those convicted of serious, often violent, crimes.  But Judge Shelley Sutker-Dermer yesterday gave a man named Shahid Hussein serious prison time for hate crimes at two C...

  • January 26, 2023

    Team Biden stonewalling Senate Committee on seeing secret docs Biden purloined, and even Dems outraged

    Let's cut to the chase: did Joe Biden remove classified documents from the National Archives that would incriminate him in the influence-peddling racket he and his family were running?  That's the most important question about them, and ...

  • January 26, 2023

    Federal judge suspends enforcement of new California law targeting docs that provide Covid ‘misinformation’

    Federal Senior Judge William Shubb issued a scathing order halting enforcement of California’s new law, effective January 1, 2023 authorizing medical boards to discipline doctors, including the loss of medical licenses, for providing “mis...

  • January 26, 2023

    Tucker Carlson eviscerates Department of Justice coverup of Jeffrey Epstein’s death

    It’s been long enough since the highly suspicious death of Jeffrey Epstein in the federal lockup in Manhattan that the very popular meme “Jeffrey Epstein didn’t kill himself” is no longer as pervasive as it once was. But in th...

  • January 25, 2023

    Kevin McCarthy delightfully exceeds expectations, tosses Schiff and Swalwell from Intell Cmte and skewers biased reporter

    I may have misjudged Kevin McCarthy, for I had very low expectations for his tenure as speaker of the House.  So far, he is doing a bang-up job and is keeping his word to the Freedom Caucus members that held up his vote to take the gavel....

  • January 25, 2023

    DirecTV deplatforms Newsmax, cutting off its 13 million subscribers from the fourth-rated cable news channel

    See also: DirecTV Drops Newsmax from their satellite feed Newsmax suffered a major blow overnight as satellite television provider DirecTV ended its carriage, cutting its 13 million subscribers from the potential audience for the conservative cabl...

  • January 24, 2023

    Eat ze bugs! EU approves adding defatted and powdered insects to foods

    Yum!  Europeans may soon be consuming insects added as powder to their "cereal bars, biscuits, pizza, pasta-based products, and whey powder," among other foods.  Even though there is no evidence that bugs were featured i...

  • January 24, 2023

    The Lancet goes off the deep end, devaluing human life as no more important than animals

    Once arguably the most prestigious medical journal in the world, The Lancet has been captured by the left and is spouting embarrassing nonsense.  A series of extremist left-wing embarrassments in recent years, including a call for...

  • January 24, 2023

    Iowa Legislature passes historic school reform providing same amount of state funding for private school scholarships as to government schools

    Last night, the Iowa Legislature took a giant step toward school choice for state's children, passing a bill that Republican governor Kim Reynolds has long sought.  The national media such as the New York Times so far are igno...

  • January 24, 2023

    Ron DeSantis announces school reform plan designed to empower teachers and diminish unions

    As Iowa makes big progress toward school choice, Governor Ron DeSantis has unveiled a far-reaching program to free up government school teachers to be effective in the classroom, pay them better, and weaken the ability of unions to compel teachers to...

  • January 23, 2023

    Huge wind turbines — taller than the Statue of Liberty — are toppling over in a 'rash' of incidents

    Bloomberg Business Week, no foe of green energy, headlines: "Wind Turbines Taller Than the Statue of Liberty Are Falling Over."  The article beneath the headline reports on a variety of alarming disasters involving wind turbi...

  • January 23, 2023

    Putin threatens use of nukes if weapons continue to be delivered to Ukraine

    World War III looms larger as a real possibility today, following a threat delivered by one of Vladimir Putin's closest allies.  Following U.K. prime minister Boris Johnson dismissing the threat of nuclear weapons being used, former dep...

  • January 23, 2023

    Biden’s reported choice of Jeff Zients as his new chief of staff is full of delicious irony

    My initial reaction to the news report from the Washington Post that Jeff Zients has been chosen to replace departing Ron Klain as President Biden’s chief of staff was that where it really counts, Biden is sticking with a cis-gendered, heterose...

  • January 22, 2023

    The ‘six documents’ hoax in latest discovery of classified docs destroys the narrative of ‘transparency’ and ‘good faith’

    Many media outlets -- and even the GOP House Judiciary Committee -- are reporting that “6 documents” were found Friday in the latest search of Joe Biden’s Wilmington, DE mansion.   рџљЁTHEY JUST FOUND SIX MORE CLASSIFIE...

  • January 22, 2023

    Why was Biden allowed to visit the crime scene before the search for evidence was complete in the classified documents scandal?

    Make no mistake: mishandling classified documents is a crime, even when unintentional under the standard of “gross negligence.” That makes Biden’s lakeside Wilmington, DE mansion (that once belonged to a DuPont family branch) a crim...

  • January 22, 2023

    Corporate suicide watch: Harley-Davidson plans to go all-electric

    I can’t think of a worse example of a corporate CEO misreading his customer base than this via the Robb Report (Hat tip: Ed Driscoll, Instapundit) “At some point in time, Harley Davidson will be all-electric,” the executive...

  • January 22, 2023

    Expect no immediate improvement in New Zealand after Jacinda Ardern leaves office

    The unexpected announcement of the resignation of the execrable Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern of New Zealand brought a moment of hope that the Kiwis might recover from her misgovernance of the lovely island nation. Monica Showalter three days ago exp...

  • January 19, 2023

    Tucker Carlson does a masterful takedown of WEF covering up evidence of its terrible track record of advice

    Maybe you are already sick and tired of all the attention being paid to the elites meeting in Davos for the annual World Economic Forum gathering.  They are, after all, a pretty repulsive bunch, a collection of self-involved, arrogant eliti...

  • January 19, 2023

    Stunning cable news ratings reveal crisis-level decline of CNN and jaw-dropping dominance of Fox News over combined MSNBC+CNN audience

    Mediaite has released complete (6 A.M. to midnight) ratings for the cable news channels last Monday (something that normally one must pay to see), and they tell a story that ought to hearten conservatives.  We are used to reading that ...

  • January 17, 2023

    SF Reparations Committee proposal demonstrates the greed and unreality behind demands for slavery reparations

    I am grateful to San Francisco's  official African American Reparations Advisory Committee for the damage it has done to the notion that the current populace of the United States, none of whom were alive during slavery, owe so...

  • January 15, 2023

    Mueller’s pit bull Andrew Weissmann is greasing the skids under Biden

    Joe Biden has lost his protection and is now a liability to the cabal that runs the deep state. They are sending metaphorical shots across his bow, warning him that he and Jill will not be campaigning for re-election, and will be lucky to serve out h...

  • January 15, 2023

    Democrat insider weathervane David Gergen warns Biden he is going to get ‘creamed’

    It’s starting to get lonely in the White House family quarters, as the usual gaggle of political class hangers-on are signaling that they are no longer on Team Biden. And it’s time for him to shape up or ship out.  UPenn “Profe...

  • January 15, 2023

    Establishment media no longer protecting Biden, another potent signal to him that he won’t be in the White House after January 21, 2025

    It’s only taken a week for Joe Biden to lose all three pillars of power that have served to get him elected as president and protected him from the consequences of his incompetence in office. Andrew Weissmann, the ruthless chief of staff of the...

  • January 14, 2023

    Kathy Chung, former VP Biden's executive assistant when he left office, has a very curious past with Hunter and now is being questioned

    Kathy Chung may be a key figure in the mishandling of classified documents from Joe Biden's two terms as vice president.  As his executive assistant at the time, she was reportedly involved in packing up the documents he removed from go...

  • January 12, 2023

    Merrick Garland appoints special counsel to investigate Biden’s handling of classified documents

    Within 24 hours of the public learning of the existence of a second trove of classified documents stolen from the White House by Joe Biden, this time in his Delaware garage, AG Merrick Garland disposed of a hot potato by appointing Robert Hur, a DC L...

  • January 9, 2023

    MIT, Harvard, Italian, and Swiss scientists re-discover why Roman concrete structures last millennia while modern concrete doesn’t

    Visiting the Pantheon, one of Rome’s premier tourist sites, it’s hard not be humbled by the knowledge that this building has lasted 1900 years and still stands as the world’s largest unreinforced concrete dome, while modern concrete...

  • January 8, 2023

    Governor DeSantis is picking a fight with the academic left, and it’s a shrewd move.

    I am thrilled that Ron DeSantis is putting in place people who want to reverse the woke academic coup d'état at one state-run institution of higher education. New College of Florida is a rarity: a public liberal arts small college (675 stu...

  • January 7, 2023

    Karine Jean-Pierre's gaffes are not just mistakes; they are evidence

    I can't think of a presidential press secretary remotely as embarrassing as Karine Jean-Pierre.  Her inability to deal with questions for which she has no prepared answer makes me squirm with empathy over her embarrassment.  W...

  • January 6, 2023

    I confess: I suspected the Idaho murders criminal investigation was being botched. Instead, it was using chilling surveillance tools

    The charging documents so far revealed in the University of Idaho students' murder investigation are both comforting and chilling.  I suspect that I am far from alone in having gotten impatient with the length of time we saw n...

  • January 6, 2023

    Embarrassing media gushing as Massachusetts inaugurates first female, first openly gay governor with ‘all-female leadership team’

     You’d almost think, based on the media coverage in Boston, that the Messiah had showed up in the Massachusetts State House to be inaugurated as governor, not Maura Healey. Despite the inability of Supreme Court Justice Brown Jackson to be...

  • January 5, 2023

    How Iran just defeated US sanctions to acquire 4 jumbo jet airliners

    Iran attracts a few tourists who love to see, and if possible, fly on vintage airliners that have vanished from the skies elsewhere. US sanctions on the sale of airliners containing US-manufactured components make it impossible to sell not just Boein...

  • December 31, 2022

    'Censorship actually killed people': Dr. Jay Battacharya on the consequences of government suppression of honest discussion of COVID on Twitter

    Dr. Jay Battacharya of Stanford is one of the great heroes of the COVID epidemic, a fearless truth-teller in the face of overwhelming pressure to parrot the party line emanating from the Faucists in control of the governmental, academic, and pharmace...

  • December 30, 2022

    Southwest Airlines’ recovery from its meltdown will be expensive and risky

    The epic breakdown of management at Southwest Airlines over the past several days, which resulted in not just passengers, but crews and airplanes ready to fly but unable to file the requisite paperwork owing to information systems failure, will be st...

  • December 26, 2022

    Bankman-Fried: The worst-case scenario

    The widespread observation that “Sam Bankman-Fried didn’t kill himself” demonstrates the level of cynicism about the fate of well-connected insiders when faced with the opportunity to spill their guts and incriminate the most powerf...

  • December 23, 2022

    Reports of a quarter-billion-dollar 'bond' for Bankman-Fried are almost as fraudulent as the crimes of which he is accused

    The public is being bamboozled about the conditions for pretrial release of accused mega-fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried. It is the worst possible signal to those who fear that his scores of millions of dollars of political donations have bought him ...

  • November 28, 2022

    Handy-dandy guide to media coverage of the FTX/Sam Bankman-Fried scandal

    The legacy media, especially those outlets that accepted donations from San Bankman-Fried, really wish the case would just go away. Disgraced former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried financially backed half a dozen media outlets incl...

  • November 28, 2022

    Fauci defended China on Sunday-morning talk shows

    Dr. Anthony Fauci is taking his time leaving the stage, obviously continuing to enjoy the attention, even after his formal retirement.  Appearing on Face the Nation and Meet the Press yesterday, he remained a stalwart de...

  • November 28, 2022

    Pfizer CEO rebuked by UK watchdog for 'misleading' statements on COVID vaccine

    You might think an official rebuke of Pfizer's CEO for misleading the public on the benefits of its COVID vaccine would be big news, especially given the full-court press by vaccine absolutists to compel people to receive the shots, but even with...

  • November 28, 2022

    Remember when you could mail something and expect it to be delivered to the addressee?

    Benjamin Franklin, the founder of the U.S. Post Office, must be spinning in his Boston grave over what has happened to his creation.  I am sure that I was not alone in being shocked when, four weeks ago, just prior to the holiday ...

  • November 27, 2022

    James Clyburn: ‘People love Biden’s approach…when they look at their bank accounts’

    House Majority Leader James Clyburn was the kingmaker whose endorsement of Joe Biden in the 2020 South Carolina primary pushed him into the nomination despite his obvious infirmities. Perhaps the experience of denying Biden’s dementia has rubbe...

  • November 27, 2022

    Justin Trudeau appears on Canadian drag queen television show

    Wearing a short sleeve short with a loose necktie, connoting informality, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau put in a 2 minute guest appearance on a television show called “Canada’s Drag Race,” spouting the expected lines about ...

  • November 27, 2022

    Medical ‘experts’ struggle to explain Africa’s very low Covid vaccination and death rates

    Even in the face of data showing that Covid “vaccines” do not prevent transmission of the virus but do cause extremely high rates of adverse events to be reported, the US (and much of the world’s) medical establishment remains fully...

  • November 22, 2022

    UPDATED: Son of Brazil's former president Bolsonaro says Brazil's election stolen 'pretty much the same way' as America's [video in English]

    Free, small-d democratic societies are degenerating into tyrannies before our very eyes.  Even as our own dominant media ignore the obvious, people around the world are noticing.  As reported by Susan D. Harris today, the new gove...

  • November 21, 2022

    Kevin McCarthy promises to keep Reps. Omar, Swalwell, and Schiff off Foreign Affairs and Intelligence Committees

    Now that House Democrats under Nancy Pelosi have established the precedent of denying committee seats to certain members of the minority party whom they dislike, Kevin McCarthy plans to use it on them. Speaking to Fox News's Maria Bartiromo on...

  • November 21, 2022

    DeSantis's indirect attack on Trump: 'There is no substitute for victory'

    Make no mistake: it is on between DeSantis and Trump in the contest for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination.  Watching Governor Ron DeSantis's speech to the Republican Jewish Coalition (video embedded below) over the weekend, I ...

  • November 17, 2022

    Legacy media veil of silence on myocarditis and COVID 'vaccines' beginning to lift?

    The troubling wave of heart ailments in otherwise young and healthy COVID "vaccine" recipients is finally drawing legacy media attention — albeit limited and supportive of Big Pharma.  Just two days ago, Selwyn Duke...

  • November 17, 2022

    Michelle Obama's response when asked if Joe Biden should run again in 2024 is priceless

    Via the Ingraham Angle, and with apologies for the poor quality of the recording, enjoy the funniest seven seconds you probably will have today. #biden should run on 2024? #MichelleObama : ay ayy ayy ЁЯШВ pic.twitter.com/yfmc76uKB5 — Chiq...

  • November 17, 2022

    Tiffany Cross was livin' large on the MSNBC dime before she was fired

    Tiffany Cross, the now-former host of MSNBC's weekly show Cross Connection, surrendered to temptation and may have greased the skids for her downfall by abuse of her expense account. At the time she was fired (when her contract was not re...

  • November 16, 2022

    Trump announced his candidacy for president Tuesday night

    Speaking before an enthusiastic crowd at Mar-a-Lago, former president Donald Trump announced his candidacy for president of the United States in 2024.  Below are two video presentations, a short 3-minute version from Fox News... ...a...

  • November 15, 2022

    New York Times alleges Trump instructed his chief of staff John Kelly to have the IRS investigate his political enemies

    Conservatives rightly loathe the targeting of political enemies of the Democrats by the Internal Revenue Service and now greatly fear the vastly expanded (and well armed) IRS that the Biden administration has authorized.  But just as Republ...

  • November 9, 2022

    Why the red tsunami seems to have hit only Florida

    As vote counts continue to be posted, it is clear that Republican hopes and dreams of a huge wave election have been dashed.  Instead of a large House majority and solid control of the Senate, Republicans will be lucky to have small majorit...

  • November 9, 2022

    The biggest lesson of the election: Voters rewarded Republicans in statewide races who battled COVID lockdowns and vaccine mandates

    Ron DeSantis is getting the lion's share of national attention for his  sweeping victory that has turned Florida into a Republican bastion, adding almost 20 points to his margin of victory in 2018, when he barely won the governorship....

  • November 8, 2022

    A California statewide race that offers a glimmer of hope for taking down the Democrats' one-party rule

    Sensible people long have written off the state government of California as a corrupt, wasteful bastion of the far left, but for the first time in many years, there is a path toward reversing course.  A Republican candidate has a decent cha...

  • November 6, 2022

    Trump violates Reagan’s 11th commandment, attacks Ron DeSantis

    I will always be grateful for the presidency of Donald Trump and, if he is the GOP nominee for president in 2024, I will support him.  But I am very disturbed that yesterday, at an airport rally in Pennsylvania, he attacked Ron DeSantis...w...

  • November 5, 2022

    Saturday schadenfreude: Tiffany Cross abruptly fired by MSNBC

    It's been a week full of impending doom for both wings of the Democrat party: the candidates and the progressive media.  CNN's increasingly desperate floundering has been covered by Peter Barry Chowka here, here, and ...

  • October 31, 2022

    Greenpeace gives up on recycling plastic

    Recycling almost everything is an uneconomic scam[i], but that hasn’t stopped many localities from enforcing recycling mandates, and employing lots of people to sort through garbage and spend large sums on trying to find another use for the mat...

  • October 30, 2022

    Sunday Schadenfreude: Chris Wallace ratings far worse than show he replaced as CNN braces for holiday season layoffs

    Chris Wallace left Fox News in a huff and signed a contract with CNN to be the point man on the cable network’s streaming service, CNN. That venture lasted only days before the new owners pulled the plug, leaving the network stuck with finding ...

  • October 30, 2022

    Amnesia overcomes at least 5 staffers at the New York Times

    In covering the awful attack on Paul Pelosi is his own San Francisco mansion (the one with the $30,000 refrigerator/freezer full of ultra-expensive ice cream), the four writers of Pelosi’s Husband Is Gravely Injured in Hammer Attack by an Intru...

  • October 30, 2022

    Wind farm dismantled to expand coal mine as Germany faces its green reckoning

    Nothing could better symbolize the deflating bubble of green madness that gripped Germany than the following from Lawrence Richard of Fox Business: A German energy company is dismantling a wind farm to allow for an adjacent coal mine t...

  • October 28, 2022

    Astonishing call for censorship of Justice Amy Coney Barrett by publishing industry figures

    Even as they claim to oppose censorship, a group of almost 500 people (as of the moment) from the literary world — best-selling authors, publishing industry employees, and others — have signed on to a call for Penguin Random House to drop...

  • October 27, 2022

    Lucianne Goldberg, RIP

    Going to Lucianne.com this morning, as I do every morning, I was shocked and saddened to read that its proprietor, Lucianne Goldberg, has passed away: Dear L Dotters. We are heartbroken. Our beloved Lucianne passed away peacefully and surroun...

  • October 26, 2022

    Fetterman flubs his sole debate in Pennsylvania's Senate race

    John Fetterman obviously hoped that by lowering expectations for last night's debate with Dr. Oz and by having a closed captioning system with two 70-inch monitors, he could convince Pennsylvania voters that he is healthy enough to discharge the ...

  • October 26, 2022

    In debating Lee Zeldin for governor of New York, Kathy Hochul kept stressing abortion, guns, and Trump instead of her track record

    In last night's gubernatorial debate in New York, Kathy Hochul followed the Democrats' losing national strategy of ignoring the reality of their own policy failures and instead stressing abortion, gun control, and a man who is not on the ball...

  • October 25, 2022

    Democrats are now hostage to the transgender extremists, and it is going to cost them dearly

    The Democrats have let the extreme left take control of their party, though their media wing, AKA the legacy media, does its best to conceal the extent of the party's lurch to the left.  Older and wiser heads, like James Carville, ...

  • October 24, 2022

    CDC director Rochelle Walensky's COVID-19 case and the professor of epidemiology

    Over the weekend, CDC director Rochelle Walensky announced that she had tested positive for COVID-19: Walensky is "up to date with her vaccines," the statement said, and is experiencing mild symptoms. She is isolating at home...

  • October 24, 2022

    Two professors sue the California State University to prevent it from enforcing an anti-discrimination measure targeting caste

    Early this year, the California State University System, the largest public university in the country with 23 campuses, almost half a million students, and over 50,000 faculty, proudly became the first to ban discrimination on the basis of ...

  • October 24, 2022

    The transgenderism iron curtain?

    Mark Wauck, at his Substack blog Meaning in History, asks if a new iron curtain is emerging, with a dramatic split in attitudes on transgenderism between Eastern and Western Europe, coincident with the split between communist and non-communist n...

  • October 24, 2022

    Why won’t any congressional Democrats support the bill sanctioning Iran's leaders for human rights violations?

    A vast protest movement of demonstrations all over Iran is shaking that theocratic and despotic regime led by Ayatollah Khamenei to its core.  Now in their sixth week, the demonstrators, including many women, are protesting the death of 22-...

  • October 24, 2022

    National Institutes of Health blocking researchers from access to key database for studies of genetics and intelligence

    James Lee, writing in City Journal, describes an outrageous limitation on scientific research being imposed by anonymous bureaucrats at the National Institutes of Health, which is receiving $45 billion in taxpayer funding this year.  A...

  • October 24, 2022

    Biden goes fully delusional, says he got student loan bailout 'passed by a vote or two'

    This is not one of the lies that Joe Biden likes to spin.  This is scary delusional incompetence on the part of a president of the United States.  Joe Biden did most assuredly not get a law passed by Congress by any vote when he u...

  • October 23, 2022

    Kamala lies in TV interview, claims she didn’t support fund to bail out George Floyd rioters in Minnesota… and it gets worse

    Kamala Harris has just scored a hat trick of buffoonery. While we are accustomed to her embarrassing herself virtually every time she speaks extemporaneously, her verbal tomfoolery may be keeping pace with the accelerating dementia of her boss, Joe B...

  • October 21, 2022

    Business as usual in the cesspool of Illinois politics

    Illinois Governor (and multi-billionaire) J.B. Pritzker is among the Democrats taking steps signaling a potential presidential run in 2024, which is a sad commentary on the political viability of both President Joe Biden and V.P. ...

  • October 21, 2022

    State Department takes its eye off the ball

    Even if DEI were a worthwhile endeavor, instead of a method of tearing apart society with racial grievances, this would be a colossal waste of time and misdirection of attention and effort in a world on the brink of nuclear showdown, with many of our...

  • October 21, 2022

    MSM covering up Mandela Barnes's crazy tweets the same way they did Hunter Biden's laptop

    The legacy media in this country are nothing but propaganda organs for the Democrat party that has been captured by the far left.  Just as they dismissed the story of Hunter Biden's laptop in order to corruptly influence the 2020 presid...

  • October 20, 2022

    Tucker Carlson calls out anti-white race hate from MSNBC hosts Joy Reid and Tiffany Cross

    Citing the 1993 radio broadcasts demonizing members of the Tutsi tribe in Rwanda that led to the horrific massacre of up to 800,000 of them by their Hutu tribe neighbors (the Rwandan Genocide), Tucker Carlson called out MSNBC and its corporate parent...

  • October 19, 2022

    J6 Committee tries to save Hochul in NY governor’s race with meaningless leak about Lee Zeldin

    We already knew that the January 6 Committee of the House of Representatives was a partisan, illegitimate effort, denying Republican leadership the right to name its own members. Yesterday, the committee confirmed this status with a leak intended to ...

  • October 19, 2022

    Biden claims credit for changes allowing the ‘right … to marry couples in the privacy of their bedroom’

    The confused old man who was foisted on voters with the help of a compliant media covering up his family’s corruption and his inability to campaign is getting more and more incoherent. At precisely the moment when nuclear holocaust is closer th...

  • October 19, 2022

    The swamp wins as Igor Danchenko acquitted on all 4 counts of lying to the FBI

    Special Prosecutor John Durham has struck out in his prosecution of FBI source (and Brookings Institution employee) Igor Danchenko, just as he did with the acquittal of Michael Sussman. Via Sundance: A jury found Igor Danchenko not guilty...

  • October 18, 2022

    Dems starting to see trans extremism as a problem at the ballot box

    The Democrat party has sold its soul to extremists and is just starting to realize that ordinary Americans are getting scared of the madness the donkeys embrace. By defining themselves as change agents against "unfairness," Dems have hit...

  • October 18, 2022

    Biden reportedly about to imperil national security by draining Strategic Petroleum Reserve to lower gasoline prices before midterms

    I don't understand why Republican candidates for office are not challenging their opponents on whether or not they support President Biden's harming national security by draining of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve for temporary price declines...

  • October 17, 2022

    A small sign of panic at Harvard over pending SCOTUS affirmative action case?

    Renu Mukherjee of City Journal noticed what Sherlock Holmes would call a dog at Harvard that didn't bark.  In this is the clue derived from the absence of what ordinarily is expected to happen looks like a sign of panic over t...

  • October 15, 2022

    European Public Prosecutor's Office announces it is investigating COVID-19 vaccines

    This report is tantalizing (no paywall): The European Public Prosecutor's Office (EPPO) said it has an "ongoing investigation into the acquisition of COVID-19 vaccines in the European Union." "This exceptiona...

  • October 13, 2022

    Who authorized the $1-million FBI payment offer to Christopher Steele, revealed in court testimony?

    The testimony of FBI supervisory analyst Brian Auten in the trial of Igor Danchenko is shocking.  CNN reports: Shortly before the 2016 election, the FBI offered retired British spy Christopher Steele "up to $1 million" t...

  • October 13, 2022

    Ultra-rare anti-Xi demonstration breaks out in Beijing days before Party Congress set to install him as dictator-for-life

    The Chinese Party Congress set to open on Sunday already has Xi Jinping on edge. These gatherings happen only every five years, and this time it is expected to ratify his plan to void term limits and make him in effect dictator-for-life. While it is ...

  • October 12, 2022

    Tucker Carlson explains Tulsi Gabbard's departure from the Democrat party

    I found Tucker Carlson's 10-minute explanation of Tulsi Gabbard's decision to leave the Democrat party quite enlightening last night. His review of her dramatic entrance to the national stage as a 31-year-old congresswoman from the nation...

  • October 12, 2022

    WSJ reports that Biden officials begged Saudis to delay OPEC output cutbacks until after the midterms

    Citing "people familiar with the talks" between Biden administration officials and the Saudis just before OPEC announced its production cuts that already have sent oil and gasoline prices soaring, The Wall Street Journal reports t...

  • October 11, 2022

    Zuckerberg has bet his Facebook fortune on Meta virtual reality, and so far, he is losing

    I admit to a heaping helping of schadenfreude over a report in the New York Times titled "Skepticism, Confusion, Frustration: Inside Mark Zuckerberg's Metaverse Struggles."  When Facebook joined the censorship regime, pla...

  • October 11, 2022

    Signs accumulating that Dems want to ease Biden out

    A corner seems to have been turned, with Democrats and their media mouthpieces more and more openly realizing that Biden’s dementia is a problem. Perhaps it was his leaking via bigmouth racial demagogue Al Sharpton that he plans to run for re-e...

  • October 11, 2022

    Delightfully shocking poll shows 8-point lead for GOP candidate in a House seat the Dems won by over16 points in 2020

    There are still 4 weeks left, but a newly released poll in Rhode Island’s Second Congressional District shows what a red wave could look like. The last time voters went to polls to pick their Congressman in RI 2, they chose incumbent Democrat J...

  • October 10, 2022

    Gavin Newsom's idiotic plan to fight high gasoline prices

    If you thought Joe Biden's attempt to jawbone gasoline station owners into lowering prices was stupid, make way for the king of dunces, California governor Gavin Newsom.  Californians pay the highest prices for gasoline in the country, ...

  • October 10, 2022

    Biden's dementia song

    Were the fate of the free world not in the hands of this man, the setting of Joe Biden's many dementia moments to a catchy tune would be hilarious.  Actually, it still is hilarious despite the awful reality underlying it.  Thi...

  • October 9, 2022

    What the heck is wrong with Chicago’s Mayor Lori Lightfoot?

    There is no doubt among those paying attention that Chicago is in crisis. Crime has exploded, with ordinary citizens living in fear of venturing out from their homes. (And, if they live in the wrong neighborhoods, their homes may be shot up as drive-...

  • October 9, 2022

    Spot the insurrectionists

    The fantasy that the events of January 6, 2020 constituted an “insurrection” is, along with the associated demonization of President Trump, one of two slender reeds of hope for Democrats retaining control of Congress in 2022 and the presi...

  • October 6, 2022

    Protests have stymied gas production in the Netherlands that could replace most of Russia's supply to Germany

    This winter may see Europeans freezing to death, unable to heat their homes as natural gas supplies dwindle. Unemployment and bankruptcies will soar, as companies find themselves unable to cover their costs due to high energy prices. Germany’s ...

  • October 5, 2022

    In stunning interview with Tucker Carlson last night, Tony Bobulinski explained how the FBI fixed the 2020 election

    Most readers already know that Tony Bobulinski was the business partner of Hunter Biden and his uncle, Jim Biden, the president's brother, as they attempted to put together deals with foreign actors.  That partnership broke up, and Bobu...

  • October 5, 2022

    OPEC rebuffs Biden, to cut production by 2 million barrels per day

    The last thing that Joe Biden and congressional Democrats running for re-election want is a big rise in gasoline prices as voters head to the polls.  And that is what OPEC has just made inevitable, with its announcement moments ag...

  • October 2, 2022

    J.P. Sears takes on Vanderbilt’s ‘gender reassignment’ medical gold mine

    It seems like time to lighten up a bit on a Sunday afternoon. That is, if grim, yet hilarious satire is your cup of tea. The inimitable J.P. Sears takes on Vanderbilt University Hospital’s self-admitted highly lucrative services mutilating a...

  • October 1, 2022

    Pelosi says that DeSantis should stop sending illegals to the north because Florida farmers ‘need them to pick crops’

    As Hurricane Ian moved out of Florida, Nancy Pelosi’s first thought seems to have been the harvest (what crops are picked in October?) in Florida and the purported need for illegal immigrants to pick the mature plants. She claimed that farmers ...

  • October 1, 2022

    Over 500 scientific papers to be withdrawn by publisher

    There’s good news that a major publisher of scientific journals is cleaning out the stable of papers whose review process appears corrupted, but the bad news is worse. Not only were these papers published in the first place, but the easily-corr...

  • October 1, 2022

    Biden orders 171 million doses of fifth Covid booster with a safety study on a grand total of 8 mice

    Dr. Joseph Mercola reports on Substack: August 31, 2022, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorized the reformulated COVID bivalent booster shots by Moderna and Pfizer1 — all without the required convening of its Vaccines and Re...

  • September 30, 2022

    Federal judge orders FBI to release contents of Seth Rich’s laptop

    The murder of DNC employee Seth Rich on July 10, 2016, has long aroused wariness on the part of people who suspected that he was the leaker of emails highly embarrassing to the Democrats, especially since Wikileaks founder Julian Assange suggested th...

  • September 29, 2022

    Electric vehicles and the evacuation of Florida

    Large swaths of Florida’s heavily populated Gulf Coast have been ordered evacuated. The map below, prepared by the Florida Department of Emergency Management, shows the mandatory areas in reddish colors.  The actual evacuation order from...

  • September 29, 2022

    Incoming Italian PM Meloni teaches French President Macron a lesson on insulting Italy

    Wow! European Union bureaucrats and heads of governments are learning the hard way to stop threatening and dumping on the choice of Italian voters to entrust their government to Giorgia Meloni. I suspect that we’re going to be seeing a lot o...

  • September 28, 2022

    Did the US (or its agents) blow up the Nordstream pipelines?

    Thanks to an open threat issued by President Biden, the question must be asked: is the United States behind the two explosions that caused a massive natural gas leak into the Baltic Sea?  The incident has cut off Russia's abil...

  • September 26, 2022

    Obama's SUV parked in a handicapped spot for 2 hours as he enjoyed upscale sushi with his daughters in LA

    Staying out of handicapped parking spaces is for little people, apparently.  While you or I would face a fine of $250 to $1,000 in California for parking in a handicapped spot in front of a fancy restaurant while we spent two hour...

  • September 24, 2022

    Data show that parents don’t trust public health authorities on Covid vaccinations for children

    Trust in our CDC, FDA and public health bureaucracy in general is gone.  People know they are totally politicized or otherwise conflicted and have ignored the full court press to have their children vaccinated against Covid. Alex Berenson report...

  • September 12, 2022

    President Trump lavishes praise on Clarice Feldman's latest 'Clarice's Pieces'

    It is very gratifying to know that President Trump shares our high opinion of the analytical powers of Clarice Feldman.  For many years, regular readers of American Thinker have looked forward to Sundays in order to see her latest thoughts ...

  • September 9, 2022

    Oberlin finally paying the $36.59 million it owes to Gibson's Bakery

    After years of legal wrangling, Oberlin College has announced that, following the Ohio Supreme Court's decision not to hear its appeal, it is beginning the process of paying in full the judgment against it for libeling Gibson's Bakery and pro...

  • September 8, 2022

    Obama Foundation executives earn lavish salaries as fundraising plummets, and it defaults on agreement with city

    The cenotaph-like monument to Barack Obama being built on prime lakefront property that used to be a park in Chicago is running into financial problems.  But the top executives there are feeling no pain, earning salaries far higher than tho...

  • September 5, 2022

    I wish I could go to this South Korean military expo

    A family member traveling in South Korea was leafing through the on-board magazine of the KTX Express bullet train system and found an ad for a military expo there (all in Korean, with the exception of the word "Expo" in Roman letters)....

  • September 5, 2022

    The fascist American left

    Joe Biden's labeling of Trump-supporters as "semi-fascist" is yet another example of the strategy of "projection" — accusing the opponents of the progressive left of the very things the left is guilty of.  In p...

  • September 5, 2022

    Patty Murray's Senate seat in Washington State may be a winnable GOP pickup

    The agitprop media are full of polls and pundits predicting doom for the GOP's hopes to win a majority in the Senate...with an assist from Mitch McConnell.  All of this before Labor Day, the traditional time when American voters start p...

  • September 4, 2022

    Who knew that Victor Davis Hanson was also a comedian?

    Eminent historian Victor Davis Hanson has built a massive following among conservatives for his erudite commentary on the politics of the day. But speaking to an audience obviously gathered to hear his characteristic profundity, the good professor le...

  • August 31, 2022

    Republicans must demand equal time from networks to respond to Biden's 'Soul of the Nation' prime-time address Thursday

    Even the flacks at heavily pro-Democrat NBC recognize that President Biden's planned address to the nation Thursday night is political: Biden to give prime-time speech about 'soul of the nation' as voters prepare to cast mi...

  • August 25, 2022

    Chicago Public Schools website features appalling video justifying burning and looting

    The Chicago Public Schools are doing a miserable job educating the children of that troubled city.  As Matt Rosenberg of Wirepoints notes, the school system has every incentive to redirect anger over its failures onto society as a whol...

  • August 25, 2022

    FBI whistleblowers: In 2019, local leaders told FBI agents, 'You will not look at that Hunter Biden laptop'

    Senator Ron Johnson has disclosed some of what multiple FBI whistleblowers have told him about the Bureau's suppression of investigation into the laptop computer abandoned by Hunter Biden at a Wilmington computer repair shop, in a letter sent to ...

  • August 24, 2022

    Unvaccinated teachers face pay cuts in Australia

    In the Australian state of Queensland, hundreds of teachers face incremental pay cuts over the next 20 weeks for refusing to obey at mandate to receive COVID vaccination.  News.com.au reports: An "unconscionable" letter ...

  • August 24, 2022

    California DA: 'Over 70 percent of the people released under mandated $0 bail policies go on to commit additional crime'

    Allowing criminal suspects to be released pending trial with the payment of no cash bail has become a fad, allegedly as a reaction to "over-incarceration."  But the public is put at risk by them, as one California district attorne...

  • August 23, 2022

    Beijing imposes vaccine mandate, backs down and cancels after 48 hours due to public outrage

    This must be a first in communist China.  Adam Minter reports in Bloomberg: Beijing's stout city leadership rolled out China's first Covid-19 vaccine mandate last week. The policy made boosters mandatory for some...

  • August 23, 2022

    Fauci flees his office, fearing Republicans taking control in Congress and holding him to account

    Yesterday, in a statement posted on the website of the federal agency he runs, Dr. Anthony Fauci announced his retirement in December, one month before Republicans are expected to take control of the House of Representatives and maybe the S...

  • August 22, 2022

    Aussie MSM not blacking out reports of blood clots from AstraZeneca and Pfizer COVID vaccines

    Have you been seeing reports of deaths and injuries attributed to COVID vaccines in the mainstream media? Yeah, me neither. Somehow, Australian television news is reporting on blood clots that follow the use of AstraZeneca and Pfizer vacci...

  • August 22, 2022

    Zuckerberg's Meta going all in on censorship as the midterm elections near

    Meta, the corporate parent of Facebook, has announced its plans to control the flow of information on the site where most voters get their news.  You see, the public has to be protected from "misinformation," and the omniscient sa...

  • August 21, 2022

    NIH finally ends grant to Wuhan Institute of Virology but may continue funding EcoHealth Alliance

    US taxpayers have been funding gain of function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), despite this flow of funds violating US policy prohibiting such research that makes viruses more dangerous.  Both the WIV and EcoHealth Alliance, ...

  • August 21, 2022

    The downsides of COVID vaccines

    Dr. Pierre Kory, president and co-founder of the Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance (FLCCC), has gathered together a huge amount of data on the problems with the novel mRNA “vaccines” that have been mandated for many people. ...

  • August 21, 2022

    Study finds that over half of people with Omicron Variant of Covid don’t even know they had it

    It’s getting harder to keep the populace in a state of panic (and therefore attempt to justify mass mail in voting and other election security diminishments) now that Covid is following the path of most other viral epidemics. The virus evolves ...

  • August 21, 2022

    FBI affidavit misled a magistrate judge on a search warrant in plot to seize and forfeit contents of safety deposit boxes

    In a case with a direct bearing on the search warrant issued on Mar A Lago, the March 22, 2021 FBI raid on a private safe deposit box operator in Beverly Hills, California just got even dodgier, according to court documents released by a different fe...

  • August 20, 2022

    Sharyl Attkisson reveals how low the FBI will go

    The forty-two seconds of the Rumble video embedded below are truly shocking.  Courageous journalist Sharyl Attkisson testifies to a congressional hearing about the depths to which the FBI has sunk in its attempts to discredit one of its mos...

  • August 11, 2022

    Left-wing media watchdog site interviews Thomas Lifson, profiles American Thinker

    I had never heard of the website called The Righting when a person named Michael Lovato, identifying himself as a reporter for it, emailed me asking for an interview.  I checked it out, including a few interviews they had don...

  • August 1, 2022

    Michelle Obama 2024: A review of Joel Gilbert's new film

    I confess that, having paid pretty close attention to the lives of Barack and Michelle Obama ever since the entry of the couple into presidential politics in 2003, I was surprised at how much I learned from filmmaker Joel Gilbert's new film....

  • August 1, 2022

    Health care workers reach $10 million–plus settlement in class action lawsuit over coerced vaccinations by employer

    This is a landmark legal outcome, and I hope that it leads to more cases being settled to the advantage of workers punished for refusing employer mandates for the experimental COVID vaccines.  Dr. Bryam W. Bridle writes on the Covid Ch...

  • August 1, 2022

    Ten minutes to brighten up your Monday

    J.P. Sears has become a force in comedy through his satirical internet videos.  The one embedded below is one of his latest, posted Saturday.  He takes 10 minutes exploring the premise of waking up after 20 years in a coma and has...

  • July 29, 2022

    Who, exactly, gets offended by 'cultural appropriation'?

    We live in an age of mass stupidity, with totally ridiculous notions elevated to the status of self-righteous causes.  But among the most absurd complaints that predominantly young wokesters embrace is the censure of what they call "cu...

  • July 27, 2022

    Nigeria, unable to secure its capital city, is closing schools, evacuating students

    You will not see this in the U.S. media, but Nigeria, the most populous nation in Africa with 217 million people (and growing over 2.5% a year), is devolving toward chaos.  Boko Haram and other Muslim factions are warring against ...

  • July 27, 2022

    The poor marksmanship of Chicago's gangbangers has saved a lot of lives

    God help the people of Chicago if their criminal element ever learns to shoot straight.  A friend in Chicago, Richard Baehr, comments: This last weekend, in 72 hours from noon Friday to noon Monday in Chicago, 73 people were shot, 8 killed....

  • July 27, 2022

    HBO racializes the story of Julia Child in its miniseries on the creation of her television show

    It appears that in order to get a green light to produce a miniseries these days, one is required to have major story elements featuring positive Black characters overcoming racism.  Even when telling the story of a famous (White) woman cre...

  • July 26, 2022

    Why Saudi Arabia is buying Russian oil

    If ever there were a situation that would seem to parallel the old saying that something is like sending "coal to Newcastle" — meaning doing something that is pointless — it would be sending oil to Saudi Arabia.  ...

  • July 26, 2022

    Chicago justice: Man gets probation after allegedly trying to push a woman in front of train

    The unfathomable policies of the Cook County State's Attorney's Office — the second-largest prosecutor's office in the nation — under Soros-supported Kim Foxx have released upon the public a man who, in my opinion, is a c...

  • July 25, 2022

    Biden admin planning to define away 'recession' if GDP declines a second straight quarter

    Don't worry about a recession.  The Biden administration looks to be planning to deny that one is underway, even if Thursday's scheduled GDP report shows a second straight quarter of decline in economic activity.  They wil...

  • July 25, 2022

    CIA director 'very proud' of Afghanistan analysis that led to the disastrous withdrawal

    "Close enough for government work" has taken on a whole new dimension in the Biden era with the remarks reportedly delivered by CIA director William Burns Wednesday at an Aspen Security Forum discussion.  Jerry Dunleavy of the...

  • July 22, 2022

    Joe Biden and Novak Djokovic

    President Joe Biden, double-vaxxed and double-boosted, has contracted COVID, demonstrating in the most public way imaginable the falsity of the promise that the vaccines would protect a person from getting the dreaded virus.  And now the pu...

  • July 21, 2022

    PBS joins the campaign to get you to eat bugs

    The mandarin-wannabes all agree.  For the sake of the planet, all but the wealthy need to give up their attachment to eating meat and switch to "alternative proteins."  They connect meat production and consumption to glo...

  • July 18, 2022

    Second family of a murder victim killed by an alleged perp on electronic monitoring sues Cook County in a month

    Two times in the last month, families of murder victims allegedly shot by perpetrators out of jail while on electronic monitoring awaiting felony trial have sued Cook County, Illinois.  CWBChicago reports: The latest case was filed Wed...

  • July 18, 2022

    Ridiculous overkill in raid of retired Texas couple outside Capitol on January 6

    An account was published Sunday in the San Marcos Record of a massive late June raid on a couple in rural Hays County, Texas that resulted in no arrest.  The scale of forces deployed and the tactics used seem designed to intimidat...

  • July 18, 2022

    Mark Steyn does Klaus Schwab

    I presume that many readers join me in missing Mark Steyn's appearances on Tucker Carlson's show, where he was formerly a regular and an occasional guest host.  He has made his new television home on GB News, a British radio and tel...

  • July 18, 2022

    Idaho GOP gives a boost to national Democrats

    The Idaho Republican Party is providing material for Democrats to use nationally raising money and scaring voters away from voting for GOP candidates.  Ruth Brown writes in Idaho Reports: The Idaho Republican Party has approved changes...

  • July 15, 2022

    Mike Pence has got some 'splainin' to do

    Jeffrey A. Tucker spotted some interesting writing from Dr. Deborah Birx, presumably from her recently published book Silent Invasion, that admits she sabotaged the COVID policies of President Donald Trump. But even worse, she claims she did so wi...

  • July 12, 2022

    The global warming fraud revealed in one graph

    Two highly distinguished emeritus professors — William Happer, Professor of Physics, Emeritus of Princeton and Richard Lindzen, Professor of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Emeritus of MIT — have called out the corruption of s...

  • July 12, 2022

    Tucker Carlson drops the hammer on Biden's selling out America to China

    The Monday, July 11, 2022 edition of Tucker Carlson Tonight went where no other major media outlet will go, connecting the dots on President Joe Biden's financial enrichment from China and the policies and decisions he's made that benefit Chi...

  • July 11, 2022

    Jail for Jack Dorsey?

    Appearing on Media Buzz with Howie Kurtz on Fox News to discuss Elon Musk's refusal to move forward with his acquisition of Twitter, Fox Business Network correspondent Charles Gasparino mentioned the F-word: fraud.  Stating th...

  • July 11, 2022

    The revolt against green tyranny has toppled its first government, as farmers' protests spread across Europe

    Green tyranny has finally provoked mass reactions, and the first government has fallen after imposing insane policies that wrecked the food supply for its people.  Both the president and the prime minister of Sri Lanka are resigning in the ...

  • July 8, 2022

    Will we ever know the identity of the Supreme Court leaker?

    There is growing concern that we may never learn the identity of the person who for the first time in history leaked a draft of a pending decision.  It's been nine and a half weeks since the draft opinion on Dobbs v. Jackson Women...

  • July 8, 2022

    Former PM Shinzo Abe, Japan's longest-serving prime minister, assassinated while campaigning (updated)

    Update: Former prime minister Shinzo Abe has been pronounced dead at Nara Medical University Hospital, to which he was helicoptered after being shot at 11:30 A.M. Japan time Friday. According to reports from NHK, Japan's state-owned semi-auton...

  • July 5, 2022

    The best the NFL could come up with to lead its social justice initiative is an anti-Jew, anti-Asian rap star?

    The NFL appears to be trying to avoid kneeling on the field and other demonstrations by its progressive African American players by hiring on a racial hatemonger who has called for violence against Jews and Asians.  Chuck Ross has the story...

  • July 3, 2022

    Trouble at the Ben & Jerry’s Foundation

    Just a couple of days after Unilever, the corporate parent of Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream, finessed a solution to reverse the end of sales in the West Bank of Israel, which sparked a massive protest and threats of a boycott, another embarrassin...

  • July 2, 2022

    Biden's student loan forgiveness rhetoric has lured many into borrowing

    As The College Fix dramatically headlines, "Nearly 9 in 10 recent student loan borrowers bet on Biden bailing them out."  Without actually promising or committing anything, Joe Biden has led many young people to believe ...

  • July 1, 2022

    Justice Kagan's sophomoric misunderstanding of West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency

    The Supreme Court's decision on West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency, issued on the last day of its term, may mark the beginning of the decline of the unchecked power of administrative agencies to make law and issue judgments on ...

  • July 1, 2022

    Biden calls for 'exception' to filibuster to codify Roe v. Wade as federal law

    The pro-abortion base of the Democrats is mad, and Joe Biden is trying to palliate them with an absurd suggestion that has no chance of happening, and that, if it somehow did come to pass, would turn into a disaster for the Democrats — just as ...

  • July 1, 2022

    Remember when it wasn't OK to criticize Supreme Court rulings (when Trump did it)?

    Possibly the dumbest reaction to the Supreme Court's ruling in West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency came from Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, although Justice Kagan, who has at least 50 I.Q. points on AOC, gave her some ...

  • June 22, 2022

    Illinois gas stations cleverly resisting being forced to propagandize for state's temporary suspension of tax hike

    A law passed by the state Legislature and signed by Governor J.B. Pritzker will force gas stations there to campaign for the governor, in essence, by touting a six-month delay in a scheduled tax hike.  Gasoline retailers by law must po...

  • June 22, 2022

    Hero bystander with jiu-jitsu black belt pins shoplifter in 'gift wrap hold' until cops arrive as perp yells, 'Lemme go, homie'

    It's the feel-good story of the day, courtesy of CWB Chicago, which deserves a Pulitzer Prize for its ongoing coverage of crime and urban decay. Christopher Cruz had a bad night. "Hey, hey homie. Let me go, man, homie," Cru...

  • June 21, 2022

    Dem challenger to Lauren Boebert colorfully tells us what his party thinks of voters

    Democrats loathe Rep. Lauren Boebert, an outspoken supporter of President Trump and gun rights and an opponent of vaccine mandates, abortion, green energy mandates, and Ilhan Omar.  Eleven Democrats have announced they will seek their ...

  • June 17, 2022

    Rep. Dan Bishop exposes the Biden administration's plan to silence opposition as 'stochastic terrorism'

    Dan Bishop has represented North Carolina's Ninth Congressional District since a special election was held in 2019.  Until he published the Twitter thread below, I had not heard of his work.  But he seems to have caught on to ...

  • June 17, 2022

    Must-see TV: New TV ad holds Schumer accountable for his threat to Justice Kavanaugh

    Senate majority leader Charles Schumer of New York disgraced himself and his office on March 4, 2020, when he openly threatened Justice Kavanaugh on the steps of the Supreme Court Building.  Although he realized he had gone too far and the ...

  • June 15, 2022

    In special election, GOP flips heavily Hispanic South Texas House seat

    This qualifies as a political earthquake.  In a special primary election to fill out the term of former rep. Filemon Vela, who resigned his House seat in March, GOP candidate Mayra Flores received 50.98% of the vote, making a runoff electio...

  • June 12, 2022

    In wake of assassination attempt on Justice Kavanaugh, AOC brags about stopping bill to protect SCOTUS justices and their families

    Clarice Feldman is absolutely correct (as usual) when she labels the Democrats a “criminal organization” today, elsewhere on this site. They have embraced the use of assassination of Supreme Court justices, with their Senate leader issuin...

  • June 12, 2022

    ‘Climate primitives’ are destroying our standard of living

    Australian commentator Andrew Bolt has come up with a great term for the green fanatics who are shutting down energy production from dependable fuels with no reliable alternatives.  They reject modern agriculture because it uses chemicals derive...

  • June 11, 2022

    Has MSNBC's ratings crisis caused it to start telling the truth?

    Something totally unexpected happened during MSNBC's coverage of the January 6 show trial: the network's pre-eminent star, Rachel Maddow, told the truth: that Trump's rally on that day had nothing to do with the Capitol breach. Skeptic...

  • June 10, 2022

    Disturbing poll suggests 'government by assassination' could lie ahead for America

    A poll taken by the left-wing Southern Poverty Law Center shows very disturbing levels of support among younger Americans for "assassinating a politician who is harming the country or our democracy."  In particular, those under ag...

  • June 9, 2022

    Press sec Karine Jean-Pierre has entered the Twilight Zone

    New Biden press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre yesterday ignored the First Law of Holes and kept on digging.  It's been a rough start for the Psaki successor, reading from notes rather than spontaneously answering questions, and cutting o...

  • June 6, 2022

    Mark Levin knocked it out of the park Sunday

    Introducing the June 5, 2022 edition of his Fox News program Life, Liberty and Levin, Mark Levin stated, "This may be the most important opening statement I've ever made on this program or maybe any other program." I tend to agr...

  • May 24, 2022

    In wake of defeat by Labor Party leftists, Australia's squishy 'conservatives' seek party leadership

    Australia is going to go hard left, with the left-wing Labor Party set to take over the federal government, likely in a coalition with the Green Party in the Senate, to obtain a majority in the upper house.  In the wake of its defeat, Austr...

  • May 24, 2022

    Kamala does it again!

    Is Kamala Harris trying to sound stupid?  I suppose the theory would be that she is trying to get people to underestimate her. But I have a different theory: that she is really stupid, and having grown up as a hot chick, she suffers from...

  • May 22, 2022

    Shocking poll reveals Blacks see their White neighbors very negatively

    The incessant media and progressive political campaign to claim that something called white supremacy is a major threat to Americans, especially African Americans, has been chillingly effective.  A Washington Post-Ipsos poll reveals that three q...

  • May 22, 2022

    Australia falls to the leftists in disastrous election

    Australia is going to move to the left following voters’ rejection of the ruling Liberal Party (which is actually the conservative party) under Prime Minister Scott Morrison. Andrew Bolt writes in the Herald Sun (paywalled): What a sick jo...

  • May 21, 2022

    Reader comments on articles and blogs are now visible to all

    We're very happy to announce that in response to feedback from our beloved readers, comments from readers now are visible to all at the bottom of blogs and articles.  In order to post your thoughts, a subscription to our ad-free service...

  • May 20, 2022

    Desperate Dems forming a circular firing squad as House of Representatives polling worsens

    In a normal political year, being chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) would be a political plum, but in 2022, it is more like being the captain of the Titanic.  And the "passengers" (Democrats in the Ho...

  • May 20, 2022

    Chair of Congressional Black Caucus blames 'White supremacy replacement theorist' for shooting in Dallas Koran hair salon where perp was Black

    Why let the facts get in the way of the latest bogus narrative being peddled by congressional Democrats?  They are terrified at being held responsible for the multiple debacles inflicted on the nation as their party controls the White House...

  • May 19, 2022

    Wicked witch of the woke Nina Jankowicz resigns as Disinformation Governance Board is put on 'pause'

    Just when I thought the Biden administration was beyond shame, it (at least temporarily) pulled the plug on the Disinformation Governance Board, causing the buffoonish Nina Jankowicz to resign.  I can't recall a speedier and more embarr...

  • May 18, 2022

    Is Durham going to let the FBI and DOJ off the hook?

    Sundance is raising the alarm that John Durham is not going to prosecute FBI and DOJ officials for their role in perpetrating the Russia Hoax.  Opening arguments were presented Tuesday in the trial of Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussman...

  • May 16, 2022

    New conservative media aggregator: TwitReport

    We’ve been contacted by the creator of a new site, TwitReport, that aggregates tweets from 190 conservative sites, and updates continually on a 24-hour basis. “Robert T” explains the mission: Twitreport rakes in the latest upda...

  • May 13, 2022

    Feds and media ignoring doubling of mortality among young and middle-aged adults in latest data

    Something is killing off large numbers of 25- to 54-year-olds in the United States, and the powers that be in government and the media are pretending it is not happening.  There is no visible effort to study the alarming statistics gat...

  • May 11, 2022

    Lori Lightfoot issues a 'call to arms' against Supreme Court justices

    Chicago's incompetent mayor, Lori Lightfoot, presiding over a city devolving into violent, bloody anarchy on the streets, is encouraging violent protests at the homes of Supreme Court justices believed to be supporting a draft decision by Ju...

  • May 11, 2022

    Wikipedia deletes article on PA senate primary candidate who is surging toward defeating Dr. Oz

    Wikipedia, now a highly politicized propaganda outlet, apparently wants Dr. Oz to win the Pennsylvania Republican Senate nomination.  That is the logical conclusion from the site's decision to delete an existing article on Kathy Barnett...

  • May 4, 2022

    Trump triumphs in Ohio and Indiana primaries

    Breitbart is reporting a clean sweep for all 22 Trump-backed candidates in Tuesday's Ohio and Indiana primaries.  In the industrial Midwest, at least, Trump's backing is enough to sway GOP primary voters to his choices. By far th...

  • May 3, 2022

    Dems think they have a winning issue with Ukraine

    We are in a very dangerous moment, as Democrat politicians are looking at the conflict in Ukraine for political salvation.  In the face of disastrous polling on Biden's presidency and the direction of the country under Democrats, there ...

  • May 3, 2022

    Unprecedented SCOTUS leak of draft opinion repealing Roe v. Wade

    In a clear attempt to influence and intimidate justices of the Supreme Court, Politico has published a leaked 98-page draft opinion in the pending case Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Association.  The...

  • May 1, 2022

    New York Trump grand jury ends not with a bang but a whimper

    Two successive Manhattan District Attorneys, Cyrus Vance, Jr. and Alvin Bragg, have dug for dirt on Donald Trump, looking for something – anything – on which to indict him. And they have failed.  The Washington Post: A six-month...

  • May 1, 2022

    A chilling comparison

    Rabbi Michael Barclay began his article at PJ Media Saturday with this scenario, that grabbed my attention: A criminal is wrongfully killed, and “peaceful demonstrations,” which are actually violent riots, break out nationwide. The fla...

  • April 30, 2022

    ACLU admits it ghost-wrote the op-ed by Amber Heard that Johnny Depp is suing her for

    Why is a tax-exempt charity ghostwriting a newspaper column for a Hollywood star?  And why did it time publication of the op-ed to coincide with the release of her high-budget movie?  Could it have anything to do with the pledge t...

  • April 30, 2022

    Trump-initiated program fighting gun violence in Chicago still paying big dividends

    Chicago's streets are a little safer thanks to a federal crackdown on gun violence there, even though the Biden administration ended the program that President Trump initiated.  The Chicago Sun-Times reports: It's bee...

  • April 30, 2022

    Mayorkas reveals insane plan to divert VA resources from health care for veterans to serve illegals at the border

    In addition to being an immoral betrayal of our pledge to care for those who served us in uniform and politically insane, this diversion if resources would be unnecessary if Biden fulfilled his oath of office and enforced the law.  Spencer ...

  • April 29, 2022

    Georgetown University's free speech double-standard

    On April 26, Georgetown University hosted a talk by Mohammed El-Kurd, who has said Jews have an "unquenchable thirst for Palestinian blood" and other viciously antisemitic statements.  World Israel News reports: Mohammed...

  • April 29, 2022

    The comical buffoonery of Biden's new disinformation czarina

    I confess to alternating between fear and scornful laughter when it comes to the newly announced Disinformation Governance Board that DHS secretary Alejandro Mayorkas announced April 27 in a Senate hearing.  The blatant violation ...

  • April 29, 2022

    The other side of the Orrin Hatch story

    I held my silence following the death on Saturday of Orrin Hatch, the former long-serving Republican senator from Utah.  One doesn't rush to speak ill of the dead.  And besides, Senator Hatch had some redeeming qualities....

  • April 29, 2022

    Ukrainian strikes into Russian territory: Great tactic, horrible strategy

    At first, when I heard of Ukrainian strikes into Russian territory, the downsides did not immediately occur to me.  Like most Americans, I sympathize with the Ukrainians, who are being devastated by the war Russia has inflicted on them....

  • April 28, 2022

    ACLU called out by former national board member on criticism of Musk's Twitter takeover

    The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has degenerated into partisan hackery.  No longer guided by dedication to rights for all, it is now just another leftist group strip-mining its former prestige in the cause of the progressive agenda...

  • April 28, 2022

    NY State top court throws out Dems' gerrymandered congressional redistricting plan

    In a huge blow to Democrats' prospects in the House of Representatives, the highest court in New York State threw out the congressional redistricting map adopted by that state's Legislature.  Nicholas Fando of the New York Time...

  • April 28, 2022

    Hillary Clinton politicizes Madeleine Albright's funeral, warning 'fascism' could dominate US

    Never one to allow good taste and respect for the departed to interfere with her political aims, Hillary Clinton used the occasion of Madeleine Albright's funeral to implicitly slur Republicans and Donald Trump as fascists.  The Ne...

  • April 28, 2022

    AG Garland stonewalling on appointing a special counsel to probe President Biden's involvement in Hunter's influence-peddling racket

    There is an obvious need for a special counsel to  investigate President Biden's involvement in the influence-peddling operation run by his son Hunter, in which millions of dollars were received from entities in China, Ukraine, and else...

  • April 28, 2022

    DHS sec Mayorkas announces Orwellian 'Disinformation Governance Board' with a leader who dismissed Hunter's laptop as disinformation

    What could better epitomize the dystopian nature of a governmental organ called the  "Disinformation Governance Board" than putting it under the command of a bureaucrat who questioned the validity of Hunter Biden's laptop...

  • April 26, 2022

    Utah fights back against politicized woke bond ratings

    One of the most insidious initiatives from the left has been the insertion of political factors into investment criteria that govern the allocation of capital.  So-called "ESG" (environment, social, governance) criteria for judgin...

  • April 26, 2022

    SecDef Austin redefines Ukraine conflict goal

    I am horrified at the statement of Defense secretary Lloyd Austin at his press conference in Poland following a secret visit to Kyiv.  Via The New York Times: "We want to see Russia weakened to the degree that it can't do...

  • April 25, 2022

    Corpse season in Chicago

    Chicago, famous around the globe for exotic outdoor violence, is undergoing a spike in bodies being discovered in the city's waters.  According to CWB Chicago: Local media outlets have been making a bit of hay over t...

  • April 25, 2022

    NYT offers doxxing bait on Christopher Rufo

    Formerly respectable media outlets have decided that it is good sport to attach bull's eyes to prominent conservatives so that deranged leftists can target them for attacks.  Following on the heels of Taylor Lorenz and the Washington Po...

  • April 22, 2022

    Schadenfreude overload as Fox ratings champs Tucker and Gutfeld savage CNN, Chris Wallace, and Brian Stelter on air

    Conservatives rarely get opportunities to gloat as delicious as the rapid demise of the streaming service CNN, reportedly the brainchild of Jeff Zucker, the now ex-head of CNN, the man who dragged the cable news pioneer far to the left....

  • April 22, 2022

    Progs go nuts as Florida House of Representatives passes bill stripping Disney of quasi-government powers and special tax status

    Hysteria is the word to describe the screams that rang out in the Florida state House of Representatives as the final vote was taken stripping the Walt Disney Company of the powers granted to Disney's Reedy Creek Development District more than ha...

  • April 21, 2022

    Desperate Democrats face doom (1)

    Democrats are getting desperate, with all signs pointing toward a historic disaster in November.  And it's getting worse: Two of the most respected political prognostication sites — Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball a...

  • April 21, 2022

    Desperate Democrats face doom (2)

    I almost feel sorry for the few remaining honest Democrats who actually believe that their party is something more than a coalition of angry interest groups solely interested in power for themselves at the expense of others.  There used to ...

  • April 21, 2022

    MSNBC analyst Malcolm Nance apparently violated Geneva Convention, as network 'clarifies' that he doesn't work for it anymore

    Chalk up a major embarrassment for MSNBC and its now-former analyst Malcolm Nance, who has run afoul of the Geneva Convention and is called out for playing at soldier with his military gear improperly carried.  Don't expect to hear abou...

  • April 20, 2022

    Kamala announces US will ban tests of anti-satellite missiles, handing space war superiority to China and Russia

    This is flat-out insane: During her first-ever visit to Vandenberg Space Force Base April 18, 2022, Vice President Kamala Harris announced the U.S. is implementing a self-imposed ban on anti-satellite weapons tests in an effort to encourage...

  • April 18, 2022

    Even CNN delivering a devastating message on Biden's unpopularity

    Maybe the departure of Jeff Zucker has led to a new realism at the cable news pioneer.  Or maybe the unpopularity of Joe Biden is so profound that it is dangerous to pretend otherwise.  But CNN's "senior data reporter,...

  • April 18, 2022

    EU Deep State interfering with France's presidential election

    Conservative Marine Le Pen will face France's President Emmanuel Macron next Sunday in a runoff election for the presidency of France.  Quite obviously, Le Pen's nationalism scares the transnationalists in Brussels and they have now...

  • April 18, 2022

    Oops! Diversity officials complain about a DJ in 'blackface' only to be informed he actually is African American

    Two diversity advocates in the Scottsdale, Arizona school district were so eager to find racism lurking in a (highly successful) fundraiser that they accused a black D.J. hired for the event of wearing blackface.  Evidently, the costume and...

  • April 18, 2022

    Frontiers of 'white privilege'

    Apparently Ariel Baker, who writes for Yahoo! Money, hasn't learned about all the mansions bought by BLM people. Since the premiere of real-life criminal drama shows "The Dropout" and "Inventing Anna," Amer...

  • April 18, 2022

    Prof who was disciplined for not using 'preferred pronouns' sues and wins $400K settlement from state university

    It's a small but significant step forward in fighting the woke tyranny that has taken over so many campuses.  A professor who stood up to a transgender bully and was punished by his public university, Shawnee State University in Portsmo...

  • April 16, 2022

    Media that gleefully pilloried the Catholic Church over pedophilia charges avert their eyes over much larger schoolteacher pedophilia problem

    Imagine if seven  separate charges of pedophilia against Catholic priests had surfaced in one day.  The progressive media would have blared the total on front pages and on newscasts all day long. But yesterday, seven separate c...

  • April 13, 2022

    Yes, government schools have a huge pedophile problem

    National awareness of the grooming problem in public school classrooms is rising, thanks to the campaign opposing Florida's law prohibiting sexualizing the youngest students in grades K–3.  The hysteria of the law's opponents ...

  • April 13, 2022

    Even prog media not buying the pathetic 'Putin price hike' rhetoric to distract from Bidenflation

    Almost everyone in America is getting poorer thanks to the inflationary wave kicked off by Joe Biden taking office and immediately clamping down on energy production, which set off a continuing cycle of price rises to compensate for increased costs. ...

  • April 12, 2022

    Saudi television viciously mocks Biden

    The whole world knows that Joe Biden is a husk of a man, mentally and physically not up to the job.  On top of the danger that his sheer incompetence poses for Americans comes the risk that enemies and less friendly countries (and even alli...

  • April 10, 2022

    Fox News to remain in conservative hands, the WaPo reports to its dismay

    Conservatives who worried that Fox News would go leftward when control of Fox News passed to the children of Rupert Murdoch can relax. Lachlan Murdoch, whose left-leaning brother James has withdrawn from involvement in the news business, has come out...

  • April 10, 2022

    In Chicago, an imperial federal government wants to destroy its neighbors to feel more secure

    Chicago, the city that invented the skyscraper and whose central business district is a living museum of the history of tall buildings drawing visitors from all over the world, is on the verge of losing two historic early twentieth-century office tow...

  • April 8, 2022

    Fascinating crime series Tokyo Vice debuts on HBO Max

    Three episodes of the eight-part series Tokyo Vice debuted Thursday on HBO Max, the streaming service of HBO.  The series is based on a 2010 memoir of the same name written by Jake Adelstein, an American who became a cri...

  • April 1, 2022

    As Biden's blunders fuel talk of invoking the 25th Amendment, Kamala steps up to support him by proving she would be worse

    When it comes to evaluating the elevation of Kamala Harris to the vice presidency, you can't be too cynical.  Everything about the woman invites contempt, from her entry into politics by becoming the mistress of a married man decades ol...

  • March 31, 2022

    Disney death wish?

    Few brands are more valuable than that owned by the shareholders of The Walt Disney Company, one that now is being shattered.  In 2020, Forbes rated it as number seven in the world in value.  But I think this may actuall...

  • March 30, 2022

    Biden lets yet another cat out of the bag with an offhand remark

    I can't think of another week or so in which a president has sown so much confusion and seemed to reveal so many surprising new policies with off-the-cuff remarks — statements that so alarmed his staff that they had to issue "clarifica...

  • March 30, 2022

    Putin and his high command reportedly have moved to secret bunkers as threats of nuclear war escalate

    Thanks to imbecilic comments by President Biden, the threat of nuclear war just got a lot more serious if new reports are to be believed.  The estimable David Goldman (AKA Spengler), writing with Uwe Parpart, warns us: What does V...

  • March 30, 2022

    Why demands for Justice Thomas to recuse himself on Jan. 6 cases don't meet the laugh test

    The demands that Justice Thomas recuse himself from a case involving the January 6 incident because of his wife's activities are silly.  Similar demands for recusal of a prominent member of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals b...

  • March 29, 2022

    Biden apparently doesn’t understand what ‘recuse’ means

    For someone who is a member of the bar and was a longtime chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, President Biden demonstrated a shocking lack of understanding of what it means for a Justice of the Supreme Court to recuse him- or herself. It almo...

  • March 26, 2022

    Evidence suggests that fast-spreading omicron COVID variant came from a lab

    In an exclusive report, Sharyl Attkisson presents evidence that is causing scientists to suspect that the omicron variant of COVID, currently causing cases to spike all over the world, and China to lock down major cities, is not the product of n...

  • March 26, 2022

    USA Today beclowns itself trying to cover for Ketanji Brown Jackson saying she can't define what a woman is

    The media and other Democrats realize they have a problem when their president's nominee for the nation's highest court embraces postmodern BS like transgenderism's claim that merely thinking of oneself as the opposite sex magically trans...

  • March 25, 2022

    We need to build an exit ramp from Ukraine for Putin

    The horrors we see daily on our television screens of damage to Mariupol and other Ukrainian cities are bad enough, but the prospect of escalation into a nuclear conflict now seems within the realm of possibility.  That would make the damag...

  • March 22, 2022

    Squad member Rep. Cori Bush: 'We can't be afraid of saying defund the police'

    Freshman representative Cori Bush (D-Mo.) is giving heartburn to Nancy Pelosi and the other bosses of the Democrat party who understand that their real agenda has to be kept hidden from the public.  Bush is a radical BLM-supporter who defea...

  • March 22, 2022

    Biden says the quiet part out loud

    I sort of sympathize with puppet masters using Joe Biden as their front man in the Oval Office.  He doesn't know his limitations, he's headstrong, and he's garrulous.  So he is prone to spilling the beans when he's...

  • March 21, 2022

    Pray for Justice Thomas!

    The Supreme Court's public information office notified the public Sunday night that Justice Clarence Thomas was hospitalized Friday evening "after experiencing flu-like symptoms."  According to spokeswoman Patricia M...

  • March 21, 2022

    AOC picks up one of Joe Biden's most annoying habits

    Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez must think Joe Biden is a master communicator.  What else could explain her use of the annoying technique of pretending to whisper while addressing people?  I suppose the intent is to connote a secret...

  • March 20, 2022

    Putin sends chilling message with use of hypersonic missile to destroy munitions storage facility in Ukraine

    Those who call for Putin’s assassination or who label him a war criminal, implicitly threatening prosecution should he lose power in Russia, might want to think twice about cornering him. Not only is he ruthless and cold-blooded, but he also ha...

  • March 20, 2022

    Republicans hold Senate primary candidate debate in Ohio: Democrats win

    As my colleague Richard Baehr comments, this is a good way to lose what should be a pretty safe Senate seat, currently held by retiring Republican Rob Portman. Jordan Dixon-Hamilton writes in Breitbart: At Ohio’s Republican Senate debate o...

  • March 20, 2022

    Kim Foxx begins early release program for prisoners with a home invader, an aggravated robber, and a burglar, all with lengthy records

    Kim Foxx, the Soros-supported top prosecutor in Cook County, Illinois, is taking advantage of a new law in that state that allows prosecutors to identify prisoners whose further incarceration “no longer advances the interests of justice.”...

  • March 18, 2022

    Another sign the Dem establishment fears DeSantis more than Trump

    It would be hard to find a person who better represents the liberal media establishment than Thomas B. Edsall, whose career includes the Washington Post, the New York Times, and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.  I...

  • March 18, 2022

    Stacey Abrams–boosting media goes where no propaganda has ever gone before

    Obviously, the power brokers who control the Democrat party and the propaganda-spouting media have decided that Stacey Abrams is a national star — presidential timber, even.  I can't think of another politician who has risen no farther...

  • March 16, 2022

    Boston Globe's 'Bostonian of the Year' BLM race activist and husband indicted for fraud

    New England's most prominent exponent of the Black Lives Matter movement is facing charges of bilking donors and using charity funds for personal gain.  The highest-profile race activist in Boston, Monica Cannon-Grant, has been ind...

  • March 15, 2022

    Planned Parenthood's bizarre promotion of abortion at the ultra-hip SXSW festival in Austin

    Planned Parenthood obviously has more money than it knows how to spend well.  Abortion on a mass scale is quite lucrative, of course, and those who profit from it by definition have a warped sense of humanity.  Abortion fanatics c...

  • March 14, 2022

    Mitt Romney accuses Tulsi Gabbard of 'treasonous lies' for tweet about hazards of US-funded biolabs in Ukraine

    Mitt Romney has disgraced himself by reacting hysterically to a tweet by former representative Tulsi Gabbard calling for a ceasefire in Ukraine around the U.S.-funded biological laboratories where hazardous pathogens exist.  Romney, to his ...

  • March 11, 2022

    DuckDuckGo and Facebook reverse policies to join in hating Putin and Russia

    Horror at the death and destruction inflicted on Ukraine by Russia's invasion is a normal and healthy reaction.  So is anger at Russian President Vladimir Putin, who launched and continues the warfare. But with saturation-level war p...

  • March 9, 2022

    Biden's Russia-Ukraine diplomacy is a debacle

    Far from rallying the free world as its leader in reacting to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, President Biden's diplomatic team has been publicly snubbed and humiliated by even putative allies.  Rather than "restoring respect...

  • March 9, 2022

    Mother that Chicago Teachers' Union claimed died of COVID after child sent home from quarantined school actually drank herself to death

    The Chicago Teachers' Union, an affiliate of Randi Weingarten's American Federation of Teachers (AFT), has been busted for lying about and exploiting the death of a student's mother in order to demand continued school closings and more sp...

  • March 7, 2022

    How to solve the Putin problem

    A sage voice from 2014 offers a road map for dealing with Putin's invasion of Ukraine in a stunningly prescient essay, written in the wake of Putin's seizure of Crimea and the downing of a Malaysia Airlines jetliner over Ukraine....

  • March 7, 2022

    How the federal government bought pro-COVID vax propaganda (and silenced critical voices)

    Voices urging caution over the experimental mRNA shots that were relentlessly promoted throughout the media (and by the medical establishment) were confined to independent media like American Thinker until quite recently when the evidence of adverse ...

  • March 4, 2022

    Kamala serves up another incoherent word salad

    Has there ever been a pairing of a POTUS and a veep where neither one could be counted on to answer a straightforward question without becoming incoherent?  The fact that we now live on a knife's edge with the potential for nuclear war ...

  • March 2, 2022

    Kamala's cringe-worthy explanation of the Russia-Ukraine war

    Does Kamala Harris have a patronizing view of the intelligence of African Americans?  Or does she not understand the meaning of "layman"?  Perhaps she confuses that word with "child"? These are the first exp...

  • February 24, 2022

    Failing cable news nets CNN and MSNBC poised for a bidding war over Psaki as their ratings savior

    There is a certain symmetry to the notion that the spokesmouth for the failing Biden administration reportedly is being assiduously courted by the two failing cable news networks, CNN and MSNBC, both of which have endured near-catastrophic ratin...

  • February 21, 2022

    The meme emerges that Joe Biden must be a closet Republican

    Joe Biden has become toxic not just for the country, but for Democrats, who are reaping the consequences of foisting a declining old man on the voting public and getting him installed as president.  So harmful is his incompetence to the par...

  • February 21, 2022

    Very quietly, 2 federal agencies are studying post-vaccination neurological issues

    With no public announcements, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and National Institutes of Health (NIH) both are studying neurological problems that have appeared in people after receiving the COVID vaccines.  In a scoop, Zachary ...

  • February 19, 2022

    Chicago courts finally find an accused perp to deny bail to

    The courts in Cook County, Illinois that serve Chicago are notorious for allowing dangerous suspects out in low or no bail. Part of the problem lies with the office of State’s Attorney Kim Foxx, which often does not seek high bail or fully pres...

  • February 18, 2022

    AOC releases video that proves Ted Cruz's point that Dems and their 'fact-checkers' have been lying about him

    Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is having a rough week with Senator Ted Cruz.  Her vastly inflated opinion of her own intelligence has once again led her out on a limb that Cruz is only too willing and able to saw off for her. In...

  • February 17, 2022

    Asked about Uyghurs in town hall, Biden delivers word salad of CCP talking points, does not stand up for our values

    President Biden flew to Wisconsin to conduct a CNN-televised town hall before a crowd of a mere 50 people in downtown Milwaukee's landmark Pabst Theatre.  The Pabst, as it is known, is the fourth-oldest continuously operating theat...

  • February 17, 2022

    Kamala denigrates America for 'segregation, xenophobia, antisemitism, Islamophobia, homophobia, transphobia' in tweet to Iranians

    The Biden administration has re-opened nuclear talks with the mullahs of Iran as they hurtle toward enriching enough uranium to build the bombs they need to wipe out Israel, as they have repeatedly promised to do.  According to the Jer...

  • February 15, 2022

    Are the JFK assassination lies finally coming apart?

    We are closing in on 60 years since the assassination of John F. Kennedy in Dallas, and in that time, there have been endless independent investigations disputing, or occasionally endorsing, the conclusions of the Warren Commission.  I...

  • February 14, 2022

    AOC starts Twitter war with Ted Cruz, loses badly

    Out of the blue, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez launched a Twitter attack on Senator Ted Cruz.  As you will see, the gist of the attack is that she thinks Senator Cruz can't dance the way the cool kids do.  The cool k...

  • February 13, 2022

    Finnish athlete posted pictures of water leaking into her apartment, ordered by Chinese officials to delete them

    The habits of tyranny are hard to break. China expected that the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing would once again impress the world with China’s ability to build shiny new venues and organize vast and impressive mass ceremonies. But, instead, w...

  • February 11, 2022

    Relax: Biden puts an LGBT activist, gender-fluid drag queen 'pup' fetishist in charge of the nuclear waste that could be used for terror bombs

    One of the most critical national security issues facing the United States is nuclear waste: [T]housands of metric tons of used solid fuel from nuclear power plants worldwide and the millions of liters of radioactive liquid waste from weapo...

  • February 9, 2022

    A rare showing of a classic anti-communist movie Thursday morning on TCM

    Set your DVR for a real treat being shown on Turner Classic Movies (TCM) at 8:45 A.M. Eastern Standard Time.  The 1949 RKO film The Woman on Pier 13 (originally titled I Married a Communist) dates from the period derisively c...

  • February 9, 2022

    DHS issues heightened terror threat citing 'mis- dis- and mal-information' on election fraud and COVID-19

    The Department of Homeland Security issued a bulletin on Tuesday that sounds precisely like a prelude to a totalitarian crackdown on political dissent from the preferred narratives of the Biden regime and the Deep State.  Read the...

  • February 6, 2022

    Schadenfreude overload: Chris Wallace joined CNN+ because Jeff Zucker would be his protector there, now reportedly ‘irate’ at his departure

    Apparently, nobody told Chris Wallace that rats are supposed to jump from sinking ships, not onto them. After leaving Fox News for the nascent CNN streaming service (and watching ratings soar for his old show, Fox News Sunday, once he was gone), Wall...

  • February 1, 2022

    If you wanted proof Biden isn't in charge of his own administration, here it is...

    The same media establishment that colluded with the Democrats to cover up Joe Biden's dementia in order to get Donald Trump out of the White House is now providing cover for his obvious status as a puppet for unseen handlers.  This is a...

  • February 1, 2022

    The Lancet surrenders and declares COVID pandemic is almost over

    The Lancet, published since 1823, is universally recognized as one of the top medical publications in the world, though it damaged its reputation by publishing and then subsequently retracting a study attacking the use of hydroxychloroquine...

  • January 31, 2022

    Trudeau trolls truckers

    Having already established his cowardice by fleeing Ottawa before the arrival of the truck convoy, Justin Trudeau now proves the wisdom of the ancient observation that bullies are often cowards.  Rather than address the demand tha...

  • January 31, 2022

    Where a push to become world's first 100% organic farming nation has led to catastrophe

    The green agenda often backfires when governments embrace it either as a means of placating militant environmentalists or as a half-assed attempt to take a shortcut to some sort of utopian future where evil petrochemicals are no longer being used....

  • January 30, 2022

    Beautiful 8-year-old girl brought to US to escape cartels’ crime shot dead by gangbanger on probation for 3 carjackings in Chicago

    If ever there were a face of innocence to haunt us as a victim of unthinkably cruel violence, it would be the beautiful and sweet visage of Melissa Ortega. According to a GoFundMe page, Melissa and her mother — both from Mexico ...

  • January 29, 2022

    Department of Agriculture issues comical food price inflation report and forecast

    Inflation is the political dynamite that explodes support for an American president.  People directly experience their standard of living declining every time they buy food and fill up their gas tanks.  When people have to minimiz...

  • January 26, 2022

    Schadenfreude overload on virtue-signaling former mayor of San Luis Obispo who stepped down 'to fight climate change'

    Few things delight me more than watching climate cultists with Big Plans to change the way we live running headlong into reality and discovering that their ideas just don't work.  When those people are elected officials (or former ones)...

  • January 25, 2022

    The most entertaining Karen ever?

    My colleague Andrea Widburg covered a remarkable incident of obnoxious Karens bullying — and even assaulting — a Black man in an elevator for not wearing a mask.  If you haven't looked at it yet, click here to obse...

  • January 24, 2022

    Must-see TV: Mark Levin interview with Peter Schweizer exposes $31 million in CCP money to the Biden family and much more

    Sunday's edition of Life, Liberty, and Levin, the one-hour long-form interview show hosted by Mark Levin on Fox News, is essential viewing.  If you don't have just over a half-hour to watch the almost-complete show (embedded be...

  • January 24, 2022

    As Iran was about lose its UN General Assembly vote for nonpayment of dues, the US arranged funds to cover the debt and keep Iran voting

    The Trump administration's sanctions on Iran were working so well that the mullahs were unable to put together the money to pay Iran's United Nations dues.  Not after paying many higher-priority bills, such as supplying weapons to t...

  • January 20, 2022

    CBS Mornings co-host warns of more frequent undersea volcanoes like that near Tonga because of climate change

    Island nations and territories like Tonga are the most celebrated victims used by the doomsday cult of global warming climate change to guilt trip the industrialized world (except China) into impoverishing itself with unreliable and expensi...

  • January 17, 2022

    Former head of UK vaccination task force says a 'waste of time' to keep vaccinating people

    Cracks are appearing in the vaccination frenzy that has gripped medical authorities and politicians here and elsewhere.  Despite the admission by the CEO of Pfizer that "two doses of the vaccine offer very limited protection, if a...

  • January 17, 2022

    Medical board suspends license of doc, asks for psych evaluation for prescribing ivermectin and HCQ for COVID and for public dissent from orthodoxy

    Shades of the darkest days of the Stalinist Soviet Union, where dissent from the lethal incorrect pseudo-scientific doctrines of Lysenkoism could result in imprisonment in a psychiatric hospital!  Julia Marnin reports in the ...

  • January 16, 2022

    Clarice’s Pieces will return next Sunday

    This Sunday, we will have to do without our accustomed treat of Clarice Feldman’s wise and witty insight in her column, Clarice’s Pieces. Unfortunately, Clarice is coping with a death in her family, for which we offer our sincere condo...

  • January 16, 2022

    Kamala Harris is now officially a joke

    There is no way to recover national political standing once a politician becomes a popular butt of humor, a punchline in a degrading joke. Ask Dan Quayle, who has disappeared from the scene so completely that nobody has even gotten him on the record ...

  • January 13, 2022

    Colin Flaherty, RIP

    We are deeply saddened to report that Colin Flaherty has passed away too early, at the age of 66, of cancer. Colin was a fearless crusader, taking up one of the most taboo stories in modern America: the rising tide of Black violence directed again...

  • January 12, 2022

    Ashli Babbitt's murderer exonerated in disgraceful official investigation

    American cities burned when a career criminal named George Floyd died in police custody while on a lethal dose of fentanyl.  But Air Force veteran Ashli Babbitt was shot to death by a senior Capitol Police officer — a lieutenant ...

  • January 7, 2022

    Does NASCAR have a death wish?

    A pair of reports yesterday lead me to question the sanity of the management of NASCAR, the privately held giant of the sport of stock car racing.  While I am far from an expert on auto racing and have never been to a NASCAR race, I have a ...

  • January 7, 2022

    Report: Joy Reid to lose her MSNBC show

    Be still, my heart!  The most obnoxious personality in cable news is about to lose her show if a report from a veteran media reporter turns out to be correct.  Yes, that would be Joy Reid, the radical leftist with a weeknight show...

  • January 6, 2022

    What happened to Ted Cruz?

    I know from the volume of email I've received on it that Ted Cruz's comments on January 6, 2021, calling it "a violent terrorist attack on the Capitol," have outraged many conservatives.  Ted was once the darling of intell...

  • January 6, 2022

    5 days after blaming GOP for 'Vacations cancelled ... back to masks,' Eric Swalwell photographed maskless enjoying vacation in Florida

    Eric Swalwell is the most repulsive hypocrite on the current political scene.  The former boyfriend of Chinese spy Fang Fang is a huge advocate of masking...for others.  Like Sandy Cortez and many other Democrat politicians, he go...

  • January 4, 2022

    NYT doubling down on scandal-mongering Trump

    If there were a 12-step program for media, the New York Times and much of the rest of the legacy media would benefit from admitting that they are addicted to Donald Trump and powerless to overcome it on their own.  But instead, the Washingt...

  • January 4, 2022

    One more awkward hypocrisy emerges about incident where a police-defunding and 'bail reform' advocate Illinois state senator was carjacked

    A powerful Illinois state senator called her husband a "hero" for defending her with a concealed carry firearm during a carjacking.  Too bad for her that she voted against allowing private citizens to carry them. The expression...

  • January 3, 2022

    Latest warmist doomsday fantasy: Massive Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica will 'fall apart overnight' and raise sea levels by ten feet

    Some people love to be scared.  Mary Shelley knew that when she wrote Frankenstein, and genres of fiction and film exist mining that desire for innocent fun and profit.  But when politics enters the fray and fears are stoked ...

  • January 3, 2022

    Face the Nation whipping up fear of 'violent,' 'extremist' 'insurrectionist movement'

    With the anniversary of last year's January 6 Capitol incursion this week, the agitprop media are doing their best to instill fear of a bogeyman caricature of conservatives.  Yesterday's edition of Face the Nation added a ...

  • January 2, 2022

    Tournament of Roses Parade goes dystopian

    The Tournament of Roses Parade formerly was meant to be a celebration and affirmation of the new year's beginning. But in 2021, the parade included a horrifying dystopian vision on an award-winning float yesterday. The AIDS Healthcare Founda...

  • January 2, 2022

    Aussie federal government quietly begins compensating people for adverse reactions to COVID vaccines

    The rollout of this new policy by Australia’s federal government has been fairly quiet. It was first announced November 17, 2021. Claims made through the Federal Government’s no-fault indemnity scheme for COVID-19 vaccination will be...

  • January 1, 2022

    Coincidental or not, dropping criminal charges against Epstein's prison guards sends a message to Ghislaine Maxwell the day after her conviction

    Ghislaine Maxwell has been convicted of 5 of 6 criminal counts in her federal trial on charges arising from sex-trafficking underage girls for Jeffrey Epstein and unidentified other figures, believed to include rich and powerful men.  Short...

  • December 31, 2021

    China choking off semiconductor supply with draconian lockdown that makes no sense based on their own data

    A drastic lockdown is shutting down semiconductor production in the Chinese city of Xian, where China acknowledges a mere total of 1,000 cases (not hospitalizations or deaths) during the current outbreak in a city with a population of 13 million....

  • December 31, 2021

    IRS wants its cut from looters and other thieves

    The Internal Revenue Service realizes the rampant crime wave in Democrat-run cities is an opportunity for the tax man.  And Fifth Amendment protection from self-incrimination apparently doesn't apply to filing income tax returns, the IR...

  • December 30, 2021

    Must-see TV: Ben Domenech calls out the American elites helping China in its goal of undermining our country

    I was stunned watching Ben Domenech yesterday on Fox News in the 7 P.M. hour, where a series of guest hosts have been rotating through.  His opening monologue was brave and true, a fearlessly realistic appraisal of China's intentions to...

  • December 29, 2021

    Harry Reid dies

    As is customary when a famous politician dies, tributes are pouring in for Harry Reid, who died of pancreatic cancer at the age of 82 Tuesday.  Frankly, I have nothing nice to say about the man, but I will observe t...

  • December 29, 2021

    Wretched Whitmer signs law allowing cafeteria workers and school bus drivers to teach school due to staffing shortages

    Michigan's Governor Gretchen Whitmer, who flip-flopped into supporting vaccine mandates just a few days ago, now recognizes a severe staffing shortage for schoolteachers.  Her solution?  Signing into law permission f...

  • December 28, 2021

    Sharyl Attkisson needs your help to nail the federal government for spying on her computer

    Courageous journalist Sharyl Attkisson needs our help.  Her landmark lawsuit against the federal government for spying on her computer entered a new, vitally important, and expensive phase: discovery, in which she can demand and the court c...

  • December 28, 2021

    Omicron upends the class politics of COVID

    Until omicron came along, the official response to COVID served as an instrument of class warfare against blue-collar workers and small businesses, on behalf of the tech oligopolists and selected big businesses such as Target, which were deemed ...

  • December 27, 2021

    Stop insulting us with phony social distancing theatre!

    The purveyors of panic porn are doubling down on theatrical displays of "social distancing."  Now that the highly contagious but relatively mild omicron variant of COVID is rapidly spreading — and possibly conferring immunit...

  • December 27, 2021

    Big Brother busted for watching Canadians without telling them

    COVID has been a blessing to nosy government bureaucrats all over the world.  The specter of a "pandemic" offered them an excuse to override traditional concerns about privacy in the name of fighting a scary version of the flu tha...

  • December 27, 2021

    Nikole Hannah-Jones beclowns herself on Meet the Press

    The fact that Nikole Hannah-Jones has been honored with a MacArthur Foundation "genius grant" and a Pulitzer Prize, and has had the New York Times backing her error-riddled and fundamentally mistaken 1619 Project as a curriculum throughout ...

  • December 26, 2021

    When there aren’t enough cops available ‘to serve and protect’

    A highly regarded Chicago Police Department dispatcher named Keith Thornton has spoken out on the inadequate staffing hindering police response to even dire calls, following resignations, retirements, and now firings over the COVID vaccine mandate. E...

  • December 26, 2021

    South Africa stops quarantining and contact tracing for asymptomatic COVID sufferers

    The highly contagious omicron variant of COVID has led to a huge disruption of holiday airline operations, as crew members have been unavailable, leading to thousands of canceled flights over the holiday weekend.  But the nation where the omicro...

  • December 24, 2021

    Omicron through the two ends of a telescope

    Compare the takes on omicron from two different financial news sources. First, CNBC's Morning Squawk daily email, December 23, 2021: 'Hospitals across the nation are preparing for another wave of Covid that could rival the e...

  • December 24, 2021

    In Denmark, an omicron pandemic of the vaccinated

    COVID cases are rampaging in Denmark, which has one of the highest vaccination rates in the world.  According to the numbers on omicron, it is the vaccinated who account for a disproportionate share of the infections.  In other wo...

  • December 20, 2021

    Archbishop Viganò's startling warning to the American people

    Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò is a noteworthy maverick within the Catholic Church hierarchy.  He retired as papal nuncio to the United States in 2016 and has exposed what he sees as great scandals within his Church.  T...

  • December 20, 2021

    Japan's COVID vaccination policy: No coercion, no discrimination

    Japan stands as a beacon to Americans and most of the industrialized world for its COVID vaccine policies, which are far more humane and realistic than those foisted on us by Fauci & Co. In The Epoch Times, Aaron Kheriaty writes: Jap...

  • December 20, 2021

    The wasteful and futile $412-million 'crime-fighting' program for Lori Lightfoot's Chicago

    A lot of "community groups" are going to get grant money, so I suppose that's a political accomplishment for Chicago's Mayor Lori Lightfoot.  But when it comes to actually combatting the wave of violent crime that is ruini...

  • December 19, 2021

    CT Senator Blumenthal pleads ignorance for helping Communist Party USA celebrate its 102nd anniversary

    I already have a very low opinion of Senator Richard Blumenthal for his lie about having served in Vietnam, aka stolen valor, and his left-wing voting record.  But I don’t think the senator, a graduate of Harvard College and Yale Law Schoo...

  • December 19, 2021

    AOC and Pelosi in open spat about Congress members trading in stocks

    Finally, I have an issue on which I can agree with Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. The young solon from New York City is still jaded enough to call out the obvious conflicts of interest when members of Congress trade stocks over whose fates ...

  • December 17, 2021

    Redfin and Realtor websites won't provide crime statistics for neighborhoods when homebuyers search for houses to avoid 'racial bias'

    Two major websites used by homebuyers to search for properties to move into have decided that ignorance is bliss when it comes to crime statistics.  As noted by Stacey Matthews on Legal Insurrection, Realtor.com and redfin.com decided...

  • December 14, 2021

    Sen. Richard Blumenthal 'excited and proud' to help Communist Party USA celebrate its 102nd anniversary

    The alliance of mainstream Democrats with communism is becoming obvious.  I am so old that I can remember when embracing the Communist Party was a political death sentence.  But Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-natch) of Connecticut,...

  • December 14, 2021

    German police arrest Santa Claus for not wearing a mask at Christmas market

    The land that gave us the Gestapo is illustrating its native son Karl Marx's dictum that historical phenomena appear two times: "first as tragedy, then as farce."  Perhaps panicking over Germany's record COVID case co...

  • December 14, 2021

    Biden lies on his support for Afghanistan military action, dismisses military casualties during withdrawal as inevitable

    In an interview with CBS TV's Rita Braver, President Biden disgraced himself with a big lie about his past record of supporting the use of military force in Afghanistan, compounding it with an evasion of responsibility for the thirteen military c...

  • December 13, 2021

    Japan's health ministry officially warns of myocarditis heart inflammation as a side-effect of Moderna and Pfizer COVID vaccines

    The major U.S. media, including Fox News and the conservative blogosphere, are completely ignoring this news from Japan.  Google and DuckDuckGo searches reveal only little-known websites, many with an ideological bent, pickin...

  • December 13, 2021

    Even as a Brazilian city cut COVID hospitalizations and deaths in half using ivermectin, US medical authorities continue to suppress its use

    The suppression of the off-patent, hence low-profit, drug ivermectin for use in preventing and treating COVID is grotesque and inhumane.  Consider the case of a wife who died while hospitalized for COVID while her husband begged the hospita...

  • December 13, 2021

    Poll shows strong public opposition to Biden's plan to spend $80 billion to hire almost 87,000 new IRS agents and vastly increase audits

    Thank goodness the public understands at least some of the horror that would be unleashed on us if Biden's Build Back Bankrupt plan were to become law.  One of the worst features of the bill is that it would sic hordes of new and inexpe...

  • December 12, 2021

    Expert troll: DeSantis budgets $8 million to transport illegal aliens sent to Florida to places like Delaware and Martha’s Vineyard

    Florida’s Governor Ron DeSantis has added a bit of clever trolling to his impressively well-thought-out five-part plan to make up for the default of the Biden regime on border control. Monica Showalter cogently explained the guts of the plan la...

  • December 12, 2021

    Bipartisan push for California voter initiative on school choice

    The recent election in Virginia demonstrated that public education malfeasance is driving blue state voters to change their minds on politics. That’s why I cautiously optimistic about a signature drive in California to place on the ballot a vot...

  • December 10, 2021

    Stunning: Facebook court filing admits 'fact checks' are just a matter of opinion

    Surprisingly little attention is being paid to a bombshell admission made by the attorneys representing the corporation formerly known as Facebook, Inc., which has now transitioned into Meta Platforms, Inc. In a court filing responding t...

  • December 9, 2021

    Dems showing signs of panic over gasoline prices as Biden gaffe in Kansas City speech will make for great GOP video ads

    The wealthy, mostly white environmental activists who donate so much to Democrats want high gasoline prices because it helps force people out of cars and encourages the purchase of electric vehicles, diminishing the Original Sin of CO2 emissions....

  • December 9, 2021

    Biden's vaccine mandates turning into a political disaster

    Federal courts have serially rebuked President Biden's vaccine mandates for federal employees, federal contractors, and employers of over 100.  But the mandates are not merely a legal disaster; they are becoming a politic...

  • December 8, 2021

    Justice Sotomayor ‘paraded her scientific ignorance’ in questioning during oral arguments on Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health

    Sonia Sotomayor, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, raised eyebrows and cast doubt on her fitness for her elevated office during oral arguments over the pending Mississippi abortion case, Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health. C...

  • December 8, 2021

    Biden calls for ‘sweeping new push’ on exposing and punishing corruption -- with a glaring omission

    With a deadpan face, the Washington Post informs us: Biden calls for sweeping new push to expose and punish financial corruption The administration said it would work with Congress to bring more scrutiny to trust companies, lawyers and other fi...

  • December 8, 2021

    New Zealand PM says no end to vaccine boosters or pursuit of the unvaxxed

    The head of government of New Zealand, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, is claiming the right to inject drugs into her citizenry forever. She made the declaration that there would be no end to the program of booster shots for the COVID vaccines at the ...

  • December 8, 2021

    As convenience store closes due to theft, desperate Chicago residents launch letter campaign asking political leaders to punish offenders

    Residents of Wicker Park, a Chicago neighborhood with enough cachet to have a major mystery movie named after it, are worried about the closing of their local convenience store due to unsustainable levels of shoplifting. It is already too late for th...

  • December 8, 2021

    Dems’ SCOTUS scheme face plants as Biden’s commission to evaluate expanding court unanimously declines to recommend packing

    Last week’s oral arguments in the Mississippi abortion case provoked more dark muttering from Democrats threatening to pack the Supreme Court if they don’t get their way. But yesterday the plotters received a body blow to any such plans w...

  • December 8, 2021

    Alleged $275 billion secret deal between Apple and China raises awkward questions

    A paywalled IT industry publication called The Information has published a blockbuster report titled, “Inside Tim Cook’s Secret $275 Billion Deal with Chinese Authorities.” Only 2 paragraphs are visible to non-subscribers, Hartley C...

  • December 7, 2021

    Devin Nunes announces he will resign House seat to head Trump's new media company

    Ordinarily, when a politician suddenly announces he is resigning his office, my first thought is a that he is dodging a scandal.  But in the case of Devin Nunes's surprise declaration yesterday that he will be heading up President Trump...

  • December 6, 2021

    Dr. Ben Carson nails it on the suppression of existing therapies for COVID: ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine

    Despite the lack of so-called "gold standard" double-blind studies, we now effectively know that early (off-label) use of the anti-parasite/anti-malarial drugs hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin can have a significant effect on red...

  • December 6, 2021

    Joe DiGenova predicts big shakeup at CNN as 'robber baron' major shareholder of new owner won't hesitate to build 'good journalism'

    Speaking on WMAL radio in Washington, D.C. just after 7 A.M. Eastern, D.C. super-lawyer, former U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, and conservative savant Joe DiGenova outspokenly declared that the key to understanding why Chris Cuomo was fi...

  • December 5, 2021

    IRS data show Trump tax cuts favored middle and lower income Americans the most -- unlike Biden's plan

    One of the lies that Democrats used to try to defeat President Trump’s reelection was the claim that his tax cuts favored the wealthy. But IRS data utterly refutes that claim. Most Americans will never learn the truth, but the data are there...

  • December 5, 2021

    World Health Organization publishes the horrific death toll from the Omicron variant of COVID

    Yes, the death toll is horrific – if you are a power-hungry totalitarian wannabe looking for an excuse to impose controls on your citizens. Brendan Cole reports for Newsweek: The World Health Organization (WHO) has said that as of Friday, ...

  • December 3, 2021

    Kamala cuts a TV ad for the GOP

    It's a safe bet that the GOP is going to replicate the 1994 "Republican Revolution" strategy that successfully flipped the House of Representatives to Republican control after 40 years in the wilderness of seemingly permanent minority s...

  • December 3, 2021

    The Democrats are playing with fire in their efforts to gaslight the public on inflation

    Inflation is the dynamite that will explode and demolish the Democrats' hold on public support, and they are doing a terrible job trying to neuter the issue.  In fairness, they don't have any good case to make because Biden's po...

  • December 2, 2021

    Announcing the return of comments to American Thinker

    We are happy to announce that readers will once again be able to comment on American Thinker articles and blog posts on our site.  We were forced to end the previous comments section over concerns over trolls posting comments intended to pr...

  • December 2, 2021

    White House comms team is so desperate to dodge responsibility for supply chain crisis that it had Biden say something self-evidently stupid

    I almost feel sorry for the people who tell Joe Biden what to say.  They are stuck with a guy who was never that sharp and who is in steep cognitive decline.  He stumbles over his words all the time, and he squints when he reads e...

  • December 1, 2021

    Chicago trying to surpass San Francisco in a race toward lawless anarchy

    Two American cities, San Francisco and Chicago, seem to be competing to see which one can descend farther into the dystopia of gang rule, with honest citizens held captive to anarchy in the streets, afraid to leave their homes and finding nowhere to ...

  • November 29, 2021

    The weaponization of the 'white supremacy' label

    A reader notes: From the beginning of the Trump administration charges of racism, white supremacy and xenophobia became the go to political weapon of the Democrats and their media allies. And it worked to a great extent. When Trump came out ag...

  • November 29, 2021

    Yet another catastrophic failure from our massive, lavishly funded 'Intelligence Community'

    The devastating surrender of Afghanistan, a blot on American history that will play out for decades with unforeseeable strategic consequences, was preceded by catastrophically inept intelligence-gathering.  The U.S. spends far more money ...

  • November 29, 2021

    Xi's plan to punish Australia for insisting on investigating the origins of COVID backfires

    For almost a year and a half, China has been trying to bully Australia for that nation's insistence on getting to the bottom of the spread of COVID from the Middle Kingdom.  From the standpoint of Chairman Xi, Australia must h...

  • November 28, 2021

    Media ignoring the utter weirdness of Biden’s Nantucket stay at a billionaire’s estate

    Normally, when going to stay at a friend’s house, etiquette requires bringing a gift – say, flowers, some wine, or something to eat. But what about the strange circumstances Joe and Dr. Jill Biden face while staying at the Nantucket estat...

  • November 27, 2021

    Hillary bemoans lack of media 'gatekeepers' and spread of 'disinformation'

    Hillary Clinton is emerging from the shadows and pimping censorship as the solution to the Democrats' ills.  All this is taking place just as talk builds of Kamala Harris's disastrous performance as veep and the Democrats' terri...

  • November 27, 2021

    University of California system permanently abandons standardized testing for admissions

    Too many of the "wrong" people are gaining admission to the University of California's nine campuses.  The racial bean-counters are therefore altering the process by which applicants are judged.  The nation's pre...

  • November 27, 2021

    School board refuses to allow students to hear from ISIS survivor because it might encourage 'Islamophobia'

    "You can't handle the truth," the famous line uttered by Jack Nicholson in A Few Good Men, could well be the motto of many educrats.  Sheltering students from the truth when it offends the politically correct sentiments o...

  • November 26, 2021

    When did the Babylon Bee start writing headlines for the Washington Post?

    The headline that appeared at the top of the following tweet from the Washington Post, about the massacre in Waukesha, Wisconsin, appeared to have been written by the Babylon Bee.  What you see is a screen grab saved by a blogger who writes...

  • November 26, 2021

    Signs of resistance among China's power elite to Xi's power-grab

    When Xi Jinping changed the rules of China's Communist Party to allow him to serve as general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party for life, instead of being limited to two five-year terms, it was easy to conclude that he had all the power an...

  • November 25, 2021

    Charlottesville and Waukesha aftermaths: why isn't Biden being called out to denounce the racism he fanned complaining about the Kenosha verdict?

    The brilliant commentator Jason Whitlock has eloquently and concisely called out the media and politicians in a tweet reading: Other than the death toll, what's the difference between Charlottesville and Waukesha? Why aren't the media cl...

  • November 25, 2021

    Comrade Omarova's nomination crashes and burns as five Dem senators announce opposition to her appointment as comptroller of the currency

    The radicals who tell Joe Biden what to do as president overreached when they had him nominate Saule Omarova as comptroller of the currency, a powerful regulator of the banking system.  The émigré from Soviet-era Kazakhstan, a...

  • November 24, 2021

    Global warming scare-mongers refuted as Arctic ice growing, on track to be the most ice in 2 decades

    The scariest scenario of the global warming doomsayers has been the idea that the melting Arctic ice cap would put coastal cities underwater.  For example: 'Scientists in the US have presented one of the most dramatic forecasts yet...

  • November 23, 2021

    Obama Presidential Center receives its largest-ever gift: $100 million

    The Chicago monument (not a presidential library) to the sheer wonderfulness of Barack Obama — that is taking up acres of prime lakefront parkland designed by Frederick Law Olmstead — just got a huge gift.  Jeff Bezos, foun...

  • November 22, 2021

    What lies ahead for Kyle Rittenhouse?

    While justice was done in the Kenosha courtroom where he faced trial, I fear the worst for Kyle Rittenhouse.  George Zimmerman, who was acquitted in the killing of Trayvon Martin for the same reason — the inherent right of self-defens...

  • November 21, 2021

    Four swing district House Dems broke promises to vote for Biden’s social spending monstrosity

    Imagine the pressure that was put on the following 4 House moderate Democrats to vote for the Build Back Bankrupt bill that passed last week, when they had made promises to their constituents that it would have to meet certain fiscal parameters befor...

  • November 21, 2021

    Violent demonstrations of ‘tens of thousands’ protest mandatory vax law in Vienna

    Saturday saw large-scale demonstrations around Europe against Covid lockdowns, vaccine passports, and mandatory vaccination. Austria became the first European nation to require mandatory vaccinations and had earlier announced a lockdown for the unvax...

  • November 17, 2021

    Germany suspends approval of Nordstream 2 pipeline

    Joe Biden's policy toward Russia now can be said to be weaker than that of Germany — a shocking development, considering the history of Germany shirking its duties to NATO.  The New York Times reports: The approval ...

  • November 15, 2021

    White House messaging chaos inadvertently reveals the sinister intentions of Biden's puppet masters

    With Democrats quaking in their boots over the plunging public support for Joe Biden and the political party that sold him as a moderate and as physically and mentally capable of doing the job, the White House messaging team and their media supporter...

  • November 15, 2021

    Low expectations as Xi and Biden to hold 'virtual meeting'

    Nobody in authority is calling it a "summit" as the leaders of China and the United States are due to converse with each other today in what is being called a "virtual meeting."  Biden's advisers must be worrying, as...

  • November 14, 2021

    YouTube censors information about vaccine injuries on Sen. Ron Johnson’s channel

    Alphabet, Incorporated, owner of YouTube, Google, and other tech media, has taken on the role of final arbiter of medical science, even in fast-changing fields where data is far from complete. YouTube, which enjoys a commanding presence in online vid...

  • November 14, 2021

    Updated: Three California school districts vote to defy state’s vaccine mandates for children, risk losing state aid

    Updated: A third California school district has voted to resist the children's vaccine mandate Two school districts in a mountainous rural county of California are leading the way in resisting a medical experiment on its children. Calaveras Co...

  • November 14, 2021

    Jennifer Rubin, of the WaPo and MSNBC, calls on media to stop treating Republicans as ‘normal’

    In a very crowded field, Jennifer Rubin stands out as possibly the most extreme case of Trump Derangement Syndrome among the former conservatives driven mad (in my opinion) by Donald Trump’s presidency. Her hatred of Trump and the party that no...

  • November 13, 2021

    Worldwide vaccine failure

    Alex Berenson, the former New York Times science writer who has been a voice of reason on the COVID epidemic, assembles evidence that the mandated COVID pseudo-vaccines have failed all over the world, in a Substack post titled "Worldwide vaccine...

  • November 10, 2021

    Woman who livestreamed her looting spree in Chicago released from prison the same day she arrived to serve her 17-month sentence

    I'd like to be able to say "only in Chicago," which seems to have become the world capital of street crime, but alas, "criminal justice reform" runs rampant — as do criminals, even those convicted of felonies. The inv...

  • November 10, 2021

    'Experts' struggle to explain why the free state of Florida has half the COVID case rate of masked and vax-mandated California

    It's definitely embarrassing for "experts" when the people following their advice do worse than those who flout it.  But that's currently the case when it comes to reining in COVID.  Leslie Eastman writes at...

  • November 8, 2021

    Dems seem to be giving up on challenging DeSantis's re-election bid in 2022

    It turns out that having a spine and openly defying the Democrats — and their establishment allies — pays off for a Republican politician.  Florida's Governor Ron DeSantis has been peerless among state governors in refusing ...

  • November 4, 2021

    Hispanic vote migrating to GOP must terrify Dems

    It's been an article of faith for Democrats that the rising share of Hispanic voters will empower Democrats to dominate future elections.  Almost two decades ago, John Judis and Ruy Teixeira wrote The Emerging Democratic Majority, ...

  • November 4, 2021

    DeSantis creates police unit to focus on election crimes full time (and expertly trolls Biden and the corporate media)

    Florida’s Governor Ron DeSantis continues to role model successful governance focused on the key issues. His latest point of leadership is securing election integrity, the lack of which is a serious problem that is destroying faith in political...

  • November 3, 2021

    Savoring the brutal election lessons for Democrats

    Expect all hell to break loose within the Democrat party, with powerful key factions at one another's throats.  Voters in multiple states repudiated the radical wing of the Democrat party that had seized control of the party's agend...

  • November 2, 2021

    Meet the new Chicago bail court judge that frees perps on recognizance and restrains victims

    In the race among blue cities toward dystopia, Chicago is a contender for the lead.  Its streets are dangerous, and when accused street crime perps are arrested, they often get out of jail on recognizance, with no cash bail.  CWBC...

  • November 2, 2021

    Judge suspends City of Chicago's order that all cops be vaccinated by the end of the year

    Chicago's police unions won a big, but still only partial victory yesterday as Judge Raymond W. Mitchell issued an order suspending enforcement of the city's mandate that police officers be vaccinated against COVID-19 by the end of the year....

  • November 1, 2021

    You can almost smell the flop sweat in the McAuliffe campaign

    Former Governor Terry McAuliffe of Virginia has only himself to blame for the loss of his polling lead over Glenn Youngkin in his race to return to the governor’s mansion. In a state that has turned solidly blue and gave a 10-point margin to Bi...

  • November 1, 2021

    Self-inflicted wounds causing transportation and supply chain woes to cascade, crippling travel and commerce

    Another airline has experienced massive disruption, inconveniencing and alienating customers, as staffing shortages create havoc. The UK Daily Mail reports: American Airlines has continued its streak cancellation over Halloween weekend...

  • October 31, 2021

    The other Virginia race that could shock Democrats on Tuesday

    It makes sense that the top of the ticket in Virginia’s state election Tuesday gets most of the national attention. The fact that Terry McAuliffe is both a former governor and before that a Clinton bagman makes the race compelling to journalist...

  • October 31, 2021

    Biden’s blunder apologizing to Macron angers another US ally

    I was pretty harsh yesterday, criticizing Scranton Joe’s first day of his European tour, calling it a “clown show.” Not that the legacy media would even hint at that.  But it turns out that I wasn’t critical enough. It...

  • October 30, 2021

    Biden's European trip already a clown show

    Despite the happy face the legacy media are putting on the first day of President Biden's European trip, his customary level of hypocrisy and incompetence is showing through the P.R. gloss. Start with the spectacle of a leader intent on demons...

  • October 29, 2021

    Harvard segregates the audience for a theatrical performance tonight

    Segregation is back, as the racialist frenzy that has gripped America since George Floyd died in police custody after overdosing on fentanyl has infected the grown-ups at America's richest and ostensibly most prestigious university.  In...

  • October 29, 2021

    Signs of McAuliffe panic as polls collapse and campaign tries to ‘kill’ a story about hiring notorious election lawyer Mark Elias

    A new poll of likely voters conducted for Fox News (whose polls traditionally favor Democrats) shows a collapse in the lead Terry McAuliffe enjoyed about 2 weeks ago into an 8-percent lead for his Republican opponent, Glenn Youngkin. ...

  • October 28, 2021

    Alaska Railroad rescinds vaccine mandate for employees

    The board of directors of the state-owned Alaska Railroad has voted unanimously to rescind the vaccination mandate it had imposed on employees just days earlier.  According to the Anchorage Daily News, last Friday, it had emailed emplo...

  • October 28, 2021

    AG Merrick Garland's outrageous Senate testimony sparked ringing denunciations from GOP senators

    Attorney General Merrick Garland yesterday demonstrated that he is unfit for office as the nation's chief law enforcement officer, much less as a justice of the Supreme Court.  Whatever reservations you may have about Mitch McConnell, b...

  • October 27, 2021

    Must-see TV: Sky News Australia takes on Greta Thunberg

    Have you got 2 minutes to spare watching a teenage climate scold get her comeuppance?  A commentator on Sky News Australia ripped the hypocrisy behind the children's crusade demanding extreme measures to solve a problem that for thirty ...

  • October 26, 2021

    Kamala Harris proudly announces 'National Gender Strategy'

    Kamala Harris took to Twitter to announce the issuance of "the first ever National Gender Strategy," as if that were more important than her assigned duty of taking charge of the border, not to mention the multiple other crises that are mak...

  • October 25, 2021

    As vaccination rates climb near 100% in some areas, the problem is finding people to blame for continuing COVID cases

    Scapegoats are a necessity for tyrants because somebody has to take the blame for their failures.  That's one of several reasons to be uneasy about the campaign by Joe Biden, in concert with most elements of the progressive establishmen...

  • October 23, 2021

    What is wrong with Kamala?

    The vice president of the United States spoke yesterday at the brand-new Northeast Bronx YMCA, promoting the so-called infrastructure bill that actually would transform the economy into dependence on unreliable "green" power and t...

  • October 23, 2021

    Record number of humpback whale calves spotted: Another predicted 'climate change' disaster that didn't happen

    Many people are happy about this widely-distributed story from the CBC: There were no humpbacks off southwest B.C. 25 years ago, but now as many as 500 have been identified A record number of humpback whale calves have been spotted in th...

  • October 23, 2021

    Marine veteran who stopped the armed convenience store robber got even more awesome yesterday

    You've probably already seen the viral video from Yuma, Arizona, where a Marine Corps veteran stopped an armed, black-clad pair of robbers attempting to rob a convenience store. Don’t mess with Marines: US Vet stops armed robbery in Ar...

  • October 22, 2021

    World’s longest Covid lockdown loosens as tyrannical politician is shamed by rival

    Residents of Melbourne, Australia just gained a little bit of freedom back after enduring the longest Covid lockdown of any city in the world: 262 days, edging out London and Buenos Aires for the dubious title. According to Anthony Piovesan and...

  • October 21, 2021

    State Department puts virtue-signaling ahead of diplomacy with 'International Pronouns Day' tweet

    Now that the Biden administration is treating the Taliban as some kind of partner, allowing them to determine who was flown out of Afghanistan at the time of our abandonment of a massive trove of armaments and depending on them to rescue the large nu...

  • October 20, 2021

    In-N-Out Burger refuses to demand vaccine 'passports' in SF store, forced to close indoor dining

    The first prominent company to stand up to vaccination passport bullying is In-N-Out Burger, which should surprise no one familiar with the company's history and culture.  More on that below, but first, according to Amanda Bartlett of...

  • October 19, 2021

    Dan Bongino puts principle before money on vax mandate and advertiser censorship issues

    Dan Bongino walks the walk, in addition to talking the talk.  He may be professionally classified as a talker now that he has a podcast, a three-hour syndicated talk show, a weekly Fox News Channel show, and a simulcast presence on Fox Nati...

  • October 18, 2021

    Kamala makes pro-McAuliffe video to be illegally played in over 300 Black churches in Virginia

    CNN reports: More than 300 Black churches across Virginia will hear from Vice President Kamala Harris between Sunday and election day in a video message that will air during morning services as part of an outreach effort aimed to boost McAuliffe...

  • October 18, 2021

    Transportation sec. Buttigieg: Supply chain disruptions will continue into next year, but he'll be flying off to UN Climate Conference in Europe

    Pete Buttigieg took time away from his previously unannounced two-month-long (so far) parental leave to appear on Sunday morning talk shows.  There's bad news for Johnny and Susy that their Christmas presents from China may not make it ...

  • October 18, 2021

    Biden admin threatening to make Navy SEALs resisting the vax mandate repay their training cost

    I can think of few better ways to ensure that fewer qualified people will apply to join the nation's most elite fighting unit than the policy just announced by the U.S. Navy's COVID Consolidated Disposition Authority.  It has ...

  • October 18, 2021

    Biden and Chicago mayor Lightfoot go out maskless in public

    Rules are for little people, silly. Of course, the entire charade of masking is stupid, because the size of viral particles is smaller than all but the expensive (and hard to fit) N95 masks.  The cloth or paper chin diapers are pretty wo...

  • October 17, 2021

    German public broadcasting staffer decries suppression of Covid information: ‘I cannot do it anymore’

    Ole Skambraks is very brave mid-level employee of German public broadcaster ARD, an organization with an annual budget of $8 billion and multiple television and radio services.  He writes that he  can no longer remain silent about the lopsi...

  • October 17, 2021

    China’s frightening test of new hypersonic weapon: ‘We have no idea how they did this’

    The Financial Times has published a scoop that should frighten every American and which casts further doubt on the competence and capability of our military leadership. China has demonstrated an attack weapon well beyond our capabilities, defense aga...

  • October 17, 2021

    Suspect arrested for assassinating Brit MP is finally named by police, but the New York Times won’t print his name: Ali Harbi Ali

    We can guess that British Member of Parliament Sir David Amess, cruelly and painfully stabbed to death while meeting with constituents, was likely targeted for his pro-Israel and philo-Semitic views, now that the name of the suspect arrested at the s...

  • October 16, 2021

    Saturday Schadenfreude: Dems redistrict NeverTrump GOP turncoat Adam Kinzinger into a Dem district with a popular Dem incumbent

    Maybe Adam Kinzinger, the nominally Republican Congressman from Illinois, thought he would win goodwill from the donkeys by attacking Trump and (along with Rep. Liz Cheney) joining the January 6 Inquisition run by Nancy Pelosi, allowing it a thin ven...

  • October 16, 2021

    Chicago cops' union resisting vax mandate in a city on the brink of domination by armed criminals

    Civil order already is crumbling in Chicago, with its horrendous toll of murders, car-jackings, and looting of stores spreading into downtown and affluent neighborhoods from the ghetto strongholds where lawlessness has been rampant for years. ...

  • October 16, 2021

    Must-see TV: Devastating video of shifting narrative on COVID vax

    I wish I could find out who created the two-plus-minute video embedded below.  It contains no identification.  Sean Hannity posted it to his Rumble account and stated that it came from Twitter, but I've been unable t...

  • October 15, 2021

    Biden administration reverses all punishment of Andrew McCabe

    The Deep State takes care of its own, scoring a big victory yesterday thanks to the Biden administration defaulting, using an old trick to reverse all punishment of former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe, who lied repeatedly to FBI officials ...

  • October 14, 2021

    The View reveals how badly the left has lost the gun control argument

    I've never watched The View other than clips of notable segments offering a glimpse into the minds of female progressive media people.  One such four-minute mini-discussion took place Tuesday that, I think, reveals that the gu...

  • October 13, 2021

    Southwest CEO backs down, will not fire employees who refuse to get vaxxed

    (UPDATE at the bottom of this post.) Chalk this up as a major victory for personal autonomy and liberty!  Even while refusing to admit that resistance to vaccination had anything to do with the massive disruption to operations ...

  • October 11, 2021

    Southwest Airlines forced to cancel 1800+ weekend flights one day after pilots’ union filed for a restraining order on vaccine mandate

    It doesn’t take Sherlock Holmes to figure out that pilots at Southwest Airlines are protesting their company’s move to require Covid vaccinations, even though the company and their own union deny it. Over the past weekend, Southwest was f...

  • October 11, 2021

    California mandates ‘gender neutral’ toy areas in large stores

    California Democrats, in full control of the nation’s most populous state, imagine themselves wise, even omnipotent, probably because they face no chance of losing power and no major media that are critical of their delusional grandeur. The lat...

  • October 10, 2021

    Mexican cartels firing machine guns across the Rio Grande at National Guard troops

    I believe that there’s a word for a situation in which munitions are fired across an international border aimed at troops defending that border. It is a “war.” Fox News’ Bill Melugin – the preeminent journalist on the st...

  • October 9, 2021

    Biden just bragged about helping a friend jump to the head of the line in an emergency room

    I don’t want to live in a country where friends of powerful politicians get preference in receiving medical care, but Joe Biden evidently thinks that’s an appealing vision of the future he is building. He is actually so proud of doing his...

  • October 8, 2021

    Biden falsely claims vaccinated people can’t spread Covid in Illinois speech promoting vax mandates

    President Biden spread what the social media giants like to call “harmful misinformation” when censoring conservatives. In the case of Biden’s speech yesterday on Elk Grove Village, a Chicago suburb, the misinformation was downright...

  • October 8, 2021

    Xi Jinping’s calculus as he ponders attacking Taiwan, possibly starting World War 3

    China’s aggressiveness in the face of Biden’s weakness could plunge the world into war. Its dictator Xi Jinping is thinking about issues that few Americans understand or even know about. China has been violating Taiwan’s airspace...

  • October 7, 2021

    Where’s the report of Border Patrol ‘whipping’ that DHS Sec Mayorkas promised ‘in days – not weeks’?

    More than two weeks ago, on September 22, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas promised the House Homeland Security Committee a swift investigation into the incident in which a Border Patrol officer was photographed using his reins wit...

  • October 7, 2021

    Catastrophic crash in polling numbers for Biden and the Dems

    Is it really a surprise that a formal move toward police repression of its political opponents – siccing the FBI on critics of Critical Race Theory – is coming from the chief law enforcement officer of the Biden regime? The latest polling...

  • October 6, 2021

    Kerry tells French TV viewers that Biden was ‘literally’ not aware of the deal that caused France to recall its ambassador to the United States

    A stunning admission from an administration insider that the President of The United States is clueless and out of touch on some of the most important strategic issues of the day was delivered to a French television audience by former Secretary of St...

  • October 5, 2021

    Decriminalizing gang bangers, Soros prosecutor Kim Foxx declines to charge five arrested in fatal gang shootout, citing ‘mutual combatants’

    Chicago now is like Dodge City before Marshal Dillon arrived: a fatal shootout on its streets is no crime because both sides were shooting.  The Windy City already is world-famous for shootouts on its streets, with an astounding 3,625 shootings ...

  • October 4, 2021

    How the Marxists are realizing their dreams in America two centuries after the birth of Marx

    Who was Karl Marx? The Men, the Motives and the Menace Behind Today’s Rampaging American Left James Simpson Longtime readers of American Thinker are familiar with the work of James Simpson, a tireless researcher on the inner workings of ...

  • October 4, 2021

    Fauci isn't sure that you can gather for Christmas, but is sure that you must give up your individual rights

    The highest-paid bureaucrat in the entire federal government went on Face the Nation yesterday and let his mask slip.  He might as well have put on a Grinch costume when he responded to a question from host Margaret Brennan on whether or no...

  • October 4, 2021

    Somebody turned the lights back on at Bagram Air Base; speculation rampant that Chinese military have taken it over, but Taliban denies

    A widely circulated Twitter post dated September 2 purports to show the lights back on at Bagram Air Base outside Kabul.  You may recall that when U.S. forces evacuated the base without telling the Afghan forces they have been allied with, ...

  • October 3, 2021

    Harry and Meghan’s ‘made-for-Netflix’ fake royal tour of New York

    Perhaps like me, you were unaware that Harry Sussex and Meghan Markle staged a tour of New York City this week, aping what a genuine royal tour of a member of the British Royal Family would look like. But if you are a subscriber to Netflix, you almos...

  • October 2, 2021

    Saturday schadenfreude: Prog thinks she can change nature, suddenly (and hilariously) discovers she can't

    Progressives are by their very nature contemptuous of the natural order of things.  Everything can be improved by their superior intellects.  By virtue of the purity of their motives and the advanced understanding we have these da...

  • October 2, 2021

    When Kamala forgets to cackle under stress…

    Yes, the Kamala cackle is incredibly annoying.  It's one of the reasons why she was the first to drop out of the Democrats' presidential nomination derby.  But it looks as though a semi-successful effort to train her out o...

  • October 1, 2021

    Must-see TV: Rand Paul excoriates HHS Sec. Becerra for ignoring science and calling Covid survivors who decline vaccine ‘flat earthers’

    Senator (and medical doctor) Rand Paul delivered an epic dressing down to HHS secretary Xavier Becerra during Senate testimony for calling those who decline vaccination "flat earthers."  Particularly referencing those who have rec...

  • September 30, 2021

    Leftist policies are wrecking global supply chains and triggering shortages and looming hyperinflation. Stand by for capitalism to be blamed

    We already see soaring prices, empty store shelves, shortages of critical products, factories shut down, workers unemployed, and people freezing in their homes.  Soon, progressives will be blaming capitalism itself and demanding more govern...

  • September 28, 2021

    Must-see TV: When pressed to explain what she means by 'the occupation of Palestine,' AOC admits that she doesn't know much

    Despite graduating from Boston University cum laude, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is eternally sophomoric, always confident in the wisdom of her views, notwithstanding serious limitations to her knowledge base.  The word "sophomo...

  • September 27, 2021

    Emory University's despicable cover-up for swastika hate crime hoaxer

    I have long believed that the demand for hate crimes by whites far exceeds the supply, which is why so many fake crimes (see here, here, and here, for examples) are perpetrated by racial and sexual minorities.  These hoaxes s...

  • September 27, 2021

    Schadenfreude to start the week: Biden and the Dems' plans are collapsing

    Only eight months into the Biden presidency, disaster looms for the Democrats, and boy, do they deserve every bit of humiliation and voter repudiation that looks to be in prospect.  Yes, it is almost fourteen months until the midterm electi...

  • September 27, 2021

    Scurrilous attacks on Tucker Carlson reveal the Dems' panic over their racist plans being exposed

    You can tell that Tucker Carlson is directly over the enemy target by the amount of flak sent his way.  The Anti-Defamation League (ADL), formerly a reputable, even noble group when it pursued its original goal, the protection of Jews from ...

  • September 25, 2021

    Will Biden use the Del Rio 'whipping Haitians' hoax to abolish police mounted patrols?

    On Friday, both Joe Biden and Kamala Harris doubled down on the hoax that mounted Border Patrol agents "whipped" border violators in Del Rio, Texas, a lie that has been conclusively debunked, as Andrea Widburg expla...

  • September 25, 2021

    From pandemic to endemic: foreign countries begin recognizing COVID panic porn is not useful

    While the Biden-Harris administration continues to demonize those who do not wish to be human guinea pigs in a massive experiment with gene therapies and encourages mask mandates and other symbolic but largely ineffective measures to control a virus,...

  • September 25, 2021

    JetBlue passenger chokes flight attendant, storms cockpit, but most media neglect to mention he shouted 'Allah!'

    A frightening incident took place Wednesday on a JetBlue flight from Boston to San Juan in which a passenger assaulted a flight attendant, broke free of wrist ties once restrained, and attempted to storm the cockpit, with the door open because a crew...

  • September 25, 2021

    Wall Street giants moving toward using financial power to pressure cities to enforce SJW agenda

    I doubt that we'll see a lot of leftists protesting against Wall Street titans bullying local governments now that the most powerful capitalist entities are joining to progressive racial agenda.  Some Wall Street bullying is more equal ...

  • September 23, 2021

    George W. Bush to headline fundraiser for Liz Cheney

    Hatred for Donald Trump is reuniting the Bush and Cheney political clans and letting the voters of Wyoming deliver a verdict on the contest between the GOP establishment and the Trump populists.  The split in the Republican Party between pr...

  • September 23, 2021

    Michigan's Gov. Whitmer bans masks and vax mandates as her polls crash and re-election fight looks grim

    Gretchen Whitmer, the governor of Michigan, early on distinguished herself as a pandemic hypocrite, demanding severe lockdowns of her citizens subjects while exempting her family and herself.  Her husband was caught boating when s...

  • September 23, 2021

    ACLU beclowns itself bowdlerizing Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the first anniversary of her death

    I am so old that I remember when the American Civil Liberties Union actually defended civil liberties instead of being just another left-wing shill.  Apparently, the fundraising bonanza it reaped from fanatical haters of Donald Trump during...

  • September 20, 2021

    Nicki Minaj and the vax mandate may portend the crumbling of the Dems’ hold on 90% of the Black vote

    The Biden administration's shift from denying to imposing a vaccine mandate may be a historic blunder with profound consequences.  Done in haste, it jeopardizes the stratospheric levels of support for Democrats among African Americans. ...

  • September 20, 2021

    Senate parliamentarian foils Dems' plan to include green cards (and path to citizenship) for 8 million illegals in reconciliation legislation

    The Democrats are trying to alter the basic nature of our Republic with the slimmest of congressional majorities.  This alone violates the long-held understanding that serious long-term changes properly ought to be supported by both parties...

  • September 18, 2021

    Detroit TV station asks for stories of unvaxed COVID deaths, gets overwhelming response on deaths and injuries from the vaccines

    There seems to be a yawning chasm between what is believed by media people and what their viewers/readers/listeners care about when it comes to Covid vaccines. The nonstop barrage of propaganda telling us to get vaxed seems to have convinced many med...

  • September 17, 2021

    Durham's indictment of Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann offers hope that bigger fish may be reeled in

    I am cautiously optimistic over the indictment handed down yesterday, accusing attorney Michael Sussman, then of Perkins Coie, representing the Hillary Clinton campaign, of lying to the FBI.  It has been very easy to despair that anything w...

  • September 17, 2021

    FAA prevents Fox News drone from filming thousands of illegals gathered at Del Rio, TX crossing

    CNN, MSNBC, and the alphabet networks have all have ignored the massive invasion of illegal aliens touched off by the Biden administration's welcome mat.  They, and their Democrat colleagues, do not want the public to see evidence ...

  • September 16, 2021

    Vax mandate 'work-around' using OSHA not nearly as clever as they thought

    The plan to force Americans into receiving an experimental drug that acts on their RNA faced some big obstacles, including  Joe Biden's promise that he wouldn't do it; decades of Democrats' rhetoric over "my body, my c...

  • September 15, 2021

    Dems' worst nightmare: BLM and MAGA activists jointly demonstrate against vax mandates

    According to a Twitter feed from Leeroy Johnson, a group of MAGA and BLM activists joined together to demonstrate outside the Manhattan home of New York State Assembly member Linda Rosenthal, who is sponsoring a bill to make COVID vacc...

  • September 15, 2021

    Can we believe Bob Woodward's story about General Milley?

    Can we believe the shocking allegations of misconduct on the part of General Mark Milley in a new book to come from Bob Woodward?  His paper, the Washington Post, has published excerpts.  Briefly: Twice in the final...

  • September 15, 2021

    Treason? Bob Woodward claims Milley offered to warn China if Trump ordered an attack

    In a paywalled Washington Post article, reporter Isaac Stanley Becker writes of allegations in a forthcoming book titled Peril by Bob Woodward and Robert Costa that chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley circumvented...

  • September 15, 2021

    RIP: Norm Macdonald

    I was shocked and saddened to learn that after a private bout with cancer, Norm Macdonald has succumbed at the age of 61.  He has long been one of my favorite comedians, a man whose sense of irony was sharp and whose courage was legendary, ...

  • September 15, 2021

    DOJ allows Intelligence Community contractors to pay their way out of prison sentences with fines for criminal misconduct

    Once again, as in the case of Kevin Clinesmith, the Department of Justice is letting people guilty of serious crimes escape imprisonment.  Those, like Paul Manafort, aligned against the political faction that dominates the DOJ may be s...

  • September 15, 2021

    Dems propose a billion-dollar subsidy for local newspapers (that overwhelmingly support Dems)

    If you think media bias is bad now, wait until Dems start shoveling money at the media in outright subsidies.  What are the odds that small government points of view will get any attention then? Subsidies for local newspapers, which are ...

  • September 13, 2021

    Obama's personal monument sacrifices 800 old growth trees in Chicago park designed by Frederick Law Olmstead

    Without so much as a groundbreaking ceremony, heavy construction machinery has been brought in to rip from the ground about 800 old-growth trees in order to make room on Chicago's lakefront for a personal monument to the wonderfulness of Barack H...

  • September 12, 2021

    David Horowitz explains ‘The Greatest Existential Threat to America’

    For decades now, David Horowitz has been telling the truth about the left’s real goals for America and explaining how they are nearing their achievement. The ignominious surrender of Afghanistan to the very enemy we fought for almost two decade...

  • September 10, 2021

    Biden breaks his promise, announces vaccine mandate for federal employees, contractors, and large employers

    Last December, President-elect Biden promised no mask or vaccine mandates: Not that anyone cares, but this was what he said in December. pic.twitter.com/lpbE174Kxb — Rachel Bovard (@rachelbovard) September 9, 2021 He broke that pro...

  • September 10, 2021

    Desperate Dems disgracing themselves in Afghanistan fiasco cover-up efforts

    Democrats on the House Oversight Committee unanimously voted against surveying the equipment, paid for by American taxpayers, that was left behind in Afghanistan, making the Taliban the best-armed terror state in history. Representative Nancy Mace ha...

  • September 8, 2021

    When military leadership loses the respect of the troops….

    We are in a serious crisis, one that the corporate media are loath to even hint at.  The reason is obvious: responsibility lies in the hands of President Biden and his leadership team.  Professor Glenn Reynolds, aka, the Instapundit, is una...

  • September 8, 2021

    Widespread ‘F*ck Joe Biden’ chants are a warning to politicians and the media

    Over the weekend, at least four college football stadia echoed with chants of “F*ck Joe Biden,” and the practice already has spread to concerts and other mass gatherings. Twitchy has collected a number of tweets demonstrating this trend t...

  • September 8, 2021

    For Democrats, September may be the cruelest month

    The bungled evacuation of Afghanistan (“surrender” seems the more appropriate word, considering the massive war materiel left behind intact for the Taliban) has teed up what could be a disastrous month of September for the Democrats. A...

  • September 7, 2021

    China is playing Kerry for a chump on climate

    You can tell that China doesn't believe in the "climate change" doomsday scenarios because it continues to build new coal-fired electricity generators and already generates more CO2 than any other entity on the planet, 27% of the total....

  • September 7, 2021

    Associated Press joins the campaign of fake news demonizing ivermectin, then issues embarrassing correction

    The campaign to demonize ivermectin has claimed another victim: the credibility of the Associated Press.  Peter Skurkiss elsewhere on these pages today explores some of the reasons why so many media and governmental entities falsely po...

  • September 7, 2021

    Antifa starts to use guns

    Up until last weekend, Antifa thugs confined their violence to beatings, chemical “milkshakes,” and mob violence. But now, an Antifa member has been accused of shooting an antagonist, a member of the Proud Boys. Zachary Steiber reports fo...

  • September 6, 2021

    Where are the apologies for spreading 'harmful misinformation' about fake ivermectin overdoses in Oklahoma hospital?

    Rachel Maddow still has her blue checkmark on Twitter.  The ultra-rich (reportedly earning $30 million a year in her new MSNBC contract) news commentator gleefully spread a false story that rural hospitals and ambulances in Oklahoma we...

  • September 6, 2021

    After knife attack, New Zealand adopts 'knife control' policy, removes knives from supermarket shelves

    New Zealand truly is the land of sheep.  Something has happened there, a mass psychological disturbance that has the populace supporting a government that reacts hysterically to perceived threats. For one, there's locking down an entire...

  • September 6, 2021

    Stand by for violence, maybe terrorism, coming from unvetted Afghan male 'refugees'

    Putting the Taliban in charge of who gets into Kabul Airport for flights out of country during Biden's abrupt surrender is right up there among the stupidest blunders of the catastrophe.  Maybe not quite as disastrous as handing over Ba...

  • September 6, 2021

    Democrats bet the future of their party on his assurances...and now he tells them they've blown it

    There is a good argument to be made that the most influential figure in the Democrat party for the last three decades is political scientist named Ruy Teixeira.  Teixeira co-authored a 2002 book, The Emerging Democrat Majority, that to...

  • September 5, 2021

    Gen. Milley says to relax, the Afghan refugees have all been vetted

    General Mark Milley agreed to an interview by Jennifer Griffin of Fox News (video here), apparently with the intent of calming fears of the wave of military age males coming out of that country and heading for Western nations. Oddly, the subject o...

  • September 5, 2021

    Predators’ ball in Chicago as citizens unprotected from violent criminals and psychopaths

    Chicago may be the worst example of an American city that allows the deranged and the criminally inclined to roam the streets and prey on law-abiding citizens, but the problem is national in scope, particularly in major cities like Los Angeles, San F...

  • September 5, 2021

    Democrat Texas state judge blocks new abortion law that SCOTUS refused to stop

    Democrats already are organizing and fundraising over the Supreme Court’s procedural ruling allowing implementation of Texas’s new law outlawing abortions when a fetal heartbeat is detectable, usually at 6 weeks. In the process, they are ...

  • September 5, 2021

    USDA tries again to racially discriminate

    The Department of Agriculture is not giving up on its quest to racially discriminate. Despite being slapped down by a federal judge only a couple of months ago in its attempt to racially discriminate against Whites in a loan forgiveness program, the ...

  • September 4, 2021

    AOC's dumbest tweet ever gives conservatives a field day holding her to her rhetoric

    Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's problem is not that she is so stupid, but that she thinks of herself as far smarter and more knowledgeable than is the actual case.  The ancient Greeks understood well that hubris, false pride, is one key to h...

  • September 3, 2021

    Dallas mayor and city council sucked in by citizen mocking them in hilarious parody of mandatory vaccine policies

    Whoever the man is in the video below, addressing the Dallas mayor and city council by video in an open microphone session, he is one gifted comedian.  He pretended to be a resident of the very expensive Highland Park neighborhood, fully su...

  • September 3, 2021

    Biden completely makes up a visit to Pittsburgh synagogue victimized by mass shooting in speech to Jewish leaders

    The president of the United States has completely lost touch with reality.  This is Twenty-Fifth Amendment territory, my friends.  "No joke," as the addled executive would say.  Like some Walter Mitty of compas...

  • September 3, 2021

    Australian state begins use of app that dispatches police if you don't prove your location with selfie within 15 minutes of random check

    Australia has transformed itself from a free society to a police state, using the COVID epidemic as an excuse.  Already, the country has all but forbidden international travel, blocking not just the arrival of foreigners (and Australian cit...

  • August 31, 2021

    The world's best armed terror state begins to master the weapons Biden left in its hands

    A video purporting to show the Taliban hanging someone from a captured Blackhawk helicopter only hints at the disastrous consequences of the inept U.S. pullout from Afghanistan. We don't know if this is genuine... Taliban hanging some...

  • August 30, 2021

    Elder Derangement Syndrome (not the Biden kind)

    The tightness of polling on the recall of Gavin Newsom, combined with the frontrunner status of Black conservative Larry Elder, has driven many progressives over the edge, into madness.  Nothing infuriates condescending Whites and racialist...

  • August 28, 2021

    Landmark mass study finds vaccinated people 13 times more likely to catch COVID-19 than those who have recovered and have natural immunity

    A study of 800,000 people in Israel has found that natural immunity in people who have recovered from an earlier COVID-19 infection is vastly superior to the immunity acquired by vaccination using two of the major vaccines in use. ...

  • August 26, 2021

    Australia starts building 1,000-bed concentration camp for COVID 'regional quarantine facility'

    Australia is planning ahead for mass detentions of people in the name of suppressing COVID.  A thousand-bed facility that won't be ready until the end of the year is being constructed about a hundred miles inland from Brisbane, in Queen...

  • August 25, 2021

    Pfizer CEO acknowledges vaccine-resistant strains of COVID likely coming

    The big problem with vaccines and viruses is that viruses tend to mutate into strains that are resistant to the vaccine.  It's called ADE, "Antibody Dependent Enhancement," and it is why no effective coronavirus vaccine had ev...

  • August 24, 2021

    Dr. Jill and the fall of Biden

    Fox & Friends Weekend host Rachel Campos-Duffy is catching a lot of flak for saying over the weekend what many of us noted during the campaign: that Joe Biden's loved ones should have spared this rapidly declining man the ordeal (an...

  • August 24, 2021

    The last sane man down under? Aussie parliamentarian denounces totalitarian lockdown abuses

    I've been watching in sadness and wonder at the abuse that Australia's government elites — many of them purported conservatives — have heaped on their citizens, using military force to keep people imprisoned in their own homes, wa...

  • August 23, 2021

    Cacklin' Kamala giggles as reporter starts to ask her about Americans stranded in Afghanistan

    The vice president of the United States just can't help herself.  She is so uncomfortable in the phony persona that she has constructed for political use that she bursts out with an uncomfortable-to-hear cackle whenever any slight ...

  • August 21, 2021

    Tucker Carlson sees coverup plot behind announcement FBI found little evidence of coordination among Jan. 6 demonstrators

    Most conservative commentators have reacted with glee to a report from Reuters that: The FBI has found scant evidence that the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol was the result of an organized plot to overturn the presidential election result, ac...

  • August 20, 2021

    Can the Biden presidency last much longer?

    See also: Why Joe Biden can't resign, or be removed — or die Though removal from office once was unthinkable, Joe Biden has lost the support of most of the key actors whose support helped him win the presidency, and whose cooperation is ...

  • August 18, 2021

    Gavin Newsom sells his Marin County mansion for $5.9 million

    If Gavin Newsom is recalled by California voters 27 days from now, he and his family will be able to flee the state — and will have no Bay Area home to return to unless he decides for some reason to remain in Sacramento, where he laid out $3.7 ...

  • August 11, 2021

    Announced retirement of 12-term Dem rep helps GOP push toward House majority

    Democrats show every sign of believing that their majority in the House of Representatives will vanish after the 2022 midterms.  The latest indicator also helps make that assessment come true. Rep. Ron Kind, a 12-term Democrat congressma...

  • August 6, 2021

    CNN's credibility collapse pushes viewership below one million for an entire week

    Not a single show on CNN could reach one million viewers in the past week, a decline that is both highly symbolic of its collapsing credibility and financially meaningful to advertising rates.  Its behavior this week suggests that the situa...

  • August 5, 2021

    Time to file articles of impeachment for Biden and Walensky

    The outrageous and facially unconstitutional imposition of an extension of the ban on eviction for non-payment of rent merits impeachment.  In fact, a failure of the Republican caucus in the U.S. House to offer up such articles against Pres...

  • August 4, 2021

    Biden's CDC to impose rent moratorium extension that he admits is probably unconstitutional

    In a presidency characterized by incoherent ramblings, the events yesterday represent a new level of muddle-headedness.  Congress failed to extend the rent moratorium that expired August 1, and the Supreme Court already has indicated...

  • August 3, 2021

    How to speak Bidenese

    What if we assumed that Joe Biden knew what he was talking about when he addresses the country and examined the words he used as if he were a fully functioning adult? The video embedded below from Not the Bee is hilarious.  Because it wa...

  • August 3, 2021

    The headline says it all: 'Over 1,000 victims, 126 dead, just 2 convictions: 6 years of mass shootings in Chicago'

    Parts of Chicago no longer are governed by the rule of law.  In place of ordered civilization, criminal gangs operate with impunity, the residents living in a state of terror, afraid to tell the police anything that would aid in capturing t...

  • August 3, 2021

    AOC, in middle of a packed crowd, dons a mask when the cameras start rolling

    It's mask theatre time again, as the latest attempt to panic the public into accepting limits on our freedom and an experimental gene therapy gathers steam.  In countless locations, Americans are being hectored to wear face masks, and d...

  • August 2, 2021

    Fauci and Pelosi both believe that calling a virus a 'pandemic' suspends constitutional rights

    Forget about the Constitution and the God-given rights it affirms, at least according to St. Anthony Fauci and Speaker Nancy Pelosi.  Over the weekend, they announced that due to the less lethal but more contagious delta variant of COVID-19...

  • August 2, 2021

    Biden wants taxpayers to pay for lawyers for illegal aliens

    The Biden administration believes that boder violators have more rights than American citizens. If you or I try to enter our homeland from a foreign country, we are required to provide a negative COVID test, but an illegal entrant on the southern bor...

  • August 1, 2021

    ‘Defund the police’ hardliner AOC spent $34k on private security in the first 6 months of 2021

    When New York City proposed cutting a billion dollars from the NYPD budget last year, it didn’t go far enough for Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. As The Hill reported, Ocasio-Cortez said that cutting the police budget is not effective if it does...

  • July 31, 2021

    OMG! THE most disturbing sign of Biden's senility yet

    This sort of behavior is straight out of the dayroom of a mental hospital.  Joe Biden may be a habitual liar and the head of a corrupt family selling influence to foreigners, but pity, not anger, and fear for the nation are the on...

  • July 31, 2021

    It begins: A Western 'democracy' calls in its military to force citizens to lockdown

    Is this a portent of what lies ahead here?  Power-mad leaders in Western ostensibly democratic nations seem to be enamored of the controls over their own citizenry they seized when the Chinese virus first hit.  Even as the death t...

  • July 28, 2021

    NYT's DOJ reporter tweets Trump-supporters are 'enemies of the state' and then deletes tweet

    The New York Times' Justice Department beat report Katie Benner, who formerly wrote for a publication of the Chinese Communist Party, is the latest journalist to incautiously out herself on Twitter as a dangerous radical who delegi...

  • July 28, 2021

    AOC now claims she thought she was going to be raped on 1/6

    As if fake-crying congressmen weeping into strategically prepositioned Kleenex during the 1/6 show trial were not sufficiently over the top, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez added a bizarre note yesterday.  Prompted by interviewer Da...

  • July 27, 2021

    Wisconsin takes a big step toward a forensic audit of the 2020 presidential election

    This should be good news for all the Democrat media people that are convinced the 2020 presidential election was the fairest ever and that any questioning of that position is a "Big Lie."  Wisconsin is another state that...

  • July 27, 2021

    Birth control for California female prisons as 'trans women' move in

    A reader emails: Wow. CA is just packed with genius. Here's another brilliant idea. Let male prisoners who "identify as female" to be housed with women in prison. Penny Starr reports for Breitbart: California Democrats are ...

  • July 25, 2021

    Fleebagger fail: Two fugitive Texas Dems return home while a third whines that Biden won’t meet with them

    Those 60 or so Texas Democrats that fled the Lone Star State to prevent passage of a voting integrity bill are looking for a way out of the disaster it has become.  It has backfired so badly that behind their self-congratulatory rhetoric they ob...

  • July 25, 2021

    Thousands protest harsh Covid lockdowns in Australia as police vow to identify and charge as many participants as possible

    Australian authorities are stringently pursuing the wrong policies to deal with the highly transmissible but less lethal COVID variants that are spreading, choosing severe lockdowns in the most populous states of New South Wales (capital: Sydney) and...

  • July 24, 2021

    NSA reportedly admits to 'unmasking' Tucker Carlson in intercepted communications

    Ever since Tucker Carlson first claimed on his June 28, 2021, broadcast that the NSA has been spying on him, he has been subjected to ridicule from his lower-rated cable news competitors on other agitprop media outlets, and a misleadin...

  • July 23, 2021

    Sweden’s no-lockdown Covid strategy vindicated

    Alone among the advanced countries of the world, Sweden followed the sensible policy for dealing with a highly transmissible virus with a 99% survival rate, dangerous mostly to easily identifiable groups – the elderly and those with co-morbidit...

  • July 22, 2021

    Biden drifts off answering a question during CNN's town hall with Don Lemon, appears to listen to earpiece to get out of incoherent ramble

    We've all seen this before, as has every leader of every country in the world.  A sitting president of the United States cannot put together a coherent answer to a simple question.  He pauses, appears puzzled, and then comes u...

  • July 22, 2021

    Judge slaps down exclusion of Larry Elder from California recall ballot

    Larry Elder now has the de facto endorsement of the state's Democrat establishment as the candidate they fear the most, thanks to California secretary of state Shirley Weber, appointed by Gavin Newsom in December.  Weber's...

  • July 22, 2021

    The real reason why Biden so often indulges in ice cream

    Are all those media items featuring Joe Biden eating ice cream not a diversion from the serious issues of the day, but rather a coded warning? Consider this explanation from the Alzheimer's Association Caregiver Tips & Tools: Ice...

  • July 16, 2021

    Chair of Congressional Black Caucus and 8 other 'insurrectionists' arrested trying to disrupt US Senate

    To the Orwellian agitprop media, some insurrectionists are more equal than other insurrectionists, so don't expect Congresswoman Joyce Beatty or any of her co-conspirators to spend a night in jail, much less face six months in solitary confinemen...

  • July 16, 2021

    Arizona state Senate hearing on audit underway reveals substantial evidence of electoral fraud in 2020 presidential vote

    Former President Trump put out a statement yesterday in response to the Arizona State Senate Hearing on the audit underway, declaring, "There was no victory for Biden." Mimi Nguyen Ly of the Epoch Times sums up the ev...

  • July 16, 2021

    Progs trying to bully Justice Breyer into retirement are repeating their mistakes with Ruth Bader Ginsburg

    Many progressives are so arrogant and out of touch with the basics of humanity that they think they can bully a justice of the Supreme Court of the United States into retirement.  Fanatically committed to their ideological goals, the presum...

  • July 15, 2021

    Boo hoo! Shepard Smith is tanking at CNBC after leaving Fox News

    Legions of the conservative viewers who made Fox News the number-one cable news channel celebrated when Shepard Smith departed its lineup in 2019.  According to the Daily Beast in 2019, he ditched his $15-million salary in the mid...

  • July 14, 2021

    Lightning strikes George Floyd memorial mural, collapses its brick wall, hilarity ensues

    For those who see the Hand of God in extraordinary natural phenomena, a lightning strike in Toledo, Ohio is being seen as divine retribution.  Others call it karma.  Witnesses reported that lightning struck a George Floyd memorial...

  • July 14, 2021

    Biden's nutty speech in Philadelphia capped by reference to notorious quote attributed to Stalin

    President Biden escalated his already inflammatory rhetoric over election integrity safeguards yesterday in a speech delivered in Philadelphia.  Having previously denounced basic measures such as requiring voter ID (an almost universal requ...

  • July 14, 2021

    Shocking report finds Navy far more interested in diversity than winning wars

    The signs are clear that the United States Navy is in crisis.  A series of ship disasters, including the scrapping of a three-quarter-billion-dollar carrier, The Bonhomme Richard, after a fire, and the fatal seaborne col...

  • July 11, 2021

    Definite sign of panic: Pennsylvania acting Secretary of State issues illegal orders to obstruct audit of 2020 election

    Yesterday, I wrote that it looks like Pennsylvania Dems are panicking over the audit of the 2020 election announced by State Senator Doug Mastriano, chair of the state senate’s  Intergovernmental Operations Committee. Two days after t...

  • July 10, 2021

    Looks like Dems are panicking over the planned forensic audit of the Pennsylvania 2020 presidential election

    See also: Definite sign of panic: Pennsylvania acting Secretary of State issues illegal orders to obstruct audit of 2020 election This is quite a coincidence: Two days after Pennsylvania state senator Doug Mastriano announced that the co...

  • July 10, 2021

    Devin Nunes trying to rescue California from insanity

    I can imagine our friends in the other 49 states muttering, "Lots of luck!" after reading the headline just above.  California is, as the old quip goes, "the land of fruits and nuts."  But with Gavin Newsom fac...

  • July 9, 2021

    Yesterday, Joe Biden had one of those 'bad days' that dementia patients get

    We all have good days and bad days, but for people undergoing cognitive decline, the bad days are both dangerous and noticeable to others.  It's a very tough thing to go through, both for the sufferer and for his relatives and loved one...

  • July 9, 2021

    It looks like Fusion GPS is panicking over being forced to disclose communications as Russiagate was being hatched

    The writer who calls himself Techno Fog has been following closely the libel lawsuit launched by Alfa Bank's owners against Fusion GPS over its accusations that the bank had engaged in "bribery, extortion, and interference in the 2016 U.S. P...

  • July 8, 2021

    The question is when, not if, Hunter Biden's laptop will bring down Joe Biden's presidency

    Thanks to a series of leaks from the hard drive of Hunter Biden's abandoned laptop computer, we know there is more than enough evidence to appoint a special counsel, or at least convene a grand jury to investigate bribery, tax fraud, and probably...

  • July 8, 2021

    Canada's churches burning as 'civil liberties' leader and other lefties cheer

    The same sort of anti-White racist, left-wing revolutionaries who have burned swaths of American cities are terrorizing parts of Canada with terroristic arson attacks.  But lacking any history of slavery or historic oppression of Blacks, th...

  • July 7, 2021

    Poll reveals that a solid majority of Americans, including almost a third of Democrats, believe Biden isn't calling the shots in his own presidency

    The electoral campaign implications of a new poll from the highly respected Trafalgar Group are enormous. Trafalgar posed the question: "Do you believe President Biden is fully executing the duties of his office?" Res...

  • July 6, 2021

    Lightfoot's Chicago led the nation in holiday weekend shootings; marksmanship, not so much

    Those pesky guns — that Lori Lightfoot blames for Chicago's extraordinary murder statistics — had a busy holiday weekend in the Windy City.  The Chicago Tribune laments: Nearly 90 people have been shot in Chic...

  • July 6, 2021

    President Dementia is getting worse

    Can we call it a national security crisis yet?  The stress that comes with the job of POTUS seems to be accelerating the cognitive decline of Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr. at a time when the world is becoming ominously more dangerous....

  • July 5, 2021

    #MeToo hysteria led to Cosby's being freed

    I think it is a shame that Bill Cosby is a free man and may even be able to sue for wrongful conviction.  But I blame the climate of hysteria that was engendered during the media-driven #MeToo craze for the errors of judgment by both the pr...

  • July 5, 2021

    Black Dems and NPR trashed the Declaration of Independence yesterday

    Our founding document, the Declaration of Independence, changed the world by establishing that human rights come from God, not courtesy of a ruler, and that justice requires governments operate with the consent of the governed.  That the na...

  • July 5, 2021

    Newsom and the Calif Dems may have outsmarted themselves by pushing up the recall election from November to September 14

    It required passing and signing a special law for Governor Gavin Newsom's recall election to be held on September 14, 2021, instead of in November, as had originally been planned.  That was no problem to accomplish, for Democrats completely ...

  • July 4, 2021

    Psaki’ s BS has gotten so blatant that even reporters from NYT, Bloomberg, Politico and NPR called her out Friday

    Last Friday saw something of a landmark, less than half a year after the Biden administration assumed office.  The level of gaslighting – proclaiming things that are the exact opposite of the truth, such as blaming Republicans for defundin...

  • July 4, 2021

    11 ‘heavily armed’ members of an extremist militia group arrested; media buries mention that they are Black

    Imagine if these people were White! It would be the top story all weekend, and you know it. But they are Black, so only in the 22nd paragraph of this New York Times article does the word “Black” appear. (source) First paragraph:...

  • July 4, 2021

    Threat of Chinese military aggression even more worrisome after CCP’s 100th anniversary celebration

    Donald Rumsfeld, whom we lost last week, warned us 15 years ago that “Weakness is provocative,” words that have ominous meaning as the Biden administration degrades military morale, cohesiveness, and readiness with exercises that prioriti...

  • July 1, 2021

    Ohio Dems disgrace themselves trying to keep males competing in girls’ sports

    Democrats have surrendered to their lunatic left faction on defunding the police and transgenderism.  It has begun to sink in that as crime explodes in big cities, weakening the police will cost them dearly in votes — so muc...

  • July 1, 2021

    NYC mayoral candidate Eric Adams sues over botched election count

    A genuine nightmare is brewing for Democrats, as the laughably incompetent administration of last week's primary election for mayor of New York City proves the need for election integrity measures being demanded by Republicans.  Yesterd...

  • June 30, 2021

    Biden can't even do brief remarks welcoming an ally without reading notecards

    A friend emailed me the less than five-minute video below of President Biden seated next to the president of Israel, Reuven Rivlin, welcoming him to the White House. She writes: Does anyone remember a time where the POTUS needed to read his b...

  • June 30, 2021

    NY mayor's race in 'chaos' as 135,000 extra votes show up

    Don't you dare question the integrity of the 2020 presidential election because Democrats can always be trusted to run fair, honest, and transparent elections.  That's the narrative, and you're expected to stick with it, even in...

  • June 30, 2021

    Federal judge tosses out a case because grand jury that handed down the indictment wasn’t 'diverse' enough

    Federal judge Analisa Torres, an Obama appointee, dismissed a shooting case against a reputed gang-banger because the grand jury that indicted him was drawn from a grand jury pool in White Plains with an "underrepresentation of Black and Latinx ...

  • June 30, 2021

    FBI lawyer who lied to judge on FISA warrant will be able to practice law again in August after zero jail time

    The Russiagate cover-up rolls merrily along, with the agitprop media almost completely ignoring a startling instance of the Deep State taking care of its own, even when they are caught red-handed committing grave felonies. Does the name Kevin Clin...

  • June 29, 2021

    Tucker Carlson says a leaker has revealed NSA spying on him, plotting to get him taken off the air

    If this pans out — and there is good reason to suspect it will — the deepest end of the Deep State will be caught breaking the law and interfering with what remains of the free press. Monday night's edition of Tucker Carlson T...

  • June 28, 2021

    Shocker: Lisbon court rules that only 0.9% of 'verified cases' attributed to COVID in Portugal actually died of it

    The campaign to scare the world into adopting unprecedented abridgments of civil liberties to fight a purported pandemic that threatened unthinkable levels of casualties had a lot of help from the officials charged with counting the death toll. ...

  • June 28, 2021

    University of California moves toward bullying hospitals into violating their religious, moral, and ethical codes

    Hospitals and individual physicians that refuse to commit abortion, assisted suicide, genital mutilation in the name of "sex change," and certain other practices seem to enrage those who have no ethical qualms about such practices. ...

  • June 27, 2021

    Debunking the scaremongering over the ‘delta variant’ of COVID

    Lots of powerful people want you to stay scared about COVID, even as the toll in terms of death and hospitalization continues to plummet in the United States and other advanced countries. Because viruses naturally evolve rapidly, they have a new vari...

  • June 27, 2021

    Mandatory vaccination for college students is a travesty

    Many, if not most, colleges and universities are requiring students to be vaccinated before resuming classes in the fall.  The two largest university systems in the country, California State University and the University of California, both have...

  • June 27, 2021

    Chicago Tribune downsizes their star columnist

    As the newspaper business collapses, even its stars – the kind of writers that people buy a newspaper specifically to read their work – are getting downsized. And it’s happened to John Kass, one of the best columnists in America, in...

  • June 26, 2021

    Maoist thought reform imposed on first January 6 defendant to be sentenced

    Anna Morgan-Lloyd, the 49-year-old grandmother from Indiana who strolled into the U.S. Capitol and spent several minutes peacefully walking around, got the same message that was delivered to Chinese dissidents and "bad elements" during Mao...

  • June 26, 2021

    Massive narrative fail by progressives on election integrity

    Nothing is more sacred to American progressives as an Absolute Truth than the contention that the 2020 presidential election was totally fair.  Any dissent is labeled as "the Big Lie," and saying it was corrupt makes you "des...

  • June 26, 2021

    Portland cops tell Antifa there's no need to riot, cause the guy we just killed was white

    So, please remind me again, which race is it that is so privileged?   Lee Brown writes in the New York Post: Antifa militants attacked police in Portland, Oregon, after news broke of a deadly police shooting — forcing the...

  • June 24, 2021

    Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman rattles Muslim clergy, challenges sources of sharia

    This is huge.  Those of us who have had hopes that Saudi Arabia can be transformed from a sponsor of hard-line jihad into a modernizing force in the Islamic world have cause for optimism. Remarks made by the real ruler of Saudi Arabia, C...

  • June 24, 2021

    In an effort to harm Tucker Carlson, NY Times columnist breaks journalistic ethics rule, outs confidential source

    Tucker Carlson is the left's "current Bogeyman No. 2, after Donald Trump," observes J. Peder Zane in a commentary at Real Clear Politics, and I think he is right.  Night after night, Carlson goes in depth uncovering hypoc...

  • June 24, 2021

    Socialist candidate defeats four-term incumbent mayor of Buffalo, NY in Dem primary

    In a primary election victory eerily reminiscent of the rise of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a self-identified socialist candidate is likely to be elected mayor of Buffalo, N.Y. after a low-turnout Democrat primary victory over an entrenched incumbent w...

  • June 24, 2021

    Hours after his extradition to US was approved, John McAfee found dead in his Spanish jail cell

    Move over, Jeffrey Epstein.  Another high-profile prisoner has been found dead in his jail cell before his trial, with authorities claiming suicide.  John McAfee, who wrote the first commercial anti-virus software, sold the compan...

  • June 22, 2021

    China weaponizing climate environmentalism against Australia

    The idea that China, the world's worst polluter, would embrace environmentalism, particularly global warming–based green obsessions, seems absurd on its face.  China's aggressive construction of coal-fired power plan...

  • June 21, 2021

    Biden, Trump, and the courts: Who's the 'lawless' one?

    Remember the early months of the Trump administration, when a series of court decisions hamstrung the president's ability to implement policies nationwide, often because a single federal district court judge ruled against them?  George ...

  • June 21, 2021

    More trouble for Kamala: Nina Simone's granddaughter accuses her of taking away the family's estate

    I wonder why this story is appearing now.  With Joe Biden's doddering performance at the G7 and pathetic inability to share a press conference with Putin, Kamala Harris looks even closer to occupying the Oval Office.  But her ...

  • June 20, 2021

    NYC progressives uniting behind a rich hypocrite for mayor

    The American left suddenly has a new “it girl” in New York City: mayoral candidate Maya Wiley.  She’s been endorsed by the once and future it girl, Sandy Cortez, and now she is “gaining in the polls” (Wall Street Jo...

  • June 20, 2021

    Iran elects a hardliner already under US sanctions as its new president

    Joe Biden’s appeasement of Iran is working out about as well as appeasement usually does.  The Biden administration has been reaching out to Iran by moving to reinstate the JCPOA nuclear deal that President Trump pulled out of, and by with...

  • June 20, 2021

    CNN dutifully ‘rubbing raw the sores of discontent’ in headline about Juneteenth becoming a national holiday

    One mark of a fanatic is the ability to create something negative out of something positive. That certainly marks the approach of CNN yesterday on its home page when noting that the federal government created a brand-new national holiday commemoratin...

  • June 20, 2021

    Evanston, Illinois holds ‘Pride’ and Juneteenth parades but cancels parade for Fourth of July

    Contempt for this country has been spreading from academia, where it first gained a foothold during the Vietnam War, to infect the commanding heights of our institutions. The cities and towns that hist the most prestigious colleges and universities a...

  • June 20, 2021

    NYC prosecutors dropping hundreds of cases against looters

    I am so old that I remember when National Guard troops were authorized to shoot looters on sight following natural disasters. The understanding back then was that if allowed to spread, looting was a mortal threat to the health of communities. Things ...

  • June 19, 2021

    Two maps that will infuriate progs and demonstrate the foundational wisdom of federalism

    Don Surber posted an amazing pair of maps yesterday, showing the way that federalism is working to enable citizens to defend themselves with firearms.  While the federal Constitution guarantees the right to bear arms, states regulate firear...

  • June 19, 2021

    It's on: Trump endorses Alaska senator Murkowski's primary opponent Kelly Tshibaka

    When Senator Lisa Murkowski voted to convict President Trump on impeachment charges late in his term of office, she guaranteed that he would campaign against her receiving the GOP nomination for her 2022 re-election campaign.  In March, he...

  • June 18, 2021

    Condemning our faithful translators in Afghanistan to horrible deaths

    The people who bravely allied themselves with American efforts to lift Afghanistan out of medieval theocracy — estimated to be 170–180,000 in number — are about to learn that trusting America was a bad bet.  Many will be c...

  • June 18, 2021

    Entire Portland Police riot squad resigns to protest indictment of fellow officer

    The entire Portland Police Bureau Rapid Response Team (AKA, the "riot squad") resigned Wednesday night, protesting the indictment of one of their members for pushing with his department-issued baton a rioter who was also acting as a ph...

  • June 18, 2021

    Must-see TV: Black medical professional denounces CRT at school board meeting

    Critical Race Theory opponents are the new Tea Party, a grassroots phenomenon all over the country, mobilizing both activists and people with a political background at all to oppose the teaching of race hatred.  There is nothing quite as po...

  • June 18, 2021

    Schadenfreude overload: MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace suffers 80% ratings decline in the key demographic

    I have despised Nicolle Wallace ever since I learned of the ways she sabotaged the vice presidential run of Sarah Palin, whom she was supposedly helping run for national office.  In my book, she is a vile snake.  Since then, she h...

  • June 17, 2021

    Progressives betray their panic over grassroots campaign to elect school boards to stop CRT

    The public does not like Critical Race Theory (CRT) now that details of what is being brainwashed into our children have started to leak out. A majority, at 58%, expressed an unfavorable view of critical race theory, while 38% expresse...

  • June 17, 2021

    Biden started to lose the traveling media on his European trip

    The White House press corps desperately wants to love Joe Biden, simply because he is not Donald Trump.  But the stresses and strains of traveling with an addled figurehead, with a bad temper and a need for "lids" that keep the me...

  • June 16, 2021

    Trump announces a visit to the border, cornering Biden and Harris in a no-win situation

    Donald Trump demonstrated his mastery of two vital political skills yesterday: strategy and showmanship.  By accepting Texas governor Greg Abbott's invitation to visit the border with him, the day after Abbott announced that Texas would...

  • June 16, 2021

    Will Trump run in 2024? A fascinating clue from Don Jr.

    If Donald Trump decides to run for president again in 2024, there is little doubt that the GOP nomination is his for the taking.  His support among the party faithful is so overwhelming that it is impossible to see anyone else winning prima...

  • June 15, 2021

    The gigantic cost of the COVID lockdowns: Air Force pilot training edition

    Here is a COVID death that should be blamed on the lockdown that caused it.  Russ Niles reports for Avweb.com: The death of a new Air Force F-16 pilot in a 2020 landing accident at Shaw Air Force Base has prompted major changes in...

  • June 15, 2021

    Mandatory body cameras for teachers, not just cops!

    Thanks to Don Surber, I learned of a proposal from the Nevada Family Alliance to require teachers at government schools to wear body cameras. If this does not strike you immediately as absolutely necessary, take a look at this recording made by a stu...

  • June 14, 2021

    Stunning video reveals Daszak and WHO lied when claiming no bats in the Wuhan Lab

    The cover-up of the probability that COVID-19 was deliberately created in the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) has had profound consequences for the entire world, preventing early detection and countermeasures, as well as derailing informed research...

  • June 14, 2021

    Andrew McCabe looks awfully nervous about Durham

    Most conservatives I know have all but given up on the hope that the special counsel investigation underway by John Durham will ever result in prosecution of the miscreants who used the intelligence apparatus to spy on the Trump administration under ...

  • June 14, 2021

    G-7 members laugh at Biden as he insists on introducing a guest who already was introduced

    Yesterday, at the G-7 meeting, President Biden said twice in a row, "America is back at the table," in an unsubtle dig at President Trump.  He forgot to add that the other people at the table were laughing at him. Dementia...

  • June 14, 2021

    How much money did Peter Daszak's nonprofit get paid for laundering a federal grant for gain of function research in Wuhan?

    Even though Dr. Anthony Fauci vehemently denies that any federal money was paid to the Wuhan Institute of Virology for gain of function research, Senator Rand Paul accuses him of lying and has hard evidence: "There's a fa...

  • June 13, 2021

    Playing Sherlock Holmes on COVID

    After more than a year of dismissal, mockery, and outright suppression by parties some of whom have obvious conflicts of interest, the theory that COVID-19 was intentionally created in a lab is now ascendant. The possibility that its creation was sec...

  • June 12, 2021

    BLM infighting escalates over demands for 'accountability' and 'transparency'

    Black Lives Matter is disintegrating into squabbling over money, even though it won't frankly admit the base motivation behind the fights that have erupted and escalated yesterday.  Democrats always project their own plans and valu...

  • June 12, 2021

    Capitol Attending Physician lifts mandate for masks on House floor for vaccinated members

    Is mask theatre on the floor of the House of Representatives near the end of Act Three?  The Attending Physician of the United States Congress, Brian Monahan, now says so.  His post was established in 1928 "to meet the medica...

  • June 12, 2021

    AG Merrick Garland threatens 2020 ballot audits

    It sure looks like a lot of people are very nervous about the audits of ballots cast in the 2020 presidential election.  Yesterday, the attorney general of the United States, Merrick Garland, announced that the DOJ is "applying scrutin...

  • June 10, 2021

    A lesson from leftists on how to stop Critical Race Theory

    The left dominates education at all levels in the United States, a victory that took decades to accomplish, and which now threatens to propel us into some kind of dystopian, neo-Soviet future.  In that kind of society, all-powerful bureaucr...

  • June 10, 2021

    The real targets of lefty street thugs like BLM and Antifa

    There are a lot of seeming contradictions in the street violence widely employed by the left.  Rioters destroy their own neighborhoods.  Look at Detroit, where the riots that started in 1967 have now devastated what was once one o...

  • June 7, 2021

    Calif's Governor Newsom reneges on promise to give up his emergency powers on June 15

    Governor Gavin Newsom of California does not want to give up the near-dictatorial powers he took in the name of fighting COVID-19, even though California has one of the highest rates of adult vaccination in the nation and has the lowest rate of ...

  • June 7, 2021

    Repulsive Brian Williams dishonors D-Day veterans by comparing them to Antifa (courtesy of the Lincoln Project)

    I am almost speechless.  Are there any entities in the realm of politics more disreputable than serial fabulist Brian Williams and the pedophile-harboring Lincoln Project? Closing his June 6 MSNBC broadcast, Brian Williams broadcast a Li...

  • June 7, 2021

    Virologist who warned Fauci COVID 'potentially engineered' (and then did a 180) has now deleted 5,000 tweets

    Kristian Andersen is a Scripps Institute virologist on a first-name basis with Dr. Anthony Fauci.  So his January 31, 2020 email to the good doctor stating that some of the features of the COVID-19 virus "(potentially) look engineered...

  • June 6, 2021

    Shock GOP victory as border city McAllen, TX flips mayor’s office

    Democrat dreams of flipping Texas blue took a body blow yesterday in a runoff election for mayor in the bluest part of the red state. McAllen, Texas, a border city whose population of over 143,000 is 85.3% Hispanic, handed victory to the Republican c...

  • June 6, 2021

    Why was Mark Zuckerberg’s ‘even bigger deal’ offer to Fauci redacted from the FOIA emails just released?

    Dr. Dale Brown raised an interesting question on Twitter about a curious redaction from the emails of Dr. Fauci that were released last week.  On March 15, 2020, the mega-rich founder of Facebook sent a fawning email to Fauci, thanking him for h...

  • June 5, 2021

    Barf alert! Hagiography on steroids in 45-second video promo for Fauci documentary by NatGeo

    Now that we know from his own emails that Dr. Fauci lied to us repeatedly, will National Geographic go ahead and release its planned documentary film on him?  Sales apparently have been suspended by publisher National Geographic for the pla...

  • June 4, 2021

    EPA says it will declare a desert flower an 'endangered species' that could halt a mine necessary for electric vehicle batteries

    The idiotic and expensive plans to force electric vehicles down the throats of drivers have run into an obstacle created by a law that environmentalists demanded.  You can't have electric vehicles without lithium ion batteries, and you ...

  • June 4, 2021

    Is Fauci a fall guy?

    Sundance of The Last Refuge[i] looks into something that also puzzled me: why were multiple FOIA requests for the emails of Dr. Anthony Fauci all released at the same time, and why now?  Using his time-tested technique of constructing timel...

  • June 3, 2021

    Amazon deep-sixes pre-publication sales of Fauci's new book

    On Tuesday, I noted that Dr. Fauci was publishing an 80-page book in November, just in time for the Christmas giving season, so that all his fans out there in Blue America could turn from reading the New York Times and Washington Post, turn...

  • June 3, 2021

    Tucker Carlson's devastating analysis of Fauci emails leads to call for 'criminal investigation'

    As analysts pore through the thousands of pages of Fauci emails released under FOIA, we are getting a better handle on his efforts to prevent exposure of his own role in funding gain of function research in the Wuhan lab where it appears COVID-19 was...

  • June 3, 2021

    AOC steps on a rake trying to score points against Trump using her grandmother in Puerto Rico as an example

    Socialist leaders love to get rich while spending other people's money.  Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez thought she had a real zinger of a point to use against former President Trump, blaming him for her grandmother's plight in Puert...

  • June 2, 2021

    Dems' court-packing threats may be backfiring

    Jonathan Turley, one of the last honest and principled liberals in the public arena, suggests that the Democrats' threats to bully the justices are backfiring and that the Court is sending strong warning signals to them.  In a post...

  • June 2, 2021

    Thousands of pages of Fauci emails released

    The public now has access to thousands of pages of official digital correspondence of Dr. Anthony Fauci that were obtained by BuzzFeed through a FOIA lawsuit and the Washington Post via a FOIA request.  Naturally, it will take some time to ...

  • June 2, 2021

    Biden stupidly tried to bully Sens. Manchin and Sinema with yet another big lie in Tulsa

    See also: Biden’s Big Lies in Tulsa See also: Dems’ court-packing threats may be backfiring I was utterly disgusted yesterday watching President Biden speak in Tulsa on the solemn occasion of the 100th anniversary of race riots ther...

  • June 2, 2021

    Google's head of diversity strategy: Jews have an 'insatiable appetite for war'

    Alana Goodman of The Washington Free Beacon has uncovered a revealing blog entry dating from 2007, posted by Kamau Bobb, who currently serves as Google's head of diversity strategy.  At the time, Goodman writes, Mr. Bobb was ...

  • June 1, 2021

    Fauci cashing in with book to be published in November

    Even a slender volume (80 pages) can make millions of dollars for the man who has become a cult figure to Trump-haters when sold for 18 bucks a copy.  The National Pulse reports, and Amazon confirms that Dr. Anthony Fauci wil...

  • June 1, 2021

    China's Xi may be screwing up as badly as Biden, maybe even worse

    Many fatalists see America in decline and China ascendant.  China's dictator, Xi Jinping, agrees in public.  But beneath the shiny new infrastructure, the amazing economic growth and competitiveness, China faces a reckoning, j...

  • May 31, 2021

    American Airlines: No more booze sales onboard until mask mandate ends (except in business and first class)

    Listen up, proles: your failure to unquestioningly obey the useless mask mandate is going to cost you.  The surge in passenger misbehavior on airlines, partially attributable to mask mandate resistance, is ending steerag...

  • May 31, 2021

    Facebook protects pro-Palestinian porn star from criticism, then reverses itself

    It all started with a Twitter post by a woman who calls herself Mia Khalifa, which I suspect is a pseudonym since it is the name she used when starring in pornographic videos, where stage names are the norm.  You can see a collection o...

  • May 29, 2021

    Number of COVID cases in Delhi crashes after mass distribution of ivermectin

    India has been suffering horrendously from COVID of late, and the complete death toll may never be known. But in the capital city of Delhi, mass distribution of ivermectin began and the results have been stunning.  Stephen McIntyre of Climate...

  • May 29, 2021

    Iowa City roiled as neighbors protest armed security guard at convenience store/gas station in Black neighborhood

    It seems to me that a controversy in Iowa City, Iowa illustrates Instapundit Glenn Reynolds's dictum that the demand for racism vastly exceeds the supply in present-day America.  At issue is not another hate crime hoax, but rather a pro...

  • May 28, 2021

    BLM founder Patrisse Cullors resigns

    The woman who sits atop 60 million dollars worth of donated funds, after the unexplained departure of her ostensibly charitable organization's co-founders, failing to file legally required financial disclosures, and buying a multi-million-dollar ...

  • May 28, 2021

    Rutgers University chancellor and provost apologize for condemning rise in anti-Semitic attacks

    Apparently, higher education in America has been so poisoned by the radical left that condemning a rise in physical attacks on innocent American Jews is now forbidden — unless one simultaneously indicates support for the very cause being advoca...

  • May 27, 2021

    Schadenfreude overload: NY Times COVID beat reporter discredits her own coverage and then deletes smoking-gun tweet

    Twitter may have devolved into a left-wing propaganda organ, but it still has value as a medium for leftists to discredit themselves with hasty expressions of their real thoughts and feelings.  Particularly for journalists accustomed to rel...

  • May 27, 2021

    AOC reveals she's in therapy and then insults combat veterans by comparing serving in Congress on 1/6 to having effectively 'served in war'

    Something is deeply wrong with the mind of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Toni Williams, writing at Victory Girls, has her number: AOC has proven to be emotionally fragile and uses that fragility as a politically manipulative tactic...

  • May 26, 2021

    Judge orders Calif gov Newsom to pay $1.35 million for illegally locking down church

    I am pretty certain that California taxpayers will have to cough up the money to pay for Gavin Newsom's misbehavior, even as cop-haters press to make police officers personally liable for judgments against their actions on the job....

  • May 26, 2021

    Biden's unprecedented purge of federal advisory boards accelerates as he moves to ensure new federal buildings will be ugly modernist monstrosities

    The Biden administration wants to force taxpayers to continue to pay for ugly, unpopular federal buildings and is resorting to possibly illegal demands for resignations-or-be-fired from a federal advisory board more than a century old.   ...

  • May 25, 2021

    Did Nancy Pelosi defraud contributors with a false promise to match their donations?

    Axios reports a scoop: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's campaign committee has repeatedly promised her donors she would personally match their financial contributions, but as of the last reporting period she hadn't provided a dime of he...

  • May 24, 2021

    EPA puts inconvenient data on 1930s drought and heat wave down the memory hole

    Scaring the public into supporting the economy-wrecking Green Bad Deal is easier if we hide the data on previous periods of rising temperatures. And that is what has been done by our very own EPA, as Larry Hamlin documents at Watts Up With That: ...

  • May 24, 2021

    Tesla opts for gasoline-powered vehicles for roadside service for its cars in Australia

    When you absolutely, positively have to get there (and back) way out in the outback... They've got a lot of wide-open space Down Under, places where you can drive a long, long way before you encounter much in the way of human settlement, inclu...

  • May 24, 2021

    George Papadopoulos: 'I put my reputation on the line' that Durham will expose 'conspiracy' by Obama admin

    Over the weekend, George Papadopoulos offered a ray of hope to those of us who have just about given up on any justice being administered to the conspirators who manufactured the Russia Hoax and attempted to throw the 2016 election to Hillary Clinton...

  • May 24, 2021

    The curious case of the BLM-loving Capitol riot provocateur who was paid $35K each by CNN and NBC

    Well, this isn't going to help the corporate media narrative that "insurrectionists" inspired by President Trump's rhetoric tried to overthrow democracy at the Capitol.  Yesterday on ABC's This Week, George W...

  • May 23, 2021

    Covid’s origins and the systemic corruption of science

    For more than a year, honest and impartial scientific exploration of the origins of the Covid-19 virus has been blocked, with consideration of the possibility that it was engineered in the Wuhan Institute of Virology virtually suppressed, mocked as a...

  • May 23, 2021

    Former GOP House Speakers Ryan and Boehner raising money for members of the House 35 that voted for Jan. 6 kangaroo court inquiry

    Why has the leadership of the GOP so often disappointed the party’s conservative, Trump-supporting base? Not since Newt Gingrich have the House Republicans been led by a Speaker worthy of his supporters’ trust. The conservative Trump-supp...

  • May 22, 2021

    Epstein jail guards get plea deal: No jail, 100 hours of community service

    If there was a conspiracy to assassinate a man who knew compromising information about the power elite, two of the lowest-level conspirators are getting away with no jail time.  The two prison guards who allowed Jeffrey Epstein to die with ...

  • May 21, 2021

    Former FBI director Freeh gave $100K to a trust for VP Biden's grandkids in 2016 while exploring 'future work options'

    Take it from the New York Times and Washington Post: nothing to see here, move along.  Definitely not a bribe. Emails recovered from Hunter Biden's abandoned laptop reveal that while Joe Biden was vice president, a trust for his gran...

  • May 21, 2021

    Biden admin demands resignation, threatens to fire Michael Savage from board of Presidio Trust

    In March 2020 President Trump appointed talk show host and bestselling author Michael Savage (legal name: Michael Weiner) to the board of directors of the Presidio Trust, which administers the 1,500-acre park along the shore of San Francisco Bay, inc...

  • May 21, 2021

    PBS children's show broadcast drag queen reading from his book, teaching kids to 'experience the magic of drag'

    Why are taxpayers funding broadcasts encouraging young children to question their sexual identities?  According to a report from the Daily Caller News Foundation, taxpayer-supported PBS partnered with taxpayer-supported WNET and the ta...

  • May 20, 2021

    New book alleges Jill Biden said about Kamala Harris, 'Go f--- yourself'

    The uneasy relationship between Jill Biden and Kamala Harris just got harder to paper over.  The obviously ghoulish expectation that V.P. Harris will succeed her doddering husband without the benefit of an election and the signs of reb...

  • May 20, 2021

    Chicago's Mayor Lightfoot proclaims open discrimination against white journalists

    Lori Lightfoot is even stupider than I had thought.  She has sparked a well-deserved uproar by letting local reporters know she will grant one-on-one interviews only to "Black and Brown journalists."  The open and blatan...

  • May 20, 2021

    University of North Carolina Trustees do their job and save school from granting tenure to Nikole Hannah-Jones of the 1619 Project

    The people of North Carolina dodged a bullet when the Trustees of the University of North Carolina acted to deny a grant of tenure to Nikole Hannah-Jones at the University's Hussman School of Journalism and Media, leaving in place a five-year con...

  • May 19, 2021

    Fauci admits wearing mask after vax is theatrical even though he denied it under oath in March

    Dr. Anthony Fauci ought to be the punch line of many jokes by now, and if he were a Trump loyalist, he would be.  Only because the corporate media refuse to mock him can he appear in public without catcalls and derision as his lot in life. ...

  • May 19, 2021

    Wow! Top Chinese academic gloats China won the 'biological war' of 2020

    A startling admission that China is fighting a "biological war" with the U.S. comes from a video made by a top Chinese academic, trying to persuade the Chinese people that U.S.'s day is over, that our system is outmoded and unsuccessful...

  • May 19, 2021

    Biden jokes about running over a reporter who asked about Israel as press gaggle giggles

    It's another one of those situations in which the same behavior by President Trump would have led to calls for his impeachment. During an unscheduled visit to Ford's Dearborn test track, President Biden got behind the wheel of an electric...

  • May 19, 2021

    Jeffrey Epstein took Bill Gates to meet the head of Norway's Nobel Committee that awards the Peace Prize

    What sort of goals would make it worthwhile to hang out with a convicted child sex offender if you are a megalomaniac billionaire?  The curious case of the relationship between Jeffrey Epstein and Bill Gates just got curiouser.  A...

  • May 17, 2021

    Dems don't have the votes to pass Biden 'infrastructure' budget even using reconciliation

    If Senator John Barrasso's vote-counting skills are accurate, the nation may be spared the extra inflation caused by the trillions of dollars the Dems and President Biden's handlers want to spend on welfare, calling it "infrastructure....

  • May 17, 2021

    Liz Cheney savagely mocked by SNL's Kate McKinnon

    If Liz Cheney thought attacking Donald Trump would earn her respect or affection from the left, she was sadly mistaken.  She may end up with a gig at MSNBC as an "analyst," but they will never love her as one of her own. ...

  • May 17, 2021

    UAE reportedly tells Hamas that infrastructure projects in Gaza won't be funded unless 'calm' returns

    According to reporting done by the Hebrew-language Israeli business daily Globes, the Abraham Accords continue to pay dividends, even in the face of Biden administration sabotage.  The Times of Israel has published English-la...

  • May 16, 2021

    Media reports: Biden will name Rahm Emanuel as ambassador to Japan

    According to multiple media reports, Joe Biden’s handlers have chosen the most abrasive, short-tempered, and foul-mouthed politician in America to serve as envoy to Japan, a country where subtlety, indirection, and discretion are prized above a...

  • May 16, 2021

    Desperate Don Lemon 'apologizes' after teasing ‘end’ of his show in duplicitous publicity stunt

    Is planting misleading innuendo about oneself a good tool to sell the services of an information provider? In what other product category does one openly debase the quality as a means of gathering attention? Tucker Carlson, whose viewership is mor...

  • May 15, 2021

    New York Times reports on Biden's nasty temper ('short fuse') and dithering over decisions

    I've always thought that Joe Biden's smile conceals a nasty man.  His behavior during the presidential campaign revealed a man who doesn't like being contradicted and lashes out at those with lesser power and status than he enjo...

  • May 15, 2021

    Oops! Wisconsin Dems delete embarrassing video

    We got an entertaining look into the minds of Democrat leaders in Wisconsin last week.  They are so wrapped up in the propaganda vision of Biden's policies that they actually made and posted a video of Wisconsinites (60% of them racial ...

  • May 15, 2021

    White House econ adviser publicly humiliates herself making excuses for the horrible April jobs report

    If you are going to make up silly excuses for Biden's economic disaster, it's better to have them consistent with the realities of the calendar. The jobs report for April was a disaster — for America, of course, but for the Biden adm...

  • May 15, 2021

    Fauci says that only 'a little bit more than half' of his employees are vaccinated for COVID

    As the public faces escalating demands that we become test subjects for an experimental "vaccine," and "vaccine passports" loom as a method of denying rights to those who decline, it turns out that employees at Dr. Fauci's uni...

  • May 14, 2021

    Critical race theory on trial with school board recall election in Loudoun County, Virginia

    At long last, the wretched state of public (i.e., government-run) schools is a campaign issue, with the public mobilized in protest over the closing of schools and the imposition of racist indoctrination in the name of Critical Race Theory. ...

  • May 13, 2021

    International Energy Agency report shows that green energy transition is a fantasy because of dependence on key rare minerals

    A prestigious intergovernmental organization created by the world’s advanced economies is pointing out the bottleneck in the plans to substitute so-called green energy for hydrocarbon-based energy: the availability of key minerals necessary for...

  • May 12, 2021

    Energy secretary Granholm just can't suppress her smiles over the gasoline shortages from the Colonial Pipeline shutdown

    Jennifer Granholm sure doesn't look too upset over the impact of the shutdown of the Colonial Pipeline on gasoline and other energy supplies.  The national security issues?  Fuhgeddaboudit.  Don't you realize it...

  • May 11, 2021

    Tucker Carlson attacks St. Fauci's role in the genesis of the COVID pandemic

    "More than any other single living American, Tony Fauci is responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic." With these bold words, the most popular commentator on cable news threw down the gauntlet on a man all but sainted by ...

  • May 11, 2021

    Networks and studios form virtue-signaling posse against sponsor of Golden Globes

    Cheap virtue-signaling is the name of the game right now in Hollywood.  Citing corruption and a lack of "diversity," NBC has canceled its plans to telecast the Golden Globes ceremony next year.  (Purely coincid...

  • May 11, 2021

    Scientific paper debunking mask mandate skeptics debunks itself

    A scholarly paper written by five people, four of them from MIT, one from Wellesley College, takes a skeptical look at skeptics of the mask mandates and has a hard time condemning them as much as the authors clearly want to.  Neve...

  • May 11, 2021

    Politico: 'Reporters fume' at heavy-handed Biden administration news management

    Despite the slavish devotion of much of the media, the Biden administration is generating resistance from reporters who cover it.  Politico's West Wing Playbook reports: If you've read a quote from an administration o...

  • May 10, 2021

    Illinois House passes bill radically expanding scope of affirmative action, renaming it 'positive action'

    A bill that has already passed the Illinois state House of Representatives and awaits a state Senate vote would grant preferences in hiring and promotion to people with "any characteristic whatsoever that might disadvantage somebody, regardless ...

  • May 10, 2021

    Biden's already wrecked much of the Middle East progress Trump made

    Surveying the damage already inflicted on the Middle East Peace achievements of the Trump administration in just over 100 days of the Biden presidency, Caroline Glick calls that region "A Powder Keg, Courtesy of Washington."  The ...

  • May 10, 2021

    SecState Blinken defends a free press — without a trace of irony

    Glenn Greenwald properly ridicules secretary of state Anthony Blinken for sermonizing last Thursday on "World Press Freedom Day," using Radio Free Europe as his megaphone.  But his critique could be extended considerably. ...

  • May 10, 2021

    Panels shatter on Chinese glass-bottom pedestrian suspension bridge, leaving tourist dangling 330 ft high

    It was one of those "dare you to try it" tourist attractions that seem to be popping up in China.  Now there is at least one man who must wish he had never accepted the dare to cross a glass-bottomed suspe...

  • May 10, 2021

    Genius award winner sets himself on fire while burning an Israeli flag

    It was supposed to be another fun-filled Quds Day celebration, the last Friday of Ramadan — May 7 this year — the day on which Israel-hating Muslims demonstrate to protest Zionism and the fact that Israel's first capital cit...

  • May 9, 2021

    A college so crippled by going woke that all 3 candidates to be its new president withdrew their applications

    It’s one thing for students to shun applying to colleges that disgrace themselves with wokeness excesses: it’s quite another when applicants to run the campus all bow out.   The ideology of wokeness that now is in command at virtu...

  • May 8, 2021

    Another sign Dems fear Ron DeSantis as a presidential contender

    Politico's Playbook is a daily feature, sent by email to a large list of subscribers, heavily concentrated among professional political insiders.  Companies "sponsor" it — reportedly costing $60,000 a week in 2018 ...

  • May 8, 2021

    New Census data raise serious questions about 2020 election fraud

    According to a website called The Election Wizard, newly released Census data contains an "anomaly" when it comes to squaring it with the reported electoral results: US Census data released last week called into question the offic...

  • May 7, 2021

    Cancelers canceled at Simon & Schuster

    A small sign that cancel culture may have peaked, at least in book publishing, is worth noting.  The president of Simon & Schuster, Jonathan Karp, has announced that his firm will ignore a petition from its staff (reportedly, ...

  • May 7, 2021

    Biden's proclamation of National Day of Prayer omits the word 'God'

    When the Biden presidency does something odd, it is impossible to read the event the same way the actions of previous presidents could be examined.  We never know if a doddering mediocrity has once again misspoken or if some nameless handle...

  • May 7, 2021

    Biden picks diversity maven to oversee largest funder of the physical sciences in the US

    Heather Mac Donald warns us that the quality of scientific research in the United States is in peril, in a must-read essay titled "Diversity Over Discovery," with the subtitle "Biden's war on merit puts America's scie...

  • May 7, 2021

    China is seeking an Atlantic port for major naval base

    The day is coming when China's navy, already the largest in the world by number of ships, will be patrolling the Atlantic Ocean, its missile-carrying submarines able to be offshore of any power it wishes to target and its hunter-killer ...

  • May 6, 2021

    Biden's restaurant rescue plan blatantly discriminates against White males

    White males go to the back of the line in applying for funds to rescue their bars, restaurants, and other venues eligible for federal relief for the impact of the coronavirus lockdown.  This violates the equal protection under the law requi...

  • May 6, 2021

    Facebook's 'oversight' board that muzzled Trump is 75% composed of foreign nationals

    How is it that foreign nationals are in a position to prevent any American political figures, up to and including a former president, from communicating with fellow Americans?  Yet the mysterious semi-independent "Oversight" ...

  • May 6, 2021

    Peer-reviewed study finds that ivermectin is effective as prophylaxis for COVID-19 and as a therapeutic remedy

    I expect that the corporate media will ignore as much as possible the findings of a peer-reviewed study just published in the American Journal of Therapeutics that concludes that the readily available, inexpensive (off-patent) dru...

  • May 5, 2021

    Chauvin's attorney files motion for a new trial, doesn't include BLM shirt–wearing juror as a reason

    The attorney for Derek Chauvin, Eric Nelson, has filed motions for a new trial and for a hearing to impeach the verdict based on jury misconduct (a so-called Schwartz Hearing under Minnesota law).  Nearly a dozen bases a...

  • May 5, 2021

    WaPo engages in repulsive puffery on Al Sharpton

    My guess is that Jeff Bezos does not want Al Sharpton rallying support for unionization of his workforce, which now numbers well over a million souls.  A buck-an-hour increase for that many people really adds up fast. Maybe that exp...

  • May 4, 2021

    Chauvin juror wore BLM shirt in 2020, now says people should join juries 'to spark some change'

    The impartiality of one of the jurors who convicted Derek Chauvin on all charges now is highly questionable, thanks to the discovery of a (now deleted) tweet from August last year and his own words in an interview one week ago, April 27.  I...

  • May 4, 2021

    Man removed from airliner for not putting his mask back on between bites of candy

    Apparently, the federal government, via the TSA, is requiring airline passengers to put face masks back on between bites (and sips of beverage) while on airplanes.  This story from WJZ TV in Baltimore tells the tale of a passenger...

  • May 4, 2021

    The least self-aware governor in America warns unvaccinated young about 'killing your grandmother'

    Is New York’s Governor Andrew Cuomo haunted by a guilty conscience?  Are dead elders populating his dreams? The man who killed thousands of elders in care facilities by sending COVID-infected patients back into their midst has no b...

  • May 3, 2021

    Austin, TX voters overwhelmingly reject propositions pushed by progressives

    There are signs that the left has created a backlash by overplaying its hand.  Even in a stronghold of the left like Austin, Texas, where in 2019 homeless people were allowed to erect their tents on city-owned land, including parks and side...

  • May 3, 2021

    NY judges clash over releasing accused perp of wave of attacks on synagogues under 'bail reform' law

    A man accused of a wave of terror against Jewish institutions is walking the streets of New York again without putting up any bail money, even after one judge demanded a $20,000 bail or $30,000 security bond.  In a startling pair of judicia...

  • May 3, 2021

    Calif governor candidate Caitlyn Jenner comes out against biological males competing in girls’ sports

    The campaign to recall and replace California's Governor Gavin Newsom just got even more interesting.  Caitlyn Jenner, the male now granted status as a woman under California law who is running to replace him, has just come out str...

  • May 3, 2021

    China building its own permanent space station using launch technique generating massive space junk that will crash to earth

    Stand by for twenty-two-and-a-half metric tons of space junk uncontrollably falling to earth, potentially striking a city with tons of metal traveling at terminal velocity. It will happen soon and will be followed by other similar crashes as China co...

  • May 2, 2021

    WaPo and NYT forced to make ‘big retraction’ in reporting on Giuliani subpoena

    In their efforts to castigate Rudy Giuliani in their reporting on the search warrant raids on his apartment and office, the Washington Post and New York Times put out what the social media censors like to call “harmful misinformation” (th...

  • May 2, 2021

    Boos and catcalls greet Mitt Romney as he attempts to speak to Utah GOP convention

    Based on the reaction he received as he spoke to the GOP convention in Utah, it looks like Mitt Romney has exhausted the reservoir of goodwill he enjoyed thanks to his saving of the 2002 Winter Olympics from financial disaster. I always assumed that ...

  • May 1, 2021

    Whom is Joe Biden worried about being 'in trouble' with?

    The speech President Biden gave to a couple hundred solons acting as a "joint session of Congress" apparently sapped his energy enough to cause some embarrassing moments for the man playing the part of Leader of the Free World...for the nex...

  • April 30, 2021

    Rudy Giuliani responds to FBI search warrant raid and goes on the offensive

    The highly publicized early-morning raid on the apartment and office of Rudy Giuliani, the personal lawyer of the 45th president of the United States, was an outrage.  Thanks to a 10+minute interview last night on Tucker Carlson Tonight, th...

  • April 30, 2021

    Wow! Ben Domenech humiliates Chris Wallace on air for his Biden speech puffery

    I confess that like most Americans, I had no interest in watching Joe Biden's non–State of the Union address to a mostly empty House chamber hosting a joint session of Congress.  That's why I missed a golden moment during the ...

  • April 29, 2021

    School board cancels meeting as parents demand end to masks for kids; parents cite Robert's Rules of Order and elect a new school board

    Parental dissatisfaction with government schools is escalating as absurd masking requirements for the least vulnerable segment of society, children, continue to be imposed by educrats and their elected supervisors. After Arizona governor...

  • April 28, 2021

    Caught helping Stacey Abrams hide encouragement for Georgia losing the All-Star Game, USA Today’s publisher Gannett apologizes

    The largest publisher of newspapers in the United States by total circulation has been caught red-handed engaging in Orwellian rewriting of history to help Stacey Abrams hide her promotion of the boycott of her home state of Georgia by the MLB all-St...

  • April 28, 2021

    Official documents reveal officials colluded with a PR firm working for the Biden campaign pressuring social media to suppress posts

    Forget about those claims that Big Tech has every right to censor political information on their platforms because they are private firms. That’s not true when these companies operate as “state actors” working in collusion with or a...

  • April 27, 2021

    Kamala's Kinsley gaffe on border policy

    On whose behalf does Kamala Harris work?  She seems to have unintentionally provided the answer yesterday. Liberal pundit Michael Kinsley gained a degree of immortality when he wrote,  "A gaffe is when a politician tells t...

  • April 26, 2021

    Atlanta dethroned as world's busiest airport

    COVID-19 has brought an end to Atlanta's crown as the world's busiest airport in terms of passenger traffic. And it was not Chicago O'Hare or Dubai, its previous closest challengers, but Guangzhou Baiyun Airport that is now number one. ...

  • April 26, 2021

    Man who ran across field during Chicago White Sox game held on higher bail than people charged with illegal gun possession

    I am almost speechless, so I am quoting CWBChicago, essential reading for all who care about the unraveling of civil society in the Second City: A suburban man who's accused of running onto the field during a White Sox game Friday eveni...

  • April 26, 2021

    Dem state rep threatens troopers during drunk driving arrest, wants 'IDs, badge numbers' for 'when I call Gretchen'

    Michigan state representative Jewell Jones went from being notable as the youngest ever member of the Michigan State House of Representatives to notorious as a drunk driver who tried to throw his weight around as a pol when he was caught after terrif...

  • April 26, 2021

    Apple claims 'no reasonable consumer would believe' hitting 'buy' button means you forever own the digital content it sold you

    Our high-tech overlords are redefining the word "buy" when it comes to online purchases of digital content from them.  They seem to conflate it with "rent."  Class action lawsuits are challenging the two most v...

  • April 25, 2021

    Arizona ballot audit that Dems fought is underway using tech to detect counterfeits

    As a rule, people who fight public disclosure tend to have something to hide. Democrats revealed how deeply they fear the discovery of ballot fraud in Arizona when they fought tooth and nail to prevent the audit now underway at the Veterans Memorial ...

  • April 25, 2021

    Following court order, FBI uses classic Friday document dump to release heavily redacted files on the death of Seth Rich

    As I wrote elsewhere today, “As a rule, people who fight public disclosure tend to have something to hide.” I should add that when they conceal material even after being forced by a court order to disclose it, there’s even more...

  • April 23, 2021

    Doh!

    Has there ever been a political group with a shakier foundation than Evangelicals for Biden? This is a real group, and it premises its support for Biden on his character and his Christian faith. Before the election, members justified their ba...

  • April 23, 2021

    Official racial disparagement from the State Department

    Not that long ago, it would have been unthinkable for officials in the State Department (or any federal agency) to publicly disparage an American racial group.  The State Department represents the entire country to the world — all of ...

  • April 23, 2021

    Dumbing down schools in the name of 'equity'

    This is the path of national suicide, as Sam Dorman reports for Fox News: The Virginia Department of Education (VDOE) is moving to eliminate all accelerated math options prior to 11th grade, effectively keeping higher-ac...

  • April 23, 2021

    Lefties made a big mistake trying to racialize the death of knife-attacker Ma'Khia Bryant

    New video, apparently from a surveillance camera across the street, conclusively justified the shooting of Ma'Khia Bryant in Columbus, Ohio.  A tweet from Matt Walsh has already garnered well over a million views, with the video and aud...

  • April 23, 2021

    Chauvin trial jury panel member admits being intimidated

    One member of the jury panel that heard the case against Derek Chauvin has admitted to being intimidated. The jury panel on which she sat found him guilty on all charges (second-degree murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter) with ...

  • April 23, 2021

    Earth Day's legacy of failed apocalyptic predictions

    All the solemnity that attaches to Earth Day, with scolds like Greta Thunberg and politicians attending "virtual" summits, ought to be drowned out by peals of laughter.  The real slogan of the global warming crowd ought ...

  • April 23, 2021

    Why Coca Cola caved

    Brand new survey data suggest that corporations that cave to the left alienate more consumers than they attract — by a big margin.  Glenn Reynolds's slogan "Get woke, go broke" turns out to be very true. Yesterday, in...

  • April 22, 2021

    Biden announces it's your 'patriotic duty' to get jabbed with the experimental COVID vaccine

    So much for "my body, my self"! Yesterday, while patting himself on the back for carrying out the program established by President Trump to create, produce, and distribute vaccines against COVID-19, President Biden announced a first-ever...

  • April 22, 2021

    Coca-Cola's general counsel (who demanded its law firms have at least 30% of billable hours performed by 'diverse' lawyers) leaves his job

    The Coca-Cola Company seems to be learning the hard way that signing up for the racialist agenda of the left has a downside.  Bradley Gayton, senior vice president and general counsel of the Coca-Cola Company until yesterday, generated a fi...

  • April 21, 2021

    House Dems unanimously back Maxine Waters, blocking censure resolution

    Republican prospects to take majority control of the House of Representatives in 2022 just got a big boost, as Democrats united to prevent passage of a censure resolution for Maxine Waters over her threats of violence if George Floyd were n...

  • April 20, 2021

    COVID surging in Chile despite high rate of vaccination

    The headline and tone of this article from CNBC are alarming: "Chile has one of the world's best vaccination rates.  COVID is surging there anyway."  One must read 13 paragraphs into the story to begin to s...

  • April 19, 2021

    Genius Maxine Waters just made herself a great defense witness in her lawsuit against Trump

    By traveling across state lines to incite the mob in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, Maxine Waters has opened the door on her possible expulsion from Congress, as Andrea Widburg notes today.  But she may have shot herself in her ...

  • April 19, 2021

    There will be no riots protesting the shooting of 7-year-old Jaslyn Adams

    The shooting death of 13-year-old Adam Toledo in a Chicago alley is a horrible heartbreak, but what about the death of 7-year-old Jaslyn Adams?  Adam Toledo's death has sparked protests and riots in Chicago and all over the country, but...

  • April 19, 2021

    Biden's Achilles heel in calling for new gun laws

    Republicans and other civil rights Second Amendment activists have a trump card (please pardon the expression) to play against President Biden's attempts to expand gun laws that penalize law-abiding citizens and in effect exempt criminals. Sim...

  • April 19, 2021

    Signs that 2021 rioters will be attacking and burning wealthy neighborhoods

    Rioting is a frequent phenomenon, complete with a professional traveling cadre that moves into a city when a spark ignites anger — as most recently happened in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota.  Take a look at the people arrested in Brookly...

  • April 18, 2021

    George W. Bush goes full squish on the border

    I am beyond disgusted. Charlie Spiering reports for the AP: Former President George W. Bush urged Americans Friday to join him in supporting widespread amnesty for illegal immigrants brought to the United States as children and those living in t...

  • April 18, 2021

    Head of teachers’ union doesn’t understand math

    I don’t think there is any fixing anymore that could cure the problems of government schools (incorrectly called “public schools” in this country). The only solution that has any prospect of restoring the availability of quality edu...

  • April 17, 2021

    Trumpism without Trump: Working class deserting Labor Party in Australia

    A global political realignment is underway, detaching workers from the Marxist left that ostensibly was created to serve their interests.  Delusional leftists who have demonized Donald Trump for the last five years are wrong if they think i...

  • April 17, 2021

    Canada's Ontario goes for a police state in the name of COVID suppression

    A new police state has been established just north of the states of Minnesota, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New York.  The Province of Ontario is home to over 38% of the population of Canada and is 55% bigger in area than the State of ...

  • April 16, 2021

    Dems making masks a political symbol of their party

    I make a point of getting on mailing lists used by my political antagonists so as to keep an eye on them.  Yesterday, I got one from a group called Stop-Republicans.org that bills itself as "an accountability campaign of Prog...

  • April 16, 2021

    Federalism to the rescue as states preparing anti-riot legislation

    Rioting is now a regular feature of political activism in the United States with catastrophic consequences for many small businesses looted and burned in the name some cause or another.  In far too many jurisdictions, incredible leniency ha...

  • April 15, 2021

    Signs of Dem desperation as legislators bypass Biden's commission and plan to introduce court-packing legislation today

    Why have a group of congressional Democrats symbolically flipped the bird to "the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States" that President Biden created by executive order only six days ago?  ...

  • April 14, 2021

    NCAA backs males competing in women's sports, as showdown looms with Florida over pending law

    The National Collegiate Athletic Association, a cartel controlling the multibillion-dollar college athletics business, may be painting itself into a corner.  Probably because it is a creature of the higher education industry that has gone o...

  • April 14, 2021

    The warrant that Daunte Wright tried to flee was pretty damn serious, not a 'victimless crime'

    The shooting of Daunte Wright was a terrible thing that should never have happened.  There is no justifying his death.  But contrary to the first reports that he died over a deodorizer hanging from his rearview mirror (a claim tha...

  • April 14, 2021

    Dem pollsters admit ‘major errors’ as they struggle to survive evidence that polls now are worthless

    Political polling has always been of questionable value in my eyes, yet until recently it’s been highly prized (and pollsters well compensated). When performed for media outlets, polling often is done to advance an agenda (so-called “push...

  • April 14, 2021

    Mystery of how BLM co-founder could afford millions for 4 houses only beginning to be solved as documents surface

    Kudos to Andrew Kerr of the Daily Caller News Foundation for digging up documents filed with the state of California that reveal some of the big bucks that Patrisse Cullors, AKA Patrisse Khan Cullors, has raked in to help pay for her amazin...

  • April 12, 2021

    Pete Buttigieg called out by Chris Wallace (!) on lies about phony 'infrastructure' bill

    I am not a big fan of Chris Wallace of Fox News, but to his credit, he called BS on transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg yesterday in an eight-and-a-half-minute interview on Fox News Sunday, even while letting the biggest lie pass with no com...

  • April 12, 2021

    Riots following police shooting in Minneapolis suburb make a fair trial for Chauvin impossible

    The National Guard has been called out to control rioting in the wake of a police shooting in the northern Minneapolis lower-middle-class suburb of Brooklyn Center (whose Caucasian population is 44.5%, according to Census Bureau estimates)....

  • April 10, 2021

    Twitter does not want you to know that the co-founder of BLM just bought a $1.4 million house in an exclusive lily-white neighborhood

    Social media censorship is escalating and ever more blatant.  Unfettered knowledge is dangerous to the phony narratives that progressives wish to brainwash the public into accepting, and with social media, the blockade imposed by mainstream...

  • April 9, 2021

    Harvard Medical School doctors advocate race-based discrimination to favor minorities, calling it 'medical restitution'

    Ruling class members are starting to state out loud the heretofore tacit punitive anti-White discrimination they seek in order to atone for "structural racism."  Two professors at Harvard Medical School, Drs. Bram Wispelwey and Mi...

  • April 8, 2021

    Dems go full Humpty-Dumpty claiming childcare, paid leave and other wish list items are 'infrastructure'

    The Democrats have gone through the looking glass and now inhabit a fantasy world similar to that described in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass.  One of the most famous passages in that immortal children's book describ...

  • April 8, 2021

    United Airlines goes there: Vows affirmative action for pilots

    Airline pilot is one of those jobs, along with brain surgeon, that used to be used as an example of the type of position for which affirmative action was obviously unsuited.  Who wants to board an aircraft or go under the knife with someone...

  • April 7, 2021

    Teachers' union head blames Jews for school reopening controversy

    It's finally come to this, the last refuge for scoundrels in need of scapegoats.  It's the Jooooz who are responsible for all the problems over school reopening.  Don't let the ethnic "identity" of the accuse...

  • April 6, 2021

    Dems can bypass filibuster and use 'reconciliation' to pass Biden’s so-called 'infrastructure' package in 2 bills with simple majority

    In a major victory for Chuck Schumer, Senate parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough has ruled that the Dems' massive multi-trillion-dollar legislation designed to remake America can be broken into two bills and passed with a simple majority vote, d...

  • April 6, 2021

    National Labor Relations Board rules that Amazon illegally fired activist workers

    Jeff Bezos may use his online retailing operation to censor conservatives and publish a Democrat/Deep State apologist newspaper, The Washington Post, but when his money is at stake, he looks indistinguishable from a union-busting robber baron of old....

  • April 6, 2021

    Treasury secretary Yellen reportedly to call for global corporate taxation cartel

    The Biden administration wants to increase the corporate income tax rate by a third, from 21% to 28%, a move that would lower business investment and therefore economic growth.  It would also reignite a new wave of so-called corpo...

  • April 6, 2021

    Milwaukee Black Panthers racially harass and force shutdown of Asian nail salon as media avert their eyes

    "You do not disrespect black women from our community…. You do not disrespect Black Lives Matter…. You ever disrespect a black woman again, we're going to shut you down." With these and other words, a group of 10 Mi...

  • April 5, 2021

    CBS caught being nakedly partisan, sends evidence to the memory hole

    CBS seems to be vying with NBC for the title of most Democrat-friendly broadcast network, with a hat trick of three separate instances of propaganda aimed at favoring the donkeys by attacking Republicans in the last few days.  In addition t...

  • April 5, 2021

    Boycott boomerang: Genius Dems start to realize Georgia boycott will cost them votes in the Peach State

    Democrats thought they had a brilliant plan to force Georgia to permit widespread voting fraud by getting their woke pals in corporate America to bully the state into repealing its brand-new voting integrity law that mandates voter ID and other commo...

  • April 5, 2021

    Trees just might be racist, Portland, Oregon Board of Education director worries

    Before Portland, OR became notorious for left-wing riots and a corporation that profits off of slave labor, it was famous as a center for the lumber industry.  Before it decamped for Atlanta, Georgia-Pacific Corporation and its skyscraper h...

  • April 5, 2021

    Trump's call for boycotts may finally teach Big Business to stop siding with the Dems

    I am deeply offended that big corporations are trying to bully Georgia into repealing a perfectly reasonable voting integrity law.  President Biden lied about the law so egregiously that even the Bezos propaganda outlet, The Washington Post...

  • April 4, 2021

    The totalitarians’ Covid con unintentionally explained by CNN public health ‘expert’

    Too much freedom is a bad thing because it limits the ability of the state to coerce its subjects (“citizens” seems almost archaic as the Great Reset looms) into behavior they otherwise would resist. That’s the basic message explain...

  • March 29, 2021

    Border crisis denial as Biden refuses to visit after Trump challenge

    You can almost smell the panic over the suffering of the left’s absolute favorite victim group, children “of color,” lured over the border by Biden’s reversal of the successful Trump policies. When Texas Senators Ted Cruz and ...

  • March 29, 2021

    Dem dummy says out loud the part about the future gun control plans they have

    When you are planning to trick your opponents, it’s best not to tell them in advance how they are going to be gulled into committing to path whose destination they abhor.  Maybe it was the congenial environment of NBC News’s Meet the...

  • March 28, 2021

    Parallels between Biden’s border policy and Cuomo’s nursing home scandal

    Some friends of mine have been making interesting comparisons of the parallels between the completely unnecessary crises created by President Biden (at the border) and New York Governor Andrew Cuomo. I am sure there are others, as well, but these are...

  • March 27, 2021

    Biden bribes Manchin, bye-bye filibuster

    Joe Biden has never been known for subtlety. Fox News reports: President Biden has picked the wife of an extremely influential U.S. senator for a federal commission post, the White House announced Friday.  Biden ...

  • March 27, 2021

    GOP senators visit border facilities, reveal shocking pictures and data, including 10% COVID positivity

    Yesterday, Texas senators John Cornyn and Ted Cruz led a delegation of Republican senators on a tour of border facilities, including those holding children, and then held a riveting 45-minute press conference afterward that was carried live on Fox Ne...

  • March 26, 2021

    Landmark school choice law covers 90% of the students in one state

    Karma is coming calling for the disgraceful teachers' unions that have kept children from attending school for a year in much of the country.  Successfully shaking down the federal government for nine figures' worth of additional fu...

  • March 25, 2021

    Asked Wednesday how he is preparing for today's presser, Biden responded, 'What press conference?'

    The common assumption on the right is that Joe Biden has been endlessly rehearsing answers to questions that will be asked by friendly reporters when President Biden holds his first-ever presidential press conference.  But his response to a...

  • March 25, 2021

    Biden’s presser

    President Biden lost his train of thought a couple of times, but didn’t melt down in any significant way in his first presidential press conference. He called on only 10 reporters in roughly an hour and 15 minutes. All of the reporters called u...

  • March 24, 2021

    Dept. of Homeland Security flirting with totalitarianism

    Now that the Department of Justice and FBI are using the 1/6/21 Capitol incursion to demonize all who attended the massive rally that day, imputing "insurrection," "white supremacy," and "extremism" to them, massive poli...

  • March 23, 2021

    Report: White House directs all agencies to refer to 'Biden-Harris administration'

    It begins.  Faster than anyone anticipated. As Joe Biden falls 3 times in a light breeze boarding Air Force One, the latest sign of dementia he presents, and as his first-ever press conference looms this Thursday, the public is being pre...

  • March 23, 2021

    Biden tells reporters he will 're-establish what existed before' and tell 'refugees' to apply for asylum from their home countries

    With President Biden's mental health at issue, we never know how seriously to take what he says.  But a remark he made to some reporters on the White House lawn Sunday is drawing both chuckles and concern.  He was asked: ...

  • March 23, 2021

    Facts begin to overwhelm the narrative that anti-Asian violence is due to white supremacy

    The shooting of six Asian massage parlor workers and three Caucasians in Georgia has prompted a massively dishonest media campaign to blame "white supremacy" for violence against Asian-Americans.  Andrew Sullivan documented the fr...

  • March 22, 2021

    As border crisis deepens, DHS sec. Mayorkas goes Baghdad Bob on Sunday interview shows

    Yesterday, DHS secretary Alejandro Mayorkas was given the unenviable assignment of defending the Biden administration's self-created crisis at the southern border by appearing on multiple Sunday talk shows, including CNN, NBC's Meet...

  • March 22, 2021

    Feds criminally investigating Baltimore prosecutor Marilyn Mosby and husband, president of the city council

    Remember Marilyn Mosby, the incompetent state's attorney who tried to railroad six Baltimore cops in the death of Freddie Gray, and whose inflammatory rhetoric hobbled police and made the riots there worse?  She somehow managed to ...

  • March 21, 2021

    Minimizing stress in your life can have a downside

    Does a lack of stress make you stupid? The smartest advice I ever got about stress came about 40 years ago from the late Anthony Athos, at the time a senior faculty colleague of mine at Harvard Business School and a renowned master of the classroo...

  • March 21, 2021

    The profoundly poisonous consequences of Dems and their media allies exploiting the Atlanta massage parlor shootings

    The deranged sex addict who assassinated 9 people came at the perfect time to divert media attention from the border crisis and President Biden’s accelerating physical and mental deterioration. The ridiculous assertion that by calling Covid 19 ...

  • March 20, 2021

    Data show lots of 'COVID relief' stimulus checks went directly into financial markets, not spent on necessities

    While there are plenty of people whose lives have been thrown into chaos by the lockdowns imposed on us in the name of protecting against COVID, the "free money" sent out without a single Republic vote in Congress went to a lot of...

  • March 19, 2021

    Using leftist tactics for conservative goals: University forced to boot Confucius Institute off campus

    Conservatives need to learn from our foes when it comes to forcing the major institutions of our society away from the left's agendas, back toward sanity. For far too long, we have let the left combine infiltration (pressure from within) with dem...

  • March 18, 2021

    Dan Bongino to take Rush Limbaugh's time slot as radio syndication giants battle for his listeners

    Of course, nobody can replace Rush, but Westwood One, a syndicator whose parent also owns many of the biggest stations that carried the late talk show giant, is making a bid to grab his audience by moving Dan Bongino's talk show to Rush...

  • March 18, 2021

    More blatant ‘masks for thee, but not for me’ behavior yesterday from John Kerry and Sen. Tom Carper (D DE)

    Face masks have become Obedience Theatre, a way for bullies with the power of the state behind them to force everyone else to visibly submit to their power.  Mask mandates do not save lives.  Life without smiles from the cler...

  • March 17, 2021

    Lockdowns as class warfare of the rich and the professional class against the working class

    A year after "15 days to flatten the curve" began our lockdowns, we have enough data to answer the classic question about lockdowns (which still exist a year later in many places, including much of California): cui bono?  (Wh...

  • March 16, 2021

    California teachers' unions discussing using COVID relief money for teacher bonuses, trips to Hawaii

    Throw billions of dollars at school districts in California, and what do you expect? A group called Reopen California Schools got access to online memos from teachers' unions in California and discovered that in some districts, enriching their...

  • March 15, 2021

    Trump’s use of ‘China virus’ is racist but MSM fine with attaching Covid to other places

    The absurd charge that Donald Trump was racist in naming the cause of the current pandemic the “China virus” is once more being heard as unprovoked attacks on Asians are being blamed on him. Despite the fact that most of those attacks for...

  • March 15, 2021

    Marines apologize to Tucker Carlson

    As Andrea Widburg chronicles today, the top levels of the military have been purged during the Obama years, and as a result have gone overboard in attacking Tucker Carlson on Twitter for his remarks criticizing prioritizing flight suits for pregnant ...

  • March 14, 2021

    The Chinese TV commercial that the NBA doesn’t want its players to see

    The National Basketball Association has climbed into bed with the Chinese Communist Party because the nation it rules is a huge market that seems to be in love with basketball.  So eager to please the ruling communists is the NBA that fans with ...

  • March 13, 2021

    Minneapolis City Council agrees to pay $27 million to family of George Floyd

    In what is claimed to be "the largest pretrial settlement in a civil rights wrongful death lawsuit in U.S. history," the far-left Minneapolis City Council has voted 13 to 0 to pay $27 million to the family of George Floyd. ...

  • March 12, 2021

    Georgetown University fires professor for violating a taboo on discussing Black academic performance

    A conversation on the academic performance of Black law students between two faculty members teaching at Georgetown following a Zoom session was recorded and posted online without their knowledge.  As a result, one of them has been fired an...

  • March 11, 2021

    New York Times goes full crybully demanding no criticism of its reporter Taylor Lorenz who dishes it out, sometimes falsely

    Powerful people feigning victimization to silence those who challenge them has become a widespread phenomenon among the power elite.  This masquerade has earned them the neologism "crybully."  The Urban Dictionary...

  • March 10, 2021

    Meghan and Harry's Oprah interview leads to media blowup and official threats over charges she's lying about suicide attempt

    One of the most famous and popular TV personalities in Britain walked off the set of his TV show and resigned after getting flak over his charges that Meghan[i] was just drama-queening to Oprah when she claimed to have considered suicide.  ...

  • March 10, 2021

    Corporate boycott of donations to GOP election integrity skeptics backfires as seismic shift in fundraising channels small donations to Trump allies

    The political-media establishment of the U.S. saw the January 6 incursion at the U.S. Capitol as the means of devastating the GOP and forever discrediting all those who dare to question the integrity of the past presidential election.  Many...

  • March 9, 2021

    The pernicious labeling of products on supermarket shelves by the ethnicity of the owners of the company that made them

    Now that race and ethnic (or sexual) identities are being emphasized by media, the academy, and the entertainment industry as the most important possible thing to know about a person — a suicidal practice in a diverse democracy — the inev...

  • March 9, 2021

    After raw meat and metal filings fed to them, National Guard troops in DC are told no changes coming in contracting for food

    If Nancy Pelosi and the congressional Democrats wanted to discourage people from signing up for the National Guard, they could not do much more to denude the force of recruits than station them in D.C. for months as props in an insurrection theatre f...

  • March 9, 2021

    New York Times throws The Lincoln Project overboard

    Now that it is no longer useful to enhancing the power of Democrats, The Lincoln Project is utterly dispensable and is being exposed for grifting by the premier house organ of the Democrats, The New York Times.  The three authors of to...

  • March 8, 2021

    Racial discrimination mars the Dems' 'stimulus' bill

    A friend alerted me to what looks like outright racial discrimination and a political payoff contained in the pork-barrel "stimulus" bill that is 90% unrelated to the pandemic.  My friend spotted a small part of the bill (full tex...

  • March 8, 2021

    Durham will have Russiagate indictments ready in 6–8 weeks, says John Solomon

    The shockingly lenient treatment of FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith, who lied to a federal judge in order to keep spying on Carter Page, has led many of us to despair that justice will never be done in the greatest political scandal in American...

  • March 7, 2021

    Uh-oh! They let Biden get in front of a microphone again

    Even ten minutes reading from a teleprompter on a Saturday afternoon was too much for the 46th President of the United States. I suppose his handlers figured that it was important to mark Senate passage of the nearly $2 trillion pork-laden, blue stat...

  • March 6, 2021

    Dumbest 'insurrection theatre' stunt of the week

    The relentless campaign to demonize supporters of President Trump entered the realm of self-parody this past week, with warnings that the U.S. Capitol and democracy itself were in danger on March 4 because QAnon saw that date as the real inauguration...

  • March 6, 2021

    As even his media apologists complain, Psaki promises Biden will do a presser — but needs a few more weeks

    The failure of a newly elected president to face questions from the media for six and a half weeks (and counting) is so weird that even CNN's Brian Stelter is noting it. There are many ways to measure an American president's ac...

  • March 5, 2021

    Report: Mitch McConnell working on leaving the Senate before his term is over

    A new report from The Intercept presents strong evidence that Mitch McConnell is preparing to leave office before his Senate term expires. Coincidentally or not, this report closely follows release of a report by the Department of Transportation...

  • March 4, 2021

    Bumbling Biden blows border badly

    A huge and totally unnecessary crisis is being created at the U.S.-Mexican border, with profound human suffering and the possibility of reigniting the spread of COVID.  You can thank President Biden, or his handlers, for wrecking a perfectl...

  • March 3, 2021

    Andrew Cuomo, patsy?

    After sentencing thousands of elderly New Yorkers to death by seeding nursing homes with COVID-infected patients, Andrew Cuomo seems to be on the verge of losing his political future, and maybe his job, over saying unpleasant things to a few women. ...

  • March 3, 2021

    Meeting the threat of racist 3-month-old babies

    We can all sleep more soundly now that the Arizona Department of Education is protecting the nation from the threat of racist 3-month-old babies.  Christopher Rufo of City Journal tells the story in a series of tweets: SCOOP: The Arizo...

  • March 2, 2021

    New Zealand debates punishing 'rule-breakers' who get COVID

    Mass insanity appears to have gripped nearly the entire nation of New Zealand, which has placed its largest city, Auckland, under its fourth lockdown requiring people to stay indoors at home (AKA "house arrest"), this time because one case ...

  • March 2, 2021

    Neo-racists in state government prioritizing Blacks and Latinos for COVID vaccination

    If you are an 85-year-old in Virginia living at home and hoping to get vaccinated for COVID, you'd better be black or Hispanic if you're in a hurry.  A new wave of racism is sweeping across the country in the guise of "anti-rac...

  • March 1, 2021

    US intel report on Khashoggi death is just speculative guesswork apparently aimed at sabotaging US-Saudi relations

    Pinning the death of Jamal Khashoggi on Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman is important to those who want to return to the Obama-era alignment of the U.S. with Iran, not Saudi Arabia, as our principal relationship with the Middle East Muslim worl...

  • March 1, 2021

    Wikipedia's leftist bias called out by its co-founder, who is leading the start-up of a rival to be truly unbiased

    The left's capture of Wikipedia and its transformation into a progressive propaganda organ has had profound political consequences.  Founded on the premise of "NPOV," or neutral point of view, the free online encyclopedia...

  • March 1, 2021

    Peter Navarro 'guarantees' at least 3 more indictments coming from Durham special counsel probe

    Peter Navarro, former top adviser to President Trump, Sunday morning brought a ray of hope to those of us who have been dismayed at the output to date of the Durham special counsel probe: a slap on the wrist for Kevin Clinesmith, an officer of the co...

  • February 28, 2021

    Ending advanced classes in public schools because the wrong races excel at them

    If the Chinese Communist Party wanted to ensure that China will dominate the United States technologically for generations to come, it would push with all its might to spread the poisonous ideology underlying the follow news, from Asche Schow of The ...

  • February 28, 2021

    World Economic Forum commits a ‘Kinsley gaffe’ and then deletes Twitter video revealing its real agenda

    The World Economic Forum, founded by Klaus Schwab in 1970, hosts a yearly January gathering of global corporate and political elites in Davos, Switzerland. Annually, it draws hundreds of private jets, as attendees gather to assure the rest of us that...

  • February 28, 2021

    Biden gets lost again giving a speech: ‘What am I doing here?’

    A sad spectacle of elder abuse, done in the name of power for left-wing Democrats, is unfolding almost daily, as the cognitive impairment of Joseph Robinette Biden, the 46th President of the United States, becomes impossible to hide. Yesterday, in a ...

  • February 26, 2021

    Embarrassing excuse offered for Biden’s vanishing State of the Union Address

    All of a sudden, here it is the end of February, and there is no State of the Union (SOTU) address scheduled for President Biden.  That's odd because last month, Biden promised what sounds exactly like a SOTU: "Next ...

  • February 24, 2021

    Democrats starting to panic over a reckoning at the polls for blue-state bungling of COVID

    The two most prominent Democrat governors in the country, New York's Andrew Cuomo and California's Governor Gavin Newsom, may both be tossed out of office over their botched handling of the COVID panic.  Both men had been considered...

  • February 24, 2021

    As illegal border crossings surge, Psaki and media redefine 'kids in cages' as 'migrant facility for children'

    Remember when Kamala Harris said it was a "human rights abuse" for the United States (under President Trump) to detain children crossing the border?  But with President Biden in office, and illegal border crossings skyro...

  • February 22, 2021

    SCOTUS plays Catch 22 with challenges to Pennsylvania election

    The Supreme Court has signaled that anything goes when it comes to jiggering election rules in favor of the Democrats.  Challenge illegalities in the last election with a good case, and you're stuck in a classic Catch-22 situa...

  • February 22, 2021

    Retraction

    The following was published on January 15, 2021 under the title “Statement.” It has now been re-titled as “Retraction” and posted on the home page of American Thinker. ______ We received a lengthy letter from Dominion...

  • February 19, 2021

    How Minneapolis created a crime wave (in the progressive media’s own words)

    I apologize for not knowing who created the chart below, and for being unable to obtain permission to use it. But it is too good not to share with readers.  I suspect that whoever put it together would appreciate having it spread far and wi...

  • February 19, 2021

    Trump reportedly snubbed Nikki Haley's request for a meeting in the wake of her denunciation of him

    Nikki Haley wants to be president of the United States and wants to cultivate Trump-haters' support.  She seems to have deluded herself into thinking there is a viable future in the GOP for someone who buys into the narrative ...

  • February 19, 2021

    Daily Beast writer lights an exploding cigar trying to attack Tucker Carlson and defend AOC

    The left desperately wants to drive Tucker Carlson off the air, for he is the most effective conservative commentator on the airwaves now that Rush Limbaugh has passed away.  The left also wants Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to be seen as a...

  • February 18, 2021

    Facebook blindsides Australia in bare knuckle struggle over paying for news

    Are the tech oligarchs more powerful than most of the nations of the world?  Based on the actions of Facebook hours ago, it appears that Mark Zuckerberg thinks they are. We are seeing a test case unfold as Australia, the continent-sized ...

  • February 17, 2021

    Head of Tokyo Medical Association recommends use of Ivermectin for coronavirus patients and their caregivers

    The cheap, generic drug Ivermectin, widely used against parasites, doesn't seem to have a lot of friends in the American medical or journalistic establishments when it comes to treating coronavirus.  It's been widely used overs...

  • February 16, 2021

    Most ridiculous headline of the day

    Barron's is supposed to be a serious publication that covers financial markets.  It was founded in 1921 as a sister publication of the Wall Street Journal. Yet, yesterday, a headline writer for Barron's published an abs...

  • February 16, 2021

    Trump-supporters line streets, cheer him in impromptu Palm Beach President's Day rally

    It may be beginning to dawn on Democrats that their second impeachment of President Trump is backfiring.  They, and not a few establishment Republicans, want the Trump brand to become toxic, and for his supporters to slink away in shame for...

  • February 15, 2021

    UC Berkeley reverses its absurd ban on outdoor exercise

    Five days after instituting an embarrassing ban on students exercising outdoors, the University of California, Berkeley, reversed itself and reinstated the ability of 2,000 students isolated in dorm rooms to leave them for the purpose of exercise. ...

  • February 15, 2021

    Minneapolis City Council spending millions to begin undoing the damage of its war on cops

    Crime has exploded in Minneapolis in the wake of the riots that destroyed a swath of the city when George Floyd died of a drug overdose in police custody.  Incorrectly[i] blaming the police for murder, vengeful mobs demanded defunding the p...

  • February 15, 2021

    Dems introduce legislation to kill the gig economy, destroy millions of jobs

    Democrats and their labor union big-money donors hate the gig economy, where people work as independent contractors, doing as much or as little work as they wish, setting their own hours, providing their own workspace and equipment, and getting paid ...

  • February 13, 2021

    Chris Wallace's toxicity with Fox News viewers on display in charity auction

    The continuing prominence of Chris Wallace on Fox News both annoys and perplexes many of the channel's remaining conservative viewers.  And now we finally have a metric demonstrating the aversion toward Wallace by Fox viewers. During...

  • February 12, 2021

    Tucker Carlson calls out those trying to shut down his show and Fox News

    The left is making its move, seeking to install a totalitarian information regime in the United States, completely reversing two and half centuries of tradition and bypassing the First Amendment by using private entities as the instruments of censors...

  • February 11, 2021

    Schadenfreude overload as Andrea Mitchell attempts to correct Ted Cruz and reveals her ignorance

    It is a foundational tenet of Trump-hatred that the 45th president and all who support him are stupid.  With the Senate impeachment trial underway, anyone criticizing it must be an idiot, because everyone knows that Trump is evil incarnate,...

  • February 11, 2021

    OMG! Amazon's new 'second HQ' tower across the river from DC looks just like the poop emoji

    When Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez drove Amazon's "second headquarters" out of New York City, the winner of the much publicized competition to host a multi-billion-dollar office project with many thousands of high-paying jobs was Arlington, ...

  • February 10, 2021

    So David Hogg thinks he wants to be an entrepreneur…

    David Hogg, the former student at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School in Broward County, Florida during the lethal school shooting there, has a knack for publicity.  He parlayed his attendance on that awful day into fame as a gun control ...

  • February 9, 2021

    Heartless Psaki mocks reporter for asking about new jobs for Keystone workers

    The Biden administration has no good answers for serious questions about the fate of the workers laid off in the wake of the abrupt cancelation of the Keystone Pipeline.  But his press secretary will punish anyone who dares ask an embarrass...

  • February 9, 2021

    You'll never guess which major European country's scholars and political officials are attacking woke identity politics

    If you'd asked me to identify which major European country was seeing powerful intellectual and political forces attacking woke racial ideology and the American campuses pushing it, I would have guessed Poland or Russia.  Nope, it's...

  • February 8, 2021

    Ivermectin to undergo rigorous clinical trial as COVID treatment

    The cheap, generic anti-parasite drug Ivermectin finally is to undergo rigorous clinical trials in a first-world nation for use in fighting COVID-19.  Japan has been hit with a second wave of COVID cases, and as a result, the Tokyo Metropol...

  • February 8, 2021

    Trump aide Peter Navarro charges AG Barr worked to help Biden issue blizzard of early executive orders

    Speaking with Maria Bartiromo yesterday on her weekly Fox News Channel program Sunday Morning Futures, Peter Navarro made a startling charge against his former Trump administration colleague, former attorney general William Barr. ...

  • February 7, 2021

    New tell-all book by network TV news producer exposes disgusting private behavior of many lefty ‘talented TV a–holes’

    It turns out that lots of AT readers and I despise a number of lefty TV news readers for excellent reasons beyond their bias. Mike and Chris Wallace, Diane Sawyer, Chris Cuomo, Katie Couric, and others are exposed for being miserable human beings in ...

  • February 7, 2021

    California again delays bullet train first stage, begs feds for more time to avoid funding cutoff

    The fiasco of California’s pathetic attempt to build a high-speed rail (HSR) line between Los Angeles and San Francisco continues to generate far more embarrassment than actual completed track. Once again, for what seems like the umpteenth time...

  • February 6, 2021

    It's just...

    The following graphic is circulating on the interwebs, and it rang a few bells for me. Incrementalism and radical change might be a formal title.  But this approach is more of a gut punch. Hat tip: Weird Dave. See what you thi...

  • February 6, 2021

    Female NeverTrump bails out on the Lincoln Project — and is accused by them of seeking big bucks to stay in wake of scandal

    The mess at the Lincoln Project just got much, much uglier.  One of the founders — the only female among that group — resigned yesterday, publicly citing the scandal about soliciting underage sex alleged against fellow founder J...

  • February 6, 2021

    FBI criminal complaint on Capitol incursion used Photoshopped 4chan hoax picture as evidence

    Just when you thought the FBI couldn't fall any further, the Bureau utterly, hilariously, and luridly beclowns itself.  In a formal document, a criminal charge.  Using a Photoshopped picture from 4chan, the reviled (by all peo...

  • February 6, 2021

    French president joins other world leaders warning the dangers of Big Tech censoring Trump

    It's come to this: Americans have to learn about how to practice free speech and about threats to democracy from foreign leaders.  From France, for crying out loud! Our Big Tech and major media are now so compromised by their allegia...

  • February 5, 2021

    Biden sticking with school closures even as Chicago Dem mayor takes on teachers' union

    Joe Biden is sticking with the teachers' unions against science and the welfare of America's children and their parents.  For the first time in over half a century of watching the politics of public education, the education unions a...

  • February 4, 2021

    Kamala’s creepy ‘constant on-camera presence for Biden’ attracting notice even from MSM

    Is she right there whenever Biden faces the cameras in case he keels over? Or is this some attempt to add presidential “gravitas” to a problematic choice for the ticket, so lacking in appeal that she dropped out of the presidential field ...

  • February 4, 2021

    Chuck Schumer incited violence, threatened SCOTUS justices on steps of Supreme Court only 11 months ago

    If Donald Trump can be impeached for urging peaceful protest at the Capitol, why isn’t Chuck Schumer being impeached for far, far worse rhetoric aimed at intimidating members of the Supreme Court he specifically named into voting his way. I mea...

  • February 3, 2021

    Soros-backed DA George Gascon refusing to oppose parole for Manson Family killer

    When George Gascon was elected district attorney for Los Angeles County with the backing of Soros money, many of us feared the worst.  But we never expected that he would have his office break with four decades of precedent and allow the ve...

  • February 2, 2021

    Kamala Harris already becoming a problem for Biden White House

    I suspect that regret already is setting in among his handlers over their pick of Kamala Harris for Joe Biden's running mate.  The first of what will be many clean-up efforts began yesterday for her bungling an incident eight days in of...

  • February 2, 2021

    Apple offers extravagant lip service to fighting 'systemic racism' as Black History Month begins

    Caution: The deeply sardonic humor that follows is entirely unintentional on the part of Apple. It's Black History Month again, this time after a horrific summer of rioting, arson, looting, and murder, all in the name of "Black Lives Matt...

  • February 1, 2021

    Peter Barry Chowka explains the real story of Dr. Fauci

    Peter Barry Chowka has been a writer on science and health issues for 57 years, often going far behind what the medical and scientific establishments put out for the deeper story.  In those decades, he has covered the work of Dr. Anthony Fa...

  • February 1, 2021

    Chicago teacher strike looms over Mayor Lightfoot’s demand for a return to classroom learning

    Chicago is at the epicenter of the nation’s struggle against teachers’ unions that are crippling a generation of children by refusing to resume classroom teaching in many Democrat-controlled cities.  Recently, Lori Lightfoot, the Dem...

  • February 1, 2021

    The ‘battery fairy’ and other delusions in the demand to replace gasoline powered vehicles with electric cars and trucks

    I continue to be amazed that serious people think that gasoline powered vehicles can be completely replaced by electric vehicles in a decade-and-a-half, and that this would be a good thing, even if possible. Under threat of government action, however...

  • January 31, 2021

    BBC caves to parental outrage, pulls video teaching youngsters there are over 100 genders

    Transgenderism and the “gender identity” dogma may be the bridge too far that undermines the hard left agenda to impose a radical restructuring of reality on the media-consuming public. We live in an historical moment when the Orwell...

  • January 31, 2021

    Parents at ultra-elite prep school mobilizing against race-obsessed curriculum changes

    One of the very fanciest, most expensive prep schools in the country recently has been convulsed with demands to alter its curriculum and staff to force feed a radical racial agenda on the children of the Ruling Class.  But a group of parents ha...

  • January 30, 2021

    New conservative student newspaper at Univ. of Chicago, The Chicago Thinker, raises hackles among free speech opponents there

    Until Evita Duffy, one of its founders, wrote at The Federalist about the controversy at the University of Chicago over continuing that school’s commitment to free speech, I had never heard of The Chicago Thinker. ...

  • January 30, 2021

    Is karma coming calling for Killer Cuomo?

    New York governor Andrew Cuomo may finally be facing a partial reckoning for sending elderly COVID patients back into nursing homes, thereby spreading the disease to the most vulnerable group of all, the elderly.  New York State also has th...

  • January 30, 2021

    Outrage: FBI lawyer who lied to FISA Court to wiretap Carter Page gets a slap on the wrist and sympathy from federal judge handing down sentence

    The message is out to the next rogue federal bureaucrats who contemplate committing crimes in the name of wiretapping (or otherwise abusing the rights of) opponents of the Deep State: don't worry!  You won't be doing any jail time a...

  • January 28, 2021

    The New York Times is deeply worried about Kristi Noem running for president in 2024

    Leftists always tell us whom they worry about as a Republican presidential candidate, by running hit jobs well before the campaign begins.  And the New York Times, which functions as a pilot fish for the rest of the propaganda apparatus tha...

  • January 27, 2021

    Where will the Trump presidential library go?

    There are two sides to the question of where the eventual Trump presidential library will be built.  Where would Donald Trump want it to go?  And where would it be allowed to be built? The two places Trump has chosen to live, N...

  • January 27, 2021

    Federal judge suspends Biden’s deportation freeze nationwide

    All of a sudden, Democrats are discovering a downside to federal district court judges issuing nationwide injunctions blocking presidential initiatives. What goes around comes around. CNN ruefully reports: A federal judge in Texas t...

  • January 26, 2021

    NYT opinion writer admits being paid $265K by Iranian mission to UN

    An opinion writer who frequently contributed op-eds to the New York Times has admitted to being paid well by the Iranian mission to the United Nations but insists that this did not make him an agent of the Iranian government or influence his writing....

  • January 25, 2021

    Calif Gov Newsom appears to be retreating on COVID restriction as recall petition signatures surge

    Even in a one-party state like California, stupidity, arrogance, and incompetence can undo the political career of a governor who seemed to have all the ingredients for a run at the White House.  Not too long ago, Gavin Newsom was considere...

  • January 23, 2021

    Shocker: MSNBC host admits 'Trump would be getting crushed' if he had done what Joe Biden did

    I never expected that an MSNBC host would deliver outright admission that the media have a serious double standard and would attack Donald Trump for actions that Joe Biden just took to no approbation at all.  Has someone spiked the coffee p...

  • January 22, 2021

    National Guard troops exploited for ‘insurrection theatre’ subjected to disgusting abuse as soon as no longer needed for visuals

    Even Hollywood extras for crowd scenes receive far better treatment than the National Guard troops that were mobilized to protect Biden’s inauguration from a non-existent threat. Yesterday, I called it “insurrection theatre” because...

  • January 22, 2021

    Biden admin, Dems and media collaborators peddling a bogus story that there was ‘no plan’ by Trump admin for vaccine distribution

    If you thought that fake news would diminish when Joe Biden took office, you were wrong. The propaganda machine jointly constructed by the Democrats and their media flacks has a tough job ahead: making Joe Biden look good. When truth is no considerat...

  • January 22, 2021

    Google threatens to remove its search engine from Australia as tech titan takes on an advanced nation state

    The contention that Google is the most powerful corporation in history, more powerful even than an advanced, continent-sized nation, is being tested in real time before our eyes. The BBC reports: Google has threatened to remove its search engine...

  • January 21, 2021

    What happened to all the pro-Trump violence that was supposed to mar Inauguration Day?

    Joe Biden was sworn in yesterday with a supporting cast of about 24,000 National Guard troops deployed from all over the country to Washington, D.C., at enormous, wasted cost in money and disruption to the lives of the troops.  But the medi...

  • January 21, 2021

    Jaw-dropping contempt for Trump and his voters from National Review star columnist Kevin Williamson

    It is sad, but perhaps inevitable that contemptuous, raw class-hatred for Trump voters would be featured so prominently in the National Review almost immediately after the swearing-in of Joe Biden yesterday.  National Review, after all, pro...

  • January 20, 2021

    Joe Biden’s defining moment may come today

    The entire tenor of the Biden presidency may well be defined today. Depending on what he does or doesn’t say after being inaugurated as the 46th President of the United States, Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. may enter the history books as a healer,...

  • January 20, 2021

    Bill Sammon and Chris Stirewalt out at Fox News

    Two executives involved in the early call of Arizona for Joe Biden on Election Night, angering many conservatives, are no longer employed at the cable network whose ratings took a subsequent nosedive.  Both have been lightning rods for conservat...

  • January 19, 2021

    Lincoln Project campaigners reportedly hired to help rival of Bibi Netanyahu unseat him

    I'm so old (having graduated kindergarten and beyond) that I remember when foreign influence in an election was regarded as a bad thing and was falsely alleged to be behind Donald Trump's 2016 presidential victory. No such qualms from Trum...

  • January 18, 2021

    Parler returns… partially

    So thorough has been the cyber-banishment of Parler that merely getting the Parler.com domain actively hosted on the internet and able to present a single page to readers counts as a noteworthy achievement.  Having been booted off its servers by...

  • January 18, 2021

    Leftists successfully persecuting those who questioned election results, aiming to destroy careers

    After 4 years of Democrats claiming Trump’s election was illegitimate based on a phony charge of Russian collusion, suddenly, questioning a presidential election is taboo.  The Democrat Media Complex obviously think that the public either ...

  • January 16, 2021

    Fox News reportedly considering top executive firings over their post-election ratings collapse

    If Fox News wants to restore its cable news ratings dominance, changes will have to be visible far lower in its organization than what is being reported. Though I was angry over its election night coverage and have been dismayed at the behavior o...

  • January 15, 2021

    Retraction

    We received a lengthy letter from Dominion's defamation lawyers explaining why they believe that their client has been the victim of defamatory statements.  Having considered the full import of the letter, we have agreed to their reques...

  • January 14, 2021

    Don't abandon the GOP; take it over and use the ballot access and many effective officeholders it already has

    I am as disappointed as any conservative over the surrender to hysteria that is so visible in the words of the two Republican congressional leaders yesterday.  As Neil Braithwaite points out today, writing an obituary for the GOP:...

  • January 14, 2021

    Why AT comments are disabled

    It is news to almost nobody who reads American Thinker that a political witch hunt is underway.  Parties in and out of government are looking for excuses to suppress and destroy voices that oppose the left. Because AT lacks the ability to mon...

  • January 12, 2021

    Germany's Merkel publicly warns that Trump's de-platforming is 'problematic' while Arnold Schwarzenegger makes a fool of himself

    Some people raised in the aftermath of the horrors of Nazism understand its meaning for today, while others get it exactly backwards. Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel is no friend of Donald Trump, but having grown up in totalitarian East Ger...

  • January 10, 2021

    3 overseas leaders who know how repression and tyranny work speak out on censorship of Trump and election skepticism

    When people with experience of political corruption and repression warn Americans about danger signs in the current efforts to shut down dissidents, we should take note.  The democratically elected leaders of 2 major Latin American countries are...

  • January 9, 2021

    Stunning Rasmussen poll shows rising approval of Trump in the wake of the Capitol incursion

    If you believe the media and most Beltway politicians, the entire country is appalled at President Trump and wants him erased from history.  A moral panic is being pushed by the media and other Democrats in the wake of the incursion into th...

  • January 9, 2021

    New thoughtcrime: calling Stacey Abrams 'fat'

    A football coach for the University of Tennessee has been fired after posting a now deleted tweet mocking Stacey Abrams as fat.  From CBS: The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga fired an assistant coach after he posted a tweet...

  • January 7, 2021

    Why did the Capitol Police fail to protect the Capitol?

    January 6th's events are being seized on as a game-changer, leading to calls to invoke the 25th Amendment; calls to impeach and remove President Trump; and efforts to discredit Trump, his supporters, and conservatism.  It has distracted...

  • January 7, 2021

    Were leftist provocateurs leading the way into the Capitol?

    First, to state the obvious, there is no question that Trump-supporters criminally entered the Capitol and behaved abominably.  All who breached the inadequate protective perimeter must be prosecuted to the full measure of the law...

  • January 7, 2021

    Remember when lefties stormed into and occupied a Senate office building in 2018 and the Wisconsin State Capitol in 2011?

    Mobs breaking into and occupying government buildings are always bad, but when leftists are responsible, a memory hole soon opens and engulfs the media's recollections.  True conservatives support law and order and peaceful protest for ...

  • January 7, 2021

    Trump calls for peace, tells demonstrators to go home and Twitter removes the post, suspends his account

    The new party line that social media and the propaganda narrative media are enforcing is that any questioning of the fairness of the past presidential election amounts to incitement to violence.  Apparently using that illogic as a basis, Ja...

  • January 7, 2021

    Biden’s pick of Merrick Garland for AG is a clever maneuver to name and quickly confirm a hard leftist to SCOTUS

    Merrick Garland was anointed as a martyr by the left-media combine when Mitch McConnell and Senate Republicans blocked his appointment to the Supreme Court in the last year of the Obama administration.  One might, therefore, assume he would...

  • January 5, 2021

    Chuck Todd melts down on air when his bias is challenged, then makes it worse

    A bully has more than met his match and — like most bullies — has disgraced himself when challenged.  Chuck Todd is a bully in possession of a huge weapon, NBC News, of which he is political director, and his perch as host of it...

  • January 2, 2021

    Dems plan rules changes for incoming House that weaken rights of GOP minority and eliminate 'gendered terms'

    With the slimmest of majorities, the House Democrats are pandering to their radicals in proposing new rules to govern the House of Representatives.  They must be taking their inspiration from the title of the famous book by Saul Alinsky,...

  • December 31, 2020

    According to 'veteran senior congressional aide,' 10 House Dems secretly meeting with GOP leaders to deny speakership to Pelosi

    Mark Tapscott has a source on Capitol Hill who is telling him that a bipartisan coup to throw Nancy Pelosi out of the speaker's grand office — the nicest in the Capitol — is being plotted in secret.  Writing in The Epoc...

  • December 30, 2020

    Deep State's deep bench at the DOJ spells trouble ahead for political persecution of conservatives and investigation of election fraud

    The Public Integrity Section of the Department of Justice may be the most oxymoronically named unit within the federal government.  And a recent change in leadership there spells more unjust political persecution for conservative office-hol...

  • December 29, 2020

    Man who repaired Hunter Biden's laptop sues Twitter for saying contents he released were 'hacked'

    John Paul Mac Isaac, the Wilmington, Delaware owner of a now closed computer repair shop, is suing Twitter for half a billion dollars for implying that he is a "hacker."  The case Mac Isaac v. Twitter, Inc. (link cu...

  • December 28, 2020

    How Nancy Pelosi could lose the speakership to Kevin McCarthy

    Is karma going to come calling for Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats? I know that it sounds crazy, yet another improbable scenario in a season when our hopes have been dashed repeatedly after hearing predictions that a stolen presidential election would...

  • December 27, 2020

    MN legislators review thousands of deaths attributed to COVID, discover up to 40% due to other causes

    There is plenty of anecdotal data about people who die in motorcycle accidents and the like with a positive COVID test being officially listed as COVID deaths. This allows those who want to scare us into submission to draconian restrictions on our li...

  • December 27, 2020

    Absurdity of a Chicago criminal case outdoes anything the Onion or Babylon Bee could imagine

    I have to ask, “What’s the point of having police and a judiciary?” when I read about this case from Chicago, a city world-renowned for the level of lethal criminality its residents endure. Thr invaluable CWB Chicago website tells t...

  • December 26, 2020

    Media idolatry of Dr. Fauci becoming patently and verifiably absurd

    Dr. Anthony Fauci is willing to lie about measures to control the Chinese virus in order to manipulate public opinion and is therefore an extremely useful tool for those who seek to shut down American as long as possible.  As Pete...

  • December 26, 2020

    Roger Stone announces a $25-million lawsuit against DOJ and Mueller prosecutors

    As with almost any lawsuit, battles over discovery, the legal right of  plaintiffs to demand and receive communications and other documents from the defendants (and vice versa), may become the first heart of the matter. The Epoch Times...

  • December 26, 2020

    At last! First signs arrive that shortage of students is causing tuition cuts at brand-name private colleges

    The prestige sector of higher education — private colleges and universities reject a large portion of applicants — has resembled a cartel for decades.  Since the late 1950s, every year has the tuition charged by competitive coll...

  • December 25, 2020

    Obamas spending Christmas in Hawaii and generate the best picture ever of the former first couple

    It’s no surprise anymore when our ruling class travels for Christmas or any other reason that strikes their fancy, while the rest of us are told to give up family reunions, and even church services. So seeing Barack and Michelle Obama in Hawaii...

  • December 24, 2020

    China, apparently facing food shortages, introduces bill to regulate overeating

    China's high-tech surveillance state will be watching how much people eat, according to provisions of a bill just introduced and sure to pass its rubber-stamp National People's Congress legislative body.  Writing at Breitbart, ...

  • December 24, 2020

    Yet another Democrat leader tells people to stay home for Christmas, then announces she will travel to visit her relatives

    Democrat leaders like Governors Gavin Newsom, Andrew Cuomo, Gretchen Whitmer, and J.B. Pritzker; Mayors Lori Lightfoot and London Breed; and now Mecklenburg (Charlotte), North Carolina county executive Dena Diorio have all exposed themselves as outri...

  • December 23, 2020

    Unexplained explosion and fire destroy world's second largest pharmaceutical factory producing precursors for hydroxychloroquine

    Prepare for supplies to tighten for the cheap, effective therapeutic treatment for early-stage COVID-19 infection, hydroxychloroquine (HCQ).  Just as the medical establishment in the U.S. is relaxing its absurd and lethal suppress...

  • December 23, 2020

    Trump commutes the sentence of Steve Stockman

    President Trump has ended a terrible injustice by commuting the sentence of former representative Steve Stockman.  Steve was one of 20 people who were pardoned or had their sentences commuted yesterday.  Naturally, the Trump-hating ...

  • December 22, 2020

    Perfect example of media's gotcha journalism on Trump

    President Trump was just criticized for not being in the lead in receiving COVID-19 vaccine, even as controversy reigns over who should get priority.  "Biden to receive COVID-19 vaccine Monday as Trump remains on sidelines," headl...

  • December 22, 2020

    Et tu, Barr? Outgoing AG says he sees no need for a special counsel on Biden and China

    William Barr is going out of office tomorrow as attorney general in a blaze of disgrace, not glory.  Answering a reporter's question yesterday, he told the world that he sees no need for a special counsel for the Hunter Biden investigat...

  • December 20, 2020

    Don’t miss the ‘Fight for Trump!’ video

    If you are not among the millions of people who have seen the “Fight for Trump!” video on Twitter (or the 52,000 who have seen it on YouTube), don’t miss it, embedded below in both versions.  It is one minute and thirty-nine se...

  • December 19, 2020

    SCOTUS throws out lower-court decision halting Trump plan to exclude illegals from Census apportionment

    President Trump won one at the Supreme Court yesterday as six justices voted to dismiss a lawsuit against his plan to exclude illegal aliens from Census calculations for purposes of apportioning House seats.  The unsigned decision can be re...

  • December 19, 2020

    Anonymous source confirms Swalwell was having sex with Chinese spy Fang Fang

    It may be purely coincidental, but on the same day that House speaker Pelosi and Minority Leader McCarthy received an intelligence briefing on Eric Swalwell's relationship with Chinese spy Fang Fang, two highly regarded conservative journalists r...

  • December 18, 2020

    Gag-inducing media swoon over Biden naming 'Pothole Pete' Buttigieg as transportation secretary (if he takes office)

    It's actually amusing to see that propaganda media searching for anything remotely resembling actual qualifications for office in the background of Pete Buttigieg, named by Joe Biden as his transportation secretary, on the theory that he will be ...

  • December 17, 2020

    Scrutiny of her doctoral dissertation will make 'Dr. Jill Biden' wish she had stuck with 'Mrs. Biden'

    The real scandal around Joe Biden's second wife wanting to be called "Dr. Jill Biden" is not that people like Whoopi Goldberg incorrectly assume that she is a physician and recommend her for the position of surgeon general. ...

  • December 17, 2020

    Worthless awards: Spot the satire

    One symptom of the institutional rot that characterizes our ruling class and its organizations is the degradation of existing prizes and the proliferation of meaningless awards. For instance, the Nobel Peace Prize – formerly one of the most pre...

  • December 15, 2020

    Barr resigns: Everyone (except Biden) wins

    William Barr resigned as attorney general yesterday, clearing the way for appointment of a special counsel to investigate the crimes of Hunter Biden and any other matters that may arise from that investigation.  That "may arise" l...

  • December 14, 2020

    Cleveland Indians baseball team reportedly changing its name as pro sports continues to commit suicide

    According to David Waldstein and Michael Schmidt of the New York Times, the activist bullies have succeeded in intimidating yet another major league sports team into dropping a  Native American reference in its name.  I have ...

  • December 14, 2020

    MSM and Biden media team pitch a fit over suggestion Jill Biden stop using the title 'Dr.'

    When Joseph Epstein wrote an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal asking the wife of Joe Biden to stop using the honorific "Dr." before her  name, he hit a nerve, judging by the fierce reaction from the media flacks and even...

  • December 13, 2020

    Why did a Michigan judge issue order to conceal results of a forensic audit of Dominion voting machines?

    American Thinker and contributors Andrea Widburg, R.D. Wedge, Brian Tomlinson, and Peggy Ryan have published pieces on www.AmericanThinker.com that falsely accuse US Dominion Inc., Dominion Voting Systems, Inc., and Dominion Voting Systems ...

  • December 13, 2020

    Joe Biden ditches ‘healing’ and ‘unity’ talk to post picture of his dogs mauling a chew toy in Trump’s image

    Remember when a rodeo clown lost his career for daring to wear an Obama mask?  Joe Biden doesn’t even remember what state he’s in or who is wife is, so lessons about the dignity of the office of POTUS probably don’t stir any br...

  • December 11, 2020

    Melinda Gates is 'incredibly disappointed' that Trump is putting Americans first in line for COVID vaccine

    If ever you wanted proof that many if not most of our elites don't care about everyday Americans, watch what Melinda Gates said in response to CNN host Poppy Harlow yesterday when discussing President Trump's executive order giving her fellow...

  • December 11, 2020

    China's leaders understand all too well from their historical experience how to control America: Use compradors

    There is a very large, rich, and influential class of Americans who owe their wealth and standing to China, having mightily prospered through business ties to the Middle Kingdom.  Every educated person in China understands the way such...

  • December 10, 2020

    Trump: '... you’ll see a lot of big things happening over the next couple of days'

    If you pay close attention, it sure looks as though something is up.  I realize that conservatives have endlessly been disappointed by the failure of major scandals to result in serious investigations and revelations, much less cr...

  • December 9, 2020

    Nonlegal factors that SCOTUS justices might have to consider in deliberating Texas's lawsuit

    A lot of people were shocked when the Supreme Court agreed to hear the lawsuit by the State of Texas against Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania for allegedly exploiting "the COVID-19 pandemic to justify ignor...

  • December 8, 2020

    Liquidating America’s kulaks

    Small business owners in the United States constitute one the strongest bases of support for the Republican party and conservative causes. Is it purely coincidental, then, that Covid-19 restrictions imposed by Democrat governors and local officials a...

  • December 7, 2020

    Slippery Warnock dodges key issues in Georgia debate with Sen. Loeffler

    There can be no doubt that Raphael Warnock, a preacher, is highly skilled at self-presentation.  He is also a very slippery man, good at dodging awkward questions, a valuable skill for someone so radical running in a Southern state, even on...

  • December 7, 2020

    At last! Dominion voting machines being forensically audited

    Thanks to a court order by a judge in Michigan's 13th circuit, Dominion election equipment software and hardware in tiny (population: 23,000) Antrim County, Michigan is being examined by a team of experts brought in by the Trump lawyers....

  • December 7, 2020

    John Brennan on Fox News Sunday blatantly lies to Chris Wallace, who doesn't call him out

    To be honest, I didn't watch the much-hyped interview of former CIA chief, and now CNN contributor, John Brennan by Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday.  I detest both men and did not want to vomit on the TV or floor.  But my tha...

  • December 5, 2020

    FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith, who lied on Carter Page FISA warrant, may get a slap on wrist

    The comparison of the treatment General Flynn received from Special Counsel Mueller and what FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith is receiving from Special Counsel Durham is nauseating.  General Flynn was bullied, bankrupted, and threatened with per...

  • December 4, 2020

    Clinton gang insider spills sleazy secrets, savages Chelsea

    It begins.  With no prospect of Bill or Hillary Clinton resuming high office, one former key insider of the Clinton Machine is spilling his guts and telling very unflattering stories about the family business. Doug Band, who began as a W...

  • December 3, 2020

    China's bullying of Australia is both scary and ridiculous

    China, which aspires to shove aside the United States and become the world's hegemon, is very angry at Australia for its insistence on uncovering the truth about the origins of the Wuhan virus.  The Chinese are attacking Australia with ...

  • December 2, 2020

    Hypocritical dining-out LA County supervisor Sheila Kuehl is also part of federal corruption investigation

    By now, you probably are familiar with the hypocrisy of Los Angeles County supervisor Sheila Kuehl, who went out for a meal at her favorite restaurant hours after voting to ban outdoor dining at restaurants, after stating that outdoor ...

  • December 2, 2020

    CNN daily nightmare is unfolding courtesy of James O'Keefe and Project Veritas

    Appearing last night on Hannity, James O'Keefe joked about an advent calendar–like daily set of presents for CNN and its CEO, Jeff Zucker.  If you haven't heard already, Project Veritas has been recording telephone confer...

  • December 2, 2020

    South Dakota's Governor Kristi Noem fights back at CBS News

    South Dakota's Governor Kristi Noem is a rising star on the GOP and national political scenes — telegenic, forceful, conservative, and unafraid to stand up against the tide of propaganda demanding drastic shutdowns in the face of a seasonal...

  • December 2, 2020

    What nobody seems to have noticed in Barr’s appointment of Durham as special counsel

    Most media reports on the appointment of John Durham as special counsel, following the Associated Press account that broke the story, emphasize the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane probe as the focus. The current investigation, a criminal probe, ...

  • December 1, 2020

    The end of law & order: Over 2000 cops have been injured so far in the insurrection of 2020

    Thugs have been strengthened and law enforcement weakened to a remarkable degree in the insurrection of 2020. If you are a fan of dystopian anarchy, with the lawless helping themselves to whatever they want while the law-abiding citizenry cower in fe...

  • November 30, 2020

    Advice from a crook on disputing a crooked election: Blagojevich speaks

    Former Illinois governor and federal inmate Rod Blagojevich, whose sentence was commuted by President Trump early this year, knows firsthand the ways of corrupt big-city Democrats, as well as the ways of federal judges, prosecutors, and jur...

  • November 29, 2020

    We were warned in 2016 that tabulated results on Dominion voting machines could be manipulated

    It’s hard to understand why any state would use Dominion voting systems.  Way back in 2016, prior to the first election of Donald Trump, at a conference at the Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology in San Francisco on October 20...

  • November 29, 2020

    As expected, Pennsylvania Supreme Court throws out Trump team’s challenge to mail-in ballots

    The ball is now in the court of the Supreme Court of the United States, with the Pennsylvania Supreme Court throwing out a big victory for the Trump legal team. The top court of the Keystone State has a terrible track record, allowing changes in elec...

  • November 28, 2020

    Keith Olbermann says out loud what the fascist left is thinking

    When evil rages through large crowds of people, it has a hard time remaining silent.  Those intent on furthering crimes of historic importance have a hard time keeping their mouths shut.  Usually, it is the peripheral players with...

  • November 28, 2020

    Black BLM activists clash with white Antifa operatives over who gets to lead the movement

    "A lot of whiteness started seeping into the forefront. A lot of white voices started seeping into the front."  —Devin Boss, BLM leader in Portland, Ore. Leftist coalitions are inherently unstable, so it was only a ma...

  • November 28, 2020

    While media exult in Pennsylvania federal appeals court loss for Trump lawyers, a big victory in state court halts certification of presidential vote

    The propaganda media are trying to discourage Trump-supporters by reporting on court losses for the legal team and emphasizing what they characterize as disorganization among the hastily assembled teams of lawyers.  Don't fall for the p...

  • November 25, 2020

    Counterpoint: Tucker Carlson and the conservative circular firing squad

    See also: Sorry, Tucker, your outrage is too little, too late It’s no secret that I admire Tucker Carlson, an honest, brave, and extraordinarily insightful commentator whose Fox News program was, until recently, the most popular program on c...

  • November 24, 2020

    I am having a nightmare...and I can't wake up

    There is some good news today, but the nightmarish dimensions of the problems facing the American Republic are also coming into horrifying focus.  Alcoholics and others who embrace a 12-step solution to intractable addiction problems tell u...

  • November 23, 2020

    Et tu, Michael Connelly?

    I am accustomed and indifferent to insults hurled at me and my president by Hollywood airheads.  Many of the Trump-haters are mediocre talents at best (Kathy Griffin, for example) or well past their prime (Rob Reiner, Robert De Niro). ...

  • November 23, 2020

    Guess who warned about Smartmatic’s Venezuela ties in 2006!

    Perhaps the most dogmatic Trump-hating network of all was very concerned about Venezuela corrupting our elections via Smartmatic voting machines.  Yes, CNN! Watch this report from CNN, hosted by Lou Dobbs in his pre-FBN career, and repor...

  • November 21, 2020

    Every sheriff in Los Angeles region refusing to enforce Gavin Newsom's COVID curfew

    Sheriffs in five Southern California counties with a total population of 17.25 million people — equivalent to the fifth most populous state — are defying that state's governor.  They will not arrest people for violating the ...

  • November 20, 2020

    Democrats, scared straight by election results, poised to oust political boss of the nation’s most corrupt state

    One of the most significant emerging Democrat defeats appears to be underway in Illinois, where donkey state legislators – pols that escaped with their seats -- are scared of voters’ wrath over their party’s boss of bosses.  ...

  • November 19, 2020

    Gavin Newsom's apology for flouting his mask and social distancing regs make him the most obvious liar since Joe Isuzu

    I am enjoying the squirming of Nancy Pelosi's "nephew" (update: actually, related by marriage), California Governor Gavin Newsom, now that he has been exposed as completely disregarding the COVID guidelines he is trying to force ...

  • November 18, 2020

    Sign the petition telling state legislators to do their constitutional duty on election corruption

    A group of sophisticated lawyers has written a petition addressed to state legislators in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Georgia, and Arizona to exercise their constitutional duty and remedy electoral corruption in the 2020 presidential election....

  • November 17, 2020

    The great COVID 're-set'

    Thanks to the attention finally being paid to a speech last September by Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, those of us who see COVID being used an excuse to normalize authoritarianism and enact structural changes in the social and political...

  • November 16, 2020

    More Biden nonprofit hanky-panky: Cancer charity raised and spent millions on salaries and travel, zero for cancer research

    News of a second dodgy Biden-affiliated "charity" broke over the weekend, too late to inform voters of the nature of philanthropy as slush fund practiced by Democrats, ever since the Clintons showed the way in doing well by ostensibly doing...

  • November 16, 2020

    Schadenfreude overload

    The video you are about to watch will be the most satisfying minute and twenty seconds that you will spend today, at least as far as politics go.  It is labeled "instant karma," and that is the perfect title.  I am very ...

  • November 16, 2020

    James Woods exposes dozens of local news shows reading from the same (Biden) script

    See update below: It's no secret that I admire James Woods for his insight, artistry, and vigor.  His Twitter account (I don't yet see him on Parler) is a continuing source of inspiration for its concise, ofte...

  • November 15, 2020

    The Conservative Treehouse is being de-platformed

    An invaluable source of facts, documents, and analysis of the deep state and ruling class is being driven off its web platform. Techno-fascism looms. Sundance informs us today:  Most CTH readers are likely aware of the term “deplat...

  • November 14, 2020

    Jason Whitlock brilliantly explains how white liberals keep blacks subordinate and dependent on Democrats

    I confess that my jaw actually dropped in wonderment last night when Jason Whitlock appeared on Tucker Carlson Tonight (yes, still essential viewing — on Fox News) to explain the recent push to capitalize "Black" but not ...

  • November 13, 2020

    Fox Corporation shares down 12% since Election Day, 6% yesterday alone, since hopping on the 'Biden elected' media bandwagon

    Fox News Channel had a great market niche: half of the country, as the late Roger Ailes and Charles Krauthammer both quipped.  For reasons that only can be speculated on, the network that once was a safe harbor for conservatives n...

  • November 12, 2020

    WaPo, House Democrats, federal bureaucrats create fake news that USPS whistleblower 'recanted' testimony on back-dating ballot postmarks

    When a brave Postal Service whistleblower threatened to derail the plan to steal the election for Joe Biden, his testimony had to be discredited, so the plan could move forward.  Democracy dies in fake news. Psy ops — convincing th...

  • November 11, 2020

    The real story behind AG Barr authorizing investigations of vote fraud blows away the MSM narrative

    Even some of my most respected conservative correspondents have been taken in by pessimism over Attorney General William Barr's authorization of investigation of vote fraud.  The media cabal seeking to oust President Trump foc...

  • November 9, 2020

    James Woods knocks one out of the park with a devastating tweet on MSM declaring the race for Biden

    I was a big fan of James Woods's work as an actor[i] long before he started sharing his political views.  When I learned after 9/11 that he had warned of suspicious behavior on the part of young Arab men in the first class compartment o...

  • November 7, 2020

    AOC and other Dems' vows of vengeance on Trump-supporters ensure a fanatical fight to the bitter end

    Since antiquity, military commanders leading expeditions have burned their boats so nobody would be tempted to desert the battles ahead and head for the safety of home.  Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, by calling for list...

  • November 6, 2020

    The election coup plot, explained

    "Democrats have been thinking about this for a long time…" —Tucker Carlson, November 5, 2020 I fully expect that Twitter and Facebook will suppress circulation of this blog post, but so what?  The half of th...

  • November 6, 2020

    Sweeping GOP state legislature wins ensure redistricting control, cast doubt on Biden victory claims

    As J.R, Dunn quipped a couple of hours ago, “This is the first coattail election with no coat.”  President Trump drew a vast number of his supporters to the polls, and they paid attention to down-ballot races. How odd that the suspic...

  • November 5, 2020

    Democrats are turning on the NeverTrump Lincoln Project for its failure to deliver on promises

    A reckoning is coming for the turncoat former Republicans who founded The Lincoln Project and raised just under $100 million as of three weeks ago.  Instead of diminishing the share of Republicans voting for Trump, his share actua...

  • November 4, 2020

    Pelosi calls Amy Coney Barret an 'illegitimate' justice of the Supreme Court

    The Democrats are taking a wrecking ball to the Supreme Court as an institution now that they have lost effective liberal dominance of it.  For almost 70 years, since Brown v. Board of Education, the Supreme Court has acted as a super-...

  • November 4, 2020

    Dems get an early start on Pennsylvania chicanery

    Pennsylvania could become the crucial margin of victory for the presidential race–winner, and Republicans have ample cause for worry over Democrat cheating, particularly in Philadelphia, the state's largest city, where the D.A. is a Soros-f...

  • November 4, 2020

    Dems' hundred-million-dollar attempt to buy Lindsey's Graham's Senate seat fails

    Democrats, the party of the oligarchy, have failed miserably in their attempt to purchase the South Carolina Senate seat held by Lindsey Graham.  With 85% of the vote counted at this hour, Graham’s 12.6% margin over Democrat Jaime Har...

  • November 4, 2020

    We already know who lost the election: MSM pollsters

    A week and a half ago, pollster Frank Luntz... ... told Fox News on Thursday night that if poll predictions are wrong about the 2020 election between President Trump and Democratic nominee Joe Biden, his "profession...

  • November 4, 2020

    Dems' dream of adding states and packing SCOTUS shattered by likely GOP retention of Senate majority

    Our descent to banana republic status has been postponed.  My nightmare scenario was that the Democrats would gain the power to add D.C. and Puerto Rico as states and pack the Supreme Court with enough new justices to approve anything they ...

  • November 3, 2020

    Antifa gearing up for false flag violence disguised as Trump-supporters

    With merchants in Democrat-run cities boarding up their storefront windows, the possibility of serious urban violence is well understood.  As horrific as that could get (ask anyone who lives in Minneapolis), the progressive fascists appear ...

  • November 2, 2020

    Predictably, pundits and pollsters switch from propagandists to prognosticators and report 'tightening race' right before the election

    You can tell that most modern MSM polls and punditry are propaganda efforts, not genuine attempts to measure attitudes and predict voting behavior, because the same thing happens every four years.  Throughout any recent presidential campaig...

  • November 2, 2020

    Democrats have outsmarted themselves on mail-in voting and on election eve are having a Wile E. Coyote moment

    A sickening feeling is spreading among some of the smarter Democrats that they have royally screwed up their election strategy.  The plan that seemed so smart, once they realized that COVID was a golden opportunity to distract from Presiden...

  • October 31, 2020

    The greatest stunt of the 2020 election has now produced the most inspiring ad of the campaign

    Remember when a “Trump” sign, stylistically resembling the famous hillside “Hollywood” sign, suddenly appeared one morning along a busy Los Angeles freeway? Caltrans quickly forced its removal from the private land on which it...

  • October 30, 2020

    Desperate Dems limit attendance at Trump rally in Minnesota today to 250

    Minnesota’s 10 Electoral votes are up for grabs, remarkable in a state that has not supported a GOP presidential candidate for almost half a century. So desperate are the state’s governor Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison (a for...

  • October 29, 2020

    Hillary's back...and planning the Dems' revenge

    Almost four years of stewing in bitter anger has not softened the edges on Hillary Clinton.  Retreating to long walks in the woods and the comforts of Chardonnay has done nothing to mellow her out.  On the contrary, with her plast...

  • October 28, 2020

    Anti-lockdown riots convulse Italy as resistance spreads in Europe

    Europeans are in open rebellion over the reimposition of harsh anti–coronavirus lockdown measures.  Severe limits on personal freedoms have failed to arrest the spread of the China virus in Italy and Spain, as positive tests for the v...

  • October 26, 2020

    Europe's COVID second wave spike shows the futility of lockdowns and mask mandates, as well as the phoniness of the Dems' criticism of Trump

    I take no schadenfreude joy in the resurgence of the coronavirus in the European countries that have imposed drastic lockdowns and mask mandates.  The enormous costs — economic, medical and psychological — of locking up the popu...

  • October 25, 2020

    Consumer products giant P&G has bought into wokeness at the risk of alienating its customers

    Madness appears to be spreading into the executive suites of America, as corporations embrace woke politics at the grave risk of driving away customers. Andrea Widburg yesterday showed how a corporate services company, Expensify, is alienating millio...

  • October 25, 2020

    Biden’s most revealing gaffe yet

    Joe Biden has a well-deserved reputation as a gaffe machine, but an offhand comment yesterday in Pennsylvania while addressing a parking lot with a few cars in it, tells us exactly what we need to know about him at this precise moment.  Hill...

  • October 21, 2020

    Opening the schools now should be a key issue for Trump

    The secret is out: children are not vulnerable to the China virus and don't even risk spreading it to teachers.  There is no reason to keep schools closed.  The New York Public Schools prove the point, as even the New Yor...

  • October 21, 2020

    Lindsey Graham's opponent Jaime Harrison taught 'lobbying school' in Islamist Turkey

    Until now, the most notable thing about Jaime Harrison was his record-breaking fundraising for a Senate candidate: $57 million in the final full quarter of the year before the election.  In a state with just over 5 million people,...

  • October 20, 2020

    The fix is in for the final presidential debate

    President Trump will be silenced during the second and final presidential debate Thursday night if he tries to raise any issues that might be too uncomfortable for Joe Biden or the swamp that backs him.  There can be no question that the Co...

  • October 19, 2020

    Hold on to your hat: Hunter's hard drive roll-out this week is going to unleash a whirlwind

    See also: Things may soon get a lot worse for Hunter and Joe Biden President Trump may want to replace "YMCA" as the closing song for his rallies with Bachman Turner Overdrive's "You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet." Joe Bide...

  • October 18, 2020

    What the MSM TV coverage doesn’t show you at a Biden Potemkin rally

    Mainstream media coverage of Joe Biden’s campaign rallies depicts a false façade, giving an impression of a normal political event.  But the reality is as phony as the façades of prosperous villages that Catherine The Great...

  • October 17, 2020

    Beyond Hunter's MacBook: Email account of his ex-business partner reveals high-level Chinese group bought hidden access to Biden at the White House

    The evidence establishing a shocking pattern is now clear: Hunter Biden and his business partners sold access to Joe Biden when he was the Obama administration's point man on China.  This took place during the period when U.S. jobs were...

  • October 16, 2020

    NBC caved to 'enormous pressure' to make town hall a 'nightmare for Trump'

    Last night, NBC's Savannah Guthrie morphed from debate moderator into a vehement, partisan opponent during a town hall–style television program with President Trump, as Andrea Widburg and E. Jeffrey Ludwig chronicle this morn...

  • October 15, 2020

    Black Trump-supporter wearing 'Black voices for Trump' hat booted from Southwest Airlines flight after lowering his MAGA mask to eat peanuts

    Southwest Airlines has a BIG problem on its hands after a black passenger wearing a "Black voices for Trump" hat was ejected from a flight yesterday, allegedly for lowering his MAGA face mask to eat peanuts.  A tweet showing video...

  • October 15, 2020

    Biden campaign, MSM, and social media oligarchs all are signaling voters that Joe Biden's pay-for-play scandal with Hunter as bagman is a BFD

    The surest way to convince people that they ought to pay attention to something is to tell them they shouldn't be allowed to see it. About a century ago, when Boston had a municipal movie censor, producers vied to be "banned in Boston" ...

  • October 15, 2020

    Steve Scully suspended indefinitely by C-SPAN for lying about his Twitter account being hacked

    The man who was to have moderated a town hall-style debate tonight between President Trump and ex-VP Biden has been suspended from his job as C-SPAN’s political editor after admitting to lying about his Twitter account being hacked. The Associa...

  • October 12, 2020

    Lindsey Graham's opponent Jaime Harrison smashes all-time Senate fundraising record, outspending Graham by a huge margin

    If money can buy political votes, veteran Senator Lindsey Graham is toast.  His re-election opponent, Jaime Harrison, has raised more money in the third quarter of 2020 than any Senate candidate in history, outdistancing even Beto O'Rou...

  • October 12, 2020

    Masks and magical thinking

    I never fail to laugh at people wearing a mask while jogging, bicycling, or driving alone.  And I see a lot of them in my neighborhood populated largely by professors and professionals with degrees.  We may have the most superstit...

  • October 12, 2020

    Biden-Harris joint appearance in Arizona draws no spectators — as in ZERO attendees

    See also: In Arizona, Biden’s supporters left something to be desired Who are you going to believe — the polls or your lying eyes?  With apologies to Groucho Marx, we now have the answer to the question: "What if they he...

  • October 12, 2020

    Associated Press goes full Orwell, calling 'packing' of SCOTUS 'court reform'

    It is obvious from Joe Biden telling voters that they don't deserve to know if he plans to pack the Supreme Court that he and his handlers are terrified of a negative voter reaction to the plan.  Biden's remarkably stupid ...

  • October 10, 2020

    Biden accidentally reveals the mask con job

    Yesterday, while campaigning in Nevada, Joe Biden behaved spontaneously and demonstrated that he does not really believe masks offer protection against the spread of Covid-19.  The mask mandate that Biden proposes is useful for demagoguing Presi...

  • October 10, 2020

    Nobel Peace Prize is beyond a joke and now a mark of shame

    This year’s winner of the Nobel Peace Prize is a notorious scandal-ridden organization, guilty of heinous crimes for many years.  Instead of recognizing the magnificent achievement of President Trump and Jared Kushner in bringing together ...

  • October 9, 2020

    BLM rioters move into rich, liberal suburb as resident complains that they are supporters

    Affluent liberals deceive themselves that they will get a "pass" from violent radical revolutionaries if they sympathize enough with their causes.  The latest group to begin to learn the hard way lives in swing state Wisconsin. ...

  • October 7, 2020

    NBA caves! No 'Black Lives Matter' on courts and jerseys next year

    NBA commissioner Adam Silver casually let drop the bombshell news that the NBA will remove the name of the Marxist revolutionary organization Black Lives Matter from its basketball courts and player jerseys next season.  This comes followin...

  • October 7, 2020

    Latest white professor caught faking being black is hilarious

    Meet the unlikeliest oppressed black woman...ever. If being black is such a disadvantage in a "systemically racist" America, why are so many white people — particularly professors — getting caught posing as African-Americans?...

  • October 6, 2020

    Rescued from the memory hole: The disgrace that caused Biden to withdraw and slink away from running for president in 1988

    This video from 1988 is well worth 4 minutes of your time for several reasons. The Joe Biden of 32 years ago is a stark contrast to the doddering old man we see today.  It is really startling to see how animated and emphatic he was back ...

  • October 6, 2020

    The final four weeks of the campaign will be fought over re-opening the economy

    Sacrificing the economy, the education of our children, and our collective mental health for the purported purpose of slowing the spread of a disease that is survived by more than 99% of those under 70 who contract it is no longer tolerable, and Pres...

  • October 5, 2020

    Trump's COVID experience will re-define him and reset the election

    Rather than seal the doom of President Trump’s re-election battle, as most of his haters expect and not a few of his supporters fear, I see strong signs that President Trump will use his experience with COVID to redefine himself and act as an i...

  • October 4, 2020

    Antifa mob attacks Starbucks in Seattle

    Virtue signaling and political contributions to progressives haven’t bought any immunity from the mob for Seattle-based Starbucks. The global retail powerhouse offering strong coffee and caloric, caffeine-laced milkshakes has long been among th...

  • October 3, 2020

    The two most important videos you can see today

    With the news of President Trump’s Covid diagnosis and hospitalization dominating the news, it is easy to lose perspective. But in less than ten minutes, total, two videos help see through the haze. Re first video is only 30 seconds long, an...

  • October 2, 2020

    Gavin Newsom beclowns himself finding nonsensical excuses to keep California locked down

    California's Governor Gavin Newsom, who is Nancy Pelosi's nephew, is once again moving the goalposts in order to keep his state shut down, imposing irrelevant criteria to delay recovery.  He has become an economic troll.  ...

  • October 1, 2020

    Nobody should have been surprised by Chris Wallace's debate performance

    Despite the fulsome praise Fox News heaped upon him promoting its debate coverage, conservatives had few illusions about Chris Wallace going into the presidential debate.  Yet even those low expectations were disappointed by the dreadf...

  • October 1, 2020

    Presidential debates need less, not more structure

    Utterly predictably, the Commission on Presidential Debates, along with the grandees of the (progressive) mainstream media, has come to precisely the wrong conclusion on changes to the form of presidential debates, in the wake of Chris Wall...

  • October 1, 2020

    Associated Press stylebook revisions sugarcoat rioting and looting

    The stylebook published by the Associated Press was virtually the bible for journalistic writing until the past several years, an authoritative guide as to which terms to use and which to avoid in order to present the news fairly, without biasing rea...

  • September 30, 2020

    MSM inadvertently declare Trump the winner last night — by urging Biden to boycott next 2 scheduled debates

    It's crystal-clear that the media branch of the Democrat party thinks Joe Biden blew it last night and damaged his electoral prospects in the first of three scheduled debates with President Trump.  There seems to be pretty widespread co...

  • September 28, 2020

    Appeals court halts arbitrary extension of ballot-counting deadline by a federal judge

    The arbitrary rewriting of election laws and rules by partisan judges is but one of many tricks that Democrats are using to steal the election.  Federal judges in Wisconsin and Georgia and the state Supreme Court of...

  • September 28, 2020

    Report: No Durham report before election

    If this is true, the word "bitter" does not begin to describe my disappointment.  This is the worst news I've seen in a long time.  Maria Bartiromo, who has set the standard for reporting on the Russia hoax and assoc...

  • September 28, 2020

    Lindsey Graham promises 'day of reckoning' coming soon on Russia Hoax

    Senator Lindsey Graham told Maria Bartiromo that declassification is proceeding on revelations more damning than what has been known so far about FBI and Department of Justice misbehavior in launching the Russia probe; obtaining FISA warrants to spy ...

  • September 26, 2020

    Proof positive Kamala Harris is a lying phony

    Even in a profession known for phoniness, Kamala Harris stands out as remarkably fake.  We expect politicians to lie — "what a beautiful baby!" — but we also expect them to be reasonably skilled at it.  Being...

  • September 25, 2020

    Serbia and Kosovo agree to name disputed lake on their border 'Lake Trump'

    Nothing better symbolizes the peacemaking achievements of President Donald Trump than the reported agreement of Serbia and Kosovo to name a disputed lake on their border after the man who brought them together, overcoming centuries of conflict betwee...

  • September 25, 2020

    Joe Biden's 'lid' must be shifting his circadian rhythms to overcome 'sundowning'

    If you suspect that Joe Biden is suffering from dementia and that the very common symptoms known as "sundowning" are part of his illness, then his "mystifying" campaign schedule starts to make sense. The schedule that ...

  • September 25, 2020

    Sen. Dianne Feinstein's husband named as most 'problematic' instance in big admissions scandal at the University of California

    There is almost no national media attention to a large admissions scandal rocking the University of California, and (surprise!) the husband of a powerful Democrat seems to be at the center of the most egregious abuse. While the celebrity-filled ad...

  • September 24, 2020

    Dems hitting the panic button over Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on SCOTUS nominee

    The smarter Democrats realize that not only do Republicans have the votes to confirm a replacement for Ruth Bader Ginsburg, but that hearings on the confirmation threaten to be a disaster for them.  Expressing the bloodlust they f...

  • September 24, 2020

    RBG's daughter gives Dems another reason to hate Hillary

    One of the dark secrets of the Democrats is the degree of unspoken hatred against Hillary Clinton.  Get a couple of drinks into a fanatic Democrat partisan, and in all likelihood, you can elicit some of the anger and sense of betrayal again...

  • September 24, 2020

    Lefties at The Nation discover that (non-FBI) feds have been tracing the puppet masters behind Antifa and BLM

    Is an unexpected October Surprise on the way? They think it's a bad thing, but I give The Nation credit for reportorial digging.  The hard-left magazine has discovered that federal law enforcement agencies (though...

  • September 23, 2020

    As Romney and Murkowski back SCOTUS confirmation vote, Dems are giving up and focusing on demonizing yes-voting senators up for re-election

    Mitt Romney’s announcement that he will vote on President Trump’s nominee to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Supreme Court “based on their qualifications” is getting plenty of media attention. But for some reason, Alaska...

  • September 22, 2020

    Tucker Carlson broke seeming Fox News taboo last night, discussed Soros-funded DAs

    The status of news related to George Soros on Fox News gets curiouser and curiouser.  On September 16, Newt Gingrich was unceremoniously interrupted and silenced when he began mentioning Soros's funding the campaigns of r...

  • September 21, 2020

    Why Democrat objections to appointing a new justice won't fly

    The Democrats have a big problem in spinning all those pieties about "letting voters speak" before naming or confirming a new justice.  Only four years ago, President Obama nominated Merrick Garland late in his second term, and vi...

  • September 21, 2020

    Will the Dems be stupid enough to impeach Trump over carrying out his constitutional duties and appointing a justice?

    Normally, I would rule out the talk of impeachment of President Trump if he follows the dictates of Article 2, Section 2 of the Constitution, that the president "shall appoint ... Judges of the Supreme Court[.]"  Yet groundwo...

  • September 21, 2020

    Please spare me the maudlin rhetoric about Ginsburg's 'tragic' death

    The insufferable Chris Wallace of Fox News kept referring to the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg as "tragic" on yesterday's edition of Fox News Sunday.  While I am full of sympathy for her family, loved ones, and friends ...

  • September 21, 2020

    Is this the best Trump parade of all?

    Did anyone ever expect that parades — of bikers, of trucks, of boats among other vehicles — would turn out to be a popular vehicle for Trump-supporters expressing their enthusiasm for re-electing the president?  I know of no evi...

  • September 20, 2020

    Dems have just handed court-packing as a big election issue for the GOP

    The dimmer bulbs in the Dem chandelier are openly stating their intention to pack the Supreme Court should the party win the Senate and the Oval Office. This hands an opportunity to every GOP candidate for the Senate (incumbent or challenger) to put ...

  • September 19, 2020

    Biden stiffed local media in campaign visit to Duluth, Minnesota yesterday

    One of the principal benefits of a presidential campaign visit to the hustings is supposed to be the opportunity for the candidate to appear on local media, talking to locally prominent reporters and anchors who reach viewers who normally pay little ...

  • September 15, 2020

    Kamala speaks of 'a Harris administration together with Joe Biden'

    Was this a slip of the lip or a forthright acknowledgment of reality?  My guess is that her ego got the better of Senator Harris, who, after all, is used to assuming power through questionable exploitation of older men.  It must b...

  • September 14, 2020

    Thanks to Dems and their media allies, Trump-haters feel free to physically attack us

    I always used to wonder how it was that Germany allowed thugs in the street — Hitler's Sturmabteilung (SA) plus many spontaneously activated violent mobs and individuals — to operate so freely.  Prior to Hitler's takeove...

  • September 13, 2020

    Veteran Black and Jewish flight attendants sue United Airlines, allege major league sports team charter flights block them in favor of younger blondes

    If the allegations made in a lawsuit prove truthful, the very woke, 81% Black NBA and 70% black NFL team players apparently prefer young, blonde, Caucasian flight attendants, despite all their social justice rhetoric. Two flight attendants at United,...

  • September 13, 2020

    Startling anonymous post from a claimed Biden ex-staffer lays out the alleged depths of his dementia

    Normally, I would spurn the idea of citing an anonymous post that purports to contain inside information on a presidential candidate. But two factors currently weigh on my mind, causing me to make an exception. One is that MSM Trump-haters have no...

  • September 11, 2020

    Mueller Russia hoax prosecution team destroyed evidence of their cell phone text messages and calls

    The excuses being used for destruction of evidence by the Mueller team are about as plausible as a mob accountant purportedly committing suicide by shooting himself in the head three times.  The posse of Trump-hating prosecutors who sought ...

  • September 11, 2020

    Trump’s triumph with UAE-Israel accord has unleashed a ‘preference cascade’ of Middle East peace developments

    A dam has broken and our media are desperate to avert our eyes from it.  I am stunned at the succession of positive developments that has followed the announcement almost a month ago that the United Arab Emirates is normalizing relations with Is...

  • September 9, 2020

    Cuomo frantically blaming Trump for New York's COVID

    Desperate to deny the blood on his hands, a verbose politician goes low.  The governor of New York bears responsibility for thousands of deaths caused by his order sending COVID-infected patients into nursing care facilities, where they spr...

  • September 7, 2020

    California begs, feds respond with regulatory relief in the face of electricity shortage crisis

    Donald Trump's secretary of energy is helping rescue Gavin Newsom's California from its green power folly.  California's power supply is now at third-world levels of reliability, thanks to insane regulations that require unrelia...

  • September 7, 2020

    San Francisco allows government employees to use city-owned gyms while private gyms must stay closed

    Apparently, government workers are immune to spreading COVID while working out at a government-owned gym.  If not, then the closures enforced on private gyms are nonsense.  NBC Bay Area reports: For months, the city of S...

  • September 7, 2020

    Trump daring Dems to defend 'critical race theory' and 1619 project as he moves to suspend indoctrination in schools and govt agencies

    Democrats have made implicit promises to the radicals whose active support they need that they will back aggressive compulsory brainwashing sessions demonizing Caucasians and the American founding as fundamentally and inherently racist.  A...

  • September 7, 2020

    The curious case of the Trump-Biden cookie contest

    We've already known for a long time that this is an election like no other.  It's hard to find a lot of Trump 2016 voters who have switched to Biden, but pollsters have told us that Biden continues to enjoy a wide polling ...

  • September 6, 2020

    Video resurfaces of Biden saying he asked China for help becoming president

    There is far more evidence that China is interfering in our election to put Joe Biden in the White House than there ever was that Russia was backing Donald Trump in 2016 (or is backing him now). Properly handled, that evidence against Biden (and his ...

  • September 6, 2020

    20-year-old college student from wealthy elite family facing possible 4-year prison term for violent BLM rampage in Manhattan

    I feel no schadenfreude for the grim future awaiting a young woman named Clara Kraebber, though I do hope for the sake of the rest of us that she ends up in prison.  Far too many people, many of them young, college educated, and from affluent ba...

  • September 5, 2020

    Trump lays a trap for Dems with a first move against abusive, anti-White 'systemic racism' brainwashing sessions in federal bureaucracy

    A memorandum from Russell Vought, the director of the Office of Management and Budget, has opened a new strategic front in President Trump's re-election battle.  In 461 words (full text below, annotated with my comments), the...

  • September 4, 2020

    Suspicious IV drip-like bruise spotted on Biden’s hand in Kenosha heightens demands for drug tests before debates

    There is new evidence supporting President Trump's public call for drug testing before the all-important presidential debates. "He’s on some kind of an enhancement in my opinion," Trump told Laura Ingraham on Fox Ne...

  • September 2, 2020

    Progs furious at MSNBC's 'historic first' black weekday evening host, Joy Reid

    I understated the case when I called MSNBC's host Joy Reid an "embarrassing ignoramus" four years ago.  It's one thing to spout Hamas propaganda, get her facts all wrong about Hillary Clinton's...

  • September 1, 2020

    China’s bullying of Australia goes racial

    China has decided to make an example of Australia for complaining about its Wuhan virus plague and launching an official inquiry into its origins. In the latest escalation of tensions between the two nations, an article in the state-controlled, Engli...

  • August 31, 2020

    First Israeli commercial flight to UAE today signals vastly enhanced access to Asia and Australasia

    Until today, Israeli travelers heading east for business or pleasure had very few choices — a mere handful of flights to India, Hong Kong, Bangkok, and Seoul, none of them operated on a daily basis even before the pandemic.  Even wors...

  • August 31, 2020

    I sure hope Adam Schiff follows through on his threat to subpoena DNI Ratcliffe over congressional briefings

    Adam Schiff, who consistently lied about having clear evidence of purported Trump collusion with Russia, is setting himself up for more humiliation that he knows will be ignored by his MSM propagandist pals. Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., said Sund...

  • August 31, 2020

    Betting sites now rating Trump-Biden contest a tossup

    The odds offered on the presidential election by betting sites are the product of the betting decisions made by individuals putting their money behind their predictions.  They are not a substitute for polling data, but they are an interesti...

  • August 30, 2020

    Portland BLM crowd cheers news of murder of Patriot Prayer counterdemonstrator: ‘I’m not sad that a f**king fascist died tonight!’

    A pro-Trump demonstrator was murdered last night in Portland, as a BLM crowd cheered the news. While we will know a lot more after an official investigation, preliminary video evidence seems to indicate that the member of a group called Patriot Praye...

  • August 29, 2020

    Facts emerging on Jacob Blake shooting contradict the narrative that sparked riots

    It is stunning how many recent riots over purported racial injustice have been based on phony stories. Ferguson, Missouri was pillaged and burned over the false contention that Michael Brown was gunned down with his hands up (the Obama Justice Depart...

  • August 28, 2020

    Lefty media and pols have fallen into a Kyle Rittenhouse trap

    Kenosha shooter Kyle Rittenhouse already is turning into a nightmare for the progressives who immediately demonized him.  The seventeen-year-old boy who traveled to Kenosha with his semi-automatic rifle to defend property from mob destructi...

  • August 27, 2020

    Lefties trying to get Tucker Carlson fired over Kenosha commentary

    Last night provided more evidence that Tucker Carlson is the most important political commentator of the current crisis.  Ankle-biting critics, jealous of his status as host of the eponymous top-rated cable news show, seized upon perfectly ...

  • August 27, 2020

    Cornered murder suspect kills himself; mob accuses police of killing him and sets off looting downtown Minneapolis

    Last night offered a warp-speed example of mob violence triggered by utterly bogus charges of police misbehavior resulting in the sack of the premier shopping district of a major American city.  The disgraceful incident happened in Minneapo...

  • August 26, 2020

    Nick Sandmann speaks at RNC and CNN analyst (and former Clinton press secretary) takes the bait

    The Trump derangement syndrome pandemic continues to rage through the CNN staff, with a dangerous confirmed case popping up last night in the Twitter feed of Joe Lockhart, CNN analyst and former Bill Clinton press secretary. Most AT readers are fa...

  • August 25, 2020

    Tennessee enacts new law increasing penalties for criminal mob behavior

    In stark contrast to jurisdictions whose leaders have passively accepted rampaging mobs wreaking destruction on their citizenry, Tennessee has sent a powerful signal to wannabe insurrectionists, who have not neglected the Volunteer State.  ...

  • August 25, 2020

    Dem convention was another disaster for them, just like impeachment

    New polling data are confirming the ironic observation that the Democrats' angry, miserable convention resulted in a polling bounce — for President Trump.  Gallup confirms what Rasmussen first discovered. ...

  • August 25, 2020

    Dems no longer even bothering to hide their strategy to steal the election

    The evidence now is overwhelming that the Democrats are planning to throw the nation into a deep crisis following Election Day, in a cynical plot to steal a presidential election, and with it, control of Congress.  The plan isn't even h...

  • August 24, 2020

    Jack Cashill’s Unmasking Obama

    To my surprise, Jack Cashill's new book, Unmasking Obama, couldn't be more relevant to the political struggle facing us today.  In 2020, as in 2008 (and throughout the two Obama presidential terms), the key to political po...

  • August 24, 2020

    Portland's dress rehearsal for revolution now featuring a guillotine

    Yes, they want a bloody revolution, and in Portland, the dress rehearsal is underway.  Downtown has been sacked, and the revolutionaries have taken to the streets of residential neighborhoods, terrifying residents.  The messa...

  • August 24, 2020

    Kenosha, WI erupts in riots after police shooting of a black man

    Another American city is engulfed in violent chaos, having declared a state of emergency and imposed a curfew following the shooting of a black man that was recorded on a cell phone and inflamed racial tensions.  This time in Kenosha, Wisco...

  • August 23, 2020

    Snopes admits Dems did omit ‘under God’ from Pledge of Allegiance at DNC, but rates claim that they did so ‘mostly false’

    Who are you going to believe, Snopes or your lying ears? The Babylon Bee must be feeling the hot breath of Snopes on its neck, as the purported fact-checker beclowns itself in an effort to manufacture another “lie” that President Trump...

  • August 23, 2020

    From top to bottom, Dems’ principal 2020 strategy is fraud

    Dishonesty is the unifying theme of the 2020 election strategy of the world’s oldest political party. With a placeholder, visibly addled candidate at the top of the ticket, the signal to all down the ballot is that reality should be no constrai...

  • August 23, 2020

    Clear signs that food shortages are worrying China’s communist overlords

    Acceptance of the dictatorial rule of China’s Communist Party and its leader Xi Jinping depends on the party’s ability to keep delivering improving material prosperity. But suddenly, there are signs that an adequate food supply is in ques...

  • August 22, 2020

    Is Brennan going to skate in Durham's investigation?

    I confess that I had been hoping that former CIA chief John Brennan would serve as a kind of satanas ex machina, whose prosecution for his role in plotting spying against the Trump campaign and a coup against the Trump administration would revea...

  • August 21, 2020

    Goodyear hands a political triumph to Trump

    In terms of the reality TV show of the presidential campaign, Goodyear has caved in to Donald Trump's pressure and affirmed its support for law enforcement, handing a potent symbolic victory to his re-election effort.  The now notorious...

  • August 21, 2020

    Biracial Kamala's appeal to the Dems' African-American base?

    [Disclaimer: The author makes no pretense of speaking for African-Americans.  All who believe that racial heritage dictates the parameters of acceptable speech are cautioned to read no farther.  Any triggering that results from co...

  • August 19, 2020

    Dems' uneasy coalition already fracturing over DNC featuring a Palestinian anti-Semite Tuesday night

    Forget the happy talk of the mainstream media.  The Democrats are a coalition of mutually antagonistic factions, united only by their hatred of President Donald Trump.  They couldn't even keep a lid on the conflict between the...

  • August 19, 2020

    Devastating Trump campaign video portrays the dramatic mental decline of Joe Biden over the last few years

    The Democrats are hiding their radical platform and the party's capitulation to the Sanders-AOC socialists and instead touting the personality and purported character of Joe Biden as a guarantor of moderation. It's a phony appeal on two co...

  • August 18, 2020

    Democrats' virtual convention was embarrassingly bad television

    The political party that has a near-lock on donations and endorsements from the entertainment industry could not muster a tolerable video feed to take advantage of the two hours of free television coverage available to them last night.  The...

  • August 17, 2020

    How the Trump campaign will shift the narrative and win

    With the media and the Democrats completely dedicated to fictional narratives, from Trump calling neo-Nazis "fine people" to the wacky conspiracy theory that Trump is sabotaging the U.S. Postal Service in order to disenfranchise voters, the...

  • August 17, 2020

    The incredible shrinking Biden polling lead

    A brand new poll from CNN, not known for favoring anything about Donald Trump or Republicans, is shocking the Biden campaign.  It shows Biden's national lead among registered voters shrinking to 4%, down from 14% in early June....

  • August 15, 2020

    Mainstream media beclown themselves covering news of Kevin Clinesmith’s reported guilty plea

    A lot of people must be worried that former FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith reportedly will plead guilty to one offense, implying that he has cut a deal with prosecutor John Durham. Judging by the ridiculous coverage, progressive media heavyweights are p...

  • August 14, 2020

    Federal judge orders 'compassionate release' for jihadist who confessed to plot to behead Pamela Geller

    This is an outrageous instance of misplaced compassion.  Brooke Singman of Fox News reports: A federal judge on Thursday, citing the coronavirus pandemic, ordered the release, of a Rhode Island man who was sent...

  • August 14, 2020

    Yale defiant as Justice Department finds that it violated the civil rights of applicants with racial and national origin discrimination

    The United States Department of Justice has placed Yale University on notice that it has been found in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by discriminating on the basis of race and national origin, putting more than half a bil...

  • August 13, 2020

    Biden minion high-fives reporters covering campaign: 'We did it, guys'

    Joe Biden's handlers appear to have made the calculation that pretending the media are not on their side harms their campaign.  They are trying to sell so many illusions — that he is capable of performing the duties of his office ...

  • August 13, 2020

    Anti-police Black Lives Matter demonstrators harassed, driven out by local residents in crime-ridden Southside Chicago neighborhood

    Well financed activist groups descended in a car caravan on the crime-ridden Englewood neighborhood (42 deaths this year and counting), intending to demonstrate in front of the local police station.  Englewood is where a 20-year-old was sho...

  • August 12, 2020

    Fairfax County, Virginia public schools tell parents not to hire tutors because it is unfair to kids whose parents can’t afford them

    If you had any doubt that hard-left ideologues run government school systems in many (most?) places, take a look at Fairfax County, Virginia's most populous county, with over a million residents, one of the richest counties in the United States w...

  • August 11, 2020

    Schoolteachers worrying about parents overhearing their brainwashing of students in online classes

    The teachers' unions might want to re-think their opposition to re-opening schools, given the priority some of them place on ideological indoctrination that can't withstand the scrutiny of parents.  Hank Berrien of Th...

  • August 11, 2020

    Trump’s approval rate among black likely voters hits 36% in Rasmussen poll

    Could 2020 be the year that the Democrats’ lock on 90%-plus of the black vote is broken? Like you (in all probability), I keep thinking that I’ve had this hope for decades now, and it has always been dashed when the votes are counted. ...

  • August 10, 2020

    NPR station boots weatherman off air for comparing Seattle riots to Kristallnacht in Nazi Germany on his personal blog

    Don't you dare compare the ideologically motivated mobs attacking and destroying shops and other property in Seattle with the ideologically motivated mobs that attacked and destroyed Jewish-owned shops in Nazi Germany during Kristallnacht ("...

  • August 10, 2020

    Bezos discovers that $17 million doesn't buy much protection from the mobs

    Nobody has benefited more from the riots destroying retail stores in major cities than Amazon, which has seen the brick-and-mortar competition shrinking even faster than before.  And the company, founded by Jeff Bezos, has not been shy abou...

  • August 10, 2020

    Whistleblower steps forward to expose how Carter Page was targeted as basis for wiretapping Trump campaign and Gen. Flynn targeted for destruction

    The 2016 presidential campaign of Donald Trump was targeted by an international conspiracy of top-level spies, working in concert to generate phony evidence of Russian involvement so as to provide a legal basis for electronic spying on it. ...

  • August 9, 2020

    Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential run erased from memory at the New York Times

    Hillary Clinton’s loss of the 2016 presidential election to Donald Trump was so traumatic for members of the Democrat elite that a form of PTSD appears to have taken hold, relegating all memory of the candidacy itself to amnesia. That’s t...

  • August 9, 2020

    Portland cops using Alinsky tactics on rioters

    Here is one more reason to respect and love the brave men and women of the Portland Police Bureau, standing up for 72 straight nights of riots destroying the formerly lovely downtown of Oregon’s largest city. They have not only kept their sense...

  • August 8, 2020

    Schools shocker: 6 possible reasons why NY Dems Cuomo and Schumer suddenly support reopening

    When two powerful Democrats suddenly reject the position of the teacher unions and support the position argued by President Trump, we know that something's up.  Andrew Cuomo's and Chuck Schumer's abrupt switch of position to sup...

  • August 7, 2020

    Progressive privilege: Lefties making excuses for two lawyers arrested for Molotov cocktail firebombing of police car in Brooklyn

    Forget about the purported "white privilege" over which the left obsesses, the genuinely privileged class in America's big cities consists of radical progressives, who flout mask requirements at mass demonstrations, deface public proper...

  • August 6, 2020

    Ilhan Omar’s opponent endorsed by her city's dominant newspaper

    Newspaper political endorsements are almost meaningless in the internet era, but this one is different. The StarTribune is the largest newspaper in Minnesota and s with almost all metropolitan dailies, the Strib is progressive and supports Democrats....

  • August 6, 2020

    Facebook and Twitter censor Trump campaign post on children and coronavirus

    The Silicon Valley tech titans are blatantly interfering in politics by taking down a video excerpt posted by the Trump campaign in which President Trump correctly noted that children are “almost immune” to coronavirus. In point of fact, ...

  • August 6, 2020

    After 75 years, it’s time to for everyone to admit the Hiroshima atomic bombing saved millions of lives

    As some readers may know, my first career was as a scholar of Japan. I earned three advanced degrees related to the subject at Harvard, taught it at Harvard and Columbia Universities, and have been a visiting professor at Japan’s preeminent ant...

  • August 5, 2020

    AOC Redux: St. Louis voters defeat 10-term machine incumbent, hand Dem nomination for Congress to radical Ferguson riots leader Cori Bush

    Like her friend and ally Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Cori Bush defeated an incumbent machine Democrat for the Democrats' nomination for Congress in a heavily blue district.  Come November, a new member of Congress will be elected to join ...

  • August 4, 2020

    Prison officials denying prescribed lifesaving medications to Obama-targeted Steve Stockman

    The plot to kill former rep. Steve Stockman is unfolding before our eyes.  Unjustly convicted of campaign finance violations (three grand juries refused to indict him), imprisoned in a federal facility with a very high rate of COVID-19 infe...

  • August 3, 2020

    Dems and media pushing Trump = Hitler and Mussolini as never before

    There is more than a whiff of desperation in the re-emergence of the thermonuclear bomb of hysterical rhetoric, that President Trump is just like (or even worse than!) Hitler.  Never mind the absence of death camps — the very fact tha...

  • August 3, 2020

    Nevada Dems push mail-in voting and ballot-harvesting through State Assembly on strict party-line vote

    Democrats are not taking any chances that Nevada's recent turn to Democrats will hand them the state's six electoral votes in November.  The State Assembly there just passed legislation to send mail-in ballots to every voter and all...

  • August 2, 2020

    Minneapolis surrenders to the criminals

    Residents of the Third Precinct area of Minneapolis have been told by their beleaguered police department: “Be prepared to give up your cell phone and purse/wallet,” the police said in their email, a copy of which was obtained by...

  • August 1, 2020

    The plot to assassinate former Rep. Steve Stockman proceeding apace

    As I warned 9 days ago, conservative champion Rep. Steve Stockman appears to have been targeted for assassination while in the custody of the United States Bureau of Prisons, the same agency that managed to let Jeffrey Epstein meet his maker before c...

  • July 31, 2020

    Details emerging about fatal shooting of BLM ‘protester’ in Austin, TX are stunning

    The leftist outrage machine treated the fatal shooting of BLM “protestor” Garrett Foster last Saturday night in Austin, Texas with the customary spin, compete with a touching picture from Facebook of the deceased with his fiancé. B...

  • July 29, 2020

    Jim Jordan laid out the best-ever explanation of the seditious plot to spy on Trump's campaign and take down his presidency

    Rep. Jim Jordan's opening statement for the House Judiciary Committee's hearing yesterday was as superb as the behavior of the Democrats was disgraceful.  In just under seven minutes, he laid out the way the plotters spied on candid...

  • July 28, 2020

    Dems starting to panic that voters will blame them for riots

    Despite the best efforts of the propaganda media (aka, MSM) to sanitize  as “mostly peaceful” violent, property-destroying and federal agent-blinding demonstrations that have engulfed Portland, Seattle, and other cities, the American...

  • July 27, 2020

    Video of the day: Teen opens his first paycheck, is stunned to see taxes deducted

    The video below is close to but distinct from schadenfreude, because while I enjoy the utter dismay, I sympathize with the teenager who has discovered the extent to which government grabs money away from those who earn it.  Welcome to the c...

  • July 23, 2020

    Someone is trying to kill conservative crusader Steve Stockman

    Former rep. Steve Stockman (R-Texas), a conservative champion unjustly convicted and imprisoned on questionable campaign finance charges, faces what amounts to the death penalty thanks to outrageous behavior within the Federal Bureau of Prisons. D...

  • July 22, 2020

    Google blacklists American Thinker and reverses it after its blacklisting of conservative sites is exposed

    Yesterday, what Google calls a "technical error" exposed a blacklist of multiple conservative sites, including American Thinker.  After the blacklisting became obvious and generated commentary among conservative publicat...

  • July 18, 2020

    Huge Illinois utility paying $200 million to settle bribery case implicating the real boss of Illinois politics, House Speaker Michael Madigan

    Anyone who understands politics in the corrupt state government of Illinois realizes that the power of Michael Madigan, Speaker of the state House of Representatives since 1983 except for two years, dwarfs that of the state’s governor.  He...

  • July 17, 2020

    If we are going to cancel art-honoring racists, it's time to get Margaret Sanger’s bust out of the National Portrait Gallery

    Idaho congressman Russ Fulcher is targeting a racist with more African-American blood on her hands than the entire Confederate Army: Margaret Sanger.  She expressed a desire to limit African-American births in order to "improve" t...

  • July 17, 2020

    Kayleigh McEnany is so effective that the MSM is now lying by deceptively editing her comments

    Yesterday saw a new low in irresponsible media reporting on a briefing by a presidential press secretary.  Many media outlets outright lied about what Kayleigh McEnany said by cutting her off mid-sentence in a comment on schools reopening, ...

  • July 14, 2020

    MSNBC host dumbfounded as his panel of pediatricians unanimously support schools reopening

    Here is a half-minute of pure political pleasure for conservatives — and parents of school-age children.  With many European countries already re-opening schools, and with science (!) telling us that otherwise healthy children almost ...

  • July 14, 2020

    NY Times editor and columnist Bari Weiss resigns and blasts paper

    Ever since the New York Times fired opinion editor James Bennet for daring to publish an op-ed by Senator Tom Cotton supporting the use of military force to quell urban riots, the handwriting has been on the wall for his former colleague, Bari Weiss....

  • July 13, 2020

    Did saying 'all lives matter' to a group of blacks get a mother of a young child shot and killed?

    The demonization of the commonsense expression "all lives matter" has reached the point of lethal violence against those who utter it, if an eyewitness account of a murder in Indianapolis is true.  This deeply distressing story of...

  • July 10, 2020

    Big city police forces being denuded of working cops

    Big-city police forces are being depopulated rapidly, so much so that the announced goal of defunding them may be almost beside the point.  As was widely reported yesterday, retirement applications from New York City police have surged...

  • July 9, 2020

    Oregon politician’s hate crime hoax blows up in his face

    Anti-racism has degenerated from a worthy cause into a fraudulent sickness on a mass level. An epidemic of fake hate crimes – 394 separate incidents have been documented – is fanning anger and fear among people who are persuaded by lies a...

  • July 9, 2020

    The sack of Portland

    With very little national media attention, the beautiful city of Portland, Oregon has been under siege for over a month, with rioters and looters nightly clashing with police, destroying property, desecrating monuments, and helping themselves to prop...

  • July 8, 2020

    New head of news at NBC-Universal openly promises to discriminate against Caucasians

    After just over a month in his new job as head of the newly formed NBC-Universal News Group, combining NBC News, MSNBC, CNBC, and all streaming operations, Cesar Conde is making news himself.  In a video and memo to the approximately 3,000 ...

  • July 7, 2020

    Kayleigh kicks butt

    Yesterday's White House press briefing will not soon be forgotten by the newsies there, who still must be experiencing painful tenderness when sitting down.  The appointment of Kayleigh McEnany as White House press secretary has been a ...

  • July 5, 2020

    Ten reasons why Trump’s ‘National Garden of American Heroes’ is such a brilliant move

    Once again, President Trump has outwitted his opponents and forced them to fight on a playing field tilted toward his goal. His executive order establishing a “National Garden of American Heroes” and his speech (transcript here; video her...

  • July 3, 2020

    Schadenfreude: Rachel Maddow edition

    There's being wrong, which anyone can be, but it takes a kind of genius to be so spectacularly, comically wrong that your attachment to reality comes into question. Rachel Maddow once-upon-a-time topped the cable news ratings, back when the ha...

  • July 2, 2020

    It's time for atheists and progs with Darwin bumper stickers to get rid of their white supremacist dog whistles

    It's time to invoke Alinsky's Rule Number Four ("Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules") on those smarmy atheists, progressives, and Jesus-haters who drive around with Darwin bumper stickers and emblems on the back of...

  • July 1, 2020

    Tucker Carlson, now officially the king of cable news, delivers historic challenge to GOP

    Tucker Carlson now has the highest ratings of any program in cable news history, adding extra weight to his historic program last night, in which he laid out the peril ahead if Biden wins and a clear strategy for the clueless GOP to follow in or...

  • July 1, 2020

    Under oath, officials admit to harvesting organs from babies born alive with 'beating hearts'

    The nightmare is no product of imagination.  It is real: infanticide for the purpose of organ-harvesting is real.  Madeline Osburn of The Federalist reports on shocking new video of deposition testimony under oath confir...

  • June 30, 2020

    Official Dem Twitter account claims Trump's Independence Day celebration at Mt. Rushmore 'glorifying white supremacy'

    The Democrats are intoxicated with their own racism rhetoric, endlessly repeated by their propaganda arm, the mainstream media, and enforced by the mobs that threaten any dissenters with physical harm.  They have no fear of letting it all h...

  • June 29, 2020

    DA charges violent protesters in Oklahoma City with 'terrorism,' 'rioting,' and 'assault'

    The damage by Mayor Jacob Frey of Minneapolis, who withdrew police from his city's third precinct and allowed rioters free rein, extended across the nation.  The message was clear: it was open season for violent thuggery as long as it w...

  • June 29, 2020

    Why is Fox offering a platform to racist Jew-hater Louis Farrakhan?

    At the very moment that "hate speech" is being censored in social media and the past words and behavior of anyone in the public eye are being scrutinized for signs of bigotry, Fox Corporation, the parent of Fox News and many other broadcast...

  • June 29, 2020

    Flynn targeted for destruction because he wanted to investigate Brennan's 'off the books' billions of dollars at CIA?

    Sidney Powell, the tenacious lawyer who corrected the judicial abuse of her client, General Michael Flynn, is reminding us that she and her client believe he was originally targeted for destruction because he was aiming to investigate what he believe...

  • June 28, 2020

    It turns out that putting homeless people in luxury hotels in San Francisco isn’t such a good idea

    Who could have predicted that serious problems would follow upon housing homeless people -- often with criminal backgrounds, drug problems, and mental health issues -- in San Francisco luxury hotels? Actually, it looks like the city officials respons...

  • June 28, 2020

    CNN picked the wrong person to interview about police and BLM

    What’s a CNN host to do when confronted with a guest who doesn’t accept The Narrative? In the case of Don Lemon interviewing former Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke, the answer is: tell him to “keep it down,” refuse to...

  • June 28, 2020

    Judicial Watch uncovers emails showing Ben Rhodes and aides joking about Benghazi lies

    Judicial Watch once again has proven to be invaluable (donate here) in uncovering official perfidy. This time, its Freedom of Information Act lawsuit has uncovered utterly appalling levity among top Obama foreign policy aides over their lies to the p...

  • June 28, 2020

    Minneapolis City Council members who voted to abolish police are now getting private security protection paid for by taxpayers

    It’s Animal Farm time in the People’s Repubic of Minneapolis. Perhaps the most famous line in George Orwell’s classic allegory about pigs leading other farm animals in a revolution against their human masters applies to the City Of ...

  • June 28, 2020

    Princeton caves to the mob, erases the name of Woodrow Wilson from its graduate school of public affairs

    Renaming fever has reached the upper division of the Ivy League as Princeton throws in the towel and renames a graduate school, while Yale begins to fear pressure to drop the name of slave trader Eli Yale from its global brand. Brian Pietsch reports ...

  • June 26, 2020

    MSNBC poised to give the weekday PM time slot of Chris Matthews to hateful Joy Reid

    MSNBC must believe that there’s not enough racial hatred in the country if the many media reports about it handing a plum time slot to Joy Reid are true. Joe Concha reports in The Hill: MSNBC weekend host Joy Reid is reportedly ...

  • June 26, 2020

    California Dems slate voter referendum on repeal of prop 209 ban on official racial discrimination

    Capitalizing on the moral panic over “systemic racism,” the California State Senate yesterday surpassed the 2/3 majority required to submit a constitutional amendment to voters in November repealing the state’s landmark Proposition ...

  • June 24, 2020

    Blatant official racial discrimination: County orders white people to wear masks in public, exempts 'persons of color'

    Madness is in the air, with mobs terrifying guilt-ridden government officials, corporate leaders, educators, and the heads of all our significant institutions into violating previously sacred principles in an effort to prove their wokeness. ...

  • June 23, 2020

    Timing is everything in handling the insurrection

    While I respect Carol Brown and value her insight, and even share her sense of frustration that the left seems to have taken the initiative when it comes to action, I disagree with her blog post today, "President Trump, ...

  • June 22, 2020

    Smartypants HBO comedian John Oliver owes President Trump a deep apology for mocking his prophecy that just came true

    John Oliver embodies the mentality of the elitists who look down on President Trump and his supporters as ignorant buffoons even better than his HBO colleague, Bill Maher.  The very people whose self-regard is dependent on their academic cr...

  • June 21, 2020

    UN ‘experts’ tweet out Antifa flag and expresses ‘profound concern’ over US designation as ‘domestic terrorists’ – and then hide tweet

    The overpaid UN “experts” in Geneva apparently forgot that under President Trump, the United States is no longer going to stand for abuse from them while paying their bills. Even though the World Health Organization is their neighbor in t...

  • June 19, 2020

    Cutting off donations to my alma mater

    Henry Wickham, Kenyon College class of 1972, has agreed to share with readers a letter he wrote to our mutual alma mater, which we both have watched get captured by the left.  We both decided to stop donating to the college after being appa...

  • June 19, 2020

    Fauci falls, fumbles forbidding football

    It's been a long way down for Anthony Fauci, M.D. — from virtual dictator of a nation under virtual house arrest (and purported sex symbol) to laughingstock caught lying and blaming the public for his fall. Fauci finally fessed up t...

  • June 18, 2020

    Tucker triumphant

    Tucker Carlson is the most important journalist working in America, and, thankfully, the public has caught on, making him not simply the ratings champion of cable news, but on Monday the top rated program on all of television, cable, and broadca...

  • June 17, 2020

    Schadenfreude overload: Progressive, BLM-supporting mayor of Olympia, WA calls riots 'domestic terrorism' after her home is vandalized

    Mayor Cheryl Selby of Olympia, Washington just got her consciousness raised.  Her hometown newspaper, The Olympian, reported last Friday: On Friday night, two groups converged in downtown Olympia, and some became destructive, burn...

  • June 17, 2020

    As American politicians cower before BLM, they get a lesson in courage from...France

    I am sick at heart that our entire political leadership is cowering before mobs of vandals seeking to destroy our collective memory of the past.  But now we see mob rule imitating the tactics of the Red Guards of China's Cultural Revolu...

  • June 17, 2020

    A vast left-wing conspiracy suppressing conservative voices includes Google, NBC, and a shadowy foreign group

    Remember when the progressive media feigned concern over foreign influence on our elections? Now, just months before a critical election, they are conspiring with foreign groups to destroy conservative publications, with the assistance of Google, the...

  • June 16, 2020

    They're already joking about guillotines in CHAZ/CHOP

    It is all too easy to laugh off the insurrectionists who have grabbed a few blocks of Seattle's Capitol Hill, built border walls, and declared it an "Autonomous Zone" (CHAZ), now re-branded by at least some there as an "Organized P...

  • June 15, 2020

    Atlanta DA considering murder charges against police officer who shot Rayshard Brooks

    The mob demands a scalp in Atlanta, and the Fulton County district attorney is telling the media he may give it to them, the facts be damned.  The mayor of Atlanta, Keisha Lance Bottoms, a V.P. nomination contender, didn't need to ...

  • June 15, 2020

    Seattle's cowardly capitulation contrasts with 4 other cities putting down attempts to establish 'autonomous zones'

    Seattle's Mayor Jenny Durkan has muscled aside Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey for the title of most cowardly and ineffective clueless wuss to lead a major American city.  She ordered the cops to surrender a precinct to the mob and then pe...

  • June 15, 2020

    Anti-police madness metastasizes as SF mayor plans to send in social workers in their place

    San Francisco's Mayor London Breed is setting up her city's social workers for potential bloodshed, offering a series of "reforms" that even her former police commissioner calls "pure political pandering."  Socia...

  • June 14, 2020

    Trump admin rolls back Obama’s rule that sex is determined by ‘identity’ not biology

    While the progressive media are preoccupied with rioting and race baiting, the Trump administration Friday rolled out a very important administrative change that under different circumstances cold have sparked riots of its own.  Daniel Payne of ...

  • June 13, 2020

    Judge rules against Jussie Smollett’s attempt evade prosecution for his faked hate crime

    Jussie Smollett and his lawyers tried pulling a fast one on Lady Justice by claiming he had already faced trial once when state's attorney Kim Foxx pulled a fast one and let him skate on charges related to his staged hate crime and the subsequent...

  • June 12, 2020

    Biden's keepers must regret letting him out of his basement as he drifts off into incoherence and commits multiple gaffes in one public appearance

    Will Joe Biden remain caged in his basement for the rest of the campaign, speaking only via edited video performances?  There is a strong argument for his puppet masters to do so, given his inability to maintain mental focus and coherence, ...

  • June 10, 2020

    'Build bridges not walls' mayor of Portland, OR changes his mind and builds wall around City Hall

    Mayor Ted Wheeler of "sanctuary city" Portland, Oregon has gone well beyond hypocrisy and now is deep into his posterior-on-the-line territory with lasting consequences.  Seeing Seattle (less than three hours away by car) dev...

  • June 10, 2020

    'Defund the police' creating deep rift between two key Dem constituencies, Hispanics and blacks

    The mainstream media will never cover the emerging political confrontation between the two ethnic minorities the Democrats are counting on to propel them to a permanent majority, blacks and Hispanics.  The riots and "mostly p...

  • June 9, 2020

    Epic video rant by black woman unable to loot cell phone store because it's guarded by 'Ayrabs'

    A Chicago woman, evidently frustrated by armed guards at a local cell phone preventing her acquisition of new equipment during the recent rioting, tells us a lot about the state of thinking in the riot-American community.  She's not showing ...

  • June 8, 2020

    Progressives’ post-riot program: No cops/more cowbell

    The calls for defunding or even abolishing the police are self-evidently ridiculous and suicidal. But even more ridiculous are the proposed substitutes for replacing the thin blue line. In Minneapolis, where the movement has a super-majority of the C...

  • June 6, 2020

    Joe Biden's mental decline sadly evident twice yesterday

    How will Joe Biden be able to handle presidential debates?  Or campaigning beyond his basement?    I almost hate to point this out because I do have compassion for anyone facing the mental challenges of aging.  B...

  • June 4, 2020

    'Abolish the police!'? What happened when a major American city tried that a century ago

    Nothing better reveals the depth of the madness afoot in the land than the demands to defund or completely abolish the police.  It's bad enough for airhead celebrities, something worse for the formerly prestigious New York Tim...

  • June 3, 2020

    Gretchen Whitmer has her ‘let them eat cake’ moment

    Michigan’s Governor Gretchen Whitmer has become a laughingstock for imposing draconian lockdown restrictions on her constituents while her own family violates them. Her husband was caught red-handed demanding special treatment because of his wi...

  • June 3, 2020

    And the winner is…

    There is one big… wait, make that yuuge winner in the sacking of major American cities that has been underway since mobs started with looting Target in Minneapolis and spread all the way to Macy’s Herald Square flagship in Manhattan and ...

  • June 2, 2020

    Conflicting autopsies complicate the trial of Derek Chauvin for death of George Floyd

    The independent autopsy of George Floyd commissioned by his family and conducted by a team including renowned pathologist Dr. Michael Baden conflicts with the results of the official Hennepin County medical examiner. The Star-Tribune rep...

  • June 2, 2020

    These black lives don't matter, as far as the national media are concerned

    The death of George Floyd has convulsed the nation for a week now, the literal flames fanned by the national media.  But a far larger — and ongoing — death toll of (mostly) young black men in Chicago slain by gang warfare gets a...

  • June 1, 2020

    It's an insurrection, no longer just protests

    See also: It's time for Trump to come out and take command The Republic is in the greatest peril since the Civil War.  A grand coalition of its enemies is taking advantage of the weakness and frustration created by the lockdown of th...

  • May 31, 2020

    Daughters of Minnesota Governor Walz and Congresswoman Ilhan Omar tweeting support and helpful advice to rioters

    The acorn, as the saying goes, does not fall far from the tree. Daughters of two of riot-torn Minnesota’s highest profile office holders have been on Twitter offering encouragement and support to the forces rampaging there. Yaacov Apelbaum d...

  • May 31, 2020

    Maine’s Governor Janet Mills pulls the rug out from under restaurant owners she had okayed to reopen

    Maine restaurant owners are going to have a lot of rotting food and idled staff on their hands, after their governor suddenly reversed a decision to allow them to re-open on June 1st.  Having made the mistake of trusting their state governor, Ja...

  • May 30, 2020

    Denmark and Finland have re-opened schools with no increase in Coronavirus cases

    Panicky state officials have overreacted to fears of coronavirus, imposing huge unnecessary costs on us. Beyond the massive economic damage of closing down workplaces, the closure of schools is imposing a cost on the future of our children, costing t...

  • May 29, 2020

    Ocasio-Cortez exposes her profound ignorance of the subject she got an honors degree in at Boston University

    Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is the worst kind of ignoramus: one who thinks she is knowledgeable and pontificates on subjects she does not understand. She is becoming a 21st century Congressional version of the 1950’s comedian, “Professor Irw...

  • May 29, 2020

    Wimpy Minneapolis mayor abdicates responsibilities, imitating former Baltimore mayor who offered rioters ‘space to destroy’

    Watching the Minneapolis Police Department’s third precinct come under attack and burn at the hands of rioters, with zero resistance from the police, horrified me last night. Mayor Jacob Frey acted even more irresponsibly than former Baltimore ...

  • May 28, 2020

    A harmonic convergence of villainy in Minneapolis

    People in Minnesota are waking up in shock over the widespread fires and looting in Minneapolis, a city previously best known for its beautiful lakes and parks and thriving collection of large corporations that have pledged to give 5% of th...

  • May 27, 2020

    MSNBC phony mask-shaming busted on live TV

    If you love seeing progressive, phony propagandists devastatingly embarrassed, this video, less than a minute in length, is a moment to save and savor.  And send to your friends who are cowering in fear of encountering a mask-free human bei...

  • May 26, 2020

    Dems re-branding their plan to steal the election

    Apparently "voting by mail" is not working well for Democrats in their focus group testing, as they push for changes that will make stealing the 2020 election easier.  Pretty much everyone has received mail destined for other people, s...

  • May 26, 2020

    Guess who is being blamed for COVID-19 now

    China and one fifth of respondents in England agree, according to recent reports.  It's the old reliable, blame 'em for everything group. That's right: The Jews! It was only a matter of time. Via the Jerusalem P...

  • May 25, 2020

    Chris Wallace and Jonah Goldberg savagely attack Kayleigh McEnany

    White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany has rocketed to superstar status in just a few short days in that office, turning the tables on the hostile media she faces in the briefing room shooting gotcha questions at her.  She refuses to ...

  • May 25, 2020

    Lockdown is generating hordes of aggressive rats denied their usual food sources

    Despite the fantasies of the utopian left, there is no repealing the law of unintended consequences.  Close restaurants and halt the flow of garbage that rats treat as their supermarkets while laying off the people who normally would be gua...

  • May 25, 2020

    Good news: Ric Grenell won't return to Berlin as US ambassador

    Having proven himself a gutsy, crafty, fearless warrior able to engage and stare down the worst the Deep State has to offer as acting DNI, bigger things lie ahead for Ric Grenell than a return to his "mere" ambassadorship to the dominant po...

  • May 23, 2020

    Latest warmist scheme: Record ‘climate change’ as cause of death on death certificates

    Perhaps inspired by the success of Coronavirus fearmongering in impoverishing the formerly prosperous West, global warming enthusiasts are beginning to agitate to list “climate change” as the cause of death on death certificates. The wide...

  • May 22, 2020

    Vote fraud scheme in Philadelphia busted, judge of elections pleads guilty to aiding Democrats

    Now that Democrats are pushing universal mail-in ballots, making vote fraud easier than ever before, we are repeatedly hearing the false claim that "there is no evidence of widespread vote fraud" from Democrats.  Just yesterday, I...

  • May 22, 2020

    Propaganda organs of the left hard hit by lockdown

    The nation's blue-state governors seem to be far more enthusiastic about lockdowns than their red-state counterparts, perhaps because they recognize that the small businesses being driven toward extinction are a key component of the GOP base....

  • May 21, 2020

    Mandatory vaccination for coronavirus gains support from ’civil libertarian’ Alan Dershowitz

    The media, computer modelers, epidemiologists, and the censors keeping dissenting views off of social media have succeeded in terrifying much of the political class and the American public into accepting far-reaching suspensions of civil liberties in...

  • May 19, 2020

    Media heads explode after Trump reveals he's taking hydroxychloroquine

    President Trump reignited the media firestorm over his endorsement of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) as a prophylactic against and treatment for coronavirus, revealing in response to  question that he is currently taking the drug and has been doi...

  • May 18, 2020

    Stand with Australia against China's attempt to punish it for demanding an inquiry into coronavirus origins

    China is targeting Australia, the first nation to demand an official inquiry, with boycott threats in an attempt to squelch overseas demands for investigation of its responsibility for creating and spreading the coronavirus.  It perceives A...

  • May 18, 2020

    Chicago mayor declares war on church that held services, collateral damage hits neighbors

    Chicago's Mayor Lori Lightfoot may have exempted herself from her own prohibition on haircuts, but she made and carried out drastic, and probably illegal, threats against a church that announced its plans to hold Sunday services yesterd...

  • May 15, 2020

    The other secrets inside Grenell’s satchel are the key to the biggest political scandal in US history

    That satchel that Acting DNI Ric Grenell personally delivered to the Department of Justice on May 7, 2020 was far too big for just a list of the 39 Obama administration officials, including his chief of staff and ambassador to Italy.  Those high...

  • May 14, 2020

    Extreme lockdowns finally running into constitutional limits

    Two state supreme courts have stepped up to constrain abuse of civil rights in the name of fighting an epidemic.  The concept of a "state of emergency" can be used to suspend constitutional limitations on the powers of g...

  • May 14, 2020

    MSM pretending Dem pols unmasking Flynn is no big deal, not even worth mentioning

    The biggest political scandal in the history of the Republic is finally being exposed, and the dominant corporate media are pretending nothing usual is going on.  The unmasking of the unmaskers of General Flynn's telephone call is the camel...

  • May 13, 2020

    Judge Sullivan refuses to dismiss Flynn case, opens door to outside interests submitting amicus briefs

    Judge Emmet Sullivan, whose disdain for General Michael Flynn led him to ask prosecutors if they had considered charging him with treason in a hearing last December 18, is twisting himself into a pretzel in order to avoid throwing out Flynn...

  • May 13, 2020

    Democrats' 'Heroes Act' amounts to confession of their plans to exploit the pandemic and keep themselves in power forever

    "Never let a crisis go to waste" is the motto of the ghouls who populate the modern Democrat party, those eager exploiters of misery.  The party that supported slavery and welfare policies that lure and trap the poor into multigen...

  • May 12, 2020

    Grenell's latest declassification a strong hint that Obamagate prosecution will include spying on Trump campaign

    The true scope of the Obama administration's abuse of federal law enforcement and national security organs to spy on political enemies is going to come out as part of the Durham investigation.  That's the implication of a move by In...

  • May 11, 2020

    Obama reveals himself as an appalling legal ignoramus

    It has always been a lie that Barack Obama was a distinguished constitutional law scholar, a professor of law at the University of Chicago.  In fact, he was a lecturer brought in to teach a class on his theories of race and law, and he neve...

  • May 11, 2020

    It's come to this: University of California law school sues over San Francisco homeless health hazard

    San Francisco may have plenty of money to provide alcohol, cigarettes, and even marijuana to homeless people being housed in hotels, but meanwhile, the number of people living on its streets has multiplied by 300%, despite housing...

  • May 11, 2020

    Politico: Special election tomorrow may hand Dems 'unthinkable' defeat in House race

    Politico has never been known as a cheerleader for Republicans, so when it headlines, "Democrats are on verge of the unthinkable: Losing a swing district in California," you know that the donkeys are facing a humiliating and symbolical...

  • May 10, 2020

    AP revises its stylebook to outlaw the use of the word ‘mistress.’ Hilarity ensues

    When it comes to dictating how the news shall be presented to the American public, the Associated Press stylebook plays a key role, and has for many decades.  Among other functions, it tells reporters and their editors which terms are to be pref...

  • May 10, 2020

    Remember when Gov. Kemp was excoriated for re-opening Georgia? Are you wondering how that has worked out?

    It was just over 2 weeks ago that Georgia’s Governor Brian Kemp was a monster with blood about to be on his hands for greatly loosening the restrictions on residents of the Peach State? Even President Trump joined in, criticizing this move as r...

  • May 9, 2020

    Blue suicide: Dem governors will pay a huge price in November for unnecessarily long lockdowns

      Some of the most populous states in the country — blue states dominated by Democrats — plan to continue the economic carnage of full lockdowns for a long, long time.  Gavin Newsom of California promises no return to normal...

  • May 9, 2020

    Face plant: MSM figures use comedian Jimmy Kimmel as source to falsely attack Mike Pence and get humiliated by Ted Cruz

    We are at a point in our national political conversation where lies are the principal propaganda tool of the left, and prominent mainstream media figures rely on a comedian's fake criticism (since apologized for) to score points against the Trump...

  • May 9, 2020

    Matt Gaetz calls out Trey Gowdy

    Generally speaking, I am not a fan of internecine warfare on the right.  But there are questions that need answering.  When the GOP controlled both houses of Congress, why weren't subpoenas issued that could have exposed what ...

  • May 8, 2020

    Dems respond to Flynn exoneration with the Big Lie strategy

    The biggest political scandal in American history finally is unwinding as documents are declassified and prosecutors and grand juries do their work.  Lies that have been told by James Comey, Adam Schiff, James Clapper, and others are being ...

  • May 6, 2020

    Tucker Carlson explains the reasons for doubting Tara Reade’s story

    While my inner troll is delighting in Tara Reade exposing the moral bankruptcy of the Democrats’ phony “Believe all women” stance only when political enemies are accused, I am a skeptic.  And I fear that her efforts will help t...

  • May 5, 2020

    NYC cop union head demands an end to enforcing social distancing

    The utter insanity of releasing criminals from jails to reduce the spread of the Wuhan virus while arresting those who fail to observe social distancing recommendations is self-evident to the cops on the street who must carry out the policies. ...

  • May 5, 2020

    When will the Democrats pull the plug on 'Plugs' Biden?

    If we presume that Joe Biden's pace of mental decline does not reverse direction, the Democrats will be stuck with an embarrassment leading them into disaster in November.  Unless there is vote fraud on a massive scale, Americans will n...

  • May 1, 2020

    Increasingly looks like Biden is toast

    See also: Joe Biden, the necessary Dem sacrifice The awful truth is dawning on too many Democrats: Joe Biden is too ravaged by mental infirmities and is too compromised in his treatment of women to be able to hold together their coalition and aver...

  • April 29, 2020

    China in diplomatic hole over COVID-19 responsibility, keeps digging

    China is badly bungling its diplomatic response to its responsibility for unleashing COVID-19 on the world, and the consequences for its ambition to become the world's hegemon will be profound.  As you may have seen, when Australia anno...

  • April 29, 2020

    Joe Biden appeared to fall asleep during Hillary Clinton's endorsement of him

    I am actually sympathetic to Joe Biden in this instance.  Whenever I start to hear Hillary Clinton's grating voice, I desperately want to be somewhere else.  But when he was on camera with Hillary Clinton finally endorsing him...

  • April 28, 2020

    Fox News dumps Diamond & Silk as lefty media exult

    Two exultant, full-throated voices in support of President Trump apparently have been banished from the airwaves of Fox News, Fox Business Network, and the Fox Nation subscription video streaming service that is endlessly promoted in place of adverti...

  • April 27, 2020

    How much is an elder's life worth?

    I am one of the purportedly most vulnerable among us, elderly and with chronic lung problems, so I appreciate all the sacrifices the rest of society are making to protect my life.  But even as an ostensible beneficiary of the lockdown, I wo...

  • April 26, 2020

    CNN’s fake maps are the counterpart to its fake news

    While anyone can make a mistake, CNN has a remarkable pattern of hilarious errors when it comes to basic geography, the kind of thing most of us learned in elementary school, at least when it comes to the map of the United States. Google “CNN g...

  • April 26, 2020

    Sunday Schadenfreude: No way out for Democrats stuck with senile Biden as #MeToo allegations cannot be suppressed

    Democrats have painted themselves into a corner with Joe Biden now the presumptive nominee.  I see no easy way out of the mess that has been created by assembling a coalition of mutually antagonistic grievance groups, while simultaneously assuag...

  • April 25, 2020

    Leak of sealed evidence in the Michael Flynn case points to a high-ranking deep state operative as a key to the Russia hoax conspiracy at DOJ and FBI

    General Michael Flynn was the first victim of the conspiracy of senior officials at the CIA, DOJ and FBI to unseat President Trump, and a leak about court-sealed new evidence in the legal case against him, under review by a US Attorney, upon close an...

  • April 24, 2020

    Tucker Carlson goes full Alinsky on McKinsey for outsourcing manufacturing to China

    Tucker Carlson spent the first 15 minutes of his show last night decrying the loss of so much of our manufacturing base to China.  That concern has spread from the already devastated Rust Belt to the coastal habitats of the elites now that ...

  • April 24, 2020

    Trump-supporting black Dem Georgia state rep changes his mind, won't resign and will face primary challenge

    Vernon Jones, a black Democrat who has represented heavily black, suburban Atlanta District 91 in the Georgia House of Representatives since 2016, endorsed President Trump on Tuesday: "It's very simple to me. President Trump...

  • April 22, 2020

    Michigan governor Whitmer caught red-handed politically exploiting pandemic to gather voter data and enrich lefty campaign operatives

    Gretchen Whitmer tried to pull a fast one on voters by using taxpayers' money to hire a hard-left political consulting firm to operate a public health project that would generate valuable political data.  Unfortunately for her, she got ...

  • April 22, 2020

    CNN and Chris Cuomo stage an utterly fake event to dramatize a phony re-emergence from quarantine

    CNN has discarded any remaining shreds of credibility by planning and then broadcasting a totally bogus event aimed at portraying its most politically connected host as some kind of hero.  What makes this exercise in propaganda so stunning ...

  • April 22, 2020

    It's time for a reckoning for China and its compradors

    The Wuhan virus has ended the game China has been playing for the past three decades to rise from Marxist-rooted poverty to the world's biggest manufacturer.  Virtually all of the world's advanced economies and many of the less deve...

  • April 21, 2020

    Trump campaign goes for the jugular with new ad: 'Let them eat ice cream — Nancy Antoinette'

    No doubt, NeverTrumps are clutching their pearls over the visceral new campaign ad released under President Trump's imprimatur.  It certainly isn't gentlemanly the way George W. Bush was; it's primal in its attack on Nancy Pelos...

  • April 20, 2020

    An Earth Day reckoning? Greenies panicking over the discrediting of computer models predicting disaster

    We have learned the hard way that the scientists who produce mathematical models predicting disaster are not to be granted the presumption of infallibility.  Nor are their demands that we impoverish ourselves in order to avert a disaster a ...

  • April 19, 2020

    Fanatic named Osama arrested, finally denied bail after second anti-Christian hate crime – trying to burn down a church with people inside

    Osama E. El Hannouny makes no secret of his hatred for Christians and Christianity. Last November, he was charged with 14 misdemeanor counts of criminal damage to property and possession of cannabis after slashing the tires of cars parked at a Baptis...

  • April 19, 2020

    It’s come to this: CNN’s Brian Stelter tweets about crawling in bed and crying over pandemic

    When the going gets tough, some crawl in bed and cry, and then share their feelings with a many people as possible. There are lots of words for such types, but none of them connote strength, much less heroism in the face of adversity. So, I had the c...

  • April 19, 2020

    Law prof, former US Attorney, and NBC News analyst can’t fathom grass roots lockdown protests, so offers bizarre conspiracy theory

    The leftist mindset apparently can’t accept that Americans all over this land spontaneously would rise up in protest over being locked down, impoverished, and denied their civil rights over fears of an epidemic whose effects are heavily concent...

  • April 19, 2020

    Where in the world is Kim Jong Un?

    Is Kim Jong Un incapacitated or dead from Coronavirus? The question has to be asked after the North Korean dictator failed to appear – as he and his predecessor have always done – at the most important holiday commemoration in the North K...

  • April 17, 2020

    Joe Biden drifts off into incoherence in MSNBC softball interview, as wife Jill tries hard to look unconcerned

    Do Democrats really believe that they can push to victory a presidential candidate who is incapable of one full minute of coherent discourse, even in a friendly environment? With more than half a year before Election Day, Joe Biden is rapidly mentall...

  • April 14, 2020

    Coronavirus pandemic has exposed flaws in medical education

    The battle against a viral epidemic has been handicapped by another epidemic: the spread of “social justice” as an overweening concern of academia, including medical education. Writing in the Wall Street Journal, Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, a f...

  • April 14, 2020

    Progressive heads exploding after Trump claims he, not governors, has the authority to re-open the country

    Donald Trump knows that the media covering his daily briefings on the Coronavirus need a story to obsess over and hurl insults at him. No matter what he and his team say, it is certain that media coverage will find something outrageous to fulminate a...

  • April 10, 2020

    PBS implies beloved humor icon may have died of coronavirus when that could not be the case

    Lots of people and institutions have an ideological and financial stake in hyping panic over the death toll from the coronavirus.  The CDC has even admitted to fudging so as to maximize the reported death toll.  But noth...

  • April 10, 2020

    AG Barr offers big reveals on Spygate prosecutions

    I know that a lot of people are skeptical that justice ever will be done in Spygate, the attempted sabotage of a presidential campaign and presidency by a leadership cabal within the intelligence apparatus of the United States.  But the whe...

  • April 5, 2020

    WHO senior official warns against ‘profiling’ China for lack of transparency

    The UN’s World Health Organization now stands exposed as a propaganda arm of the communist dictatorship of China, and a pathetic mouthpiece for the clichés favored by identity politics mavens in the United States. Zachary Evans of Nation...

  • April 3, 2020

    Mueller report suppressed evidence exonerating Trump

    Unfortunately, the shocking revelation that the Mueller Report misled the American people by omitting important evidence exonerating the Trump campaign of collusion with Russia will go mostly unnoticed with everyone focused on the pandemic. John Solo...

  • April 2, 2020

    Coronavirus shutting down printing of 60 newspapers...for starters

    The shutdown of normal activity due to the coronavirus pandemic is accelerating many structural changes that already were underway in the economy. Now there are signs that the declining newspaper industry, where layoffs continue, may see the shutteri...

  • March 31, 2020

    Trump-haters' heads exploding in the wake of his masterful Rose Garden coronavirus briefing yesterday

    President Trump is redefining himself as a wartime president, boldly acting to sweep away obstacles and mobilizing government and business to fight together to get us up to speed in overcoming a threat nobody anticipated.  Yesterday's W...

  • March 24, 2020

    A simple question nobody wants to answer: What percentage of coronavirus hospitalizations and deaths are accounted for by the homeless?

    Almost everyone acknowledges that the homeless population is at great risk of coronavirus, but so far as I have been able to determine, nobody is telling us the percentage of the hospitalized cases and the deaths are accounted for by that same popula...

  • March 21, 2020

    Stunning! Hillary Clinton thanked by Chinese diplomat for criticizing Trump as racist over ‘Chinese flu’ label

    Hillary Clinton has chosen sides, and she is so firmly enlisted in the Chinese propaganda effort to evade responsibility for foisting the COVID-19 virus on the world that an ambassador from that country has publicly endorsed her on Twitter in the nam...

  • March 20, 2020

    Political tectonic plates are shifting as media and other Dems start praising Trump’s crisis management (and as his polls rise)

    Political tectonic plates are shifting as progs like Ilhan Omar start praising Trump's crisis management (and as his polls rise). At first, the growing wave of praise for President Trump's handling of the coronavirus catastrophe seemed lik...

  • March 20, 2020

    WaPo refuses to call out Biden’s lie, fact checker writes that he ‘described his stance inaccurately’

    The Jeff Bezos propaganda organ that formerly was a leading national newspaper has decided to toss all vestiges of its credibility into a bonfire of Trump derangement, using Orwellian language to cover for Joe Biden, its best hope to defeat the Orang...

  • March 16, 2020

    National Security Council and White House debunk rumors of a national lockdown

    No, the United States is not going into a national lockdown, confining everyone to home, where people survive on whatever food and other supplies they may have at hand.  But rumors of such a drastic approach, one that would create shortages...

  • March 14, 2020

    Ingredients of COVID-19 mega-disaster brewing in Syria as Erdogan threatens to push Syrian refugees into Europe

    You could not concoct a worse scenario for a pandemic catastrophe than what is unfolding Syria.  Start with a regime that depends on troops sent from Iran, where satellites detect trenches being bulldozed for bodies felled by the plague of ...

  • March 7, 2020

    New study shows sea level rise has been slow and a constant, pre-dating industrialization

    For those who seek to panic the public into handing control of all economic activity to the state, the prospect of rising sea levels inundating coastal cities has been the most useful tool.  By propagating the theory that your SUV...

  • March 6, 2020

    Jaw-dropping idiocy from MSNBC News anchor and NYT editorial board member

    The degraded state of the American mainstream media was in full view last night on MSNBC’s The Eleventh Hour, hosted by serial fabulist Brian Williams.  Tucker Carlson of Fox News often makes snide remarks about the sheer stupidity of the ...

  • March 5, 2020

    Whoopi Goldberg falls victim to Jill Biden

    Two prominent progressive women were discredited yesterday in an incident that reveals stunning levels of phoniness in the Democrat-media complex. A woman by the name of Caryn Johnson has become a major force in shaping the political opinions of m...

  • March 4, 2020

    Super Tuesday: So much schadenfreude, so little time

    The sudden revival of Joe Biden's prospects for the Democrats' nomination reflects desperation on the part of their base.  Until James Clyburn signaled to black voters that he was their guy, he was regarded as a lost cause. ...

  • March 4, 2020

    Iran is bungling coronavirus as supreme leader tells populace it may be a blessing

    The medieval theocrats who rule Iran with an iron hand may be helping the coronavirus fulfill its potential as an uncontrollable epidemic.  Yesterday, Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei sought to calm what must be mass concern by appearing in publ...

  • March 2, 2020

    Parker Solar Probe provides more reasons why global warming is not a settled science

    The Parker Solar Probe has already gone closer to the sun than any spacecraft and is the fastest human-made object ever.  It has discovered many things about the sun that scientists didn't know, including that solar ...

  • March 2, 2020

    Bloomberg wasted millions more in his 'roadblock' multi-network 3-minute TV ad last night

    The former New York mayor had absolutely nothing to offer beyond what President Trump has already done on the coronavirus.  But he did film his expensive commercial in front of a set that was modeled on the Oval Office, apparently intending...

  • March 1, 2020

    Has Chris Matthews been purged from MSNBC?

    Last night, MSNBC’s Chris Matthews was nowhere to be seen on that network’s South Carolina primary coverage, lending substance to Don Surber’s contention that he is being “purged” for “being a counter-revolutionary...

  • February 29, 2020

    Ocasio-Cortez touches her hair and face several times while warning people not to do so because of coronavirus

    "Do as I say, not as I do" could be the motto of the progressive Left.  Think jet-setting politicians who warn the rest of us to minimize our carbon footprint.  But rarely do we get such an immediate demonstration of the...

  • February 29, 2020

    Chuck Schumer quietly deletes his tweet criticizing Trump's China travel ban as 'premature' and 'war against immigrants' (updated)

    In what amounts to a plea of "guilty" to the charge of being full of crap and criticizing President Trump no matter what he does, Senator Chuck Schumer has deleted his February 5 tweet reading: "The premature travel ban to and from ...

  • February 28, 2020

    Democrats are deranged, demoralized, and at each other’s throats

    The Democrats are at their lowest point since the outbreak of the Civil War. Derangement by definition means acting in self-destructive ways, and mass derangement, specifically Trump Derangement Syndrome, is the animating force behind a large share o...

  • February 27, 2020

    Ilhan Omar is getting so obnoxious, she could swing Minnesota red in November

    The Democrats' poster girl for America-hating could swing Minnesota's ten electoral votes to President Trump in November.  Representative Ilhan Omar now obviously enjoys trolling Republicans, perhaps lulled into complacency by the M...

  • February 27, 2020

    Bernie Sanders is hiding critical heart health information

    What would happen if the Democrats' nominee is incapacitated or worse between July and November 3?  It's an important question — as serious as a heart attack.  I wish Bernie Sanders nothing but continued good health, b...

  • February 26, 2020

    Re-election campaign for Kim Foxx, the prosecutor who let off Jussie Smollett, scores $2 million backing from George Soros

    It's like a harmonic convergence of progressive villains.  Rachel Hinton of the Chicago Sun-Times reports: A political action committee founded by liberal billionaire philanthropist — and Donald Trump nemesis — George S...

  • February 24, 2020

    Buttigieg campaign claims Dems botched Nevada caucus count, demands hold on announcing results

    Pete Buttigieg desperately wants to claim second place in the Nevada caucuses in order to be the non-communist alternative to Bolshie Bernie, as the party gets the vapors over the possibility of disaster with Sanders dragging down the entir...

  • February 24, 2020

    Trump's triumphal visit to India has all the right people worried

    It's unfortunate that live coverage of President Trump receiving what the AP calls "adulation from a massive, colorful crowd" of 125,000 took place during the wee hours of the morning for most Americans.  But th...

  • February 23, 2020

    Can Bloomberg ever recover from his disastrous debate debut?

    Michael Bloomberg is at the crux of a battle of clichés. America may be the land of second chances, but you never get a second chance to make a first impression. The level of saturation of Bloomberg’s television advertising actually i...

  • February 21, 2020

    Bloomberg openly plans to win the Dems' nomination by a brokered convention in Milwaukee

    The pieces are falling in place for a complete debacle for the Democrats, up to and including a convention walkout and riots if Michael Bloomberg's plans to gain the nomination succeed.  Under that scenario, an embittered radical wing o...

  • February 19, 2020

    Clinton-appointed federal judge resigns...for behaving in office like Bill Clinton

    President Trump and Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell have one more judicial vacancy to fill, if they can act in time.  A federal judge in Kansas who was appointed by Bill Clinton has tendered his resignation, effective April 1, for se...

  • February 18, 2020

    Watch as Victor Davis Hanson destroys Bloomberg for his ignorant remarks denigrating the skills and intelligence of farmers

    Victor Davis Hanson is the perfect person to refute the arrogance of former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg, who denigrated the "gray matter" needed by farmers in now infamous remarks to a group of elitists at Aspen.  Hanson is n...

  • February 17, 2020

    Bribery is at the heart of Bloomberg's political career

    Make no mistake: Michael Bloomberg is buying off opposition with money, usually in the form of charitable (and therefore tax-deductible) or political contributions to voices that otherwise would oppose him.  It's totally legal, but also...

  • February 17, 2020

    Fears mount of 'a complete disaster' in Nevada Dem caucus voting

    Having discredited itself with utter (and very public) incompetence in tallying up the Iowa caucuses, the Democrats are reportedly on the verge of another disaster in Nevada.  Politico headlines: 'A complete disaster': Fea...

  • February 16, 2020

    Brave CNN talking head admits on Avenatti, ‘‘I feel kind of snookered because I took him seriously’

    So far, only one prominent MSM television pundit has passed the test of basic integrity that the guilty verdict against Michael Avenatti poses for his former fanboys and fangirls on CNN, MSNBC, and the alphabet networks.  Jeffrey Toobin, CNN...

  • February 16, 2020

    Bloomberg is buying up so many campaign operatives that down-ballot Dem campaigns unable to find staff

    The Law of Unintended Consequences is once again surprising liberals, and this time it has nothing to do with misguided social or tax policy. Michael Bloomberg’s willingness to spend lavishly on his presidential campaign, offering much higher c...

  • February 15, 2020

    Bloomberg’s money sowing the seeds of destruction of the Democrat party

    Right before our eyes, a mega-billionaire is buying the presidential nomination of a political party, and oddly enough, it is the party that decries inequality of wealth and whose leading lights debate taxing billionaires out of existence.   ...

  • February 15, 2020

    Bigshot Dem gets 'nearly 5 year' sentence recommendation from fed prosecutors for 'broad range of criminal acts' that dwarf Stone's

    Eat your heart out, Roger Stone.  A very prominent Democrat, Catherine E. Pugh — former mayor of Baltimore and majority leader of the Maryland State Senate — is getting a sentence recommendation a bit more than half of what you ...

  • February 14, 2020

    Reuters reports that Xi told officials to scale back coronavirus countermeasures to avoid damaging its economy

    China is rapidly redefining itself as a rogue nation, too dangerous to stay in bed with as an integral part of the world economy.  Reuters, no ally of the anti-globalists and populists shaking up politics in the U.S., the U.K., and elsewher...

  • February 13, 2020

    Trump and Barr are playing rope-a-dope with Dems on Stone sentencing

    Because they are obsessed (and deranged with TDS), Democrats are utterly predictable in their reactions to the statements and actions of President Trump and his key allies like A.G. Barr.  Taking to Twitter with his public objection to the ...

  • February 12, 2020

    MSM going for new record: 4 major outlets run fake news stories in only 10 hours yesterday

    The mainstream media have so debased themselves that their attacks on a candidate can actually drive support to the target.  This has already happened among Republicans, only 15% of whom express trust in the media.  The ...

  • February 12, 2020

    New Hampshire primary: So much schadenfreude, so little time

    It's a glorious morning for Republicans.  The implosion of the Democrats' party continues, and karma has come calling for two of its most obnoxious candidates, once touted for their purported ability to rid the country of the Orange...

  • February 9, 2020

    As Dems head for implosion in November, a few warning and positioning to pick up the pieces

    Trump Derangement Syndrome is a real phenomenon, a mental ailment leading people (and political parties) into self-destructive behavior. So frenzied are Democrats that they embrace policies most Americans reject and candidates who are unelectable. Th...

  • February 7, 2020

    Five reasons why Democrat turnout will be depressed while GOP turnout will be high in November

    Because the American electorate is rather evenly divided between Republicans and Democrats, turnout becomes the key to electoral success in November.  While a lot can happen in nine months, there are five factors that I see discouraging Dem...

  • February 4, 2020

    The Democrats' nightmare scenario is unfolding before our (and their) eyes

    Karma is knocking on the door at the Democratic National Committee's Washington, D.C. headquarters.  The party of the plutocracy masquerading as the savior of the underclass, a coalition of grievance-fueled identity groups not completel...

  • February 4, 2020

    Milwaukee's Democrat Convention host committee is imploding, too

    The Democrats' chaos in Iowa may be just a foretaste of what lies ahead when the party convenes its convention in Milwaukee July 13.  Well before Sanders-supporters get a chance to make good on their threat that "Milwaukee will bur...

  • February 3, 2020

    Steve Bannon lays out a shocking scenario of the real reason behind Bloomberg's investment of $2 billion in politics

    If Steve Bannon is correct (and I think he probably is), Michael Bloomberg has no intention of occupying the Oval Office; his real plan is far more devious and frightening.  Bloomberg is investing a small fraction of his fortune (Bannon say...

  • February 2, 2020

    Alinsky’s revenge haunts the Democrats as they turn to billionaire Bloomberg

    The oldest political party in the world is on the verge of implosion. While a lot can happen in nine months (ask any obstetrician), the tectonic plates of American politics are shifting, and the Democrats’ political edifice is built on top of a...

  • February 1, 2020

    Lone CNN and MSNBC commentators forget the party line and admit Dems’ face-planting

    Each of the Trump-hating cable news networks yesterday broadcast commentary that contradicted  the otherwise-mandatory narrative hyping the purported moral and political victories of the Democrats. Spontaneous truth-telling is unusual when it is...

  • January 28, 2020

    Time for leftists to explain why the 'achievement gap' is much worse in progressive cities than in conservative ones

    Based on its own ideology, the American Left must now conclude that its own educational policies are racist.  A groundbreaking study by a group called Brightbeam ("a network of education activists demanding better e...

  • January 26, 2020

    MSNBC chief legal analyst commit heresy, admits on air that Democrats ‘didn’t provide enough evidence’ to prove Trump obstructed Congress

    The TDS-addled viewers that comprise the audience for MSNBC don’t want honest appraisals of the strength of the case presented by the House impeachment managers.  They have become a cult founded on the belief that Donald Trump somehow is a...

  • January 23, 2020

    The impeachment show's third act will focus on Schiff's lies and evil plans

    Yes, impeachment is a constitutional process, but because nobody expects President Trump to be convicted, this impeachment is mostly a television show — in the genre of reality TV — intended by its creators to influence the Nove...

  • January 18, 2020

    While St. Greta harangues the world, back home in Sweden poll of taxpayers identifies climate spending as the biggest government waste

    Greta Thunberg, the visibly disturbed child who is being exploited by climate fraudsters, may be able to draw a crowd abroad, but back home in Sweden, taxpayers have grown weary of throwing money at "climate policy" to no effect. ...

  • January 18, 2020

    Sad! Joe Biden praises Robert Francis ('Beto') O'Rourke as a 'Latino' qualified to be in his Cabinet

    Low-information voters are a disturbing constituency, but an easily deceived front-running low-information candidate for president is terrifying.  You might think the frontrunner for the Democrats' presidential nomination would bestir h...

  • January 14, 2020

    As Iowa and New Hampshire contests near and Dems debate on TV tonight, open warfare breaking out between Sanders and Warren

    We may finally get a Democrat debate tonight that isn't deathly boring for a change.  Elizabeth Warren, facing declining poll numbers, is attacking Bernie Sanders with the claim that in a private meeting 13 months ago, he told her that ...

  • January 13, 2020

    FISA Court judge signals cover-up underway with outrageous appointment of lefty Lawfare blogger to oversee 'reform'

    If you are 100% certain that Jeffrey Epstein killed himself, then you will be delighted by the appointment of David Kris to oversee a review of the FBI's practices in seeking FISA Court approval of its applications to spy on American citizens....

  • January 11, 2020

    CNN coughs up a record settlement of $76 million to pay off workers it cheated in union-busting dispute

    CNN is a purveyor of not just fake news, but fake progressivism.  The Left generally pretends to care about the downtrodden little guys and gals — you know, the kind of folks who need a union to stand up for them when dealing with rut...

  • January 9, 2020

    Under incarceration allowing scary frequently arrested predator to roam the streets of Chicago looking for more victims

    Scary people are roaming the streets of many big cities, thanks to Democrats, who believe that innocent black people are arrested convicted by our purportedly racist justice system. Under the rubric of “bail reform,” even chronic offender...

  • January 8, 2020

    Ukraine airliner crashes shortly after takeoff from Tehran just 3 hours after the launch of missile attack on bases in Iraq

    The sole death toll from the skies on the night Iran launched its missiles in retaliation for the killing of terror master Soleimani came as an airliner crashed shortly after takeoff from Tehran, killing a reported 176 souls. Do you believe in coi...

  • January 6, 2020

    A little schadenfreude to start your week

    A mere three months after its publication date, Hillary Clinton's most recent excuse to go on a speaking tour and stay in our faces, The Book of Gutsy Women, is deeply discounted at Barnes & Noble.  As Roger Cohen of The N...

  • January 4, 2020

    Joe Biden falsely claims he didn't oppose bin Laden raid

    Is Joe Biden senile?  Has he forgotten that in 2012, he spoke in public about the White House deliberations on the pending raid in Pakistan that killed Osama bin Laden and that he told the 44th POTUS, "Mr. President, my suggestion is we don...

  • January 2, 2020

    The best 'Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion' statement in the history of political correctness

    Professor Stephen Bainbridge is getting a lot of well deserved attention and praise for staring for staring down the academic diversity mafia and throwing its own rhetoric back in its face.  Required to submit to what amounts to a loyalty o...

  • January 2, 2020

    Trump signs the bill that ought to ensure his re-election

    There is an excellent reason why the media largely are ignoring the bill that President Trump signed on Monday: when voters hear about it, they will want to vote for him out of sheer gratitude. Simply put, one of the most annoying aspects of life ...

  • January 1, 2020

    Meet American Thinker’s newest editor: Andrea Widburg

    As a new year and new decade begin, we’re pleased and excited to welcome Andrea Widburg to American Thinker as our newest deputy editor. You may not be familiar with her name, but if you are a fan of the conservative blogosphere, you probabl...

  • January 1, 2020

    The question of the year for the Democrats’ presidential nominee

    There is one question that is like kryptonite for the Democrats running for president. It’s a simple one that the vast majority of voters know the answer to, but for which is there is no good answer for a Democrat. In responding to this ques...

  • January 1, 2020

    Daily Beast helping Andrew McCabe spin his crime

    We just got a preview of how the media are going to spin the crimes committed by the Russia Hoax coup plotters. Andrew McCabe, the man who ran the FBI after James Comey was fired by President Trump, clearly committed a crime during the 2016 election ...

  • December 31, 2019

    Ted Cruz educates Pete Buttigieg

    Pete Buttigieg is not nearly as smart as he thinks he is.  Yesterday, Senator Ted Cruz devastatingly humiliated him for shooting his mouth off when he doesn't know what he's talking about. In case you missed it, Buttigieg recentl...

  • December 31, 2019

    Joe Biden goes overboard pandering on 'climate change' — dissing coal miners

    Nobody has ever accused Joe Biden of being too cerebral.  But he does know that all the major institutions of media, education, and government have bought into the apocalyptic cult of global warming, and as an experienced Democrat, he reali...

  • December 31, 2019

    Joe Biden goes full Thunberg on climate hysteria

    It's kind of sad that a grown man is being led around by the nose by a teenager on the autism spectrum.  But Joe Biden does understand that the big institutions of education, media, and business want the public to be scared and accept m...

  • December 30, 2019

    Richard Baehr on the air

    AT co-founder Richard Baehr will be a guest today on KDKA radio in Pittsburgh, the world’s first commercial radio station.  You can listen to the internet live feed here. Richard will be speaking with AT author Rose Tennant on her show ...

  • December 30, 2019

    Frontiers of fantasy: ‘trans man’ gives birth

    The following “news” item only makes sense if you assume that a giant joke is being played on the rest of us.  Jack Montgomery reports at Breitbart: A female-to-male trans man and their “non-binary” partner have had ...

  • December 30, 2019

    Some of the $1.5 billion cash that Obama gave to Iran traced to Iran-backed terror groups

    When President Barack Obama shipped $1.7 billion in cash to Iran as part of his nuclear deal, he was funding terrorists. It was entirely predictable, for his partners in the deal are committed to the destruction of Israel first, and then of the Unite...

  • December 30, 2019

    DeBlasio’s war on bail is recycling Jew haters to attack again

    In the midst of a wave of attacks on Jews, the mayor of the city with the largest Jewish population in the world is freeing alleged attackers to attack again because of his progressive ideology . One of the latest fads among progressives is the re...

  • December 30, 2019

    Bill deBlasio trying to blame Trump for the wave of attacks on Jews in his city

    New York Mayor Bill deBlasio is behaving despicably in the face of a wave of terror inflicted on Jews in his city. He is seeking to protect Jew-haters when they are part of his political base and instead blame President Trump, the best friend Jews ha...

  • December 30, 2019

    Media and progressive politicians can’t face the awful truth of racial monorities' Jew-hatred in America

    It’s open season on Jews in America.  The world’s oldest ethno-religious hatred is resurgent, and Jews are subjected to terror, no longer able to feel secure from attacks by strangers anywhere – on the streets, in their homes, ...

  • December 30, 2019

    The mass murder that didn’t happen because Texans are smarter than New Yorkers, Californians and progressives everywhere

    In the fantasy world inhabited by progressives, passing laws to restrict gun ownership and the carrying of firearms prevents violence. The precise opposite is the truth, as demonstrated convincingly by John Lott, whose research led him to change his ...

  • December 30, 2019

    Spectacular Biden buffoonery revealed in the wake of Texans foiling attempted church massacre

    The Democrats’ frontrunner for the presidential race is an embarrassment to the world’s oldest political party.  I can only explain his polling lead by pointing to the pathetic group of competitors he faces. To be charitable, I assum...

  • December 29, 2019

    Latest progressive ‘big idea’ is so foolish it’s hard to believe they’re serious… but they are

    Some progressive ideas sound good and seduce the young and naïve with their idealism. Socialism, for example, pretends that selfishness and indolence would not result from common ownership of the means of production.  “From each accor...

  • December 29, 2019

    Yet another insane progressive ‘reform’ to further ruin California schools in 2020

    The active, often enthusiastic, embrace of foolishness by the progressive Left seems to be accelerating. California is so dominated by Democrats that new laws based on fantasy often are passed by the state legislature and signed into law by the gover...

  • December 29, 2019

    Joe Biden needs a geography lesson

    Joe Biden’s latest gaffe reveals profound ignorance about a vast human tragedy caused by socialism. Yet voters are supposed to favor Joe Biden because he’s so experienced, especially in foreign policy, at least according to the mainstream...

  • December 29, 2019

    First the WaPo, Rachel Maddow now taking more hits from the left for Steele dossier hype

    Ouch! The top-rated MSNBC host is taking flak from all sides for her embrace of the Steele dossier as fact, and her unwillingness to present her faithful viewers with evidence of its falsity. Now comes a stinging tweet from progressive journali...

  • December 29, 2019

    Tulsi Gabbard is positioning herself to pick up the pieces after the Dems implode in the 2020 election

    Even though she continues campaigning for the 2020 Democrat presidential nomination, it is now clear to me that Tulsi Gabbard’s real goal has nothing to do with wining the donkeys’ nod this election cycle. Her vote of “present...

  • December 28, 2019

    Virginia increasing corrections budget anticipating jailing gun-owners

    Virginia's Governor Ralph Northam and the Legislature's Democrat majority are anticipating resistance to the gun control measures they are planning, including a ban on "assault weapons" and certain magazines.  Th...

  • December 28, 2019

    Lying Liz Warren's campaign facing embarrassing drop in fourth-quarter fundraising

    When your fundraising goal is to raise 20% less than last quarter, you're in trouble. As the lies from the fake Indian proliferate, donations to the Elizabeth Warren campaign have tanked.  The prospect of rep...

  • December 28, 2019

    Chuck Schumer needs to have a talk with Nancy Pelosi to keep their impeachment propaganda line straight

    Normally, message discipline is a great strength of the Democrats.  They send out their preferred propaganda line to the media, and the talking heads obediently repeat the mantra of the day.  The latest example, the repetition of ...

  • December 28, 2019

    Guilt-tripping Minnesotans

    Minnesota, the state of my birth and upbringing, is famously populated by people renowned for being "nice" — courteous, self-deprecating, and given to understatement.  The North Star State never tolerated slavery and enthusi...

  • December 28, 2019

    NYT, WaPo, CNN caught lying about homosexual rights icon Harvey Milk to falsely slur the US Navy

    The progressive Left in this America now openly hates our country and wants us to be ashamed to be Americans.  The strategy seems to include targeting various identity groups such as blacks, Native Americans, Hispanics, feminists,...

  • December 27, 2019

    Respected veteran journalist calls out his profession for betraying its principles going after Trump

    Few are the establishment journalists willing to tell the truth about their profession, which largely has abandoned its commitment to objectivity in the cause of opposing President Trump and, if possible, driving him from office. One brave soul with ...

  • December 27, 2019

    WaPo media critic calls out Rachel Maddow’s coverage of the Steele dossier

    Something is going on when two mainstream journalists call out members of their own profession over coverage aimed at damaging and driving President Trump from office. Joining veteran Chicago columnist Dennis Byrne’s denunciation of his profess...

  • December 27, 2019

    One trillion dollars have flowed into the American economy as Trump’s tax law changes allowed companies to repatriate profits without tax penalty

    President Trump’s tax reform has delivered more than a trillion dollars of stimulus to the American economy through corporations repatriating profits held overseas in order to avoid penalties that the tax law had imposed on bringing home the fu...

  • December 27, 2019

    Bring it on! Trump and California Governor Newsom battle over California’s homeless crisis

    California is now a national laughingstock. It’s a one-party state government, totally dominated by Democrats, that has so badly bungled its treatment of homelessness (not to mention its stratospheric taxes) that its major cities are becoming u...

  • December 26, 2019

    US stops sending bomb-sniffing dogs to Jordan and Egypt after documenting horrific animal abuse

    Two Arab allies of the United States will no longer be provided bomb-sniffing dogs because they have subjected animals sent to them to horrific abuse. A whistleblower complaint triggered an inspector general’s report released on Monday that pro...

  • December 26, 2019

    Iran to hold joint naval drill with Russia and China this weekend

    Russia and China are bolstering the military threat of the rogue regime in Iran by holding a four-day joint naval drill in the Indian Ocean, starting Saturday.  An implicit message seems to be that Iran has defenders in case push comes to s...

  • December 26, 2019

    Peter Buttigieg wants to end incarceration for possession of any drug, including meth or cocaine

    The mayor of South Bend, Indiana has come in for severe criticism from African-American residents of that crime-ridden city and appears to be reacting by taking a fairly radical position on illegal drugs in an effort to mend ties with the single most...

  • December 26, 2019

    Dem billionaires Steyer and Bloomberg already have spent a combined $200 million in quest for presidency

    Remember when the Democrats thought “money politics” was a bad thing? That moral certainty started to crumble when Hillary Clinton outspent Donald Trump by a factor of at least 2, and still went down to defeat. And while vilifying Wall St...

  • December 26, 2019

    Canada’s government-owned CBC so petty that it cut out Trump’s cameo role when broadcasting Home Alone 2

    Trump Derangement Syndrome is a worldwide phenomenon affecting arrogant elites globally. And few elites are more arrogant and self-righteously progressive than the broadcasters at the three government-owned televisions networks in our Anglosphere cou...

  • December 26, 2019

    DNC ad snubs Tulsi even as possibility of a third party run by her raises alarms

    Tulsi Gabbard appears to be driving the Democrats even more nuts than they already are (and that’s really saying something).  On the one hand, fears are rising that she would undertake a third party run, as lefty Jonathan Chait writes: ...

  • December 24, 2019

    Ocasio-Cortez: America 'not an advanced society ... it is fascism, what we have'

    The new Democrat strategy seems to be to insult the United States and those who love it.  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez already has bullied Speaker Pelosi into a hasty impeachment so weak that it is not being submitted to the Senate for a trial ...

  • December 24, 2019

    Two new Hunter Biden scandals brewing?

    Will Hunter Biden sink his father's presidential campaign?  The "sleaze factor" is becoming an indelible mark on The Family Biden as a series of revelations keeps unfolding and raising suspicions that Papa Joe's political ...

  • December 24, 2019

    Democrats foolishly declaring war on single-family housing

    The single-family detached home is one of the glories of America'’s material civilization.  Without noisy and nosy neighbors upstairs, downstairs, and sharing a wall next door, the single-family home becomes our castle, our refuge...

  • December 23, 2019

    St. Greta exploits Australia's bushfire crisis, gets rebuked by Prime Minister Morrison

    The world's most obnoxious teenager is now exploiting the misery Australians are enduring as brush fires rage amid a heat wave.  One advantage of being 16 years old is that your ignorance is matched by your presumption that everything y...

  • December 23, 2019

    Politicians and media decry latest Chicago 'mass shooting' but leave out the key fact

    The horror of 13 people being shot during a memorial service is self-evident, but it is being compounded by a refusal to acknowledge the underlying reality and instead blaming guns, the inanimate objects that were used as tools of horror. Chicago...

  • December 23, 2019

    Bernie Sanders comes out for unconstitutional ex post facto law

    No doubt Rep. Ocasio-Cortez approves, but she has the excuse of youth and ignorance.  But Senator Bernie Sanders has been in Washington, D.C. long enough to know better, and maybe actually read the Constitution he swore an oath to protect. ...

  • December 23, 2019

    CNN earns fake news label again with an assist from the WaPo

    The desperation of the anti-Trump media to defeat his re-election effort is leading them to sacrifice their credibility and peddle an obvious lie.  In a jaw-dropping moment yesterday on CNN's ironically named Reliable Sources ...

  • December 22, 2019

    Once again, the Swamp has bamboozled us

    Magicians all use the art of distraction to pull off their tricks. So do lobbyists. While we were all distracted with the ultimately meaningless struggle over the House’s passage of articles of impeachment that will never result in a convict...

  • December 22, 2019

    What view on race does the Elizabeth Warren campaign share with apartheid South Africa?

    The answer: a really important and deeply racist one. Specifically, Asians can be “honorary whites.” The racist South African regime, which enraged the civilized world and ultimately fell, acted on pragmatic grounds and granted “...

  • December 21, 2019

    Tucker Carlson calls out DC establishment conservative nonprofits for selling out and protecting hi tech bullies that censor conservatives

    I was frankly shocked by Tucker Carson's courage last night; he's not going to be getting a lot of cocktail party invitations from the cream of the Beltway conservative establishment anymore.  If you missed Carlson's epic denunc...

  • December 21, 2019

    West Point cadets vindicated on ridiculous charge of 'white supremacist' hand gesture at Army-Navy Game

    Some people are so hysterical with fever-crazed hallucinations of omnipresent racism that they throw out reckless charges and cause people who should know better to launch official "investigations."  Such was the case a week ago w...

  • December 21, 2019

    Sharyl Attkisson explains why one FISA warrant on one person can lead to spying on thousands of people

    The genuine magnitude of the FBI spying on the Trump campaign (or Adam Schiff's getting a hold of the phone records of journalists and fellow representatives) was far greater than most people realize, reading or hearing about a FISA warrant to sp...

  • December 21, 2019

    Saturday schadenfreude: CNN polling analyst admits 'massive movement' toward Trump

    So far as I can tell, there is no truth to the rumors that the costumers and set decorators at CNN have placed large orders for sackcloth and ashes.  But if the trend their polling analyst, Harry Enten — the thirtyish bright young thi...

  • December 21, 2019

    Trollmaster Trump hoists Pelosi on her own petard

    Yes, indeed, there's never been a president remotely similar to the forty-fifth occupant of the office. Not even close. NeverTrumps no doubt would deplore the "lack of civility" and proclaim that the "dignity of the office...

  • December 21, 2019

    First FBI employee sentenced to jail in anti-Trump scandals

    A now-former FBI employee is going to jail for illegally accessing private emails and attempting to expose them to his employer and the media.  It's not James Comey, Andrew McCabe, Peter Strzok, or Lisa Page, but at least it's a sta...

  • December 20, 2019

    Bill Barr Brennan Bombshell: Durham seeking Brennan's emails, call logs, and other documents from the CIA

    Martha MacCallum's exclusive interview with Attorney General William Barr, the first part of which was broadcast Thursday, contained at least two bombshell revelations that will reverberate as the implications sink in and as the wheels of justice...

  • December 19, 2019

    Hilarious: Dems' fake 'solemnity' exposed as Pelosi silences applause about impeachment vote with her evil eye and hand gesture

    It was an absolutely perfect crystallization of the phoniness of the Democrats' impeachment rhetoric when Speaker Nancy Pelosi had to silence the spontaneous applause that started to break out as she announced the results of the vote on the first...

  • December 19, 2019

    Pelosi threatens to withhold articles of impeachment from Senate

      Just when you thought the House Democrats' impeachment frenzy couldn't get any more ridiculous, Speaker Pelosi is threatening to derail the constitutionally required Senate trial that would result in President Trump's acquittal....

  • December 19, 2019

    Testimony by IG Horowitz yesterday demolishes claims he exonerated FBI of bias

    Important Senate testimony by I.G. Horowitz was almost totally overshadowed by the impeachment debate and vote in the House yesterday.  Under questioning by Senator Josh Hawley, Horowitz clarified the very limited meaning of his previous stateme...

  • December 18, 2019

    Cook County Christmas shopping, Kim Foxx style

    When state's attorney Kim Foxx announced no prosecution for shoplifting under a thousand dollars, the results were fully predictable.  Chicago and Cook County, Illinois are leading the headlong American rush toward lawlessness and the l...

  • December 18, 2019

    Seven indisputable facts about this 'historic' impeachment that historians will use to condemn it as 'folly'

    Derangement is a mental impairment that causes those afflicted with it to make very bad decisions, often ignoring or disputing realities that would caution them against their self-destructive actions.  Even though the leftist-dominated psyc...

  • December 17, 2019

    The Democrats are imploding

    It's too soon to predict that the Democrats will go the way of the Whigs, but the oldest political party in the world is tripping over its own doctrines; making a public spectacle of its inability to coherently sponsor debates; riven by ideologic...

  • December 17, 2019

    Ocasio-Cortez wants everything you ‘need’ to be free

    She calls it “universality” of things that “people need,” but that just means free stuff, even for people who refuse to work. She mentions that healthcare is a “right.” Housing is a “right.” ...

  • December 17, 2019

    Maxine Waters admits she has no facts but will ‘always believe’ Putin fixed election for Trump

    Maxine Waters is the gift that keeps on giving … to President Trump. Perhaps cognizant that Christmas is approaching, she offered a special boon to the 45th president, a confession that there is no evidence for the charge of Russian collusion ...

  • December 17, 2019

    Rudy Giuliani, back from Ukraine, says he has evidence of money laundering involving Biden

    Rudy Giuliani has taken a lot of flak from both parties, so let’s hope he is on solid ground here. Given the fact he used to be the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Rudy certainly knows a lot about evidence. He’s been tw...

  • December 16, 2019

    Schiff town hall meeting in his district erupts in catcalls and chaos

    Adam Schiff walked into a buzz saw at a town hall meeting back in his district in Glendale, California, as blowback erupted for his lies and grandstanding advancing impeachment. While as a general rule I deplore the loss of civility as the co...

  • December 16, 2019

    Nadler panics, gets stuck in elevator as protesters shame him over impeachment

    This is amusing, even as America devolves into incivility.  It's a terrible thing that Americans are polarizing into two antagonistic factions, but that is where we are now.  It was the Left that decided to refuse to accept th...

  • December 16, 2019

    Jimmy the Weasel Comey lives up to his nickname in Fox News interview

    Don Surber bestowed the perfect nickname on James Comey, the fired FBI director: Jimmy the Weasel.  I much prefer it to other nickname bandied about for him, "The Cardinal."  While that name captures the sanctimony of th...

  • December 16, 2019

    Lindsey Graham insists that the Bidens and Burisma have no place in a Senate impeachment trial

    I admit that I have been lusting after a long Senate impeachment trial in which the Democrats would be put on trial, particularly Joe Biden's confession that he bullied Ukraine into firing the prosecutor who was investigating the bribes of millio...

  • December 16, 2019

    Shameless Schiff goes Sgt. Schultz

    Adam Schiff almost could give chutzpah lessons to James Comey.  "Shameless" doesn't seem fully adequate to the job of describing his self-righteousness in the face of his phoniness and outright lies.  It would b...

  • December 15, 2019

    Schiff T. Coyote meets the TrumpRunner

    Here is a little hilarity for your Sunday, based on the beloved RoadRunner cartoons. Politizoid is a producer of cartoon parodies that did some excellent work during the Obama years, satirizing The One We Have Been Waiting For.  But then...

  • December 14, 2019

    Saturday schadenfreude: A look back at media bigwigs who claimed the Steele dossier was reliable

    Michael Horowitz's investigation has devastated the Steele dossier's credibility, exposing it as a fantasy based on barroom boasting.  I have come to believe that the DOJ inspector general laid a crafty trap for the Dems' politi...

  • December 14, 2019

    MSNBC joins CNN in starting to take a critical look at the impeachment farce

    Cable news channels, like battleships, take a lot of time and distance to turn around, but Dem impeachment fanatics no longer have reliably safe spaces on CNN and MSNBC.  Yesterday, I pointed out a rare instance of CNN daring to c...

  • December 13, 2019

    Dem on Judiciary Committee spotted watching golf tournament during impeachment markup hearing yesterday

    Democrat Representative Cedric Richmond provided unintentional commentary on the absurdity of the House Judiciary Committee markup sessions yesterday by mentally checking out and watching a golf tournament on his laptop computer as the endless sessio...

  • December 13, 2019

    Stunning: Cory Booker's statement on Jersey City slaughter doesn't mention Jews or antisemitism

    See update below: New Jersey senator Cory Booker delivered a slap in the face of Jews everywhere with his statement on the horrific attack on his constituents in Jersey City, targeted because they were Jews.  Not a word about J...

  • December 13, 2019

    Aftershocks from UK election earthquake should rattle US Democrats

    Socialists, globalists, and Jew-haters were soundly rejected by British voters yesterday, and that has got to worry United States Democrats, many of whom have embraced these political positions.  Pollsters who had warned that the race was t...

  • December 13, 2019

    Is CNN beginning to reform itself after ratings tumble by double digits during impeachment coverage?

    Something extraordinary happened yesterday: CNN's fact-checkers called out lies by Democrat Reps. Sheila Jackson Lee and Veronica Escobar, twofer victim class members as female and  minorities.  Compounding the shock...

  • December 13, 2019

    Re-elected Tory MP reassures British Jews, 'You should never have to live in fear again'

    Michael Gove, the Conservative Party M.P. who challenged Boris Johnson for party leadership and took the job of managing Brexit preparations after losing to him, gave a celebratory speech last night as election results came in, and took on the hideou...

  • December 12, 2019

    Thwack! Matt Gaetz nailed Dem impeachment counsel Daniel Goldman

    Attorney Daniel Goldman appears to be the brains of the impeachment operation, doing all the heavy lifting for Chairman Adam Schiff of the House Intelligence Committee.  Perhaps the most satisfying moment in the House Intelligence Committee...

  • December 12, 2019

    WSJ's Kimberly Strassel catches Glenn Simpson contradicting his own sworn testimony

    The secret to taking down a criminal conspiracy is almost always getting someone in it implicated in an actual provable crime, and then squeezing that person with threats of prison and personal ruin and obtaining testimony and other evidence implicat...

  • December 12, 2019

    Raw Jew-hatred from neighbors of Jersey City kosher deli attacked by Black Hebrew Israelites

    Jew-hatred is killing people in this country and is terrorizing Jews who go about their daily lives, doing the most ordinary of activities, such as food shopping.  We are seeing the horrors of Europe, where Jews are regularly attacked and m...

  • December 12, 2019

    Nancy Pelosi thinks media coverage is helping Trump

    In the face of 90 to 95% negative coverage of President Trump by the mainstream media, one would think Nancy Pelosi would be grateful for all the help they provide to her as the top elected leader of the Democrats.  But give her credit for ...

  • December 11, 2019

    Good golly! Miss Mollie (Hemingway) calls out media scoundrels that enabled spygate

    Mollie Hemingway was on fire yesterday as a panelist on Fox News's Special Report.  She laid out the depths of the fraud that was perpetrated on not just the FISA Court, but the Trump administration and the entire American people....

  • December 10, 2019

    Dem presidential field is so pathetic that non-candidate Hillary tops the latest Harvard-Harris poll

    The next-best thing to Democrats saying that they prefer "none of the above" to any of their current field of presidential candidates is their naming of a non-entrant as their top candidate.  That is an implicit rejection of what ...

  • December 10, 2019

    Horowitz offers sound bites to Dems, facts to Republicans

    It would be a great understatement to say that Michael Horowitz, the Department of Justice inspector general, doesn't leap to conclusions.  In fact, he does everything possible to ignore reasonable conclusions from the evidence he found...

  • December 10, 2019

    Trump surging, Dems tanking in the battleground states that will determine the election

    We can expect even more pointless, futile railing against the Electoral College by Democrats demanding a national popular vote now that their presidential prospects in the key swing states are so bad.  I am so old that I can remember the De...

  • December 10, 2019

    Biden embraces the position Hillary called her 'biggest mistake' in 2016 campaign

    Nobody ever accused Joe Biden of being a genius.  But it takes a special kind of stupid to eagerly embrace the issue that his party's 2016 nominee called her "biggest mistake.  "Yet here he is, on video, announcing t...

  • December 9, 2019

    Lindsey Graham does not want Schiff or other congressmen to testify at Senate impeachment trial

    Is the ghost of John McCain haunting Senator Lindsey Graham?  The South Carolina senator went on Maria Bartiromo's Fox News show, Sunday Morning Futures, to throw a wet blanket on conservatives' dreams of a Senate trial that wo...

  • December 9, 2019

    Adam Schiff playing it cute on whether he will vote for impeachment

    Somebody told Adam Schiff to pretend he is fair-minded and hasn't made up his mind on impeaching President Trump, apparently.  Or else he realizes that some serious dirt on Democrats would be exposed. Appearing on CBS's Face the ...

  • December 9, 2019

    Biden mixed up again, thinks he is in Iowa while giving speech in New Hampshire

    It's a bit sad watching the confused old man running for president.  All of us who live long enough might eventually face the slowing of the synapses and the resulting confusion over basic facts, such as the name and geographic region o...

  • December 9, 2019

    Spot the Democrat capitalist pig: Elizabeth Warren

    This is my favorite season — not Christmas, but the quadrennial Democrat circular firing squad season, as the race for the presidential nomination starts to get nasty.  In the party of the plutocrats, it's not at all uncommon to f...

  • December 9, 2019

    Spot the Democrat capitalist pig: Peter Buttigieg

    Two leading Democrat candidates had the audacity to work on behalf of large corporations as consultants and/or lawyers.  Elizabeth Warren worked in both capacities, earning $2 million total over several years for part-time work....

  • December 9, 2019

    Joe Biden claims ignorance on son Hunter's Burisma conflict of interest

    Joe Biden is going full Sergeant Schultz — I know nothing! — when it comes to the warnings issued over an obvious conflict of interest in his son accepting huge amounts of money (now reckoned in the millions of dollars) from a corrupt Ukr...

  • December 9, 2019

    Widespread electrical blackout in central Australia caused by...clouds

      The danger of reliance on electrical generation power sources that can suddenly surge or diminish the way wind and solar energy do was highlighted by a major blackout that left central Australia and the "major" town of Alice Sprin...

  • December 8, 2019

    Democrats’ impeachment push enters its facially absurd stage

    I suppose we ought to feel gratitude toward Democrat Representative Al Greene, who, whatever faults he may have, cuts to the chase and doesn’t seem to have the sort of filter most of his Democrat colleagues employ to mask their inner thoughts a...

  • December 7, 2019

    Elizabeth Warren on paying for expensive program: 'C'mon, there's always money...'

    Elizabeth Warren has forgotten, if she ever knew, Margaret Thatcher's immortal dictum: "The problem with socialism is that sooner or later, you run out of other people's money."  In what ought to be a career-ending sl...

  • December 6, 2019

    While House Dems abused the impeachment process (and themselves), 8 more federal judges were confirmed this week

    Pardon my bluntness, but there is a distinct masturbatory aspect to the impeachment theater playing out before the nation's eyes. There is no possibility that that the furious fulminations in the House Judiciary Committee meetings this week will ...

  • December 6, 2019

    Prisoner Pelosi's panicked pandering

    Nancy Pelosi is being held prisoner by the TDS-besotted, MSNBC- and CNN-watching base of the Democrat party, who demand an impeachment vote and threaten to stay home or support third-party candidates unless the House gratifies their urges, even thoug...

  • December 6, 2019

    Trump triumph continues: Stunning jobs report for November as previous two months' job totals revised upward

    "It's the economy, stupid!" —James Carville The "experts" (presumably, Ph.D. economists) once again are stunned.  Marketwatch had expected 180,000 jobs to be added to the economy, and credited the ...

  • December 5, 2019

    Shoplifting in Chicago is so bad that men's underwear now displayed in padlocked glass cases in Walmart

    Civil order is slipping away in Chicago, leading toward a dystopian state where personal safety cannot be taken for granted and property must be constantly guarded from marauders willing to use force to take it away.  Progressive polic...

  • December 5, 2019

    Nadler blew his big chance in the Judiciary Committee yesterday

    Rep. Jerrold Nadler was hoping for redemption yesterday, having earlier been so inept that Nancy Pelosi gave Adam Schiff's House Intelligence Committee the opportunity to hold "impeachment inquiry" hearings, even though Nadler's Jud...

  • December 5, 2019

    Andrew Yang tells the truth on impeachment

    I see Andrew Yang as a bit of a goofball, but at least he is not a lying phony like Kamala Harris.  He seems to be having fun running for president, and that is a huge if poorly understood factor in garnering public support.  (Rem...

  • December 4, 2019

    Mitch McConnell playing hardball with Schumer on impeachment trial rules

    Mitch McConnell is serving a heaping helping of sauce for the gander to Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer. Beth Baumann: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) on Tuesday said Senate Republicans may have to come together to pass a...

  • December 4, 2019

    Hillary claims she is 'deluged' [with requests that she run for president]

    It looks a lot as though Hillary Clinton is hoping for a deadlocked Democratic National Convention, and that Michelle Obama means it when she says that she's not interested in running for president.  Hillary would love to be begged to s...

  • December 4, 2019

    Sex, lies, and videotape in the firing of Chicago's top cop

    It looks as if big scandal is brewing in the Chicago Police Department, an agency already deeply troubled.  This time, it is not a street cop shooting someone, but the top cop's shenanigans that got him fired by Mayor Lori Lightfoot, an...

  • December 4, 2019

    Climate derangement syndrome: Academic suggests UN use military to enforce climate agenda

    What's the carbon footprint of a military invasion?  And where's the army that the U.N. would use to invade a country that emits the CO2 that makes the world greener and greener? This guy makes me even happier that I ditched...

  • December 3, 2019

    Desperate Elizabeth Warren flails out at Electoral College

    In the wake of her disastrous Medicare for all plan tanking her polling support, Elizabeth Warren needs to change the subject, so she's decided to attack the United States Constitution.  Specifically, Warren wants to eliminate the Elect...

  • December 3, 2019

    Catherine Herridge, now at CBS, devastates 'Whistleblower's' legitimacy

    Moving from Fox News to CBS has not diminished the immense value of Catherine Herridge's work.  If anything, the move has increased the number of Americans gaining access to insightful work that questions the MSM's phony and biased ...

  • December 3, 2019

    WaPo uses anonymous sources to claim dispute between Horowitz and Barr over justification of FBI's Russia investigation

    The Deep State's game plan is now becoming clear: any indictments coming from the Durham investigation will be tarred as politically motivated and tainted by the biased Attorney General William Barr, who is out to protect a rogue president. ...

  • December 2, 2019

    Mexican president Lopez Obrador pressures Pelosi on USMCA

    James Freeman of the Wall Street Journal asks if Speaker Pelosi wants to force Mexico to pay for a trade wall with her failure to schedule a House vote on the USMCA trade pact: The Speaker of the House who called a border wall with Mex...

  • December 2, 2019

    Sharyl Attkisson compiles list of 101 notable media mistakes on Trump

    As the dominant media in the United States have degenerated into propaganda organs for the Left, a few honest reporters have distinguished themselves by sticking to the truth, even as it has cost them their high-visibility posts.  Sharyl At...

  • December 2, 2019

    Lisa Page plays the victim card a week before Horowitz report to be released

    In a story that doesn't hold together very well, Lisa Page launches her spin campaign just a week before the Department of Justice inspector general, Horowitz, is to release his report on the genesis of the investigation of candidate and then pre...

  • December 2, 2019

    Peter Buttigieg nods in agreement as crackpot reverend claims illegals are recovering stolen land

    Peter Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend (a small city in Indiana), is pretending to be a "moderate" Democrat, aiming at attracting away the supporters of Joe Biden worried about his increasingly bizarre behavior.  But his bo...

  • December 1, 2019

    French Muslim killer of elderly Jewish woman escapes prosecution because he smoked pot

    There is no question that on April 4, 2017,  Kobili Traoré broke into the apartment of Sarah Halimi, a 65-year-old Orthodox Jewish woman in Paris, beat her, called her a demon, and threw her from the balcony of her apartment, killing...

  • December 1, 2019

    Hunter Biden seeks to keep financial records secret in Arkansas child support court proceedings

    Hunter Biden is arguing that disclosure of his financial status, as is normally required in child support litigation, would cause him “embarrassment” and would be used “maliciously” by political opponents. Kind of like disclos...

  • December 1, 2019

    UNRWA report cites arguments that men in Gaza beat their wives and it’s Israel’s fault

    The United Nations Works and Relief Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNWRA) is an anti-Israel organization that is fully captured by its clientele, Palestinian ”refugees” – most of whom have never set foot in Israel and who are one ...

  • December 1, 2019

    Amazon jobs: boon or torture?

    The company at the root of the fortune of the world’s richest man is either a slave-driving torture camp, or a generous and understanding enabler of people seeking to grow their skills and develop satisfying careers. Both views are getting lots...

  • December 1, 2019

    Shocker: Sunbathing those parts of the body ‘where the sun don’t shine’ is a bad idea

    The human capacity for folly continues to amaze. The Irish Sun (savor the irony of this report coming from a land where sunshine is rare and the scenery is overwhelmingly lush and green) reports: A TOP doctor is warning people not to try out ...

  • December 1, 2019

    It’s real! A third poll reveals 33% nonwhite support for Trump

    This seems almost too good to be true…. A few days ago, two respected polls—Rasmussen and Emerson -- came out showing that black approval for Trump had reached 34%. Now comes confirmation from another respected poll NPR/PBS Marist, th...

  • November 30, 2019

    Saturday Schadenfreude: Kamala Harris's staff quits and tells media her campaign is a disaster

    While the field of Democrats running for the party's presidential nomination contains some seriously scorn-worthy politicians, Kamala Harris is the worst of the lot when it comes to dishonesty, hypocrisy, and a willingness to say or do anyth...

  • November 30, 2019

    BET founder Robert L. Johnson warns Dems they are blowing it fighting Trump

    Robert L. Johnson, the first African-American to build a business from scratch and become a billionaire, is a very smart man.  He knows President Trump and has worked with him on initiatives of concern to the black community. Yesterday, ...

  • November 30, 2019

    The 'horrible' consequences of Cook County's 'affordable bail' program

    The cultural and political war on the criminal justice system isn't limited to attacking cops and claiming that "mass incarceration" (of people convicted of crimes) is unjust.  There are activists who believe that setting...

  • November 29, 2019

    Germany's Chancellor Merkel: We have to shut down hate speech to have a free society

    The Germans are not widely known for their sense of humor, much less irony.  In a speech to Germany's Bundestag, Chancellor Angela Merkel proclaimed that a free society must limit speech that she doesn’t like...what she termed ...

  • November 29, 2019

    Unholy alliance: Bernie Sanders campaigners are aiding anti-Semitic UK Labor Party head Jeremy Corbyn

    The U.K. Guardian, a left-wing newspaper, reports: Campaigners for US presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders have been lending their support to the Labour party, running phone-banking sessions from New York ahead of the general elect...

  • November 29, 2019

    Apple caves to Russian pressure, changes map to show Crimea part of Russia

    Russia's lower house of parliament, the Duma, crowed on Wednesday, "Crimea and Sevastopol now appear on Apple devices as Russian territory."  In 2014, during the Obama presidency, Russia invaded and took over the peninsula tha...

  • November 29, 2019

    Sexual harassment charges against Gordon Sondland look like Kavanaugh-esque smear

    Ambassador to the EU and recent House "impeachment inquiry" witness Gordon Sondland vehemently denies allegations of sexual harassment made by three women, concerning behavior before he entered public life, and has announced that ...

  • November 28, 2019

    CNN’s pre-Thanksgiving civility lesson: Trump defenders ‘Should Be Laughed at, Ridiculed, and Scorned’

    When you consider the vast number of people forced to watch CNN as they waited at their gates for delayed airline flights on the busiest travel day of the year, one marked by weather delays in most of the country, this call for harsh derision could a...

  • November 28, 2019

    Pathetic NYT spin on Horowitz report

    The New York Times is operating in a pure propaganda mode, attempting to minimize the impact of the forthcoming (Dec. 9) report of the Department of Justice Inspector General, Michael Horowitz.  Sundance, of The Conservative Treehouse, calls his...

  • November 27, 2019

    Hilarious: CNN's Brian Stelter worries that media aren't sufficiently anti-Trump

    With more than 90% of media coverage of President Trump negative, you might think Trump-haters would take satisfaction in their dominance of political messaging.  But so intense is the hatred, so cult-like the insistence that heterodox thou...

  • November 26, 2019

    Maxine Waters: Ben Carson doesn't have the intelligence to be HUD secretary

    How on earth is Maxine Waters able to judge the intelligence of Dr. Ben Carson, a world-renowned surgeon who invented new surgical procedures while a professor at Johns Hopkins Medical School, at the very top of prestige and accomplishment in academi...

  • November 26, 2019

    CNN's Ana Navarro refuses to believe 2 polls showing 34% of blacks approve of President Trump

    Yesterday's news that two different respected  polls are showing 34% of African-Americans approving of President Trump is such bad news for Trump-haters that some refuse to believe it.  Among those who presume to spe...

  • November 25, 2019

    Two (!) polls find black approval of Trump at 34%

    One poll could be an outlier, but when two respected polls find the same outcome, it's time to realize that, most likely, something serious is going on. Rasmussen, whose own daily tracking poll revealed that 34% of black likely voters support ...

  • November 25, 2019

    Mike Bloomberg spending $31.5 million in one week to show this ad nationwide

    We now have a preview of the way Michael Bloomberg plans to buy the Democrats' nomination and the presidency.  A big part of his massive spending program will be focused on trashing President Donald Trump while touting himself as a self...

  • November 25, 2019

    Bloomberg News announces it will not investigate Mike Bloomberg or any other Democrats, only Trump

    The editor in chief of Bloomberg News announced in a memo to his staff that they will not being doing investigations of their founder and of his rivals for the Democrats' nomination.  But President Trump remains a target.  Mic...

  • November 25, 2019

    Hong Kong voters deliver landslide rebuke to Beijing and Xi

    The people of Hong Kong have let the world know that they overwhelmingly back the democracy movement that has convulsed the city for months and cost countless businesses serious money.  Instead of weariness and anger against the disruptors,...

  • November 24, 2019

    Clarice’s Pieces will return next Sunday

    Clarice Feldman, like many Americans, is traveling for the Thanksgiving holiday. But she will be back to delight our readers next week with her inimitable wit and wisdom.   ...

  • November 24, 2019

    Irony (and hypocrisy) alert: Adam Schiff first won his House seat by campaigning against Clinton impeachment

    It’s obvious that Rep. Adam Schiff has no principles beyond self-interest and only occasional acquaintance with the truth. Comparing his current scurrilous impeachment effort with the principles he invoked when first seeking a seat in Congress ...

  • November 24, 2019

    Uber Eats driver delivers a surprise to armed robber

    Once again, an armed citizen successfully defended himself against a criminal without having to fire a shot. The Left tries to pretend that this never happens, and heart-warming, even thrilling stories of armed self-defense aren’t newsworthy. ...

  • November 23, 2019

    MSM scrambling to minimize importance of Horowitz Report criminal referral of FBI lawyer

    The former FBI lawyer, whose doctoring of evidence submitted to the FISA Court resulted in a criminal referral by the DOJ inspector general, has now been identified by the New York Times as Kevin Clinesmith.  That paper, like CNN, whic...

  • November 23, 2019

    Coming attractions in the Senate trial

    I wasn't at all surprised when President Trump told Fox & Friends yesterday, ”I want a trial.” I’ve long believed that it could offer the perfect opportunity to turn over the boulder of the Deep State conspiracy to hobble hi...

  • November 22, 2019

    New York Times can't bring itself to admit that African Americans are wary of supporting a homosexual presidential candidate like Pete Buttigieg

    The New York Times is trying to explain the almost total lack of black support for Peter Buttigieg without a mention of his homosexuality.  The Times beclowns itself today with a long article titled, "Pete Buttigieg Is Strugg...

  • November 22, 2019

    Horowitz report leak to CNN: Former FBI lawyer under criminal investigation for altering document related to FISA surveillance

    The American public finally is beginning to learn that the miscreants behind the Russia Hoax are being prosecuted.  The fact that fanatically anti-Trump CNN received the first leak from the forthcoming I.G. Horowitz report about the crimina...

  • November 21, 2019

    MSNBC Dem debate moderators pushed impeachment and hard left policies

    The Democrats might want to rethink their choice of presidential debate sponsors.  Last night's debate on MSNBC featured moderators pushing far-left issues that may please the base but drive away the centrist voters who hold the balance...

  • November 20, 2019

    Strange media silence after Vindman testified he was offered job of Ukraine Minister of Defense 3 times

    How is this not the major story coming out of the House Intelligence Committee “impeachment inquiry” hearings yesterday? A United States military officer serving in the White House with responsibilities for relations with a foreign countr...

  • November 20, 2019

    Vindman busted for resume enhancement during yesterday’s testimony

    Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman certainly comes across as a slippery character.  He didn’t inform his boss when he went to lawyers over his concerns over the Trump-Zelensky phone call, and informed the Ukraine president about an alleg...

  • November 20, 2019

    Even after Smollett scandal, Kim Foxx running for reelection as State’s Attorney

    Having thoroughly disgraced herself by allowing Jussie Smollett to escape serious consequences for the racial attack scam he foisted on Chicago and the nation, Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx is running for re-election – running aga...

  • November 19, 2019

    Jim Jordan nails it on the impeachment scam

    The combined power of the House Democrats’ high-handed management of hearings and full-throated media support have persuaded many Trump-haters that impeachment is in order for President Trump over his handling of foreign aid to Ukraine. But the...

  • November 19, 2019

    IG Horowitz testimony to rain on Democrats’ House impeachment parade

    The nation may be viewing stunning political television counterprogramming in December, to the detriment of Trump-hating House Democrats. It looks like the House Democrats will be voting on impeachment just as the nation is reviewing the DOJ Inspecto...

  • November 19, 2019

    Armed citizen puts a stop to fatal shooting at Walmart by putting gun to suspect’s head

    Thank goodness the Duncan, Oklahoma Walmart is not a “gun-free zone.” Because an armed citizen happened to be doing his shopping Monday morning and spotted a gunman shooting, victim fatalities were limited to two people. Brandon Curtis of...

  • November 19, 2019

    Clinton Foundation bleeding money with no Clintons in high office

    The Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation can no longer raise enough money to cover its expenses, ever since Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign failed to propel her into an office from which she could dispense political favors. Clin...

  • November 18, 2019

    Buttigieg campaign has just made his problems with black support much worse

    The mainstream media have done their best to paper over Pete Buttigieg's problems with attracting black support.  They hate to admit that there could ever be conflict among members of "intersectional" grievance groups. ...

  • November 18, 2019

    Bloomberg's pathetic pander on 'stop and frisk' will fail

    Michael Bloomberg has lost whatever respect I had for him as someone who would fight for what he regarded as right, even when he was wrong.  Yes, it's obnoxious to tell people what to eat and drink, but at least Bloomberg acted out of c...

  • November 18, 2019

    Kevin McCarthy demands video and answers from ABC on killing Epstein victim interview

    ABC News has been stonewalling on responding to the release of video of its anchor Amy Robach complaining that it killed her interview with one of Jeffrey Epstein's victims three years ago.  During the interval between the interview and...

  • November 17, 2019

    CNN’s Brian Stelter: ‘Hurts us all’ when Fox News personalities comment on impeachment inquiry hearings

    For propaganda to work most effectively, contrary voices must be silenced. Tyrants know this very well and have the means to silence those who challenge them. In an outwardly democratic society, propagandists face a tougher challenge. Their task is t...

  • November 17, 2019

    Al Sharpton’s ‘charity’ paid him over a million dollars last year

    We taxpayers are underwriting Al Sharpton’s million-dollar pay for ostensibly charitable work with tax deduction subsidies for donors to his National Action Network. The Trump economy evidently has been very, very good for Sharpton, whose ...

  • November 16, 2019

    The Impeachment Show is not a hit

    Face it: Adam Schiff's bug-eyes and outrageous behavior as chairman do lend a certain entertainment value to the televised proceedings, but it's not enough to relieve the underlying tedium of a congressional hearing (and TV show)  a...

  • November 16, 2019

    Peak disdain for Trump-supporters from Harvard Law professor Laurence Tribe

    The Ruling Class hates the lesser mortals who populate the realm they think they rightly rule.  When Flyover Country forced Donald Trump on them as president, the outrage that was born of the initial shock grew into outright disdain for tho...

  • November 16, 2019

    Rod Rosenstein's 'tell'

    The man who both fired James Comey and appointed Robert Mueller to investigate President Trump, Rod Rosenstein, has been able to play both sides of the aisle.  The most controversial aspect of his tenure as deputy attorney general was the...

  • November 15, 2019

    Office of Congressional Ethics recommends subpoena for Rashida Tlaib over 'problematic' use of campaign funds for personal expenses

    Oh-oh! Rashida Tlaib has a legal problem that her colleague Ilhan Omar might describe as "all about the Benjamins" — specifically, money from her campaign that ended up being paid to her for personal living expenses aft...

  • November 15, 2019

    WaPo fact-checked only Republicans after first day of impeachment inquiry hearings

    Maybe "Democracy dies in darkness," as the Washington Post pompously proclaims, but that paper went dark when it came to fact-checking Democrat members of the majority on the House Intelligence Committee after its first day of hearings, Wed...

  • November 15, 2019

    Hilarious takedown of Dems' shifting accusations...'collusion' to 'quid pro quo' to 'extortion' to 'bribery'

    The Trump campaign rapid response team are on their toes.  They just emailed a hilarious response to the start of hearings today: High Crimes (and Focus Groups!) Impeachment "is about patriotism. It's not about politics,...

  • November 14, 2019

    Dems' star witnesses bungle Hunter Biden's Burisma bounty

    It's hard to decide which of the two star witnesses the Democrats chose to kick off their impeachment show was more embarrassing when it comes to the central question underlying the entire inquiry: the alleged impropriety — the Dems now cal...

  • November 14, 2019

    Ukraine and the fine hand of George Soros

    There was a missing person in yesterday's testimony in the "impeachment inquiry": George Soros.  One person who noticed was Joe DiGenova, who brought up the involvement of the Hungarian-born billionaire yesterday on Lou Dobbs...

  • November 13, 2019

    Trump's re-election strategy in one tweet

    President Trump's base remains solid at roughly 43% of the public, an enthusiastic and reliable core, but not enough to ensure re-election, especially since voter enthusiasm is high on both sides of the aisle.  You can be sure that whoe...

  • November 13, 2019

    Sprite ad celebrates parents helping kids be transgenders

    The revolutionary Left has captured control of not just education, media, and nonprofits; it holds considerable sway over advertising, an industry that used to be regarded with contempt by Marxists for creating unnecessary desires solely to fatten th...

  • November 12, 2019

    Australian media reporting that US atty Durham has interviewed Alexander Downer

    U.S. attorney John Durham is running an investigation into the Russia hoax that has been almost airtight.  A fragment of information on his activities, however, comes our way via Australian media. Alexander Downer's meeting with Geor...

  • November 12, 2019

    Tulsi Gabbard campaign accuses Hillary Clinton of 'defamation'

    The conventional wisdom that it is almost impossible for a public figure to win a libel lawsuit has led some people to dismiss the possibility of Tulsi Gabbard suing Hillary Clinton over her comments about her.  I am not so sure. Matt Ma...

  • November 11, 2019

    YouTube and Facebook are erasing content with whistleblower's name

    The day has finally arrived when our online media monopolies are blatantly censoring the news that Americans can see.  Chrissy Clark writes at The Federalist: Facebook and YouTube are removing all content from their platforms that...

  • November 11, 2019

    Et tu, Barnes & Noble?

    The sobering reality of political power handed to the Left via nearly total control of media, education, and culture is hitting me hard this morning.  We learn that the name of Eric Ciaramella, identified as the "whistleblower...

  • November 11, 2019

    Nikki Haley blows the lid off Cabinet-level insubordination (AKA #resistance) against Trump

    Donald Trump's election has triggered a level of treachery that threatens the basis of our constitutional republic.  The words "constitutional crisis" are bandied about too often, but this incident fits the bill all too well....

  • November 11, 2019

    African energy confab snubs global warming protesters

    Global warming activism is a hobby for people in rich countries, but for poorer countries, it is a luxury at best, an annoying neocolonial conspiracy to keep them poor at worst.  The lesson came home for a group of activists who attempted t...

  • November 10, 2019

    What the University of Alabama’s football stadiums tells us about Trump’s popularity

    Elsewhere on these pages today, John Eidson uses the University of Alabama's Bryant-Denny Stadium as a heuristic device for understanding the atmospheric concentration of CO2, but that temple to football tells us something else, too: regional pol...

  • November 10, 2019

    TDS-besotted Chris Matthews goes off the deep end

    We have reached peak Trump Derangement Syndrome. We know that opponents of President Trump really, really hate him. And we also know that any efforts to defend him from efforts to void the 2016 election annoy them no end. But hatred and unwilli...

  • November 10, 2019

    CNN analyst and host agree: Trump and his supporter (and Fox News, too) to blame for death of Elijah Cummings

    There appears to be a contest underway between CNN and MSNBC over which can broadcast the most absurd accusations against President Trump and those who support him. Chris Matthews may have equated refusing to allow administration officials to testify...

  • November 9, 2019

    Ocasio-Cortez forgets her talking points, gets tongue-tied, claims, '…so much going on in my mind'

    Apparently, the occasionally operating cortex kicked in yesterday, and the experience of mental activity temporarily threw Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez off her memorized talking points.  She was in the midst of lecturing a crowd of Bernie-suppo...

  • November 9, 2019

    Test-marketing a new impeachment narrative: 'Luck' prevented a quid pro quo

    In the fever swamp of impeachment frenzy, absence of evidence can be explained away with the help of friends.  The awkward fact that aid to Ukraine was flowing before any official statements were made about Ukraine investigating Democrats d...

  • November 9, 2019

    Is Lisa Page singing to Durham’s prosecutors?

    There is a fascinating tidbit that suggests a cooperating witness may be helping build the case against the coup plotters. I have for a long time suspected that Lisa Page could turn state’s evidence when it comes to plea deal time in the invest...

  • November 8, 2019

    Tucker Carlson says leaked email shows former ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch lied under oath

    Oops!  Adam Schiff's star witness may have lied under oath — not a good look for public testimony slated next week in the "impeachment inquiry."  Last night, Tucker Carlson revealed that his show had received e...

  • November 8, 2019

    Media frenzy over possible Michael Bloomberg candidacy for Democrats' presidential nomination reflects desperation over lame field

    Media and other Democrats are scared stiff that the incompetent, radical and unelectable field currently leading the polling for the donkeys' presidential nomination will let President Trump win a second term.  That is leading to much e...

  • November 8, 2019

    Jeff Sessions announces his candidacy for Alabama Senate race on Tucker Carlson’s show

    Former senator and attorney general Jeff Sessions wants back the Senate seat he vacated to take office as the attorney general, only to recuse himself from deciding on the appointment of a special counsel and thereby endure severe criticism from Pres...

  • November 8, 2019

    Elizabeth Warren: 'Black trans and cis women, gender-nonconforming, and nonbinary people are the backbone of our democracy'

    I am not certain when pandering to transgender people became necessary for any Democrat running for president.  Nor do I know what percentage of Democrats are totally convinced that saying you are of the opposite gender means that you are o...

  • November 7, 2019

    The reasons the IG report has been delayed will delight Trump supporters

    The continuing delays in releasing the Department of Justice Inspector General’s report on the FISA warrant have discouraged a lot of conservatives. But according to Joe DiGenova and Victoria Toensing, whose sources on the ongoing scandal have ...

  • November 7, 2019

    Whistleblower’s lawyer ‘gave away the game’ with tweets documenting coup plot from the early days of Trump’s presidency

    Hubris is fatal flaw for a conspirator, especially when the conspiracy is of historic proportions, involving the overthrow of a legitimately elected president by means of a cooked-up excuse for impeachment. Mark Zaid, the attorney representing the pu...

  • November 6, 2019

    FBI admits (or concocts) mind-boggling mistake on notes taken on General Flynn interview that resulted in guilty plea

    Sidney Powell, Gen. Michael Flynn's replacement lawyer, is pulling on a thread that is unraveling the conspiracy to generate a crime with which to bludgeon him into cooperating in incriminating President Trump in the Russia hoax.  Late ...

  • November 6, 2019

    Colorado voters strongly reject ballot measure allowing state to increase its revenues

    Despite Colorado handing Democrats control of both houses of the state Legislature, the governor's mansion, and three other statewide offices, its voters don't want the state to keep more of their money.  A ballot measure to increas...

  • November 6, 2019

    Montgomery County, DC suburb, reverses course, will allow ICE to arrest some illegals in its jail

    A watershed moment in the "sanctuary" movement to protect criminal illegal aliens from deportation may have just taken place.  One of the bluest counties in America, Maryland's Montgomery County, a D.C. suburb, has discovered ...

  • November 5, 2019

    DNC chair Tom Perez fumbles badly when Univision host points out how Trump economy has benefited Hispanics

    There are millions of Americans who didn't vote for Trump who have substantially benefited from the economic boom created by his tax cut and deregulation policies.  The median household income is up $5,003 before taxes for his...

  • November 4, 2019

    Why are the Maldives building airports next to the ocean when warmists predict that it will be underwater with sea level rise?

    Sea level rise, a trend that predates the Industrial Revolution, is being blamed on CO2 emissions and has become one of the most potent harangues used to guilt-trip the populace of major industrial countries over the use of carbon-based ene...

  • November 4, 2019

    Only 18% of Americans approve of Mitt Romney in new Gallup Poll

    Going NeverTrump is not working out very well for Mitt Romney.  An NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll released Sunday shows that his net approval ("very positive" plus "somewhat positive") has plunged to only 18...

  • November 4, 2019

    Commercial broadcast television heading for a crisis

    An entire democratic, economically advanced country may lose advertiser-supported commercial broadcasting, leaving a government-controlled broadcaster with an on-air television monopoly.  This would not be due to the state shutting down its...

  • November 2, 2019

    Pelosi in 1998: Impeachment has a ‘traumatic impact on the confidence that the American people have in government’

    Back when Democrat Bill Clinton was facing impeachment over an actual crime he committed in office– perjury – for his own political benefit, Nancy Pelosi urged abandonment of the effort for the good of the Republic. In retrospect, her ...

  • November 2, 2019

    Could the Ukraine phone call ‘whistleblower’ be facing indictment?

    The so-called “whistleblower” (who dd not follow the protocol necessary to qualify for whistleblower protections) could well be facing serious legal jeopardy.  Sean Davis writes in the Federalist: Testimony by Intelligence Commu...

  • November 1, 2019

    A stunning confession from a Deep State member subverting the constitutional republic

    The arrogance and lack of self-awareness among the mandarins that inhabit the top levels of our government bureaucracies has led to a smoking gun-level confession. Rather than respecting the will of the voters who elect a president, they proudly subs...

  • October 31, 2019

    Kamala campaign death throes as she blames racist and sexist Dem voters

    Kamala Harris's presidential campaign is collapsing, as she has proven herself to be a phony hypocrite, willing to say anything to pander, and unable to win support from the voters and donors who know her best: those in California. Politico...

  • October 31, 2019

    Epstein death likely a homicide according to Dr. Baden, but NYC medical examiner defends suicide verdict

    How gullible do the powers-that-be think we are? Dr. Michael Baden, the renowned pathologist hired by the family of Jeffrey Epstein to attend his autopsy, examine evidence, and render an opinion, announced yesterday morning on Fox & Friends th...

  • October 30, 2019

    Michelle Obama castigates whites for 'running from us'

    Speaking at an event in Chicago called the "Obama Foundation Summit" (were any heads of state present?), Michelle Obama let slip her resentment of white people.  The grudge goes back to her childhood, and she does not seem to see ...

  • October 29, 2019

    Pelosi’s deceptive ‘impeachment vote’

    Speaker Pelosi is playing word games, trying to pull a fast one on the Republicans, the American people, and the Constitution by appearing to “authorize” a formal impeachment inquiry, while not actually passing an impeachment resolution t...

  • October 29, 2019

    Dan Crenshaw challenges entire premise of Ukraine impeachment efforts

    Finally! A political figure, rising star Rep. Dan Crenshaw of Texas, has challenged the false premise that there was anything wrong with President Trump asking for Ukrainian help in an investigation of corruption in the 2016 election undertaken by Jo...

  • October 29, 2019

    Our media ignore, but Mullahs don’t: US assembling a devastating strike force in the Middle East

    The American media are paying no attention to it, but you can be sure that the mullahs in Tehran have noticed: The United States is openly deploying the weapons necessary to launch a devastating attack on Iran, should the need arise. The Australian m...

  • October 29, 2019

    Trump’s praise for the dog that helped capture al Baghdadi was a psy-ops classic

    President Trumps tweet picturing and praising the “wonderful dog (name not declassified) that did such a GREAT JOB in capturing and killing the Leader of ISIS, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi!” was a brilliant bit of psychological warfare, in additi...

  • October 28, 2019

    Katie 'throuple' Hill announces resignation from Congress

    The #MeToo movement appears to have taken its first female politician as a trophy, as Democrats sigh in relief that an embarrassing story will no longer drag out over election season.  By the reckoning of the New York Times, 201 p...

  • October 28, 2019

    Lamest presidential field ever is giving Dems nightmares over a possible Hillary run

    A possible Hillary Clinton run for president terrifies many Dems, but whom else have they got? So lame is their large field of Democrat contenders that Hillary and her aides are dropping hints that she might enter the race.  She kicked o...

  • October 28, 2019

    Trump-hating NBC portrays Mitt Romney as suffering for opposing Trump

    Stand by for the JFK Library to give its next Profile in Courage Award® to Mitt Romney. The John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award was created in 1989 by members of President Kennedy's family to honor President John F. Kenned...

  • October 26, 2019

    A half-century of the geography of oil

    A fascinating video showing changes in world oil production by country, 1965–2018, has been created by BP and is embedded below.  It shows the relative position of the oil-producing countries dramatically changing over time, though in...

  • October 26, 2019

    Euthanasia and its alternative

    Two contrasting news stories yesterday grabbed my attention on the subject of comas and euthanasia. From the BBC: A High Court judge has ruled a 14-year-old girl taken to hospital after being found hanging has died. Doctors from Oxfor...

  • October 26, 2019

    Australian legislator uncovers that country's Bureau of Meteorology fiddling with temperature records to hype warming

    If global warming is real and a threat to the world, why do people keeping temperature records keep "adjusting" or "rectifying" the data to make it look like warming is increasing? From Down Under, a member of the federal House...

  • October 26, 2019

    Andrew McCabe withdraws his lawsuit against the Department of Justice

    Do you think it is a coincidence that as soon as the news broke that a criminal investigation of the origins of the surveillance of the Trump campaign was underway, Andrew McCabe withdrew his lawsuit against the Department of Justice and the FBI? ...

  • October 25, 2019

    Tulsi Gabbard announces she is not running for re-election to House of Representatives

    Bad things tend to happen to people who find themselves on Hillary Clinton's enemies list.  Just days after being attacked by Hillary Clinton for being a favorite of the Russians and for allegedly being "groomed" (by Republica...

  • October 25, 2019

    Chicago teachers' strike enters seventh day

    With President Trump scheduled to visit Chicago Monday, teachers and students both may have a lot of free time on their hands to protest in front of the landmark Trump Tower along the Chicago River as a fundraiser lunch is held inside.  ...

  • October 25, 2019

    New York Times gets scoop from anonymous sources that Durham probe is now a criminal investigation

    While many conservatives had assumed all along that U.S. attorney John Durham was aiming at potential criminal indictments in his investigation of the FISA warrants granted to surveil U.S. citizens, there was news that the tools of a criminal investi...

  • October 25, 2019

    High cholesterol associated with longer life

    Highly educated "experts" rule today's advanced societies, but their advice on how the rest of us should live — often enforced by government coercion — is increasingly exposed as premature at best and mistaken, incomplete, i...

  • October 24, 2019

    Utah voters turn against Mitt Romney (and Mike Lee, too)

    Voters in one of the reddest states are unhappy with their two United States senators, for completely different reasons. Utahpolicy.com has asked, "Do you approve of the way xxx is handling his job?" about both Republican senators and found...

  • October 24, 2019

    Insider Democrat 2020 fears chronicled by a sympathizer

    A fascinating look inside Democrats' deepest fears about 2020 comes from a Bloomberg columnist.  Democrats are afraid of President Trump expanding his voting base to people who haven't voted in recent elections.  One of th...

  • October 24, 2019

    CBS to make in-kind campaign contribution to Dems with election season mini-series based on Comey's book

    The media are all in on driving President Trump from office, either by impeachment or electoral defeat.  An example of the latter comes from CBS — not from the biased news division, but from the entertainment branch of the corporation...

  • October 23, 2019

    Dems' hysteria over 'lynching' offers an opportunity for Trump to discredit them

    I suspect that President Trump deliberately used the word "lynching" in a tweet to describe the efforts to impeach him, knowing that it would evoke hysteria from Democrats accusing him of racism.  Lest I be accused of at...

  • October 23, 2019

    Lawsuit against Jussie Smollett for police costs of hate crime hoax gets green light from federal judge

    Americans are about to be treated to a highly entertaining and important unraveling of a hate crime hoax in court, as Chicago gets a green light from a federal judge to proceed with a lawsuit attempting to recover police costs expended on Jussie Smol...

  • October 23, 2019

    Will Somali voters turn out for Ilhan Omar in 2020?

    All four members of "The Squad" come from deep blue districts that normally are safe seats for Democrats.  But Rep. Ilhan Omar, who represents the city of Minneapolis and a few inner ring suburbs, is now caught in a scandal that t...

  • October 21, 2019

    China agreement for 75-year lease for an entire island in the Solomons worrying Australia

    The Solomon Islands in the South Pacific are a militarily crucial location for any Pacific power interested in threatening the continent of Australia.  That's why the fighting at Guadalcanal, one of the Solomons, was so fierce during Wo...

  • October 21, 2019

    Media begin canonization of Mitt Romney

    Remember when Mitt Romney was a heartless capitalist, torturer of the family dog, and driving his ex-employees into cancer?  It wasn't that many years ago, when he had the effrontery to run against the nation's First Black President...

  • October 21, 2019

    Kamala Harris campaign crashing and burning in Iowa, her top priority

    Kamala Harris's presidential campaign has been a disaster for her and may even damage her political career prospects beyond 2020.  It's been all downhill since the impressive kickoff rally in Oakland, where her campaign claimed...

  • October 21, 2019

    Lindsey Graham reverses himself on Syria withdrawal: 'I see a way forward now that really quite frankly is historic.'

    All it took was a phone call to President Trump for Lindsey Graham to change his mind on the wisdom of the decision to withdraw U.S. troops from a border area zone between Kurdish areas of Syria and the Turkish border.  Isn't the defini...

  • October 20, 2019

    American media barely noticing that Spain may be falling apart

    The media mania over the attempts to drive President Trump from office seems to have overshadowed some really serious events elsewhere in the world. The struggle over Brexit is getting at least some coverage, though arguably not enough because Britis...

  • October 20, 2019

    Fat black professor of gender studies blames Trump for black female obesity

    No, this is not from the Babylon Bee. It actually comes from the Oprah Winfrey Network, and a segment featuring Professor Britney Cooper, who sports a PhD from Emory University and who currently is an associate professor in the Department of Women...

  • October 19, 2019

    A Washington Post headline unintentionally gives away the game

    The headline below tells us a lot more than the Democrat partisans at the Washington Post intended. After two weeks of closed-door testimony, a clearer portrait of Trump's role emerges How does closed-door testimony tells the Washington Pos...

  • October 19, 2019

    Reuters plays defense for Hunter Biden's Burisma caper

    I found it hard to read this Reuters article without bursting out laughing.  Titled "What Hunter Biden did on the board of Ukrainian energy company Burisma," and written by no fewer than four correspondents, Polina Ivano...

  • October 19, 2019

    Trump campaign sues CNN

    I have to admit that the lawsuit that the Trump campaign promises to launch against CNN seems like a long shot to me.  Or, as the media like to say about lawsuits of which they approve, it is an "innovative" or "path-breaking...

  • October 19, 2019

    Federal investigators reportedly going after political corruption involving huge Chicago electric utility Commonwealth Edison

    Democrat-dominated Chicago is widely reputed to be thoroughly corrupt, and it now looks as though federal prosecutors have turned over a lot of rocks and are going after the icky creatures crawling away.  Recall that a politically powerful ...

  • October 19, 2019

    Hillary Clinton elevates Tulsi Gabbard to star status

    Unless she has smoking-gun evidence (from Fusion GPS?) to back up her claim implying that Tulsi Gabbard is a Russian asset, Hillary Clinton must have gone insane, driven mad by her frustration at not being elected president.  Representative...

  • October 18, 2019

    Ratings crash for Dem presidential debates -- CNN hardest hit

    Two conclusions leap out from the ratings of televised presidential debates: - the viewing public is already tiring of the Democrats’ presidential field; - the viewing public doesn’t trust and doesn’t want to watch CNN –...

  • October 18, 2019

    Media says pointing a finger at President Trump ‘shames’ him, but pointing a finger at Obama was rude and racist

    Trump Derangement Syndrome comes in many forms, but one of the most common manifestations of the irrationality can be found in the double standards the media employ. If Trump does something that Democrats got praised for, then it is bad.  And if...

  • October 18, 2019

    Mitt in 2019: protecting Kurds ‘one of our most sacred duties’; Mitt in 2007: ‘Kurdish nationalism could destabilize the border with Turkey’

    Politician Mitt Romney has joined journalists like Bill Kristol and Jennifer Rubin in contradicting his previously-espoused positions when President Trump acts on them. Back in 2007 when he was running for president, Romney took to the pages of Forei...

  • October 18, 2019

    Why holding the G-7 at Trump’s Doral property is good for the United States

    Even people and publications favorable to President Trump are urging him to cancel plans to host the June 2020 G-7 Summit at the Trump National Golf Course resort near Miami. For example, the New York Post writes: When you become leader of the F...

  • October 17, 2019

    Biden's toast — and the big-bucks Dem donors know it

    Joe Biden never had a chance to win the Democrats' presidential nomination, and I said so a week and a half after he announced his candidacy.  He's just too stupid and too corrupt (even for a Democrat), no matter how much ...

  • October 15, 2019

    ABC busted for outrageous fake video intended to make Trump responsible for fake atrocities against Kurds

    Fake news comes in a variety of forms, but some of the deepest impact comes from vivid images intended to elicit powerful emotions of blame against the target.  ABC News, part of the media now in full propaganda mode intended to destroy Pre...

  • October 14, 2019

    No more 'Ladies and Gentlemen' for Air Canada in-flight announcements

    The insistence that biology divides humanity (and almost all other multicellular creatures) into two sexes is now regarded as old-fashioned, according to the social revolutionaries of the Left.  They are "science-deniers," to use ...

  • October 14, 2019

    'Extinction Rebellion' protesters choose hilariously apt mode of protest on Australian beach

    Members of apocalyptic cults always are certain in the superiority of their wisdom over that of ordinary people who cannot grasp that the end is near!  Their frustration over the failure of others to share their sense of doom often lea...

  • October 8, 2019

    Steve Hilton explains Ukraine with new insight

    Steve Hilton of Fox News used about 10 minutes of his Sunday night show to expose some aspects of the relationship between Ukraine and prominent Democrats that have not come to light elsewhere.  It was a tour de force, demonstrating that Jo...

  • October 7, 2019

    Pelosi defends Schiff's version of Trump-Zelensky phone call: 'He did not make it up'

    Nancy Pelosi appeared shock even George Stephanopoulos of ABC news yesterday.  The speaker of the House claimed that Rep. Adam Schiff did not invent his own version of the telephone call between President Trump and the (then) newl...

  • October 3, 2019

    Can the Bernie Sanders campaign recover from the cardiac event that nobody is calling a heart attack?

    The contest for the Democrats' presidential nomination has been dealt a wild card.  We all wish Bernie Sanders a speedy and complete recovery from the surgery that inserted stents to relieve a blocked coronary artery.  But we ...

  • October 3, 2019

    Schiff's lies about no advance knowledge of whistleblower complaint make the impeachment efforts look like a conspiracy

    When wrongdoing by Democrats is discussed, the media like to call charges against them "conspiracy theories," implying that crazed partisans are imagining phony connections where none in fact exists.  But when people with no visib...

  • October 3, 2019

    World Trade Organization authorizes US tariffs on $7.5 billion in goods from EU over Airbus subsidies

    The World Trade Organization handed down a ruling yesterday that because the European Union subsidized Airbus in its competition with Boeing, the United States could impose retaliatory tariffs on $7.5 billion in E.U. exports to the United States....

  • October 3, 2019

    Fredo flunks Fred Fleitz flagellation

    Chris Cuomo, the CNN host nicknamed Fredo, really lit into Fred Fleitz on his show Tuesday night for Fleitz's contention that Adam Schiff knew about the whistleblower complaint before it was filed.  Fleitz is a 25-year veteran of the In...

  • October 2, 2019

    San Francisco backs down after NRA challenges its designation as 'terrorist organization'

    Derangement is in the air as progressives, driven to distraction by not just Trump's election and successes, but their own failures, act out their rage with no consideration of the downsides.  An excellent example of Non-Trump Progressi...

  • October 2, 2019

    Chalupa is not merely a Taco Bell menu item; it’s also an exploding cigar

    Democrats have opened Pandora's Box by taking up the subject of election influence coming from Ukraine.  They seized upon the conversation between President Trump and Ukraine's President Zelensky, leaked by a Deep State operative em...

  • October 2, 2019

    Voting with their eyeballs, cable news viewers keep Fox News high atop the ratings

    Catering to Trump Derangement Syndrome hasn't been a winning strategy for CNN and MSNBC.  As third-quarter ratings have been released, poor Rachel Maddow still hasn't recovered from the slump engendered by the embarrassing flop of R...

  • October 2, 2019

    Voting with their dollars, Americans smash all campaign fundraising records with support for Trump

    In 2016, Candidate Trump was far outspent by the Hillary Clinton campaign. In his reelection effort, though, President Trump is likely to have a substantial financial advantage over whoever is his Democrat opponent if current patterns of fundraising ...

  • October 2, 2019

    Kamala Harris reveals her totalitarian impulse

    Unable to revive her faltering presidential campaign and desperate to find some sort of gimmick more effective than claiming to have been saved from segregated schools by bussing (in Berkeley, California! — yeah, right), Kamala Harris is now se...

  • October 1, 2019

    Schiff aide's trip to Ukraine 12 days after whistleblower filed complaint sponsored by Burisma-funded NGO

    The cast of characters involved in the attempt to impeach President Trump over enlisting Ukrainian help in probing Joe Biden certainly have a lot of connections with each other.  A few days ago, I noticed quite a few seeming coincidenc...

  • September 30, 2019

    Saudi Arabia implements a huge shift in its public dress code

    A friend with ties to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia who must remain anonymous sends the following. Under the leadership of Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman, Saudi Arabia continues its modernization and economic diversity program.  Nowhere is th...

  • September 30, 2019

    Biden campaign 'demands' TV nets silence Rudy Giuliani

    Trump Derangement Syndrome is causing Democrats to expose their totalitarian impulse.  Taking a lesson from communist tyrants, the Biden campaign outed itself as taking the route of silencing rather than responding to its critics. ...

  • September 30, 2019

    The long knives come out for The Hill's John Solomon

    As impeachment frenzy intensifies, the anti-Trump forces are closing in on a scorched earth strategy to weaken and then destroy those who defend the president. John Solomon has distinguished himself with meticulous research and reporting, includin...

  • September 29, 2019

    Boris Johnson’s aides investigating ‘collusion’ of anti-Brexit ‘Remainers’ with French and EU officials

    "Collusion" with foreign powers may be the hottest political issue of the moment in both the U.K. and the USA, where beleaguered conservative leaders are fighting titanic struggles with their respective Deep States.  The struggle ...

  • September 29, 2019

    AG Barr’s trip to Italy on ‘official business’ may be a key to unmasking deep state entrapment of George Papadopoulos by CIA asset Joseph Mifsud

    Attorney General William Barr quietly flew off to Italy on official business on Wednesday, a move first noticed by ABC correspondent Alex Mallin on Friday, September 27. He tweeted the news as an ABC scoop at 12:54 PM, Eastern Daylight time.  On...

  • September 29, 2019

    At least 130 State Dept. officials notified of possible ‘culpability’ in ‘security incidents’ related to Hillary’s private email server

    The wheels of federal bureaucratic responsibility, like the wheels of justice, grind very slowly, so only now are we learning that the scandal of Hillary Clinton’s private email server used for official business is still being scrutinized. And ...

  • September 28, 2019

    Greta Thunberg's speech to UN strangely resembles a 1992 UN speech by 12-year-old Severn Cullis-Suzuki

    Well, at least the climate hysterics are practicing recycling.  Or repeating a pattern of child abuse, exploiting young minds and souls for their political benefit, if you will.  Or maybe it is just a matter of running out of...

  • September 28, 2019

    Mini AOC is back with 'climate apocalypse in 12 years' parody video

    The child actor who starred in a series of parody videos as "Mini AOC" is back, after having been bullied off the internet with death threats in July, as Fox News reported back then. The 8-year-old child actor who went v...

  • September 28, 2019

    Dem governor of Illinois fires truth-seeking museum director as hat-gate scandal grows

    Governor Jay Pritzker of Illinois, scion of the Hyatt Hotel fortune, is bungling the handling of a developing scandal in the state whose license plates proudly proclaim it the "Land of Lincoln."  Instead of going for transparency ...

  • September 27, 2019

    As Biden falters, Hillary attacks Trump and positions herself to enter presidential race

    Hillary Clinton remains shackled to her lust for power and revenge and now is signaling that she may enter the Democrats' presidential contest when ex–vice president Joe Biden withdraws and serves as the fall guy for Ukraine's collusion...

  • September 27, 2019

    Dems' impeachment frenzy is the prelude to the coming time bombs about to explode in their faces

    Lost in all the frenzy over impeachment — sparked by the Deep State leaker posing as a "whistleblower" (passing along hearsay does not qualify for protection under whistleblower statutes) — is the trio of ticking time ...

  • September 26, 2019

    Elizabeth Warren visibly flustered over question on Biden's son

    Elizabeth Warren seems to have a plan for everything, but apparently, she hasn't given much thought to Hunter Biden's acquisition of wealth from overseas while his father was handling important matters there as vice president.  Perhaps s...

  • September 26, 2019

    Mitt Romney adviser sits on Burisma board of directors

    Well, this is certainly an odd coincidence!  In fact, when you dig in, you find an amazing series of coincidences...if you believe in coincidences when the CIA is involved, that is. Mitt Romney's national security adviser i...

  • September 25, 2019

    Pelosi's impeachment theater is boob bait for her rabid radicals

    If politics were regulated the way that consumer goods are, Nancy Pelosi might be charged by the FTC with deceptive packaging for her ridiculous announcement yesterday that an "official" impeachment inquiry is underway. ...

  • September 25, 2019

    Rudy Giuliani tells Dems they've walked into a trap

    Rudy Giuliani, President Trump's personal lawyer and old friend from New York, was on fire last night, clearly ecstatic over what lies ahead for the Democrats now that they have made impeachment theater the public focus of the House of ...

  • September 25, 2019

    Transcript of Trump-Zelensky call released, impeachment now likely

    With the release this morning of the unredacted transcript[i] of President Trump’s July 25 call to Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky, the bait has been set in a trap, and the House Democrats are very likely to vote to begin impeachment proce...

  • September 24, 2019

    Top-level climate modeler goes rogue, criticizes 'nonsense' of 'global warming crisis'

    A highly qualified and experienced climate modeler with impeccable credentials has rejected the unscientific bases of the doom-mongering over a purported climate crisis.  His work has not yet been picked up in this country, but that is abou...

  • September 24, 2019

    Master troll Trump calls Chris Cuomo 'Fredo' at UN

    No doubt, Trump-haters will call it "punching down" and "unpresidential," but I call it making Alinsky work for us.  Yesterday, during a press conference at the U.N., President Trump referred to CNN anchor Chris Cuomo as ...

  • September 24, 2019

    John Solomon devastates Democrats on Ukraine

    Writing in The Hill, John Solomon demonstrates that it is Democrats who first sought to intimidate Ukraine for their own political ends and who continue to do so. Earlier this month, during a bipartisan meeting in Kiev, Sen. ...

  • September 23, 2019

    The Ukraine Hoax is replacing the Russia Hoax

    Rep. Mark Meadows of North Carolina was interviewed by Judge Jeanine Pirro over the weekend, and he had a lot to say about Joe Biden and Ukraine.  The former chair of the Freedom Caucus and member of the House Foreign Relations Co...

  • September 23, 2019

    Trump scored bigly at amazing 'Howdy, Modi' event in Houston

    The Trump-hating media are doing their best to ignore or denigrate the landmark, triumphal event yesterday in Houston, as at least 50,000 Indian-Americans attended a rally featuring President Trump, India's newly re-elected Prime Minister Modi, a...

  • September 23, 2019

    Rudy Giuliani was on fire yesterday about Ukraine

    "They have fallen into a trap!" With those words, Rudy Giuliani yesterday let it be known that Ukraine is not going to lead to impeachment for President Donald Trump and that all the media hysteria over his conversation with the presiden...

  • September 23, 2019

    Mollie Hemingway calls out Mitt Romney

    I think we can safely add Mitt Romney's name to the list of Trump Derangement Syndrome sufferers.  It shouldn't be surprising, given the strong contrast in personal styles of the two men.  Romney is formal and reserved to ...

  • September 23, 2019

    New York Times' lie reveals the extent of Democrats' fear of the Ed Buck scandal

    The media and other Democrats obviously are deeply worried over the arrest of their prominent donor, Ed Buck, on charges of drugging and paying for homosexual sex with impoverished black males.  USA Today summarizes: Ed Buck, a De...

  • September 22, 2019

    Canada's global warming models threw out actual historical data and substituted models of what the temperature should have been

    Environment Canada, led by Justin Trudeau–appointed environment minister Catherine McKenna, is all in on the hypothesis that man-made global warming is an existential threat to humanity.  It is so important to hand control of ene...

  • September 22, 2019

    Joe Biden and his son Hunter can’t keep their Ukraine story straight

    Did Joe Biden discuss his son’s Ukraine business deal with him? Joe said “No” Friday when Fox News Channel’s Peter Doocy caught up with him at an appearance in Iowa. “Mr. Vice President, how many times have you ever...

  • September 22, 2019

    Iowa Democrats obviously don’t believe the global warming hysteria their presidential candidates are peddling

    Democrats pose as the party of the common people while financially backed by the wealthiest plutocrats, such as billionaires George Soros and Tom Styer. But give them a little credit: they have just extended the hypocrisy privilege they offer to priv...

  • September 21, 2019

    Andrew McCabe's chutzpah

    Apparently, for Andrew McCabe, the best defense is a good offense. Speaking to CNN host (and colleague) John Berman, the disgraced FBI head (as deputy director, he ran the agency after James Comey was fired) slimed the man who exposed his professi...

  • September 21, 2019

    The climate 'strike' that wasn't one

    It wasn't just schoolchildren who left their responsibilities behind yesterday in order to agitate for a radical left-wing political agenda: The Global Climate Strike umbrella group not only wants a ban on all fossil fuels by as soon as...

  • September 21, 2019

    Soros and the 'whistleblower' non-scandal

    Oh, boy, hold onto your hats.  The latest propaganda campaign to discredit President Trump has Soros roots, according to someone in the know that I trust. Victoria Toensing is not given to empty charges (or empty threats). The extreme...

  • September 20, 2019

    Deep State deflecting Biden's Ukraine scandal with whistleblower complaint

    Even though the details are classified, Deep State intelligence community operatives are leaking enough that we can assess with a reasonable degree of confidence that the latest scandal being peddled by Adam Schiff (among others) is as phony as the R...

  • September 20, 2019

    Rep. Matt Gaetz takes on Al Sharpton in committee meeting

    "Reverend" Al Sharpton, the self-ordained moral pretender, finally ran into someone willing to take on his years of anti-Semitism when he testified before Jerrold Nadler's House Judiciary Committee yesterday. Thanks to talking over each...

  • September 20, 2019

    'Hi tech entrepreneur' Andrew Yang not rich enough to buy a modest home in Silicon Valley

    Andrew Yang is widely identified as a "hi tech entrepreneur," leading many people (including me) to assume he is worth many millions of dollars, and independently wealthy.  That made sense, considering his plan to give a thousand ...

  • September 20, 2019

    EU head hopeful on deal after Boris Johnson stood firm on Brexit

    Gone are the hopes of a British cave-in on Brexit.  P.M. Boris Johnson has made it clear that there will be no re-vote on the U.K. leaving the E.U., that the will of the voters as expressed will be obeyed.  And for good measure, P...

  • September 19, 2019

    Mainstream media savaged Nadler's impeachment hearing questioning of Corey Lewandowski (with an assist from Nancy Pelosi)

    The mainstream media chorus turned on their Democrat allies over the questioning of Corey Lewandowski by Chairman Nadler's House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday.  The breadth and depth of the rare media attack on Democrats needs explanat...

  • September 19, 2019

    The walls finally may be closing in on Ilhan Omar

    There is ample reason to suspect that Rep. Ilhan Omar has committed multiple frauds.  Scott Johnson of Powerline, a retired attorney, has been covering the freshman House member ever since her run for the Minnesota state Legislature, and ha...

  • September 19, 2019

    Sanctimonious, politically correct Justin Trudeau is foundering on politically correct sanctimony

    Justin Trudeau, facing an election on October 21, is embroiled in a controversy over attending a costume party wearing a costume and darkening his face so he resembled a cartoon version of Aladdin.  Time obtained a yearbook photograph ...

  • September 19, 2019

    Desperate Dems turning to fatally flawed Warren

    Okay, so Joe Biden is proving such an embarrassment that he can't be trusted to remain plausibly coherent for the 14 long months until the election.  And Kamala Harris, the Great Intersectional Hope, is so transparently phony that voter...

  • September 18, 2019

    Did FBI and CIA have an agent provocateur who tried to entrap the Trump Organization in a Russia deal?

    Judicial Watch is hot on the trail of a potentially explosive revelation: that an agent who had previously worked for the FBI and CIA  as an informant --  recruited by Andrew Weissmann in 1998! -- actively tried to set up a business deal be...

  • September 18, 2019

    Dems seek to censure their own narrowly-elected sitting senator for not opposing Trump enough

    Trump Derangement Syndrome is driving Democrats so insane that fanatics are turning against one of their own in the Senate, elected by a narrow margin in 2018, seeking to have the party censure the crime of occasionally voting with President Trump...

  • September 18, 2019

    Hillary has a new excuse for why she lost to Trump

    Hillary’s back making speeches and she still can’t get over her loss. Yesterday, grim, dressed in black, and noticeably more pear-shaped than in 2016, she raved about “voter suppression” as the “number one” reason ...

  • September 17, 2019

    Activist groups can't give up on Kavanaugh

    It looks as though the campaign to intimidate Justice Kavanaugh and affect his future Supreme Court votes isn't being called off simply because the story slurring him as a sexual predator as an undergraduate at Yale fell apart almost immediately ...

  • September 17, 2019

    As Trump calls for resignations, NYT finger-pointing begins on deceptive Kavanaugh hit piece

    "Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive." —Sir Walter Scott President Trump, an enthusiast for hitting back harder when attacked, is not about to let his arch-enemies at the New York Times off the ...

  • September 17, 2019

    NYT op-ed brazenly calls for packing the Supreme Court

    Just two days after publishing its disgraceful, deceptive op-ed impugning Justice Kavanaugh, the op-ed page editors of the New York Times implement stage two of the paper's campaign today with an op-ed by its own writer Jamelle Bouie: ...

  • September 16, 2019

    Another global warming prediction of doom goes bust, looks ridiculous

    Rather than reconsider their outlandish deadlines for doom in the wake of predictions of catastrophe failing to show up — remember the infamous "End of Snow" headline (below)? — global warming doomsters amp up the level of devas...

  • September 16, 2019

    NYT quietly corrects its outrageous smear of Justice Kavanaugh

    Just like the prosecutors of General Flynn and the application for FISA warrants, the New York Times left out critical exculpatory evidence when it published a character assassination piece Sunday, intended to intimidate or even impeach Justice Brett...

  • September 16, 2019

    Caught peddling bogus story about Trump causing CIA spy in Russia to be exfiltrated, CNN plays defense...badly

    CNN is doing its best to claim the title of most deranged anti-Trump news outlet in the face of intense New York Times competition, considering its latest disgrace in omitting key evidence that cast doubt on its story smearing Justice Kavan...

  • September 15, 2019

    Another Smollett-style fake hate crime blaming MAGA busted

    The bad news is that Trump supporters are being once again being blamed for fake hate crimes, but the good news is that the fraudster is so inept that the cops were able to bust him right away. The latest attempt to leverage the media’s nonstop...

  • September 15, 2019

    Attack on Saudi oil infrastructure brings Sunni-Shia conflict to a new level

    A nightmare scenario is starting to unfold in the Middle East, as major damage has been inflicted on a huge oil processing facility in Saudi Arabia, cutting 5 million barrels a day of oil from world markets, and halving Saudi output. Iran-backed Shia...

  • September 15, 2019

    Green energy policies proliferating a ‘greenhouse gas’ with ‘23,500 times more warming than CO2’

    Global warming hysteria has driven a lot of stupid investment in purportedly “green” energy production that turns out to create new problems. Wind farms that kill millions of birds because migratory birds follow the same winds that are id...

  • September 14, 2019

    Ocasio-Cortez: Miami won't exist 'in a few years'

    Claiming to be "realistic," Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez went on the record Wednesday, apparently predicting that the City of Miami won't exist "in a few years" due to climate change: When it comes to climate change, wha...

  • September 14, 2019

    Beto O'Rourke goes from golden boy to problem child for the Democrats

    Remember when Robert Francis ("Beto") O'Rourke was the glamorous, Kennedyesque hero for the Democrats, the guy who was going to unseat Ted Cruz?  He was so hot that he raised $70 million for a one-state campaign, mor...

  • September 14, 2019

    Retired senator Orrin Hatch hilariously trolls Joe Biden

    In a series of tweets on a Twitter account named "Retired Orrin Hatch," someone apparently impersonating the former Utah senator (it is labeled a parody account) has shown a sense of humor that the real senator never gave a hint of possessi...

  • September 14, 2019

    In Illinois, dead people not only can vote, but can get free medical care

    Illinois clearly is the pioneer in the not yet existent deceased rights movement, which I have heard is having trouble with turnout for its rallies.  But if the dead ever do rise from their graves in a zombie apocalypse, as so often dramati...

  • September 13, 2019

    Beto's gift to GOP: 'Hell yes, we're going to take your AR-15, your AK-47'

    Last night's excruciating three-hour Democrat debate generated a number of video clips that will drive GOP turnout and that will come back to haunt the eventual nominee.  Nobody but Beto O'Rourke expects him to be the nominee, but h...

  • September 13, 2019

    Andrew Yang goes full Publishers Clearinghouse, offering a thousand bucks a month to 10 lucky families out there in TV-land

    For a moment, it appeared that the Democrat debate last night had morphed into a TV game show or a Publishers Clearinghouse commercial.  Following through on his campaign's promise to do "something no presidential candidate has eve...

  • September 13, 2019

    The stupidest moment of all in last night's Democrat debate

    I realize that there is a lot of competition, but one proposal made by a Democrat presidential candidate stands out for sheer idiocy.  Even a moment's reflection would indicate that if carried out, this proposal would be a disaster. ...

  • September 13, 2019

    Leaks that Andrew McCabe will face indictment lead to wildly different scenarios for how the case will play out

    The leak to Fox News that the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, Jessie Liu, has recommended going ahead with prosecution of Andrew McCabe for lying to federal investigators appears to be solid.  Inspector General Horowit...

  • September 13, 2019

    Four decades of bad nutrition advice based on 'settled science' was contradicted by rigorous study of the time – but it was largely suppressed

    Newly unearthed data from four decades ago contradicted gospel that animal fats are worse than vegetable fats — and was ignored.  All those climate alarmists who proclaim that they "believe in science" fail to understand tha...

  • September 13, 2019

    China junks limits on import of US soybeans and pork for now

    Chinese consumers are not happy about higher prices and decreased supplies of food.  Yesterday, Chinese buyers snapped up "at least 10 boatloads of soybeans," according to Reuters, as the U.S.-China trade war showed signs of ...

  • September 12, 2019

    Illinois Supreme Court selects chief justice married to indicted Chicago Alderman at center of huge federal probe into political corruption

    There is jaw-dropping indifference to the appearance of corruption in Springfield, Illinois.  It's hard to figure out what was on the minds of the justices of the Illinois Supreme Court when they chose Anne Burke to be chief justice for...

  • September 12, 2019

    SCOTUS delivers big Trump win and implicit rebuke to San Francisco federal judge's 50-state injunction on asylum rules change

    In a very unusual move, the Supreme Court bypassed the lower courts and issued a decision vacating an injunction issued by Judge Jon Tigar of the San Francisco Federal District Court (who normally sits in the Oakland Federal Courthouse), prohibiting ...

  • September 12, 2019

    Transgenderism conquers science at Canadian Cancer Society

    We live in a moment where the urge to be politically correct has conquered the major institutions of society, driving them to abandon common sense and even science.  Writing at PJ Media, Megan Fox documents the auto-beclowning of the Canadi...

  • September 11, 2019

    CNN's spy exfiltration story was a Second Russia Hoax

    Less than a day and half after it appeared, CNN's "exclusive" report by Jim Sciutto that worries over President Trump's handling of classified information led the CIA to exfiltrate "one of [the CIA's] highest leve...

  • September 10, 2019

    Change in population of world religious groups over the last 75 years

    Sasha Madin writes to us with a video he has made charting the changes in population among major religious affiliations in the world for the last 75 years.  I haven't been able to verify the underlying statistical data, but it looks con...

  • September 10, 2019

    The best speech on Brexit — from a shocking source

    Keep in mind that, according to most of our media (and even more so the European media), we are supposed to regard with fear the German "ultra-right-wing" political party, the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD).  Also, keep in...

  • September 10, 2019

    One America News Network files $10-million defamation lawsuit against Rachel Maddow, MSNBC, and corporate parents

    President Trump isn't the only one who hits back.  The parent of the scrappy conservative news outlet One America News Network (OANN), Herring Networks, has filed a lawsuit against Rachel Maddow, MSNBC, and its corporate parents for def...

  • September 10, 2019

    Justice coming for Rand Paul, thanks to Sixth Circuit Court

    I was among many people shocked and outraged by the lenient sentence — 30 days! — handed down to Rand Paul's next-door neighbor, Rene Boucher, by U.S. District Court judge Marianne Battani, "a special judge called in fr...

  • September 10, 2019

    Tulsi Gabbard rejects Dems' abortion absolutism. Is she preparing for an independent run or a 2024 run?

    The shabby treatment accorded to Tulsi Gabbard by the DNC marks how afraid the establishment of that party is of anyone who challenges key parts of its orthodoxy.  Despite exceeding the threshold for individual donations, and four poll resu...

  • September 9, 2019

    A French soldier's view of US soldiers in Afghanistan

    A reader who, in this day of blacklists, must remain anonymous, sends this observation about our soldiers in Afghanistan: It's not unusual for the French to comment on anything American and normally in the negative.  What is rare is ...

  • September 9, 2019

    Once again, climate warriors rescued from their ship trapped in polar ice

    Warmists never learn!  The conviction that global warming is melting ice in the polar regions has once again led climate warriors into danger and the need for rescue.  The MS Malmo, a Swedish-registered ship, was just rescued after being tr...

  • September 9, 2019

    Did Jerry Nadler lie to a federal judge?

    As Congress returns from recess, impeachment talk is once again in the air.  Speaker Nancy Pelosi doesn't want a vote on impeachment because she recognizes that it is so unpopular outside the deep blue districts where Trump hatred rules...

  • September 8, 2019

    Media bias called out -- and not by a conservative

    We welcome to the club of media skeptics a former MSNBC host and Dem congressional nominee.  Conservatives can take a small degree of satisfaction that not all Democrats are oblivious to the toxic level of media bias. An article in The Hill by a...

  • September 8, 2019

    Anti-Brexit Brit parliamentarians colluded with EU to sabotage PM Johnson’s no-deal Brexit

    I am no expert on British public opinion, but it is hard for me to imagine that this news is going to help the anti-Johnson forces trying to stymie his plan to follow the dictate of the voters’ referendum and take the UK out of the EU according...

  • September 8, 2019

    Trump drops Saturday bombshell: calling-off planned secret Camp David negotiations with Taliban and Afghan president

    The Left is already going crazy, as they always do no matter what steps President Trump takes or announces. In a series of three tweets, the president revealed that “unbeknownst to almost everyone” leaders of the Taliban were coming to Wa...

  • September 8, 2019

    Even New York Times sees that Chinese leadership is divided and wavering

    One of the standard criticisms of President Trump’s trade war with China is that China has the upper hand because it is not a democracy. Meanwhile, President Trump faces voters in 14 months, so therefore it was a mistake to challenge the status...

  • September 8, 2019

    Mainstream media has hidden news of Biden’s bloody eyeball

    The Democrat hacks with bylines almost unanimously decided to protect their audiences from the knowledge that something very wrong suddenly happened inside Joe Biden’s left eyeball during the climate hysteria town hall that CNN broadcast last w...

  • September 7, 2019

    Chick-fil-A opens first international store as eager customers step over bodies of 'die-in' protesters

    There is something magical and quietly hilarious about the ability of a fast food chain peddling chicken to arouse deep outrage from the alienated few and yet record-setting patronage by the greater public.  Chick-fil-A manages to do the se...

  • September 7, 2019

    Lefty ThinkProgress website closes, lays off staff

    One of the purported leaders of left-wing online journalism closed its doors yesterday, laying off its unionized staff.  Sam Stein reports for the Daily Beast: ThinkProgress, the influential news site that rose to prominence in th...

  • September 6, 2019

    Maryland's Montgomery County Council disgraces itself defending sanctuary policies that allowed 7 illegals to remain and rape local residents

    Last night, the politicians on the County Council of Montgomery County, Maryland emailed a statement to county residents responding to the wave of seven sexual assaults since July 25, allegedly carried out by illegal aliens under the protection of th...

  • September 6, 2019

    Jussie Smollett's chutzpah

    Jussie Smollett's legal team is blaming the Chicago Police Department for taking his bogus assault allegations so seriously and devoting so many resources to finding the nonexistent Trump-supporters he alleged attacked him.  That's ...

  • September 6, 2019

    Climate hysterics now push eating human flesh to cope with 'climate change'

    Climate hysteria dystopian life is imitating Charlton Heston's art, as attendees at a "summit" on food in the (climate-ravaged) future were treated to a presentation advocating overcoming the taboo against eating human flesh. ...

  • September 5, 2019

    Four years after allowing universal ‘concealed carry’ law, Maine rated the safest state in the nation for crime

    Since 2015, residents of the state of Maine have been allowed to carry a concealed firearm without any special permit, and now the results are in: crime has fallen to the point where the state is now rated the safest in the nation from the threat of ...

  • September 5, 2019

    Gross! Biden’s left eyeball filled with blood during CNN’s climate change town hall

    Already the subject of health worries, Joe Biden did himself no good during the 7-hour CNN town hall on climate change. It wasn’t anything he said, but rather his left eyeball filling with blood as he discussed climate change. Here is the qu...

  • September 5, 2019

    Kamala Harris laughs about paper straws quickly collapsing, but still wants to ban plastic straws

    Kamala Harris is as much a poseur as Kirsten Gillibrand, the recently departed former Democrat presidential candidate…and that’s saying a lot. Both Democrats are willing to say and do whatever they think is in their immediate political i...

  • September 5, 2019

    Gregory Craig, Democrat lawyer, acquitted by DC jury in case arising from Mueller report

    Gregory Craig, a DC Lawyer who defended Bill Clinton in his impeachment trial, was acquitted by DC jury after only 5 hours of deliberations on charges arising out of the Mueller Special Counsel inquiry. The charges arose out of his failure to registe...

  • September 5, 2019

    On CNN’s climate hysteria town hall, Wolf Blitzer claimed ‘We’re seeing firsthand the effects of climate change’ with Hurricane Dorian

    It is somehow fitting that CNN kicked-off its 7 hours of posturing and lying about purported climate disasters caused by CO2 with a blatant, hysterical lie from the first host, Wolf Blitzer. Nobody has ever accused Wolf of being a genius, and his 200...

  • September 5, 2019

    Hilarious lineup of commercials for CNN’s climate hysteria town hall

    No ratings are yet available for CNN’s 7-hour climate hysteria town hall, but it is hard to believe that a lot of people watched. Masochists are not a huge demographic slice of the population, and as for the true believers, well, it does burn a...

  • September 4, 2019

    Meet the 'super pro-cop' gorgeous young Latina running for Congress who calls herself 'the anti-AOC'

    Catalina Lauf is 26 years old and running for Congress in Illinois, hoping to unseat a Democrat incumbent and push aside Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as the youngest woman ever to be elected to Congress.  Kyle S. Reyes of Law Enforcement T...

  • September 4, 2019

    Texas judge officially admonished for draping courtroom door in black protesting confirmation of Justice Kavanaugh

    Trump Derangement Syndrome has led many people into self-destructive behavior, with their self-righteous outrage leading them to take actions that discredit themselves and limit their careers — for example, Kathy Griffin.  A purp...

  • September 4, 2019

    Chicago mayor Lightfoot blames Republicans for gun violence in her city

    I strongly suspect that Chicago's Mayor Lori Lightfoot has discovered that her city was in far worse shape than she had realized, so instead of solving her city's formidable problems, she is looking to scapegoat Republicans.  This m...

  • September 3, 2019

    Critics find yet another global warming fraud: walruses leaping to their death because of reduced ice

    When they aren't citing the fraudulent claim that 97% of scientists back global warming alarmism, those who wish to panic us into handing over control of all energy usage to governments resort to emotional imagery of animals they claim ...

  • September 3, 2019

    Confused old man Joe Biden wants to ban gun 'magazines that have multiple bullets in them'

    Nothing that former vice president Biden says can be taken literally.  But in fairness, gun control enthusiasts often embarrass themselves with their ignorance of proper terminology, and of the existing laws on gun control that often go unenforc...

  • September 3, 2019

    So much for the lunatic charge that Trump is 'in Putin's pocket'

    Die-hard Trump-haters continue to maintain that the president of the United States is in thrall to, or maybe being blackmailed by, Russia's President Putin.  As a corollary, they still push the notion that Russia will corrupt the 2020 p...

  • September 3, 2019

    Snowflake crybully wants people to stop wearing red caps because she feels triggered by MAGA hats

    Normally, I wouldn't comment on a ridiculous demand from a leftist who feels triggered by something conservatives do and wants everyone to change his behavior so her emotional stability won't be threatened any longer.  But this snow...

  • September 2, 2019

    Model agency head wanted for questioning about Jeffrey Epstein’s sex ring has disappeared like a ‘ghost’

    The amazing string of “coincidences” deep-sixing evidence about Jeffrey Epstein and his sex ring activities keeps growing. The man known who mysteriously acquired vast wealth, and who flew the world’s rich and powerful to his privat...

  • September 2, 2019

    CNN falsely pushes claims that ‘climate crisis is making hurricanes more dangerous’

    CNN’s fall from a purveyor of news to pure propaganda organ of the Left was vividly displayed yesterday.   An anchor named Ana Cabrera accused an expert of “sidestepping” the purported issue of global warming making hurric...

  • September 2, 2019

    NY Times polling guru cautions Trump-hating readers that his approval numbers may go higher

    While Dave Ball today on these pages cautions us that polls no longer are reliable, in his article Trump in a Landslide: Here's Why, the New York Times’ own polling guru is picking up signs that the paper’s bête noire may be sur...

  • September 1, 2019

    It’s time to repurpose ‘Labor Day’ as 'Taxpayers’ Day’

    A federal holiday at the end of summer was a wonderful idea, a chance for families to shift gears as the children go back to school and for the rest of us to prepare for the shorter days and less friendly weather of winter. And it is even better that...

  • September 1, 2019

    Deep thoughts on the Constitution from MSNBC’s Chris Hayes

    Chris Hayes of MSNBC apparently is a big fan of tautology, delivering one of the stupidest lines of recent cable news memory. His studio audience failed to understand the fatuousness of this claim about the Electoral College: “If it wasn...

  • September 1, 2019

    NOAA debunks assertions that global warming has spurred more hurricanes

    If your liver is hearty enough, you could play a drinking game over the rest of the holiday weekend, quaffing a shot of your favorite spirits every time you hear global warming mentioned in connection with the approach of Hurricane Dorian. Just don...

  • August 31, 2019

    Saturday Schadenfreude: Trump-hating MSNBC host has fifth show in a row cancelled

    I have never understood what would cause MSNBC to offer a platform to this guy, who has nothing but Trump-hatred to offer viewers. Audiences apparently share my questions of his worth, as he has now lost five programs in a row cancelled for low ratin...

  • August 31, 2019

    The Obamas’ first Netflix movie is much better than conservatives feared

    In the wake of the deal the Obamas made with Netflix, there has been a lot of fear that, as this New York Post article headlines, “Netflix is now a propaganda machine for the Obamas." But if left wing propaganda was the aim of the Obamas, ...

  • August 29, 2019

    Sen. Isakson's resignation forces GOP to defend two Senate seats in Georgia in 2020

    The news that Senator Johnny Isakson will resign from his Senate seat by the end of the year for health reasons makes the prospect of the GOP holding onto its narrow three-seat majority scarier.  Richard Baehr writes: Isakson was th...

  • August 29, 2019

    MSNBC and its host Lawrence O'Donnell humiliated, forced to retract charges against President Trump

    President Trump's charge that his media enemies peddle fake news about him got reinforcement yesterday from one of his primary antagonists, who scored an own-goal on his team, MSNBC.  That cable news channel's host Lawrence O'Do...

  • August 29, 2019

    Ocasio-Cortez: Melting glaciers due to global warming will release 'prehistoric diseases'

    Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez appears to have watched too many science fiction movies while growing up in Westchester County.  In a social media video yesterday, the freshman congresswoman conjured up an imaginary danger from the imaginary globa...

  • August 29, 2019

    Joe Biden claims Japanese women stay in workforce only because of 'xenophobia'

    The leading Democrat contender for president just insulted our closest ally in Asia, especially its female workforce, in an ignorant bit of attempted drive-by sociology.  In a rambling stream-of-consciousness monologue delivered to a town h...

  • August 29, 2019

    Federal Reserve Bank's 'myth of political neutrality' now is dead and gone

    With remarkably little fanfare, an enduring progressive political fairytale has been debunked by an insider. The Federal Reserve System was created in 1913 under progressive president Woodrow Wilson, as one of those supposedly politically neutral fed...

  • August 28, 2019

    CNN announces 7-hour 'climate change town hall' as sop to fanatics (and to drive away other viewers)

    The Democrats had a big problem, and CNN — which now functions as an arm of that radicalized progressive party — stepped up to solve it for them.  The party leaders in the Democratic National Committee (DNC) realize that the Gre...

  • August 28, 2019

    Bernie Sanders loves the common folk, but only in the abstract

    Bernie Sanders is one of those progressives who love humanity in the abstract, but in face-to-face interactions with common folk, not so much.  Politico's Playbook ignited a minor media kerfuffle a couple of days ago with a brief item a...

  • August 28, 2019

    Oklahoma AG that successfully sued Johnson & Johnson slurs the wrong company

    The Great State of Oklahoma wanted a scapegoat to blame for the large number of its residents who have abused opioid drugs and suffered injuries and deaths.  The state's attorney general, Mike Hunter, could not resist taking populist ch...

  • August 27, 2019

    Cynics vindicated: video footage outside Epstein’s cell deemed ‘unusable’

    Many cynics predicted that surveillance video outside of Jeffrey Epstein’s cell would somehow be unavailable for review.  Now they have been at least partially vindicated, as the Washington Post reports (non-paywall version here) that a vi...

  • August 27, 2019

    No, ‘the lungs of the world’ are not burning up heralding climate doom

    With a big assist from President Emmanuel Macron of France, tweeting a 20-year-old picture of a burning tropical forest during the G-7 meeting, this year’s round of fires in the Amazon basin were heralded as an omen of a the purported climate a...

  • August 27, 2019

    NY Times infested with bedbugs

    Is Mother Nature sending a message to America’s progressives? In the wake of the discovery of a new species of blood-sucking leech in the DC Beltway and the outbreak of rat-borne typhus in Los Angeles come news that the New York Times has been ...

  • August 27, 2019

    Claim Palestinian Authority head Mahmoud Abbas was a KGB agent in 1980s, according to smuggled Soviet Archive documents

    According to a report from Israel’s Channel One contained in a Times of Israel article, the incumbent head of the Palestinian Authority operated as a Soviet spy in the 1980s.  The report has been hotly denied as a “smear campaign...

  • August 27, 2019

    Man wearing MAGA hat attacked in Portland bar, two alleged attackers arrested

    In what amounts to a nationwide campaign of low grade (so far) political terror, supporters of President Trump wearing visible Trump swag are being heckled, denied service, and attacked. Media figures and politicians such as Maxine Waters, who have e...

  • August 26, 2019

    China blinks on trade, wants 'calm' talks

    The corporate media will never admit it, but President Trump has masterfully lined up support for America's pressure on China, and China has blinked and now wants "calm" talks.  Reuters reports: China is wi...

  • August 26, 2019

    NY Times plays victim after politics editor's racist and Jew-hating tweets exposed

    After dithering for three days about how to respond to Breitbart's exposure of the racism and antisemitism of its politics editor (i.e., the guy who shapes its political coverage), The New York Times finally has come up with a...

  • August 26, 2019

    Worries about Justice Ginsburg's health driving the Left to issue threats against Trump replacing her

    We already know that the Left regards the United States Constitution as a noxious constraint on their dream of using the might of the state to compel obedience to their dogmas, however they may evolve.  The First and Second Amendments bother the...

  • August 26, 2019

    Pocahontas surges to lead for Dem nomination in odds offered by bookies

    People who are willing to put their money at risk now think Elizabeth Warren is the favorite to win the Democrats' nomination, according to TMZ, which has cited the data on US-Bookies.com.  Biden's polling lead apparently impre...

  • August 26, 2019

    Study finds America's poorest 20% consume more than national averages of most European and OECD nations

    Most of the articles you read decrying the purportedly wretched state of the poor in the United States, blaming prosperous people for the "inequality" of our "income distribution" (as if rich people got that way by expropriating t...

  • August 26, 2019

    The blood-sucking leeches of the Beltway just got a new addition

    From the Smithsonian Institution comes news that sounds political but is merely symbolically suggestive.  Via WUSA-TV in Washington, D.C.: Scientists with the Smithsonian have discovered a new blood-sucker in the D.C. area ...

  • August 25, 2019

    Michael Mann, creator of the infamous global warming ‘hockey stick,’ loses lawsuit against climate skeptic, ordered to pay defendant’s costs

    Updated and bumped. See updates below. Michael Mann, a climatologist at Penn State University, is the creator of the "hockey stick graph" that appears to show global temperatures taking a noticeable swing upward in the era when humanity ...

  • August 25, 2019

    Evil is everywhere in New York

    A friend in New York writes: This week, every MTA bus in New York City suddenly acquired a prominent poster in front that says, "Evil."  New Yorkers must now get "on board" with evil, every time they want to go crosstown t...

  • August 25, 2019

    Construction begins on border wall funded by $2.8 billion allowed by SCOTUS decision last month

    President Trump has received a lot of derision for supposedly not building a single mile of new border barrier, despite his campaign promises. But the real story is a bit more complicated, and as of last Friday, crews began construction on 247 miles ...

  • August 25, 2019

    Report: Charlotte Police canceling all vacations in fear of major violence during GOP convention next August

    Respected journalist Paul Sperry took to Twitter with a report that I see nowhere else, about the sort of violence that police in Charlotte, NC expect when the GOP holds its convention there exactly one year from now (CMPD stands for Charlotte-Meckle...

  • August 24, 2019

    Can Trump 'order' companies to look 'for an alternative to China'?

    When President Trump issued a series of four tweets in response to China's tariff threats Friday morning, Wall Street took a dive.  As Matt Phillips of the New York Times wrote: Stocks fell sharply on Wall Street on Frida...

  • August 24, 2019

    In the face of rising political violence by Antifa and others, Nancy Pelosi tells Dems to 'be ready to throw a punch'

    There can be little doubt that violence is being employed by the American Left to intimidate its opponents into silence, and that the leaders of the Democratic Party not only refuse to condemn it, but are now encouraging it.  So far as I ha...

  • August 24, 2019

    The unbearable whiteness of the Obamas' new house

    Has the white half of Barack Obama gone white supremacist?  Is the lavish house on Martha's Vineyard just purchased by the former first couple one of those racist "dog whistles" that progressives so often are able to hear? ...

  • August 23, 2019

    Obamas purchase lavish estate on Martha’s Vineyard

    “I mean, I do think at a certain point you've made enough money." -Barack Obama, 2010 “Lord make me pure, but not yet” -St. Augustine, fourth century Barack and Michelle Obama have just purchased a 7,000...

  • August 23, 2019

    Founder of Overstock.com resigns, goes public about his role in FBI surveillance of presidential campaigns

    In a pair of jaw-dropping interviews yesterday following his resignation from the company that he founded twenty years ago, Patrick Byrne revealed his collaboration with the FBI as an informant, including involvement in surveillance of the presidenti...

  • August 23, 2019

    After legalizing homeless camping on city land, Austin, TX officials seek to gag cops talking about problems

    To the shock of nobody who lives in the real world, the decision of the Austin, TX City Council last June to legalize homeless encampments on city owned land, including parks and sidewalks (but not in front of City Hall, where the council meets), has...

  • August 23, 2019

    New York Times unable to figure out what to do with politics editor who is trying ‘to be less anti-Semitic’

    It doesn’t take a genius to figure out why the New York Times hired Tom Wright-Piersanti to oversee political coverage as senior staff editor and has kept him employed in that capacity for more than five years.  He fit right in with the pa...

  • August 23, 2019

    Suddenly, Bernie Sanders gets practical about not eliminating fossil fuels

    When questioned by a student yesterday, socialist Bernie Sanders unwittingly illustrated Robert Conquest’s First Law of Politics: “Everyone is conservative about what he knows best.”  For the rest of us, Sanders “knows...

  • August 21, 2019

    Harry Reid tries out new role: truth-teller, warning Dems over open borders and Medicare for all

    Congressional Democrats, even their leaders Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer, have been bullied into silence by the radicals who have grabbed media attention and who appear to have the ability to mobilize their followers to defeat recalcitrant Dems in ...

  • August 20, 2019

    Joe Biden's long goodbye

    Joe Biden's presidential campaign is dead, but he doesn't realize it yet.  His growing list of incidents of mental lapses demonstrate that he is well past his sell-by date.  Yesterday, his wife Jill delivered what ought to...

  • August 20, 2019

    Why Pelosi is surrendering the Democratic Party to the Jew-haters

    A historic transition of the American political landscape is underway, as the older of our two parties is embracing antisemitism and moving away from support of Israel, driven by the personal ambition of a craven politician clinging to power. ...

  • August 20, 2019

    Stunning poll reveals 78% of Americans believe that reporters use incidents as props to support their agenda

    America's news media have blown their credibility.  The 45th President of the United States, Donald Trump, won office despite the best efforts of the major media outlets to defeat him, and he now expects to use the media against themsel...

  • August 19, 2019

    Calling out the climate hypocrites

    Obvious and repulsive hypocrisy on the part of wealthy and connected people telling us we must sacrifice our standard of living — indeed, our very way of life — finally is being called out.  They want us to bear the en...

  • August 19, 2019

    Danes indignant over story of Trump mulling Greenland purchase, but nobody is asking the Greenlanders...yet

    When the Wall Street Journal broke the story late last week that President Trump was interested in the concept of the U.S. purchasing Greenland, the immediate negative response from Danish officials and media was utterly predictable, since ...

  • August 18, 2019

    The artificial intelligence race with China

    I am so old that I remember when the USSR’s launch of Sputnik, the first satellite humans put into orbit, triggered panic and the ensuing “space race,” in which massive sums of money and energy were devoted to making America the lea...

  • August 18, 2019

    CNN discovers that combining Trump Derangement Syndrome with ignorant reporters leads to embarrassing corrections

    CNN’s Chris Cillizza tried valiantly to hew to the Party Line when writing about the story that President Trump is exploring the concept of acquiring Greenland from Denmark. We know that everything the 45th President does is bad, so the only qu...

  • August 18, 2019

    Netanyahu’s new campaign commercial – life’s a beach

    With Israel’s election less than a month from today, the pace of advertising there is escalating The Jerusalem Post highlights the latest television ad running for Benjamin Netanyahu. It’s pretty funny, and seems aimed at younger voters, ...

  • August 18, 2019

    NYT and WaPo hype Greenland ice cap melt – based on incorrect data

    Americans who get their news from the mainstream media that take their directions from the New York Times and Washington Post can be forgiven for suspecting the President Trump wants to buy Greenland because its ice cap is melting. Both newspapers re...

  • August 17, 2019

    Warmist protesters debating plans to use Hong Kong airport–style disruption tactics elsewhere

    The Hong Kong protesters have advanced the state-of-the-art of disruption of a modern economy.  While we admire their creativity and support their cause, we have to reckon with the reality that every other group with a deep grievance is wat...

  • August 17, 2019

    Democrats' long knives are out for Biden

    The signals are unmistakable to all willing to see: Joe Biden is being written off by the power structure of the Democratic Party.  He's just too embarrassing to be able to win the presidency despite what the polls purportedly say about...

  • August 17, 2019

    Epstein reportedly spent 2 hours locked in a private room with an attractive young woman the day after suicide watch ended

    Yet another "irregularity" in the handling of Jeffrey Epstein that surely must be on A.G. Barr's radar.  Richard Behar reports at Forbes: The day after he was taken off suicide watch, disgraced financier Jeffrey Epst...

  • August 17, 2019

    Overseas clashes erupt between pro-Hong Kong and pro-Beijing Chinese expats

    While I have not seen any news of such conflicts in the United States, Australian sources have reported that the Hong Kong democracy protests have spilled over to their shores.  Anne Kruger writes in First Draft News: The loudest ...

  • August 16, 2019

    Rep. Ted Lieu goes antisemitic with dual loyalty canard for Jewish official

    A far-left California congressman has impugned the loyalty of a high-ranking federal official — and of his numerous Jewish constituents.  A vile slur with a horrendous history was employed yesterday by far-left congressman Ted Li...

  • August 16, 2019

    Federal judge rules against Maryland as Judicial Watch wins big to uncover obvious vote fraud potential

    Those Democrats who keep telling us that vote fraud is rare and insignificant fight like hell to make sure the evidence remains buried — even when there are obvious danger signs such as exists in Montgomery County, Maryland, where there are mor...

  • August 15, 2019

    China joins MSM and Federal Reserve in trying to tank the stock market

    In the hours before American equity markets open for trading, China sent a huge sell signal to the traders on Wall Street. Bloomberg reports: China called planned U.S. tariffs on an additional $300 billion in Chinese goods a violation of accords...

  • August 14, 2019

    Trump's tariff pause shows he's got his eyes on the prize

    President Trump's delay on implementing announced tariff increases on Chinese goods that would be on many Christmas shopping lists sparked a stock market bump yesterday.  But, while domestic considerations (i.e., his re-electi...

  • August 13, 2019

    CNN's Cuomo explodes in profanity-laden rant over his nickname, threatens violence, likens Godfather reference to n-word; CNN supports him

    Obviously, the stranger who called Chris Cuomo "Fredo" touched a very sensitive nerve in the anchor for the third-rated cable news operation.  As the son and brother of two governors of New York, Chris may feel himself an underach...

  • August 12, 2019

    Elite media already demonizing suspicions about Epstein's death: You're a 'conspiracy theorist' in the 'fever swamps'

    Within hours of the death of Jeffrey Epstein, one of the thought leaders of the media establishment rushed to print a demonization of suspicions about the shocking demise of a man whose death was advantageous to some of the most prominent and powerfu...

  • August 12, 2019

    China moving mainland military units into Hong Kong as airport totally closed down

    A full-scale military crackdown on the Hong Kongers resisting imposition of mainland-style tyranny may be in the cards, but President Xi and his supporters must understand that they will pay a monumental price for any bloodbath.  From Xi...

  • August 12, 2019

    Russia shipping world’s first floating nuclear power plant through Bering Strait, worrying Alaskans

    From the folks who brought you Chernobyl comes the Akademik Lomonosov, the world's first floating nuclear power plant, currently navigating the Arctic Ocean on its way to the rough seas of the Bering Strait separating Alaska from the Russian Far ...

  • August 11, 2019

    Release of The Hunt cancelled – for now

    I am not celebrating what many conservatives no doubt feel is a victory. Universal Pictures has cancelled the planned release and marketing program for the film, The Hunt, following a media firestorm and a presidential tweet criticizing its subject m...

  • August 11, 2019

    UK Daily Mail claims Epstein was not despondent, told guards and others that someone had tried to kill him

    The Daily Mail of London has exclusive claims based on anonymous inside sources that supports the theory that Jeffrey Epstein was assassinated to prevent him from incriminating others. Jeffrey Epstein told prison guards and fellow inmates that h...

  • August 11, 2019

    Much worse than a gaffe: Biden boasts of a fantasy meeting that couldn’t have happened

    Joe Biden’s mental state has so seriously deteriorated that he cannot separate fantasy and reality. That makes him too dangerous to be considered as a possible President of the United States. That is the only conclusion possible in the wake of ...

  • August 11, 2019

    David Brock group issues talking points for lefties on Epstein’s death

    Far-left propagandist David Brock commands enormous influence in the 90% of our media that lean leftward. He boasted in 2017 that he had a $40 million budget to fight against President Trump, and there is no indication since then that his funding has...

  • August 10, 2019

    Biden’s sad boast defending Obama administration’s China policy

    Joe Biden is now positioned as the defender of the Obama administration’s wretched track record in office. His sole source of electoral strength among Democrats, particularly among African-Americans, is his identification with the nation’...

  • August 10, 2019

    The ‘Chick-fil-A effect’ boosting targets of Dem harassment of Trump donors

    Hysterical Democrats, driven mad by Trump Derangement Syndrome, are generating sympathy (and money) for those whom they attack for supporting Donald Trump.  The threatened boycott of Equinox and SoulCycle because a major stockholder, Stephen Ros...

  • August 10, 2019

    Labor unions officially abandon the interests of their members

    There is no longer any reason to regard the union movement in the United States as working to support the interests of its dues-paying members. Instead, it has become a fundraising adjunct to the Democrats, one using the force of coercion to confisca...

  • August 10, 2019

    Jeffrey Epstein dead, of purported suicide

    A lot of very powerful Democrats are breathing sighs of relief. Dead men tell no tales, and the man whose tales could sink the reputations of and potentially incarcerate a slew of the most important political figures in the US (and a member of the Br...

  • August 9, 2019

    Democrats refuse to condemn Antifa, their own brownshirts

    As America slips into what many are calling a “cold civil war,” not a single Democrat running for president is willing to condemn Antifa, the contemporary version of the Brownshirts that terrorized opponents of the Nazis in Weimar Germany...

  • August 8, 2019

    Just what gets you the 'white nationalist'/'white supremacist' label?

    Now that the charge of "racism" has been overused to the point where it has lost its sting (a shame, given that genuine racism is a problem), two alternate terms suddenly have replaced it as an all-purpose smear.  But nobody has a...

  • August 8, 2019

    The business strategy behind the descent of the New York Times into Trump-hatred

    Changes in its business environment have made the fortunes of the New York Times Company dependent on the re-election of President Trump.  And despite the superficial appearance of hostility, the company is behaving appropriately. The Ne...

  • August 8, 2019

    Prominent Dem stands up to the mob: 'Donald Trump is no racist'

    Trump-hatred may be good business for some, but the failure of Democrats to accept electoral defeat in 2016 and the escalation of violent imagery and rhetoric, the attempted coup via the Russia hoax, and the escalating violence against Trum...

  • August 7, 2019

    Democrats exploiting mass shootings for political gain have forgotten the lessons of the Wellstone funeral

    With President Trump visiting Dayton, Ohio and El Paso, Texas today to pay his respects to the victims of two mass shootings, Democrats are in serious danger of overplaying their hands and alienating the centrist voters who hold the balance in nation...

  • August 6, 2019

    New York Times caves to political pressure from Democrats, changes headline on top front-page story

    August the sixth is now a day that commemorates two nuclear weapons forcing surrender.  The first, of course, was the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on this date in 1945, forcing Japan to surrender, ending World War II.  The second A...

  • August 6, 2019

    Farcical convention of the Democratic Socialists of America sparks disappointment from lefties, hilarity from conservatives

    Left to their own devices, the Democratic Socialists of America put on a convention that has thoroughly demonstrated why they should never be allowed to run anything more important that their own mouths.  By now, you've probably seen so...

  • August 5, 2019

    Confused elderly man Joe Biden offers condolences for 'tragic events in Houston today and also in Michigan'

    We all misspeak from time to time.  But with the national spotlight on nothing else but the shootings in El Paso and Dayton, you'd think Joe Biden would know the locations.  Speaking yesterday to a group of supporters at a fun...

  • August 5, 2019

    While media were focused on mass shootings, explosive revelations about the Russia Hoax came out in a Sunday morning interview

    Sunday morning, while the nation's eyeballs were glued to El Paso and Dayton, crucial details emerged about the vile plot executed by agents of the U.S. Intelligence Community in order to carry out the Russia Hoax.  In an interview of f...

  • August 4, 2019

    How Comey set a trap for prosecutors when leaking his memos

    Had the Department of Justice acted on the criminal referral that Inspector Horowitz reportedly issued regarding James Comey’s leak of memos, it would have fallen into a trap. Credit Comey with the legal sophistication you’d expect from a...

  • August 4, 2019

    Despicable O’Rourke tries to save his failing presidential campaign by blaming President Trump for his hometown tragedy

    The words “ghoulishly opportunistic” spring to mind to describe the reprehensible attempt by Robert Francis O’Rourke to exploit the deaths and injuries suffered by his former constitutes in El Paso, Texas following a mass shooting i...

  • August 4, 2019

    Hong Kong teeters on the edge of a mass slaughter

      While Americans are focusing on two horrible mass shootings in our country, the situation in Hong Kong is getting downright scary. The people there have been officially warned that troops will fire upon them, via a video posted to the offic...

  • August 3, 2019

    Turmoil: AOC’s chief of staff and spokesman both leaving her congressional office

    What’s Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez going to use for brains now that her brain trust is leaving her congressional office?  Saikat Chakrabarti, the multi-millionaire entrepreneur who recruited Ocasio-Cortez to run for Congress and who became he...

  • August 3, 2019

    Why you shouldn’t worry about the DOJ not prosecuting Comey on leaked memos

    Lots of conservatives are understandably upset that the IG Horowitz’s criminal referral of James Comey for leaking classified memos memorializing his conversations with President Trump is not being prosecuted by the Department of Justice. It ee...

  • August 3, 2019

    After Ratcliffe withdraws, can Trump get a DNI that is not a Deep State tool?

    I wish that I had a more encouraging answer to the question the title of this blog post poses. Representative John Ratcliffe’s withdrawal of his name from consideration as the next Director of National Intelligence brings to mind Senator Chuck ...

  • August 2, 2019

    China's People's Liberation Army releases video showing troops shooting in 'anti-riot' exercises

    China appears to be warning Hong Kong protesters that it will use the People's Liberation Army to ruthlessly crush protests, using the sophisticated weapons at its command.  As with the 1989 slaughter of democracy protestors in Tiananme...

  • August 2, 2019

    The only black Republican in the House is retiring

    This is very bad news, and not simply at the symbolic level.  Will Hurd of the 23rd Congressional District of Texas yesterday announced his retirement on Twitter at the close of the business day, "to pursue opportunities outside the ha...

  • August 2, 2019

    Kamala Harris stooped low to smear Tulsi Gabbard after getting taken down by her in presidential debate

    The powers that be in the Democrat media complex desperately want Tulsi Gabbard to go away.  There are signs everywhere that Kamala Harris is the favored candidate of the media-Democrat establishments, as they have written off Joe Biden as ...

  • August 2, 2019

    Chris Cuomo trolls Andrew Yang on climate alarmism

    Andrew Yang, the quirky Democrat presidential candidate who wants to send a thousand bucks a month to everyone who is able to fog a mirror, escalated the warmist doomsaying when he told the presidential debate audience Wednesday night that it is too ...

  • August 2, 2019

    Lackluster presidential field causing desperate Dems to turn to hopes of Michelle Obama running

    Not too many Democrats will admit it in public, but many know that their presidential field really is a clown car, full of clownish politicians.  When Joe Biden looks like awise moderate, they are in trouble.  Eight years of Obama...

  • August 1, 2019

    President Trump should 'Make Baltimore Great Again'

    My friend Mike Nadler emails an idea so good that I wonder if it is being planned by President Trump.  It would be a way of turning on its head the phony accusation that MAGA is about returning to the days of segregation and provide justifi...

  • August 1, 2019

    Why President Trump won the Democrats' debate last night

    After two nights of the Democrats' presidential field debating each other, it's clear that they are doing harm to their party's prospects of regaining the presidency in 2020.  Part of the problem is a field so large that a circu...

  • August 1, 2019

    Frontrunner Biden's best was just not good enough

    NeverTrump John Podhoretz gamely tries to put a positive spin on Joe Biden's performance last night at the second day of the second round of the Democrats' presidential debate.  Writing at the New York Post, he claims: ...

  • August 1, 2019

    Elijah Cummings called Baltimore 'a drug-infested area' where 'people are walking around like zombies'

    The utter phoniness of the ongoing hissy fit over President Trump's allegedly "racist" tweet calling Baltimore "rodent-infested" has been exposed.  The use of that term occasioned on-air choking up by CNN anchor...

  • July 31, 2019

    Delaney goes for broke at Dem debate as truth-teller

    There was one grown-up onstage last night in Detroit, trying to tether his party to reality.  Unless John Delaney's candidacy catches fire, the Democrats will match straight toward the disaster that Rahm Emanuel cautioned them...

  • July 31, 2019

    Marianne Williamson goes for broke at Dem debate taking on 'dark psychic force'

    There is a constituency out there for psychobabble.  The candidate who was most searched on Google last night was Marianne Williamson, the bestselling self-help guru, who offered herself as a warrior against the "dark psychic...

  • July 31, 2019

    Tim Ryan goes for broke at Dem debate dissing National Anthem

    The candidates at the back of the pack of the Democrat field all realize they have to distinguish themselves in order to make the cut for the September round.  Rep. Tim Ryan of Ohio chose the low road, declining to cover...

  • July 31, 2019

    WaPo Trump-hater dismayed by CNN's embarrassing lack of professionalism and showmanship in debate coverage

    Last night, CNN disgraced itself with unprofessional behavior by its moderators and just plain dumb decisions on staging the event.   Don Lemon declared President Trump a bigot in a question directed at Senator Amy Klobuchar (who wi...

  • July 30, 2019

    Deep State apoplectic over the appointment of John Ratcliffe as DNI — for good reason

    The testimony of Robert Mueller signaled the end of Act One of the Russia Hoax story arc.  The appointment of Rep. (and former U.S. attorney) John Ratcliffe as the new director of National Intelligence launches Act Two, where the events of ...

  • July 30, 2019

    Now we learn what US attorney John Huber has been up to in his Russia Hoax investigation

    When then-A.G. Jeff Sessions announced 15 months ago that U.S. attorney for Utah John Huber would be conducting a review of the FBI's use of wiretapping on the Trump campaign, initial hopes soon turned to disappointment that nothing see...

  • July 29, 2019

    Adam Schiff desperately fabricates a laughable Trump impeachable offense

    Trump Derangement Syndrome appears to have driven mad Representative Adam Schiff.  The impeachment enthusiast's promise that he had hard evidence of Trump's treasonous "collusion" with Russia only to have that lie exposed ...

  • July 29, 2019

    There were more record low than high temperatures in the last 7 and 30 days

    Here's some news you won't hear from the mainstream media.  Desperate to hew to the propaganda campaign intended to scare us into handing over control of the economy to bureaucrats, the media have been hyping the notion that the Ear...

  • July 29, 2019

    Trump to nominate Rep. John Ratcliffe to replace Dan Coats as director of National Intelligence

    See also: What the change at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence means The appointment of a former U.S. attorney, who is also a master of the details of the attempted plot to oust Trump, signals that the "investigate the inves...

  • July 29, 2019

    Rashida Tlaib: Israel 'exists' to the 'detriment' of Palestinians

    As the Democrats prepare for the second round of presidential debates in her own congressional district, Rep. Rashida Tlaib takes the opportunity of the spotlight to imply that Israel should not exist, echoing the "drive the Jews into the sea...

  • July 28, 2019

    Last week was not the first time Mueller melted down testifying to a House committee

    Robert Mueller, like his close friend James Comey, enjoyed an undeserved reputation for bureaucratic impartiality, integrity, and excellence for many years. Both men seemed to have the skill to bamboozle Republicans with their nominal political affil...

  • July 28, 2019

    Rand Paul offers to help pay for a ticket so Ilhan Omar can see Somalia and understand how lucky she is to be in the USA

    No, it’s not, “Send her back!” It’s “Let her go back on my dime.” After talking about the refugees in his home town that he knows, who love America and are grateful to be here, Senator Rand Paul made an offer Re...

  • July 28, 2019

    What must Obama be thinking as Dems support Mueller’s contention that an ex-president can be prosecuted for crimes committed while in office?

    Trump Derangement Syndrome is a genuine and widespread mental ailment. It qualifies as an infirmity because it blinds those afflicted with it to the consequences of their behavior, leading them to harm themselves. Were the psychology and psychiatry p...

  • July 28, 2019

    Trump campaign produces brutal video highlighting The Squad’s crazy statements

    For decades, the Democrats have expertly demonized Republicans and conservatives, making the case that we are too mean, too stupid, too racist, too homophobic, and now too transphobic (among many other failings) to be trusted with power.  Meanwh...

  • July 27, 2019

    A minor movie masterpiece celebrating entrepreneurship screens twice on TCM this weekend

    One of my favorite movies is going to be shown twice over the weekend on Turner Classic Movies, at midnight EDT and 10 A.M. EDT Sunday.  Because the film's director, Jules Dassin, was a leftist accused of being a member of the Communist...

  • July 27, 2019

    Impeachment fanatic Dems in denial over Mueller testimony

    It's becoming clear that the death of the dream of Mueller-the-white-knight slaying the Trump dragon has deranged the fanatics.   Such is the passion of House Judiciary Committee chairman Rep. Jerrold Nadler that he misrepresented ...

  • July 27, 2019

    Jew-hating tweets from two CNN staffers outed

    In the space of two days, tweets by two CNN staffers have been brought to light that seem to express horrific sentiments about Jews.  One of the staffers, CNN photo editor Mohammed Elshamy, "resigned" from CNN.  The othe...

  • July 26, 2019

    Mueller hearings TV audience broke no records

    For all the countdown clocks on cable news and other hype, the television audience for Robert Mueller’s testimony was a bit disappointing. Disgraced lawyer Michael Cohen’s televised testimony outdrew the purported crusader who was suppose...

  • July 26, 2019

    BBC greets new PM Boris Johnson with an effort to panic the public on global warming

    The British Broadcasting Corporation, or BBC, has been captured by the Left and is operating as a propaganda organ. It greeted the brand new Prime Minister Boris Johnson with an appalling, laughable broadside intended to pressure him to panic over th...

  • July 26, 2019

    ‘Notorious RBG’ just earned her nickname in the eyes of fanatic leftists

    Justice Ginsburg has rebuked the Democrat presidential candidates like Pete Buttigieg who have spoken about packing the Supreme Court by expanding its membership to 15, should Democrats win the presidency and Senate in 2020.  She’s an old-...

  • July 26, 2019

    Former MSNBC host admits the network got deep into Russia conspiracy theories and damaged the Dems

    In the wake of the Robert Mueller testimony debacle, a few leftists are starting to honestly assess the damage the abortive effort to swing a presidential election and then enact a coup is doing to the Democrats. And to reckon with the role that the ...

  • July 26, 2019

    Pete Buttigieg livin’ large on the campaign trail

    So much for the urgency of the Green New Deal that Peter Buttigieg is backing. Let other people take the bus, Peter is chartering private jets like no other Democrat running for president. Bryan Slodysko reports for AP:  Pete Buttigieg has ...

  • July 25, 2019

    Mueller’s serial senior moments revealed he was a front-man for Trump-haters

    The most important thing Robert Mueller revealed Wednesday in his testimony before the House Judiciary and Intelligence Committees was that he didn’t really know that much about the work of the investigation that bears his name -- and that he i...

  • July 24, 2019

    Ilhan Omar still calls Somalia her country

    Does Ilhan Omar represent the Fifth Congressional District of Minnesota?  That's her official job.  But buried in the back of her mind, ready to spring out in unguarded or stressful moments, seems to be the notion that her rea...

  • July 24, 2019

    Austin, Texas progs discover that changing the law to 'help' the homeless only increases homelessness

    Some things are so obvious that only a progressive could fail to anticipate them.  That dynamic is underway in Austin, Texas, where residents and officials are dismayed that the recent change in city ordinances allowing the homeless to camp...

  • July 24, 2019

    Bernie Sanders campaign hit with unfair labor practices federal complaint

    According to a complaint to the National Labor Relations Board filed July 19, the Bernie Sanders campaign is behaving like a ruthless anti-union corporation of labor history lore.  Bloomberg reports: Sen. Bernie Sanders'...

  • July 23, 2019

    Revealed: Mueller deputy Weissmann's offer to a Ukrainian oligarch to drop prosecution in exchange for damaging testimony on Trump

    It's an open secret that Robert Mueller was a figurehead in the special counsel probe aimed at unseating President Trump, and that the actual operational boss of the team of Trump-haters was Andrew Weissmann.  Former U.S. attorney Joe D...

  • July 23, 2019

    Expedited extradition of illegals to begin today, and the open borders crowd is apoplectic

    The Trump administration is today implementing a strategy that's been in planning for two years to relieve crowding at detention centers, deal with the backlog at immigration courts, and rapidly increase the tempo of deportations of illegal alien...

  • July 22, 2019

    Bernie Sanders refuses to learn from experience

    In what President Obama used to call a "teachable moment," Bernie Sanders is planning to cut the work hours of his unionized staff in order to meet their demand for the $15-per-hour wage that he campaigns on requiring all employers to pay....

  • July 22, 2019

    Justice on Trial book on Kavanaugh hearing is putting the book business on trial, too

    A report from a reader in the Northeast United States: I am reading, the terrific, Justice On Trial, about the Kavanaugh hearing. Although I followed the news every day I'm finding much new information in the book. I bough...

  • July 22, 2019

    Force the Dems to defend the indefensible visa lottery program

    Our immigration policy is stupid.  Unlike Canada, which screens immigrants for those who can add jobs and contribute to its economy, we mainly rely on "family reunification" that prioritizes extended family relatives of immigrants alre...

  • July 22, 2019

    Georgia House minority leader picked on wrong victim when fabricating a 'send her back' race incident

    See also: Showdown at the supermarket check-out line corral Democrats are so besotted with what they see as an opportunity in the Trump rally crowd chanting "send her back" that they are inventing fictitious incidents in order to keep th...

  • July 22, 2019

    A sure sign Democrats are scared of the revelations coming in IG Horowitz's report on the FISA warrants

    We still don't know when the much delayed Inspector General's Report on the FISA warrants used to spy on the Trump campaign will come out, but it looks as though it might be fairly soon. Prior to release of any IG report, the people mentioned...

  • July 22, 2019

    Liz Cheney smacks down biased interviewer

    Yesterday's Face the Nation episode on CBS exemplified media bias.  It's no secret that the Sunday-morning broadcast network political interview shows are losing viewers, but it's less well known that among them, Face the Nation...

  • July 21, 2019

    Hilarious! Cook county pol who fixed a parking ticket for his pal claims he did it to make sure all Latinos are treated fairly

    It’s the Chicago way! On steroids, combining corrupt personal politics with ethnic group preferences. Fighting for the oppressed, one fixed parking ticket at a time. The Chicago Sun-Times did a little digging when the Cook County Inspector ...

  • July 21, 2019

    Media and other Democrats peddling story that ‘The Squad’ faces extraordinary level of threats. Capitol Police disagree

    The notion of victimization is at the heart of progressive politics, regardless of the facts of any particular situation. The current darlings of the progs are the four female freshmen House members called The Squad, all of whom claim to be racial mi...

  • July 21, 2019

    Your Sunday schadenfreude

    Senator Ted Cruz faced down and won re-election in a heated campaign against not just a fake Hispanic pretty boy named Robert Francis O’Rourke, he defeated an intense propaganda offensive undertaken by Texas and national media. That propaganda ...

  • July 21, 2019

    BBC surrenders to the Mullahs’ propaganda campaign

    See also: Chicoms 'persuade' Hollywood to censor 'Top Gun' to their liking The British Broadcasting Corporation has been living off its reputation, hard-won in World War II, for the better part of a century.  While the governm...

  • July 20, 2019

    MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell is either an ignoramus or a liar

    For someone ostensibly in the “news” business, Andrea Mitchell is remarkably uninformed. Or perhaps, she is peddling a fiction that she thinks will benefit the Left. It’s really hard to say which disqualifier from her job is the ...

  • July 20, 2019

    Leftists are ignoring settled science when it comes to the homeless

    It is no coincidence that the streets of Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Seattle are full of homeless people, shooting up drugs and discarding their needles on the sidewalks, defecating and urinating wherever they happen to be standing, sitting, or s...

  • July 19, 2019

    The real reason why Trump distanced himself from 'Send her back' chants?

    Trump-haters are rejoicing in what they see as a major fissure separating President Trump from his base over the Greenville, North Carolina rally's crowd chants of "send her back!"  CNN carefully counted out 13 seconds be...

  • July 19, 2019

    CNN's April Ryan seems to think Trump is Superman

    Trump Derangement Syndrome has driven many people mad, short-circuiting their normal caution and impelling them to spew unfiltered thoughts without consideration of their implications.  April Ryan, the White House correspondent for the...

  • July 19, 2019

    Bernie Sanders's campaign workers demand at least the $15/hour minimum wage he promises to implement

    There is now self-evidently no reason whatsoever to take seriously anything that Bernie Sanders says; the man does not follow the rules he thinks others should observe.  The Vermont senator who has spent years denouncing companies like Walm...

  • July 18, 2019

    Off the record, House Dems tell CNN's Tapper that Trump was 'brilliant' snookering Dems into letting The Squad become their symbol

    Once again, Trump's critics have made fools of themselves.  With few exceptions, the Beltway establishment pundits (and not a few Republicans) denounced his tweets on the four radical female freshmen now bearing the brand name of "...

  • July 17, 2019

    Associated Press joins propaganda push: 'Trump is a racist'

    Yesterday, as the House of Representatives prepared to vote on a resolution censuring President Trump for alleged racism in a series of tweets that did not mention race, the Associated Press did its part to advance the propaganda ...

  • July 17, 2019

    Turmoil at Planned Parenthood as palace coup ousts its new president

    Planned Parenthood is in the midst of a crisis, abruptly firing its president and changing practices and policies, drawing on "emergency" funds, and desperately trying to stave off further threats to its survival.  The group that ...

  • July 17, 2019

    Prince Charles once again changes his global warming doom deadline

    The presumptive heir to the British throne (some of us hold the hope that his mother will make arrangements to skip over him) Prince Charles keeps switching the deadline for saving humanity from the imaginary threat of man-made global warming. The ne...

  • July 16, 2019

    Trump’s strategic attack on ‘The Squad’ unfolding as he planned

    Once again, President Trump has flaunted his scorn for the media-defined norms of the American political conversation.  Under those informal rules, Republicans can be labeled racists with impunity, and America can be trashed as irredeemably...

  • July 15, 2019

    George Will finds his presidential candidate

    I'm so old that I remember when George Will's opinion mattered to Republicans.  Apparently, the Bezos Bulletin scribe realizes he's lost his influence on the Grand Old Party and now offers advice to the Democrats on their nomine...

  • July 15, 2019

    Gov. Jay Inslee makes a strong bid to be craziest member of the Democrats' presidential field

    The "clown car" that the Democrats are offering as their presidential field has some actual clowns inside.  Washington State governor Jay Inslee faces some serious competition for the title of nuttiest Democrat candidate for presi...

  • July 15, 2019

    MSM Manhattan myopia on full view over the weekend

    Yes, I am being a curmudgeon here.  And yes, losing electric power for a few hours is inconvenient.  But the huge coverage given to a power outage in Manhattan Saturday revealed the incredible narcissism of our media overlords the...

  • July 15, 2019

    Whoever leaked Brit ambassador's emails did the UK a favor

    Sir Kim Darroch is out as the United Kingdom's ambassador to the U.S., and the U.K. is better off for it.  He has been revealed to be a Trump Derangement Syndrome sufferer, unable to offer well grounded observations of the politics of t...

  • July 15, 2019

    UK Labour Party sinks deeper into Jew-hatred

    It is time to start worrying about the fate of Jews living in the United Kingdom.  One of its two major political parties is endorsing the politics of the most obscene Jew-hatred.  Last week, the Mother of Parliaments welcomed to ...

  • July 15, 2019

    Citing higher minimum wages in Seattle, Portland, and SF, West Coast restaurant chain files for bankruptcy

    Progressives never learn.  Even as Democrats running for president line up behind a national $15/hour minimum wage, on the West Coast, where cities like Seattle, Portland, and San Francisco all have implemented this demand, a restaurant cha...

  • July 14, 2019

    Investigating Bill Clinton’s claim that he only flew on Epstein’s jet 4 times

    Jeff Carlson of themarketswork.com has carefully examined Bill Clinton’s recent claim that he only flew 4 times on a jet owned by Jeffery Epstein.  Unsurprisingly it turns out that it is another one of his tricky uses of language to mislea...

  • July 14, 2019

    Read of the day: A strong dose of reality on Israel

    I strongly recommend a long interview with Michael Oren, an American-born Israeli, who has served as Israel’s ambassador to the United States and currently is a Member of the Knesset and Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister’s Office...

  • July 14, 2019

    Protestors tear down and defile American flag, raise Mexican flag at Colorado ICE detention facility

    Keep it up, lefties, and you are going to hand re-election to President Trump and majorities in both houses of Congress to the GOP.  Anger on the Left has reached toxic levels and it is poisoning their message and their very lives, rendering the...

  • July 14, 2019

    Austin, Texas hopes that homeless people will act responsibly and clean up their trash

    I think that it is no coincidence that the cities with the farthest left political cultures – San Francisco, Seattle, Portland, Los Angeles and Austin, Texas, for example – seem to have the largest number of homeless people living on thei...

  • July 14, 2019

    Time Magazine unconsciously contributes to President Trump’s re-election effort

    We live in a remarkable historical moment, in which Trump Derangement Syndrome has driven a large share of the Progressive Left mad. As in a psychotic state, in which reality has been superseded by a fantasy world that seems quite real to them, but w...

  • July 13, 2019

    Trump, the Master Troll, creates problems for Pelosi by supporting her

    For a guy who is purportedly stupid and lacking in nuance, President Trump yesterday masterfully trolled Nancy Pelosi and the Democratic Party while superficially supporting her.  In just a few sentences, speaking to reporters prior to boar...

  • July 13, 2019

    More Ocasio-Cortez photo-op fakery

    Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is all about appearances, not reality.  But yesterday, a stunt she pulled off managed to alienate a powerful Democrat.  She (or her Svengali, Saikat Chakrabarti, whose Justice Democrats auditioned hundreds...

  • July 13, 2019

    It's your Saturday Schadenfreude! CNN ratings decline even more, and staff getting nervous about more layoffs

    It couldn't happen to a more deserving network (though MSNBC is a close second, but without the nauseating pretentiousness of the cable news pioneer that has gone from 100% market share to third place and falling).  Brian Flood at ...

  • July 12, 2019

    Just discovered: 'Chicago's most powerful alderman' used 'burner' cell phones

    It is a sign of the depth of governmental corruption of our age in America that the distinctions between government and gangsterism are blurring.  Now, news comes from Chicago that federal investigators who have already indicted Alderm...

  • July 12, 2019

    AOC-Pelosi spat gets better and better (for Republicans)

    The jokes about laying a supply of popcorn are everywhere on the right, as the most powerful elected Democrat and the most publicized purported symbol of the party's future tear into each other.  It's been brewing a long time, start...

  • July 12, 2019

    Oh-oh! Ocasio-Cortez and 'Justice Democrats' have ticked off the Congressional Black Caucus

    This may be the moment that political life starts to turn to crap for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.  Richard Baehr observes, "Criticism from conservatives attacking AOC, Omar, Tlaib, and Pressley wash off them.  But when the Cong...

  • July 12, 2019

    Hillary's ex-comms director: 'I'd ankle dive' to stop her running again for president

    Why on Earth would Jennifer Palmieri, Hillary Clinton's communications director in her presidential campaign, say anything like this unless she's worried that Hillary plans another run, perhaps if the Democratic National Convention deadlocks?...

  • July 11, 2019

    Schumer suddenly decides Jeffrey Epstein's money is tainted

    Senator Chuck Schumer of New York has known since 2008 that Jeffrey Epstein was a sex offender, thanks to the plea bargain he reached in Florida that year.  But he was content to hold onto the multiple campaign donations that he received fr...

  • July 11, 2019

    Former Aussie deputy PM becomes backbencher, suddenly tells the truth about global warming

    You've probably never heard of Barnaby Joyce, but he has twice been deputy prime minister of Australia, from February 2016 to October 2017 and from December 2017 to February 2018.  During both terms, he served as leader of Oz's Nati...

  • July 11, 2019

    In California, don't call them 'public servants'; call them 'the government gang'

    With its monopoly on the legitimate use of force, government gets its way.  Just as gangsters do — with the ever-present knowledge that non-compliance will be met by people ready to use force if necessary.  The purported dif...

  • July 11, 2019

    As White House 'Social Media Summit' opens today, MSM unite in vehement disparagement

    The variety and vehemence of put-downs  in the media today must reveal fear.  Nothing else could account for the near hysterical reaction to a meeting aimed at free speech. It certainly looks as though the nation's left-win...

  • July 11, 2019

    Report: Over 1,000 Google employees sign petition to use market dominance to starve Breitbart News out of ad revenue

    Google has a knife that it holds over the jugular vein of all internet publications that depend on advertising revenue.  It holds a dominant position in the digital advertising market and could, by denying ad revenue to any digital publicat...

  • July 10, 2019

    Mitch McConnell uses jujitsu on NBC gotcha question

    Mitch McConnell has a big target on his back. He's up for re-election in 2020, and his success as Senate majority leader has angered and scared Democrats.  Mitch may not be the most conservative or glamorous member of the Republican lea...

  • July 10, 2019

    Desperate 'Beto' reaches new depths in pandering to the Left

    Robert Francis "Beto" O'Rourke is digging himself a deep hole in his desperation to keep alive his faltering presidential campaign.  He is becoming an apt symbol of the shallowness of his party's appeal to the electorate, ...

  • July 10, 2019

    BET founder criticizes Democratic Party as ‘too far to the left’ and praises Trump

    Electoral success for the Democrats in national elections depends on 90% support from black voters.  That fact means that dissenting black voices — people who see that open borders harm blacks more than other Americans and that the Tr...

  • July 10, 2019

    Ilhan Omar busted (by the WaPo!) for making up BS story of racist oppression

    Leftists feel entitled to make up stories that illustrate their "higher truth" in order to win elections.  Their ideology is based on a fantasy, that human nature is malleable and that if only the right political social structures...

  • July 10, 2019

    It's the Democrats' trajectory that should worry voters

    A reader who prefers to remain anonymous emailed a very smart observation: Like going from 0 - 90 in 60 seconds.... Democrats have gone from Left to Far Left in about a minute. They've slid down that slippery slope so quickly that people won...

  • July 10, 2019

    Federal judges ruling against Trump are setting precedents they may regret

    The latest in a long series of rulings by federal judges hamstringing moves by the Trump administration already is teaching a tough but obvious lesson to judges.  A precedent applies to everyone, not just to the specific defendant in the ma...

  • July 10, 2019

    'Middle class Joe' Biden cashed in to the tune of $15 million after leaving vice presidency

    Joe Biden has released his tax returns as part of the Democrats' campaign to force the release of President Trump's tax returns.  Access to those returns, with hundreds, probably thousands of pages each year, would enable them to ni...

  • July 9, 2019

    Chicago suburb removes school lunchroom mural because it depicts too many whites

    The new totalitarian phase of the American Left is destroying reminders of our history that offend leftists.  In this, they are adopting the tactics of the Taliban, who destroyed ancient images of the Buddha that offended their Islamist sen...

  • July 9, 2019

    Investigative reporter with a decade of scrutinizing Epstein calls out Bill Clinton's lies

    The remarkably effective cover-up/slap-on-the-wrist punishment of billionaire Jeffrey Epstein for sexually exploiting underage girls is coming apart.  It is easy to infer that Epstein's practice of inviting many socially and politically...

  • July 9, 2019

    Epstein's former Wall Street mentor: 'The Clinton relationship destroyed Jeffrey Epstein'

    Here's a look at the Clinton-Epstein relationship through the other end of the telescope.  What if the man who put Jeffrey Epstein on the path to mega-wealth and who knew him before Bill Clinton and the other movers and shakers can expl...

  • July 9, 2019

    The question that must be asked: Was Epstein running 'honey traps' and blackmailing the power elite?

    It strikes me as quite unlikely that Jeffrey Epstein's motive for allegedly inviting powerful figures from the U.S. and Europe aboard the Lolita Express on a trip to Orgy Island was mere fellowship — as if they were playing a round of golf ...

  • July 8, 2019

    Stupid polling propaganda tricks continue

    They're at it again. Politico's Playbook presents poll results showing that the five leading Democrats in their presidential field all beat Trump.  Only a generic "socialist" fails to beat him...but even the socialist t...

  • July 8, 2019

    Hmmm...Gavin Newsom says nice things about Trump

    It's a rare Democrat who says nice things about President Trump — especially when that Democrat is considered an obvious future candidate for president and possesses a strong fundraising base. Yet there was California governor Gavin News...

  • July 8, 2019

    Sunday bombshell: Pool for deportation is up to 1 million illegals who have already had due process

    Sunday morning's network talking head shows yielded one eye-popping statement. "They're ready to just perform their mission, which is to go and find and detain and then deport the approximately one million people who have final remo...

  • July 8, 2019

    Profiles in Courage: Susan Collins

    Senator Susan Collins of Maine is one of the prime targets for Democrats, who want to take control of the Senate in 2020.  Their prospects of doing so are increased by the fact that 22 of the 33 seats scheduled as up for election are held b...

  • July 8, 2019

    Ocasio-Cortez touts a comparison of herself to a Nazi sympathizer

    Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has no idea how ignorant she is.  Like many people indoctrinated into Marxism, she believes that her understanding of history and politics is superior to that of the rest of us, because she grasps the true dynamic, ...

  • July 8, 2019

    Manager of Turkey's state-run TV urges donations to campaign of Ilhan Omar

    Wait a second...isn't foreign influence on our elections supposed to be a bad thing?  Illegal, in fact? The head of Turkey's state-run television service is openly urging Turks to donate to the campaign of Ilhan Omar, the anti-Se...

  • July 7, 2019

    Kamala Harris wants to gift $25k of taxpayers’ money to black families earning $125k to buy houses

    Kamala Harris is aggressively courting black voters and doing the Dem Thing: offering free money courtesy of federal taxpayers. The daughter of two immigrants, a mixed-race Jamaican from a slave-owning family and a South Asian Indian, she wants to pa...

  • July 7, 2019

    High School Principal's Holocaust denial in a heavily Jewish city and county

    It would be shocking anywhere in the United States for a public high school principal to embrace Holocaust denial, but for it to happen in a majority-Jewish city in the most heavily-Jewish county in the country defies belief. Yet, it not only happene...

  • July 6, 2019

    Kamala Harris may live to regret exposing her ruthlessness with bogus busing attack on Biden

    Kamala Harris is scary in her pathological ambition, moral flexibility, comfort with deception, and sheer ruthlessness.  She may have erred in prematurely exposing those traits in the very first round of Democrat presidential debates, allow...

  • July 6, 2019

    California State Assembly dictates religious doctrine to state's clerics

    So much for the separation of church and state that progressives used to tout.  In California, which is now a one-party state under Democrat control, solons are so impressed with their untrammeled power that they are telling religious leade...

  • July 6, 2019

    Despite 46 years in national politics, Joe Biden still is making rookie mistakes

    It is now blindingly obvious that Joe Biden is too stupid to be president of the United States.  The sole advantage that he brings to the race, his four and a half decades of life in Washington, D.C. since entering the Senate in 1973, has p...

  • July 6, 2019

    Sign here: White House petition demanding 2020 Census include citizenship question

    Let the White House hear from you on the need for a citizenship question in the 2020 Census. An official White House petition has been created today that you can sign by clicking, adding your name and email address, and then responding to a confir...

  • July 5, 2019

    Independence Day comes to the EU Parliament

    Former Tory parliamentarian Ann Widdecombe, now a Brexit Party member of the E.U. Parliament, chose our Independence Day for an epic rant for U.K. independence from the undemocratic European Union.  The video below requires only two minutes...

  • July 5, 2019

    Ted Cruz sacks Colin Kaepernick, grabs ball, and scores (on Twitter)

    Colin Kaepernick, Nike's commissar of America-hatred, may have been a quarterback, but he took a half-a--ed approach to anti-slavery hero Frederick Douglass.  Flaunting the blinders that progressives wear when they consider our collecti...

  • July 5, 2019

    How President Trump can use 14th Amendment to put citizenship question back on the 2020 Census

    President Trump holds winning cards on the Census citizenship question, both politically and legally.  An overwhelming majority, 67% of Americans, see such a question as legitimate, and those who want to obscure the difference between ...

  • July 5, 2019

    Unsettled science: Scientists find hard evidence that cosmic rays influence climate

    The absurdity of the claim that global warming is "settled science" is obvious to anyone who understands what actual science is.  And now, thanks to a group of scientists at Kobe University in Japan, we have an example of why climate s...

  • July 3, 2019

    The American public overwhelmingly supports a citizenship question on 2020 Census

    A new poll from the Harvard CAPS/Harris Poll released Tuesday reveals that a supermajority of Americans supports the 2020 Census asking respondents if they are American citizens.  Julia Manchester writes in The Hill: Sixty-seven p...

  • July 3, 2019

    Rep. Dan Crenshaw calls out Ocasio-Cortez as a liar on detainees drinking from toilets

    Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas) continues to delight me with his common sense and honesty.  Yesterday, he did not mince words, calling out Democrats for their game of deliberately denying resources to detention centers for illegals and then cri...

  • July 3, 2019

    Facebook bans post on Holocaust remembrance but welcomes back Louis Farrakhan–supporters

    The company that enjoys monopolistic control over the social media market and pillages the data of users to sell to others is busily building the case that it is a malign force, siding with the worst elements in our culture and suppressing forces of ...

  • July 3, 2019

    House Democrat wants to prosecute people who make fun of members of Congress online

    "We're going to shut them down," promises Representative Frederica Wilson, the Florida Democrat who does not understand the First Amendment.  She not only wants to silence criticism, but wants to prosecute it, though she has n...

  • July 3, 2019

    Austin city council votes to allow homeless camping on sidewalks...except in front of city hall

    Today's prize for lack of self-awareness goes to the Austin, Texas city council.  While it is fine and dandy for homeless people to camp out in front of people's homes and businesses, with all the problems of human waste, panhandlin...

  • July 3, 2019

    Stunning North Korean propaganda film shows Trump's critics are wrong

    The Fanatic Trump-haters in the media are once again proven wrong, as the North Korean media are stoking public expectations of a deal that will improve their lives.  Far from a photo-op that strengthens Kim and denigrates Trump and the USA...

  • July 2, 2019

    'Climate change' turns on a dime

    The apocalyptic religion that blames humanity for the weather and claims we are doomed is based on "science" to the same extent that the "scientific socialism" of the USSR was.  Shamelessly, the religious zealots can tur...

  • July 2, 2019

    Ocasio-Cortez escalates battle against border guardians

    Yesterday, efforts to degrade border security by demonizing those who guard the integrity of our territory against the escalating wave of unlawful intruders reached a new level of emotional appeal.  Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez a...

  • July 1, 2019

    Trump says immigration raids could start July Fourth

    President Trump, the most successful reality television producer in the history of the medium, understands symbolism.  Speaking at the end of the G-20 meeting in Osaka, he laid down a challenge to Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats.  ...

  • July 1, 2019

    Left-wing thuggery: The battle lines are being drawn in Portland, OR

    See also: Scoundrel time: Lefty journalists are fine with the Antifa attack on Andy Ngo So where the heck is the mayor of Portland? When local officials appear to wink and nod as masked leftist thugs openly assemble and attack conservatives, it...

  • July 1, 2019

    Scoundrel time: Lefty journalists are fine with the Antifa attack on Andy Ngo

    See also: Left-wing thuggery: The battle lines are being drawn in Portland, OR So where the heck is the mayor of Portland? A large swath of American journalism has been warning the public that by calling journalists the "enemy of the peopl...

  • July 1, 2019

    The path to a fortune: Get fired from an Illinois public college

    The Chicago Tribune chronicles an astonishing list of academics who have received huge payouts from Illinois state-owned institutions of higher education or remained collecting six-figure salaries after losing their jobs.  Many of them fail...

  • June 30, 2019

    Just days after Eric Trump spat upon by waitress, WaPo publishes op-ed justifying harassment of restaurant customers over politics

    The Washington Post is all-in on stoking the fire of public harassment of Trump supporters, denying them public accommodations. So much for civility and mutual respect. That’s the only conclusion to draw from this op-ed (non-paywall version ...

  • June 30, 2019

    Kamala Harris takes on the ‘demolition woman’ role, clearing the Democrats’ field of rivals

    It's popcorn time for Republicans. Having profited enormously from attacking Joe Biden, Kamala Harris’s likely next target is Elizabeth Warren, the affirmative action fraudster.  Senator Harris has discovered her niche in the gigantic ...

  • June 30, 2019

    Donate a buck, keep Marianne Williamson on the Democrats’ debate stage

    There’s no telling what New Age goofball Marianne Williamson will say next... if she meets the cut for the next Democrat presidential debate in Detroit at the end of July.  Whatever words escape her lips, they are unlikely to persuade the ...

  • June 30, 2019

    What is Trump up to, meeting Kim Jong-un at the DMZ?

    As you would expect, there is precious little media enthusiasm for today’s historic meeting between President Trump and Kim Jong-un at the Demilitarized Zone. Yet, even the New York Times, while engaging in snark… Even in this symbo...

  • June 30, 2019

    New WH press Secretary gets bruised while defending American media’s access to Trump-Kim photo opportunities

    Stephanie Grisham, the brand-new White House press secretary has sustained bruises in the process of fighting a battle on behalf of the White House press corps that has actively despised her predecessor, Sarah Sanders. While President Trump and Chair...

  • June 29, 2019

    Big tech test-marketing censorship of Trump

    It looks as though the nation's largest news-gathering organization, the Associated Press, is test-marketing the public's reaction to Big Tech actively suppressing President Trump's ability to reach voters directly.  Given the s...

  • June 29, 2019

    The Democrats in crisis: Schumer and Pelosi at each other's throats

    The two and half years of TDS mass psychosis inside the Democratic Party since November 2016 are taking a toll.  Trump Derangement Syndrome would already be recognized as a mental illness in an updated DSM-5 if the psychiatric pro...

  • June 28, 2019

    Why all 10 Dems raised their hands last night in support of unpopular free medical care for illegals

    The idea that American taxpayers ought to pay for free medical care for anyone who manages to cross our border is mind-bogglingly stupid, guaranteed to drive away the swing voters Democrats need to win the presidency. Yet it received unanimous sup...

  • June 28, 2019

    Why House Dems caved, passing Senate bill funding emergency border care facilities

    Nancy Pelosi outsmarted herself demagoguing child suffering and death on the border.  The speaker reversed herself as House Democrats passed the Senate bill funding the border after Pelosi vowed Wednesday "that House Democrats would no...

  • June 27, 2019

    The seven funniest moments at the Democrats’ first debate

    Last night saw the expression “clown car” gain considerable justification as a description of the Democrats’ presidential field. It was “9 candidates with no shot at anything and the tenth, the first fake Native American candi...

  • June 27, 2019

    Why the agitprop photo of a face-down father and daughter in the Rio Grande is downright insulting to our intelligence

    The all-out propaganda war in favor of open borders, a joint effort of the media, Democratic Party, and social media monopolists is based on emotion, not intellect. A nothing stirs the heart more than the sight of a dead child.  The Associated P...

  • June 26, 2019

    On eve of tonight's Dem debate, Elizabeth Warren calls for decriminalizing border violations

    As the only candidate registering double-digit support among the candidates at tonight's Democrat presidential "debate," Elizabeth Warren expects to be the queen of the kiddie table.  Sharing the stage with her will be Bi...

  • June 26, 2019

    De Blasio quietly dumping NYC's homeless on other cities

    So much for "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses..." as far as New York mayor Bill de Blasio is concerned.  He is willing to put a year's rent (in another city) to be rid of homeless people currently inhabiting ...

  • June 25, 2019

    There’s no bottom on how low Joe Biden will go

    We already know that Joe’ Biden’s head is empty. Now, we can see that the same condition applies to his soul. Desperation over his crumbling voter appeal – his last chance at the presidency after which has lusted for decades –...

  • June 25, 2019

    Pelosi on enforcing immigration law: ‘What’s the point?’

    Nancy Pelosi has gone off the deep end and questioned the legitimacy of enforcing laws that she disagrees with.  Anarchy beckons when the top lawmaker in the House of Representatives, third in line for the presidency, takes the position that t...

  • June 24, 2019

    Why Trump won...and will win re-election

    "Pride goeth before a fall," the Book of Proverbs teaches us, and the worst kind of pride is that based on contempt for others rather than one's own accomplishments. A reader sent in the picture below, saying that it was "spied ...

  • June 24, 2019

    Herbert E. Meyer, RIP

    The man who fought the Cold War's version of the Deep State and dragged it, kicking and screaming, into support for the radical change in strategy that eventually won the Cold War has passed on to his heavenly reward.   With deep sad...

  • June 24, 2019

    Ocasio-Cortez refuses invitation to visit Auschwitz

    Not for the first time, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is choosing ignorance. The freshman congresswoman is discovering that her casual labeling of detention centers for border-violators as "concentration camps" denigrated the unique horr...

  • June 24, 2019

    Stunning landslide rejection of Erdogan's party as Istanbul elects its new mayor

    Recep Tayyip ErdoДџan, the Islamist president of Turkey, attained national office after first serving as mayor of Istanbul, the mega-city that contains roughly 20% of the population of Turkey and which accounts for a third of that nation's GDP....

  • June 24, 2019

    Antifa doxing Tucker Carlson and Stephen Miller with posters all over DC listing home addresses

    Clearly hoping to incite mob violence directed at people with whom they disagree, the far-left, often violent group Antifa is plastering Washington, D.C. with posters featuring the faces and home addresses of Fox News host Tucker Carlson and presiden...

  • June 24, 2019

    Knitting social network with 8 million registered users silences Trump-supporters as 'white supremacists'

    Honestly, until this morning I had never heard of Ravelry, a "fiber arts" (AKA knitting, crocheting, weaving, etc.) social network with 8 million registered users, but it appears to have signed on to the effort to silence supporters of Pres...

  • June 24, 2019

    Waiting in the wings for SCOTUS: Ruling in Illinois case that invalidated state's Firearms Owner's Identity card requirement

    Up until now, there has been little to no national attention paid to a judge's ruling in White County, Illinois that voided the state's requirement that firearms-owners obtain a state-issued Firearms Owner's Identity Card (FOID) in order ...

  • June 23, 2019

    Multiple fingers pointing at alleged leaker of plans for ICE raids today

    The chronic problem of sabotage by bureaucrats hostile to the outsider president shaking up the Deep State will never be solved until unmasking and punishment become the order of the day.  That’s why it is so heartening that with unusual s...

  • June 23, 2019

    Trump’s ICE raid deportation gambit a trap that Dems have fallen into

    Once again, as is his wont, President Trump has maneuvered his opponents into a losing position on an issue of high priority to him. His original plan for nationwide ICE raids on scofflaws who already had their due process and who are ignoring court ...

  • June 23, 2019

    Virtual media silence as accomplice says transgender teen’s anger at use of biological pronouns motivated STEM school shooting in Colorado

    Imagine the media cacophony if an angry Christian had brought guns to a school and killed another student there who had mocked Jesus, perhaps an open homosexual who railed against “homophobic” scripture and those who embraced Christianity...

  • June 23, 2019

    Warmist hysteria over purportedly ‘catastrophic’ ice melting in Greenland busted

    If “global warming,” already twice re-branded as “climate change” and now “climate catastrophe,” were a genuine phenomenon, those promoting the scare would not need to hype naturally-recurring cyclical phenomena as...

  • June 22, 2019

    Joe Biden can’t keep his story straight

    The Democrats’ front-runner (for now) has been busted in an important lie. Joe Biden has publicly told two different stories – diametrically opposed to each other – about the advice he purportedly offered when the Navy SEAL Team Six...

  • June 22, 2019

    Brit lawmakers trying to define Islam as a race

    It’s a backdoor approach toward enforcing Islamic blasphemy laws, says Soren Kern of the Gatestone Institute. The backdoor is, as you might predict, the elusive concept of “Islamophobia.” Days after the British government rejec...

  • June 21, 2019

    Man arrested for rape in NYC allegedly told witnesses 'she deserved it' ... 'for slavery'

    The Left's reparations strategy is working as intended.  The push for slavery reparations is all about anger, not justice.  In the face of the prosperity Donald Trump has brought, the Democrats worry about their dependence in ...

  • June 21, 2019

    Devin Nunes calls out 'old pervy congressmen' for grilling Hope Hicks about her 'love life'

    The House Democrats disgraced themselves yesterday by subpoenaing former White House communications director Hope Hicks for a closed-door testimony intended to generate headlines about a Trump aide refusing to answer questions.  The specifi...

  • June 21, 2019

    Supreme Court frustrates a central leftist strategy, affirms constitutionality of historic cross — and the folly of 'tearing down monuments'

    .Yesterday's 7-2 Supreme Court decision in American Legion et al. v. American Humanist Assn. et al. may prove to be a watershed in obstructing one of the Left's core strategies: discrediting our collective history and eliminating the mon...

  • June 21, 2019

    Trump refuses to take the bait mullahs (and Democrats) hoped he would

    Because the first law of progressive politics today is "Thou shalt say nothing positive about Donald Trump," few if any on the Left are hailing his holding off on attacking Iran in retaliation for shooting down an armed drone as statesmanli...

  • June 20, 2019

    Dick Durbin's lessons for Ocasio-Cortez on concentration camp comparisons

    Dick Durbin, the Democrat senator from Illinois who likely will be running for his fifth term in the 2020 election, has a couple of lessons for freshman Democrat House member Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez when it comes to analogizing the treatme...

  • June 20, 2019

    Trump tells Sean Hannity DOJ investigating whether his own phone calls were tapped during 2016 campaign

    Last night, during a wide-ranging interview with Sean Hannity (video of the full interview is embedded below), President Trump dropped a bombshell, telling the Fox News host that the DOJ is investigating whether his own phone calls were monitored dur...

  • June 20, 2019

    Ticking gets louder on Biden's corruption time bomb

    People who think Joe Biden is the most likely contender to win the Democrats' presidential nomination must believe that the mainstream media will remain silent about the way his son Hunter scored lucrative business deals with foreign governments ...

  • June 20, 2019

    Biden's gift for gaffes keeps on giving

    It takes a special gift for a politician to take the making of a great point into a damaging controversy.  Especially a controversy that undermines one of the major assets of the politician in question. But Joe Biden is special. ...

  • June 19, 2019

    Trump’s kickoff rally in Orlando signals Russia Hoax will be a major focus of his campaign

    President Trump last night clearly signaled that his re-election campaign is going to be built on not just his track record of accomplishments – standard stuff for any re-election campaign – but something quite unusual – an attack o...

  • June 19, 2019

    The only way to counter Ocasio-Cortez’s use of ‘concentration camp’ to describe holding facilities for illegals

    Facts and details don’t matter to demagogues and their followers, which is why Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has once again succeeded in garnering attention to herself and support from progressive media with an outrageously ignorant and offensive as...

  • June 18, 2019

    MSNBC host warns Dem elites

    Without their media dominance, Democrats would have a hard time winning national elections.  Their ability to flood the media space with propaganda can even persuade the public to accept untruths, such as the lie that Trump coordinated...

  • June 18, 2019

    Trump announces ICE to begin removing millions of illegal aliens

    I think it is no coincidence that the night before he kicks off his re-election campaign in Orlando (in front of a crowd of 20,000 with many thousands more gathered outside), President Trump announced that "millions" of illegal aliens are s...

  • June 17, 2019

    Oberlin's cultural rot went far beyond SJW politics into a 'culture of theft'

    In the wake the landmark $44-million verdict against Oberlin College for defaming a five-generation family business, information is coming to light about the behavior of students and administrators at that once respectable institution that is simply ...

  • June 16, 2019

    NYT busted twice for fake news this weekend

    The “fake news” label for the New York Times is far more accurate and damaging to it than President Trump’s habitual label of “failing New York Times.” For one thing, there’s a genuine market niche for Trump hatred...

  • June 16, 2019

    ‘Experts’ wrong again: Trump tariffs have not penalized American consumers

    Ever since President Trump started using tariffs as a strategic weapon in restructuring our position in world trade from losing jobs, industries, and whole regions to one of strength across the board including a viable manufacturing sector, our elite...

  • June 15, 2019

    Beyond satire: The Left embraces a Monty Python sketch as its political program

    The British comedy ensemble Monty Python was one of the major influences on the evolution of comedy in the English-speaking world.  Its secret of success was to take the utterly absurd and treat it as a straightforward reality in the most s...

  • June 15, 2019

    Transgender madness in Vermont

    The State of Vermont is on the verge of paying for the mutilation of the reproductive organs of children in the name of "affirming gender identity."  Alas, this is not satire. The Burlington Free Press enthusiast...

  • June 15, 2019

    Stone defense team exposes the 'intelligence community's' betrayal of their responsibilities

    As the Russia Hoax is being unwound, we are learning some deeply disturbing lessons about the level of corruption at the top levels of the agencies charged with protecting us from external threats.  One jaw-dropping example has just been ex...

  • June 14, 2019

    Jury awards Gibson’s Bakery $33 million in punitive damages

    It appears that the ordinary folk who live in proximity to hyper-progressive campuses are fed-up with being the objects of false accusations of racism (and all the other imaginary offenses ending in ...isms and ...phobia), and want to incentivize cha...

  • June 14, 2019

    Warmist doomsday cult trying yet another re-branding

    Apparently not enough people are convinced that we have only 12 years left before the world ends. The first brand identity of the doomsday cultists had it that “global warming” was going to kill us all. But alas, it produced laughable ...

  • June 14, 2019

    Department of Justice is failing to prosecute criminal referrals from IG Horowitz

    The Deep State has taken root at the Department of Justice, granting immunity, in effect, to law enforcers who become law-breakers. Attorney General William Barr already has a very full plate in his task of restoring public confidence in the politici...

  • June 14, 2019

    Move over, Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders has out-plagiarized you

    Joe Biden may be such a dope that he has no choice but to borrow the words of others, but Bernie Sanders, while no genius, does have options. In fact, he has an identifiable style of his own, making his speech easily identifiable with characteristic ...

  • June 14, 2019

    More proof Joe Biden is not up to the rigors of campaigning

    Joe Biden is testing a new campaign tactic in Iowa: Insult the voters as ignoramuses. Yeah, that’ll work. Like President Trump, I have my fingers crossed that Biden’s lead over the rest of the Democrats’ filed will continue an...

  • June 14, 2019

    Julian Castro blew it at his Fox News town hall yesterday

    The series of town halls that Fox News is conducting for Democrat presidential candidates who take advantage of its generous offer of air time have been fairly interesting. Faced with moderators who do nor hug them the way Rachel Maddow did in a 2016...

  • June 14, 2019

    Shannon Bream cited me last night

    To be completely upfront, I confess to having teeny bit of a crush on Shannon Bream, who exudes wholesome beauty and intelligence from her every pore. She seems like a genuinely nice person. Either that, or she is an incredible actress. There is a lo...

  • June 13, 2019

    Trump successfully baits his foes with comments to Stephanopoulos on foreign information on opponents

    In classic Trumpian maneuver, President Trump yesterday chummed the waters of the House Democratic Caucus with raw meat the impeachment-crazed radicals driving Nancy Pelosi — who really doesn't want to talk about impeachment ...

  • June 13, 2019

    Oberlin College pleads poverty to jury deciding on punitive damages

    Yesterday saw the president (salary: over half a million dollars) of Oberlin College (with an endowment of $887.4 million) plead poverty to a jury in Lorrain County, Ohio (median household income: $54,932), urging them not to add punitive d...

  • June 13, 2019

    Rep. Mark Meadows: Russia Hoax whistleblowers coming forward now

    We now have one sure indicator that the tide has turned on the Russia Hoax and the miscreants will be brought to justice.  Rep. Mark Meadows told Sean Hannity that with A.G. Barr in office and U.S. attorney John Durham doing a genuine inves...

  • June 12, 2019

    Obama-appointee to federal bench dismisses lawsuit against transfer of park land to Obama's personal monument

    The monument to Barack Obama, the community organizer turned president, has vanquished the community organizers who attempted to stop its takeover of public land.   Federal Judge John Robert Blakey, appointed by Barack Obama and confirmed by ...

  • June 12, 2019

    WaPo, NYT writers humiliated yesterday after separate fake news attacks almost immediately shown to be false

    It’s almost as if writers at the two most important newspapers in America want to be identified as fake news purveyors.  Two reckless false attacks were launched yesterday, based on the hateful imagination of prog news mavens, and almost i...

  • June 11, 2019

    Texas governor Greg Abbott signs sweeping guarantee of campus free speech

    Telling his video audience, "I shouldn't have to do it" — because the First Amendment already guarantees free speech — the governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, signed a bill guaranteeing free speech on campuses in Texas. ...

  • June 11, 2019

    UN's health agency warns that 'high impact epidemics' (think: Ebola) are the 'new normal'

    The best reason of all to regain control of our southern border comes from an unexpected source: the U.N.'s World Health Organization (WHO). Addressing the current outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where there are 2,02...

  • June 11, 2019

    If you saw a helicopter crash instead of John Dean's testimony yesterday, here's the 11.5 minutes you want to watch

    With even an MSNBC senior correspondent (Andrea Mitchell) admitting that John Dean's congressional testimony yesterday was all "theatre," not substance, there's no reason to watch anything but the highlight reel. Republicans Jim ...

  • June 10, 2019

    Rep. Mark Meadows: Don’t expect IG Report this month, do expect indictments

    There has been a lot of anticipation that the promised report from DoJ inspector General Michael Horowitz will trigger the “unleashing” of AG Barr. Margot Cleveland of the Federalist, one of the most knowledgeable observers of the process...

  • June 10, 2019

    Oberlin College ignored the First Law of Holes responding to the jury verdict against it

    See also: Catering to the PC mob is going to cost Oberlin College big bucks and Oh-oh! Oberlin College’s insurance company says their policy doesn’t cover the huge verdict against it   Lack of respect for juries can be very...

  • June 10, 2019

    Eric Swalwell mounts a strong effort to take the crown as the most pathetic entrant in the Democrats’ presidential field

    The expression “clown car” is frequently used to describe the crowded field of Democrats running for the presidency. But it is appropriate not just to denote the crowding, but also the behavior of some of the members of the field.  Y...

  • June 9, 2019

    Harvard Harris poll reveals shocking level of public indifference to Democrats’ presidential field

    News the MSM would rather you not hear about: Sixty percent of Democrats find their presidential field “underwhelming.” The Harvard Harris poll is no right-wing outfit, which is why the results of its latest poll on politics are so sho...

  • June 9, 2019

    Where in the world is Joe Biden?

    One place Joe Biden is not this weekend: Iowa, where 19 other members of the Democrats’ field is campaigning at a series of “big” (for Iowa Democrats) events. Bloomberg: As campaigning accelerates leading up to the first debate...

  • June 9, 2019

    Shameless Kirsten Gillibrand embarrasses herself pandering at an Iowa gay bar

    Unfortunately for the junior senator from New York, it takes more brains than she possesses to pull off unprincipled political pandering.  Over the course of her political career, Kirsten Gillibrand has demonstrated a willingness to embrace any ...

  • June 9, 2019

    Italian politics roiled by Russia hoax

    Our media are ignoring the unraveling of the Russia hoax as much as they can. But the scandal is not limited to American politics; the plotters at the FBI, CIA, and DNI enlisted the help of other nations’ intelligence services, including notabl...

  • June 9, 2019

    Daily Beast slimed Trump sons with fake news claim they skipped out on tab at Irish pub

    We are at a point where skepticism is necessary any time a media outlet reports negative news about Donald Trump or any members of his family. The Daily Beast provides the latest example of the disgusting eagerness to find something bad to say. Jo...

  • June 8, 2019

    Biden has just blown his cred as a moderate, non-scary Dem

    The dirty little secret of Joe Biden's frontrunner status is that most traditional Democrat voters are scared of the party's vocal left-wing faction and the politicians who pander to them with ruinously expensive policies like the Green New D...

  • June 8, 2019

    California judge throws out Google's motion to dismiss, allows political discrimination lawsuit to proceed to discovery phase

    The lawsuit alleging that Google discriminates against employees on the basis of political beliefs has passed a crucial test, allowing the plaintiffs to demand and receive internal documents, emails and text messages, and other records such as audio ...

  • June 8, 2019

    Catering to the PC mob is going to cost Oberlin College big bucks

    See also: Oh-oh! Oberlin College’s insurance company says their policy doesn’t cover the huge verdict against it   Oberlin College, which has become one of the most politically correct campuses in the United States, has just disc...

  • June 8, 2019

    Ninth Circuit 3-judge panel dismisses suit against constructing the Keystone XL Pipeline

    The legal debris field has been cleared and the objections of Native American and environmentalist special interest groups nullified by a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.  The Washington Post reports: ...

  • June 8, 2019

    Oh-oh! Oberlin College’s insurance company says their policy doesn’t cover the huge verdict against it

    See also: Catering to the PC mob is going to cost Oberlin College big bucks The insurer that covers Oberlin College for liability, Lexington Insurance Company, filed documents with court last month indicating that its umbrella liability policy wou...

  • June 7, 2019

    More evidence Mueller Report was a dishonest hit job omitting key facts to distort conclusions

    No wonder Robert Mueller does not want to testify before any congressional committees.  The Special Counsel Report that bears his name (that many observers theorize was actually supervised by Andrew Weissmann, who has a track record of dece...

  • June 6, 2019

    What does (and doesn't) unseat a judge in Cook County, Illinois

    With Chicago a notorious crime-ridden shooting gallery, the judges who sit on the Cook County bench have an important role to play in protecting the citizenry from repeat offenders. So, what does it take to get rid of a judge there? Not this judge...

  • June 6, 2019

    Dems need to be careful what they wish for

    It’s always dangerous to call for a standard for President Trump that you cannot live up to yourself. With Nancy Pelosi reportedly out to imprison President Trump, and House Oversight Committee chairman Elijah Cummings claiming that he “d...

  • June 6, 2019

    Christopher Steele reportedly worried about becoming the fall-guy for Russia hoax

    Now that he apparently has made a deal to speak with US investigators about his “dossier” (purchased with DNC and Hillary campaign monies) that was used to mislead a FISA Court into allowing domestic spying on US citizens, former British ...

  • June 5, 2019

    Schadenfreude: Elizabeth Warren's campaign staff votes to unionize

    At last, the exploitation of the proletariat will come to an end at the Elizabeth Warren presidential campaign. CNBC reports: A majority of Sen. Elizabeth Warren's 2020 campaign staff has said it wants union representation. Nonm...

  • June 5, 2019

    Joe Biden is too stupid to win the nomination (#1)

    See also: Joe Biden is too stupid to win the nomination (#2) The purported frontrunner of the Democrats' presidential field is certain to self-destruct before the Democratic National Convention votes on a nominee more than a year from now, bec...

  • June 5, 2019

    Joe Biden is too stupid to win the nomination (#2)

    See also: Joe Biden is too stupid to win the nomination (#1)  Since plagiarism killed an earlier Biden run at the presidency and dogged him in law school, the first rule of a rational Biden campaign this time would be: nothing that even vague...

  • June 5, 2019

    New York Times invents new term to obscure the reality of abortion

    Somewhere, George Orwell is having a good laugh at the former premier newspaper of the United States, which has become the "Newspeak Times" instead of the New York Times.  Rachel Stolzfoos reports at the Daily Caller: Th...

  • June 5, 2019

    Finally! A poll on transgender athletes competing as women

    The concerted push for the public to accept the notion that men can become women by an act of will, perhaps with the aid of hormones and surgery, has always struck me as a measure intended to ratify mind control by means of institutional pressure and...

  • June 5, 2019

    Looks like Christopher Steele has cut a deal and will turn state's evidence on Russia Hoax prosecutions

    I don't think it is a coincidence that just as President Trump is in the U.K., we suddenly learn that "dossier" author Christopher Steele has agreed to be questioned by U.S. authorities.  Chuck Ross of The Daily Caller reports...

  • June 4, 2019

    Bernie Sanders finally mentions he is a Jew – to complain about 'anti-Semitism' in an article about his wealth

    Until it became useful for him to claim that being a victim of anti-Semitism, there is no visible evidence of Bernie Sanders embracing his Jewish heritage, and plenty of evidence of him avoiding it.  Daniel Greenfield yesterday pointed...

  • June 4, 2019

    Why Rep. James Clyburn just walked back his prediction of impeachment

    Nancy Pelosi, desperately trying to hold onto her speakership in the face of the Trump-haters (nearly all from safe districts) demanding impeachment, must have been furious at her second-highest-ranking member yesterday saying it's only a matter ...

  • June 3, 2019

    Large group of Africans (116 men, women, and children) caught wading across the Rio Grande

    Our open door along the southern border for people claiming to seek asylum is such a magnet for the world's poor that a group of 116 people traveled all the way from Africa to Mexico to enter the United States.  In video tweeted out by ...

  • June 3, 2019

    Chicago's 'flypaper' alderman and the crackdown on corruption the new mayor promises

    Chicago's new mayor, Lori Lightfoot, is an outsider to the vast boys' club whose network of favors and bribes defines the way politics there operates.  A black lesbian, I doubt she was very welcome.  Now she promises to do...

  • June 3, 2019

    Donna Brazile goes too far on Fox News, claims Russia is the reason Hillary not elected president

    At what point does Fox News pull the plug when a featured talking head spouts a discredited conspiracy theory? Donna Brazile, who forever discredited herself as corrupt when she supplied debate questions in advance to her former boss, Hillary Clin...

  • June 3, 2019

    Two-faced Pete Buttigieg expresses 'solidarity' with striking Uber drivers but will attend fundraiser sponsored by Uber exec

    I see no reason to trust Pete Buttigieg on anything.  The fact that he was raised by a devout follower and scholar of communist Antonio Gramsci, whose plan to take over the major institutions of society and then carry out a revolution from ...

  • June 2, 2019

    Is something bigger in store for Fox News Channel’s Greg Gutfeld?

    The dominance of the left wing in cable news created a huge opportunity for Fox News Channel. Could a similar opportunity be ahead in late night talk shows, currently dominated by leftists like Stephen Cobert? Fox News Channel has been promoting t...

  • June 2, 2019

    California Dems shout ‘boo’ and insults as one delegate-seeking presidential candidate denounces socialism

    The Democrat party has been captured by the hard Left, though they try very hard to conceal this fact from voters in the swing districts and purple states necessary for winning control of Congress and the presidency. But sometimes the enthusiasms of ...

  • June 2, 2019

    Mueller Report busted for doctoring transcript and misleading on obstruction of justice evidence

    It’s all downhill now for Robert Mueller and the very costly report fashioned by his team of Trump-hating lawyers. They have been exposed as propagandists attempting to falsely implicate President Trump’s team in obstruction of justice by...

  • June 1, 2019

    Obama offers blatant lies about US gun laws in speech given in Brazil

    Former president Barack Obama reportedly told author Richard Wolffe, "You know, I actually believe my own b-------."  So it is possible that he actually had no idea what he was talking about when he spread blatant lies a...

  • May 30, 2019

    China unleashes saber-rattling video responding to US tariff pressure

    China is whipping up patriotic furor domestically by allowing the posting of a propaganda video to an internet platform that it controls, castigating the United States’ escalation of tariffs in the economic confrontation underway. The video ope...

  • May 30, 2019

    Mueller’s shameful exaggeration of Russia’s election ‘interference’

    In his presentation yesterday, former special counsel Robert Mueller acted as a propagandist, not as a disinterested public servant. One piece of evidence is his misleading presentation of Russia’s “election interference,” which he ...

  • May 30, 2019

    Heavy-hitter lefty actor warns what they have in mind for us when they win power

    If I have to choose between sneaky radical leftists who pretend to be small-d democratic activists and honest ones who admit they would stop at nothing in punishing people like me should they gain power, I would always choose the honest ones. Like ra...

  • May 30, 2019

    AT cartoonist Mike Harris suspended by Facebook over pro-life cartoon

    It is becoming a badge of honor to be a conservative suspended by Facebook, so much so that I am beginning to wonder what’s wrong with me. Our very frequent cartoon contributor Mike Harris was just suspended for 3 days on Twitter for posting...

  • May 29, 2019

    Beto O'Rourke's confession: Sometimes he's been a 'giant a------'

    Robert Francis (alias Beto) O'Rourke allowed himself to be filmed confessing to his Senate campaign staff that he had sometimes been a "giant a‑‑‑‑‑‑" during his failed campaign to defeat Ted Cruz.  Henry Rodgers reports in th...

  • May 29, 2019

    Mueller offers sly impeachment bait

    Robert Mueller's 11 A.M. statement to the media today stuck to what was in his report (which he said "speaks for itself") but selectively highlighted and sequenced points intended to damage President Trump, providing obvious bait for im...

  • May 28, 2019

    Joe DiGenova blows the lid off the real scandal: The Russia hoax was a cover-up effort for Obama's political spying since 2012

    Hold on to your hats.  At last, we are on the verge of getting to the bottom of the weaponization of the nation's top law enforcement and spy agencies to spy on political opponents, and it is far bigger than obtaining bogus FISA Court w...

  • May 28, 2019

    Tokyo crowd chants 'we love Trump' as motorcade passes

    You won't be seeing this on the mainstream media TV channels.  As President Trump's motorcade traveled through central Tokyo — it looks to me as though he was on his way to the Imperial Palace for the state dinner with the emp...

  • May 27, 2019

    Liz Cheney says Strzok-Page texts 'whole lot like a coup ... could well be treason'

    As A.G. Barr and U.S. attorneys Durham and Huber investigate possible crimes committed by FBI and DOJ officials related to the 2016 election, Rep. Liz Cheney has joined President Trump in mentioning the T-word: treason.  She did so on ABC T...

  • May 27, 2019

    Trump triumphs in Tokyo

    President Trump appears to me to be playing a masterful game of 3- or even 4-dimensional chess in Japan.  His agenda includes not just trade, which is what most of his public statements mention, but also the complicated issues surrounding N...

  • May 26, 2019

    'Human rights lawyer' for Palestinians imprisoned for six months in UK after spitting in the face of an Air India crew member during racist tirade

    Meet Simone Burns, renowned “human rights lawyer” for Palestinians and anti-Israel activist, who is now spending six months in a British prison.  Burns is an Irish citizen resident in England who goes by the name Simone O’Broin...

  • May 26, 2019

    Trump Derangement Syndrome claims another victim

    A Utah judge has been suspended for six months without pay by that state’s supreme court for intemperate comments about Trump online and even from the bench. Utah judges are appointees based on “merit,” so there will be no electoral...

  • May 26, 2019

    Another Democrat posts a transparently phony photo, gets hilariously busted

    Yet another high-profile Democrat in Congress has been busted for posting a photo on Twitter that is such an obvious fraud that even a child could figure it out. How is it possible that they think that they can get away with taking a new item our ...

  • May 26, 2019

    Sunday Schadenfreude: Listen as prominent prog author realizes the book that she is promoting on live radio broadcast is wrong

    Let’s call this one “compound schadenfreude” as the busted progressive finds herself in a hole and keeps digging by claiming a larger truth, the old Dan Rather “fake but accurate” gambit. Feminist author Naomi Wolf, w...

  • May 25, 2019

    Things the NeverTrumpers must believe (in no particular order)

     An online friend who must remain anonymous has been musing about what those ostensible conservatives who despise President Trump must now approve of, if they seek to defeat his re-election bid, and thereby hand the presidency to the Democrats...

  • May 24, 2019

    Those objective journalists at Reuters report the smashing victory of India’s PM Modi

    As the global nationalist/populist wave sweeping many democracies finds expression in the biggest democracy of them all, India, the prejudices of globalist journalists finds expression. After noting that Prime Minister Narendra Modi “stuns o...

  • May 24, 2019

    Russia hoax origins to be exposed as Trump authorizes AG Barr to declassify Russia probe documents

    Heads are exploding all over the beltway, as the unraveling of the biggest political scandal in American history enters a new stage. Make no mistake, there is a plan and a timetable designed for maximum dramatic impact. President Trump finally has ta...

  • May 24, 2019

    Planned move of offices out of DC driving Ag Dept resignations

    Two big problems – overstaffing and the out of touch, elitist beltway culture -- are being simultaneously addressed with the announced plan to move two Department of Agriculture offices out of DC and closer to the farms they purportedly serve. ...

  • May 23, 2019

    Continuing plunge of CNN, MSNBC ratings reveals that fake news is a bad business strategy

    The catastrophic ratings decline for both CNN and MSNBC was no temporary blip following publication of the Mueller report. Both cable news outlets had heavily promoted the hoax of Russian collusion with the Trump administration, teasing the hopes of ...

  • May 22, 2019

    Trump's Pennsylvania rally drove victory for GOP in House seat

    President Trump's rally Monday in Montoursville, Pennsylvania (a very interesting choice of location) drove a smashing victory for the Republican running for Congress in the 12th District.  With all the ballots counted, Republican Fred ...

  • May 22, 2019

    Leaked internal document reveals Facebook wanted special scrutiny of Candace Owens's background, ideology, looking for reasons to ban her

    Facebook is being exposed as a naked propaganda organ that ought to be treated by law as a "publisher" legally responsible for the content it hosts, and not as a "forum" — the status it currently enjoys, exempting it from li...

  • May 21, 2019

    Mark Levin's Unfreedom of the Press available today

    Mark Levin's new book, Unfreedom of the Press, published today, is a remarkable achievement.  If you often get angry at the press and want to understand how we ended up with a mass media establishment that has betrayed its responsi...

  • May 21, 2019

    A federal judge's 'tell' in his order forcing Trump to turn over financial records to House committee

    The political zealotry of the federal judge who ordered ten years' worth of Donald Trump's financial records turned over to the House Oversight and Reform Committee chaired by Elijah Cummings has been revealed with a highly unusual provision ...

  • May 21, 2019

    Information slowly emerging about pipe-wielding mob of Somali 'youths' who attacked people waiting for light rail train in Minneapolis last Friday

    My hometown of Minneapolis has been totally transformed by the arrival of tens of thousands of refugees from Somalis, one of whom now represents the city and a few suburbs in Congress.  Nobody there was asked if such a makeover was desired ...

  • May 21, 2019

    New study reveals Trump Derangement Syndrome even weirder

    The psychiatric profession, a generally leftist group, does not yet recognize Trump Derangement Syndrome as an official malady, but the evidence is everywhere that large numbers of people have become mentally disturbed by their hatred of Donald Trump...

  • May 20, 2019

    AFL-CIO gone Marxist

    America fought the Cold War to defeat communism but is losing the peace at home.  Marxists have infiltrated many of the major institutions, starting with education and the media, following the strategy laid out by Italian communist Antonio ...

  • May 20, 2019

    Trey Gowdy reveals 'game changer' FBI transcript exists

    The attempted entrapment of George Papadopoulos by the FBI and possibly the CIA, apparently as an excuse to trigger surveillance of the Trump presidential campaign, may turn into the "smoking gun" that exposes the depth of corruption of the...

  • May 20, 2019

    Uprooting the EPA's climate fraud

    During the Barack Obama presidency, a poisonous seed was planted by bureaucrats at the Environmental Protection Agency to enable radical regulation of CO2 emissions, eventually strangling the economy.  That seed was an official "endang...

  • May 20, 2019

    What's behind Justin Amash's call for impeaching President Trump?

    Until he called for impeaching President Trump (see his tweets laying out his reasoning — if it can be called such — on the subject here), Rep. Justin Amash was barely on my radar, notable only for his libertarian absolutism (he is h...

  • May 20, 2019

    Sanctuary state of Oregon releases illegal alien who raped a dog to death after serving only 60 days in jail

    People who abuse animals are sick and dangerous to rest of society.  Something is very wrong with the mental and moral wiring.  When the abuse involves sex and is such violent sexual assault that death results, the dangers are acu...

  • May 20, 2019

    Eric Swalwell's shocking financial disclosure

    I believe that the technical psychiatric term for Rep. Eric Swalwell is "hot mess."  Or at least it should be.  After having been exposed as a liar about the "evidence" he claimed to have seen that President Tr...

  • May 19, 2019

    Al Sharpton says Buttigieg’s real problem is that blacks are ‘homophobic’

    “Reverend” Al Sharpton, the self-ordained putative clergyman, is proud of himself for calling out his own constituency for hostility to the candidacy of openly homosexual Pete Buttigieg. While using careful, discreet language (no cries of...

  • May 19, 2019

    Dem Congresswoman wants most blacks out of her party

    I love it when the leftists that dominate the political discourse among Democrats get intoxicated with their self-righteousness and dreams of “intersectional” solidarity and start reading out of their party anyone who is insufficiently pu...

  • May 19, 2019

    Australian left shocked as anti-global warming policies cost it a national election

    The polls were unanimous that the leftist Labor Party was going to defeat the conservatives (confusingly called “The Liberal Party”) in yesterday’s election and take over the government of Australia. As with the inevitable Hillary C...

  • May 19, 2019

    California half-fast ‘hi speed rail’ plan now pondering old fashioned diesel trains to salvage something from failed project

    Nobody with any authority over it can admit that Jerry Brown’s pet project, a high-speed rail line between San Francisco and Los Angeles, is a multi-billion dollar fiasco and pull the plug to avoid squandering additional billions of dollars fro...

  • May 18, 2019

    House Dems unanimously vote to add transgenders to Civil Rights Act of 1964 protections

    The Civil Rights Act of 1964 has been turned on its head, at least among the Democratic Caucus of the House of Representatives.  That landmark legislation added real teeth to the enforcement of equal rights for African-Americans, and settin...

  • May 17, 2019

    Telling the awful truth about the new SAT ‘adversity’ score

    Few people have the audacity to speak the truth about the underlying problem with the efforts to engineer “diversity” – which in practice means that blacks, Hispanics and Native Americans receive a share of jobs, college admissions,...

  • May 17, 2019

    Ocasio-Cortez embraces paranoid conspiracy theory

    Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is steadily revealing herself to be a rigid ideologue, and now extends her embrace of dogma into the realm of paranoid conspiracy theories. This is not surprising because once a person embraces a worldview that...

  • May 17, 2019

    Pelosi’s disgraceful weaseling on merit-based immigration

    Common sense and public opinion both strongly favor prioritizing immigrants who bring education and skills to the country, so that they can support themselves and provide more tax payments than they consume in the form of welfare and other need-based...

  • May 16, 2019

    Joe DiGenova and Victoria Toensing reveal Brennan was the mastermind of the Russia hoax

    Anyone closely following the Russia hoax and its collapse understands that D.C. super-lawyers Joe DiGenova and Victoria Toensing have by far the best track record in accurately calling out the nature of the scandal and identifying the coming revelati...

  • May 16, 2019

    The next stage in tech overlords' censorship: De-platforming un-PC blogs

    It's no longer just Facebook, Twitter, and Google who are censoring online content that offends political correctness.  Wordpress.com, a blog-hosting site that offers anyone the opportunity to create and publish a blog at no cost, has d...

  • May 16, 2019

    Alyssa Milano's epic fail on sex strike for abortion driving her nuts

    You knew this was coming, didn't you?  When feminist and left-wing activist actor Alyssa Milano (remember her attending the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings?) announced that she was going on a sex strike "until we get bodily autonom...

  • May 15, 2019

    What are the odds that the Durham investigation is for real and will bring the bad actors to justice?

    Following the disclosure that U.S. attorney John Durham has been tasked with investigating and prosecuting potential crimes in the origin of the Russia Hoax, we learned some very encouraging facts that suggest that the Russia Hoax will be f...

  • May 14, 2019

    Ocasio-Cortez goes full Marx

    Speaking to a rally to promote the lunatic Green New Deal that would bankrupt America while allowing China, India, and the rest of the world to continue to emit CO2 without restriction for more than a decade, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez revealed th...

  • May 14, 2019

    AG Barr appoints 'bulldog' federal corruption-fighter John Durham to probe origins of Russia hoax investigation

    With the appointment of the U.S. attorney for Connecticut to investigate the origins of the probe into specious allegations of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, a troika is now in place to get to the bottom of the biggest political sca...

  • May 14, 2019

    Sri Lanka riots target Muslims in vengeance over Easter bombings of Christians

    Sri Lanka last weekend saw the sort of "anti-Muslim backlash" that seems to trouble American officials and media so much that they customarily express bafflement as to the motives for attacks when a jihadist yells "Allahu akbar!" ...

  • May 14, 2019

    Bernie Sanders promises higher taxes to pay for 'Medicare for all'

    I give Bernie Sanders a lot of credit for being honest about his political beliefs and intentions.  Not only is he openly socialist, but he also is open about his desire to stick it to taxpayers to pay for his dreams.  Best of all...

  • May 13, 2019

    Ocasio-Cortez realizes she said something stupid and reacts badly

    Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez finally understands that her claim that we have only 12 years to save the world from global warming disaster was a ridiculous statement.  Having been mocked by her many enemies, and unable to defend the absurdity, s...

  • May 13, 2019

    California descending to Third World status with planned electricity blackouts for up to a week

    The elites who run California like to pretend they have a better way. The highest taxes in the nation have not killed (yet) the current success of the high tech sector in the Bay Area, generating immense tax revenues that can be squandered on a usele...

  • May 13, 2019

    'Transgender woman' stripped of victory in powerlifting competition

    The future for female athletes in competitions is grim if males are allowed to compete with them under the theory that one can choose to be female, take some hormones and/or other treatment, and become a woman.  Men are born with many advan...

  • May 13, 2019

    Kamala Harris tap-dances around her reckless statements in CNN interview

    It turns out that not even CNN is not a "safe space" for Kamala Harris, the shallow California senator running for president.  She doesn't seem to have prepared herself for follow-up questions probing her reckless statements o...

  • May 13, 2019

    PetSmart retail chain sues PETA alleging spying

    If you don't have a pet (or "animal companion," to be politically correct), you may never have entered a PetSmart store.  But the Phoenix-based chain of big box pet stores, with over 1,600 locations, is enduring the same diffi...

  • May 13, 2019

    Schadenfreude alert: Robert Francis O'Rourke ponders 'reintroduction' of his failing presidential campaign

    I confess to being such a bad person that I am enjoying the crashing and burning of the Robert Francis O'Rourke presidential campaign.  "Beto" — the faux Hispanic nickname he adopted for himself — has Robert Kenned...

  • May 12, 2019

    Comey’s top FBI lawyer James Baker admits he’s ’nervous,’ opens some distance between himself and the conspirators

    We just got a glimpse of the coming lines of defense for the deposed political cabal that formerly ran the FBI, as well as the limits of loyalty among them.    Former FBI General Counsel James Baker spoke in public Friday, before a very ...

  • May 12, 2019

    Harvard surrenders to the #MeToo mob: black dean to leave prestigious post

    Something extraordinary happened at Harvard yesterday: a black professor who had done nothing wrong was removed from a prestigious position that carries the title of “dean.” In the process, the implicit pecking order among grievance-monge...

  • May 11, 2019

    Dems invited hate-mongering imam to open House of Representatives session with prayer

    Happy Ramadan!  The Democrats who control the House of Representatives celebrated the holy month of Muslims by inviting a hater to bless The People's House and its work. Imam Omar Suleiman, founder and president of the Dallas-based Y...

  • May 11, 2019

    Marie Harf leaves Fox News for long-shot Dem nomination contender

    Did Marie Harf jump, or was she pushed?  This news from the Daily Beast caught me by surprise: Marie Harf is stepping down from her post as a political commentator for Fox News Channel and co-host of Fox News Radio’s...

  • May 11, 2019

    Uh-oh! The 'reparations study commission' dodge of Dem presidential contenders is in peril

    A Democrat running for president is calling for actual money — a lot of it — to be spent on "reparations for slavery," breaking the informal understanding to relegate the idea to a study commission.  Because ultra-high...

  • May 10, 2019

    Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez want to deny credit cards to poor people with their demand for price controls on interest rates

    If Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez get their way, Americnas will literally start getting Venezuela on the installment plan.  The socialists taking over the Democratic Party's base have learned nothing from the starvation Ven...

  • May 10, 2019

    Two stunning revelations on Russia hoax investigation yesterday from DC super-lawyers Victoria Toensing and Joe DiGenova

    Washington, D.C. super-lawyers Joe DiGenova and Victoria Toensing have consistently been ahead of the news on the course of the unfolding scandal of spying on the Trump campaign and administration.  Appearing last night on Lou Dobbs's F...

  • May 9, 2019

    Joe Biden says that US has an 'obligation' to provide free medical care for illegals

    Pay up, suckers!  This new magnet attracting illegals is going to cost a lot if Biden is elected as president. There are billions of poor people in the world who see our open borders as an invitation to enjoy the good life here, and now ...

  • May 9, 2019

    Joe Biden's fatal weakness if he gets the Dems' nomination

    I am already on the record that Joe Biden won't get the Democrats' nomination, and now — for a brand-new reason — I am beginning to hope I am wrong.  In addition to his other weaknesses as a candidate...

  • May 8, 2019

    CNN contributor makes a truly bizarre claim about abortion

    Christine Quinn is a CNN contributor (for now — will she escape the staff downsizing underway as the audience of that cable news network dwindles?) and a former important political figure: the former speaker of the New York City Counc...

  • May 8, 2019

    NY Times pretends it is scandalous Trump reported tax losses during New York's real estate crash

    The New York Times seems to think it is a scandal that tax losses were reported by Donald Trump when he was running a major real estate development company during an epic real estate crash.  The Times claims that it legally obtain...

  • May 8, 2019

    Feds knew Steele Dossier was politically motivated before it was submitted to FISA Court to permit spying on Trump campaign

    John Solomon of The Hill has yet another scoop that demonstrates lying to the FISA Court, thereby enabling spying on the Trump campaign.  He writes: If ever there were an admission that taints the FBI's secret warrant to ...

  • May 7, 2019

    Jihad terrorist sentenced in Chicago as media and Obama-appointed judge downplay his attempted slaughter of infidels

    Mass murder in the name of Allah tends to be a young man's game.  A never-ending series of slaughters around the world, such as the Easter massacres of hundreds of Christian infidels, is the result of the appeal of serving a purportedly...

  • May 7, 2019

    CNN cutting staff by as many as 300 jobs

    Maybe President Trump ought to use the adjective "failing" in front of CNN instead of the New York Times.  In point of fact, Trump-hatred has been good for the Gray Lady, with digital subscriptions up substantially (over $700 mill...

  • May 7, 2019

    Google tries to financially strangle leading conservative think-tank and then backs off

    Calling it a "mistake," Google has reversed its decision not to allow the Claremont Institute to advertise its 40th Anniversary Gala honoring secretary of state Mike Pompeo. Many nonprofits rely on selling tickets to galas honoring ...

  • May 6, 2019

    Trump tweets threat to raise tariffs on Chinese exports — stock markets plunge, China hardest hit

    Apparently impatient and believing that the Chinese were playing a delay game on coming to agreement on a new trade deal, President Trump abruptly signaled a switch to hardball threats.  The president issued two linked tweets Sunday, threat...

  • May 6, 2019

    Trump halts outrageous looting of Medicaid payments to skim money for unions

    Money meant for patient care is no longer being skimmed off and sent to far-left unions, who typically recycle it as political donations to Democrats.  President Trump, like President Obama, has a pen and a phone, meaning the ability to cha...

  • May 6, 2019

    CNN: 23 stories on Covington Kids, none on Philadelphia Muslim kids celebrating head-chopping for Allah

    CNN has a narrative, and it's gonna stick to it: white kids, especially Christian religious kids, are scary threats to the welfare of America's many victim classes.  Hence massive attention paid to the Covington kids who were falsel...

  • May 5, 2019

    Study sponsored by NOAA finds that poorly-sited air temperature monitoring stations have artificially boosted global warming data

    Anthony Watts of Watts Up With That reports on an important scientific paper sponsored by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (the official keepers of temperature records) that confirms what Watts and other critics have maintained for...

  • May 5, 2019

    Dan Crenshaw and Ilhan Omar: a tale of two House freshmen

    Saul Alinksy taught two generations of American leftists to “personalize” and “polarize” political issues. Conservatives have an opportunity to do just that, in the form of two freshmen members of Congress.  Two new faces...

  • May 5, 2019

    Philadelphia Islamic Center schoolkids perform and vow to ‘chop off the heads’ of enemies as the ‘army of Allah’

    Right here in the United States, not Gaza, young Muslim children are being taught to slaughter the infidels and re-take Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem (note: Israel allows Muslims to control the mosque, but persists in existing as a Jewish state, which ...

  • May 5, 2019

    Why Biden won’t get the Dem nomination

    Yes, he’s really, really old, thus removing the opportunity to attack President Trump on the basis of his age. And yes, he says really stupid stuff -- and they are usually incorrectly called “gaffes,” which Michael Kinsley correc...

  • May 5, 2019

    Asylum-seeking fraudsters bring an entirely new dimension to progressive rhetoric

    The word is out that a free pass into the United States is available to anyone who brings along a child and claims that they are entering the United Sattes seeking “asylum.” They don’t even have to surreptitiously cross the border i...

  • May 4, 2019

    Lindsey Graham invites Robert Mueller to testify about his phone call with AG Barr

    I am filing this story in the "put up or shut up" category of invitations.  Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Lindsey Graham Friday morning sent a letter to Special Counsel Robert Mueller inviting him to testify about ...

  • May 4, 2019

    Anti-Semitism is nothing new at the New York Times

    A lot of masks are slipping off lately.  It may have something to do with the high level of anger and frustration on the Left, which might short-circuit the normal caution on revealing too much about what the Left really thinks and really w...

  • May 4, 2019

    Kamala Harris's glass house

    When Kamala Harris started throwing stones at A.G. Barr during the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Wednesday, she apparently forgot that she lives in a very big glass house. In case you've forgotten what she demanded of the eminent lawye...

  • May 3, 2019

    Desperate media and other Dems generating fake hysteria over Barr as reckoning looms over Russia hoax

    Democrats and their media lackeys are going all out to assassinate the character of A.G. Barr, fanning the flames of hysteria.  Anna Stark is correct that "The Democrats are worried. They should be," and because the attorney gener...

  • May 3, 2019

    Stephen Moore bullied into withdrawing from Federal Reserve nomination by gutter journalists at NYT, WaPo, CNN

    Whatever you think of the merits of having Stephen Moore on the board of the Federal Reserve (and I think he would have been great), he has withdrawn his name from consideration.  The reason has nothing to do with an examination of his view...

  • May 3, 2019

    California population growth tanks; LA Times tries to explain without mentioning high taxes

    MSN News reprints a paywalled Los Angeles Times story on a startling development: California's population growth has tumbled to the slowest rate in the state's history.  The wonderful weather, scenery, and other attractions tha...

  • May 3, 2019

    Spygate gets an irresistible story element: a femme fatale

    We are in the midst of a battle of rival narratives.  The GOP narrative is that the Obama administration horrifyingly mobilized law enforcement and intelligence resources to spy on a rival-party presidential campaign and presidency. ...

  • May 3, 2019

    WaPo describes Louis Farrakhan as a 'far right leader' in story about Facebook censorship

    Facebook is back in business suppressing conservative voices, and the Washington Post is back in business as identifying everything bad as conservative.  At least the WaPo reversed itself, while Facebook persists. First, the ridiculous s...

  • May 2, 2019

    Dem Rep: '‘Some kids are unwanted, so you kill them now or you kill them later'

    As the level of civility in politics plummets to levels not seen since before the Civil War, masks are dropping away, and elected officials are revealing their inner thoughts and presumptions.  Normally, abortion advocates are some of the g...

  • May 2, 2019

    Barr laid it on the line with the simple question the Russia Hoaxers can’t answer

    Attorney General William Barr scares the wits out of the Democrats who bet their party’s political future on removing President Trump from office. Now that The Mueller Report revealed no collusion with the Russians, they are living in fear that...

  • May 2, 2019

    Tucker Carlson destroys Eric Swalwell’s latest showboating attempt

    With a recent tweet, Rep. Eric Swalwell could have not done a better job of exposing himself as a fatuous ignoramus if he tried.  In the wake of the collapse of the Russia Hoax, Democrat villains seem to be rushing to unmask themselves for th...

  • May 2, 2019

    The victims of the low bail movement that progressives have created

    By pretending to champion as victims people who are accused of serious crimes, progressives are re-victimizing some of their favorite objects of concern. The Left thinks too many people are in jail and prison.  The crime drop that has ac...

  • May 2, 2019

    Barr stuns Sen. Blumenthal during Judiciary Committee hearing

    Attorney General William Barr is unflappable, a quality that enabled him to deftly handle the “pack of Iagos” that Democrats on the Senate Judiciary formed into yesterday. In addition to highlighting the key question for which there is no...

  • May 2, 2019

    New York Times now promises ‘Anti-Semitism sensitivity training’ for its staff

    The New York Times is handling the controversy over its anti-Semitic cartoon exactly the opposite of the reigning wisdom on crisis management. Were the issue of the rising tide of Jew-hatred not such a matter of life-and-death concern, the Times...

  • May 1, 2019

    Biden pulling away from the Democrat field

    Bernie Sanders has dropped like a stone in the latest poll of Democrats' presidential nominee preferences.  The reason almost certainly is his insane commitment to letting terrorists and murderers behind bars vote.  Quinnipiac...

  • May 1, 2019

    Sneaky Mueller trying to sabotage Barr's congressional testimony with leak of letter

    I don't for a second believe that it is a coincidence that a private letter reportedly sent from Robert Mueller to A.G. William Barr was leaked the day before his round of congressional testimony was set to begin.  The New York Times an...

  • April 30, 2019

    Rep. Dan Crenshaw should become the GOP House public point man on urgent reform of asylum law

    The word has gone out (including via radio ads), not just to Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador, but to the entire world.  If you show up at the U.S. border with a child and claim asylum, even if you are simply seeking a better stand...

  • April 30, 2019

    Biden's first campaign rally raises doubts more than enthusiasm

    For the frontrunner in the polls, Joe Biden wasn't able to attract a very impressive crowd for his campaign's kickoff rally.  Speaking to a crowd of "hundreds" (not the many thousands who turned out for President Trump in ...

  • April 29, 2019

    Gillibrand not making the cut for Dem presidential debates

    Kirsten Gillibrand's fundraising has been so anemic that she may not be able to participate in the party's presidential debates — unlike Andrew Yang and Tulsi Gabbard, who already have made the cut. It turns out that, at least in a c...

  • April 29, 2019

    Kamala Harris calls for a federal ban on right-to-work laws

    Now that more than half of the states have enacted laws outlawing compulsory union membership in order to get a job, labor union membership has declined, and in tandem, so has the flow of money to Democrats (nearly all union political donations go to...

  • April 28, 2019

    By its own standards, the New York Times deserves blame for the Poway synagogue shooting

    Does anyone else remember when a New York Times editorial blamed Sarah Palin for the shooting of Gabby Giffords because of a bulls-eye on a map? The New York Times published a hideous, obviously anti-Semitic cartoon the day before a gunman entered...

  • April 28, 2019

    NYT’s anti-Semitic cartoon was carefully crafted to pander to prejudices of Muslims and neo-Nazis

    The anti-Semitic cartoon that was published by the New York Times for readers of its international edition, many of them journalists, politicians, and opinion leader all over the world, was not causally or inadvertently offensive. It was carefully...

  • April 28, 2019

    New York Times can't bring itself to apologize for its anti-Semitic cartoon

    A lot of people are mistakenly claiming that in its announced withdrawal from its website of a blatantly anti-Semitic cartoon, the New York Times “apologized.” See here (a right-leaning site), here (the left-leaning HuffPost) and here (th...

  • April 28, 2019

    Canada’s version of Medicare for All executes thousands of patients a year

    When governments take charge of medical care and expenditures on prolonging life come out of the same pool of money used for the military, road-building, schools and all the other functions of government, the bureaucrats who are the decision-makers h...

  • April 28, 2019

    Universities now requiring loyalty oaths taken to ‘diversity’

    I am so old that I can remember when Democrats and the progressive Left regarded forcing college faculty to sign loyalty oaths as abhorrent.  Of course, that was when Communist infiltration of colleges, the media, and government bureaucracy was ...

  • April 27, 2019

    Both China's Xi and Trump signal trade deal agreement is near

    If you think the economy is doing well now, and the stock market is in a growth mode, just wait until the worries over a trade war with China are resolved. President Trump is getting close to demonstrating his superior wisdom to that of the Beltwa...

  • April 27, 2019

    Prince Charles blamed Mideast conflict on ‘foreign Jews’

    Prince Charles, heir to the British throne, is a fool, and perhaps inevitably given his royal status, an arrogant  fool -- the worst kind. He has embarrassed and arguably endangered the institution of the monarchy with his treatment of his late ...

  • April 26, 2019

    Trump speaks of 'attempted coup' and previews coming storm headed toward the plotters

    President Trump has gone on the record that the plotters against him in what he called an "attempted coup" are going to be exposed and brought to justice for their misdeeds, and that it is happening faster than most people believe. ...

  • April 26, 2019

    Newly released Strzok-Page text messages suggest FBI attempt to recruit spies within the incoming Trump administration

    Ace reporters Sara Carter and Catherine Herridge have broken a huge story on what looks like a post-presidential election attempt to cultivate spies within the Trump administration, as discussed by the adulterous top FBI counter-e...

  • April 26, 2019

    Concealed carry permit–holder tells Chicago cops he shot and killed a carjacker

    A remedy to the wave of lawlessness overwhelming Chicago is suggested by the story told to police there by a victim of an attempted carjacking.  Assuming that the story checks out, Illinois ought to consider easing its draconian gun control...

  • April 26, 2019

    Cook County judge reams Kim Foxx's office for double standard on Jussie Smollett

    The consequences of Cook County state's attorney Kim Foxx letting off Jussie Smollett with no guilty plea and almost no real punishment are playing out, as everyone charged for making a false police report in Cook County now will demand similar t...

  • April 26, 2019

    Sanders campaign trying (unsuccessfully) to explain away his 1970s attack on the immorality of senators being millionaires

    Back in the 1970s, when he never thought he would have much money, Bernie Sanders was full of moral indignation at the idea that the United States Senate included a substantial number of millionaires.  Nathan McDermott and Andrew ...

  • April 25, 2019

    Bernie Sanders discovered yesterday that a white male nominee is a problem for a huge chunk of the Democrats’ base

    Intersectionality is the Achilles Heel of Democrats in 2020. Assembling a collection of grievance-based identity groups works well for the Democrats, until it doesn’t.  And with President Trump driving a substantial number of Democrats int...

  • April 25, 2019

    NSA reportedly recommend abandoning surveillance program for all telephone calls and text messages

    In an exclusive report based on anonymous sources, Dustin Voltz and Warren P. Strobel of the Wall Street Journal (non-paywall version here) write: The National Security Agency has recommended that the White House abandon a surveillance program t...

  • April 24, 2019

    New commenting system on AT

    We have instituted the Vuukle commenting system on American Thinker.  This is very similar to the previous one, Disqus, and should seem familiar to our users.  We have even taken extra steps to ensure the login process is familiar...

  • April 24, 2019

    The walls are closing in on Obama

    The truth of violations of law by the Obama White House, long buried, is being excavated by two private groups. Judicial Watch has obtained testimony from a top FBI official that Hillary Clinton's home-brew server emails were found in the Whit...

  • April 24, 2019

    Even CNN is noticing Kamala Harris is an empty pantsuit

    I have long had very little regard for the abilities of Kamala Harris.  She entered politics on her back, as the mistress of Willie Brown, a man decades older, and ran for office more on the basis of her good looks and enticing and exotic i...

  • April 24, 2019

    Is Kim Foxx panicking?

    Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx is a national laughingstock over her decision to let off Jussie Smollett from any punishment beyond a trivial fine and laughable "community service" at Jesse Jackson's office over a weekend....

  • April 23, 2019

    Joe di Genova explains where the Russia Hoax is headed

    Throughout the unfolding of the Russia hoax, nobody has topped the clarity provided by DC superlawyer and former US Attorney for the District of Columbia, Joseph DiGenova. In his television and radio appearances, he has not minced words about the nat...

  • April 23, 2019

    A Democrat disaster looms with their nominating convention

    The Democrats are setting themselves up for a possible, even probable, disaster at their nominating convention in Milwaukee, July 13 – 16, 2020. The party that created the concept of “superdelegates” to rein in their crazies may hav...

  • April 23, 2019

    Democrats demanding unredacted Mueller report get a lesson in ‘be careful what you wish-for’

    The shameful demands of House Democrats that an unredacted version of the Mueller Report be released has triggered an object lesson for them. There are good reasons laid out in federal law and DOJ regulations requiring that grand jury proceedings and...

  • April 22, 2019

    Must-see TV: Joe Biden lavishing praise on William Barr during 1991 confirmation hearing as AG

    Joe Biden may be the Democrats' best hope to defeat President Trump's re-election bid, but he is an embarrassing reminder of his party's capture by the hard left.  His decades of office in Congress have left a video legacy of wh...

  • April 22, 2019

    Robert Mueller, the consummate DC schemer

    It's time for a reckoning for Robert Mueller.  He is one of those D.C. veteran political appointees who carried a reputation as a righteous, honest man — as was said of James Comey not so long ago.  But the ability to ge...

  • April 21, 2019

    NYT raises questions about safety of Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner

    With the grounding of the Boeing 737 Max 8 costing America’s largest exporter huge amounts of money and damaging its reputation, The New York Times piles on with a story by Natalie Kitroeff and David Gelles suggesting serious problems...

  • April 20, 2019

    More outrageous behavior from Kim Foxx's office

    You don't have to be black — only politically connected — for Kim Foxx to let you off easy.  In an outrageous abuse of office, the Cook County state's attorney let a felon, who had a hit-and-run accident and was videotap...

  • April 16, 2019

    Huge victory for genuine scientific inquiry on global warming

    The greatest "tell" for non-scientists evaluating the likelihood that the anthropogenic global warming theory is a fraud is that instead of critically examining the facts, warmists try to silence skeptics, with some of them even...

  • April 16, 2019

    Bernie Sanders tells Fox News town hall that he won't pay his 'fair share' in taxes unless he is forced to

    Would you pay attention to the moral advice from a clergyman caught in an adulterous relationship who pointed out that adultery is no longer a crime?  And who said that once adultery is re-criminalized in his state, he will start to be fait...

  • April 15, 2019

    NYT editorial board member writes op-ed saying everyone's income taxes should be available to the public

    The very concept of privacy seems to be under attack (except, of course, as a justification for abortion, as laid out in Roe v. Wade — that is considered sacrosanct by the Left, including academia and the media). Now, from a m...

  • April 15, 2019

    Unhinged Hollywood lefties continue to suggest assassination of President Trump

    The first wave of what might be called Trump assassination chic, soon after his election (remember Kathy Griffin holding his severed head?), led to widespread condemnation and some actual career consequences.  Griffin was properly condemned...

  • April 15, 2019

    Your Tax Day schadenfreude pick-me-up

    If your resentment of big government, high-tax Democrats is peaking today as you face the task of complying with the confiscation of the fruit of your labors, I have a little treat for you.  For those of us who do not receive a salary from ...

  • April 14, 2019

    Here it comes: Rep. Tlaib blasts Dem leadership

    The first overt sign of the trouble that lies ahead for Nancy Pelosi and the Democrat leadership with the emergence of a radical Muslim wing of the party arrived Saturday. Following the discovery of a video clip of Rep. Omar referring to 911 as ...

  • April 14, 2019

    Bernie Sanders defends his earning over a million dollars in one year

    Sounding very much like a Republican celebrating the legitimacy of the rewards that follow successful entrepreneurship, Bernie Sanders is defending his own earning of over a million dollars in one year. Joshua Caplan quotes him at Breitbart: I d...

  • April 14, 2019

    Must-see TV: Tucker Carlson’s epic takedown on Dem hypocrisy on sending illegals to sanctuary cities

    President Trump has gone all-in on the proposal to send to sanctuary cities the asylum-seekers that under current law must be admitted to the United States while they await adjudication of their claims (90% of which historically are denied). ...

  • April 14, 2019

    Releasing Jussie Smollett was the least of Kim Foxx’s sins

    At least no cops died after Cook County state’s attorney Kim Foxx let Jussie Smollett walk. The same cannot be said of her office’s treatment of the case of Dan Davies. Davies, a habitual offender with decades of citations for driving wit...

  • April 13, 2019

    Terrifying video on antisemitic conference at the University of North Carolina

    Ami Horowitz, the investigatory filmmaker who often exposes campus madness, has produced a video that ought to terrify anyone familiar with the history of Weimar Germany.  Then, as now, universities were among the leaders in whipping up Jew...

  • April 13, 2019

    Ease of documenting MSM's/Democrats' use of word 'spying' about surveillance reveals genuine 'derangement'

    Are the media and Democrats actually trying to prove themselves to be full of crap?  Given their own history of calling the federal government's surveillance efforts "spying," attempting to claim that A.G. Barr's use of th...

  • April 7, 2019

    Obama shatters previous record, mentions himself 467 times in one speech in Berlin

    The post-presidential era of his life seems to be a bit of a challenge to the ego of Barack Hussein Obama. Never shy about referring to himself while president, now that that man in the White House is reversing his policies and spectacularly succeedi...

  • April 7, 2019

    Dems and reparations: a few questions

    Like lemmings, Democrats are rushing toward a cliff.  The spectacle of many of the Democrats running for president prostrating themselves before race-hustler and pogrom-inciter Al Sharpton is disgusting. Bonchie at Red State reviews the sordid h...

  • April 7, 2019

    Kim Foxx (and Jesse Jackson) face-plant at rally intended to show support for her letting off Smollett

    Cook County state’s attorney Kim Foxx tried (and failed) to limit the damage from the repudiation and demands for her resignation she suffered on Thursday, when (via the Sun-Times): Resign. That was the message a host of officials from ...

  • April 6, 2019

    Trump's support from Hispanics has got to be worrying Dems

    Careless, lazy, and racist stereotypes about Hispanics could be as big a threat to Democrats' 2020 prospects as their indifference to the plight of the white working class was in 2016.  Steve Cortes, who helped lead Trump's Hispanic...

  • April 6, 2019

    Keeping GOP Senate majority in 2020 could get easier

    The Republicans have almost twice as many Senate seats up for re-election as Democrats do in 2020 (22 to 12), raising the prospect of Democrat control of both the House and Senate.  While it is unusual for the party of a president to pick u...

  • April 6, 2019

    Violence and harassment against Trump-supporters and GOP in California

    As a result of Trump Derangement Syndrome, a political era of low-grade (so far) terror has been imposed on visible Trump-supporters and Republicans in California.  People like me are forced to conceal our politics when out and about. ...

  • April 5, 2019

    General Michael Flynn may be the key to uncovering and prosecuting the Deep State attempted coup

    The Russia Hoax attempted coup involved senior figures in the "intelligence community," the very people whom Chuck Schumer, in a moment of candor, warned Donald Trump — before he was inaugurated as president — about opposing, su...

  • April 5, 2019

    Ocasio-Cortez attacks black rising star at Fox News — and face-plants

    The fame resulting from the huge amount of media attention paid to Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has become a dangerous drug for her.  Completely unaware of the limitations of her education and knowledge base, she doesn't hesi...

  • April 5, 2019

    Final frontier for campus thought police: Alumni reunions

    The takeover of elite higher education institutions is nearly complete, with the vast diversity bureaucracies able to intimidate students and faculty into compliance with speech codes and undergoing thought reform so they never, for example, unthinki...

  • April 5, 2019

    A surefire way to stop Pelosi from getting ahold of Trump's tax returns

    Nancy Pelosi is really proud of her brand-new tool, a recently rediscovered section of a 1924 law, to get access to the last six years of Donald Trump's tax returns. Watch her explain why she thinks there is an airtight case for forcing disclo...

  • April 4, 2019

    A partial defense of Tucker Carlson's apology to Joe Biden

    M. Catharine Evans has an excellent point in her criticism of Tucker Carlson's "apology" to Joe Biden, but there is a larger issue that is also worth considering.  Yes, Biden has been a jerk for decades, physically imposing hi...

  • April 4, 2019

    Louis Farrakhan insults Christian beliefs (and Jews, of course), claims he is Jesus

    Louis Farrakhan is a poisonous figure in our society, an open Jew-hater and religious extremist with crackpot beliefs.  He ought to be shunned by all legitimate political leaders, yet national figures among the Democrats like Bill Clinton...

  • April 4, 2019

    Robert Francis O'Rourke jumps on the 'slavery reparations' bandwagon

    Add the fake Hispanic running for president to the list of Democrat lemmings rushing toward the cliff of so-called reparations for slavery.  Robert Francis O'Rourke, whose charisma has been sufficient to convince the Associated Press (t...

  • April 4, 2019

    Finally! Mitch McConnell shuts down Democrats' obstruction of confirmation of Trump appointees

    Because of unprecedented abuse of Senate rules, two and a half years into his presidency, President Trump has not been able to put all of his own qualified, confirmable appointees into senior-level positions.  This obstructionism has allowe...

  • April 3, 2019

    Christiane Amanpour doing her best to prove Trump is right about CNN as 'enemy of the people'

    A stunning moment took place yesterday on CNN, as that network's "chief international anchor" interviewed former FBI chief James Comey and suggested that federal law enforcement should have "shut down" chants of "lock her...

  • April 3, 2019

    Ratings for CNN and MSNBC continuing to crash, as viewers migrate to Fox News prime time

    Karma has come calling at CNN and MSNBC, the avid broadcast-promoters of the Russia hoax.  Viewers who deserted the conspiracy theorists after it turned out that Mueller reported no evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russi...

  • April 2, 2019

    A deep look at the Deep State

    When I discovered that YouTube now has a recording of last Sunday’s edition of Life, Liberty and Levin – Mark Levin’s weekly in-depth interview program – I felt a duty to share the news with readers. His guests, Sara Carter an...

  • April 2, 2019

    The roll-out of ‘inappropriate touching’ accusations against Creepy Uncle Joe continues

    Somebody is kneecapping Creepy Joe. Call me obsessive and paranoid, but I have a long shot theory. To the surprise of nobody who’s been around the block a few times in politics, a second woman active in Democratic politics has come forward t...

  • April 2, 2019

    The real prime target of Trump’s threat to close the border

    I think that President Trump is going after what the Left calls “root causes” in their typical grab for money to redistribute, purportedly to eliminate some social problem they blame on poverty. But Trump is not seeking a nebulous version...

  • April 2, 2019

    George Papadopoulos warns the Dems to be careful what they wish for

      One person who has direct, long, and painful personal experience of the Mueller inquiry is George Papadopoulos. He is undoubtedly awaiting a pardon from President Trump, which I expect he will eventually get. In the meantime, he has issu...

  • April 1, 2019

    Creepy Uncle Joe is toast

    Joe Biden's penchant for unwanted touching of women and girls has been a common object of humor on the conservative side of the spectrum for over a decade, ever since he became Barack Obama's running mate.  But even after the dawn o...

  • April 1, 2019

    Judge Jeanine is back — without a word about her two-week suspension

    See also: Judge Jeanine is back – and took the high road The best evidence of a powerful media taboo is the absence of any mention of something that the public is well aware of.  The power to banish any reference to a subject that ...

  • April 1, 2019

    The cost of the Russiagate hoax

    The media that promoted the hoax originally generated by the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign and the Democratic Party are in full denial mode.  They don't merely ignore their role, they defend it. Jake Tapper is "unaware o...

  • March 31, 2019

    Ocasio-Cortez falsely claims Constitution was amended to prevent FDR re-election

    One of the more ridiculous characteristics of Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is her ability to lecture her audience in the tone of a professor while spouting utter nonsense as if revealing higher truths. Not just her absurd plans to devastat...

  • March 31, 2019

    Peak gender madness?

    Guess what the ruling coalition in one of the Australian states wants to legalize. From the Herald Sun of Brisbane (behind a pay wall). Miranda Devine writes: Gender ideology has reached peak insanity in Tasmania, where Labor and the Greens a...

  • March 30, 2019

    Watch the long faces as Jeh Johnson, Obama's DHS Secretary, tells MSNBC that the border is 'truly in a crisis'

    I have significantly upgraded my opinion of Jeh Johnson, President Obama's secretary of homeland security.  Appearing Friday on Morning Joe, he was honest and blunt in addressing the border crisis, drawing on his own experience and impl...

  • March 30, 2019

    NBC/MSNBC political news honcho accused of trying to suppress news on behalf of the DNC

    CNN and MSNBC, the two cable news networks currently in crisis over their pushing of the Russia hoax for years, have another huge worry on their hands: they have been exposed as agents of the Democratic Party's national leadership.  Fir...

  • March 30, 2019

    New post–Mueller Report poll shows Trump gaining support

    Public opinion is on the move.  But for the full impact of the revelations from Team Mueller, we are going to have to wait for the release of the redacted report itself, and for President Trump's promised pushback.  In the mea...

  • March 30, 2019

    Ocasio-Cortez blames unnamed staffer for Green New deal fiasco

    The buck stops somewhere well below the exalted personage of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.  I wonder if she even knows who Harry Truman was.  President Truman famously acknowledged that the boss has to take the blame when his people s...

  • March 29, 2019

    Kim Foxx, Jussie Smollett, and the Democrats' belief in narrative-based politics

    See also: Facing an FBI and DoJ investigation of Smollett case, Kim Foxx is panicking and changing her story Cook County state's attorney Kim Foxx inadvertently gave away the game — what's really behind the bizarre dropping of charge...

  • March 29, 2019

    At joyous rally in Michigan, Trump calls out Dems 'defrauding the public with ridiculous b-------'

    Another norm of presidential behavior was smashed — with great success — by President Trump last night at a jam-packed rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan last night (video of the entire speech is embedded below).  He used what the ...

  • March 28, 2019

    Tucker Carlson exposes CNN's slavish obedience to Democrats' demands

    Last night, Tucker Carlson offered a landmark, devastating critique of CNN's descent from a legitimate news source to a propaganda adjunct of the Democratic Party.  Using CNN's own broadcasts yesterday, he proved his case that there...

  • March 28, 2019

    Facing an FBI and DoJ investigation of Smollett case, Kim Foxx is panicking and changing her story

    See also: Kim Foxx, Jussie Smollett, and the Democrats’ belief in narrative-based politics The fate of the higher-ups who pulled the strings to get Jussie Smollett off the hook is now in the hands of a dummy who is panicking. The venerabl...

  • March 28, 2019

    Ocasio-Cortez erupts in unhinged rant after criticism of her Green New Deal

    Life in the public spotlight is uncomfortable for anyone, all the more so for the young and immature who are subject to relentless criticism by ideological opponents.  Add in absolute moral certainty and a limited command of facts and ideas...

  • March 27, 2019

    Has MSNBC changed its tune in wake of post-collusion ratings collapse?

    Having bet big on Russia! Russia! Russia!, only to see its ratings plummet after release of the summary of the Mueller Report, MSNBC may be testing out actual journalism as a salve to its wounds.  I realize that thi...

  • March 27, 2019

    Outrage muted over Trump's declaration of Israeli sovereignty over Golan

    Once again, President Trump has "violated the norms" of American diplomacy and demonstrated that the "expertise" of our foreign policy elites is less valuable than they, and their journalistic and academic handmaidens, claim....

  • March 27, 2019

    Jussie Smollett walks. Cui bono? — who benefits?

    With no new evidence presented and a grand jury 16-count felony indictment at hand, the Cook County State's Attorney's Office suddenly decided to ask the judge in the case to drop all charges against Jussie Smollett and seal all the records o...

  • March 26, 2019

    New scandal rocks academia’s commanding heights; Duke must pay $112 million for research fraud

    The prestige of America’s elite universities is rapidly deflating, as scandals reveal them to be far from disinterested seekers of the truth and shapers of the minds of the meritocratically-selected future leaders. The hard truth is that they a...

  • March 26, 2019

    John Brennan denies blame for calling Trump a ‘traitor,’ says ‘I received bad information’

    The man who used to run the CIA, and lost his job when Donald Trump took office, did a huge amount of damage to the United States by calling the sitting president a traitor. Because of his presumed access to information unavailable to the public, man...

  • March 25, 2019

    Sheila Jackson Lee refuses to accept Mueller finding

    It was a simple question that Kasie Hunt asked Representative Sheila Jackson Lee yesterday on MSNBC: First of all, do you agree, do you believe the conclusion that Robert Mueller made that there is no evidence that the president or his associate...

  • March 25, 2019

    New Zealand imposes draconian censorship in wake of mosque massacre

    There are some ominous signs that the government of New Zealand will be granting the wish of the deranged mosque killer by taking actions that can only aggravate tensions in that normally peaceful island nation.  I fully stipulate that the ...

  • March 25, 2019

    College admissions scandal now has a tantalizing mystery

    Today, the first set of parents charged in the college admissions scandal will appear in court in Boston, offering our celebrity-obsessed media an opportunity to move along from their two years of obsession over the now discredited Trump-Ru...

  • March 25, 2019

    Sharyl Attkisson asks the key question post-Mueller Report

    When unraveling a whole cloth of lies, it is important to start pulling on the correct thread. Now that we know that the entire theory of Trump-Russia "collusion" cooked up by the Hillary campaign was a pure fiction, it is time to start ...

  • March 25, 2019

    Tech tyrants at Google do their best to obscure no indictments of Mueller Report

    If the internet search monopolists at Google are trying to build a case that they are a dangerous threat to democracy in need of antitrust remediation, they are doing a good job of it.  We already know that Google is run by leftists for lef...

  • March 24, 2019

    Beto doubles down on Trump-Russia collusion charge

    Unfazed by the inability of the team of Trump haters assembled by Robert Mueller to find anything related to Russian collusion that is indicatable, Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke is flinging reckless charges. Yesterday, as Amy Russo...

  • March 24, 2019

    Mere hours after delivery to AG Barr, MSNBC host charges Mueller Report cover-up

    The Democrats just can’t help themselves; they are in thrall to a base that can’t let go of a discredited conspiracy theory.  Their media allies have made too much money pushing the conspiracy theory that Donald Trump colluded with V...

  • March 24, 2019

    New Zealand’s over-reaction to mosque shooting: ‘The Kiwi Caliphate’?

    One of the weirdest features of our current age is the eagerness of many westerners to embrace a sense of guilt toward Islam, even as Islamic terror dwarfs the few instances of anti-Islam terror, such as the detestable massacre at two mosques in Chri...

  • March 24, 2019

    Leading veganism advocate is ‘really, really sorry’ she was captured on camera eating flesh

    As a lifelong meat- and fish-eater, I am savoring this delicious story of hypocrisy. But having spent most of my adult life in and around Berkeley and Cambridge, I know a lot of vegetarians and vegans, and most of them are nice people. Many are motiv...

  • March 24, 2019

    A huge problem for progs: minority students in elite NYC examination high schools were well represented in earlier generations

    According to Progressives like Bill de Blasio and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the Asian-heritage children of New York City who study hard and pass the entrance examinations for the high quality and very demanding Bronx High School of Science and Stuyve...

  • March 23, 2019

    Saturday Schadenfreude: Rachel Maddow

    See also: Saturday Schadenfreude: Chris Matthews asks, ‘How can they let Trump off the hook?’ Nobody in the media ran harder on the hope that President Trump could be driven from office by findings from Robert Mueller than Rachel Maddo...

  • March 23, 2019

    Saturday Schadenfreude: Chris Matthews asks, 'How can they let Trump off the hook?'

    See also: Saturday Schadenfreude: Rachel Maddow Chris Matthews has no tingle up his leg.  With news that no further indictments will be forthcoming from the Mueller special counsel, Mighty Casey has struck out for Matthews, and there...

  • March 23, 2019

    Do critics of Mueller owe him an apology now?

    Now that the news is out that there will be no indictments at all related to the actual mission of the Mueller special counsel appointment, those of us who criticized him (including President Trump) are being told we should suddenly reverse ourselves...

  • March 23, 2019

    SPLC looks like a sinking ship with two more high-level departures

    The news that Morris Dees was kicked out of the organization he founded, the Southern Poverty Law Center, sent shockwaves out among leftists, including the many news outlets that accept without question its verdicts that conservatives are "hate ...

  • March 23, 2019

    The inflection point: Mueller Report delivery will unleash the counter-narrative

    Soon enough, the story will be told of the biggest political scandal in the history of the Republic.  For almost two years, all sorts of declassifications and investigations have been put on hold, lest the special counsel's efforts be i...

  • March 22, 2019

    Trump's endorsement of Israeli sovereignty over Golan Heights a vote for reality

    Yesterday, President Trump pulled off one of his trademark policy surprises via Twitter and characteristically managed to outrage all the right people. The president recognized Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights almost 52 years after that ...

  • March 22, 2019

    Fiscal fantasy and fraud in Illinois

    The Great State of Illinois is going to have to come up with $300 million it doesn't have in order to bail out a state program that made unrealistic promises based on fantasies.  But the budget that its governor has come up with to prov...

  • March 21, 2019

    The Kiev Connection: Have the Democrats opened Pandora’s box with successful demand for investigation of foreign influence on the 2016 election?

    Democrats may regret their years of hyperventilation over allegations of foreign "collusion" to influence a presidential election.  In what amounts to slow-motion political jujitsu, the nefarious acts attributed to the Trump campa...

  • March 21, 2019

    Australia demands Turkey's Pres. Erdogan withdraw threat to send visitors from Australia and New Zealand back 'in coffins'

    The president of Turkey, Recep Tayyip ErdoДџan, has deeply offended the citizenry of Australia and managed to unite the governing party and its principal opposition with his angry response to the mosque massacre in Christchurch, allegedly perpetrated...

  • March 21, 2019

    NYC progressives de Blasio and Ocasio-Cortez want to punish Asian students for their academic success

    In the wake of the college admissions scandal, where meritocracy was bypassed by the wealthy and connected, New York City leftists Bill de Blasio and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are demanding an end to the strict meritocracy governing admission to the c...

  • March 21, 2019

    Joe Biden's video problem

    For the same reason that he is the Democrat most likely to run successfully against Donald Trump in 2020, Joe Biden is the most problematic choice for the Democrats' presidential nomination.  Slow Joe, you see, spent decades as a promin...

  • March 20, 2019

    Tectonic plates are moving underneath Fox News

    Under capitalism, ownership brings control, and Fox News has a new corporate parent that began trading yesterday on NASDAQ.  There are reasons for conservatives to be deeply concerned. Sarah Ellison and Paul Farhi write at the...

  • March 19, 2019

    Devin Nunes suing Twitter for defamation, shadow-banning, and censoring conservatives and ignoring lawful complaints of abuse

    Conservatives angry over the suppression of their views on social media may be getting their day in court thanks to Rep. Devin Nunes, who yesterday filed a lawsuit in Henrico County, Virginia (full complaint here) seeking: ... $250 mil...

  • March 19, 2019

    Cory Booker blames flooding in the Midwest on lack of empathy

    Senator Cory Booker got his sanctimonious platitudes mixed up yesterday in an on-air interview with Chris Matthews on MSNBC.  The topic was "hate" and the unspoken target beyond obvious, so perhaps secure in the knowledge that the...

  • March 19, 2019

    Ocasio-Cortez and her chief of staff Chakrabarti quietly remove themselves from the board of Justice Democrats

    It looks as though the complaint filed with the Federal Election Commission by the National Legal and Policy Center against Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Saikat Chakrabarti, and several entities among the web of nonprofits that financed and gui...

  • March 18, 2019

    Google goes Orwell, erasing picture of climate dissident founder from history of Greenpeace

    It's starting to look as if Google's executives see George Orwell's 1984 as a how-to manual.  One of the most famous citations from that work reads: "Who controls the past controls the future.  Who contr...

  • March 17, 2019

    Clarice’s Pieces will return in April

    “If it’s Sunday, it’s Clarice,” is the eager expectation of tens of thousands of devoted fans of Clarice Feldman. Alas (for us), on this Sunday and the next two, we will be without her wit and clarity. Clarice is taking a well...

  • March 17, 2019

    Fox News pulls Judge Jeanine Pirro off the air – for now, at least

    The outrage industry has claimed a temporary victory at Fox News, or so it seems. With no explanation, the suits at the nation’s leading cable news outlet pulled Saturday night’s episode of Justice with Judge Jeanine off the air with no e...

  • March 17, 2019

    A St. Patrick’s Day (or any day) TV viewing recommendation

    If you subscribe to Netflix and have any interest in understanding modern Ireland, by all means start watching the 2 seasons of the series Rebellion. A number of interesting and very troubling aspects of contemporary Ireland, especially its political...

  • March 16, 2019

    College admissions scandal and the illusions of prestige

    It is no coincidence that the list of parents indicted for buying their children entrance to allegedly prestigious colleges contains so many denizens of Hollywood and venture capital and investment banking.  Both professions sell ...

  • March 16, 2019

    Democrats quietly starting to unsheathe the long knives for Ilhan Omar

    The whispers have already begun.  Representative Ilhan Omar, with only two months in Congress, already is a problem for the Democrats, a potent symbol of a party unwilling to specifically rebuke the most prominent American Jew-hater since...

  • March 15, 2019

    Poor Ocasio-Cortez complains about her workload

    Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is upset that her new job in Congress – which mostly consists of talking -- is too demanding.  We can infer from her shock the night that she won her primary battle against the ten-term incumbent tha...

  • March 15, 2019

    If there is any justice, the firing of its founder should to launch the collapse and liquidation of the Southern Poverty Law Center

    Few private organizations can match the Southern Poverty Law Center when it comes to hypocrisy and malign influence, though Media Matters for America might be close. In a development shocking only to its leftist true believers, the founder and most p...

  • March 14, 2019

    Media Matters has been throwing stones at Tucker Carlson from its own glass house

    There is a lesson for conservatives in the latest chapter of the Big Money Left's campaign to silence Tucker Carlson: it is very hard to successfully bully someone who is laughing at you. Media Matters, one of the principal enforcers of the Le...

  • March 14, 2019

    House Democrats pass yet another laughable measure

    It's pretty clear that the Democratic caucus that runs the House of Representatives has a low opinion of the intelligence of the American public, but a measure passed Tuesday takes the cake when it comes to wasting the taxpayers' time, attent...

  • March 14, 2019

    Robert Francis O'Rourke announces his plan to save our democracy and the climate by running for president

    Based on little more than his Kennedy-esque good looks, culturally appropriated Hispanic nickname, marriage to the daughter of a billionaire, skateboarding and social media skills, and three terms in the House of Representative devoid of any major le...

  • March 14, 2019

    AFL-CIO savages Green New Deal, but still playing patsy for Dems

    What remaining clout the largest organ of the labor movement still is able to wield in the Democratic Party is being mobilized in opposition to the Green New Deal.  Jessica Chasmar writes in the Washington Times: Big labor has com...

  • March 13, 2019

    Six common themes unite the Jussie Smollett and college admissions scandals

    Hollywood elites are, by definition, in the business of concocting fictional stories.  Is it any surprise that they apply these skill sets beyond screen and stage entertainment, where the fiction is acknowledged, and use them to achieve the...

  • March 13, 2019

    The bigger scandal in college admissions is what is legal

    Alleged fraud marks the explosive indictments relating to college admissions practices revealed yesterday, but a much bigger scandal consists of all the legal ways ruling class privilege replicates itself through the vehicle of higher education. I...

  • March 13, 2019

    Jay Leno schools the late-night comedians

    I am so old that I remember when the late-night comedy/variety shows, including the creator of the genre, The Tonight Show, appealed to viewers of all political stripes — and garnered much higher ratings.  Johnny Carson took...

  • March 12, 2019

    Jeb!'s super-PAC got a little too globalist, accepting 1.3 million from Chinese-owned company

    The Federal Election Commission has imposed  almost a million dollars in fines on the super-PAC founded by Jeb! Bush in early 2015 and its Chinese donors of $1.3 million.  In other words, "foreign interference in ou...

  • March 12, 2019

    Pelosi tells her base the bad news that impeaching Trump is no longer politically useful

    For more than two years, Democrats have been intoxicated with dreams of reversing the 2016 election by impeaching President Trump. But in the face of signs that Robert Mueller has nothing showing that the fantasy of Russia collusion has any basis in ...

  • March 12, 2019

    Media Matters trying to silence Tucker Carlson, but he fights back with epic response

    Because the Left knows that it loses the argument anytime the merits of its policies are discussed, it has weaponized selective outrage in order to silence the most effective voices against it. Sunday night, timed to make headlines and generate Twitt...

  • March 12, 2019

    Chicago mayor’s race debate demonstrates the limits on intersectionality

    As a result of the February 26 primary election in Chicago, voters have the choice between two female black candidates for mayor, guaranteeing a “historic first” female black mayor. The primary was “non-partisan,” aka a ...

  • March 11, 2019

    ABC TV's senior national correspondent predicts 'reckoning for progressives, Democrats ... and media' if Mueller finds no Russia collusion

    The Democrats, the Deep State, and their media allies placed an enormous bet on the bespoke fantasy concocted by Fusion GPS that Donald Trump stole the 2016 election with the assistance of Russia.  Now, like a poker player trying to fi...

  • March 11, 2019

    'ISIS brides' vow revenge when returned to the West

    When people tell us they think Allah commands torture and death for infidels, it is best to believe they mean it.  So the only question I have about the women from Europe, Australia, and America who flocked to ISIS-held territory and bore c...

  • March 11, 2019

    How Trump can use his 'pen and phone' to save billions and encourage immigrants to assimilate

    President Trump has a gigantic opportunity to accomplish two goals via an executive order.  James Varney pointed this out in the Washington Times: Since the dawn of the 21st century, the U.S. government has operated under mandator...

  • March 11, 2019

    China grounds 737 Max 8 after two crashes of brand-new airliner

    Boeing has a gigantic problem on its hands with the second crash of its newest model of the Boeing 737, the Max 8.  Bloomberg reports: Pressure on Boeing Co. escalated after China grounded all flights of the U.S. planema...

  • March 10, 2019

    Ocasio-Cortez’s failed company is a tax deadbeat: warrant filed over unpaid taxes to New York State

    Despite being the object of a huge amount of media attention, few people seem to know that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tried to be an entrepreneur and fell flat on her face. Her media pals certainly have no interest in publicizing the fact the she embra...

  • March 10, 2019

    Australia reverses ban, will let Milo Yiannopoulos have a visa to enter the country

    Last Wednesday, it was revealed that the government of Australia revealed that it was banning Milo Yiannopoulos from entry to the country by denying him a visa on the basis of “character.” A letter to Yiannopoulos from Australian imm...

  • March 9, 2019

    'At least 50' hospital employees fired over Jussie Smollett medical records access

    The consequences deriving from the allegedly false hate crime report of Jussie Smollett are vast.  The expression "collateral damage" is appropriate. Whatever his fate, now that he was written out of his part on a TV show and...

  • March 9, 2019

    Yet another hate crime hoax at yet another expensive college

    Another hate crime hoax has convulsed an expensive private college and yielded a mass demonstration by "more than 100" black students (out of a student body of 1,450), and the predictable list of seven demands, including race-based hir...

  • March 9, 2019

    Can we please get rid of Daylight Savings Time?

    Tonight we lose sleep thanks to the start of daylight savings time, an annual circadian rhythm disruption that results in excess deaths from sleep deprivation–related causes such as car accidents and heart attacks and a negative ...

  • March 8, 2019

    The Omar Affair is a turning point

    The world's oldest hate finally, officially has found purchase in America with the support of the world's oldest political party, the Democratic Party of the United States.  Yesterday's shameful House resolution was no...

  • March 8, 2019

    Judge Ellis rebuked Special Counsel Mueller when sentencing Paul Manafort

    Judge T.S. Ellis, a Reagan appointee to the Federal District Court for Eastern Virginia, is well known for speaking his mind.  Yesterday, in sentencing Paul Manafort, he rebuked Team Mueller's harsh sentence recommendation of 19...

  • March 7, 2019

    Six reasons the DNC blacklisting of Fox News for presidential debates is a spectacular mistake

    Tom Perez, chair of the Democratic National Committee, has handed a gift to President Trump with his announcement that the party would not allow Fox News Channel to provide a forum for presidential debates among its contenders for the nomin...

  • March 6, 2019

    House Dems just can’t bring themselves to condemn antisemitism

    If the Democratic Caucus that controls the House of Representatives could be said to have a soul, this would be a battle for it. The new version of the Democratic Party, the one that embraces identity politics – a coalition of aggrieved parties...

  • March 6, 2019

    Hillary lets the NY Times know that she didn’t really mean it when she said she wasn’t going to run for president

    A day after telling a local New York television station, News 12 Westchester, “"I'm not running, but I'm going to keep on working and speaking and standing up for what I believe," Hillary Clinton seems to have had second thoug...

  • March 5, 2019

    Ocasio-Cortez refuses to denounce Maduro when asked

    Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez demonstrated her notable dancing skills yesterday by tap-dancing around a question about whether, as a democratic socialist, she would denounce the Maduro regime.  The strongest condemnation she could come up with f...

  • March 5, 2019

    Ocasio-Cortez and her puppet-master Chakrabarti Scandal #1: Admission of illegal control of a PAC supporting her candidacy

    Two separate but related scandals are rocking Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her puppet-master Saikat Chakrabarti — the man who recruited, trained, and financed her election victory, and who now is her chief of staff. Scandal nu...

  • March 5, 2019

    Ocasio-Cortez and her puppet-master Chakrabarti Scandal #2: A million bucks is unaccounted for

    Money raised from donors by two political action committees (at least one of them problematic) was mysteriously "transferred" to two private corporations (LLCs) controlled by Saikat Chakrabarti, the founder of Justice Democrats, the gr...

  • March 5, 2019

    House Dems making it clear they are on a witch hunt with document demands from more than 80 Trump associates

    House Democrats are inadvertently forming the Beria Caucus: "Show me the man, and I'll show you the crime." I have long predicted that Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) would lead the Democrats to self-destructive behavior that would ...

  • March 5, 2019

    The Atlantic's unwelcome discovery

    I am filing this under "Be careful what you wish for." The Atlantic Magazine may have used some of the money it saved by firing Kevin Williamson to commission a study on where the most prejudiced counties in America are.  ...

  • March 4, 2019

    Peer-reviewed study reveals majority of scientists are skeptical of 'global warming crisis'

    Without the claimed "scientific consensus" on global warming or climate change, the Green New Deal becomes just another progressive con game, but with the highest stakes ever. Writing in Forbes, James Taylor shows that the supposed ...

  • March 4, 2019

    Stuck on stupid: Dems doubled down Sunday on failed conspiracy theory of Trump ‘collusion’ with Russia

    Yesterday, on the Sunday morning political interview TV talk shows, Democrats made it clear that they have learned nothing from the apparent failure of the Mueller witch hunt to find anything actionable, nor from the disastrous Republican attempt to ...

  • March 4, 2019

    Embarrassing interview admission shows that Kamala Harris is not ready for prime time

    In a little-noted TV interview last week, Senator Kamala Harris executed a deeply embarrassing face-plant.  Harris is supposed to be a leading contender for the Democrats’ presidential nomination in the view of a lot of pundits. But in my ...

  • March 4, 2019

    The most important scientific breakthrough you probably never heard of

    If this post in Watts Up With That? is correct, an inadvertent, serendipitous scientific discovery is responsible for reshaping the modern world of geopolitics to America’s advantage – and nobody noticed. Fracking is usually credited w...

  • March 3, 2019

    Trump announces executive order to cut off federal research funds for campuses that don’t protect free speech

    Speaking to an enthusiastic crowd with many college-age conservatives in the audience at CPAC yesterday, President Trump announced that he will sign an executive order denying federal research funding to campuses that do not protect free speech. The ...

  • March 3, 2019

    Trump’s two-hour, off-prompter CPAC speech gloriously kicked off his re-election campaign

    No matter whether you have two minutes or two hours to spare, you need to catch up on what President Trump said yesterday, for it explains his re-election strategy. If you missed it, I have embedded below the entire 2-hour-and-2 minute-long speech to...

  • March 3, 2019

    Sunday Schadenfreude: Watch as Elizabeth Warren absolutely grovels in friendly TV interview apology for faking Indian heritage

    She still doesn’t get it: Faking minority heritage to get herself a job at Harvard is a stain that will not wash off for anyone pretending to be the savior of the oppressed. All of the posing as a victim championing other victims won’t wo...

  • March 2, 2019

    Tucker Carlson explains the totalitarian Left takeover of the Democrats

    In case you missed it, I embed below Tucker Carlson's seven-and-a-half minute-long opening signet from last night's show.  He did an excellent job of explaining how the Democratic Party has already become a force for totalitarianism...

  • March 2, 2019

    Michelle Malkin under fire after barn-burner of a CPAC speech

    Michelle Malkin doesn't give a damn what the progressive media and P.C. hordes say about her.  She speaks her mind — which is precisely why I enjoy her work so much. Yesterday, she generated quite a bit of controversy...

  • March 2, 2019

    Vanity Fair claims Meghan Markle wants to raise a 'gender-fluid' baby, and royal spokesman vehemently denies it

    On the surface, conflicting reports on the intentions of Prince Harry and wife Meghan Markle in raising their new baby look confusing, but it's really not complicated at all.   Vanity Fair wrote yesterday: With rumors swirl...

  • March 1, 2019

    Media bias? Check out two 'news' items in the same subject

    This goes beyond the  "glass half-full, glass half-empty" metaphor.  Apparently, there really are two alternative universes.  Check out two articles on economic growth. The Wall Street Journal...

  • March 1, 2019

    Rep. Tlaib doubles down on calling a black woman working for Republicans a 'prop'

    The is a lot of competition for the title, but Representative Rashida Tlaib (D-Jihad) is making a strong case for herself as the most disgusting member of Congress.  During the public testimony by Michael Cohen, she dehumanized a black woma...

  • March 1, 2019

    It's already here: Jew-hatred now normal and unworthy of notice in many segments of society

    History teaches us where this leads, but very few people are willing to even notice, while the national media pretend it isn't happening. Make no mistake: thanks to our friends on the Left, many segments of our society now feel there is nothin...

  • March 1, 2019

    The philosophical roots of Ocasio-Cortez

    Can an airhead be said to have "philosophical roots"? The answer is clearly yes, even in cases where there is no sign of immersion in the world of ideas.  Airheads mouth ideas that they received in classrooms, at meetings, or even...

  • February 28, 2019

    Trump calls a timeout at Hanoi summit, sends Kim back to Pyongyang to persuade his generals

    Media jackals predictably are braying that President Trump failed at the Hanoi summit.  Nothing could be farther from the truth.  President Trump wisely sent North Korea's dictator, Kim Jong-un, back to Pyongyang from Hanoi, w...

  • February 28, 2019

    Ocasio-Cortez freaks out when photographed with chief of staff eating forbidden hamburger

    It's not exactly hamburgergate, but Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is not coping very well with the pressures of being a media sensation.  As a young woman who likes sharing her wisdom with hordes of admiring skulls full of mush, she might ha...

  • February 26, 2019

    Chicago votes today in hotly contested mayoral primary

    See also: In a crowded field, no dominant candidate in Chicago's mayor race The stakes are high today in the contest to succeed Mayor Rahm Emanuel as the next captain of the sinking ship that is the City of Chicago.  The contest is ...

  • February 26, 2019

    All Dems running for president helped kill Sasse bill protecting infants born alive after unsuccessful abortion

    All but three Senate Democrats now openly support infanticide of babies who manage to be born alive despite an attempted abortion.  A total of 60 votes were needed to overcome a promised filibuster, and the measure gained only 53 votes...

  • February 26, 2019

    Ocasio-Cortez flunks another intelligence test

    Once again, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has revealed the depth of her ignorance, entirely missing the point of a criticism directed at her and falling on her face attempting to zing her critic.  Her inch-deep understanding of the slogans she f...

  • February 26, 2019

    Dems and their media have decided Hanoi summit will be a disaster

    Stand-by for real accomplishments at the Hanoi Summit, and for the media and Democrats to declare it a failure. In fact, if you believe the many media reports leading up to the meeting in Hanoi between President Trump and Kim Jong-un, the United Stat...

  • February 25, 2019

    Ocasio-Cortez: Probably time to stop having kids because 'there's scientific consensus that the lives of children will be very difficult'

    In a stream-of-consciousness livestream video yesterday, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez revealed a lot more than she intended about her life in the shallow end of the gene pool. It's pretty clear that she regards herself as a fount of ...

  • February 25, 2019

    TMZ reports on the probable inspiration for Smollett's staged attack

    [Mandatory disclaimer: Jussie Smollett, like all defendants, is entitled to the presumption of innocence in his forthcoming trial[s].  The following analysis is based on the assumption that the evidence presented by assistant stat...

  • February 25, 2019

    Kamala Harris blunders into a fatal justification for Green New Deal

    The danger of throwing around terminology that she doesn't understand has not yet occurred to Kamala Harris.  The junior senator from California clearly isn't ready for the rigor of a presidential campaign.  Having entered...

  • February 24, 2019

    Ocasio-Cortez temper tantrum caught on video: ‘I am the boss’

    It’s pretty clear that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez does not like being criticized, much less mocked. Nobody does, of course, but people who go into politics develop thick hides if they follow the customary career trajectory of starting with l...

  • February 24, 2019

    Ocasio-Cortez redistributes her staff’s incomes

    A young woman with no real-world experience is about to learn the hard way that her ideology is impractical.  I have to give Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez credit for sincerity in her announcement on Twitter that she plans to compress the pay scale of...

  • February 24, 2019

    Trump ups the pressure on Maduro-loyalist military officers threatening to deport their families living the good life in the USA

    President Trump is exercising his “art of the deal” skills on the Venezuelan military, increasing pressure on them to disobey the illegitimate president, Maduro, and allow in the humanitarian aid supplies that have massed on their borders...

  • February 24, 2019

    Ocasio-Cortez dummies up as she appears guilty of the same thing for which she criticized her incumbent predecessor Joe Crowley

    Gee, who could have predicted that walking the walk would turn out to be harder than talking the talk, when it comes to the campaign Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez ran against incumbent Congressman Joe Crowley? I mean, aside from adults who have lived thei...

  • February 23, 2019

    Media campaign of sympathy for Jussie Smollett has already begun

    You knew that this was coming, didn't you?  When a member of a victim group, as the Ruling Class sees things, does something wrong, there always has to be an excuse, a reason to sympathize with the victimizer.  Barely a day af...

  • February 23, 2019

    Roger Stone's judge must recuse herself

    Mark Penn lays out a powerful case that Judge Amy Berman Jackson, who is hearing the cases of both Roger Stone and Paul Manafort, and who just imposed a gag order on Stone (but not the prosecution or media that have been vilifying him) must...

  • February 23, 2019

    American Thinker readers came through for Sharyl Attkisson

    Congratulations and deep thanks to American Thinker readers, who have pushed Sharyl Attkisson's 4th Amendment Litigation Fund up by more than a third, from $96,000 to over $130,000 since her article on the costs of fighting the Departme...

  • February 22, 2019

    Spare me all the pieties about Jussie Smollett

    [Disclaimer: Jussie Smollett, like all defendants, is entitled to the presumption of innocence in his forthcoming trial[s].  The following analysis is based on the assumption that the evidence presented by assistant state's at...

  • February 21, 2019

    Smollett under arrest; what kind of trial does his new lawyer, PR expert Mark Geragos, plan?

    Now that Jussie Smollett has been arrested, the possibility of a court proceeding where his team tries to put President Trump "on trial" — on the model of the infamous  Chicago 7 trial — cannot be dismissed. Th...

  • February 20, 2019

    Obama's dream of a monument to himself in Chicago suffers a blow from a judge he appointed

    Hopes for timely groundbreaking for the "Obama Presidential Center" in Chicago suffered a blow yesterday in a federal courtroom.  A federal judge appointed to the bench by Barack Obama gave the go-ahead for a lawsuit that will del...

  • February 20, 2019

    Why the Washington Post has got to be worried about the quarter-billion-dollar defamation lawsuit filed by Nick Sandmann and his parents

    Jeff Bezos, the richest person in the world and owner of the Washington Post, is about to encounter Kentucky justice, and I suspect he is not going to be happy with it.  The parents of Nick Sandmann chose well in hiring renowned lawyer...

  • February 19, 2019

    The full horror of Jussie Smollett's botched plot starting to scare progs

    The specter of a new "trial of the century" for Jussie Smollett, over what looks like his staging of a fake hate crime, is scaring the leaders of the identity politics movement that dominates the Democratic Party.  Two presidential can...

  • February 19, 2019

    Trump's speech on Venezuela was magnificent

    President Trump's speech yesterday to a wildly enthusiastic crowd at Florida International University bears legitimate comparison to President Reagan's "Tear Down this Wall!" speech in Berlin.  It may even change history, ...

  • February 19, 2019

    Federal grand jury reportedly already convened, issued multiple subpoenas on Jussie Smollett fake mail threat sent to Fox 1/18/19

    If the remarkable grassroots journalists at CWBChicago are correct (as they have been all along), Jussie Smollett has a lot more to worry about than the state rap of a class four felony of making a false police report.  If he was ...

  • February 18, 2019

    Shocking Ocasio-Cortez video clip discovered

    The appalling simple-mindedness of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is on display in a short video clip unearthed and made available by Grabien.  It looks to be part of a livestream online discussion in which the glam-gal of the progs was resp...

  • February 18, 2019

    Dems' long knives unsheathed on Ocasio-Cortez on Meet the Press

    When a prominent Democrat has lost Chuck Todd, the handwriting is on the wall. Three days ago, I predicted that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was sealing her fate when she took (and probably deserved) credit for killing the deal that would ha...

  • February 18, 2019

    Amy Klobuchar shoots herself in the foot with comments on the Aurora shooting

    Only a week after launching her presidential campaign decrying global warming during a snowstorm in Minneapolis, the woman who wants to claim the mantle of a "moderate" Democrat has beclowned herself with a nonsensical statement. ...

  • February 17, 2019

    Peak Warmist hysteria?

    Michael E. Mann, the most famous and influential climatologist behind the global warming hypothesis, must be very worried. The efforts of him and his colleagues may have won the support of globalist elites, governments eager for the power regulation ...

  • February 17, 2019

    Smollett apparent hate crime hoax a crisis for media that jumped to vilify Trump supporters

    America’s progressives and their fellow-traveling media finally must cope with an apparent hate crime hoax that can’t be swept under the rug. I was stunned Saturday as I watched CNN’s hourly newscast at 7 PM EST: the first twenty mi...

  • February 17, 2019

    R.I.P. Pat Caddell, one of the last honest Democrats

    Pat Caddell, the pollster who was credited for the strategy that vaulted Jimmy Carter from an obscure Southern governor to the Oval Office, died too young yesterday in Charleston, South Carolina, at the age of 68. The nation’s political discour...

  • February 17, 2019

    How the Smollett hate crime case unraveled

    The ongoing collapse of the claimed hate crime against actor Jussie Smollett has been an example of bottom-up, not top-down news gathering. Chicago’s Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson and the CPD’s official communications have at every ...

  • February 16, 2019

    Calls for calm in Australia as militant vegans attack dairy farmers

    We live in an age of self-righteous, single-issue groups that feel entitled to physically confront their enemies.  With the Green New Deal fact sheet published (and retracted) by Rep. Ocasio Cortez promising to eliminate cows because of the...

  • February 15, 2019

    With Amazon NYC 'second HQ' deal canceled, Ocasio-Cortez now officially is a huge problem for Dems

    Move over, Speaker Pelosi, and make room for New York governor Andrew Cuomo and New York City mayor Bill de Blasio as Democrats waking up to the disaster the rise of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is inflicting on the Democratic Party.  She is no...

  • February 15, 2019

    Congratulations, new AG Barr — now get to work investigating and prosecuting the coup plotters

    William Barr had no obvious reason to want to become the nation's chief law enforcement officer — again.  He already has that office on his résumé and no doubt has been making millions every year as a high-powered pa...

  • February 14, 2019

    Ilhan Omar already alienating even anti-Trump journalists

    Representative Ilhan Omar is going to need every media friend she can scare up in the wake of her disgraceful Jew-hating tweets (followed by phony apologies) and her demonstration of foreign policy ignorance yesterday in a House Foreign Affairs Commi...

  • February 13, 2019

    Trump should take the money ($1.38 billion) and run — adding it to the other pools of money Mick Mulvaney has uncovered

    Yes, the compromise $1.38 million for 55 miles of border wall construction offered by the House and Senate conference committee is an insult to anyone who cares about border security.  Nonetheless, President Trump should take it, let Chuck ...

  • February 13, 2019

    Democrats invent a new word for bullsh*t: ‘aspirational’

    The non-crazy caucus within the Democratic Party is walking on eggshells, as the crazies have taken all the momentum, and are mean enough to take vengeance on anyone who calls them out. Billionaire anti-Trump fanatic Tom Steyer already is promising t...

  • February 11, 2019

    Kirsten Gillibrand doubles down on stupid

    The 2020 Democrat field for president already has found its candidate useful for comic relief.  It is hard to see Senator Kirsten Gillibrand's campaign for president going anywhere, but I do hope she hangs in to the bitter end — i...

  • February 11, 2019

    Amy Klobuchar announces her presidential race in a snowstorm

    Senator Amy Klobuchar chose an outdoor rally — in Minneapolis in the middle of February — to announce her candidacy for president.  Since there are plenty of indoor venues available, almost certainly, she wanted to stand out fro...

  • February 10, 2019

    Covington kid Nick Sandmann’s lawyer: ‘Nathan Phillips will be sued’

    One of the most disgusting phony propaganda gambits to discredit Trump supporters is to face the civil justice system, where the truth will come out. Most AT readers already know that a wide array of media and political figures have been put on notic...

  • February 10, 2019

    Trump’s wild popularity overseas is one of media’s best kept secrets

    The mainstream media pretends that their scorn for President Trump is almost universally shared overseas. While globalists everywhere (along with their media allies) dislike him for standing up for national sovereignty, a rising tide of populist revo...

  • February 9, 2019

    AP reporter attacks and mocks Kirsten Gillibrand presidential campaign

    The next few months will be a rare treat for conservative news consumers, as we enjoy the normally unthinkable spectacle of mainstream media reporters attacking Democrats.  With the horde of potential candidates for the party's presiden...

  • February 9, 2019

    Ocasio-Cortez's plan properly should be called the 'Green Leap Forward'

    Lunatic schemes based on technological and redistributionist fantasies have been implemented on a huge scale within my lifetime with disastrous results.  The delusional collection of progressive goals that has acquired the label "Green...

  • February 7, 2019

    Elizabeth Warren presidential campaign death watch

    The long knives of the Left are unsheathed for Elizabeth Warren, who is damaging not just her own reputation and political future, but that of the entire Democratic Party, which has embraced the very identity politics she has discredited. Does War...

  • February 7, 2019

    'Hipster' Chicago pol who tried to block Chick-fil-A now a laughingstock

    I am having a hard time coming up with sympathy for Chicago's First Ward alderman, Proco "Joe" Moreno, whose district includes the hip and fashionable Wicker Park neighborhood.  Moreno, who claimed to be the youngest person ev...

  • February 7, 2019

    It's karmageddon for Dems in Virginia

    In the famous words of Barack Obama's spiritual mentor, chickens are coming home to roost for the Democratic Party and the entire progressive movement.  Not just once or twice, but three times, the sort of sins Democrats habitually (and...

  • February 6, 2019

    SOTU schadenfreude: Watch CNN try to rationalize away its own instant poll showing 76% of viewers positive on Trump's SOTU

    I don't think the suits at CNN anticipated either the quality of State of the Union speech that President Trump delivered or the positive public reaction to it when they went to the expense and trouble of an instant poll.  The segment t...

  • February 5, 2019

    Senate Dems block bill requiring medical care for abortion survivors

    The Democratic Party seems to be willing to protect not just late-term abortions, but killing of babies who survive the attempt on their lives.  Governor Ralph Northam's cold-blooded explanation of allowing parents and doctors...

  • February 4, 2019

    Giant billboards reveal Trump friendship is electoral gold for Netanyahu in Israel's election

    The American media would have you believe that President Trump is universally reviled around the world and that the only people who support him are mentally and morally deficient Americans with bad teeth, who shop at Walmart and smell bad. ...

  • February 4, 2019

    Political earthquake strikes Pennsylvania Dems with indictment of their union boss

    Tick, tick, tick: President Trump's Democrat enemies in the key swing state of Pennsylvania (and in D.C., too) have got a lot to worry about, though the national media would rather focus attention elsewhere.  It is hard to overstate the...

  • February 3, 2019

    Virtue-signaling Super Bowl commercials: The good, the bad, and the ugly

    As the nation’s highest-rated television program, the Super Bowl offers advertisers the opportunity to define (or re-define) themselves for the public in a way that no other venue can provide. A memorable commercial will be discussed among frie...

  • February 2, 2019

    Who released the Ralph Northam KKK/blackface photo? Why now?

    The incendiary yearbook photo of Ralph Northam in (pick one) blackface or KKK robes should have come out during his campaign for Governor of Virginia, but didn’t. Unless the campaign manager Chris Leavitt was actively sabotaging the campaign (w...

  • February 2, 2019

    Northam campaign used racist ‘separate but equal’ campaign flyer omitting his black running mate – to cater to white racists?

      Ralph Northam’s official statement on the racist photo of him in his medical school yearbook is “not about who I am today and the values I have fought for throughout my career in the military, medicine or public service” ...

  • February 1, 2019

    Boom! Linchpin of conspiracy theory about Russia collusion at Trump Tower meeting blows up

    In the fever swamps of Trump Derangement Syndrome, a key part of the catechism of ‘Russia collusion’ has been the belief that candidate Donald Trump was plugged-into the 2016 meeting at Trump Tower where Russians dangled the prospect of d...

  • January 31, 2019

    Ilhan Omar aligning with Valerie Jarrett in explicitly anti-Israel faction of Democrats

    The Islamist dream of destroying Israel after breaking the U.S. alliance with the Jewish state is a step closer to realization, as a faction the Democratic Party openly aligns with it.  Battle lines are being drawn within the party for an a...

  • January 31, 2019

    Ocasio-Cortez complains self-made billionaire Howard Schultz, raised in a housing project, needs to 'work his way up'

    Failed entrepreneur and bartender Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez may be the least self-aware politician with a national platform today.  Having rocketed from bartending and cadging tips to superstardom by defeating an incumbent congress...

  • January 31, 2019

    Kentucky jury awards $580K judgment against neighbor who attacked Rand Paul

    Conservatives under physical attack in the wave of progressive terror that has been underway (and minimized by our media) are discovering that the civil lawsuits often provide more justice than the criminal law.  This no doubt wil...

  • January 31, 2019

    The truth about Virginia Democrats and abortion becomes a deep embarrassment

    Deranged Democrats in the Old Dominion are candidly admitting their repulsive priorities, creating problems for more practical members of their party.  Even abortion fans refuse to defend the Virginia governor's candor on post-birth mur...

  • January 30, 2019

    Nonpartisan Congressional Research Service says Trump can build wall without an appropriation or declaring an emergency

    The Congressional Research Service is a think-tank that always is called "nonpartisan" because it serves the entire Congress.  I have to wonder if there will be any blowback for a report that it just produced that strengthens Pres...

  • January 29, 2019

    Israeli scientists announce a possible cure for cancer

    Even allowing for the possibility of exaggeration, or of hopes that may be dashed, this is an exciting announcement, via Maayan Jaffe-Hoffman of the Jerusalem Post: A small team of Israeli scientists think they might have found the first co...

  • January 29, 2019

    Revealed: FBI investigation into Chicago corruption secretly recorded the boss of bosses in Illinois politics

    I hate to raise expectations prematurely, but this could be really big.  Not only Chicago, but the entire state of Illinois has been a cesspool of political corruption as long as anyone alive can remember, all of it a subsidiary of the Demo...

  • January 28, 2019

    A sorry group of Democrat presidential candidates

    The sudden transformation of the Democratic Party into a dogma-driven left-wing political enterprise has resulted in a wave of apologies and even abject groveling from candidates seeking the 2020 presidential nomination.  Positions that wer...

  • January 26, 2019

    Why Trump went for a 21-day suspension of the partial shutdown, and what happens next

    President Trump’s Rose Garden declaration of an end to the partial shutdown was a tactical retreat, a rejection of a Little Big Horn strategy. He found himself in a no-win situation, and rather than bear unacceptable costs, has redefined the co...

  • January 26, 2019

    Melania Trump wins ‘substantial’ libel settlement for a British newspaper article based on a Trump-hating American journalist’s new book

    There are quite a few news articles this morning about Melania Trump’s second libel triumph over a conservative British newspaper that published false derogatory tales about her past in Slovenia. But very few mentions of how the Daily Telegraph...

  • January 25, 2019

    CNN announces that Trump is preparing a national emergency declaration and has identified $7 billion to use for border wall

    CNN provides a reminder that the president holds an eponymous trump card when it comes to national security with a report that documents have already been drafted to enable a declaration of a national emergency and construction of a border wall....

  • January 25, 2019

    Troubled times for lefties online: HuffPost joins BuzzFeed in laying off staff

    It turns out that nine-figure corporate backing is not enough to sustain left-wing websites in their ambition to dominate digital media with huge staffs.  In the past two days, two giants, BuzzFeed (with a reported $400 million in...

  • January 25, 2019

    Most supporters of socialism ignore Venezuela's collapse – with one exception

    Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and most other fantasy-embracing leftists are uncharacteristically silent about the collapse of socialism, even as President Trump calls out the real-world refutation of the suddenly trendy failed ideology in...

  • January 25, 2019

    Mueller stages full body armor predawn arrest of Roger Stone for CNN's cameras

    The latest "This is the beginning of the end for Trump..." orgasm in the mainstream media comes with serious action movie production values, courtesy of Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller.  Roger Stone, who could easily have b...

  • January 24, 2019

    Progs and NeverTrumps celebrate Trump postponing SOTU at their peril

    There are a lot of foolish back-slapping and high fives among Trump-haters from both parties this morning on the news that President Trump has agreed to postpone the State of the Union Address in the wake of Speaker Pelosi withdrawing the invitation ...

  • January 23, 2019

    Libels of and threats to Covington Kids will face Kentucky justice

    The ongoing campaign of hate against children from Kentucky guilty of being Catholic, being (mostly) white, and wearing MAGA caps will not end until there are legal consequences.  Fortunately, the wheels of justice already are turning in Ke...

  • January 22, 2019

    President Trump tweets support for defamed Covington kids

    President Trump recognized the opportunity to demonstrate the utter bias and corruption of his media foes inherent in the digital lynch mob that attacked a group of children who were falsely portrayed as racists attacking a Native American "elde...

  • January 22, 2019

    Busted: The shameful tactics used against the Covington kids have a long history

    The Covington kids, vilified on Twitter – complete with calls for their violent deaths – after a misleading video was posted to Twitter, were victims of a classic leftist propaganda tactic.  William Jacobson of Legal Insurr...

  • January 21, 2019

    Kirsten Gillibrand’s idiotic response to BuzzFeed scandal

    I am having a hard time taking Senator Kirsten Gillibrand seriously as a presidential candidate, and yesterday made it even harder.  The junior senator from New York did herself no favors by going on ABC's Sunday morning political inter...

  • January 21, 2019

    California state senator bans gender-specific pronouns

    Gender madness proliferates, gaining official standing in the upper house of the legislature of the Golden State.  The party that purports to support "science" is in full-throated denial of chromosomal reality. Amanda Prestigia...

  • January 21, 2019

    Key House Dem committee chair refuses to rule out border wall

    Tick, tick, tick...the resistance to a border wall among House Democrats slowly is crumbling.  Boss Pelosi still maintains a posture of absolute opposition ("not one dollar..."), but among her troops, doubt of the wisdom of that p...

  • January 21, 2019

    Why I'm not attending any pity parties for furloughed federal workers

    Call me a hard-hearted, mean-spirited conservative if you will, but I am not bleeding from the heart over the plight of most of the furloughed federal workers.  While I am certain that some of them have not bothered to accumulate savings, a...

  • January 21, 2019

    Bill Kristol deletes tweet, fails to apologize for jumping on phony story of MAGA hat kids harassing Native American

    On Friday, a group of March for Life teenagers from Covington, Ky. were harassed by an extremist demonstrator, a Native American beating a drum, and, through carefully edited video, were widely portrayed in the mainstream media as mean harassers of a...

  • January 20, 2019

    Ocasio-Cortez can’t justify appearing with antisemites at women’s march, resorts to double-talk

    Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is well-accustomed to evading hard questions, spouting nonsense, and getting away with it because she’s young, cute, and sports a minority identity. Certainly, nobody in the Trump-hating mainstream media is going to pus...

  • January 20, 2019

    Trump playing the ‘Xanatos Gambit’ with shutdown strategy

    Trent Telenko presents a very interesting interpretation of President Trump’s strategy in confronting the Democrats over funding for border wall construction at the Chicago Boyz Blog. I had no idea what a Xanatos Gambit is, and was worried that...

  • January 20, 2019

    ‘Reverend’ Al Sharpton silent as TV show guest calls VP Pence a ’Jesus whisperer’

    Outright anti-Christian bigotry evidently is now acceptable on both CNN and MSNBC, as Trump Derangement Syndrome drives the haters insane, lashing out at everyone and anyone who supports Trump, or who might place something higher in importance than g...

  • January 19, 2019

    There were plenty of red flags that the BuzzFeed Cohen story was BS

    Yesterday, the Trump-haters on cable news were having orgasms over the prospect of an actual Trump crime – suborning perjury – being pursued by the Mueller team and dri...

  • January 19, 2019

    State of Texas protects civil rights of a black man over objections of deep blue Austin city government

    The mainstream media are doing their best to ignore a story that contradicts their partisan narrative about civil rights.  In this case, the deep blue city of Austin, Texas has been fined $9,000 by a judge for infringing the civil rights of...

  • January 19, 2019

    Grandstanding Gavin Newsom urges furloughed TSA workers to file for unemployment compensation, even though they will be paid eventually

      The new governor of California looks to my eye to be encouraging mass unemployment benefits fraud.  Consider this report from the Los Angeles Times: In a public display of defiance, Gov. Gavin Newsom encouraged Transportation...

  • January 18, 2019

    Tulsi Gabbard grovels before LGBTQ lobby

    Just days after she let it be known that she is running for president, Tulsi Gabbard paid obeisance to transgenderism and all the other shibboleths of the sexual left.  The Hawaii congresswoman who holds a number of heterodox...

  • January 18, 2019

    Trump grounds Pelosi junket

    When Nancy Pelosi seemed to cancel the State of the Union address in the House of Representatives' chamber that she controls, did she imagine that President Trump would passively absorb the insult, based as it was on a phony contention that secur...

  • January 18, 2019

    Anti-Israel fanatic Ilhan Omar appointed by Pelosi to the House Foreign Affairs Committee

    It appears that the leadership of the Democratic Party has gone completely anti-Israel and is warming up to Jew-hatred.  The appointment of Rep. Ilhan Omar to the House Foreign Affairs Committee – and the welcome extended to her by th...

  • January 17, 2019

    Beto bombs bigly in long interview with the Washington Post

    When a CNN anchor warns that "it's a fine line to walk between being a blank canvas and an empty vessel," a pretty-boy, Kennedyesque empty-suit progressive candidate, already recognizable by his first name alone, is in trouble. Beto ...

  • January 17, 2019

    Leaked Bruce Ohr testimony may be the key to unraveling the biggest political scandal in American history

    The mobilization of law enforcement and intelligence assets by the Obama administration in 2016 to spy on the presidential campaign of rival party candidate Donald Trump is the biggest political scandal in our history.  The Mueller probe of...

  • January 16, 2019

    National media blackout story of African-American murderer on trial for second killing who told fellow inmate he hates white men

    Imagine for a moment that a white man, already convicted of murdering one African-American, were on trial for a second such murder, and prosecutors revealed he had told a prison snitch that he hates blacks.  Do you think the national media ...

  • January 16, 2019

    OMB issues guidance on Reduction in Force layoffs due to partial shutdown

    A new statement from the Office of Management and Budget provides cold comfort for federal bureaucrats worried that furloughs during the partial shutdown could become permanent layoffs, as long as Democrats refuse to give in and fund the border barri...

  • January 15, 2019

    Trump's shutdown trap?

    Has President Trump suckered Democrats and the Deep State into a trap that will enable a radical downsizing of the federal bureaucracy?  In only five more days of the already "longest government shutdown in history" (25 days ...

  • January 14, 2019

    Son of legendary Marxist African independence leader Sékou Touré convicted of enslaving a girl in Texas

    This story exposes multiple lies of the left about slavery, intended to aggravate race relations today.  Were it not for ideology and ignorance, this story would have featured huge headlines and prominent placement in news broadcasts. ...

  • January 14, 2019

    Media narrative fail: Majority of Americans now believe Mueller probe being used to delegitimize Trump's election

    The tipping at last is here.  The Investor's Business Daily headline sums up the results of a new poll concisely: "Public Disdain For Russia Probe Intensifies, Trump Approval Climbs."  The details let us kn...

  • January 13, 2019

    Stupid New York Times tricks

    An obituary the New York Times recently published illustrates how averse that journal is to giving credit to Donald Trump for anything good, while maintaining a claim on journalistic integrity. In its obituary of Jakiw Palij, “a former Nazi ...

  • January 13, 2019

    Proof that most leftist critics of Israel don’t give a damn about Palestinians, they just hate Jews

    One of the best and most conclusive tests of antisemitism among Israel’s many critics is whether or not they apply the same standards to others that they apply to the Jewish homeland. Virtually every time Israel responds to violence launched fr...

  • January 13, 2019

    Are Democrats ready for a presidential candidate with a guru?

    Fifty-nine percent of Democrats polled say they are "excited" about "someone entirely new" as their presidential candidate. Tulsi Gabbard certainly is that. Representative Gabbard, who just announced her candidacy for president...

  • January 12, 2019

    Kamala Harris makes nonsense claim about her ethnic heritage

    Ethnic pride is fine, but profound historical ignorance is scary in a probable presidential candidate.  Senator Kamala Harris, who promises a decision soon on running for president and who is out promoting a book she wrote about herself ...

  • January 12, 2019

    Tulsi Gabbard reveals she is running for president

    Representative Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii threw her hat into the ring for the 2020 presidential election, telling CNN's Van Jones, the (formerly?) open communist and CNN host: "I have decided to run and will be making a form...

  • January 12, 2019

    Boo-hoo! Ocasio-Cortez asks, 'At what point is nonstop targeted criticism harassment?'

    Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is confused about the role of the media and seems to think too much criticism from a publication constitutes "harassment."  In a tweet, she asked: The real question is, at what point is thei...

  • January 12, 2019

    Charles Schulz was right: Happiness is a warm puppy

    What can you say about a man who waited 71 years to get his first puppy?  It took me that long, but I maintain that the result is that the joy is all the more intense.  What have I been missing all these years? As I write, asle...

  • January 11, 2019

    The good news: CBS reportedly negotiating to add a Republican commentator; the bad news: It’s Jeff Flake

    Television news organizations that want to claim they are "balanced" with the views of both parties but remain critical of President Trump continue to turn to NeverTrumps.  Bill Kristol, Max Boot, Ana Navarro, Meghan McCain, and N...

  • January 10, 2019

    Starbucks learns the price of virtue-signaling, now must install needle disposal boxes in bathrooms 'open to all'

    The expression "clueless liberal" now has an emblem: the Starbucks logo.  The coffee chain has discovered what anyone who understands human nature could have predicted – as many of us did.  When the chain announced last May ...

  • January 10, 2019

    Mitt Romney is discovering that his WaPo op-ed attack on Trump wasn't such a good idea, after all

    Mitt Romney knows he is a smart guy and is used to thinking of himself as the smartest guy in the room.  But I don't think he thought through the now infamous Washington Post op-ed attacking President Trump's character tha...

  • January 9, 2019

    On a scale of one to ten, last night Trump was a seven and Pelosi-Schumer were a zero

    I thought President Trump's first Oval Office address last night was very good, but not a home run.  (Transcript here, video embedded below.)  But compared to the disastrous response from Democrat leaders Pelosi and Schum...

  • January 9, 2019

    Leaks confirmed: Rod Rosenstein is leaving the DoJ soon

    The latest excuse for progressive hyperventilation is the news leaked last night to ABC News and confirmed by several other media outlets: Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein will be leaving the Department of Justice in a matter of weeks...

  • January 9, 2019

    Are Dems starting to turn on Mueller?

    Robert Mueller had better watch his back.  If he fails to bring down President Trump, the wrath of Trump-haters could well turn on him, and Adam Schiff is already nervous.  There is clearly fear that no smoking gun seems to be at hand for i...

  • January 9, 2019

    Tulsi Gabbard calls out the anti-Catholic religious bigotry of Senator Feinstein

    Hawaii Democrat Representative Tulsi Gabbard has what looks like a monopoly on common sense among the national Democrats.  Writing an op-ed in The Hill yesterday, she offered a warning about the emergence of religious bigotry in h...

  • January 8, 2019

    Obama appointee abruptly resigns as head of World Bank

    Officially, Jim Yong Kim, the Korean-American serving his second five-year term as head of the World Bank after being first appointed by President Obama in 2012, "resigned."  But the "tell" is that he suddenly ...

  • January 8, 2019

    Once again, Trump has outsmarted his media foes

    Forget about the defiant posturing – Trump has the networks right where he wants them. When the White House announced an Oval Office address tonight with President Trump speaking about the border crisis, there was a lot of initial defiance....

  • January 8, 2019

    Mexico's interior minister outlines plans to secure their southern border against illegal immigrants

    Mexico just made it a lot harder for Democrats to denounce border security as a racist plot against Hispanics (as if "Hispanic" were a race).  Exactly as President Trump has explained, if you don't have a border, you don't...

  • January 7, 2019

    The latest Saudi women's rights 'reform' is breathtaking (and not in a good way)

    The idea that democracy and liberty can be exported to the Muslim Middle East was naïve when applied to Iraq, a far more modern society than Saudi Arabia, albeit a totalitarian dictatorship under Saddam Hussein.  Bringing Saudi society...

  • January 7, 2019

    Pelosi escalating her reckless rhetoric

    Nancy Pelosi is the leader of the opposition to President Trump, the highest-ranking Democrat in the federal government.  This responsibility does not seem to weigh heavily on her shoulders – or her mouth.  She is, in fact, ...

  • January 7, 2019

    New York Times columnist absurdly claims, 'I don't think we have been anti-Trump'

    Is Frank Bruni, the New York Times restaurant critic who was elevated to op-ed political columnist for some reason, auditioning as a comedian?  He certainly is imitating Groucho Marx, who once asked, "Who are you going to believe, me o...

  • January 7, 2019

    Dems are starting to endorse confiscatory taxation of the 'rich'

    The left wing of the Democrats is playing with fire, advocating revenge against those who have succeeded in making a lot of money by taking almost all of it away.  Yesterday, a probable candidate for president (and a former Obama Cabin...

  • January 6, 2019

    Dem objections to border wall: dumb and dumber

    They’ve already struck bottom, and the partial fed shutdown could last months. Once again, the Democrats’ hatred of President Trump has lured them into arguing against common sense and their own public statements before Trump’s pres...

  • January 6, 2019

    Elizabeth Warren keeps digging

    One of the basic laws of campaigning is that when you’re explaining, you’re losing. And Elizabeth Warren can’t stop explaining her claims of Native American heritage as she embarks on her presidential campaigning in Iowa. Even if sh...

  • January 6, 2019

    Ilhan Omar falsely claims to be first refugee elected to Congress, dishonors 5 predecessors

    I admit that I already despise Rep. Ilhan Omar for multiple reasons. Her apparent marriage to her brother, evidently to accomplish visa fraud, her friendships with anti-Semites, and her views on Israel, for example. But this much less consequentia...

  • January 6, 2019

    Using ‘anti-racism’ to avoid teaching students proper English

    It’s almost as if some universities are trying to convince parents that it’s not worth spending more than a quarter of a million dollars on a degree. If you don’t learn how to write standard English and go from campus out on the job...

  • January 4, 2019

    Dems debut their clown show strategy for the 216th Congress

    Now that voters have handed them control of the House of Representatives, Democrats are forced to reveal who they are to the national electorate, and it ain't pretty.  The party has more than its share of bizarre eccentrics, able to win a lo...

  • January 4, 2019

    Dems unprepared for a partial government shutdown that lasts for months and months

    Conventional wisdom among the media and politician branches of the Democratic Party holds that President Trump and the Republicans will pay a serious price for the very partial (25%) "government shutdown" as it drags on.  The pass...

  • January 3, 2019

    Serious death threat to Michael Savage a symptom of the left's politics of hate

    A shocking silence on the left greets the news that a major conservative media figure is under a death threat taken very seriously by law enforcement.  The attempted assassination of a large group of Republican congressmen on a softball fie...

  • January 2, 2019

    Elizabeth Warren: Dead phony walking

    Elizabeth Warren obviously has no concept of the damage she already has done to her future in national politics by revealing her DNA test results showing that she has less Native America DNA than the average citizen of this country.  How el...

  • January 2, 2019

    Mitt Romney bids to become Trump's Senate nemesis now that Flake and Corker are leaving

    Mitt Romney wants America to know that he is a much better person than that icky fellow in the White House.  Taking to the pages of the Trump-hating Washington Post, he kicks off the year he joins the Senate with an attack on his party...

  • January 2, 2019

    Worse than Khashoggi: Saudi Arabia is sheltering criminal suspect in hit-and-run death of a young American

    Saudi Arabia is exploiting American goodwill and sheltering a citizen who killed a high school student while here as a student, a genuine outrage worthy of the sort of pressure that has been suggested for use against the killing of Jamal Khashoggi. ...

  • January 2, 2019

    First MSM fake news of 2019

    Don Surber spotted the first instance of fake news on 2019, and it only took a few hours. The American media is so vested in the failure of President Donald John Trump that it turned inside out Kim [Jong un]'s New Year's message of ...

  • January 1, 2019

    Another women's march canceled as desperate supporter blames...wait for it...Putin

    Now that the virulent Jew-hatred of a number of key leaders of the "women's march" has been exposed, it's gotten harder to gin up support.  The latest march to be canceled is the one slated for New Orleans, which was actua...

  • January 1, 2019

    Knights of Columbus issue a pitch-perfect response to the anti-Catholic bigotry to Senators Hirono and Harris

    Readers of American Thinker (here, here, and here) are familiar with the appalling religious test for office that seems to be lurking in the questions submitted in writing to a nominee for a federal judgeship by Senators Hirono and Harris....

  • January 1, 2019

    Brazil’s President Bolsonaro takes office today with what journalists warn is a ‘far right agenda’

    The global rejection of elite progressivism though populist revolt has reached Brazil, the giant of South America, and Western journalists are freaking out. Jair Bolsonaro is being inaugurated today in Brasilia as president of the nation of 220 milli...

  • December 31, 2018

    Roaming mob of 'urban youth' terrorized Chicago's 'Magnificent Mile' in below-freezing weather, sent Asian bystander to the hospital

    Cold weather no longer is acting as a deterrent to the marauding mobs of teenagers (of no particular demographic characteristic, according to Chicago mainstream media) roaming through Chicago's showcase shopping district along Upper Michigan...

  • December 30, 2018

    Sore loser of the year: Michigan Dem legislator stops representing her district after losing August primary

    Despite the temptation to abolish the crown after Hillary’s stunning performance as a sore loser in 2016, another Democrat is making a strong case for membership in the sore loser hall of fame, where she joins Al Gore and John C. Breckinridge (...

  • December 30, 2018

    Brit trade minister warns ’50-50 chance’ Brexit won’t happen if PM May’s terrible deal is voted down in Parliament

    Politicians don’t seem to heed the multiple warnings in multiple nations that the populist revolt against elites imposing their preferences is real, and fueled by genuine anger. The spectacle across the English Channel of (mostly provincial) Fr...

  • December 30, 2018

    Big Jesse Jackson lie busted by scrappy Chicago neighborhood website

    Jesse Jackson was getting away with a big lie so well that the Chicago Sun-Times even wrote an editorial based on his phony claim. As the old, wry journalism joke goes, Jackson’s lie was so agreeable to the prejudices of MSM-ers, that it was ...

  • December 30, 2018

    Ice isn’t melting in the Arctic and Antarctic, yet big insurance rate hikes on coastal properties loom for purported sea level rise

    The warmist fraud has a big problem: its predictions of doom have consistently failed to generate any serious pain. Yes, they blame hot weather in the summer in global warming, and if there are hurricanes, they must be caused by “climate change...

  • December 29, 2018

    Trump's China trade strategy is #winning

    President Trump took a brilliant, gutsy step in confronting China over its parasitic trade strategy, and the signs today are unmistakable that he made the right call. Consider two developments in the last few days. China's principal stock m...

  • December 29, 2018

    Women's March canceled because participants 'overwhelmingly white'

    The American left is becoming a visibly racist, anti-white movement, despite the fact that its membership tends to be predominantly Caucasian.  This is not a strategy that promises electoral success, but it does offer self-gratification for...

  • December 28, 2018

    Stand by for a wave of male prison inmates claiming to be transgender females

    Two federal judges now have ruled, setting the precedent of transferring a male prison inmate to a female prison because he claims to feel that he is a woman and poses as one, and, in the current instance, has undergone surgical mutilation of his rep...

  • December 28, 2018

    NY Times claims ‘Trump imperils planet’ with carbon emissions, but still plans own private jet use

    The New York Times loves to tell us the sacrifices we should make in the name of warmist predictions of doom, but wants to exempt itself and its wealthy readers from them when it comes to carbon generated by private jets. Private jets – the ...

  • December 27, 2018

    With identical tweets, Schumer and Pelosi reveal themselves as mouthpieces for the same propaganda puppet master

    I have long wondered about who writes the talking points that keep Democrats reading from the same script. That person – or more likely, persons – evidently issues instructions that the office holder branch and the journalist branch of th...

  • December 27, 2018

    Google approves app to report incidents of Islamic blasphemy

    Apple may have forbidden a Christian app regarding homosexuality, but its Silicon Valley neighbor and smart phone competitor Google is fine with offering an app enabling Muslims to report blasphemy to the police. Perhaps it has escaped the notice of ...

  • December 27, 2018

    Brit Hume delivers devastating slap-down to Trump-hating lefty Soledad O’Brien

    It is now an established practice in roughly 90% of the American media that anything that President Trump does is wrong, and usually an outrage. Thus, when he and Melania flew to Iraq and Germany for a post-Christmas visit to the troops deployed ther...

  • December 26, 2018

    Barf alert: CNN's Brooke Baldwin embarrasses herself with Ruth Bader Ginsburg idolatry

    Ruth Bader Ginsburg is being beatified by the media establishment of the United States, and it is getting nauseating.  With Justice Ginsburg ailing and liberals fearing that the Supreme Court may soon feature a robust conservative...

  • December 26, 2018

    US air strikes in Syria continue in support of Kurds

    According to his critics, President Trump is abandoning the Kurds in Syria, yet another betrayal by America of its allies in an extended conflict (see pro-American South Vietnamese, Hmong in Laos, pro-Americans in Iraq for starters).  But I...

  • December 26, 2018

    Syrian women want their men back from the countries to which they fled

    The purported "compassion" Angela Merkel insisted on for Syrian refugees is not being appreciated back home in Syria.  When civil war came to Syria, most of those who fled the violence were military-age males, and they left their ...

  • December 25, 2018

    China cuts tariffs on 700 more items

    In its third round of tariff cuts this year, China announced that 700 more goods will have tariffs cut. Bloomberg reports: China announced another round of tariff cuts, lowering import taxes on more than 700 goods from Jan. 1 as part of its effo...

  • December 25, 2018

    Dem senators flirting with a religious test for judicial nominees

    The ugly specter of religious bigotry reared its disgusting head during Senate confirmation of the nomination of Brian Buescher for a federal judgeship. The Constitution’s Article VI, Clause 3 clearly specifies that “no religious test sha...

  • December 24, 2018

    Chief Justice Roberts stays court order in mystery grand jury probe

    The Supreme Court appears to have intervened in the operations of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigations for the first time.  But we know precious little about what really is going on, beyond the mechanics of an order issued Su...

  • December 24, 2018

    Schadenfreude of the year: Der Spiegel

    Three pillars of the global elite media establishment have egg on their faces in the scandal engulfing Germany's most prestigious news organization, Der Spiegel.  This brings new depth to an expression that the English language has borr...

  • December 24, 2018

    California's new early primary makes money, not retail politics, the key to picking a presidential nominee

    See also: "Ballot-harvesting California muscles to the front of 2020 presidential primaries"; "The unspoken fear of Democrats about moving the California primary to March" The Law of Unintended Consequences has only begun ...

  • December 23, 2018

    Trump reportedly made a deal with Erdogan to pull out of Syria during a telephone call on Dec. 14

    NBC News is reporting – based on anonymous sources – that President Trump decided on the pullout of forces from Syria during a telephone call with Turkish leader Recep Erdogan. They are clearly appalled that a deal maker would make a deal...

  • December 23, 2018

    When the fractional shutdown of the federal government morphs into let’s-make-a-deal, look at what Trump can offer Schumer

    President Trump knows that time is on his side as the pressure eventually builds for a resolution to the so-called shutdown. I suppose that there are die-hard hysterics out there who believe that shutting down the non-essential parts of the one quart...

  • December 22, 2018

    Look who's stepping up in the wake of planned US withdrawal from Syria

    Reports of the impending massacre of Kurdish forces in Syria and the resuscitation of ISIS following the U.S. pullout of Special Forces from Syria – like those of Mark Twain's death – appear to be greatly exaggerated.  ...

  • December 22, 2018

    Trump's Syria withdrawal causes prominent critics to do a 180 on troops in Syria

    It's great fun watching critics of President Trump twist themselves into pretzels in order to denounce him.  They evidently don't mind making fools of themselves by doing a 180-degree reversal of previous positions simply because Tr...

  • December 21, 2018

    Trump has 3 border wall trump cards

    One way or another, President Trump will be rewarding his supporters with billions of dollars' worth of border wall construction.  Those of little faith who denounced him for failure on the border wall when the GOP House passed a contin...

  • December 20, 2018

    If you want a border wall, it's time to light up Capitol Hill switchboards today

    We have less than 24 hours left to flood the Senate and House with calls demanding the wall.  Our elected representatives are ignoring the mandate we handed them and caving in to the bizarre coalition of employers who want cheap labor hooki...

  • December 20, 2018

    GoFundMe page for building the border wall soars past $3 million and shames the GOP pols who betrayed their mandate

    Brian Kolfage, a decorated military hero who served as a senior airman and who is a triple amputee, has shamed the border wall turncoat Republicans in Congress.  It takes a triple amputee to do the heavy lifting for them, apparently. The...

  • December 20, 2018

    Americans snub boycott efforts of same-sex marriage advocates, push Chick-fil-A toward fast food crown

    If the bullies seeking to punish people whose religious faith condemns same-sex marriage had their way, my preference for the food at Chick-fil-A would be "the love that dares snot speak its name."  Fortunately, when it comes to f...

  • December 19, 2018

    Flynn sentencing hearing devolved into a fiasco

    It was a bad day all around yesterday in Judge Emmet Sullivan's courtroom.  Bad for General Flynn, bad for Judge Sullivan, and bad for the prosecutors from Robert Mueller's Special Counsel's Office (SCO). The Washington ...

  • December 19, 2018

    Hall of shame: Advertisers sign up for boycott of Tucker Carlson for telling the truth on illegal immigration

    Tucker Carlson has been peerless in his coverage of the issues raised by the caravan of Central Americans that announced its plan to storm the border and demand amnesty from within our territory, gaining automatic freedom to be released for a hearing...

  • December 19, 2018

    Ocasio-Cortez garners media rebuke

    The education of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez continues to be a source of amusement.  The media darling has learned a painful lesson about the very folks behind her outsized national public prominence.  The Right Scoop caught the...

  • December 18, 2018

    Comey ducks question about his memos leaking classified information, turns away

    Following his closed-door testimony yesterday, James Comey held an impromptu eight-minute news conference to spin the media with his attacks on Trump, Republicans, and even Fox News.  I found his smug self-righteousness nauseating, to be bl...

  • December 18, 2018

    'Attractive nuisance' legal doctrine is why we must build the border wall

    Many progressives blamed the Trump administration for the death of a 7-year-old girl after crossing the border and wandering around the rugged territory on the U.S. side.  So intense was the criticism that a White House spokesman was f...

  • December 18, 2018

    Alan Dershowitz agrees: Interview of Flynn was not legitimate FBI operation

    It is gratifying to see that renowned constitutional law scholar Alan Dershowitz agrees with Mark Wauck’s article today, pointing out that the FBI’s interview of General Michael Flynn was not conducted for any legitimate law enforcement p...

  • December 17, 2018

    Joe Lieberman lobbying for China's ZTE

    "Say it ain't so, Joe!" is one of the most famous quotations in the history of sports, but it applies well to my feelings about the report that former senator Joseph Lieberman has signed on as a lobbyist in all but name for China...

  • December 17, 2018

    Do Americans really worry about the non-shutdown 'government shutdown'?

    Chuck Schumer clearly thinks he's got a winning issue with blaming President Trump for a prospective "government shutdown" Friday, if no budget bill is passed that includes $5 billion for border wall improvements.  Since he pr...

  • December 17, 2018

    Iran claims Revolutionary Guard general 'accidentally' shot himself in the head and died

    Yesterday, the Iranian government told the world that one of its veteran senior generals, General Ghodratollah Mansouri, a regional commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard (IRG) in the important city of Mashhad, had died of an accident that...

  • December 16, 2018

    Tough times for online media

    Websites are not yet going the way of newspapers, but financial stringency has arrived for web-based media, including American Thinker.  The carnage extends from independent voices to the big, investor-backed sites. At the top end, the gold rush...

  • December 16, 2018

    Sunday Schadenfreude: Desperate Elizabeth Warren grovels to save presidential hopes

    Perhaps you’ve heard that Elizabeth Warren finally confessed (video here) that she is “not a person of color” to a mostly black audience at a historically black college. This is a sign of desperation, following the intense blowback ...

  • December 15, 2018

    Is the Flynn guilty plea going to be thrown out?

    It is always a bad idea to defy an order from a federal judge – especially when the judge whose order has been blown off has a history of vigilance against law enforcement and prosecutorial abuse and has thrown out convictions that re...

  • December 15, 2018

    The Weekly Standard a casualty of Trump Derangement Syndrome

    What was once an outstanding source of great conservative writing is no more.  The Weekly Standard officially folded yesterday, making it the first actual fatality attributable to Trump Derangement Syndrome.  That cause of death s...

  • December 14, 2018

    Inspector general discovers that Team Mueller scrubbed Strzok and Page text messages during critical post-election period

    Robert Mueller's Special Counsel's Office (SCO) destroyed a potential treasure trove of evidence about the "insurance policy" Trump-haters Peter Strzok and Lisa Page were implementing against the Trump administration as it prepared ...

  • December 14, 2018

    FBI defies subpoena for docs on its raid on Uranium One whistleblower

    The Deep State now is publicly baring its fangs at us, laughing at ineffective attempts to hold it accountable for abuse and worse.  I hate to be alarmist, but we have police agencies misbehaving and then destroying the evidence and refusin...

  • December 14, 2018

    Ted Lieu is angry that conservatives noticed he said he'd 'love to be able to regulate the content of speech'

    That pesky First Amendment once again is frustrating Representative Ted Lieu over items like this one from me: "Dem Rep. Ted Lieu says that he'd 'love to be able to regulate the content of speech.'"  Paul Crooksto...

  • December 13, 2018

    Blasey-Ford's scared little girl voice has disappeared in first public statement since her Senate testimony

    When Professor Christine Blasey-Ford testified against the Supreme Court nomination of then-Judge Brett Kavanaugh, my very first impression was that her voice sounded fake.  She sounded like a scared little girl, her voice tremulous, creati...

  • December 13, 2018

    Judge in Flynn case demands more documents before passing sentence

    Judge Emmet G. Sullivan, who is due to sentence General Michael Flynn next Tuesday, has thrown a wild card on the table, raising the possibility that a miscarriage of justice may finally be called out and the guilty plea coerced by Team Mueller throw...

  • December 13, 2018

    Dem Rep. Ted Lieu says that he'd 'love to be able to regulate the content of speech'

    It may turn out that one of President Trump's greatest achievements will be the left's voluntary unmasking of its ranks as tyrant-wannabes, driven mad by Trump Derangement Syndrome.  Yesterday, appearing on CNN, he actually sai...

  • December 13, 2018

    DC waiters opposing union in fight against $15 minimum wage for them

    Minimum wage legislation rarely helps the people it supposedly targets for raises.  It does help labor unions that have contracts specifying hourly wage rates that are a certain amount higher than minimum wage.  Rarely are the peo...

  • December 13, 2018

    Incoming NY State AG admits her plan to find a crime by Trump or 'anyone in his orbit'

    Another Democrat has revealed her totalitarian impulse under the malign influence of Trump Derangement Syndrome.  Letitia James, who will take office as attorney general of the State of New York, has just admitted to the friendly folks at...

  • December 12, 2018

    Trump sprang three traps on Pelosi and Schumer yesterday

    President Trump clearly shocked House speaker-to-be Nancy Pelosi and Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer yesterday with his televising of the Oval Office sit-down over his demand for $5 billion in funding for border security, including funding of cr...

  • December 12, 2018

    #MeToo morphing into #GrinchToo

    Feminists emboldened by #MeToo's many scalps taken from powerful men are turning their aim on office Christmas parties.  Sexual assault survivors must make room for "office party survivors." Breitbart highlights the ap...

  • December 12, 2018

    Gen. Flynn was set up by FBI, told no lawyer needed when FBI sprang its perjury trap

    The sentencing memo submitted by lawyers for General Michael Flynn contains details that ought to outrage anyone not consumed with hatred and desire for vengeance against  anyone who worked for President Trump, however briefly....

  • December 11, 2018

    Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez goes full Fredo (and beyond)

    Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is upset that people don't appreciate her intelligence and depth.  It turns out that people notice when she says stupid things, such as nattering on about the "three chambers of government" or not...

  • December 11, 2018

    Google CEO on the hot seat in congressional testimony today as leaked internal emails seem to contradict prepared testimony

    Sundar Pichai, the CEO of Google (a subsidiary of Alphabet, Inc.), is set to begin testifying before the House Judiciary Committee at 10 A.M. today in a hearing titled "Transparency & Accountability: Examining Google and its Data Collec...

  • December 10, 2018

    Macron facing a crisis that he created by baiting Trump

    An arrogant politician expressing contempt for Donald Trump and his supporters experienced a surprising and humiliating defeat in late 2016 in our presidential election.  A corresponding scenario seems to be playing itself out again in Pari...

  • December 10, 2018

    As Paris burns, 50,000 in Rome rally in support of populist government defying EU mandarins

    Saturday saw a new tale of two cities.  Paris, in the throes of a popular revolt against the globalist, warmist, high-tax regime of Emmanuel Macron, was exploding in another weekend of violence that saw "1,385 arrests, setting...

  • December 10, 2018

    NeverTrump Peter Wehner gleefully announces desire for revenge against Trump-supporters

    Trump Derangement Syndrome has always been ugly, but the release of sentencing memoranda for Michael Cohen in which allusions are made to purported Cohen crimes "directed" by "person one" (known to be Donald Trump) has unleashed v...

  • December 10, 2018

    California solar mandate to make housing and electricity even more expensive

    State and local governments in California have made housing there far more expensive than it needs to be.  Developers rightly complain of regulations at both state and local levels that make housing construction unreasonably difficult and e...

  • December 9, 2018

    Comey’s testimony imitated Sgt. Schultz with amnesia

    How on earth did a man with such a terrible memory, and so ignorant of the operations of an agency he headed, manage to have the stellar career that James Comey enjoyed (until Donald Trump fired him). In testimony Friday, like fictional comedic icon ...

  • December 9, 2018

    New Jersey has no plans on how to enforce its high capacity firearm magazine confiscation law

    The Great State of New Jersey now finds itself in a situation somewhat like the legendary dog that chased a bus and managed to clamp its jaw on the bumper. Now what? It has passed a law mandating confiscation of high capacity gun magazines, and the l...

  • December 9, 2018

    Obama’s crony earned big bucks while Chicago pension funds lost $54 million

    Chicago’s pension obligations are a time bomb nearing explosion. Taxes already have been increased, but far steeper hikes will be necessary, worrying city council members.  Imagine yourself a Chicago homeowner receiving a property tax bill...

  • December 9, 2018

    Whitaker’s DoJ busts Hezb’allah financier after reviving investigation that Obama had stymied

    Money is the mother’s milk not just of politics, but of terrorism as well. But moving millions of dollars across national boundaries to a terror group like Hezb’allah tends to leave a paper trail, which is why law enforcement agencies try...

  • December 9, 2018

    Changing the character of Minneapolis in the name of diversity and equality

    Zoning neighborhoods for single family houses now is being held to be racist. A politically diverse group, of race- and equality-obsessed leftists combined with freedom-loving libertarians, is heralding a radical change in zoning for the entire city ...

  • December 8, 2018

    Ocasio-Cortez already threatening to abuse her office before even being sworn-in

    Once again, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is demonstrating her shaky understanding of the job she was elected to do in what she called one of the “three chambers of government.” Yesterday, she was obviously ticked off when Donald Trump, Jr sen...

  • December 8, 2018

    Pathetic Clintons resort to Groupon trying to get people to show up and fill some seats on their stadium tour

    We now have the first acknowledgment from their side that the Clintons vastly overestimated their personal popularity and the public’s interest in hearing them talk about themselves. The Clintons and their stadium tour promoter are officiall...

  • December 8, 2018

    Trump’s choice for AG William Barr just may be the right person for the job

    My first reaction to the news that William Barr, who already served as attorney general under President Bush 41 was probably incorrect. I groaned, as I suspect many conservatives did, at the thought of a member of the GOP establishment taking on this...

  • December 7, 2018

    Revealed: Clinton Foundation whistleblowers have been working with FBI and IRS since last year

    The reckoning for the Clintons I have dreamed of for a quarter of a century finally approaches with whistleblowing and documents about the slush fund known as the Bill, Hillary, and Chelsea Clinton Foundation.  The ability of the Clintons t...

  • December 7, 2018

    Well, this actually explains a lot: Biggest delegations to UN Climate Conference come from poor African nations

    If you believe, as I do, that the U.N.'s climate agenda is really about empowering unaccountable bureaucrats to divide up the wealth of rich countries, then this information, via Andrew Bolt, is revealing: It's a feeding frenzy at t...

  • December 7, 2018

    Outrage over Boeing selling top-secret satellite technology to a company financed by ChiComs

    What the hell was Boeing thinking when it agreed to sell a satellite containing top-secret technology to a startup company financed by China?  How the hell did this deal pass muster and gain an export license from the Commerce Department? ...

  • December 6, 2018

    Bush 41's long goodbye

    The nation's farewell to its forty-first president continues with yet another day of ceremonial spectacle, following the state funeral and a national day of mourning that saw the stock exchanges and Postal Service shutting down.  The en...

  • December 6, 2018

    Is the Deep State trying to tank the China trade deal, stock market, and economy before 2020?

    The stock market plunged Tuesday, and with futures trading down heavily before the market opens shortly, it looks as though the market will have erased all of the gains in 2018 when trading resumes.  The development that seems to have trigg...

  • December 5, 2018

    After Paris riots and green tax retreat, warmists at yet another UN Meeting escalate rhetoric, warn of the end of 'civilization'

    The riots engulfing France over the imposition of punitive green taxes on gasoline and diesel and forcing people out of cars haven't caused warmist doomsayers to hold their tongues, even temporarily.  The big flinch of Emmanue...

  • December 5, 2018

    Anti-Trump Weekly Standard reportedly on its last legs

    Trump Derangement Syndrome may turn out to be fatal for one of the most strident conservative publications opposing the president.  Yesterday, CNN broke the story that the staff of the Weekly Standard have been warned: The fa...

  • December 5, 2018

    Is the Clinton stadium tour going to be canceled?

    So far, half of the events scheduled for the stadium tour of Bill and Hillary Clinton have been canceled.  Even worse, both of the two out of four events canceled were in the United States, and the two conversations delivered to a...

  • December 5, 2018

    Republicans hacked after hiring the Democrats' cyber-security firm, Crowdstrike

    Why on Earth would the National Republican Congressional Committee hire the same firm that allowed the Democrats' emails to be hacked as its own cyber-security consultant?  In fact, Crowdstrike is the same firm that claimed that it was ...

  • December 4, 2018

    Federal grand jury reportedly investigating Newton, Mass judge who helped an illegal evade deportation

    A valuable lesson for state and local officials in progressive jurisdictions who have been thumbing their noses at federal immigration law may be coming in Boston.  The Boston Globe has learned from five different sources that a f...

  • December 4, 2018

    UC Berkeley must pay $70K and change policies to guarantee free speech for conservative speakers

    The campaign of the American left to silence conservatives on campus sustained a massive defeat yesterday, as the University of California, Berkeley reached a legal settlement (text here) to a lawsuit brought against it following cancelation of ...

  • December 4, 2018

    Shocker: Ocasio-Cortez defies greenies, makes a sensible comment

    Is there hope for progressive glamour girl Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wising up?  Yesterday, she took an eminently sensible position, criticizing one of the pet projects of the enviro-left.  Tim Pearce of the Daily Caller News ...

  • December 4, 2018

    Sebastian Gorka takes down Trump-hating DC virtue-signalers

    Trump Derangement Syndrome causes its victims to say stupid things and take stupid positions they wouldn't otherwise advocate, merely for the satisfaction of rebuking President Trump.  An excellent example is this, via the Washingt...

  • December 4, 2018

    Vegan scolds go Orwellian with proposal to eliminate meat metaphors

    If you can control the language people are allowed to use, you can control their minds, as George Orwell masterfully explained.  Some (not all) vegans, convinced of their moral superiority in eschewing the flesh of animals, would like to se...

  • December 3, 2018

    FBI raid on Chicago alderman Burke said to have nothing to do with Trump

    At a moment in history when practically everything bad is supposed to be about Trump, it was natural that the FBI raid on Chicago alderman Eddie Burke was suspected of being related to his work representing Tru...

  • December 3, 2018

    How to solve the pension crisis in Illinois

    One way or another, neither the Great State of Illinois nor the City of Chicago is going to be able to pay out all the pensions it has promised to retired and yet-to-retire state workers.  As in California and some other jurisdictions, poli...

  • December 3, 2018

    16 Democrat presidential contenders have endorsed CAIR

    The Democratic Party of 2018 is aligning itself with the Council of American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), "an organization identified by the Justice Department as an 'entity' of the Muslim Brotherhood linked to pro-Hamas operation...

  • December 3, 2018

    Tickets for Clintons' stadium speaking tour now marked down 90%

    If only this could be called a "close-out sale."  Eagle-eyed Don Surber reports: Those of you who waited to purchase your tickets to see a power couple from the last century are in luck.  Prices for some o...

  • December 3, 2018

    Black college student arrested for fake hate crime

    For some reason, students at Goucher College in Towson, Maryland are drawing a perverse conclusion from the arrest of a black student there for faking a hate crime with racist graffiti.  The U.K. Daily Mail reports: Fynn Ajan...

  • December 2, 2018

    Brenda Snipes reneges on resignation, will stay as Broward Supervisor of Elections

    The flagrantly incompetent Broward County Supervisor of Elections can’t even carry through a proper resignation. The 2020 election is coming, and her services may be needed by the Democratic Party. Following the embarrassing fiasco of counti...

  • December 2, 2018

    Trump and Xi kick the can 90 days down the road on trade war escalation

    In a two-and-half hour dinner meeting at the G 20 summit in Buenos Aires, the US and China agreed to postpone planned escalation in tariffs while further negotiations take place. The meeting was longer than anticipated, starting an hour early after P...

  • December 1, 2018

    RIP, President George H.W. Bush

    The passing of the 41st president, George H.W. Bush, is both a family heartbreak and – inevitably – a political event.  His descendants – children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren, a group that includes high of...

  • December 1, 2018

    Trump hints at the scandal about to blow

    There is big news ahead, and President Trump teased it yesterday from Argentina via Twitter.  Politics has become a game of narratives, something well understood by both President Trump and his enemies in the media-Democrat establishment....

  • November 30, 2018

    CNN fires Marc Lamont Hill after he calls for ‘free Palestine from the river to the sea’

    Marc Lamont Hill lost his gig as a commentator at CNN after he used a familiar slogan calling for the destruction of Israel at an anti-Israel conference at the United Nations on Wednesday.  As The Wrap noted, this is: ... a l...

  • November 30, 2018

    Drag queen admits 'grooming' children at public library events that are part of worldwide program

    LifeSiteNews – which was banned and then restored (for now) by Twitter – has broken the news that a drag queen has admitted to grooming children to accept transgenderism and the other elements of the alt.sex agenda through ...

  • November 30, 2018

    Hillary senior adviser has meltdown at Fox News, goes pantless

    Trump Derangement Syndrome appears to have claimed another victim.  Philippe Reines, the senior aide to Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign frequently appears on Fox News programs, particularly on Tucker Carlson's show, where he engages in s...

  • November 30, 2018

    Payless opens fake luxury shoe store, sells its own shoes ten times their regular price to 'fashion influencers'

    As an inveterate bargain-hunter and skeptic of fashion snobbery, I find that a promotion scheme launched by Payless Shoe Stores warms the cockles of my heart while giving me a few giggles. CBS Philly reports on the prank: Payless' re...

  • November 30, 2018

    MSM/Dems are certain for the umpteenth time that the end is near for Trump admin, this time with Michael Cohen guilty plea

    Once again, Robert Mueller's team is nailing a witness it wants to use to incriminate President Trump in some nefarious scheme with a guilty plea for lying, and thereby discrediting any future testimony against the intended target.  Wel...

  • November 29, 2018

    Berkeley prof wants to end student evaluations for the worst possible reason

    The common expression "ivory tower" is used to describe life in academia as insulated from the reality, accountability, and responsibility that are facts of life for people who work in businesses who live or die according to the response of...

  • November 29, 2018

    AT's Richard Baehr explains what happened on November 6

    I was not able to attend this year's Restoration Weekend in Palm Beach, but I heard from a lot of people about the presentation that our chief political correspondent, Richard Baehr, was a real highlight.  He had the unenviable task of ...

  • November 28, 2018

    Jerome Corsi explains the perjury trap Mueller's team sprang on him

    Last night, Jerome Corsi explained to Tucker Carlson and his audience how the Mueller team were able to charge him with lying to them in order to pressure him to (in his view) to give false testimony implicating Paul Manafort.  It is a harr...

  • November 28, 2018

    Clintons' speaking tour event in Toronto had 83% of the seats empty

    Apparently, the Clintons' political life is set to end not with a bang, but a whimper.  I wonder what kind of envy Bill and Hillary Clinton experienced over the jam-packed arenas – with thousands listening outside – that Pre...

  • November 28, 2018

    At last: A little realism on Saudi Arabia

    The read of the day is Angelo Codevilla's dose of reality about the nature of our "ally" and "friend" Saudi Arabia, titled "What Is Saudi Arabia to Us?"   Unlike virtually all of the commentary on the ki...

  • November 27, 2018

    Media hysterics over use of tear gas at the border ignored Obama admin frequent use

    The old joke that if it weren't for double standards, the MSM would have no standards at all certainly applies to the cascade of hysterical media coverage of the use of tear gas to repel rock-throwing invaders at the San Ysidro border crossing....

  • November 27, 2018

    Andrea Mitchell of MSNBC wins the prize for the stupidest comment on the border assault

    There is a lot of competition, but one Trump-hater stands out for utter, implausible, easily refuted inanity in attempting to demonize opposition to the organized attempt to force our southern border open to anyone who wants to come here and sign up ...

  • November 27, 2018

    MSNBC reporter tells the truth about overwhelmingly young male caravan membership

    In the very next hour after Andrea Mitchell disgraced herself with the most ridiculous comment yet about the caravan of wannabe border jumpers, a lower-profile MSNBC reporter told the truth on camera.  As he toured a camp, Ga...

  • November 27, 2018

    Airbnb to face discrimination complaint in NY over blacklisting Jewish-owned homes in the West Bank

    Airbnb is about to risk some severe consequences for its decision to bar rental listings for properties owned by Jews in the West Bank of Israel, thanks to robust anti-discrimination laws.  If claims being pressed are upheld, it could be ba...

  • November 27, 2018

    Jim Acosta's lecturing of President Trump about harmlessness of caravan requires an apology

    After the scornful laughter subsides, Jim Acosta of CNN really owes an apology to President Trump for his inaccurate contentions about the harmlessness of the caravan and his prediction that they wouldn't storm the border.  He should ha...

  • November 26, 2018

    NYT reporter demands we become ‘hysterical’ over ‘climate change’

    “Stop thinking! Act out of fear!” is never good advice. If a salesman uses this sort of argument, it’s time to walk away from the deal. But that’s what one advocate of global warming hysteria  -- literal hysteria – ...

  • November 26, 2018

    Dem senator suggests tear gas is ‘chemical weapon’ when used at the border – then deletes tweet

    Trump derangement syndrome has entered a new stage, in which hysteria is the operating principle. How else to explain a sitting United States Senator, a member of what is called “the world’s greatest deliberative body,” denouncing t...

  • November 26, 2018

    You can expect media silence about Obama admin exoneration of use of lethal force against rock throwers at the border

    The use of non-lethal tear gas against caravan members storming our border and throwing rocks at our guardians already has evoked a response from a sitting senator so shamefully hysterical that the tweet was deleted. Getting excited over the use of t...

  • November 26, 2018

    So much to love in Senate Judiciary Committee downsizing plan

    It’s been reported that the new, larger Republican Senate majority is going to exercise its power and downsize the Senate Judiciary Committee. It’s a brilliant plan for two different reasons. The first reason is that fewer Democrat sen...

  • November 26, 2018

    Ocasio-Cortez trivializes Holocaust by comparing Jewish refugees from Hitler to Central Americans

    It is by now abundantly clear that the youngest person ever elected to Congress is an ingenue ignoramus, serenely unaware of the depths of her obliviousness.  For someone who grew up in New York City – oops, make that Westchester County (b...

  • November 26, 2018

    Will an Obama judge let this terrorist suspect off without admitting guilt on terrorism?

    He pressed a detonator on a bomb outside a restaurant, but a federal judge indicates she will allow him to avoid a trial without admitting guilt on a terrorism charge. That’s the situation in a federal terrorism case today in Chicago, and an Ob...

  • November 25, 2018

    Paris riots: The political divide between urban elites and their hinterlands

    Political protest in France tends toward the dramatic and the revolutionary, but the underlying issues in the riots currently convulsing Paris bear some similarity to the political issues that divide America into red and blue camps. English language ...

  • November 25, 2018

    Why is the CEO of the world’s largest automaker in jail?

    I have been surprised at the paltry attention paid by the US mainstream media to the arrest and incarceration Monday last week of Carlos Ghosn, who is the head of the world’s largest automobile manufacturing group: the alliance of Renault, Niss...

  • November 24, 2018

    John Kerry joins Hillary warning Europe of threat of immigration

    It’s starting to look like some members of the Democrat establishment understand that open borders is a losing issue. It would be too dangerous to take on the issue domestically, so acknowledging that Europe is being harmed by mass immigration/...

  • November 24, 2018

    Monica Lewinsky says Bill Clinton hinted she should perjure herself, arranged a farewell Christmas tryst before dumping her

    Now that #MeToo has made heroines out of women accusing powerful men of sexual abuse, Monica Lewinsky is providing her side of the story of the encounters that led to Bill Clinton’s impeachment. Had Hillary Clinton won the presidency, the same ...

  • November 24, 2018

    A totally non-political video of the day

    How smart are dogs? Like most dog lovers, I suspect that they are a lot smarter than the scientists tell us, but I also acknowledge that I want to think so, mainly because of the deep emotional bonds a pet dog forms with its family members, and th...

  • November 24, 2018

    Socialism is causing Venezuela – with the world’s largest oil reserves -- to run out of gasoline

    The popularity of socialism on America’s campuses and among a substantial fraction of Democrats defies the evidence of a natural experiment taking place in Venezuela, just across the Gulf of Mexico from America. Venezuelans already are starving...

  • November 23, 2018

    Chicago alderman tries to explain why his intern was the hospital mass shooter who killed a doc and a cop

    It's bad enough that four people died in a mass shooting incident at Chicago's Mercy Hospital last Monday.  In addition to the perp, "[t]he victims were identified as Dr. Tamara O'Neal and Chicago police officer S...

  • November 23, 2018

    NYT's Tom Friedman calls Trump an 'amoral chump' – and gets his posterior handed to him

    If you are looking for a vigorous takedown of an arrogant critic of President Trump to help you overcome a lingering turkey coma as the L-Tryptophan works its way through your system, this editorial from the New York Sun might fit...

  • November 23, 2018

    Commentary too hot for Fox News

    The cable news giant Fox News Channel has issued an on-air apology for a guest's comment on Hillary Rodham Clinton. I suppose it was necessary, given the need to be able to interview the once (and future?) presidential candidate, and the need ...

  • November 23, 2018

    Hillary calls on Europe to control migrants to thwart populism

    In what may be either a instance of triangulation or too much chardonnay, Hillary Clinton has confounded both friends and foes by taking a position against mass, uncontrolled immigration (in Europe, not the USA).  Of course, she says the re...

  • November 22, 2018

    Out: Russia. In: Saudi Arabia

    The progressive narrative of President Trump as evil never changes, but the argument keeps changing.  Even before he was inaugurated, he was denounced as a pawn of Russia's Putin, a traitor.  Robert Mueller was appointed ...

  • November 22, 2018

    Chief Justice Roberts is wrong in two distinct ways in criticizing Trump

    The rebuke to President Trump issued by Chief Justice John Roberts over criticism of an "Obama judge" was wrong in two different ways.  The New York Times gleefully reported on the scolding from the head of the federal j...

  • November 22, 2018

    Thanks, oil companies!

    Two of many things to be grateful for today are that: 1.  America's oil companies are creating, in Bloomberg's headline, "OPEC's worst nightmare," and 2. Barack Obama is no longer in office and able to preve...

  • November 21, 2018

    The education of Ocasio-Cortez: she now supports Pelosi for Speaker

    Did someone explain to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez the kind of vengeance a Speaker of the House can exact on a rebellious freshman Representative? Or has a brand new behavioral pattern entered her personal repertoire – carefully weighing alternati...

  • November 21, 2018

    US Attorney investigating Clinton Foundation to testify before House Committee

    Mark Meadows, the lame duck chairman of the House Oversight subcommittee, is losing his ability to subpoena soon, the majority, but not before he attempts to inform the public about the state of the investigation into the Clinton Foundation. The Hill...

  • November 21, 2018

    Off-teleprompter Obama rambles, nearly incoherently attacking American global warming skeptics

    Back in 2008, when he was addressing vast throngs in Berlin and Mile High Stadium, Barack Obama was, we were assured by most of the Smart Set, one of the greatest orators in history. That was but one of the many ways in which he was overrated by thos...

  • November 20, 2018

    CNN media critic attacks White House ground rules for press conferences

    CNN seems to have forgotten the old adage, "Be careful what you wish for."  After filing suit over the revocation of Jim Acosta's hard pass to the White House and winning, that network's media beat reporter is upset. ...

  • November 20, 2018

    Giant media 'gotcha' over Ivanka Trump using personal email account for government business

    It's hard to understand why Ivanka Trump, who heard crowds at her father's rallies chant "Lock her up!" over Hillary Clinton's email abuses, would not be punctilious over discussing government business in a personal email accoun...

  • November 20, 2018

    Jerry Brown proposed easing the forestry rules that Trump criticized

    California governor Jerry Brown feigned outrage over President Trump's criticism of California's forestry management in the wake of the horrendous wildfires still raging.  But it turns out that he recognized those very problems and ...

  • November 20, 2018

    De Blasio admits his 'socialist impulse' and lust for control of construction, tenants, and rent of apartments

    What is it about socialists that enables them to ignore the overwhelming evidence that short-circuiting market forces with government controls produces disaster every time it is seriously tried?  Maybe it is confidence in the effectiveness ...

  • November 20, 2018

    Vile Michelle Wolf has killed off the comedy feature at the White House Correspondents' Association dinner

    Purported comedian Michelle Wolf, whose vile attacks at the last White House Correspondents' dinner caused open reactions of dismay from the audience, has induced the group to cancel the custom of featuring a comic at its gatherings....

  • November 19, 2018

    Report: Merkel urged Romania’s president not to move embassy to Jerusalem

    Has Germany changed course on Israel under Angela Merkel toward active, if private, hostility? In an exclusive report that is not being denied by either government, Benjamin Weinthal of the Jerusalem Post writes: German chancellor Angela Merkel ...

  • November 19, 2018

    Dan Crenshaw deflates anti-Trump hysteria on Face the Nation with common sense

    After his appearance on Saturday Night Live on November 10 to accept an apology and engage in some graceful satire of his own, I suggested that in Dan Crenshaw we are seeing the birth of a star. I feel vindicated in that judgment by his appearance ye...

  • November 19, 2018

    Stormy Daniels tells Oxford Union that Trump and politics have ‘completely destroyed’ her career

    Cue the world’s smallest violin for Stormy Daniels, the stage name used by Stephanie Clifford when she took off her clothes and had sex with strangers to sate the urges of pornography addicts. According to a report in Newsweek by Katherine Hign...

  • November 19, 2018

    Ocasio-Cortez castigates ‘drooling’ Republicans who ‘chop up’ her ‘word slips’

    Ignorance and arrogance are a bad combination, even for a Democrat. Not even yet sworn-into office (“inaugurated,” as she inappropriately put it) as a member of Congress, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is upset that she gets criticized over her...

  • November 18, 2018

    Move over, Harvard, University of California sued on Asian American admissions data

    Admissions to elite universities is a zero-sum exercise. Put a thumb on the scale for one group, and you penalize another. It’s taken decades to sink in, but a new wave of litigation threatens to expose ugly secrets that the diversity industry ...

  • November 18, 2018

    Trump challenges Warmists on California wildfires; media fight back

    It was all sweetness and light yesterday when President Trump traveled to California and met with the outgoing and incoming governors of the Golden State. But already, with characteristic bluntness, President Trump had challenged the Warmist establis...

  • November 18, 2018

    No shame: Bill to loot pensions for pols revived in Illinois legislature

    Sometimes the shameless venality of public officials in Illinois is blatant that it is almost amusing. Currently, the state legislature is considering overriding the veto of outgoing Republican Bruce Rauner of a bill that would in effect loot the pen...

  • November 18, 2018

    With 2000 missing ballots, Brenda Snipes is either incompetent or crooked, so she blames racism

    The continuing vote counting clown show in Broward County, as 2000 ballots now are declared missing, is an outright embarrassment to the vote fraud deniers in the media and politics. Elections supervisor Brenda Snipes has screwed up so many things so...

  • November 17, 2018

    Trump announces solution to Acosta problem and now the media are stuck

    President Trump famously proclaims his ability to win, and already has figured out how to turn the loss dealt him by a federal judge that he appointed into a win. In a preliminary ruling, a federal judge in Washington, D.C., sided with CNN on Fr...

  • November 17, 2018

    Eric Swalwell inadvertently acting as an agent provocateur working for GOP and NRA

    Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is not the only high-profile Democrat proving to the public that it’s dangerous to let younger Democrats near power. Representative Eric Swalwell, whose district is in the suburbs of the Bay Area (of course), is not nea...

  • November 16, 2018

    Kamala Harris disgraces herself comparing ICE to KKK

    Kamala Harris, the pathologically ambitious junior senator from California, signaled that she believes open borders will be a wining issue in the 2020 election. By badgering Ronald Vitello, acting ICE director undergoing confirmation hearings for his...

  • November 16, 2018

    Avenatti claiming he was set up with false allegations of violence

    This is too delicious. Michael Avenatti is now claiming he was set-up with false allegations of abuse of a woman. Amanda Woods reports in the New York Post: Stormy Daniels’ lawyer Michael Avenatti, who was busted in LA for domestic vi...

  • November 16, 2018

    Ocasio-Cortez turning into a nightmare for Congressional Dems

    Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is claiming that she is being discriminated against by House Democrats, implying racism.  It turns out that she not only brings lots of media attention, she also carries a truckload of attitude. James Barrett of the D...

  • November 16, 2018

    Surprise! Ilhan Omar lied to Jewish voters in her district

    Newly elected Representative Ilhan Omar, the Somali-heritage Muslim from Minneapolis who replaces Keith Ellison, has already reversed her position on the BDS (Boyott, Divest, Sanction) Movement that seeks to delegitimize Israel now that she is safely...

  • November 15, 2018

    Sharyl Attkisson needs your support

    I am one of the signatories to a GoFundMe appeal (see below) to Americans for financial support of Sharyl Attkisson’s lawsuit against the Department of Justice over spying on her computer that took place following her honest reporting on activi...

  • November 15, 2018

    Why Fox had to support Acosta and CNN access to White House briefings

    I respectfully disagree with Elad Hakim’s blog today, “Fox should have sat this one out,” complaining about the amicus brief filed by Fox News in support of CNN’s lawsuit demanding restoration of Jim Acosta’s White House...

  • November 15, 2018

    Avenatti domestic violence arrest a huge problem for the Left

    The arrest Creepy Porn Lawyer (and declared Democrat presidential candidate) Michael Avenatti on felony charges of domestic abuse exposes the shameful nature of the attacks on Justice Kavanaugh during his confirmation hearings.  Avenatti adamant...

  • November 15, 2018

    Macron escalates war of words with Trump as he faces a huge popular protest this weekend

    France’s president Emmanuel Macron has got more to be worried about than his disastrous lack of public support in polling.  He is facing a grass roots spontaneous, massive disruption of French highways this weekend, and he sounds a bit sca...

  • November 15, 2018

    Australia waffling on proposal to move its embassy to Jerusalem

    Australia appears to be backing away from a proposal  floated last month to move that nation’s embassy to Jerusalem.  Why? Pushback from Indonesia, which is negotiating a free trade pact with Australia. New.com.au reports: Fai...

  • November 15, 2018

    Pelosi to Sharpton: ‘Thank-you for saving America’

    A man who has blood on his hands for encouraging an actual pogrom against Jews in the United States has been thanked by Nancy Pelosi for “saving America.”   Speaking to his organization, the National Action Network, Nancy Pelosi g...

  • November 14, 2018

    Jim Acosta’s misbehavior didn’t start last week

    Even Bob Woodward – in many ways the dean of DC journalists -- is appalled at the lawsuit filed by CNN to regain the White House hard pass of Jim Acosta, revoked in the wake of his outrageous behavior at a presidential press conference a week a...

  • November 14, 2018

    Clueless Ocasio-Cortez doesn’t understand Dem corporatist strategy, attacks Amazon HQ deal

    It is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s glory and burden that she actually believes all the slogans that progressives mouth. She hasn’t yet realized that the Democratic Party coalition has a senior partner, of the ultra-wealthy corporate elite t...

  • November 14, 2018

    Independent film maker Ami Horowitz documents the media lies about the caravan invasion force

    This truly is must-see TV. In case you missed it, last night Tucker Carlson showcased a video report by courageous independent film maker Ami Horowitz, who joined the “caravan” aimed at violating our borders en masse, and exposed the trut...

  • November 14, 2018

    Man who obscenely harassed Tucker Carlson’s teen daughter was a board member at ‘Women’s Initiative’ health group

    I have always regarded men who make a big deal out of supporting feminist causes as potential exploiters and phonies.  When Harvey Weinstein, with his track record of vocal and financial support for pro-abortion groups was accused of extreme abu...

  • November 13, 2018

    The most absurd claim of the World War 1 armistice centenary

    Elder of Ziyon highlights a truly remarkable claim, a bit of theatre of the absurd: The first sentence of this article in Al Madenah News, by Dr. Mustafa Yousef Alddawi, to mark the centennial of the end of World War I, is one of the m...

  • November 13, 2018

    Were the midterms a slow motion blue wave?

    Lots of conservatives are feeling upset, cheated, or – worst of all – doomed.  We have watched an  uncanny and statistically unlikely wave of contests moving from GOP to Dem wins as more votes are discovered. Writing at Commenta...

  • November 13, 2018

    Fox News rebukes Twitter by going dark on its Twitter account

    Twitter seems impervious to criticism of its blatant political bias, especially as reflected in who and what gets banned, and who and what is tolerated. Following Twitter’s publication and refusal to ban tweets giving out Tucker Carlson’s...

  • November 13, 2018

    Outrage as Cook County judge grants $400 cash bail to suspect charged with raping a disabled woman

    Illinois last year enacted a Bail Reform Law intended to make bail affordable for poor people. Kim Geiger of the Chicago Tribune explained at the time of passage: …the new law creates new rights for people in custody at Illinois jails and...

  • November 13, 2018

    Did Facebook pay out over a hundred million bucks just to be rid of a Trump-supporter?

    It certainly looks like the prejudice against Republicans, conservatives, and especially Trump supporters, is so virulent that Facebook was willing to pay a hundred mill to rid itself od one. The company denies this is the case, but the Wall Street J...

  • November 12, 2018

    Sam Donaldson claims CNN suing over White House pass for Acosta

    According to Sam Donaldson (video below) CNN is preparing  a lawsuit over the denial of a White House “hard pass” to Jim Acosta. Appearing on CNN’s Reliable Sources Sunday, the former ABC News correspondent claimed that he had ...

  • November 12, 2018

    Box of ballots marked ‘provisional’ discovered in trunk of rental returned to Ft. Lauderdale Airport

    More suspicious voting shenanigans from Broward County came to light last night. Independent journalist Laura Loomer, acting on a tip, learned that an employee of Avis Car Rentals at Fort Lauderdale Airport discovered two boxes apparently belonging t...

  • November 12, 2018

    When Obama ejected reporters, the media yawned

    If your only source of news is the mainstream media, you might think that Donald Trump is the first president to act against a reporter who heckled him, and that denial of a White House pass to CNN heckler Jim Acosta is a grave threat to the public...

  • November 12, 2018

    FL Democrats’ lawyer openly argued to count votes by non-citizens

    When Democrats repeat their latest mantra, “Count every vote!” they mean even votes from non-citizens (not to mention the deceased). We have evidence that they believe noncitizens get to have their votes counted thanks to a transcript, ma...

  • November 12, 2018

    The motives for Macron’s pathetic insult to Trump over nationalism

    The old ironic saying, “No good deed goes unpunished,” helps explain the rude and inappropriate hijacking of a solemn commemoration of the end of World War 1 by French President Emmanuel Macron. By now, you probably have seen that (via Re...

  • November 12, 2018

    Two Dem heavyweights claim Hillary is a lock to win the 2020 Dem nomination

    In an op-ed appearing in today’s Wall Street Journal, Mark Penn, a former senior adviser to Bill Clinton for many years, and Andrew Stein, former Manhattan Borough and New York City Council president predict that Hillary Clinton will seek and w...

  • November 11, 2018

    UK leadership missing in Paris ceremonies commemorating end of World War I

    More than 70 world leaders, including such major notables as Trump, Putin, Merkel, Macron, and Erdogan are in Paris today for the hundred year anniversary of the end of World War 1. But Theresa May, the UK head of government, and Queen Elizabeth, the...

  • November 11, 2018

    How to rig a poll

    One of many reasons that I distrust political polls is the ease with which the results may be skewed to justify a perspective that the poll-taker wants to support. A good case study is explained in an article in the UK Spectator, just published. ...

  • November 11, 2018

    Transgenderism supporters can tolerate no dissent in UC Berkeley Student Senate

    Do you remember when the leading institutions of higher education encouraged debate and discussion? In an era of obsessive focus on skin-deep diversity, higher education has become an environment intolerant of any dissent from the Party Line, no matt...

  • November 11, 2018

    Stunning Planned Parenthood ad

    Sometimes I wonder if I am living on the same planet as true blue progressives. Planned Parenthood has released a video ad that appeals to emotions that I simply cannot fathom. The association of the images with the underlying message  is so wro...

  • November 11, 2018

    Rep-elect Dan Crenshaw shows Saturday Night Live what class and good humor look like

    Until Saturday Night Live cast-member Pete Davidson mocked his eye-patch and appearance last weekend, I confess that I had never heard of Dan Crenshaw, who was running for Congress in the Second Congressional District of Texas. Crenshaw had lost an e...

  • November 11, 2018

    Avenatti accuses Tucker Carlson of assault after teen daughter called a ‘c*nt’ and ‘wh*re’ at country club

    I have to wonder if the words "Go ahead, make my day; I'll see you in court" are echoing in the mind of Tucker Carlson. An incident that occurred almost a month ago, on October 13, is now coming to light, thanks to publicity hound a...

  • November 10, 2018

    Whitaker gets Rod Rosenstein’s endorsement as Acting Attorney General

    The hysterical reaction of the progressives to the selection of Matthew Whitaker as acting Attorney General is receiving the rebuke it deserves from the grown-ups.  They do not want him supervising the Mueller probe. But no less a figure than De...

  • November 10, 2018

    Your must-watch video of the day

    I must confess that I have never observed the pro-life people who station themselves outside of abortion clinics in an attempt to persuade pregnant women to rethink their impulse to abort. In fact, since I dislike being accosted by strangers, I have ...

  • November 10, 2018

    Comey exposed: used personal, un-secured Gmail account for official business so sensitive that the emails cannot be released to the public

    We now know that if James Comey had recommended prosecution of Hillary Clinton for her email abuses, he would have been cooking his own goose, for he was guilty of similar abuses. So by exonerating her on the basis of lack of intent, he was also lett...

  • November 9, 2018

    Linda Sanchez withdraws bid to become chair of House Democratic Caucus after husband indicted on theft of public funds

    Scandal has struck the leadership of the House Democrats as they prepare to take over that body. Representative Linda Sanchez, just re-elected to her ninth term in Congress representing a heavily Hispanic district in Orange County, California, was ho...

  • November 9, 2018

    DC Police investigating Antifa mob attack on Tucker Carlson’s home as ‘hate crime’

    Hate crime or terroristic threat? I suppose it is better than nothing, but I do not hold out a lot of hope that the DC police are up to the task of properly going after the mob that attacked Tucker Carlson’s house, cracking the front door as th...

  • November 9, 2018

    Vox co-founder Matthew Yglesias blames Tucker Carlson for the mob that attacked his home

    We are on a knife’s edge, facing the very real possibility that organized violence could end the free speech rights that are essential to a representative republic. When Weimar Germany was unwilling to clamp down on the use of violent intimidat...

  • November 9, 2018

    Trump admin announces new guidelines allowing conscience exemptions for contraceptive mandate

    President Trump has a “pen and a phone,” too, just like his predecessor, Barack Obama. And in the same manner that Obama’s minions enacted regulations requiring employers to provide subsidies for contraception that violate deeply he...

  • November 9, 2018

    Ocasio-Cortez whining about not having a salary for three months to pay rent on a DC apartment

    Representative-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has a habit of wanting things that she has no idea how to pay for. Not merely government programs like single-payer nationalized healthcare (currently being re-branded as “Medicare for all”), ...

  • November 8, 2018

    Real threat to freedom of the press as mob attacks Tucker Carlson's home while CNN whines about Acosta the accoster losing White House access

    In what looks to me like a terroristic threat, a mob of about 20 Antifa thugs pounded on the door of Tucker Carlson’s house, cracking it, and issued verbal threats intended to intimidate him into silence. Allyson Chiu reports in the Washington ...

  • November 7, 2018

    MSNBC beclowned themselves handling Gillum’s loss in Florida

    The most hilarious coverage of the midterms was MSNBC’s handling of  Andrew Gillum’s losing campaign for Florida’s governorship. The 90% of the media that hates Trump and his supporters really, really wanted Andrew Gillum to wi...

  • November 7, 2018

    CNN’s Dana Bash: ‘Big heartbreaks for Democrats’

    Democrats in the political and media wings of the party are handling the election results like a kid that endlessly nagged his parents and fully expected a pony for Christmas, and only found a videogame that all his friends already have under the tre...

  • November 7, 2018

    Marijuana legalization initiatives win in Michigan, Missouri and Utah, fail in North Dakota

    Nobody has ever called Utah the vanguard of progressivism, but even in the Beehive State, voters have endorsed the use of marijuana for medical purposes.  The long term trend toward legalization of marijuana continues. Starting in Colorado and W...

  • November 7, 2018

    Trump exulting in having Nancy Pelosi as his foil

    Prior to the election, there was speculation that President Trump wanted Republicans to lose the House in order to ensure his 2020 re-election by running against the crazy House Dems, led by Nancy Pelosi, whose verbal inartfulness is already legendar...

  • November 6, 2018

    The case of the disappearing campaign issues

    You don't have to be Sherlock Holmes to figure out why certain perennial concerns hyped by the mainstream media have disappeared from the 2018 campaign cycle.  The disappearance illustrates the degeneration of the principal American mas...

  • November 6, 2018

    Dems must be worried about taking the House

    When what passes for a deep thinker among the Democrats starts making excuses for why they could fail to take a majority in the House, the odds are that they realize that the polls predicting their 85% certain success are fake news.  Oh, th...

  • November 5, 2018

    Bad news for warmists: those 'shrinking Pacific islands' are actually growing

    The constant media refrain that man-caused global warming is dooming many small Pacific islands to sink beneath rising sea levels continues, even as science – and in one case the former president of an "endangered" island – refu...

  • November 5, 2018

    CNN shocker: Jake Tapper does a great job grilling DNC chair Tom Perez

    Has CNN suddenly pulled the plug on its losing gamble of trying to be the anti-Trump network?  Or is Jake Tapper putting together a new demo tape hoping for an offer from Fox News? The cable news pioneer has languishe...

  • November 5, 2018

    Georgia secretary of state: Dems attempted to hack state's online voter registration site

    An explosive allegation rocks the election in Georgia.  Whether true or false, there will be consequences. The office of the secretary of state of Georgia, Brian Kemp, has issued two official notices of a claimed attempted hack of the st...

  • November 5, 2018

    Pelosi tells audience, 'San Francisco values, that's what we're about'

    Has Nancy Pelosi joined the GOP team anxious to scare voters away from voting for the donkey party?  The pejorative use of the expression "San Francisco values," to indicate a loss of decency, tradition, and sanity, has at least t...

  • November 4, 2018

    Brooklyn synagogue vandalism suspect a perfect exemplar of political correctness

    New York Democrats had a field day blaming President Trump for the “atmosphere” that encouraged a vile defacement of the Brooklyn synagogue – until the suspect caught on video surveillance cameras was apprehended and turned out to b...

  • November 4, 2018

    Dem candidate for Congress busted for lies about being a nurse

    Lauren Underwood, the Democrats’ candidate hoping to flip the 14th Congressional District of Illinois from incumbent Republican Randy Hultgren, has presented herself to voters as a practicing nurse, whose values are infused with the wisdom of a...

  • November 4, 2018

    Progressive privilege on display at MSNBC

    “Laws are for the little people” might as well be the motto of MSNBC correspondent Mariana Atencio. The Venezuela native, whose wealthy family was able to send her to elite Choate Rosemary Hall prep school in Connecticut, fits right into ...

  • November 3, 2018

    ‘Enemy of the people’ media agree: Trump is Hitler

    How many times has President Trump been likened to Hitler in what used to be called the mainstream media? If we limit ourselves to television, Grabien has compiled a partial answer to that question, featuring seven high profilecable news personalitie...

  • November 3, 2018

    Big union uses non-union contractor to build retirement home for scandal-plagued president

    You can smell the hypocrisy over at the United Auto Workers. Whatever idealism and legitimacy may have adhered to that union in its early days, seeking better wages and safer working conditions in the face of outright thuggery, has been lost. Unions ...

  • November 3, 2018

    ‘Women don’t lie’ meme in ruins as Grassley refers a confessed liar Kavanaugh accuser for prosecution

    The exaggerated deference and respect afforded to Professor Christine Blasey-Ford when testifying to her completely uncorroborated charge that Bret Kavanaugh attempted to rape her during high school was mostly based on the contention that “wome...

  • November 3, 2018

    Wow! New York Times NeverTrump columnist Bret Stephens comes around on Trump’s brilliance

    I was shocked reading this column (non-paywalled version here) appearing today in the New York Times, written by a true NeverTrump conservative, Bret Stephens. You may recall that Stephens left the Wall Street  Journal editorial board for member...

  • November 2, 2018

    Post-Khashoggi solidarity with Saudis: Sunni Arab states carrying out joint maneuvers

    The global outrage being whipped up over the alleged grotesque murder and dismemberment of Muslim Brotherhood agent Jamal Khashoggi (whose cover story is that he was a "journalist" who contributed columns to the Washington Post) looks very ...

  • November 2, 2018

    Blue wave BS exposed: Dems showing signs of far more stress than Republicans

    It looks as though even die-hard Democrats are not buying the media propaganda about a Blue wave sweeping them to power in the House and maybe the Senate.  If they believed Nate Silver's prediction of an 85% probability of tak...

  • November 2, 2018

    Even the New York Times recognizes Bill Clinton now a pariah in his own party

    Karma finally has caught up with Bill Clinton, more than a quarter-century after he and his wife Hillary joyfully celebrated his election victory in 1992, at the Old State House of Arkansas in Little Rock.  Now Arkansas Democrats – ev...

  • November 1, 2018

    A 3-minute dose of schadenfreude: hilarious compilation of media announcing Trump’s imminent political demise

    President Trump has accomplished a historic triumph of political jujitsu in the face of unprecedented levels of media hysteria directed against him. Unlike every other major GOP figure in my lifetime, he has not caved-in to media-generated waves of c...

  • November 1, 2018

    Intra-party civil war engulfs Missouri Dems, dooming McCaskill re-election bid

    Claire McCaskill has just been denounced as a white supremacist and worse by one of Missouri’s most prominent and popular black Democrats, almost certainly dooming her already-faltering campaign for re-election to the United States Senate. That...

  • November 1, 2018

    Trump generates media hysteria by telling the truth about telling the truth

    Honestly, I don’t know if President Trump was consciously baiting the media, or if the words that are generating pompous outrage were spontaneously and unselfconsciously expressed. Probably the latter, not that it matters, because Trump has fou...

  • October 30, 2018

    President Trump reveals plan to use executive order to end birthright citizenship for children of illegals

    Expect an explosion of media outrage and high powered lawsuits, especially in jurisdictions with Trump-hating federal judges.  President Trump has launched an October surprise. Last night in an interview granted to Jonathan Swan of Axios, Pre...

  • October 30, 2018

    Senate Dems furious they fell into Chuck Grassley’s trap on judicial confirmations

    A lot of people have underrated Chuck Grassley of Iowa, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee and point man in the ongoing reshaping of the federal judiciary, perhaps the most lasting legacy of the Trump presidency. Senator Grassley is a bit of ...

  • October 29, 2018

    Betting site odds favor GOP keeping control of House

    We've been hearing about the inevitable "blue wave" handing control of the House of Representatives to Democrats since before President Trump was inaugurated.  Maxine Waters, for one, gained the sobriquet "Auntie Maxine...

  • October 29, 2018

    Dick's Sporting Goods sued by ammo-supplier for breach of contract

    Virtue-signaling by Dick's Sporting Goods has a cost that goes beyond alienating gun-owners and Second Amendment-supporters.  When the national store announced at the end of February this year that it would no longer sell assa...

  • October 29, 2018

    No respect: Lefty protester interrupts moment of silence in memory of synagogue victims

    Trump-haters were out in force yesterday, seeking to blame Donald Trump, and by extension, all Republicans, for the horrendous shooting in Pittsburgh at Congregation Tree of Life Synagogue.  The ...

  • October 29, 2018

    Hillary teases Dems: 'I'd like to be president'

    Hillary Clinton just can't help herself.  The lust for the presidency that has animated her adult life was not extinguished by her loss to a man nobody she considers a friend predicted had even a minimal chance of defeating her. ...

  • October 29, 2018

    Brit spooks leak story that UK knew of assassination plot on Khashoggi

    The U.K. Daily Express, a tabloid newspaper that has favored Brexit and generally is conservative, has published an article based on leaks from the U.K.'s spy agency equivalent of our NSA, the British GCHQ (Government Communications Headquar...

  • October 29, 2018

    Media don't get it about Trump's rallies

    In a must-read essay at RealClearPolitics.com, Adele Malpass explains how President Trump is "transforming" the midterms through an unprecedented flurry of campaign rallies in support of his party's legislative candidates. ...

  • October 29, 2018

    Trump-haters are driving support for Trump by blaming him for actions of a Trump-hater

    Trump Derangement Syndrome is a real mental disorder, and one of its effects is the blinding of the TDS-afflicted to the way their actions affect normal people. We’re seeing this play out following the murder of 11 Jewish worshipers in Pittsbur...

  • October 28, 2018

    Media will be thwarted in efforts to swing midterms blaming Trump’s rhetoric for violent attacks

    If you have been worried – like President Trump – that the GOP will suffer for being blamed for the violence, real and attempted, of the past week, relax.  Three smart people – two of them Lefties – see beyond the huge me...

  • October 28, 2018

    Trump promises ‘destruction’ of those seeking the destruction of the Jews

    I was stunned yesterday watching live coverage of President Trump’s campaign rally in Murphrysboro, Illinois. He said something that may be the strongest statement ever delivered by an American president about the Jewish people. Trump’...

  • October 27, 2018

    Even Chris Wallace grossed out by Shep Smith blaming Trump for Sayoc

    Yesterday saw sparks fly between two Fox News anchors, as Chris Wallace called out Shepard Smith for blaming Trump for sparking the mailing of packages resembling bombs to prominent critics.  Joe Concha of The Hill,* spotted the confla...

  • October 27, 2018

    Media yawned when real ricin packages were mailed to Trump and leading Republicans a mere 4 weeks ago

    Chris Buskirk asks a key question that exposes the media's total manipulation of the news: "Why Are Fake Bombs Sent to Democrats More Shocking Than Real Ricin Packages to Republicans?" I would wager that 98% of the public doesn't...

  • October 27, 2018

    Lawyer who represented Sayoc: 'He didn't seem to have the intellectual capacity to plan a conspiracy like this in my opinion'

    Miami lawyer Ronald Lowy has represented Cesar Sayoc in some of his earlier brushes with the law, and according to The Hill, he currently represents Sayoc's family.  Lowy had a number of things to say about Sayoc that seemed to att...

  • October 27, 2018

    Bloomberg calls lefty wacko Kyrsten Sinema a 'centrist'

    On what planet does a woman who attacked mothers who stay at home to care for their children count as a centrist?  How about someone who invited a coven of witches to celebrate International Women's Day?  (Remember when Christ...

  • October 26, 2018

    Andrew McCabe, the Deep State henchman

    The process by which the FBI and Department of Justice were corrupted into serving as political attack machines for the Democrats is finally coming into focus.  In an article in The Hill that is today's read of the day, a reti...

  • October 26, 2018

    Chelsea's plan for dynastic succession comes into focus

    Three big clues tell the story of how Chelsea Clinton will be inserted into elective federal office, to head the Clinton Machine for another generation.  The vast political apparatus, assembled by Chelsea Clinton's parents, and amp...

  • October 26, 2018

    CNN’s laughable reason for shielding viewers from pictures of the invasion ‘caravan’

    The Democrats' exploding cigar that is the procession of thousands of Central Americans headed for our border is really hurting their electoral chances, so the story must be kept away from the faithful.  The worst thing a propaganda age...

  • October 25, 2018

    New York Times condemns Trump for ‘toxic environment’ right after publishing a fantasy of assassinating him

    If there were a Pulitzer Prize for hypocrisy, the New York Times would be a lock on winning it this year.  The discovery of pipe bombs sent to prominent critics of President Trump was irresistible to op-ed columnist Charles Blow: There is n...

  • October 25, 2018

    As Obama’s monument to himself in Chicago is imperiled by lawsuits, Chicago Tribune implies poor blacks will be victimized

    Barf alert! Judging by this article in the Chicago Tribune, there must be serious worries that the planned giveaway (a 99 year lease at 10 cents a year) of 19.3 acres of precious, irreplaceable lakefront Chicago park land to a private monument to for...

  • October 18, 2018

    Belfast and the poison of identity politics

    I spent yesterday in Belfast, Northern Ireland, a city that nearly destroyed itself thanks to the embrace of identity politics.  For three decades of the late twentieth century, physically indistinguishable Irish people slaughtered each oth...

  • October 15, 2018

    Stealthy Democrats running for office urged to hide their positions on immigration

    One of the most prestigious and richest progressive think-tanks is urging Democrats in competitive races to hide their real intentions from voters.  In a remarkable move, the Center for American Progress is telling Democrats running for off...

  • October 15, 2018

    Mitt Romney running away from 'NeverTrump' label

    In a telling sign that the "NeverTrump" faction of Republicans has become a joke among voters, if not among pundits, Mitt Romney, former GOP nominee for president and current nominee for senator in Utah, claimed that the label does not belo...

  • October 14, 2018

    Maxine Waters snubs Chicago’s Democrat royalty as no-show at a fundraising event that was supposed to feature her

    The entire Democrat establishment of Chicago was publicly humiliated last week after selling expensive ($200) tickets to a fundraiser in the grand ballroom of the Hilton Hotel downtown, only to have the “special guest,” Maxine Waters, mis...

  • October 13, 2018

    Hillary loses her security clearance, not with a bang but a whimper

    Compared to the media conniption fits over revocation of John Brennan's security clearance in August (Washington Post headline: "Trump revoked John Brennan's security clearance. The long-term consequences may be dire"), Hillary...

  • October 13, 2018

    Zulu king backs South African white farmers against land seizures

    South Africa's ruling party, the African National Congress, is taking steps to change that nation's constitution and permit the seizure without compensation of land owned by white farmers.  Notably, the leftists at the Southern...

  • October 13, 2018

    New York Times reportedly roiled by 'staff rebellion'

    The arch-rival of the New York Times, the New York Post, gleefully reports: The New York Times is scrambling to quell a staff rebellion at its metro desk after the section's editor, Cliff Levy, unleashed a blistering email to staffers l...

  • October 13, 2018

    Former McCain campaign official Nicolle Wallace indulges in violent anti-Trump fantasies on MSNBC air

    I have long regarded Nicolle Wallace, who was Sarah Palin's "handler" on the McCain-Palin ticket in 2008, as a turncoat.  In her book, Going Rogue, Palin accused Wallace of setting her up for an ambush in the infamous Kat...

  • October 12, 2018

    Michael Savage's Account of Political Madness Then & Now: Stop the Mass Hysteria

    Stop the Mass Hysteria: America's Insanity from the Salem Witch Trials to the Trump Witch Hunt Center Street/Hachette Book Group 305 pages, plus 30 pages of footnotes and index Michael Savage's timing could not be better in publishing hi...

  • October 12, 2018

    At last, gaffes seem to be working in the GOP's favor

    Did you grit your teeth and brace for a loss six years ago when the GOP Senate candidate in Missouri, Todd Akin, blew a chance to take away Claire McCaskill's seat with a poorly expressed comment about pregnancy rarely arising from "legitima...

  • October 12, 2018

    Trump defies DiFi and Kamala, nominating 3 Federalist Society members for Ninth Circuit

    The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals is about to become about ten percent less crazy.  President Trump has nominated three new judges for the 29-seat circuit court, over the objections of the two senators representing their home state of Cali...

  • October 11, 2018

    Eric Holder joins Republicans' get-out-the-vote effort

    Exactly four weeks before Election Day, and just as early voting kicks off in many states, the former chief law enforcement officer of the United States threatens physical violence against Republicans. In an already infamous video, Eric Holder ...

  • October 11, 2018

    Hilarious: Andrea Mitchell asks historian to debunk a Trump claim and gets an unpleasant surprise

    An odd form of hubris has overtaken Democrats in both their political and media branches.  They are so certain that President Trump is ignorant and they are smart that they march right into traps of their own devising.  Consider this face-p...

  • October 11, 2018

    Red tide rising, blue wave receding

    Evidence is accumulating that Democrats have seriously overplayed their hands in their treatment of Justice Brett Kavanaugh and their calls for violence.  This is the result of the dangerous combination of two factors: 1....

  • October 11, 2018

    Beyond parody: Media cite criticism of Trump aide Steve Miller by his third-grade teacher

    Not content with seeking dirt on Republicans from their adolescent years, Trump-haters in the media now are reaching back to the third grade to find ways to slur figures in the Trump administration.  When I joked to my wife during the Kavan...

  • October 11, 2018

    Evidence Dems are panicking over black voters: CNN panel insults Kanye West as 'negro' on eve of his White House visit

    Democrats need heavy black turnout and 90% black support in order to win elections on a national scale.  Anything that erodes either number is a mortal threat.  They must be sensing softness, if not outright desertion in the face ...

  • October 10, 2018

    Hillary unleashes the thugs

    Unless sobriety suddenly and miraculously returns to Democrats driven insane by their unexpected loss to Donald Trump, the United States is headed for a downward spiral of political violence of the sort that has destabilized democratic regimes (Weima...

  • October 10, 2018

    Stunning 85-page Google memo 'The Good Censor' leaked to Breitbart

    If you are not worried about the power of Google to shape debate and elections according to its leftist political bias, you're not paying attention.  I congratulate Breitbart.com for the scoop, and I urge everyone – I am...

  • October 9, 2018

    How War with Islam Shaped and Defined Us

    Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen centuries of war between Islam and the West by Raymond Ibrahim De Capo Press/Hachette Book Group 394 pages with notes and index Every once in a while, I come across a book that I can say changed the way I understand...

  • October 9, 2018

    Bill and Hillary Clinton launch their 'We'll never go away, Democrats!' tour

    No longer able to get half a million bucks for a brief speech before foreign interests seeking the favor of the American government, Bill and Hillary Clinton are going the concert tour route, hoping to cobble together another fortune built on selling...

  • October 9, 2018

    If Dems refuse to denounce incitement to harassment and murder, make them own it

    With Steve Scalise still needing canes to walk after surviving an attempted mass assassination of GOP congressmen; Maxine Waters loudly urging Democrats to harass Republicans whenever they venture out, even to "gasoline stations"; paid demo...

  • October 8, 2018

    Trump goes full Alinsky in the midterm race

    Fifty years after left-wing riots during the Chicago Democratic National Convention handed an election issue and victory to Richard M. Nixon, the left has handed a similar opportunity to President Trump in his efforts to maintain control of the House...

  • October 8, 2018

    Pompeo's Pyongyang visit yields agreement for inspection of key nuke site

    Step by step, Kim Jong-un is yielding concessions to the United States, building trust in his quest for relief from the sanctions crushing his regime.  Secretary of state Mike Pompeo just completed a visit to Pyongyang with another step for...

  • October 7, 2018

    The CNN headline I never thought I’d see

    A friend writes:  Here’s a CNN headline and news story I never thought I’d see: President Donald Trump’s Winning Streak (CNN)—Donald Trump may have never had a better time being President. Only a re-election...

  • October 7, 2018

    Progressive group linked with Democrat campaign organs demonizing seniors

    A new, amply-funded progressive group, linked to Democratic Party campaign organs, has decided to incite resentment from younger voters against senior citizens. This is yet another example of hyping identity group warfare as a strategy for success, t...

  • October 6, 2018

    Kavanaugh boomerang #1: Fanatical Dems finally have unified the GOP behind Trump

    See also: Kavanaugh boomerang #2: Fanatical Dems will drive away voters with over-the-top reaction from now to Nov. 6 The Democrats have not merely overplayed their hand in opposing the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh; they have provoked a reaction ...

  • October 6, 2018

    Kavanaugh boomerang #2: Fanatical Dems will drive away voters with over-the-top reaction from now to Nov. 6

    See also: Kavanaugh boomerang #1: Fanatical Dems finally have unified the GOP behind Trump Even if a few among the Democrat leadership sober up and realize that their scurrilous, cruel attacks on Judge Kavanaugh have backfired, the angry fanatics ...

  • October 5, 2018

    Trump trolls Al Franken on home turf of Minnesota, sends a message to swing vote Manchin

    President Trump loves to throw his opponents off balance, and he knows how to leverage circumstance to pressure people to make the decisions he wants from them.  Last night, speaking to an overflow crowd in Rochester, Minnesota's Mayo C...

  • October 5, 2018

    Obama Foundation is raising big bucks but hiding the identities of its mega-donors

    The planned Obama presidential library "Presidential Center" that wants to grab priceless lakefront property from taxpayers for a vast campus that amounts to a cenotaph-like monument to the wonderfulness of the 44th president of t...

  • October 5, 2018

    Harvard researchers expose the folly of wind power

    Those ugly, unreliable, heavily subsidized windmills that dot the landscape in increasing numbers not only kill millions of birds, but actually increase global warming, if you buy into the assumptions used by the warmist cult. ...

  • October 4, 2018

    2001 video shows Obama admitting being a 'thug,' fighting, drinking, drugging in high school

    The standards being applied to Judge Brett Kavanaugh's fitness for high office would have killed the presidential candidacy of Barack Obama, among other recent Democrats (Clinton and Kennedy, for starters).  Bill Clinton has adopted a l...

  • October 4, 2018

    Closed-door testimony yesterday revealed 'explosive' additional source used for FISA warrant to spy on Trump campaign

    While the nation's media are consumed with Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation, intrepid heroes Reps. Mark Meadows and Jim Jordan, leaders of the House Judiciary and Oversight and Government Reform committees, were grilling the former top lawyer o...

  • October 3, 2018

    Blasey Ford facing perjury trap?

    Today may be a day to savor.  Senator Chuck Grassley and sex crimes prosecutor Rachel Mitchell took heavy criticism in some quarters over the solicitous tone and leisurely pace of the cross-examination of Dr. Christine Blasey Ford before th...

  • October 3, 2018

    Unhinged Hillary reverts to 'deplorables' rationalization for her defeat

    Hillary Clinton is not just stuck on stupid; she is compulsively lashing out over her 2016 defeat and making life difficult for fellow Democrats.  Perhaps she has been driven slightly mad by the Gallup Poll released a few days ago showing t...

  • October 3, 2018

    Shocker: Dianne Feinstein does not want the FBI report released

    Uh-oh!  It looks as though DiFi (or as Clarice Feldman calls her, ChiFi) has an inkling that that traps may be springing and witnesses singing in ways that will not help the Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee and beyond....

  • October 2, 2018

    Website that archived Blasey Ford's high school yearbook disappears from Google-owned Blogspot

    Now that the high school days of Brett Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford are the most important issue facing Americans (according to the media, anyway), it is certainly odd that evidence of student norms at Blasey Ford's own alma mater is being...

  • October 2, 2018

    Dems' Ellison standard: Without video of alleged assault, charges are 'unsubstantiated'

    Charges of physical violence against the former girlfriend of the number-two official of the Democratic Party, Rep. Keith Ellison, have far more corroborative evidence (including a medical report and contemporaneous Facebook posts) than the charges o...

  • October 2, 2018

    NBC 'News' totally ignores Rachel Mitchell report on Blasey Ford testimony

    The five-page report prepared by Rachel Mitchell, who questioned Christine Blasey Ford during her Senate Judiciary Committee appearance, is devastating to the witness's credibility, cataloguing her changing story, curious lapses of memo...

  • October 2, 2018

    Blasey Ford's double door doubletalk

    My online friend Tom Lipscomb has provided important new information on the second door added to Christine Blasey Ford's house, which she told the Senate Judiciary Committee was the cause of a couple's dispute that led to therapy, during whic...

  • October 1, 2018

    More winning! North and South Korea begin removing mines from the DMZ

    President Trump's historic initiative on Korea continues to confound critics and succeed in easing tensions and working toward de-nuclearization, and ultimately open relations and re-unification.  Hours ago, both North and South Korean ...

  • October 1, 2018

    Even more winning! China announces tariff cuts on 'wide range of products'

    No doubt, Trump-haters will portray this move by China as minor and meaningless, for they cannot admit any success on the part of the 45th president of the United States.  And so far, details are lacking, but this bulletin from Reuters...

  • October 1, 2018

    New York Times finally admits how Obama screwed up the economy in 2016

    Calling it "The Most Important Least-Noticed Economic Event of the Decade," the New York Times finally acknowledges the degree to which Barack Obama's policies were strangling business investment in his final year in office....

  • October 1, 2018

    New Gallup poll reveals surge in voter enthusiasm

    Gallup has some bad news for Democrats counting on a "blue wave."  We already know that Trump-haters are fired up, and predictions of a "blue wave" rest on the assumption that Democrats, more than Republicans, will be mo...

  • October 1, 2018

    Kavanaugh, kompromat, and the ruling class

    With the inquisition of Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s adolescence and high school yearbook a precedent, a serious question arises: Has the #MeToo movement ushered in an era in which the childhood foibles people appointed or elected to significant ...

  • September 30, 2018

    Frenzied Left stooping to homophobia to bash Kavanaugh supporter Lindsey Graham

    Remember when making fun of people because you thought they might be secretly homosexual was considered a bad thing by leftists?  That was back when a “right of privacy” was imputed to the Constitution (right there in the penumbra, a...

  • September 30, 2018

    Watch that new border wall going up where it is needed most

    Congress still refuses to fund a complete border wall, but that isn’t stopping the king of construction, Donald J. Trump, from delivering the goods where it is needed most.  The El Paso Times has provided an entertaining and interesting vi...

  • September 29, 2018

    Despicable USA Today slurs Kavanaugh as possible pedophile

    The campaign of personal destruction unleashed on Judge Brett Kavanaugh is revealing the depths to which the Democrats and their journalistic handmaidens have fallen. Wait a minute!  They haven't fallen, they have leaped...into an ab...

  • September 29, 2018

    Fake news: American Bar Association did not call on Senate to delay confirmation vote for another FBI investigation of Kavanaugh

    The Democrat-media complex pulled off another fake news psy-op yesterday, spreading the lie that the American Bar Association has thrown its considerable institutional weight behind the Democrats' demand to delay confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh t...

  • September 29, 2018

    Terry Moran of ABC News cozies up to sedition

    People in responsible positions, such as "chief foreign correspondent" of ABC News, owe their employers the duty of acting and speaking responsibly and lawfully, avoiding anything remotely related to or that could be construed as advocating...

  • September 29, 2018

    Only the naïve would have no suspicions that a trap lies behind the demand for a renewed FBI investigation of the charges against Kavanaugh

    Roger L. Simon of PJ Media raises an excellent question about the now-requested FBI investigation of the charges of Prof. Ford against Judge Kavanaugh: Can We Trust the FBI? Roger wonders, as I do, if Lisa Page, Peter Strzok. Andrew McCabe and Jam...

  • September 28, 2018

    Kavanaugh and Graham used political jiu-jitsu on the Judiciary Committee Dems

    It was gratifying to see that Judge Kavanaugh and Senator Lindsey Graham followed the strategy I recommended yesterday morning in "It's jiu-jitsu time on the Kavanaugh accusations."  The two salient points I made wer...

  • September 27, 2018

    It’s jiu-jitsu time on the Kavanaugh accusations

    As desperate people intoxicated by early success are wont to do, the Democrat opponents of Judge Kavanaugh's appointment to the Supreme Court have overplayed their hand.  We've seen something very like this happen before. Secure ...

  • September 26, 2018

    Murkowski backs away from supporting an FBI investigation of charges against Kavanaugh

    This looks like a straw in the wind, a repositioning by one of the key wobbly senators who could torpedo Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court. After seeming to tell national media she would support an FBI investigation i...

  • September 26, 2018

    Kirsten Gillibrand won't confirm Kavanaugh, but confirms that she is an idiot

    I confess that I have always found Senator Kirsten Gillibrand to be a vacuous politician, someone who blows with the wind, seeks shallow advantage, and lacks good judgment.  But last night, speaking on MSNBC, where she has no reason to worr...

  • September 26, 2018

    Oops! Arizona Dem Senate candidate Krysten Sinema caught lying about her past

    The race to replace retiring Arizona senator Jeff Flake has been polling as a statistical tie.  Until now, at least.  Republican candidate Rep. Martha McSally has an incredible life story to tell, with 26 years of s...

  • September 25, 2018

    Yale Law School professors teaching an odd lesson

    Yale Law School graduates are considered the elite of the elite (though Harvard Law School would dispute that title), even though the school famously does not emphasize the actual practice of law.  Yale Law's much smaller size means tha...

  • September 25, 2018

    Yes, I believe in science, but not all scientists

    One of the most annoying slanders of conservatives by leftists is the claim that we do not believe in science.  In my Berkeley neighborhood full of virtue-signaling progressives, I walk by this proclamation implying that science is part of ...

  • September 25, 2018

    Fox News interview shows that the Kavanaugh family are the real victims

    The blowback begins. The entire appeal of the assault on Brett Kavanaugh's character has been based on the left's adherence to the ideology of victimology.  In any political situation, there are oppressors and victims, and "...

  • September 24, 2018

    Mazie Hirono gives away the game

    Senator Mazie Hirono leaped out of obscurity onto the national stage with her startling injunction to "the men of this country" to "shut up and step up ... do the right thing ... for a change" and (presumably) believe the complete...

  • September 23, 2018

    Liberal Pope Francis has lost the most important liberal weekly in Europe

    You might think that the enthusiastic support Pope Francis has offered for environmentalism, open borders, and the normalization of homosexual behavior would buy him support from liberal media. But Der Spiegel, the most important weekly magazine in E...

  • September 23, 2018

    Is Google antisemitic?

    On the surface, the question seems ridiculous. Both of Google’s founders, Sergey Brin and Larry Page reportedly are ethnically Jews.  Page’s mother was Jewish, according to this biography, while Brin’s family is widely reported...

  • September 22, 2018

    Twelve points to keep in mind on the NYT’s Rosenstein ‘wear a wire’ and invoke 25th Amendment story

    The New York Times lobbed a hand grenade yesterday, with its story claiming: The deputy attorney general, Rod J. Rosenstein, suggested last year that he secretly record President Trump in the White House to expose the chaos consuming the adminis...

  • September 21, 2018

    Internal Google documents reveal discussions of biasing search results against Trump travel ban

    It must be heady to be a senior executive at Google, the fabulously profitable king of Silicon Valley, and the biggest source of information in the world.  Tucker Carlson (below) calls it "the most powerful company in the history of th...

  • September 20, 2018

    Chicago City Council to vet deal today leasing 19.3 acres of lakefront park land for Obama Presidential Center for 10 cents a year for 99 years

    The rush to build a personal monument to Barack Obama in Chicago hit a snag Monday, as the clearing of trees from a Chicago park to facilitate construction was halted. Lynn Sweet of the Chicago Sun-Times reported: The city and Chica...

  • September 20, 2018

    Woman who claimed she knew of Kavanaugh incident backs off, dummies up

      Opponents of the Kavanaugh nomination were exultant for a while yesterday over a tweet from a woman named Cristina King Miranda, who claimed she went to Holton-Arms, the private high school attended by Christine Blasey, and that "the i...

  • September 20, 2018

    Fast times at Holton-Arms High when Christine Blasey Ford was a student there

    Since high school keg parties at the elite prep schools attended by Brett Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey are now a matter of consuming interest to the Democrat-media complex, it is perhaps telling that the high school yearbooks of Holton-Arms, the sc...

  • September 19, 2018

    Is the Democrats' Ford gambit falling apart already?

    Senator Dianne Feinstein, the very solon who made public the accusation of a juvenile assault by Judge Brett Kavanaugh three and half decades ago, yesterday admitted doubt as to the "truthfulness" of the accuser and may have doomed the effo...

  • September 18, 2018

    President Trump orders rapid declassification and release of FISA warrant and FBI texts

    Like a fabulously successful reality TV producer who saves the dramatic climax of his series for sweeps week, President Trump has pulled the trigger on declassification and release of unredacted documents and text messages previously hidden from publ...

  • September 17, 2018

    Kavanaugh's accuser recovered her memory at the time Dems were panicked Romney would win and nominate him to SCOTUS

    Bookworm has noticed an odd coincidence: after telling no one her story about the alleged incident for decades, she suddenly remembered and spoke about it in couples' therapy in 2012, when leftists perceived the possibility that Mitt Romney,...

  • September 17, 2018

    Dem candidate for Georgia governor hiding identities of million-dollar donors

    Remember when Democrats claimed they were against "dark money"?  That stance is so yesterday when it comes to Stacey Abrams, their nominee for governor of Georgia, who it is hoped by Dems will become the first black female governo...

  • September 17, 2018

    Sen. Flake wants to delay a vote on Kavanaugh

    NeverTrump Senator Jeff Flake, so unpopular in Arizona that he declined to run for re-election, may become the enabler of the Senate Democrats' plan to delay a confirmation vote on Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court until after...

  • September 16, 2018

    After Rahm, Chicago may revert to the Daley Dynasty

    Chicagoans already have been able to talk about their “Mayor Daley” for 42 years, considering the 10 two-year terms served by Richard J. Daley, and the 11 terms served by his son, Richard M. (“Richie”) Daley. But now, a new ...

  • September 16, 2018

    Best-selling book on Islam has ignited firestorm in German media

    The German and European media establishment is outraged that a prominent business and political leader has written a best-selling book warning against problems with Islamic religious doctrine.  The criticisms, which are pervasive, seem to amount...

  • September 16, 2018

    Why the Russia hoax is a constitutional crisis

    Mark Wauck, retired FBI agent and AT contributor, has written an important essay on the true dimensions of the Russia hoax, on his blog Meaning in History. Building on Andrew McCarthy’s close analysis of the redacted FISA warrants two days ago....

  • September 15, 2018

    Bill Maher on new Kavanaugh misconduct allegation: ‘I think it makes us look bad’

    Senator Dianne Feinstein’s last ditch attempt to derail the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh is laughable on multiple levels. An anonymous accuser making a vague accusation of a sex-related crime on an uncertain date more than ...

  • September 15, 2018

    Move over fake news: Stupidity of TV hurricane coverage revealed in ‘fake weather’ live shot

    The latest hilarious reveal of TV news fakery drives home the point that what the public sees on its TV screens is a show – entertainment designed to capture and hold an audience by playing to its fears and passions. President Trump, the master...

  • September 15, 2018

    Manafort indictment implicates Dem bigshots Tony Podesta and Greg Craig

    When a foreign country seeks influence-peddlers in Washington, DC, the smart ones buy-up  connections-for-hire merchants on both sides of the aisle. Those of us following the prosecution of Paul Manafort have realized that in 2012 he worked in t...

  • September 15, 2018

    Sad and pathetic: Delusional Bill Kristol prepares ‘war machine’ to challenge Trump for 2020 GOP nomination

    Swamp fever has taken a toll on a number of DC-dwelling conservative pundits and driven them mad.  They seem to be competing with each other to see who can bark at the moon loudest. There’s Jennifer Rubin, who has excoriated Trump for taki...

  • September 14, 2018

    Joe DiGenova: Latest Strzok-Page texts reveal criminal and civil liability of many officials – 'they are going down'

    The former U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, Joe DiGenova, knows what he is talking about when it comes to legal liability, and he has the guts to lay out in straight talk what really happened with the conspiracy to swing a presidential ele...

  • September 14, 2018

    Obama's monument to himself covertly grabbing $244 million of Illinois taxpayers' money for 'privately funded' project

    Barack Obama announced that he would not have a federally funded presidential library, but instead would rely on private money paid to the Obama Foundation to build a "presidential center" that may or may not have any books (we still don...

  • September 13, 2018

    Sociology professor shoots himself to 'protest Trump'

    Trump Derangement Syndrome is now a public health issue, with sufferers of this new form of mass hysteria manifesting a danger to society with violent aggression and extreme self-destructive behavior.  Yesterday, we noted the alleged...

  • September 13, 2018

    Lame duck Rahm Emanuel embraces the 'Universal Basic Income' fantasy

    So-called "Universal Basic Income" (UBI) is the new shiny object of progressive elites, a means of signaling their own virtue while intending to win the political allegiance of those unable or unwilling to provide for themselves. ...

  • September 13, 2018

    Sidney Blumenthal: Bob Woodward has been an 'FBI asset' since Deep Throat

    It's déjà vu all over again, in Yogi Berra's memorable expression: senior unelected FBI officials conspiring with the Washington Post and New York Times to drive a Republican president from office. Kudos to Jim Hoft of Gatewa...

  • September 13, 2018

    GOP finally going for the jugular in key congressional race to pick up a Dem-held seat

    Is it possible that the "stupid party" has wised up?  There is at least one good sign that the old-fashioned country club approach to politics, where being a good loser is more important than being a nasty winner, is history....

  • September 12, 2018

    Frontpagemag.com's editor Jamie Glazov banned from Facebook on 9/11 for writing about how to prevent another 9/11

    The social media giants don't seem to be backing away from the exclusion of conservative voices.  Instead, the strategy may be to wear us down, continuing a steady stream of bans.  When the outrage is blatant, they may back do...

  • September 12, 2018

    Cries of 'racism!' over newspaper editorial cartoon mocking Serena Williams's tantrum

    I came to the conclusion decades ago that the cartoonist's artistic device of caricature was virtually off limits when it comes African-Americans and other victim groups as designated by the left.  Caricature seizes on some recognizable...

  • September 12, 2018

    The actual number of illegal aliens appears to be far larger than previously understood

    The most common number offered by our media for the number of people living here illegally seems to be about 12 million.  Factcheck.org, published by the  Annenberg Public Policy Center, purporting to be a neutral and objective so...

  • September 12, 2018

    Attempted murder of GOP candidate for Congress narrowly foiled

    The extreme hatred for President Trump and Republicans being unceasingly spewed from the left is having its inevitable result, with an attempted murder of a candidate for Congress that was averted only by the faulty equipment employed by the assassin...

  • September 11, 2018

    Newly released texts reveal Strzok and Page conspired to release information intended to damage Trump on Russiagate

    The Department of Justice is taking its own sweet time releasing information "requested" (not demanded) by House committees investigating the handling of Russiagate by the DoJ and its agency, the FBI.  The latest batch of informat...

  • September 11, 2018

    Tucker Carlson busts open Google conspiracy to swing election to Hillary

    Last night, Tucker Carlson broke an explosive story featuring internal Google documents indicating that the company made a "silent donation" – its own term – to the Hillary Clinton campaign by using its information channeling mi...

  • September 10, 2018

    At long last, here come the declassified FISA warrants (and more)

    We've known for almost a month that, according to Joe DiGenova, the process of declassification has been underway for the FISA warrants that enabled spying on the Trump campaign, along with other documents related to the Russiagate fraud....

  • September 10, 2018

    #MeToo meets corporate intrigue as CEO Les Moonves booted out of CBS

    Mere hours after publication of Ronan Farrow's article alleging that six women were assaulted or harassed by CBS CEO and chairman Leslie Moonves, the company announced his departure, effective immediately.  CBS News repor...

  • September 10, 2018

    In effort to defend families, Italy plans to ban Sunday shopping

    I am all for encouraging family solidarity and social policies that support family cohesion.  But the populist coalition governing Italy may be making a big mistake in trying to ban Sunday shopping there. Reuters reports: The n...

  • September 10, 2018

    China bans prominent 'illegal' underground church in Beijing

    For many years, I have been hearing glowing accounts of thriving "underground" Christian churches in China, congregations that do not register and affiliate with state-controlled religious organizations – the Chinese Patriotic Ca...

  • September 10, 2018

    Fading star power of Obama draws only 750 people for kickoff rally of his election campaigning

    Gone are the heady days when Barack Obama could fill a stadium with his followers.  Like a former sitcom star now doing dinner theater performances, he is self-relegated to lesser venues and smaller crowds.  On Saturday, at what...

  • September 9, 2018

    The uncomfortable truth: Haj pilgrims to Mecca and the spread of illnesses

    Simply raising this topic is almost certain to be denounced as “Islamophobia,” but disease vectors don’t care about theology.  In the past week, there were two health scares at major US airports with passengers quarantined on a...

  • September 9, 2018

    Obama’s disgraced Secret Service head spotted working for disgraced Cardinal Wuerl

    Journalist George Neumayr asks the question of the morning: “Why is Obama’s Secret Service head working for Cardinal Wuerl?” Recall that Cardinal Wuerl was the former Archbishop of Pittsburgh named in the Pennsylvania Grand Jury ...

  • September 9, 2018

    Why Obama deserves a little credit for the Trump Boom, and why the Democrats will never admit it

    It is actually pathetic that Barack Obama is trying to claim credit for the Trump Boom that began with the stock market jumping the moment Trump’s election was clear, and which has continued to generate jobs – especially the manufacturing...

  • September 8, 2018

    News Corp Australia asks government competition watchdog there to recommend Google be broken up

    Rupert Murdoch's media empire has launched an attack on Google on the Australian flank of the global giant's operations. John Rolfe of the News Corp Australia Network (behind paywall, but readable here): AUSTRALIA'S competiti...

  • September 8, 2018

    American media ignore a significant geostrategic victory over China

    A quiet victory was just won in the South Pacific, but our media were too busy covering the putative bravery of Spartacus of Newark to even notice.  Amid all the hype over Russia's supposed threats to our global standing, China, with al...

  • September 8, 2018

    DNC lawyers say Joseph Mifsud, who set up Papadopoulos and had close ties to Russia, may be dead

    "Dead men tell no tales" is the motto of ruthless and bloodthirsty miscreants throughout history.  And if the court papers filed by lawyers for the Democratic National Committee are correct, we will never hear what London-based Pr...

  • September 7, 2018

    NYT was caught in 2011 calling an anonymous source (who turned out to be an intern) a 'senior official'

    The anonymously written New York Times op-ed purporting to be written by a "senior official in the Trump administration" was artfully written to suggest that the author is Cabinet-level.  Senator Elizabeth Warren se...

  • September 7, 2018

    Cory Booker goes full drama queen with 'I am Spartacus' moment

    Senator Cory Booker had already scripted what he hoped would be his break-out moment in yesterday's confirmation hearings for Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court, so he wasn't going to let facts get in the way of TV exposure...

  • September 7, 2018

    WaPo reports a grand jury is investigating Andrew McCabe

    It turns out that Attorney General Jeff Sessions has not been asleep at the wheel of the Department of Justice, allowing Robert Mueller to be the only federal prosecutor investigating the potential criminality around the 2016 election.  New...

  • September 7, 2018

    Justin Trudeau vows no trade deal with US that 'doesn't continue exemptions for Canada's cultural industries'

    Justin Trudeau has taken a stand that Canadian media must remain off-limits to U.S. investment.  The Globe & Mail reports (behind a paywall, via Conservative Tree House): The prime minister also said his government w...

  • September 6, 2018

    On his way out of office, Rahm Emanuel is hobbling Chicago cops with consent decree he previously fought

    Having presided over Chicago's descent into rampant crime, "wilding" attacks by "urban youths" in the city's prime shopping districts,  and a murder rate that shocks Baghdadis, Rahm Emanuel pulled the ripcor...

  • September 6, 2018

    New GOP video ad goes for the Dems' jugular

    Such is the divided state of politics today that each party seeks to portray the other as a mortal threat.  For the Democrats, it is all about fantasies of Trump as Putin's puppet or a crazy man out of control (which kind of puts Putin ...

  • September 5, 2018

    Dem big-city primary voters once more say, 'Bye-bye, white boys!'

    A second big-city Democrat House district has ousted a white male ten-term incumbent progressive in favor of a minority woman.  Representative Michael Capuano, who just lost the Democratic primary in the Seventh Congressional District of Ma...

  • September 5, 2018

    South Africa 'unexpectedly' slides into recession as agricultural production plummets in wake of plans to seize white-owned farmland

    Gee, who could have possibly anticipated that threatening to steal (that is, expropriate without compensation) land from farmers who have worked it for generations would cause farmers to cut back on planting, cultivating, harvesting, or shipping crop...

  • September 4, 2018

    Did Nike make a huge NFL-like mistake embracing Colin Kaepernick?

    Is there business logic for Nike embracing Colin Kaepernick? I think there is, for the NFL and athletic shoe business are very different. In the conservative blogosphere, on Fox News, and among my friends, the name of Nike has been forever damaged...

  • September 3, 2018

    Report: Iran’s Foreign Minister Zarif tells parliament regime has worked closely with Soros’s Open Society Foundations

    If this report from Israel National News is correct, the Axis of Evil has a new non-state member, George  Soros and his network of Open Society Foundations. Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Zarif said Sunday that the Iranian government has...

  • September 3, 2018

    How much backlash will there be to the 8 days of McCainapalooza?

    I don’t know about you, but when the video coverage of the death of Senator John McCain began a week ago Saturday, I reached satiation well before the live coverage concluded with his burial at the United States Naval Academy. Yes, he was a bra...

  • September 2, 2018

    The trial that will ‘tear Chicago apart’ starts this week

    Chicago may be on its way to its own version of the Rodney King beating trial. If the name of the defendant whose trial begins after the holiday weekend, Jason Van Dyke, doesn’t ring a bell, perhaps the name of his alleged victim will: Laquan M...

  • September 2, 2018

    Sunday Schadenfreude: The Associated Press

    With President Trump always eager to point out new varieties of fake news, the Associated Press, the nation’s largest single source of news content, has lobbed a slow softball over the Oval Office plate for him. And it has done so in a way that...

  • September 1, 2018

    No sign of California Democrats boycotting In-N-Out Burger yesterday

    Yesterday, I promised readers that I would go to an In-N-Out Burger restaurant to check out the public reaction to the call to boycott the chain by the chair of the California Democratic Party.  I chose to drive to Hayward, California, a ra...

  • August 31, 2018

    Aussie ambassador singing Trump's praises, predicts he will be re-elected

    According the Democrats and 90% of the American media, President Trump is a bull in a china shop when it comes to diplomacy, an imminent danger to world peace, and isolating the United States from its traditional allies.  Oddly enough, thei...

  • August 31, 2018

    Head of Calif Dem Party foolishly asks people to choose between party loyalty and In-N-Out Burgers

    Trump Derangement Syndrome blows up in the face of Democrats, once again.   California's far-left progressives dominate the Democratic Party and love to ban things.  Foie gras, plastic straws, and large containers of sugary...

  • August 30, 2018

    Washington Post uses despicable old MSM trick to falsely impugn Trump

    The D.C. establishment and its media handmaidens are dedicated to a narrative that Donald Trump is a racist who hates all the putative victim groups lionized by the left's identity politics fixation.  They reinforce that narrative every...

  • August 30, 2018

    A last-ditch effort to pull California back from the brink

    I fully understand the hatred and contempt many, if not most, conservatives feel toward California.  A state blessed with so many advantages has surrendered to left-wing madness and, worst of all, pretends it has something to teach the rest...

  • August 29, 2018

    Ohr speaks! (Behind closed doors)

    You can almost smell the fear in the Get Trump camp that Bruce Ohr might be the thread that could be pulled to unravel the conspiracy of high-ranking officials to spy on the Trump campaign and then, after the election, put into action the "insur...

  • August 28, 2018

    Mexico deal shows Trump's trade strategy succeeding brilliantly

    President Trump is following through on his promise to restructure the framework of U.S. foreign trade, and his strategy looks brilliant.  The deal he just negotiated with Mexico, leaving Canada on the sidelines, is described as a win-win p...

  • August 28, 2018

    Lanny Davis and Michael Cohen have gotten themselves into a big mess trying to damage Trump

    I don't recall seeing a Beltway establishment insider of the standing of Lanny Davis ever walking back two claims he made to media as an anonymous source.  And I can't think of a single instance in which a major media outlet, in thi...

  • August 28, 2018

    Federal judges doing their part to swing the House majority to Democrats

    A three-judge panel in the U.S. District Court in the Middle District of North Carolina has issued a decision declaring that the congressional district boundaries drawn by the state are unconstitutional. The General Assembly expressly ...

  • August 27, 2018

    NBC's Chuck Todd blames distrust of media on 'conservative echo chamber,' not 'fact'

    There are two shocking things about the statement Chuck Todd blurted out yesterday on Meet the Press, the flagship NBC News program he hosts.  One is that he said it, and the other is that he probably believes it. The video is below....

  • August 27, 2018

    China reportedly is funding American progressive think-tanks

    "Collusion," anyone?  Bill Gertz of the Free Beacon reports on the efforts, directed at the highest level of the Chinese government, to shape our politics: China's Communist Party is intensifying covert influenc...

  • August 27, 2018

    CNN's media critic ignores his own network's false story this week about Michael Cohen

    Apparently, CNN believes in the memory hole when it comes to its own anti-Trump reports that are later discredited.  Brian Stelter, the former New York Times media writer who moved to CNN and hosts the weekly Sunday program examining the me...

  • August 27, 2018

    Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez becoming the poster girl for progressive hypocrisy and ignorance

    For the moment, the Democrats continue to treat the glamour girl of the left, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, as a serious candidate, heedless of the damage she is doing to the progressive cause.  Her willingness to shoot off her mouth works fine...

  • August 27, 2018

    Pity the Trump-haters: NAFTA triumph seems to be looming

    Bloomberg's report this morning is great news for America and terrible news for Trump-haters from both parties.  Eric Martin and Jennifer Jacobs write: The U.S. and Mexico are poised to resolve their bilateral Nafta difference...

  • August 26, 2018

    R.I.P. John McCain

    The passing of Senator John McCain has united the nation’s political and media voices in praise of his heroism, sacrifice, and dedication to service of the nation. His family deserves our sympathy and consideration in this most difficult moment...

  • August 26, 2018

    Reports of the death of the GOP congressional majorities are greatly exaggerated

    Two hopeful signs, amidst a tidal wave of media predictions of doom for the Republican congressional majorities next November, have received little notice this past week. I think it is obvious that the 90% of the media operating as adjuncts of the De...

  • August 25, 2018

    Palestinian fury as Trump admin cuts $200 million in aid

    The Palestinian Authority and Hamas have suspended talks with the U.S. in the wake of the opening of our Jerusalem embassy, but money still talks.  The Trump administration has just used a funding cut as a way of telling them that thei...

  • August 25, 2018

    Rahm Emanuel poses with a youth flashing a gang sign

    Let's chalk this up to reckless pandering.  Chicago voters go to the polls next February, and Rahm Emanuel is so panicked that he's a little too eager to pose with a potential black voter.  A gentleman who identifies himse...

  • August 24, 2018

    Pelosi mocks coal, West Virginia in rambling, incoherent presentation

    I bet that Senator Joe Manchin is not the only Democrat grinding his teeth over the latest spectacle Nancy Pelosi has made of herself.  The syntax-challenged speaker-wannabe allowed her mouth to get ahead of her brain when on stage at the P...

  • August 24, 2018

    Australia's Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull out of office over foisting expensive 'green' power on his nation

    Devotion to the global warming fraud has driven from office the head of government of a major democracy.  Facing a no confidence vote from the Liberal Party (which is actually what passes for a conservative party in Australia – the La...

  • August 24, 2018

    MSNBC stokes viewers' hopes for Senate conviction of Trump impeachment with false information – two days in a row

    The kindest thing that you can say about MSNBC’s stunning example of fake news is that they are heedless about the information they put on air, and that the people who do their graphics don’t pay attention to what their anchors say (gener...

  • August 23, 2018

    Spot the companies that oppose your values

    Owing to the dominance of leftists throughout academia and the media, many corporations have caved in to, or willingly adopted, the values of the progressive left.  Institutions respond to other institutions more than to individuals, which ...

  • August 23, 2018

    Facebook apparently identifying posts with conservative content as spam

    It looks as though Facebook has altered its algorithms overnight so that people posting conservative content receive a notice from Facebook that it looks like "spam" and has been declined.  Overnight, we have heard from many people abo...

  • August 22, 2018

    MSNBC panelist labels Mollie Tibbetts a 'girl in Iowa' 'Fox News is talking about'

    See also: Press mocks the murder of Mollie Tibbetts soon as it became an illegal alien story Pay no attention to that that beautiful young girl who was always smiling in the photographs seen in our media!  She's just a distracti...

  • August 22, 2018

    Thanks to Michael Cohen guilty plea, midterms are now a national referendum on impeachment

    The Trump-haters' project to unseat a duly elected president of the United States now has a specific (and phony) "high crime and misdemeanor" on which to launch impeachment.  An impeachment vote is all but certain if Demo...

  • August 22, 2018

    Obama-appointed federal judge removed from all his criminal cases

    After weeks of progressive fulminations against Judge T.S. Ellis over his handling of the just completed trial of Paul Manafort, a federal judge has been removed from all his criminal cases.  To the dismay of those on the left, he...

  • August 21, 2018

    GOP hanging Keith Ellison's #MeToo problem around the necks of Dem House candidates in Minnesota

    Control of the House of Representatives next term may well hinge on Minnesota, where the GOP has a rare opportunity to pick up some seats.  Minnesota Democrats have just chosen to embrace Keith Ellison, the nation's first Muslim co...

  • August 21, 2018

    Trump trolls ex-CIA CNN analyst Phillip Mudd, who went berserk on air

    President Trump, the most successful reality television producer in the history of the medium, knows how to spot a compelling villain, and now he has provoked the Deep-Staters into defending the indefensible.  When several conservative writ...

  • August 21, 2018

    100,000 Iranians take to the streets, chanting 'death to the dictator' as economy tanks in wake of Trump sanctions

    An overthrow of the mullahs' regime in Tehran would be a game-changer in the Middle East and a triumph for President Trump's foreign policy.  But perhaps by now you are as wary as I am of predictions of the imminent fall of the mull...

  • August 20, 2018

    Watch as ex-CIA analyst falls victim to Trump Derangement Syndrome, goes berserk on CNN

    We now have a visual depiction of the onset of a Trump Derangement Syndrome episode, causing a presumably serious person to lose self-control.  If the psychology and psychiatry professions were not so politicized and left-wing, it could be ...

  • August 20, 2018

    #MeToo's second act is another disaster for the left

    I watched with great amusement as #MeToo exposed the hypocrisy of the Democrats when it comes to feminist issues.  Harvey Weinstein's alleged behavior is as gross as the financial donations to the Clintons and other Democrats were huge....

  • August 20, 2018

    Trump changes US policy: 'Conserving oil no longer an economic imperative'

    In terms of its effect on the lives of Americans, as well as the economy, the change of U.S. policy announced by the Trump administration last month to almost no media attention is a big deal.  Ellen Knickmeyer of the Associated Press...

  • August 20, 2018

    Prominent Democrat encouraging the assassination of Trump

    Forget about excusing this as "only a joke."  Jokes are a well recognized means of expressing hostility while pretending not to.  We have already seen a Bernie Bro attempt to assassinate a number of Congressional Republi...

  • August 20, 2018

    Al Sharpton face-plants as he tries to honor Aretha Franklin

    Were he not responsible for inciting a pogrom in Crown Heights in which Jews were randomly attacked by roaming mobs, and inciting a mob to burn down a Harlem store owned by a Jewish "white interloper," killing seven people, n...

  • August 19, 2018

    NY Times columnist says Trump ‘would certainly like to’ murder people without due process

    Sarah Jeong may not be the craziest, most irresponsible, editorialist at the New York Times. Her new colleague, NYT opinion writer Michelle Goldberg, fancies herself able to read the malicious thoughts in President Trump’s mind and tell us what...

  • August 19, 2018

    Joe DiGenova: Process is underway declassifying documents

    Former US Attorney for DC Joseph DiGenova is one of the smartest, most energetic, and clearest-thinking lawyers on the conservative side. He knows what he is talking about, and he doesn’t mince words. The video of him speaking for 12 minutes wi...

  • August 19, 2018

    Democrats’ embrace of Keith Ellison implicitly rebukes #MeToo mob frenzy

    Feminists who demanded the ouster of former Senator Al Franken and their victim, Franken himself, must both be seething over Minnesota Democrats endorsing Congressman Keith Ellison for that state’s attorney general. Franken was driven from o...

  • August 18, 2018

    Fourth instance of mob violence this year shuts down Chicago's fanciest shopping district

    Business interests and police are doing their best to minimize attention to the slide into mob rule of the streets in Chicago's nicest, most famous neighborhood.  But shoppers, tourists, and ordinary working Joes and Janes can no longer...

  • August 18, 2018

    Rahm Emanuel tells the truth about Chicago violence and gets fierce blowback

    Chicago's mayor evidently forgot one of the iron laws of the Democratic Party: no members of any victim class can be held responsible for any problems that result from their behavior.  The ever expanding list of victim classes has grown...

  • August 18, 2018

    Spoof comic claims authorship of NY Times op-ed: 'How Can I Cure My White Guilt?'

    I don't know if the New York Times was hoaxed by a by a comedian pretending to be ridiculously P.C. about collective "white guilt," and it almost doesn't matter.  The fact that the New York Times published this op-ed...

  • August 18, 2018

    NY governor Andrew Cuomo finally recants on 'America was never that great'

    Four days after he disdainfully uttered the words "America was never that great" from a podium before an audience of feminists, Andrew Cuomo recanted the offensive declaration.  Despite two days of intense blowback, Cuomo was not ...

  • August 17, 2018

    Surprising support for Trump yanking Brennan's security clearance

    This may be a sign that the tide is turning and the cabal that conspired to fix the 2016 presidential election and then, when that failed, remove Trump from office is going to be exposed and ultimately held to account.  As the Democrats and...

  • August 17, 2018

    Security clearance was stripped from Pentagon analyst who questioned lavish contracts for Stefan Halper

    Where is the media and Democrat outrage over the loss of security clearance for the Pentagon analyst who had the temerity to question the large sums of money being paid to Stefan Halper, the informant who played a key role in apparently setting up Ge...

  • August 17, 2018

    Keith Ellison appears to threaten to 'destroy' ex-girlfriend over claim of physical abuse

    Congressman and DNC deputy chair Keith Ellison has a #MeToo problem that became public last weekend, three days before Minnesota Democrats elected him to become their party's nominee for attorney general.  The son of a former girlfriend...

  • August 17, 2018

    Couple pay with their lives for embrace of progressive delusions

    This is a "tragedy" in the original Greek dramatic understanding: people undone by their fatal flaw, based on pride. Benny Johnson reports in the Daily Caller: An American couple decided to bicycle around the world in an attemp...

  • August 16, 2018

    300 newspapers publish the same anti-Trump editorial today

    Today marks another milepost on the funeral march of the American newspaper industry.  Has there ever before been such a mass demonstration of self-unawareness as the collective expression of outrage this morning by the editorial boards of ...

  • August 16, 2018

    NY governor Andrew Cuomo: America 'was never that great'

    Thanks to the election of President Trump, we are in the midst of a process I call "the great unmasking."  American leftists and progressives have, until President Trump, gone out of their way to hide their disdain for this countr...

  • August 16, 2018

    John Brennan's security clearance finally pulled

    Today's leftist apoplexy focuses on the removal of former CIA director John Brennan's security clearance, announced yesterday afternoon by Sarah Sanders.  As AT readers know well, Brennan has been a hysterical critic of President Tr...

  • August 16, 2018

    Uh-oh! Elon Musk subpoenaed by the SEC

    I have always wondered whether Elon Musk is a hero or a hustler.  Or maybe both (like Thomas Edison).  Now, the flamboyant inventor-entrepreneur recipient of vast federal subsidies faces a powerful and unforgiving regulator. ...

  • August 16, 2018

    Dem senators cave and agree to meet with Kavanaugh

    The #Resistance to the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court by refusing the traditional one-on-one interview is crumbling before our eyes, leaving Chuck Schumer looking silly, petty, and ineffectual.  Trump Derangement S...

  • August 16, 2018

    Transgendered Dem nominee for Vermont governor is an anti-Christian bigot

    Democrat primary voters in Vermont have a handed a turnout-driver for Republicans nationwide by nominating Christine Hallquist, a man who pretends he is a woman (known for the moment as a "transgender woman") for governor.  The re...

  • August 15, 2018

    Trump-hating Rep. Eric Swalwell says he would have fired Strzok, too

    Some of the smarter Trump-haters realize that Peter Strzok is no hero, and that defending him will not help the cause of ousting a duly-elected president. Not only is he a repulsive martyr, his conduct in one of the highest positions in American law ...

  • August 15, 2018

    Once again, Trump supporters triumph in primaries

    Republican primary voters reflect the rock-solid 90% approval that President Trump consistently enjoys from self-identified Republicans, handing victory to candidate expressing support for him, and defeat to his critics. Meanwhile, Democrat primary v...

  • August 14, 2018

    Kim Jong-un unveils a new look

    Kim Jong-un is sending a new signal to his citizens and to the rest of the world, with a brand new fashion look, informal, accessible, and friendly, in a series of photographs released by the official North Korean News Agency, timed to coincide ...

  • August 14, 2018

    Utility blaming climate change, not its fallen power lines, for California wildfires

    My cable news viewing is frequently interrupted by commercials instructing Northern Californians that climate change is responsible for the state's current ordeal with multiple large wildfires.  This is a contemptible attempt by utiliti...

  • August 14, 2018

    In Peter Strzok, Trump-haters have picked a truly repulsive martyr to their cause

    Just like his former boss (and co-conspirator), Andrew McCabe, Peter Strzok has established a GoFundMe page to raise money for his anticipated legal issues lying ahead.  Written in the third person, it states: Peter Strzok, a...

  • August 14, 2018

    Strzok's firing reveals the scandal at the FBI's Office of Professional Responsibility

    Because Trump-haters already are donating hundreds of thousands of dollars to Peter Strzok's GoFundMe begathon, they are likely to fund his lawyers making an issue of his firing.  The fact that the deputy director of the FBI overru...

  • August 13, 2018

    China deploying new ‘push the envelope’ fighter enabling offensive warfare

    The latest military news from China signals a shift toward offensive warfare, and offers grim prospects to its neighbors in Asia, first and foremost Taiwan. (China regards Taiwan as a renegade province and threatens a military takeover if peaceful re...

  • August 13, 2018

    Pelosi attacks NBC

    President Trump isn’t he only party leader who believes that some institutions of the mainstream media are out to get him.  And like him, she may be right. Nancy Pelosi went on MSNBC yesterday to complain about NBC News having a “jag...

  • August 12, 2018

    Trump’s media opponents are leaping into his trap

    This week, leading wordsmiths at two of the nation’s major newspapers openly propounded the need for the media to work together (also known as “conspire”) to defeat Donald Trump. The age of metropolitan dailies pretending to be unbi...

  • August 12, 2018

    How tell the difference between a racist and a social justice warrior

    Are you guilty of microaggressions? Or are you just woke?  Life gets confusing when people in positions of prestige and authority – college presidents and professors, media, and Democrat politicians – denigrate some races on a routin...

  • August 12, 2018

    Media covering (up) Dianne Feinstein’s major spy scandal

    The mainstream media desperately want to deflect attention away from a huge spy scandal involving the ranking Democrat senator on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. For two decades, Senator Dianne Feinstein employed a Chinese spy on her sta...

  • August 11, 2018

    Obama Foundation’s monumental rip-off

    The Obama Presidential Center planned for Chicago is nothing more than a personal monument to Barack Obama and a center for political indoctrination in his radical views. It serves no public purpose the way that a presidential library would.  Ob...

  • August 11, 2018

    Int’l Red Cross warns of food crisis in North Korea

    As negotiations continue over President Trump’s demand that North Korea junk its nuclear weapons and missile programs, Kim Jong-un’s bargaining position may be weakening. Reuters reports: A heat wave in North Korea has led to rice, m...

  • August 10, 2018

    Facebook traffic plunges

    All is not well for Facebook, according to a study from Market Intelligence Central that has been picked up by CNBC.  Andy Meek of BGR.com teases out the meaning: Facebook's traffic hasn't just fallen b...

  • August 10, 2018

    China yields to US oil market power

    If the U.S. is about to engage in a trade war with China, the Middle Kingdom has just signaled that it wants a limited war by exempting a major (and growing) U.S. export to China: crude oil. The Wall Street Journal reported: As Chin...

  • August 10, 2018

    Ocasio-Cortez cornered

    Ben Shapiro, with a huge assist from Candace Owens, has cornered the current darling of the left.  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez must be deathly afraid to debate capitalism versus socialism with any knowledgeable conservative.  Her...

  • August 10, 2018

    Mystery DOJ 757 spotted at Little Rock Airport sparking hopes that DOJ HQ finally is moving against Clinton Foundation

    A Boeing 757 jet registered to the Department of Justice was spotted at Little Rock Airport, reportedly loading boxes similar to those used for storing evidence, sparking speculation that a new phase in the investigation into the Clinton Foundation, ...

  • August 10, 2018

    California's version of the House Banking Scandal?

    Spectacular waste of tax money doesn't bother California's voters, but a just uncovered scandal in California has the potential to drive voter anger against the Democrat-dominated state legislature, maybe even to the extent of significant pol...

  • August 9, 2018

    NAACP's own poll reveals surge in black support for Trump – and they react badly

    Dependence on 90% voting support from African-Americans for electoral success is the jugular vein of the Democratic Party.  President Trump's rising support among black voters is correctly seen as an existential threat to the party'...

  • August 8, 2018

    Out of the shadows: FBI corruption probe about to put Bruce Ohr in the hot seat

    The weaponization of the FBI's counterintelligence operations on behalf of Hillary Clinton's presidential candidacy is the greatest political scandal in American history.  The dramatic story is unfolding before our eyes, and the key...

  • August 7, 2018

    Brazil closes, then re-opens border to Venezuelans fleeing the catastrophe of socialism

    The real consequences of socialism are visible to all who do not avert their eyes.  In Brazil, overwhelmed by refugees from Venezuelan socialism and unable to care for so many of them, a federal judge ordered that nation's border with V...

  • August 7, 2018

    Manafort trial's star witness Rick Gates takes the stand

    It is becoming clear that the case against Paul Manafort will be based heavily on the prosecution's argument that jurors should trust the word of an admitted crook.  After some waffling, the team of prosecutors, assembled by Robert...

  • August 7, 2018

    Outrageous: Media shrug off Feinstein spy scandal story

    Imagine for a minute if Representative Devin Nunes or Trey Gowdy or Matt Gaetz had employed a Russian spy for two decades.  Imagine further that this Republican solon were married to a spouse who had made a fortune investing in Russia....

  • August 6, 2018

    Chicago celebrates new 'Barack Obama Day' holiday weekend with four dead and dozens shot

    Saturday, August 4 marked the first ever celebration of a brand new State of Illinois holiday, Barack Obama Day,[i] and Chicagoans commemorated the event in the way they know best: gang shootings. The latest head count, as of two hours prior t...

  • August 6, 2018

    Saudi Arabia expelling Canadian ambassador, freezing trade and investment over human rights criticism

    Saudi Arabia, in the midst of historic reforms under the iron fist of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, is sending a strong message to Canada and the other liberal democracies of the world: butt out.  That is how I explain the strong r...

  • August 6, 2018

    Killing coal by private means

    Coal has become the enemy of city-dwelling, affluent believers in global warming.  Yet it continues to be cheap and available for many countries, especially China and India, that want to expand their power grids to raise their standards of ...

  • August 6, 2018

    Rhode Island Senate race may be in play, as media and political pros oblivious

    If good presents come in small packages, the Rhode Island Senate race this year may be a great example for the GOP.  William Jacobson, the founder of Legal Insurrection and an astute political analyst who has spent many years in Rhode Islan...

  • August 5, 2018

    Somebody tried to blow up Venezuela’s Maduro with a drone and almost succeeded

    The genie is out of the bottle when it comes to the use of drones for violence. The United States has been using drones to attack terrorists for years, but the technology has gotten cheaper, and drones now are available online. Yesterday, someone alm...

  • August 5, 2018

    EPA finally admits ethanol mandate is causing environmental damage

    The federal requirement to blend ethanol into gasoline on the theory that it will reduce the hypothetical global warming that hasn’t appeared yet has been a joke from the start. By adding a huge amount of demand for corn, it did push up prices ...

  • August 4, 2018

    Cory Booker claims he didn't read the anti-Israel sign he allowed himself to be photographed holding

    Senator Cory Booker, who is one of the Democrats contending for his party's 2020 nomination for president, is pleading political negligence, claiming that he didn't bother to read a sign that he allowed himself to be photographed holding....

  • August 4, 2018

    Rasmussen: Black approval rating of Trump now at 29%

    If this figure reported in Rasmussen's daily presidential tracking poll Friday is anywhere close to accurate, Democrats are closing in on a crisis.  While to poll results available to the general public reported on the Rasmuss...

  • August 4, 2018

    Six things that the New York Times probably didn’t think about when hiring and defending Sarah Jeong

    I haven’t been able to find any indication of what Sarah Jeong’s middle name is, or even if she has one. But it is clear that as far as the New York Times is concerned, it ought to be Pandora. As Clarice Feldman pointed out, the best...

  • August 3, 2018

    New York Times defends double standard in hiring writer with a history of explicit, hateful racism directed at whites

    See also: Let's all thank Sarah Jeong for showing us what liberals think of white people The New York Times has provoked a firestorm with its hiring of Sarah Jeong as a member of its editorial board, despite apparently having checked her socia...

  • August 3, 2018

    More winning! Germany's central bank barring shipping $400 million in cash to Iran

    Make no mistake: under President Trump, the United States is exercising every means available to strangle the corrupt mullahs' regime in Tehran that is dedicated to destruction of the United States, as soon it is able to complete the genocide of ...

  • August 2, 2018

    Woman charged with intentionally ramming a car because it had a Trump bumper sticker

    A Massachusetts woman is out on bail, having been charged with intentionally ramming a car because it had a Trump bumper sticker.  The fury at the election of President Trump, expressed and exacerbated by the likes of Maxine Waters and Kath...

  • August 2, 2018

    Mueller prosecutors go low in Manafort trial and are rebuked by judge

    I am starting to wonder if Robert Mueller is seriously worried about losing his first case to go to trial as special counsel.  The prosecutors working for him are using illegitimate means to obtain a conviction and have been rebuked by Judg...

  • August 2, 2018

    New York City Council committee votes to name street after genocidal black leader who killed thousands of whites

    At the same time that localities across the country are in the process of erasing monuments to Confederates and slave-owners, New York City is preparing to honor a black man who ordered the murder of every white man, woman, and child under his contro...

  • August 2, 2018

    Mueller team signals it may not call its star witness against Manafort

    There are definite signs of big trouble in the prosecution of Paul Manafort for crimes unrelated to Russia and the Trump campaign.  Yesterday saw the judge in the case, T.S. Ellis, rebuke the prosecution for seeking to incite clas...

  • August 1, 2018

    Netflix cancels its announced Farrakhan documentary

    After Louis Farrakhan touted on Twitter the release of a documentary about him titled My Life's Journey through Music on streaming service Netflix, many subscribers (including me) were appalled.  Apparently, there was enough blowback th...

  • August 1, 2018

    Dems' dream girl for 'first black governor of Georgia' confesses fiscal incompetence

    Stacey Abrams, the Democrat nominee for governor of Georgia, has set hearts aflutter among identity politics aficionados all across America.  She's black!  She's female (cis-gendered, although it shouldn't really matte...

  • August 1, 2018

    Are the Dems actually trying to build an image of being bad sports?

    The Democratic National Committee has refused to participate in the annual softball game between Democrat and Republican leaders and staffers, a decade-old tradition that reaffirmed a spirit of national unity, good sportsmanship, and love of a sport ...

  • July 30, 2018

    AP: 'Manafort trial to focus on lavish lifestyle, not collusion'

    The first trial brought by the Mueller special counsel team will begin jury selection Tuesday, and, if this AP report is correct, class envy is the focus. Eric Tucker and Chad Day write: The trial of President Donald Trump's one...

  • July 30, 2018

    Devin Nunes: Americans will be 'shocked' when redacted portions of FISA warrants are declassified

    In a revealing interview with Maria Bartiromo of Fox News, Representative Devin Nunes criticized the "stall game" being played by the FBI and Department of Justice and said that the sooner the better for the redacted portions of the FSA war...

  • July 30, 2018

    Hackers demonstrate ability to break into any voting machine at Las Vegas convention

    The only way to ensure the integrity of our elections is a return to paper ballots, a "back to the future" scenario that somehow doesn't seem to excite many Democrats.  They would rather wail about "Russia hacking the ele...

  • July 30, 2018

    Iranian economy collapsing

    The hundred-some billion dollars that President Obama sent to Iran apparently has come and gone, leaving the Iranian economy once again desperate to avoid collapse.  The pallets containing more than a billion dollars in hard currency have f...

  • July 30, 2018

    Government employee union launches propaganda blitz

    Now that mandatory paycheck deductions for government employee unions have been ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court, the union bosses are in survival mode, desperately trying to earn public support and to keep those dues flowing now that they...

  • July 30, 2018

    Club for Growth targets female voters in savage ad against Claire McCaskill

    Bare-knuckle politics from the Club for Growth, a conservative PAC focused primarily on tax cuts.  In Missouri, a state that voted for Trump by an 18-point margin, the Club for Growth is attacking Senator Claire McCaskill as unresponsive to...

  • July 29, 2018

    SecDef Mattis says Aussie report of US plan to bomb Iran is ‘fiction’

    The Australian Broadcasting Corporation reported, and we passed along on Friday, that Australian government officials had been informed of US plans at attack Iran in August. But Secretary of Defense General James Mattis has completely dismissed this ...

  • July 29, 2018

    Groundbreaking delayed for Obama Presidential Center in Chicago

    The rush to build a monument to Barack Obama in Chicago has run smack into regulatory red tape.  Savor the irony, especially given the massive deregulation President Trump has undertaken.  Keep in mind that this project is not a presidentia...

  • July 29, 2018

    UN warns it is running out of cash

    Cue the world’s smallest violin. Member states at the United Nations are delinquent on their payments to the body, and as a result, it is contemplating cutting expenses. Leah Barkoukis reports at Townhall.com: United Nations Secretary Gene...

  • July 29, 2018

    Misreporting the rise in homicides

    CNN bemoans rising homicide rate but in a classic example of media dishonesty-by-omission / misdirection, leaves the impression that loosened firearms restrictions are behind the trend, and completely omits the most rudimentary analysis that implicat...

  • July 29, 2018

    Soros just quadrupled lobbying expenditures

    George Soros must be really worried by all the progress President Trump is making. Soros’s Open Society Policy Center, the 501 (c)(4) nonprofit organization[i] that he sponsors spent more money lobbying the federal government last quarter than ...

  • July 29, 2018

    You’ll never believe the latest argument against Brexit coming from the EU

    It turns out that Brexit is just like global warming: it causes everything bad known to man. At least if you ask the European Union. Patrick Grafton-Green reports in the UK Evening Standard: Infectious diseases such as super-gonorrhoea coul...

  • July 28, 2018

    NeverTrump Bret Stephens warns Dems to not 'lose their marbles' in 2020

    Call the irony police while staring at the mirror, Bret! Bret Stephens, who hates President Trump so vigorously that he left the Wall Street Journal for the New York Times, is worried about his new buddies in the Democratic Party succumbing to the...

  • July 28, 2018

    Ninth Circuit panel unanimously backs lawsuit against San Jose police who stood by and watched attacks on Trump supporters

    Normally, suing police for failing to prevent crime is not allowed by courts.  But a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has just allowed a lawsuit against the City of San Jose and its police department to proceed, despite th...

  • July 27, 2018

    Aussie media report that US has advised their government of a military strike on Iran next month

    Is this a warning shot to the mullahs of Tehran?  Or is the U.S. quietly lining up its allies in preparation for military strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities – and therefore a potentially total war with the Islamic Republic?...

  • July 27, 2018

    Fusion GPS to face grilling under oath about 'Steele Dossier'

    The left long has recognized that lawsuits can be more effective than government actions in achieving its goals.  Different standards of evidence and different protections for defendants can make a lawsuit a better tool for uncovering confi...

  • July 26, 2018

    Oops! Seattle's new streetcars may be too big to fit tracks and maintenance barn

    Hey, Democratic Socialists: Tell me why it is a good idea to let the government do more and more of the tasks our economy needs done.  Government bureaucrats have neither the incentives nor the mentality necessary to manage projects in a co...

  • July 26, 2018

    White House Correspondents Association protests exclusion of CNN reporter from one event following rude behavior

    The latest kerfuffle between the Trump administration and CNN – the television network that is implacably hostile to Trump – has united the media accredited to the White House. Reuters reports: CNN said on Wednesday that one ...

  • July 26, 2018

    Uncomfortable: MSNBC host uses anti-Semitic slur to rhyme the name of Jewish lawyer Michael Cohen

    It's the sort verbal gaffe that could end a career if another ethnic group had been involved – even if, as I am fairly certain in this case, no ethnic animus was involved.  Recall, for instance, the Washington, D.C. official who w...

  • July 26, 2018

    Wall Street celebrates Trump trade deal with EU

    No, President Trump isn't provoking a trade war that will plunge the world economy into a new depression, and the disappointment of the Trump-hating media is palpable. Yesterday, the president and E.U. president Jean-Claude Juncker appeared in...

  • July 25, 2018

    Danish prosecutors charge imam for calling for the killing of Jews

    Denmark passed a law that took effect last year making it a crime to incite or welcome the killing of people, and yesterday brought charges under it for the first time, against Imam Mundhir Abdallah.  One small wrinkle: He was reading to hi...

  • July 25, 2018

    Dept. of Justice finally instructs US attorneys to use term 'illegal alien' instead of 'undocumented'

    Calling things by their proper names is fundamental to being able to correctly deal with them.  Euphemisms allow unpleasant realities to be avoided.  The law and the administration of justice require accurate terminology. ...

  • July 25, 2018

    Trump endorsement powers landslide win for Kemp in Georgia primary runoff election

    If anyone doubted the weight President Trump's endorsement carries in Republican politics, voters in Georgia provided convincing evidence that he dominates the party's base. Politico: Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp won the Repu...

  • July 25, 2018

    Ninth Circuit (!) rules that Hawaii must allow open carry of firearms

    A new civil rights revolution is underway.  Just as the 1950s and '60s saw courts taking seriously the Fourteenth Amendment's  guarantees of racial equality, we now see courts forcing government officials to recognize the ...

  • July 25, 2018

    CNN goes full 'Al Capone's Vault' on Cohen tape

    When CNN obtained a copy of a tape recording of a call between candidate Donald Trump and his then-lawyer Michael Cohen, the network's people knew they had to have something big, because it was a chance to hurl innuendo at President Trump –...

  • July 25, 2018

    Trump limits security clearances and he's 'like a dictator,' but when Obama scrubbed excessive security clearances in 2013, only crickets

    The latest reason why President Trump is just like Hitler in the eyes of the haters is that he is exploring revoking the security clearances of former Obama administration officials who have been outspoken critics of his foreign policy, up to and inc...

  • July 24, 2018

    Put the Chicago GOP on suicide watch?

    The Cook County GOP is considering adopting an amendment to its bylaws that amounts to a permanent surrender to the notorious Democrat machine that has run the city of Chicago and Cook County throughout living memory.  The key issue is cont...

  • July 24, 2018

    White House heeding Chuck Schumer in studying revocation of security clearances for ex-Obama officials

    The announcement by press secretary Sarah Sanders that President Trump wants to take away the security clearances of Brennan,  Comey, Clapper, Hayden, Rice, and McCabe provoked the customary hysteria from Trump-hating media. ...

  • July 24, 2018

    The latest global warming scare might make you want to kill yourself

    Too many "scientists" have too much grant money and too much computer time on their hands, thanks to the tens of billions of dollars in grant money ($32.5 billion from 1989 to 2015, according to the Science and Public Policy Institute)...

  • July 23, 2018

    Kimberly Guilfoyle suddenly out at Fox News amid 'tensions'

    Mum's the word (so far) on the nature of the "tensions" that accompanied the separation of Kimberly Guilfoyle from Fox News, where she has been featured on The Five and other programming for the last five years.  How...

  • July 23, 2018

    Savor the schadenfreude as MSNBC panel reacts to Trump's poll bump in the wake of Helsinki

    I suppose that when NBC News commissioned its latest poll on President Trump's popularity in the wake of Helsinki, the network's people were not expecting it to rise to the highest level ever of his presidency.  After all, the nearl...

  • July 23, 2018

    Oops! Alleged Russian spy Maria Butina met with Obama officials in 2015

    Desperate Trump-haters, searching for something – anything! – to show that the Trump administration is in bed with Vladimir Putin seized on the news a week ago that a young Russian named Maria Butina had been indicted for v...

  • July 22, 2018

    Ten problems with the release of the heavily redacted FISA warrants on Carter Page

    It is a huge scandal that the vast, frightening surveillance powers of our intelligence agencies, normally forbidden from snooping on American citizens, were used to spy on a presidential campaign antagonistic to the sitting president. Far too slowly...

  • July 21, 2018

    Ocasio-Cortez embarrasses herself (and her backers) again

    First, we learned that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's political thinking does not go any deeper than slogans.  Now we learn that she can't even keep even the most basic slogans straight. Yesterday in Kansas City, accompanie...

  • July 21, 2018

    Mueller and the Manhattan Madam

    Robert Mueller, spending millions and millions of taxpayers' dollars, is straying far afield from anything related in any way to Russian interference in the 2016 election, apparently to find leverage points to pressure someone to testify against ...

  • July 21, 2018

    Trump embarrasses Hillary on Russia with video tweet

    People who live in Russia-tinted glass houses shouldn't be throwing stones.  The decision to pretend Russia is our most worrisome boogeyman, and that it somehow managed to tilt the 2016 presidential election to Trump, was made in haste ...

  • July 21, 2018

    What could Lisa Page testify to about the appointment of Mueller?

    The lovebird-turned-songbird mght be able to sing a lot more about the appointment of Robert Mueller than most people realize. We know that Lisa Page is testifying honestly and frankly, according to public comments made by members of the House Ju...

  • July 20, 2018

    Report: Lisa Page revealed under oath that there was no basis for Mueller's appointment

    The Mueller special counsel investigation was launched to probe charges that the key FBI officials developing evidence in the case thought were baseless.  That's a bombshell accusation that appears to have been confirmed by lovebird-tur...

  • July 20, 2018

    Whoopi Goldberg confirms her Trump Derangement Syndrome diagnosis by throwing guest Jeanine Pirro off The View

    Trump-hatred has become a cult, one whose members cannot tolerate anyone contradicting their beliefs.  Trump Derangement Syndrome is the effect of the cult acting on a mind already loosely tethered to reality.  The result was on d...

  • July 20, 2018

    Trump invites Putin to DC and trolls the Trump-haters

    President Trump appears to be playing out a geopolitical agenda with Russia's Vladimir Putin and keeping his cards so close to his chest that even his director of National Intelligence, Dan Coats, is in the dark.  When the White House r...

  • July 19, 2018

    NATO member Spain's new submarines too long to fit into their docks

    NATO member Spain's new submarines are too long to fit into its docks. Spain will be hiking its defense expenditures and thereby moving in the direction President Trump is calling for.  Unfortunately, a good part of that increase wil...

  • July 19, 2018

    The 'Russian hack' of the DNC through the other end of the telescope

    Stand by for leftist heads exploding if this highly plausible theory – based on the classic investigatory question "cui bono" ("who benefits?") – gains traction.  Daniel Greenfield offers a startling counter-...

  • July 19, 2018

    Mueller's indictment of 12 Russian intel officers slams into the law of unintended consequences

    Robert Mueller's indictment of 12 officers of the GRU, Russia's military intelligence agency, was purely for domestic propaganda purposes.  The case was never intended to come to trial because it was presumed by Mueller that Russia ...

  • July 19, 2018

    Deputy chair of the Democratic Party slams border with Mexico as creating ‘injustice’

    The radical wing of the Democrats is doing its best to convince the mainstream of the American electorate that the party is too far detached from reality to be trusted with power. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, embraced by the Party’s chair Tom Pere...

  • July 18, 2018

    Do Democrats seriously want to start talking about Russia and treason?

    Democrats alleging that President Trump is treasonously collaborating with Russia are like a guy with three mistresses haranguing a married pal for ogling a pretty girl he passes on the street.  By raising the subject, they tread on thin ic...

  • July 17, 2018

    Did Trump troll for 'treason' accusations in Helsinki presser?

    Even some of his strongest advocates are disappointed that President Trump failed to resoundingly agree with the intelligence community assertion that Russia interfered in our election.  Newt Gingrich has called it the "most ...

  • July 16, 2018

    Chicago cops release body cam footage of fatal shooting following violent protests

    Body cameras, demanded by many anti-police activists, are turning out to be a boon for the vast majority of cops.  Saturday saw a violent reaction in Chicago, shortly after police there shot and killed a man.  The Chicago Tri...

  • July 16, 2018

    Your feel-good video of the day

    I'll be frank: I hate thieves.  They steal not just property, but also the time people spend earning the means to buy that property.  That means that they, by extension, steal part of the lives of people, those hours devoted t...

  • July 16, 2018

    California forced to give back $331 million stolen from home-owners

    What if the bluest state in the country stole a third of a billion dollars from victims of chicanery and the media refused to notice? I have been stunned at the lack of media coverage of California's foiled robbery of almost a third of a billi...

  • July 16, 2018

    New SF mayor will try asking homeless to be nice, instead of penalizing them for pooping on the streets

    San Francisco has a brand new mayor, Ms. London Breed, the result of the untimely death of Mayor Ed Lee, and it does not look good for the city coming to grips with a crisis on its streets.  The accumulation of human waste and contaminated ...

  • July 15, 2018

    As Pelosi increasingly incoherent in public, Dems face a battle over leadership succession

    Long-simmering ethnic tensions in a party increasingly defined by identity politics could erupt if Nancy Pelosi’s mental decline forces her to bow out of her leadership of the Democrats’ House  Caucus. With African-Americans the larg...

  • July 15, 2018

    California Dems humiliate incumbent Dianne Feinstein by endorsing her radical opponent in general election

    The radical left’s domination of the activist base of the Democratic Party became painfully obvious to Senator Dianne Feinstein last night, as the party handed its endorsement to Kevin De Leon, whom she faces as her opponent in November. Thanks...

  • July 15, 2018

    Hillary’s claim that Kavanaugh would ‘turn the clock back to the 1850s’ was based on satire from a Trump-supporter

    If a politician embraces a position that was offered as satire, does that officially make her “beyond satire”? A lot of people were taken aback by Hillary Clinton’s apparent contention that the Supreme Court would invalidate the exp...

  • July 13, 2018

    Strzok’s claim of no bias so ridiculous that even CNN’s political director calls BS

    Only a fool or a Democrat (the two groups considerably overlap in the United States) would believe Peter Strzok’s claim under oath that it was only the appearance of bias, not actual bias, that was the problem with his texts to his inamorata Li...

  • July 13, 2018

    House Dems outraged as Ryan and McCarthy call their bluff on ‘abolish ICE’ bill

    All but admitting that the bill they introduced yesterday to abolish ICE was a political stunt, three House Democrats are feigning outrage (the default option for Dems ever since Trump won the presidency) that it will be promptly brought to a vote. T...

  • July 12, 2018

    NATO's lavish new headquarters is a danger sign

    It is virtually an iron law that mature bureaucracies turn their focus from the ostensible mission to self-preservation and aggrandizement of the bureaucrats. One side benefit of President Trump's attendance at the NATO Summit has been the opp...

  • July 12, 2018

    Bad news for Dems: Trump tax cuts have led to increased tax revenue

    Democrats developed a sudden new concern with the size of budget deficits – something that failed to trouble them as Barack Obama doubled the national debt in just eight years – when President Trump's tax cuts were first proposed....

  • July 12, 2018

    Dems lining up in a circular firing squad

    There is strong evidence today that the Democrats are heading for a crack-up.  Their coalition of identity politics groups is held together only by the desire for power, and now they face the prospect of the longed for 2018 "blue wave...

  • July 12, 2018

    Voters may get to directly repeal 'sanctuary state' laws via referendum

    A group in Oregon has already submitted a petition with 25% more signatures than required to qualify for the ballot a referendum on repealing that state's "sanctuary state" law.  In neighboring California, efforts are underway...

  • July 12, 2018

    Andrew Cuomo threatens to 'sue' Supreme Court

    As President Trump might tweet: SAD!  The governor and former attorney general of the Great State of New York does not understand that the title "Supreme Court of the United States" means there is no higher court that can overrule...

  • July 11, 2018

    Lisa Page defies congressional subpoena – for now, and maybe forever

    I was looking forward to seeing television cameras photographing Lisa Page entering a closed-door congressional hearing today, and maybe – just maybe – hearing leaks about what went on.  The principal picture used of her dates t...

  • July 11, 2018

    Incoming Mexico president is getting the Jared treatment

    President Trump is once again confounding his critics and laying the groundwork for a better relationship with our southern neighbor, Mexico.  In place of the impulsive recklessness Trump-haters attribute to him, he is carrying out a nuance...

  • July 10, 2018

    Mexico's new president sounds a lot like Trump on border security

    American progressives are in danger of their own heads exploding, which must explain why they are ignoring the latest news from Mexico.  AMLO, AKA Andrés Manuel López-Obrador, Mexico's leftist president-elect, seems to und...

  • July 10, 2018

    Faced with failure, the left is going repulsively insane

    Two glimpses of activists provide strong evidence that the left has been driven insane by the emerging triumph of populist common sense.  President Trump's election just couldn't have happened, according to their view.  Bu...

  • July 9, 2018

    Teachers unions meet the class action lawyers

    Another technique that the left assumed it owned is coming around to bite the left in the posterior.  Class action lawsuits have been a tool dominated by the left, with the tort bar a mainstay of the Democratic Party's funding base....

  • July 9, 2018

    Shocker: AP and FBI seemingly in collaboration in Manafort investigation

    Before Donald Trump won the presidency, the Associated Press was a fierce defender of press independence from law enforcement.  But newly released documents indicate that the desire to get information that might be useful to incriminate for...

  • July 9, 2018

    MSNBC lies in support of Hillary's candidacy documented and savaged – from the left

    NBC, a subsidiary of Comcast, and its cable news affiliate MSNBC have become among the fiercest antagonists of President Trump.  Even before his election, they were shameless in shilling for Hillary Clinton's candidacy.  Conse...

  • July 8, 2018

    Sunday Schadenfreude: New York Times warns its readers

    In an article that could alternatively be titled, “Boy, are we ever screwed,” Carl Hulse informs New York Times readers that red state Senate Democrats face a “terrible vote” over confirmation of the coming Supreme Court nomin...

  • July 8, 2018

    A Dem grown-up warns the crazies that ‘Abolish ICE’ is a really bad idea

    Almost nobody of any standing in the Democratic Party will come out and say that dangerous radicals have seized the initiative from the merely corrupt and tired elders that have run the party since the departure from office of President Obama. Those ...

  • July 8, 2018

    Mullahs panicking, detain and force video confession by teen-ager for posting videos of dancing alone

    Faced with popular anger over the horrible Iranian economy in the wake of President Trump’s abandonment of the nuke deal, a rout of their proxies in Syria, and the specter of revolution as even the bazaar merchants are against them, the mullahs...

  • July 8, 2018

    Who was behind Alexandria Ocasio Cortez’s astonishing makeover?

    Somebody with deep expertise on image creation got ahold of the latest darling of the left and glammed her up for her current role as the standard bearer for the socialist wing of the Democrats, the Great Hispanic Hope to lead the "browning of A...

  • July 8, 2018

    As Norks denounce ‘gangster-like’ demands from Pompeo, Trump-haters revel in what they hope is failure

    Almost as if they want a nuclear-armed North Korean rogue regime blackmailing the world – just to have a talking point against President Trump – Trump-haters can barely conceal their glee (“North Korea shatters Trumps’ boastfu...

  • July 7, 2018

    The world's most depressing chart?

    That's what Dan Mitchell of International Liberty calls the graph below, showing the share of public welfare spending as a percent of GDP of the leading economies of the world.  Andrew Bolt of the Herald-Sun in Australia simply cal...

  • July 7, 2018

    Virtue-signaling Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel sets up clash with Illinois State Police over expressway-blocking demonstration today

    Chicago's Mayor Rahm Emanuel is up for re-election next year and apparently is worried about his chances in a city where poverty and ethnicity matter a lot.  The obscene level of murders on Chicago's streets and the spread of c...

  • July 7, 2018

    How low will CNN go?

    Donald Trump has driven CNN mad. There can be no other conclusion, after watching the compilation video from Grabien embedded below. Bad as vulgarity is, at least we can take satisfaction in the fact that it is driving viewers away from the sen...

  • July 7, 2018

    The left’s personal destruction machine turns its focus on Jim Jordan

    Jim Jordan has been one of the most effective investigators in pursuing the cabal that weaponized the FBI and intelligence agencies to fight the candidacy and then the presidency of Donald Trump.  Rather than answer him with facts and docum...

  • July 7, 2018

    ‘Warmest day in history’ claim based on thermometer next to an ice cream truck with its engine running all day to keep its freezer operating

    The Warmists intent on impoverishing the world through limitations on the combustion of hydrocarbons had a field day with a little bit of phony data yesterday. Anxious to proclaim the heat wave affecting much of the Northern Hemisphere a surefire glo...

  • July 7, 2018

    Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez alters her campaign bio to fudge ‘girl from the Bronx’ misrepresentation

    Now that she’s the “it girl” of the Democrats, who "represents the future of our party," according to the party chair Tom Perez, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s biographical claims have come under scrutiny, and cannot wit...

  • July 6, 2018

    Scott Pruitt's scalp a trophy for the Deep State

    Yesterday's resignation of Scott Pruitt robs the American people of a dedicated reformer who has already helped spark an investment boom and saved countless jobs.  The left is celebrating on two counts: the departure of the ma...

  • July 6, 2018

    Japan hangs 7 members of doomsday cult that released sarin gas on subway

    The next time death penalty opponents tell you the United States is "the only civilized nation with the death penalty," go ahead and laugh in their faces.  Japan, whatever faults it may have or have had historically, is a highly c...

  • July 6, 2018

    Prominent NY Dem slams Schumer, says 'Hell no' to plea for donations until he restores 'sanity and honesty' to 'hard left' party

    In a Facebook post that is close to a #walkaway declaration, a veteran Democrat New York state assemblyman has told Senator Chuck Schumer to go pound sand in his quest for donations, so long as the party continues on his hard left course.  ...

  • July 6, 2018

    Iran has completely stopped harassing US ships now that strong Trump replaced weakling Obama

    For all the concessions President Obama offered Iran for his "nuclear deal" – $150 billion, for instance – Iran treated the U.S. with contempt, harassing and even taking into custody U.S. ships in the Persian Gulf.  Th...

  • July 6, 2018

    In response to Trump tariff threat, Merkel says she would back tariff reduction on US vehicle exports to Europe

    Much to the shock of liberals, being tough on trade works better for American exports than being nice and hoping other nations will be "fair" to us in return.  That works in kindergarten, where a teacher is present to enforce the ...

  • July 5, 2018

    UN's 'Green Climate Fund' boondoggle falling apart thanks to President Trump

    Yesterday, a board meeting of the U.N. Green Climate Fund collapsed in bitterness, failing to approve any funding, and its executive director abruptly resigned.  Like so many other global warmist gatherings of well paid officials in luxurio...

  • July 5, 2018

    Dem nightmare deepens as party is 'underperforming' among Hispanics

    Golly gee, it turns out that race-baiting and fear-mongering aren't paying off for the Democrats and that Hispanic voters are not universally motivated by the call of open borders. Josh Kraushaar reports for the National Journal: Dem...

  • July 3, 2018

    TDS strikes again: MSNBC host drops F-bomb on air

    Formerly unthinkable vulgarity is being broadcast in nationwide "news" coverage, as full-blown Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) reigns in newsrooms, and haters with limited vocabularies grasp at adequate means of conveying the inner turmoil...

  • July 3, 2018

    Is political incivility worse now than ever before?

    As Trump Derangement Syndrome flourishes and drives Democrat politicians crazy enough to endorse open borders via the closing of the agency that protects them, and drives media figures to levels of on-air profanity that would have been firi...

  • July 3, 2018

    'Anti-bias' training not enough for Starbucks – advisers say 'civil rights audit' is next

    Howard Schultz, the former Starbucks CEO whose vision still animates the company, is a classic clueless liberal – a man whose naïve desire to be virtuous in the eyes of others leads him into disaster.  Who can forget his inv...

  • July 2, 2018

    Shameless CNN anchor tries to bait Capital Gazette employee into blaming Trump for shooting

    The indisputable fact that the deranged shooter's beef with the Annapolis Capital Gazette predated Donald Trump's entry into politics was no obstacle to blaming the president for the newsroom massacre on CNN's airwaves.  But it...

  • July 2, 2018

    Fake news from Trump-hating NPR Update: NPR says it was fake

    See update below Taxpayer-subsidized National Public Radio is as shameless as CNN in its efforts to blame President Trump or his supporters for everything bad that happens.  Why wait for facts when the narrative was so blinding...

  • July 2, 2018

    Angela Merkel's fall from grace

    Not too long ago, Angela Merkel was hailed as "the leader of the free world" and declared Time Magazine's "person of the year" – the "chancellor of the free world."  That was before the reckoning for ...

  • July 2, 2018

    Unhinged NeverTrump: Sarah Sanders 'should be made uncomfortable and I think that's a life sentence, frankly'

    I continue to be astounded at the degree to which some prominent former conservatives have been driven mad by the rise of Donald Trump to the presidency.  While a number of his former conservative foes are on occasion able to concede...

  • July 1, 2018

    Chicago ‘charity’ posts bail, and man freed on attempted murder charge arrested twice in one day

    Life in Chicago keeps getting riskier as mayhem is inflicted by out-of-control thugs, resulting in a murder rate often compared to that of Baghdad or Kabul. Street crime and mob looting of shops spreads to the city’s showcase Magnificent Mile s...

  • July 1, 2018

    California Supreme Court rules that a law that’s impossible to comply with still can be constitutional

    Franz Kafka has been reincarnated, and apparently is sitting on the Supreme Court of the State of California. How else to explain the way that the progressive mindset continues to amaze in the Great State of California? The legislature of the Gold...

  • July 1, 2018

    Growing #Walkaway movement may threaten Dems

    Could a gay hairdresser from New York City set off a mass exodus from the Democratic Party? A hashtag and a growing wave (not a blue one) of videos on YouTube and Facebook signal that the Democrats finally have gotten too crazy for at least some of t...

  • July 1, 2018

    Hilarious satire of Dem apoplexy over Trump’s next Supreme Court pick

    Hilarious satire of Dem apoplexy over Trump’s next Supreme Court pick The obsessive media hatred of President Trump has made them entirely predictable. Everything he does is not just wrong, it is an outage. And everyone he appoints to office...

  • June 29, 2018

    Hilarious: Texas Republicans prank Dems at their state convention

    The spirit of political pranksterism is alive and well in the Great State of Texas, as Republicans pulled off a couple of doozies on the hapless Democrats at their state convention in Fort Worth this week. First (via Andrea Zelinsky of the Houston Ch...

  • June 29, 2018

    Soon-to-be-unemployed Jeff Flake shopping himself for a gig at MSNBC or CNN

    Senator Jeff Flake is giving up his seat in the purported “World’s greatest deliberative body” because he knows he would never be re-elected. Now, according to reports, he is hoping for a seat in a television studio where he can cat...

  • June 27, 2018

    Primary defeat of fourth-ranking House Democrat a portent of the radical left takeover of the Democratic Party

    The architecture of the 20th-century Democratic Party is slowly dissolving before our eyes, as identity politics and socialism replace the old center-left coalition. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a 28-year-old Bernie Sanders organizer and endorsee of ...

  • June 27, 2018

    As the Dems go radical, Bill Clinton seems to see the danger of a red wave coming in November

    Trump Derangement Syndrome is combining with resentment over the cheating of Bernie Sanders out of the 2016 presidential nomination to lead the Democratic Party toward an embrace of angry radicalism, which will result in rejection by voters on Novemb...

  • June 27, 2018

    Supreme Court hands devastating blow to unions that have funneled hundreds of millions of dollars into Democrat coffers

    One of the bedrock funding sources of the Democratic Party will see its resources severely curtailed, as the Supreme Court just handed down its decision in Janus v. The American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees....

  • June 26, 2018

    Spain's socialist government reverses policy and refuses 'migrant' ship

    The reign in Spain of virtue-signaling on mass migration ended abruptly yesterday, after less than two weeks.  Even the socialists in Europe are starting to realize that their populace does not want millions more impoverished "migrants...

  • June 26, 2018

    The specter of revolution haunts the mullahs in Tehran

    Massive demonstrations are rocking Tehran and other Iranian cities, and yesterday, the mullahs lost the support of a key power bloc, as the Grand Bazaar of Tehran shut down in protest.  In the 1979 Iranian Revolution that overthrew the Shah...

  • June 25, 2018

    The sad state of journalism in the era of Trump Derangement Syndrome

    Worst of all: This is from Politico, not the Onion, as Mike (@Doranimated) tweeted.  One or more editors of a publication that aspires to be the insider's guide to Washington, D.C., read an approved for publication a story knocking Trum...

  • June 25, 2018

    Obama, Trump, and drone attacks

    AT reader Robert B. Ripley raised an interesting point in an email. The other day, it occurred to me one never hears a word about President Trump personally authorizing the killing of a person by drone strike in some far off land.  ...

  • June 25, 2018

    Oops! BDS-supporters use picture of Jewish refugees to illustrate plight of Palestinians on World Refugee Day

    Unintentionally making the point that Jews have been mercilessly persecuted and forced to flee their homelands for shelter in Israel, the BDS-supporting Congress of South African Trade Unions, representing two million members, attempted to mark World...

  • June 25, 2018

    A few grown-ups on the left raise alarms about public harassment of Trump administration officials

    Pardon my cynicism, but I am pretty sure that a reading of poll numbers showing that there is public revulsion over the ongoing vicious public harassment of Trump administration officials like Sarah Huckabee Sanders and Kirstjen Nielsen is behind the...

  • June 25, 2018

    New poll ranks Obama as the worst president since World War II -- correction

    Correction: I am embarrassed that I did not notice this poll was dated 2014. Thomas Lifson No wonder there is such a rush to build that ugly monument to Barack Obama in Chicago: the bloom is already off his rose.  I suppose it was ine...

  • June 24, 2018

    Who is the liberal news conductor?

    Reader Ron Joseph asked an intriguing question in an email: Dear Editor, I am a regular reader of the American Thinker and many of its writers. These are some very smart and well connected folks who are aware of what goes in on this planet and ...

  • June 24, 2018

    North Korea ditches anti-US propaganda

    North Korea is no longer brainwashing its subjects that the US is a mortal danger to them. In a potent signal that Kim Jong-un has succeeded in persuading the rest of his regime to go along with denuclearization and ending its rogue regime status, No...

  • June 23, 2018

    Why mainstream media hysteria is increasing

    The past week featured well-known cable news hosts in tears over the separation of children from their parents at the border, a practice that was common in the Obama administration, drawing little notice and no weeping.  And every...

  • June 23, 2018

    Facing humiliation, Mueller backs away from prosecution of Russian entities

    The Mueller special counsel investigation purportedly was instigated to discover possible illicit Russian influence on the 2016 presidential election but now is backing away from the only indictments aimed at Russian entities, leaving only alleged pr...

  • June 23, 2018

    An instant classic: Strzok-Page text messages performed by actors on YouTube

    As tawdry melodramas go, this one has most of the elements of a hit: high stakes, anger, illicit romance, and an intriguing villain.  (That would be the president of the United States, Donald Trump.)  It probably was inevitable th...

  • June 22, 2018

    Media blitz on border children separations appears to have failed

    The leftist media establishment threw in every propaganda tool it has, from heart-rending videos of children of color behind chain link fences to abundant tears: crying children and MSNBC hosts Lawrence O'Donnell and Rachel Maddow weeping on air....

  • June 21, 2018

    Michigan coed who made false rape report sentenced to 45 days in jail

    The good news is that the serious crime of making a false rape report is being punished. The bad news is that the punishment is a tiny fraction of the potential prison term an innocent man could have faced if convicted based on false testimony. ...

  • June 21, 2018

    Offer of free Whoppers for life for women impregnated by World Cup players in Russia embarrasses Burger King

    Russia’s popular culture is really, really different from America’s. As my colleague Monica Showalter notes, Russia is the home of home of naked newscasters, leopard prints, and women posing in puddles to look sexy for Instagram. So, for ...

  • June 21, 2018

    Overheated ‘cyber-Pearl Harbor’ rhetoric on Russia’s 2016 election activities now haunts Obama administration

    Sworn Senate testimony by former President Obama’s cybersecurity coordinator has Trump-haters out on a shaky limb with their hysteria over Russia.  Christian Datoc reports in the Washington Examiner: Michael Daniel confirmed Wednesday...

  • June 19, 2018

    Strzok text 'We'll stop' Trump presidency was deeply buried, requiring extensive forensic efforts to recover it

    Can you say "obstruction"? One of the bombshells obscurely revealed by the Department of Justice's inspector general is clear intent to cover up evidence of intent by a senior FBI official to block Donald Trump from being elected....

  • June 18, 2018

    South Korea proposes that North Korea move its artillery away from the border

    South Korea has just offered the first test of North Korea's sincerity: the Kim regime is being asked to blunt the edge of its dagger at the throat of South Korea by moving its long-range artillery away from the border between the two halves of t...

  • June 18, 2018

    DHS issues subpoenas investigating Chinese identity fraud ring funneling fake students to American universities

    One of the dirty little secrets of American higher education is the growing financial dependence of many campuses on vast sums of tuition money paid by foreign students.  With the cohort of Americans reaching college age declining, and with...

  • June 18, 2018

    Et tu, Laura?

    Laura Bush is publicly supporting the Democrats' BS propaganda effort, hand-wringing over the poor "immigrants" (make that illegal immigrant law-breakers) who are arrested and therefore separated from the children.  She wrote ...

  • June 18, 2018

    Dem senator up for re-election busted for using taxpayer money to fund campaign travel

    A GOP pick-up of a Democrat-held Senate seat looks a lot more likely now that a review of official filings reveals apparent travel on the taxpayers' dime to a fundraiser in California. Brent Scher of the Washington Free Beacon found ...

  • June 17, 2018

    ‘Good behavior’ by judges

    The Constitution provides that judges "shall hold their Offices during good Behavior." The term "good behavior" is interpreted to mean that judges may serve for the remainder of their lives. Interesting, isn’t it? I ...

  • June 17, 2018

    Sunday Schadenfreude: media mockery of Trump when he announced his candidacy three years ago

    Yesterday, it turns out, was the three year anniversary of Donald Trump descending the escalator in Trump Tower to announce his candidacy for President of the United States. I missed marking the date yesterday, but two of my favorite bloggers, Don Su...

  • June 15, 2018

    Decoding the Horowitz Report on 'bias'

    We are in the midst of a spin battle over the inspector general's report issued yesterday.  Because inspectors general cannot release their reports without giving those named within it a chance to contest it, and must be able to defend ...

  • June 15, 2018

    Pelosi provides rocket fuel for GOP House candidates

    Nancy Pelosi is a continuing gift to Republicans hoping to hang on to a majority in the House of Representatives.  Always a slave to the talking points handed to her and unable to rapidly sort through her thoughts when asked a question, she...

  • June 14, 2018

    Legal confidentiality of Catholic confession to be breached

    The Catholic Church's practice of Confession is a sacrament of the faith, with the priest hearing confessions held to an inviolable sacramental seal, under pain of excommunication for the priest if that seal is broken.  Accord...

  • June 14, 2018

    Democrat seeking primary win goes full masochist

    Virtue-signaling is so easy and ego-flattering that even progressives may be tired of it.  As a means of grabbing attention, it is so passé that underdogs in Democrat primary races have to move on to other, more demanding means ...

  • June 14, 2018

    National media ignoring DOJ arrests of 2,300 suspected pedophiles

    A massive nationwide round-up of suspected online child sex offenders by the Department of Justice has gone virtually unreported by the major national media.  The Department of Justice is certainly proud of "Operation Broken Heart...

  • June 14, 2018

    Revealed: In January, Trump called out Mahmoud Abbas for Jew-hatred

    The New Yorker broke the story deep into a long, long article ("Donald Trump's New World Order") that in January, President Trump called out Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas for his public disparagement of Jewish h...

  • June 14, 2018

    Leaked version of pending House immigration bill calls for amnesty for millions of illegals

    Breitbart News claims that it received a leaked draft of Paul Ryan's immigration bill, to be voted on before the House recess.  I have my fingers crossed that this is not the bill that will be introduced, but rather a preliminary w...

  • June 14, 2018

    Comey's weaselly tweet on the IG report

    James Comey tried to get in front of the I.G. report with a tweet sent around the time the report was made publicly available.  He knew exactly what it was going to say because he had the opportunity to dispute and probably edit o...

  • June 13, 2018

    Referendum to split Calif into three states will appear on the November ballot

    A colossal waste of time, money, and the public's attention span is underway in the golden state. Casey Tolan of the Mercury-News reports: For the first time since before the Civil War, voters across California will decide in No...

  • June 13, 2018

    Trump's video played for Kim elicits sneers from media but was a brilliant persuasive device

    Because everything President Trump does has to be bad in the eyes of the mainstream media, there was considerable elite media sneering yesterday over the video that the White House produced for President Trump to show to Kim Jong-un during their meet...

  • June 13, 2018

    Did Rod Rosenstein threaten to go after House staffers with subpoenas last January?

    A report by Catherine Herridge of Fox News has many conservatives furious at Rod Rosenstein for what they see as a threat to retaliate against those seeking unredacted records related to Spygate.  She writes: Deputy Attorney ...

  • June 13, 2018

    Air Force's 'most wanted deserter' discovered working on Janet Napolitano's staff

    The former head of the Department of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano, managed to overlook the Air Force deserter with top-security clearance on her staff who has been a "most-wanted" fugitive for 35 years. Nanette Asimov and...

  • June 12, 2018

    Dems lament SCOTUS decision keeping voter registration rolls more honest

    Yesterday, the  Supreme Court made an important decision affirming Ohio's efforts to keep voter registration rolls up to date.  The media left is describing it in apocalyptic terms, as if anything that prevents dead ...

  • June 12, 2018

    Kim Jong-un flies home to sell the deal to the North Korean ruling elite

    It looks as though President Trump won over Kim Jong-un in Singapore, but now Kim has to sell the deal to the Pyongyang power elite.  The stick of a threat of "fire and fury" (meaning the military destruction of the regime) and th...

  • June 11, 2018

    New populist Italian government closes ports to refugee ships

    After being overrun by an estimated 600,000 refugees from North Africa in the last five years, the new populist Italian government has said, "Basta!"  (Enough!) Zero Hedge reports: Italy's new populist Interior Mi...

  • June 11, 2018

    Read of the day: Sharyl Attkisson knocks one out of the park with devastating analogy

    Sometimes an analogy is the best way to change minds.  Commitment to one side in a debate can lock minds into a framework.  But take the same principles and apply them to an analogous situation where the locked in prejudices don...

  • June 10, 2018

    Kim Jong-un hitches a ride on Air China for trip to Singapore

    In the world of diplomacy, symbolism is everything, and Kim Jong-un just sent quite a set of messages by his choice of airplane to fly to the most important meeting of his life.  He seems to have just acknowledged his tributary state relationshi...

  • June 9, 2018

    Universities marking down students for using banned gender terms

    Gender madness is being enforced with the iron fist of bad grades at some of Australia's leading universities.  Natasha Bita of the Courier-Mail of Brisbane reports: Queensland's top universities all demand that ...

  • June 9, 2018

    Trump co-opting NFL critics with pardon offer

    More than a few hackles have been raised by President Trump's seemingly offhand offer to protesting NFL players to suggest candidates for pardons.  Taking questions prior to boarding Marine One for his journey to Quebec for the G-7 Summ...

  • June 8, 2018

    Mata Hari journalism? Veteran Senate Intelligence Committee staffer, in romantic relationship with NYT reporter, arrested in probe of leaks

    James A. Wolfe, former director of security for the Senate Intelligence Committee, lost everything when he was arrested by the FBI last night.  A review of media reports on the background of the arrest suggests that the lure of romance with...

  • June 8, 2018

    CNN star Anthony Bourdain dead of suicide in France

    Headline corrected: Bourdain died in Strasbourg, not Paris. Another successful and widely known figure has committed suicide, two days after fashion icon Kate Spade took her own life.  His employer, CNN writes: Anthony Bou...

  • June 7, 2018

    Revealed: Senate Intelligence Committee under pending DOJ investigation over leaks

    Brian Tau of the Wall Street Journal yesterday scooped the mainstream media, which prefers to ignore what he has uncovered about a potentially huge story: that the Department Justice is in the early stages of an investigation into illegal leaks from ...

  • June 7, 2018

    Who leaked portions of the IG report, and why?

    Coverage of the leaked portions of the long delayed and much anticipated report from the inspector general of the Department of Justice has generally focused on how damaging it is to James Comey.  But I think the leakers had an entirely dif...

  • June 7, 2018

    Registrar in Houston fighting to keep non-citizens eligible to vote

    The registrar of voters in the third most populous county in the United States is battling in court to keep non-citizens eligible to vote.  Ann Harris Bennet of Harris County, Texas (population: over 4.5 million) takes that astonishing posi...

  • June 6, 2018

    Andrew McCabe wants grant of immunity in exchange for congressional testimony on handling of Hillary email investigation

    Already the subject of a criminal referral by the DOJ inspector general, Andrew McCabe is asking for an official grant of immunity in exchange for testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee, headed by Senator Chuck Grassley.  The alte...

  • June 6, 2018

    Bill Clinton tries a do-over as book publicity tour nightmare looms

    Last night with the help of Stephen Colbert, known for his vicious attacks on President Trump, Bill Clinton desperately tried to recover from his disastrous Today show interview peddling the thriller novel he purportedly "co-wrote...

  • June 5, 2018

    Slam-dunk video exposes CNN-MSNBC idiocy on Trump

    Cable news Trump-haters, besotted with outrage, don't sweat the details when it comes to venting their spleen on President Trump.  Finding something – anything – on which to express outrage is their daily challenge. Last ...

  • June 5, 2018

    Bill Clinton is now staring at the underside of the Democrats' bus

    Karma finally has caught up with Bill Clinton.  It wasn't supposed to turn out this way, in his mind, and it's all Donald Trump's fault (as is everything wrong with the world, if you are a national Democrat).  Had Hill...

  • June 4, 2018

    Political violence on the streets of downtown Portland as Antifa battles Patriot Prayer Group

    It was a perfect Portlandia moment last night, as street fighting between left and right wing political groups was powered by the contents of recycling bins. Willamette Week noted: The two groups threw glass bottles and aluminum cans pulled from...

  • June 4, 2018

    Bodyguard of anti-gun activist Father Pfleger arrested on gun charges

    Call the irony police!  Father Michael Pfleger, the radical left-wing priest, friend of Jeremiah Wright, and mainstay of the hard-left community in Chicago that bequeathed the political rise of Barack Obama to America, has a hypocrisy probl...

  • June 4, 2018

    Italy's government battles Soros

    George Soros is running into tough times these days.  With public awareness of his manipulation of politics rising, his efforts to facilitate a new political order more to his liking are backfiring.  On Saturday, Monica Showalter ...

  • June 4, 2018

    Sarah Sanders trolls Paul Krugman

    Trolling Trump-haters is so easy and so much fun that we are going to see a lot more of it. After all, so many people that pretend they are smart have made ridiculous predictions of doom that President Trump’s track record of success makes them...

  • June 3, 2018

    USA Today’s scoop: a rectangular state legalized marijuana

    When Ben Rhodes, President Obama’s chief foreign policy propagandist, told the New York Times that today’s reporters “literally know nothing,” he was more correct than he realized. USA Today, in an unintentionally hilarious gr...

  • June 3, 2018

    Portland bakery fires two employees for refusing service to a black customer after closing time

      It turns out that the comedy TV series Portlandia may be a documentary. KOMO-TV, a Seattle station, reports on the latest manifestation of absurdity emanating from a city so absurd that it generated its own parody television series: ...

  • June 3, 2018

    Bill Kristol’s soul-threatening hatred of Trump

    I write with sadness about Bill Kristol, a man I used to admire. I fear he is an example of what Alice Herz Sommer, a Holocaust survivor who lived to the age of 110, meant when she said, “Hatred eats the soul of the hater, not the hated.”...

  • June 3, 2018

    Maureen Dowd satirizes Obama’s 'peak Spock’

    I haven’t read the memoir by Ben Rhodes about the post-election reactions of President Obama to Donald Trump’s victory, a book that took 17 months to write and publish. But among the gems excerpted widely in the media is the account of wh...

  • June 2, 2018

    Italy’s version of the deep state folds as populist government sworn in

    When Italy’s voters handed a majority to two populist, anti-euro parties almost 3 months ago, the political establishment as aghast as America’s establishment was on November 9, 2016. An outsider unbound by – even contemptuous ...

  • June 1, 2018

    Five takeaways from the Samantha Bee affair

    Samantha Bee may still have a job, and her program may still have a slot on the TBS weeknight lineup, but there will be serious consequences for her on-air comments: "You know, Ivanka, that's a beautiful photo of you and your child, but...

  • May 30, 2018

    Chicago Tribune acknowledges 'mayhem' downtown over Memorial Day weekend, then changes headline to 'peace downtown'

    Yesterday, I wrote about the havoc in Chicago over the Memorial Day weekend – the first hot weather weekend of the season – and about the media blackout that had been in place.  But it turned out that as I was writing,...

  • May 30, 2018

    Tommy Robinson case gag order on British media lifted in the face of worldwide protest

    When Tommy Robinson was arrested for live-streaming a report outside the Leeds courthouse where members of an alleged Muslim grooming gang who allegedly forced young British girls into prostitution, and the court quickly imposed a gag order on U.K. m...

  • May 30, 2018

    Roseanne Barr escapes burning at the stake – for now – but loses her hit show, talent agency, and career

    Roseanne Barr now is blaming Ambien for posting (and then deleting) a tweet that implied simian ancestry for Barack Obama's chief White House adviser, longtime mentor, and current housemate, Valerie Jarrett.  For reasons obvio...

  • May 29, 2018

    The first hot weekend brings violent mobs to Chicago streets as media turn a blind eye

    "Wilding" is the term for mobs of violent young people taking over upscale neighborhoods and wreaking havoc, looting, mugging, and attacking innocent people just for the fun of it.  A "good" neighborhood is no guarantee ...

  • May 29, 2018

    New York Times fake news BUSTED

    Two of my favorite pundits – Mollie Hemingway (of The Federalist) and John Hinderaker (of Powerline) – have absolutely nailed the New York Times for genuinely fake news it published.  Naturally, the phony quote it made...

  • May 29, 2018

    Saving Tommy Robinson (and English civilization)

    Tommy Robinson faces the near certainty of assassination while being held in the general prison population at Hull Prison, following his arrest outside the courthouse in Leeds, where he was making a video about the trial of a Muslim grooming gang und...

  • May 29, 2018

    Go ahead, 'NFL stars' – make my day

    Here is a threat I really hope is acted upon.  It is time for a reality check for millionaire athletes who feel oppressed. From Danyal Hussain of the U.K. Daily Mail: Several NFL stars are reportedly considering not playing unt...

  • May 28, 2018

    Britain moves from Orwell to Kafka, imprisoning Tommy Robinson and gagging media reports

    Is Britain lost to the ranks of free nations?  The land that bequeathed the world the Magna Carta and the "mother of parliaments" is indulging in totalitarianism with its handling of Tommy Robinson, a famous political activist agi...

  • May 27, 2018

    TSA must pay $ 1 million to whistleblowers it retaliated against

    President Trump has been handed an ideal example to reinforce his drive to reform civil service laws. Using executive orders (his pen and his phone, as his predecessor put it), he has just implemented three reforms, but those can be reversed by the n...

  • May 27, 2018

    Did you know that President Trump stood on concrete in the hot sun and shook the hand of every single Naval Academy graduate?

    I am a fairly avid consumer of political news, and I watched the live coverage of President Trump’s address to the Naval Academy graduates at their commencement ceremony. (If you happened to miss the inspiring speech, Rick Moran’s coverag...

  • May 26, 2018

    Louis Farrakhan: 'Mr. Trump is destroying every enemy that was an enemy of our rise'

    Louis Farrakhan, leader of the Nation of Islam movement, appears to have changed his opinion of Donald Trump since two years ago, when he warned black Americans: "If Donald Trump becomes president, he will take America into the abyss of hel...

  • May 26, 2018

    Saudi Arabia bans German firms from further government contracts

    A foreign policy dispute is escalating between Saudi Arabia and Germany, over Germany's criticisms of the kingdom's Middle East policies aimed at confronting allies of Iran in Yemen, Lebanon, and elsewhere. Der Spiegel reports: [...

  • May 26, 2018

    Tommy Robinson arrested in England while reporting on trial of Muslim grooming gang

    Tommy Robinson, a well known political activist warning of the dangers of Islamic extremism, was arrested Friday while doing a live-feed report online about the trial of Muslim gang members accused of grooming young girls for a prostitution ring. ...

  • May 26, 2018

    North and South Korean leaders hold surprise meeting at Panmunjon

    Obviously reacting to President Trump's cancelation of the scheduled June 12 summit meeting with Kim Jong-un, President Moon Jae-in met with the North Korean leader again on the North Korean side of the Demilitarized Zone.  The...

  • May 25, 2018

    Trump cracks his whip: Now North Korea wants to talk

    President Trump's letter of cancelation and subsequent statements by him and secretary of state Mike Pompeo on the canceled summit with North Korea reminded Kim Jong-un (and his domestic rivals and allies) that you d...

  • May 24, 2018

    Super-size my doubts about Morgan Spurlock's snide documentary about McDonald's

    Morgan Spurlock vaulted to prominence and a flourishing career as a television and movie-producer (69 credits to date on IMDB.com), pandering to the snobbery of elitists about McDonald's.  His 2004 documentary called Super Size Me,...

  • May 24, 2018

    Mueller caught in a trap of his own making

    Special counsel Robert Mueller looks likely to face a huge humiliation in court and a massive public relations disaster.  And it couldn't happen to a more deserving guy.  Unless a Trump-appointed judge bails him out and grants...

  • May 23, 2018

    Clapper’s desperation revealed in appearance on The View

    James Clapper has a brand new book to sell, which must be his excuse for forgetting Denis Healey's First Law of Holes: "When in one, stop digging."  Yesterday, he appeared on The View and brought a metaphor...

  • May 23, 2018

    Coming attractions: FBI agents speaking out about the abuses of Comey and McCabe

    President Trump this morning on Twitter applied the name "Spygate" to the ongoing revelations about the FBI and the Intelligence Community employing their technological and human agent tools to spy on the Trump presidential campaign an...

  • May 22, 2018

    Bombshell: More Obama admin spies attempted to insert selves into Trump campaign

    Last night, Michael Caputo, the former Trump campaign aide who has been forced to sell his house to pay legal bills arising out of the Mueller probe, let slip a bombshell: he was approached by at least one other government informant...

  • May 22, 2018

    Apple's shiny new 'spaceship' headquarters becomes a hostage to tax-greedy city of Cupertino

    When Apple sought approval of its plans to build a massive 2.8-million-square-foot "spaceship" headquarters in 2013, it made a deal that included giving up a $2-million-a-year tax break from the City of Cupertino.  In the words of...

  • May 21, 2018

    Trump trolls his critics with tweet: 'I hereby demand' investigation of DOJ-FBI infiltration or surveillance of his campaign

    President Trump clearly loves driving his fanatical critics into a frenzy.  He understands the dramatic elements that make for audience engagement and build a continuing narrative into a dramatic story arc lasting through many episodes....

  • May 21, 2018

    Putin and Erdogan publicly diss each other using startling body language

      All is not well among the miscreants wreaking havoc in Syria. Heshmat Alavi, an Iranian human rights campaigner and blogger, spotted an incident broadcast on Turkish television that reveals mutual contempt between Russia's dictatoria...

  • May 21, 2018

    Devin Nunes describes DOJ leak trap he and Trey Gowdy avoided

    Devin Nunes fully understands the depths to which the cover-up forces within the Department of Justice will stoop to protect their misdeeds from exposure.  Appearing yesterday on Maria Bartiromo's Fox News program, Morning Futures (full...

  • May 21, 2018

    An honest Democrat savages Deep State, Mueller probe

    Today's read of the day comes from a Democrat who has broken with the corruptocrats leading his party to ruin. Mark Penn was Bill Clinton's pollster and adviser during his presidency, including during his impeachment.  He is also...

  • May 21, 2018

    Italy forming new populist government today to challenge EU

    Chaos and instability are more or less the normal state of affairs when it comes to Italy's national government.  But the formation of a new government expected today, two months after voters handed more than 50% of the vote to two popu...

  • May 20, 2018

    MSM silence on Stefan Halper’s name ends

    The conspiracy to use the vast powers of the US intelligence community spy on the Trump campaign and hobble his presidency with fabricated allegations of collusion with Russia is unraveling at an accelerating pace. The latest evidence of the slow mot...

  • May 20, 2018

    Stefan Halper’s role in CIA efforts to influence 1980 presidential election revealed

    Now that his name has spread beyond the conservative blogosphere, Stefan Halper’s past activities are up for examination, and it turns out that 2016 was not the first time he had worked on behalf of an intelligence agency to influence a preside...

  • May 20, 2018

    Bill Clinton escaping the #MeToo standards and cashing in (again)

    For some reason, despite the disgrace and career defenestration visited on other liberal icons like Charlie Rose and Harvey Weinstein, Bill Clinton is still able to cash in in a big way, and enjoy the company and implicit endorsement of major media c...

  • May 19, 2018

    The Chicago Way: Free taxpayer money for people with six-figure incomes to buy upscale houses

    In the name of some unspecified public good, taxpayer money is being handed as a gift to selected people in Chicago with incomes up to $137,775 to buy houses.  This is a program that Mayor Rahm Emanuel set up two years ago, which has alread...

  • May 19, 2018

    Lawsuit against Fox News by Andrea Tantaros thrown out of court

    A federal judge in the Southern District of New York has brutally dismissed the lawsuit filed against Fox News by Andrea Tantaros, saying her claims were "based primarily on speculation and conjecture."   Law & Crime...

  • May 18, 2018

    Raucous demonstrations as Chicago Plan Commission approves Obama Presidential Center

    The word "controversial" now attaches itself to the planned Obama Presidential Center that is grabbing 19 acres of Chicago park land to build a monument to Barack Obama.  As AT reported Wednesday, the project already is being...

  • May 18, 2018

    The Clinton reckoning is tiptoeing in

    This is a historic moment of bated breath and tight sphincters all over Clintonworld.  After decades of skating on their grifts, abuses, and outright crimes, a reckoning is coming.  And not just for the Hillary Clinton, but for he...

  • May 18, 2018

    Richard Pipes dies: A scholar who changed the world

    The legacy left by Richard Pipes, a historian of Russia who taught at Harvard who died yesterday at the age of 94, rightly should include the fall of the Soviet Empire and the liberation of Eastern Europe.  His family, including his son, Da...

  • May 18, 2018

    MSM drive another nail in their own coffin with distortion of Trump's 'animals' comment

    The mainstream media have forfeited the trust of all but the dedicated progressive faction of the American public, roughly 20-30% of the populace.  Now that a majority distrusts their word, and now that we have a president who is a counter-...

  • May 17, 2018

    Tucker Carlson springs a racism trap on a progressive rising star

    David D. Burstein is one of the young rising stars of progressivism, as a glance at his personal website reveals.  Praise from the likes of Howard Dean, Judy Woodruff of PBS, and David Gergen reveal him to be an anointed one, pred...

  • May 17, 2018

    Minnesota Vikings sponsoring 'LGBTQ inclusion in sports' initiative

    "Get woke, go broke" is a brilliant aphorism coming from the Instapundit website, chronicler of corporate devotion to progressive causes deeply unpopular with their customer bases. The NFL, already reeling from attendance and tele...

  • May 17, 2018

    The plotters who launched spying on the Trump campaign outed themselves in leaks to the New York Times

    Just as Inspector General Horowitz's report on the Department of Justice is about to be released, The New York Times published a long article attempting to present the narrative of the spy operation against Donald Trump in a light favorable to ca...

  • May 16, 2018

    Bodycam footage documents NAACP state president lied about racial profiling

    The president of the NAACP in South Carolina has been exposed as a liar falsely claiming racially motivated police misbehavior.  In a Facebook post, since deleted, Rev. Jerrod Moultrie published this purported dialogue of a traffic stop tha...

  • May 16, 2018

    How's that progressivism working out for you, Jeff Bezos?

    Is Jeff Bezos having second thoughts about his political ideology and that of his newspaper?   The founder of Amazon and owner of the Washington Post – and the richest man in the world at the current Amazon stock price – is b...

  • May 16, 2018

    CNN's Chris Cillizza tweets an image of Trump in crosshairs, then deletes it

    Progressives just hate it when conservatives start enforcing their own new rules against them. Few conservatives over the age of 25 have forgotten when Sarah Palin was hysterically blamed for the shooting of Rep. Gabby Giffords because Palin...

  • May 16, 2018

    American Thinker cited in lawsuit against Obama Presidential Center

    I have to say I am delighted to have been cited in the lawsuit filed by the nonprofit organization Protect Our Parks against the transfer of public park land to the private group that will build, own, and run the Obama Presidential Center, intended f...

  • May 15, 2018

    Federal lawsuit accuses Obama Presidential Center of 'bait and switch' in land grab of park space

    Chicago is planning to hand over 19 acres of  public parkland, occupying a prime lakefront site, to a private entity, for a nominal sum, in order to build a monument to Barack Hussein Obama. Now a Chicago nonprofit, Protect Our Parks, fi...

  • May 15, 2018

    Minnesota taxpayers involuntarily funding $100 million in cash to jihadists?

    Our friend John Hinderaker of Powerline and the Center for the American Experiment asks, "Is this the worst scandal in Minnesota history?" KMSP Television, the Fox affiliate in the Twin Cities, has been carrying out a five-month-long inv...

  • May 14, 2018

    Another voice of sanity warning Democrats about Trump Derangement Syndrome

    A handful of smart Democrats are warning their party that it is hurtling down a path of self-destruction.  Now one of the most effective Democrat office-holders of this era is joining a handful of Democrat pundits in warning that the obsess...

  • May 14, 2018

    Stefan Halper and the origins of the FBI counterintelligence investigation of the Trump campaign

    The true story of how senior officials in the FBI and intelligence community conspired to spy on the Trump campaign and presidency on suspicion of nefarious dealings with Russia is starting to emerge, and with it, the possible role of a shadowy figur...

  • May 14, 2018

    Top Iranian adviser threatens to expose those who took bribes to make the Iran deal happen

    An hour after President Trump announced that he would end the Iran deal, and just before Western European leaders spoke out in defense of the deal, a Middle East analyst for the Jerusalem Post tweeted about a threat from an adviser one of Iran's ...

  • May 12, 2018

    Clinton Foundation back to the trough with fundraiser event in NY

    Grifters gotta grift.  It's a simple as that.  Even when there's no influence left to peddle.  The Clinton Foundation, which Charles Ortel correctly calls "the biggest charity fraud ever," has invited s...

  • May 12, 2018

    Senator Grassley appears to be preparing to bust the frame-up of General Flynn

    Senator Charles Grassley of Iowa, the laconic Midwesterner with a steel trap mind, dropped a bombshell yesterday with a letter (the full letter appears below – pdf here) to Deputy A.G. Rod Rosenstein (who supervises the Mueller probe) and ...

  • May 11, 2018

    New York Times hand-wringing over European reaction to Trump Iran deal cancelation

    The New York Times is really upset that Europeans are upset with President Trump leading from the front and canceling the Iran deal (that the Iranians never even signed).  The headline for the article by Steve Erlanger expres...

  • May 11, 2018

    Blunt language from Australian senator about immigrants on welfare

    Australian senator Fraser Anning represents Queensland in that nation's parliament, and as an independent, he faces no party bosses urging political correctness on him.  And Queensland is the most conservative of Australia's states....

  • May 11, 2018

    What's behind FBI-DOJ stonewall on probable FBI spy in Trump campaign?

    We may be on the verge of uncovering a shocking abuse of its powers by the FBI that it and the Department of Justice frantically have been concealing from Congress and the American people.  Kimberly Strassel of the Wall Street Journal has b...

  • May 11, 2018

    Sarah Palin on McCain's score-settling: 'A perpetual gut-punch'

    Instead reconciliation and forgiveness, Senator John McCain is choosing score-settling and cruelty as the theme for the final chapter of his life.  And in so doing, he is inflicting emotional pain: Sarah Palin said Thursday t...

  • May 11, 2018

    Judicial Watch uncovers emails showing FBI officials recommended Comey consult with Mueller prior to June 2017 Senate testimony

    More evidence has emerged of a Deep State cabal encompassing senior FBI officials, fired FBI director James Comey and his close friend Robert Mueller collaborating in their efforts to unseat a duly elected president of the United States.  J...

  • May 10, 2018

    McCain reveals that Obama called him to thank for killing Obamacare repeal

    As he unburdens himself from the cares and bonds of a lifetime, and never will face Arizona voters again, Senator John McCain is letting it all hang out.  In his forthcoming final book, which may sell more copies to Democrats than to Republicans...

  • May 9, 2018

    Did you hear about the violent teen flash mob that took over Chicago's fanciest shopping area Saturday?

    The end result of indoctrination in government schools and mass media that teaches "urban youths" that American society is racist, corrupt, unfair, and unworthy of compliance is the crumbling of civil order.  When a substantial gr...

  • May 9, 2018

    Stock market yawns as Trump trashes Iran deal

    Trump-haters had hoped that the financial markets would rebuke President Trump for killing the Iran deal.  No such luck.  Jack Hellner emails: It is very interesting that today, as Trump properly left the Iran deal, crude oil w...

  • May 9, 2018

    The unspoken key to Trump's Iran policy

    I can almost hear the disapproving "shush!" coming my way.  Nobody wants to openly discuss what clearly lies ahead as President Trump's strategy for dealing with Iran: a revolution overthrowing the mullahs. Identifying a re...

  • May 9, 2018

    Trump won the GOP primaries yesterday

    OK, President Trump wasn't on the ballot yesterday anywhere, but the GOP primary contests in Ohio, Indiana, and West Virginia produced the results most conducive to the GOP picking up Senate seats in those states. The greatest amount of attent...

  • May 9, 2018

    Trump tweets that he will greet Pompeo bringing North Korean hostages home at Andrews at 2 AM

    Not only is the rescue of three hostages from captivity in North Korea an excellent sign for the coming meeting between President Trump and Kim Jong-un over ending the nuclear program of the rogue state, but it is a diplomatic triumph for the preside...

  • May 9, 2018

    How Ronan Farrow became a killer of progressive giants

    Ronan Farrow, a 30-year-old scion of Hollywood, has taken down two giant figures in American culture and politics: Harvey Weinstein ("God," according to Meryl Streep) and New York A.G. Eric Schneiderman (who threatened to criminalize T...

  • May 8, 2018

    Schneiderman schadenfreude surplus

    President Trump famously warned us during the campaign that we may not be able to handle all the winning.  I am already running into a related non-problem: so much schadenfreude over the disgrace and resignation of New York A.G. Eric Schnei...

  • May 7, 2018

    California to make housing even more expensive to virtue-signal for greenies

    It is an article of faith in the media that California has a "housing crisis" owing to the very high cost of homes, especially in the coastal urban areas, where most of California's residents live.  Yet the state is now a...

  • May 6, 2018

    White House pushes back on China’s 'Orwellian' language bullying

    Yesterday saw a landmark of sorts, as the United States began pushing back on China’s attempts to enforce its own version of political correctness on foreign companies that do business in China.  David Shepardson of Reuters reports: T...

  • May 6, 2018

    McCain funeral planners apparently exclude President Trump from speaking

    Amidst signs that death approaches for Senator John McCain, as it will for us all, the senator’s representatives are staying true to his negativity about President Trump. At least that is my reading between the lines  of this report in The...

  • May 6, 2018

    McCain says he regrets choosing Sarah Palin as his running mate

    The forthcoming final memoir from Senator John McCain, titled The Restless Wave, and a nearly two-hour-long HBO documentary on its way seem to be being used as an opportunity to settle some scores. Jonathan Martin of the New York Times has obtained c...

  • May 5, 2018

    Busted! FBI-DOJ caught using redactions of House Intel Committee Report to protect their posteriors

    The release of a less redacted version of the House Intelligence Committee Report on Russian active measures (AKA "collusion") has exposed abuse of the redaction process to protect the bureaucrats at the FBI and Department of Just...

  • May 5, 2018

    Top Comey lawyers Lisa Page and Peter Baker suddenly leaving their sinking FBI ship

    In a move likely related to the pending release of the inspect general's report on the DOJ and FBI, the two top lawyers who served James Comey suddenly decided to find paychecks from other sources and have left their jobs at the FBI. There are...

  • May 5, 2018

    John Kerry ‘colluding’ with Iranians to foil Trump on Iran deal

    Remember the Logan Act? That ancient (1799) law that has never seen a conviction bans unauthorized persons from negotiating with foreign governments over a dis0utew with the United States. But when the Deep Staters wanted to squeeze General Michael F...

  • May 4, 2018

    Meryl Streep in line for special Oscar for hypocrisy

    The #MeToo movement has struck again, forcing the hand of the Motion Picture Academy, creating the obvious need for Meryl Streep to receive  a special Lifetime Achievement Oscar for best performance as a hypocrite.  The Acade...

  • May 4, 2018

    Cook County sheriff accidentally releases man who promised terror attack

    Another day in the life of the poster city for one-party Democrat rule, where pensions eat up taxes and incompetence is rewarded.  And Chicago's reputation as the crime capital of America and home to the catch and release policy of deal...

  • May 4, 2018

    Tick, tick, tick...for the Clinton Foundation

    Charles Ortel, the retired Wall Street analyst who has examined thoroughly the many publicly available filings of the Bill, Hillary, and Chelsea Clinton Foundation, calls it "the biggest charity fraud ever."  He has got them dead ...

  • May 3, 2018

    Stunning poll finds support for Trump doubles among blacks in one week

    This is the worst news for Democrats since the election was called for Donald Trump in 2016.  Kanye West appears to have punched a hole in the dam holding African-American support in a reservoir, allowing American blacks to make up their ow...

  • May 3, 2018

    Hillary shoots her mouth off again, and Dems cringe again

    The Democrats' long knives are going to be unsheathed on Hillary Clinton's back even sooner than I anticipated.  Driven mad by the crash and burn of her "inevitable" presidency dream, she continues to come up with excuses ...

  • May 1, 2018

    Has-been rapper from the '90s calls on Crips to attack Kanye West over support for Trump

    Kanye West is now under threat for his unwillingness to conform to the victim mentality thrust on so many African-Americans.  The first overt threat from someone with a public profile has come from a rapper named Delmar Drew Arnaud, who aff...

  • April 30, 2018

    Ziplining over a jungle...er, a rainforest canopy

    Do you have a bucket list, a series of experiences you wish to have before you shuffle off this mortal coil?  I will admit that a few of life's possibilities yet to be savored still are on mine.  I can now cross one of them of...

  • April 30, 2018

    White House Correspondents' Dinner a huge win for Trump

    Trump-haters just can't help themselves, as was demonstrated at the White House Correspondents' Association (WHCA) dinner Saturday night.  At that annual affair, a mean-spirited, vulgar presentation by purported comedian Michelle Wo...

  • April 29, 2018

    James Comey, the smiling weasel

    Have you ever wondered how people of the caliber of James Comey ever rose to the lofty heights of the Department of Justice and the FBI?  After all, these are two of the premier agencies of the federal government, known for attracting talented a...

  • April 29, 2018

    Self-criticism beginning to be heard in Arab regimes

    The unthinkable seems to be happening in the Middle East: Arab thought leaders are beginning to suggest that they have something to learn from Israel, because the Jewish state has flourished while Arabs states mostly stagnate. While there are limits ...

  • April 28, 2018

    Diversity for thee, but not for me in rich liberal New York City middle school

    On New York City's Upper West Side, rich, almost certainly liberal (the UWS gave 89% of its votes to Hillary Clinton in 2016) parents are freaking out over a diversity plan that would mean bringing in black and Hispanic students with lo...

  • April 28, 2018

    The ex-husband of Barbara Bush-basher Prof. Randa Jarrar speaks out

    Randa Jarrar, the Fresno State University tenured professor who demonized Barbara Bush shortly after her death and mocked her critics by pointing out that she has tenure and cannot be fired from her six-figure job shaping young minds, ought...

  • April 28, 2018

    The second-best part of Trump's diplomatic triumph (so far) with North Korea is watching heads explode among his NeverTrump critics

    Of course, the best part of the seeming reconciliation underway between North and South Korea is the diminishing threat of war, including a nuclear holocaust.  Face it: this is what Joe Biden would call a BFD, as even The Hill ack...

  • April 28, 2018

    Israel planning a new section of Jerusalem to house embassies moving there – may call it 'Trump Town'

    While his critics among liberals and NeverTrump purported conservatives double down on their hatred of President Trump, Israel recognizes what a great friend and historic change-maker it has in the 45th president. Gil Hoffman of the Jeru...

  • April 27, 2018

    Syria bombs Palestinian refugee camp 220 times, and nobody cares

    The media and political elites who pose as defenders of the poor beleaguered Palestinians don't care about them at all.  They are merely pawns in an effort to rid the world of Jews, starting with the half of world Jewry living in the hi...

  • April 26, 2018

    Megyn Kelly and NBC: The cost of Trump Derangement Syndrome is huge

    NBC executive Andrew Lack, reputedly the man who hired Megyn Kelly away from Fox News, has cost shareholders of NBC-Universal millions of dollars. The three-year contract paying her a reported $23 million a year is the least of the costs the network ...

  • April 25, 2018

    Guess who wasn't at the state dinner for France's President Macron

    Last night's state dinner for President Macron, the first such event for President Trump, set a new tone for these events, at least compared to President Obama.  CBS News apparently judged that the most newsworthy aspect of the occ...

  • April 25, 2018

    Revealed: Comey hired notorious Patrick Fitzgerald for his legal team after Trump fired him

    Birds of a feather are flocking together, as we learned last night, when Patrick Fitzgerald joined the legal team representing James Comey shortly after Comey was fired by President Trump in May 2017.  Fitzgerald was the former U.S. attorne...

  • April 25, 2018

    Comey made his cut-out in leaking classified memo a 'Special Government Employee'

    Thanks to the sleuthing of Catherine Herridge and her producers Pamela K. Brown and Clyde Upson of Fox News, the public is belatedly learning that James Comey appointed his good friend and accomplice in leaking government documents to the New York Ti...

  • April 23, 2018

    Mick Mulvaney turning Elizabeth Warren's dream into a nightmare

    Mick Mulvaney has rapidly become one of my favorite federal executives.  In addition to Mulvaney heading the Office of Management and Budget, President Trump appointed him to the job of running the former Consumer Financial Protection Burea...

  • April 23, 2018

    Democrats have a big Tom Steyer problem

    Tom Steyer, the fanatic Trump-hating San Francisco billionaire who has been a generous Democrat donor, is boxing in the party as it attempts to pull off a normal midterm strengthening of the opposition party's congressional representation. ...

  • April 23, 2018

    Angela Merkel finally denounces anti-Semitism of Arab refugees in Germany

    The irony of Angela Merkel, chancellor of Germany, atoning for Hitler's attempt to genocidally murder Jews by importing Arab and other Muslim "refugees" who want to finish the job finally may be sinking in to her Teutonic skull. AFP...

  • April 23, 2018

    Heritage Foundation: 1,132 proven instances of election fraud

    At the very end of his presidency, Barack Obama instructed the nation to pay no attention to allegations of vote fraud, that such allegations were "fake news." "This whole notion of voting fraud – this is something that has ...

  • April 23, 2018

    All-white golf team could end up winning PGA Minority Collegiate Golf Championship

    The very idea of "separate but equal" was supposed to have been rejected in the Supreme Court's transformational decision in Brown v. Board of Education, which rejected segregated schools.  Yet the idea of minority-only o...

  • April 22, 2018

    How President Trump could bust the ‘Palestinian refugee’ hoax

    Finally, President Trump has the opportunity to expose to the world the fraudulent creation of a millions-strong group of phony “Palestinian refugees” being kept for use as a weapon to overrun Israel’s democracy via the “right...

  • April 22, 2018

    Finland pulls the plug on guaranteed basic income experiment

    In oh-so progressive Scandinavia, Finland tried and quickly discovered that the latest hot idea among the techno-lords of Silicon Valley (and their lackeys in the California Democratic Party) is a dud. The failed idea for the way the rest of us shoul...

  • April 22, 2018

    Sweden’s chief economic forecaster: taxes will have to rise to support non-working immigrants

    Pay up, Olaf! Those immigrants that have transformed life in Sweden in so many ways don’t seem to taking jobs to support themselves the way ethnic Swedes do. And in a land of generous welfare benefits, taxes are going to have to go up, unless t...

  • April 22, 2018

    Dems running scared in California?

    I know, I know: California is supposed to be the bluest of blue states. But the law of unintended consequences is at work and there’s trouble in paradise for Democrats – even beyond the embarrassing fact that their absolute control over t...

  • April 22, 2018

    Trump administration dumps another pro-Palestinian shibboleth

    So far, there has been little reaction because the change came so quietly. But on Friday, the US State Department issued an important document that refused to conform to the previously mandatory language that paid lip service to political correctness...

  • April 21, 2018

    As good news cascades from North Korea, Dems betting against Trump (and America)

    Two apparent concessions from Pyongyang are boosting the chances of success for President Trump’s initiative to strike a “deal” that we would de-nuclearize the Korean Peninsula and possibly even lure North Korea out of its status as...

  • April 20, 2018

    Pompeo's confirmation as SecState all but assured as Heitkamp pledges vote

    When news broke of Mike Pompeo's secret Easter trip to Pyongyang to meet with Kim Jong-un, I figured that his confirmation as secretary of state, which would require at least one Senate Democrat vote because of Rand Paul's oppositio...

  • April 20, 2018

    Release of Comey's leaked memos seals his fate

    The label "Nixonian" is not a compliment, despite the many foreign policy accomplishments of the 37th president.  That adjective now will surely be attached to the reputation of James Comey for the rest of his days and beyond...

  • April 20, 2018

    In Illinois: A 'sanctuary county' for Second Amendment

    Kurt Schlichter long has been warning progressives that they're going to hate living under the new rules they proclaim when trying to suppress their political enemies.  Now the entire "sanctuary city" and "sanct...

  • April 19, 2018

    Apparently Comey didn't think through his book very carefully

    James Comey is in the process of destroying his credibility.  Perhaps the rush to cash in on his notoriety with a bestselling book led to a failure to consider the implications of what he wrote in light of his previous statements and positi...

  • April 19, 2018

    More Comey regrets over his book

    Publish in haste, repent at leisure might be James Comey's life lesson as his book, A Higher Loyalty, is being read and criticized.  And that's before the justice system he once served takes up his leaking of memos that he wrot...

  • April 19, 2018

    Progressive professors behaving badly

    Two professors, one in California and one in New Jersey, are reportedly under investigation by their employers for behavior that at a minimum is rude and arrogant and that, some hope, could cost them their jobs.  I believe that both are exe...

  • April 19, 2018

    Southwest Airlines: Recognizing management excellence in response to disaster

    I have admired the management of Southwest Airlines ever since I first studied the company in 1975 as a student at Harvard Business School.  The only other U.S. airline that comes close to it in the quality of its management is Delta, which...

  • April 18, 2018

    The huge implications of Mike Pompeo's secret meeting with Kim Jong-un

    News that CIA director Mike Pompeo secretly flew to Pyongyang to meet with Kim Jong-un shortly after his nomination as secretary of state was leaked to the Washington Post yesterday.  The timing could not be better for helping alo...

  • April 17, 2018

    Why on Earth did Paul Ryan pick Kevin McCarthy to lead the House Republicans after he leaves?

    Stand by for the next civil war among Republicans.  For reasons known only to himself, after announcing his plan to retire from the House and the speakership – but to continue holding on to the speaker's gavel until January 2019 (...

  • April 17, 2018

    Somehow, it is supposed to be a scandal that Sean Hannity asked Michael Cohen for advice on real estate law

    See also: Somehow, media don't care that Comey's cut-out in leaking classified memos claims to be his lawyer President Trump's tweet that "attorney-client confidentiality is dead" was doubly accurate. ...

  • April 17, 2018

    Somehow, media don't care that Comey's cut-out in leaking classified memos claims to be his lawyer

    In glaring contrast to the media feeding frenzy over the claim by Michael Cohen that Sean Hannity is his client, virtually nobody has picked up the scoop by Sean Davis of The Federalist almost three months ago (January 23, 2018) t...

  • April 16, 2018

    A strategic discovery that will cost China its chokehold on a key high technology resource

    China's long-term program to leverage itself into a dominant position in the global high tech economy took a huge blow last week.  Worst of all, the blow came at the hands of Japan, which remains the most hated foreign rival, thanks to ...

  • April 16, 2018

    California's high-speed rail fiasco getting a federal inspector general audit

    Tens of billions of dollars are being wasted on what should go down in history as "Brown's Folly," the utterly impractical plan to connect the Bay Area with the Los Angeles Basin via "high-speed rail" of the variety first deve...

  • April 16, 2018

    From 'global warming' to 'climate change' to 'climate restoration'

    The increase in the atmospheric trace gas of CO2 has so far failed to deliver the catastrophic consequences predicted by the alarmists like Al Gore.  The headlines about "the end of snow" are now an embarrassment after a winter of...

  • April 16, 2018

    'Global warming' claims a victim

    I restrained myself from commenting on the suicide to protest global warming of "famed gay rights lawyer" David Buckel for the last two days because, quite frankly, my first reactions were inappropriate laughter at what must be regarded as ...

  • April 16, 2018

    Screen icon of the Marine Corps R. Lee Ermey has died

    Having missed the movie Full Metal Jacket, I first encountered R. Lee Ermey in his role as host of the History Channel series, Mail Call, and immediately became a devoted fan. His character was known simply as “Gunny,” referring  to ...

  • April 15, 2018

    It’s all downhill for Comey now

    See also: Comey's book: Money, money everywhere, and not a cent to spend The day that James Comey cashed the multi-million dollar advance check from MacMillan Publishers will turn out to mark the date that we can call “Peak Comey.”...

  • April 14, 2018

    The IG nails McCabe

    Just as James Comey was building a head of steam for his publicity campaign to earn millions of dollars from his new book and speaking tour, the DOJ inspector general released a detailed 35-page report on the "lack of candor" by f...

  • April 14, 2018

    Trump corrects a historic wrong by pardoning Lewis Libby

    The level of partisan dishonesty that led to a wrongful conviction of Lewis "Scooter" Libby for lying to an independent counsel investigator probing the alleged leak of Valerie Plame's status as a CIA desk jockey lives on.  A ...

  • April 14, 2018

    A 'Goldilocks' air strike on Syria

    As the war drums were being beaten for an attack on Syria in response to its apparent use of chlorine gas, I shared some of the fears of such critics as Tucker Carlson and Michael Savage – that we were being led into a possible w...

  • April 13, 2018

    Cory Booker disgraced himself questioning Pompeo

    See also: What a Crumby Thing for Cory Booker to Say Once upon a time, Cory Booker posed as a dedicated reformer running against a corrupt political establishment.  An Academy Award-nominated documentary about his first run for politica...

  • April 13, 2018

    Guess who's heading the UN Conference on Disarmament!

    This isn't an example of unintended humor, but it does prove that the United Nations is a joke.  A very expensive, sick joke, especially if you are in a place with U.N. peacekeeping forces. Simone Somekh writes in Tablet Magazin...

  • April 13, 2018

    When Comey lied about wiretapping Trump Tower

    Now that he is useful to the campaign to nullify the presidential election of 2016, James Comey is getting endless media support for his forthcoming bestseller.  For a period, he was blamed by Hillary Clinton herself for her defeat owing to...

  • April 12, 2018

    Judge rips 'gamesmanship' in delaying release of Las Vegas massacre public records

    We are being played for fools by the law enforcement agencies investigating the Las Vegas massacre allegedly perpetrated by Stephen Paddock, a professional gambler and businessman, acting alone.  The facts that have been released so far jus...

  • April 11, 2018

    Nunes reveals plan to 'hold in contempt' and to 'impeach' Wray and Rosenstein if subpoenaed documents are not produced today

    "We are at a boiling point," House Intelligence Committee chairman Devin Nunes told Laura Ingraham last night on Fox News.  He went on to reveal a plan to hold FBI director Christopher Wray and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenste...

  • April 11, 2018

    Former Federal Election Commission chairman debunks pretext used for raid on Trump lawyer

    Bradley Smith has thoroughly debunked one of the rationales for the seizure of attorney-client privileged communications in attorney Michael Cohen's office on suspicion of violation of federal election laws.  One[i] of the allegations i...

  • April 11, 2018

    Paul Ryan reportedly not running for re-election

    As Richard Baehr said in response to reports from  Axios  and  The Hill  that Paul Ryan will not run for re-election, "Paul Ryan packing it in tells you all you need to know about GOP chances to hold the H...

  • April 10, 2018

    Mueller, FBI, DOJ go thermonuclear in efforts to bring down Trump

    The news that FBI agents have raided the law offices and residence of Donald Trump's personal counsel Michael Cohen and seized protected lawyer-client communications was first leaked yesterday to the Deep State favorite New York Times, with ...

  • April 10, 2018

    The raid on Trump's lawyer: The pretext

    See also: Mueller, FBI, DOJ go thermonuclear in efforts to bring down Trump; The raid on Trump's lawyer: Why? And why now?  The Washington Post, owned by Trump foe Jeff Bezos, was the chosen vehicle for Robert Mueller's inve...

  • April 10, 2018

    The raid on Trump’s lawyer: Why? And why now?

    See also: Mueller, FBI, DOJ go thermonuclear in efforts to bring down Trump; The raid on Trump's lawyer: The pretext In the absence of any public statements from Robert Mueller's team or the FBI or DOJ – just leaks to ...

  • April 10, 2018

    POTUS's quick response to news of raid on his lawyer shows self-control

    You can judge for yourself by watching the two-and-a-half-minute video below of President Trump responding to the news of the raid on his lawyer, Michael Cohen, but I saw a man deeply angered but fully in control of himself.  Given his tend...

  • April 10, 2018

    Yes, rogue prosecutors do try to take out elected leaders; one of them may face jail

    As we watch the drama escalate in the effort to undo the 2016 presidential election, consider the case of another chief executive elected at the same time, Missouri Governor Eric Greitens. A Republican, Governor Greitens was indicted in February for ...

  • April 9, 2018

    Globalist pearl-clutching over nationalist Viktor Orban's sweeping victory in Hungary election

    If you judge Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and his Fidesz party by their enemies, then their sweeping victory yesterday, winning a third term, was a triumph for good.  Reuters calls him a "strongman" in its...

  • April 9, 2018

    CNN shocker: 2 hosts defend Trump

    What on Earth is going on at CNN, the most anti-Trump TV operation of all?  Has the ratings disaster of chronic third-place status in the cable news ratings provoked some introspection?  Or is reality starting to sink in?  I am puzzled...

  • April 9, 2018

    Winter kills: 48,000 Brit deaths blamed on worst winter in 42 years

    If only Michael Mann could "adjust" real temperatures the way he adjusted them on his infamous "hockey stick" graph that formed the key argument of Al Gore's scaremongering hit movie, An Inconvenient Truth.  But...

  • April 8, 2018

    Washington Post sends an article about a key Mueller witness down the memory hole

    Last month, readers of the Washington Post were treated to an AP article by Bradley Klapper and Karel Janicek detailing the pedophilia conviction of George Nader, who has been identified as a cooperating witness in the Robert Mueller special counsel ...

  • April 8, 2018

    ‘Crumbling infrastructure’ no mere metaphor

    A portion of a state highway in East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania collapsed, and damaged two apartment buildings housing 8 people. Only by the grace of God (or luck, if you prefer) was nobody hurt.  CBS Pittsburgh reports: Two apartment bu...

  • April 8, 2018

    Gun store owner stops planned mass shooting

    In stunning contrast to the failure of Broward County and Parkland, Florida authorities to do anything about a mentally disturbed student acquiring the instruments of mayhem, a gun store owner in Syracuse, New York stepped up and did the right thing ...

  • April 8, 2018

    Twitter threats to kill Rep. Goodlatte reveals multiple levels of leftist hypocrisy

    A man named Michael McGowan has been arrested in Roanoke, VA and is reported by WDBJ TV to have been charged with "making a threatening communication through interstate commerce" Friday, according to a release sent out by the Departmen...

  • April 7, 2018

    Don’t miss Chappaquiddick!

    The movie Chappaquiddick exceeded my very high expectations.  Not only is it a truthful exploration of the events that led up the death of May Jo Kopechne and the criminal cover-up of Ted Kennedy's culpability therein, but it goes ...

  • April 7, 2018

    Nunes subpoena to DOJ yields FISA applications

    After flouting the Thursday deadline for producing documents subpoenaed by the House Intelligence Committee related to the FISA surveillance of a member of the Trump campaign, the Department of Justice Friday sent a letter that appears to c...

  • April 7, 2018

    Chicago officials caught short-circuiting required review of Obama Presidential Center

    The so-called "Obama Presidential Center" in Chicago is not a presidential library, and it is not part of the National Archives.  It will contain no collections of presidential papers and therefore will have little if an...

  • April 6, 2018

    Senator Kamala Harris jokes about killing Trump, Pence, or Sessions

    Remember when, in early 2011, in the wake of the massacre that wounded Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and killed six others, President Obama called "for a New Era of Civility in U.S. Politics"? The scene inside McKale Memorial Arena was a mix...

  • April 6, 2018

    Chicago schoolchildren guardian caught on camera holding heroin, arrested and released on no bail

    In a story that can be labeled "soooo Chicago," we learn that a 60-year-old Chicago woman, paid by the Chicago Public Schools to protect children on their way between home and school, has been arrested for felony possession of heroin after ...

  • April 6, 2018

    Body camera revolution protecting cop who shot student

    Dramatic body camera video has been released of a police shooting of a man armed with a crowbar who threatened to assault a University of Chicago police officer.  The availability of body cameras is proving to be a boon for good cops and a ...

  • April 6, 2018

    Trump Derangement Syndrome leads to police charges against city council member

    A mental health crisis grips tens of millions of Americans, causing untold anguish to their friends and families, and costing the victims dearly in terms of emotional turmoil and self-destructive behavior they undertake in the grip of this vicious ma...

  • April 5, 2018

    Google's near-monopoly may be crumbling

    The tech lords of Silicon Valley have never been short on arrogance, but as Mark Zuckerberg just learned, they are not invulnerable to public and political backlash over their data-mining of our personal information for sale to the highest bidders....

  • April 5, 2018

    After a year-plus of President Trump, Americans now optimistic about the future

    Gallup has produced a poll with shocking (to the mainstream media) good news about the public’s views on the prospects for America: About six in 10 Americans say it is very or somewhat likely that today's young people will have a bette...

  • April 5, 2018

    What the National Guard can actually do at the border

    When President Trump spoke at a news conference with the presidents of the Baltic nations Tuesday and said, "We are preparing for the military to secure our border between Mexico and the United States," he set off a firestorm among his crit...

  • April 5, 2018

    Wow! Must-see evisceration of Rod Rosenstein and the Mueller investigation

    Sean Hannity's timing and choice of guests last night could not have been better.  Combine Alan Dershowitz, the liberal with principles, and Joe diGenova, the principled foe of government abuse, to discuss the ex post facto secret ...

  • April 5, 2018

    How Trump beat the left at its own game with the caravan to our border

    Make no mistake: President Trump has vanquished an open borders propaganda operation and beaten the left at its own game.  With the announcement by Pueblo Sin Fronteras that the caravan it organized from Central America to the U.S...

  • April 4, 2018

    David Hogg, gun salesman

    The gun manufacturers of America have had a tough time since Barack Obama, dubbed the "greatest gun salesman in America" on CNN Money and "best gun salesman on the planet" on CNBC, left office.  After the Novem...

  • April 4, 2018

    Leak that Trump is not a 'criminal target' of Mueller team looks like manipulation

    I am suspicious of the latest "news" regarding the Mueller probe that has morphed from its original charter to investigate Russian interference into the 2016 election into something far broader, based on a secret memo from Rod Ros...

  • April 4, 2018

    Big problems with Rosenstein's secret memo expanding Mueller's mandate

    Paul Manafort's legal team has forced disclosure of a troubling secret memo issued by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein that expanded the scope of the Robert Mueller's special counsel investigation beyond allegations of Russian election ...

  • April 4, 2018

    Caravan of Central Americans will continue trek through Mexico to US border

    The march on the U.S. border by Central Americans could become a nightmare for Democrats hoping to capture control of the House of Representatives.  Following threats of retaliation by President Trump, Mexico has not stopped or dispersed th...

  • April 3, 2018

    California ignored state's travel ban for NCAA March Madness playoff in Kansas

    California's politicians love to portray themselves as far more advanced, principled, and wise than the lesser mortals who inhabit states not fully under the control of progressive Democrats.  With about one eighth of the nation's p...

  • April 3, 2018

    Saudi crown prince declares Israel has a 'right' to its homeland

    Important history was made yesterday, and the tectonic plates of Middle East moved, as the de facto ruler of Saudi Arabia, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, explicitly acknowledged Israel's right to exist, in a homeland alongside a Palestinian st...

  • April 3, 2018

    Law compelled US taxpayers to fund 'resettlement' of 13,000 'unaccompanied alien children' so far in fiscal year 2018

    With almost five months yet to go in Fiscal Year 2018, American taxpayers already have funded "resettlement" of 13,000 unaccompanied minors who managed to enter the United States.  These people who claim to be age 17 and under mus...

  • April 3, 2018

    Mexico claiming it will disband Central American caravan heading toward US border

    It looks like President Trump's tweets have had an effect on Mexico.  Whether or not you believe that our southern neighbor will follow through, at least they realize they have a P.R. problem and face some serious consequences for aidin...

  • April 3, 2018

    Is a mole at CNN deliberately destroying its credibility?

    In a move that makes CNN look absolutely untrustworthy, the network that has obsessed over a porn actress that claims she slept with President Trump once about a decade ago issued a tweet celebrating JFK's "legendary love life" to promo...

  • April 2, 2018

    Geraldo Rivera outs himself: Wishes he had supported Second Intifada

    Fox News correspondent Geraldo Rivera, aka Gerry Rivers before being Hispanic was fashionable, is out peddling his memoir, titled The Geraldo Show.  On the Fox News program The Five, he was asked if he regrets any news story ...

  • April 2, 2018

    David Hogg is having a hard time remembering his lines

    Omnipresent media celebrity and bully David Hogg is having a hard time with his facts.  In a montage of various media appearances, we can see that he says that his sister lost two friends in the Parkland school shooting.  Or was i...

  • April 2, 2018

    Report: 80% of Iraq's Christians have 'disappeared'

    The world seems as indifferent to Muslim ethnic cleansing of Christians as it was to the expulsion of 800,000 Jews from their Arab-dominated homelands following the establishment of the Israel in 1947.[i] While the U.N. is eager to condemn Is...

  • April 2, 2018

    Swedish crime prevention agency refuses to gather information on immigrant background of criminals

    It is a fairly open secret that the immigrant refugees whom Sweden has admitted in large numbers in recent years have unleashed a crime wave, particularly violent rape.  Some Swedish media have been willing to broach the topic quite recentl...

  • April 2, 2018

    CNN puffs up a story that may have a mundane explanation

    CNN wants everyone to know that the Mueller inquisition has discovered what may be something really, really big: contact with a Russian spy by a member of the Trump campaign. Reporter S[H]IMON PROKUPECZ: Gates was communicati...

  • April 2, 2018

    Producer of Chappaquiddick movie claims 'powerful people' in Hollywood pressured him to not release it

    Howie Carr is the Kennedy Family's least favorite journalist of all time, author of the book Kennedy Babylon, whose subtitle gives away his perspective: "A Century of Scandal and Depravity." Thus, it is not surprising that ...

  • April 2, 2018

    Are Baltimore Dems finally getting a clue on crime?

    When riots exploded in Baltimore almost two years ago after the death of Freddy Gray in police custody, and then-mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake called for "room to destroy," I resigned myself to the Detroitization of another Ameri...

  • April 1, 2018

    The Fake News Follies on local TV stations

    Watch as local TV stations across the country present the same script for their independent editorials denouncing fake news spread by social media. Kudos to Steve Franssen, who tweeted a video showing the exact same words being used by local TV st...

  • April 1, 2018

    Stunning religious illiteracy from NPR

    National Public Radio, the taxpayer supported nationwide radio behemoth, has been forced to issue a correction that reveals an impressive level of ignorance on the fundamentals of Christianity. Rod Dreher caught the obliviousness of NPR’s st...

  • March 31, 2018

    Federal judge rules that government has a right to make a couple sick

    According to a ruling by a federal judge in St. Louis, Missouri, governments can require a people to make themselves sick.  More specifically, a local ordinance that requires planting grass, to which a St. Peters, Mo. woman is allergic, doe...

  • March 31, 2018

    Bombshell criticism of FBI as jury foreman in the Noor Salman Pulse nightclub trial speaks out

    The jury that acquitted Noor Salman of aiding and abetting her husband's slaughter at the Pulse nightclub believed she was aware of what her husband was planning, but based on the detailed jury instructions and the nature of the evidence they wer...

  • March 31, 2018

    Dems could lose a safe seat in Congress over #MeToo scandal

    Connecticut Democrats have a big #MeToo problem on their hands and are split over what to do about it.  A few want to force the resignation of a sitting member of the House of Representatives to avoid a loss in November.  But most...

  • March 30, 2018

    Why AG Sessions declined to appoint a special counsel

    A lot of conservatives are upset that Attorney General Jeff Sessions has declined for now to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate claims of FBI abuses in surveilling the Trump campaign, and in declining to investigate the Uranium One deal, fol...

  • March 30, 2018

    Hillary won’t shut up, even as her speaking fees tumble

    Hillary Clinton won’t or can’t stop giving speeches, even though her price has fallen from well into six figures to less than Snooki received at the same campus.  Sporting a cast on her arm from reportedly falling in her bathtub in I...

  • March 29, 2018

    Hawaiian pols pressing to erect statue of Obama

    Perhaps smarting from having been snubbed by Barack Obama when he chose Chicago for the site of his presidential non-library, aka the book-free Obama Presidential Center (complete with basketball court), it looks as though Hawaiian politicians are se...

  • March 29, 2018

    Newly released Strzok-Page texts suggest a sneaky cabal

    More evidence was released yesterday indicating that the CIA, the FBI, the Obama White House, and congressional Democrats were communicating about a possible charge of Russian collusion with the Trump campaign three months before the November 2016 pr...

  • March 28, 2018

    Trump and the Great Unmasking of the Left

    Driven to desperation by their fury at President Trump’s election, his presidency, and Robert Mueller’s failure  to substantiate the bogus Russia conspiracy fantasy, progressives are escalating their rhetoric, and in the process, unm...

  • March 28, 2018

    Kim Jong-un’s visit to Beijing is yuuuge good news for Trump’s North Korea strategy

    Once again, Donald Trump has exposed the fecklessness of his predecessors and the foreign policy establishment, this time with his courageous strategy to denuclearize North Korea. The visit to Beijing by Kim Jong-un – held secret at first, but ...

  • March 27, 2018

    California suing to prevent 2020 Census from asking about citizenship

    Yesterday, commerce secretary Wilbur Ross announced that the 2020 Census would add a question about citizenship.  Shortly thereafter, California attorney general Xavier Becerra announced that he would sue to prevent this. The inclusion o...

  • March 27, 2018

    South Park creators receive award from progressive group and shock Hollywood audience by declaring 'We're Republicans'

    They are rude, crude, and vulgar on a regular basis – and I love 'em.  I confess that I admire the spirit behind the creators of South Park, even though I don't watch it or record it on my DVR – mostly because of time co...

  • March 25, 2018

    College snowflakes seem to be melting down in larger numbers

    In tandem with the rising politicization of schools and colleges, the number of college students with serious mental health problems is rapidly growing. Correlation does not prove causation, of course, but we must ask what could account for statistic...

  • March 25, 2018

    Why did sponsors of ‘March for our lives’ spend so much money to hide their identities?

    The people who sprang into action after the Parkland, Florida shooting and made David Hogg into an instant celebrity, culminating in the mass rallies yesterday, want to make sure that you do not find out who they are.    There are people...

  • March 25, 2018

    President Trump hints he may use Defense budget to build the border wall now

    President Trump tweeted something very suggestive this morning, indicating that he may use the powers of the executive to work around the $1.3 trillion abomination’s limitations on the border wall: Because of the $700 & $716 Billion Do...

  • March 24, 2018

    Saudi Arabia suddenly permits commercial airliner to overfly its territory on the way to Israel

    Saudi Arabia has torn down a significant part of the wall that the Arab world erected around Israel in order to isolate it and strangle its economy.  The U.K. Telegraph reports: Saudi Arabia opened its airspace for the f...

  • March 24, 2018

    Can Trump win back his base after signing the abominable spending bill?

    I, too, wish President Trump had vetoed that spending bill that put smiles on the faces of Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer and permitted them to gloat openly.  The only reason for his cave-in that I find credible is what he said: that the hu...

  • March 23, 2018

    Citi Group imposes gun control rules on its clients

    Progressive virtue-signaling by the elites of American finance, technology, and industry is well on its way toward replacing the power of democratically elected government in regulating our behavior.  Who needs to go through the messy busin...

  • March 23, 2018

    Democracy dies in omnibus bills

    Any proposed legislation in Congress that starts with "Omnibus" or "Comprehensive" is likely to be terrible.  The pols who want to bribe their funders and feather their own nests have plenty of room to do so and to inser...

  • March 23, 2018

    Bombshell reveal: A grand jury already is hearing evidence on DOJ and FBI scandals

    We are on the verge of a huge political explosion.  While there have been calls for a special counsel to investigate the DOJ and FBI scandals, and many conservatives have been outraged at the seeming passivity of "Gentleman Jeff" ...

  • March 22, 2018

    Two centuries of US immigration visualized

    A must-see visual presentation showing how immigration to the United States has changed in volume and source over the last two centuries has been created by Max Galka, who describes himself as "fascinated by data" and maintai...

  • March 22, 2018

    Florida woman deliberately crashes car into sheriff’s station, media ignore the obvious

    It's a rule of thumb for alert readers that when a politician is caught doing something embarrassing or criminal, if no political party is specified, you can safely bet that he is a Democrat.  Something similar appears to be at work wit...

  • March 22, 2018

    Cook County primary election for assessor could teach Putin a new trick

    Say what you want about the legitimacy of Vladimir Putin's re-election; at least voters for his opponents were not instructed that their votes wouldn't count.  You have to travel to Cook County, Illinois to see that kind of trick pu...

  • March 22, 2018

    ACLU chapter and liberal foundation urge cops not to arrest illegals for crimes they commit to shield them from deportation

    Remember when liberals claimed they believed in equal protection under the laws?  The fanatical hatred for Donald Trump and fanatical desire to replace the population of the United States with third-world people who will vote for Democrats ...

  • March 21, 2018

    Canada appears to be turning right

    Canadians seem just about as fed up with their leftist elites as Americans were in the 2016 elections.  Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is polling far worse than President Trump, and voters in Ontario and Quebec, the two most populous provinc...

  • March 21, 2018

    Austin bombing suspect dead, apparently tracked down by surveillance state

    A 24-year-old "white male" suspect in the bombing spree afflicting Austin, Texas is dead after blowing himself up in his car while being fired upon by police.  Information is still very fragmentary, but according to repo...

  • March 21, 2018

    Two people charged with defrauding minority set-aside program in Chicago

    When governments play favorites on the basis of race in awarding contracts, the real scandal isn't people who illegally pretend to be of the favored race or gender or ethnicity, but the discrimination practiced by the government.  That ...

  • March 19, 2018

    DC city councilman apologizes for anti-Semitic rant blaming Rothschild family for ‘weather control’

    I had never heard of Washington, D.C. city councilman Trayon White, Sr. until his Facebook post video last Friday blaming the Rothschild family for controlling the weather (and apparently causing the snowfall that was occurring as he spoke) started t...

  • March 19, 2018

    Hillary trying to weasel out of her offensive comments in India that scared Democrats – and fails

    Hillary Clinton never took to heart Denis Healey's First Law of Holes: "If you are in one, stop digging."  Her comments in India blaming her loss on the "backward" parts of the country and white women whose husb...

  • March 19, 2018

    Saudi Arabia buying into Hollywood powerhouse talent agency

    Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MbS), the crown prince and de facto absolute ruler of Saudi Arabia, continues to surprise and amaze with his moves to drag the kingdom out of the seventh century.  He is currently visiting the United States and w...

  • March 19, 2018

    Adam Schiff: Andrew McCabe's firing 'may be justified'

    The worm is turning for Trump-haters, and Adam Schiff suddenly gets it. Kyle Feldscher of the Washington Examiner: The top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee said Sunday he feels the firing of FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe ...

  • March 19, 2018

    Hilarious: Elizabeth Warren complaining about her own handiwork

    If Elizabeth Warren had faked being the other kind of "Indian," she might know something about karma.  Instead, he is providing unintended hilarity by complaining about the independence of the Consumer Financial Protecti...

  • March 19, 2018

    The big winner in Rex Tillerson's firing: Heather Nauert

    Marie Harf, eat your heart out.  Heather Nauert, who took the job State Department spokesman job Harf had under John Kerry's leadership, has just gotten a huge promotion in the wake of SecState Rex Tillerson's departure.  ...

  • March 18, 2018

    Dem state representative in Mass seeks to remove sign honoring Civil War general because she doesn’t like his name

    We are accustomed to local politicians demanding erasure of memorials to Confederate generals, but a feminist state legislator in Massachusetts wants to pull down a sign honoring a Union general -- solely because of his name. Representative Michel...

  • March 18, 2018

    Jerry Brown’s half-fast ‘bullet train’ front man admits Californians deserve another vote on the project

    In 2008, California voters were duped into narrowly approving (with 52.6% of the vote)  a $9.95 billion bond issue for construction of a purported “bullet train” linking San Francisco and Los Angeles, based in specious cost estimates...

  • March 18, 2018

    Just the thing for helping Chicago with its murder rate and violent crime: a new police civilian oversight commission

    A group calling itself the Grassroots Alliance for Police Accountability (GAPA) is pushing hard for a civilian oversight commission – with the power to fire police, up to an including the superintendent – and has a lot of support in that ...

  • March 17, 2018

    Kamala Harris's shocking worry about arming teachers

    Senator Kamala Harris apparently has a very low opinion of the nation's schoolteachers.  That's odd, because the freshman senator from California faced a primary battle for the nomination to replace retiring senator Barbara Boxer an...

  • March 17, 2018

    McCabe waiting for his indictment now

    The odds are very high that an indictment will be forthcoming for Andrew McCabe. As the ever-alert Sundance of Conservative Tree House points out, the statement on his firing by AG Sessions specifically noted that he “lacked candor” (the ...

  • March 16, 2018

    Academics reeling as market discipline comes to the University of Wisconsin

    If you are sick and tired of professors indoctrinating students in politicized classes that teach nothing of any use in real life, and hate the idea that tenure immunizes them from accountability, the next decade or so is going to provide some relief...

  • March 16, 2018

    Chicago GOP planning to sue Chicago Public Schools over organizing gun control walkout

    When a school or even a single teacher organizes students for a political demonstration, it is child abuse. Even if participation is purportedly “voluntary,” an element of coercion is present, since the teacher grades the students. The...

  • March 16, 2018

    The downside of student protests against guns: moronic signs

    The mainstream media and Democrat pols could barely contain their glee at student walkouts demanding gun control. They attach all kinds of virtue to innocents spouting the propaganda they feed them, and even coerce them into demonstrating for. Onl...

  • March 15, 2018

    Massive food stamp fraud uncovered

    The very expensive ($70.9 billion in 2016) federal food stamp program (officially: Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP) is an open invitation to fraud.  The latest indicator comes from Jacksonville, Florida. News...

  • March 15, 2018

    UNICEF 'children's rights' campaigner imprisoned for rape of 13-year-old boy

    There is way too much sexual abuse taking place by those under the banner of the United Nations.  Something is very wrong, and there are few reasons to hope anything will change.  The halo that the left and mainstream media place ...

  • March 15, 2018

    Andrew McCabe's firing (just before retirement) recommended by FBI Office of Professional Responsibility

    Both the New York Times and Washington Post are reporting that the FBI's Office of Professional Responsibility has recommended that A.G. Jeff Sessions fire Andrew McCabe, a mere days before his scheduled retirement on Sunday, ...

  • March 14, 2018

    Federal appeals court rejects 'racial profiling' argument

    A favorite argument of progressives against many laws disproportionately violated by minorities has been rejected as Texas's ban on sanctuary cities has been unanimously upheld by a three-judge panel of a federal court of appeals.  Reve...

  • March 14, 2018

    Pennsylvania special election will be decided by absentee ballots

    According to the Pennsylvania secretary of state's tally, Democrat Conor Lamb leads Republican Richard Saccone by 579 votes, less than half the total of 1,372 votes received by the Libertarian candidate.  The razor-thin 0.26% lead ...

  • March 13, 2018

    Why Trump actually could succeed with North Korea

    Barack Obama wasn't kidding when he warned his successor that North Korea is the biggest national security threat the U.S. faces.  "No good options" has been the mantra of the deep thinkers, as if we have no choice b...

  • March 12, 2018

    Delusional Dems proposing tax hike as a way to win the midterms

    Believe it or not, Democrats are proposing tax hikes as means of winning more seats in the forthcoming midterms.  Is it too soon to put them on suicide watch? Check out this press release from Senate Democrats if you don't belie...

  • March 12, 2018

    Thinking the unthinkable on a Second Civil War

    Mass psychosis has gripped a significant fraction of the progressive regressive elites in the wake of their shock at the election and presidency of Donald Trump.  The open embrace by California and some other jurisdictions of null...

  • March 11, 2018

    Elizabeth Warren says she is 'not running' for president

    Elizabeth has told at least two Sunday morning political talk shows that she is not a candidate for the presidency in 2020.  CNN is touting the appearance of Elizabeth Warren on its “State of the Union” broadcast this morning, in whi...

  • March 11, 2018

    Trump unveils re-election slogan that works for 2018, too

    At his pre-election rally supporting Rick Saccone’s candidacy for a vacant House seat in Pennsylvania, President Trump gave a boost to the hat industry by unveiling his 2020 re-election slogan, “Keep American Great!” All those MAGA ...

  • March 11, 2018

    Saturday Night Live mocks Mueller's 'Russia collusion' fail

    The Special Counsel investigation of charges that the Trump campaign colluded with Russia to win election has become such an embarrassment that even Trump-hating NBC is mocking the failure to come up with any evidence. Last night’s cold open fo...

  • March 11, 2018

    The Democrats and their media allies have a big Farrakhan problem

    The Democratic Party has become the party of Jew-haters and is quite comfortable accommodating them in its ranks.  I never thought that such a thing would happen in America, but no less a figure than the Democrats’ deputy chair, Representa...

  • March 11, 2018

    #CNN fail: Network stopped updating 'Trump job growth tracker' in early January

    CNN must have believed that President Trump would be unable to deliver on his promise of job growth when it instituted a feature  it called the “Trump Job Growth Tracker” on its website. But now that the news is really, really good, ...

  • March 10, 2018

    High-handed Obama Presidential Center is losing community support

    Irony abounds in the struggle taking pace on the Southside of Chicago, where Barack Obama first cut his teeth as an Alinskyite community organizer.  His desire to have a monument to himself in the form of the "Obama Presidential Center...

  • March 10, 2018

    ACLU files class action lawsuit against US demanding border-violating families be incarcerated together

    According to a lawsuit filed by the ACLU, the United States government has an obligation to parents who drag their kids across the desert, getting involved with gangster-coyotes and violating our border.  They must be detained (i.e., incarc...

  • March 10, 2018

    Desperate Dems trying to 'normalize' Farrakhan

    Now that evidence has emerged that Louis Farrakhan has enjoyed the company and support of prominent Democrats, and now that this connection can no longer be kept from the public eye, a decision must be made.  Farrakhan's vocal racism an...

  • March 10, 2018

    New York Times trying to rehabilitate Al Sharpton

    A stunningly dishonest article in the New York Times attempts to rehabilitate Al Sharpton.  The title, Al Sharpton, Reconsidered, reveals the goal of restoring Sharpton to polite company.  It begins with an interview placing Sharpton i...

  • March 9, 2018

    Three reasons why North Korea's offer of direct talks is a victory for Trump

    Once again, President Trump has embarrassed the diplomatic and political establishment by succeeding where they have failed for decades.  The surprise announcement yesterday outside the Oval Office by South Korea's national security adv...

  • March 9, 2018

    MSM scramble to find reasons to ridicule Trump's North Korea triumph

    If you expected the media to hail North Korea's urgent request for talks –from the position of supplicant – you have underestimated the force of Trump Derangement Syndrome.  Only one mainstream media figure came cl...

  • March 9, 2018

    Trump takes on the 'impossible' task of denuclearizing North Korea

    According to almost all the experts, there is every reason to anticipate that the talks President Trump has agreed to hold with Kim Jong-un will fail, just as experts agreed that Trump's quest for the presidency was a laughable impossibility....

  • March 8, 2018

    AG Sessions reveals 'a person outside of Washington' already has been appointed to investigate FISA abuses

    Is Attorney General Jeff Sessions really standing in the way of a full investigation of wrongdoing by the FBI and Justice Department officials, abusing their offices to spy on the Trump campaign and presidency?  President Trump's now in...

  • March 8, 2018

    Democrats must be made to pay a price for coziness with Farrakhan

    The narrative that the left has created about President Trump being a racist and the GOP as the home of David Duke can be flipped on its head and used to great electoral advantage, if only Republicans will take full advantage of the opportunity prese...

  • March 7, 2018

    The very strong case for a second special counsel to investigate the DOJ and FBI

    Two of the most important committee chairmen in the House of Representatives, Bob Goodlatte of the House Judiciary Committee and Trey Gowdy of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee, have sent a public letter to A.G. Jeff Sessions an...

  • March 7, 2018

    Italy elects its first black senator – from the purportedly 'racist' and 'anti-immigrant' League

    Italian voters are in full revolt against their corrupt elites, the E.U., and forcible mass immigration under duress.  But you probably have not seen any reports from our friends in the media on the historic election of Italy'...

  • March 7, 2018

    Why Gary Cohn's departure from the White House could be good news

    The usual media spin is being applied to the announcement of Gary Cohn's pending departure from his post as President Trump's economic adviser.  It just has to be a disaster, an indicator of "chaos" in the White House and ...

  • March 6, 2018

    Saudi crown prince shocks Islamists with bold moves in Egypt

    It is hard to overstate the significance of a hugely symbolic move by the reformist crown prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Salman (MbS).  American media mostly are clueless about religion and lack any understanding of the momentous chan...

  • March 6, 2018

    Why the left can't win on gun control

    David French, the one-time hope of the NeverTrump faction, has summed up the reasons why the left cannot win in its anti-Second Amendment crusade.  Owing to his status as an enemy of Trump, French has access to prominent organs of...

  • March 6, 2018

    Alleged killer of Chicago police commander was on the streets due to unusually light sentence for major parole violations

    Chicago Police commander Paul Bauer was savagely executed, "shot six times in the head, neck, torso, back and wrist."  No fewer than "three civilian witnesses identified Shomari Legghette in a police lineup as the man wh...

  • March 6, 2018

    Trump's DACA strategy triumphs as so-called 'DREAMers' block entrance to DNC

    President Trump was routinely denounced as "impulsive," "unreliable," and worse when he upped the ante on DACA recipients, offering citizenship (after thorough vetting and many years) to a much larger group of illegals brought int...

  • March 5, 2018

    Harsh lesson for taxpayers as illegal alien felon pleads guilty to stealing $361K in benefits

    If you are an average payer of federal income taxes, the entire amount of money you have paid and will pay in federal income taxes over your lifetime has been stolen by one illegal alien, with plenty of money left over to pillage from the t...

  • March 4, 2018

    Hillary's 'Resistance' Group Plundering the Democrats' Party Organs to Fund Own Group

    The formal organs of the Democratic Party – the DNC (Democratic National Committee) and DNCC (Democratic National Campaign Committee – are in terrible financial shape.  And yet a group founded and controlled by Hillary Clinton to co-...

  • March 4, 2018

    Media ignoring data on Russian interference in our politics by funding environmentalist groups

    You would think that honest members of the media who have been obsessing over a few Facebook ads as evidence of sinister Russian control over our politics would pay attention to real and substantial evidence that we are being manipulated by them. Suc...

  • March 4, 2018

    Trump's federal help saving Chicago from its own judicial system failure

    Crime in Chicago is a national embarrassment, as well as a demonstration of the inability of Democrats to maintain safety for the law-abiding citizens. While the murder rate in Chicago – largely confined to a couple of ghetto neighborhoods -- m...

  • March 4, 2018

    It is amazing how few media people 'get' Trump

     I noted my belief yesterday that President Trump’s unscripted, offhand remark about tariffs was a negotiating ploy, in a blog my colleague Rick Moran authored.  When I asked him to note it, he snarked an instant message back at me, ...

  • March 4, 2018

    Trump turns on the charm with media foes at the Gridiron Club

    Speaking to the Gridiron Club, a DC media insiders group that does not permit broadcasting of its dinners, President Trump demolished more than a few negative stereotypes about himself, while adding some carrot to the stick he has been wielding again...

  • March 3, 2018

    Delta discovers the perils of PC

    Delta Airlines opened Pandora's Box when it caved in to a wave of complaints – likely the result of a sophisticated operation to turn a handful of activists into what looks like tens of thousands of individual emails, tweets, Instagram mess...

  • March 3, 2018

    Buzzfeed puts a target for jihadists on the backs of Pamela Geller's daughters

    Even Mafia dons keep the families of fellow mobsters out of their murderous disputes. But there is less honor than that in the journalism of Buzzefeed.  For inexplicable reasons, a Buzzfeed employee thought it would be a good idea to tag the dau...

  • March 3, 2018

    Crony capitalism leads to fugitive private jet

    A ghost jet haunts Canadian bureaucrats, stealthily flying the world and hiding out from them in obscure or covert airstrips.  Crony capitalism at its worst is on display in the aviation industry. National governments (and the E.U.) are ...

  • March 3, 2018

    Studio audience of The View erupts in applause at defense of Trump and attack on Hollywood and Hillary

    Progressives in the media live in a cocoon, where dissenting voices are scorned, and liberal platitudes and pieties reign as eternal, unchallengeable truths.  Daytime television, with a heavily female viewing audience, has been a safe haven...

  • March 3, 2018

    Trump preparing to use a pardon to highlight the depth of Hillary's national security crimes

    On the campaign trail, Donald Trump repeatedly referred to the case of Navy sailor Kristian Saucier, who was sentenced to one year in prison for taking pictures on a submarine that were deemed “confidential” – the lowest rung on the...

  • March 3, 2018

    Another fake global warming scare is busted as scientists 'surprised'

    A favorite technique of the propagandists of the Global Warming scare is to find cute and cuddly creatures that they can claim are “threatened” by global warming. For years, an iconic picture of a polar bear on an ice floe was used to fri...

  • March 2, 2018

    The coming controversy over admitting white refugees from South Africa

    The news that South Africa is moving decisively in the disastrous direction of Zimbabwe – confiscating the land of white farmers, which is by definition ethnic cleansing and almost certainly will involve mass murder (as it did in Zimb...

  • March 2, 2018

    Fun with Justice Alito during SCOTUS oral arguments

    How often does laughter repeatedly rock the Supreme Court during oral arguments?  How often are oral arguments at the Supreme Court this hilarious?  Defending a state law allowing censorship based on political content before the jus...

  • March 2, 2018

    It's sweetness and light between NRA and Trump after he chummed the water on gun control

    When President Trump made his startling comment during bipartisan televised White House gun discussions about taking guns first and due process later, I suspected he was doing the same thing he had done during similar immigration discu...

  • March 1, 2018

    Half a Century of Blaming White Racism for Black America's Problems

    For half a century, the federal government has pursued a disastrous strategy in addressing the problems of black Americans. They were designated a victim class, and enormous sums of money were expended on incentives to perpetuate that status. The ...

  • March 1, 2018

    Understanding the strategy behind President Trump's twitter slam of AG Sessions

    I have a strong suspicion that the current kerfuffle between President Trump and Jeff Sessions is part of a strategy, not merely – as the left has it – a rogue president shockingly, immaturely, and inappropriately attacking his attor...

  • March 1, 2018

    South Africa sets its course on race-hatred, poverty, starvation, and mass deaths

    Once upon a time, Nelson Mandela put South Africa on the path toward racial reconciliation and a transition to a society based on black and white equality.  Alas, race-hatred is winning that battle now, and what was once the most prosp...

  • February 28, 2018

    German court decision to have devastating impact on its auto industry

    The tectonic plates are shifting underneath Germany's huge automobile industry.  The industry has just lost its huge bet on diesels, and Germany's champion exporters are hobbled. As fuel prices soared in the late 20th centur...

  • February 28, 2018

    Trump-haters' karma coming due as White House Correspondents' Dinner loses its parties

    Hatefulness is not a good look, and face it: the White House Correspondents Association annual dinner is all about appearances.  Over the past two decades, the event, misleadingly nicknamed "The Nerd Prom" – as if the journa...

  • February 27, 2018

    Sheriff Scott Israel's deputy provided firearms training for radical mosque

    For all his grandstanding blaming the NRA for the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, Sheriff Scott Israel seems OK with arming members of  radical mosque, and even one of his deputies training them, if this report from T...

  • February 27, 2018

    US naval task force challenging China's sovereignty claims in South China Sea

    For some reason, the American media seem to be ignoring a major military challenge to China currently underway.  The Australian media, closer to the scene by several thousand miles, get it: this is big news.  They are able to read...

  • February 27, 2018

    No, SCOTUS didn't set back Trump on DACA

    Yesterday's news that the Supreme Court won't bypass the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in considering the stay on President Trump's end of President Obama's DACA program was entirely procedural, and not substantive oppositi...

  • February 27, 2018

    Elizabeth Warren's past catches up with her (again)

    Faux outrage from Fauxcahontas.  Sean Davis digs up an embarrassing bit of history that demonstrates the utter hypocrisy of one of the left's darlings, who evidently will claim anything so long as it helps her score points with an audie...

  • February 27, 2018

    Oops! 100,000 non-citizens registered to vote in Pennsylvania

    J. Christian Adams, a former federal prosecutor, through his work with the Public Interest Legal Foundation, is leading an effort to expose the extent of aliens voting in federal elections.  For unexplained reasons, the officials are stonew...

  • February 27, 2018

    The real Clarice Feldman shines in conversation with Peter Boyles of KNUS

    Clarice Feldman is a gem, as her fans know. One self-proclaimed fan is Peter Boyles, who invited her on his talk show on Denver’s KNUS AM 710. He soon elicited from Clarice a few facts that he wasn’t expecting about her professional ba...

  • February 26, 2018

    Book timing suggests Michelle Obama running for president in 2020

    Michelle Obama looks as though she wants to run for president in 2020, tweeting out yesterday that her new book will be published five days after the midterm election on November 13.  Many observers believe that this signals her candidacy, ...

  • February 26, 2018

    Calif Dems dump Feinstein from party endorsement for re-election to Senate

    The hard left has consolidated its control of the Democratic Party in the nation's biggest state.  One of the longest serving (and richest) senators in the party was humiliated over the weekend, as the activists attending the California...

  • February 26, 2018

    Arrested Rochester DACA recipient is a nightmare-generator, not a dreamer

    Abigail Hernández, the DACA beneficiary arrested last Friday in Rochester, New York for making a terroristic threat, does not seem at all grateful for the special consideration afforded her by then-president Barack Obama. WHAM-TV repor...

  • February 26, 2018

    Sheriff Scott Israel shoves aside NRA as scapegoat for Parkland massacre

    Leftists love scapegoats when they get to choose them.  But their narrative on the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School mass slaughter is crashing and burning.  The statist gun-grabbers thought they had another golden opportunity ...

  • February 26, 2018

    Guess which one percent of the population committed 33% of the mass shootings in the last decade?

    Isn’t it peculiar that nobody in the media seems to mention this? Daniel Greenfield writes: In the last decade, there were only 10 major mass shootings where the death toll went into the double digits. Three of those were carried out by Mu...

  • February 25, 2018

    Gun grabbers seeking to censor NRA-TV

    Not content to run roughshod over the Second Amendment, anti-gun groups and celebrities are seeking to take on the spirit of the First Amendment, and remove the NRA’s television platform from streaming services. Nathaniel Meyersohn writes for C...

  • February 25, 2018

    Silly costumes were the least problem with Justin Trudeau's 'disaster trip' to India

    See also: Hilarious: Justin Trudeau dresses like Indian stereotype in India and gets slammed The ridiculous costumes worn by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on his trip to India got all the attention in the American media, but the Indian po...

  • February 25, 2018

    Australia reverses itself on public break of ties with Israeli intelligence

    Australia should be embarrassed at the exposure of its hypocrisy. The Daily Telegraph of Australia (behind a pay wall, but text available here) writes: SEVEN years ago Australia expelled a Mossad agent and publicly cut ties with the intelligence...

  • February 24, 2018

    Detroit police chief supports arming teachers

    Law enforcement's utter failure to prevent or minimize the slaughter of 17 innocents at Stoneman Douglas High School is now on the record.  Not only were repeated warnings to the FBI and local law enforcement ignored, but "several...

  • February 24, 2018

    Fired cooks at NYU demonstrate the impossibility of culinary commemoration of Black History Month

    Two people who work to prepare food for students at New York University have lost their jobs for serving a meal featuring food and beverages believed to be stereotypically associated with black cuisine.  The New York Times reports...

  • February 23, 2018

    Mourning the children of Parkland

    Reader Keith Riler sent us the picture below outside Planned Parenthood of the Gulf Coast in Houston, taken following the shooting at Parkland, Florida. It's safe to say nobody there at Planned Parenthood has a sense of irony. ...

  • February 23, 2018

    McCain aide took the Fifth Amendment on role in Steele dossier

    More threads are unraveling in what may be the biggest political scandal in history: the use of intelligence agencies to spy on a rival-party presidential campaign and then unseat a duly elected president.  The blowback from the Steele doss...

  • February 23, 2018

    Nancy Pelosi's net worth more than tripled during financial crisis 2008-2010

    I am sure there is nothing at all suspicious when the then-speaker of the House managed to triple her (and her husband Paul's) estimated net worth in the period of a global financial crisis, when the federal government was deciding whom to bail o...

  • February 22, 2018

    Good weather is bad news in Chicago

    It was a warm-weather period in Chicago over the long Presidents' Day weekend.  When civil order is collapsing, that's bad news. The Chicago Sun-Times: Eight people were killed and at least 30 others were woun...

  • February 22, 2018

    CNN busted trying to put scripted words in mouth of hero Stoneman Douglas student at televised town hall

    See also: CNN hits a new low, no longer pretending to be fair at all CNN would be the object of humor if its behavior were not so contemptible. Coming in the wake of its disgrace over using chyrons to proclaim President Trump a liar, giving up all...

  • February 22, 2018

    While a Harvard professor, Elizabeth Warren stiffed invitations to speak to Native American student group

    The unraveling of Elizabeth Warren's fraudulent claim to Native American heritage has entered a new and dangerous stage for the senator who wants to be the next Democrat nominated for president.  While she was on the Harvard Law School ...

  • February 22, 2018

    Do we need to destroy the FBI in order to save it?

    Saving a diseased bureaucracy is a huge challenge.  When that agency works in secrecy and has fearsome retaliatory powers, it can be a nightmare.   The extent of the publicly visible bias, corruption, and incompetence at the FB...

  • February 21, 2018

    Another Trump-hating Olympian wipes out

    Call it coincidence, karma, or bad juju, but it looks as though denouncing the POTUS while representing the USA at the Winter Olympics is correlated with unexpectedly dismal performance.  Joining Lindsey Vonn, Adam Rippon, and Shani Davis...

  • February 21, 2018

    #MeToo race PBS = circular firing squad on the left

    Pillars of the left are tearing themselves apart before our eyes, locked in what looks like a steel cage death match.  Charlie Rose, Garrison Keillor, and other taxpayer-subsidized lefties have slunk away, but they didn't have a race ca...

  • February 21, 2018

    Gun-grabbers exploiting children to capitalize on grief over Parkland school massacre

    The ghouls among the gun-grabbers were well prepared to mobilize the many traumatized students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school as pawns, sticking microphones in their faces on CNN and bussing them to Tallahassee to demand more limits on law-a...

  • February 21, 2018

    Alex Van Der Zwaan indictment the latest Mueller accusation to have nothing to do with Trump campaign, but may lead to big-time Dems

    Trump-haters are hoping Alex Van Der Zwaan, the London lawyer (and son-in-law of a Russian oligarch) indicted by Special Counsel Mueller's investigation for lying, will turn on and implicate Carter Page, who briefly had something to do ...

  • February 20, 2018

    Violent crime in Chicago Loop up 97%, but Mayor Rahm cuts the number of cops there

    Chicago is the canary in the coal mine for America's big cities as civil order slips away.  The presumption that life can be lived without constant fear of violent predators is already gone in gang stronghold neighborhoods, where murder...

  • February 20, 2018

    Did the Russians really spend 'millions' trying to swing the election?

    The effort to explain away Hillary Clinton's loss to Donald Trump began as a propaganda operation the morning after the election results came in.  Defense of the Russia collusion hoax requires a sinister foe that might have swung the el...

  • February 20, 2018

    Dems fear 'slow-motion train wreck' in midterms

    The smarter Dems in Congress are catching on that Trump-hatred anchors their party to ending the Trump Boom.  Hand them the majority, and they'll paralyze us with impeachment. They know that Americans are responding to good economic ...

  • February 19, 2018

    Dem Senator warns Mueller against issuing report near midterm election

    Senator Bob Casey, the Pennsylvania Democrat, issued a public warning Sunday telling special counsel Robert Mueller to avoid issuing his report near the November election.  One of the less crazy, comparatively moderate Democratic senators, ...

  • February 19, 2018

    Hungary's PM Orban calls out Europe's surrender to Islamic invaders

    Viktor Orbán, the forthright Hungarian prime minister, used unusually blunt language to lay out the "clash of civilizations" destabilizing Hungary's E.U. neighbors to the West and to state that Hungary will not yield to E.U. pres...

  • February 19, 2018

    Obama appointee to senior ICE post pleads guilty

    Raphael A. Sanchez has switched roles in the chronicle of Obama administration appointments.  No longer an ornament on the Obama diversity Christmas tree as a Hispanic senior legal official, the top attorney for the U.S. Immigrati...

  • February 19, 2018

    Warmists foiled again: Answer to what's causing frog populations to decline is just plain embarrassing

    You know the drill because we've seen the same story so many times.  Reports come in that scientists have discovered declining populations of a species of some sort somewhere. Scientists study. For quite some time, they come up wi...

  • February 18, 2018

    Chicago Police Superintendent: Criminals Think Chicago's Judicial System 'a joke'

    Chicago’s slide toward criminal anarchy is a national disgrace, as even its top cop seems to understand. Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson spoke out Wednesday at a news conference to announce murder charges for the shooting of an 11 y...

  • February 18, 2018

    Facebook VP of advertising: Russian ads couldn't have affected election, because most came after the vote

    The faltering narrative claiming Russia somehow fixed the election of Donald Trump still has its defenders, but the facts are piling up against them. An unexpected source implicitly has rebuked the media’s coverage, even as those withs omething...

  • February 18, 2018

    Why did Mueller's indictments skip over the most obvious and pertinent statute that was violated?

    Robert Mueller’s indictments announced Friday are most notable for what Sherlock Holmes famously called “The dog that didn’t bark.” There was a clear, obvious, and pertinent statute that could have been applied to the alleged ...

  • February 18, 2018

    NBC hires gay bronze-medalist who is Pence critic as Olympics commentator

    Politicizing its ratings-impaired Olympics coverage, NBC doubles down on stupid, thanks to its ideological obsessions.  NBC’s Olympics coverage joins the propaganda efforts of that network’s news division by hiring a third-place meda...

  • February 17, 2018

    Stock market rebounds during Rosenstein press conference announcing Russia indictments

    The stock market apparently has decided that the indictments of Russians announced yesterday is good news for the tax-cutting, regulation-slashing president who ignited the boom that is raising corporate profits, full-time employment, and paychecks a...

  • February 16, 2018

    Progressive propaganda machine already is faltering on Florida shooting

    Mass shootings spell opportunity to gun-grabbers.    But the old media tricks that progressives use to manipulate public opinion are now so familiar that Second Amendment civil libertarians are able to expose, debunk, and even turn them aga...

  • February 15, 2018

    Elizabeth Warren disingenuously doubles down defending her fake Indian heritage claims

    President Trump's needling of Senator Elizabeth Warren's unsupported claim to Native American ancestry has hit its mark.  Yesterday, the Massachusetts senator made an unannounced appearance before the National Congress of Ameri...

  • February 15, 2018

    Florida school shooter in custody may offer an opportunity to explore role of medications in school massacres

    The rash of school shootings in the United States over the past two decades has nothing to do with the availability of firearms to youths, as the gun-grabbers claim.  American youngsters have always had access to firearms.  In fac...

  • February 14, 2018

    Finally! Unions organizing campaign workers, but only for Democrats

    Just in time for the crucial 2018 midterm election, a brand new union, the Campaign Workers Guild (CWG), is organizing Democrats' campaign workers and just signed its first contract. Josh Eidelson reports for Bloomberg: The CWG annou...

  • February 13, 2018

    FBI-gate: The Outlines of the Story Are Coming into Focus

    Thanks to the work of smart and hardworking (non-mainstream) journalists, we can peek just a bit over the horizon and see where the story of the weaponization of the FBI via a senior-level cabal is going from here.  I use the word "sto...

  • February 13, 2018

    Delusional liberalism creates a carjacking crisis in Chicago

    Chicago's murder problem may make headlines around the world, but back home in the Windy City, the good folks are worried about the skyrocketing carjacking rate.  The gang warfare that generates the huge body count is confined to a coup...

  • February 13, 2018

    Susan Rice tries posterior-covering, pokes a hornet's nest instead

    When the true story of the Obama administration –  the constitutional crimes, the weaponizing of the IRS and the intelligence community, and the help given to Iran’s fanatical dictatorship – is finally told, Susan Rice will be ...

  • February 12, 2018

    Rob Porter spousal abuse kerfuffle a cynical game

    The media hysteria over now departed White House aide Rob Porter is nothing but a political smokescreen.  There are two covert goals.  One is to divert attention from the ongoing revelations of Obama administration abuse and corru...

  • February 12, 2018

    Australian professor punished for challenging orthodoxy that global warming is destroying the Great Barrier Reef

    As the global warming fraud fails to deliver on the promises of "no more snow" and other apocalypses, the dogma requires catastrophes that sound bad but are remote enough to defy individual self-verification.  If citizens are to b...

  • February 12, 2018

    Ruth Bader Ginsburg offers a new excuse for Hillary's loss

    Apparently intoxicated by the adulation coming her way of late, as progressives desperately want her not to retire, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg skates close to political advocacy, which should be taboo for a Supreme Court justice.  Last nig...

  • February 12, 2018

    Is Nancy Pelosi 'grateful' for this DACA recipient?

    A manhunt is underway in Texas for a so-called "DREAMer" who is believed to have killed the dreams and the body of a good Samaritan who attempted to rescue another person that he had already shot.  Ryan Saavedra reports in the...

  • February 11, 2018

    Why elites love 'diversity' and why it is so dangerous for everyone else

    You are a bigot and a hater if you don’t agree with Nancy Pelosi that all of the DACA recipients deserve not just immediate citizenship and the right to vote for Democrats, but that they are morally superior to those of us born as citizens. In ...

  • February 11, 2018

    NBC apologizes to the Korean people for its insulting comments

    NBC has commited a gaffe of epic proportion, and in the process a certifiable member of the global elite has revealed the delusions common among his cohort. Way to go, Trump-haters! NBC’s coverage of the 2018 PyeongChang Olympics has managed...

  • February 10, 2018

    Hilarious double standard on military parades

    When President Trump called for a military parade, the media outrage machine went into overdrive, with comparisons to North Korean military parades being heard.  Via the Daily Caller: Democratic [r]ep. Jackie Speier called Trump...

  • February 10, 2018

    MSM eagerly collaborating with Schiff-created memo redaction fake controversy

    We are in the midst of a classic example of collaboration between Democrats and the mainstream media. The operation is aimed at directing public attention away from the serious and historic Obama administration abuses uncovered by Chairman Nunes: ...

  • February 9, 2018

    The inevitable is happening to the #MeToo movement

    Anger-driven social movements do not moderate themselves, but they all eventually run into obstacles and begin to decline.  #MeToo may be entering a new phase as stories like this proliferate.      The #MeToo mov...

  • February 9, 2018

    Sudden FBI departures indicate that the jig is up

    Choose your metaphor: rats leaving a sinking ship, cockroaches scurrying away from the light, or maybe just people cutting deals to save their butts.  Yesterday saw the FBI fan feculated.   The blandness of this Politico s...

  • February 8, 2018

    New York Times frets over the fortunes of California's wealthiest

    In a daily feature it calls “California Today,” the New York Times expresses concern over the impact of stock market declines on California’s wealthy. It is not out of concern that risk-takers will be disincentivized from making fut...

  • February 8, 2018

    Progressives not even bothering to hide their political hijacking of the University of California's newest campus

    The takeover of higher education by leftist activists is so complete that they don’t feel any necessity to hide their appropriation of student and taxpayer funds for political agitation.  At the University of California, Merced, founded in...

  • February 8, 2018

    Trump's approval rating tops Obama's at the same point in his presidency by 4 points

    A little perspective on the fading power of the media comes from a comparison Jim Hoft of Gateway Pundit called to our attention:  President Trump holds a 48% approval rating today in the Rasmussen daily tracking. The Rasm...

  • February 8, 2018

    Pelosi celebrates her grandson's racial self-hatred in marathon House speech

    It was inevitable that when speaking for 8 straight hours on the House floor, Nancy Pelosi would spout some crazy nonsense. But I was not prepared for what only can be called a depraved celebration of racial self-hatred. The muddled state of her thin...

  • February 8, 2018

    FBI managed to miss emails on Hillary's server marked classified, wanted to close investigation early

    Stunning incompetence is the most charitable way to describe the FBI’s review of the emails from Hillary Clinton’s private server that escaped destruction. Only the intervention of Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s unit within th...

  • February 7, 2018

    Newly-released Strzok-Page lovebird text messages: 'potus wants to know everything we're doing'

    Tick, tick, tick… we’re getting closer and closer to the “What did the president know and when did he know it?” moment in the biggest political scandal in American history. What looks like a sitting president authorizing the ...

  • February 7, 2018

    Carter Page claimed in 2008 that he had worked on the Bill Clinton transition team 1992-3

    It is far from clear what Carter Page is, other than an “international man of mystery” – possibly implying the farcical tone of Austin Powers. A Twitter account in the name of “The War Economy” (hat tip: Rex Imperator) d...

  • February 6, 2018

    A Republican PR disaster looms in Illinois

    The Third Congressional District of Illinois, representing parts of Chicago and its southwest suburbs, is a Democrat stronghold:  Twenty-four of the last 25 Congressional elections have gone to the Democrat, and Bernie Sanders won the Democratic...

  • February 6, 2018

    Hillary Clinton unconsciously satirizes herself in Georgetown speech

    The joke is on Hillary, perhaps the least self-aware person ever to be a major party presidential candidate (with the possible exception of John Kerry). Kathryn Blackhurst reports for Lifezette: Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton predicte...

  • February 6, 2018

    Adam Schiff unhinged

    Adam Schiff has fallen into a trap. Because the anti-Trump media will act as cheerleaders for whatever nonsense he spouts about Russia collusion, his tether to reality has frayed and broken. He is now free to make schiff up and spout it without fear ...

  • February 6, 2018

    Racist nutters: a tale of two parties

    The real difference between the Democratic Party and the Republicans is easy spot, if you just bother to look at the way they treat genuine hateful racists. In the same state of Illinois, no less. Republicans have woken up too late to the fact tha...

  • February 6, 2018

    Masterful Trump administration diplomacy quietly averts a crisis and protects Israel

    The media/Democrat complex convinced a lot of people that President Trump would wreck American diplomacy with his recklessness. But the only thing that his diplomacy has damaged is the bipartisan establishment that has pushed failed policies on Israe...

  • February 5, 2018

    Yay! Our team won! Let's destroy stuff!

    Fans of the Philadelphia Eagles were going to riot no matter what the outcome of the game.  It is open to speculation whether a defeat would have triggered more violence than a victory. But when the underdog Eagles defeated the Patriots in Minne...

  • February 5, 2018

    #BLM protestors shut down light rail line in Minneapolis to protest a game in which black millionaires predominate

    Light rail lines are part of the progressive utopian vision, as part of the program to get people out of automobiles and living in apartments within walking distance of a transit station – just like they seen on visits to Europe. They hate subu...

  • February 5, 2018

    Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel finally announces carjacking taskforce, asks for fed help

    America’s murder capital, where police are known to give up on controlling gangs when they are confined to ghetto neighborhoods, understands that as the violence spreads to its glittering downtown neighborhoods, the game will be over. Taxes are...

  • February 5, 2018

    Parents of slain Pizza Hut robber angry that victim used a gun against him

    Self-defense is regarded as a right deriving from natural law. But that offers no justification to the parents of Michael Grace, Jr. of Charlotte, NC, who was shot to death while attempting to rob a Pizza  Hut. CBS North Carolina reports: I...

  • February 5, 2018

    The read of the day: Sharyl Attkisson on the FBI's 'strict' guidelines for FISA warrants

    It turns out that the FISA court warrant applications for secret surveillance of Carter Page, and through him, the Trump campaign, may have violated the elaborate internal FBI procedural safeguards put in place by – hold your breath! – Ro...

  • February 4, 2018

    No way to run a railroad: Three fatal AMTRAK crashes in 49 days

    Horrible news from South Carolina this morning. If America is going to have a passenger rail system, we have to do much better than this.  Via The State: A crash involving an Amtrak passenger train and a freight train in Cayce, South Caroli...

  • February 4, 2018

    Hilarious and effective: Trump tweets his rising poll numbers

    Nobody else in DC comes close to communicating the way that Donald Trump does. The political and media establishment, committed to despising him, cannot recognize that his style reaches people in a way that more formal, florid and vocabulary-intense ...

  • February 4, 2018

    Dems go despicable as the Russia Collusion plot to impeach Trump explodes in their faces

    Clarice Feldman’s must-read column today explains the trap-of-their-own-making that FBI and DOJ officials and their media allies have fallen into. They know well that the Nunes memo is only the first step in exposing the illegal, unconstitution...

  • February 3, 2018

    Tactic Number One Countering Nunes Memo: Denial

    The institutional might of the Trump-hating establishment was mobilized Friday to deflect the impact of release of the Nunes Memo. Faced with evidence that the FISA Court was deceived in order to use the awesome electronic spying power of the NSA aga...

  • February 3, 2018

    Tactic Number Two Countering Nunes Memo: Inversion

    See also: Tactic Number One Countering Nunes Memo: Denial Faced with evidence of criminality in weaponizing the NSA spy apparatus for use against the Republican presidential nominee, a second tactic was rolled out yesterday by the many enemies of ...

  • February 3, 2018

    Journalist 'stunned' that his column was used to 'corroborate' Steele Dossier to FISA Court

    Among the deceptions used in the application to the FISA Court to weaponize the NSA's surveillance capabilities against the Republican candidate for president was a fake claim that media reports “corroborated” the information in the S...

  • February 3, 2018

    The craziest response (so far) to the Nunes Memo

    You can’t really blame the anti-Trump establishment for going a little nuts following the release of the Nunes Memo. For good reason, they fought its disclosure. And now, they are in a panic state, as the cherished narrative of Russia installin...

  • February 2, 2018

    Why Trump's FBI head Christopher Wray urged withholding the Nunes memo

    When the FBI objected to release of the Nunes memo, at the reported urging of President Trump’s hand-picked successor to James Comey as FBI Director, Christopher Wray, the temptation to dismiss him as another deep state operative was understand...

  • February 1, 2018

    Joe Manchin's world of hurt following SOTU

    I can’t understand why Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia remains a Democrat. Ideologically, he is far closer to Mitch McConnell or even Ted Cruz than he is to the Schumer-Pelosi Democrats.  His constituents in the Mountaineer State (...

  • January 31, 2018

    Spot the stupidest MSM SOTU television commentary

    There is a lot of competition for the most inane commentary on the triumphant State of the Union Address that President Trump delivered last night. CNN attempted a pre-emptive strike before President Trump even began speaking by speculating, as Fi...

  • January 30, 2018

    McCabe at the precipice: 'Removal' from FBI may be the least of his troubles

    Instead of planning how to spend his federal pension, now-former Deputy Director of the FBI Andrew McCabe must be figuring out how to pay the lawyers he is going to need.  Until his boss Christopher Wray, President Trump’s appointee to hea...

  • January 30, 2018

    Hillary faces another inner circle defection: Et tu, Patti?

    Now that there is no prospect of her ever gaining a political office useful for punishing her enemies, Hillary Clinton’s inner circle of advisors and aides are starting to understand that they free to speak their minds. An arrogant, presumptuou...

  • January 30, 2018

    Ninth Circuit rules taxpayers don't have to provide lawyers for illegal immigrant children

    In a decision that is shockingly sensible, a three judge panel of the notorious Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal in San Francisco has ruled that illegal immigrant children are not entitled to free legal representation, funded by taxpayers, in trying to ...

  • January 29, 2018

    Bernie Sanders struck dumb when asked if glad people are getting tax cut bonuses

    Sometimes, silence can be eloquent. Bernie Sanders, unlike, say, Nancy Pelosi, is smart enough to realize that the Democrats’ fierce opposition to the Trump tax reform is a dead end.  People actually like getting more money, and most do...

  • January 29, 2018

    Trump sanctions may be diminishing North Korea's military capability

    There is a powerful sign that North Korea’s military capabilities have been seriously weakened by a devastating lack of oil, now that sanctions and their enforcement have been ratcheted up by the Trump administration. The Wall Street Journal...

  • January 26, 2018

    Why Trump said he's 'looking forward' to speaking with Mueller

    Once again, President Trump is shaping the national discussion to his advantage. He intervened in a background briefing for White House media being conducted by General Kelly to make on-the-record (but off-camera) comments to the media and appears to...

  • January 25, 2018

    Hannity: DOJ is recovering missing Strzok-Page texts

    Sean Hannity of Fox News broke the news last night that at least some of  the 5 months of missing text messages between Peter Strzok and Lisa Page are being recovered. There are no details at all, and no indication of whether all of the missing ...

  • January 25, 2018

    Report: Kerry urged Palestinians to 'not give in to Trump' and eyes 2020 presidential run

    Maariv, a major newspaper in Israel and no friend to Benjamin Netanyahu, has reported (link in Hebrew) that former Secretary of State John Kerry met with a top aide to the Palestinian Authority and made some remarkable comments. The English Language ...

  • January 25, 2018

    NSA deletes 'honesty', 'openness', 'trust' and 'honor' from Mission Statement

    The super-secret agency that monitors all electronic communications of Americans, a resource that was used to spy on the Trump campaign through a questionable warrant from the FISA Court, suddenly has decided to revise its mission statement page. ...

  • January 24, 2018

    Bombshell: Sen. Johnson reveals that a DOJ 'informant' tells of offsite 'secret society' meetings

    A moment of clarity may be upon us, as the complex narrative necessary to untangle the web of corruption within the FBI and DOJ suddenly simplifies itself with the two words: "secret society."  The words were first introduced to t...

  • January 24, 2018

    Legal pushback on fake news purportedly implicating Jared Kushner in financial chicanery

    One of the biggest banks in the world just announced a lawsuit against the media purveyors of fake news that flagged an account tied to Jared Kushner for "suspicious transactions."  It never happened, but it was one of those stori...

  • January 23, 2018

    In an era of unaccountable government, one shining exception stands out

    Many Americans are disgusted with the lack of accountability for government bureaucrats.  The spectacle of Hawaii convulsed with a phony warning of a missile attack – sending over a million people into a life-changing panic, saying go...

  • January 23, 2018

    Pillar of globalism credits Trump tax reform with increasing global growth

    The International Monetary Fund is one of the pillars of globalism, reviled by many on the left and right.  Yet the IMF has just credited the arch-nationalist President Trump for increasing not just the United States' economic growth pr...

  • January 23, 2018

    Tantalizing mention of a 'secret society' in the FBI taking on Trump after his election

    Yesterday, Representatives Trey Gowdy and John Ratcliff used the expression "secret society" to describe the covert group that seems to have taken up the goal of undoing first the Trump candidacy and then his electoral victory.  V...

  • January 22, 2018

    Wrist-slap sentence for Mexican national who voted for ten years using a fake birth certificate

    A Mexican national who bought a fake birth certificate for $50,000 and has been voting in American elections for a decade has been sentenced to time served – just over one year in the county jail.  Tom Kacich of the News-Gazette ...

  • January 22, 2018

    Dems focus group-tested DACA as pretext for a government shutdown

    The government shutdown we're all supposed to believe is a terrible crisis is nothing more than a stunt – political theater designed and focus group-tested last year by a Senate Democrat super-PAC.  The Washington Post r...

  • January 22, 2018

    Newly released text messages between Strzok and Page suggest they knew the fix was in on Hillary emails

    Now that the FBI has claimed that it has lost five months of text messages between its two senior officials who planned an "insurance policy" in case Trump was elected, we are left with an incomplete understanding of the nature of...

  • January 22, 2018

    CNN reporter admits on air: 'All we talk about at CNN is Russia, and voters don't care about the issue'

    Wow!  Even CNN insiders are getting sick of the network's constant shilling for an evidence-free theory of Russian electoral mischief.  The brave ones only whisper about it, but the heroic can say it on air. It is a good th...

  • January 21, 2018

    Adam Schiff: Keep the #Releasethememo secret because Americans wouldn't understand

    Adam Schiff, reputedly a champion leaker from the House Intelligence Committee when it came to Russiagate material, suddenly thinks Ignorance is Bliss when it comes to the FISA warrant used to spy on the Trump campaign. Appearing on CNN, he tried to ...

  • January 21, 2018

    Amazon's halo slips with embarrassing management fail at Whole Foods

    Based on its stock price and the competition among cities to subsidize its planned new “second headquarters,” a lot of people seem to think that Amazon does everything right. But based on this report by Hayley Peterson in Business Insider...

  • January 20, 2018

    CNN poll: 'DACA not worth a shutdown, except to Democrats'

    Even CNN, which copped four out of ten "Fake News Awards" from President Trump, gets it, even if Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi don't.  I cannot imagine a headline like this, or even poll results like this, being rep...

  • January 20, 2018

    Finally: Justice for Rand Paul in assault case

    Senator Rand Paul will receive some degree of justice for the enduringly painful six broken ribs and other injuries he suffered from an unprovoked attack by his neighbor, Rene Boucher, in Bowling Green, Kentucky.  Outrageousl...

  • January 20, 2018

    James Clapper will skate on his perjury to Congress if not charged by March 13

    Deep State stalwart James Clapper provably lied to Congress on a matter of substantive importance, yet he was never charged with perjury.  In less than two months, the statute of limitations will excuse him from any criminal liability if he...

  • January 19, 2018

    Secret (for now) memo may blow the lid off FISA warrant and Mueller investigation

    Conservative hearts are aflutter, thanks to a memo that has been made available to members of the House of Representatives (if they go to a secure room and read it).  According to several members, there is finally hope of documenting the ca...

  • January 19, 2018

    Delusional California lawmakers plan to hike state corporate taxes to claw back the money left over by federal corporate tax cut

    The perfect plan to drive the remaining businesses out of California has been hatched by a couple of genius members of the California Legislature. Alexei Koseff reports for the Sacramento Bee: A pair of California lawmakers want to claw ...

  • January 19, 2018

    Black activists shout 'Shame on you!' at Chicago aldermen supporting Obama Presidential Center

    What goes around comes around for the community organizer who became POTUS.  Most embarrassingly, the dispute that caused an Alinsky-esque assault on black politicians was over the division of spoils among the black community itself. Joh...

  • January 18, 2018

    Are Trump-haters giving up on Hitler comparisons?

    Yesterday saw two famous Trump-haters eschewing Hitler in finding murderous tyrants with whom to compare President Trump.  J. Marsolo notes elsewhere on these pages that just prior to the release of President Trump's Fake News Awar...

  • January 18, 2018

    The moral inversion of 'humanitarian' groups luring the poor into death traps

    How do you say "chutzpah" in Spanish? Two purportedly "humanitarian" groups that lure border violators into harsh and dangerous territory are deflecting their own guilt onto Border Patrol agents.  Ashley Collman of th...

  • January 18, 2018

    Dramatic video of gang armed robbery in an expensive Chicago neighborhood

    The locally oriented website CWBChicago provides a valuable instructional video for its readers in fashionable, upscale Chicago neighborhoods who (quite realistically) fear the ongoing predation by gangs running rampant elsewhere ...

  • January 16, 2018

    Legitimizing mob thuggery on Comedy Central

    Western democracies, the most prosperous and peaceful societies in the history of the world, are gradually losing their commitment to civil order, the set of norms and beliefs that differentiate them from places where you can't walk down the stre...

  • January 16, 2018

    The cabal that hid Uranium One scandal is now going after Trump

    The sale of a substantial portion of US uranium reserves to a Russian company controlled by Vladimir Putin – who openly desires to control the world uranium market – never could have been approved by the Committee on Foreign Investments i...

  • January 16, 2018

    Twitter's army of peeping Toms

    James O'Keefe's Project Veritas undercover video project has discovered that Big Brother is alive and well, and living on Market Street in San Francisco, in a beautifully restored 1.1-million-square-foot art deco masterpiece formerl...

  • January 16, 2018

    Inspector general finds 100% error rate for Obama's ICE screening illegal immigrants for ties to terrorism

    Once again, an Inspector General has come to the rescue identifying incompetence (the charitable interpretation) in the federal bureaucracy. Elizabeth Harrington of The Free Beacon reports on the stunning level of error in the screening of illegal im...

  • January 16, 2018

    Shocking data on immigrant crime

    According to data compiled by the Center for Immigration Studies, one of the most horrific categories of crime, kidnapping, is vastly disproportionately committed by immigrants, legal and illegal. Daniel Greenfield of Front Page Magazine reports: ...

  • January 16, 2018

    Why you probably won't be seeing any kneeling players prior to this year's Super Bowl

    It looks as though NBC's plan to show NFL players kneeling during the National Anthem before the Super Bowl has been foiled.  You can blame random chance, player morale, or cosmic justice, but the defilement of our National Anthem befor...

  • January 15, 2018

    Decoding the symbolism of the planned Obama Presidential Center

    When the plans for a monument to President Obama in Chicago were unveiled last May, the first impression was of blinding whiteness and the odd massing of a squat tower with wide hips.  Very strange for a man whose major claim to fame i...

  • January 15, 2018

    A Nigerian immigrant addresses President Trump's alleged comment on s-hole countries

    Be prepared for frank sentiments about the terminology that Senator Dick Durbin alleges that President Trump employed in a private conversation.  The comments below originally appeared on a forum for people from the Igala Tribe in Nigeria b...

  • January 15, 2018

    Hawaii state bureaucrat who sent out fake missile alarm escapes any punishment – and remains anonymous

    The words "accountability" and "government bureaucrat" are strangers to each other for many of the almost 22 million people who work for governments in the United States.  Imagine having a job where you can tot...

  • January 15, 2018

    Standing by for criticism of Minnesota Vikings as racist

    The Minnesota Vikings have a chance to be the first team to play in the Super Bowl in their home stadium.  But first, they have to get past the Philadelphia Eagles in the NFC championship game next weekend – far from a certainty, as t...

  • January 12, 2018

    Terry McAuliffe and Chris Matthews indulge in thuggish fantasy about physically beating up President Trump

    Media and political progressive elites are back at their pastime of fantasizing about violence against the president of the United States.  Undeterred by the attempted mass assassination of GOP House members playing baseball (from which Rep...

  • January 12, 2018

    Why the king of the Zulus is pleading for South Africa's ANC to maintain ties with Israel

    Israel's strategy to gain the acceptance and friendship of the world is making headway against the receding tide of hostility sponsored by leftist, progressive, and politically correct regimes.  The strategy is simple to enunciate: beco...

  • January 12, 2018

    Trump has his enemies dancing to his tune with 's-hole countries' comments

    Do I really have to explain President Trump's strategy in reportedly using a vulgar expression to describe countries from which he believes the United States is taking far too many immigrants?  I believe that many readers of this public...

  • January 11, 2018

    Plans revised for 'Obama Presidential Center': Taller, uglier, and a little bit less white

    A faint odor of desperation accompanies the latest revised plans for the monument to the greatness of Barack Hussein Obama planned for Chicago.  You see, the City of Chicago and its mayor, Rahm Emanuel, have to approve the plans and the app...

  • January 10, 2018

    Obama non-library 'presidential center' in Chicago devolving into a fiasco

    The first community organizer to become president has managed to anger community groups so much with his planned personal monument, aka a "presidential center," that part of the plan was just scrapped. Lolly Bowean of the Chicago Tribune...

  • January 10, 2018

    Governor of Washington goes full doomsday cultist, declares 'just 59 days' left to save the children from climate catastrophe

    In an era of Yale Medical School faculty openly questioning the mental stability of a political leader, what are we to make of the chief executive of Washington State declaring imminent doom? Michael Bastach of the Daily Caller writes: ...

  • January 9, 2018

    Judge Napolitano warns President Trump about Mueller

    This report in the New York Times certainly looks like a leak, which seems to be the modus operandi of the current special counsel investigation: The special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, told President Trump's lawyers last month that...

  • January 9, 2018

    Center for American Progress just screwed up Schumer's DACA budget showdown plans

    In a memorandum never intended to reach beyond the inner circle of the Democrats, Jennifer Palmieri just admitted the truth and made it much harder for Democrats to push hard for DACA amnesty by holding hostage funding for the federal government, inc...

  • January 8, 2018

    Warren's CFPB spent lavishly on its new headquarters

    It should come as no surprise the federal bureaucrats who are shielded from any accountability ran up costs for remodeling the office space for their new headquarters from a first estimate of $55 million to an eventual $124 million.  They a...

  • January 7, 2018

    How the NYT awkwardly and indirectly acknowledges Trump’s Jerusalem embassy might be ‘transformational’

    Trump-haters have a real problem defending their belief that President Trump is an idiot that is going to lead us into disaster, now that the dimensions of his achievement in Middle East policy are starting to become undeniable. Yesterday, the New Yo...

  • January 7, 2018

    Motion Picture Academy suddenly reconsidering expulsion of Harvey Weinstein

    The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences (AAMPAS), organization that gives out the Academy Awards Oscars™, is having second and third thoughts about having expelled Harvey Weinstein. The problem: too many other members would have to be ...

  • January 7, 2018

    Feminist hypocrisy on Iran brutally exposed

    One of the most satisfying rants ever against feminist hypocrisy comes from Paul Joseph Watson. He covers a lot of ground, including the execrable Linda Sarsour, defender of killing Jews and leader of the pussy hat march. But two images he begins wit...

  • January 7, 2018

    Trump has put Schumer in a no-win situation on DACA

    How do Democrats explain to themselves the way they keep getting outsmarted by a man they claim is a moron?  President Trump has Democrats exactly where he wants them on the issue of DACA. Even PBS gets it: With a new deadline fast approach...

  • January 6, 2018

    Illinois city runs out of other people's money

    Elected officials in the City of Harvey, Illinois are going to be missing their paychecks, as the decades of over-spending and over-taxing finally come home for the politicians responsible for the crisis. Zack Keske of the Chicago Tribune...

  • January 6, 2018

    Just who are the 'DREAMers'?

    Based on the Democrat-media propaganda, you might think illegal aliens brought here in childhood by their parents, so-called (by skilled propagandists) "DREAMers," are all valedictorians and Medal of Honor-level military heroes.  ...

  • January 5, 2018

    African-American unemployment hits lowest rate in history

    It has taken less than one year of Trump regulation-cutting, and just the prospect of tax reform, to create the best employment prospects for African-Americans in history, according to employment data just released this morning.  Christophe...

  • January 4, 2018

    Uncovering vote fraud: Plan B begins

    Before progressives start celebrating the dissolution of the Election Integrity Commission, they had better figure out what lies ahead.  President Trump announced late yesterday that the Election Integrity Commission, headed by Kansas ...

  • January 4, 2018

    Trump and Haley change the game for the Palestinians

    Palestinians are facing a new reality, and they don't like it a bit.  They are discovering that their old game doesn't work with President Trump and Nikki Haley. At last, the United States is calling an end to the decades-long game th...

  • January 4, 2018

    No body cams for the Chicago cops guarding Mayor Rahm Emanuel's house

    The Chicago Police Department is committed to supplying body-worn cameras (BWCs) to its patrol officers "to [protect] the safety and welfare of the public."  There is only one glaring exception: the cops guarding Mayor Rahm Emanuel...

  • January 3, 2018

    Pat Condell is back, after YouTube censors his latest video

    Pat Condell's latest video commentary, "A word to the criminal migrant," has been deleted from his YouTube channel by the censors at its San Bruno headquarters.  It is not the first time the Google subsidiary has pulled o...

  • January 3, 2018

    Media hopeful for intra-party GOP fight over Mitt Romney running for Utah Senate seat

    Trump-haters are setting themselves up for another disappointment.  After more than four decades in the Senate, Utah's Orrin Hatch yesterday announced his retirement when his term ends, clearing the way for Mitt Romney to run for h...

  • January 3, 2018

    Sick: New York Times offers readers $8K luxury visit to Iran

    Iranians may be starving and rioting in the streets, but to the wealthy cultural elitists who run (and patronize) the New York Times, that just apparently adds local color to the luxury vacations by private jet that the paper continues to offer its r...

  • January 2, 2018

    Warmist fear-mongers go after women and apologetic husbands

    Now that the "end of snow" has proven to be a bust, warmist fear-mongers are going low and attacking the tranquility of marital relations. The global warming con game has not delivered on the apocalyptic predictions that scared people in...

  • January 2, 2018

    #MeToo 2018 already getting weird

    The latest incident of harassment being reported comes not from Hollywood or New York, but from Alabama – and not even the big cities of Birmingham and Montgomery, but rather Anniston.  And the behavior – of forty years ago, reported...

  • January 2, 2018

    CNN host (!) defends tax reform as not just for billionaires and corporations, but for middle class

    Have the suits at CNN given up on portraying the GOP-Trump tax reform bill according to the Democrats' party line?  Perhaps they realize that in another month or two, 80% of Americans or more will be getting higher paychecks and think that t...

  • January 2, 2018

    The price of racial demagoguery: Baltimore sets new per capita murder record

    The American burg that used to be known as "Charm City" for its purported blend of Northern efficiency and Southern charm has new nickname: "Bodymore."  The slogan #BlackLivesMatter, shouted in the wake of Freddie G...

  • January 2, 2018

    If the Iranian regime falls, will President Trump get some credit?

    We are supposed to maintain, if not believe, that the current wave of protests in at least 40 cities aimed at toppling the mullahcracy of Iran have been sparked entirely by indigenous factors.  After all, painting the demonstrators as responding...

  • January 1, 2018

    A newspaper editor confronts the AP over fake news

    Trump Derangement Syndrome is a real phenomenon, capable of clouding the judgment of seasoned journalists.  Now we have a case study demonstrating the depths of the disorder at the nation's largest provider of news. Frank Miele edits ...

  • January 1, 2018

    What MAGA looks like: A report from West Virginia

    The economic vector of West Virginia (and parts of Pennsylvania and Ohio adjoining it) has reversed course since the election of President Donald Trump, going from depressed (and forgotten) to growing and attracting huge structural investments from o...

  • December 28, 2017

    Turning the 'Russia collusion' narrative on its head

    I am hoping 2018 will be the year of blowback for those who colluded to use the FBI and DOJ to prevent the election and then the presidency of Donald Trump.  Tom Maguire calls our attention to an interesting question raised by Byron York in...

  • December 28, 2017

    Stage four of Trump Derangement Syndrome: Identifying the progress of a disease

    Like AIDS three decades ago, Trump Derangement Syndrome is a new ailment, whose full course of development is as yet unknown.  But after a year since TDS exploded on the scene in early November 2016, we can observe the progress of the disease th...

  • December 27, 2017

    Wisconsin middle school caught brainwashing young adolescents into guilt with 'privilege test'

    They didn't do anything wrong, but they promise they won't do it again.  Not as blatantly, at least.  Another government school has been caught brainwashing its charges at a vulnerable age.   West Bend, Wisconsin, a city of ...

  • December 27, 2017

    Savor the irony: 3 sanctuary cities sue feds for lapses in adding names to gun background check database

    Some reporting requirements are more equal than other reporting requirements, it seems.  New York, Philadelphia, and San Francisco all proudly and deliberately flout reporting requirements that would allow federal authorities to k...

  • December 27, 2017

    One third of US homicide spike last year came from 5 Chicago neighborhoods

    The full evil of the anti-cop hysteria pushed by left-wing groups like #BlackLivesMatter will take many years to be understood, in no small part because of political and media support for the notion that racism on the part of cops is the sole cause f...

  • December 26, 2017

    New Austrian government teaching the EU how to handle 'refugee' migrants

    The new Austrian government, elected in October and seated last week, has taken stern and effective measures to deal with the flood of purported "refugees" overwhelming many other E.U. members.  It is bearing out the worst fears of Isl...

  • December 25, 2017

    California Dem pols scrambling in wake of cuts to deductibility of state and local taxes

    You'll never believe the scam being considered by California's Democrats to defraud the IRS. They know they have a huge problem. Roughly half of the state’s income tax receipts are paid by the top one percent of taxpayers, and the perso...

  • December 23, 2017

    NeverTrumps: The good (who have re-evaluated), the bad (who can't get over themselves) and the ugly (who have thrown in with the left)

    The passage of tax reform and the booming economy, sweeping transformations in Middle East policy, and regulatory reform unleashing vast potential bottled up the last eight years and more are all signs that President Trump is not the ogre feared by a...

  • December 23, 2017

    Coming attractions: New movie Chappaquiddick may threaten Kennedy mythology

    By the standards of the #MeToo movement, the late Senator Ted Kennedy was a monster, far worse than anything alleged about Harvey Weinstein.  And he has never been held to account, by the media and historians, for his brutal crimes against women...

  • December 23, 2017

    The US and the UN #1: Blowback for the General Assembly vote condemning the Jerusalem embassy move

    Enemies of President Trump have portrayed the U.N. General Assembly vote condemning the U.S.'s embassy move (and declaring "null and void" – as if the U.N. had such power) as a global slap in the face of the United States.  R...

  • December 23, 2017

    The US and the UN #2: The 'strong horse' wins big at the Security Council

    The U.N. General Assembly's theatrics are meaningless in terms of real power, as in the vote declaring "null and void" the planned move of the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem.  Where it matters, in the Security Council, Ambassa...

  • December 22, 2017

    Trump-haters rebuked by federal judge's dismissal of lawsuit intended to remove him from office

    Another exploding cigar just detonated in the face of the left.  David A. Fahrenthod and Jonathan O'Connell explain in the Washington Post: A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit Thursday alleging that President Trump violated the Con...

  • December 22, 2017

    Black, female ex-Charlie Rose staffer suggests racism because he didn't harass her

    "It's always something," as the late Gilda Radner's comedy character Roseanne Roseannadanna would conclude – usually about trivial or completely misguided complaints she voiced (a classic example here).  Th...

  • December 22, 2017

    Suddenly, tax reform bill critics change their tune

    The "tax cuts for the rich" complaint about the just passed tax reform bill is morphing into its polar opposite.  Trump-hating Atlantic Magazine editor David Frum has identified a new victim class the GOP is hurting, and it ain't t...

  • December 20, 2017

    Hilarious: Watch Chuck Schumer complain nobody paying attention to his anti-tax reform rant on Senate floor

    I must confess that I find New York’s senior senator, Chuck Schumer, annoying at best to listen to.  He finds it difficult to speak without a tone of condescension in his voice and characteristically assumes a stance of moral, as well as i...

  • December 20, 2017

    Dem senators repudiate demand that Franken resign

      It's a perfect Christmas gift for conservatives: Senate Democrats beclowning themselves in defense of a professional clown who sits among them.  Poor Al Franken was relegated to the status of collateral damage in the desperation of...

  • December 20, 2017

    #MeToo hysteria may have met its match

    Sooner or later, the fever will break when it comes to the hysteria consuming politics with unverified charges sufficient to destroy careers and feminist thought-leaders (such as they are) expressing indifference to the fate of innocent men...

  • December 20, 2017

    Foolish Dems have set themselves up for tax cut blowback

    The unquestioning media support that Democrats receive for their narratives – regardless of their truth or falsity – has led congressional Democrats out on a limb that President Trump is about to saw off, when he signs the tax reform bill...

  • December 20, 2017

    The importance of no leaks after McCabe testified for 8 hours before House Intelligence Committee

    Let's put on our Sherlock Holmes deerstalker hats as we think about the dog that didn't bark, or, in the specific case at hand, the leaks that didn't reach CNN, MSNBC, the New York Times, and other Democrat mouthpiece media.  The mos...

  • December 19, 2017

    Communism-loving journalists shaping our news accidentally outed themselves

    Two decades after the fall of the USSR and the rejection of communism throughout Eastern Europe, where captive nations were virtually enslaved by Stalin and his Soviet successors, major media institutions employ journalists who admire the monstrous s...

  • December 19, 2017

    Judicial Watch seeks to uncover secret Lois Lerner testimony

    The weaponization of the IRS to suppress the organization of conservative nonprofits when the Tea Party movement was in full bloom remains an open sore on our democratic political system.  The weight of the most feared agency of the federal...

  • December 19, 2017

    Vicious anti-Trump, anti-conservative Pulitzer-winning columnist and editor fired

    Another powerful progressive journalist – one of the most vicious critics of Donald Trump – has lost his job owing to complaints of sexual harassment.  It is a shame that the over-the-top nature of his commentary was not the cause of...

  • December 19, 2017

    Former DNI Clapper says Putin handling Trump 'as an asset'

    Is it a sign of Deep State panic to imply (and then weasel out) that President Trump is an agent of Russia?  Or could it be personal guilt? Either way, that explosive charge is what the former U.S. intelligence chief James Clapper made yester...

  • December 18, 2017

    Powerful leftist DC swamp-dweller forced into humiliating apology for baseless charge of bigotry

    A progressive's progressive got caught doing what progressives do – hurl baseless chares of bigotry – and has had to eat a heaping helping of crow. If you wanted to conjure up a single representative example of a D.C. swamp creatur...

  • December 18, 2017

    Dianne Feinstein didn't get the message

    Oops!  California's senior senator just came out endorsing a tax break for the affluent. With Democrats' denunciations of the GOP tax bill focused on how it benefits the rich, Senator Dianne Feinstein struck a discordant note and comp...

  • December 18, 2017

    Another Rahm Emanuel boondoggle proves to be useless (and expensive)

    Another "bold idea" from Chicago's Mayor Rahm Emanuel has proven to be a fiasco that not only has failed to achieve its stated objective, but has cost Chicago taxpayers millions of dollars.  Tim Novak, of the Chicago Sun-Times...

  • December 18, 2017

    Universities are morphing into Clown College before our eyes (content warning)

    Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey shuttered their world-famous Clown College in 1997, twenty years before America's largest circus closed for business this year, after almost a century and half of entertaining us.  Fortunately for ...

  • December 18, 2017

    The racist subtext of Philly's ban on convenience store protective glass barriers

    Shopkeepers in Philadelphia's neighborhood convenience stores that serve food and beverages, locally referred to as "beer delis," face a legal prohibition on the thick glass barriers around cashiers that protect them from stickup artist...

  • December 17, 2017

    Tax Reform Passage: The Fail-Safe Option

    For the moment, passage of the tax reform bill looks probable, with 52 votes from all GOP senators. But two remain hospitalized, and one cannot rule out all contingencies, ranging from transport difficulties to last minute changes of mind. As it t...

  • December 17, 2017

    Australian Federal Police arrest man accused of brokering N. Korean missile tech overseas

    There are more questions than answers surrounding a big bust in Sydney, Australia, that the assistant commissioner of the Australian Federal Police says “… is like nothing we have ever seen on Australia soil.”  News.com.au ...

  • December 17, 2017

    NBC-Universal confirms payoff to another famous on-air host over sexual harassment complaint

    At the rate that complaints are coming in, the number of prominent progressives accused of sexual harassment will top 100 before Christmas. It is almost as if karma has it in for all the hypocrisy about the purported GOP “war on women” th...

  • December 16, 2017

    Airbus and Boeing eager to accept promises from Iran to behave itself

    Lenin famously said, "The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them," and the mullahs of Iran are putting his dictum to work.  Billions of dollars and thousands of jobs are at stake, as Iran seeks to re-equip its f...

  • December 16, 2017

    Diversity bureaucrats go full Grinch at the University of Minnesota

    The leftist takeover of higher education has been accomplished not merely by recruiting progressive faculty, but also by installing a vast and expensive bureaucracy intended to enforce thought control on the campus. All in the name of "diversity...

  • December 15, 2017

    A week's worth of progressives accused of sexual harassment

    My friend who is keeping track of the ongoing hysteria over sexual harassment allegations has updated his chart. There were 71 high profile leftist sex offenders on our list through December 7, 2017; with merely a week's worth of revelations, ...

  • December 15, 2017

    Poll reveals public distrust of Mueller probe and FBI

    Even more shocking than the findings of this poll are its origins (a former Clinton pollster) and the MSM silence that has greeted it.  Writing in The Hill, Mark Penn, the former Clinton pollster, highlights the strong public skep...

  • December 15, 2017

    Dems rail against release of Strzok-Page text messages

    Democrats seem to be reading George Orwell's 1984 as an instruction manual, taking to heart the injunction "ignorance is bliss strength."  They are very, very unhappy that the privacy of  adulterous lovers Peter Strz...

  • December 14, 2017

    Investigation finds 'scientific misconduct' in study claiming microplastic pollution harms fish

    There is a huge market for fantasies of doom, and some scientists are doing their best to keep pace with filmmakers. Horror films feed an enduring human need to be scared.  And now that greenies have thoroughly scared us with tales of impending ...

  • December 14, 2017

    Coming attractions: How the biggest political scandal in history will play out in 2018

    A lot of frustration has been expressed – on these pages and elsewhere – over the slow pace of progress in unraveling the Deep State coup against Trump.  But "the process of uncovering the worst political scandal in American his...

  • December 13, 2017

    Strzok-Page texts reveal deep bias: Clinton 'just has to win'

    The first 90 texts between adulterous FBI lovers Peter Strzok and Lisa Page have been released by the Justice Department, revealing bias so severe as to disqualify the work performed by both government employees (who still are receiving paychecks, so...

  • December 13, 2017

    Al Franken lost big in the Alabama Senate race

    There were two big losers last night as the election returns came in from Alabama.  You already know about Judge Roy Moore and the GOP Senate majority, but consider Al Franken.  He now is going to be forced to live up to his promise to resi...

  • December 12, 2017

    Fusion GPS dossier cabal was using spy tradecraft to evade leaving electronic footprints for NSA surveillance

    I suspect that we are in the process of uncovering the worst political scandal in American history, in which the most fearsome tool of federal government spying was turned against the Trump campaign.  A cabal manipulated events behind the scenes...

  • December 11, 2017

    The downside of the #MeToo movement starting to dawn on women

    The rules of interaction between women and men in the workplace have been changed with a suddenness that inevitably produces unforeseen negative consequences, no matter how positive and necessary the switch might be.  The Associated Press this m...

  • December 11, 2017

    NFL anthem protests: The market speaks

    No NFL teams are corporations with stocks traded on an exchange, so those of us convinced that the pusillanimity of the owners has damaged the value of their businesses have no market gauge to rely on.  But there is one price signal on a publicl...

  • December 11, 2017

    Chelsea Handler and the politics of anger

    When America's progressive elites collectively decided to respond with anger to an unexpected electoral defeat in 2016,  holding on to that anger as a coping mechanism, they doomed themselves to self-defeat.  Consider the harm being don...

  • December 11, 2017

    Remember when Democrats re-elected and celebrated a member of Congress who sexually preyed on teens?

    Valerie Richardson of the Washington Times takes us down Memory Lane to an incident that Alabama voters need to seriously consider.  You see, Democrats had no problem at all with one of their own congressmen who solicited sex from teen...

  • December 11, 2017

    How to shove 'woke' down the throats of obnoxious progs

    Are you feeling feisty today?  If so, there is no better writer to get your bile flowing than the estimable Kurt Schlichter of Townhall.com.  His new column culturally appropriates the obnoxious meme of "woke" created by progressi...

  • December 10, 2017

    Wow! Trump fights back, forces public apology from Washington Post writer for fake news

    Just as Alabama voters are being admonished by their betters from Up North to vote against Roy Moore because the Washington Post published stories about his purported behavior forty years ago, one of that paper's most prominent writers has been f...

  • December 10, 2017

    Two in a row! Chicago Public Schools chief fired for corruption

      Rahm Emanuel didn’t have to search very far for the replacement Chicago Public Schools CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett when she was fired in 2015.  After the wheels of justice turned all the way,  she sobbed in court last April upo...

  • December 10, 2017

    Will the Texas A&M Aggies save the bacon of the University of California?

    Politics makes strange bedfellows – even (or especially) academic politics. And Janet Napolitano may be corrupt, but she is also very wily, a political infighter who understands well the ground rule of politics, that the enemy of my enemy is my...

  • December 9, 2017

    NCIS finds sailor staged racist vandalism of own bunk

    The Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) has investigated a purported incident of racist vandalism of a black sailor's bunk and found that it was staged by the sailor himself. The Navy Times reports (hat tip: Dennis Micha...

  • December 9, 2017

    Palestinian agitators embarrass selves with puny turnout for 'day of rage' over Jerusalem embassy move

    Those "experts" who long have warned of "violent chaos" if the U.S. moves its embassy to Jerusalem have been exposed as a bunch of hysterical ninnies, at best, in the Age of Trump.  The fury of the "Arab street...

  • December 9, 2017

    LA Times writer disparages 'Trumpian fantasy' of moving bureaucrats out of DC

    I have become a bit of a connoisseur of the pomposity of Trump-haters who purport to be "experts" much smarter than the POTUS, who lecture him on the futility and foolishness of his moves breaking with the failed policies of his betters. ...

  • December 8, 2017

    Accused leftist abusers of women: the list grows (again)

    More women are speaking out against boorishness and much worse that they claim to have experienced from prominent politically active men, encouraged by the courage of others, and by the contrition expected of their accused tormentors. A decision appe...

  • December 8, 2017

    A curious recusal in the sentencing of Michael Flynn could be an indicator of something very big happening

    Something very strange, and possibly extremely significant, happened yesterday, with no explanation and little notice from the media. But two different writers for the same DC-insider publication rushed to be the first to note this barely-noticed mov...

  • December 6, 2017

    President Trump's Jerusalem embassy move is part of a much bigger plan

    Once again, President Trump proves that he is no ordinary politician and exposes the nature of the D.C. swamp.  Every recent president has promised to move the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem as a candidate, only to fail to deliver. ...

  • December 5, 2017

    Comey’s weird tweet and indefensible claim

    James Comey's subconscious is manifesting itself in uncomfortable nonverbal truth-telling, while his conscious mind takes him out on a limb that cannot sustain his weight.  When a politicized bureaucrat starts quoting himself, it is often a ...

  • December 4, 2017

    Six million 'refugees' reported waiting to enter Europe from Mediterranean countries

    Europe slowly is realizing that it has seen only the beginning of its invasion by the poor of the Middle East and Africa.  With Germany already reeling from a million refugees who flooded in from the Middle East, a classified German government r...

  • December 4, 2017

    NFL owners' 'social justice' bribe spectacularly fails

    Another progressive delusion was exposed yesterday as NFL owners discovered that their attempt to bribe angry black players into behaving themselves flopped as the nation watched. Despite promises to donate almost $90 million to "social justi...

  • December 4, 2017

    Politico touts Chelsea Clinton as possible Senate candidate in Arkansas

    Go ahead – make my day, Democrats. I wonder who it was who suggested that a major Politico Magazine story on Chelsea Clinton entitled "Clinton Should Run for Cotton's Senate Seat" was a good idea?  A reasonable guess would...

  • December 4, 2017

    Puerto Rico's governor hands out almost $100 million in bonuses while asking American taxpayers for $94 billion

    How does one account for a public relations disaster of such stunning dimensions?  Stephen Dinan reports in the Washington Times: Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rossello last month asked federal taxpayers to shell out $94 billion to pay for the t...

  • December 3, 2017

    UK critics of Trump’s Islam video re-tweet would have a point if…

    It’s Sunday, and in days long ago the Sunday newspaper comics section was a weekly treat. I suppose they continue to be published, but I have not read a Sunday paper in a long time, except for the occasional New York Times delivered to guests a...

  • December 3, 2017

    Ideology more important than integrity to Los Angeles Times editorial board in Janet Napolitano scandal

    The editorial board of the Los Angeles Times has weighed in on the scandalous behavior of Janet Napolitano, who corrupted a state audit of her performance and hid a $175 million slush fund. A CEO of a public company that did what Napolitano did would...

  • December 3, 2017

    High culture superstar sexual harassment claim

    The mass wave of accusations of past sexual harassment by stars has reached the world of classical music. The Chicago Tribune reports: James Levine, who spent decades as music director of the Ravinia Festival and the Metropolitan Opera...

  • December 3, 2017

    ABC may discover the price of fake news

    People lost money thanks to Brian Ross moving the market with his false reporting. He’s been suspended, but will we see lawsuits against him and ABC on behalf of investors who lost money? Update: as this was being published, President Trump ...

  • December 2, 2017

    Janet Napolitano's henchman gets a new university gig after being fired for corruption

    The rot in higher education is spreading, thanks to solidarity among former sisters in the Obama Cabinet, both of whom have landed cushy, high-paying jobs as university presidents. Seth Grossman used to be the chief of staff for Janet Napolitano, ...

  • December 2, 2017

    The sanctuary state of Oregon finally convicts an illegal for horrific sex crimes, released after ignoring fed detainer request

    The day after Jose Inés García Zarate skated on killing Kate Steinle, his fellow countryman, who was deported more than a dozen times and released upon the public thanks to "sanctuary" legislation, was convicted and sentenced ...

  • December 2, 2017

    Congressional Hispanic Caucus confesses to being partisan hacks

    The Congressional Hispanic Caucus sports a name that has been exposed as a lie.  As Matt Vespa reports at Business Insider (hat tips: Matt Vespa, TownHall.com, and Raul Lowery Contreras): The chairwoman of the Congressional Hispanic Ca...

  • December 2, 2017

    Did the prosecutors make a fatal mistake in the trial for the Kate Steinle killer?

    So far as I can tell, jurors who acquitted Jose Ines Garcia Zarate of all charges related to the death of Kate Steinle have not been hounded by journalists seeking an explanation for their puzzling findings. At a minimum, involuntary manslaughter sho...

  • December 1, 2017

    Leftists ensnared in scandals over sexual behavior

    From a diligent reader: Time and resources permitting, we will try to maintain a current list of sex scandals involving the nation's prominent leftists.  What you will see below is the list that we published in the blog on Novem...

  • December 1, 2017

    Matt Lauer and the credibility crisis at NBC News

    It is startling, the way the fiercest enemies of President Trump often end up hoist with their own petards.  Whether you call it coincidence, karma, or cosmic justice, NBC News, the very network that leaked the Billy Bush tape (and fired the Bus...

  • December 1, 2017

    Flynn pleads guilty in plea deal with Mueller

    Cue sustained hysteria among Trump-haters in the media and everywhere else.  Stay tuned for demands for Trump's impeachment and cries of treason.  Just a short time ago, Michael Flynn left a federal courthouse after cutting a deal with ...

  • November 30, 2017

    How the Rahm Gang mocks democracy (and wins in Chicago)

    I would have made the headline "Stupid Rahm Tricks" except that the trick worked, and in the world of hardball politics (the only kind they practice in the City of Chicago), that's all that matters.  Still, for those of us who actu...

  • November 30, 2017

    Thanks to Conyers, Identity politics finally is splitting the Democrats

    The strategy of the Democratic Party for the last two generations finally threatens to unravel before our eyes.  Blacks and feminists are in conflict over the abusive behavior of John Conyers toward subordinate females. Normally, Democrats sw...

  • November 29, 2017

    Trump's Pocahontas trap

    I think President Trump is trying to get Elizabeth Warren nominated, or at least keep her in the spotlight.  It is a trap for the Democrats and progressivism.  And it is working. The conventional wisdom of D.C. politics has Elizabeth War...

  • November 28, 2017

    One of the most vicious Trump-haters gives up on political commentary

    One of the great joys of the Trump presidency is watching the self-immolation of his most vehement critics.  Among the nastiest Trump-hating progressives in media is Keith Olbermann, who is capping a multi-year losing streak with a pathetic fant...

  • November 28, 2017

    Pelosi does a 180 following her spectacular flame-out on Conyers

    Progressives are coming around to a view conservatives long have espoused: Nancy Pelosi is an embarrassment.  Her appearance on Sunday morning's This Week with George Stephanopoulos unleashed a torrent of criticism from the left: ...

  • November 28, 2017

    Stuck in a hole, Sen. Al Franken keeps digging

    My bet is that Al Franken already is feeling sorry for himself. He has found himself in a no-win situation, and can see no acceptable way out. His latest attempt to talk his way out of being a sexual harasser, a presser on Capitol Hill, did him no go...

  • November 27, 2017

    Finding redemption after a sex scandal

    No doubt, nearly everyone in the media and politics bearing the scarlet letter of sex-harasser wants to find a way out of his[i] shame.  Senator Al Franken is offering lip service to being "ashamed" and, a moment later, "look...

  • November 27, 2017

    Ultimate DC insider: They all knew about Conyers

    Nobody better represents the Washington, D.C. political-media establishment than Cokie Roberts.  For those who don't know, the NPR correspondent and ABC News commentator is the daughter of two former Democrat members of the House of Represen...

  • November 27, 2017

    Trump Derangement Syndrome's little brother is on its way

    My schadenfreude knows no bounds this morning.  I am looking forward to progressives already driven into sputtering, mouth-foaming, career-ending rage by Trump Derangement Syndrome to compound their misery, as their most troublesome pr...

  • November 26, 2017

    Applying progressive logic to ObamaCare

    Conservatives are accustomed to being accused by the Left of proposing policies that will “kill” thousands or millions of innocent Americans. As National Review mockingly compiled: Repealing Obamacare will kill 24,000 people a year! ...

  • November 25, 2017

    Your up-to-date list of accused leftist sexual harassers

    One of the things I am grateful for in the wake of Thanksgiving is the unmasking of the deep hypocrisy of the feminist left.  They have made a corrupt bargain in the name of political power, in effect granting immunity to the likes of Bill Clint...

  • November 25, 2017

    Trump tweet trolls Time's 'Person of the Year'

    President Trump's use of Twitter often horrifies his critics and delights his fans.  Faced with an implacably hostile media (for now, at least), he uses the unfiltered, spontaneous medium to snipe at his opponents.  For those who worshi...

  • November 25, 2017

    At last! Major California newspaper calls for crooked Janet Napolitano to be fired

    By deciding to tolerate a corrupt president, Janet Napolitano, the Regents of the University of California have failed in their duty to the citizens of California, who own the university and subsidize that institution with $3 billion a year of their ...

  • November 25, 2017

    The Washington Post's pretentions just died in the darkness

    Following its purchase as vehicle for the political influence of Jeff Bezos – the greatest disruptor of the economy since Henry Ford made the automobile our dominant mode of transport – the Washington Post adopted an unbearably pretentiou...

  • November 24, 2017

    Unions have given up on Black Friday protests

    You can fight the crowds at Black Friday sales today at Walmart without fear of fighting union thugs intent on making pests of themselves.  After years of pointless protests aimed at unionizing Walmart, the great white whale – th...

  • November 24, 2017

    Rep. Conyers lawyer hints he will take down many other congressional harassers if pushed too hard

    We have already reached the cornered animal stage of Democrats caught up in the sexual harassment hysteria.  Is there anything more amusing than watching your enemies play a game of chicken with each other, threatening mutual assured destruction...

  • November 24, 2017

    Progressives have a new nightmare

    Realistic political analysts have always believed that their dominance of mainstream media has always added to the vote totals of Democrats and progressives.  President Trump's excoriation of fake news is an attempt to lessen that advantage ...

  • November 24, 2017

    Two polls show Roy Moore leading Jones in Alabama Senate race

    Alabama voters may not behave as MSM liberals and NeverTrump conservatives expect them to.  Both groups are not taking the bait expensively dug up by Bezos Washington Post reporters sent into Alabama to dig up dirt on Moore.  Maybe it is di...

  • November 23, 2017

    Hey PBS, The Predators' Club, with Charlie Rose would make a great holiday season special program

    Here's a programming idea for PBS that is low-cost, educational, and likely to garner a substantial audience.  Best of all, it will help calm down all those female staffers at PBS upset that a sexual predator has been given a pass all these ...

  • November 23, 2017

    LeVar Ball Is Satirizing Identity Politics (whether He Knows It or Not)

    Progressives are desperate to Do Something about LaVar Ball, because his publicity bonanza has exacted a high price from the Left. In multiple ways. That’s why they’re playing the race card already, and portraying Trump as in the wrong (a...

  • November 22, 2017

    Hilarious: Watch Charlie Rose interview Kevin Spacey on Bill Clinton's sex accusations

    Savor the irony, folks.  It just doesn't get much better than this – except that with all the media figures accustomed to pontificating on air now exposed as harassers themselves, and with all those video recordings archived in the vau...

  • November 22, 2017

    SJW to get some justice (and she's not going to like it)

    Kudos to the Riverside County (California) District Attorney's Office for bringing justice to a crime committed in the name of politics.  Prosecutors have limited resources and a lot of crimes to prioritize.  But political crime is a se...

  • November 21, 2017

    Uranium One noose is tightening

    Now that the FBI's informant on the Uranium One deal has been outed and the nondisclosure agreement formerly muzzling him abrogated, it is possible to see the outlines of the devastating case to be made against not just Hillary Clinton, but the e...

  • November 21, 2017

    First leak from that $15-million harassment-silencing slush fund in Congress hits iconic Dem

    It turns out that the effort to keep taxpayers ignorant of harassment claims paid to victims of abusive members of Congress – using our own money – may be futile in a least some cases.  The victims signed confidentiality agreements, ...

  • November 20, 2017

    Billions of dollars at stake in epic battle shaping up between University of California and two Texas Universities

    Ever since World War Two, the University of California has managed the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) in New Mexico, generating jobs, influence, prestige, and income for the university and bureaucrats who administer it.  The LANL, which d...

  • November 20, 2017

    Chris Matthews rips Dems

    Chris Matthews's leg apparently has stopped tingling.  He was a working-class kid from Philly who parlayed his job on the Capitol Police Force into work for Speaker Tip O'Neill, becoming his chief of staff, and, later, speechwriter for J...

  • November 19, 2017

    Leeann Tweeden was hardly Franken’s first groping victim

    Al Franken is getting a blast from the past, and may even be starting to feel sorry for himself, because the rules have not only changed, they are being applied ex post facto to behavior that once upon a time seemed to him not just normal, but worthy...

  • November 19, 2017

    Stunning evidence of the power of the MSM to kill news favorable to Trump

    The invaluable Salena Zito once again has talked to  ordinary folks in a location that barely gets any attention from media swells, and delivers an insight that future historians will honor, even of the Pulitzer Prize committee continues to snub...

  • November 17, 2017

    Al Franken's career is collateral damage for the Dems on the way to getting Trump

    That sinking feeling Al Franken is experiencing is the realization that his career is now a pawn in the fanatical efforts of Democrats to get President Trump out of office.  The Democrats would not lose his seat, since Minnesota's Governor M...

  • November 17, 2017

    Al Franken was the Air America talk show host who was going to dethrone Rush Limbaugh when he sexually assaulted Leann Tweeden

    It is worth noting that when he went overseas as a USO performer accompanied by Leann Tweeden in December 2006, Al Franken was not professionally identified as a "comedian" – as virtually every current media account has branded him. ...

  • November 16, 2017

    Student sues UC San Diego for injuries in anti-Trump election night protest shutting down freeway, claiming university ‘organized’ it

    A lawsuit just filed against the University of California San Diego looks like one of those situations in which harm caused by personal irresponsibility is being blamed on “deep pocket” defendants in an effort to extract millions of dolla...

  • November 16, 2017

    MSM ignoring Dem candidate for Congress arrested for stalking a woman

    You might think, based on mainstream media coverage, that the only congressional candidate in trouble for misbehavior with women is Roy Moore. But in fact, a Democrat nominee for an open seat in the House of Representatives was not merely accused, bu...

  • November 16, 2017

    How Eric Holder and Loretta Lynch handed Jeff Sessions a huge present

    Politics, it is often said, is hardball. But sometimes even Major League Baseball pitchers lob a slow floater right over the plate, all but offering the other team for a home run for the taking. Something metaphorically like that sort of pitch has co...

  • November 15, 2017

    Hypocritical progressives: If Colin Kaepernick and 'partner' Nessa really cared about slavery...

    Why do progressives obsess about slavery that ended a century and a half ago and ignore slavery that is practiced today against black people?  Specifically, why do Colin Kaepernick and his Muslim girlfriend Nessa Diab turn a blind eye toward sla...

  • November 15, 2017

    Hypocritical progressives: If Peter Beinart really cared about his privilege...

    Yet another progressive is reaping praise and honor for easy words unaccompanied by difficult deeds.  Peter Beinart, a fixture of progressive punditry ever since he joined the New Republic decades ago, is garnering hosannas (a mensch!) f...

  • November 14, 2017

    Latest hate crime stats show African-Americans more likely than whites to commit hate crimes

    Data that contradict the approved narrative of the left rarely garner headlines.  Minorities must always be victims of the heartless white majority, you see.  So our helpful government bureaucrats bury data that contradict that approved sto...

  • November 14, 2017

    Drip, drip: Bill Clinton's reckoning nears

    Another thought-leading progressive publication has connected the dots and realized that Bill Clinton cannot be allowed to skate on his abuse of women.  In The Atlantic, Caitlin Flanagan writes a political history of the feminist movement a...

  • November 13, 2017

    Tax-exempt foundations funding Black Lives Matter with $100 million

    Far from being a grassroots movement, Black Lives Matter is a pawn for high-powered, wealthy left-wing foundations, intent on altering the politics of the United States.  Valerie Richardson reports in the Washington Times that the pupp...

  • November 13, 2017

    Confused lefty pundit blames Trump for Harvey Weinstein (or something)

    Isn't it a good thing that courageous women are speaking up about the sexual abuse endemic in Hollywood? True enough, it has damaged the cause of Democrats, and the truth-telling (along with potential false accusations) seems to be hitting mai...

  • November 13, 2017

    Judicial Watch sues DOJ to reveal budget of Mueller investigation

    The Department of Justice (under Jeff Sessions's leadership!) is keeping secret from taxpayers the budget for Robert Mueller's investigation.  Thus, Judicial Watch once again is being forced to sue for data that belongs to taxpayers and ...

  • November 12, 2017

    War between intelligence agencies’ deep state and Trump surfaces over DNC server

    In his customary extemporaneous broad-brush fashion, President Trump took on the purported consensus of 17 intelligence agencies that Russia hacked the DNC server.  Speaking to reporters while flying from DaNang to Hanoi, the president said that...

  • November 12, 2017

    Oberlin College may face a very costly reckoning for its cries of ‘racism’

    I am cheered by a story from Friday that seems to have received little notice. Rachel Frommer reports for the Free Beacon: Oberlin College and its vice president have been accused of libel and slander by a local bakery, the owners of which alleg...

  • November 12, 2017

    Prince Charles blamed Israeli ‘foreign Jews’ for Middle East problems

    The UK Daily Mail unearthed a 1986 letter from Prince Charles, the heir to the British throne, in which he completely bought into the narrative of Jews being a foreign presence in their own homeland.  You see, but for those pesky Jews, everythin...

  • November 12, 2017

    UCLA basketball team leaves China, minus 3 players held for alleged shoplifting

    The UCLA basketball players arrested for allegedly shoplifting a pair of sunglasses in a Louis Vuitton store in Hangzhou, China have been left behind to face the tender mercies of Chinese justice.  James T. Areddy reports in the Wall Street Jour...

  • November 11, 2017

    Bill Clinton's looming reckoning as a sexual predator

    So far, there has not been much holding of Bill Clinton to account by progressives, despite the change in zeitgeist for sexual predation by the powerful.  Never mind that it's fashionable on the left today to hold the founders of our country...

  • November 10, 2017

    Two fall guys lose their jobs for Janet Napolitano's rigging of a state audit

    The office of the president of the University of California was caught red-handed, rigging a state audit of its performance, and outrageously, President Janet Napolitano will keep her job.  Instead, two fall guys who worked for her are taking th...

  • November 10, 2017

    Progressives are normalizing violence against conservatives – and it is working

    The political equivalent of a mafia "contract" has been placed in Republican politicians, through efforts at all levels of the progressive political culture to "normalize" violence against President Trump and his enablers.  T...

  • November 10, 2017

    Monumental McCain hypocrisy on Roy Moore

    I am really sorry that John McCain suffers from a brain affliction, but he continues to play an active role in politics, and so I must call him out when he does something really outrageous.  Yesterday, Sen. McCain called on Judge Roy Moore to ...

  • November 10, 2017

    Washington Post finds a way to pee on the Beijing triumph of Trump's six-year-old granddaughter

    In an article that rises to the level of self-parody, a Washington Post journalist with the Dickensian name Simon Denyer turns a touching moment of triumph into a bit of an ordeal.  As most readers know, President Trump's granddaug...

  • November 9, 2017

    Is this really the key law enforcement innovation needed in Bloody Chicago, the murder capital?

    The lethal combination of one-party domination and failed progressive ideology have turned Chicago into a killing zone in certain neighborhoods, with the chaos now spreading to the rest of the city (see here, here, and here for example...

  • November 9, 2017

    The Saudi purges hit the DC lobbyists

    Caroline Glick provides essential background and context (read here or here) for understanding the purge underway in Saudi Arabia and its impact on us.  Along the way, she considers our very own D.C. lobbyists and reveals informat...

  • November 9, 2017

    It's come to this at Harvard

    The takeover of elite higher education is almost complete when it comes sexuality.  The movement demanding normalization of sexual practices formerly forbidden by law and custom began with the Stonewall Riots (or "uprising," ...

  • November 8, 2017

    Arrest of 3 UCLA basketball players in China could complicate Trump's deal-making

    A day before Donald Trump arrived in Beijing for crucial talks, China arrested three prominent African-American athletes.  It would be awful if this became a racial issue today back home.  A new element could be introduced into the deal-mak...

  • November 7, 2017

    Donna Brazile pulls the pin on the Seth Rich grenade

    Donna Brazile wanted only to rehabilitate herself and cash in on writing the first tell-all from the Clinton inner circle.  But she knew they have unpleasant ways of making problems go away, so she needed some insurance against the worst sorts o...

  • November 6, 2017

    Dems and media rush to politicize Sutherland massacre

    Less than a week ago, when a Muslim winner of the absurd "Diversity Lottery" immigrant visa program committed jihad on a bicycle path on Lower Manhattan, Senator Chuck Schumer self-righteously warned us against rushing to politicize the inc...

  • November 6, 2017

    Intrigue in the House of Saud

    åThe son of a potential rival to legitimacy for Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman was killed in a helicopter crash yesterday.  It may be a coincidence, but this incident came soon after the arrest of 11 Saudi princes and dozens of other off...

  • November 6, 2017

    Is this the conflict-of-interest tripwire requiring a special counsel for Uranium One?

    I am no lawyer, but I think I recognize a conflict of interest in a prosecutor. Richard Pollock of the Daily Caller News Foundation reports that Tony Podesta's lobbying firm, already under investigation by Special Counsel Robert Mueller f...

  • November 6, 2017

    GOP is in serious danger of losing the title 'Stupid Party'

    I have gotten accustomed to, if not comfortable with, the GOP's label as the "Stupid Party."  After all, it gave us permission to ridicule the GOP establishment before Trump.  And besides, the alternative label worn by the Dem...

  • November 5, 2017

    Your schadenfreude Sunday treat

    It is not often we get to see vile people receive their comeuppance. This week brought some excellent news: a vile magazine, Teen Vogue, is shutting down. Megan Fox of PJ Media noted that the announcement came shortly after the magazine (sold on m...

  • November 5, 2017

    Modernizers launch a coup within the House of Saud

    A coup is taking place within the House of Saud, in which a modernizing monarch is grabbing power and taking out rivals.  Forces now under command of the ruler just arrested 11 princes among dozens of others and is launching financial investigat...

  • November 4, 2017

    Bowe Bergdahl's chutzpah

    Bowe Bergdahl's legal team has updated the punch line to an ancient joke, which defines the Yiddish word "chutzpah" (very roughly, "brazenness").  The old joke illustrated the concept with the example of a child who murde...

  • November 4, 2017

    A rare treat from Hollywood's brief anticommunist period

    Conservatives accustomed to nonstop leftism from Hollywood should set their DVRs to record an incredible movie – one of my favorites – being shown tonight on Turner Classic Movies, at 12:30 AM Eastern, 9:30 Pacific.  The film in ques...

  • November 4, 2017

    The Democrats' brand is imploding

    Just about all the associations the Democrats counted on to burnish their appeal to the public are in the process of discrediting themselves.  The theory of branding tells us that associating one brand with another desirable brand helps the form...

  • November 3, 2017

    Donna Brazile steps up to solve the Democrats' 'Clinton problem'

    Donna Brazile saw her chance, and she took it [i].  She's a survivor, full of pluck, and she has a lot of friends because she is as likable as Hillary Clinton is not.  She was implicated in fixing the nomination for Hillary, and sh...

  • November 3, 2017

    Making sense of the MSM business strategy, Daniel Greenfield explains much more

    Daniel Greenfield, the Shillman journalism fellow at the Freedom Center, regularly comes up with original perspectives, reframing the media output we all consume into more realistic assessments.  His article at Frontpagemag today ties ...

  • November 2, 2017

    Major sponsor of NFL broadcasts blames sales decline on kneeling controversy

    Becoming the NFL's "official pizza sponsor" worked out well for Papa John's until Colin Kaepernick launched his protests.  Yesterday, the chain's founder, John Schnatter, blamed the NFL kerfuffle for his company's same-...

  • November 2, 2017

    MSNBC and CNN guests look to blame Manhattan truck terror on anything but jihad

    It took only a day for the cable news propagandists to find guests who would blame the truck attack on bicyclists in Lower Manhattan on the personal troubles of the perp. On MSNBC, as noticed by Justin Caruso of the Daily Caller, guest Mubin ...

  • November 2, 2017

    The rise of overt, unapologetic anti-white racism

    Two recent incidents demonstrate that racial hatred toward whites is gaining acceptance, even approval from people in positions of institutional authority. Yesterday, the Daily Wire reported: Employees within the Democratic National...

  • November 1, 2017

    I’m not celebrating diversity visas

    Does America owe everyone in the world a lottery ticket chance to gain entry to our homeland? Sayfullo Saipov, the jihadi who mowed down bikers and pedestrians in New York City, shouting “Allahu akbar!” (“Allah is supreme!”) b...

  • November 1, 2017

    Chris Matthews is baffled why an Uzbeki would want to attack us

    Chris Matthews has put in a strong entry for the title of stupidest reaction to the Halloween jihad massacre in Lower Manhattan.  Was there a memo at NBC News that forbade any mention of Islam or Jihad in discussing Sayfullo Saipov? Or is Matthe...

  • November 1, 2017

    Boomerang season: Donations to Gillespie triple after truck video

    The Left is isolating itself from the American majority and is proud of it.  They are taking over the Democratic Party.  They romanticize resistance, and thrive on each others' approval. That leads to blunders with blowback. In the late...

  • October 31, 2017

    Cook County Jail in Chicago is out of control

    The forces of law and order no longer control the streets of Chicago.  Heck, they can't even control inmates in the jail.  Civil order is collapsing.  We learn that once incarcerated, the inmates are controlling the Cook ...

  • October 31, 2017

    What Robert Mueller needs to fear

    Special counsels, with their unlimited budgets and access to grand juries, can be fearsomely arbitrary.  But in the case of Robert Mueller and his staff of Democrat donors, there is competition that threatens to show up any bias toward hunting o...

  • October 31, 2017

    Do NFL owners believe in ghosts?

    See also: Could ESPN drop Monday Night Football? They may or may not believe in ghosts, but NFL owners really ought to fear a dead man.  The game of football is in the process of destroying its hold on the American public's favor, and the...

  • October 31, 2017

    Tony Podesta scurries away toward the darkness

    Until yesterday, Tony Podesta was the head of the powerful lobbying firm that bears his – and his brother John's – name, the Podesta Group.  His hometown newspaper (and ideological ally), The Washington Post, piously declares as ...

  • October 30, 2017

    Fallacious Fusion GPS 'fact-checking' at the Washington Post

    Glenn Kessler, the Washington Post's "fact-checker," blithely ignores important facts when he purports to explain Uranium One and the Steele dossier to readers.  As a result, he offers a phony framework comforting to Trum...

  • October 30, 2017

    The Manafort Political Theater Project Launched

    Some absurd MSM political theater is about to unfold, as if it were a serious scandal for Trump that a guy who was his campaign chairman for a few months is going to be charged for alleged crimes committed years before that relationship was forged. ...

  • October 29, 2017

    It begins: A few honest Dems speaking out on Hillary’s Fusion-GPS denials

    It will be a very slow and painful process for them, but the historic remnant of honest Democrats is coming to terms with the realization that serious, genuine corruption is at the heart of the production and use of the phony Steele dossier. Whether ...

  • October 29, 2017

    New York Times readers struggle with communism’s legacy. Communism wins.

    A friend emailed me yesterday night, “If you don’t feel sufficiently depressed today, be sure to read the readers’ comments on Brett Stephens’s column in the NY Times condemning communism and the Left’s soft spot for it....

  • October 28, 2017

    Democrat dossier desperation destroys decorum

    A heated television discussion that leads to "You better get a lawyer, buddy!" is one sign of the stakes of the scandal unfolding over financing and producing the bogus Steele dossier.  We are headed for mortal combat, as the stakes co...

  • October 28, 2017

    Follow the choreography of the Mueller counter-narrative

    With the Fusion-GPS/Uranium One mega-scandal unfolding, it's time for a counter-narrative.  And there's nothing like an indictment – a fact on the ground – to grab attention away from theories and evidence and investigations ...

  • October 27, 2017

    The wages of sexual harassment

    A fascinating video has come to light that crystallizes the power dynamics underlying sexual harassment in the media, not just Hollywood.  Call it a pundit power exercise, or just call it crime and punishment. Yesterday, Mark Halperin joined ...

  • October 27, 2017

    Sandy Hook and the gun-grabbers' logic

    The absurdity of the gun control arguments made after the Sandy Hook massacre is now fully apparent, thanks to FBI files just released.  Joe Tacopino reports in the N.Y. Post: Adam Lanza expressed his desire to commit the Sandy Hook ma...

  • October 27, 2017

    Signs of turmoil in North Korea?

    It may be wishful thinking, given the unattractiveness of existing options in dealing with North Korea, but there is at least some reason to wonder about the stability of the dictatorship that has lasted almost seven decades.  Most North Korea-w...

  • October 27, 2017

    Two contrasting Democrat strategies for dealing with Fusion GPS dossier

    I am having a ball watching Democrats squirm as the worm has turned on Russiagate.  I think the two video clips I embed below illustrate the extremes as far as decorum is concerned.  In the first, an establishment, respected, now retired st...

  • October 26, 2017

    Is a media reckoning looming for Hillary?

    Conservatives who despise the MSM often forget that journalists are human beings, too, and one thing that journalists hate is being played for patsies.  People go into journalism in part to demonstrate their penetrating acumen, able to...

  • October 26, 2017

    Nondisclosure agreement lifted for Uranium One confidential informant

    The bureaucratic wheels finally have ground to the point that the Department of Justice last night took the first step toward disclosure of its evidence in the Uranium One case.  Up until last night, a nondisclosure agreement (NDA) gagged the FB...

  • October 26, 2017

    'Smoking gun' email claimed found in Eric Holder DOJ scandal

    Among the many scandals of the Obama administration that went unnoted by the MSM was a massive political hijacking.  Fines levied against financial institutions were diverted from the federal treasury into the coffers of left-wing allies of the ...

  • October 25, 2017

    Watch CNN's Dana Bash struggle trying to diminish news of House investigation of Uranium One scandal

    Like some massive Florida sinkhole, the earth is falling away under the feet of Trump-haters convinced that Russian influence on American politics amounts to a "second Pearl Harbor."  Like a boomerang, the charges of collusion and trea...

  • October 25, 2017

    DNC head runs for the hills on Trump Russia dossier

    In the face of scandal allegations, the normal response of Democrats is to circle the wagons and defend their comrade under fire.  That's not happening now that the dam is breaking, and people are catching on that the hysteria ginned up over...

  • October 24, 2017

    CNN face plant trying to troll Trump

    Evidently, the lack of self-awareness at CNN has reached a critical stage, leading the cable news pioneer to embarrass itself while trying to put down President Trump. No doubt, the “fake news” label applied to CNN by Trump really stings....

  • October 24, 2017

    It’s finally happened: Professor claims math perpetuates ‘white privilege’

    Galileo Galilei may have declared, “Mathematics is the language with which God wrote the universe,” but Professor Rochelle Gutierrez of the University of Illinois sees sinister white privilege in the language of math. Toni Airaksinen of C...

  • October 24, 2017

    MSNBC accidentally makes the case for Trump’s border wall

    Sometimes, I feel as though God is laughing at the mainstream media, but I know it is actually much simpler than that. Those who dedicate themselves to propagating lies and false perspectives eventually run smack into reality. And that is exactly wha...

  • October 24, 2017

    It begins: Weinstein triggers civil war on the feminist left

    All is working out as I hoped. The decades of hypocrisy on the left, tolerating piggish behavior by men so long as they bow down to the feminist idol of abortion and hatred of God’s law, are finally coming due. John Nolte of Breitbart captures ...

  • October 23, 2017

    Important reading for virtue-signaling electric car-drivers

    One of the most comforting fantasies common to affluent liberals is that they are "saving the world" by driving an expensive rechargeable electric car.  In fact, they are doing the opposite, with their desire to signal their virtue cau...

  • October 23, 2017

    Mueller forced to investigate Tony Podesta

    NBC News, the friendliest MSM friend of the Resist crowd, was the chosen vehicle for leaking the news that Special Counsel Robert Mueller is investigating the Podesta Group and its principal, Tony Podesta.  Although I am no lawyer, it is pretty ...

  • October 23, 2017

    Tesla reportedly has agreed to offshore production to China

    If the report is true that Tesla has agreed to build a plant in China, President Trump will not be pleased.  And he's going to visit Beijing next month.  Stand by for either denials or fireworks.   Billions of taxpayer-doll...

  • October 22, 2017

    The price of virtue signaling paid by a 10-year-old girl

    The force-feeding of transgenderism into American society by cultural, corporate, and governmental elites is one of the wonders of the history of social engineering. The fantasy that one can choose a sex, and that anything other than full-fledged sup...

  • October 22, 2017

    A generation of depressed college students

    The news last month that UCLA is screening incoming freshmen for depression is a tell. Colleges understand that they are receiving large numbers of troubled young people coming out of our secondary education system. In recent years, reports of widesp...

  • October 22, 2017

    Utopia in one city: Stockton

    Of all the candidates for utopia, Stockton, California would be on the bottom of my list. But a 27-year-old mayor, with the backing of a foundation, is trying for utopia, as seen by supporters of the Mommy State: Universal Basic Income. Futurism.com ...

  • October 22, 2017

    Former NPR president leaves the blue bubble and is shocked by what he learns about non-elite Americans

    I must give Ken Stern, the former CEO of National Public Radio, great credit for having the courage to leave the comforting company of fellow urban elite liberals, and engaging in an odyssey through red America. Writing in the New York Post (where th...

  • October 22, 2017

    Rachel Maddow goes off the deep end

    Without realizing it, Rachel Maddow, who takes herself very seriously, is becoming a clown.  She is being called out on it by no less than a neighbor on the mass media left, the HuffPost. Willa Frej writes: It was a vintage Rachel Maddow st...

  • October 22, 2017

    Maxine Waters promises to ‘go and take out Trump’ and crowd cheers

    Kyle Olson reports on The American Mirror that YouTube has saved Maxine Waters from her own stupidity. The one-note impeachment minstrel Maxine Waters promised a group that benefits “homeless LGBTQ youth” that she will “take ou...

  • October 21, 2017

    Too hot for the MSM: Civil War breaking out among Dems

    The Clinton Machine is not about to stand aside and let Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, or some other leftist grab control of the Democratic Party.  As Rick Moran pointed out Thursday, "Tom Perez, chairman of the Democratic Nati...

  • October 21, 2017

    Judge Jeanine on the Clintons: 'These people belong in jail'

    Jeanine Pirro, a former judge and district attorney in Westchester County, N.Y., is building a reputation for blunt directness backed by legal expertise.  She is able to cut through the haze of obfuscation and distraction that is the output of t...

  • October 20, 2017

    North Korea's bizarre appeal to Australian parliament

    The Pyongyang regime is clearly shaken up by President Donald Trump and resorting to clumsy desperation measures.  A letter sent to the "parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia" by the "Foreign Affairs Committee of the DPRK Su...

  • October 20, 2017

    Ironic: Obama Presidential Center sparks community opposition in the cradle of community organizing

    On the very turf that gave birth to Saul Alinsky's version of community organizing, community activists are rising in opposition to the impact of building a huge mausoleum-like memorial to Barack Obama.  Young Barack Obama relocated to Chica...

  • October 19, 2017

    Mark Steyn: You're entitled to be a conspiracy nut on the Vegas massacre

    A crisis of confidence is building as the story fed to the public about the Las Vegas mass shooting keeps changing.  Yesterday's uninformative exclusive interview of wounded security guard Jesus Campos by Ellen DeGeneres only added to t...

  • October 19, 2017

    Democrats bungling Virginia governor's race

    The biggest off-year election race next November is the contest for Virginia's governorship, and Democrats thirsting for a repudiation of Trump and the Republicans at the polls are watching in dismay as their dreams start to evaporate.  A se...

  • October 19, 2017

    Dems double down on distraction to obscure Uranium One scandal

    It is now clear to anyone who filters through all the media chaff on condolence calls that the FBI and Department of Justice allowed a criminal conspiracy to proceed, endangering national security but enriching the Clintons, and have been covering up...

  • October 18, 2017

    FBI sat on evidence of Russian bribery plot as US uranium reserves signed over to Russia

    A blockbuster story in The Hill yesterday is being given the silent treatment by the mainstream media.  That won't last for long. Lowell Ponte gets to the essence of what the story by John Solomon and Alison Spann reveals a...

  • October 18, 2017

    Marie Harf inanely credits Obama with retaking Raqqa

    I realize that it must be intensely humiliating for members of the Obama foreign policy team to see President Trump making good on his promise to eliminate ISIS.  The rapid fall of the jihad caliphate is showing up the bloody fecklessness of the...

  • October 17, 2017

    Leftists planning to accelerate Chicago's decline

    Chicago, the premier city of the American heartland, is in deep trouble, with the police losing control of the streets and now the jail.  Now comes word of an effort to strangle the supply of affordable housing in the city.  W.J. Kenne...

  • October 17, 2017

    Judicial Watch: FBI caught 'red-handed' suppressing documents on Clinton-Lynch tarmac meeting

    Tom Fitton, the head of Judicial Watch, is not a man given to hyperbole.  So the language he is using to describe the behavior of the FBI is worth paying attention to.  Speaking to Lou Dobbs on Fox Business Network, he raised serious doubts...

  • October 17, 2017

    California 2018 Senate primary shaping up as a bloody Democrat showdown

    Democrats are deeply split into two factions.  The old guard, a gerontocracy that still runs the congressional caucuses, is white, liberal, and very, very old, or racialist.  The other faction is very progressive, if not outright socia...

  • October 16, 2017

    As civil order collapses in Chicago, gang leader enforces 'reign of terror' in Cook County Jail

    Street gangs have turned Chicago's streets into killing grounds.  More than 3,000 people have been shot on its streets so far this year, and there have been 676 homicides.  The police, thoroughly demoralized, underfunded, and under Depa...

  • October 16, 2017

    Attempt to destroy Trump with Access Hollywood tape blamed for Weinstein's downfall

    I am not sure the term "soul-searching" applies to the process underway in Hollywood in the wake of public revelations about Harvey Weinstein's behavior toward women.  That would imply that souls are available to be exami...

  • October 16, 2017

    Check out whom Google associates with Nazis

    It's a simple Google image search: "photos of Nazis shouting down speakers." Maybe somebody can explain to me the nature of the algorithms that generate a page full of pictures like these: ...

  • October 16, 2017

    Jimmy Kimmel's hint of regret

    Jimmy Kimmel's angry political rants have painted him into a corner.  He understands that he has lost a chunk of his audience, but now he has a social media claque eager for more that would turn on him for any failure to live up to their exp...

  • October 15, 2017

    Apple’s VP of Diversity apologizes for heresy on 'blue-eyed, blonde men'

    Let’s make this clear: “blue-eyed, blonde men” cannot contribute to diversity, and it is offensive to state that they might “bring a different life experience and life perspective to the conversation.” That is the upshot...

  • October 15, 2017

    Once upon a time the MSM loved American entrepreneurs

    I came across a fascinating time capsule that reveals the extent of the transformation of our media structure in the last half century.  One of the formative influences of my life was Industry on Parade, a 15-minute syndicated TV show produced b...

  • October 15, 2017

    Paul Krugman flaunts his Trump Derangement Syndrome

    In a remarkable series of seven tweets, Paul Krugman confesses to being “terrified” and living in a “state of existential dread” because of President Trump. That’s obsessive, at a minimum, arguably a matter of derangemen...

  • October 15, 2017

    In the haunted face of Chelsea Clinton, we see the turmoil Weinstein has inflicted on the Clinton Machine

    Hillary Clinton will never let on any doubts about the damage Harvey Weinstein has done to her career, her husband’s image, or the prospects for the political machine of hangers on, funders, and operatives. The designated successor is her daugh...

  • October 14, 2017

    North Korea threatens missile attack on Guam if Trump keeps tweeting threats

    The North Korean regime, which issues threats to destroy the United States and South Korea in a "sea of fire" and the like, and which produces videos depicting attacks on the United States, is upset at the threatening tone of some of Presid...

  • October 14, 2017

    The Dems cry 'sabotage' as Trump reforms unconstitutional Obamacare subsidies to insurance companies

    The Democrats have decided on a party line to attack President Trump following a federal court decision and ending the unconstitutional "subsidies" (bribes) to health insurance companies that President Obama instituted, with no constitution...

  • October 14, 2017

    Al Sharpton goes there: Calls NFL players 'slaves'

    For sheer entertainment value, Al Sharpton's invocation of slavery in discussing NFL players who average $1.9 million a year is worth noting.  It also confirms his stature as America's premier malevolent demagogue.  (You c...

  • October 13, 2017

    Tucker Carlson declares war on 'corrupt' NBC News

    I cannot remember one television news operation ever calling out its competition the way Tucker Carlson denounced NBC News last night on his 8 P.M. Eastern Fox News program.  But these are far from ordinary times, and I am coming to appreciate t...

  • October 13, 2017

    Jane Fonda finally admits she's 'ashamed' of herself

    "Hanoi Jane" Fonda has a lot to be ashamed of, but it took her complicity via silence with Harvey Weinstein's alleged serial molestation of young women to finally get her to admit she is ashamed of herself.  Yesterday on CNN, speak...

  • October 13, 2017

    Are the California wildfires Jerry Brown's Katrina?

    See also: At the mercy of the Northern California wildfires Nobody knows with certainty the cause(s) of the Northern California wildfires that have overwhelmed the capacity of governments to in any way contain them.  A few theories ...

  • October 13, 2017

    At the mercy of the Northern California wildfires

    See also: Are the California wildfires Jerry Brown’s Katrina? I can't claim firsthand experience of the wildfires, other than breathing the very unhealthy air, full of particulate matter, the smoke so thick at times that everything gets ...

  • October 12, 2017

    The Progressive machine takes a big hit in Cook Country, Illinois

    Yesterday, something extraordinary happened: a progressive racket just got busted in a place notorious for one-party, corrupt, and highly taxed Democrat governance.  As you may have heard, the Board of Cook County, Illinois repealed it...

  • October 12, 2017

    Hillary stumbles badly handling Harvey Weinstein

    With the same cluelessness that lost her the presidency, Hillary Clinton is setting herself up for trouble in the way she is handling the revelations about one of her key political backers, Harvey Weinstein.  First of all, she waited five whole ...

  • October 12, 2017

    A stunning declaration from Apple's VP of diversity and inclusion

    Has the diversity worm turned at Apple Computer?  Is common sense finally finding a place at the table in the new "Spaceship" headquarters in Cupertino?  Chris Weller reports for Business Insider: Denise Young Smith, App...

  • October 12, 2017

    FBI, NYPD reportedly have criminal investigations underway on Harvey Weinstein

    Earlier reports that Harvey Weinstein fled US jurisdiction by flying to "sex addiction" rehab in Europe apparently are false, but he may yet face the long arm of the law.  The U.K. Daily Mail reports: The FBI has opened ...

  • October 11, 2017

    James O'Keefe video has New York Times management reeling

    Hats off to James O'Keefe and Project Veritas (donate here – please!) for another video that is rocking a major progressive institution to its foundations.  This time, it is not Planned Parenthood executives selling baby body...

  • October 11, 2017

    Weinstein collateral damage: NBC News

    As a news story, the Weinstein scandal has it all: sex, glamor, Hollywood, power, hypocrisy, possible crime, and lots of famous people and institutions compromised by their silence and worse.  Oh yes, and connections to politics and presidents. ...

  • October 10, 2017

    Why did the New York Times go after Harvey Weinstein, one of its own?

      Has nobody else noted the movie project apparently being dropped with Harvey out of the picture? When the New York Times story on Harvey Weinstein's sexual predation broke, I speculated that the reason the Times would go af...

  • October 10, 2017

    The wages of jihad in France

    As Europe accedes to jihad in slow motion, the success of jihadists is aiding Israel's long-term strategy for survival. Allow me to explain.   France has accepted Muslim immigrants by the millions over the years, people whose faith enjoin...

  • October 10, 2017

    The financial collapse of Illinois is accelerating

    John O'Connor of the AP has just broken the news that the unpaid bills of the Great State of Illinois have reached the awe-inspiring sum of $16.5 billion. Illinois is chasing a moving target as it tries to dig out of the nation...

  • October 9, 2017

    Weinstein ignites Democrats' bonfire of the inanities

    A fault line runs through the Democratic Party, with two tectonic plates colliding.  The feminist plate, with its strict code of sexual conduct, is pressing up against the plate representing sexual libertinism and the normalized excesses of Holl...

  • October 9, 2017

    Britain leaks battle planning for war North Korea

    Great Britain is leaking to the media that it is planning for war with North Korea, signaling to Kim Jong-un that President Trump and our allies are serious about the demands to end the nuclear weapons and missile programs.  The U.K. Dai...

  • October 9, 2017

    Weinstein's enablers at risk

    A large swath of the citadel of progressive power – the major progressive media, donation-hungry politicians, and left-wing Hollywood celebrities – is implicated in the Harvey Weinstein scandal.  Weinstein was able to intimidate, hum...

  • October 8, 2017

    California’s harsh rebuke of Janet Napolitano

    California’s Democrat-controlled legislature and governor last week enacted a law that is a de facto severe rebuke to Janet Napolitano, President of the University of California, and former Secretary of Homeland Security.  It is now a crim...

  • October 8, 2017

    The self-immolation of Lisa Bloom’s career

    Where does Lisa Bloom go to get her career as a crusading feminist back? She threw-in with Harvey Weinstein before she realized that he was already a liability to the progressive cause, and a dead man walking. Harvey has become a liability in every p...

  • October 8, 2017

    That scary-looking crosswind A 380 landing

    Millions of people have been viewing and forwarding or posting an alarming-looking video (embedded below) of a giant A 380 airliner landing in heavy crosswinds at Dusseldorf.  It’s scary-fun, but actually nothing unique to the Airbus or al...

  • October 8, 2017

    Even ‘diversity educators’ can’t take the snowflakes complaining about ‘microaggressions’

      The mentality of grievance obsession, now widely held throughout the academic world, is a path toward madness. Once a hunt for invisible “microaggressions” begins, there is no end point, only a spiral into angry obsession or des...

  • October 7, 2017

    Why is the FBI stonewalling congressional subpoenas on the Fusion GPS 'Trump dossier'?

    Could the story behind the "Trump dossier" be the Rosetta Stone of Russian manipulation of our electoral process in 2016?  There is a strong and justifiable suspicion that the dossier was the critical bit of evidence that persuaded the...

  • October 7, 2017

    How GOP could pick up a Dem House seat in New Hampshire

    According to historical patterns, the Republican House majority should be in peril in the midterm election of 2018.  A new president's party generally loses seats in the midterm election.  But there is already the prospect of the GOP...

  • October 7, 2017

    Class conflict in Cook County could cost Dems one of their favorite taxes

    What?  A tax may actually be repealed in a prominent stronghold of the Democrats?  It appears that politics after Trump's victory may have changed at more levels than the federal government. The ruling class cherishes its power to di...

  • October 6, 2017

    Stephen Paddock's 'secret life'

    Clark County sheriff Joseph Lombardo, an elected official who plans to face voters again next year, has been letting out more interesting tidbits on the investigation into Stephen Paddock than others who have appeared at the press conferences.  ...

  • October 6, 2017

    Vivid account of decades of alleged Harvey Weinstein sexual harassment published by NYT

    What goes around has come around for a pillar of the Hollywood Democrat donor establishment.  Who would ever have thought Harvey Weinstein might getting the Bill O'Reilly treatment from the New York Times, of all places?  In case you do...

  • October 6, 2017

    Facing repeal vote, backer of Cook County soda tax admits it's not about health; it's about money

    One of the best progressive con games is the one where they tell you they are protecting your health by adding a new tax.  The wave of taxes on so-called "sugary drinks" (that are sweetened with high-fructose corn syrup) – i.e., ...

  • October 6, 2017

    'Privately funded' Obama presidential library could cost Illinois taxpayers $100 million or more

    Erecting a monument to the Obama presidency is a task best handled quickly, before the seeds of disaster planted in Iran, the federal debt, and the FISA Court (among other places) come to full flower.  And despite promises of private funding, ta...

  • October 6, 2017

    Will the Democrats fall into the 'Repeal the Second Amendment' trap?

    The newest star in the New York Times editorial board firmament is Bret Stephens, a former member of the Wall Street Journal Editorial Board.  Yesterday, he went full gun-grabber in an op-ed in the Nation's Newspaper of Record, cal...

  • October 5, 2017

    Social justice warrior who stole MAGA hat to face justice system

    Last week, a remarkable video was seen by millions of viewers on YouTube, showing a U.C. Riverside student stealing a MAGA hat and refusing to give it back.  I wrote about it here, as a symptom of an actual, serious, long-term revolutionary...

  • October 5, 2017

    Feds ban listing 'love' as a food ingredient

    Rest easy, Americans.  The federal government has your back and is protecting you from the threat of love.  Love, that is, when listed as an ingredient in artisanal granola prepared by the Nashoba Brook Bakery in Massachusetts. Rachel Kr...

  • October 5, 2017

    Two Dems boycott moment of silence for Vegas massacre victims in House of Representatives

    Never change, leftist Dems!  Please keep taking principled stands against common sense and human decency so that all can understand the depth of depravity that springs from the progressive vision of utopia. And please be sure, Dems, that you ...

  • October 5, 2017

    Judicial Watch representing Clarice Feldman in her lawsuit against DC government

    AT readers understand that Clarice Feldman is a force of nature, and now the authorities who run the District of Columbia may eventually be forced to agree.  Judicial Watch – an organization to which I proudly make regular donations ...

  • October 4, 2017

    Canadian PM Justin Trudeau omitted mention of Jews in dedicating National Holocaust Monument

    Canada was the last industrialized country to officially commemorate the Holocaust and only last week dedicated its National Holocaust Monument in Ottawa. The design of it clearly evokes and honors the six-point Star of David emblem of J...

  • October 3, 2017

    Watch as GOP guest savages MSNBC's Chris Hayes for politicizing Vegas massacre before the bodies are even cold

    Hate-filled progressives seem to be no longer able to mimic mentally healthy human beings in their reactions to the mass slaughter and maiming of innocents at a country music festival.  So anxious are they to display their superiority that they...

  • October 3, 2017

    CBS vice president who threw away her career is very sorry about it

    Hayley Geftman-Gold, the now fired CBS lawyer who was until yesterday a vice president in their strategic transactions department, has become the poster girl for ruling-class progressive hatred and condescension toward working-class whites.  Wit...

  • October 2, 2017

    Hold Robert Mueller to the 'Tom Price standard'

    Now that Tom Price has been forced out of office as secretary of health and human services, the left has established a standard for the conduct of federal officials that may come back to bite a few of its favorites.  Jeffrey Lord has noticed tha...

  • October 2, 2017

    China openly discussing collapse of North Korea

    China has sent an unmistakable signal that Kim Jong-un had better not rely on the historic alliance between China and North Korea to resist President Trump's demands.  In fact, as he dallies with his troop of teen sex slaves, he had bet...

  • October 2, 2017

    Alan Dershowitz threatens to sue UC Berkeley and gets results

    Alan Dershowitz is a legendary lawyer, now retired as a professor at Harvard Law School, who has taken up the issue of free speech on campus.  Encountering a university policy that required outside speakers without an invitation from an academic...

  • October 2, 2017

    How many $ billions will the NFL lose over its kneeling fiasco?

    Signs are evident that the NFL has done permanent damage to its business by appearing to side with the Colin Kaepernick-initiated kneeling during the National Anthem.  My guess is that the owners of NFL teams collectively have lost billions, and...

  • October 1, 2017

    Al Sharpton, desperate for a popular cause, chases bandwagon that has already departed

    Apparently, Al Sharpton has made his call on the popularity of the protest by the NFL millionaires and is looking elsewhere for something to cry “Racism!” over. But if he is hoping to rouse crowds of angry militants into fury, he may have...

  • October 1, 2017

    Engine disintegrates on Airbus jumbo jet carrying more than 500 passengers over North Atlantic

    A horrifying incident has occurred that could have killed hundreds of passengers and crew aboard Air France Flight 66, an Airbus A 380 flying from Charles De Gaulle Airport in Paris to Los Angeles. The airplane landed at Goose Bay, Labrador, after fl...

  • October 1, 2017

    OJ is released from prison, so media briefly distracted from Trump-bashing

    I really don’t care at all that O.J. Simpson was released on parole from prison at 12:01 AM in northern Nevada, at the Lovelock Correctional Facility. Evidently, Nevada officials successfully avoided a media crush and the possibility of another...

  • October 1, 2017

    One-stop shopping for agitators

    Let’s face facts. There is a revolutionary movement afoot in the United States. And it is organizing itself before our eyes. Serious people believe that the constitutional republic can be overthrown. Overt Marxist and revolutionary groups ne...

  • October 1, 2017

    Trump Derangement Syndrome strikes Pulitzer Prize winner at WaPo

    The MOTUS blog (michellesmirror.com) has captured a precious moment in the history of Trump Derangement Syndrome, the reigning madness on the left. A heavyweight at the Washington Post, fashion critic Robin Ghivan, one of the paper’s Pulitzer w...

  • September 30, 2017

    How will MSM handle salacious Chicago love triangle murder trial involving 3 homosexuals?

    Now that cable news has figured out that dramatic murder trials bring ratings, its operators are always on the lookout for the next "trial of the century."  Key elements include sex, money, sex, glamour, sex, status, sex, and sex. B...

  • September 30, 2017

    Obama Foundation seeks a 'diversity consultant'

    Evidently, systemic racism (or "white privilege" or whatever) is so pervasive that the closet racism of the Obama Foundation needs a corrective force.  How else to explain this "Request for Proposals" for a diversity consulta...

  • September 30, 2017

    Your Saturday morning patriotism restorative after a week of dissing from football millionaires and billionaires

    It has been an emotionally trying week for lovers of the flag and the National Anthem.  While there are signs that the Kaepernick-inspired tantrum may be abating, hard feelings remain on all sides, no doubt. If you have been as upset as I hav...

  • September 30, 2017

    How Tom Price was taken out

    Was former HHS Secretary Tom Price seduced into hypocrisy?  How does one explain the downfall of a spending critic? Price's resignation is dealing a significant blow to the efforts to repeal and replace Obamacare, which is still a priorit...

  • September 29, 2017

    Virtue-signaling self-absorbed librarian rejects outstretched hand of first lady Melania Trump

    A culture of hatred has overtaken our urban educated classes to the point where public rudeness to a first lady's kind gesture is considered an opportunity for virtue-signaling.  A public school librarian in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where t...

  • September 29, 2017

    Chuck Todd amputates constitutional rights from God

    In the course of taking shots at Roy Moore, Chuck Todd of MSNBC's Meet the Press Daily revealed his belief that our constitutional rights are merely granted to us by the state, not anchored in God and Natural Law.  Curtis Houck of Newsb...

  • September 28, 2017

    Interpol votes to allow Palestinians as a member-'state'

    A terror-supporting fox has just been invited into the global police henhouse.  Over strenuous Israeli objections, Interpol, the international police agency that shares information and arrest "red notices," voted at its annual general ...

  • September 28, 2017

    Native American activist and former Oberlin professor indicted by feds over stealing grant money

    This news has received almost no national attention and comes to us via the Oberlin Review, the official student newspaper at Oberlin College. Former Oberlin Professor Robert Roche was formally indicted on federal charges of conspiracy and ...

  • September 28, 2017

    The 'intersectionality' risk for the NFL protests

    There is a bandwagon forming.  If I were a billionaire team owner or team player, I would not want to be on board.  They are at risk of becoming identified with the far left, which has embraced the concept of "intersectionality." ...

  • September 28, 2017

    A swamp creature of the Clinton genus

    Richard Pollock of the Daily Caller News Foundation has uncovered a fascinating vignette from the swamp, involving high-level secrets, Clinton friends, and apparent failure to obey the rules.  Oh, yeah – and money. A company...

  • September 27, 2017

    President Trump's new candidate Roy Moore wins primary

    Roy Moore pulled off a handy victory in the Alabama Republican primary, and President Trump will be portrayed as losing his hold on his base.  I don't think so.  President Trump had no choice but to support "Big Luther...

  • September 26, 2017

    Chicago can't spare cops to investigate death of man 'found floating' in Lake Michigan

    Civil order – the freedom to go about one's business free of worry about personal safety – is slipping away in Chicago.  The city's murder rate is world-famous but had been confined to a few neighborhoods.  Now...

  • September 26, 2017

    National Review editors fall back on lazy assumptions to criticize Trump on NFL

    The editors of National Review are back on their high horse again, recalling the days of their "Against Trump" issue devoted to foiling his quest for the GOP nomination.  See this editorial in National Review, calling for a ...

  • September 25, 2017

    Germany re-elects Merkel but hands huge gains to 'far right' party

    Nazi cards are being played all over the world's media this morning, in the characteristic response of elites when voters increase their support for populists.  The dominant media throughout the Western world are horrified that Angela Merkel...

  • September 25, 2017

    Blame Medicaid for the opioid painkiller epidemic?

    Using the logic favored by Democrats when criticizing GOP health care reform measures, we can say Medicare causes opioid addiction.  That's because statistics show that Medicaid recipients are about twice as likely to be prescribed opioids a...

  • September 25, 2017

    YouTube suspends, deletes Pamela Geller video archive

    A major video archive created by one of the leading critics of creeping sharia has disappeared from YouTube, which functions as a de facto standard reference library for video content in the digital age. Pamela Geller writes: YouTube...

  • September 24, 2017

    How Obama funded opposition to Trump via money that belongs to taxpayers

    One of the most outrageous abuses of the Obama presidency was a scheme by which fines for corporate misbehavior by the biggest Wall Street banks were channeled into the hands of radical leftist groups that are now vehemently opposing the policies of ...

  • September 24, 2017

    Top UN agency official lectures us on the need for universal healthcare

    Our UN dues at work, right after President Trump called our attention to the fact that we pay almost 22% of the total in his historic speech last week. Speaking at the “Global Citizen Festival” in New York City,  Dr Tedros Adhanom...

  • September 24, 2017

    NFL faces a potential catastrophe

    I am not certain if the owners of the National Football League understand the extent of the peril they face. The revenues and value of their teams have skyrocketed thanks to a bubble created by television revenues that radically increased as the numb...

  • September 24, 2017

    Back on the streets of Chicago

    According to court records, via CWB Chicago, two men charged with a horrifying crime are to be released back onto the streets of Chicago with electronic monitoring, presumably the ankle bracelets of television fame. Two men are charged with thre...

  • September 23, 2017

    Affirmative action is the new third rail of American politics

    Has there ever been a social policy that caused more resentment for less of a positive return than affirmative action?  Steve Sailer takes an informed look at what the policy of compensatory racial discrimination has wrought in Taki's M...

  • September 23, 2017

    Aussie police hunt killer of monster crocodile

    A crocodile measuring 17 feet in length – big enough to swallow a human being whole – was discovered dead in the Fitzroy River in Queensland, Australia, with a bullet in its head.  Pictures of the beast have been seen all over the wo...

  • September 23, 2017

    Time Inc selling off assets as revenues collapse

    How the mighty have fallen!  Reuters reports: Time Inc said on Friday it was looking to sell several assets, including Time Inc UK, and warned it experienced more-than-anticipated softness in both print and advertising revenue during t...

  • September 23, 2017

    Future of speeding cameras at stake in Iowa Supreme Court case

    If you are bothered by the idea of the government selling the law enforcement prerogatives of citing and collecting fines from automobile drivers, then you want to pay attention to a Supreme Court case in the state of Iowa to be argued in that court...

  • September 22, 2017

    ABC television developing comedy series on illegal immigrants

    The full force of the progressive propaganda machine is being deployed to create the public impression that people who violate our borders are wonderful, charming, beautiful, funny folks who really ought to be left to live in peace.  Joe Otterso...

  • September 22, 2017

    When Meathead met Tucker

    It was a classic confrontation last night on Tucker Carlson's show, as a Hollywood heavyweight faced tough questioning on the consistency of his views. Rob Reiner is a member of the hereditary Hollywood elite[i], cursed forever by a vivid role...

  • September 22, 2017

    Maxine Waters tells blacks to not be ashamed of affirmative action

    The good thing about Maxine Waters is that she doesn't have a filter. Yesterday, at a Black Caucus Foundation town hall event, she unintentionally laid out her political philosophy on affirmative action, and it ain't pretty – a view ...

  • September 21, 2017

    Media virtually ignoring evidence of vote fraud in election integrity hearings

    You wouldn't know it based on mainstream media coverage, but President Trump's Advisory Commission on Election Integrity is developing strong evidence of serious vote fraud, large enough to swing the results in key elections.  The fact t...

  • September 21, 2017

    Trump's Strange days in Alabama Senate primary

    Next week's Alabama Republican primary vote has the potential to demonstrate the limits of President Trump's control over the voting behavior of his base.  The POTUS has swung his weight behind Senator Luther Strange, the sitting interim...

  • September 21, 2017

    Sharyl Attkisson explains what we are up against

      This is easily the read of the day.  Sharyl Attkisson is the bravest reporter of her generation, so much of a threat to people with access to the capabilities of our intel agencies that she was spied upon and worse.  Today sh...

  • September 20, 2017

    Trump boxed in the globalists in his UN speech

    It's safe to say that none of his many enemies among the global elites anticipated an intellectual challenge from Donald Trump.  He doesn't look or talk or act the way they think an intellectual should.  Yet somehow, he has placed t...

  • September 19, 2017

    Manafort wiretapping revelations from CNN could roil Mueller investigation

    If true, this is a blockbuster, which vindicates one of President Trump's most famous and most roundly criticized tweets, and which may have far-reaching implications.  CNN is claiming in an exclusive report based on unnamed source...

  • September 19, 2017

    Trump threatens to 'totally destroy' North Korea if forced to defend self or allies

    President Trump's debut speech today at the U.N. was one for the history books.  The three-quarters-of-an-hour speech contained many firsts and covered a lot of ground. No American president has ever threatened that if America is forced t...

  • September 18, 2017

    Apple Park headquarters building overwhelms human scale

    I took advantage of a beautiful fall Sunday to drive about 50 miles to Cupertino, California to check out what could be seen of the brand-new headquarters building of Apple.  Dubbed Apple Park, it has become an instant icon of the info...

  • September 18, 2017

    Media pearl-clutching over Trump's retweet of a Hillary joke

    When you start with the premise that Donald Trump is a monster and an outrage against public decency, practically any excuse will do to put on a serious face and intone gravely about the Future of the Republic under such a leader.  That is exact...

  • September 18, 2017

    Hillary laughs off Awan scandal

    The expression "tin ear" does not begin to describe Hillary Clinton's problem.  A good sense of humor is not among her presentation skills, to say the least. The mainstream media certainly don't like President Trum...

  • September 17, 2017

    Sebastian Gorka predicts Trump will fire some advisers on national security

    Is national security policy now firmly in the hands of General McMaster and others who de-emphasize Jihad as an existential threat? When Dr. Sebastian Gorka left his position as deputy assistant to President Trump, many of us who fear a loss of focus...

  • September 17, 2017

    Trump plans Alabama trip next weekend to campaign for Luther Strange

    President Trump’s somewhat puzzling enthusiasm for supporting the election bid of Luther Strange in the primary battle he is facing against Judge Roy Moore seems to be increasing. Strange currently holds the vacated Senate seat formerly occupie...

  • September 17, 2017

    CNN grills black Trump supporter at rally, gets an earful

    I am reasonably certain that nobody forces on-air talent at CNN to swear an oath of loyalty to the anti-Trump narrative. Why bother? In the universe of “television journalists,” divergence from the approved prejudices is so rare outside o...

  • September 17, 2017

    Stunning poll reveals widespread backlash against refugee immigration in developed countries

    Citizens seem to understand more than their leaders in most Western democracies. Here's a stunning poll that shows the depth of popular opposition to anything-goes migration - with the sentiment the same across the developed world. According to t...

  • September 17, 2017

    Baltimore death toll thanks to riots sparked by Freddy Gray agitators

    One of the most disgraceful episodes in race-based demagoguery of the current era is coming to a close in Baltimore. The death of Freddy Gray while in police custody sparked riots, thanks to the notion widely broadcast for political profit that anti-...

  • September 16, 2017

    Is the freedom to disrupt others’ speech a matter of free speech?

    Campus progressives and their allies in the media and ACLU have worked themselves into a lather over a perfectly reasonable new policy of Ohio University aimed at guaranteeing the rights of both protestors and those who are at the university to learn...

  • September 16, 2017

    Latest educrat idiocy: Chants of ‘USA, USA!’ are ‘intolerant’

    I am so old that I remember when public schools taught love of country. But that was before the left took over schools of education (see: Bill Ayers) and public school administrators and faculty. Now, America is so shameful that students are discoura...

  • September 16, 2017

    Ignoring new evidence, MSM cling to their Charlottesville narrative

    The lethal violence of Charlottesville was instantly packaged as a narrative of violent racist Trump supporters killing innocent Americans. Defending that narrative becomes difficult when the facts start to be known, so the obvious response of the Ma...

  • September 16, 2017

    Hollywood does Stalin

    The good news is that movie industry middleweights have made a movie about the terror that followed the death of Joseph Stalin. The horrors of communism of that era, including its aggressive use of the Communist Party USA and covert rings of agents, ...

  • September 16, 2017

    Evergreen State College pays up to settle suit by Prof. Bret Weinstein

    Professor Bret Weinstein, a leftist, refused to participate in the evacuation of white people (only) from the campus of Evergreen State College and sued the college for the hostile work environment he alleged that he and his wife subsequently suffere...

  • September 15, 2017

    Harvard's repudiation of the Chelsea Manning fellowship offer is a rebuke to the campus mindset

    See also: Chelsea Manning's sneering, self-pitying tweets about getting dumped by Harvard A fascinating drama played out yesterday at Harvard, as campus-based politically correct thinking slammed into reality, and the grown-ups had to set...

  • September 15, 2017

    Show of force works as Ben Shapiro delivers speech to UC Berkeley audience

    The violence and destruction that accompanied Milo Yiannopoulos's unsuccessful attempt to deliver a talk at U.C.'s Zellerbach Hall were thwarted last night at the same venue, thanks to the widely reported expenditure of $600,000 on installing...

  • September 14, 2017

    Majority of California Dems favor restrictions on free speech

    California is a one-party state, with Democrats running everything and no prospect of the GOP ever changing that.  One-party states trend in the direction of autocracy and corruption for obvious reasons.  The Democrats of California have ru...

  • September 14, 2017

    Why Harvard's Kennedy School thinks Chelsea Manning's a jolly good fellow

    Take it from someone who used to be a fellow at Harvard at a couple of different institutes: they have their logic in handing out the title.  The Institute of Politics at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government lays out quite clearly what it ex...

  • September 13, 2017

    MSNBC's Katy Tur accidentally reveals the left's bizarre mindset

    There is a lot of competition, but MSNBC's Katy Tur is a strong contender for the title of "Most Obnoxious Media Leftist."  In her latest embarrassment, she revealed on Meet The Press Daily a disturbing understanding of w...

  • September 13, 2017

    Awan ring loaded House data onto secret server and then covered it up with phony evidence

    Leaked details of the House investigation into the Awan ring I.T. security breach indicate that everything that was supposed to remain within the digital security perimeter was instead secretly shipped to an outside server, from where it could go any...

  • September 13, 2017

    No such thing as an un-hackable voting machine

    President Trump's Voting Integrity Commission unexpectedly revealed important evidence suggesting that a return to paper ballots is the only way to prevent the possibility of major fraud from sophisticated hacking efforts.  Stephen Dinan of ...

  • September 12, 2017

    The real Middle East colonialist settlers

    One of the standard arguments of leftists who want to see Israel destroyed, but won’t admit to hating Jews, is that Israelis are colonists, outsiders who came into the land that rightfully belongs to the indigenous population. You probably know...

  • September 12, 2017

    Trump Derangement Syndrome claims another victim

    It’s time to create a ribbon-of-concern for an affliction that is ravaging the mental health and lives of progressive-Americans, that demographic slice of America that runs practically all of cultural, media, and academic institutions. This min...

  • September 12, 2017

    Hillary Clinton’s blame list for her defeat keeps growing

    For someone who claims she has taken full responsibility for her loss of the November 2016 election, Hillary Clinton certainly has a long list of people to blame for it. It takes quite an effort to count them up, but Gregg Jarrett of Fox News has kep...

  • September 12, 2017

    Far left signals intent to shut down Ben Shapiro’s speech in Berkeley this Thursday

    The mayor of Berkeley, Jesse Arreguin, and the governor of California, Jerry Brown, are now on notice that a violent mob will try to shut down a scheduled speech by Ben Shapiro, a well-known conservative. These government executives are charged with ...

  • September 12, 2017

    Shocker: new movie about Chappaquiddick tells the truth

    The power of the Kennedy clan seems to be fading, no longer able to prevent the production of an indie film that no only tells the truth, but which has earned the praise of the show business bible, Variety. Steven Hayward of Powerline spotted the ano...

  • September 11, 2017

    Denmark tells UN no more refugee quotas

    Denmark is renowned for high taxes, a welfare state, and a happy populace, qualities that have drawn admiration from many journalists and other liberals.  But its status as the showcase for enlightened big government (what American liberals...

  • September 11, 2017

    Video: Spanish police show how to deal with Antifa

    The video embedded below, less than a minute long, is circulating on Twitter and elsewhere on social media.  It purports to show Spanish police battling Antifa demonstrators and appears to be taken exactly three years ago today, a...

  • September 11, 2017

    Not from The Onion: Portland Police purge gang database because not enough white people on it

    The fantasy that without discrimination, every demographic slice of the nation would be proportionately represented in every aspect of human endeavor – good and bad – has become official dogma in much of government.  The end result i...

  • September 11, 2017

    As civil order crumbles in Chicago, criminal fashions change

    Criminals are responding to opportunity in the decline and fall of civil order in Chicago.  Like children deciding which presents to open first on Christmas morning, miscreants in the Windy City must choose among the many opportunities...

  • September 11, 2017

    California's presidential nomination power play

    The Democrats who run the nation's largest state are tired of being ignored in the presidential nomination process.  They want to be able to swing a lot more weight in the Democratic Party's choice of candidates.  And they want to s...

  • September 10, 2017

    OMG, Hillary speaks for me?

    No, this simply can’t be.  How could I possible agree with anything that Hillary said? Okay, maybe when she was a Goldwater girl in her youth, before corruption took over her soul. But we are talking something that she said in 2014. She wa...

  • September 10, 2017

    Chicago’s ‘Potemkin village’ efforts to change

    If you care about the future of America, pay attention to what is happening in Chicago. Civil order, the confidence that one can go about daily life without human predators attacking at the first opportunity, is slipping away, as police find themselv...

  • September 10, 2017

    How Chicago is morphing into Detroit in one easy lesson

    My heart is breaking for Chicago, and for all Americans, as one of our greatest cities crumbles before our (and the world’s) eyes. I don’t see any way out of the vicious circle of political corruption, irrevocable pensions obligations ove...

  • September 9, 2017

    Cognitive dissonance at the BBC on women in the workforce

    The BBC boldly explores the topic of menstruation’s impact on women with demanding jobs, in an article titled, “Can ‘period leave’ ever work?” Menstrual leave, a policy that affords women suffering extreme period pa...

  • September 9, 2017

    Gender transition child abuse exposed by 60 Minutes (in Australia)

    One of the great scandals of our age is the overwhelming push by progressives to define gender as a voluntary choice, and impose this fantasy on children via surgery, hormones, and other life course-altering “therapies.”  The result ...

  • September 9, 2017

    Patronizing progressive pushback on New Hampshire vote fraud evidence

    Don’t you just love it when leftists respond to scandal by adopting a patronizing tone, tacitly telling critics that they are stupid? Especially when the stakes are high. When Kris Kobach, the Secretary of State for Kansas, and Vice Cha...

  • September 8, 2017

    Another pillar of the Democrats goes wobbly

    The crisis of the Democrats deepens as the foundations of their power continue to crumble.  Far more than the Republicans, the power of the Democratic Party rests on its domination of various major institutions in American society: the media, go...

  • September 8, 2017

    Has Bill Kristol made me an offer I can't refuse?

    Strictly speaking, the tweet from Bill Kristol embedded below is not an offer to anyone, much less to me.  Nonetheless, he offers a tantalizing possibility, as if hoping for a response.  How could I refuse?  Perhaps he is seeking some ...

  • September 8, 2017

    Pat Condell is back

    Nobody talks about Islam and jihad with more wit and edge than Pat Condell.  His library of YouTube videos is well worth perusing.  Looking right into the camera, he talks to us frankly and authoritatively about the civilizational...

  • September 7, 2017

    Australia becomes the poster child for idiotic green energy policies

    Global warming hysteria has wrecked the supply of electricity in Australia, causing widespread blackouts.  That is quite an accomplishment, considering the abundant resources available in that nation-continent.  It takes a special brand of ...

  • September 7, 2017

    Renowned climate scientist jailed for fraud

    Well, it's a start... Lucy Smith reports for the Townsville (Queensland), Australia Bulletin: A RENOWNED climate scientist has been jailed for fraudulently claiming half a million dollars in reimbursements from his employer. Over ...

  • September 7, 2017

    MSM placed on notice about using SPLC as arbiter of hate group status

    There is more than P.R. symbolism behind a letter delivered to major media outlets, signed by the leaders of 47 organizations.  Major outlets are being placed on legal notice that use of the Southern Poverty Law Center as an arbiter of...

  • September 7, 2017

    'Big fish' Debbie Wasserman Schultz watches as 'small fish' start to cut deals

    It's starting to look as though Imran Awan and his wife Hina Alvi are making plea deals and incriminating people above them in the food chain.  Both of them were I.T. staffers for Democrats in the House of Representatives, earning substantia...

  • September 6, 2017

    MSNBC host (!) grills Dem congressman on constitutionality of DACA

    Are the End Times upon us? There must be something that accounts for actual responsible journalism being practiced on the MSNBC cable network. Soopermexican at The Right Scoop spotted the anomalous performance of Craig Melvin cross-ex...

  • September 6, 2017

    Book by Hillary Clinton's 'spiritual adviser' being pulled from bookstores due to 'extensive plagiarism'

    Moral corruption is a contagious disease, as the fate of so many former associates of the Clinton Machine demonstrates.  Together, they are the Typhoid Mary of the modern Democratic Party.  Business partners and friends, Webb Hubble and the...

  • September 6, 2017

    NYT bestseller list takes a huge blow as major publisher pulls out

    Another pillar of the left's ability to dominate American culture is getting shaky. For generations, stickers with the four little words "New York Times bestseller," applied to the cover of a book were regarded as gold.  In my d...

  • September 5, 2017

    New York Daily News sold for one dollar

    An old real estate rival of Donald Trump is giving up his soapbox from which vitriol has flowed toward the 45th president as another formerly important newspaper is sold for a pittance.  In this case, the nominal price of one dollar...

  • September 5, 2017

    New Yorker writer finds the Cajun Navy troubling

    As most of the nation celebrates the volunteerism so evident in the wake of Hurricane Harvey, a sense of disquiet seems to be afoot among fans of Big Government.  People who spontaneously organize impressive responses might make the pu...

  • September 5, 2017

    Canada demands US end right-to-work laws as part of NAFTA renegotiation

    The news that Canadian negotiators are demanding that the U.S. end right-to-work laws and provide a full year of paid family leave at first angered me.  If Canada wants to sap its competitiveness by forcing workers into unions and making full-ti...

  • September 5, 2017

    Lifestyles of the rich and tyrannical in Pyongyang

    The U.K. Daily Mail claims to have exclusive access to "figures revealed exclusively to MailOnline" detailing North Korean expenditures on Kim Jong-un's lifestyle, funded by counterfeiting, hacking, and other criminal enterpri...

  • September 4, 2017

    The twilight of affirmative action?

    The utter failure of affirmative action racial preferences is creating a national conversation on ending the state-sponsored discrimination that has been public policy for decades.  The only question is how vicious the defenders of the failed po...

  • September 4, 2017

    Boston Globe goes all in for Elizabeth Warren

    You can almost see the gears turning in the minds of the remaining staff at the downsized Boston Globe, voice of the pious liberals in the former Massachusetts Bay Colony.  They see their party, the Democrats, in need of leadership from ano...

  • September 4, 2017

    Hurricane Harvey and the 'Texas Way' of helping

    Few Americans are indifferent to Texas, with admirers (like me) probably outnumbering the haters, found in particularly large numbers in states like California that have been losing jobs and residents to Texas.  But even the haughtiest critics o...

  • September 4, 2017

    NYT warns the 'workers' that Trump really doesn't have their best interests at heart

    There is something actually touching about the profound detachment of the New York Times from blue-collar America, once you get past the condescension and perceive the underlying naiveté of the know-it-alls.  Steven Greenhouse, the longti...

  • September 4, 2017

    Normalizing pedophilia

    Make no mistake: the left understands well how to take taboo behaviors and turn them into grievance groups, legal battering rams, and political power.  That's why it is important to keep an eye out for attempts to start the chain of acceptan...

  • September 3, 2017

    Spot the missing word in NYT article on Venezuela’s economic collapse

    When a friend sent me this article from the New York Times on Venezuela’s economic collapse, I shared his sense that something would be missing. In Venezuela, Cooking With Firewood as Currency Collapses CARACAS, Venezuela — Food s...

  • September 3, 2017

    James Comey: Villain, apparatchik or fall-guy?

    The revelation that James Comey drafted his exoneration of Hillary Clinton long before 17 witnesses had been interviewed has made him a villain in the eyes of that small portion of the populace that is paying attention to politics just prior to Labor...

  • September 3, 2017

    Antifa may be opening some eyes and making new conservatives

    The events a week ago in Berkeley, California are sinking in, and maybe opening a few more minds.  Police there stood aside and allowed hundreds of uniformed, masked, armed-with-clubs thugs beat-up a handful of harmless free speech and anti-Marx...

  • September 3, 2017

    A potential inflection point for the Trump presidency

    When the Left's absurd caricature of President Donald Trump keeps getting proven a lie, people start to change their minds. There are some signs that as Labor Day signals a new season, buckling down for autumn and winter to come, a re-appraisal m...

  • September 2, 2017

    Germany allowing Palestinian terror organization to run in election

    Germany, a nation lacking constitutional guarantees of free speech and association, and with no hesitation on banning speech and even political parties, is tolerating an actual terrorist group running candidates in its national elections on September...

  • September 2, 2017

    Frontiers of microaggression: 'invisibility'

    What would we do without academic "research" to fuel the flames of grievance? Toni Airaksinen reports at Campus Reform: Two professors recently discovered that there are five different types of "invisibility microaggressio...

  • September 1, 2017

    Lawsuits announced against Charlottesville and Virginia State Police over 'stand down' order

    The predictable violence that erupted in Charlottesville, Virginia, when police channeled opposing groups into the same confined space and then failed to intervene, requires explanation.  Given the alacrity with which Democrat office-holders and...

  • September 1, 2017

    Alinsky meets the pro-life movement

    There is a useful tactic available to the pro-life community, courtesy of Saul Alinsky.  It has the side benefit of addressing a moral outrage that is little understood and happens much too often. Alinsky's fourth rule, "Make the ene...

  • September 1, 2017

    Comey drafted conclusions of Hillary investigation long before the evidence was in

    Senators Grassley and Graham released some bombshell documents (complete file here) yesterday, demonstrating, "James Comey began drafting an exoneration statement in the Clinton email investigation before the FBI had interviewed k...

  • August 31, 2017

    Universities finally discovering that tolerating progressive violence and intimidation will cost them dearly

    I am shedding no tears over this announcement made by the administration of The Evergreen State College in Washington.  Jennifer Kabbany writes in The College Fix: Administrators at The Evergreen State College have announced that the e...

  • August 31, 2017

    Documents reveal Southern Poverty Law Center shipping millions to offshore accounts

    Tim Cook, J.P. Morgan, and George and Amal Clooney should realize that some[i] of the millions they are donating to the Southern Poverty Law Center is going to end up on the Cayman Islands or in other offshore secrecy havens.  The SPLC is a big ...

  • August 30, 2017

    Bolton and Gorka both say they are locked out of the White House

    See also: "An Ideological Coup against Trump?" John Bolton and Sebastian Gorka both say they have been placed on lists forbidding them access to the White House, apparently to ensure that their views will not reach the president...

  • August 30, 2017

    That leftist smirk, smile, and laughter when discussing serious matters

    What is it about so many leftists that causes them to smirk, smile, and even laugh when discussing their purportedly serious proposals?  For example, Tucker Carlson last night interviewed Robin Biro, one of those "strategists" who show...

  • August 30, 2017

    FBI offers absurd excuse to deny release of documents related to Hillary email scandal

    I wonder if anyone at the FBI actually smirked when offering a silly rationale for denying a document request related to Hillary Clinton's handling of her email server.  (Remember?  She used BleachBit to permanently delete 30,...

  • August 30, 2017

    Professor learns a hard lesson about 'instant karma'

    People who don't believe in God sometimes invoke karma when they mean people got what they deserved, often with more than little schadenfreude, or enjoyment of someone's suffering.  This is quite ironic and rather insulting, conside...

  • August 29, 2017

    Berkeley mayor urges surrender to Antifa as smarter lefties realize they have a big problem

    Berkeley's Mayor Jesse Arreguin has just endorsed the rioter's veto.  In the wake of his police department standing by and allowing hundreds of masked and armed Antifa demonstrators to breach barricades and attack a handful of peace...

  • August 28, 2017

    Chicago had 14,000 more votes than voters in 2016 general election

    President Trump continues to receive scorn over his assertion last year that vote fraud accounted for Hillary Clinton's raw vote majority.  Democrats and their shills are unanimous in denouncing the "false claims."  ...

  • August 28, 2017

    The state line that best demonstrates 'red model' success and 'blue model' failure

    Anyone who cares to look can readily identify that the package of high taxes, high government spending, and high pensions for retired public employees kills economic growth and causes people to flee.  If a test case is needed, the adjacent state...

  • August 28, 2017

    Muslim caught urinating on synagogue door, giving the finger to security camera

    I suppose that it is "Islamophobic" to notice the motive behind a disgusting bit of vandalism in Northeast Philadelphia.  Philly.com reported: The man suspected of urinating on the front door of a Northeast Philadelphia sy...

  • August 28, 2017

    Charlottesville whitewash appears to be underway

    There is already plenty of evidence that the clash between violent left wingers and right wingers in Charlottesville was eminently preventable, and may even have been a setup.  The media-left cabal took advantage of the violence to smear Pr...

  • August 28, 2017

    Kansas welfare reform results in higher incomes as recipients forced into labor force

    More proof that welfare state is self-defeating.  The state of Kansas performed a natural experiment when it changed from the welfare state policies of Democrat Kathleen Sebelius to the conservative policies of Sam Brownback.  There has now...

  • August 27, 2017

    Celebrate August 27 as ‘Climate Equilibrium Day’

    Today is the anniversary of a singular event that actually did change the earth’s climate for a couple of years (after which Nature’s mighty equilibrating power returned things to normal): the eruption of the Krakatoa volcano. Grantee Kle...

  • August 27, 2017

    Scandalously lavish pay for Chicago’s ‘public servants’

    Fiscally speaking, Chicago is a “dead man walking,” with no feasible means to meet existing financial obligations in the near future.  City taxes already are high, and would have to be increased by multiples in order to pay for pensi...

  • August 27, 2017

    Class action lawyers take a big hit for ‘worthless’ class action settlement over Subway ‘foot-long’ sandwiches being too short

    I love it!  Class action lawyers have long shaken down big companies for ridiculous infractions and obtained settlements giving them millions, and pennies (or even discount coupons for future purchases) for the individual members of the classes ...

  • August 26, 2017

    Why doesn't the federal government bother tracking energy subsidies?

    It is downright stunning that the federal government has no way of tracking energy subsidies so that it can compare and evaluate the costs and effectiveness of its many subsidies for "green"[i] energy.  The cynic realist in me sus...

  • August 26, 2017

    Chicago carjackings: Arrests down as crime skyrockets

    It can't be easy to be a police officer in Chicago, where the murder rate is like a war zone, and where incitement against cops leads to "social media riots," where cops are fired upon based on false rumors spread on social media. ...

  • August 25, 2017

    Facebook deleting thousands of accounts in Germany prior to election there

    The nature of Facebook's political power is on display in Germany, where the company has started deleting thousands of Facebook accounts in advance of elections there, lest they be used to spread "disinformation."  Chris Tomlinson ...

  • August 25, 2017

    Pelosi warns against shouting 'wolf!' in a crowded theater

    In her declining years, former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Malaprop) is turning into an embarrassment for the Democratic Party, an institution formerly believed to be incapable of shame.  Best of all for Republicans: They can't get rid of her. ...

  • August 25, 2017

    MSM went all in on 'Russia!Russia!Russia!' hysteria and now want everyone to forget it

    The Awful Truth is catching up with the Fake News media, as the fantasy they obsessively peddled to delegitimize President Trump is blowing up in their faces, and they suddenly change the topic to their inevitable fallback issue: racism.  They g...

  • August 25, 2017

    House the homeless in vacant Mizzou dorms!

    Saul Alinsky works for us, now that we are the Samsons Davids fighting the Goliath of the Establishment.  His Fourth Rule instructs us, "Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules."  And the Fifth Rule adds, "Ridicule is...

  • August 25, 2017

    Statue-toppling becoming a global contagion

    One of the tells that the Confederate monument hysteria is just a ginned up media distraction is its globalization.  The Confederacy is not an issue in Australia, but the utility of the meme is understood by the local "activists....

  • August 25, 2017

    Call violent leftist gangs what they are: The Blue Guard

    Half a century ago in China, gangs of violent youths called Red Guards, intent on enforcing the radical vision of Mao Tse-tung, destroyed statues, libraries, and other artifacts of the world's oldest and richest culture in an effort at utopian re...

  • August 24, 2017

    San Francisco awaits its chance for mass virtue-signaling while bashing 'right wingers'

    This Saturday, San Franciscans can gather to celebrate their own virtue, while venting some more of their rage – and, for the violence-prone subset, maybe kick some "right wing" butt.  Last Saturday, Bostonian Warriors of Virtue ...

  • August 22, 2017

    University of California stiffs its working stiffs

    The University of California is cheating its lowest paid workers.  Connoisseurs of liberal hypocrisy have few more tempting targets than the upper reaches of the higher education industry, where liberal condescension and two-faced compassion pre...

  • August 22, 2017

    Conservatives fighting online suppression – and winning!

    It is a terrible thing that internet giants have been suppressing the voices of conservatives accused of being "haters" by left-wing money-machine fear-mongers.  It is terrible that energy must be expended defending them.  But at ...

  • August 21, 2017

    Long knives unsheathed for Sebastian Gorka now that Bannon is gone

    Swamp-dwelling Deep State and establishment types have always hated Sebastian Gorka.  The plain-speaking defender of President Trump is too critical of the status quo approach to foreign affairs and too hard-line on jihad.  Because he repor...

  • August 21, 2017

    Apple goes all in, raising money for SPLC hate group on iTunes

    Apple's CEO, Tim Cook, is tying the company he leads to a hate group in what looks like a crude attempt at virtue-signaling.  He wasted no time in emailing company employees and announcing a donation  of one million dollars to...

  • August 21, 2017

    'I hope Trump is assassinated' state senator apologizes but won't resign

    State senator Maria Chappelle-Nadal of Missouri wants to keep her job so badly that she made a televised personal apology to a man she obviously hates, President Trump.  Facing demands for her resignation by Missouri Democrats terrifie...

  • August 21, 2017

    Chief rabbi in Barcelona advises Jews to flee

    Speaking to the JTA news agency, Rabbi Meir Bar-Hen, the chief rabbi of Barcelona, is giving up on Europe as a safe home for Jews. "Jews are not here permanently," he said of the city and region. "I tell my congregants: Don...

  • August 20, 2017

    Media contortions protect their established narrative in Boston

    Something dramatic and important happened yesterday in Boston, but the mainstream provided a counternarrative to mask the shame of it all.  The media violated the normal rules of the TV news game – if it bleeds it leads and find a victim -...

  • August 19, 2017

    Dems rallying to support Missouri state senator who tweeted 'I hope Trump is assassinated'

    I think it is time we had a national conversation on political violence and its advocacy, and I thank the Democrats of Missouri for giving us that opportunity.  You may already know about Senator Maria Chappelle-Nadal, who tweeted, "I ho...

  • August 18, 2017

    MSNBC's Katy Tur shamelessly tries to bait mother of Charlottesville victim into hating on Trump

    Trump-haters, intoxicated on the Nazi-KKK-Trump meme they are pushing, are unmasking themselves as hateful cynics.  Yesterday, we saw Katy Tur of MSNBC metaphorically morph into a vulture feasting for political carrion on the body of Charlottesv...

  • August 18, 2017

    Scott Adams explains TDS: 'How to know if you're in a mass hysteria bubble'

    Scott Adams, the creator of "Dilbert" and the pundit who best explained and predicted the Trump victory last year, diagnoses Trump Derangement Syndrome as a manifestation of the historical phenomenon of mass hysteria.  As usual, there ...

  • August 15, 2017

    Skokie and Charlottesville: Compare and Contrast Nazi marches

    Forty years ago, American liberals still celebrated freedom of speech, when American Nazis decided to hold a march through the heavily Jewish Chicago suburb of Skokie, Ill. The American Civil Liberties Union sprang to the defense of the Nazis’ ...

  • August 14, 2017

    Sean Hannity exposes a threat to kill President Trump

    If President Trump feels that Sean Hannity has got his back, there is more evidence to support his sense.  In the wake of the Charlottesville attack on demonstrators, the hate really started to flow, and Sean spotted this direct threat to the PO...

  • August 14, 2017

    Warning from ex-CIA and FBI counterterrorism analyst: 'The government is going to kill' President Donald Trump

    The signs are all around us that the subversion and worse is afoot among those who feel that the federal government belongs to them, not to the voters of the Republic.  You might even say that think of it as "our thing." Right out i...

  • August 13, 2017

    Al Gore calling global warming a ‘spiritual issue’

    Frantic to promote his box office dud, An Inconvenient Sequel, former Vice President and centimillionaire energy hog Al Gore is giving gave away his game. For the past couple of weeks, sparked by the film’s premiere, he has been telling people ...

  • August 13, 2017

    Trump’s critics reveling in the opportunity to tie him to white racists and Nazis

    My colleague Rick Moran is highly critical of President Trump for equally condemning those who came to Charlottesville, VA seeking violence on behalf of their version of justice in racial issues:  While the president condemned the violence ...

  • August 13, 2017

    When a Bernie Sanders supporter attempted to assassinate Republicans, the media were quick to disassociate a politician from his radical supporters

    We’re all so used to double standards from the media that we barely notice them.  But right now, the unfairness is so acute that we must take a step back and remember something hideous that happened only this year. President Trump is being...

  • August 12, 2017

    New York Times editorial page chief to testify under oath on Palin lawsuit next Wednesday

    I am worried.  The New York Times may be able to short-circuit Sarah Palin's lawsuit.  Its response to a court order to provide testimony looks to my layman's eyes like a plausible escape via the "actual malice" requiremen...

  • August 12, 2017

    Democrats' Vice Chair Rep. Keith Ellison flirts with treason and tars the party brand: Updated

    Keith Ellison declared yesterday that North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un was "acting more responsible [sic] than" President Trump.  [Update: Ellison has since stated, "That was one of those I wish I'd not said," addin...

  • August 12, 2017

    GOP may get its 53rd senator before 2018

    A plot seems to be unfolding to appoint Senator Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., to the position of energy secretary currently held by Rick Perry.  West Virginia's newly Republican governor, Jim Justice, would then appoint a Republican to fill out the ...

  • August 11, 2017

    Cook County commissioners to vote on repeal of sugary soda tax

    The fiscal black hole facing Illinois and its local governments as lavish pension obligations come due appears to have driven at least some public officials mad.  Just as sharks, scenting blood in the water, enter into a feeding frenzy that may ...

  • August 11, 2017

    Here it comes: 'Obesity Studies' in 'higher' education

    Victimhood is now so socially and psychologically desirable that sooner or later, everyone[i] will be a member of one or more victim groups.   A key step in the legitimization of victim status is recognition in academia, through the creation ...

  • August 10, 2017

    The long knives come out for Debbie Wasserman Schultz

    A dog whistle of sorts has been blown, audible to Democrat pros, alerting them to the problem Debbie Wasserman Schultz has become for the political family.  Coming from Politico, the Democrat insiders' gazette, it will heard by all. In a ...

  • August 9, 2017

    Endangered species in Hawaii threatened by planned wind farm

    How does an electricity-generating plant count as "green" and worthy of subsidy if it will slaughter some of the remaining members of an endangered species?  A battle is going on right now in Hawaii over a proposed wind farm that ...

  • August 9, 2017

    Sebastian Gorka humiliates MSNBC hosts

    I am almost beginning to feel sorry for MSNBC hosts Ali Velshi and Stephanie Ruhle, who were almost certainly instructed through their earpieces to go on the attack with presidential adviser Sebastian Gorka, Ph.D.  It's bad enough having to ...

  • August 9, 2017

    Trump's 'fire and fury' rhetoric baffles and outrages foreign policy establishment and its toadies

    The Smart Set agrees that once again, President Trump has said something ridiculous, amateurish, and downright embarrassing.  His warning to North Korea, using rhetoric that resembles the hyperbole that regime long has favored, is something...

  • August 8, 2017

    Washington Post makes ridiculous claim, trying to find scandal in DC's Trump International Hotel

      In their efforts to demonize the president of the United States, members of what used to be regarded as elite media are unmasking themselves as ignoramuses, driven mad by their frenzy to remove Trump from office.  Ben Rhodes, who was i...

  • August 8, 2017

    Google decides 'diversity' really means 'uniformity'

    There's no hiding from Google!  The author of the samizdat memo that "went viral" within Google late last week, and was leaked to the public over the weekend, has been identified and fired.  George Orwell w...

  • August 8, 2017

    Go, Maxine, go!

    If Representative Maxine Waters goes through the door she just left open and establishes a political action committee, I will donate.  Appearing on the NTK Network, she explicitly left open the possibility of starting a blacks-only politica...

  • August 8, 2017

    Loretta Lynch's email problems mount

    Thanks to Judicial Watch (donate here, please!), we have another 417-page look into the mind of Loretta Lynch, particularly in the wake of the unexpected media revelation of her tarmac meeting with Bill Clinton while the DoJ was invest...

  • August 7, 2017

    Will Mueller be reined in?

    There is a lot of evidence that Special Counsel Robert Meuller's investigation is a fishing expedition, a witch hunt that will at a minimum end up prosecuting a process crime, such as the highly questionable perjury conviction of Scooter Libby. ...

  • August 7, 2017

    Canada weighs paying doctors a premium for euthanasia

    The slippery slope is real.  Once the state gets in the business of killing off its citizens via euthanasia, the brutal logic of economics works its way through the system.  In Canada, which legalized euthanasia just over a year ago, one of...

  • August 6, 2017

    A little Sunday Schadenfreude, anyone?

    Care to spend 60 seconds enjoying President Obama being mocked for his certainty that Donald Trump could never bring back manufacturing jobs? This tweet from the GOP’s official Twitter account does the job, and leaves plenty of time for the ...

  • August 6, 2017

    Islamophiles in Australia block construction of a synagogue, conceding the danger of Islam

    It was only a local decision in a nice suburb of Sydney, Australia, but it has global significance. Joe Hildebrand of news.com.au explains: A LOCAL council has banned the construction of a synagogue in Bondi because it could be a terrorist targe...

  • August 6, 2017

    Trump-haters can’t help themselves, creating Trump voters in New Jersey

    Keep it up, you coastal elites. Keep telling the unwashed deplorables how much you loathe them, where they live, their tastes, habits, and even where they go on vacation. Ridicule the things about President Trump that endear him to people that resent...

  • August 6, 2017

    Google roiled by samizdat critique of diversity policy

    Lawyers, grievance groups, and their media touts are salivating at the prospect of cutting themselves in on the high technology industry, which has too few women, Hispanics, and blacks to suit them.  At Google, a Department of Labor investigatio...

  • August 6, 2017

    BET television network reports on disparate impact on black teens of minimum wage rise

    A truth that the left seeks to deny made it through the editors at BET television, which ran a website article, and I presume some broadcast segments. The headline and subhead tells the story: Black Teens Are Fired When the Minimum Wage Rises ...

  • August 5, 2017

    Maxine Waters encourages more felonious leaks, vows to go after Putin…err...Pence after 'finish' with Trump

    Say a prayer for Maxine Waters, the unhinged and unfiltered embodiment of the lunatic wing of the Democratic Party.  Appearing on The View yesterday, she laid the groundwork for discrediting the entire Democrat strategy for stealing th...

  • August 4, 2017

    Vengeful politician seeks to bankrupt group that won a court order against a new tax

    Ever since Sean Connery uttered the words "the Chicago way," the rest of humanity has been on notice that a different rulebook applies to the territory around the confluence of the Chicago River and Lake Michigan.  "He sends one o...

  • August 4, 2017

    Mayoral candidate arrested twice in last 60 days

    Hey, kids, let's all play "Guess the Party"!  It's the media's favorite game when covering criminal activities by members of the Democratic Party.  The local rag in Fayetteville, North Carolina could not bring itself t...

  • August 4, 2017

    The wages of WaPo leaks: Who benefits?

    Our system of government is under attack, with the ability of the chief executive to conduct foreign policy crippled by the leak of transcripts of two presidential conversations with foreign leaders.  Any conversation between the POTUS and a for...

  • August 4, 2017

    The Trump effect: Japanese carmakers adding 4,000 jobs at new car assembly plant

    As the tectonic plates shift in the global auto industry, jobs are being added under President Trump.  He was elected promising to reverse the deindustrialization of America, and the announcement today from Toyota and Mazda [i] that they ar...

  • August 3, 2017

    CNN, NYT reporters humiliated by Stephen Miller at WH immigration briefing

    I could not help but think of the movie The Revenge of the Nerds yesterday, as a balding, slender Republican hit back when the cool kids from the media started implying racism.  Progressive activists masquerading as reporters are not used to Rep...

  • August 3, 2017

    Progressive bullies exploiting the disadvantaged in new Cook County soda tax

    The Big Lie of progressives imposing taxes on sugary [1] drinks is "it's for your own good!"  They may natter on about the costs of obesity and the need to hold the presumptively obesogenic drink makers responsible for the soc...

  • August 3, 2017

    Judicial Watch reveals Huma emails indicating pay-to-play culture at Hillary's State Department

    Judicial Watch has been doing the work that Congress and the Justice Department can't or won't do, uncovering evidence of Clinton scandals heretofore hidden from the public.  Thanks to their FOIA lawsuits, the State Department is coughin...

  • August 1, 2017

    Time for the GOP to teach the Democrats a scandal lesson

    Why do Republicans in D.C. act like a battered spouse, allowing Democrats to continually impugn their motives and decency?  And why do they so often surrender control of the institutions of the state to Democrats, even when Democrats are in the ...

  • August 1, 2017

    Katie Couric loses her internet gig

    It's a long road downhill from the Today Show for the onetime queen of morning perkiness.  Katie Couric hitched her career to the falling star of Yahoo, for which she was a catch, a brand enhancement, a (former) network star.  Now she...

  • July 31, 2017

    Why is the IRS rehiring employees who falsified documents and had unauthorized access to information?

    Does IRS chairman John Koskinen have superpowers?  Or does he know things so incriminating about everyone that he not only retains his job (in the face of demands for his firing), but flaunts his ability to offer succor to abusive bureaucra...

  • July 31, 2017

    UK Sunday Times fires columnist, apologizes after publishing his anti-Semitic column

      The wave of Jew-hatred spreading throughout the world surfaced in the pages of yesterday's Sunday Times in the UK.  The BBC reports: A Sunday Times columnist "will not write again" for the newspap...

  • July 31, 2017

    Check your 'panhandler privilege' in de Blasio's New York

    Thanks to the orders of New York mayor Bill de Blasio, a privileged class of people has been created in that city's busy tourist Mecca, Times Square.  Real estate in that crossroads has always been pricey, but with high-end hotels and other ...

  • July 31, 2017

    Check your 'cognitive privilege,' all you smart people!

    Progressives, crazed with identifying new forms of oppression attached to the currently fashionable catchword "privilege," have finally embraced the stupid as a victim class.  Hey, let's celebrate stupidity!  Just ponder for a...

  • July 31, 2017

    WSJ editorial board agrees with Herbert E. Meyer in AT on North Korea

    All the available strategies for dealing with the North Korean nuclear threat seem flawed, save one that has been largely ignored: overthrow from within by the only power that matters, the military, induced with a mixture of carrots and sticks. ...

  • July 30, 2017

    Costs of green electricity driving Aussies off the grid and into poverty

    When greenies get their way, poor people suffer. Global warming hysteria tends to be an affliction of the affluent, who don’t have to worry about where their next meal is coming from or how they will keep the lights on at night. But for those l...

  • July 30, 2017

    Chuck Schumer spouts constitutional nonsense on the Senate floor

    Whatever his personal faults, New York Senator Charles Schumer is not stupid. He used to post his diploma from Harvard University on his US Senate website, until I mocked him on these pages and it went into the memory hole. His entire manner of speak...

  • July 30, 2017

    Black Lives Matter riots in England

    The virus of racial hate-mongering has spread to London, as rioters carrying “black lives matter” placards created chaos following the death of a suspect held in custody by the police. The BBC reports: Fireworks and bottles were hurl...

  • July 29, 2017

    Media blackout on NASA report that sea level has fallen the last two years

      Warmist doomsayers have another inconvenient "pause" on their hands, as sea levels have actually fallen the last two years, according to satellite data from NASA.  Mac Slavo noticed the NASA data, and Zerohedge...

  • July 29, 2017

    Will the shakedown phase of the Trump White House end with new chief of staff John Kelly?

      It is not uncommon for a new White House to have a shakedown phase and switch chiefs of staff.  Rahm Emanuel's tenure as President Obama's first White House chief of staff only lasted just over nine months. Appointing Reince...

  • July 28, 2017

    Suspect identified in leaking of classified info from the FBI

    Sara Carter of Circa is citing three anonymous sources in an exclusive report identifying a suspect in the investigation of the criminal leak of classified information from the FBI.  Are you shocked to learn that the suspect is highly ...

  • July 28, 2017

    MSNBC analyst calls ICE director 'head of a violent gang,' 'the deadliest'

    The complete moral inversion of the left is on display. Joan Walsh, formerly of Salon, lately of The Nation and MSNBC, is a fixture of the pretentious journalistic left, so certain of its moral superiority.  I have to assume that Trump Derang...

  • July 27, 2017

    Palin goes for the jugular in defamation lawsuit against the New York Times

    A nightmare is unfolding for the New York Times that could well be devastating for the collapsing credibility and mindshare of the entire progressive media.  In a court filing by defense counsel for the New York Times, the scope of the discovery...

  • July 27, 2017

    Cracks developing in Awan Dam

    The mainstream media are doing their best to ignore a bizarre, serious, and colorful story, but it's not going to work.  The Awan family Pakistani I.T. consultant ring extracted 4 million dollars from Democrats in the House; its point man, I...

  • July 26, 2017

    Evergreen State College to face $3.8-million lawsuit from Prof. Bret Weinstein and wife

    Finally, cowardly university officials who allow leftists racists to intimidate their opposition may face accountability in court, thanks to a lawsuit being prepared to be filed in the State of Washington.  Evergreen State College there has beco...

  • July 26, 2017

    Rep. Luis Gutierrez has paid his wife over $400,000 in campaign funds

    Representative Luis Gutiérrez apparently regards his Illinois 4th Congressional District seat – which he has held almost a quarter-century – as a family business.  Jos Schoffstahl reports at the Washington Free Beaco...

  • July 26, 2017

    Muslims at UC Davis defend imam's call to 'annihilate' 'filthy Jews'

    The ugly hatred the Koran instructs faithful Muslims to practice against Jews is on display and being defended at the Islamic Center of the University of California, Davis.  A sermon delivered by Imam Ammar Shahin was posted on YouTube and from ...

  • July 25, 2017

    Snopes.com claims it is in danger of shutting down

    A murky struggle has erupted that, it is claimed, could torpedo a mainstay of the progressive propaganda machine.  The left-wing "fact-checking" site Snopes.com says it is fighting for its life and desperately needs donations, accordin...

  • July 25, 2017

    Planned Parenthood claims genitals don’t determine sex

    A grand harmonic convergence seems to be enveloping the left, under which the fantasy that humans can choose their sex has become dogma that all must publicly endorse, even those who know better. Grace Carr of the Daily Caller News Foundation...

  • July 25, 2017

    Trudeau government to revise Canada's citizenship test, no longer ban 'barbaric cultural practices' or require a job

    Justin Trudeau's government is redefining what it means to be a Canadian, and in the process, he appears to be opening the door for the Islamization of our northern neighbor.  The Canadian press has obtained a copy of a draft of a ...

  • July 25, 2017

    Spicer, Scaramucci, and Trump's communications strategy, explained

    The read of the day tells you everything you need to know about the downsides of the White House communications strategy and does so with insight and wit.  Andrew Malcolm's column for McClatchy this week gets to the heart of the ma...

  • July 24, 2017

    Al Franken reveals fear of Kid Rock running against Debbie Stabenow

    A friendly on-air conversation between Jake Tapper and Senator Al Franken was coming to an and yesterday on CNN's State of the Union show when Tapper appeared to catch Franken off guard with a question on the potential for a Kid Rock-De...

  • July 24, 2017

    Chicago violence is overwhelming police capabilities and spreading beyond gang strongholds

    Carl Sandburg indelibly dubbed Chicago "hog butcher for the world," though swine are no longer[i] massacred there.  But slaughter remains part of the city's global image, as every weekend sees multiple deaths from gang warfare (thi...

  • July 23, 2017

    Special Ops commanding general blames New York Times leaks for saving life of ISIS head Al Baghdadi

    General Tony Thomas heads Special Operations Command for the United States Army, which makes him one of the most important warriors in fighting the defensive war against violent jihad.  In a public conversation at the Aspen Security Forum, speak...

  • July 23, 2017

    Arrested Muslim immigrant O’Hare Airport worker claims she is engaged in ‘legitimate warfare’ providing money and arms to ISIS

    The awful logic of sharia is on display in Chicago. Meet Mediha Medy Salkicevic, a mother of four working at an air cargo company at O’Hare Airport, who was arrested two years ago on charges of conspiring to provide material support and resourc...

  • July 22, 2017

    MSNBC's Joy Reid flaunts her ignorance in attempt to smear Trump

      Joy Reid joins the pack of progressive pundits unmasking themselves as ignoramuses in their fury at President Trump.  Reid, MSNBC national correspondent and host of that network's weekend morning show, AM Joy, attempted to con...

  • July 22, 2017

    The PC revolution devours its children in Minneapolis

    The appalling spectacle of Minneapolis mayor Betsy Hodge's press conference taken over by radical black protesters, nationally televised live on Fox News, has exposed the inevitable degeneration of identity politics there.  The mayor must ha...

  • July 21, 2017

    Dr. Steve Collins, RIP

    My dad told me in his late seventies that, aside from health issues, the worst part of getting old was watching your friends die, as your generation passes.  I turned seventy recently, and already I feel the burden with the loss of our friend an...

  • July 19, 2017

    Larrey Anderson, AT senior editor, dies

    Update: full obituary below. With profound sadness, we note the passing of Larrey Anderson, senior editor of American Thinker, after a long illness.  Larrey was, quite simply, one of the most brilliant people you could hope to meet.  He ...

  • July 18, 2017

    Facebook bows to sharia

    Facebook is arguably the Goliath of American media, with Pew reporting that nearly half of Americans get news from it.  So, when we learn via Robert Spencer that Steve Amundson of the Counter Jihad Coalition (CJC) is reportin...

  • July 17, 2017

    The Left is Already Preparing Tomorrow's Fake News

    A reader strolling down the street in Chicago spotted a recruiting poster for “Activist Jobs,” a bit of an oxymoron. “Activism” by implication is volunteer work undertaken because the goal sought by the acts in question is so ...

  • July 17, 2017

    Delusional thinking on the homeless in Austin, Texas

    Yet another Big Plan is set to founder on the rocks of human nature in a blue city.  Austin, Texas may be America's fastest rising Mecca for young, hip, hi-tech folk, with its university; fast growing tech community; and music, film, and art...

  • July 17, 2017

    The kind of mind behind denying care to Charlie Gard

    There's a scene at the end of the movie The Martian when Matt Damon's astronaut character is saved and everyone at NASA is cheering wildly.  Some with tears in their eyes. ...except for one character: the head of NASA, who earlier had...

  • July 17, 2017

    Peak halal?

    It has been a great racket for raising money for Muslim institutions from infidels, but it may have hit its peak, at least in Australia.  The Daily Mail reports: Two of Australia's biggest breakfast cereal makers are no longer...

  • July 17, 2017

    Pathetic audience for Dems' livestream event

    Make no mistake: for all their fury, Democrats are demoralized, and the smarter ones know they are in trouble.  If the lack of a plausible nominee, the lurking Clinton Machine, and the obsessive hatred driving away the non-fanatics don'...

  • July 16, 2017

    Columbia University pays large settlement to student harassed by ‘senior thesis’ of ‘Mattress Girl’

    You remember Emma Sulkowicz, aka “Mattress Girl," don’t you?”  She accused fellow student Paul Nungesser of what these days is termed “gender-based misconduct,” but which seems to be really just rape, or maybe ...

  • July 16, 2017

    If you think those soda taxes are about the ‘obesity epidemic,’ think again

    “Watch what we do, not what we say,” was the famous advice of John Mitchell, when he became Nixon’s Attorney General, and before he went to federal prison. It’s honest advice from a crook, so naturally it applies to the govern...

  • July 16, 2017

    …the second time as farce

    Hillary Clinton’s plotting to hang on to power and keep her crew gainfully employed through the out-of-power years generates no end of flailing about, some of it comic, as in the grooming of Chelsea, the sole hope for a dynasty. But the quest f...

  • July 15, 2017

    The bureaucrats' final weapon against Charlie Gard

    A friend who must remain anonymous writes: The Gards have been fighting since November.  The longer their baby goes without getting the treatment they seek for him, the further he deteriorates. The U.S. doctor has said he'd send the me...

  • July 15, 2017

    Civil order slipping away in Chicago

    Chicago is now notorious for the murder rate it suffers, vastly out of proportion to its population when compared to New York or Los Angeles.  That horrendous carnage largely is confined to a couple of locations where rival gangs are battling ov...

  • July 15, 2017

    Spot the anti-climate science demagogue

    We're all supposed to believe Al Gore's claims of climate doom because of science, which in his view has authoritatively and irrevocably spoken in the form of dodgy surveys claiming "scientific consensus."  So when Al Gore...

  • July 15, 2017

    California set to unleash plague of less qualified lawyers

    On top of high taxes, crumbling roads, a huge imported underclass, one third of the nation's poverty population, and overpaid bureaucrats, this is just what California needs to complete the destruction of its business environment and quality of l...

  • July 14, 2017

    Dem senator beclowns herself on Senate floor

    The needle on my schadenfreude gauge just moved into the red zone, where my soul may be in peril.  After all, it is indecent to take pleasure in the suffering of another being, and I have no excuse.  But really, am I supposed to pretend thi...

  • July 13, 2017

    Harvard signals repudiation of its history

    A seemingly obscure fight among academic elites might not seem worthy of broad public concern, but a move underway at Harvard University should concern everyone.  Kathryn Hinderaker reports at The College Fix: Harvard University will d...

  • July 13, 2017

    The 'mainstream media' no longer is really mainstream

    The election of Donald Trump to the presidency appears to have dealt the final blow to the credibility of the media outlets that formerly dominated the nation's political conversation.  The label "mainstream media" can no longer be...

  • July 13, 2017

    Tucker Carlson scores some cred on the left

    Ever since he inherited Bill O'Reilly's Fox News time slot, Tucker Carlson has been holding interview subjects up to critical inquiry.  Carlson does his homework, often citing their previous statements or writing, and exposing hypoc...

  • July 12, 2017

    China sending forces to its first overseas military base – in Africa

    Yesterday marked a new era in China's geostrategy, as it began deploying military forces to its first overseas military base, building the capacity to project military force globally.  The Associated Press reports: China has s...

  • July 12, 2017

    Facebook cowers and complies with sharia

    Facebook has become the dominant force in the distribution of news in the United States, making it powerful beyond the dreams of Edward Bernays.  If Facebook determines that a source of news is to be shunned, the results can be catastrophic...

  • July 12, 2017

    The global warming fraud explained in one simple chart

    The global warming fraud is based entirely on the practice of "adjusting" data.  Michael Mann's infamous hockey stick graph was "adjusted" to "hide the decline," most notably.  But every prediction of catas...

  • July 11, 2017

    Bye-bye, blue slips

    President Trump is re-shaping the federal judiciary, beginning the "rightward shift" that liberals fear. Bloomberg: Only President Bill Clinton had more initial vacancies, with 111. By contrast, Obama found only 54 lower-court vacan...

  • July 11, 2017

    Journalist removed from reporting duties after publicizing Jewish women expelled from Chicago 'Dyke March' for carrying Star of David

    Evidently, powerful people were upset when Rachel Hammond, a reporter for the Windy City Times, a newspaper serving the gay and lesbian community, reported that females carrying "Jewish pride" flags emblazoned with the Star of David were as...

  • July 11, 2017

    Civil rights victory as 'fighting words' exception to First Amendment is narrowed

    Free speech won a big victory last week in the Nutmeg State.  At a moment when campus and media thought police attempt to marginalize opinions they don't like under the rubric of "feeling threatened," one state's supreme court ...

  • July 11, 2017

    IBD throws down the gauntlet on Comey and Mueller

    It needed to be said, and Investor's Business Daily has stepped up and said it well, now that we have reason to believe that a majority of the memos prepared by James Comey on his conversations with the president contained cla...

  • July 10, 2017

    Report: Half of Comey’s 'private' memos on Trump conversations contained classified info

    If an anonymously sourced story published in The Hill is correct, James Comey could find himself with a big problem on his hands.  John Solomon reports: More than half of the memos former FBI chief James Comey wrote as personal re...

  • July 10, 2017

    Two key House members call to investigate Russian 'collusion' with anti-fracking green groups

    Charges of "Russian collusion" may have opened Pandora's Box for the environmentalist wing of the Democratic Party and the American left.  Republican congressman Lamar Smith, chairman of the House Science, Space, and Technology Com...

  • July 9, 2017

    Tales of the ruling class: Chicago edition

    The Independence Day holiday provided a wonderful snapshot of the Chicago branch of the ruling class at play. If you follow the money of Chicago politics, you soon realize the importance of the role of a seemingly obscure local official, the Cook Cou...

  • July 9, 2017

    Six-year-old armed robber at work on the mean streets of Chicago

    The breakdown of civil order accelerates. The critical social bonds that constrain behavior in civilized society continue to disintegrate in tandem with the decline of families, in particular the absence of fathers from any role in childrearing among...

  • July 9, 2017

    New York Times continues to peddle malicious meme that Trump is antisemitic (or something)

    The sore losers on the left continue to flatter themselves with the label “Resistance” for their inability to accept the verdict of the electorate that backed President Trump.  Since they want to think of themselves and their tantrum...

  • July 8, 2017

    French president Macron pushed his way to stand next to President Trump at G-20 group photo

    The very odd behavior yesterday of France's newly elected President Emmanuel Macron has tongues wagging all over the world.  When the G-20 leaders posed for a group photo, Macron pushed his way from the back of the group to the left edge of ...

  • July 8, 2017

    California Dems panic over their tax hike, sue 3 college Republicans for successful recall petition

    Democrats control both houses of the California State Legislature with two-thirds majorities, allowing them to pass any bills they wish, with no possibility of obstruction from the powerless GOP.  As Democrats will when they feel empowered, they...

  • July 8, 2017

    Transit union official steals $2K from public but retains his job

    Very few employers will tolerate a thief on their staff, for obvious reasons.  Even fewer will tolerate a prominent thief whose misdeeds become known, because thievery spreads like cancer if it is tolerated. But for reasons unexplained in thi...

  • July 7, 2017

    Prog darling Linda Sarsour calls on American Muslims not to assimilate and to fight Trump as form of jihad

    Linda Sarsour is the flavor of the month of the progressive Trump-haters.  She was co-chair of the infamous pussy-hat Women's March against Trump and claims to be "Palestinian," even though she was born in Brooklyn.  Sarsour, ...

  • July 7, 2017

    Scientists puzzle through effect of 'deep solar minimum' on Earth's atmosphere

    There haven't been any sunspots for the last 44 days, and some scientists believe that the sun is entering a period called a "deep solar minimum," with unpredictable but potentially devastating effects.  But don't worry: even i...

  • July 7, 2017

    Arrogant California progs discover a downside to their travel ban

    They may have never heard of the Law of Unintended Consequences, but the leftists who run politics in California are convinced that they are custodians of superior virtue and wisdom, and that it is their duty to exploit the vast resources o...

  • July 6, 2017

    Slow learner Al Franken rebuked by former DNI director James Clapper in Senate testimony

    Senator Al Franken's background as a joker was showing yesterday when he questioned former director of National Intelligence James Clapper in a Senate hearing yesterday.  He seemed to playing the role of a sad clown unable to accept reality,...

  • July 6, 2017

    President Trump's speech in Warsaw was a smash hit

    The very same human being reviled by his political enemies as mentally unfit to serve under the 25th Amendment was wildly cheered by a huge crowd in Warsaw, chanting, "USA! USA!" and "Donald Trump! Donald Trump!"  His speech ...

  • July 5, 2017

    How the New York Times inverts morality in the Charlie Gard case

    It takes real skill for the New York Times' progressive propagandists to frame the case of baby Charlie Gard in terms that comfort the sensibilities of their readers.  After all, the state requiring the death of an infant whose parents dearl...

  • July 5, 2017

    CNN has fallen into Trump’s pro-wrestling trap and it can’t get up

    The media swells outraged at President Trump’s CNN wrestling tweet do not understand the level at which he communicates to his base, primarily out of their disdain for vulgar mass culture, including reality television and pro wrestling.  (...

  • July 5, 2017

    Washington Post blames NoKo missile problem on 'failure' of Trump's 'naive' approach

    There is absolutely no shame left at the Washington Post.  After eight years of the Obama administration standing by as North Korea developed its nuclear missile program, the Post headlines in its "Daily 202" briefing: The Daily 2...

  • July 4, 2017

    Did rock music bring down the Berlin Wall?

    I am old enough to have lived through President Reagan's Berlin demand – "Tear down this wall!" – and the subsequent reunification of Germany.  But oddly enough, the words "Ronald Reagan," "United States,...

  • July 4, 2017

    Trump’s twitter strategy explained

    Keith Koffler of White House Dossier is one of the very few pundits I have seen who sees through the illusion that President Trump’s tweets are the product of an out-of-control adolescent mind housed in the body of a POTUS.  He understands...

  • July 4, 2017

    Global elites celebrate divorce of birth records from biology

    What is it about “gender issues” that drives the media/political elites mad?  The government of Canada handed gender activists the crucial precedent they need. As the BBC reported yesterday: An eight-month old Canadian baby has ...

  • July 3, 2017

    Illinois financial collapse not postponed as State House of Representatives passes first budget in 2 years

    They are moving around the deck chairs on the metaphorical Titanic that is the State of Illinois fiscal regime as it heads straight toward the figurative iceberg known as insolvency.  Even though it is all but guaranteed to never make it into la...

  • July 3, 2017

    Sicilian Mafia reportedly declares war on Muslim refugees overrunning its turf

    Life imitates art, as the underworld rises up against a foreign enemy.  That was the plot of Humphrey Bogart's patriotic 1942 movie All through the Night, in which "Runyonesque Broadway gamblers turn patriotic when they stumble ont...

  • July 3, 2017

    Trump's powerful message of a 'lean' White House cutting staff and saving 'bigly'

    President Trump is setting an example for the rest of the bloated, expensive federal bureaucracy and sending a powerful message to the voters with serious cuts to his own staff and impressive savings for taxpayers.  He has drained his own swamp ...

  • July 3, 2017

    Fascinating archaeological find in Mexico City sheds new light on the roots of the major civilization to our south, the Aztecs

    It is all too easy for Americans to forget about the major civilization that existed on our continent prior to the arrival of Columbus.  The Aztecs, whose capital became Mexico City, had a vast empire based on tribute from conquered peoples. ...

  • July 2, 2017

    School district warns about bible passages offensive to gays and lesbians

    In at least some of Canada’s provinces, religious schools receive public funding for providing the education that government schools also offer. But with public funding comes control, almost inevitably. The UK Express reports:  Corner...

  • July 2, 2017

    Farewell, Heat Street

    We learn with sadness that Heat Street, a conservative-libertarian website that has produced some excellent content, is folding as a stand-alone operation. Buzzfeed reports: News Corp's conservative digital media site Heat Street is folding ...

  • July 1, 2017

    Officials cave in to wacky animal rights activist demand

    In a bizarre marriage of the animal rights movement and the “safe spaces” mentality, public officials caved in and censored a something because it was deemed “insulting” to cattle, who now have been granted a safe space, clean...

  • July 1, 2017

    Illinois Judge halts sugary soda drink tax with temporary restraining order

    Cook County, Illinois was supposed to join the parade of localities (that started in Berkeley, of course) taxing sugary soft drinks today, but thanks to a temporary restraining order issued by Circuit Judge Daniel Kubasiak, shoppers in Chicago and su...

  • July 1, 2017

    CNN and Acosta hoisted on their own petard… and then some

      If you want to read a brainy analysis that literally had me laughing out loud, check out Deplorable Don Surber’s column, brilliantly titled, “Defiant Girl Acosta proves Trump is no tyrant.”  He nails the fantasies of ...

  • June 30, 2017

    Philly's first black DA shocks judge, suddenly pleads guilty during trial, led out of court in handcuffs and off to jail

    Seth Williams had a really good thing in Philadelphia.  A graduate of elite Georgetown University's law school, he was seen as a trailblazer in Philadelphia, the first black district attorney in the city's history.  But then he got ...

  • June 30, 2017

    Maine restaurant workers successfully lobby to reduce their minimum wage

    The logic supporting government-mandated minimum wages just got stood on its head in the Great State of Maine.  As Caitlin Dewey reports for the Washington Post: As the Maine House voted on a bill to reduce the minimum wage f...

  • June 30, 2017

    President Trump is changing the norms that empower his media antagonists

    As usual, President Trump is outraging the political-media establishment, who all assume that his early-morning tweets yesterday zinging the Morning Joe odd couple, "hitting back ten times as hard," as wife Melania once characteri...

  • June 29, 2017

    Former top State Department official provides an excuse for Hillary's loss that is laugh-out-loud ridiculous

    You may never have heard of Wendy Sherman, but the former senior State Department official earned her place in history as North Korea policy coordinator for the Clinton administration, when North Korea's nuclear program was supposedly suspended i...

  • June 29, 2017

    California Dems kill plan to forensically audit Janet Napolitano's $175-million scandal at the University of California

    Janet Napolitano got caught by a state auditor hiding $175 million in discretionary funds in the Office of the President of the University of California, while pleading poverty and asking for tuition hikes.  Even worse, she tried to rig the...

  • June 29, 2017

    New York Times account of Palin's lawsuit keeps digging their hole

    Evidently, they don't know about The Law of Holes at the New York Times: "If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging."  In its news account of the lawsuit, the Times kept digging.  A lawyer friend writes: The piece below ...

  • June 29, 2017

    Mocking CNN at its low point

    When I ponder the fate of my soul, I am given pause in celebrating the misfortunes of my antagonists, aka indulging in schadenfreude.  But then something comes along that is just irresistible, and I have to share it with our readers.  On la...

  • June 28, 2017

    Bernie Sanders blows up, refuses to answer Erin Burnett's question on FBI investigation of wife

    You can see that Bernie Sanders is really angry that his wife Jane is reportedly under FBI investigation over bank fraud, regarding claims she made about donations coming when Burlington College, which she headed, bought a ten-million-dollar lakefron...

  • June 28, 2017

    Sarah Palin sues New York Times for libel over editorial claiming she incited Jared Loughner's mass shooting

      Stand by for some of the most amazing document discovery and depositions ever, as Sarah Palin yesterday filed a complaint alleging that the New York Times libeled her in this editorial.  According to the complaint, the editor...

  • June 28, 2017

    Justice Ginsburg has to choose her historic legacy now

    How is Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a spirited fighter all her life, going to react to the letter from 58 House Republicans who called for her recusal on the forthcoming travel ban case because of her public disparagement of President Trump during th...

  • June 27, 2017

    Why is the Secret Service going so easy on agent who proclaimed she wouldn't take a bullet for Trump?

    The top management of the Secret Service is going surprisingly easy on a senior agent – one with daily managerial leadership responsibilities – who publicly proclaimed on Facebook last October that she would rather face jail time than tak...

  • June 27, 2017

    Jason Riley’s False Black Power published today

    Jason Riley of the Manhattan Institute, whom you may recognize as a frequent panelist on Fox News's Special Report, has written an elegant short book that makes a powerful case on the solution to race relations in the United States.  As...

  • June 27, 2017

    The world is turning to crap for the Democrats

    In the words of a smart Investor's Business Daily editorial, "The worm is starting to turn."  The evidence is all over, though obsessives (a group that seems to include a plurality, if not a majority of Democrats) are known to...

  • June 26, 2017

    Outsourcing the New York Times news

    Amid reports of further massive layoffs of the people who write and edit its news content (109 copy editors gone so far this year), the paper seems to have begun outsourcing production of "news" articles to special interest g...

  • June 26, 2017

    Pride parades disrupted over who is the biggest victim

    Intersectionality turned out to have a downside for the LGBTQ (have I missed any letters?) pride parades over the weekend, as competing demographic groups claimed superior victimhood (or maybe greater pride?). In Chicago, Jew-haters objected to a ...

  • June 26, 2017

    Chuck Todd on MTP does not ask Bernie Sanders about FBI investigation of wife for $10-mil bank fraud

    Chuck Todd occupies a singular position in broadcast journalism: host of the oldest program in the history of American television.  Yesterday, he did something that must have Tim Russert, Lawrence Spivak, and Martha Rountree spinn...

  • June 26, 2017

    Death wish progressives

    There is a strong element of self-loathing among progressives.  Of course, not all of them share this neurosis, but progressivism is built upon the fantasy of building a perfect society that will produce the perfected human, unmotivated by self-...

  • June 26, 2017

    President Trump will call for 'US dominance' in energy as part of 'Energy Week'

    The media will never give President Trump credit for the strategic masterstroke he has orchestrated, robbing power from OPEC, Russia, and Venezuela while enriching the United States and creating countless high-paying jobs.  So he is slated this ...

  • June 25, 2017

    Google discovers that Big Government has its downside

    Google and its parent Alphabet Corporation have played the political correctness game adroitly, not simply “fitting in” but actually help create and sustain the culture of high tech progressivism that dominates the Bay Area and other tech...

  • June 25, 2017

    The Great Unmasking continues: Professor claims Otto Warmbier ‘got exactly what he deserved’

    People often reveal their true character under stress, and face it, progressives as a group are totally stressed out because what passes for the proletariat in 21st century America has handed power to Donald Trump, a man who holds in their political ...

  • June 25, 2017

    Single payer universal health care plan killed in California

    It was an idea too flaky, even for California, but don’t worry, it will be back: a single payer health care plan that would cover everyone who managed to cross the state line, regardless of immigration status or residency, was killed in the sta...

  • June 25, 2017

    MSNBC goes OCD: mentions ‘Russia’ 56 times in one hour program

    Obsession ain’t just the name of a perfume from Calvin Klein. Obsessive compulsive disorder on a mass scale is afflicting the mainstream media. Despite the continuing absence of any evidence that Donald Trump “colluded” with Russia ...

  • June 25, 2017

    Megyn Kelley first loses conservatives, now is losing liberals

    Long knives are unsheathed for Megyn Kelly from both sides of the political spectrum. When she took on then-candidate Trump, she began to lose conservatives, and sealed the deal with her sexual harassment accusations that accompanied her departure fr...

  • June 25, 2017

    Chicago Police unable to control thousand-strong gang party lasting hours

    At last we know why Chicago’s homicide level is so out of control: Gangs, not police control the streets. The gangs know it; the police know it; and now, thanks to DNAinfo.com/Chicago, we know it.  A week ago, Chicago street gangs held a h...

  • June 24, 2017

    GOP health care reform: Maybe it is better to 'fail' than 'succeed'

    I am starting to suspect that wily old Mitch McConnell is a step or two ahead of the game and has absolutely no desire to see the GOP's purported Obamacare "repeal and replace" bill actually pass the Senate.  As is increasingly obv...

  • June 24, 2017

    Bernie and Jane Sanders lawyering up for FBI fraud investigation

    Just when Bernie and Jane Sanders thought they had it made as the icons of the American left, along comes a mean old Republican to spoil it with accusations so serious that the FBI is investigating.  In a long and sympathetic article, Polit...

  • June 24, 2017

    CNN busted trying to send false 'Russia collusion' story down the memory hole

      Anti-Trump madness has seized control at CNN, causing the network to disgrace itself so badly that even progressive outlets are grossed out.  The latest humiliation to the propaganda organ that has replaced the news network came at the...

  • June 23, 2017

    New Oakland Police Commission being created: 'Formerly incarcerated individuals encouraged to apply'

    Here is another great idea from the Golden State.  The City of Oakland created a new civilian Police Commission to second-guess cops, and it excludes cops and former cops but solicits ex-cons to serve on the board, which has the power to enforce...

  • June 23, 2017

    Dems begin to panic as Trump set to transform federal judiciary

    While Democrats obsess over the Russia hacking fantasy and Robert Mueller as Trump's Javert, President Trump, the Federalist Society, and Senator Chuck Grassley are on the way to making the federal judiciary great again.  The Huffington...

  • June 23, 2017

    Face it: Democrats are way up a creek and can't remember where they left the paddle

    The stars seem to be aligning badly for the Democrats ever since the awful night of November 8, 2016, when it was the illusion of inevitable demographic triumph, not a fancied glass ceiling, that was shattered. The Russian collusion gambit is...

  • June 21, 2017

    At last: A usable definition of 'privilege'

    My hat is off to Daniel Greenfield, the Shillman journalism fellow at the Freedom Center, for absolutely nailing what "privilege" really means.  At Frontpagemag.com, he writes: If you want to know who has privilege in a socie...

  • June 20, 2017

    Moby cartoon video corrupting children into hatred and accepting violence against President Trump

    Trump Derangement Syndrome keeps plumbing the depths of corruption of the soul.  Extreme hatred and utopianism are a lethal combination, as tens of millions of unmarked graves of the former USSR, China, and Cambodia among many others signify. ...

  • June 20, 2017

    Democracies die in assassinations, sometimes

    I am haunted by the death of democracy in 1930s Japan, as America faces an escalating wave of exhortations toward violence from the progressives that dominate our institutions of culture.  In the run-up to World War II, fanatics organized a wave...

  • June 19, 2017

    Congress may override DC gun laws to allow itself full self-defense

    The attempted mass political assassination of GOP congressmen last week has, to paraphrase Doctor Johnson, concentrated the solons' minds wonderfully when it comes to the right of self-defense.  Washington, D.C. has some of the most draconia...

  • June 19, 2017

    Bill O'Reilly: 'I am starting my own operation'

    Fox News may find its spurned superstar grabbing audience away from the once dominant news operation it is attempting to return to its former glory.  Bill O'Reilly has told an audience at his "Spin Stops Here" tour that he already ...

  • June 19, 2017

    More fishiness in the ramming of USS Fitzgerald

    The ramming of the USS Fitzgerald – still being misreported as a "collision" – is shrouded in puzzling behavior.  This is an accident (if indeed it was unintentional) that should not have been possible.  Now ...

  • June 19, 2017

    Leftists unwittingly propose the perfect government monument to Obama

    So far, America's First Black President has not had a lot of stuff named after him, although some of his biggest fans are pushing the idea of naming Chicago's Midway Airport after him, thereby dishonoring the heroic Navy veterans wh...

  • June 18, 2017

    No jail time for black hate crime hoaxers in Albany

    The outcome of a trial in Albany, New York this week is an omen of more fake hate crime hoaxes to come. Two black students that were convicted of a fake report of a racial hate crime to police – to cover up their own misbehavior -- and will get...

  • June 18, 2017

    Jihad meets Antifa as mob of 100 masked ‘migrant youth’ in Sweden attack police with sticks and bats

    Berkeley or Trollhatten, Sweden? You can’t tell the players without a program. Breitbart reports that Antifa tactics are popping up among jihadi youth in Sweden. Swedish police in the city of Trollhattan were attacked by up to a hundr...

  • June 18, 2017

    Illinois taxpayers fund golden parachute for university president resigning amid scandal investigation

    Higher education is a huge industry, and because it clothes itself in virtue, scandals tend to be hushed up with generous doses of Other People’s Money. Can’t have donors and taxpayers learn that executives in this trillion dollar industr...

  • June 18, 2017

    Something is fishy about USS Fitzgerald story we are getting from the media

    See also: More fishiness in the ramming of USS Fitzgerald Under no circumstances should a U.S. Navy vessel possibly be damaged by a container ship at sea.  Multiple systems exist to prevent this.  Even CNN is noticing how littl...

  • June 17, 2017

    Labor Party head Jeremy Corbyn wants to seize houses of rich people to house Grenfell Tower survivors

    The man who nearly become the next prime minister of the United Kingdom would seize the homes of wealthy neighbors to house the survivors of the public housing fire in Grenfell Tower were he in power.  James Tapsfield reports in the U.K. Da...

  • June 16, 2017

    Green deathtraps: energy-saving renovation blamed for horrific Grenfell Tower fire in London

    In the wake of the ghastly conflagration that engulfed a recently renovated 24-story apartment tower in London, the world is waking up to the dire threat created by energy-saving green zealots.  It turns out that nobody much worried about the fi...

  • June 16, 2017

    Sorry, Dr. Krauthammer: The problem is on the left

    There are few political commentators who come up to the level of Dr. Charles Krauthammer, but yesterday he managed to say something very intelligent, reasonable, superficially correct, and wrong-headed.  In his appearance on Special Report...

  • June 15, 2017

    New York Times publishes despicable lies to soften its own culpability for left-wing violence

    What's a newspaper to do when it ostentatiously refuses to cut funding for a high-profile play in Central Park depicting an obvious President Trump-themed Julius Caesar being assassinated, and then a left-wing extremist attempts to assassinate a ...

  • June 14, 2017

    Cambridge University warns against 'sexist' terms like 'genius' and 'brilliance'

    Evidently, one of the dons at Cambridge University thinks women can't cut it when it comes to extraordinary feats of intellect.  Naturally, she is part of the gender industrial complex.  The U.K. Independent reports: Camb...

  • June 14, 2017

    Update: GOP congressman shot

    Roughly two hours before this blog is being written, a gunman fired a reported 50 rounds or more at a group of GOP members of Congress practicing for a charity baseball game.  Representative Steve Scalise (R-La.), the majority whip (number three...

  • June 14, 2017

    Bernie fan narrowly thwarted in attempt to mow down GOP Congressional baseball team

    A gunman now identified as James Hodgkinson attempted a massacre of members of the GOP Congressional Baseball Team, practicing for a planned charity game against the Congressional Democrats Thursday night. The only reason the entire contingent of rep...

  • June 13, 2017

    Mueller staffs up to pursue obstruction of justice

    "Personnel is policy" is an old truism that applies to the staffing decisions of Special Counsel Robert Mueller.  Jonathan Turley, an esteemed constitutional scholar who is an honest liberal, examines a telling hire, Mic...

  • June 12, 2017

    Bill O’Reilly promises 'stunning' information about his firing by Fox News as litigation likely

    Speaking via Skype with Newsmax TV last week, Bill O'Reilly revealed that he has plans to fight back against those who brought him down.  Clearly foreshadowing litigation but claiming that his attorneys have implored him to offer no informat...

  • June 12, 2017

    Cultural grandees called out over Trump assassination shoehorned into Shakespeare

    Trump Derangement Syndrome, the corrosive and obsessive anger felt by progressives enraged over the electorate's decision last November, has claimed another victim.  Shakespeare in the Park, formerly a bulletproof philanthropy enabling New Y...

  • June 12, 2017

    Democrats' long knives for Hillary starting to be unsheathed

    The Clinton Machine's rivals have had enough of its fundraising hogging and manipulative, conspiratorial ways.  There are signs that a vendetta may be developing within the Democratic Party over the candidate's and the Machine's desp...

  • June 11, 2017

    A vast conspiracy of silence kept the ‘Russia collusion’ story alive

    American democracy has been corrupted, and if not cured, the disease will be fatal.  There is no other conclusion to be drawn when the public is deceived  on the scale that was revealed (but ignored) by James Comey.  The stunning truth...

  • June 11, 2017

    Science fights back against the global warming fraud

    It has taken far too long, but the self-correcting mechanisms of science finally are contradicting the global warming fraud. Despite billions of dollars of grants for those who support the so-called “consensus” (itself, a lie), and the fe...

  • June 10, 2017

    Media ignore another Trump diplomatic triumph yesterday

    President Trump is delivering on his promise to end the role of America as "Uncle Sugar" for its allies, bearing the major burden of collective defense.  American taxpayers and American military personnel have ponied up money and lives...

  • June 10, 2017

    Why is Trump teasing Comey (and us) about taping his conversations?

    There is almost universal bewilderment over President Trump raising the possibility that his conversations with James Comey were captured by a recording system he had installed in the White House.  Memories immediately turn to the experience of ...

  • June 10, 2017

    Canada's bizarre celebration

    The truth of P.J. O'Rouke's famous analogy has never been clearer: "Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys."  Government bureaucrats in Canada's dominant province of Ontario...

  • June 8, 2017

    Two kosher restaurants in Manchester firebombed

    Slow-motion ethnic cleansing of Jews is underway in Manchester, escaping much notice by the outside world in the wake of the slaughter at the Ariana Grande concert.  Anti-Semitism UK is the source for this report on the culinary terrorism u...

  • June 8, 2017

    Obama’s State Department covered up Iranian cyber-attack during nuke deal negotiations

    Our media devote most of their attention to a phony story of Trump collusion with a rival, while actual collusion (by silence) between the Obama administration and an actual enemy, Iran, is largely ignored. The entire media establishment is having...

  • June 8, 2017

    Andrew McCarthy demolishes the argument that Trump obstructed justice, or even did anything wrong, in dinner talk with Comey

    In his trademark well informed and lucid style, former federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy took just over four minutes to explain to Tucker Carlson's viewers why President Trump's dinner conversation with James Comey, bandied about as "ob...

  • June 8, 2017

    Guess who got busted for ‘fake news’

    A wealthy and well established radical group learned the hard way that fake videos can backfire when media friends resent being roped into a deception.  But in an era of extreme media politicization, such integrity might be hard to find if Trump...

  • June 8, 2017

    Comey speaks! (a live blog)

    Senator Warner’s welcome to Comey was more like a prosecutor’s opening statement than a greeting.  Pure propaganda exploiting the big TV audience. Comey's opening statement: - “Shifting explanations” caused him ...

  • June 7, 2017

    London mayor Sadiq Khan accidentally reveals Trump's criticisms of his statement were correct

    President Trump has come in for a lot of criticism, from both friends and enemies, for tweeting out a challenge to London Mayor Sadiq Khan over his comments after the London Bridge terror attack: "My message to Londoners and visitors to our...

  • June 7, 2017

    Government bureaucrats now have the power to take children away from their parents if they oppose non-biological 'gender identity'

    It seems like something out of a dystopian novel written by a conservative Christian, but it is actually happening.  A child decides to play at being the opposite sex, but the parents object, perhaps on religious grounds.  In the Canadian p...

  • June 6, 2017

    Leaker named Reality confirms NSA report that Russia attempted actual election hack

    A gift has arrived for the left, which has been salivating for evidence that confirms its belief that Donald Trump's election was illegitimate because Vladimir Putin corrupted our voting.  Trump is Putin's puppet, you see. Cue the hys...

  • June 5, 2017

    Busted: NBC withdraws fake news report that Putin 'does not deny having compromising information on President Trump'

    In all the excitement over promoting the debut of Megyn Kelly's Sunday night program opposite 60 Minutes, NBC indulged in a fake news Russia conspiracy fantasy and got busted.  Taking to Twitter, the Comcast-owned network hyped an ...

  • June 5, 2017

    Watch fake news created by CNN to confirm narrative of 'good Muslims'

    Whenever Muslims act out the violence against infidels that Islamic scripture requires, the left-wing media swing into action to create and reinforce a contrasting narrative: that most Muslims condemn and fight such attacks.  Never mind that the...

  • June 4, 2017

    London terror attackers: CNN baffled on the motives

    The mandatory media blindness toward Islam as a motive for terror attacks would be comic, if the propaganda were not so effective in a world full of low information voters. There is only one major religion in the world today whose adherents, by the h...

  • June 4, 2017

    CNN host calls President Trump a ‘piece of s**t’

    Will CNN treat this outrageous verbal assault as seriously as it treated Kathy Griffin’s outrageous visual assault on a sitting President of the United States? Matthew Wright of the UK Daily Mail reports on a new low for mainstream media commen...

  • June 4, 2017

    Washington Post telegraphs the coming targets of the Left

    Jared Kushner is the latest member of the Trump team to experience a full-blown demonization campaign, but there are already signs that others are in line for the same sort of treatment.  Part of the strategy in destroying the Trump insurgency i...

  • June 3, 2017

    Legislator introduces bill to cut state funding and privatize Evergreen State University

    Evergreen State University in Olympia, Washington has emerged as ground zero for physical intimidation and neo-segregation as leftists exercise totalitarian control.  As most readers already know, when a leftist professor, Bret Weinstein, object...

  • June 3, 2017

    Harvard historian beclowns self over Paris Climate Accord

    Donald Trump's presidency has already caused a wave of self-destructive behavior to be born of blind fury.  Kathy Griffin is the most public example of this, but she is far from alone in allowing her anger at Trump to cause her to lose sight...

  • June 3, 2017

    Germany’s car industry association officially confirms the truth of President Trump's reasons for withdrawal from Paris Climate Accord

    President Trump complained that the "unfair" terms of the Paris Climate Accord made it difficult for American manufacturers to compete globally.  Protecting and expanding those jobs was the primary reason offered for his withdrawal. ...

  • June 2, 2017

    Sean Hannity calls Joe Scarborough an 'arrogant, pompous jackass' who has 'begged for jobs at Fox'

    A major feud has broken out between MSNBC's Joe Scarborough and Fox News's Sean Hannity.  Last night, it got very, very personal. The two cable news hosts have been sniping at each other for months: In February, the Fox News ...

  • June 2, 2017

    Kathy Griffin claims she is victim of ‘bullying’

    As I predicted Wednesday morning, Kathy Griffin is going for martyr status in her efforts to salvage her career.  The U.K. Daily Mail reports: Kathy Griffin's attorney has scheduled a Friday press conference to give ...

  • June 1, 2017

    Hillary meets Einstein's definition of insanity

    Albert Einstein famously defined insanity as trying the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.  Hillary Clinton's attempts to blame everyone but herself for her defeat last November are not working, and in fact are ...

  • June 1, 2017

    Trump pulls out of Paris Accord on ‘America First’ grounds

    In an afternoon Rose Garden speech, President Trump announced that the US is pulling out of the Paris Climate Accord for strategically defensible reasons: because it is a bad deal for America.  He left unchallenged the premise of carbon dioxide ...

  • May 31, 2017

    Lefties now demanding statue of Sam Houston be removed from Houston Park

    Removing four New Orleans statues commemorating Confederate leaders was only the beginning of the campaign to rewrite American history.  In the much larger City of Houston, antifa activists are demanding the removal of a statue of that city'...

  • May 31, 2017

    Kathy Griffin apologies for a joke that didn't work

    The video apology that Kathy Griffin has issued for posing with a bloody decapitated head representing the president of the United States is almost clinical in its professional detachment. As far as she is concerned, it was simply a joke that went...

  • May 30, 2017

    More bad news for warmists: NASA finds no retreat of polar ice

    This post has been withdrawn, for the article on Forbes that it cited has been withdrawn by that publication. According to NASA: Greenland’s ice sheet is the second largest mass of ice on Earth, containing enough water to raise ocean leve...

  • May 30, 2017

    Influential lefty journo admits 'internal sickness' of Dems

    Matt Taibbi has carved out a position as a provocative and honest progressive journalist, as well as a vivid and entertaining writer.  Writing at Rolling Stone, he enhances that reputation by being bluntly honest (from his perspective) abou...

  • May 29, 2017

    Mad Max Waters: ‘American public is getting weary’ that Trump not impeached yet

    The impeachment fever that has gripped Maxine Waters and most of the left wing of the Democratic Party shows no signs of breaking.  If anything, like a child in a tantrum, the demands are escalating as frustration mounts, and the only solution i...

  • May 28, 2017

    MSNBC terrorism analyst: ‘Maybe Kushner planned to send nuclear codes to Russia’

    Media frenzy over Jared Kushner talking to someone in Russia has reached absurd levels. The most heinous products of a hateful imagination are now being offered to the nation’s public as “news” and “analysis.” Based on n...

  • May 28, 2017

    Bad news for Warmists: North Pole ice cap the same thickness as 1940

    The apocalyptic religion of global warming/climate change stumbled upon the best animal mascot nag since Smokey the Bear when someone snapped a photo of a polar bear on an ice floe. Of course, polar bears are great swimmers, so the notion that a poor...

  • May 28, 2017

    Least surprising academic study of 2017: physically weak men tend to be socialists

    Face it: losers like socialism because it allows them access to money and goods that they would not be able to acquire through their own powers.  So it should surprise nobody that an academic study finds that poor upper body strength in males co...

  • May 28, 2017

    The stupidest thing Nancy Pelosi has ever said?

    I realize that there is a lot of competition for the crown, but Nancy Pelosi late this week uttered what has to be the stupidest critique of President Trump’s triumphant overseas trip. Keep in mind that in her entire political career, the most ...

  • May 27, 2017

    Trump targets food stamps

    The level of fraud in the food stamp program (officially the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP) is so high that it amounts to a moral cancer on the civic body.  Millions – probably in the tens of millions – of people...

  • May 27, 2017

    Spengler lays out the deeper forces at play in Trump's visit to the Western Wall

    Writing as Spengler, the wise analyst of civilizational conflict, David P. Goldman, offers a provocative interpretation of the Manchester Arena massacre: that it was timed as a response to President Trump visiting, touching, and leaving a prayer at t...

  • May 26, 2017

    Cop carnage in the wake of new limits on police use of force

    When Chicago's police superintendent, Eddie Johnson, announced new regulations on the use of deadly force May 17, it was widely applauded as a step forward for a department under siege.  The New York Times reported: Chica...

  • May 26, 2017

    ‘Intense backlash’ proves the truth of Ben Carson: poverty ‘a state of mind’

    A vast poverty industry employs and distributes wealth to a huge political constituency dependent on massive federal appropriations.  Any suggestion that money is not the solution to the persistence of poverty is anathema and must be harshly ost...

  • May 26, 2017

    Berkeley Police arrest ‘professor’ as alleged antifa bike lock attacker

    The violent antifa protesters in Berkeley expected that masks and disguises they wore would protect them from apprehension – for example, the stocking cap and sunglasses worn by the man videotaped assaulting the head of a pro-Trump demonstrator...

  • May 25, 2017

    Whistleblower reveals Obama admin knowingly admitted and settled at least 16 MS-13 gang members

    What could possibly go wrong?  Stephen Dinan reports in the Washington Times: The Obama administration knowingly let in at least 16 admitted MS-13 gang members who arrived at the U.S. as illegal immigrant teenagers in 2014, a top senat...

  • May 25, 2017

    Democrats look idiotic with over-the-top rhetoric on Trump budget

    Did you know that Donald Trump is planning to kill a million innocent Africans?  Or that his budget would inflict "an unimaginable level of cruelty" on Americans unless Democrats stop him?  Yes, it is time for Democrats to ro...

  • May 24, 2017

    Trump triumphs over terrorists in battle of brands

    When President Trump responded to the Manchester terrorists by calling them "evil losers," he predictably set off a wave of mockery on the left.  That's a given.  But on the respectable left, Uri Friedman of The...

  • May 23, 2017

    Democratic Party fundraising crashes and burns

    Gee, reading the media, I was under the impression that Democrats are fired up, energized by the sheer awfulness of Donald Trump.  All those women marching in funny hats, all the anger, all that negative media coverage must assuredly m...

  • May 22, 2017

    CNN host cracks the whip, rebukes Bob Schieffer for ‘normalizing’ President Trump

    The heads of media Trump-haters are quietly imploding as their bête noire is executing a diplomatic triumph in the Middle East.  The fanatics among them are lashing out at colleagues who dare to deviate from the Party Line that Trump is st...

  • May 22, 2017

    Report: Brit Special Forces sniper takes out ISIS sniper 1.5 miles away

    Imagine firing a gun and taking out a sniper so far away that the bullet takes three seconds to arrive, traveling at supersonic speed.  With one shot!  An unnamed British SAS Special Forces sniper is reported to have done just that. The ...

  • May 22, 2017

    CNN’s Jake Tapper wonders why Trump more warmly received in Saudi Arabia when Obama's father was a Muslim

    Somebody please explain to Jake Tapper about Arabs and the "strong horse."  Osama bin Laden explained it pretty economically years ago, but that's a message that is difficult for liberals living in a fantasy world to grasp.  A...

  • May 22, 2017

    Guess who is warning the Democrats' base to back off on Russia!

    OK, gang, time to move along – other stuff is more important.  That's the logical strategy for the Democratic Party leadership to signal the base that the Russia conspiracy narrative has served its purpose and belongs in the Memory Hol...

  • May 21, 2017

    At Calif state Dem convention, chairman leads crowd in chant, ‘F#*@k Trump,’ with extended middle fingers

    Trump Derangement Syndrome strikes again, as California Democrats brought a level of mass vulgarity to their state convention.  Jonathan J. Cooper of the Associated Press used rather delicate language to describe the unprecedented loss of basic ...

  • May 21, 2017

    Dem insiders now worried about dashing the scandal expectations of their base

    When Hillary Clinton dreamed up the excuse of blaming the Russians for her defeat, as the book Shattered reports she did within 48 hours, it must have seemed like a good idea. And for the last half-year, the accusations have proven popular with the b...

  • May 21, 2017

    Bob Beckel fired by Fox News (again)

    More turmoil at the Fox News Channel, as Bob Beckel, a cast member of the prime time program The Five, has been fired in a scandal with shocking racial overtones. Dave Bauder of the Associated Press reports:  Fox News Channel said Friday th...

  • May 21, 2017

    UCLA ‘Afrikan Student Union’ demands a building plus $40 million

    A demand for $40 million normally is the stuff of thriller movies, with British-accented villain threatening to blow up stuff or kill the governor’s daughter or some similar unspeakable horror. Supervillain territory.  But the demand of th...

  • May 20, 2017

    Media deploying polling as anti-Trump campaign continues

    The effort to overturn the results of the 2016 presidential election continues.  The strategy now seems to be to panic GOP members of Congress into believing that they will go down in flames if they even hint at support for President Trump in th...

  • May 20, 2017

    Rahm's latest plan to stave off Chicago financial collapse under fire – from Dems

    Chicago and the State of Illinois are lurching toward insolvency, burdened by enormous pension liabilities, political payoffs from past generations that kept the Democrat Machine in power for generations.  Rahm Emanuel knows this and is doing hi...

  • May 20, 2017

    Saudi royals signal the real magnitude of the deal they made with Trump

    President Trump's spectacular reception in Riyadh is a signal to the world (and to Saudi subjects, in particular) that big changes are coming.  Elderly and frail King Salman ventured out onto the apron in 110-degree heat and actually shook M...

  • May 19, 2017

    Democrats start to worry they are out on a limb with Russia conspiracy theories, and Mueller has a saw

    The appointment of Robert Mueller as special counsel to investigate the wild charges of Russian interference in the 2016 election has turned the tables on the conspiracy theorists.  Some are even acknowledging the total lack of evidence behind t...

  • May 18, 2017

    Soros scores a triumph in Philadelphia

    George Soros made a big addition to his collection of district attorneys dedicated to "reshaping the justice system," code words for racialist practices that hamstring police and leave demographically favored miscreants unpunished.  Ev...

  • May 18, 2017

    Yale dean keeps job after superficial apology for online disparagement of ‘white trash’

    Is there any racial group other than Caucasians that could be openly disparaged by an Ivy League dean without the dean being fired?  An astonishing drama is playing out at Yale University, where a diversicrat dean, June Chu, Ph.D., caused an upr...

  • May 17, 2017

    Comey’s conundrum

    Mr. Smartypants may have outsmarted himself.  James Comey has painted himself into a corner by indirectly leaking a memorandum to the New York Times (a person who read the memorandum shared excerpts from it to reporter Michael Schmitt)...

  • May 17, 2017

    Democrats and media are engineering an era of political violence

    By constantly whipping up hysteria over imagined misconduct (remember the phony story, thoroughly debunked under oath, that President Trump fired James Comey after he requested more resources for the Russia investigation?), the media and th...

  • May 16, 2017

    Powerful advances in abortion reversal will leave the left apoplectic

    In the last month, there have been two new important studies on abortion pill reversal (APR) – the use of progesterone to reverse the effects of mifepristone (Mifeprex), or RU-486.  An American Thinker article last year described...

  • May 16, 2017

    Obama pats himself on the back for showing ‘the most courage’

    Barack Obama is constructing his own heroic narrative and is testing it out with members of the family that has created the greatest mythology in the history of American politics.  And he is staking his claim to courage on his utter failure...

  • May 16, 2017

    WaPo's latest 'Get Trump' article reveals Deep State methods to sabotage his presidency

    Once again, the mainstream media exploded yesterday with breathless tales of purported incompetence, or worse, treasonous betrayal of our deepest intelligence secrets to the Russians.  Suddenly, the Kremlin has become the bad guy for Progressive...

  • May 16, 2017

    Anti-jihad crusader Robert Spencer poisoned in Iceland

      Political violence by leftists is on the rise – not only in the United States, but in Iceland as well, it appears.  Robert Spencer, who has devoted his life to combating the global jihad, was poisoned by a political antagonist, i...

  • May 15, 2017

    AP reports on a ‘sort of boomlet’ due to Trump’s approval of pipeline

    President Trump's leadership already is making one part of America great again: North Dakota.  The Trump administration's timely approval of the Dakota Access Pipeline already is providing a shot of adrenalin to the North Dakota economy....

  • May 15, 2017

    North Korea claims successful launch of nuclear warhead-capable missile

    Tick...tick...tick...  North Korea is a step closer to having an intercontinental ballistic missile capable of delivering a nuclear attack on American cities, a weapon it may well use, or sell to Iran, a nation that sees Armageddon as a religiou...

  • May 15, 2017

    Why Trump must keep his promise to move US embassy to Jerusalem during his visit to Israel next week

    President Trump boldly promised to move the U.S. embassy to Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem during his presidential campaign, a move that has been promised and abandoned many times before.  Swamp-dwellers in Foggy Bottom think they know...

  • May 15, 2017

    Progressives openly signaling the arrival of political violence as a tactic to obtain power

    The message is being sent out loud and clear: the American left is moving toward violence as a tactic in its quest to grab the political power to which it believes it is entitled.  John Daniel Davidson is absolutely correct in his observati...

  • May 14, 2017

    Class conflict was at the heart of the Trump victory

    Hillary Clinton’s blindness to issues of class conflict handed victory to her hated opponent. She and her partisans never saw it coming. Conservatives generally shy away from using the category of “class” in our political analyse...

  • May 14, 2017

    One issue where the elite culture’s indoctrination efforts have failed

    Progressives were able to sell same sex marriage, but they have reached a Rubicon of sorts.  The dominance of progressives in the academy, culture, and media has ensured that all sorts of new and radical ideas could be sold to the broader public...

  • May 14, 2017

    Trump: ‘In America, we don’t worship government; we worship God’

    In his first commencement address as president, Donald Trump coined an expression deeply rooted in American tradition and practice, and guaranteed to annoy progressives.  “In America, we don’t worship government; we worship God,...

  • May 13, 2017

    Media outrage over Comey firing flops with the public

    My friend Mark J. Fitzgibbons calls the media coverage of the Comey firing a "classic case of those whom the gods destroy they first make mad. The D.C. bubble is unhinged over Comey.  But it's no big deal for many Americans." Th...

  • May 13, 2017

    Fox News Channel ratings are collapsing

    The tectonic plates of cable news ratings are shifting, as Fox News struggles to recover from sexual harassment scandals and the departure of its most popular host, Bill O'Reilly.  As the de facto champion of conservative views in the mass m...

  • May 12, 2017

    Laptops and aviation security may no longer mix

    It looks as if laptop computers and tablet devices may be the Achilles heel of commercial aviation anti-terrorism efforts.  Business travelers need their computers while in flight, especially on those intercontinental flights that can ...

  • May 12, 2017

    Has the University of California finally learned about folly of appeasement?

    When Chancellor George Blumenthal of the University of California, Santa Cruz abjectly surrendered to all the demands of black students who had taken over Kerr Hall, the university's administration building, he foolishly set the stage f...

  • May 12, 2017

    Bangladesh PM confirms that SecState Hillary pressured her to benefit Clinton Foundation donor

    The giant evidence-free smokescreen about Russia supposedly colluding with Donald Trump is doing its job masking genuine scandals.  So far, but not for much longer.  A foreign head of government reportedly has confirmed that Hillary Clinton...

  • May 12, 2017

    Russian hacker claims FBI offered him citizenship and a new life if he would confess to hacking Podesta emails on behalf of Putin and Trump

    According to a report in Newsweek by Tom O’Connor, a Russian hacker who had been detained in Prague at the request of US authorities, was visited multiple times by FBI agents, who pressed him to confess to hacking the Podesta emails at the behe...

  • May 12, 2017

    Michael Barone: Comey is a victim of the Clintons

    Michael Barone is one of the sharpest and best-informed observers of American politics. So when he offers a judgment, I take a good look at it. At Townhall, he posits that James Comey is yet another “victim” of the Clintons, set up by Lor...

  • May 10, 2017

    Trump goads his critics into incoherent rage with Comey firing

    Chris Matthews of MSNBC apparently sees the Trump administration as a bizarre hybrid of a “strongman... like Mobutu Sese Seko,” and the Romanov Dynasty, with a “whiff of fascism” for added complexity.    No, I am ...

  • May 9, 2017

    Sinclair’s high-stakes gamble to reshape television news

    Beleaguered conservatives reeling from the turmoil at Fox News have at least a glimmer of hope that a second national conservative news outlet could result from a huge merger announced yesterday.  Sinclair Broadcast Group, owners of 173 ter...

  • May 9, 2017

    ‘Settled science’ on salt may be completely wrong, says New York Times

    Somebody tell Michael Bloomberg that his obsession over limiting salt consumption may be doing more harm than good.  Actually, he probably just read about it at his breakfast table in the New York Times (while eating a low-sodium break...

  • May 8, 2017

    Palestinian terrorist on ‘hunger strike’ busted as Israel releases video of him eating cookies

    Marwan Barghouti is a genuine terrorist, but he is a phony hunger striker, and he has been outed by video released by his Israeli captors.  Haaretz reports: Israel Prison Service released footage of Marwan Barghouti, one of the le...

  • May 8, 2017

    American media hiding socialism’s devastation of Venezuela

    If you want a simple test to determine if a news source is in the fake news business, examine what it writes about Venezuela.  If it writes about the mass starvation, riots, and shortages with no mention of socialism's role in the disaster, ...

  • May 8, 2017

    Why Hillary can’t win

    Hillary Clinton's inability to honestly assess her 2016 election loss is turning slightly comic.  And she will be the last to know.  She has fallen into a trap of her own devising, feigning an honest self-assessment in public. Salena...

  • May 7, 2017

    Dems’ extreme rhetoric on Obamacare repeal already backfiring on them

    Democrats went nuts over the passage of the House of Representatives’ version of Obamacare repeal and replace legislation, and now their insanity is harming their base. It has long been a practice of Democrats to impugn the motives of Republica...

  • May 6, 2017

    Frontiers of the welfare state: Free use of electric cars for public housing tenants

    Now that health care is a "right," statists are anxious to pioneer new ways to take money from productive citizens and give it to people who didn't earn it, but want to spend it.  The pattern is familiar by now: Ide...

  • May 6, 2017

    Jesse Watters the object of a struggle between Fox News and Bill O’Reilly

    It was inevitable that following the divorce between Fox News and Bill O'Reilly, a custody battle would break out over Jesse Watters.  For years, fans of the network and O'Reilly have watched as the older veteran mentored a young up...

  • May 5, 2017

    Another day, another capitulation to the threat of force on a University of California campus

    It's so normal now for universities to surrender when confronted with the fear of force coming from the left that what follows is only local story on Channel 8 in Salinas: Students protesting what they believe is a "hostile climate...

  • May 4, 2017

    Clichés abound as design for Obama presidential library unveiled in Chicago

    It was always a given that Barack Obama would end up with a monument, no matter how much chaos he sowed in his two terms as president.  A presidential library and museum became the participation trophy of American presidencies in the middle of t...

  • May 4, 2017

    New bio claims Obama dumped girl he asked to marry him because politically awkward that she wasn’t black

    People do foolish stuff when they're young, especially if love (and sex) is involved.  That said, when the foolishness includes craven political calculation overriding the messages of the heart, well, that's an indication that basic char...

  • May 4, 2017

    If you don't depend on the government, you're an 'elite'!

    A leading progressive black scholar has advanced a new theory of elites.  This is the startling claim from MSNBC contributor Jason Johnson: You want to talk a elitism right? ... You're an elite if you don't have to depend ...

  • May 3, 2017

    Chinese delegation disrupts international meeting, humiliates Australia’s foreign minister

    A cascading tirade of abuse, privately labeled by Australian participants as "disgusting" and "extraordinary," disrupted an international meeting of governments in Perth, Australia.  The specific issue at hand was the detaile...

  • May 3, 2017

    Janet Napolitano is sorry she got caught trying to rig a state audit

    In a contentious four-and-a-half-hour legislative hearing yesterday in Sacramento, Janet Napolitano, president of the University of California, made a pro forma apology for conduct that should have gotten her fired.  She tried to rig an independ...

  • May 1, 2017

    Hungary’s new border wall is working spectacularly well

    Nearly everyone (except for the victorious coalition that elected President Trump) agrees that a border wall will not work in stopping illegal entry to our country.  But an empirical experiment has ju...

  • April 30, 2017

    Catholic psychiatric hospitals in Belgium ‘adjust’ their view of euthanasia

    Elements in the Catholic Church apparently have entered a new era of flexibility on doctrines that once stood as seemingly permanent protections for the sanctity of life. Michael Cook reports in Bioedge: One of the last substantial barriers to i...

  • April 30, 2017

    ‘We are not fake news,’ claims president of White House Correspondents Association

    Richard Nixon’s famous claim, “I am not a crook,” now has fitting company in the realm of immortal, unconvincing denials. At last night’s White House Correspondents Association Dinner, the president of that body, Jeff Mason, t...

  • April 30, 2017

    How Trump turned media’s hatred of him into an asset

    Last night’s White House Correspondents Association Dinner may have marked the end of an era.  The plaintive claim of the president of the group, “We are not fake news,” revealed the sadness and fear that underlie the mainstrea...

  • April 30, 2017

    How the American left has devolved from a political movement into a cult

    Progressivism has always been a quasi-religious faith, whose doctrines center on the perfectibility of man if only the educated classes (its very own priesthood) are able to command sufficient authority.   Marxism, too, is a faith, one that d...

  • April 29, 2017

    Department of Labor ends outrageous rule permitting union trespassing at non-union job sites

    Elections have consequences, as President Obama used to enjoy saying.  Under President Obama, the Department of Labor in 2013 allowed a serious abuse of OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration) workplace inspections, turning them int...

  • April 29, 2017

    Yet another miraculous Israeli medical innovation BDSers must pledge never to use

    Israel rapidly is becoming too valuable to the world to "wipe off the map," in the words of the Iranian mullahs.  And for members of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement, which seeks to strangle the Jewish State with e...

  • April 29, 2017

    Really awful news for Dem senator up for re-election next year

    The midterm election next year holds the potential for the Republican Party to expand its slender two-vote majority in the Senate, despite the historical pattern of such elections punishing the party holding the White House.  With 25 Democrat se...

  • April 29, 2017

    Yale College Republicans trolling phony ‘hunger strikers’

    As a sophisticated and clever blogger reminds us, "Alinksy works for us now."  The self-righteousness of the left has created irresistible opportunities for conservatives to apply Alinksy's Rule #5: "Ridicu...

  • April 28, 2017

    Higher education shakeup looms as Purdue acquires for-profit Kaplan University

    The higher education industry is overdue for a shakeout.  For decades, it has pushed up tuition at three times the rate of inflation and increasingly relied on students indenturing their futures with huge debts that cannot be discharged in bankr...

  • April 28, 2017

    President of Austria: ‘The day will come that we must ask all women to wear a headscarf’

    Last December, the citizens of Austria elected as president left-winger Alexander Van Der Bellen, and now they are reaping the consequences.  Instead of Muslim immigrants assimilating into Austrian society, he wants Austria to adapt Muslim ways....

  • April 28, 2017

    Yale graduate students threaten ‘symbolic hunger strike’ where they eat only when hungry

    More evidence accumulates that higher education has drifted off into its own universe, utterly detached from common sense and the society and polity upon which it depends for survival. Alex Griswold reports in the Free Beacon: A group of...

  • April 27, 2017

    Trump tax plan goes for growth

    After President Obama's two terms of anemic economic growth and huge federal deficits, there is a lot of room for growth in the American economy.  Targeting "seed corn taxes" that obstruct investment is the smart way to spike growt...

  • April 26, 2017

    State audit slams Janet Napolitano’s office of University of California president

    Janet Napolitano, President of the University of California, is not only missing in action as her premier campus is embroiled in a free speech crisis and threatened mob violence, she has run an operation that just received a scathing audit. Patrick M...

  • April 25, 2017

    Anzac Day is one hundred years old today

    Today is the most solemn day of the year for our antipodean allies, Australia and New Zealand.  In a binational holiday, the two nations commemorate an event that happened one hundred years ago today.  The Australia and New Zealand Army Cor...

  • April 25, 2017

    Black students at Pomona College demand hiring of sociologist be rescinded because she is white

    According to the ethos of black students at Pomona College, one of the nation’s most competitive (and expensive) small liberal arts colleges, white people cannot legitimately study and write about black criminals. Tony Airaksinen of Campus Refo...

  • April 24, 2017

    NY Times public editor lets slip the awful truth

    Liz Spayd, the current public editor of the New York Times, ran a column Sunday over the internal kerfuffle over the hiring of Bret Stephens from the Wall Street Journal to join their stable of op-ed columnists.  While the controversy ...

  • April 24, 2017

    Emmanuel Macron, the French establishment’s version of an outsider

    I make no claim to expertise on French domestic politics, but this rookie 39-year-old Emmanuel Macron, supposedly a shoe-in for president of France because his run-off opponent, Marine Le Pen, is sooooo scary, looks as if he was found in a casti...

  • April 24, 2017

    WaPo shocked to discover in poll that Trump would beat Hillary today, and buries the news

    The problem with taking a poll is that respondents might contradict the narrative the poll-taker wants to push.  Something like that just happened to the Washington Post, owned by Amazon mogul Jeff Bezos. How frustrating it must have been to ...

  • April 24, 2017

    Andrew Cuomo manages to earn $738,000 from a book that sold only 3,200 copies

    Andrew Cuomo seems like someone who could teach Donald Trump a few things about making a deal.  Or else he is corrupt and has been bribed.  Which explanation fits the facts better? Lydia O'Neal of IBTimes reports on the luc...

  • April 24, 2017

    Senate investigation of Trump-Russia ties falls asleep

    Apparently, there is so little substance to see that the much hailed "bipartisan Senate investigation" into purported contacts between the Donald Trump campaign and Russia doesn't even have a full-time employee.  Does thi...

  • April 24, 2017

    Dems mired in infighting over abortion (again)

    Despite a command of the mainstream media camouflaging their decline, the Democrats are turning against one another with inward-looking fights that can only make the party smaller.  The latest example is the perennial point of contention: aborti...

  • April 23, 2017

    CNN criticized on Earth Day for daring to air a climate skeptic

    There was a certain melancholy about Earth Day 2017. The decades of failed predictions of doom, those damn frackers giving us cheap gas back, and now the Trump administration cutting regulations. No wonder some of the front men are getting a little t...

  • April 23, 2017

    Next Saturday, a moment of Pure Trump

    President Trump has trumped his enemies in the White House Correspondents Association. Not only did he decline to walk into their trap at the annual dinner, where he would have been roasted continuously by (as Twtichy reminds us) “’Daily ...

  • April 23, 2017

    Frontiers of ‘racism’ (Part# 856,932)

    At some point soon, it will become easier to list what is not racist, and then we’ll have the perfect authoritarian society, where all behavior is prescribed in detail. Coming from Oxford University, a new warning about how you and I and everyo...

  • April 22, 2017

    Crazy or just stupid? Maxine Waters's claim that she didn’t call for Trump’s impeachment is too much even for MSNBC

    What could possibly motivate Maxine Waters to claim twice that she never called for Donald Trump's impeachment when the video evidence is so compelling?  It is one thing for conservative websites to call her out, but even...

  • April 22, 2017

    Longtime close Hillary aide confirms physical symptoms of Trump Derangement Syndrome widespread among Beltway journalists

    We now have it on very good authority that Trump Derangement Syndrome is a genuine phenomenon, widespread among DC journalists. The existence of actual physical symptoms of this mental disorder has been confirmed by a very well-connected member of Te...

  • April 21, 2017

    Maxine Waters doubles down with incoherent rant claiming she never called for Trump’s impeachment

    I am no psychiatrist, but I suspect Maxine Waters has lost her mind, or suffers from some organic memory impairment. She is repeatedly denying her own words, captured on video. On Tuesday this week, she went on MSNBC and denied ever calling for th...

  • April 21, 2017

    Coulter calls out weasel administrators at UC Berkeley, plans to give lecture as originally scheduled

    After a firestorm of criticism over caving in to the thugs attempting to prevent Ann Coulter from speaking at the premier campus of the University of California, the University’s chancellor, Robert Dirks, attempted a weasel maneuver, offering t...

  • April 21, 2017

    Howard Dean announces Ann Coulter’s ‘hate speech’ is not protected by the First Amendment

    Remember Howard Dean?  He was once the head of the Democratic Party as Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, and Governor of the State of Vermont. He was considered a viable contender for the Democrats’ nomination for president in...

  • April 20, 2017

    UC Berkeley surrenders to the fascists

    The University of California, Berkeley, where the modern New Left student movement began with the Free Speech Movement of 1964, has come full circle and has surrendered to the anti-free speech fascists of the left.  Even the increasingly left-wi...

  • April 20, 2017

    The tragedy of Bill O’Reilly

    The original definition of tragedy, dating from the classical Greeks, depends upon a fatal flaw.  That is why Bill O'Reilly's departure from Fox News qualifies as "tragic," even though there are many collateral victims as well,...

  • April 20, 2017

    Guess who just dissed Obama as responsible for Dems’ collapse

    Slowly, very slowly, prominent Democrats are starting to admit the obvious: that Barack Obama's presidency has been a disaster for their party, leading it to depths unmatched in the last 90 years.  The figure of over 1,000 legislative seats ...

  • April 19, 2017

    Dem dream of Trump repudiation lives on despite failure to win Tom Price’s old seat in Congress

    Democrat fantasies of revenge for the loss of the presidency took another blow yesterday.  The much hyped $8-million campaign to win the reliably conservative suburban Atlanta seat in Congress formerly held by Tom Price, now HHS secretary, faile...

  • April 19, 2017

    Police and media downplay or deny obvious Islamic terror roots of Fresno shooting spree

    How stupid do they think we are?  Police in Fresno deny any terrorism and only "suspect" that there is a "hate crime" when a black man embracing Islam selectively targets white people on a downtown shooting spree after writin...

  • April 19, 2017

    Chelsea Clinton’s desperation for attention gets pathetic

    It must be tough being Chelsea Clinton, despite the ten-million-dollar apartment and the series of high-paying jobs for which she had no qualifications, in which her tenure was brief.  There are hordes of media sycophants desperate for a Clinton...

  • April 19, 2017

    MSNBC contributor deletes horrifying tweet

    Malcolm Nance is an MSNBC counterterrorism analyst, a position to which he brings credentials including U.S. Navy service as a cryptologist and involvement with training for SEALs to resist interrogation by al-Qaeda.   But he made an ass of h...

  • April 16, 2017

    Japan struggles over patriotism in education

    As in the United States, Japan's teachers (and their union) tend to be far to the left of the public they serve.  Currently, a huge controversy is roiling Japanese education and politics – one that bears comparison to the battles over ...

  • April 16, 2017

    The smiling faces of the Japan Communist Party

    For the past ten days, I have been visiting Japan with AT cofounder Richard Baehr and his wife Lijana.  Richard and I were close friends in college when I left to spend my junior year at Waseda Univeristy in Tokyo fifty years ago.  Since he...

  • April 9, 2017

    The vanishing Japanese

    When the United States defeated and occupied Japan after World War 2, lowering the country's birthrate was a major priority.  The conventional wisdom of the day was that overpopulation was a root cause of Japan's military aggression, so ...

  • April 4, 2017

    Has Trump surrendered to the immortality of government checks?

    Much like the ancient Egyptians, who carved the length of the Sun God's golden arm into the Cubit Stone* and decreed that all the empire's measurements must derive from it, our career politicians measure all legislation against a rule that st...

  • April 4, 2017

    Will Susan Rice be a 'stand-up guy' or the 'fall guy'?

    Susan Rice has always been a loyalist, willing to sacrifice her credibility on the altar of protecting her boss, as demonstrated by her lies about Benghazi repeated on all five Sunday morning political talk shows.  And she recently lied...

  • April 4, 2017

    Major media spiked scoops on Susan Rice's role in unmasking Trump's team

    If Mike Cernovich is to be believed (and I think he is, since nobody is denying this), the New York Times and Bloomberg knew about Susan Rice's unmasking of Trump officials but sat on the story.  Zero Hedge explains (emphasis in origina...

  • April 4, 2017

    Claim: Susan Rice directed spy agencies to create 'detailed spreadsheets' involving Trump

    Joseph diGenova is a former U.S. attorney and a man of impeccable honor.  I don't believe he would put out a false story, à la Susan Rice.  The intrepid Richard Pollock of The Daily Caller reports: Former President...

  • April 3, 2017

    Gloria Allred claims she is the victim of a ‘shake-down’

    Gloria Allred has attained notoriety as an aggressive lawyer who represents purported victims and often obtains large settlements for them from wealthy parties.  Right now, she is representing women who claim that Bill Cosby sexually assaulted t...

  • April 3, 2017

    Jerry Brown owes President Trump a big thank-you

    California governor Jerry Brown has staked out a position as the leader of the opposition to President Trump, squandering hundreds of thousands of dollars on legal fees to former A.G. Eric Holder's law firm in order to harass Trump and ...

  • April 3, 2017

    Did you ever wonder why Chicago’s crime is out of control?

    A website named Crime in Wrigleyville Boystown (cwbchicgao.com) has proved to be invaluable in understanding the breakdown of civil order in Chicago.  Its unflinching gaze allows the facts to speak.  Often, it is simultaneously h...

  • April 3, 2017

    ACLU event gives away their true mentality

    I have long believed that the Democrats are the "Party of Imagination," while the Republicans are the "Party of Experience."  Those labels fit better than liberal and conservative.  Democrats govern as if human nature we...

  • April 3, 2017

    Is the glass three quarters full or three quarters empty for the GOP?

    Two outstanding writers see the prospects for the GOP and Trump in night-and-day contrasts. Kurt Schlichter has drawn widespread admiration for his vivid polemical writing.  At Townhall, he sees another triumph ahead: History will r...

  • April 2, 2017

    Anti-Trump propaganda masquerading as journalism in the Chicago Tribune

    We are at an unprecedented moment in American history, with the Democratic Party and its media allies attempting to remove from office, through an unrelenting propaganda campaign, a president elected only months ago.  Even though there is no ...

  • April 2, 2017

    How the ruling class reproduces itself, with the involuntary help of taxpayers

    This is a huge scandal that will not get the attention it deserves. The Washington Post’s T. Rees Shapiro reports: The University of Virginia’s fundraising team for years has sought to help children of wealthy alumni and prominent do...

  • April 1, 2017

    Democrat Party chair gives deranged and vulgar speech denying Trump was elected

    A virulent strain of Trump Derangement Syndrome appears to have struck the newly installed top leader of the Democratic Party, Tom Perez.  In an age where disagreeing with the projections of mathematical models on climate that have failed to pre...

  • April 1, 2017

    Flynn’s immunity request: An alternative scenario

    The media and Democrats have created a smoke-and-mirrors crisis out of innuendo accompanied by no hard facts. For these propagandists, it is a given that General Michael Flynn’s request for immunity must related to crimes he committed...

  • March 31, 2017

    Tucker Carlson’s evisceration of a lefty prof is more than entertaining

    A counter-narrative is building to the MSM’s constant Trump-hating.  It is not that Trump is driven by hate ("Love Trumps Hate"); rather, it is the left that is driven by hate – for America, especially the Trump-voting, Ame...

  • March 30, 2017

    The outrage industry launches a new product line

    A new word-ban for college students comes from Northern Arizona University.  Shanna Nelson of Campus Reform chronicles the threat to the mental stability of our snowflake generation that a brave professor has vanquished (with a lower g...

  • March 30, 2017

    Donna Brazile takes chutzpah to a new level

    A very old joke defines the Yiddish word "chutzpah" by example: a child who confesses to killing his parents and asks the court for mercy as an orphan.  Former Democratic National Committee chair Donna Brazile has provided a real-life ...

  • March 30, 2017

    Mexico 'not sending their finest'

    Mexico's self-righteous victim stance, wielded so often since the election of President Trump, may have to be put back in storage, at least for a while.  Reuters reports: The attorney general of Mexico's Pacific coast state of ...

  • March 29, 2017

    Follow the money in this concealed carry permit struggle

    Rising star constitutional lawyer Timothy Sandefur likes to say government confiscates our rights and then sells them back to us.  This view certainly explains the behind-the-scenes approach of the Alabama Sheriffs' Association is ...

  • March 29, 2017

    Stopping Trump’s ‘travel ban’ a case study of the Deep State in action

    Democrats own the Deep State, that network of embedded bureaucrats, academics and media, judicial activists, and spooks operating to stymie, discredit, and ultimately remove from office a president who is a threat to their mutual agenda.  They a...

  • March 28, 2017

    Israeli Air Force holding joint exercises with United Arab Emirates, Italy, Greece, and US

    It is a new era in the Middle East, with Arab anti-Israel solidarity a thing of the past.  Arab potentates have discovered that Persian Shiites are an actual offensive threat, while Israel's desire for peaceful existence is not.  While ...

  • March 28, 2017

    Hijab-wearing bank robber sought in Chicago

    More reasons to celebrate diversity!  Bandit Tracker Chicago brings us news of a breakthrough of some sort.  A hijab-wearing bank robber is being sought, suspected of three "non-takeover bank robberies" over the past several ...

  • March 28, 2017

    University event offers ‘masculinity confession booth’

    The religious fanatics of the left have taken on masculinity itself as an enemy of their utopian vision and have an ongoing  campaign to stigmatize it, with the eventual aim of suppressing it entirely.  Christina Hoff-Sommers identified it ...

  • March 27, 2017

    Jared Kushner takes on the intractable federal bureaucracy

    According to the Washington Post, President Trump will announce today that his son-in-law Jared Kushner will be the point man on reforming the federal bureaucracy, a huge and potentially strategic role. Ashley Parker and Phillip Rucker write:...

  • March 27, 2017

    #leggingsgate social media outrage the latest fake feminist fiasco

    United Airlines is a target of feminist outrage ginned up in social media with a misleading account of what happened.  As many readers have seen elsewhere, a young lady was denied boarding at the gate for a United Airlines flight from Denver to ...

  • March 27, 2017

    Apparently, Obama and his ghostwriter are in French Polynesia earning that huge advance for his memoir

    Buried deep inside a very long Washington Post article about Barack Obama’s post-presidency is the revelation that he is supposedly writing his memoir during his month-long South Pacific retreat to French Polynesia (hat tip:...

  • March 26, 2017

    Stunning Evidence that the Left Has Won its War on White Males

    There is a sickness in American society, fanned by the propaganda campaigns of the left, and it is killing people. White males, in large numbers, are simply losing their will to live, and as a result, they are dying so prematurely and in such large n...

  • March 26, 2017

    No riots, no demonstrations, no Justice Department inquiry over this cop killing an unarmed boy of a different race

    More evidence that the “Black Lives Matter” crowd really does mean “Only Black Lives Matter” when they chant and riot. A cop shooting an unarmed 6-year-old autistic boy has been convicted on a manslaughter charge, not second d...

  • March 26, 2017

    The Anti-Defamation League owes President Trump an apology

    The Anti-Defamation League has disgraced itself, and defamed a friend of Israel and the Jews.  By blaming President Trump for the wave of telephone threats to Jewish organizations, an organization that once defended Jews from unjust attacks has ...

  • March 26, 2017

    Montana on the verge of a law that can pass constitutional muster prohibiting courts from applying sharia

    In the face of American states and courts allowing Sharia Law to be a factor in our justice system, and the ongoing demand of jihadists that sharia law should rule the world, a number of states have advanced laws that would prohibit its application. ...

  • March 26, 2017

    Mexican government helping illegal alien, welfare cheat, mom of 12 kids fight deportation

    Openly and routinely, an arm of the Mexican government is at work, helping a convicted welfare cheater stay in America and eligible for all the subsidies that a mother of 12 qualifies for. It’s a heckuva lot more than she would get if she took ...

  • March 26, 2017

    Plucky couple Huma Abedin and Anthony Weiner reportedly giving marriage another shot

    It’s the feel-good story of the day for naïve people: Huma and Tony “working hard” on their marriage. The New York Post (of course!) has the story: Fool me once, shame on you. Fool Huma Abedin four times, and she’ll ...

  • March 25, 2017

    Venezuela justifies its troops invading Colombia

    You'll never guess the excuse Venezuela is using to explain why its troops illegally entered the territory of its neighbor, Colombia. Julián Villabona Galarza reports in the Panam Post: Venezuela tried to downplay its ill...

  • March 25, 2017

    Illinois lawmaker proposes holiday honoring Barack Obama’s birthday

    Are you ready for Barack Obama's Birthday as a holiday on which government employees get a day off and schools are closed?  Now that neither George Washington's nor Abraham Lincoln's birth is considered worthy of a national holiday, ...

  • March 25, 2017

    Kamala Harris leaves no doubt that she has the stupidest reason for voting against Gorsuch nomination

    Al Franken made a strong case for himself during the Gorsuch confirmation hearings, but in a last-minute surge, his Democrat Senate colleague Kamala Harris has stolen the crown (or dunce cap) from his grasp.  The magnitude of this achievement sh...

  • March 25, 2017

    Phase One of Obamacare repeal and replace is over

    Don't worry: congressional Republicans all understand the world of hurt they are in for if they ask their supporters to re-elect them without having repealed Obamacare.  There is going to be major health care reform, but working out the deta...

  • March 25, 2017

    Reality TV contestants left in wilderness ‘social experiment’ months after the series was cancelled

    The plucky young idealists who volunteered to spend a year in the Scottish wilderness in a grand "social experiment" literally were clueless.  Sam Moore of NME.com reports: Contestants on the Channel 4 show Eden...

  • March 24, 2017

    Tucker Carlson demolishes hotshot lawyer hired to represent accused Rockville rapist

    Last night on his eponymous Fox News program, Tucker Carlson interviewed David Moyse, an attorney hired to defend 18-year-old Henry Sanchez-Milian, who is in this country illegally, against a charge of rape against a 14-year-old girl in a bathroom at...

  • March 24, 2017

    Surreal: LA Times op-ed claims Chelsea ‘never gets a break’

    We live in a time of "fake news" awareness, so you'd think someone at the Los Angeles Times would know better than to publish a headline like this:   "Just like her mother, Chelsea Clinton never gets a break" L...

  • March 24, 2017

    Nebraska Dems welcome refugees with voter registration forms

    Is it illegal to solicit non-citizens to register and vote in American elections?  I suppose it depends on the laws of each state, but really, shouldn't the Nebraska A.G. start looking into a campaign launched by Nebraska's Democrats? ...

  • March 22, 2017

    Gorsuch hearings exposing Democrats’ lust for judges to act as dictators

    In the Democrats' fury to avenge the stalling of Merrick Garland's nomination for the Court by lame duck Barack Obama, they are revealing their contempt for the rule of law and their desire for judges to act as dictators, picking winners and ...

  • March 22, 2017

    Jesse Jackson, Jr. claims $1.8 million in debt

    Poor Jesse Jackson, Jr.'s life is in ruins – an ex-con in the midst of a bitter divorce, claiming 100% disability and unable to pay his bills.  If only his father had more juice, he'd be sitting pretty like Chelsea Clinton, rolling...

  • March 22, 2017

    Oh-oh! Rahm’s private emails are spilling the beans

    A rock has been turned over in Chicago, and all kinds of revelations are scattering out. Bill Ruthhart and Hal Dardick report in the Chicago Tribune: Mayor Rahm Emanuel's personal email accounts have served as a private avenue o...

  • March 21, 2017

    Dems may be ready to surrender and confirm Gorsuch without a filibuster

    It became clear in yesterday's first day of hearings on Judge Neil Gorsuch's nomination to the Supreme Court that filibustering him will be futile and self-destructive.  The words "Central Casting" were used to describe him by ...

  • March 21, 2017

    Judge Napolitano pulled from Fox News airwaves

      The MSM are exultant.  They imagine Judge Andrew Napolitano's metaphorical (and distinctive) scalp hanging on a peg somewhere.  A taboo has been established and enforced. John Koblin of the New York Times deadpans...

  • March 21, 2017

    More turmoil in the Glenn Beck media empire?

    A rising star at Glenn Beck's media property, TheBlaze, has been suspended. Peter Hasson of The Daily Caller reports: Conservative media company The Blaze has suspended political commentator Tomi Lahren, multiple sources with kn...

  • March 20, 2017

    Oops! CNN accidentally confirms story that Brit intel passed along Trump communications to Obama admin

    Lawyers are trained never to ask a question of a witness if they don't already know the answer.  But it is quite different in journalism – at least in principle, if the principle is getting at the truth.  But alas, in these days o...

  • March 19, 2017

    Apple’s Shanghai Shakedown

    Apple announced late last week (in a Chinese-language-only announcement) that it will set up two additional R&D centers in China, in the cities of Shanghai and Suzhou. As a friend of mine put it, “Having any intellectual property developmen...

  • March 19, 2017

    Free Trade, Fair Trade, and Reality

    President Trump has repeatedly stated that he wants “free trade” that is also “fair trade.” I am all for free trade, but it's got to be fair. Academic and political critics are quick to point out the oxymoronic n...

  • March 19, 2017

    Chelsea gets one-percenter income for a few board meetings a year

    The Ruling Class takes care of its progeny.  Chelsea Clinton, whose job experience includes a number of short-lived gigs at prestigious and lucrative employers (NBC News, McKinsey & Co, for example) has found yet another very, very part-time...

  • March 19, 2017

    New York Times correction reveals hit job on conservative guru

    The last pretenses of objective journalism at the New York Times are being shattered by that newspaper’s fanatical opposition to President Trump in particular and conservatism in general. It has become like the Daily Kos, except that it levels ...

  • March 19, 2017

    Technological breakthrough in the development of tank-borne laser weapons

    Nearly everyone (well, nearly every male) who has seen enough science fiction has fantasized about laser weapons strong enough to knock-out enemies in flash of concentrated energy traveling at the speed of light. Poof!  Well, they just got r...

  • March 19, 2017

    Campaign of Jew-hatred underway in Chicago

    The University of Illinois, Chicago is the scene of a campaign demonizing Jews and Israel. Yesterday, I noted the first round of the campaign, attacking “Jewish Privilege.”   Once is an incident.  Twice is a campaign. Sa...

  • March 18, 2017

    ‘Ending Jewish Privilege’ flyers distributed at University of Illinois, Chicago

    The rising tide of Jew-hatred raised its ugly head in Chicago this week, hurling a slur that could signal a new rationale for anti-Semitism.  The University of Illinois, Chicago (where Bill Ayers was a professor for decades), saw antisemitic pam...

  • March 18, 2017

    UN Commission head forced out over Israeli ‘apartheid’ charge

    A small ray of hope pierced through the muck of United Nations hostility to Israel, and cost the head of the UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia her job. Barney Breen-Portnoy of the Algemeiner reports: The head of the UN...

  • March 18, 2017

    Good Samaritan Chicago cop faces Internal Affairs investigation over saving kids from squalor

    With all the problems facing the Chicago Police Department, the news that Sergeant Charles Artz is facing an Internal Affairs investigation would be laughable, if it were not so outrageous. His crime? Rescuing three young girls he found living in squ...

  • March 18, 2017

    Bernie Sanders compares Democratic Party to the Titanic

    The permanent mainstream media narrative is that the GOP is in trouble, but on occasion a little bit of realism about the Democrats sneaks in, courtesy of Democrats too disgusted to keep their mouths shut. One such figure is Bernie Sanders, cheated o...

  • March 18, 2017

    Donna Brazile admits stealing debate questions for Hillary, but blames the Russians

    I give Donna Brazile just a few points for finally fessing up (after lying and denying) that she stole and supplied CNN debate questions to Hillary Clinton, helping the establishment candidate triumph over insurgent Bernie Sanders.  But I have t...

  • March 17, 2017

    Obama’s outgoing US attorney blames Chicago violence on…

    Forget about open borders and the gangs that flood in and engage in open warfare.  Forget about the hateful rhetoric of Black Lives Matter and the White House visit that honored those cries of hatred.  And pay no attention to the ACLU and J...

  • March 17, 2017

    Maxine Waters goes completely unhinged

    Representative Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) is making a strong case to become the poster child for Trump Derangement Syndrome.  Long an exploiter of loony left memes, such as the contention that the CIA deliberately spread a crack epidemic in Americ...

  • March 17, 2017

    Kim Jong-Chelsea

    What do the Kim family of North Korea have in common with Bill and Hillary Clinton?  They are stuck with heirs lacking in star appeal.  For all his ruthlessness, the third generation of the Kim Dynasty has an image problem –...

  • March 16, 2017

    Totalitarian snowflakes drive Australian brewery to confess to a thought crime for hosting a civil debate on a public issue

    Sponsoring a video featuring an honest, polite debate over a significant public issue landed the largest Australian-owned brewery in a P.R. nightmare, facing boycotts and a major loss of business.  One side of the debate – powerful, organi...

  • March 16, 2017

    Michael Savage violently assaulted outside restaurant in Marin County

    Angry, violent progressives, driven by nonstop Trump-hatred emanating from mainstream and leftist media, apparently feel impunity in acting out their fury.  Apparently it is open season on conservatives, at least in progressive bastions such as ...

  • March 16, 2017

    Donald Trump’s real tax rate was 73.5 percent of his net income

    Even some of the best conservative fiscal analysts call Donald Trump's 2005 income tax rate 25%.  In truth, it was closer to 75%.  A knowledgeable friend writes: I mistakenly assumed the income figure of $150 million that...

  • March 15, 2017

    Shock: 'Experts' recommend high-fat diet for curing a significant disease

    The ideology of Progressivism rests on the notion that "experts" should be given free rein to guide the populace in proper behavior, by persuasion if possible, but by governmental law and regulation if necessary.  These "experts...

  • March 15, 2017

    Low-income Americans should thank Trump for all the benefits they receive from his taxes

    How many people on food stamps did Donald Trump's taxes support in 2005?  Based on USDA data, the average cost per year, per beneficiary, was about $90 per month, or $1,080 per year, per beneficiary.  Now that we know that Donald T...

  • March 15, 2017

    Megyn Kelly claims not free to work for NBC under contract with Fox, but Fox News disagrees

    Has Megyn Kelly morphed from a hot commodity to a hot potato?  Something very weird is going on in the TV news business as the onetime mega-star remains under wraps at NBC, even though her former employer says she is free to work for them. Jo...

  • March 14, 2017

    Diversity regulations keeping minority kids out of good schools in Hartford

    The person figuratively standing at the schoolhouse door and telling black students to go back to their segregated, bad public schools is a diversity bureaucrat these days.  Qualified minority students are being kept out of seats they applied fo...

  • March 14, 2017

    Judge Napolitano says British intelligence provided Obama admin with surveillance data on Trump Tower phone conversations

    In a startling segment on the Fox News program The First 100 Days, Judge Andrew Napolitano told viewers that there will be no paper trail linking President Obama to any surveillance of telephone calls in Trump Tower during the presidential trans...

  • March 13, 2017

    Laughable MSM bias in coverage of US attorney firings

    Face it: the success of the leftist mainstream media depends on people being stupid and having no memory.  Do they actually think they can cover the same thing positively when a Democrat does it and negatively when a Republican does it, and peop...

  • March 13, 2017

    Harvard going Orwell, protecting students from conservative websites

    As someone who spent almost two decades at Harvard, first as a student and then as a member of the faculty and officer of the university, I am ashamed at how far an institution that proclaims "Truth" ("Veritas" in Latin) as its mo...

  • March 13, 2017

    What the left cannot admit: Trump is already growing and changing in office

    The left, including its mainstream media and academic branches, is utterly committed to a vision of President Trump as shallow, stupid, and incapable of changing his immature and ignorant ways of doing things.  They need...

  • March 13, 2017

    Underestimating Trump: Foreign diplomat edition

    Journalists and academics are not alone in underestimating Donald Trump.  A foreign ambassador has now gone on the record as having been "pleasantly surprised" by the  "informed questions" President Trump asked in two ex...

  • March 12, 2017

    Mainstream Media supplements fake news with fake outrage over firing of US Attorney Preet Bharara

    With the Trump administration only a few weeks old, a media template already has emerged for demonization.  Impute sinister motives to any action of the reformist president, while ignoring precedents established by Democrat presidents doing the ...

  • March 12, 2017

    Ted Cruz may have discovered a way to totally change Obamacare without 60 Senate votes

    Democrats tend to love sneaky lawyer tricks because their side is so good at them.  The passage of Obamacare under the Senate rules governing “reconciliation” is the most prominent example of creatively applying the rules to get what...

  • March 12, 2017

    Trump-hating media’s stupidest trick yet?

    Efforts to propagandize against President Trump are reaching absurd levels. The latest ridiculous meme attempts to portray the president as somehow idling away time from work – just as President Obama was criticized for doing – by sneakin...

  • March 12, 2017

    It’s official: Dems just had their ‘Oh [censored]! moment on investigating Russian connections to their side

    All of a sudden, the Democrats wish they had never opened the door to investigating Russia’s political influence buying.  They had been warned by Matt Taibbi in Rolling Stone not to go there, that it was a “minefield.” Uranium ...

  • March 11, 2017

    Megyn Kelly trying to change image and go Oprah?

    Megyn Kelly has discovered that life after Fox News is no bowl of cherries.  I suppose it seemed like a good idea at the time: letting the other nets know that Megyn was open to bids from Fox News rivals, and also letting it be known in her new ...

  • March 11, 2017

    Melania Trump's popularity skyrocketing as haters flounder

    Driven by blind rage over the failure of voters to elect Hillary Clinton, the left's establishment has targeted anyone related to Donald Trump (even his 10-year-old son, Barron) for abuse.  It is one thing to fabricate videos ...

  • March 10, 2017

    Scholarly study reveals how badly Hillary screwed up campaign advertising

    I never expected that academia, dominated by leftists, would so thoroughly discredit the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign.  But a remarkably honest academic assessment of the role of television advertising in the 2016 presidential election ...

  • March 10, 2017

    Study breaks taboo, suggests illegal immigration related to productivity slowdown

    Political correctness has taken another hit in a new study that violates a taboo. At the heart of the bonanza that market economies offer their constituents is productivity growth.  Only competition in the marketplace can reliably produce i...

  • March 10, 2017

    Funniest. Headline. Ever.

    Even better, it is factual.  And almost inevitably, it's about a "Florida man." Here it is, from NBC News: Lawyer's Pants Catch Fire During Florida Arson Trial It seemed like a set up to a tired joke: A lawyer...

  • March 10, 2017

    A case study in media’s declining power: The Chelsea Clinton marketing campaign

    All of the formidable powers of propaganda have been deployed to help Chelsea Clinton along the path to political power.  It won't work, and the media that lend their credibility to the propaganda only further diminish their influence. ...

  • March 9, 2017

    More bad news at Fox News

    Fox News has settled yet another sexual harassment lawsuit. Emily Steel of the New York Times: ... Tamara N. Holder has said that the network executive tried to force her to perform oral sex on him in February 2015 when the two were alon...

  • March 7, 2017

    Behind the collapse of the ‘Russia hacking’ narrative, is panic spreading in the Obama camp?

    Make no mistake: the Saturday-morning tweet sent out by President Trump alleging tapping of phones in Trump Tower has changed the political calculus on both sides.  The mainstream media obsessively call his charge "unsupported" by evid...

  • March 7, 2017

    Are the Democrats scrambling for a fall guy on the wiretap of Trump campaign?

    It appears to me that a trap has just sprung on the Democrats, and they need a fall guy.  And we just got a huge clue as to who might be in the spotlight to take one for the team when it comes to culpability for covertly listening in on the conv...

  • March 6, 2017

    The evidence Trump was wiretapped laid out clearly by Mark Levin

    Yesterday, in 14 short and exciting minutes of televised explanation, Mark Levin pointed out the evidence already on the public record indicating spying on President-Elect Trump.  In two early-morning segments on Fox and Friends, ...

  • March 6, 2017

    Matthew Vadum lays out the case for a 'Watergate-style conspiracy against Trump'

    Writing at Front Page Magazine, Matthew Vadum does a superb job bringing together the evidence that a massive abuse of politicized government agencies took place in the eight years of the Obama presidency, and that spying on candidate Donal...

  • March 5, 2017

    Trump supporters attacked in Berkeley by Black Bloc demonstrators

    Brave Trump supporters gathered in Berkeley’s civic center, and were attacked by leftists, including masked Black Bloc supporters, who claim “antifa” (“anti-fascism”) as justification for violence against their political...

  • March 5, 2017

    The ‘Big If’: What crimes could Obama potentially be charged with?

    Yes, it is way too soon to start counting-up indictments that former President Obama could face. We know absolutely nothing about the evidence President Trump relied upon in his Twitter accusations, nor do we know of enough specifics. Still, we ge...

  • March 5, 2017

    Sean Spicer says no further comment on wiretapping while under investigation

    This morning, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer closed the door on further discussion by the president and White House staff of the accusation made yesterday that the Obama administration spied on the campaign communications at Trump Tower. ...

  • March 2, 2017

    Welcome to the real world, federal bureaucrats

    A specter haunts Washington, D.C.: federal workers, accustomed to job security, may actually be reduced in status to the level of private-sector peasants, who must live with the possibility of being laid off due to workforce reductions.  The...

  • March 1, 2017

    Democrats depressed, disoriented, demoralized, devastated, and discredited in the wake of Trump's triumph

    It was the worst night for Democrats since November 8, 2016.  After President Trump's speech to a joint session of Congress, Rachel Maddow looked as though a loved one has just died – the same face she had on Election Night.  Her ...

  • March 1, 2017

    The awful truth for Democrats: Trump learns and grows

    Conventional wisdom among the punditry had it that men in their seventies don't change, so President Trump's speechifying would never grow more sophisticated than the rabble-rousing populist they saw on the campaign trail.  As usual, pol...

  • February 27, 2017

    Political jiu-jitsu outrages the left in the Age of Trump

    Yesterday, another clueless media mandarin, CNN's "media critic," Brian Stelter, inadvertently revealed how badly the cultural (and therefore political) dominance of the left has been damaged by President Trump.  The left, and CNN ...

  • February 27, 2017

    Rachel Dolezal has become a nightmare for the 'transgender' fantasists

    The news that Rachel Dolezal claims to be on the verge of homelessness threatens progressives with the internal contradictions of their dogma becoming public. Ms. Dolezal, a white woman who for years so successfully pretended to be black that she ...

  • February 27, 2017

    Academy Awards should blame ‘Russian hacking’ for their embarrassment in announcing the wrong ‘Best Picture’ winner

    Hollywood stars are noted for their infallibility: just ask Meryl Streep, Leonardo DiCaprio, or Matt Damon, and they will explain politics in terms of absolute certainty (spoiler alert: conservatives are always wrong). In case you have not already...

  • February 27, 2017

    Politifact issues ‘mostly false’ rating for Trump tweet it admits is accurate

      Out: fake but accurate. In: accurate but fake (hat tip: J.J. Sefton). The left has always been tethered to fantasy but is now at the stage of almost admitting it in public.  The Marxist claims of "scientific socialism...

  • February 26, 2017

    ‘And for those listeners in Port St. Lucie…’

    Listeners to the Rush Limbaugh Show are familiar with the name Port St. Lucie  because it has replaced Rio Linda (a downscale suburb of Sacramento) as his chosen location where slow or stupid people might need explanation of basic facts that ord...

  • February 25, 2017

    Mob brawl breaks out at Australian mosque (video)

    The Religion of Peace strikes again, as mob violence breaks out between two factions at a mosque in the Melbourne, Australia suburb of Preston.  The great Andrew Bolt of the Herald-Sun reports: Islam means peace. Islam means peace...

  • February 25, 2017

    Trump Derangement Syndrome emerges as a public health issue

    Mental health professionals are starting to open up in public about the mental health issues among liberals experiencing Trump Derangement Syndrome.  The Los Angeles Times, an anti-Trump paper, published an unintentionally revealing article...

  • February 24, 2017

    Are Dems ready to commit suicide and choose Ellison as chair?

    Dems are forming a circular firing squad. McClatchy: Frustrated by the party's performance on Capitol Hill and emboldened by the mass protests against President Donald Trump, a coalition of progressive groups say they are open to supporti...

  • February 23, 2017

    Nancy Pelosi showing signs of mental breakdown

    Has Trump Derangement Syndrome affected the ability of Nancy Pelosi to perform normal life functions (for a politician)?  Or is age finally taking its toll on her?  Or have the laws of karma struck back at the party that claims that the 25t...

  • February 23, 2017

    Is a Chuck Schumer-Elizabeth Warren feud breaking out?

    If I were Elizabeth Warren, I would have to restrain myself to avoid responding in kind to an insult delivered by her own Senate minority leader, Chuck Schumer.  The Hill reports: Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y...

  • February 21, 2017

    Smartest member of the Congressional Black Caucus warns his party

    Smart Democrats recognize that their party has deep problems that won't be solved by the Trump-hatred that is the motivating power of its base.  They see that the party has lost touch with rural areas and takes for granted support levels of ...

  • February 21, 2017

    New national security adviser Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster is no patsy of the Russians

    President Trump's choice for his national security adviser is winning bipartisan support.  Unfortunately for the Democrats, he also vitiates one of their fantasy talking points against the president he serves.  In April of last year, Br...

  • February 21, 2017

    Right on cue, riots break out in Muslim neighborhood of Stockholm as Swedes deny their immigration problem

    President Trump has taken some lumps over his comment in Melbourne, Fla. about Sweden's problems assimilating Muslim immigrants.  Few nations do righteous indignation more intensely than Sweden, which parlayed its neutral status in World War...

  • February 20, 2017

    Repeal the left’s Motor Voter Law: It is breaking up immigrant families

    The Usual Suspects of the left are strangely silent as a legal immigrant, a mother of three American-born children, married to an American citizen, faces deportation.  The reasons are twofold. Margarita Del Pilar Fitzpatrick committed a ...

  • February 20, 2017

    Popularizing the meme of Trump-as-fascist

    There is an all-out campaign to plant the words "fascist" and "Trump" together in the public mind.  Josef Goebbels and the advertising industry both know that if people hear or read a pair words together often enough, the bra...

  • February 19, 2017

    Trump calls man onstage from the crowd at Melbourne, FL rally

    It was an unplanned moment that caught the Secret Service detail by surprise yesterday, when President Trump invited a man from the crowd to join him onstage and speak to the crowd.  He had seen the man interviewed on television prior to leaving...

  • February 19, 2017

    New York Times obituary for Blind Sheikh Abdel Rahman a classic of its ilk

    When an anti-American monster dies, count on the New York Times go out of its way to evoke sympathy in its obituary, as a way of claiming “balance” and objectivity.  Even for a monster that wanted to cause mass casualties in the name...

  • February 19, 2017

    Media hysteria in week three of Trump presidency leaves little room for escalation

    The mainstream media have made it clear that not only don’t they like President Trump, they would prefer to get him out of office before January 20, 2021.  But as any showman knows, you don’t hit a peak in the early moments of Act On...

  • February 19, 2017

    Poll: 73% of Americans want Dems to work with President Trump

    How’s that #Resist hashtag workin’ out for ya’, Democrats? Not that your hysteria levels would permit any de-escalation, but really, the American people are sick of your frenzied inability to accept the verdict of the election. Jona...

  • February 19, 2017

    Milo Yiannopoulos to present keynote speech at CPAC (updated)

    Leftist hysteria is fueling the rise of their nemesis, Milo Yiannopoulos, to superstar status. And CPAC, with a nose for publicity, has invited him to be the keynote speaker at next Saturday’s conservative gathering. Matt Schlapp tweeted: ...

  • February 18, 2017

    Stupid media tricks (continued)

    One of the classic leftist media tricks is back.  This one is among my favorites because it relies on the stupidity of the readers, and obviously this outlet knows its audience.  Let's all play "Guess the political party"! ...

  • February 18, 2017

    A court decision against the Department of Justice captures the absurdity of big government

    The wisdom of Solomon was not exactly necessary for a court to overrule the decision of the Department of Justice in addressing one of the deepest issues of the day: is a Snuggie a robe or a blanket? I am not kidding. Katherine Rodriguez of...

  • February 18, 2017

    Priceless! Watch as Dr. Sebastian Gorka calls out BBC bias to snarky, condescending interviewer’s face

    Dr. Sebastian Gorka has a Ph.D., a big vocabulary, a huge knowledge base, and even a British accent – all the markers of an elitist establishment, if not leftist, thinker.  But he seems to be in complete sync with his boss, President Trump...

  • February 18, 2017

    Deranged Trump-hating rich Manhattan parents punish their own kids

    There is something distinctly medieval about the mental derangement that has seized members of the elite that formerly ruled our American culture, politics, and economy.  Ground Zero for Trump Derangement Syndrome ironically lies just below the ...

  • February 18, 2017

    Trump Derangement Syndrome divides one of America's most prominent conservative families

    Perhaps the single most shocking incident of conservative Trump Derangement Syndrome happened a few days ago.  Bill Kristol, the Trump-hating founding editor of The Weekly Standard (who recently stepped down to less demanding duties), tweeted th...

  • February 17, 2017

    Former Obama campaign manager/senior adviser David Plouffe fined $90K over ethics violation

    Poor David Plouffe!  His secret lobbying of his old Obama White House colleague, current Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel, was never supposed to become public.  If only two pesky open records lawsuits hadn't forced the mayor to disclose hundr...

  • February 17, 2017

    Historic Trump presser signals mortal combat between MSM and president now a two-way fight

    Yesterday's utterly compelling news conference by President Trump, held on short notice, signaled an entirely new era in relationships between a president and the major media.  For decades, the ability of mainstream media to bully presidents...

  • February 17, 2017

    Be still, my heart! Latest Dem to show interest in 2020 reveals the dreadful empty bench

    There are so many possible delights ahead for partisans of President Trump as the remaining Democrats with a plausible claim to national standing sort themselves out for the nomination race for 2020.  But for sheer entertainment value, this...

  • February 16, 2017

    Warmists convert a stunning scientific discovery into a sign of looming Armageddon

    Two British scientists have made an important new discovery (scientific abstract here), mapping what lies beneath the Earth's crust: a vast "molten zone" of carbon beneath the western United States. Scientists using the world...

  • February 16, 2017

    President Trump’s questioning back at the media

    Ned Barnett writes: President Trump followed some of the suggestions I offered to Sean Spicer a few weeks ago in More 'Rules' Sean Spicer Can Change for the Press Pool, specifically, holding reporters to one question, and asking reporters ...

  • February 14, 2017

    CIA broke the law to take out its critic General Flynn

    Make no mistake: we have just witnessed an operation by members of the CIA to take out a high official of our own government.  An agency widely believed to have brought down democratically elected governments overseas is now practicing the same ...

  • February 14, 2017

    Andrew Malcolm lays out the real news about Russia and Putin

    If you are reading the media today about Russia and America, you'll get a lot of fake news with insinuations of a sinister plot involving a now-disgraced national security adviser.  But there is even scarier news about real facts i...

  • February 14, 2017

    NYT protects the identity of reporter rebuked for whisper campaign calling Melania Trump a ‘hooker’

    The New York Times has publicly acknowledged that one of its reporters passed on what it calls an "unfounded rumor" that defames the first lady of the United States: Editors at the New York Times have reprimanded a reporter f...

  • February 14, 2017

    Potential successor to Kim Jong-un assassinated while in exile overseas

    Kim Jong-un may be obese, but he is no fool when it comes to guarding his flank.  You just can't be too careful when watching your back if you are a murderous dictator.  He believes in killing off any possible rivals before they can act...

  • February 13, 2017

    NYT TV critic cautions SNL on Trump-hating skits

      Make no mistake: Mike Hale, TV critic of the New York Times, despises Donald Trump.  But even he sees the problem with Saturday Night Live's relentless attacks on the Trump administration.  In a Sunday edition article titled ...

  • February 12, 2017

    Meryl Streep goes there: warns of ‘brownshirts’

    Blind hysteria is taking over among Trump haters. Based on no evidence whatsoever, one of the nation’s most prominent actresses last night warned of “brownshirts” – a reference to Hitler’s uniformed Sturmabteilung (SA) t...

  • February 12, 2017

    Piers Morgan told to ‘F*** off’ on live TV for defending Trump

    Trump Derangement Syndrome is spreading, ensnaring celebrities into making fools of themselves. Hysteria is not a useful political strategy, but the left has not yet understood that because of its isolation in the Blue Bubble – mostly large ...

  • February 12, 2017

    DNC appears ready to go full Trump-hate, ignoring sole voice of sanity in race for new chairman

    Something remarkable happened yesterday at a “Future Forum” of the Democratic National Committee: one candidate for the chairmanship of the party told the truth. Needless to say, he is being ignored. The truth-teller, New Hampshire Dem...

  • February 12, 2017

    CNN shows how discombobulated it is by Trump’s ‘fake news’ charge

    By revealing its hypersensitivity, CNN is implicitly acknowledging the truth of President Trump’s charge that it is a purveyor of “fake news.” Instead of appearing authoritative, it shows signs of looking guilty, which is never a go...

  • February 9, 2017

    European public shocks elites in huge 10-country poll by rejecting further Muslim immigration

      The ability of the globalists who run the European Union to force more Muslim immigrants on their peoples is starting to collapse.  Politically correct fantasies that Muslim refugees are just one generation away from embracing the secu...

  • February 8, 2017

    Study finds 92% of left-wing activists arrested by police live with their parents

      The infantile nature of much left-wing activism has been confirmed by a study from the German Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, as reported by the mass-circulation Bild newspaper in Germany, picked up in Engli...

  • February 8, 2017

    Senate Republicans boost Elizabeth Warren’s run for the 2020 Dem nomination

      Say hello to the new superhero of the Democrats: Elizabeth Warren, cast for the role by Mitch McConnell and the Senate Republicans.  All is going according to plan.  By means of Republicans enforcing an old Senate rule on decorum,...

  • February 7, 2017

    Nancy Pelosi says she can’t 'work with President Bush’

    In addition to living in the past, the Democrats are now in full obstruction mode, committed to bringing down the Republican POTUS, whoever he might be.  Blind rage at the unexpected electoral humiliation of the Democrats last November has pushe...

  • February 7, 2017

    MSNBC reporter asks if Trump will go down Putin's 'dangerous path' (and start killing opponents)

    Across every front of the culture war, the left is planting the notion that President Trump is on the way to becoming a dictator so that by implication, all means of opposing him are legitimate, even violence and insurrection.  Put that ano...

  • February 5, 2017

    Milo Yiannopoulos will return to Berkeley to give his speech

    Janet Napolitano, president of the University of California system, has got a new nightmare on her hands.  Having already failed to protect the right of Milo Yiannopoulos to speak at the University of California, Berkeley, she is now on notice t...

  • February 5, 2017

    Google redefines ‘fascism’ as ‘right wing’ movement

    The default online source for definitions of words has altered the historically accurate definition of fascism, just as the Trumphater movement seeks to inaccurately brand the President as a fascist (and by implication therefore another Hitler, worth...

  • February 4, 2017

    Blind rage betrays the Democrats

    An old saying about priorities captures the problem the Democrats face: "if everything is a priority, then nothing is a priority."  The party, with its base outraged over everything President Trump does (because they don'...

  • February 4, 2017

    Clinton Foundation implosion continues as two more programs ditched

    It's official: the Clinton Foundation is in a world of hurt.  The Foundation president, Donna Shalala, interviewed by the New York Times, confirms: Revenues were down for 2016, Ms. Shalala acknowledged, in part because of voluntary...

  • February 4, 2017

    Hawaii considers legalizing prostitution

    You will never believe the logic being offered in support of a bill introduced by no less than the speaker of the House of Hawaii's legislature.  The scope of the legislation is breathtaking, as the Chicago Tribune reports: Ha...

  • February 4, 2017

    Sedition laws apply to Berkeley rioters

    The great Andrew McCarthy, a former federal prosecutor, argues cogently that longstanding sedition laws can be invoked to prosecute the Berkeley rioters and others.  I urge everyone to read his entire argument at National Review Online, inc...

  • February 3, 2017

    Mayor of Berkeley apologizes, yet keeps digging the hole he has excavated

      The new Mayor of Berkeley, Jesse Arreguin, made a fool of himself on Twitter both in the run-up to and the aftermath of the riots that denied First Amendment rights to Milo Yiannopoulos and the many students who bought tickets to ...

  • February 3, 2017

    Foreign policy elites wrong again as Trump’s immigration pause wins backing from Middle East nations

      All the smartypants experts on diplomacy, who were horrified the announcement of a short pause in the issuance of visas to citizens of seven nations, know lots of little things but evidently are ignorant of the Big Thing that matters in the...

  • February 2, 2017

    Mayor Rahm Emanuel asks Trump to ‘send in the feds’

    Chicago’s Mayor Rahm Emanuel yesterday seemed to welcome President Trump’s offer (in a tweet) to “send in the feds” to help quell the “carnage” (51 murders, 234 shooting incidents and 299 shooting victims last...

  • February 2, 2017

    Berkeley riots put campus fascism on Trump’s agenda

    Last night, the forces of campus fascism may have overplayed their hand by forcing cancelation of a talk by Milo Yiannopoulos at UC Berkeley and then rioting (many rioters in masks) through campus and downtown Berkeley, lighting fires and smashi...

  • February 2, 2017

    Prominent Aussie journalist calls out PM Turnbull for ‘thinking he could outsmart Donald Trump’

    While, the establishment media and foreign policy cognoscenti have the vapors over President Trump’s shorter-than-expected phone call with Australia’s head of government, Malcolm Turnbull, my favorite Aussie journalist, Andrew Bolt, under...

  • February 1, 2017

    Gorsuch nomination a lose-lose for the Democrats

    President Trump just handed the Democrats a lose-lose decision point by nominating Judge Neil Gorsuch for the Supreme Court vacancy created by the untimely death of Justice Scalia.  It is a political masterstroke.  And not just because Gors...

  • January 31, 2017

    Sally Yates, superstar

    Don’t worry about Sally Yates missing her next paycheck after being fired as acting attorney general.  She is on her way to stardom in the Blue Bubble. [It was a fully justified firing, and you can read elsewhere an excellent analysis o...

  • January 30, 2017

    Epidemic of virtue-signaling ravaging blue enclaves in response to Trump’s pause in entry from 7 countries

    As the left goes into full tantrum mode, virtue-signaling is breaking out in Hollywood, on campus, and even throughout those elements of corporate America that serve markets they believe are populated by Trump-haters.  Hollywood had yet another ...

  • January 30, 2017

    Daily Beast blames ‘white supremacists’ for Quebec mosque shooting, then retracts

    The awful shooting that killed 6 people and injured 8 others has been characterized as “an act of terrorism” by the Canadian government.  But despite the arrest of two suspected perpetrators, no names or identifying characteristics h...

  • January 30, 2017

    Saudi king agrees to support and finance ‘safe zones’ for refugees in Syria and Yemen

    Instead of bringing Muslim refugees to the U.S., where they will be 10 or 20 times as expensive to maintain, the obvious solution that is kindest to the most suffering people would be to house them near where they came from, in a religious environmen...

  • January 30, 2017

    Local media reports identify two Quebec mosque shooters, one with first name ‘Mohamed’

    Given the volume of fake news flying around about the Quebec mosque shooters, one must be cautious until the Canadian authorities speak out on the record.  Nonetheless, given the reports blaming “white supremacists” and President Tru...

  • January 29, 2017

    Dutch Death Trip

    Why is the government of the Dutch, some of the nicest, most polite and highly civilized people on earth, pushing an agenda of imposing death on people who have committed no crimes?  They don’t even execute heinous criminals there. In fact...

  • January 29, 2017

    Stunning media malpractice on Trump suspension of entry

    The latent fingerprints of Democrat icons, especially ex-president Obama, are discoverable all over President Trump’s executive order of the 27th titled, “Protecting the nation from foreign terrorist entry into the United States.” ...

  • January 29, 2017

    The ‘Islamophobe’ slur of Trump’s entry suspension falls apart

    The Democrat media have a narrative that President Trump is banning entry to suspect terrorist populations because he hates Muslims, and they are sticking to it, facts be damned. Why is the United States supposed to admit Syrian refugees when oil-...

  • January 29, 2017

    NYT and WaPo reporters confess incompetence on Twitter

    Twitter has turned out to be a very dangerous addiction for a number of journalists. But within a few hours of each other, two famous journalists at the nation’s two most prestigious metropolitan dailies tweeted out what turned out to be confes...

  • January 28, 2017

    Tucker Carlson embarrasses a refugee inflow advocate

    Alinksy’s Fourth Rule is working for us these days, as more and more conservatives demand that lefties live up to their rhetoric.  Last night, Tucker Carlson provided us an excellent example of the tactic. (I am a little bit worried tha...

  • January 27, 2017

    Trump-hating flag-burners in Iowa absolutely, positively foiled

    It’s your feel-good video of the day. The Supreme Court may rule that flag-burning is protected expression under the First Amendment, but that doesn’t mean that it is acceptable to endanger ordinary citizens, who also have rights to ex...

  • January 27, 2017

    How Trump is making Alinsky’s Fourth Rule work for us

    As long as you are not offended by colorful language, the read of the day has to be this essay at Ace of Spades Headquarters by the writer identified as Open Blogger.  In it, he wittily lays out “How losing my political values helped me ga...

  • January 27, 2017

    Trump hiring freeze already being portrayed as harming the public

    Thanks to a leak from federal bureaucrats, an industry trade publication is chumming the waters for the mainstream media, with an allegation that the new hiring freeze is somehow endangering the public (hat tips: Ed Lasky and Cheryl Jacobs Lewin)....

  • January 26, 2017

    President Trump’s pace of action has the MSM-left checkmated

    Sean Hannity of Fox News aptly described President Trump’s first few days as a “shock and awe” experience for the left, a military tactic resulting in disorientation and a growing sense of helplessness.  The Hill calls it a ...

  • January 26, 2017

    All those female celebrities are right to fear Trump

    There is an unmentionable reason why celebrities like Madonna and Ashley Judd spewed anger in Washington, D.C. following the inauguration of President Trump.  There is something distinctly unsettling when people who trade in personal appeal, gla...

  • January 25, 2017

    John Kerry stupidly provoking a cutoff of US funds to Palestinians

    Former secretary of state John Kerry must have thought he was being really clever when he overrode congressional holds on a couple of hundred million dollars and sent the taxpayers’ money to the Palestinian Authority in the closing hours of the...

  • January 25, 2017

    Why are so many media people puzzled that Trump keeps bringing up illegal votes?

    The MSM outlets are nearly unanimous that President Trump is “lying” and presenting “deliberate falsehoods” to the American public about illegal votes tipping the majority to Hillary Clinton in the election.  The mantra i...

  • January 25, 2017

    ABC News caught red-handed deceptively editing comment in order to make Trump look bad and has now apologized

    Apparently, some members of the mainstream media cannot help themselves: their hatred for Donald Trump is so intense that they engage in misconduct almost guaranteed to be exposed, and thereby reinforce the Trump narrative that they are dishonest....

  • January 24, 2017

    Revealed yesterday: The Muslim Brotherhood lost a good friend when Obama left office and gained a formidable opponent with Trump

    Yesterday saw a stunning contrast as it was revealed that the outgoing Barack Obama funded Palestinians as almost his last act in office, while Donald Trump’s first full workday saw him call Egypt’s President El-Sisi to offer support...

  • January 23, 2017

    Google and YouTube are the new competition for the appliance repair industry

    When our washing machine suddenly refused to operate last week, I had the moment of dread that precedes any call to anyone to repair anything.  It’s not uncommon for it to cost around a hundred bucks just to get the truck parked in front o...

  • January 23, 2017

    Just how desperate are the Democrats about their empty bench? This desperate!

    The conventional quantitative measure of the fall of the Democrats – over a thousand elective officials defeated by the GOP in the eight Obama years – doesn’t fully capture the seriousness of the problems the party faces.  The ...

  • January 23, 2017

    Obscenity- and violent rhetoric-laced ‘women’s march’ was a bleeping disaster for the left

    We conservatives have a secret weapon on our political battles with the left: their own hatred for us and for the country we love.  The inauguration of Donald Trump was a trigger for the left to let their inner essence become visible, with no ne...

  • January 23, 2017

    Apple supplier Foxconn mulling $7-billion investment in US to create 50,000 jobs

    The world’s largest contract manufacturer of electronics, the principal supplier of iPhones and iPads, has let it be known that Pennsylvania may be the home of a massive investment in U.S. manufacturing. Bloomberg reports: Foxconn Technolo...

  • January 22, 2017

    Fox News exiles George Will and other contributors

    Television is a brutal business, and so is politics.  Both can be great for the winners, but for the losers, humiliation, financial stress, and worst of all, obscurity beckon, like a career version of the Grim Reaper. The upheaval of the 2016...

  • January 22, 2017

    WaPo confirms Trump was right about government schools

    In his inaugural speech, Donald Trump characterized the burdens facing American families who have been left behind, and made government schools one of the problems. He described: …an education system flush with cash, but which leaves our ...

  • January 22, 2017

    Felony charges awaiting hundreds of Inauguration Day violent rioters

    For the last 8 years leftist thugs have gotten a pass. Early on in the Obama administration, New Black Panther storm troopers – the label is fitting because they were decked out in ominous uniforms – stood before a polling station, weapon...

  • January 22, 2017

    The conspiracy to impeach Trump already launched

    It should be crystal clear to all Americans that his political enemies are searching for any pretext to launch an impeachment effort to unseat President Trump, once they think it would have a chance of success.   Given the level of animosit...

  • January 21, 2017

    CNN breathlessly riding along with a bus of female protesters heading to DC

    CNN shows signs of going full opposition to the Trump presidency, probably in hopes of capturing the loyal viewership of Trump haters.  After being denounced as a fake news outlet, perhaps this is the only reasonable option left.  When MSNB...

  • January 21, 2017

    DC police arrest activist seen on Project Veritas video plotting stink bomb attack on pro-Trump DeploraBall

    Hats off to James O’Keefe, whose undercover video revealed plotters discussing their plans to attack Trump celebrants with a stink bomb attack.  The District of Columbia police made an arrest and filed court documents in the case.  An...

  • January 21, 2017

    MSM reporter falsely claimed that Trump had MLK bust removed from Oval Office

    Sure everybody makes mistakes, but making a sensational false charge against a new president at the very first opportunity he allowed reporters into his Oval Office on Day One of his presidency sure looks like one of those narrative-confirming, ...

  • January 20, 2017

    HuffPo sneers at military participation in inaugural festivities

    The next four years will see the mainstream media perpetually deride the new president, his party, his accomplishments, and ultimately the greatness of America itself.  They are on a suicide mission to destroy themselves by demonstrating they ha...

  • January 20, 2017

    Why did Mexico extradite El Chapo to the US the day before Trump’s inauguration?

    Although the Mexican government is pretending that the timing was merely the product of its judicial machinery operating, the extradition of drug lord Joaquín Guzmán Loera, aka El Chapo, was sudden and unexpected: Mr. Guz...

  • January 20, 2017

    Wynton Marsalis nails it on performers boycotting the inauguration

    As some performers disgrace themselves with dishonored vows to leave the U,S. upon Trump’s election and petulant bullying of peers who dare express willingness to perform at the inaugural, a genuine star has put them all to shame.  Wynton ...

  • January 20, 2017

    Bonfire of a fool’s vanities

    A man lit himself on fire yesterday in front of the Trump International Hotel in D.C., an act rich in historical resonance for anyone who lived through the fall of the Diem regime in South Vietnam.  The Buddhist monks protesting the Catholic Die...

  • January 20, 2017

    Trump tells trading partners that it's 'America first' from now on

    In the very first sentence of his inauguration speech, Dondal Trumop made it clear that he was addressing the entire world:  Chief Justice Roberts, President Carter, President Clinton, President Bush, President Obama, fellow Americans and p...

  • January 18, 2017

    The final humiliation of Obama’s mouthpiece Josh Earnest

    Although I have plenty of reservations about the White House Correspondents Association and their exclusive claim on the 49-seat press room, they really came through for honesty and forthrightness when Josh Earnest held his final briefing. ...

  • January 18, 2017

    The Obamas’ post-presidency money machine

    How greedy will the Obamas be once they are free to start making deals with speakers’ bureaus, book publishers, television broadcasters, movie producers, boards of directors, and other providers of part-time and episodic employment of the ...

  • January 18, 2017

    Is there a hidden logic behind Obama’s freeing Chelsea Manning?

    A lot of people are puzzled over the motives behind President Obama freeing Chelsea Manning soon by commuting his sentence.  Some posit that he is ingratiating himself with the sexual left.  Others darkly suspect that he intends to hobble t...

  • January 17, 2017

    Fake news? CNN claims its journalists 'objective'

    It’s kind of touching that there is at least one person left who believes that CNN practices objective journalism.  The fact that he draws a paycheck from the network may have something to do with his opinion, but I suspect that it is utte...

  • January 17, 2017

    National security NeverTrumps who signed public letters against him now worry about being ‘blacklisted’ from jobs

    An unexpected comedy is playing itself out as a new administration is about to take office.  Clueless and self-absorbed Beltway foreign policy insiders who publicly spoke out against Donald Trump’s candidacy now huff and puff about the dan...

  • January 16, 2017

    Media elites howling as Trump admin considers expanding access to WH briefings beyond 49 elite insider journalists

    The mainstream media declared war on the candidacy of Donald Trump, with the New York Times leading the way in a front-page opinion column arguing that “you have to throw out the textbook American journalism has been using for the better part o...

  • January 15, 2017

    European nations secretly seek help from Australia on stopping refugee boats

    Australia has been widely condemned in Europe, by some legal scholars, and by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees for intercepting and repatriating refugees from Sri Lanka arriving by boat.  Yet in secret, at least 6 European nations have turn...

  • January 15, 2017

    USDA study reveals what food stamps are really spent on

    Michael Bloomberg and Michelle Obama have been lecturing us (or at least those among us who use food stamps, aka SNAP) to no avail when it comes to sugary soft drinks.  Anahad O’Conner of the New York Times reports: What do households...

  • January 15, 2017

    Clinton Global Initiative shutting down

    Nobody pays bribes to people unable to deliver favors.  Thus, we learn that the Clinton Global Initiative will be shutting down and heartlessly laying off 22 workers. New York State is so concerned that it has issued a WARN Notice: ...

  • January 15, 2017

    Sorry, but I do not concede absolute moral authority to John Lewis

    The people who want to destroy the Trump presidency demand that John Lewis, be awarded absolute moral authority (shades of Cindy Sheehan) for his public denial of the legitimacy of the next commander-in-chief. At least that is the conclusion one...

  • January 15, 2017

    The Key question on the Trump Dossier Scandal

    Clarice Feldman’s article today on the Trump Dossier and the Deep State brings together the facts better than any other account I have seen. But a couple of hours ago, Clarice boiled it all down to one brilliant short paragraph.  I just ha...

  • January 14, 2017

    Jerry Brown’s bullet train fiasco and Trump

    California governor Jerry Brown has staked out the turf as President-Elect Trump’s opponent, hiring Eric Holder to gin up a legal strategy and appointing Congressman Xavier Bacera as his A.G. to oppose anticipated Trump policies in sanctuary ci...

  • January 13, 2017

    Ben Smith and the Memory Hole

    In all the commentary on Ben Smith’s role in publishing the phony “dossier” on Donald Trump, one notable fact seems to missing, seemingly consigned to the memory hole George Orwell posited as an essential characteristic of modern ty...

  • January 13, 2017

    State of Michigan declares there are no bad teachers in the state

    If we are to believe the statistics compiled by the State of Michigan’s Center for Educational Performance and Information, there are no bad teachers in the state.  Tom Gantert of Michigan Capitol Confidential reports: Judging by the ...

  • January 13, 2017

    Why the left hates Trump so intensely

    The intensity of the hatred for a newly elected president faced by Donald Trump is equaled only by the reaction of the Confederacy to the election of Abraham Lincoln.  That ended up in civil war, a precedent that one hopes will not be equaled. ...

  • January 12, 2017

    The most powerful Democrat politician in the country gets a 33rd year in office

    With President Obama soon leaving office, the most powerful Democrat politician in the country remaining in office is a man with a tiny profile in the national news: Michael Madigan, speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives.  Joe Ta...

  • January 12, 2017

    FBI stats show all violent crime rose in Chicago last year

    Bloody Chicago is a national shame, known around the world for the violence that rules its streets.  And it should be renowned as a symbol of the failure of the policies of the Democratic Party, as it would be if the media were not principally p...

  • January 12, 2017

    Wow! Look who’s attacking Buzzfeed for publishing ‘fake news’

    A major network anchor, a person previously personally ridiculed by Donald Trump with an insulting nickname, jumped on board the “fake news” bandwagon, attacking the editor of Buzzfeed who decided to publish a scurrilous opposition resear...

  • January 12, 2017

    WSJ reports George Soros lost nearly $1 billion in market after Trump victory

    It is tough watching the candidate you backed lose an election.  But when you lose a billion bucks on the market rally that followed, it becomes even harder, even if you still have $29 billion left.  Still, this could rank as the biggest lo...

  • January 10, 2017

    Wikipedia deletes its page on The People’s Cube

    The American left is jealously guarding its hold on popular culture, well aware that in an open contest of ideas, it loses.  In no realm is control more important than humor.  Scoffing and scorn must be limited to approved targets: white pe...

  • January 10, 2017

    The latest academic madness unveiled: Gender reparations

    Coming soon to a prestigious university campus: an academic conference on gender reparations.  This is leaving me deeply confused.  I have been lectured for several years now that gender is a “construct” and that each of us can ...

  • January 9, 2017

    Trump Derangement Syndrome derails the Golden Globes

    Hollywood was caught in the act of being itself last night: arrogant, ignorant, mentally ill, and disdainful of the American public that elected Donald Trump our next president of the United States.  The occasion for this hatefest was a supposed...

  • January 9, 2017

    Leftist/queer/Latino activist in custody in Berkeley murder case

    Watch as our mainstream media struggle to ignore an unusual murder case unfolding in Berkeley, California, with all the elements needed for sensationalistic national media obsession.  But because the alleged perp is a lefty, Latino, queer, and t...

  • January 8, 2017

    CBS radio report created the impression Chicago torture victim was a black man assaulted by white Trump supporters

    This may be the single most despicable act of media bias I have ever encountered.  It took a lot of effort and art for CBS Radio to put together an early report on the Chicago torture incident that was strictly factual, yet created the impressio...

  • January 8, 2017

    Ft. Lauderdale shooter used alias ‘Aashik Hammad’ and recorded Islamic music in social media

    The media and law enforcement have told us over and over that Esteban Santiago is merely a madman, so the Fort Lauderdale horror is more like a Columbine, not a Brussels Airport mass slaughter. But thanks to detective work that should be the sort of ...

  • January 7, 2017

    Why Bowe Bergdahl must not be pardoned by Obama on his way out of office

    There is good reason to fear that President Obama will grant a pardon to Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl before he leaves office.  Doing so would save the embarrassment of reliving the Rose Garden address with Bergdahl’s parents, the unwarranted praise...

  • January 7, 2017

    Dems may regret leak of top-secret report on Russia to NBC

    The Democrat-Media Complex has gone all in on the propaganda campaign to convince Americans that Donald Trump’s election is illegitimate because “Russia hacked the election.”  Even if a majority of voters reject the unconvincin...

  • January 7, 2017

    Guess whom Chris Matthews blames for Ft. Lauderdale shooting

    I presume that most readers already have figured out that the person who pulled the trigger can’t be responsible as far as MSNBC is concerned.  He is Hispanic, which automatically makes him a victim insulated from personal responsibility, ...

  • January 7, 2017

    Once again, the left have screwed over the people they pretend to champion

    Once again, the left has endangered the very people it claims to want to help: black inner-city dwellers.  A violent war on police was triggered by Baltimore’s Democrat leadership, including the Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, who cla...

  • January 6, 2017

    If Russia ‘hacked the election,’ so did the leaker of the NBC Billy Bush tape with Trump

    The uniparty political establishment is pushing a demonstrably false narrative that Russia somehow “hacked” the election.  Hacking has a specific meaning: entering a computer via the internet and changing things. Yesterday, DNI Ja...

  • January 6, 2017

    Professor warns pundits and intellectuals against underestimating Trump

    I give a lot of credit to Hugh Hewitt for taking Donald Trump seriously and going beneath the superficialities of the journalistic-entertainment-academic consensus that he is erratic, off the cuff, lacking in nuance, and in danger of screwing up ever...

  • January 5, 2017

    DNC server was never examined by FBI in investigation of ‘hacking’

    In yet another sign that the “Russia hacked the election” narrative is phony, Buzzfeed is reporting that the FBI never even bothered to ask for the DNC server for forensic analysis.  Ali Watkins reports: The FBI did not examine ...

  • January 5, 2017

    Broadcast networks refuse to cover anti-Trump, anti-white torture incident in Chicago

    As the news broke yesterday that four black young adults in Chicago had kidnapped and tortured for hours a mentally challenged young white man, broadcasting part the incident on Facebook, NBC and ABC News refused to cover the incident at all, while C...

  • January 5, 2017

    Obama grotesquely had himself awarded a Defense Dept. medal yesterday

    President Obama has another ironic award for his trophy shelf, to accompany his Nobel Peace Prize and all those participation trophies he got at Punahou for his basketball skills.  His appointee and subordinate Ash Carter yesterday pinned a mili...

  • January 5, 2017

    Multi-billion-dollar hedge fund bet against Trump, lost almost a quarter of the assets of its principal fund

    I had never heard of Horseman Capital Management, Ltd. until this morning.  But I wonder if they have Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman as one of their principal advisers.  The sage of Princeton and the New York Times was utterly c...

  • January 5, 2017

    Good News: Tucker Carlson replacing Megyn Kelly

    Congratulations to Tucker Carlson for landing the prime time (9 PM, Eastern) slot being abandoned by Megyn Kelly.  I am particularly enthusiastic because Tucker has risen very rapidly (from weekend host on the early morning Fox & Friends sho...

  • January 4, 2017

    House GOP capitulation to Trump ethics tweet is a really big deal

    President-Elect Trump has won another victory before even taking office.  This time, it wasn’t Ford, Carrier, or some other corporation forced to capitulate in the wake of a tweet; it was the majority of the House of Representatives. ...

  • January 4, 2017

    Assange reveals Podesta’s password was ‘password’

    Julian Assange summed up the shakiness of the claim that Russia “hacked the election” when he told Sean Hannity, “A 14-year-old kid could have hacked Podesta that way.” Not only is it pithy, but it relates to things everyon...

  • January 3, 2017

    Julian Assange definitively states that Russia was not the source of DNC leaks

    Julian Assange, the darling of the left when WikiLeaks was embarrassing the Bush administration, has stated on camera and for the record that Russia was not the source of the WikiLeaks documents that embarrassed the DNC and its toady media conspirato...

  • January 3, 2017

    The disgrace of the ‘Russia hacked the election’ narrative

    It appears that President Obama is staking his legacy on a narrative that shows all the signs of being phony: fact-free appeals to authority (the intelligence community is unanimous – better than 97%!), near universal media complicity (the very...

  • January 2, 2017

    New study of elitists reveals how out of touch they are

    The anger against the ruling elites that fueled the election of Donald Trump was not understood by them for good reason: they genuinely are isolated from the realities of life as experienced by most Americans. A fascinating survey has created a da...

  • January 2, 2017

    Chicago lost no time in 2017 racking up the totals for another record year of criminal violence

    If Chicago had been run by Republicans for decades, and its mayor were George W. Bush’s former chief of staff, the city’s horrendous level of carnage would be the top domestic story of last year, this year, and every year.  It would ...

  • January 2, 2017

    How the Obama administration helped create ISIS and draw Russia into Syria

    Startling new evidence reveals a major to-do list item for the incoming Trump administration: a formal inquiry, with subpoena power, on the process by which the U.S. handled the “Syrian rebels” who turned into ISIS.  In a landmark Ne...

  • January 2, 2017

    Angela Merkel sets world record for cluelessness as she urges ‘openness’ in the face of Islamist terror

    It was not that long ago that Angela Merkel was hailed as the most important leader in the West.  That was before she inflicted roughly a million military-age young Muslim males onto her country.  Male Muslims schooled in the ways of sharia...

  • January 1, 2017

    Federal agency cancels holiday vacation for HR staff in order to hire and promote more people before Trump inauguration

    The Obama administration is attempting to hamstring the successor Trump administration by hiring large numbers of new staff, and promoting existing employees before it leaves office.  Lisa Rein and Juliet Eilperin report in the Washington Post: ...

  • January 1, 2017

    Feds preparing to drop warnings on cholesterol

    I guess the settled science on cholesterol, and all the dietary the advice premised on it, is not so settled. I can’t be sure, but I suspect that at least 97% of scientists a few years ago would have endorsed limiting cholesterol intake.  ...

  • January 1, 2017

    Junior college president grotesquely livin’ large at taxpayer expense

    For some reason, a widespread belief exists that the president of a college or a university (or even a 2-year junior college) deserves to live a life of luxury.  No fewer than 30 higher education presidents are earning over a million dollars a y...

  • January 1, 2017

    Midnight meltdown as tipsy Trump-hater Don Lemon has mic cut off by CNN

    CNN anchor Don Lemon has copped the honor of the first on-air Trump-hater meltdown of 2017, year one of the Trump presidency. Sour Lemon’s behavior was so disgraceful and out of place during a celebration of the New Year that the network brass ...

  • December 31, 2016

    MSNBC’s worst year ever

    What do get when you combine arrogance, condescension, and ignorance?  That’s right: MSNBC (except for Morning Joe, some days). So, in dealing with the rise of Donald Trump and the movement of deplorables, the net had…uh…a...

  • December 31, 2016

    Lessons in civility from RFK, Jr.

    Is there a more repulsive example of progressive arrogance and privilege than Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.?  He flies around in private jets and lectures the rest of us to shiver in the dark (OK, I paraphrase) in order to prevent the planet from Therm...

  • December 31, 2016

    Even a Rolling Stone writer sees the con game underway on ‘Russia hacking election’

    The unity of the Progressive chorus repeating the evidence-free assertion that Russia “hacked” our election has been marred by an inquisitive writer for Rolling Stone, of all publications.  Matt Taibbi, a progressive in good standing...

  • December 31, 2016

    ‘Celebrate our successes and look forward to the revolution rolling into 2017,’ with Nigel Farage

    The flip-side of schadenfreude is gloating.  Both are seductive, pleasurable, and dangerous to the souls of those who over-indulge.  Yet both have an irresistible pull, especially after years of abuse by those being humiliated as the butt o...

  • December 30, 2016

    Chicago 2016 in one picture

    If Chicago were run by a Republican machine, and if President-Elect Trump had adopted it as his home town and political base, the media would constantly proclaim it a stain on our national honor, a killing field maintained for the purpose of killing ...

  • December 30, 2016

    Justice Department declines to prosecute VA employees who defrauded $400K, and who still have jobs

    The mainstream media have been ignoring a story of outrageous abuse by federal employees that has just been rubber-stamped by Loretta Lynch’s prosecutors at the D.C. U.S. attorney’s office.  The first report was carried by the Housto...

  • December 30, 2016

    Drexel University defends white genocide-wishing professor

    We finally know what it takes to evade the P.C. speech codes of a major university: wishing genocide on whites.  While using the incorrect neologism pronoun for someone denying chromosomal reality is streng verboten on many campuses, the wise an...

  • December 30, 2016

    Putin declines to retaliate on Obama’s sanctions

    In a brilliant piece of propaganda that makes President Obama look small and irrelevant, Vladimir Putin plays chess, while Ben Rhodes and Valerie Jarrett play checkers (and Barack Obama vacations in Hawaii again).  Neil MacFarquhar the New Yo...

  • December 29, 2016

    Democrats’ sound and fury over confirming Trump’s cabinet signifies nothing

    The only thing D.C. Democrats control is the media (and their dominance of this last bastion is slipping away).  There is not much they can do to obstruct the Senate confirmation of Donald Trump’s cabinet, barring scandalous revelations....

  • December 29, 2016

    Slate’s hilarious justification for white genocide-wishing communist professor

    The left clearly is stuck on stupid, in the immortal words General Russell Honoré.  Matthew Dessem of Slate is at the bottom of a hole and excavating.  It seems that those of us upset at a university professor’s Christmas wish ...

  • December 29, 2016

    Drexel University’s white genocide nightmare in 2017

    Boy, I am really glad that I am not a trustee of Drexel University.  They are in a no-win siuation, with the stakes very high.  Assistant Professor George Ciccariello-Maher has created a huge problem for his employer and those who guide its...

  • December 29, 2016

    Debbie Reynolds’ death reminds us of the importance of the will to live

    We don’t ordinarily pay much attention to celebrity deaths around here, unless there is a political angle to them. But death of 84 year-old Debbie Reynolds following on the passing of her daughter Carrie Fisher is so intensely human and heart-b...

  • December 28, 2016

    DC Court of Appeals re-opens search for deleted Hillary emails – this time with grand juries and subpoenas, if necessary

    Happy New Year, Hillary Clinton.  I hope you enjoy being the subject of a probe by A.G.-designate Jeff Sessions, and whatever grand jury probes and subpoenas he sees fit to use in seeking recovery of all those emails you deleted and BleachBitted...

  • December 28, 2016

    SEIU announces 30% budget cut anticipating ‘reduced resources’ in Trump era

    The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) is a political fundraising scam disguised as a labor union, that extorts $300 million a year from mostly low-wage workers who cannot take a job without a “taste” for the bosses at union HQ,...

  • December 28, 2016

    A schadenfreude double-header

    If you are sick and tired of laughing at leftists (and not a few conservative NeverTrumps) making asses of themselves, then this post is not for you.  Twice. First, I invite you to spend seven minutes watching a scathing collection of pricele...

  • December 27, 2016

    Obama’s ego and the future of the Dems

    Hillary Clinton’s back must be sore this morning from the stiletto wound delivered by Barack Obama in the course of an interview with former senior adviser David Axelrod.  As has been well publicized, he claimed that had he been allowed to...

  • December 27, 2016

    Maxine Waters refuses to meet with Trump to find common ground

    You stay classy, Maxine Waters.  There is nothing like slapping away an open hand even before it is offered to solidify your reputation as a crank.  Cameron Cawthorne of the Free Beacon reports: Rep. Maxine Waters (D., Calif.), a ...

  • December 27, 2016

    Glenn Beck heading to the left?

    Trump Derangement Syndrome is a real phenomenon, and while the American left is unmasking itself as hateful and even bloodthirsty, the NeverTrump faction of the right is driving away its historical constituency.  The big difference is that there...

  • December 27, 2016

    Twilight of the pop culture gods

    Trump Derangement Syndrome is set to afflict a range of pop culture careers with decline into niche status. There are no bounds to the hubris of those who have controlled the networks, studios, and publications, and made them instruments of a Gramsci...

  • December 26, 2016

    University of California imperils federal funding with illegal immigrant policies

    Janet Napolitano, the president of the University of California – one of the nation’s largest higher education institutions – is heading for a showdown with Congress over her scofflaw stance toward immigration law: [The Univers...

  • December 26, 2016

    Professor who wished for ‘white genocide’ faces a firestorm after American Thinker Christmas Day scoop

    Yesterday, American Thinker broke the story of Drexel University’s Professor George Ciccariello-Maher, who tweeted on Christmas Eve: “All I want for Christmas is white genocide.”  Below are screen grabs of two related tweets me...

  • December 26, 2016

    Obama’s unintended consequences: King of Bahrain openly celebrates Hanukkah with Jews

    President Barack Obama promised a fundamental transformation for America and its role in the world.  But as the inept community organizer prepares to leave office, it is becoming clear that his clumsy overreach is backfiring on multiple levels. ...

  • December 26, 2016

    Higher education at the precipice

    A straight-A student at Kansas State University has boldly proclaimed that the college emperor has no clothes and bidden a public farewell to what he calls a “scam.”  This could be a sign of what lies ahead for the left-wing propagan...

  • December 26, 2016

    NATO auditor found apparently murdered

    Ahem: Isn’t this a huge story? Siobhan McFadyen of the UK Express reports: POLICE in Belgium are probing the death of a high ranking NATO official after his body was discovered in his car with a gunshot wound to the head. According t...

  • December 25, 2016

    Professor tweets ‘all I want for Christmas is white genocide’

    See also: Professor that wished for ‘white genocide’ faces a firestorm The Caucasians among the tender young minds exposed to Professor George Ciccariello-Maher at Drexel University are on notice that their teacher wants them extermina...

  • December 23, 2016

    Kellyanne Conway, the presidential counselor

    When I learned yesterday that Kellyanne Conway had persuaded her husband and three of her four children to move to Washington, D.C. to serve in the Trump administration, I sighed in relief.  As was obvious to anyone who watched the Trump campaig...

  • December 23, 2016

    Heir to British throne urges subjects to think about Mohammed at Christmastime

    Prince Charles, who is slated to be the formal head of the Church of England, is behaving like a proper dhimmi, spouting P.C. nonsense.  Justin Holcomb reports on Townhall: While speaking on the British radio show "Thought for the...

  • December 22, 2016

    Rahm Emanuel’s private emails to be released after court case

    Hillary Clinton’s use of private emails to conduct official business while avoiding officially mandated disclosure is hardly unique.   Longtime Clinton associate Rahm Emanuel has just been compelled by a court to disclose his private email...

  • December 22, 2016

    Boeing CEO is following Trump’s Air Force One script

    President-Elect Trump’s meeting with the chief executive of Air Force One primary contractor Boeing went exactly as I predicted on December 8.  The PEOTUS has set the stage for a symbolically important drama that instructs other government...

  • December 22, 2016

    Poor Obama! Self-pity marks his final weeks in office

    How to spot a narcissist in one easy lesson: President Barack Obama, the recipient of the most fawning media coverage of any president I have ever seen, is ending his presidency on an ugly and discouraging note.  It seems he believes he was u...

  • December 22, 2016

    Evidence emerging that Dems’ disparagement of Trump victory is backfiring

    Sorry, Dems, but you no longer have the ability to control the national discussion, even with the full-throated, near unanimous support of the legacy media.  They, and you, have lost credibility and are being ignored and rejected by enough ...

  • December 22, 2016

    Politico obtains hacked emails from Clinton campaign post-election

    Have the Russians been supplying Politico with hacked information recently stolen from the Clinton campaign?  One must wonder how writer Kyle Cheney obtained the information for today’s big scoop: Hillary Clinton’s top advisers ...

  • December 19, 2016

    ‘Students of color’ conference at University of California reportedly dissolves into a fight over who is most oppressed

    Nobody saw this coming, apparently, because no conservatives were consulted.  Kate Hardiman reports on The College Fix: This year’s University of California Students of Color Conference  unproductively devolved into something of ...

  • December 18, 2016

    Fake News, the New York Times Way

    Not a day goes by now when the New York Times doesn’t run an article about the danger of “fake news.” So, I was reminded of the greatest bit of “fake news” ever published: the NEW YORK Times’s cover-up of Stali...

  • December 18, 2016

    How the global warming fraud will collapse

    Writing in The Manhattan Contrarian, Francis Merton predicts how the global warming thesis, still unable to account for a twenty year “pause” in its predicted temperature rise, will crumble, thanks to Donald Trump becoming president. Here...

  • December 18, 2016

    Iran’s Revolutionary Guard taunts Obama: ‘After Aleppo, we will intervene in Bahrain, Yemen’

    The consequences of President Barack Obama’s abandonment of a hard-won victory in Iraq and wimping out on his infamous “red line” in Syria will bedevil the United States when President-elect Trump takes office. Al Arabiya reports: ...

  • December 18, 2016

    Is there still time for one more Schadenfreude video collection?

    Okay, I get it that Christmas is a week away and it is time for us to embody goodwill toward all.  But I am not seeing very much of that from the other side, even though the more pragmatic among them have admitted that denial isn’t working...

  • December 17, 2016

    Obama’s passivity in the face of genocide in Syria

    The world once again is watching genocidal mass slaughter, despite having as our U.N. ambassador Samantha Power, who parlayed a book denouncing American passivity in the face of genocide into a professorship at Harvard and her post at the U.N. ...

  • December 17, 2016

    Shocker: CNN anchors rebuke sore loser Democrats

    Oh no!  The Soros-Podesta-Brock-Hillary crowd have been doing an excellent job of convincing the public that they cannot handle defeat as adults.  Their desperate quest to blame somebody else for their rejection by the voters last month is ...

  • December 17, 2016

    The perfect summation of the Obama presidency doesn’t even need words

    One of my favorite sources of insight on the Obamas is the blog Michelle Obama’s Mirror.  As the Obama presidency winds down, I gave a moment’s thought to what would become of it in the era of Trump.  But then I realized that th...

  • December 17, 2016

    Why the success of the Trump presidency depends on civil service reform

    Even though she never mentions the concept, former Reagan and Bush senior official Linda Chavez makes an excellent case that the success of the Trump presidency depends on sweeping civil service reform.  The title of her article in the New York ...

  • December 16, 2016

    Biggest. Post-election. Rally. Ever.

    Wall Street has greeted the Trump election with unprecedented enthusiasm.  I think that investors are recognizing that the shackles put on entrepreneurship and investment by the tax and regulatory regime of the Obama administration really did in...

  • December 16, 2016

    Even the Democrats’ big donors are not buying the ‘Russia did it’ excuse for Hillary’s loss

    While the combined might of the mainstream media and the Democrat establishment from President Obama on down-pedal the lie that “Russia hacked the election,” neither the American public nor the Democrats’ own paymasters are buying i...

  • December 16, 2016

    The most amazing Trump Derangement Syndrome meltdown yet

    I tip my cap to Tucker Carlson, whose new show on Fox News Channel (7 PM Eastern) has become must-see TV.  Using his unique combination of charm and wit, he has turned the first segment of his show into a fascinating inquiry into the mental stat...

  • December 16, 2016

    Photos reveal the grim mood at Hillary’s lavish event for rich and powerful donors last night

    The smoking ruins of shattered dreams still smells awful for Democrats.  While members of the pundit class melt down on TV, the donor class is demanding more introspection than its members have yet seen on the part of the candidacy that took the...

  • December 15, 2016

    Reince Priebus signals big changes for White House Press Corps

    Elections have consequences, as Barack Obama boldly stated following his election as president in 2008.  Those words, celebrated by the left, including the White House Press Corps majority, now must seem ominous to many.  President-Elect Tr...

  • December 15, 2016

    Leaker of Podesta emails was a US intel official, not Russia, according to former ambassador

    The narrative that “Russia hacked the election” now has a powerful counter-narrative to contend with.  Craig Murray, the former U.K. ambassador to Uzbekistan (where he was a critic of the regime’s human rights abuses and was re...

  • December 15, 2016

    Despicable attempts to dodge Obama’s responsibility for Syria ‘red line’ default

    As the world watches the largest city in Syria destroyed and totals up hundreds of thousands of deaths in that country, Barack Obama and his toadies are desperate.  They know that his empty threat, the “red line” over use of chemical...

  • December 15, 2016

    Why Democrat attacks on Senator Sessions during attorney general confirmation hearings will backfire

    The uncontrollable fury that Democrats feel over Donald Trump’s election is leading them into many mistakes that will ultimately backfire on them.  There have been rumors circulating that they plan to make their stand against the Trump cab...

  • December 14, 2016

    Arrogant Department of Energy bureaucrats are stonewalling Trump transition team questions

    Evidently the mandarins at the top of the Department of Energy believe that taxpayers work for them, not vice versa.  How else to explain the astonishing arrogance of bureaucrats at a federal agency refusing to answer Trump Transition Team ...

  • December 14, 2016

    The long knives come out for Huma

    Oh, boy!  We have a leading indicator that infighting, mutual recriminations, and media leaks finally are breaking out among members of Team Hillary, as responsibility for losing the election is being dodged.  All the help from John Brennan...

  • December 13, 2016

    Still waiting for the 19 celebrities who promised to leave America if Trump was elected to get out

    So far as I know, not a single celebrity, even from the D-list, has left the United States, as promised, if Donald Trump were elected.  Fair is fair: Lena Dunham alone must have motivated thousands of voters to choose Trump, in order to be rid o...

  • December 13, 2016

    Former representative Chaka Fattah sentenced to ten years in federal prison

    Hey, Hillary: Here’s what normally happens to corrupt pols who divert charitable foundation donations to personal and political use.  Why, I remember former Representative Chaka Fattah before he was consigned to the memory hole.  He u...

  • December 13, 2016

    The climate con game: British taxpayers discover $350 million ‘can’t be tracked’

    The global warming fraud is the greatest con game in the history of mankind.  Unraveling the web of chicanery will take at least as many years as establishing the fraud required, since the guilty parties that have profited immensely likely have ...

  • December 13, 2016

    Hacking the election: 37% of the precincts in Detroit reported more votes than voters

    By all means, let’s have a comprehensive review of election “hacking,” a term that should absolutely include systematic vote fraud.  For example: What could possibly be going in Detroit, a city controlled by Democrats as long a...

  • December 12, 2016

    Texas Muslim pleads guilty to setting Christmas Day fire at own mosque last year

    Just under a year ago, the cries of “Hate crime!” and insinuations of a “climate of hate” because of Donald Trump’s candidacy were fast and furious.  NBC News, ABC News, and the Washington Post were among the major ...

  • December 12, 2016

    Hi tech summit at the Trump Tower

    Well, well, well – here come the potentates of high technology, flying in from Silicon Valley to meet with the president-elect at Trump Tower.  Joe Rossignol of MacRumors.com writes: Apple CEO Tim Cook is among a small group...

  • December 12, 2016

    The epic fail of BDS

    The effort to mobilize academic leftists into helping to destroy Israel is falling on its face, exposing the pathetic emptiness of anti-Israel bluster.  The fact of Israel itself – the vibrant, innovative entrepreneurial and tech...

  • December 12, 2016

    Why on earth does Trump want Rex Tillerson at the State Department?

    The president-elect who loves surprising the media may have a really big project in mind.  Bigger, even, than huge. Many media sources are reporting that Rex Tillerson, CEO of Exxon-Mobil, is to be designated secretary of state, following a l...

  • December 11, 2016

    The great Russia-hacked-the-election con

    Most of the American media are “reporting” that President Obama ordered an investigation of “Russian hacking of our election,” and that the intelligence community “confirms” that it happened. Yet there is not yet a...

  • December 11, 2016

    Trump, the Generals, and the Mainstream Media

    The defeat-deranged elements of the American Left are unmasking themselves before the eyes of the nation’s electorate. The reaction to Donald Trump’s designation of three generals to senior posts has been hysterical in some of the farther...

  • December 10, 2016

    What about the neighbors of the Ghost Ship artists’ colony?

    What aggravates me the most about the Oakland artists’ colony fire story is how glaringly obvious the problem was to the neighborhood, for years. Here are some screenshots from Google, taken in 2014. You can see junk piled up on the side...

  • December 10, 2016

    Oops! Trump’s ‘sanctuary city’ penalties could cost Chicago $3.6 billion

    A multibillion-dollar game of chicken is unfolding between Rahm Emanuel and Donald Trump.  The Better Government Association (BGA) of Chicago is an independent watchdog, the need for which should be obvious to anyone with basic familiarity with ...

  • December 10, 2016

    University of California awards $841,000 bonus to investment officer who lost $791 million last year

    Wow – this is nice work if you can get it.  I have heard about participation trophies going to children who compete in athletic contests and lose, but the Regents of the University if California have taken the concept too far when the...

  • December 10, 2016

    Doing the math on Oakland fire inspections

    For the Ghost Ship artists' colony to have remained uninspected for 30 years, something would have to be seriously wrong with the management of the Oakland Fire Department's inspection system. Simple math tells the story. Needless to say, ...

  • December 10, 2016

    The reckoning: Who was the absolute worst pundit of the election?

    Is it schadenfreude season yet?  Surely, the epic failure of the pundit class deserves some commemoration.  There just has to be a reckoning for people who sold opinions that were completely off-base, out of touch, and hilariously arrogant....

  • December 10, 2016

    Hysteria breaking out among the warmists at the Department of Energy

    The global warming con may finally be facing a true reckoning.  For many years, the warmists have behaved as if they are hiding something, as the Climategate emails, among many other signs, revealed.  But so long as the greedy and power-hun...

  • December 9, 2016

    A thoughtcriminal speaks

    Oleg Atbashian, the gifted satirist and artist who founded The People’s Cube, has written a classic essay that deserves the widest possible circulation.  "How I Became a Thoughtcriminal" is a personal account of growing up in the...

  • December 9, 2016

    Georgia’s secretary of state accuses Jeh Johnson’s DHS of attempting to breach cyber-security firewall

    Democrats certainly have hacking and elections on their minds.  So what was Jeh Johnson’s Department of Homeland Security doing attempting to breach the firewall protecting the vote-counting secretary of state’s office in Georgia a f...

  • December 9, 2016

    Mayor of Oakland warns against ‘scapegoating’ lavishly paid city employees who failed to inspect deathtrap warehouse in 30 years

    The Ghost Ship warehouse/artists’ colony fire makes for a compelling drama.  And everyone knows that for a drama, you need villains, especially when a tragedy is as vivid as the horrible deaths of 36 mostly young adult creative explorers. ...

  • December 9, 2016

    So many reasons to love the designation of Andrew Puzder as head of the Department of Labor

    Liberal heads are exploding.  The forthcoming hearings are going to be perhaps the most entertaining of the entire Trump cabinet.  Donald Trump knows well how to goad his adversaries into overplaying their hands, and that is likely to be th...

  • December 8, 2016

    Understanding Trump’s Air Force One Political Theater

    Using the same skill set he employed during the presidential campaign, President-Elect Trump has crafted another public drama around a storyline of his choosing.  A highly predictable story arc – a series of subplots that unfold as time pa...

  • December 8, 2016

    A fascinating peek into the mentality of the liberal bubble

    The academic left is in much worse shape than I even realized. We can see how bad it has gotten in the read of the day: a fearless academic immersed in the world of New York City higher education calling out the shallow groupthink that characterizes ...

  • December 8, 2016

    One more example of Trump thinking two steps ahead of the Trump-haters

    Remember when Trump supposedly blundered into a diplomatic minefield he had no comprehension of by taking a phone call from the President of Taiwan? The same media that dismissed his presidential run as comedy were dead certain that disaster lay ahea...

  • December 7, 2016

    Another stunning Trump surprise: $50-billion investment in USA promised by Masayoshi Son

    The master showman who lives atop Trump Tower pulled off another media coup yesterday, descending to the lobby with billionaire Masayoshi Son, who announced plans to invest $50 billion in the U.S. economy and generate 50,000 jobs.  Best of all, ...

  • December 7, 2016

    Unions and their Democratic allies losing ‘bigly’ in the wake of Trump-led GOP sweep

    The large-scale money-laundering operation operated by the Democratic Party and its union boss allies will dwindle even farther in the next four years.  The practice of forcing workers to join a union and give up a portion of their wages, which ...

  • December 7, 2016

    David Brock surrenders to Fox News and plans pathetic ploy to keep the billionaires funding his empire

    One of the great villains of American politics must be getting desperate.  He has become used to getting billionaires of the Sorosphere to fund his tax-deductible operations like Media Matters, which spew out hatred for conservatives and Re...

  • December 7, 2016

    Bill de Blasio’s fate may rest with the Sessions Justice Department

    An ongoing investigation by the highly respected U.S. attorney for Southern New York, Preet Bharara, apparently is targeting the top levels at City Hall, and there are reasons to expect that if a case is brought, it will be under the leadership Jeff ...

  • December 6, 2016

    New technology better than fracking could vastly expand oil reserves

    Hydraulic fracturing, aka fracking, has revolutionized energy production in the United States and cornered OPEC.  That cartel is currently attempting to restrict oil production and raise prices, but it faces the reality that American frackers ca...

  • December 6, 2016

    Al Gore meets with Ivanka Trump and her father

    Many conservatives are worried that Al Gore ascended the elevators at Trump Tower and met first with Ivanka Trump and then with the president-elect: “I had a lengthy and very productive session with the president-elect. It was a since...

  • December 6, 2016

    Joe Biden jokingly reveals the pathetic lack of talent in the Democratic Party

    Joe Biden seemed to be joking around with a few reporters after a visit to the Senate in order to preside over a vote on a cancer research bill named after his son.  Speaking to the scribes after the ceremonial appearance, he waxed sentimen...

  • December 6, 2016

    Anti-hate video banned as hate speech

    YouTube appears to have committed an outrageous act of censorship, only to restore a video it deep-sixed after a protest and petition upped the pressure.  Kemberlee Kaye reports at Legal Insurrection: YouTube banned Prager University’...

  • December 6, 2016

    SEIU branch in Texas declares bankruptcy

    After losing a lawsuit and facing a $7.8-million judgment, Service Employees International Union Texas, alias SEIU District Five, has declared bankruptcy in order to escape the judgment.  The plaintiff is going after the national union, as it sh...

  • December 6, 2016

    Polling confirms Trump’s triumph with Carrier

    The narrative constructed by reality show genius and master persuader President-Elect Donald Trump is already causing the public to regard him more favorably – even among Democrats, according to polling published by Politico: Donald Trump...

  • December 5, 2016

    Tourist detained in Kazakhstan because immigration officials refuse to believe New Zealand is a country

    In a scene that could have come from the Sacha Baron Cohen movie Borat, a beautiful young woman from New Zealand – an adventuress seeking to explore the  natural wonders of the country – was detained for almost two days upon arrival ...

  • December 5, 2016

    The Democratic Party seems ready to throw Jews and Israel under the bus

    Once a key component of the Democrats’ coalition, religious Jews and Israel-supporters may no longer be ideologically welcomed in the party of progressivism.  Keith Ellison seems to have a clear path toward the chair of the Democratic Nati...

  • December 5, 2016

    Trump persuades Ben Carson to take the HUD Cabinet seat

    Newt Gingrich this morning on Fox and Friends gave away the real story behind the announcement today that Dr. Benjamin Carson has been “chosen” (AP’s word) secretary of Housing and Urban Development.  According to Newt, Do...

  • December 5, 2016

    Trump’s Taiwan phone call generates stupid media tricks

    Once again, Donald Trump has reframed the national conversation and provoked the media into unwise knee-jerk responses that will backfire.  Trump receiving a congratulatory from a democratically elected head of a state with which we have deep de...

  • December 4, 2016

    Trump tweets carrots and sticks to keep factories in the United States

    In his latest series of tweets, Donald Trump addresses companies that might be considering shipping jobs to Mexico or other low wage bases.  He starts with incentives, but invokes a contingency:   The U.S. is going to substantialy r...

  • December 4, 2016

    Trump could help Republicans pick up two more Senate seats

    There is a reasonable chance that two more Democrat Senate seats could be lost to the GOP when the next Congress convenes. Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia has got to be watching the deftness of the Trump transition and the chaos in his party, wh...

  • December 3, 2016

    Senator Gillibrand, Mad Dog, and Dirty Harry

    Please, Senator Gillibrand, make my day.  Go ahead and lead the opposition to the man our enemies already fear as “Mad Dog Mattis.”  Because: transgender. Her hometown newspaper, The Albany Times-Union, reports: U.S. Sen...

  • December 2, 2016

    The key to Trump’s Carrier deal: Next-generation manufacturing

    In his speech at Carrier yesterday (video embedded below), Donald Trump revealed some information that should comfort those market purists worried about America insulating itself from global markets and thereby falling behind overseas competitor...

  • December 2, 2016

    Trump offering a new social contract -- and industrial policy

    The scope of the vision of America presented by President-elect Trump yesterday is breathtaking. In both social and industrial policy he is changing direction and challenging the consensus fashioned and maintained by business, financial, academic and...

  • December 2, 2016

    Democrats’ donors dump the losers

    The Democratic Party so far is showing no signs of pulling out of its spiral downward.  Quite the contrary.  At least some donors watched the way the Hillary campaign and various PACs squandered their money and got nothing and are sayi...

  • December 1, 2016

    The ultimate symbol of Trump Derangement Syndrome?

    We may have found the perfect example of the madness gripping progressives and even some conservatives in the wake of Donald Trump’s election as president.  If I were a screenwriter, I could not come up with a more emblematic scene than a ...

  • December 1, 2016

    The Trump that baffles pundits

    Some really smart people absolutely cannot grasp what Donald Trump is up to.  Perhaps it is that his business background has taught him lessons that punditry, or any profession that depends on well-crafted use of abstract symbols like words and ...

  • December 1, 2016

    The climate scam corruption metastasizes

    The problem with a giant con game like global warming hysteria is that the baseline dishonesty ends up corrupting other institutions.  Academia is pre-eminent among the collateral corruptees, but even a Native American tribe in genuine peril is ...

  • November 29, 2016

    Sheila Jackson Lee beclowns herself on the Ohio State terror attack

    Texas Democrat Representative Sheila Jackson Lee has a lot of fixed ideas, and she manages to fit news events into a framework that reinforces her politics.  As a left-wing Democrat and member of the Congressional Black Caucus, she cleaves to ce...

  • November 29, 2016

    Why Trump is courting Romney for the State Department

    All the brouhaha over the alleged rifts within the Trump transition over Mitt Romney misses the point.  I think it is theatre, a distraction by the same man who was able to direct media attention where he wanted it all throughout the campaign. ...

  • November 28, 2016

    Media in mourning over Fidel Castro’s death

    The American media have been an indispensible ally to Fidel Castro throughout his dictatorship.  That love affair continues into his death, as famous talking heads rushed on air to pay tribute to his supposed triumph over poverty, illiteracy, il...

  • November 28, 2016

    Coming attractions in the Trump presidency: The Paris Climate Accord

    When he assumes the presidency, Donald Trump will deliver on his campaign promise to “cancel” the Paris Climate Accord in a way that has a big payoff for conservative principles.  Benny Peiser, director of the London-based Global War...

  • November 28, 2016

    Schadenfreude from San Francisco

    Here’s a little bit of fun for you today, if you are as lacking in character as I am when it comes to taking delight in the bewilderment and discombobulation of liberals enclaves over the election of Donald Trump.  In their strongholds lik...

  • November 26, 2016

    The Krugman crack-up and the madness of the Left

    There is a good case to be made that Paul Krugman is the ultimate liberal intellectual.  Sporting a Nobel Prize in Economics [actually the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, not established by Nobel and conde...

  • November 25, 2016

    Cut-off of federal funds to sanctuary cities is possible immediately upon inauguration of President Trump

    Thanks to a little noticed action of Texas congressman John Culberson taken last July, President-Elect Trump will able to cut off federal law enforcement funding to nine sanctuary cities, plus the entire state of California, immediately upon taking t...

  • November 25, 2016

    Arkansas Dem switches parties, hands GOP a supermajority in state House of Representatives

    This is the stuff of nightmares for Democrat bosses.  Already acutely aware of the down-ballot disaster Obama has inflicted on the party, they now have to deal with abandonment, as ambitious politicians see the handwriting on the wall.  Thi...

  • November 23, 2016

    Jared Kushner’s first interview reveals what the media completely missed in the Trump campaign

    Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner is shaping up to be a key figure in his presidency, after playing a decisive role in the campaign victory that shocked the political establishment and its media.  After staying quiet during the campa...

  • November 23, 2016

    Trump Derangement Syndrome costs Politico editor his job

    If the mainstream media were a snake, it would be swallowing its tail right now.  Liberal journalists, who completely failed to anticipate the Trump victory, are now striking out wildly, convinced that something terrible is about to happen becau...

  • November 22, 2016

    Former head of DNC calls Steve Bannon a 'Nazi'

    The Democrats’ hysteria over the presidential defeat and down-ticket collapse has hit bottom.  At this point, the more they shout, the worse it gets. Apparently, the former DNC head has never heard of Godwin’s Law and its corollar...

  • November 22, 2016

    Trump begins implementing his presidential media strategy

    Donald Trump summoned a group of “30 to 40” television executives and anchors to the Trump Tower yesterday and began a sophisticated media strategy.  Naturally, he is already being underrated, and his enemies do not understand w...

  • November 21, 2016

    ‘A rebel yell for Americanism’

    Here is a little bit of sunshine to brighten your holiday week, from an utterly unexpected source.  Faithful correspondent Michael Geer calls to our notice the opening sequence for Amazon Studios’ brand new television series, Grand Tour. ...

  • November 21, 2016

    NPR ombudsman: No more live interviews with conservatives

    The taxpayer-supported network National Public Radio (NPR) won’t be having interviews with conservatives live on the air anymore.  After all, it is dangerous to afford them an opportunity to express themselves fully, without the benefit of...

  • November 21, 2016

    Marine Le Pen, ‘far right’ anti-globalist, takes commanding lead in polls for president of France

    A specter haunts Europe, and its name is Trump.  A nightmare looms for the globalist elites, as France looks as though it will follow votes for Brexit in the U.K. and Trump in the United States, rejecting the unlimited flow of foreign nationals ...

  • November 21, 2016

    Warmists now want to tax food

    If you buy into the notion that carbon dioxide, the food for plants that feed us and the animals we use for meat, is poison, then this notion from hysterical "climate researchers" in the United Kingdom makes sense.  Eric Worrall report...

  • November 21, 2016

    Oh-oh! Donations plunge to Clinton Foundation as Hillary speech money dries up

    Even before her defeat for the presidency, Hillary Clinton’s departure from the Bill, Hillary, and Chelsea Clinton Foundation crippled its fundraising for that “good work” we have repeatedly been assured the foundation does.  L...

  • November 21, 2016

    A call to conservative artists to celebrate the election

    Andrew Breitbart’s injunction that conservatives must no longer ignore culture is summed up with his immortal words: “Politics is downstream from culture.”  Conservatives have a better grasp of human nature than liberals, for l...

  • November 21, 2016

    Master showman Trump had a great weekend

    Moving the interview process for senior appointees out to the Trump National Golf Club Bedminster was a smart move in terms of the images the public saw over the weekend.  As the wise Andrew Malcolm notes this morning in his column for McClatchy...

  • November 21, 2016

    Obama’s transition from ‘man of the people’ to ‘Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous’

    Whatever regrets he may have about his legacy vaporizing under President Trump and the Republican Congress, Barack Obama is going to enjoy his post-presidency as an ongoing reality show in the vein of Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous. The photo a...

  • November 19, 2016

    Watch as Tucker Carlson reams MSM reporter for acting as DNC stenographer attacking Jeff Sessions

    Members of the mainstream media still are having a hard time understanding that the old days in which they could get away with pretending to be journalists, not propagandists, are fading into memory.  Donald Trump called their bluff,  WikiL...

  • November 18, 2016

    Trump’s unheralded victory: Smashing the ‘Media Veto’

    The propagandists of Democrats’ media machine have more than met their match in Donald Trump. As conservatives know too well, until very recently, Republicans have gotten into the habit of caving in when push comes to shove on important issu...

  • November 17, 2016

    Liberal hysteria over Trump is rapidly becoming self-satire

    It turns out that the hundred million dollars’ worth of Hillary campaign demonization has paid off in creating millions of people gripped by hysteria over the utter evilness of Donald Trump.  Calling Trump Hitler is already passé, s...

  • November 17, 2016

    The coming Trump administration’s yuuuge transformational opportunity

    President Obama’s “fundamental transformation” of America may not outlast the Trump presidency.  But providence has handed the president-elect a staggeringly important tool with which to transform the U.S. economy and our geopo...

  • November 16, 2016

    The totalitarian impulse flourishes at George Mason University

    When the Nazis took over Germany, one of their strongest bases of support was found in that country’s famous universities.  Many faculty members were delighted as Jews were purged, opening up career opportunities, while students, with thei...

  • November 14, 2016

    Trump’s election is shaking up British politics, too

    Is there anything Donald Trump can’t do?  His election is shaking up (for the better) the ruling British Conservatives, as a high-powered team (two top political editors and the chief political correspondent) at the UK Telegraph explain: ...

  • November 14, 2016

    Coming attractions: Obama, the presidential kibitzer

    Make no mistake: Barack Obama is a loser, having placed his legacy on the ballot and facing its imminent destruction now that the voters have spoken.  As a highly skilled performance artist with a sense of timing, he has so far played the g...

  • November 10, 2016

    Scott Adams, the new superstar pundit

    Oh, how the mighty have fallen!  An embarrassed pundit class – the conservative NeverTrumps most of all – must acknowledge they collectively did not know anything useful about politics as practiced by Donald Trump.  It is a crus...

  • November 9, 2016

    No pardon for Hillary!

    President Obama reportedly called Donald Trump to congratulate him, a fine gesture in the direction of unity.  But if President Obama issues a blanket pardon for any Hillary Clinton crimes, as is his prerogative, that unity will be shattered, an...

  • November 9, 2016

    Hillary stiffs her supporters, doesn’t address crowd at NY party

    Hillary Clinton broke tradition and did not address the thousands of supporters gathered at New York’s Javits Center for a victory party.  No thanking them for their efforts.  No acknowledging their discomfort, and no call for nationa...

  • November 9, 2016

    How Harry Reid screwed over Chuck Schumer

    Chuck Schumer won an easy re-election victory for his Senate seat, but his dreams of becoming majority leader are as broken as Hillary’s moral compass.  But even worse, thanks to Harry Reid, Schumer won’t be able to stop Donald Trump...

  • November 9, 2016

    Civil Service reform should be near the top of Trump’s agenda

    The federal government requires structural reform. Because it is very expensive and time-consuming to fire anyone, bad behavior is not just tolerated but propagated. Civil Service protections originally intended to guard against a politicized bureauc...

  • November 9, 2016

    Students riot over Trump victory

    The usual suspects turned out for riots last night, protesting the people’s choice.  Hardcore leftists combined with students brainwashed by far-left faculties and held protest marches that turned violent in the Bay Area and Eugene, Oregon...

  • November 9, 2016

    Trump’s historic opportunity on climate

    Huge amounts of money are being squandered on useless, even counterproductive subsidies and regulations in the name of “halting climate change” (which has about as much a chance of succeeding as halting gravity).  As Holman Jenkins o...

  • November 7, 2016

    Looks as if the Clinton Foundation was used to enrich Chelsea and her husband

    WikiLeaks has released an email from Doug Band, the former Clinton body man who rose to bag man, claiming by implication that Chelsea Clinton committed a felony by appropriating charitable funds for her personal gain.  If the IRS is not blatantl...

  • November 6, 2016

    Report: Hillary’s maid had access to top-secret documents

    In between making the beds and dusting the antiques, Marina Santos, Hillary’s housekeeper in her Washington, DC mansion, printed up state secrets for her boss. And she had access to the secure room where top secret documents were housed. Hil...

  • November 6, 2016

    Hillary and Pantsuited Hip Hoppers

    In the midst of all the stress related to a close and ultra-high stakes election, you deserve a break. So read this delicious review of the odd coupling of Hillary Clinton and hip-hop superstars by Michelle Obama’s Mirror. I lack even basic kno...

  • November 5, 2016

    Hillary violated ethics agreement and accepted million-dollar secret donation to foundation from Arab petrostate

    See also: Qatar gift to Clinton Foundation underlines blackmail potential for Bill and Hillary Hillary Clinton’s contempt for rules that apply to others could not be clearer. Thanks to Wikileaks, we now know that her ethics agreement with th...

  • November 5, 2016

    Hillary’s circle of friends is even weirder than we suspected

    You can judge a person by the people she surrounds herself with. On that ground, Hillary Clinton should never be allowed access to the awesome power of the federal government. There is no need to mention to AT readers the bizarre background of Huma A...

  • November 5, 2016

    Liberalism’s ‘Oh, s**t!’ moment

    The criminal nature of the Clinton Foundation is now hiding in plain sight for those old fashioned liberals who watched their Democratic Party fall into the hands of Alinskyite leftists who believe that rules are for the other guy.  At the same ...

  • November 4, 2016

    Obama’s biggest lie ever?

    Is Barack Obama delusional, or did he think there are voters so stupid that they would believe him yesterday when he claimed about Republican predictions on Obamacare, "None of what they said has happened." If you don’t believe ...

  • November 4, 2016

    Progressive Hollywood icon: DNC is ‘completely corrupt’

    America’s left wing is divided over Hillary Clinton, and even though the media prefer to ignore the story and pretend that only the GOP has significant internal resistance to its nominee.  Bernie Sanders, who once led a wildly enthusiastic...

  • November 4, 2016

    Campaigning for Hillary yesterday, Obama mentions himself 207 times

    Remember that Donald Trump is supposedly a narcissist as you consider the following.  The President of the United States took time off from his awesome responsibilities yesterday to fly to two cities in Florida, Miami and Jacksonville, and gave ...

  • November 4, 2016

    Hillary starting to lose it on the campaign trail

    Even though she makes only a fraction of the number of campaign appearances Donald Trump does, Hillary Clinton is losing mental focus, and slipping out of the tightly scripted routines she has memorized. The results aren’t pretty, especially wh...

  • November 3, 2016

    Bombshell break for Trump buried in the latest Rasmussen poll

    Late polling traditionally tightens in presidential races, as propagandistic polls with samples biased toward one candidate or another start to refine their models in order to be not too far off from the final vote counts. What is unusual, ma...

  • November 2, 2016

    Has the Hillary campaign run out of oppo research surprises?

    It has been taken as a given that the Hillary Clinton campaign has been withholding a devastating negative story about Donald Trump until just days before next Tuesday.  After all, the Clintons have been masters of digging up dirt on people who ...

  • November 1, 2016

    WikiLeaks reveals Clinton staff knew Weiner was texting underage girls five years ago

    The art of the marriage deal between Huma Abedin and Anthony Weiner seems to have included tolerating perversion with underage girls.  The latest email release from WikiLeaks has exposed what Huma and Hillary are willing to tolerate so long as t...

  • November 1, 2016

    Comey’s game

    James Comey finds himself at the center of the bitterest, most divisive presidential election in memory, a fate he sought to avoid.  Having decided not to recommend prosecution of Hillary Clinton in July, his hand was evidently forced when agent...

  • October 31, 2016

    Blockbuster report on internal FBI conflict over investigating Clinton machine

    Is it a crisis yet?  The fate of a criminal probe into the activities of a possible president has been fought behind closed doors.  The nation’s premier investigative agency allegedly is riven by conflict over investigating Hillary Cl...

  • October 31, 2016

    The presidential race has changed because The Awful Truth about the Clintons is sinking in

    I admit that my jaw dropped yesterday as I watched Doug Schoen announce that he is no longer able to support Hillary Clinton for president, as described on these pages by Jeannie DeAngelis.  Anyone who has watched national politics closely over ...

  • October 31, 2016

    Hillary did two favors for Morocco, and then Clinton Foundation collected $28 million from them

    It’s pay-to-play government, period.  No doubt, all the principals will claim they were independently acting in the best interest of the Americna people, but the events speak to an inner logic.  Richard Pollock of the Daily Caller New...

  • October 30, 2016

    Joe DiGenova: FBI agents refused orders to destroy laptops and they still exist

    Joseph DiGenova, a former US Attorney and Washington, DC superlawyer is no flake. He has plenty of contacts within the FBI and a reputation to protect. So I take his words on Sirius/XM’s David Webb show quite seriously, as reported by Kerry Pic...

  • October 30, 2016

    Hillary’s eyes went out of sync again yesterday at her Daytona Beach rally

    The mainstream media have decided that the brain injuries causing Hillary Clinton’s eyes to move out of sync with each other are a non-issue.  The problem is literally staring us in the face as time and again, Hillary starts to go crazy-ey...

  • October 29, 2016

    Carlos Danger may have opened Pandora’s Box for Huma and Hillary

    The criminal investigation underway over Anthony Weiner’s alleged child sex infraction has a couple of characteristics that make it especially awkward for Hillary Clinton and Huma Abedin, the estranged wife of Weiner and close companion of Hill...

  • October 28, 2016

    An essential guide to the WikiLeaks revelations on Hillary

    Clarice Feldman tipped me off to what looks like a great resource: a website that organizes the vast flood of data from WikiLeaks and other sources such as the FBI documents and focuses on the crucial issues.  It is an anonymous piece of work, a...

  • October 28, 2016

    3 competing theories on why the FBI re-opened the Hillary email server investigation

    There is no question that re-opening the FBI Investigation into Hillary Clinton’s email server is a big deal. The FBI normally avoids acting just before an election in order to avoid charges of political manipulation.  NBC reports: Th...

  • October 27, 2016

    Watch as Hillary grabs aide’s hand to climb up one step

    If you desire steady leadership for the Republic, Hillary Clinton is not your gal.  She is now so unsteady on her feet that climbing up one step now requires the assistance of an ever present aide. Geordie Barrington of The American Mirror no...

  • October 27, 2016

    WikiLeaks reveals grifters sparring with each other over spoils at the Clinton Foundation

    Yesterday saw what could be the most meaningful release in the ongoing WikiLeaks saga.  It so big that the New York Times, Washington Post, and other MSM pilot fish are devoting lots of space to it.  In it was a 13-page memo written by Doug...

  • October 26, 2016

    Sparks fly as Megyn Kelly and Newt Gingrich clash on air

    Newt Gingrich, never a shrinking violet when it comes to fighting back against biased questions, met Megyn Kelly on air last night, and an epic battle erupted.  As Election Day nears and the mainstream media drumbeat of doom for Donald intensifi...

  • October 25, 2016

    Going Alinsky on affirmative action

    Saul Alinsky taught generations of leftists to make their opponents live up to their own ideals. RULE 4: “Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.” If the rule is that every letter gets a reply, send 30,000 letters. You can k...

  • October 24, 2016

    O’Sullivan’s First Law and the Muslim invasion

    Former National Review editor and Margaret Thatcher speechwriter John O’Sullivan famously taught us, “All organizations that are not actually right-wing will over time become left-wing.”  Currently, one plank of the progressive...

  • October 24, 2016

    Why does Jeep think this will help sell their vehicles?

    Jeep is a subsidiary of Chrysler, which survives only thanks to billions of dollars of taxpayer bailouts.  Chrysler itself is a subsidiary of Fiat.  This globalist entity is, as Paul Budline emails me: … actually using terror-ap...

  • October 23, 2016

    FBI and DoJ are ignoring evidence of crimes in Project Veritas Action videos

    Ahem, where is the criminal investigation of apparent crimes, conspiracies to violate the civil rights of Trump supporters, and possibly riot, for starters?  And where is the media clamor to get to the bottom of this frightening perversion of de...

  • October 23, 2016

    Buried Clinton impeachment documents must be devastating

    In the current election environment, in which the media have determined that boorish behavior toward women in the past is the principle issue facing the Republic, attention inevitably goes to Bill Clinton, who was, after all impeached in the wake of ...

  • October 22, 2016

    As civil society crumbles, flash mob loots Apple store

    Make no mistake: we are sliding toward something like a third-world urban reality, with street violence frequent and law enforcement unwilling or unable to do much about it.  In certain Latin American, Asian, and African cities, stores containin...

  • October 21, 2016

    Wikileaks reveals that Hillary’s such a crooked politician that she doesn’t even stay bought

    Pity the King of Morocco, who paid up 12 million bucks (equal to the economic output of 3,761 Moroccans working for one year) to buy an appearance in his country by Secretary of State Clinton, and had to settle for Bill and Chelsea.  Thanks to W...

  • October 20, 2016

    USC-LA Times poll shows Trump slightly ahead and rising, Hillary falling

    Throughout the election, the USC Dornsife/LA Times Presidential Election Poll has been an outlier, showing Trump more favorably than other polls, often by substantial margins.  It uses a radically different design and is intended in particu...

  • October 20, 2016

    Blast from the past: Al Gore explains why he won’t concede election

    The tidal wave of harrumphing over Donald Trump’s refusal to endorse the probity of the voting and vote-counting to come is quite amusing to me.  I remember eight years of accusations from Bush 43 opponents that his election was “sto...

  • October 20, 2016

    Cracking the whip on MSM dissidents

    The orders have gone out: outrage at Donald Trump is the required response to his remarks on accepting the election results.  A narrative has been written, and it is important that no other thoughts be allowed to reach those who live in the New ...

  • October 19, 2016

    Justice Sotomayor’s thuggish fantasy

    A remarkable moment took place Monday night, as a sitting justice of the Supreme Court of the United States expressed her fantasy of taking a baseball bat to Justice Scalia during sessions on the bench, if only one had been handy.  Josh Verges o...

  • October 19, 2016

    Robert Creamer, caught on camera talking about provoking violence at Trump events, visited the Obama White House 340 times

    The shocking video by James O’Keefe and Project Veritas Action has so far not been screened on the mainstream networks, but it cannot be totally embargoed in the age of social media.  It shows Robert Creamer discussing provoking mayhem at ...

  • October 18, 2016

    Three little words that change everything: quid pro quo

    Even casual observers of politics-as-sports realize that the Latin expression quid pro quo (“this for that”) signifies an important legal standard – a red line, if you will.  Courtroom dramas, congressional hearings, and covera...

  • October 18, 2016

    FBI dissent against Comey leaking out to the public

    Before we declare the election over, let’s hear from the dissenters within the FBI, who appear to be as outraged as I am by James Comey’s recommendation of no prosecution for Hillary Clinton.  The difference is that they know exactly...

  • October 18, 2016

    Revealing Hillary’s agents of influence

    The existence of a shadowy cadre of agents coordinating the influence-peddling of the Clinton Machine has been revealed by an important article in USA Today.  Kevin McCoy writes: The nexus among private companies, Hillary Clinton’s St...

  • October 17, 2016

    Eric Holder named to lead effort to destroy GOP after Hillary wins the presidency

    This election is for keeps: plans are being implemented, with President Obama already signed on, staff hired, and money being raised.  Perhaps lulled into complacency by the MSM polls, the Democrats have already constructed and staffed their str...

  • October 17, 2016

    Trump son-in-law reportedly scoping out possibility of setting up a TV network after the election

    No matter the outcome of the presidential race, this election has demonstrated the emergence of a new populist anti-establishment audience for cable news.  Fox News Channel, set up to address the non-liberal viewing public whose perspectives wer...

  • October 16, 2016

    Once again in wake of hot mic tape, predictions of Trump doom were wrong

    How many times have the know-it-all pundits written off Donald Trump? They have been wrong every time, the latest being the most famous male bull session in history that supposedly ended the possibility of a Trump win with only 20-some news cycles le...

  • October 15, 2016

    Chelsea Agonistes: Wikileaks reveals the moment a daughter starts to realize her parents are corrupt

    The biggest human interest story so far of the Wikileaks hack is the story of Chelsea Clinton’s discovery in 2011 that her parents’ nonprofit was full of conflicts of interest.  They had set up a charity that allowed donors to get th...

  • October 15, 2016

    James O’Keefe promises blockbuster video next week

    Appearing on Reddit last night, James’ O’Keefe promised what sounds like undercover video showing corruption, confirming some of what was revealed by Wikileaks:  We have video confirmation of things mentioned in Wikileaks. Wikilea...

  • October 14, 2016

    FBI revolt reportedly building against Comey letting Hillary’s obvious violations of Espionage Act go unprosecuted

    James Comey's nightmare scenario is starting to unfold. The American public’s belief in the integrity of the FBI has cratered.  Over half of Americans already disagreed with Director James Comey’s decision to not recommend pr...

  • October 14, 2016

    Michael Issikoff says NBC is sitting on devastating tape of Juanita Broaddrick

    The NBC subsidiary of Comcast is reportedly combing its archives for material damaging to Donald Trump but ignoring requests to air the full interview with Juanita Broaddrick by Lisa Myers 17 years ago. According to Brent Schur of the Free Be...

  • October 13, 2016

    Trump campaign preparing defamation lawsuit against the New York Times

    Despite the prevailing wisdom that it is virtually impossible for a “public figure” to win a libel action against the media, unnamed sources in the Trump campaign tell the Washington Examiner’s Gabby Morrongiello that a defamation l...

  • October 13, 2016

    Wikileaks reveals exactly how the Clinton campaign, bullies, seduces, manipulates and dominates its media coverage

    The operating procedures of media management, Clinton style, are being revealed, as the torrent of Wikileaks releases continues. Howard Kurtz of Fox News has gone through the recent tranches, and puts together a very interesting portrait of the Rulin...

  • October 13, 2016

    Rasmussen poll today shows Trump in the lead

    To tell the truth, nobody knows who will turn out, and who will stay home. Early voting is capable of throwing a curveball, too. So I regard all polling with suspicion. But that said, Trump’s strong debate performance and the normal rhythm of c...

  • October 12, 2016

    Hillary and her media allies throw rape victims under the bus

    Now that Hillary Clinton needs to keep the media focus on naughty words of a decade ago, and away from the women her husband sexually assaulted, rape victims have lost their protected status. It's good-bye to "right to be believed" and ...

  • October 11, 2016

    The 11-point lead for Hillary in WSJ-NBC poll sure looks like psy-ops

    The NeverTrumps got a huge boost when the first poll out after the infamous bawdy tapes showed an 11 point lead for Hillary a month before the election. That is an insurmountable margin, we have been instructed. And barring a smoking gun Wikileaks re...

  • October 9, 2016

    Flash poll: GOP voters sticking with Trump

    Despite hurricane-force media hype that Donald Trump’s locker room talk over a decade ago precludes him from the presidency, the GOP base is ignoring its leadership and standing by Donald Trump.  A poll by Politico shows:  A wave...

  • October 9, 2016

    Will the Sandernistas wake up and realize they’ve been conned?

    The Wikileaks publication of transcripts of Hillary Clinton’s speeches in which she proclaimed her “dream” of open borders and open trade, and in which she admitted a separation from the loves of the middle class ought to have cause...

  • October 8, 2016

    Is Trump a goner?

    The Clinton Organization’s oppo research capabilities are without peer in the world of American politics.  The value of strategically timed embarrassing info on an opponent, leaked at the precisely correct moment, was proved in 2000 when A...

  • October 7, 2016

    As hundreds die in Haiti Hurricane Matthew disaster, awkward questions about billions of dollars Clinton Foundation raised to help it

    The supposedly “wonderful work” that the Clinton Foundation does for the world’s poor has had a massive focus on Haiti. Yet, for all the billions of dollars raised to help that beleaguered nation recover from a devastating earthquak...

  • October 7, 2016

    Chicago cop badly beaten because she hesitated using gun in the wake of #BlackLivesMatter protests

    Murder rates are soaring in our nation’s largest cities, as police officers behave exactly as human beings do when criticized – in this instance for being too proactive, and too anxious to use firearms. As a result, law abiding residents ...

  • October 6, 2016

    Hillary’s recovered emails reveal her pulling strings for Chelsea’s ‘best friend’ to get consulting contracts

    Federal ethics rules are crystal-clear: government employees “shall act impartially and not give preferential treatment to any private organization or individual.”  But that’s not how it worked in Hillary Clinton’s State ...

  • October 6, 2016

    18 years of health scares for Hillary, assembled in one place

    Do you know anyone who dismisses your concern about Hillary Clinton’s health? Someone who says that she looked just fine in the first debate, and who dismisses your concerns as conspiracy theories?  Well, Tyler O’Neil of PJ Media has...

  • October 5, 2016

    Federal appeals court orders Election Day voter registration in Chicago

    The operative question in Chicago on Election Day may be not “How many votes were cast?,” but rather “How many votes do the Democrats need?”*  Tina Sfondeles of the Chicago Sun-Times reports the court decision that makes ...

  • October 5, 2016

    MSNBC actually does some candid campaign reporting

    I tip my hat to Stephanie Ruhle of MSNBC, who provided us with a memorable moment the other day.  If Hillary Clinton manages to lose this election to Donald Trump, this moment will be included in a lot of documentaries.  As noted by T. Beck...

  • October 5, 2016

    Kaine’s bad performance matters more than you think

    It is now a received truth of punditry that vice presidential debates don’t matter.  The humiliation Dan Quayle experienced at the hand of Lloyd Bentsen did not hand the presidency to Michael Dukakis, after all.  But I think this year...

  • October 4, 2016

    Bill Clinton calls Obamacare a ‘crazy system’ that ‘doesn’t make any sense’

    Bill Clinton understands that the public is fed up with the skyrocketing costs, stratospheric deductibles, and vanishing insurance providers of Obamacare, and he wants to save Hillary from going down with the ship.  So President Obama’s si...

  • October 4, 2016

    Persecuting prominent Trump supporters

    The gloves are off: those who support Trump openly and effectively are being persecuted.  The academics (including me) who signed a letter of support for Trump are dismissed as “hacks” by a New York Times columnist touted as a conser...

  • October 4, 2016

    FBI agreed to destroy evidence in Clinton email investigation immunity deals

    The FBI investigation into the Hillary Clinton secret and private email server used to conduct government business and then “bleached” of tens of thousands emails looks a lot like a cover-up.  The latest revelation, coming in a lette...

  • October 4, 2016

    War peril looms as Obama/Clinton Russia ‘reset’ policy in ruins

    Potentially the single biggest threat to our well-being is the threat of war with nuclear-armed Russia, a threat that Barack Obama airily dismissed in a presidential debate with Mitt Romney four years ago, when the challenger named Russia as a foreig...

  • October 4, 2016

    Two prominent NeverTrumps show signs of wavering

    I always assumed that NeverTrump fever would subside among most conservative pundits by the time the election came.  Declaring oneself outraged or in fear of the possibility that Donald Trump could become commander in chief was quite popular for...

  • October 3, 2016

    Awkward: Sanders-Clinton joint appearance canceled in wake of Hillary insulting Sanders supporters as basement dwellers

    Democrats are scrambling to paper over the rift in their party between the Clinton faction, bought off by globalist crony capitalists, and the Sanders-supporting, debt-ridden, lumpen college graduates who want free stuff.  Among her wealthy peer...

  • October 3, 2016

    NYT in 2016: Trump in 1995 was a money-losing tax-avoider; NYT in 1995: Trump is the ‘comeback king’

    Well, this requires some explanation.  The New York Times was full of enthusiasm for Donald Trump’s “comeback of the decade” when he recovered from investments that went sour, including in Atlantic City and the Trump Shuttle. ...

  • October 3, 2016

    Trump’s tax loss carry forward is so despicable that the New York Times and Hillary Clinton both used the same provision

    The Sunday edition front-page hit-piece story the New York Times did on Donald Trump’s potential use of the loss of nearly a billion dollars on one year to shield taxes in other years was designed to persuade morons.  There is no substanti...

  • October 3, 2016

    Blacks boycotting Hillary’s campaign events

    Oh, it’s no organized boycott, mind you, just a grassroots response to the frosty, rich white lady who travels around like some empress.  The irrepressible Sundance of Conservative Treehouse points out the media’s complicity of silen...

  • October 3, 2016

    Intrigue surrounds the Wikileaks ‘October surprise’ for Hillary

    Julian Assange has promised an “October Surprise” for Hillary Clinton and was scheduled to deliver it Tuesday in London, only to cancel because of security concerns. Fox News: Julian Assange canceled a much-anticipated announcemen...

  • October 2, 2016

    Watch as Univ. of Kansas SJWs insult, berate, and shout down conservative students seeking dialogue

    A dark age descends on America’s campuses, fostered and welcomed by the disciples of Gramsci that have seized control of the commanding heights of education and culture.  In place of the sacred academic tradition of open inquiry, they have...

  • October 2, 2016

    New York Times violates law to publish partial Trump tax return from 90s and speculate about his taxes

    See also: Trump, Taxes and the Times Trump Derangement Syndrome has led the New York Times to willfully violate federal law in order to speculate about what taxes Donald Trump may or may not have been paying.  In a front-page article, built o...

  • October 2, 2016

    Minneapolis taxpayers must pay public housing rent for Somalis that spend their income on travel back to Somalia

    What a deal! Come to the United States, and if you spend your income (even that from welfare and refugee programs) on travel to Somalia instead of paying your rent in public housing, whey the suckers taxpayers of Minneapolis will pick up the tab. The...

  • October 1, 2016

    Hillary caught on tape mocking millennials living in parents’ basement and wanting free college

    Hillary Clinton was secretly recorded at a fundraiser for wealthy donors mocking and condescending to the millennials who backed Bernie Sanders.  The recording and transcripts were released by The Intercept, a site financially backed by Pierre O...

  • October 1, 2016

    White House crosses out ‘Israel’ on its press release following the Peres funeral

      It was a moment rich with symbolism when, following the funeral of Israel’s Shimon Peres, the White House Press Office issued a correction to its press release, scratching out the State of Israel: Faced with then embarrassment ...

  • September 30, 2016

    The reality of Chicago’s murder rate

    Political correctness is lethal, and the killing fields of Chicago provide ample evidence to those willing to look at it with clear eyes. The Associated Press manages to provide some surprisingly frank details on the real nature of the outbreak o...

  • September 30, 2016

    India launches attacks into Pakistani territory and Pakistan threatens nuclear retaliation to ‘destroy India’

    While American politics is focused on something mean Donald Trump said to a Hispanic woman 20 years ago, Armageddon may be brewing in the other side of the world.  There is no way to sugarcoat this, other than to hope it is an empty nuclear thre...

  • September 29, 2016

    Scholars and Writers for America declare support for Trump

    A strong taboo exists in academia and the media against expressing support for Donald Trump. In fact, the taboo extends to many professions and segments of society that rely on academic credentials.  I regularly hear from people who tell me abou...

  • September 28, 2016

    Playboy features first ever photo shoot of woman with a hijab

    In a sure sign that the end is near, Playboy is featuring a profile article with photos of its female subject clad in a hijab.  That’s right: the magazine that built a once prosperous empire based on nude photos of busty women is now ...

  • September 28, 2016

    UN panel race-shames America, demands reparations for blacks

    The movement to get America out of the United Nations and into an alliance of democracies instead just got a big boost.  The United Nations is a vehicle for the some of the worst regimes on the planet to puff their chests and strut their stuff....

  • September 28, 2016

    Hillary’s Trump victim ‘Miss Piggy’ turns out to be not so sympathetic a character

    The Brooklyn Brain Trust that runs Hillary Clinton’s campaign didn’t do its vetting properly.  David Martosko of the UK Daily Mail: The former Miss Universe at the center of a bitter exchange in Monday's presidential de...

  • September 28, 2016

    Politico: Clinton campaign in ‘full panic mode’ over black vote

    For some reason that nobody understands, a haughty rich white woman is having difficulty igniting turnout fever among African-American voters, especially in Florida.  Mark Caputo and Daniel Ducassi write in Politico: To kill Donald Trump...

  • September 27, 2016

    Howard Dean disgraces himself over Trump

    How low are the Democrats prepared to go to defeat Donald Trump?  Former Vermont governor, presidential candidate, and DNC head Howard Dean is leading the charge into the gutter by suggesting in a tweet that the reason Donald Trump had sniffles ...

  • September 27, 2016

    What you saw at the debate last night depends on who you are

    There is something close to a consensus view among pundits that Hillary Clinton “won” the first presidential debate.  As has been true throughout the campaign, the pundits are wrong about Trump. The kind of people who watch a pre...

  • September 27, 2016

    The visuals at the debate

    Joe Bob Briggs has an excellent encapsulation of the visual impressions left by the two candidates at Taki’s Magazine: The great thing about watching a Presidential debate with a split screen is that you get to watch the face that’s ...

  • September 26, 2016

    Trump promises to move US Embassy to Jerusalem

    Israeli prime minister Netanyahu held two separate meetings with Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton yesterday, but the two meetings were very different.  The P.M. spent 90 minutes on Trump’s turf at Trump Tower with Trump, Israel’s amb...

  • September 26, 2016

    How bad could it get for Hillary tonight?

    I really don’t want to make light of serious medical problems, but we have to face it that there is a downside (no pun intended – believe me) to exposing Hillary Clinton to a high-stress ordeal, standing on her feet for 90 minutes, while ...

  • September 24, 2016

    Hillary and the debate rules

    Against expectations, the Presidential Debate Commission has adopted rules that do not favor Hillary Clinton.  She will have to stand the entire 90 minutes.  With no stool.  And no commercial breaks.  Her campaign’s request ...

  • September 23, 2016

    Is Hillary psyching herself out for the debate?

    If I were capable of feeling empathy for Hillary Clinton, I would be full of concern for her mental and physical state as she prepares for a 90-minute ordeal Monday night at Hofstra University.  We are seeing very little of her lately, as unspec...

  • September 23, 2016

    Finally! The Clinton Family has a compound

    As every Godfather fan knows, you’ve got to have a compound when your famiglia hits the big time.  I am sure we are supposed to associate “family compound” with the words “Hyannis” and “Kennedy,” but for...

  • September 22, 2016

    Vote fraud and the future of the republic

    The left is making a bet that its vote fraud efforts can be disguised from the public long enough to win this election, and then open the floodgates to ensure that the left permanently rules America (and completes the fundamental transformation Obama...

  • September 22, 2016

    David Brock’s money machine looks a lot like a money laundering operation

    Thanks to a thorough review of publicly available financial reports of the IRS-certified nonprofit empire of David Brock, Andrew Kerr of thecitizensaudit.com (reprinted in Zerohedge) has exposed some potentially criminal activity that, at the le...

  • September 22, 2016

    Explosive charges on the Clintons exploiting Haiti aid funds

    Normally, I don’t cite reports from websites that I don’t know anything about.  But a site called newsjunkiepost.com has some very interesting facts and allegations about the Clintons and Haitian relief, where billions of dollars hav...

  • September 21, 2016

    Why are Hillary’s eyes moving out of sync with each other?

    There is something really strange – unnerving, actually – about the way Hillary Clinton’s eyeballs move out of sync with one another during a speech she gave at Temple University on Monday.  As I noted yesterday, she was s...

  • September 21, 2016

    Hillary implicitly blames ‘white people’ for police shootings

    The two police shootings, in Tulsa, Oklahoma and Charlotte, North Carolina (where serious riots erupted overnight), seem to spell opportunity to Hillary Clinton.  She desperately needs for African-Americans to be angry – angry at police an...

  • September 21, 2016

    Hillary suddenly cancels fundraiser, offering no reason

    In the realm of campaign priorities, small, high-dollar fundraisers usually are the last events to be cancelled when a candidate needs to rest up.  This makes the news all the more surprising that Hillary canceled exactly such an event – o...

  • September 21, 2016

    It looks as if Obama is setting the stage for mass pardons

    OK, call me cynical if you will, but I am familiar enough with science-on-demand and the vast electoral advantage to Democrats of tapping the felon vote that I think this is a sign that President Obama intends to grant mass pardons after the ele...

  • September 21, 2016

    ‘Birther Trap’ is closing on Hillary crony Sidney Blumenthal

    I expect the mainstream media to drop the anti-Trump foray into stigmatizing Donald Trump as a racist for noting the anomalies in the then-public documentation of Barack Obama.  Pinning leadership of “the birther movement” (how come ...

  • September 21, 2016

    CNN actually defends misquoting Trump

    Having been busted for inserting the word “racial” before “profiling” and misquoting Donald Trump, the network is now blatantly defending making up a quote because “Donald Trump clearly meant racial profiling when h...

  • September 20, 2016

    CNN busted again, quoting Trump using a highly charged word he never used

    CNN, formally known as the “Cable News Network,” needs to rename itself CPN, the “Clinton Propaganda Network.”  The pioneer cable broadcaster has just sacrificed its reputation as a news provider by actively altering the ...

  • September 20, 2016

    Hillary helped up stairs again at Temple University speech

    It is now obvious that Hillary Clinton is in no shape for the rigors of campaigning, much less the killing responsibilities of the presidency.  Where’s the compassion? Hillary Clinton was spotted by Getty Images photographer Justin Sull...

  • September 19, 2016

    Obama to Black Caucus: An ‘insult’ to my legacy if you don’t vote for Hillary

    Barack Obama has gone full caudillo, raising the notion of a “legacy” that must be protected from “insult” – meaning a vote for anyone but his choice to succeed him.  This highly personalized view of government as a...

  • September 19, 2016

    Panic in the Hillary campaign as minorities abandoning her in latest polls

    Hillary Clinton is hemorrhaging support from the black and Hispanic voters she has been counting on to push her to victory with high turnout and support in the 90% range.  The USC Dornsife/LA Times tracking poll, which tracks about 3,000 eligibl...

  • September 19, 2016

    Boo-hoo! Lefty moans that ‘terror’ is now associated with ‘Muslim’ in public mind

    Richard Fowler is one of the Fox News contributors trotted out to bolster the network’s claim to be fair and balanced.  He can usually be counted on to do a capable job of expressing the lefty talking points of the day.  This raises t...

  • September 19, 2016

    Millennials abandoning Hillary

    On top of blacks and Hispanics refusing to play their anticipated role as nearly monolithic Hillary voters, the other key demographic group she has been counting on has apparently had its fill of Herself.  Dante Chinni of NBC News reports: ...

  • September 19, 2016

    The key to understanding Hillary

    Kurt Schlichter of Townhall believes he has found it, and I think he makes a strong case. I n any event, it is highly entertaining.  Read the whole thing: There is one key fact to understand about Hillary Clinton, one unarguable truth that ...

  • September 19, 2016

    Hillary has boxed herself in

    Hillary’s dazed and confused airborne presser has raised more questions about her health.  “What’s wrong with Hillary?” asks Steve Hayward of Powerline.  She is officially in a no-win situation, where any lightening ...

  • September 18, 2016

    Police stumped over motive of mall attacker who spoke of ‘Allah’ and asked victims if they were Muslim before attacking them

    OK, I get it. Police don’t want to jump to conclusions in high profile cases. But can police authorities please stop insulting the public when a Muslim starts attacking random strangers while yelling about Allah? The latest example of studied i...

  • September 18, 2016

    The Reversion of the NeverTrumps Continues

    The NeverTrump movement is on its way to obscurity, destined to become a question in future political trivia contests.  Once feared as a portent of a GOP catastrophe in November that would see Democrats sweep into control of Congress and the Whi...

  • September 18, 2016

    Hilarious! Hillary calls NY and NJ attacks ‘bombings’ – and seconds later attacks Trump for calling NY a ‘bombing’

    Even low information voters are going to start to notice the ridiculous double standard applied to Donald Trump by the media. But rarely do events sort themselves out to show so clearly the willingness to attack Trump for the same acts or words Hilla...

  • September 17, 2016

    If Hillary withdraws from the race

    Democrats may be in shock over Hillary Clinton’s disastrous showing on the campaign trail in the last week, but if she withdraws from the race, it will not be an easy task to unify behind a substitute.  In fact, a new poll from Rasmussen i...

  • September 17, 2016

    Hillary falls into Trump’s birther trap

    Once again, Donald Trump has outsmarted his opponents in multiple dimensions.  Trump haters are in high dudgeon over yesterday’s repudiation of the notion that Obama was born outside the United States.  John Hinderaker of Powerline ex...

  • September 16, 2016

    BLM leader mugged, demands more police patrols

    Jerry Ford, Jr., a graduate student at the University of Houston, is a student leader in the #BlackLivesMatter movement, and now he is a crime victim, too.  Returning home to his off-campus apartment, he was mugged Tuesday night.  His respo...

  • September 16, 2016

    Stunning accusation: Hillary campaign ripping off small donors with unauthorized charges

    If the evidence assembled by Liz Crokin in the New York Observer proves out, the Hillary Clinton campaign has engaged in wire fraud and other grave federal crimes.  That is why it is so hard to believe, especially considering that the New York O...

  • September 16, 2016

    Trump’s Tonight Show triumph

    Donald Trump presented perhaps the most important policy presentation of his campaign yesterday to the Economic Club of New York, and yet it pales in electoral impact to his appearance on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon.  No TV news oper...

  • September 14, 2016

    Dr. Ted Noel explains why the pneumonia story is bunk, and Hillary likely has Parkinson’s

    Dr. Ted Noel, former director of the NovaMed Surgery Center in Orlando, rocketed to fame with a video in which he explained the close match between the signs of Parkinson’s disease and Hillary Clinton’s visible symptomatic behavior. ...

  • September 14, 2016

    Chaffetz committee uncovers yet another apparent crime related to Hillary’s email server

    How does one keep track of all the ways in which negligence has compromised national security in the course of Hillary Clinton’s private email server follies?  Not that anything she did would pass James Comey’s muster for “crim...

  • September 14, 2016

    Colin Powell on Hillary: ‘Everything HRC touches she kind of screws up with hubris’

    Oops!  Colin Powell’s Gmail account has been hacked by the operative(s) known as Guccifer 2, widely believed to be linked to Russian intelligence, and the results given to the site DC Leaks.  Rather than publishing the complete files,...

  • September 13, 2016

    Captive media talking heads push Hillary’s spin on her health

    We are at a high point in the annals of media manipulation when it comes to the vital question of Hillary Clinton’s health.  The stakes could not be higher from Hillary’s point of view.  She has waited her turn, deferring to the...

  • September 13, 2016

    Long knives being unsheathed as ‘dump Hillary’ initiative floated

    Like a lame wildebeest on the Serengeti, Hillary Clinton’s illness is attracting the attention of those who see opportunity.  Make no mistake: the Clintons, for all the superficial unity the Democrats bludgeon each other into, have sparked...

  • September 12, 2016

    Now that we know Hillary campaign concealed pneumonia diagnosis, it is fair to ask what else they are concealing

    It is no longer the realm of “conspiracy theory” to posit that the Clinton presidential campaign has concealed highly relevant facts about the candidate’s health.  It is the only reasonable assumption. The campaign has in effec...

  • September 12, 2016

    Forget Trump for now, Hillary’s big problem is the ‘dump Hillary’ impulse among powerful Democrats

    Imagine for a moment you are a powerful Democrat, one of the puppeteers, not a puppet.  The big donors, the heads of the powerful interest groups, and probably some people we’ve never heard of. Suddenly, your nominee looks not just vulnera...

  • September 12, 2016

    Spengler: ‘Deplorably, Trump will win’

    David P. Goldman, aka Spengler, tells how bad it is for Hillary Clinton and her supporters.  He seems to agree with the call I made Saturday morning, that Hillary Clinton’s “basket of deplorables” remark could cost her the elec...

  • September 11, 2016

    Sharyl Attkisson provides an essential guide to the FBI’s report on Hillary’s emails

    The read of the day is Sharyl Attkisson’s organization and exposition of what we now know about Hillary’s email practices via the FBI reports. She has taken all that data and created a detailed timeline, as well as a list of dramatis pers...

  • September 11, 2016

    A NeverTrump New Yorker meets Middle America

    A good friend of mine, someone whose insights and opinions I really respect, is a NeverTrump. We spar daily via email. You can see for yourself below that this friend is honest and doesn’t let prejudice get in the way of perception, even whe...

  • September 11, 2016

    Hillary’s health suddenly legitimized as campaign issue by fainting episode at 9/11 memorial service

    All the sneering of the left and their media enablers over “conspiracy theories” about Hillary’s health can no longer contain the explosive issue of her physical fitness for office.  At a moment the nation’s eyes were foc...

  • September 10, 2016

    Desperation drives campaign strategy of demonizing Trump supporters

    This week could be the point of no return for the faltering Clinton campaign.  The elitism that is a defining characteristic of the contemporary political establishment has lured the campaign into a strategic blunder.  They are in a panic w...

  • September 10, 2016

    Chelsea Clinton declares she will stay on the Clinton Foundation board

    Appearing on a friendly venue, The View, Chelsea Clinton announced she would keep the family’s hand on the tiller of the Clinton Foundation and dummied up on the crucial issue of conflicts of interest.  As Jack Heretik of the Daily Ca...

  • September 9, 2016

    How Obama unleashed North Korea’s latest and biggest nuclear bomb test

    The news that North Korea has conducted a successful nuclear bomb test is worse than you think.  The New York Times reports: On Friday, North Korea reported a major advance in its efforts. “The standardization of the nuclear warhea...

  • September 8, 2016

    The year of angry voters: Michigan county tosses out almost all county commissioners for overspending

    This election year is unlike any I can remember, and unpredictable, but one major factor is the level of voter anger toward abuses by those who govern us.  Prepare for big surprises, and learn from the example of Emnet County, Michigan, where vo...

  • September 7, 2016

    Newly released email shows Hillary aide claimed they ‘wired’ the Benghazi hearings

    Hillary Clinton’s now infamous “What difference at this point does it make” hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee was a set-up job, according to the boast of her aide Philippe Reines in an email to Chelsea. ...

  • September 7, 2016

    Obama administration kills ITT Tech, stranding 40,000 students and destroying 8,000 jobs

    Tyrants throughout history have known that beheading their enemies and placing the heads on pikes at the gates of their capitals sends a powerful message to everyone else.  Behave yourself as we dictate, and you may survive.  Cross the king...

  • September 7, 2016

    The reversion of the NeverTrumps begins

    The NeverTrump faction of the Republican Party and conservative movement is facing reality as the election nears.  As Jared E. Peterson explained in detail yesterday, “[t]he election of Hillary Clinton would mean final defeat for American ...

  • September 7, 2016

    What on Earth did Hillary spit into that glass after her coughing fit in Cleveland?

    Hillary Clinton’s Labor Day appearances, during which she twice dissolved into coughing fits, is yielding some bizarre mysteries.  Startling, in fact. I apologize to readers in advance for what follows in mystery #1.  If you have j...

  • September 7, 2016

    Hillary’s mysterious handler ‘badge man’ pops up on campaign plane after coughing fit

    Who is the well-dressed man who accompanies Hillary and rushes to her aid when she experiences anything resembling a health issue?  He’s back, and just spotted rushing to her aid in the campaign plane when she dissolved into a coughing fit...

  • September 7, 2016

    Greta van Susteren abruptly leaves Fox News

    The turmoil at Fox News extends well beyond the settlement ($20 million) and apology the network’s parent company gave to Gretchen Carlson yesterday in the wake of her charges of sexual harassment against Roger Ailes, who has himself left the n...

  • September 6, 2016

    Hillary dissolves into coughing fits twice, wrecking her media strategy

    The health issue is starting to gain prominence in voters’ minds, as Hillary’s low-key schedule, need for pillows to prop her up and help climbing stairs, and occasional coughing fits create the impression of fragility.  Yesterday...

  • September 6, 2016

    ISIS magazine calls on Muslims on Australia to slaughter non-believers in lone wolf attacks

    Australians are waking up to the realization that their county’s immigration policy has created a serious danger.  Australia’s Muslim population has skyrocketed from negligible levels prior to the 1970s to the point where Muslims now...

  • September 6, 2016

    Skeptical journalist notices the vast improvement in Trump’s speeches

    Perhaps the most underreported phenomenon of the current election cycle is the impressive speed with which Donald Trump learns and changes his game when it comes to addressing crowds.  I don’t think it would be fair to call Andrew Malcolm ...

  • September 6, 2016

    Following arraignment on food stamp fraud, deli owner Muslim immigrant’s wife and daughter flip the bird and yell ‘F**k America’

    Deli ownerAhmed Alshami is being held on $2-million bond in Erie County New York on multiple charges of food stamp fraud and burglary.   He’s accused of criminal possession of public benefit cards, misuse of food stamps and crimi...

  • September 6, 2016

    Chicago chaos: 31 shot, 9 fatally, over 21-hour period Monday into Tuesday

    If only there were some way to blame Republicans, the media would be hammering the public with hysteria over the escalating carnage in Chicago.  President Obama’s adopted hometown has become a national embarrassment.  It stands alone ...

  • September 6, 2016

    A Giant Leaves Us

    The death of Phyllis Schlafly is a blow to American conservatism, and a personal loss. Calling her the “godmother of American conservatism,” or “the first lady of American conservatism,” as Richard Viguerie does, is no exagger...

  • September 5, 2016

    Pity the sexually frustrated left

    If we conservatives have the wit to exploit it, a new study offers ammunition to attack a critical process by which the left has recruited an ever larger share of adolescents as they grow into adults and voters.  The ruthless propagandists of th...

  • September 5, 2016

    Celebrating diversity with Airbus in Saudi Arabia

    Saudia, the national carrier of Saudi Arabia, was very proud to be the world’s first airline to fly a brand new model of the Airbus A330, a hugely successful twin-engine competitor of the Boeing 777.  The new model in question, the A330 Re...

  • September 5, 2016

    Will Obama be the first billionaire ex-president?

    It is a reasonable question to ask if Barack Obama will outdo the Clintons in accumulating wealth in his post-presidency.  Gardiner Harris of the New York Times reports that the president has ambitions that would indicate wealth of that magnitud...

  • September 4, 2016

    Headline of the week

    As a professional headline-writer, I recognize excellence of the highest order when I see it in a headline.  We have just been graced with a work of art that I hope will be long remembered. You can count on your fingers the number of headlines t...

  • September 4, 2016

    Prof. Melissa (‘I need some muscle’) Click gets another college teaching gig

    Gonzaga University, a Jesuit institution in Spokane, Washington, has, for some reason, decided to hire Melissa Click, disgraced communications junior professor at the University of Missouri. Most AT readers remember well her actions during the racial...

  • September 4, 2016

    Venezuela’s Maduro chased by angry mob

    How’s that socialism working out for ya’, Venezuela? Apparently so poorly that even the New York Times notices. President Nicolás Maduro was chased at a routine political event by a crowd of angry protesters banging on pots and ...

  • September 3, 2016

    FBI holiday weekend document drop is devastating to Hillary

    The decision to wait for late Friday on Labor Day weekend to release the FBI’s investigation notes of Hillary Clinton’s email practices offers further evidence of the politicization of the agency.  As the United States slides into a ...

  • September 3, 2016

    Jill Stein flies to wrong city for campaign rally

    At last, we have confirmation that Green Party candidate Dr. Jill Stein is a joke.  Her campaign achievements now include confusing Cincinnati and Columbus, Ohio. Now, it is true that they both begin with “C,” and it gets even mor...

  • September 2, 2016

    Why Joe Biden refuses to say Clinton Foundation has been ‘100% ethical’

    Joe Biden knows better than to be caught on video giving a blanket endorsement of the Clinton Foundation.  There are, after all, a lot of emails waiting to be revealed. It is a mistake to think Biden is not shrewd simply because his mann...

  • September 2, 2016

    Article that gave Dems a chance to attack Melania Trump is retracted

    Democrats showed their true colors when they seized on an article in the U.K. Daily Mail that suggested that Melania Trump may have engaged in prostitution, not modeling, when she first traveled abroad.  Leave aside for the moment that Democrats...

  • September 2, 2016

    Behind that ‘four stars’ rating for the Clinton Foundation from Charity Navigator

    Why do so many fail to notice the long string of people and organizations that end up ruined, their reputations in tatters, after playing along with various Clinton schemes?  Ask Webb Hubbell, once the highest of high flyers, mayor of Little Roc...

  • September 2, 2016

    Trump campaign floats idea of using seized cartel assets to pay for border wall

    Unnamed sources within the Trump campaign have floated the possibility of, in effect, making the Mexican cartels pay for the border wall.  In an exclusive report, Jon Conradi of Lifezette (owned by enthusiastic Trump supporter Laura Ingraha...

  • September 2, 2016

    Muslim refugee, 20, who raped a boy, 10, says no crime because it is acceptable in his homeland

    I guess that if we use the James Comey standard of “criminal intent,” we can expect that there will be no conviction.  Multiculturalism has now become a bad joke, but the little boys and girls who are raped won’t be laughi...

  • September 1, 2016

    Trump’s political jiu-jitsu in Mexico City

    Donald Trump changed the entire momentum of the presidential race yesterday.  If he continues on the trail he blazed, he will win the presidency.  In the first part of a very busy day of triumph, he flew to Mexico on his private airliner (r...

  • September 1, 2016

    Watch as Stuart Varney tells Obamacare architect Zeke Emanuel, ‘You owe the American people an apology’

    Stuart Varney, who fled the U.K. because of the taxes, socialism, and the nanny state, was a legal immigrant who gained U.S. citizenship recently.  I love watching Varney take on lefties because he does not mince words, and he often uses the exa...

  • September 1, 2016

    New depth plumbed in how far the media go to stop Trump

    Headline News, the sister network of CNN, is willing to make itself look ridiculous in order to avoid broadcasting anything that reflects well on Donald Trump.  We have seen sophisticates like Jim Rutenberg of the New York Times rationalize anti...

  • August 31, 2016

    Why did the 30 Benghazi emails FBI discovered escape destruction?

    Everyone is wondering what’s in the 30 previously unknown emails related to Benghazi the FBI managed to discover on Hillary’s server and turned over to the State Department for potential redaction.  But the manner by which they escap...

  • August 30, 2016

    Another reason why liberals should never be in charge of anything

    Only a fool would be surprised when the inevitable happens.  So of course Mayor de Blasio must be shocked that anyone would take advantage of free stuff.  Gabrielle Fonrouge reports in the New York Post: Hey, it’s cheaper than ge...

  • August 30, 2016

    New York Times forfeits ‘newspaper of record’ title

    With this election, the New York Times has in effect announced a new business as well as journalistic strategy.  Instead of its hard won, expensive, and demanding strategy of being the newspaper of record, where all significant stories can be fo...

  • August 30, 2016

    Another Soros puppet string revealed

    George Soros is a brilliant mastermind, the closest thing to a real-life Bond villain in human history.  He thinks strategically, targeting sources of leverage, and he wants to bring about structural change.  See, for instance, his close in...

  • August 29, 2016

    CNN’s John King on Hillary SecState schedule secret until after election: ‘This is nuts’

    The public, and even the liberal media, are catching on that Hillary Clinton ran a sophisticated shakedown operation as secretary of state, a pay-to-play racket with deniability.  Cough up cash – often millions of dollars to the Clinton Fo...

  • August 29, 2016

    Questions for Hillary’s (fantasy) press conference

    Even progressives in the media are stifling amazement at the chutzpah of Hillary Clinton in refusing to allow open questioning by members of the media at a press conference. Anyone with common sense understands that this is a disqualifier for the pre...

  • August 29, 2016

    An early sign the ‘Monster Vote’ for Trump may turn out

    The principal electoral strategy of Donald Trump has been the bet that non-voters in recent elections will turn out, with some of them registering to vote for the first time.  This is jokingly known as the “Monster Vote,” both becaus...

  • August 28, 2016

    Hacked Soros documents mysteriously disappear from the site that published them

    The hack of documents from George Soros’s Open Society Institute nonprofits have revealed how powerful George Soros really is.   Powerful enough to call the shots on US policy toward a sovereign nation.  Powerful enough that a vi...

  • August 28, 2016

    Professor argues university’s sports mascot too angry

    The University of Iowa’s team mascot, Herky the Hawkeye may be damagung some of the students there. Or so Professor Resmiye Oral seems to think. In a letter to the Athletic Department she voiced her concerns, as the Iowa City Press-Citizen repo...

  • August 28, 2016

    Report: Hillary has no scheduled public events until 9/26 debate

    Just how frail and exhausted is Hillary Clinton? Surely, she does not need 5 weeks of rest to prepare for her presidential debate. If she did, that would be a terrible indicator of fitness for office. That’s why this report from investigative p...

  • August 27, 2016

    Justice Dept. video instructs employers that it may be ‘discrimination’ to terminate immigrant workers when employment authorization expires

    Evidently there is now a “right” to violate immigration laws in the eyes of the Department of Justice.  I wonder what other rules and regulations we can violate and then claim discrimination when the consequences arrive!  M...

  • August 27, 2016

    A very, very bad sign for Hillary

    The run-out-the-clock strategy for dealing with the Clinton Foundation and email problems that the Hillary camp leaked to Politico absolutely depends on an uninformed electorate dismissing the charges without any investigation.  They must, in ot...

  • August 27, 2016

    EpiPen too expensive? You can get the same dose for ten bucks

    The only reason prices for EpiPens could be raised is that government regulations created a captive market whose regulations required the delivery system that Mylan Labs had patented.  Epinephrine, the actual product delivered to the bloods...

  • August 26, 2016

    Dr. Drew loses his CNN show a week after questioning Hillary’s health

    The American media is now on notice. If you hit Hillary where it hurts, you will regret it, as the Age of Hillary is upon us.  In The Game of Thrones, the message is delivered by placing a head on a pike (and making the head look like George W. ...

  • August 26, 2016

    Obamacare rate hikes could save the Senate for the GOP

    Providence has handed the GOP a powerful issue to use in saving endangered Senate incumbents. As Politico reports: In nine of 11 states with competitive Senate races, at least one insurer seeks to hike rates for Obamacare customers by at least 3...

  • August 26, 2016

    Hillary Clinton plays a rich white woman’s version of the race card

    Hillary Clinton may regret her attempt to tar Donald Trump as a racist by linking him to the alt right movement (whatever that is – no such formal organization exists).  She went full Southern Poverty Law Center on the Trump campaign, tarr...

  • August 25, 2016

    Harry Reid calls mother of slain Benghazi guard ‘crazy’

    With his political career over with this term in the Senate, Minority Leader Harry Reid is plumbing new depths of political depravity.  Having entered political life poor, thanks to strategic land purchases and other insider deals, he is now a w...

  • August 25, 2016

    Can Trump pull off his ‘softening’ on expelling illegals?

    Leftists are ecstatic over the angry response of Ann Coulter over the “softening” Donald Trump expressed on deporting all illegal aliens.  On two Sean Hannity-moderated Fox News town halls, the candidate indicated vague plans. S...

  • August 24, 2016

    Stunning: Egyptian foreign minister says Israel’s treatment of Palestinians not ‘terrorism’

    It is an article of faith in the Arab world that Israel is guilty, guilty, guilty of terrorizing the poor Palestinians, which is why Jews deserve to be terrorized worldwide.  The origins of violence lie exclusively on the Jews, too.  So Ara...

  • August 24, 2016

    The comedy stylings of John F. Kerry on display in Nigeria

    I am actually starting to feel sorry for John Kerry, despite his pomposity, arrogance, and rich-wife-financed luxury lifestyle.  Hardly anyone really notices him anymore, what with the expressions “Hillary Clinton” and “secreta...

  • August 23, 2016

    Post-Ailes Fox News: Kirsten Powers out

    As conservatives hold their breath hoping Fox News will remain a true alternative to the homogenized progressive media, the game of musical chairs has begun in the wake of the departure of Roger Ailes under a cloud of sexual harassment accusatio...

  • August 23, 2016

    Why did the State Department draw 13 payments from the Treasury one cent below a hundred million bucks?

    You may recall the federal crime called “structuring.”  Former speaker of the House Denny Hastert is currently behind bars for violating it.  Structuring consists of managing the amount of bank transactions so as to keep ea...

  • August 23, 2016

    Newly released Hillary email to Huma: ‘I don’t feel great,’ so arrange USAF jet to go home from DC to Westchester

    Back in 2009, Hillary Clinton was complaining about her health sufficiently to ask for an Air Force jet to ferry her back home to Westchester County from Washington, D.C. so as to avoid the harrowing and taxing experience of taking the Air Shutt...

  • August 23, 2016

    Mike Rowe exposes snobbery of anti-Trump journalists

    If Donald Trump should win the presidency, I hope he will be able to prevail upon Mike Rowe to be his secretary of education and lead a desperately needed reform and restructuring of American education.  For Rowe understands the serious harm bei...

  • August 22, 2016

    Obama snubs Hillary fundraisers on Martha’s Vineyard

    In a dramatic snub, President and Mrs. Obama stayed away from multiple Hillary Clinton fundraisers yesterday on 87.5-square-mile Martha’s Vineyard, where they were wrapping up their family vacation.  A lot of people noticed, including the ...

  • August 22, 2016

    Huma Abedin’s Islamist past bubbles up again

    The New York Post highlights a disturbing aspect of Huma Abedin’s background, steeped as it is in the Muslim Brotherhood.  As Hillary Clinton’s omnipresent super-aide, Huma’s inner motivations are of considerable importanc...

  • August 21, 2016

    A sure sign of a sick political economy appears in Illinois

    Like a patient with a bad fever that brings a rosy-looking glow to the cheeks, Illinois reported a decline of its unemployment rate in July. But don’t pop any champagne corks because this is a terrible sign. The Illinois Policy Institute report...

  • August 21, 2016

    What happened to those $ millions from the Bernie Sanders campaign?

    For those who want to get rich off of politics, the surest racket is to become the media buyer for a major campaign. For the underwhelming task of actually buying television airtime and print space, one receives a huge commission of 15%. If a campaig...

  • August 20, 2016

    Austin, Texas city council member offers good advice to kids, catches hell from the left

    According to the leftists who dominate politics in Austin, Texas, it is outrageously offensive to tell young people to get an education and a job, and “do something useful and produce something in your society so you don’t have to live of...

  • August 19, 2016

    Obama's war on private enterprise takes down another industry

    This week, the Obama Administration decided it was time to take out for-profit prison companies, and a lot of people and mutual funds lost a lot of money. They have previously put a target on for-profit colleges. Can anyone imagine what hap...

  • August 19, 2016

    Trump ‘pivots’

    We saw a new and improved Donald Trump yesterday in Charlotte, where he did something he previously said he wouldn’t do: apologize.  Yes, it was slightly hedged, but also unmistakably an apology: Sometimes in the heat of debate and sp...

  • August 18, 2016

    Green Party nominee Jill Stein ‘will have trouble sleeping if Hillary Clinton is elected’

    Among a number of reasons why this election is unpredictable is the possibility that the third party vote will be decisive.  Largely forgotten in this election cycle is the role Ross Perot played as a third-party candidate in electing Bill Clint...

  • August 18, 2016

    Hillary resting up: No campaign events until Sunday

    Her doctors tell us there are no serious health concerns, but a rising tide of doubt and concern about Hillary Clinton’s health is threatening her campaign.  One might think she would be doing something to counter these concerns, but inste...

  • August 16, 2016

    What the heck is wrong with Joe Biden? (part 1)

    See also: What the heck is wrong with Joe Biden? (part 2) Ever since Joe Biden was selected by Barrack Obama as his running mate, the expression “one heartbeat away…” has been relegated to the mainstream media’s memory hol...

  • August 16, 2016

    What the heck is wrong with Joe Biden? (part 2)

    See also: What the heck is wrong with Joe Biden? (part 1) Apparently there are some missing circuits in Joe Biden’s brain.  Normally a garrulous fellow, Joe doesn’t respect certain taboos. In the second disturbing incident of t...

  • August 15, 2016

    Man shot by Milwaukee Police was subject of witness intimidation case

    Sylville Smith, who was shot by Milwaukee Police when he turned on an officer holding a gun in the midst of a foot pursuit, had an extensive criminal record by the age of 23.  Even his godmother, Katherine Mahmoud, admitted, “I'm ...

  • August 15, 2016

    Judge Jeanine’s epic rant on Hillary

    When I heard Judge Jeanine Pirro’s first segment live on her Saturday night Fox News show, which she calls her “Opening Statement,” I got my wife to start listening, for it was truly memorable.  Part of it is her words – ...

  • August 15, 2016

    Marion Barry’s son Christopher dies of drug overdose

    Marion Christopher Barry, 36, the sole child of the late former D.C. mayor Marion Barry, is dead of a drug overdose.  He was discovered by his girlfriend, who brought him to George Washington University Hospital, where he expired.  He has n...

  • August 15, 2016

    Soros hack begins to reveal the puppet strings

    George Soros is the closest thing to a real life Bond villain that I have come across – fabulously wealthy, secretive, and pulling the strings and calling the shots of governments all over the world.  He uses nonprofit organizations (so-ca...

  • August 15, 2016

    Soros son Alexander dined with Hillary running mate Kaine

    Nothing to see here, folks.  Move along.  The son of George Soros, Alexander G. Soros, posted on Instagram that he had dinner with Tim Kaine, running mate of Hillary Clinton (hat tip: Breitbart):     Love ...

  • August 14, 2016

    Rio Olympic official on green pools: ‘Chemistry is not an exact science’

    So far, nobody has died from the contaminated waters hosting Olympic events in Rio, but at least one athlete has fallen seriously ill.  A few hundred million people, including me, have now scratched off from our bucket lists the idea of bathing ...

  • August 14, 2016

    Milwaukee riot a textbook example of the fruits of racial agitation

    Gunfire, police cars smashed and burned, the torching of a gasoline station, bank branch, beauty supply store, and O’Reilly Auto Parts store were the highlights of a Saturday night riot in Milwaukee in the aftermath of a police shooting.  ...

  • August 14, 2016

    History-making American Olympic hero the media yawn at

    Kim Rhode made history at the Olympics on Friday. She became the first athlete ever to win medals in six consecutive Olympics.  On five continents. You’d think there would be hosannas all over the place for this female pioneer. But I ha...

  • August 14, 2016

    Can we really believe that a federal prosecution of the Clinton Foundation is underway?

    A lot of conservative hearts were gladdened by a report from the highly credible Daily Caller News Foundation’s Jonathan Haggerty: A joint FBI-U.S. Attorney probe of the Clinton Foundation has begun, and the federal prosecutor leading the ...

  • August 14, 2016

    Massive hack of Soros files released

    The files of George Soros’s Open Society Institute have been hacked over a period of years, with 2,576 just published on the mysterious DCLeaks site.  Soros, the master manipulator of governments who pulls the strings at the State Departme...

  • August 13, 2016

    Hillary admits to extreme exhaustion following Democratic Convention

    With serious concern being raised about her health and consequent fitness for office, Hillary attempted to reassure voters and stumbled, ending up with her foot in her mouth.  In the first edition of a campaign podcast, Hillary spoke about her h...

  • August 13, 2016

    Photo analysis of Barack and Hillary

    What on Earth is going on here, at the Democratic National Convention, between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton? I mean the photo below, one that I had previously given barely a glance.  But Claudia of iOTWReport has a better eye and implores...

  • August 13, 2016

    Guccifer 2’s mind games with the Dems

    Whoever or whatever is behind Guccifer 2, they are playing mind games, aka conducting psy-ops, with the Democrats.  A look at the actual webpage where G2 exposes the hacked Democrat documents shows them taunting Dems. Hi all! It...

  • August 12, 2016

    ‘How stupid do they think we are?’

    That’s the very reasonable question being asked by Peter Schweizer, author of Clinton Cash, the book and the movie, about the explanations being offered to justify the pay-to-play process at the State Department.  From Fox News: HEMME...

  • August 12, 2016

    Calling out the Justice Department

    When the Marilyn Mosby-led prosecution of four Baltimore police officers became a fiasco, the Department of Justice stepped in to throw the howling mob a consolation prize, a 163-page report attacking the BPD’s practices as racially biased and ...

  • August 12, 2016

    Hilarious takedown of the New York Times

    Pomposity accompanied by ignorance makes for some great mockery. The New York Times pridefully presents Pulitzer bait with a special issue of the New York Times Magazine entirely devoted to one subject: “Fractured Lands: How the Arab World C...

  • August 12, 2016

    The ‘historic decoupling’ of the global elite

    It’s the read of the day. Peggy Noonan has written a thought-provoking essay (follow this link) on a phenomenon we all recognize, the rise of global elites detached from the lives of ordinary people. “Those in power see people at the bott...

  • August 12, 2016

    Obama already has collected nearly $20 trillion in taxes

    It’s a grim milestone. During the 90 full months President Barack Obama has completed serving in the White House—February 2009 through July 2016--the U.S. Treasury collected approximately $19,966,110,000,000 in tax revenues (in non-inf...

  • August 11, 2016

    Shocking data revision by feds: Americans’ wages dropped 4.2% instead of rising in the first quarter

    Wages for Americans are dropping at a rapid rate, instead of rising as the feds had claimed.  This shocking news – making President Obama’s claim that the economy has recovered from the great recession laughable – was buried in...

  • August 11, 2016

    Dems brace for bad news as FBI indicates ‘more than 100 party officials and groups’ have been hacked by Russians

    The FBI has started briefing Congress on what it knows about the hack of the DNC emails, blaming Russia.  While those Dems still feeding media hysteria that Trump committed treason by inviting disclosure of Hillary’s 33,000 deleted emails ...

  • August 11, 2016

    Stunning revelation: Wikileaks hack shows that Soros called the shots on US policy toward Albania

    Who was in charge of U.S. foreign policy when Hillary Clinton was secretary of state?  That is a legitimate question to consider in light of the most stunning revelation yet mined from the Wikileaks hack.  George Soros is suggesting an inte...

  • August 10, 2016

    Socialist Bernie Sanders spends more than his reported net worth on his third home

    The great thing about being an avowed socialist is that you get to posture as a self-righteous man of the people without forgoing the benefits of wealth.  Take the case of Bernie Sanders, whose self-reported net worth was $528,014, yet who just ...

  • August 10, 2016

    Trump successfully baits media into hysteria. Again.

    The anti-Trump media (another name for the mainstream media) have resumed their frenzied claims that Donald Trump is out to unleash indescribable horror in the American people.  The current version of doom is that he is calling for NRA assassins...

  • August 9, 2016

    California now requires teaching public school children about sexual consent

    Despite its wealth and high-technology leadership, California boasts one of the worst public school systems in the nation. Completed by the nonprofit Education Week, the “Quality Counts” report gives California a D-plus gra...

  • August 9, 2016

    Donald Trump’s ‘un-presidential’ moment on Fox & Friends today

    Speaking by phone to FNC’s Fox & Friends this morning, Donald Trump demonstrated why he is so threatening to so many people in the political and economic establishments – by telling the truth as he sees it.  He did something that...

  • August 9, 2016

    Teachable moment: ‘Very anti-police’ black activist robbed at gunpoint

    A black activist named Muhammad in the Tampa Bay area has a real opportunity for personal growth.  As Fox 13 News put it: A black rights advocate, often critical of Tampa police relations, was assisted by officers early Saturday morning aft...

  • August 9, 2016

    FBI agent appears to have incited murderous attack on Texas ‘Draw Mohammed’ event

    Pamela Geller is not known for mincing words, and she lays it out in black and white at Breitbart: It’s hard to escape the conclusion that the Obama FBI wanted me and the other speakers at the event dead. This is a breathtaking accusa...

  • August 8, 2016

    Jeb Bush’s son George P. Bush urges uniting behind Trump

    The #NeverTrump movement has seen a powerful defection in the person of George (aka Jorge) P. Bush, the articulate, handsome, half-Hispanic son of Jeb Bush.  This is significant because there has been talk for years that George P. Bush was ...

  • August 8, 2016

    Hillary’s health may be the sleeper issue of the election

    See also: Is Hillary constantly accompanied by a medic with an anti-seizure injection at the ready? You can expect a fierce blowback of cries of sexism and more, just as soon as Team Hillary convenes in Brooklyn and decides on a strategy to combat...

  • August 8, 2016

    Is Hillary constantly accompanied by a medic with an anti-seizure injection at the ready?

    See also: Hillary’s health may be the sleeper issue of the election A stunning charge is being leveled that Hillary Clinton’s health is so endangered that she is accompanied by a medic carrying an injection pen with an anti-seizure dru...

  • August 8, 2016

    The Kennedy bloodline has really thinned over the generations

    Joseph P. Kennedy may have been a bootlegger and Wall Street swindler, but he was sharp as a tack and energetic, and he got things done.  The political dynasty he spawned never equaled him in craft, despite achieving high office.  As t...

  • August 8, 2016

    Fareed Zakaria calls for mandatory voting

    Demonstrating that no idea is so bad that it will lack adherents, CNN’s most fatuous pundit advocated on air for mandatory voting. Just what we need: another restriction on our freedom, the government telling us what we must do.  And wh...

  • August 7, 2016

    Departed Inspector General predicts criminal prosecutions of Chicago pols

    Faisal Khan has a history as a corruption fighter, a man who acted as inspector general of the City of New York under Mayors Giuliani and Bloomberg.  In 2010, he moved to the truly Big League of corruption, and accepted the newly-created job of ...

  • August 7, 2016

    World’s biggest hotel under construction...where?

    Here’s one gigantic wonder-of-the-world hotel development that I will not be checking into. It looks just like the next mega-project for the Las Vegas Strip, munis all the fun stuff.  Erica Owen of Travel+Leisure explains:  Anyth...

  • August 6, 2016

    For-profit Laureate University is discovering the downside of Clinton cronyism

    Karma has come calling on Laureate University, the highly connected for-profit corporation backed by highly connected billionaires including George Soros, Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, and private equity investor Henry Kravis.  The Daily Call...

  • August 5, 2016

    #NeverTrump’s favorite Gary Johnson endorses #BlackLivesMatter

    Despite his goofy appearance and fondness for recreational pot, Gary Johnson seemed like a safe vehicle for virtue signaling among Republicans and conservatives who can’t stomach Donald Trump.  Just yesterday, for example, Jay Cost of the ...

  • August 5, 2016

    Brawl erupts at Muslim refugee asylum reception center

    Hillary Clinton wants to increase the number “Syrian refugees” the United States accepts by 550%.  She ought to be made to view this video from an asylum reception center for Muslim refugees in Dortmund, Germany.  Via Breitbart:...

  • August 4, 2016

    Many losers in Syria, but one winner

    President Obama’s vanishing “red line” in Syria is only one of many political disasters afflicting almost every country with an interest in Syria.  The Syrian people are enduring hell, of course, and the Assad regime, facing a ...

  • August 4, 2016

    Poll: Public is highly suspicious of Hillary’s 33,000 deleted emails

    A new Rasmussen poll reveals that the public is largely persuaded that Hillary was covering up something sinister when she deleted her emails, and that the media/Democrat hyperventilating over Donald Trump being treasonous in asking Russia to reveal ...

  • August 4, 2016

    Hillary admits she wants to raise taxes on the middle class – and the crowd cheers

    Was it a slip of the tongue when Hillary Clinton told a campaign rally featuring Warren “tax me more” Buffet that she would raise taxes on the middle class? Or was she suddenly telling the truth, perhaps genuinely worried that Trump gaffe...

  • August 3, 2016

    Amazing coincidence: Secret payment of $400 million air-lifted to Iran the day 4 hostages released

    Don’t call it ransom!  No, no, no!  It was all just a coincidence that (via Jay Soloman and Carol E. Lee of the Wall Street Journal): The Obama administration secretly organized an airlift of $400 million worth of cash to Iran th...

  • August 3, 2016

    Khizr Khan’s writings discovered subordinating US Constitution to sharia law

    He was presented to the nation as a Constitution-loving (he carries a pocket copy, dontcha know!) immigrant who just happens to be from Pakistan, but it turns out that Khizr Khan is a recognized scholar on sharia law.  And in his published writi...

  • August 3, 2016

    3 top officials resign from the Democratic National Committee

    With less than a hundred days to go before a presidential election, the top management of one of the two major parties has been wiped out.  But the media narrative remains (and always will remain until November 8) that the other party, the ...

  • August 3, 2016

    The GOP Establishment strikes back

    Shape-shifting into something vaguely resembling an outsiders’ insurgency, the GOP Establishment knocked off a three-term Tea Party congressman in a primary race in Kansas yesterday.  Sarah Westwood of The Examiner reports: Rep. Tim H...

  • August 3, 2016

    Official Customs and Border Protection website contains blueprint for illegals to evade capture

    In the course of patting itself on the back for its Sensitive Locations Program, the Customs and Border Protection Service tells the entire world where its agents will not go to apprehend illegals.  In other words, a road map.  Fox News rep...

  • August 2, 2016

    DHS grants ‘temporary protected status’ to keep 8,000 Syrians in USA

    Illegal immigrants from Syria can relax for a while.  Homeland security secretary Jeh Johnson has issued an amnesty proclamation preventing them from being forced to leave the United States for the next 18 months.  Stephen Dinan of the Wash...

  • August 2, 2016

    Fifty times more TV network coverage for Khizr Khan than Pat Smith

    Media bias has entered new territory in the United States with the nomination of Donald Trump.  Somethig approaching sacred moral duty to defeat him permeates newsrooms across the country.  So it is no surprise that news judgments are ...

  • August 2, 2016

    Stunning drop in food stamp rolls in 3 states that instituted work requirements

    Call me mean-spirited, but this warms my heart.  Nathan Mateer and Rachel Sheffield write at The Daily Signal: A few states that have incorporated work requirements have seen encouraging outcomes that should provide a blueprint for greater ...

  • August 1, 2016

    NSA whistleblower: The agency has all of Hillary’s deleted emails

    When Donald Trump sarcastically appealed to the Russians to release Hillary Clinton’s 33,000 deleted emails from her personal server, he was asking the wrong spooks.  An archive of those emails exists at the National Security Agency (NSA),...

  • August 1, 2016

    MSNBC host melts down over Hillary’s emails

    Even by the standards of MSNBC, Sunday morning’s shout-down of a guest for daring to mention the blackmail potential in the 33,000 deleted emails was unusually embarrassing.  As Nicholas Fondacaro of Newsbusters reported: AM Joy Sunda...

  • August 1, 2016

    Poor Debbie Wasserman Schultz very well might lose her seat in November

    This could end up being Debbie Wasserman Schultz's worst year ever.  First, she was publicly forced out of her job as chair of the Democratic National Committee as the fall guy for the rigging of the nomination, and the casual racism, bigotr...

  • August 1, 2016

    Hungry Venezuelans weep at sight of food

    A political famine is literally starving Venezuelans, as the country cannot feed itself and cannot pay for imports.  Socialism and cronyism have driven the producers of all kinds of goods out of business, and even oil wealth from the world...

  • August 1, 2016

    Hillary’s Russian connection

    Now that the Clinton campaign and media are hyperventilating over Russia and treason, doing their 21st-century version of Joe McCarthy, the door is open to examine Hillary’s own web of entanglements with the Russians.  With impeccable timi...

  • July 31, 2016

    Vigil protesting police shooting ends in a brawl (video)

    Call the irony police. DNAinfo reports that practicing nonviolence is harder than advocating it. A vigil for a man shot dead by Chicago Police this week during a car chase ended in a fight and arguments. Paul O'Neal, 18, of the 17...

  • July 31, 2016

    Gender Political Correctness Causes Feminists at Michigan State to Whine

    Now that the Left’s cultural hegemons have decreed gender to be a fluid thing, a lot feminist victories are in peril. Take, for example, the case of the women-only lounge at the student union of Michigan State University. Victor Skinner at EAGN...

  • July 31, 2016

    Wikileaks files reveal DNC disses unions

    The union movement long ago married itself to the Democratic Party, but is no longer getting a lot of love. In fact, as Jeremy Lott, an adjunct scholar at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, puts it in the Detroit News, the “DNC holds unions...

  • July 30, 2016

    Something very weird about Hillary’s face at the convention (updated and bumped))

    See update at bottom. See also: Something even weirder about Hillary’s face at the convention Ann Althouse writes a perceptive commentary (hat tip: Instapundit) on an aspect of Hillary Clinton that bothers me a lot, too: "that w...

  • July 29, 2016

    Second largest party in Denmark calls for a halt to Muslim immigration

    The rising tide of jihad violence committed against Europeans by Muslim immigrants is having a predictable effect.  No matter how many times people are told that the “overwhelming majority” of Muslims are peaceful, people understand ...

  • July 29, 2016

    The dog that didn’t bark at the Democrats’ convention

    If Sir Arthur Conan Doyle were covering the Democratic National Convention, he could title his account “The Case of the Missing Claim.”   There was a conspicuous absence amidst all the praise heaped on Hillary Clinton.  War...

  • July 29, 2016

    Something even weirder about Hillary’s face at the convention

    See also: Something very weird about Hillary’s face at the convention Ann Althouse (and I) were both troubled by the expression in Hillary Clinton’s face when she stood next to President Obama. (see below) But we didn’t go...

  • July 28, 2016

    How many times did Obama refer to himself while praising Hillary at the DNC?

    Skilled Obama watchers know that the real subject of any Obama speech is his own magnificence.  But in case you weren’t clicking a counter held in your hand to note every time the first-person pronoun appeared in a speech by Obama ostensib...

  • July 28, 2016

    Dissenters unfurl huge protest banner at DNC as Kaine takes the stage

    The Bernie Sanders faction of the Democrats has not reconciled itself to supporting Hillary Clinton, no matter what the TV commentators and polls claim.  Yesterday, they managed to disrupt the appearance of V.P. nominee Tim Kaine.  Very ...

  • July 27, 2016

    How big was the walkout from the DNC when Hillary nominated?

    The level of media bias in reporting the Democratic National Convention is as high as I have ever seen outside of North Korea and the old Soviet bloc. The GOP convention was declared a disaster many times during its four-day run, but the DNC, reeling...

  • July 27, 2016

    Bernie Sanders and the Art of the Sell-Out

    Bernie Sanders made his deal with the Clinton Machine, but can he force his followers to accept it? I am skeptical, but then again, the Democrats have the full support of the media in generating whatever narratives they wish.  All of those na...

  • July 27, 2016

    Remember when Ted Kennedy asked the Soviets for help defeating Reagan?

    The Democrats are desperately diverting attention away from their rigging the nomination fight by charging that Russia is interfering in our election. But there was a time when going to Moscow to help defeat the other party didn’t seem to distu...

  • July 26, 2016

    Sanders supporters claim signs being ripped from their hands on DNC floor

    Supporters of Bernie Sanders are waking up to the reality that not only was the fix in for Hillary all along, but Bernie has surrendered to those formerly hidden forces, throwing his lot in with Hillary.  Those of his fans who fail to fall in be...

  • July 26, 2016

    No American flags visible at DNC on Day 1

    Patriotism took a back seat to racial grievances last night at the Democratic National Convention, as no American flags were visibly present at an event dedicated to picking a political leader for the United States of America.  Alex Pfeifer of t...

  • July 26, 2016

    Most embarrassing political convention celebrity appearance ever?

    The merger of politics and show business is virtually complete, what with the Republican Party nominating a reality TV producer/celebrity and the Democrats displaying their A-list celebrity backers at their convention.  That group includes Senat...

  • July 25, 2016

    Debbie Wasserman Schultz fired as DNC chair on eve of Philly convention

    The signs of panic were everywhere at the Democratic National Committee yesterday, and Debbie Wasserman Schultz was defenestrated in three stages in the wake of release of DNC emails by Wikileaks.  Faced with clear evidence that Schultz and the ...

  • July 25, 2016

    New CNN poll shows Trump in lead over Clinton with a 6-point convention bounce

    The pundits who solemnly declared the Republican convention a disaster have been refuted in the way that counts: by public opinion.  A poll released minutes ago by CNN indicates that Donald Trump received a substantial bounce: Donald Trump ...

  • July 25, 2016

    Memo shows Bernie Sanders wanted private plane as part of his terms of surrender to endorse Hillary

    A member of the Bernie Sanders campaign left behind in a Los Angeles hotel a memorandum titled “End Game,” detailing the terms the team evaluated demanding of the Democratic National Committee in return for an endorsement of the Clinton c...

  • July 25, 2016

    Clinton campaign so desperate that it implies treasonous Trump

    The depths to which the Hillary Clinton campaign is stooping have not yet sunk in with much of the media, still focused on the intrigue over Debbie Wasserman Schultz and the Sanders campaign and supporters in Philadelphia.  But in a panic as the...

  • July 25, 2016

    Wikileaks reveals apparent sale of presidential appointments by DNC

    It has always been taken for granted that presidents appoint wealthy donors to commissions, ambassadorships, and other honors. But we have never before seen evidence of the way the transactions are carried out. However, thanks to Wikileaks, we have a...

  • July 24, 2016

    VA Gov. McAuliffe evades court order on felons voting

    Not one to let an order from the state’s supreme court hinder his effort to deliver Virginia’s electoral votes to Hillary Clinton, Governor Terry McAuliffe will individually sign executive orders granting felons the vote that they lost by...

  • July 24, 2016

    Debbie Dumped by Dems!

    Debbie Wasserman Schultz has been unceremoniously defenestrated from the Democratic National Convention, at least as far as the speakers roster goes. The Examiner reports: Democratic National Convention officials have stripped party chairwoma...

  • July 24, 2016

    Ugly racial conflict looms among California Dem rivals

    California Dems are at risk of a Hispanic-Black schism over the Senate nomination fight between members of two prized victim-interest-groups. Christopher Catelago of the Sacramento Bee reports: Democratic Rep. Loretta Sanchez, in an interview wi...

  • July 24, 2016

    Wikileaks emails reveal DNC conspiracy in anti-Trump protests

    The Democrats and the media allies understand politics as stagecraft, and do not hesitate to manufacture and market as genuine astroturf events when they think it is in their interest.  They work together as “allies.” Alex Pfeiffer o...

  • July 23, 2016

    Virginia Supreme Court squashes Clinton-McAuliffe plan to win with felons’ votes

    Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe, a longtime member of the Clinton Machine, tried to swing Virginia into semi-permanent blue status with sweeping executive orders that would have allowed hundreds of thousands of felons to vote in the November electi...

  • July 23, 2016

    Wikileaks spoils DNC’s Philadelphia convention plan

    Plans for a unity-fest in Philadelphia, intended to contrast with the Trump-Cruz imbroglio in Cleveland, took a big hit Friday, with the release of 19,252 emails hacked from the DNC by a Wikileaks hacker calling himself Guccifer2. The trove of docume...

  • July 23, 2016

    DNC Wikileaks hack reveals Politico in bed with Dems

    Busted! One bigfoot journalist has been outed, submitting his story to a Dem before sending it to his editor.  Getting party approval before the editing begins used to be just a characteristic of Soviet bloc countries. Oliver Darcy of Busines...

  • July 23, 2016

    Wikileaks reveals Debbie Wasserman Schultz intrigue with MSNBC

    It’s not exactly an arm’s length relationship between the Democratic Party and MSNBC.  Debbie Wasserman Schultz was furious on May 18 when Mika Brzezinski called for her to step down as head of the DNC because of her obvious bias aga...

  • July 23, 2016

    Don’t believe MSM trying to sell Kaine as a centrist

    The media are selling the line coming from Hillary’s campaign strategy: VP pick Tim Kaine is a centrist, and choosing him signifies Hillary is not going left.   NeverTrump conservatives are to be reassured that the Sanders faction has...

  • July 23, 2016

    Trump gets Mike Pence a great plane for campaigning

    As an aviation buff, I have sometimes cringed at the aging chartered airliners hastily repainted and thrown into the air on a grueling daily schedule of multiple stops by recent GOP presidential campaigns. Older planes are more widely available for c...

  • July 22, 2016

    Leftist icon predicts Trump will win

    This has got to send shivers up and down the spines of Democrats.  A member in good standing of the left’s pantheon, someone more in touch with ordinary people than the usual leftist elitists, thinks Trump is going to win the election. ...

  • July 22, 2016

    Don’t you love it when elitist ‘experts’ get egg on their faces?

    Predictions of Brexit doom already look foolish.  It’s been a tough year for “experts” drawn from the media and academic elites, but their faceplant over Brexit ranks right up there with America’s punditry getting the Don...

  • July 22, 2016

    Judge Napolitano lays out The Big Fix in Hillary’s email investigation

    Judge Andrew Napolitano has put together a compelling case that a massive cover-up took place in the FBI investigation of Hillary Clinton’s emails.  He writes it cleverly, with each sentence beginning, “What if…?” so as ...

  • July 21, 2016

    Cruz played his role in Trump’s script for the GOP Convention TV show

    Last night, Donald Trump got exactly the kind of television show he intended at the Republican National Convention. Ted Cruz bet his career on distancing himself from the Trump candidacy with his speech.  He was gambling that Trump will lose ...

  • July 21, 2016

    Anonymous source in Cruz camp sees set-up by Trump in Cruz speech

    See also: Cruz played his role in Trump’s script for the GOP Convention TV show I see that I am not alone in seeing that Donald Trump set up Ted Cruz last night.  An anonymous source within the Cruz camp complained to Ben Shapiro of...

  • July 20, 2016

    Hillary’s cough is back

    A familiar visitor has returned to the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign: her cough.  It had been taking a time out from the campaign, but yesterday, at the AFSCME Convention in Las Vegas (the holist of holies for Democrats), coughs interrup...

  • July 20, 2016

    Trump nomination proves ‘political experts’ are now obsolete

    I can’t recall a political story that has humiliated more people posing as experts.  Let’s face it: political pundits with few exceptions proved that they know nothing of practical value when it comes to understanding the Republican ...

  • July 19, 2016

    The coup at the University of California rolls along

    A $25-billion-a-year public agency is on the way to being taken over by management, with the public’s representatives sidetracked and silenced, while former Homeland Security honcho Janet Napolitano gets the ability to run the place as she plea...

  • July 19, 2016

    Get Melania! Plagiarism charges thrown at Trump’s first lady in waiting

    By most accounts, Melania Trump’s speech to the GOP Convention was a success – until charges flew that she had plagiarized a speech given by Michelle Obama to the 2008 Democratic National Convention.  First noted on Twitter by J...

  • July 19, 2016

    John Kerry expands his repertoire for looking ridiculous

    Does John Kerry have a degenerative brain disease?  What is going on with him?  Two days in a row he has beclowned himself, first with verbal incoherence on TV on Sunday, and yesterday pulling a routine from The Three Stooges. Here,...

  • July 18, 2016

    Shepard Smith attacks Bobby Jindal on air for saying ‘all lives matter’

    I happened to catch a jaw-dropping incident on the Fox News Channel air yesterday, as Shepard Smith’s breaking news coverage of the Baton Rouge police ambush brought on Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal for telephone comments.  In the course...

  • July 18, 2016

    SecState Kerry reduced to near incoherence when Jake Tapper challenges his claim ‘ISIS is on the run’

    Did John Kerry assume that nobody would challenge him on the Obama administration’s stubborn claim that it is winning the fight against ISIS?  In the face of bloodshed at home from ISIS, the claim deserves questioning.  But somehow, J...

  • July 18, 2016

    Let us weep for Glenn Beck

    In what can only be understood as a cry from a broken heart, media entrepreneur Glenn Beck told Chuck Todd on Meet the Press that if Ted Cruz endorses Donald Trump – even a “soft endorsement” – Beck “will officially have...

  • July 18, 2016

    Hell no, we won’t go: Thousands of Muslim ‘migrants’ in Germany evading deportation

    Germany has become a Roach Motel: Muslim “migrants” check in, but they don’t check out, even when asked politely.  The state of Saxony, for instance, chartered an airplane to fly 49 Tunisians home, but when it took off, only 13...

  • July 18, 2016

    Former French president calls for expulsion of radicalized Muslims and electronic tagging of those ‘at risk’

    Former president Nicolas Sarkozy has ripped into the government of France for failing to stop terror attacks and suggested measures for dealing with the jihad threat that should be eye-opening for Americans.  Via the BBC: Speaking to F...

  • July 17, 2016

    Spengler explains Nice attack’s real significance

    I don’t think I have ever recommended the same author as the read of the day twice in a row. But yesterday Spengler brought a meaningful framework to Turkey’s attempted coup, and today he puts the Nice massacre in perspective, making abso...

  • July 17, 2016

    Thought reform in America

    Political correctness has attained a level of institutional power today in the United States that it can justifiably be compared with the totalitarian brainwashing efforts seen in Mao Tse-tung’s Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (also known...

  • July 16, 2016

    This could be the most interesting speech of the GOP Convention

    I was excited when I first heard that Peter Thiel was going to be a speaker at the Republican National Convention.  While everyone naturally focuses on what Trump and Pence will have to say, Thiel, often labeled an “eccentric billionaire,...

  • July 16, 2016

    Spengler on Turkey

    When I saw that Spengler, aka David P. Goldman, had written about Turkey this morning, I knew I was in for important but rarely discussed aspects of that country’s situation.  In his piece for Asia Times, Goldman calls Turkey ...

  • July 15, 2016

    Bill O’Reilly’s coup

    Last night, in the wake of the gruesome terror attack in Nice, France, Bill O’Reilly scooped the rest of the television industry by getting both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton on the phone for reactions. Yes, you read that correctly: Hilla...

  • July 15, 2016

    Britain closes down global warming bureaucracy

    The almost unthinkable has happened.  In a clear sign that the global warming fraud has peaked and is on the decline, an actual government agency has been abolished because it was dedicated to global warming.  Andrew Follett of the Dai...

  • July 15, 2016

    #NeverTrump movement died in Cleveland last night

    It’s black outfits today for the mourners of the passing of the #NeverTrump movement.  After last night’s votes in the Rules Committee of the Republican National Convention, the dream of a nominee with a name other than Trump is dead...

  • July 14, 2016

    ‘Hillary Defense’ invoked by cop accused of trading favors for sex

    This is how the fish rots from the head down.  Standards crumble at all levels of society when the powerful and prominent are seen to get away with flouting the law.  Kaja Whitehouse writes in the New York Post: A lawyer for one of the...

  • July 14, 2016

    Ruth Bader Ginsburg is a BIG problem for the left Updated: She apologizes!

    Having outlived cancer, her husband, and her best friend on the Supreme Court, Antonin Scalia, Ruth Bader Ginsburg is speaking out and doesn’t give a crap what anyone else thinks.  She’s telling what she thinks is the truth, and...

  • July 14, 2016

    The left’s problem in fighting ‘all lives matter’

    The Progressives have painted themselves in a corner with the #BlackLivesMatter rhetoric.  I speak both of the sponsors like Soros, who have funded and supported the movement, and the true believers who are convinced that police are hunting down...

  • July 14, 2016

    BLM leader lives in home owned by Soros Open Society Institute board member

    DeRay Mckesson seems to be the man of the hour in the #BlackLivesMatter movement, having just attended a summit at the White House, from which he tweeted.  But he is also living proof of the Astroturf origins of the movement treated so seriously...

  • July 13, 2016

    Obama hijacks Dallas Police memorial service

    The malignancy of Barack Obama’s narcissism was on full display yesterday at the memorial service for five ambushed Dallas Police officers.  His address bore all the markers of his cunning self-absorption.  As Peter Hasson in the Dail...

  • July 13, 2016

    The key question for Comey

    Ever since Rep. Jason Chaffetz responded with incredulity after learning from the FBI’s Director Comey that absent a specific referral, the FBI would not look into Hillary Clinton’s sworn testimony before Congress, we have known that the ...

  • July 13, 2016

    Looks as if Pence will be Trump’s VP

    This is a sign Trump is attempting to close the deal with Mike Pence.  Jonathan Swan of The Hill: Ivanka Trump, Donald Trump Jr. and Jared Kushner met with Pence at his Indianapolis home Wednesday morning, according to NBC News. Donald Trum...

  • July 12, 2016

    New poll shows Hillary losing respect and support as Trump gains

    A new national poll from Rasmussen shows that Hillary Clinton is losing respect among the American electorate. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that just 22% of Likely U.S. Voters agree with Obama's statemen...

  • July 12, 2016

    Ruth Bader Ginsburg facing blowback for anti-Trump comments

    Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 83 years old and still mourning the passing of her “best buddy,” Justice Antonin Scalia, doesn’t give a damn what anybody thinks about decorum.  On the Friday before Independence Day weekend, she unburdened...

  • July 12, 2016

    Cops stage walkout over BLM protest at basketball game

    For obvious reasons, a lot of cops are upset over the continued hate campaign characterizing them as murderous racists.  The anger they feel is starting to be reflected in a work stoppage, albeit at a private event where off-duty officers w...

  • July 12, 2016

    Detroit police detective demoted over Facebook post critical of BLM

    Detective Nathan Weekley of the Detroit Police Department has been busted back to ordinary officer, losing his gold shield for something he posted on Facebook.  Katrease Stafford of the Detroit Free Press writes: A Detroit Police Department...

  • July 12, 2016

    The next time someone complains about the ‘epidemic’ of gun violence…

    The next time someone complains about the “epidemic” of gun violence, point out this awkward fact: The 10,945 firearm homicides in 2014 represented a 40-percent drop from the peak hit in 1993, when there were 18,253 firearm homicides...

  • July 11, 2016

    Crazed #BlackLivesMatter supporter shot dead attacking cop’s home

    Add the name of 20-year-old Tyler Gebhard to the list of casualties of the racial animosity being ginned up for the purpose of driving black voter turnout in November.  In suburban-rural St. Louis County, Missouri, Gebhard was shot dead as he at...

  • July 11, 2016

    Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s indomitable spirit

    My admiration for Governor Greg Abbott of Texas, already healthy, has grown, as I learn what a brave, tough, mission-driven man he is.   On vacation with his family last Thursday, he: … sustained "extensive second- and third-deg...

  • July 11, 2016

    Andrew Malcolm: What if Trump wants to help elect Hillary?

    Veteran reporter and pundit Andrew Malcolm is accustomed to looking for hidden motives in political figures, and he is not a fan of Donald Trump.  For over a year he has been raising the possibility that Trump is a stalking horse, whose real pur...

  • July 11, 2016

    How a Justice Department unit functioned as agitator following the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson

    The racial grievance industry includes significant participation from taxpayer-funded entities.  The politicized Obama-era federal bureaucracy is nowhere more blatant than in a little-known unit of the Justice Department, the Community Relations...

  • July 11, 2016

    At last we know: 1,200 New Year’s Eve sexual assaults in Germany

    German citizens have been shielded from the awful truth about the way life in Germany has been altered by the arrival of hundreds of thousands of young Muslim “refugees.”  It is no longer safe for German women and girls to go about t...

  • July 10, 2016

    My guess is Gingrich for Trump’s VP pick

    I admire Senator Jeff Sessions greatly, as does Mike Stopa today, but I think Donald Trump will choose Newt Gingrich as his running mate and, if the ticket wins, senior advisor. Trump wants to shake up Washington, and so does Newt. And Newt’...

  • July 10, 2016

    New York Times star columnist Maureen Dowd trashes Hillary

    In its most prominent opinion slot, on its Sunday edition op-ed page, the New York Times today features Maureen Dowd absolutely ripping Hillary Clinton and her husband as moral lepers, and sympathizing with: a president, campaign and party are a...

  • July 9, 2016

    Green Party presumptive nominee offers to step aside and let Bernie Sanders be the candidate

    The Democrats are on notice that they’d better treat Bernie Sanders with respect.  That nasty incident a few days ago when House Democrats booed Sanders could lead to disaster for Hillary Clinton if Sanders takes up a remarkable offer...

  • July 9, 2016

    Hillary plays the race card on Dallas police massacre

    Hillary Clinton has crafted her response to the slaughter of Dallas policemen to exploit racial resentment and shore up her support among African-Americans.  She needs Obama-levels of turnout and to grab about 92% of the votes in order to win. ...

  • July 9, 2016

    Narrative starts to fall apart in Minnesota police shooting

    Much of what we think we know about the shooting of Philando Castile by police in Minnesota is false.  But we shouldn’t be surprised, because the media sticks to The Narrative.  You know, the near mandatory narrative that the American...

  • July 8, 2016

    Dallas police massacre: BLM demonstrators got what they called for

    The attack on Dallas police officers, 12 hit and 5 among them now dead, is the latest blow to the fragile bonds of civil society.  The expectation that lawful behavior will predominate and that we can go about our business, once lost, is difficu...

  • July 8, 2016

    Top scholar on American Indians accused of faking Indian heritage

    At a moment in history when academia’s words proclaim that “white privilege” rules our society, we see evidence in the behavior of academics that real privilege accrues to minorities that claim victimhood. Ward Churchill, move ov...

  • July 8, 2016

    Chaffetz’s FBI referral on Hillary perjury a time bomb?

    It was an astonishing moment when FBI Director James Comey told the House Oversight Committee that his “comprehensive” investigation of Hillary Clinton’s email practices had not bothered to consider her sworn testimony before Congre...

  • July 7, 2016

    Hillary’s missing emails

    Now that the State Department has released the emails Hillary Clinton didn’t comprehensively scrub, and Wikileaks has released a trove of State Department cable traffic, it is possible to compare the two records.  Peter Schweizer, author o...

  • July 7, 2016

    Rasmussen poll: majority wanted Comey to recommend Hillary indictment

    Evidently, the American public – except for three quarters of Democrats – does not like it when the powerful are judged by a different standard from what the rest of us are held to.  A brand new Rasmussen poll reveals considerable di...

  • July 7, 2016

    Uh-oh! DC Circuit Court of Appeals issues ruling that could force more Hillary email disclosures

    Just when Hillary thought she was going to skate on her obvious criminal violations of national security laws, the nation’s second highest court has issued a ruling that could cause big trouble for her.  The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals r...

  • July 7, 2016

    Lefties rejoice as Gretchen Carlson sues Roger Ailes, alleging sexual harassment

    I will confess that when I first heard about this story yesterday, I felt almost the same way as when many years ago a friend and neighbor told me she and her husband were getting a divorce.  Just sad for all the people involved. The lef...

  • July 7, 2016

    Comey has created a new defense for national security defendants

    It’s already being called “the Hillary Defense.”  Tim Johnson and Marisa Taylor of McClatchy report: The FBI recommendation not to prosecute Hillary Clinton and her staff on charges of mishandling classified information wi...

  • July 7, 2016

    Oh no! David Axelrod clues in Hillary to stop that annoying ‘bobblehead’ nodding of her head

    Herself is getting good advice from one of her partisans unafraid to give honest feedback to Hillary.  That’s a bad sign for Republicans, because the extraordinary fear of annoying Hillary among her sycophants has prevented her from gettin...

  • July 6, 2016

    Comey’s game

    Yesterday, the director of the FBI offered 15 of the most puzzling minutes in the history of American law enforcement.  James Comey spent the first 12 minutes or so laying out a devastating case dismantling Hillary Clinton’s email defense....

  • July 6, 2016

    The sweet lemons Comey handed the GOP

    At the risk of being labeled Panglossian, I do see a small upside in the decision of James Comey to recommend no prosecution of Hillary Clinton.  This does not make me a happy camper: I mourn for the damage done to the rule of law by applying a ...

  • July 6, 2016

    US oil reserves now top Saudi Arabia's

    The world of energy, which is to say the course of the world economy, has been turned upside-down with the fracking revolution.  Less glamorous than information technology, perhaps, but the extraction of the formerly inaccessible reserves embedd...

  • July 6, 2016

    Comey delivered a body blow to #NeverTrump faction of GOP

    A substantial faction of the conservative intelligentsia has convinced itself that Donald Trump is so unqualified for the presidency that Hillary Clinton is a better alternative.  Some, like George Will, hope for a resounding victory for her, wh...

  • July 5, 2016

    Queue forming as nations lining up to sign trade pacts with post-Brexit Britain

    President Obama’s infamous remark that Britain would go to the “back of the queue” in negotiating trade deals if it voted for Brexit has rank among the most foolish diplomatic initiatives in presidential history.  Not only did ...

  • July 5, 2016

    Philly-area campgrounds overflowing with reservations by ‘Occupy DNC’ Bernie supporters planning demonstrations at Democrats’ convention

    We already know that thugs plan to attack the Republican National Convention in Cleveland.  Given the political violence already inflicted on Trump supporters in Chicago, San Jose, and elsewhere, worries are that the neo-brownshirts will attempt...

  • July 5, 2016

    Delusional Al Gore calls himself the ‘Jackie Robinson’ of global warming

    Al Gore is the perfect poster boy for the corruption and hypocrisy of contemporary American progressivism.  Reputedly a billionaire from his error-ridden documentary film and books, speaking fees, and Apple directorship, he squanders energy on v...

  • July 5, 2016

    The end of the rule of law?

    An important essay was published over the Independence Day weekend.  Writing at Townhall.com, Kurt Schlichter laid out in stark terms the entirely foreseeable consequences of the behavior of the Democrat-progressive-media cabal.  It is...

  • July 5, 2016

    Comey speaks: Hillary skates! [further updated]

    FBI director James Comey just addressed the nation for 15 minutes, announcing the conclusions of the Bureau’s investigation of Hillary Clinton’s private email server.  Despite lots of critical references to her practices, the FBI is ...

  • July 4, 2016

    Huma admits under oath that Hillary burned her daily schedule

    During her deposition given to Judicial Watch under court order for its Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, Huma Abedin made a startling admission.  Daniel Halper, who recently moved from the Weekly Standard to the New York Post, reports: H...

  • July 4, 2016

    Spoiler alert: Gary Johnson

    With polls revealing high dissatisfaction with the two major party candidates, 2016 ought to be the dream year for the Libertarian Party.  And on the surface, a ticket featuring two former governors – Gary Johnson of New Mexico and William...

  • July 3, 2016

    Elie Wiesel: A giant passes, and a well-connected leftist disgraces himself

    Most readers of American Thinker grasp the greatness of Elie Wiesel, the man who survived the Holocaust as a teenager and became humanity’s most eloquent spokesman for the indomitable human spirit, as he became the greatest witness to the opera...

  • July 3, 2016

    Japan Supreme Court decision allows blanket surveillance of Muslims

    Japan is almost completely unbound by political correctness when it comes to Muslims. There have been no instances of Islamic terrorism there, mostly because Japan does not permit immigration without marriage to a Japanese citizen. There are some ill...

  • July 2, 2016

    Warmist stronghold all but concedes the game

    Life’s tough for a warmist think-tank.  Look what just happened in Germany (via the great Andrew Bolt): Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) are warning that Europe may be facing “a mini ice age” due to a po...

  • July 2, 2016

    Report: Clinton ambushed Lynch at Phoenix Airport

    In an exclusive report in the New York Observer (which is owned by Donald Trump’s son in law), an anonymous source, who claims to have been present and involved in the airport meeting between Bill Clinton and Loretta Lynch, lays out how it went...

  • July 2, 2016

    Report: FBI to interview Hillary today

    Citing an anonymous source close to the investigation, The Daily Caller’s Chuck Ross reports that Hillary Clinton will be interviewed by the FBI today, probably at her Georgetown mansion in Washington, D.C.  While the bureau (and probably ...

  • July 2, 2016

    Judge Jeanine Pirro on why Hillary won’t be indicted

    Judge Jeanine Pirro is a tough cookie, well versed in hardball politics, New York-style.  As district attorney for Westchester County, just north of New York City, she no doubt crossed paths many times with then-U.S. attorney for the Eastern Dis...

  • July 2, 2016

    How rampant voter fraud in Minnesota likely changed the course of American politics

    But for voter fraud in Minnesota, we would not have Obamacare.  That is the scenario of a case being heard by the Supreme Court of Minnesota, over likely voter fraud that made the difference in the 2008 election of Senator Al Franken, whose vote...

  • July 2, 2016

    Stunning apparent conflict of interest as SecState Hillary Clinton sought information key to son-in-law’s hedge fund

    The opportunities for corruption – insider trading of the worst kind – were obvious and deeply disturbing when Hillary Clinton was secretary of state and her son-in-law went into a very specific kind of investing.  And the fact that ...

  • June 29, 2016

    Warmist guru Michael Mann tells DNC platform committee to use scary propaganda, not science, to panic voters into accepting flawed theory

    It is a sure sign of warmist desperation in the wake of the abject failure of global warming climate models to accurately predict the future.  Michael Mann, one of the leading touts of warmism, yesterday told the Democratic Platform Drafting Com...

  • June 29, 2016

    Istanbul airport attack is part of Islamist war on Turkey’s modernist population

    Turkey is on a knife’s edge, split between its modernists, who embrace a secular society and want integration into Europe, and its pious Islamic population, who seek a return to a life guided by sharia. The former tend to be concentrated in cit...

  • June 28, 2016

    Dem lawmaker who voted against welfare anti-fraud protections indicted for felony food stamp fraud

    When Democrat Arizona state rep. Cecilia Velasquez voted against stronger anti-fraud tools for the Arizona Department of Economic Security last February, apparently she was protecting herself.  According to Fox 32, this was “a program that...

  • June 27, 2016

    Hezb’allah sneers at sanctions

    The magnitude of President Obama’s decision to release a hundred billion dollars or more to Iran is becoming clear now that checks are being cashed.  Yes, Boeing may be selling $25 billion’s worth of airliners to Iran, but other...

  • June 27, 2016

    Leftists violently attack (so-called) Neo-Nazi idiots peacefully demonstrating in Sacramento

    It is necessary to state at the outset that I despise neo-Nazis.  But that does not mean I approve of violent attacks on them as they peacefully exercise their rights to free speech.  (UPDATE: The group attacked, the Traditionalist Workers ...

  • June 24, 2016

    Trump makes statement from Scotland on Brexit, turns it into advertorial for his golf course, and then goes full statesman

    Old habits die hard for Donald Trump, apparently.  Addressing the world’s media in a press conference at his golf course in Turnberry, Scotland, he used the first ten minutes or so to promote his property.  To say the least, we have n...

  • June 23, 2016

    Guccifer 2.0 hack reveals DNC collaboration with foreign billionaire to ‘alter the electorate’

    The Democratic Party is collaborating with a foreign billionaire who has repeatedly violated our laws by illegally contributing to elections here, in a project to achieve its progressive agenda by “altering the electorate,” according to a...

  • June 23, 2016

    Seven ‘public servants’ indicted for Food Stamp fraud

    It made barely a ripple in the national last week when initially reported, but seven state workers in Delaware were indicted for Food Stamp fraud totaling nearly a million dollars, with five arrested and two others at large.  An official stateme...

  • June 22, 2016

    Obama-appointed federal judge slaps down fracking regulations on federal land

    At least one federal judge appointed by President Obama understands that the executive branch cannot make up laws on it own, contrary to the bills passed by Congress and signed into law.  And as a result, the Obama administration’s war on ...

  • June 22, 2016

    Unbelievable! AG Lynch admits she has lost track of Orlando shooter’s wife

    The mind boggles, as during her press conference in Orlando, Attorney General Loretta Lynch casually admitted that she has no idea of the location of  the wife of the Orlando shooter – who may well have been aware of his attack and provide...

  • June 22, 2016

    Rep. Chaka Fattah (D-Penn.) convicted of multiple counts of racketeering and bribery

    There was a time when you could see Rep. Chaka Fattah almost every day on cable news, especially MSNBC, as a spokesman for the Democrats, the Congressional Black Caucus, and the black left.  But now that he has been convicted of multiple felonie...

  • June 21, 2016

    Heather Mac Donald’s The War on Cops

    If you have been looking for an antidote to Black Lives Matter, Heather Mac Donald’s new book published today, The War on Cops: How the New Attack on Law and Order Makes Everyone Less Safe, is the prescription. Ms. Mac Donald is the most eff...

  • June 20, 2016

    AG Lynch: Orlando shooting 911 transcripts will be purged of references to Islamic terror

    Attorney General Loretta Lynch has revealed that the Department of Justice will censor transcripts of the 911 calls made by the Orlando jihad shooter to remove references to his pledge of allegiance to ISIS.  Speaking to Chuck Todd on Meet the P...

  • June 20, 2016

    Not just Orlando: 3 other Islamist domestic terror news stories last week the MSM ignored

    No matter how much Loretta Lynch and President Obama attempt to obscure the global Islamist jihad campaign to destroy our civilization, reality keeps offering examples.  Needless to say, the mainstream media is fully on board with the Obama effo...

  • June 20, 2016

    Obama’s Yosemite trip causes Father’s Day weekend chaos

    President Obama’s Father’s Day weekend trip to Yosemite National Park not only generated a massive carbon footprint as he decried global warming, it massively screwed up the holiday visits of thousands of other families, hoping to celebra...

  • June 20, 2016

    New York Times reports on desperate hunger and starvation in Venezuela, but omits mention of ‘socialism’

    Venezuelans are starving and desperately ransacking supermarkets and food delivery trucks in order to avoid death.  The consequences of socialism are grim indeed, and the New York Times is wringing its hands over the human misery just across the...

  • June 19, 2016

    Down the Memory Hole: In 2008 Obama campaign booted 3 newspapers off his campaign plane

    The mainstream media have been hysterical this week in their response to Donald Trump’s revocation of the Washington Post’s campaign press credentials in response to coverage and headlines so unfair that the paper went back and changed th...

  • June 19, 2016

    Obama brings massive carbon footprint for his visit to Yosemite to hector us over global warming

    President Obama and his family are enjoying Father’s Day in Yosemite National Park, a place of stunning natural beauty that refreshes the mind, the heart, and the soul. But of course, Obama being Obama and America needing constant correction of...

  • June 18, 2016

    The most amusing Trump video ever

    Social justice warrior critics of cultural appropriation, beware.  The video below will make your heads explode.  While that is not a bad thing, I do need to warn you out of a sense of...social justice.  I came across this throu...

  • June 18, 2016

    Muslim politician threatens to rape women’s rights activist on live TV talk show

    Hafiz Hamdullah, a member of the Senate of Pakistan and of the Jamiatul-Ulema-e-Islam (F) (JUI-F) party, which is part of the ruling coalition, became enraged while on a Pakistani television panel discussion show, 10PM with Nadia Mirza.  Facing ...

  • June 18, 2016

    Hillary’s health: the issue the media refuse to cover

    As Tammy Bruce correctly pointed out recently, there are very good reasons to worry about the health of Hillary Clinton and her ability to discharge the duties of office, should she be elected president.  Just this week, she appeared in public l...

  • June 17, 2016

    Desmond Tutu nominates mass murderer for Nobel Peace Prize

    South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu, himself a Nobel Peace Prize Laureate (in 1984 for his anti-apartheid activism), has nominated a mass murderer of Jews for the honor he holds. Long known as an anti-Israel activist, Archbishop Tutu has proposed a...

  • June 17, 2016

    CIA Director Brennan contradicts Obama on ISIS threat

    This doesn’t happen very often: the head of the CIA making a fool of his president.  But that is what happened yesterday as CIA Director John Brennan testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee. Less than 48 hours before his test...

  • June 15, 2016

    Hillary’s terrorism-enabling surrogate

    It is more than time for Hillary Clinton’s ethnic pandering to blow back on her campaign for president.  When she was running for the Senate in New York State, getting her husband Bill to pardon Puerto Rican terrorists who had bombed histo...

  • June 15, 2016

    Total Clinton income from for-profit schools now set at $22 million

    Imagine earning a fortune like $22 million!  That would be enough, even after taxes, to lead a life of luxury.  It is beyond the dreams of 99.9% of the American people.  But that is the new total we now know that Bill and Hillary Clint...

  • June 14, 2016

    The Clinton Global Initiative scam is crashing

    According to Sarah Westwood, the great investigative reporter at the Washington Examiner, fewer than half of the projects undertaken by the Clinton Global Initiative since 2005 have been completed.  A CGI report ... showed fewer than half o...

  • June 14, 2016

    Hillary Hilarity

    For all the distaste I feel for Hillary Clinton, she is an ideal foil for humor.  American humor delights in skewering pretentiousness, and with her phony self-righteousness and pretend concern for the victims of society while enriching herself,...

  • June 14, 2016

    Trump again plays by his own rulebook, revokes WaPo press credentials

    Donald Trump has revoked the press credentials – in practice, the ability to travel on the campaign press plane and privileged access to public events – of the Washington Post.  Once again, the established media are outraged at somet...

  • June 13, 2016

    CAIR: We’re victims, too

    CAIR is wrapping itself in victimhood to divert attention from the scriptural sources of lethal attacks on homosexuals, as carried out by Omar Mateen on Orlando and by countless Muslims in the Middle East. "Homophobia, transphobia...

  • June 12, 2016

    Report: Romney appeared to ‘tear up’ talking to supporters about Trump

    The success of Donald Trump in capturing the GOP nomination appears to have caused intense emotional distress in many otherwise sober figures.  The latest among the educated, well-spoken, dare-I-say elite Republican crowd to be driven to heretof...

  • June 12, 2016

    Mass shooting and hostage taking at Orlando gay nightclub appears to be Islamic terrorism

    Update: The attacker has been identified as Omar Mateen, a US-born citizen whose parents came to the US from Afghanistan. The Daily Beast: Omar Mateen of Port Saint Luice, Florida has been identified as the gunman who killed 20 people at a Orlan...

  • June 12, 2016

    Anti-Trump GOP hysteria over imaginary Trump ‘enemies list’

    The panty-wadding on the part of anti-Trump Republicans is reaching comic proportions. The latest example involves a fantasy based on a third-hand report. It all began when sportscaster Robert Costa gave a friend-of-a-friend third hand account in a t...

  • June 12, 2016

    Hilarious: NPR and NYT talk about Venezuela’s economic catastrophe and avoid the obvious

    John Hinderaker of Powerline came across an interview on NPT’s Fresh Air program that illustrates hilariously the ideological blinders that prevent both institutions from recognizing the obvious: socialism has ruined Venezuela, an extraordinari...

  • June 12, 2016

    Orlando gay nightclub shooter was a registered Democrat

    The shooter who killed 20 and wounded 42 at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Omar Mir Siddique Mateen, was a registered Democrat who has voted in at least 3 recent general elections, according to voters.findthedata.com. He registered to vote on July, 19,2...

  • June 12, 2016

    Obama’s Orlando funeral dilemma

    What will President Obama do about the memorial service that is certain to follow the awful carnage in Orlando this morning? He has a clear pattern, but this incident does not fit in very well. In Charleston, SC, the decision was easy. The victims...

  • June 12, 2016

    Obama blames 'hate’ not Islam or Jihad for Orlando nightclub massacre

    At least President Obama did not call it “workplace violence,” and at least he acknowledged that the horrific slaughter was an “act of terror.” That’s the good news about his statement a few minutes ago about the carnage...

  • June 11, 2016

    Gotta love it! Rancher gets on his horse, lassos bike thief outside Walmart in Oregon

    This is almost too good to be true, but it comes from the Spokesman-Review, the major newspaper in Spokane, Washington.  And today isn’t April first. EAGLE POINT, Ore. – A rancher jumped on his horse Friday morning and lassoed a...

  • June 11, 2016

    Mitt Romney denounces Trump ‘trickle-down racism’ and emerges as leader of Stockholm syndrome wing of the GOP

    Mitt Romney, the self-identified “severe conservative,” has adopted the values of the liberal cultural establishment.  Following his pummeling in the 2012 election campaign as a “racist” and many other imaginary sins, he ...

  • June 10, 2016

    Obama’s proposed oil tax would more than double federal gasoline tax

    The Obama administration has proposed a $10.25 tax on the production of crude oil.  While not yet formally introduced as legislation, the tax would be positioned as a “tax on big oil,” and opposition to it could be portrayed as ...

  • June 10, 2016

    Founder of Judge Curiel’s lawyers’ group: California whites ‘ought to go back to Europe’

    Ham-handed though he may have been, Donald Trump may have a point about the biases of Judge Gonzalo Curiel, who is hearing the class action lawsuit against Trump University.  The jurist is reportedly a lifetime member of the California La Raza L...

  • June 10, 2016

    Liberal Esquire writer visits the border, comes back supporting the wall

    A little knowledge and experience go a long way.  Let’s hope the Trump campaign notices.  Truth Revolt reports: This week on MSNBC's Morning Joe, Esquire Editor-in-Chief Jay Fielden describes sending one of his...

  • June 9, 2016

    Hillary censors paperback version of Hard Choices

    You can’t handle the truth!  Or, maybe more accurately, the Hillary campaign can’t handle it.  Natalie Johnson of the Free Beacon reports: A passage from Hillary Clinton’s State Department memoir that detailed he...

  • June 9, 2016

    The arrogance of one-party government in California

    Ever since high levels of immigration and taxation transformed California into a one-party state by driving out the middle class and importing an underclass, it has become a textbook example of a banana republic, in hi-tech guise.  An editorial ...

  • June 9, 2016

    Feds shield misbehaving bureaucrats from public exposure for their misdeeds

    America continues its devolution into a feudal society, with an overclass that lives by very different rules from those of the ordinary people, who labor mightily to pay the taxes that sustain the overclass in an existence untroubled by the conc...

  • June 8, 2016

    Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial page editor calls for murder of GOP legislators

    The editorial page editor of the Detroit Free Press, the largest newspaper in Michigan and the largest city newspaper owned by Gannett, has called for the murder of Michigan GOP state legislators for the “crime” of voting to fund charter ...

  • June 8, 2016

    Trump facing blowback from GOP pols terrified of his critique of judge as ‘Mexican’

    The list of Republican politicians rushing to condemn the remarks of Donald Trump about Judge Curiel’s alleged bias against him is long and growing.  Trump has touched the third rail of American politics, ethnicity, and framed what is actu...

  • June 7, 2016

    Hillary’s lack of self-awareness

    Is Hillary Clinton the vainest person to ever run for president?  I know, I know – there’s a lot of competition, including this year.  But still, it takes a high level of self-absorption to do this, as noticed by Morgan Cha...

  • June 7, 2016

    Hillary Clinton’s eyes

    It should be a really simple question: what color are Hillary Clinton’s eyes? However, eagle-eyed Lee Cary spotted something strange. Today on Drudge, we see her with blue eyes. However, a quick look at Google Images reveals hazel ...

  • June 7, 2016

    Philadelphia tells Democratic convention demonstrators they won’t be arrested

    This is not going to end well. The Associated Press reports: Philadelphia wants to avoid a repeat of 2000 when it arrested more than 400 protesters at the Republican National Convention, only to see most cases end in acquittals. Less than ...

  • June 6, 2016

    David French says no, thank you to Bill Kristol

    Stop the presses!  David French is not running for president, despite all the excitement curiosity generated by Bill Kristol suggesting him as an alternative to Trump; Hillary; and, of course, Gary Johnson.  A brave, devout, intelligent, an...

  • June 6, 2016

    San Jose police chief who allowed mob attacks on Trump supporters is affiliated with La Raza

    San Jose, California disgraced itself last week, allowing rioters to attack people exiting a political rally for the presumptive Republican nominee for president.  Now, thanks to Aleister of Gateway Pundit, we know that the police chief of that ...

  • June 6, 2016

    President-elect of the Philippines urges citizens to kill drug dealers

    They have a serious drug problem in the Philippines, and the next president of the country has a plan.  Jim Gomez of the Associated Press reports: The Philippine president-elect has encouraged the public to help him in his war against crime...

  • June 5, 2016

    Lefty NY Mayor de Blasio used a spreadsheet of campaign donors in making political appointments

    Bill de Blasio, the hard-left mayor of New York City, is going down as a historically corrupt figure (which is saying something for New York City). Currently the subject of no less than five official investigations:  …historians have...

  • June 5, 2016

    Coming Attractions: Former Secret Service Officer Spills the Beans on Hillary in the White House

    What promises to be a blockbuster book, detailing the disgraceful behavior of Bill and Hillary Clinton in the White House, will be published June 28.  Crisis of Character: A White House Secret Service Officer Discloses His Firsthand Experience w...

  • June 5, 2016

    The return of tuberculosis to the United States

    Another aspect of President Obama’s “fundamental transformation” appears to be the return of tuberculosis to the United States, adding one more dimension of third world status to our new way of life. A highly communicable and fatal ...

  • June 5, 2016

    Hillary’s uncontrollable cough is back

    Hillary Clinton, who suffered a brain injury so severe that it affected her vision for weeks, is also suffering from a secret malady that causes fits of coughing in public. If nothing else, this constitutes a readymade face-saving excuse for her to d...

  • June 4, 2016

    Hillary’s hacked emails probably revealed the names of hidden intelligence officials

    There is very good reason to infer that Hillary Clinton included the names of hidden intelligence officials of the United States in her unprotected email correspondence, vulnerable to hackers working for foreign powers that assiduously test our cyber...

  • June 4, 2016

    Mother of NJ Zika baby flew to US to get treatment, will cost taxpayers $1 million for lifetime treatment of her citizen-baby

    Congratulations, federal taxpayers! You get to pay for the lifetime treatment of the baby born to a Honduran woman who flew to the US to get treatment. Because of the birth-citizenship interpretation of the Constitution’s  14th Amendment, ...

  • June 4, 2016

    Michelle Obama uses commencement speech to attack Trump, border wall, without naming names

    In this polarized season, it seems that leftists believe it is fine to hijack graduation ceremonies, which should be about the graduates, to score political points.  Matt Damon, for instance, thought it fine to attack Donald Trump, Brexit, and b...

  • June 3, 2016

    Hillary Clinton lays out her foreign policy: Being not-Trump

    Hillary Clinton fired up the teleprompter and addressed a crowd of a couple of hundred hand-selected audience members in San Diego yesterday, seeking to take her miserable record of foreign policy blunders as secretary of state out of the political l...

  • June 3, 2016

    Speaker Ryan demands investigation into State Department censorship of press briefing video

    The State Department has been caught trying the Orwellian Memory Hole gambit, deleting the video record of its spokesman Jen Psaki in essence admitting to Fox News’s James Rosen that it misled the media about nuclear negotiations with Iran....

  • June 3, 2016

    Outrage compounded: San Jose mayor blames Trump for violence committed against his followers

    The riot last night in San Jose, California was outrageous on its face – political violence committed with ethnic animus.  The San Jose police largely stood by as Trump supporters were violently assaulted.  But the mayor of San J...

  • June 3, 2016

    Intelligence officers sabotaging Trump campaign

    I think this is outrageous.  Mark Hosenball of Reuters reports: Some U.S. intelligence officials are concerned that Donald Trump's "shoot from the hip" style could pose national security risks as they prepare to give him a rou...

  • June 2, 2016

    Shock research finding: Mars has experienced massive climate change

    It turns out that Mars, with no help from CO2 or the Koch Brothers, has experienced massive climate change. The findings, based on Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter radar data, help make the point that significant drivers of climate change have nothing to ...

  • June 2, 2016

    ACLU state leader quits after daughters ‘frightened’ by biological males in restroom

    Evidently, Maya Dillard Smith, interim director of the Georgia chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, has had an epiphany.  LifeSiteNews reports: The African-American woman who leads a state chapter of the ACLU has resigned, citing ...

  • June 2, 2016

    David French’s video supporting Trump will create problems if he runs

    I take no glee in passing along the video excerpt below tweeted out by Trump supporter Alison Arkin.  It shows Bill Kristol’s chosen spoiler candidate David French averring on a Skype interview that he will vote for Donald Trump should he ...

  • June 2, 2016

    Uh-oh! Selective Service does not buy into ‘transgender’ theory

    I see an executive order coming.  For the moment, the Selective Service is sticking with the science of chromosomes as the determinant of sex.  The regulations on who must register with the draft read:  TRANSGENDER PEOPLE Indiv...

  • June 1, 2016

    SCOTUS hands down a property rights victory

    The Environmental Protection Agency suffered a major blow from the Supreme Court to its high-handedness in seizing control of land belonging to private owners. Robert Barnes reports in the Washington Post: The Supreme Court on Tuesday made it ea...

  • June 1, 2016

    Los Angeles TV station discovers hundreds of dead people voting

    Every time a state tries to enact reasonable voter identification legislation, Democrats (and only Democrats) rush to assure us that vote fraud is very rare. Unless you look for it, as the Los Angeles CBS affiliate did: A comparison of record...

  • June 1, 2016

    Michelle Obama shoots off her mouth in embarrassing tirade

    First ladies generally are allowed considerable immunity from criticism, because they generally stick to feel-good issues, like literacy, roadside beautification, and other subjects most people can agree on. But not Michelle Obama, who has enjoyed so...

  • May 31, 2016

    Hillary panicking over California primary

    Hillary Clinton’s campaign is taking drastic measures, obviously in panic over the California primary a week from today. She may still have the support of the Democratic Part bosses – the superdelegates -- but an embarrassing showing in t...

  • May 31, 2016

    Sanders and his friends go for the big momentum in Oakland

    In contrast to the foundering Hillary Clinton campaign, Bernie Sanders was living it up yesterday in California. He began the day courting the black left: Sanders began his day in Oakland at Allen Temple, an influential black church where he hel...

  • May 31, 2016

    CAIR official doubles down on not honoring troops on Memorial Day

    At least Zahra Billoo, head of the San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of the Council on Islamic America Relations (CAIR) is being honest. Ryan Mauro of the Clarion Project reports: A top Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) officia...

  • May 31, 2016

    Despite financial crisis caused by caving to #BlackLivesMatter, Mizzou lavishing millions on more ‘diversity’ navel-gazing

    The University of Missouri is stuck on stupid when it comes to race relations. Capitulating to black radicals under the BLM banner last year has cost the school dearly. Dave Huber of The College Fix explains: Largely as a result of the racial st...

  • May 31, 2016

    Bloomberg reports that it knows who Bill Kristol’s ‘impressive’ third party candidate is

    I am stunned. If this came less credible sources, I would suspect a joke.  Respected veteran political reporters Mark Halpern and John Heilemann, who now helm Bloomberg Politics, say they know who Bill Kristol has in mind as his “impressiv...

  • May 30, 2016

    Your 2016 college commencement speech scorecard

    We’re nearing the end of college graduation season, but there is still time, while memories are fresh, to fill out your scorecard.  The idea comes from Tim Amyx, who attended a ceremony at San Francisco State University and created a score...

  • May 30, 2016

    Bill Kristol promises an ‘impressive’ independent candidate to run against Trump

    Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol is offering a “heads up” via Twitter that an as yet unspecified independent conservative candidate will run for president: Just a heads up over this holiday weekend: There will be an independent c...

  • May 30, 2016

    Airport honoring Bob Hope may change its name

    Nobody in the history of American popular culture devoted more time and effort to the welfare and morale of our troops than the late comedian Bob Hope. When he died in 2003, the Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport, a commercial airport serving millions...

  • May 30, 2016

    Sen. Tom Cotton open to running on ticket with Trump

    One of the best choices for a running mate for Donald Trump has refused to rule out a vice presidential bid. In an interview with Poltico, Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) was modest but not coy. Burgess Everett writes: In the interview, Cotton wouldn...

  • May 29, 2016

    Why Hillary is so helpless in battling Trump

    When you think about it, we’ve seen this movie before, but recognizing the actual situation is so painful that it will be a long time before the Clinton campaign and its media auxiliaries dare face the truth. Allow me to explain. The New Yor...

  • May 29, 2016

    Hillary campaign fundraising email reveals signs of panic

    In the massive Brooklyn Headquarters of the Hillary campaign, they know something is happening, but they don’t know what it is (to paraphrase Bob Dylan’s taunting lyric). A fundraising email sent out by campaign manager Robbie Mook is sta...

  • May 28, 2016

    Trump backs out of debate with Sanders

    Those of us who were eagerly anticipating the debate seemingly agreed to by Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders were disappointed by the Trump campaign statement delivered at a classic document dump time slot: late Friday afternoon on a holiday weekend: ...

  • May 28, 2016

    Watch as Democrat unable to deal with professor’s challenge on ‘transgender’ bathroom rule loses it, starts calling names

    During a House Judiciary Committee hearing on the recent transgender bathroom mandate, Representative Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) found herself unable to rationally deal with a witness, a law school professor, who had submitted a 21-page written statement to ...

  • May 28, 2016

    ‘Constitution Park’ celebrates 9/10 of the Bill of Rights

    I am fairly certain that nobody in the Downer’s Grove, Illinois Park Department has a well-developed sense of irony. But maybe they are more concerned with mowing the grass than considering what the Constitution actually means. Or maybe they ar...

  • May 28, 2016

    Public records request yields hilarious level of scripting used by Rahm Emanuel for a news conference

    Rahm Emanuel is a close friend of Hillary (and Bill) Clinton, and as obsessed both political power and personal vengeance on his enemies. Having obtained the post of Mayor of Chicago, he is now presiding over an impossible fiscal crisis, required to ...

  • May 27, 2016

    Congratulations, Chelsea!

    Chelsea Clinton Margolies Mezvinsky has added yet another achievement to her résumé.  Building on her popularity as an NBC News correspondent, she has received an undisclosed advance for a book from Penguin Random House, which desc...

  • May 27, 2016

    Yet another green fail imperils California half-fast ‘bullet’ train

    Jerry Brown’s dream of constructing a high-speed rail line connecting the Bay Area with Southern California suffered a major setback this week, but rest assured: every effort is being made to spend enough money quickly enough to make pulling th...

  • May 27, 2016

    The horror! The horror! Chinese TV commercial is racially insensitive toward blacks

    Having first arrived in Asia 49 years ago, I suppose I qualify as an “old Asia hand.”  As such, I am amply acquainted with the jarring and sometimes hilarious differences in racial sensitivities between societies where 99.9% of the p...

  • May 27, 2016

    Bernie Sanders refuses to answer questions about socialism’s failure in Venezuela

    Facing the first hard question from a reporter he has received during this campaign, Bernie Sanders clammed up and refused to talk about it.  Perhaps the fact that the question came from Leon Krauze of Spanish-language network Univision spooked ...

  • May 26, 2016

    State Department inspector general’s report demolishes Hillary’s excuses about her private email server

    The 83-page State Department inspector general’s report on Hillary Clinton’s private email server puts the lie to many of Hillary Clinton’s repeated claims about her unprecedented private email server.  No, it was not permitted...

  • May 26, 2016

    Trump and Sanders agree to debate before California primary

    Hillary Clinton’s arrogant refusal to debate Bernie Sanders on Fox News just got trumped.  Previously unrecognized political power broker Jimmy Kimmel has arranged something unprecedented.  CBS News reports: Before hitting a priv...

  • May 26, 2016

    Tomorrow in Hiroshima, Obama should talk about all the Japanese lives saved by the atomic bombings

    The mere fact of an American president going to Hiroshima is itself an acknowledgment of the horror of nuclear weapons.  But President Obama must resist the temptation to continue his global apology tour and express regret for America being the ...

  • May 26, 2016

    Attorneys for Hillary aide Cheryl Mills seek to prevent release of audio and video of her deposition with Judicial Watch

    There are signs of fear, even desperation on Team Hillary, as her top aides are about to be deposed by Judicial Watch, as part of discovery ordered by U.S. District Court judge Emmett Sullivan in Judicial Watch’s FOIA suit.  Josh Gerstein ...

  • May 25, 2016

    Oberlin radicals demand erasing grades below Cs, replacing midterms with ‘conversations,’ and other nonsense, including pay for demonstrations

    American higher education is in the process of surrendering to self-pitying, self-righteous bullies riding the wave of victimology that has obsessed liberal elites ever since the Civil Rights movement protested genuine injustices half a century ago....

  • May 25, 2016

    The vanishing Fourth Amendment forcing data-obsessed Silicon Valley to cut back on data retention

    The Law of Unintended Consequences is operating in Silicon Valley, as it does everywhere.  In the wake of the FBI’s attempt to force Apple to break its own encryption on an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino terrorists, high-tech com...

  • May 25, 2016

    Illegals sue landlord for requiring documentation they have a right to be in United States

    The pernicious legal doctrine of “disparate impact” threatens to claim another commonsense and useful practice.  Steve Birr of the Daily Caller News Foundation reports: Four Latino families filed papers to sue their Virginia lan...

  • May 25, 2016

    Politico received $710k in direct payments from the federal government in 2015

    It’s all perfectly legal and all perfectly disturbing.  Politico, the court scribe of the imperial federal government, has been very, very successful in selling subscriptions to a wide variety of federal agencies for its paid information s...

  • May 25, 2016

    Thugs break through police barriers, throw rocks, smash door at Trump rally in Albuquerque

    The attempt of the left to portray Donald Trump as a Nazi or fascist for believing that borders mean controlling who crosses them is backfiring in the hands of crazed protesters from the left's own side.  CNN reports: Protesters lit fir...

  • May 24, 2016

    FBI investigation of McAuliffe leaked: why?

    The stunning news that the FBI has been investigating Virginia Governor (and key Clinton Machine operative) Terry McAuliffe for a year is widely seen as an ominous sign for Hillary Clinton’s campaign. But a lot of tealeaf reading is necessary t...

  • May 24, 2016

    Snowflake chronicles: elementary school bans whistles to signal end of recess as ‘too aggressive’ (Updated)

    Western civilization has seriously gone off the rails. A mania has gripped those who educate young people, convincing them that any stress whatsoever is capable of triggering some unspecified disaster that is too horrible to specify. Moving beyond th...

  • May 24, 2016

    Trump raises Vince Foster’s death as possible murder

    Panties are wadding up as Donald Trump “goes there” by raising a topic that is variously called a conspiracy theory, sleazy, or just plain insane: suspicions about the death of Vince Foster, the highest-ranking government official to die ...

  • May 23, 2016

    Thanks, Bernie!

    Bernie Sanders has just contributed a sound bite to the Trump campaign that will be played over and over again as the election approaches.  Speaking with John Dickerson on CBS’s Face the Nation yesterday, Sanders confirmed Donald Trump...

  • May 23, 2016

    Austrian election will be determined by absentee ballots, as world media struggle with specter of nationalist/populist revolt

    The world’s media are struggling to comprehend and explain the rise of a nationalist and populist candidate for chancellor in Austria, a country that formerly was a typical Western European liberal/progressive member of the EU.  With the u...

  • May 23, 2016

    New York Times beclowns itself arguing colleges should not be allowed to ask applicants about their criminal records

    In the wake of publishing an article attacking Donald Trump that was widely regarded as unfair and damaging to its reputation, you might think the editors of the New York Times had learned a lesson or two.  The title of that article was “C...

  • May 23, 2016

    Michelle Fields lands a new media gig

    Michelle Fields, who claimed that Trump campaign official Corey Lewandowski assaulted her and then resigned from her position with Breitbart over its failure to adequately support her, has found a new media home: working for the Huffington Post....

  • May 22, 2016

    The fraud behind the California drivers’ licenses for illegals

    Californians were deceived when the state’s Democrat-dominated legislature and governor rammed through legislation granting drivers licenses to illegal immigrants. The extraordinary step of granting drivers licenses to people with no right to b...

  • May 22, 2016

    Sanders announces he is backing primary opponent of Debbie Wasserman Schultz

    A new battlefront just opened in the Democratic Party’s Civil War.  Hillary Clinton’s close political ally has a new problem on her hands, one that could divert her attention away from keeping the Rodham candidacy on its path to the ...

  • May 22, 2016

    Leftist groups silent as 51 Islamic states seek to block gay and transgender groups from attending UN AIDS meeting

    It’s another case of the silence of the shams, as the usual suspects for decrying discrimination clam up when Islam is involved.  Reuters reports:  A group of 51 Muslim states has blocked 11 gay and transgender organizations from...

  • May 22, 2016

    WaPo poll confirms Trump surge to lead over Hillary

    As Paul Bedard of the Washington Examiner takes delight in mocking, the Washington Post took a full 219 words reporting on its latest poll before admitting that Donald Trump now holds a 2 percentage point lead over Hillary Clinton. And CNN’s Ja...

  • May 21, 2016

    Clinton campaign has committed the stupidest blunder of the presidential race yet

    The media are protecting the Clinton campaign, as usual.  According to the mainstream narrative, voters are supposed to believe that Donald Trump presents a mortal danger to American foreign policy because of a penchant to say stupid and reckles...

  • May 21, 2016

    Sinister left-wing foundation funded NPR, other media outlets to cover Iran nuke deal

    In the wake of Ben Rhodes chortling to the New York Times over how easy it was to fool the American media to get favorable coverage of the Iran nuclear deal comes news that the media “echo chamber” (as Rhodes called it) was funded by a ha...

  • May 21, 2016

    Liberal New Republic provides helpful advice to Trump campaign

    Eagle-eyed James Taranto of the Wall Street Journal spotted an inadvertent bit of help for the Trump campaign buried in the midst of what was meant to be an article supportive of Hillary.  You see, Hillary faces a potentially huge problem: she n...

  • May 21, 2016

    Why is the world so dangerous?

    Remember the “Peace Dividend”?  How about “The End of History”?  They remind us that there was a brief span of time following the American victory in the Cold War when Americans thought that with the triumph of capit...

  • May 21, 2016

    Rapper makes video threatening to kill Donald Trump

    Louisiana rapper Maine Muzik has released a profanity-laced video that directly threatens political assassination.  BizPac Review reports: On the same week Muzik was visited by police for posting a video to his Instagram account where he, a...

  • May 21, 2016

    Hilarious: Hillary’s tweet bungles the concept of a Venn Diagram

    There’s nothing more embarrasing than trying to look smart and demonstrating ignorance.  A tweet purportedly from Hillary Clinton herself demonstrates that nobody on her campaign seems to understand what a Venn diagram is.  The concep...

  • May 20, 2016

    The Koch wild card for election

    This most unpredictable election year ever has another variable at play: the Koch Brothers potentially could hand the election to Hillary Clinton.  Yesterday, the Daily Caller reported: Billionaire businessman and philanthropist David Koch ...

  • May 19, 2016

    Barbara Boxer charges Nevada Dem convention chaos was ‘planned’

    The chaos and violence at the Nevada State Democratic convention last Saturday in Las Vegas continues to make waves, as dark motives and possible conspiracies are now being imputed in a spontaneous burst of outrage.  The Democratic Party is turn...

  • May 19, 2016

    Hillary losing to Trump 45-42 in new poll

    The purported certainty of a wipeout for Trump in the November election is gone, joining other confidant pundit predictions, such as Trump’s “ceiling” at 30% of the GOP electorate. No doubt this latest poll from Fox News will be dis...

  • May 19, 2016

    House Oversight Committee pressed to hold hearings on donor privacy abuses

    This morning, 105 influential conservative and nonprofit leaders delivered a letter requesting Chairman Jason Chaffetz of the House Oversight & Government Reform Committee to hold hearings on the efforts of state attorneys general and the IRS to ...

  • May 18, 2016

    Democratic Party split over Sanders becomes real, personal, and very dangerous

    The Democrat establishment is waking up to the awful truth on Bernie Sanders: he is a mortal danger to not only the presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton, but the continued viability of the party’s strategy of mouthing populist rhetoric whil...

  • May 18, 2016

    Chancellor of top university dares to tell the truth about affirmative action

    Have we finally come to the emperor-has-no-clothes moment when it comes to quotas, or as they are euphemistically known, “affirmative action”?  There are grounds for hope, as the chancellor of Oxford University, on everyone’s l...

  • May 18, 2016

    Democrats’ cycle of violence escalates

    First it was fistfights, thrown chairs, and John Law called in at the Nevada State Democratic Convention over the weekend.  Cue the sanctimonious calls for Bernie Sanders to call off his supporters, treating him as if he were Donald Trump, and t...

  • May 17, 2016

    Iranian missile commander: US told us to keep banned missile tests secret

    What kind of game is the U.S. playing with the Iranians?  Is the U.S. government telling the Iranians to secretly test its ballistic missiles, supposedly banned by the comprehensive nuclear agreement?  A speech given by  Amir Ali Hajiz...

  • May 17, 2016

    Unions demand AFL-CIO shun mega-donor green extremist Tom Steyer

    Labor unions representing construction workers are fed up with the sell-out of their members’ interests to big-money radical environmentalist donors, and open warfare is breaking out.  Alexander Bolton of The Hill reports: Seven union...

  • May 17, 2016

    College led by Bernie Sanders’s wife Jane destroyed by debt she ran up

    Burlington College is feeling the Bern: it will cease to exist on May 27, rendered insolvent by the debt run up by its former president, Jane Sanders, wife of Bernie Sanders, who wants to add $18 to 21 trillion to the national debt with his proposed ...

  • May 16, 2016

    Study finds electric vehicles produce more pollution that internal combustion cars

    It’s enough to make a Greenie turn…uh…green.  A new study from the University of Edinburgh finds that electric and hybrid vehicles actually emit more harmful pollution running on streets and highways than conventional vehicle...

  • May 16, 2016

    Fury builds among Sanders supporters over stonewalling by Dem establishment

    The biggest political story that the media wants to ignore is the bitter split in the Democratic Party, as Sanders supporters refuse to capitulate to Hillary Clinton’s purported inevitability, while the party establishment steamrollers the Big ...

  • May 16, 2016

    NYT facing blowback over attack story in Trump’s treatment of women

    The woman whose story was featured in the lede of the New York Times’s big front page Sunday attack on Donald Trump has just spoken out about how her message was totally distorted.  The Times began its story: Donald J. Trump had barel...

  • May 16, 2016

    Clash of the Conservative Titans

    Bill Kristol, Weekly Standard editor and DC conservative establishment icon has been on a crusade to gin up a third party candidate so as to prevent a Donald Trump presidency. This is such utter nonsense, all but guaranteed to elect Hillary Clinton a...

  • May 15, 2016

    DNC leaders flee Nevada State Dem Convention, call in sheriff’s deputies and hotel security as dispute over delegates escalates into violence

    Bitterness and violence erupted yesterday at the Democrats’ Nevada State Convention in Las Vegas, as 64 Sanders delegates were disqualified, allowing Clinton to take 7 of the 12 delegates up for grabs.  Party officials there ignored a moti...

  • May 15, 2016

    Venezuela seizing factories, arresting owners

    Socialist Venezuela is so bankrupt that it is unable to import key commodities and unable to supply electricity to factories, so scapegoats have become necessary. The situation became critical when the country’s largest beer producer, Polar, ha...

  • May 14, 2016

    Not just bathrooms: Feds issue regulation Friday to force health insurance to cover sex change operations

    While the federal decree abolishing sex segregation in bathrooms (and incidentally establishing the principle that your sex is whatever you say it is – with far reaching consequences for Title IX and many other federal programs based on sex), t...

  • May 14, 2016

    Ben Rhodes: Forget about that red line in Syria – there’s nothing we could have done to prevent genocide

    President Obama’s purported boy genius, Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes is “not proud” of his boss’s record in failing to prevent genocide, but hey, there was nothing he could have done….  That red l...

  • May 12, 2016

    Washington Post has assigned 20 reporters to look for dirt on Trump

    Bob Woodward has let the cat out of the bag: the Washington Post is all in on finding dirt, or as he put it, “doing articles about every phase of his life."  In these days of shrinking newsrooms, such a major bloc of editorial resourc...

  • May 12, 2016

    Hilarious (yet deeply sad): Enthusiastic Hillary rally speaker chokes on saying ‘under God’ as Hillary smiles standing next to her

    It's your must-see video moment of the day -- 16 seconds that crystallized the religious stance of the modern Democratic Party and Hillary Clinton’s distance from the Deity. At a rally yesterday in Blackwood, NJ, Susan Shin Angulo, a member...

  • May 12, 2016

    Withheld documents: Trump’s taxes versus Hillary’s Whitewater draft indictments

    Two sets of documents, each related to one of the two presidential frontrunners, are being withheld from public scrutiny, yet only one set is making big headlines.  Democrats and NeverTrumpers are demanding that Donald Trump release his income t...

  • May 12, 2016

    Chelsea’s husband shuts down hedge fund after losing 90% of investors’ money

    Mark Mezvinsky is lucky that his wife comes from a fabulously wealthy family. How else would the plucky young couple, soon to be parents of two children, afford the luxury ten million dollar apartment in a fashionable section of Manhattan? Certainly ...

  • May 11, 2016

    Cheryl Mills walks out on interview with FBI and Justice Department over Hillary’s emails

    There are tantalizing signs that the FBI struck a nerve during an interview with close Hillary Clinton aide Cheryl Mills, conducted jointly by the FBI and Department of Justice.  And that the Department of Justice is acting on Hillary’s be...

  • May 11, 2016

    Ominous signs for ‘presumptive nominee’ Hillary in West Virginia primary results

    West Virginia Democrat voters delivered a slap in the face to Hillary Clinton, whom the media all but universally proclaim the inevitable Democrat nominee.  Not only did Bernie Sanders easily defeat her by over 15 points, but 12.7% of Democrats ...

  • May 10, 2016

    Hillary shocked – shocked! – at rising costs of Obamacare

    At a campaign event in Virginia yesterday, Hillary Clinton appeared dumbfounded when a small business owner told her of the drastic rise in costs for health insurance under Obamacare.  Jena Lifhits of the Weekly Standard summarizes (video below)...

  • May 9, 2016

    Kerry tells grads they are about to enter a ‘borderless world’

    Secretary of State John F. Kerry told graduating seniors at Northeastern University that they are about to enter a borderless world and that, owing to technology, resistance is futile: "For some people, that is all they need simply to climb...

  • May 9, 2016

    Chicago celebrates Mother's Day weekend with 8 killed, 43 wounded

    President Obama’s hometown is a war zone.  The horrendous violence on the streets there  has escalated.  With warm summer-like weather, gang-bangers were especially active, easily surpassing 2015’s Mothers Day carnage (3 ki...

  • May 9, 2016

    Desperate times in Saudi Arabia as oil minister fired, plan to privatize Aramco discussed

    Saudi Arabia looks increasingly desperate, as the fall in oil prices has diminished the ability of the thousands-strong royal family to buy off potential opponents and subsidize the lifestyles of its subjects.  With an ailing king, a 31-year-old...

  • May 9, 2016

    Meet Julian Castro, who has big plans

    You may not have heard of Julián Castro, currently secretary of housing and urban development, but you will.  Hillary Clinton has him near the top of her list for the veep slot on her ticket.  It makes sense: he’s Hispanic, har...

  • May 9, 2016

    First cruise ship to visit Cuba returns with 14 ill, suspected norovirus

    I can’t top Open Blogger at Ace of Spades HQ, who calls this “[k]arma, or a reasonable facsimile of it.”  The U.K. Daily Mail reports: The first cruise ship to Cuba in decades set sail on its historic voyage a week ago ...

  • May 8, 2016

    Vienna police tell young blonde woman attacked by Muslim immigrants to dye hair, wear modest clothing, and don’t go out alone on transit after 8

    Welcome to creeping Sharia, Austria. When Muslims reach a critical threshold in the share of population, especially among young adult males, they begin enforcing new social rules. That is what is happening across Western Europe with the arrival of ...

  • May 8, 2016

    Chelsea says: send money to ‘my mom’ to celebrate Mother’s Day

    Shamelessness evidently is heritable, although it is not clear whether nature or nurture is at play in the case of Chelsea Clinton. The Hillary campaign still needs money to fight Bernie Sanders, whose position in the upcoming Western primaries threa...

  • May 8, 2016

    Hillary’s lying face

    Bill Clinton is an accomplished liar, but it was Hillary* who was called a “congenital liar” in William Safire’s enduring label. But she admits she is not a “natural politician” is also not a natural liar, if there is an...

  • May 7, 2016

    Thanks to the generosity of AT readers, Baby Jose in Venezuela getting help

    Last Monday, Jeannie DeAngelis told American Thinker readers about the plight of baby Jose Manuel Villamizar Zambrano, a victim of the economic ruin brought to Venezuela by the socialism of Hugo Chávez and his successor dictator, Nicolá...

  • May 7, 2016

    Hillary just can’t stop yelling

    Oh, the irony!  Hillary Clinton, addressing an enthusiastic crowd in Los Angeles Thursday, did what she does when excited and enthusiastic: she yelled.  But in this instance, her message was the bromide Democrats use whenever Republicans ar...

  • May 6, 2016

    Why was news just leaked that Huma Abedin was questioned by FBI a month ago?

    The Clinton spin machine went into high gear yesterday.  A series of leaks to the media cascaded out a day after Catherine Herridge of Fox News broke the story that Romanian hacker Guccifer told her that he had easily been able to hack into her ...

  • May 6, 2016

    Huma and Hillary: sign of conflict in newly released email?

    Judicial Watch released more Hillary emails that were withheld from State Department after she claimed to have turned over all of them.  This contradicts earlier sworn statements and raises potential legal issues: Judicial Watch today relea...

  • May 5, 2016

    Bon appetit, Dana Milbank

    The victory of Donald Trump is exposing the pomposity of a number of know-it-all pundits who made rash vows dismissing the possibility of him ever attaining the GOP nomination. Dana Milbank evidently is due to savor some newsprint and printer'...

  • May 5, 2016

    Former Mexican president Vicente Fox apologizes for comments on Trump

    Among the many apocalyptic predictions about a Donald Trump presidency, perhaps the least effective have been warnings to American voters that foreign leaders will disrespect or even shun him.  Being told to follow the instructions of foreigners...

  • May 5, 2016

    Feds appear to be removing website posts claiming glaciers will be melted from Glacier National Park by 2030

    Either there is a cover-up of embarrassingly overstated fear-mongering or (barely plausibly) it coincidentally happens that routine updating of United States Geological Survey web postings has temporarily removed those posts.  Writing at Wattsup...

  • May 4, 2016

    It’s Trump. Get over it.

    To the dismay of many serious conservatives, including many in our AT family, the Republican primary voters have spoken, and barring black swan events, Donald Trump will be the GOP nominee.  He is not a perfect man, but those Republicans contemp...

  • May 4, 2016

    Irony alert: AP’s race and ethnicity editor sues for racial discrimination

    When the Associated Press chose a new “Race and Ethnicity Editor” in 2010, it picked an African-American woman, Sonia Ross, for the post, and bragged that Ross would “produce coverage that captures the changing facets of race and et...

  • May 4, 2016

    German Army leaves NATO exercises early because of overtime rules

    No, it is not The Onion reporting this; it is the U.K. Telegraph: German soldiers taking part in a four-week Nato exercise in Norway earlier this year had to leave after just 12 days because they had gone over their overtime limits, it has emerg...

  • May 4, 2016

    Formerly powerful Democrat in NY State sentenced to 12 years in the federal pen

    There are likely to be close to zero mainstream media references to a “culture of corruption” if this news even gets reported.  Irene Plagianos and Radhika Marya of DNA info: Former Assembly Speaker Sheldon S...

  • May 3, 2016

    New Rasmussen poll finds Trump ahead of Hillary 41% to 39%

    Suddenly, predictions of doom for the GOP with Trump as the nominee seem a bit less certain than the pundit class proclaims.  A new Rasmussen Reports: …national telephone survey of Likely U.S. Voters finds Trump with 41% support to C...

  • May 3, 2016

    Dems plan $20-million negative ad blitz on Trump prior to GOP convention

    A Democrat super-PAC has announced a plan to spend $20 million on negative ads about Donald Trump even before he is nominated.  National Journal has a paywall-protected story on the plan.  Obviously, they are planning to use the same strate...

  • May 3, 2016

    Hillary apologizes in West Virginia for saying, 'We're going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business'

    In what Monica Alba of NBC News called “a rare candid moment” (I love it that even NBC News acknowledges that Hillary is such a phony), Hillary Clinton “apologized to a man who confronted her over comments made earlier this year abo...

  • May 3, 2016

    Ted Cruz talks to a heckler

    When Ted Cruz was confronted by a group of pro-Trump protesters at a rally in Indiana yesterday, he did the courageous and enlightened thing: he crossed the street to talk to them. In an ideal world, he would be rewarded, but instead, political te...

  • May 2, 2016

    Alabama 11-year-old shoots burglar who threatened him

    A home-schooled 11-year-old boy in Talladega, Alabama obviously has learned more than just the Three Rs.  Emily Sal writes in the New York Post: Youngster Chris Gaither was just chilling at home with his dogs when he heard a suspicious nois...

  • May 2, 2016

    Sanders vows a contested convention, will go after Hillary’s superdelegates

    Bernie Sanders is not going to play out the script Hillary Clinton has written for him.  Via Bloomberg: Bernie Sanders on Sunday marked the one-year anniversary of his bid for the White House by vowing that the Democratic convention will be...

  • May 2, 2016

    Heads up: Major analysis of Clinton Foundation scandals coming

    Charles Ortel is a respected Wall Street analyst who has been poring over the publicly available records of the Bill, Hillary, and Chelsea Clinton Foundation, and he promises a blockbuster set of revelations: I will soon start posting new, in-de...

  • May 2, 2016

    Hey ‘white people’: you have a ‘way of life problem,’ and Mizzou Faculty Council has videos telling you how to shape up

    Does the University of Missouri have a death wish?  In the wake of capitulating to race grievance demonstrators, Mizzou is already experiencing a decline in applications so severe that it is closing four dorms and a drop in donations that is cau...

  • May 1, 2016

    Nursing student robbed and beaten in broad daylight on Chicago 'El' train as other passengers ignore her plight (updated)

    It has taken a lot of concerted effort on the part of the grievance industry, but the bonds of civil society are finally fraying to the breaking point.  In broad daylight at 10 AM Thursday, 19 year old nursing student Jessica Hughes was attacked...

  • May 1, 2016

    Social Justice Warriors elicit a grovel-by-proxy from Hillary

    We live in an era when a carelessly chosen phrase can bring ruin. I remember as a child hearing about life in Stalin’s USSR, where people lived in fear that a casual remark would be overheard and bring with it a trip to the gulag, a firing squa...

  • May 1, 2016

    Guess who is the biggest spender so far in the presidential campaign

    Bernie Sanders loves to rail against the evils of big money in elections. Except when he’s spending it.  Matea Gold and Anu Narayanswamy of the Washington Post report: The small-dollar fundraising juggernaut that has kept Be...

  • May 1, 2016

    Dramatic success in 2 states that innovated on subsidies for poor people

    I suppose that I ought to offer a cliché alert with this post, because the lessons from Kansas and Delaware are obvious to anyone other than a progressive. Yet, those lessons are still not put into practice in most places in this country, so p...

  • April 30, 2016

    ‘Global warming’s evil twin’: ‘Ocean acidification’ being exposed as another phony crisis

    Just as with purported global warming, hyped by pictures of lonely polar bears floating out to see on a small piece of ice, children have been brought to tears by pictures on another bit of nature’s wonder supposedly threatened by callous manki...

  • April 29, 2016

    Trump supporters, police attacked by illegal immigrants and their advocates

    Thugs advocating the mass lawless invasion of the United States attempted to shut down a rally of those who demand the law be enforced.  That is the true nature of what happened last night in Costa Mesa, California, in Orange County. But a quick...

  • April 29, 2016

    Andrea Tantaros taken off the air at Fox News

    Speculation abounds as Fox News talking head Andrea Tantaros is no longer appearing on air. In response to a query from TV Newser, Fox issued a terse statement:  “Issues have arisen regarding Andrea’s contract, and Fox News Chan...

  • April 28, 2016

    University of California chancellor placed on leave in wake of scandal allegations

    A huge and embarrassing scandal is rocking the University of California System, the nation’s largest and most prestigious state university.  University president Janet Napolitano has placed on involuntary leave of absence the chancellor of...

  • April 28, 2016

    Public university admits to burying study finding no damage to water quality from fracking because funders ‘disappointed’

    A three-year study undertaken by the state-funded University of Cincinnati will not be released to the public, because it found no damage at all.  This direct contradiction of the goals of many environmentalist groups had to be suppressed. ...

  • April 28, 2016

    Black students found to be behind ‘white power’ drawing at state university

    I have maintained for some time that there is simply not enough hate to go around, and that supposedly anti-hate groups and individuals are manufacturing phony hate incidents.  The psychology involved sometimes is complex, revolving around self-...

  • April 28, 2016

    Trump’s foreign policy speech a Rorschach test for elites

    The headline of the day on Donald Trump’s foreign policy address yesterday comes from Politico, the arbiter of Beltway conventional wisdom: Trump fails to impress foreign-policy experts Few disciplines of public policy turf are more f...

  • April 27, 2016

    UN, Obama admin, and nonprofits plot to increase number of ‘Syrian refugees’ twenty times, to 200K per year

    A new euphemism has been constructed to lessen the impact of a plan to multiply by 20 the number of Muslims entering the United States and receiving funding to settle here.  It’s called “alternative safe pathways,” and it is a ...

  • April 27, 2016

    Worst. Hillary. Introduction. Ever.

    It turns out that Delaware Democratic senator Tom Carper is a back-bencher for a reason.  Following honorable service as a naval flight officer, including in the Vietnam War, he became a state bureaucrat in Delaware and then entered politics....

  • April 27, 2016

    Worst. Euphemism. Ever.

    When I pointed out the sinister euphemism “alternative safe pathways” for sneaking in 20 times as many Muslim “asylum seekers” (like this guy?), as publicly admitted, I had no idea that the head of the Department of Justice, L...

  • April 26, 2016

    Michelle Obama bans sugary cereal and fried foods from daycare lunches

    Michelle Obama has carved out a remarkable extra-constitutional role for herself as America’s food bully, decreeing what can and cannot be served to children in schools and daycare centers that received federal subsidies for food.  So all-...

  • April 26, 2016

    Sanders supporter Tim Robbins charges vote fraud is stealing election for Hillary

    Wait a minute!  I thought vote fraud was virtually nonexistent.  That’s what Democrats have been telling us for years, in even the face of 100-plus-percent turnout in some urban districts.  That’s why we don’t need vo...

  • April 26, 2016

    ‘Migrants’ in Paris demand ‘respect’ as they seize school, disrespecting the law

    Evidently, irony is not appreciated very much by the so-called “migrants” in Paris who are demanding better free housing than the emergency shelters they have been living in as they seek asylum.  One of them told the France-24 televi...

  • April 26, 2016

    SecState Kerry and his wife have millions invested in offshore tax haven hedge funds

    Bernie Sanders loves to denounce the tax dodges of the wealthy (even as he pays 13.4% income tax on a $200K income), so it would be interesting to hear what he has to say about John Kerry, the current secretary of state and former Democratic Party no...

  • April 26, 2016

    Is Lena Dunham a covert Trump supporter?

    Lena Dunham, the talentless, plain, corpulent exhibitionist whose low-rated HBO show keeps getting renewed, is offering Americans an incentive to vote for Donald Trump.  Caitlin Yilek of The Hill reports: Lena Dunham is the latest celebrity...

  • April 25, 2016

    Debbie Wasserman Schultz squirms under grilling by Chris Wallace on Hillary’s emails

    The body language tells the story of Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s difficulty in sticking to the party line on Hillary Clinton’s email practices being not at all different from previous secretaries of state.  Chris Wallace wasn’t ...

  • April 25, 2016

    How much does the average state employee cost taxpayers?

    Thanks to lavish medical and retirement benefits that kick in at a young age (often permitting a second career, resulting in two paychecks), a vast economic gulf is opening up between average taxpayers and average government employees.  America ...

  • April 25, 2016

    Saudi family therapist releases helpful video on how to beat your wife the Islamic way

    Here’s some diversity for the multiculturalists to celebrate.  Via MEMRI, translation of a video by Saudi family therapist Khaled Al-Saqaby, who explains the proper Islamic way to beat your wife, which, he admits, is a thorny issue.  ...

  • April 25, 2016

    Pro-immigration group admits: refugee children get more federal benefits than poor US kids

    The concept of a civic community has been turned on its head in the United States.  No longer do we take care of our own first and then do what we can to help the rest of the world.  Along with the idea of actual borders, the idea that we o...

  • April 25, 2016

    NPR informs us of the latest forbidden word

    What would we do without NPR to monitor our use of language? There are so many groups that can be offended, we need a federally-funded organization to keep us up to date on what words we’ve used our entire life, with no malice whatsoever, to di...

  • April 24, 2016

    Sicilian Mafia ‘declares war’ on migrants

    In the face of a 90% increase in immigration to Italy this year, with Sicily the doorway in from Northern Africa, the beginnings of open warfare between the Mafia and immigrants, especially immigrant gangs have been seen.  Although no longer a d...

  • April 24, 2016

    Oops! Chelsea shot off her mouth on guns, and now Hillary has to pander – and fails

    Hillary Clinton has been eagerly exploiting the only progressive issue on which she can position herself to the left of Bernie Sanders. Coming from a largely rural state, Sanders had the sense to respect his constituents’ need for protection an...

  • April 24, 2016

    Monica Lewinsky returns as a campaign issue from the Sanders camp

    That pesky Bernie Sanders and his supporters just won’t go away, as they are supposed to do. They haven’t yet gotten the message that this time it really is Hillary’s turn. The problem for Hillary is that they are true believers, ho...

  • April 24, 2016

    Featured speaker at Sanders rally unmasks self as pretentious ignoramus

    Having Hollywood stars as campaign fixtures brings, along with glamor, certain risks. Some of Bernie Sanders’s Hollywood supporters, like Rosario Dawson, are smart, if deluded on the subject of political economy. But then are those dedicated le...

  • April 24, 2016

    Frontiers of 'white privilege': good grammar is now ‘racist’

    There is open racism being spouted around the world, a good chunk of it out the lips of leftists who conceive of themselves as social justice warriors, progressive champions of the oppressed, or other such blather. To them, black people (or any other...

  • April 23, 2016

    Virginia governor orders felons be given the right to vote

    Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe has signed an executive order adding about 200,000 new voters – likely to vote Democrat by huge margins – to the Old Dominion’s electorate.  The Democratic Party has followed a long term, highl...

  • April 23, 2016

    CNN previews the unbelievable pro-Hillary bias it will be pushing

    The presidential race that is shaping up will be a landmark for American media, exceeding even the pro-Obama bias of 2008 and 2012 – something that would have seemed impossible at the time of those races.  But that was before Donald Trump ...

  • April 22, 2016

    Revealed: How the State Department avoided disclosure of subpoenaed Benghazi documents

    The charitable interpretation of the actions of the Department of State in response to a congressional subpoena is incompetence.  Given the need to keep Hillary Clinton’s actions regarding the Benghazi slaughter out of the headlines until ...

  • April 22, 2016

    Hillary’s appearance of conflict of interest

    Remember when public officials were supposed to avoid even the appearance of conflict of interest?  Somehow or other, Hillary Clinton, in the interval between her term as secretary of state and her planned presidency, managed to collect a substa...

  • April 22, 2016

    UC Berkeley workers: Happy $15 minimum wage. Now you’re fired.

    Many leftists insist that raising the price for labor via minimum wage hikes will not reduce the demand for labor.  The law of supply and demand can be repealed, you see, if you rationalize cleverly – like King Canute commanding the tides,...

  • April 21, 2016

    Rahm trying to borrow 1.2 billion for this?

    I am stunned at the reason Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel is seeking to borrow $1.2 billion, adding to the already crushing debt and debt-like pension liabilities his city faces.  Just last year, Chicagoans endured a $700-million tax hike, with many...

  • April 21, 2016

    Feds blow off House subpoena for Obamacare co-op documents

    It’s impeachment time!  In fact, it’s been impeachment time for quite a while, as federal officials stonewall legitimate subpoenas from congressional committees exercising their oversight responsibilities.  And here is a case ta...

  • April 21, 2016

    Bathroom bullies cost Curt Schilling his job at ESPN

    We are in the midst of a top-down sexual revolution, being forced on the public by the massed power of media, corporations, and governments in thrall to the small but powerful sexual minority intent on redefining sexuality.  Those who dare to op...

  • April 20, 2016

    New York hands triumphs to the 2 candidates with the highest negatives

    New York has always been thought of as an in-your-face sort of place, and yesterday’s primary election ratified that status.  Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump both have far more people rating them negative than positive when asked about fa...

  • April 20, 2016

    Why so many anti-LGBT hoax ‘hate crimes’?

    There just doesn’t seem to be enough hate to go around, if the epidemic of hoaxes by LGBT folks falsely claiming persecution is any indication.  Rick Moran this morning covered the latest: a laughably inept attempt by a gay “reverend...

  • April 19, 2016

    UN ambassador Samantha Power's motorcade in Cameroon strikes and kills 7-year-old boy

    It’s not a good look for the convoy of a crusader against genocide to mow down a little African boy as her motorcade roars through a rural area at high speed (often exceeding 60 miles per hour on two-lane country roads), accompanied by a helico...

  • April 19, 2016

    Josh Earnest signals Obama will veto bill allowing 9/11 families to sue Saudi Arabia

    President Obama’s trip to Saudi Arabia this week may go a little smoother thanks to Josh Earnest’s signal to reporters yesterday: “The whole notion of sovereign immunity is at stake,” Earnest told reporters Monday. ...

  • April 19, 2016

    While we focus on domestic politics, the world economy sends red-light danger warnings

    The world’s economy is in deep trouble.  Those jobs that everyone, led by Donald Trump, wants to bring home are evaporating overseas.  The U.S. is far from the only nation to use government debt to try to keep its economy afloat....

  • April 19, 2016

    Dems telling Bernie he's lost, so pipe down

    Any doubts that the Democrats are the top-down party and the GOP is the bottom-up party should be resolved by the latest round of criticism telling Bernie Sanders to stop behaving like anything other than a token opposition candidate, intended to pro...

  • April 18, 2016

    Mexican union bureaucrat's $8.2-million Miami condo-buying spree exposed

    Being a union official has been very, very good for Bernardo Quezada Salas.  How else to explain his and his family’s purchase of $8.2 million's worth of luxury condos in Miami?  Now a congressman in Mexico, Quezada Salas has quit...

  • April 18, 2016

    Bernie Sanders paid 13.4% federal income tax on over $200k income last year

    As you file your taxes today, ponder how Bernie Sanders and his wife Jane want income taxes to go up on higher-income folks but managed to pay only a 13.4% effective rate on over two hundred grand of income, according to the 2014 tax returns he relea...

  • April 18, 2016

    Hillary and Bernie turn on Obama, now support bill to allow 9/11 victims to sue Saudi Arabia

    President Obama has to be furious with the about-face executed by Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton.  He leaves for Saudi Arabia tomorrow and will meet with King Salman on Wednesday.  The Saudis are apoplectic over the possibility of the b...

  • April 18, 2016

    Bill Clinton was offered $650K for a speech and two pics with Congo leaders

    Apparently the State Department vetoed what has to have been one of the most lucrative offers Bill Clinton received while Hillary was the secretary of state.  Along with a paid speech in North Korea, the Congo offer was more than the Foggy Botto...

  • April 17, 2016

    Belgian Interior Minister: ‘Significant’ part of Muslim community ‘danced’ in wake of attacks

    In a interview yesterday, Belgium’s Interior Minister Jam Jambon charged that a large part of the country’s Muslim population celebrated terrors attacks: AFP reports: "A significant section of the Muslim community danced when...

  • April 17, 2016

    Hillary’s new political guru: George Costanza

    Hillary Clinton placed the Republican Party in charge of determining her policies, following a strategy famously enunciated by Seinfeld character George Costanza. Come to think of it, in her continual failure to close the deal on what was supposed to...

  • April 17, 2016

    George Clooney denounces ‘obscene’ big money in politics after hosting Hillary fundraiser where seats at head table sold for $343,400

    George Clooney just made himself the personification of Hollywood hypocrisy by denouncing big money in politics in quick succession after having exacerbated the “problem” he identified. Does the man have self-awareness at all? Has playing...

  • April 17, 2016

    Multiculti education guru denounces showing up on time, hard work, and clear language as part of white oppression

    Heather Hackman of the Hackman Consulting Group apparently is a big deal in educational circles concerned with denouncing “white privilege.” School districts all over the country spend big bucks sending teachers and administrators for ind...

  • April 16, 2016

    Hillary pretends to understand Spanish, laughs at joke in a language she doesn’t understand

    Visiting a senior center in New York yesterday, Hillary Clinton went into full phony mode, pandering and pretending to understand Spanish. Like President Obama, she speaks no foreign languages, yet pretends to be a sophisticated international figure....

  • April 16, 2016

    Public schoolteacher who asked 12-year-old students about their ‘privilege’ resigns

    The leftist educational establishment has so thoroughly indoctrinated the teaching profession with a mania for tearing down what progressives see as “social injustice” that parents cannot assume their children are safe from harassment....

  • April 16, 2016

    It begins: In wake of California $15 minimum wage, garment firms moving out of Los Angeles

    To the surprise of nobody but leftists, Governor Brown and the California State Legislature Democrats, jobs are beginning to evaporate visibly in the wake of California legislating a phased-in $15 an hour minimum wage. Even the Los Angeles Times can...

  • April 16, 2016

    Pope Francis meets with Bernie Sanders

    It was a gathering of leftists today in Rome, as Pope Francis met with Bernie Sanders following the presidential candidate’s 15-minute address to a conference on social, economic and environmental issues, decrying wage and wealth equality. Norm...

  • April 16, 2016

    Hillary’s popularity plummets – among Democrats

    Hillary Clinton made a huge blunder when she signaled Debbie Wasserman Schultz, head of the DNC, that allowing Bernie Sanders to run for the Democratic nomination was OK, even though he was not even a Democrat.   Obviously, she figured t...

  • April 15, 2016

    Clinton and Sanders have a modified, limited brawl in Brooklyn

    Last night’s Democrat debate in Brooklyn was more contentious than previous matches, befitting the Brooklyn setting on the waterfront.  At one point Wolf Blitzer had to intervene to tell the candidates that the audience couldn’t hear...

  • April 15, 2016

    Sanders calls Hillary’s bluff on Goldman Sachs speech transcripts

    In last night’s Brooklyn Democrat debate, Hillary Clinton continued to dodge in the original home of the Dodgers.  The subject: her refusal to release transcripts of her big-money addresses to Goldman Sachs, now the most hated firm in Amer...

  • April 15, 2016

    Thinking the unthinkable: Could Sanders take the Dem nomination (and win the presidency, too)?

    It’s been a very tough year for the political experts.  You know, the ones who scoffed at the very possibility of Trump nomination.  Well, another received truth of the expert class has been that Hillary Clinton is a lock for the top ...

  • April 15, 2016

    Shareholders of one of the world’s biggest companies vote to reject excessive pay for CEO

    Could this be a sign of things to come?  For decades, the pay of top managers in big corporations has escalated to the point where they become mega-wealthy.  This not only angers the rank and file who earn a tiny fraction of the boss’...

  • April 15, 2016

    Report: Rove is warming to Trump

    Now that Donald Trump looks to be sweeping up delegates in New York and other eastern states, Republican establishment figures are starting to reconcile themselves the possibility of his becoming their standard bearer.  Kenneth P. Vogel and Eli ...

  • April 15, 2016

    Hillary pulls out of TV town hall this morning hours before broadcast

    Is Hillary worried about being pushed to release the transcripts of her high-dollar speeches to Goldman Sachs?  Now that Bernie Sanders is releasing his income tax returns, she is looking like the secretive one vying for the Dems’ nod....

  • April 14, 2016

    Ugliness all around as news leaks that Florida prosecutor won’t take Corey Lewandowski to trial on battery charges

    Yesterday evening, Politico provoked the “breaking news” chime on Fox News (and presumably elsewhere) with its report that Palm Beach County state attorney David Aronberg has decided not to bring Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski t...

  • April 14, 2016

    Saudi Arabia reins in religious police

    Is Saudi Arabia’s ruling family at last moving toward liberalization of its draconian Islamic fundamentalism?  There is a very long way to go, but this is an encouraging sign: The Saudi government issued new regulations for the religi...

  • April 14, 2016

    Muslim couple in San Diego charged with keeping housekeeper as slave

    A couple originally from Iraq, later domiciled in Dubai, moved to the San Diego suburb of El Cajon and brought with them their “servant” they had acquired in Dubai.  The woman, identified by police as W.M., managed to smuggle out a h...

  • April 14, 2016

    Hollywood airhead of the day: ‘I endorsed Bernie Sanders, but…I can’t pay any more taxes; it’s ridiculous.’

    The capacity of the Hollywood left to embrace progressivism but not its consequences is amazing.  While it is true that celebrities deal in fantasy, and perhaps that explains their politics, this is just insane.  Breitbart reports: Com...

  • April 13, 2016

    Hillary caught in ‘equal pay for women’ trap

    Nobody pontificates more obnoxiously about the phony “pay gap” for women than Hillary Clinton.  Given that personal choices about occupation (dangerous and technical jobs tend to pay more), work hours, and work continuity (women take...

  • April 13, 2016

    Minnesota school district restores prayer in schools

    Do you think the ACLU will be suing any time soon?  Because there’s a catch.  Brendan of Supreme Patriot noticed something: Buried deep in a PBS article about how the St. Cloud, Minn., school district is accommodating a large Som...

  • April 13, 2016

    Hillary promises a trillion dollars in new taxes if elected

    Not to be outdone by Bernie Sanders in promising free stuff to voters, Hillary Clinton is promising to raise taxes by an astounding trillion dollars.  [Update: that is a ten year total, not per year.] Taking that kind money out of the economy an...

  • April 12, 2016

    Trump supporters publishing names, home addresses, phone numbers of CO GOP party officials

    Evidently taking a signal from Roger Stone, who openly threatened to harass delegates to the GOP convention in Cleveland by publishing their hotel room numbers, Trump supporters in Colorado have been posting the names, addresses, and phone numbers of...

  • April 12, 2016

    Why do the Clintons have 5 shell companies in Delaware?

    The state of Delaware has made itself a very comfy home for corporations to legally domicile themselves.  Many large publicly listed companies are officially Delaware corporations, in part because the Delaware Chancery Court has specialized in i...

  • April 12, 2016

    National Labor Relations Board suspends pro-union official for conflict of interest

    The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is a relic of the New Deal, set up to regulate both sides of labor-management disputes in the private sector.  With private-sector unionism on it deathbed, the NLRB’s once important function (it sh...

  • April 11, 2016

    Obama tells Loretta Lynch not to prosecute Hillary on classified email crimes

    Interviewed by Chris Wallace of Fox News (transcript here, video embedded below), President Obama pulled down the blindfold on Lady Justice and signaled that there was no crime at all when Hillary Clinton set up an unsecured private server and left c...

  • April 11, 2016

    Colorado sweep by Cruz enflames Trump supporters

    Trump supporters are crying “foul” over the results of Colorado’s congressional district-level selection of delegates to the Republican National Convention, where Ted Cruz supporters swept the field.  Newly hired Trump campaign...

  • April 11, 2016

    Washington Post: Trump claims $102 million charitable donations over last 5 years, but gave no personal cash

    In a lengthy analysis of data provided by the Trump campaign, Washington Post writers David A. Fahrenthold and  Rosalind S. Heiderman find that claimed charitable contributions by Donald Trump included no actual cash from his personal funds. ...

  • April 11, 2016

    Union hypocrisy on $15 minimum wage: Asks exemption for employers who unionize

    The Los Angeles County Federation of Labor is attempting to use the $15-an-hour minimum wage as a protection racket.  Natalie Johnson reports at The Daily Signal (hat tip: Instapundit): The labor union that led the charge for a $15 minimum ...

  • April 11, 2016

    Defectors may be sign of North Korean regime instability

    Kim Jong-un’s succession to the throne (is there another more proper term for it?) of North Korea has not been greeted with universal acclaim in that country.  After executing his own uncle and conducting sweeping purges intended to solidi...

  • April 10, 2016

    When the social justice warrior dogs didn’t bark

    The leftist domination of America’s elite campuses is so extensive that it has become notable when a speaker deemed controversial is not shouted down. If, wonder of wonders, a speech is delivered and an intelligent and probing discussion takes ...

  • April 10, 2016

    Sanders wins Wyoming caucuses by 11 point margin, but Hillary gets more delegates

    Bernie Sanders continued his winning streak, with 8 of the last 9 state contests going his way, but it’s not doing him a lot of good in the delegate count. In the Wyoming caucuses yesterday, according to Emily Shapiro of ABC News: Despite ...

  • April 10, 2016

    More climate change hysteria: shifting the poles

    Is there any sort of doom fantasy that can’t be blamed on global warming climate change? Perhaps some wag will submit and get published a paper arguing that an alien invasion of earth is more likely thanks to global warming climate change. Rick...

  • April 10, 2016

    Boston Globe falls victim to Trump Derangement Syndrome

    Standards have fallen so far at the once-prestigious Boston Globe that the paper has resorted to a clumsy imitation of The Onion, publishing a purportedly satirical front page from 2017 displaying what it projects would be the news if President Trump...

  • April 10, 2016

    New Jersey faces budget crisis over soak-the-rich policy

    New Jersey, like California and a number of other states (do I have to even mention they are dominated by Democrats?) relies heavily on taxes that soak the rich.  While feeling virtuous over redistributing income expropriating wealth and giving ...

  • April 9, 2016

    Bill Clinton apologizes and pretends to grovel before #BlackLivesMatter

    Bill Clinton committed lèse-majesté toward #BlackLivesMatter protesters who interrupted him in a rally in Philadelphia Thursday, and for that offense he must now pretend to grovel in apology.  Amy Chozick writes in the New York Tim...

  • April 9, 2016

    Sanders campaign manager blames Hillary for rise of ISIS

    Bernie Sanders still may not be willing to discuss those “damn emails” as an issue for Democrats to think about before supporting Hillary Clinton, but his campaign manager Jeff Weaver just crossed a red line, taking up an issue that had p...

  • April 9, 2016

    Hacker Guccifer’s extradition could spell big trouble for Hillary’s email problems

    World famous Romanian hacker Guccifer, aka Marcel Lehel Lazar, has been extradited to the United States at a time that indicates maximum hazard for Hillary Clinton. Catherine Herridge and Pamela K. Browne reported yesterday for Fox News that: Th...

  • April 8, 2016

    Bill Clinton speaks truth to #BlackLivesMatter power

    In a Philadelphia rally for Hillary’s presidential campaign yesterday, Bill Clinton left the reservation for Democrats, rebuking #BlackLivesMatter demonstrators who repeatedly interrupted him, protesting the crime bill he signed into law (and t...

  • April 8, 2016

    Bill Clinton slams Obama foreign policy

    Casting Bill Clinton as truth-teller is among the unlikeliest against-type roles ever played, but yesterday Bill Clinton did it twice.  In addition to refusing to take any crap from #BlackLivesMatter protesters, he unloaded on the chaos Barack O...

  • April 7, 2016

    Hillary’s hot mic problem

    At age 68, with more than three decades of experience in politics, Hillary Clinton ought to realize that podium microphones do not automatically go dead when her remarks are concluded. Yesterday, she was caught admitting her campaign’s crucial ...

  • April 7, 2016

    Hillary just boxed in AG Loretta Lynch

    Hillary Clinton yesterday made it very difficult for Attorney General Loretta Lynch to decline to prosecute a possible criminal referral from the FBI.  Using her trademark sandpaper tone of voice when she is being emphatic, speaking to a rally i...

  • April 7, 2016

    Political correctness derangement has reached a new peak in Norway

    A far-left politician in Norway who was violently sodomized by a Somali refugee is explaining away the crime and begging that his assailant not be deported.  Self-hatred is at the root of much political correctness, but rarely has self-abasement...

  • April 7, 2016

    US giving green cards to more than twice as many Muslim country entrants than Europeans

    The de facto immigration policy of the United States is to rapidly increase the number of Muslims in this country.  I doubt very much that this has been articulated, but it is what is happening, beneath the radar.  Donald Trump’s prop...

  • April 6, 2016

    Trump ally Roger Stone threatens harassment of Trump-dumping delegates in Cleveland

    It’s thug time in Republican politics.  Nick Gass of Politico reports on plans to bully GOP delegates who switch support away from Donald Trump: Longtime Donald Trump ally Roger Stone is threatening to make public the hotel room numbe...

  • April 6, 2016

    Chelsea Clinton hints she may run for New York City Council

    You knew something like this was coming.  The Clinton family openly lusts to emulate the Kennedys, Bushes, and Cuomos in establishing a political dynasty, no matter how thin the blood has gotten in one generation.  In her 36 years, Chelsea ...

  • April 6, 2016

    First American connection to Panama Papers involves associates of Hillary campaign

    Questions are being asked about why Americans don’t seem very prominent among those exposed in the massive Panama Papers leak.  And dark suspicions exist that the leaker is Soros-funded and has deliberately shielded certain parties, in an ...

  • April 6, 2016

    What does and doesn’t cause a crybully firestorm of protest

    Two very similar ads were used by the clothing retailer Gap for Kids.  One of them sparked such a wave of protest that Gap withdrew the ad and apologized.  The UK Daily Mail reports: Gap Kids has apologized after an ad for Ellen DeGene...

  • April 5, 2016

    Hillary loses by winning the tussle over a New York debate with Bernie Sanders

    Hillary Clinton is showing signs of desperation in her bitter and extended tussle with the Bernie Sanders campaign over setting a time and place for a New York debate prior to the Empire State’s primary in two weeks. But in the end, Sanders agr...

  • April 5, 2016

    Federal government paving the way to make criminals a protected class

    A warning issued by the Department of Housing and Urban Development yesterday points in the direction of eventually declaring criminals a protected class, the coveted status that gives a person more rights than ordinary Americans. Blake Neff of The D...

  • April 5, 2016

    How much of a communist is Bernie Sanders? (part 1)

    Bernie Sanders is genuine left wing radical, and unless he has changed since the time he was mayor of Burlington, Vermont, believes that the shared misery of impoverished-by-communism Cuba is preferable to the unequally-distributed abundance of the U...

  • April 5, 2016

    How much of a communist is Bernie Sanders? (part 2)

    See also: How much of a communist is Bernie Sanders? (part 1) The thoughts of Chairman Bernie, as expressed in the transcript of a long interview he had with the editorial board of the New York Daily News, are remarkable. For their ignorance, bana...

  • April 5, 2016

    Calling BS on the $400 billion estimate for Trump’s plan to deal with illegals

    Sorry, Rick. The “report” you cited in your blog on Trump’s deportation plan completely misses the mark. As with every other critique of the plan, the baseline assumption – despite Trump’s explicit statements to the cont...

  • April 4, 2016

    Hillary’s enthusiasm gap in one short video

    Saying that Hillary Clinton is an awful public speaker may be an understatement.  Her style can be boring, and when she gets excited, it can be grating or screeching.  There is no setting on her voice before a crowd for pleasant and engagin...

  • April 4, 2016

    Hillary commits major abortion gaffe

    A gaffe, as Michael Kinsley famously explained it, is when a politician accidentally tells the truth.  And Hillary Clinton did exactly that on Meet the Press yesterday, violating the rulebook of Planned Parenthood to use language that obscures t...

  • April 4, 2016

    8 ‘Syrian refugees’ in Europe discovered to be using same passport and identity as suicide bomber at Paris soccer stadium

    If there was any doubt that significant numbers of so-called “Syrian refugees” are Trojan Horse invaders, seeded into the West in pursuit of terror, the latest discovery in Europe should put that question to rest.  The U.K. Daily Mai...

  • April 4, 2016

    ‘Panama Papers’ massive hack likely to expose tax cheats and politicians hiding wealth

    It’s being called the “Wikileaks of the mega-rich,” a hack of confidential documents that’s even larger.  And it is going to take a long time to sort through 11.5 million documents stolen from the Panamanian law firm Moss...

  • April 3, 2016

    Trump’s energy advisor has deep financial ties to Russia

    When Donald Trump announced his team of foreign policy advisors, he named Carter Page, a business consultant and reputed fellow billionaire as his energy advisor. It is an appointment very much in line with Trump’s announced desire to have busi...

  • April 3, 2016

    Fasten your seatbelts: deeper airline oligopoly ahead

    With the expected announcement of a planned acquisition of Virgin America by Alaska Airlines on Monday, the United States domestic airline industry could become even more oligopolistic. Should the merger be approved, a ray of competitive sunshine wil...

  • April 3, 2016

    Trump predicts ‘massive recession’

    Speaking to Bob Woodward in a 96-minute interview, Donald Trump once again did something almost unprecedented in a presidential candidate: talking down the stock market with a prediction of a “massive recession,” saying, "it’s ...

  • April 3, 2016

    Ted Cruz shuts out Trump and Kasich in first round of Colorado delegate selection

    Displaying the mastery of the political ground game tat has been his trademark this cycle, Ted Cruz shut out his rivals in Colorado yesterday, picking up the first six delegates awarded in that state, at Congressional district-level conventions. John...

  • April 3, 2016

    Cruz receives standing ovation at North Dakota GOP convention that will elect 25 delegates today

    Ted Cruz was the only GOP presidential candidate who bothered to appear before the state convention in Fargo yesterday, and it appears that he wowed the crowd on the eve of delegate selection. Jeremy W. Peters of the New York Times reports: Nort...

  • April 2, 2016

    Trump flip-flops on abortion (again)

    Donald Trump is encountering major snark over his rapidly changing positions on abortion and punishment.  Maggie Haberman of the New York Times calls them “whiplash-inducing,” while Ace of Ace of Spades HQ summarizes as clearly as an...

  • April 2, 2016

    Four Hillary aides hire joint defense counsel

    Politico yesterday revealed that four of Hillary Clinton’s aides – not including Huma Abedin and Bryan Pagliano – are using the same high-powered, well-connected D.C. lawyer for their counsel as they face likely FBI questioning over...

  • April 1, 2016

    Trump could lose 50 first ballot South Carolina delegate votes over going back on his loyalty pledge

    Those pesky rules that Donald Trump rails against could end up costing him 50 crucial first ballot delegate votes at the GOP Convention, now that he has announced he won’t be bound by his loyalty pledge to support the nominee.  Getting to ...

  • April 1, 2016

    Hillary lashes out at Sanders supporter on rope line

    The stress is starting to get to Hillary Clinton.  Normally, she is as cool as ice under pressure, one of her better arguments for her candidacy.  But a 68-year-old grandma has her limits.  So following a rally at the Purchase, N.Y. ca...

  • April 1, 2016

    As North Korea faces famine, Kim Jong-un balloons to 300 pounds

    The life of a tyrannical, murderous third-generation Communist dictator isn’t all roses, apparently.  Kim Jong-un has really packed on the pounds, even as state media are warning his slaves subjects that they are going back to the bad old ...

  • March 31, 2016

    Donald Trump’s clumsy abortion pandering alienates both sides

    Donald Trump’s Teflon™ coating may have worn off with his comments on punishing women for abortion yesterday, despite his campaign’s walking them back in two separate statements. Here is the report MSNBC issued prior to airing th...

  • March 31, 2016

    Will FBI head Comey personally interview Hillary Clinton?

    A headline on Mediaite reads, “AJAM’s David Shuster Exclusive: Hillary Clinton to be Interviewed by FBI Director Comey in Coming Days.”  AJAM means Al Jazeera America, the soon to vanish cable news channel.  Because Drudge...

  • March 31, 2016

    Surprise! Obamacare enrollees much sicker and costlier than ‘expected’

    The geniuses behind Obamacare certainly get surprised a lot.  Either they are not the experts they claimed to be, or maybe, just maybe they were lowballing us all along about the costs of the plan.  And, to the surprise of nobody but an Oba...

  • March 30, 2016

    Corey Lewandowski, Michelle Fields, and the escalation of a trivial incident

    The Republican Party is circling the drain, as an absolutely trivial incident is being blown up to crisis proportions, and the existing party fracture into pro- and anti-Trump factions delivers an image of hapless and out-of-control viciousness to to...

  • March 30, 2016

    All 3 GOP candidates renege on pledge to support the eventual nominee

    The Republican Party is setting itself up for a disaster of epic proportions in November.  The bitter split that began when the party largely ignored, and sometimes denounced the Tea Party movement, and resulted in the soaring popularity of Dona...

  • March 30, 2016

    Trump names health care and education, along with security, as the top functions of the federal government

    In a moment that seemed to stun even moderator Anderson Cooper, Donald Trump named federal involvement in education and health care as top functions of the federal government, along with national security, at the Milwaukee candidates forum in Milwauk...

  • March 29, 2016

    Following the logic of the Obama administration on ISIS

    A brilliant essay by Daniel Greenfield takes the Obama ISIS strategy’s rhetoric to its obvious conclusions and is your read of the day.  Some excerpts, but you do yourself a favor and read the whole thing, at Frontpage Mag. If you...

  • March 29, 2016

    Leading DC pundit argues for a ‘higher bar’ to indict Hillary

    Ron Fournier is one of the most respected and most frequent cable news talking head pundits in Washington, D.C.  The former AP White House correspondent, he now writes for National Journal, and wields journalistic influence wildly out of proport...

  • March 29, 2016

    Feds plan to fine schools for not following Michelle’s school lunch guidelines

    Here it comes.  Despite the federal government’s anti-bullying campaign, America’s food scold, Michelle Obama, is getting the awesome power of the United States behind her campaign to bully our children into eating the food she presc...

  • March 29, 2016

    Famous lefty professor argues that algebra is too hard for American kids

    The American left, and the educational establishment it controls, has always wanted a readily controllable population produced by schools, but leftists usually write and speak in misleading euphemisms (“outcome based” or “critical t...

  • March 28, 2016

    State Department condemnation of Pakistan terror attack leaves out the most important detail

    We already know that the Obama administration refuses to utter the words “Islamic extremism” or “jihad” when terror is at issue.  But new words apparently have entered the forbidden zone: “Christians” must not...

  • March 28, 2016

    Los Angeles Times previews Hillary’s strategy to dispute a criminal referral on email scandal

    Hillary Clinton’s allies are carefully implementing a strategy to deal with a possible criminal referral to the Justice Department by the FBI.  Unfortunately, I have to take serious issue with my colleague Rick Moran’s interpretation...

  • March 28, 2016

    Man charged as Brussels bomber was ‘migrant rights activist’

    Faycal Cheffou has been arrested and charged with being the man in the hat captured on surveillance video entering the airport with two suicide bombers. He’s been identified by the taxi driver who picked up the bombers and dropped them at the a...

  • March 27, 2016

    The gang that couldn't email straight

    The latest revelation in what must be called a mass security email catastrophe comes via Robert Burns of AP:  Defense Secretary Ash Carter used his personal email account for government business for nearly a year, until December 2015, when ...

  • March 27, 2016

    California reaches deal for $15 an hour minimum wage

    Labor bosses and Democrat pols have reached a deal that will throw striving poor people out of work, and make it difficult for low-skilled people to enter the work force, and no doubt they are already congratulating themselves on their compassion. A ...

  • March 27, 2016

    3 Western state caucuses offer massive rebuke to Hillary Clinton as Sanders runs the table

    Caucus-goers in Washington, Hawaii and Alaska flipped the metaphorical bird to the presumptive Democrat nominee for president yesterday. There is no way to soft-peddle the stunning level of rejection experienced by Hillary Clinton in these results: ...

  • March 27, 2016

    As GOP conducts demolition derby nomination race, my mind turns to alterative scenarios

    The Republican Party is known for its fratricidal nominating races, but this year’s contest can only be compared to a demolition derby, where the winner will emerge not only dented and barely running, but with a legacy of bitterness, even hatre...

  • March 27, 2016

    Prominent TV lefty pleads with Dems to just say the words ‘Islamic terrorism’

    "Just say 'Islamic terrorism.' Just say those words and you'll win the election. Avoid those words and you're going to lose the election." So said Bill Maher, who scorns religion as much as he scorns conservative...

  • March 26, 2016

    National Enquirer Cruz infidelity story could cost Trump a prominent supporter

    Donald Trump has denied any connection to the National Enquirer story released yesterday claiming Ted Cruz has had 5 mistresses: I have no idea whether or not the cover story about Ted Cruz in this week’s issue of the National Enquirer is ...

  • March 26, 2016

    15 times Obama talked down America on his trip to Cuba and Argentina

    He’s just not that into us. Barack Obama pretty clearly sees America as a malign force in the world. Wouldn’t it be nice to have a president who actually thinks America is a good country, with a noble history of creating a nation dependin...

  • March 26, 2016

    Host of Sweden’s most popular TV show rewrites national anthem to be sensitive to feelings of those with ‘different roots’

    On Sweden’s government-funded television channel (based on mandatory license fees, like the BBC), they are celebrating diversity – even at the cost of altering the country’s national anthem. In a long and horrifying chronicle of rec...

  • March 25, 2016

    Watch as Hillary nods almost nonstop for three and a half minutes as mosques and Muslims are defended at roundtable

    Hillary Clinton is such an obvious phony that even she has been forced to acknowledge it, using the indirect language that she is “not a natural politician” like, say Bill Clinton or Barack Obama.  This is a case of putting lipstick ...

  • March 25, 2016

    As SecState, no record that Hillary attended mandatory briefings on handling of classified materials

    Because of the evolving nature of cyber-security threats in particular, the State Department requires all employees to attend yearly briefings on security.  Yet according to documents released by the State Department in response to a FOIA action...

  • March 25, 2016

    Chelsea Clinton says her mother may solve ‘crushing costs’ of Obamacare with ‘executive action’

    Once again, Chelsea Clinton is being used by her mother’s campaign to propose outlandishly expensive proposals in health care and attack other Democrats, while providing deniability for Hillary.  Yesterday, Obamacare was characterized by C...

  • March 25, 2016

    National Enquirer story claims Ted Cruz has had 5 mistresses

    Based on the fact that it has brought down politicians like Gary Hart and John Edwards with sex scandal reporting, one can’t totally dismiss the latest from the National Enquirer: Presidential candidate Ted Cruz is trying to survive an exp...

  • March 23, 2016

    Appeals Court issues nightmare decision for Lois Lerner and the IRS

    The wheels of justice slowly have been turning, and those of us who feared that Lois Lerner and the IRS would get off scot-free despite their lawless targeting of Tea Party groups have something to celebrate. And Lois Lerner may have had a troubled s...

  • March 22, 2016

    With AIPAC speech, Trump campaign enters a new phase

    Donald Trump’s first use of a teleprompter in a campaign speech was newsworthy in its own right and drew the expected amount of snark from the hostile media.  And his half-hour-plus speech (embedded below) was not a flawless performance, w...

  • March 22, 2016

    Brussels terror attacks target Euro-elite

    The latest Islamist attack on Europe didn’t target young people at a concert venue, café-goers, and soccer fans, the way the recent Paris attack did.  This time subway stations, including one near the EU headquarters, and the Americ...

  • March 22, 2016

    The great global governing elite scam

    It turns out that the scam perpetrated by Democrats in this country has been common among most of the world’s advanced economies.  To wit: bribe the large and growing population of government workers for political support by promising them...

  • March 21, 2016

    Murder of police officer followed by black power salutes in South Carolina

    Following the horrific mass murder at Emanuel AME Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C. last year, South Carolina showed the way in inspirational racial healing.  Unfortunately, the lesson does not seem have reached Greenville, in the state...

  • March 21, 2016

    ‘Burn in hell, Zionist scum’: Pro-Palestinian demonstrators attack AIPAC attendee

    As the AIPAC meeting got underway yesterday, awaiting speeches from all the presidential candidates today, demonstrators weren’t waiting for Donald Trump to get vicious.  The Right Scoop noted the hate-fest that may serve as a warm-up for ...

  • March 21, 2016

    Cuban dissidents rounded up as Obama’s arrival snubbed by Castro bros

    Prior to President Obama’s arrival in Havana yesterday, Cuban authorities actually cracked down on dissidents.  Alan Gomez in USA Today: Just hours before President Obama landed Sunday in Cuba for his historic visit to the c...

  • March 21, 2016

    (Un-)Democratic Party leaders lean on Sanders to pipe down and leave Hillary alone

    The powers that be in the Democratic Party have always realized that the spoils of office, not any principles, are what matter, and they’ve had quite enough of Bernie Sanders and his followers, who take their rhetoric seriously.  Now that ...

  • March 21, 2016

    Shock poll shows a majority of French want a referendum on leaving the EU

    The European Union is showing signs of falling apart, with citizens of other members eyeing the British referendum on leaving, scheduled for June 23.  But few expected the French, who have been leaders in the formation of the union and central t...

  • March 21, 2016

    Time to sue the Trump rally disruptors and criminalize blocking highways

    With the mainstream media continuing to blame Trump supporters for the efforts of their opponents to shut down their free speech rights, it may be time to adopt the tactics the left favors to get its way: lawsuits.  That’s the suggestion o...

  • March 20, 2016

    Trump and the GOP establishment (2)

    See also: Trump and the GOP establishment (1) Even as Donald Trump prepares for a meeting Monday with members of the GOP establishment, others identified as part of that ill-defined group are, in the words of Alexander Burns and Jonathan Martin of...

  • March 20, 2016

    Trump and the GOP establishment (1)

    See also: Trump and the GOP establishment (2) Donald Trump is to attend a meeting Monday with an unidentified group of about two-dozen Republican insiders, including office holders in the House and Senate, as well as consultants and power brokers....

  • March 20, 2016

    Former Charlotte mayor pleads guilty to vote fraud

    In an item of news you may have missed this week, the former mayor of Charlotte, North Carolina was hauled out of federal prison, where he is already serving a sentence for accepting over $50,000 in bribes from undercover FBI agents, to plead guilty ...

  • March 20, 2016

    Media meltdown coming over black Trump supporter stomping on KKK hood-wearing protestor?

    What’s a good progressive to do? Two articles of the progressive faith are in conflict in the latest incident of “violence at a Trump rally.” Yesterday afternoon in a Tucson Trump rally, a protestor wore a KKK hood, and encountered ...

  • March 19, 2016

    How much will Paris attack ‘mastermind’ Salah Abdelslam reveal under interrogation?

    There is a lot of jubilation over the capture alive of Salah Abdelslam, often called the “mastermind” of the brutal terror attack on Paris that cost 130 lives and many more grave injuries. As CNN reports, he is believed to know a lot: ...

  • March 19, 2016

    Fratricidal insanity taking over the GOP race

    I was only mildly surprised when reports began surfacing a few weeks ago that some GOP insiders, including office-holders, were threatening to vote for Hillary Clinton if Donald Trump is the GOP nominee. After all, there is a lot of truth to the noti...

  • March 19, 2016

    Anti-Trump demonstrators tore down Secret Service checkpoints attempting to shut down rally

    We’re on the verge of full brownshirt tactics from the left, which ironically loves to call the object of their hatred Nazi-like and Hitlerian. Last night’s Trump rally in normally polite and sedate Salt Lake City saw rampant lawlessness ...

  • March 18, 2016

    Satisfying smackdown of a politically correct university president

    When The Bell Curve, a dispassionate and rigorously scholarly study of intelligence and class structure, written by the late Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray, was published in 1994, outrage from the politically correct was immediate. I will neve...

  • March 18, 2016

    Chelsea Clinton reveals her mom thinks it is ‘important’ to extend Obamacare to illegal aliens

    More free stuff for people who violate our immigration laws! Hillary Clinton and her daughter have teed up a ball for the Republican nominee, whether Trump or Cruz, to hit 400 yards down the fairway.  Just over a week ago, Hillary reversed her f...

  • March 18, 2016

    NY State nears political deal to saw the bottom rung off the economic ladder

    New York State appears ready to throw as many as 200,000 people out of work by imposing a $15 an hour minimum wage statewide.  Fredric U. Dicker reports in the New York Post: Republican Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan is close to a ...

  • March 18, 2016

    Political correctness implosion in Sweden

    When PC imperatives collide, something has to give. And in Sweden tomorrow, what will give is the anti-energy neo-primitivism of “Earth Hour” during which progressives are supposed to demonstrate their concern (or something) about global ...

  • March 17, 2016

    Mind-boggling incompetence at DHS sends permanent residency green cards to people who didn’t apply for them

    The Department of Homeland Security’s Inspector General John Roth has issued a report that, in any private sector company, would have people fired, but in government will probably only see budgets increased. You see, the people in charge of kee...

  • March 16, 2016

    Hillary’s unfortunate gesture

    Imagine for a moment if any GOP candidate – in particular Donald Trump – had made the gesture Hillary Clinton did last night, speaking to her supporters in West Palm Beach. But of course, the media will let this pass with no note, beca...

  • March 16, 2016

    ‘Double agent’ delegates could block Trump’s nomination

    The seeds of a catastrophic split of the Republican Party are being planted.  If Donald Trump doesn’t win on the first ballot in Cleveland, the mechanics of taking away the nomination are clear.  Writing in Bloomberg Politics, Sasha I...

  • March 16, 2016

    Not science fiction: ‘Cyborg’ bionic heart patch combining living tissue and engineered materials unveiled in Israel

    If Iran does not succeed in its goal of wiping Israel off the map, the world may be able to benefit from the stunning technological advances being unveiled by scientists there on a regular basis.  The latest advance is nothing less than revoluti...

  • March 16, 2016

    ISIS appears to be planning a massacre of Minnesota law enforcement officers

    There is considerable alarm in Minnesota over a list of 36 law enforcement officers, including private addresses and other confidential information, that was posted on an encrypted message app used by ISIS in the past.  Labor Jany of the Star-Tr...

  • March 15, 2016

    Hillary declares the 4 dead at Benghazi compound non-persons

    For the second presidential debate in a row, Hillary Clinton has gravely insulted the memory and the families of the four brave American hung out to dry at the Benghazi compound dead after waiting in vain for air support as they defended a diplomatic...

  • March 15, 2016

    House unanimously votes to label ISIS atrocities against Christians ‘genocide’

    A vote of the House of Representatives has rebuked the Obama administration’s obstinate refusal to acknowledge the horrifying genocide against Christians underway in the Middle Eastern territories controlled by ISIS.  Bradford Richardson r...

  • March 14, 2016

    Breitbart hit by two high-profile resignations over handling of Michelle Fields incident (updated)

    Bitterness and personal recriminations are splitting the Breitbart organization.  Michelle Fields and Ben Shapiro resigned last night in the wake of their dissatisfaction over the handling of Fields’s allegation against Trump campaign mana...

  • March 14, 2016

    Hillary promises, ‘We’re going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business’

    Hillary Clinton was employing understatement when she: ... acknowledged during Wednesday’s Democratic debate that she was “not a natural politician” and expanded on the theme in an interview with t...

  • March 14, 2016

    Does Hillary have a political death wish?

    Ineptness alone does not seem adequate to explain the series of gaffes that have characterized Hillary Clinton’s campaign recently.  While violence at Trump events (but not the organized effort behind the disruptors) has grabbed airtime am...

  • March 13, 2016

    Cruz sweeps Wyoming primary with almost 2/3 of votes

    The nation’s least populous state voted in its Republican primary yesterday, handing a sweeping victory to Ted Cruz, who got 66.3% of the vote. That’s very impressive until you look at the details. The total number of votes cast was 903, ...

  • March 13, 2016

    What #BlackLivesMatter and MoveOn are not demonstrating about in Chicago

    It appears that for leftists, black lives don’t really matter. Supposedly concerned about racism, Soros-funded groups in Chicago that ginned up protesters to shut down a Trump rally Friday are utterly silent about black lives that apparently do...

  • March 13, 2016

    Let’s apply the Trump Standard of rhetoric fostering violence to Obama

    Sanctimonious voices in the media, and among Democrats and some Republicans (shame on you: Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio) declare that Donald Trump fostered a climate of violence that justifies left wing groups organizing, printing up signs, and violently...

  • March 13, 2016

    Soros-funded group getting ready for ‘spontaneous’ demonstrations ‘caused’ by Trump’s rhetoric at GOP Convention?

    People like George Soros know how to plan ahead to manufacture mob violence masquerading as social movements. It worked like a charm in Ferguson, Missouri, and laying the groundwork for energizing the critical black turnout in 2016, courtesy of #Blac...

  • March 12, 2016

    Hillary Clinton apologizes for making up something nice to say about Nancy Reagan

    Hillary Clinton tried to be classy Friday, softening her image by attending the funeral of Nancy Reagan, and it blew up in her face.  While I give her credit for contrasting sharply with President Obama’s snub of the event (in order to att...

  • March 12, 2016

    Many are playing ‘blame the victim’ with Trump rally cancelation

    “She had it coming” has been discredited as an excuse for raping an attractive woman provocatively dressed, but too many people (including, shockingly, Ted Cruz) are using the equivalent excuse to justify the cancelation of Donald Trump...

  • March 11, 2016

    Media sneers at GOP debate do a 180-degree flip

    Last time around, “vulgar” was the key word used to describe the GOP debate (that did in fairness feature allusions to male sexual organ size).  But last night, following a debate full of policy substance, the descriptor was “b...

  • March 11, 2016

    Recording supports reporter who accused Trump’s campaign manager of assault

    This is not likely to end well for the Trump campaign, if only because it alienates a key media ally and feeds a theme that Trump’s enemies already are exploiting to damage his candidacy.  Breitbart reporter Michelle Fields has claimed tha...

  • March 11, 2016

    Oops! Clinton Foundation outsourced tech jobs to H-1B visa holders

    The Bill, Hillary, and Chelsea Clinton Foundation, which does “wonderful work” (if you ask Hillary), also has sought to hire a lot of foreign tech workers brought to the country under the H-1B visa program to fill jobs Americans supposedl...

  • March 10, 2016

    AG Lynch testifies DoJ ‘discussed’ prosecuting ‘climate deniers’

    Do you remember when we had a First Amendment?  It seems to have vanished in the view of the attorney general of the United States, Loretta Lynch, who testified yesterday to the Senate Judiciary Committee.  Jon Street reports at TheBlaze: ...

  • March 10, 2016

    Odds of a Hillary email grand jury underway just went much higher

    I have speculated that, given the immunity offered to Bryan Pagliano, it is possible that a grand jury has been convened.  But I am not a lawyer, much less a former U.S. attorney.  Joseph E. diGenova, on the other hand, is one of a small gr...

  • March 10, 2016

    Hillary in denial, refuses to answer what she would do if indicted

    Univision may be in the bag for Democrats, but credit where it is due: in last night’s debate, they asked tougher questions than any other debate moderators have broached, as Patricia McCarthy reported this morning.  Jorge Ramos, after sit...

  • March 10, 2016

    Trump says it: ‘I think Islam hates us’

    Donald Trump has just smashed another politically correct taboo, and the consequences will be profound.  Speaking to Anderson Cooper in a CNN interview, he blatantly stated what I suspect a majority of Americans believe: “I think Islam hat...

  • March 9, 2016

    Sanders victory in Michigan primary shocks Hillary, dismays pundits and MSM

    The biggest political story of sorta-super Tuesday was the upset Sanders victory over Hillary Clinton in Michigan, something nobody outside the Sanders campaign anticipated.  As Paul Mirengoff of Powerline noted, “the Real Clear Politics p...

  • March 9, 2016

    Hilarious: As Debbie Wasserman Schultz denounces GOP ‘vulgar’ campaign, she gets an unexpected response

    It’s your priceless DWS moment of the day.  Megyn Kelly of Fox News was on a roll last night, starting with a shout-out from Donald Trump during his post-Michigan victory news conference.  Not resting on her laurels, she stuck a slend...

  • March 8, 2016

    Kansas solons seek to rein in judiciary usurping legislative powers

    At both the federal and state levels, judges are grabbing powers constitutionally reserved for legislative bodies.  The most notorious example is Federal District Judge Russell Clark, who seized control of the Kansas City School District and man...

  • March 8, 2016

    What Bryan Pagliano will sing about

    Move over, John Dean.  You have some competition on the way to becoming the most famous witness against a powerful politician, aka a “rat.”  Bryan Pagliano has been given immunity from prosecution in order to overcome his invoca...

  • March 7, 2016

    Thanks to Muslim ‘migrants,’ Sweden facing crisis at public swimming pools

    Sweden pioneered the construction of public swimming pools allowing mixed bathing in the late 19th century, when it was a shocking thing in many other countries.  And the Swedes have, until recently, enjoyed the use of large, well-appointed publ...

  • March 7, 2016

    Sanders and Clinton agree at Flint debate: fracking is bad

    Fracking, which has given us low energy prices and weakened enemies of the United States from Iran to Venezuela, as well as crippling the financial backers of Islamism, is the enemy of progressives.  So naturally, Bernie Sanders is fully on boar...

  • March 6, 2016

    Anti-Semitism at Oberlin 2 – the Trustee Speaks Up

    The descent of Oberlin College, a once-prestigious haven for serious  immersion in the liberal arts, into the madness of political correctness has reached the point where grown ups have to intervene. The chairman of the Oberlin College Board of ...

  • March 6, 2016

    Dem turnout and voter ID: The dirty little secret

    The numbers tell a story, and you can draw the obvious conclusions. Because the mainstream media certainly won’t.  Keep this statistic in mind the next time some progressive tries to claim voter fraud is not a serious problem. Political...

  • March 5, 2016

    State Department playing rope-a-dope on Hillary documents; many may not be released until after election

    On the very day that was the court-ordered deadline for disclosure of Hillary Clinton’s emails, February 29, the dedicated public servants at the State Department disclosed to Citizens United that they had discovered previously unsearched recor...

  • March 5, 2016

    Trump bails on CPAC speech

    An already bizarre primary season just became screwier. Donald Trump’s scheduled Saturday night prime time speech to CPAC was drawing envious criticism from other candidates, but no more: it has been cancelled. Needless to say, everyone is blam...

  • March 4, 2016

    A sure sign of warmism in decline: Yale closing down its ‘Climate and Energy Institute’

    Peak warmism has already hit, and the global warming movement is now on its long glide path through loss of government funding, budget and hiring cuts, less media attention, on the way to unfashionability, embarrassment, and eventually obscurity, a h...

  • March 3, 2016

    FBI grants immunity to Clinton staffer who set up email server

    This could be the beginning of the end for Hillary’s political career, with the now immunized Bryan Pagliano, no mere IT tech, but rather a member of Hillary’s 2008 campaign, free to sing like a bird and implicate others in a criminal con...

  • March 2, 2016

    The real story of Super Tuesday: GOP turnout big and rising, Dem turnout small and falling

    The story that most of the media wishes to ignore, the one that could determine the outcome of the November election, is the high level of voting in the GOP contests and the correspondingly low Democrat turnout.  The preliminary raw vote totals ...

  • March 2, 2016

    Video shows Bill Clinton violating Massachusetts’s election law on Super Tuesday

    Everybody knows the rules the rest of us are held to don’t apply to the Clintons, so don’t expect any consequences to Bill Clinton’s flouting of the election laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts yesterday.  Eric Levenson a...

  • March 2, 2016

    A dose of reality about socialism for Sanders supporters

    The virtually complete takeover of public and higher education by the left has resulted in a vast cohort of the American public completely ignorant of the failure of socialism everywhere it has been applied.  Thus we have public opjnion polls in...

  • March 2, 2016

    Stephanopoulos reminded on air that he’s a political operative playing a journalist on TV

    The old rules embraced by the GOP establishment include politely granting legitimacy to all the biased political operatives with bylines who make the mainstream media an adjunct of the Democratic Party.  But this election cycle, the two leading ...

  • March 2, 2016

    Look who’s warning the Democrats that black voters might support Trump in significant numbers

    Donald Trump has been claiming that he will draw substantial black support running in the general election, and now a very prominent liberal black commentator is supporting his contention. Writing in USA Today, Tavis Smiley avers: …the...

  • March 1, 2016

    Mexican oil giant devastated by oil price decline

    Americans tend to think of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Venezuela as oil powers, but we rarely think of Mexico in those terms.  Yet oil is Mexico’s top export item, despite the rapid growth of manufactured exports such as cars, currently bein...

  • March 1, 2016

    Trump, the Times, and the off-the-record tapes

    Donald Trump’s rivals and enemies are seizing on a report that in off-the-record discussions with the New York Times editorial board, he made remarks that “called into question whether he would stand by his own immigration views,” i...

  • March 1, 2016

    AG Lynch will not say if grand jury convened on Clinton email scandal

    In a major interview with Fox News’s Bret Baier, Attorney General Loretta Lynch played slippery, refusing to comment on whether or not a grand jury has been convened on the Hillary Clinton email case.  The key segment can be seen below: ...

  • March 1, 2016

    ‘Refugees’ buying one-way tickets home from Germany

    On second thought, after experiencing life in Deutschland, significant numbers of Arab “refugees” are buying one-way airline tickets home, according to the Los Angeles Times.  Erik Kirschbaum writes: With a one-way ticket home t...

  • February 29, 2016

    The Trump-KKK imbroglio: So much blame, so little time

    The mainstream media, apparently now believing in the inevitability of a Trump nomination, are beginning their demolition efforts.  Even though Bernie Sanders has never been asked to disavow the support of the Communist Party USA, Donald Trump i...

  • February 29, 2016

    The incredible shrinking Democratic Party

    Predictions of doom for the Republican Party are all the rage in the media, but the real story of this election cycle (so far) is the collapse of Democrat turnout.  Some of this is no doubt due to the difficulty in generating enthusiasm after mo...

  • February 28, 2016

    Is the National Enquirer preparing a John Edwards-like story on Hillary and Huma?

    The National Enquirer, a supermarket tabloid long derided by many for its celebrity gossip, earned enormous respect and credibility with its brave investigative report on John Edwards’s love child.   This was a story about a possible ...

  • February 28, 2016

    Huge black margin of support powered Hillary’s South Carolina primary win

    This is stunning: Hillary Clinton won a greater share of black votes in the South Carolina primary yesterday than Barack Obama did in 2008, running against Clinton.  Nobody else in the media wants to examine the reason why. Hillary demonstrated ...

  • February 28, 2016

    Obama’s Chicago mentor and Mayor Daley’s nephew squandered millions in pension funds, but made millions for themselves

    It is good, every now and then, to reflect upon the nature of the political machine that Barack Obama consciously and deliberately chose as the venue within which to build his political career. He wasn’t born the Chicago Democratic politics; he...

  • February 27, 2016

    Melissa Harris-Perry melts down, boycotts own show on MSNBC

    The clown princess of weekend cable news has outdone herself, announcing in an email to her staff, shared with the New York Times, that she refuses to appear on her eponymous MSNBC program this weekend.  She is – as is her custom – o...

  • February 27, 2016

    With new email release, total of classified emails on Hillary’s unsecured server reaches 1,818

    The damage to national security from Hillary Clinton’s choice to use an unsecured private server to handle all her State Department business is substantial and could well be catastrophic.  Friday night’s release of 800 emails include...

  • February 27, 2016

    Fired Prof. Melissa Click claimed she feared student journalist had a gun

    Poor Melissa Click, the now unemployed former assistant professor of communications at the University of Missouri.  Not being black – in fact, being about as white as you can get, what with her red hair – she couldn’t claim rac...

  • February 25, 2016

    Obama’s Sandoval Gambit for SCOTUS Nomination (Update: Sandoval puts the kibosh on)

    I bet that President Obama and Valerie Jarrett think they’re really clever and boxing in Senate Republicans by floating the story in the Washington Post that they are considering appointing Nevada’s Republican Governor Brian Sandoval to t...

  • February 24, 2016

    Trump may have to testify in fraud lawsuit trial during campaign

    Having turned Mitt Romney, an extraordinarily kind and decent man, into an imaginary ogre in the minds of a sufficient number of voters, Democrat opposition research propagandists can hardly believe their luck in potentially facing Donald Trump....

  • February 24, 2016

    Sad: Ben Carson jokes about his campaign staff’s incompetence (or worse)

    Dr. Ben Carson’s presidential campaign is reaching the joke stage, and it is painful to see for those of us who admire his character and achievements so deeply.  His previous campaign finance filings have revealed that, while he has been a...

  • February 24, 2016

    Trump, who claims Cruz lies a lot, tells a whopper about Cruz

    If Donald Trump were not in the midst of a campaign of demonization against Ted Cruz over alleged lies, I might be tempted to allow this whopper from him to go unnoted.  People, after all, do make mistakes.  But here Trump is, attempting to...

  • February 24, 2016

    At last! Senate GOP playing SCOTUS confirmation battle by Democrat rules

    Ever since the disgraceful treatment of Robert Bork’s nomination to the Supreme Court by Democrats, the GOP has played a sucker’s game.  That has finally changed with the vacancy created by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia.  ...

  • February 23, 2016

    Myth of ‘brain death’ exposed in Michigan

    “Brain death” sounds so scientific when uttered by a medical authority, an indication that the real life of a patient is over.  But it is a judgment call with so little scientific basis that (via the New York Post): A 14-year-ol...

  • February 23, 2016

    University president celebrates ‘inclusiveness’ by excluding conservative speaker

    William Covino, president of California State University Los Angeles, has canceled a planned speech by Breitbart editor-at-large and conservative brainiac Ben Shaprio three days before it was to take place.  All in the name of inclusiveness, bri...

  • February 23, 2016

    Federal judge chastises DoJ in noncitizen voter registration case

    Yesterday, I asked: Can you say, “The fix is in”? And it appears that federal district court Judge Richard J. Leon had the same worries, based on how he treated lawyers from the Department of Justice yesterday in a hearing Th...

  • February 23, 2016

    Watch as Megyn Kelly interviews Paul Ryan about an American Thinker article on him

    Last night Megyn Kelly interviewed Paul Ryan about his role in facilitating the rise of Donald Trump, based on John Ellis’s article, “Paul Ryan: Donald Trump's Best Friend.” Here is a video of the encounter: ...

  • February 22, 2016

    Suddenly, Jesse Jackson’s pretty darn happy with America

    Jesse Jackson has turned away from denouncing America’s faults to proclaiming, “This is the best America’s ever been!”  If you’re wondering what brought about this miraculous transformation, the answer is simple: Do...

  • February 22, 2016

    Coalition of Justice Dept. radical lawyers and tax-exempt nonprofits seeking to make it easy for noncitizens to vote

    The National Voter Registration Act, aka Motor Voter, aka auto fraudo, ostensibly was set up to ensure that people would be able to vote without much effort at all.  It has now been hijacked to enable noncitizens to register and vote. As part...

  • February 22, 2016

    The empress strikes back: Pro-Hillary unions issuing ‘statement’ today in aftermath of AFL-CIO not endorsing her

    Hillary forces are trying to undo some of the damage she suffered when the AFL-CIO announced that “it would not vote during its executive council meeting this week on whether to endorse a candidate in the Democratic presidential primaries....

  • February 21, 2016

    YouTube video of Nevada caucus seems to show Hillary supporters voting before registering

    Voting irregularities benefitting Hillary in a caucus state? Has such a thing ever happened before?  Who has ever heard of such a thing? (OK, you can put your hands down....) That makes this video, posted to YouTube by James Porter and picked...

  • February 21, 2016

    Why Hillary’s ugly win in Nevada delights me

    It’s no secret that I want the Democrats to engage in steel cage death match between the Clinton and Sanders factions, damaging the eventual nominee at least a badly as the GOP fracas (and that’s pretty badly, I admit).  The results ...

  • February 21, 2016

    Latest batch of emails reveal Hillary pushed for disastrous Libya intervention

    Now that Libya has become a base for ISIS and a source of refugees overwhelming Europe, Hillary Clinton is attempting to pretend that she had little to do with it, even though she was secretary of state. And the deaths of four Americans including our...

  • February 21, 2016

    16 year old Afghan ‘migrant’ rapes asylum center worker 2 weeks after taking a course on how to treat western women

    Go figure: sitting through a course given by infidels failed to change the worldview of a Muslim boy raised to believe the Koran was the word of Allah, transcribed literally. It’s almost enough to make Europeans think twice about importing mass...

  • February 20, 2016

    Valerie Jarrett is the poster girl for Chicago’s pension crisis

    The City of Chicago is being fiscally devoured by pension obligations run up by politicians buying votes.  Even with a record $543-million property tax increase, the city’s $20-billion debt to its pension funds will continue to grow for at...

  • February 20, 2016

    Shocking poll result: A Republican leads in the race to replace Barbara Boxer

    Ever since the demographic composition of California was transformed by the infusion of millions of Hispanics and the driving out of middle- and upper-middle-class residents (of any race) through high taxes, the state has been a Democrat stronghold ...

  • February 19, 2016

    Mark Levin launches subscription TV program

    Popular radio talk show host and author Mark Levin is launching a subscription television program starting March 7.  Mark comments: I am thrilled we are expanding our Town Hall meeting place for patriots by taking TV broadcasting to a new l...

  • February 19, 2016

    Ted Cruz plays hardest ball

    Although I am officially (and, in fact, personally) neutral among the GOP candidates, I have long admired Ted Cruz’s devotion to the Constitution and his disregard of the get-along/go-along ethic of the GOP Senate.  Not to mention his form...

  • February 18, 2016

    Obama’s SCOTUS confirmation petard

    There’s a lot of hoisting ahead for President Obama, the Senate Democrats, and their media allies when they try to force confirmation of a justice to replace the late Antonin Scalia.  Courtesy of Scott Ott, we have this video of Senator Ba...

  • February 18, 2016

    Hillary campaign needs a scapegoat; David Brock a leading candidate

    As Hillary Clinton’s polls collapse and the prospect of losing the Nevada caucuses looms this weekend, it is time for some soul-searching at the Hillary campaign.  Amoie Parness of The Hill summarizes the gloomy prospects: A new CNN/O...

  • February 17, 2016

    Study shows that increased atmospheric CO2 is greening the deserts

    A funny thing happened on the way to the warmists’ nightmare: the Earth’s deserts have started to turn green.  The Supreme Court, in its infinite wisdom, may have ruled that carbon dioxide is a pollutant, but the Earth’s desert...

  • February 17, 2016

    Hillary imitates black accent…again

    Already notorious for affecting a black accent when speaking to an African-American audience, and a day after barking like a dog, Hillary Clinton has once again (badly) imitated black speech patterns.  Politico reporter Annie Karni tweeted a bri...

  • February 17, 2016

    Hillary’s race pandering hits a new low

    As she sees the presidential nomination slipping away from her once again, Hillary Clinton plumbs new depths of craven race-pandering, ginning up racial resentment with a bizarre invocation of racism.  Shushannah Walshe and Liz Kreutz of ABC New...

  • February 16, 2016

    Putin and Hillary: The value of kompromat

    There are many reasons why Hillary Clinton should never be president of the United States, one Russian word may be the most important of all: kompromat.  It means compromising information, and it has been a time-tested tool of Russian intelligen...

  • February 16, 2016

    Hillary barks!

    The pressure is getting to Hillary, what with her Nevada firewall crumbling, the SNL mockery (even though she did a personal appearance there – the ingrates!), and the indignity of losing young people to a 74-year-old socialist Jew.  How e...

  • February 16, 2016

    You won’t believe that latest warmist excuse for the failure of their prediction of doom

    We’re getting to the point where “the dog ate my homework” is going to look better than what the warmists are coming up with to explain why doomsday is a bit late in arriving.  But trust them, it will arrive.  Err, pretty ...

  • February 16, 2016

    Sowell makes his presidential endorsement

    There are very, very few people whose endorsement of a candidate matters to me, and among them Thomas Sowell may be at the top of the list.  Thus, when he speaks his mind, I listen carefully. The Republicans can end up with a candidate who ...

  • February 15, 2016

    Australia’s Labor Party going anti-Israel in quest for Muslim votes

    Like Western Europe, Canada, and the United States, Australia has been on the receiving end of a growing stream of Muslim immigrants, to the great advantage of the domestic political leftist parties.  The Australian Labor Party, which is current...

  • February 15, 2016

    Sanders supporters discovering superdelegates rigged against them

    It took them long enough!  Perhaps naively believing the all the fine rhetoric Democrats use to mask their embrace of crony capitalism, the young supporters of Bernie Sanders assumed that by getting a 22% margin of victory in New Hampshire their...

  • February 14, 2016

    So who was booing Trump in Saturday’s debate?

    To find out exactly who was in the audience, you have to go to a local TV station in Greenville. The debate audience for the Greenville, SC debate was the product of decisions by CBS and the South Carolina Republican Party. So what do you expect? WYF...

  • February 14, 2016

    James Woods gets judge’s OK to pursue $10 million libel suit against Twitter troll

    Twitter has become a sewer where people make vile claims about others it he belief that they will remain anonymous. Thanks to James Woods and Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Mel Recana, that may start to change.  Eriq Gardner of the Hollywood R...

  • February 14, 2016

    Maureen Dowd: ‘Hillary Clinton killed feminism’

    Maureen Dowd, star columnist of the New York Times, has a catty and delicious takedown of Hillary Clinton and the feminist establishment today. There is not that much new in calling out the hypocrisy of the feminist movement and its record of support...

  • February 14, 2016

    Dems in Senate passed a resolution in1960 against election year Supreme Court appointments

    Read it and weep, Democrats. The shoe is on the other foot. David Bernstein at the Washington Post’s Volokh Conspiracy blog:  Thanks to a VC commenter, I discovered that in August 1960, the Democrat-controlled Senate passed a resoluti...

  • February 13, 2016

    Democratic National Committee ditches Obama’s reforms, will now accept donations from federal lobbyists and PACs

    Gone are the days when under Barack Obama the Democrats pretended to end the role of big money in politics.  Now that Bernie Sanders is raising more money than Hillary Clinton, her puppets at the Democratic National Committee are scared.  A...

  • February 13, 2016

    Muslim NHL player makes throat-slashing gesture after a hit on the ice

    Toronto Maple Leafs’ forward Nazem Kadri has been fined U.S. $5,000 for making a throat-slashing gesture after taking a hit in a game in Calgary last Tuesday. The fine, for making “inappropriate gestures” in the direction of Fl...

  • February 13, 2016

    Unintentionally hilarious PBS video captures Huma rejecting a hug from enthusiastic Hillary supporter

    The after-debate coverage PBS provided following the Milwaukee Democrat presidential debate captured a fascinating moment as the talking heads David Brooks and Mark Shields babbled on, unaware of the mini-drama underway.  But thanks to the runni...

  • February 12, 2016

    PBS Dem debate moderators ignored Clinton Foundation subpoenas

    Once again, our taxpayer-funded broadcaster appeared to be in the tank for Democrats, specifically Hillary Clinton, as PBS and Facebook co-sponsored a Democratic presidential candidate debate last night in Milwaukee.  The very same day that the ...

  • February 12, 2016

    Debbie Wasserman Schultz asked to explain how Hillary lost NH primary by 22% but came away with same number of delegates

    The chair of the Democratic National Committee, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, has had her thumb on the scale for Hillary Clinton, like the rest of the party establishment.  When Hillary thought she was a shoo-in, they limited the number of debates a...

  • February 12, 2016

    The PBS debate disgrace devastatingly dismembered

    Can we please defund PBS, and let the American left pay for their own network without tax money from the rest of us?  The disgrace of PBS in moderating last night’s debate was even worse than I remarked on it.  Andrew Malcolm of Inves...

  • February 12, 2016

    White House opposes bipartisan trade bill because it is anti-BDS

    Despite being overwhelmingly passed with bipartisan support, the Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of 2015 is being opposed by the White House because it contains provisions strengthening U.S.-Israel ties.  Adam Kredo writes in the Wa...

  • February 12, 2016

    New Disney cartoon feature satirizes slothful government bureaucrats

    As we head into an election where one party wants to vastly increase the size of government, putting bureaucrats in charge of even more of our lives, there is a sign of hope in the popular culture.  As the late Andrew Breitbart taught us, cultur...

  • February 12, 2016

    Bernie Sanders’s first promise has already fallen on its face

    The siren song Bernie Sanders is singing for young, naïve dopes idealists in the Democratic Party has already gotten out of tune with reality.  Sahil Kapur of Bloomberg reports: Bernie Sanders’ pitch to Democrats is that all the ...

  • February 11, 2016

    Krauthammer: Democrat superdelegates won’t force a Hillary nomination

    Once again this election cycle, I find myself disagreeing with the esteemed Dr. Charles Krauthammer. I found his dismissal of Donald Trump as a serious candidate short-sighted, and note with satisfaction that although he still does not approve of Tru...

  • February 11, 2016

    Hillary’s no-win situation at Goldman Sachs worsening as content of her paid speeches leaking out

    Poor Hillary! It turns out that there is a price to being a lying hypocrite.  That’s just so unfair. After all, Bill got away with posing as a feminist champion while assaulting, groping, and exploiting women for decades.  But when Hi...

  • February 11, 2016

    Watergate reporter Carl Bernstein savages Hillary on emails

    Of the famed duo Woodward and Bernstein, Carl Bernstein has always been the more left-leaning. And unlike his former partner, he has not made a successful career of writing best-sellers based on confidential sources. Still, he has a following among j...

  • February 10, 2016

    American flag desecrated at Hillary campaign rally

    Sometimes it’s the little things that tell you the most.  To call the photo tweeted out last night by the Washington Post’s Post Politics Twitter feed “disturbing” is an understatement; some would call it an outrage, or e...

  • February 10, 2016

    Busted: FOIA document release shows MSM accepting dictation from Hillary staff

    Do you remember back to the time when the constant refrain in the mainstream media was that Hillary Clinton was a great secretary of state?  Back before the Benghazi slaughter, before the Russia reset became a bad joke?  For some reason, it...

  • February 10, 2016

    Gloria Steinem declared Bernie Sanders ‘honorary woman’ in 1996

    There is a lot of comedy accompanying the death throes of the feminism of the 1960s and ’70s.  Gloria Steinem already disgraced herself by characterizing the young women who support Bernie Sanders as being interested in the boys who suppor...

  • February 10, 2016

    Fed judge tells State Dept it is taking ‘unreasonably long’ to produce Hillary emails

    A federal judge would never issue an order saying, “Cut the crap!,” but that is the gist of what Judge Rudolph Contreras just told the Department of State.  Stephen Dinan reports in the Washington Times: A federal judge told the...

  • February 10, 2016

    Sanders may have won 22% more votes than Hillary, but Hillary gets more delegates

    Hey, Sanders kids, relax.  The fix is in.  Politico reports the delegate count arising out of the New Hampshire vote. Among the 712 superdelegates, Hillary had a 45-to-1 margin a few months ago, in the 80% the Associated Press was...

  • February 10, 2016

    Sanders attempting to break Hillary’s hold on black vote by meeting with Sharpton today

    Now that he has utterly vanquished Hillary Clinton in New Hampshire, Bernie Sanders’s next challenge is South Carolina, where black voters represent a majority of the Democrat base.  Supposedly, that state will function as Hillary’s ...

  • February 9, 2016

    Sweden not impressed with the results of Hillary’s ‘reset’ with Russia, plans for war (updated)

    Far from ushering in an era of peace and mutual understanding, the naïve weakness Hillary Clinton showed in her infamous 2009 “reset” meeting with Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov has led to aggressive expansionism that now has...

  • February 9, 2016

    Hillary whines about ‘double standard’ in being asked to release Goldman Sachs transcripts

    With no good arguments available, Hillary Clinton is now casting herself as a victim of a “double standard” because she has been asked to release the transcripts of her three talks to Goldman Sachs that netted her $675K.  Such an abs...

  • February 9, 2016

    Maine shows how to cut Food Stamp fraud

    The fastest growing category in the fast growing Food Stamp program – now the second most expensive welfare program of the feds – is able-bodied adults without dependents (ABWDs).  These are people fully capable of supporting themsel...

  • February 8, 2016

    BBC and Mohammed: The odd couple

    Why does the BBC style guide treat Jesus and Mohammed so differently?  Andrew Bolt of The Herald-Sun in Australia asks a great question: So when will the BBC style guide decree that Christ should at first mention be referred to as “th...

  • February 8, 2016

    Iowa caucus audit finds errors in 5 of 14 precincts checked; Hillary’s margin shrinks

    “Hillary’s slim Iowa victory gets even slimmer,” headlines The Examiner.  In a story by Daniel Chaitin, it reports that a case-by-case audit has revealed that over a third of the 14 precincts checked found errors and that the n...

  • February 8, 2016

    Gloria Steinem apologizes

    I love watching the feminist gerontocracy trip over itself with hypocrisy.  Gloria Steinem, so accustomed to self-righteous denunciations of alleged sexism in others, threw a sexist insult at the young women who support Bernie Sanders overwhelmi...

  • February 8, 2016

    Haaretz attacks AT, Thomas Lifson

    The truth hurts at left-wing Israeli newspaper Haaretz, which is very unhappy that Daniel Greenfield of Front Page Magazine and I (on AT) noticed that as a young man, Bernie Sanders spent time on a Stalinist kibbutz in Israel.  For years, Sander...

  • February 8, 2016

    Lefty pressure building on Hillary to release transcripts of talks to Goldman Sachs

    Hillary Clinton’s pose as a critic of Wall Street is running into the awkward fact that she received millions of dollars in speaking fees from financial industry sources, as well as $675,000 from Goldman Sachs for just three speeches.  She...

  • February 8, 2016

    How rich is Bernie Sanders?

    There is a short answer to the question: a lot richer than he admits.  And the longer answer is even more interesting.  Writing at Doug Ross’s Director Blue, Cliff Kincaid explains: ... [former publisher of Campaigns & Electi...

  • February 8, 2016

    Why did the NFL allow Beyonce to celebrate the murderous Black Panthers in her halftime performance?

    The NFL normally adopts the posture of patriotism and wholesomeness.  And I have to admit that the performance of the National Anthem by Lady Gaga was quite nice, despite my fears that the performer known for her meat dress would make a travesty...

  • February 7, 2016

    Weirdest start to a presidential debate ever

    ABC News badly botched the start of last night’s presidential debate. To viewers in the auditorium and at home, it appeared that first Ben Carson was just standing there after his introduction.  Then Donald Trump refused to come out, stand...

  • February 7, 2016

    Madeleine Albright tells women they’ll go to hell if they don’t vote for Hillary

    Something about becoming secretary of state turns Democrats into wannabe spiritual authorities. Following fresh on the heels of John Kerry instructing Muslims on their faith, Madeleine Albright has told women that keys to the heavenly kingdom do not ...

  • February 7, 2016

    Gloria Steinem demeans young women supporters of Sanders

    Hillary Clinton’s surrogates are getting desperate in their efforts to persuade young voters to stop dumping Hillary in favor of Sanders. In Iowa, Sanders won 84% of the 17-29 demographic, a 70 point margin over Clinton, which has the old guard...

  • February 7, 2016

    Vicious 'knockout game' racial hate crime captured on camera

    The rhetoric of victimization has progressed to the point where young black people apparently think they are free to assault other races, record the act, and post the videos to social media, with no consequences to follow. The fact that they are mist...

  • February 6, 2016

    Hillary may regret the debate challenge she offered Sanders over ‘artful smear’

    Hillary Clinton made headlines by getting indignant at Bernie Sanders when he raised the issue of her accepting large sums of money from Wall Street financial interests in the Durham, N.H. Democrat presidential debate (transcript). … time...

  • February 6, 2016

    Imam John Kerry pronounces ISIS members ‘apostates’ of Islam

    Secretary of State John Kerry is making a laughingstock of himself (again) with his pretension of religious authority on the doctrines of Islam.  Philip Devoe of the Daily Caller writes: At a conference of coalition members tasked with figh...

  • February 6, 2016

    $153 million in Clinton speaking fees since 2001, documented

    CNN has performed a very useful service by compiling a searchable list of the speaking engagements through which Hillary and Bill Clinton received $153 million, almost exclusively from moneyed interests with business affected by the federal governmen...

  • February 5, 2016

    Bernie Sanders’s 1963 stay at a Stalinist kibbutz

    It is sometimes maintained that Bernie Sanders can’t be as anti-Israel as some of his positions would indicate, because he spent time on a kibbutz there. After all, this is a guy who in the January 17 Democrats’ presidential debate said, ...

  • February 5, 2016

    Hillary jumps ugly on Bernie in New Hampshire debate

    Hillary Clinton had her “What difference at this point does it make?” moment last night in her debate with Bernie Sanders. The first time the two of them shared a stage as a duo, she took the opportunity to go indignant, a mode of discour...

  • February 5, 2016

    Young Bernie fans waking up to suspect Iowa Caucuses were stolen by Hillary

    All is proceeding exactly as I hoped. The naïve and idealistic young supporters of Bernie Sanders are getting more and more evidence that the fix is in for Hillary Clinton, a corrupt, unappealing rich woman whose wealth comes from favor-seeking ...

  • February 5, 2016

    New poll demonstrates Hillary is rapidly losing support

    It may not be too strong to describe Hillary Clinton’s support as collapsing at a national level. A new poll released this morning shows that her lead over Bernie Sanders nationally has declined from 31 points to 2 points. Bradford Richardson o...

  • February 4, 2016

    Bernie Sanders demands ‘living wage’ but pays his own interns $12 an hour

    The Vermont socialist senator thinks that a everyone deserves a “living wage” – which usually means that a minimum-wage worker with no skills ought to be able to raise a family.  But like most lefties, his motto is “do as...

  • February 3, 2016

    New Obama regulation: White males lose, lawyers and Democrats win

    Last Friday, a new regulation was proposed by the Obama administration that will make it harder and more expensive for employers to hire and promote white males, enrich class action lawyers, and do absolutely nothing to accomplish the ostensible goal...

  • February 3, 2016

    Illinois Board of Elections declares Ted Cruz a ‘natural born citizen’

    Ted Cruz, who has been an American citizen since birth – he was not naturalized – has been declared a “natural born citizen” by the Illinois Board of Elections, responding to a challenge.  Cristian Farias of the Huffingto...

  • February 3, 2016

    Pathetic Hamas fake ‘locally produced’ tank mocked

    Hamas has had a tough week.  First, seven Hamas militants were killed when the tunnel they were in collapsed.  Then, in a memorial service Saturday, Hamas rolled out a “tank,” which they claimed was locally produced based o...

  • February 3, 2016

    Billionaire’s lefty website embarrassed – again

    Once again, I am forced to confess that I am a bad person, for I am taking pleasure in the travails of others.  Even worse, jealousy may well be a factor (hanging head in shame). You see, when a lefty internet billionaire announced he was com...

  • February 2, 2016

    Hillary’s dubious ‘victory’ in Iowa alienating Sanders supporters

    So far, things are working out exactly as I hoped in the Democrat presidential nomination race.  Long story short: the ultra-left wing of the left-wing Democratic Party is waking up to the fact that Hillary Clinton is a vicious, crooked phony, w...

  • February 2, 2016

    Will Cruz win in Iowa hasten the demise of the ethanol mandate?

    Ethanol is a public policy disaster of the first order.  Even accepting the premise that CO2 is harmful to the global climate (which it isn’t), ethanol does no good, at enormous cost.  The amount of CO2 generated by producing it is en...

  • February 2, 2016

    Hilarious: CBS anchors chuckle when Hillary says she can’t be bought

    Hillary Clinton is well on her way to being a joke – she just doesn’t realize it yet.  The groundswell for Bernie Sanders shows that many on the left now recognize her corruption, something that her dubious victory in Iowa will only ...

  • February 1, 2016

    Obama admin lied to public during debt ceiling crisis

    Formerly secret Federal Reserve documents prove that during the 2011 and 2013 debt ceiling crisis showdowns with the GOP, the Obama administration flat-out lied to the public.  At issue was the administration’s insistence that default on t...

  • February 1, 2016

    Jim Crow comes to UConn

    Racial segregation is making a comeback at two of the nation’s state universities.  Yesterday I wrote about the University of Iowa’s plans for a black-only 35-student “learning community,” to be patronizingly titled ...

  • February 1, 2016

    Clinton campaign sees demonizing Trump as easy pickings

    Having lived through the demonization of Mitt Romney, an extraordinarily kind and decent man who happened to be a successful businessman, I have anticipated that should Donald Trump get the GOP nomination, Mitt will sound like a saint in comparison t...

  • February 1, 2016

    Hillary obfuscates, lies when asked about non-disclosure agreement that says classified info doesn’t need to be marked

    Hillary Clinton appeared on This Week with George Stephanopoulos yesterday and finally was asked the key question by her husband’s former political operative and Clinton charities donor.  Chuck Ross reports at The Daily Caller: ...

  • January 31, 2016

    Hillary hagiography for immature minds

    One feature of the totalitarian mindset is a need to brainwash children into believing that The Great Leader was destined for importance from birth.  At its most grotesque, this impulse finds expression in absurdities such as the propaganda Nort...

  • January 31, 2016

    Jim Crow comes to the University of Iowa

    Progressivism is coming full circle with the arrival of racial segregation in the student dormitories at the University of Iowa. At the dawn of progressivism, eugenics was meant to improve the human race by discouraging “inferior” race...

  • January 31, 2016

    Melissa Harris-Perry outdoes herself

    I wonder if MSNBC weekend host Melissa Harris-Perry realizes how many conservative fans she has? There is no figure on the left who better epitomizes the mean-spirited, obsessive, and downright incoherent policies of the progressives than MHP. And to...

  • January 31, 2016

    Bernie Sanders before political office

    Before he achieved political office, Bernie Sanders never had a steady paycheck in the first four decades of his life. Now, he aspires to the highest office in the land where he could play a decisive role in shaping the circumstances under which the ...

  • January 30, 2016

    Embarrassing: Tickets for Chelsea Clinton fundraiser marked down from $2,700 to $50

    That old Clinton magic is vanishing at an accelerating pace.  Not so long ago, campaign officials believed that people would hand over $2,700 for the opportunity to “come ride with Chelsea” at a trendy Soul Cycle indoor bicycle exerc...

  • January 30, 2016

    Hillary emails ‘too damaging to release’

    It is always risky to predict doom for the Clintons, given their ability to make evidence disappear, make people forget, and (at least for Bill a couple of decades ago) obtain forgiveness from crimes like lying under oath.  But times have change...

  • January 30, 2016

    Pathetic Hillary campaign response to latest email scandal: ‘overclassification run amok’

    It may be enough for Hillary’s lickspittles like Max Fisher and Paul Krugman, but the response of the Hillary campaign to the revelation that the State Department has refused to release anything from the contents of 22 emails on her server beca...

  • January 30, 2016

    Josh Earnest may have gotten himself in a whole heap of trouble with comments on Hillary email scandal

    The oleaginous White House press secretary, Josh Earnest, was trying to dampen down any concern over the news that 22 emails on Hillary Clinton’s server were so sensitive that nothing at all could be released.  But instead, he opened a can...

  • January 29, 2016

    The GOP debate minus Trump: who’s happy and who’s sad today?

    Last night’s GOP debate with Trump absent allowed for much more airtime for candidates, with varying outcomes for them. Rather than try to declare winners and losers, I am going to focus on who might be happy and who sad today, as they look bac...

  • January 29, 2016

    Muslim Uber driver allegedly slammed passenger’s service dog to pavement, injuring it

    I find it very difficult to celebrate the diversity that Muslims bring to the United States on the matter of dogs. Muslims are taught to hate them. Not in the Koran, but in the Hadith and other sources, as I wrote about here: From Bukhari Vol. 4...

  • January 28, 2016

    Pope Francis cozies up with Iran’s Rouhani

    I can understand – sort of – the butt-kissing Iranian president Hassan Rouhani is receiving from French president Hollande and Italian prime minister Matteo Renzi.  After all, what’s a little planned genocide for Israel when a ...

  • January 28, 2016

    Surprise! Chicago PD having a hard time recruiting

    Describing the Chicago Police Department as “beleaguered” would be an understatement.  The suppression of dashcam video of the shooting of an unarmed suspect may have gotten Rahm Emanuel re-elected, but it aggravated already high ten...

  • January 28, 2016

    Sweden announces it may expel up to 80,000 ‘asylum seekers’

    Strained to the breaking point by the largest per capita influx of Muslims claiming to be “refugees,” Sweden’s government is finally planning to vet and even expel those invaders who are not legitimately escaping the threat of death...

  • January 28, 2016

    Rupert Murdoch encouraging Mike Bloomberg to run for president

    Rumors of intrigue surround Fox News and its treatment of Donald Trump.  And now, the king of the News Corporation media empire, Rupert Murdoch, has entered the fray with a tweet encouraging fellow New York billionaire media mogul Michael Bloomb...

  • January 27, 2016

    How Trump could win his war with Fox News

    Once again, Donald Trump has torn up the rulebook for a presidential run.  As of this morning, he will not be attending Thursday’s presidential debate on Fox News, unhappy with Megyn Kelly as a moderator, and infuriated at a rather juvenil...

  • January 26, 2016

    Question to Hillary at Dem town hall gave away the phony game being played

    A youthful questioner at last night’s Democratic presidential candidates town hall let it slip that he had been fed a question for Hillary.  The video is embedded below.  This slip of the tongue confirms that whole event was a set-up ...

  • January 26, 2016

    The Bernie Sanders base explained in one picture

    A snowstorm does bring out the essence of humanity. The picture below comes via Moonbattery and iOTW Report, where Big Fur Hat observes: When You’re a Collectivist You Simply Wait For Someone Else Do To the Hard Work ...

  • January 25, 2016

    Frau Merkel’s other disastrous policy

    A softheaded chancellor is in the process of ruining Germany.  Angela Merkel is turning the very same Germany that rebuilt itself from wartime devastation into the world’s economic powerhouse, peacefully unified with communist East Germany...

  • January 24, 2016

    Racial bean counting at the Oscars

    A reader sent me some interesting data on the actual track record of blacks in the Best Actor category of the Academy Awards. He writes: The black population in the US is about 13%. So, apparently according to Spike Lee et al, blacks must be ...

  • January 24, 2016

    Tolerant Austin, TX will not tolerate being made fun of

    Austin, Texas is supposed to be capital of coolness, the hippest place to be for a certain kind of people.  SXSW and all that. But city officials there did not take it well when a municipal employee enlivened a 45 page presentation by using a sa...

  • January 24, 2016

    Harvard’s challenge from within to affirmative action

    A week ago Friday, the New York Times featured a front-page story on a challenge that could end up ending affirmative action once and for all at the most prominent university in the United States, Harvard.  Ron Unz, an alumnus, decided to use th...

  • January 23, 2016

    State Department tells judge it needs an extra 30 days to release Hillary emails because of snow

    Apparently the snow ate the State Department’s homework. CNN reports: After misplacing about 7,000 pages of documents for several months, the State Department is now asking a federal judge for more time to release former Secretary of State...

  • January 22, 2016

    National Review goes to the mattresses against Trump

    The most venerable and prestigious publication of the conservative movement is doing everything it can to discourage support for the candidacy of Donald Trump.  I cannot remember anything like it in the last half-century.  The cover story, ...

  • January 21, 2016

    Putin offers refuge in Russia for European Jews

    A delegation for the European Jewish Congress (EJC) Tuesday met in the Kremlin with Russian president Vladimir Putin: Issues raised during the discussion included the rise of anti-Semitism around the world and the threat of global terror, which ...

  • January 21, 2016

    Beginning the autopsy on Obama administration decision-making disasters

    I hope to live long enough to see the Obama administration’s disastrous track record objectively evaluated.  The overwhelming media support Obama has received, combined with his demographic characteristics, personal charm, winning smile, s...

  • January 21, 2016

    Bob Dole warns against Cruz, says Trump would do better

    Bob Dole knows a lot about losing presidential races, and is a lifetime member of the Senate Club. If there is anyone who connotes Republican Establishment more than Dole  (who won the GOP presidential nomination because… it was his turn)...

  • January 20, 2016

    Hillary campaign’s response to latest email revelations reveals desperation

    It is hard to overstate the significance of the latest revelations about the national security catastrophe caused by Hillary Clinton’s private email server.  The nation’s highest-level secrets were kept on an unsecure server that is ...

  • January 19, 2016

    Hillary, the Brady Campaign, and the real gun control agenda

    The true goals of the Brady Center, formerly known as Handgun Control, Incorporated, have been exposed thanks to archival research in the Clinton Library undertaken by Dave Hardy.  Brady is a very important nonprofit organization, which has work...

  • January 19, 2016

    Historic building where Bill of Rights was born is partially demolished

    Symbolism doesn’t get much more chilling than this.  Serious efforts are underway to abrogate the First and Second Amendments, in the name of “campaign finance reform” and “commonsense gun safety” – both euphe...

  • January 19, 2016

    Pro-immigrant filmmakers robbed and beaten filming immigrants

    If a neo-conservative is a liberal who’s been mugged, what do you call a European who goes to welcome Muslim immigrants and gets savagely robbed?  Besides a fool?  I guess I will have to leave that up to the Europeans, who will first ...

  • January 18, 2016

    Hillary’s subconscious acts up in Dem debate, provides 6 words that will haunt her

    There may still be a reasonable debate on whether or not Hillary Clinton has a conscience, but Sunday night’s Democratic presidential debate proves that she does have a subconscious.  That part of her mind put words into her mouth that her...

  • January 18, 2016

    Debbie Wasserman Schultz facing serious primary challenge

    Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz owes her position as chair of the Democratic National Committee to her ability to raise money for the party.  Notorious for saying stupid things ("Photo I.D. laws, we think, are very similar to a poll ...

  • January 17, 2016

    Hillary keeping Bill on a tight leash

    Hillary Clinton’s campaign can’t ignore the former POTUS – after all, without his political career nobody would consider Hillary for a political job of any consequence (never forget that she was fired from the House Watergate Commit...

  • January 16, 2016

    Calling BS on the official story of the Iranian capture of two US riverine boats

    See also: The most plausible explanation for the 10 riverine sailors captured by Iran A fascinating comment on Rick Moran’s blog about the Iranian capture of our sailors is making waves in the blogosphere and on Facebook.  It makes a lo...

  • January 16, 2016

    Philly mayor claims he was ‘misinterpreted’ on claims terror attack had ‘nothing to do with being a Muslim or following the Islamic faith’

    Philadelphia’s Mayor Jim Kenney has earned himself a place in the Doofus Hall of Fame for telling a press conference about an attempted assassination a police officer by a man who told police he acted “in the name of Islam” because ...

  • January 16, 2016

    Hilarious: Hillary struggles to answer clearly what her campaign message is

    Facing questions from MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski (who states that she would vote for Hillary) ought to be pure softball for the former SecState/senator/first lady.  But oddly enough, explaining what is her message – clearly – prov...

  • January 15, 2016

    You’ll never guess what the Congressional Black Caucus wants to vote on formally condemning as ‘racially insensitive’

    Of all the things to get upset over, this takes the absurdist cake.  Rep. Sean Duffy (R-Wis.) has gotten Rep. Gwen Moore (D-Wis.) and other members of the Congressional Black Caucus in a huff – ready to take a very rare and extreme move ...

  • January 15, 2016

    Hillary campaign throws Chelsea under the bus

    Chelsea Clinton’s debut as a campaign attack dog was disastrous.  As disastrous as her mother’s attempted quip about wiping a server “with a cloth.”  As disastrous as her stint as an overpaid NBC correspondent. ...

  • January 14, 2016

    Hillary’s long goodbye

    I must be an awful human being, because I am reveling in the déjà vu Hillary Clinton must be experiencing, as her presidential campaign appears to be heading toward collapse.  And this time, the humiliation – and peril ...

  • January 12, 2016

    Emails reveal Hillary vetted plans to undermine Israel with covert ops

    When Hillary Clinton famously blamed her husband’s bimbo eruption troubles on a “vast right wing conspiracy,” she revealed, via projection, her own approach to getting things done.  Covertly pulling strings behind the scenes, m...

  • January 12, 2016

    Mass sexual assault by Muslims covered up in Sweden for admitted political reasons

    The failure of the cover-up of the mass sexual assaults by Muslim men on New Year’s Eve in Cologne and elsewhere has broken a dam, revealing a pattern of similar politically motivated cover-ups for years.  Sweden is currently being rocked ...

  • January 12, 2016

    German police admit rape gangs are an Arab game called 'Taharrush'

    They’re not celebrating diversity in Germany quite as enthusiastically as Frau Merkel might prefer.   The Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA), the main investigative authority in Germany, said in a response to Welt newspaper it knows...

  • January 12, 2016

    The ultimate takedown of Sean Penn (and Geraldo Rivera)

    A real journalist who has tracked down and interviewed murderous villains delivers the best rebuke to Sean Penn.  Monica Showalter writes in Investor’s Business Daily about Penn and his big fan, Geraldo Rivera: Fox News' Geraldo R...

  • January 10, 2016

    Sean Penn apparently led Mexican cops to El Chapo by interviewing him for Rolling Stone

    Rolling Stone is getting a lot of clicks today for the interview Sean Penn did with Mexican drug lord Joaquín Guzmán Loera, a.k.a El Chapo. Titled, “El Chapo Speaks,” the piece presents the man responsible for a reported 3,0...

  • January 10, 2016

    Is it time for the Darwin Awards yet?

    I am not actually a bloodthirsty man, but part of me can’t wait to find out what happens: ISIS generally doesn’t respond well to music. But that isn’t stopping James Twyman, an author and musician based in Portland, Oregon, fr...

  • January 9, 2016

    Philadelphia's Mayor Jim Kenney declares the sky is green

    Okay, not quite.  But Philadelphia’s new mayor, Jim Kenney, might as well have told yesterday’s press conference on yesterday’s attempted assassination of Officer Jesse Hartnett that the sky is green when he claimed that Islam ...

  • January 7, 2016

    The Cruz natural-born citizen fake controversy

    I suppose it was inevitable that we’d have to go one more round on the natural-born citizen subject before the Iowa caucus.  Too many members of the mainstream media and Democrats (but I repeat myself) want to yuck it up.  They just l...

  • January 6, 2016

    To no one's surprise, Obama admin seems to be siding with Iran instead of Saudi Arabian allies

    As the crisis between Saudi Arabia and Iran continues to boil, the United States appears to be siding with Iran over its ally Saudi Arabia, reinforcing the message Obama's actions have endlessly repeated: that an alliance with the United States i...

  • January 6, 2016

    250,000 Muslims riot in India over allegation politician insulted Mohammed

    The Indian Express reports: A massive Muslim protest rally against Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha [a Hindu nationalist party – TL] leader Kamlesh Tiwari for his alleged derogatory remarks against Prophet Mohammed turned violent in Malda dist...

  • January 5, 2016

    No wonder the DNC is favoring Hillary

    It’s long been obvious that the Democratic National Committee, the supposedly neutral referee of the presidential nomination race, is favoring Hillary Clinton.  Limiting the debates to six and scheduling them for times guaranteeing low vie...

  • January 5, 2016

    The sweetheart deal for Bill Clinton's Orgy Island pal may be exposed and overturned

    Tick, tick, tick…the highly suspicious deal that gave Bill Clinton’s billionaire buddy Jeffrey Epstein a slap on the wrist for paying underage girls for sex may finally be subjected to pubic scrutiny and even overturned, bringing with it...

  • January 4, 2016

    Hillary's Paula Jones nightmare begins

    Hillary Clinton has been counting on the GOP’s purported “war on women” theme to generate votes.  The tacit assumption has always been that her husband’s pattern of sexual exploitation and even violence toward socially le...

  • January 4, 2016

    Democracy minus religion?

    As the Christmas season ends, I want to share with readers this short video done by Harvard Business School Professor Clayton Christensen. His book, The Innovator’s Dilemma, is the best business book published in the last half-century (sorry, D...

  • January 4, 2016

    What the Hillary emails tell us about her state of mind

    Buried in the thousands of Hillary Clinton emails so far released is a fascinating and significant insight to her mind, something so far apparently noticed only by Geoff Earle of the New York Post.  She has surrounded herself with courtiers who ...

  • January 3, 2016

    The Fall of Chicago

    What our Marxist friends call “internal contradictions” are bringing down Chicago, as they have already bankrupted Detroit. Writing at Powerline, Paul Mirengoff explores “The Larger Meaning of Rahm Emanuel’s Woes.” ...

  • January 3, 2016

    Countdown to Gorepocalypse

    As the global warming fraud continues to garner support from the world’s political leaders, who recently jetted to Paris by the hundreds to affirm their need to seize control and tax the world’s use of energy, the bogus nature of the ...

  • January 3, 2016

    The global warming consensus that isn't

    At last, we have a peer-reviewed paper that accurately surveys how much support there is for anthropogenic global warming among relevant scientists. And the news isn’t good for Al Gore, nor for Barack Obama, who sees climate change as our numbe...

  • January 3, 2016

    Stupid MSM tricks #1

    If a recently elected Republican office holder waiting to be inaugurated were the subject of an expose that made him look like a crook taking advantage of mentally-disabled people, do you think the Washington Post would neglect to mention his party? ...

  • January 3, 2016

    Stupid MSM tricks #2

    ABC News is now suggesting that Hillary Clinton was not a liar when she falsely claimed in the last Democrat presidential debate that ISIS was using videos of Donald Trump.  Hat tip: Progressives Today. Via MRCTV: ABC News: Hillary ‘P...

  • January 2, 2016

    Violence erupts at Newark anti-violence rally

    You might suspect some sort of post-modernist theatre of the absurd at work here, or maybe a hipster ironic commentary. But a look at the video below suggests that this is just found art:   ...

  • January 2, 2016

    Dem Alderman in Jackson, MS suggests 'throw rocks and bricks and bottles' at police

    Kenneth Stokes, Ward 3 City Councilman in Jackson, Mississippi is no novice or member of that city’s political fringe. He is the longest-serving African-American in the city government, having been on the City Council for 26 years, and was hono...

  • January 2, 2016

    Largest newspaper in Germany charges police covering up crimes by refugees

    Bild is the largest circulation newspaper in Germany, a tabloid known for pictures of topless females and sensationalism. Nonetheless, the charges it is making are explosive -- and plausible. The UK Daily Mail reports: German officials have orde...

  • January 1, 2016

    White House backs off from sanctions on Iran for missile program

    The Obama administration embarrassed itself yesterday, backing away from sanctions on Iran for its ballistic missile program (as Rick Moran predicted here yesterday). Behaving like an abused spouse, the White House repeatedly delayed implementing san...

  • January 1, 2016

    Chicago email release deepens Rahm Emanuel's crisis over teen shooting by police

    Thousands of Chicago city government emails relating to the shooting death of LaquanMcDonald were released yesterday in response to a Freedom of Information Act request from the Associated Press.  They reveal extensive coordination over the hand...

  • December 31, 2015

    MSNBC's peak leftism of 2015

    We may never see another year of progressive madness like that broadcast by MSNBC in 2015.  Tired of dismal ratings (and possibly under pressure from its corporate owners at Comcast), those at the network have been implementing a turn toward har...

  • December 31, 2015

    Rubio declares support for Convention of the States Project

    Speaking at a rally yesterday in Pella, Iowa, presidential contender Marco Rubio put himself in support of a Constitutional Convention of the States, a project being spearheaded by Mark Levin, designed to restore the constitutional vision of the foun...

  • December 31, 2015

    Man arrested in Christmas Day firebombing of Houston mosque 'attended the storefront mosque for five years'

    Evidently it was not “Islamlophobic Christian terrorists” (the left’s new phantom boogeymen) who firebombed a mosque on Christmas Day.  Carol Christian and Leah Binkovitz of the Houston Chronicle report: A Houston man has ...

  • December 31, 2015

    A tale of two Bills: Cosby and Clinton

    The story of Bill Cosby’s arraignment yesterday on charges of rape got headline treatment across the nation and signals very bad news for the candidacy of Hillary Clinton.  Legal experts say the case against Cosby is weak, unless the testi...

  • December 30, 2015

    Obamanomics explained in one chart

    You may be running into friends and relatives at holiday gatherings who claim that the 5% unemployment rate is one of Obama's success stories, and a good reason to stick with the Democrats.  Writing in Conservative HQ, George Rasley highligh...

  • December 30, 2015

    Famous Brazilian feminist has a baby and repudiates former beliefs, apologizing to Christians

    Having spent the first two decades of my adulthood in the environs of Cambridge, Mass. during the feminist explosion that began in the late 1960s, I knew plenty of young women who re-thought feminist dogmas after having babies and starting to raise c...

  • December 30, 2015

    Bombshell report from WSJ: NSA spied on Congress, Netanyahu, and Jewish organizations to push Iran deal

    For some reason, the editors of the Wall Street Journal chose to unveil a major investigative report on the NSA’s spying on Congress in the black hole for news that is the run-up to New Year’s Eve.  The piece by Adam Entous and Danny...

  • December 30, 2015

    Despite inspector general's criminal referral, DoJ will not prosecute VA executives who scammed relocation compensation

    Mel Brooks had it only half right.  It’s good to be king, but it is also pretty damn good to be a federal bureaucrat, because you can get away with scamming hundreds of thousands of dollars and not be prosecuted.  In fact, you can get...

  • December 29, 2015

    Hawaii may become first state to use DNA tests to allocate benefits

    Hawaii is now taking comments on a proposed rule change that would allow the state to use DNA tests in qualifying for benefits limited to native Hawaiians.  The state Department of Hawaiian Home Lands provides “homestead leases,” a 9...

  • December 29, 2015

    Rahm Emanuel is a big problem for the Democrats

    It's the constituency whose turnout makes or breaks the Democrats nationally versus a vengeful man who knows where all the skeletons are buried. The latest shooting of an unarmed black person by Chicago police is so threatening to Mayor Rahm E...

  • December 29, 2015

    Monday was 'Choom Gang' day on the golf course for Obama

    On the tenth day of his annual winter vacation in Hawaii, President Obama reunited with his old friends from the “Choom Gang” – the group of stoners with whom he would gather to smoke marijuana inside a VW bus, filling it with cloud...

  • December 29, 2015

    Washington Post still guarding the JFK cult after all these decades

    Newsbusters catches the Washington Post scrupulously doing its best to minimize its readers learning about the dark side of John F. Kennedy.  In the news biz, it’s called “burying the lede,” and the WaPo committed a spectacular...

  • December 29, 2015

    The 2015 Fabulous 50 Blog Award Winners

    Well, whaddya know?  This is really nice.  Doug Ross writes: The moment you've been waiting for is here.  The votes are in. The anxious nominees' fingernails have been chewed down to the quick.  And at least one...

  • December 28, 2015

    Planned Parenthood imitates The Onion

    Planned Parenthood has become completely unhinged, possibly as a result of achieving full federal funding in the budget just passed.  The organization tweeted an absolutely repulsive graphic bashing its “male feminist allies” for hyp...

  • December 28, 2015

    Family that housed 100 foreign refugees on farm attacked and threatened with murder by their 'guests'

    File this one in the “no good deed goes unpunished” directory.  News24 in South Africa reports: THE good Samaritans who took onto their farm over 100 refugees displaced by this year’s xenophobic violence, now claim they ha...

  • December 28, 2015

    Welcome to the era of 'micro apartments'

    In the Brave New America of downsized energy use and consumption, we had better get used to having less, if the left continues to get its way.  And in coastal blue cities – New York, Boston, and San Francisco – that means making way ...

  • December 27, 2015

    Democrat Jim Webb mulls independent run for president

    Former Senator Jim Webb withdrew from the race for the Democratic nomination for president, but may well rejoin the race in an independent. Ben Brody of Bloomberg reports: On Saturday morning, Webb used Twitter and his Facebook page to atta...

  • December 27, 2015

    The 'Great Pacific Garbage Patch' myth

    Many, perhaps most, Americans believe that a vast accumulation of (mostly plastic) garbage is floating somewhere out in the Pacific Ocean, a non-biodegradable stain on humanity, choking and deforming fish. But apparently, that is just a myth. Kip Han...

  • December 27, 2015

    Why does Amnesty International use such different language describing civilian casualties for Russian and Israeli airstrikes?

    There’s a simple answer to the question in the title of this blog, and it is very ugly. So I am very interested in what AI has to say for itself to avoid the conclusion of blatant anti-Semitism. Here is what I am talking about, from The Allg...

  • December 26, 2015

    Obama's 'paper tiger' doctrine

    Andrew Malcolm of Investor’s Business Daily points out the extremely dangerous behavior of the Obama administration toward China.  It concerns the Spratley Islands, where China has created 2,000 acres of new land, dumping dredged sand and ...

  • December 26, 2015

    Sanders campaign staffers intimating they were set up in data breach incident

    Bernie Sanders has assembled a campaign of true believers in the left, who take his rhetoric seriously.  But the candidate himself, when offered the opportunity to go for the jugular against the establishment’s chosen instrument, Hillary C...

  • December 26, 2015

    Hilarious: Poll exposes knee-jerk Dems on refugee settlement in US

    Perhaps the best thing about this poll from WPA Research is the way it turns an old Democrat trick back on them.  It’s “sauce for the goose, sauce for the gander” time.  Via Instapundit: Public Policy Polling, which i...

  • December 26, 2015

    Progressives desperately trying to hide 'Ferguson effect' rise in crime

    The rise in crime attributable to the anti-police #BlackLivesMatter movement sponsored by George Soros money could be the sleeper issue of the 2016 election.  Dubbed the “Ferguson effect” over the outrage ginned up by the death of a ...

  • December 26, 2015

    Goodbye, Sweden

    Pat Condell is the most outspoken and eloquent commentator in the English-speaking world.  (Hello, Dr. Krauthammer: maybe it’s time to take a vacation from the Beltway and realize what’s really going on and why the elites of the worl...

  • December 26, 2015

    Obama's legacy: Hawaii once again refuses to name something after only native son president

    If his post-presidency is a reflection of his actual achievements in office, Barack Obama will spend his life living down his shame.  But sadly, for the cause of justice, he is likely to enjoy great wealth and acclaim from a substantial segment ...

  • December 24, 2015

    Stunning New York Times headline reveals its bias

    The editorial staff of the New York Times, like that of the Washington Post, is so blind to its own biases that they produce material that is laughable, once the outrage dies down. Consider the headline that caught the attention of Students Supportin...

  • December 24, 2015

    Whites, Asians need not apply for faculty job at University of Louisville

    Usually affirmative action diversicrats are sneaky enough to disguise their efforts to discriminate against targeted racial groups – almost always whites (because they are the majority) and Asians (because they study and work hard and achieve)....

  • December 24, 2015

    Hillary losing ground in new CNN-ORC poll

    There is bad news for Hillary Clinton in a new poll released late yesterday by CNN.  There is evidence that confidence in her is eroding among Democrats.  The question below asked: Do you think Democrats have a better chance of winning...

  • December 24, 2015

    A couple of questions for Cruz-kids-as-monkeys cartoonist Ann Telnaes

    Hi Ann, I saw your tweet in which you proclaimed, “Ted Cruz has put his children in a political ad- don't start screaming when editorial cartoonists draw them as well,” and I have a couple of of questions because Hillary Clinton pu...

  • December 23, 2015

    Washington Post stoops to a new low going after Ted Cruz

    Imagine for a moment that the Washington Post had published a cartoon depicting Sasha and Malia Obama as monkeys, arguing that because the Obama daughters had campaigned for their father, they were fair game. I realize that such a scenario is unthink...

  • December 23, 2015

    NPR in 2011: Geraldine Ferraro was 'schlonged'

    Where was the outrage? When Donald Trump used the expression “schlonged” to indicate Hillary Clinton was badly defeated at the polls, he was roundly condemned by practically all media, and most television broadcasters went so far as to...

  • December 23, 2015

    Obama's denial of theological roots of Islamic terror endangers the nation

    Andrew McCarthy has published the read of the day. For those few who do not know his background, McCarthy prosecuted the Blind Sheik for the first World Trade Center bombing as an assistant US Attorney. In the course of this prosecution ansd since, h...

  • December 22, 2015

    Student loan subsidies blamed for nearly all college tuition increases

    A new study from the prestigious and scrupulously non-political National Bureau of Economic Research (which designates the beginning and end of recessions) blames student loan subsidies for nearly all of the tuition increases that have caused college...

  • December 22, 2015

    #BlackLivesMatter showdown at the Mall of America?

    #BlackLivesMatter leaders in the Twin Cities are vowing to go ahead with a planned and highly publicized demonstration at the Mall of America Wednesday despite plans by the mall’s owners to obtain a temporary restraining order forbidding it, an...

  • December 21, 2015

    Trump demands apology from Hillary over claim ISIS using tapes of him for recruiting

    As Rick Moran noted yesterday, Hillary Clinton’s Saturday night debate claim that videos of Donald Trump are being used by ISIS as a recruiting tool is false.  No such videos can be produced.  This morning, speaking by phone with Matt...

  • December 21, 2015

    Must-see ISIS recruiting video uses American politician (and it ain't Trump)

    Hillary Clinton has got a lot of 'splainin to do.  And just wait until Donald Trump takes a look at the ISIS recruiting video below that zooms in on a picture of her husband as it denounces “fornicators” among the American infide...

  • December 21, 2015

    Lindsey Graham suspends his presidential campaign

    Bowing to reality, and setting an example for Jeb Bush, Rand Paul, and James Gilmore, Lindsey Graham has just suspended his no-chance presidential campaign.  CNN reports:  Senator Lindsey Graham is ending his presidential campaign, he ...

  • December 20, 2015

    Go ahead #BlackLivesMatter: Make my day

    Surely this incident will attract protests from “BlacklivesMatter. A black man, 52 year old Andrew Coffee, Jr., was riding home from a convenience store in Indian River County, Florida, after purchasing cigarettes in the wee hours of the mornin...

  • December 17, 2015

    FOIA docs show Rahm's top aides knew of Laquan McDonald police shooting video long before election

    Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel likely would not have been re-elected had the public seen the shocking video of Laquan McDonald being shot 16 times by police officer Jason Van Dyke.  It took a court order to release it, long after the election. As...

  • December 17, 2015

    Cruz 1, Rubio 0 in debate over NSA telephone metadata collection

    Marco Rubio behaved as though he had a winning issue to shave support from Ted Cruz during the GOP debate Tuesday when he accused the Texas senator of weakening national security through supporting legislation preventing the NSA from collecting bulk ...

  • December 16, 2015

    University of Iowa president the latest target of PC warriors

    Academia has entered a Red Guard phase of extreme political correctness, where the use of a common figure of speech, a time-honored metaphor, is now grounds for demands that a career be ended.  The Iowa City Press-Citizen reports: The Unive...

  • December 16, 2015

    Lindsey Graham apologizes to Muslims for Trump's proposed ban on Muslim immigration

    Yeah, that’ll convince followers of Mohammed to forget about infidels living in “The House of War.”  If we only show them how polite we are, then they’ll think we are Osama bin Laden’s “strong horse.” ...

  • December 16, 2015

    Chris Matthews, quizzed about the Obama thrill up his leg: 'Go to hell'

    As Reverend Wright might put it, with the collapse of the Obama presidency, media chickens…are coming home to roost.  MSNBC’s Chris Matthews was awfully touchy when a reporter from the Media Research Center interviewed him before th...

  • December 16, 2015

    White privilege causes everything....including Michigan

    Remember when it was global warming that caused everything?  Now the deranged left has a new fixation, and it’s called “white privilege.”  Blake Neff of The Daily Caller News Foundation reports: A professor at Calvin ...

  • December 16, 2015

    Pat Caddell, Democrat truth-teller: government has lost the consent of the governed

    Pat Caddell is a lifelong Democrat well worth listening to.  For more than a year he has been bluntly telling the truth about Obama and the crisis of confidence that has been created by The One.  Pat was Jimmy Carter’s pollster and he...

  • December 16, 2015

    Debbie Wasserman Schultz: Let's bring Muslims to State of the Union

    Debbie Wasserman Schultz, chair of the Democratic National Committee and Florida congresswoman, has joined with Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.), the first  Muslim elected to Congress, calling on colleagues to take a Muslim to the State of the Union...

  • December 15, 2015

    No-go zones in America?

    Muslim immigration to Europe has produced so-called “no-go zones” for police and fire departments in cities with large Muslim populations, including suburban areas of Paris and large sections of Malmo, Sweden.  Hostility is such that...

  • December 15, 2015

    Fire Jeh Johnson!

    Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson has proven himself incapable of handling the grave responsibilities of his office, and he should either resign in disgrace or be fired.  Of course, that will never happen, for Johnson is black and comes...

  • December 15, 2015

    When a 52-year-old man decides he is a 6-year-old girl

    The denial of reality has become a civil right, at least in the eyes of the left and the parts of our governmental apparatus in its control.  See, for example, this handy-dandy do-it-yourself guide to getting your gender changed on a California ...

  • December 15, 2015

    Federal prison for 'ringmaster' in giant Chicago fraud case involving politically connected black figures in Obama's circle

    How bad is political corruption in Chicago?  A sentence handed down yesterday in a case involving theft of grant money gives some indication.  The people involved had serious political “clout” (a great Chicago political word) in...

  • December 14, 2015

    Kerry: Americans won't vote for a president not willing to act on climate

    Secretary of State John Kerry is out selling the Paris COP21 climate agreement on the Sunday morning talk shows.  If the agreement were a pharmaceutical, his misrepresentations would get it pulled off the market.  Elizabeth Wasserman of Blo...

  • December 14, 2015

    Ethics complaint seeks to uncover facts in Hillary influence-peddling scandal

    When the Associated Press released its story six days ago about the email evidence that Hillary Clinton granted special access to a request from her son-in-law (who works for a hedge fund) to have the State Department help out a politically connected...

  • December 14, 2015

    United Arab Emirates declares December 24 holiday: 'Mohammed's birthday'

    I checked, and this does not appear to be an Onion-like spoof.  Emirates 24/7 appears to be a legitimate news site based in Dubai, with stories like “New hospitals in Dubai: Meraas Healthcare launched” and “New UAE rules on imp...

  • December 13, 2015

    Lindsey Graham denounces GOP base voters for 'visceral...almost irrational' dislike of Obama

    Madness has gripped a segment of the Republican Party that embraces a war on its own voters as unworthy.  Instead of blaming himself for a presidential campaign mired at the one percent level of support, failing to make a ripple even in his home...

  • December 13, 2015

    Possibly the stupidest <strike>global warming</strike> climate change alarmist scare ever

    Yahoo News has published a global warming scare article that will impress the scientifically illiterate. Originally posted at takepart.com, a “social justice” website that is a subsidiary of a movie production company that seeks to make ...

  • December 13, 2015

    Your Sunday video treat

    Dinesh D’Souza gave a lecture at Amherst College and took questions from the audience. One earnest young man, a social justice warrior, asked him a question and got a Socratic education. Watch and savor. And if you happen to know any misguid...

  • December 12, 2015

    Creeping euthanasia

    For over a century, progressive social engineers dreamed of ridding society of those deemed useless or inferior. The eugenics movement, whose most effective proponent was Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, wanted to prevent births of...

  • December 12, 2015

    New York Times discovers it is still influential - but now people believe the <em>opposite</em> of what it tells them

    In decades past, many people, especially those who worked there, believed that the New York Times had the power to sway public opinion with its editorials. Superior intellects, well-informed, writing their opinions on the important matters of the day...

  • December 12, 2015

    The Obama delusion: talk = action

    This week saw two stunning examples of the illusion that holds President Obama and some of his closest advisors hostage.  The idea that talking about a topic is the same thing as doing something about it is a common belief among academics and jo...

  • December 11, 2015

    Disgraceful White House Hanukkah celebration

    Leave it to Barack Obama to turn what should be a celebration of the Jewish people’s survival in the face of adversity into a politicized rant celebrating the cause of the Palestinians, who want to “drive them into the sea,” as has ...

  • December 11, 2015

    ACLU board member calls for Trump supporters to be shot 'before election day'

    The American Civil Liberties Union has descended to the level of self-parody.  Of course, the civil liberty guaranteed by the Second Amendment has never existed in its view, but in the past it occasionally defended free speech for people with wh...

  • December 10, 2015

    Kerry admits futility of US CO2 cuts in Paris speech

    In a classic gaffe (accidentally telling the truth), Secretary of State John Kerry admitted in a speech to the COP21 global warming festival in Paris that U.S. CO2 emissions cuts – even to zero – would not solve the imaginary global warmi...

  • December 10, 2015

    Trump's lesson for the GOP

    Finally, some Trump opponents are starting to get a clue. Ace of Spades HQ has an excellent analysis of Trump’s rise in support, and why it will continue unless others in the GOP take a clue from him.  Ace is no supporter of Trump, but ...

  • December 10, 2015

    Media starting to panic over SCOTUS review of affirmative action

    Yesterday the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in its review of Fisher v University of Texas, Austin, a case challenging affirmative action at that university.  The problem that supporters of affirmative action face is that over the past few y...

  • December 9, 2015

    White House spokesman mocks Trump's appearance

    I am confused, for I remember vividly how Donald Trump has been upbraided for criticizing the appearance of others, such as Carly Fiorina.  Yet yesterday, Josh Earnest used the taxpayer-funded podium of the White House press briefing room to moc...

  • December 9, 2015

    Hillary now denies blaming video to Benghazi victims' families

    The media obsessed with Donald Trump’s memory of “thousands” of Muslims celebrating 9/11 are giving a total pass to Hillary Clinton over her shameless lie Sunday.  Appearing on This Week with George Stephanopoulos, she averred ...

  • December 8, 2015

    Trump changes the political conversation

    Nearly all Republicans, from Dick Cheney to John Kasich, are pulling their hair (if any) out over Donald Trump’s proposal to prevent Muslims from entering the United States.  Just when President Obama’s Oval Office address was being ...

  • December 7, 2015

    In Oval Office speech, Obama offers the same policies that have allowed ISIS to grow

    President Obama served up nothingburgers to the nation in a Sunday evening address from the Oval Office.  (Full text here).  The only people who would be reassured by what he had to say are those who share the president’s evident beli...

  • December 6, 2015

    Obama to address Americans from the Oval Office tonight

    For only the third time in his presidency, Barack Obama will commandeer the airwaves for an address to the American people directly from the Oval Office. I have to assume that Valerie Jarrett has become alarmed at the public reaction the his feckless...

  • December 5, 2015

    New York Times throws front-page temper tantrum on gun control

    In a remarkable display of mush-headed illogic, the New York Times has run a front-page editorial for the first time in 95 years advocating gun control measures it admits would be ineffectual.  In the 447 words prompted by the San Bernardino sla...

  • December 3, 2015

    American left demands strict gun control laws (like France!) in the wake of San Bernardino shootings

    Democrats, frightened of pointing to explicit incitement to violence against infidels in the Koran and Hadith, are instead blaming the availability of guns for the violence in San Bernardino. President Obama demanded “commonsense gun contro...

  • December 2, 2015

    Tax-funded nonprofits seek to crush 'pockets of resistance' to admitting Muslim refugees

    If you object to increasing the number of Muslims coming to the US as “refugees,” you are part of a “pocket of resistance” that is being targeted by big money nonprofits that together are in line to receive a billion dollars f...

  • December 1, 2015

    Threat that shut down University of Chicago was to kill white students or staff

    The media are desperately burying the nature and genesis of the threat that resulted in the closing of a major American university yesterday.  When the University of Chicago went on lockdown yesterday, there was no media attention paid to the fa...

  • December 1, 2015

    A second prominent WaPo liberal columnist bails on Obama

    The reckoning is coming; let the ass-covering begin.  All the supportive media for Obama over the years will not obscure to history the abject failure of his presidency, and as it closes in on his final year in office, formerly supportive column...

  • November 30, 2015

    Abortion industry already dancing on the graves of Colorado Springs shooting victims

    Ghoulish exploitation of the deaths and injuries inflicted in Colorado Springs last Friday was always in the cards.  What else would you expect from a movement that specializes in death?  Even so, the speed and facility with which Robert Le...

  • November 30, 2015

    EU sending $3.2 billion to Turkey to send fewer Muslims its way

    In hopes of slowing, but not stopping, the flow of Muslims its way, the European Union, under heavy pressure from Germany, is promising to send 3 billion euros to Turkey.  James Kanter and Andrew Higgins of the New York Times report: Chance...

  • November 30, 2015

    Massive number of new federal rules released under cover of the holiday

    While the rest of us were preoccupied with the looming Thanksgiving holiday, President Obama’s minions snuck out a massive number of new rules.  Andrew Malcolm of Investors Business Daily is one of the first to take note of the stealthy re...

  • November 30, 2015

    No 'safe space' for pro-life student receiving threats

    While aggrieved left-wing, black, transgendered, and other favored victim groups are catered to by college administrators over imaginary microaggressions, if you are a pro-life student receiving threats, you are out of luck.  You will instead be...

  • November 29, 2015

    Paris Climate Conference really should be held at Versailles

    There is a distinct “Let them eat cake” aspect to the COP 21 climate conference to which President Obama jets off today. In the name of reducing carbon emissions, Air Force One and various support aircraft have made and will make multiple...

  • November 29, 2015

    What's your favorite Hillary Clinton lie?

    A column entitled “Hillary Clinton’s Million Little Lies” is getting a lot of attention today, almost certainly because it captures a vital aspect for the former first lady, senator, and secretary of state. Michael Walsh begins with...

  • November 28, 2015

    FBI to start tracking animal cruelty stats next year

    The FBI’s reporting of crime statistics will be altered next year to include animal cruelty as separate category.  Up to now, the National Incident Based Reporting System has not broken out such crimes, making it difficult to track trends....

  • November 28, 2015

    Abortion industry trade group blames videos for Colorado Springs shooting before any facts are known

    The abortion industry isn’t waiting for any facts in its rush to blame the shooting in Colorado Springs on the videos released showing Planned Parenthood officials chortling over how much money they can make selling baby parts.  In a state...

  • November 28, 2015

    Progressive heads exploding over gay marriage ban on tribal lands

    What’s a prog to do when confronted with the failure of a favorite victim group to get with the program on catering to another favorite victim group?  Felicia Fonseca of the Associated Press reports on the politically incorrect response of...

  • November 28, 2015

    The question we should be asking on Syrian refugees

    Andrew McCarthy’s column on Syrian refugees and the broader topic of asylum is the read of the day.  With his characteristic knowledge and incisiveness, the former prosecutor of the Blind Sheikh for the first World Trade Center bombing get...

  • November 27, 2015

    Swiss canton imposes fine of up to $9,800 for wearing burqas

    The parliament of the Swiss canton of Ticino, the southernmost Italian-speaking region of Swiss Federation, has passed a law banning the wearing of the burqa, covering the face and entire body.  The Local reports (hat tip: Daily Caller): Ci...

  • November 25, 2015

    Paris Muslims claim terror attacks were work of 'magical shape-shifting Jews'

    From MSNBC, of all places, comes the news that Muslims in the housing project  suburbs of Paris have taken to claiming that it was not Muslim terrorists who murdered innocents at a rock concert and several cafés.  No, it was those de...

  • November 25, 2015

    Chicago paid $5 million to shooting victim's family, keeping them quiet and video secret while Rahm re-elected

    As Chicago is convulsed over video of Officer James McDonald emptying his gun into 17-year-old Laquan McDonald with 16 shots, Mayor Rahm Emanuel is so far escaping scrutiny over the city’s successful effort to suppress the shooting as an issue ...

  • November 21, 2015

    As Obamacare collapses, HHS claims taxpayers have 'obligation' to bail out crony health insurers

    One critical element in selling the Obamacare legislation to the Democrats, who passed it into law without a single Republican vote, was the lobbying of the health insurance industry.  The insurers were made into cronies by the inclusion of the ...

  • November 21, 2015

    Obama trashes America in speech in Malaysia

    I am disgusted that President Obama disparaged the United States in a speech he delivered overseas, in Malaysia, of all places.  In doing so, he not only revealed his conspicuous lack of patriotism, but displayed an amazing lack of awareness abo...

  • November 20, 2015

    Security video captures armed Chicago man driving off burglar

    Two years ago, Illinois passed a law allowing concealed carry of firearms. One such self defense-capable Chicagoan is David Ocon, a longtime resident of the Logan Square neighborhood on the city’s northwest side. So when his son spotted a burgl...

  • November 20, 2015

    Paris suicide vest girl would have passed refugee vetting a couple of months ago

    Hasna Ait Boulahcen, the suicide bomber girl who tried to lure police close enough to die with her when she blew up her suicide vest, was exactly the kind of “modern” Muslim who would have passed any kind of vetting. The 26 year old young...

  • November 19, 2015

    Hypocrite Obama ordered a 6-month pause in processing Muslim 'refugees' in 2011

    Barack Obama is feigning outrage over the desire of governors and GOP presidential contenders to pause the inflow of Syrian refugees.  In tweet from Manila, where he also verbally lambasted his political opponents, he wrote: Slamming the do...

  • November 18, 2015

    John Kerry has lost 'legitimacy' as Secretary of State

    An American Secretary of State addressing American Embassy employees spoke of the “legitimacy” of the murderous attack on Charlie Hebdo, before realizing how outrageous that was and correcting himself to speak of a “rationale....

  • November 18, 2015

    Oops! Smarter lefties realize they have a losing hand on Syrian 'refugees'

    Kevin Drum of Mother Jones is an old hand on the left and has seen enough politics that he realizes what a big loser of an issue the Syrian “refugee” inflow is for the Democrats and the left. He cautions his fellow progs: Over the pa...

  • November 17, 2015

    Huma email revealed: Hillary 'often confused'

    An email released yesterday by Judicial Watch reveals that Huma Abedin, Hillary Clinton’s closest aide at the State Department, warned that Hillary was “often confused.”  Dated January 26, 2013, the email came two months after ...

  • November 16, 2015

    Democrats going to the mat over taking in tens of thousands of Syrian refugees

    Is it time to put the Democrats – the three presidential candidates plus the Obama administration – on suicide watch? For some reason, all of them agree that the United States must take in tens of thousands of so-called refugees from Syri...

  • November 15, 2015

    CBS pulled the plug on Dem Debate 7 minutes early

    Was it a mercy killing? Television networks have been known to cancel a new series after broadcasting the pilot, but I have never heard of euthanizing one before the program is over. Yet, CBS, which scheduled the Democrat Presidential Debate to last ...

  • November 13, 2015

    Politico: Big-money leftists considering major funding for #BlackLivesMatter

    Oddly enough, the MSM denouncers of “big money” in politics are never concerned with the cabal of left-wing billionaires who manipulate public opinion from behind the scenes by funding the Astroturf-ish movements like #OccupyWallStreet in...

  • November 12, 2015

    Center for American Progress kerfuffle accidentally reveals Palestinians were advising demonstrators in Ferguson

    Oops!  As a byproduct of an internal dispute at the far-left think-tank the Center for American Progress (CAP), it has been revealed that Palestinian advisers were brought into the Ferguson, Missouri demonstrations to advise the rioters.  E...

  • November 12, 2015

    Dispute over serving wine leads to cancelation of dinner between French President Hollande and Iranian President Rouhani

    There are some things the French refuse to surrender on.  One of them is the nearly sacred role of wine in fine dining.  Kellan Howell of the Washington Times reports: French officials have reportedly canceled plans for a formal dinner...

  • November 12, 2015

    Poles burn EU flags as thousands rally for independence

    Depending on whom you believe, 25,000 or 50,000 Poles rallied in Warsaw on the anniversary of Polish independence, denouncing the EU.  AFP, via the U.K. Telegraph, reports: Tens of thousands of protesters poured into Warsaw's streets on...

  • November 11, 2015

    Report: Calif. campus stabber had ISIS flag image

    Law enforcement authorities immediately acted as jihad deniers when a student named Faisal Mohammed stabbed five people at the University of California, Merced last week before being shot dead by police.  The narrative they offered was: It ...

  • November 11, 2015

    Meaningless 'resignation' as 'I need some muscle' prof tries damage control

    The top management of the University of Missouri may have resigned over vague “failure” to “do enough” to combat racism, but the professor who sought “muscle” to trample the First Amendment will continue to collect...

  • November 11, 2015

    Was the Mizzou poop swastika a fake?

    Sean Davis at The Federalist asks a worthwhile question, given the hundreds of documented fake hate crimes, usually perpetrated for the purpose of launching political reactions.  The reason why the purported swastika drawn with feces at Mizzou i...

  • November 11, 2015

    Mizzou hunger striker protesting 'white privilege' has a father making $6 million last year

    No, this is not from The Onion.  And yes, it is rich.  With a hat tip to Jim Hoft of Gateway Pundit, check out this from Erin Grace of Omaha.com, the website of the Omaha World-Herald:  Listening to the radio before school Monday,...

  • November 10, 2015

    Signs emerge FBI investigation of Hillary emails has moved to a new, more serious stage

    Momentum is a concept that applies to criminal investigations almost as much as it does to sports teams.  And from the signs available, it looks as if the probe into potential criminality in the Hillary email scandal has got the Big Mo. Despi...

  • November 10, 2015

    Mizzou and the Hillary campaign

    The ongoing Black Lives Matter campaign to make African-Americans so angry that they turn out in large numbers for Hillary Clinton reached a new level yesterday at the University of Missouri.  The alleged sins that caused the resignations of the...

  • November 10, 2015

    Iowahawk devastates Piers Morgan

    Perhaps the most epic fail of snark ever.  Certainly a gratifying smackdown of a Brit twit.  Piers Morgan should know better than to write the tweet seen below.  And Iowahawk gave him everything he deserved.  With a hat tip to iOT...

  • November 9, 2015

    Convicted terrorist found among migrant 'refugees'

    This is a totally predictable story to everyone but Angela Merkel and her supporters in Europe (which group includes most of the EU governments and media).  The U.K. Independent reports (hat tip: Michael Walsh): Fears that Islamic terror gr...

  • November 4, 2015

    Dems in shock over near landslide loss of Kentucky governorship to Tea Party Republican

    Democrats outspent and outpolled Republican novice Matt Bevin and expected their candidate, Attorney General Jack Conway, to keep the Kentucky governorship in Democrat hands, where it had been for all but one term of the last half-century.  Inst...

  • November 4, 2015

    Loretta Sanchez: Trump hosting SNL is 'endangering Latinos'

    Anti-Trump hysteria at its worst.  Daniel Nussbaum of Breitbart reports: In an interview with CNN on Monday, Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-CA) said Saturday Night Live is “endangering Latinos” by allowing Republican pre...

  • November 3, 2015

    Researcher targeted by hate campaign, death threats for finding near zero risk in North America from Fukushima

    The doomsday cult known as environmentalism may have already surpassed the Judeo-Christian tradition as the most powerful religion in the advanced countries of the West.  Almost certainly, its followers are the most politically powerful – ...

  • November 3, 2015

    For Obama, ignorance is bliss when it comes to criminal records

    Past behavior is the best predictor of future behavior, but for Barack Obama, that doesn’t matter in the initial screening of federal employees.  Ari Melber reports for MSNBC: President Obama on Monday announced a new order to reduce ...

  • November 2, 2015

    Forecast: 20 million more Muslims in Germany by 2020

    Serious political conflict is breaking out in Germany over Chancellor Merkel’s open-door policy for Muslim migrants. Soren Kern of the Gatestone Institute reports: Germany's Muslim population is set to nearly quadruple to an astonishin...

  • November 2, 2015

    Oh-oh! NASA study finds Antarctic ice cap growing

    Florida is supposed to be underwater soon, thanks to CO2.  That’s one of the scary things that warmists firmly predict as “settled science,” in order to get billions of dollars a year in government research support and all...

  • November 1, 2015

    Chicago-style gerrymandering

    Chicago-style pizza can be delicious, but Chicago-style politics – completely the product of the Democratic Party -- are unappetizing. Now that our government is led by an alumnus of the Chicago political machine, it is worth paying attention t...

  • November 1, 2015

    Rare as hen's teeth: Concealed carry permit holder thwarts an armed robbery in Chicago, kills assailant

    The normal weekend carnage in the president’s hometown of Chicago sports a most unusual incident. Despite all its stringent gun laws, a fully-permitted concealed carry armed citizen managed to prevent an armed robbery at a deli/check cashing st...

  • October 31, 2015

    GOP voters turn against McConnell

    Gallup polling reveals that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConell has lost the support he once enjoyed from GOP voters: Republicans are more likely to have an unfavorable opinion (35%) of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell than a favorable o...

  • October 31, 2015

    Latest emails put the lie to Hillary's excuse for ignoring pleas for Benghazi security

    One of the more nauseating aspects (and there is a lot of competition) of the scandalous behavior of Hillary Clinton in the wake of the Benghazi attack was the manner in which she affected a close relationship with “Chris” Stevens, the am...

  • October 31, 2015

    Black man arrested for setting fires at 6 St. Louis-area black churches

    A left-wing hate group, The Southern Poverty Law Center, was already blaming right-wingers, only to be disappointed and precluded from further fundraising off the misery.  Chuck Ross reports at the Daily Caller: An African-American man in h...

  • October 30, 2015

    NY State audit finds Obamacare exchange enrolled hundreds of dead people, paid out benefits

    Never let it be said that Democrats don’t take care of their constituents.  Dead voters frequently supply the margin of victory to Democrats in key elections, so it makes sense that the signature achievement of the Democratic Party in the ...

  • October 30, 2015

    Did Obama call FBI Director Comey on the carpet yesterday?

    FBI Director James Comey holds the future of Hillary Clinton’s campaign in his hands, as the FBI investigates her handling of classified information.  Director Comey last Friday also made some comments in a speech that seemed to contradict...

  • October 29, 2015

    Ed Meese: Condemn RNC officials who set up disgraceful CNBC debate

    Conservatives are sick and tired of the Republican Party apparatchiks who meekly surrender to liberals in the mainstream media like whipped puppies. It didn’t take a genius to see signs of trouble building for last night’s presidential de...

  • October 29, 2015

    Oooh scary! Fed bureaucrats warn pumpkins cause global warming

    The Onion is getting serious competition from the bureaucrats at the Department of Energy, who obviously have too much time on their hands.  Jennifer Pompi of the Washington Times reports: How scary are your jack-o’-lanterns? Scarier ...

  • October 29, 2015

    Chris Matthews calls GOP candidates 'revolting' for protesting CNBC moderator bias

    The insurgency conducted last night by the GOP field in standing up to biased, sneering questions from CNBC’s panel has stung the NBC Universal (and parent Comcast) empire deeply enough that it is striking back. Ken Shepherd at Newsbusters repo...

  • October 29, 2015

    Stunning: Kasich 'very appreciative' of CNBC moderators

    Unlike almost all conservative commentators and a fair number of liberal ones, Ohio Governor John Kasich was quite satisfied wit the job done last night by the CNBC debate moderators. Brittany M. Hughes of the Media Research Center: The presiden...

  • October 28, 2015

    GOP debate lead moderator's history of bias

    Last week, I wondered if I might be paranoid about tonight’s GOP presidential debate on CNBC being a setup.  The preliminary signs were ominous.  Today, the fear deepens, and it doesn't look like paranoia.  The Media Rese...

  • October 28, 2015

    Frontiers of political correctness: banning the word 'too'

    Move over, Melissa Harris-Perry – it is getting crowded on the lunatic PC bench.  Joining “hard worker” (racist!) on the PC banned word list is “too” (sexist!).  That’s right: an adjective and adverb posi...

  • October 28, 2015

    Pew reveals extent of media brainwashing on guns

    Thanks to the pervasive media obsession with reporting homicides and blaming gun ownership, the public believes, contrary to fact, that homicides and gun deaths are increasing.  As a matter of fact, the number of privately owned guns has soared ...

  • October 28, 2015

    Austrians rushing to buy guns in the face of Muslim invasion

    There’s a lot of political correctness crashing to Earth in Europe these days, thanks to the prospect of millions of Muslims moving into and taking advantage of the welfare states, imposing no-go areas governed by sharia, and demanding changes ...

  • October 27, 2015

    Michael Savage's <em>Government Zero</em>

    Talk show host Michael Savage’s latest book Government Zero: No Border, No Language, No Culture, published today, will delight his legions of fans.  It is primarily a survey of much that is wrong with what America has become under Presiden...

  • October 27, 2015

    Frontiers in political correctness: 'Hard worker' now insensitive to slaves, working mothers

    Using the expression “hard worker” to describe a white person is now an offense against slaves and working mothers who don’t have health care coverage.  And it is somehow the Republicans’ fault, too.  This latest enc...

  • October 27, 2015

    Rubio's missed votes will be no issue for Hillary (or Obama) to exploit

    Marco Rubio is taking a lot of flak over his terrible attendance record for Senate votes – from Donald Trump and Jeb Bush on the campaign trail and a large number of conservative commentators as well, including Claire Hawks today on these pages...

  • October 27, 2015

    Clinton Foundation time bomb may explode on November 16

    The read of the day today is a long article by Ken Silverstein at Byline.com explaining the hole the Clinton Foundation is in over amending its IRS filings.  You see, the slush fund has a lot of 'splainin to do, and: Last April, Clinton...

  • October 27, 2015

    Mika Brzezinski calls Hillary 'pathetic' for playing gender card on Bernie Sanders

    My jaw actually dropped this morning as I watched the first hour of Morning Joe today, boning up on the progressive spin of the day.  There was Mika Brzezinski, crusader for “women’s issues,” denouncing Hillary Clinton for play...

  • October 27, 2015

    DC mayor demands employees stand up when she enters the room

    Being mayor of Washington, D.C. makes you a very, very important person.  After all, you are following in the footsteps of giants like Marion Barry.  So it is completely understandable that the current mayor, Muriel Bowser, would demand tha...

  • October 26, 2015

    Random acts of Israel bashing in the LA Times

    A really ugly specimen of journalism took place several days ago in the Los Angeles Times. In the text of an op-ed by esteemed Harvard historian Niall Ferguson appears a pull quote bashing Israel, unrelated to the op-ed itself. Having lost the ...

  • October 26, 2015

    Jeb Bush's tell: 'I've got a lot of really cool things I could do'

    Jeb Bush is giving the impression of a depressed and defeated man, ready to throw in the towel and admit defeat in his presidential race. At a presidential town hall in South Carolina sponsored by Senator Tim Scott and attended by Rep. Trey Gowdy, th...

  • October 26, 2015

    The Chicago Machine's '99 million dollar man'

    Chicago taxpayers are about to cough up a $543 million tax increase to fund police and fire pensions (with much, much more to come), but that doesn’t mean it’s impossible to do very, very well “serving” the public. Consider La...

  • October 26, 2015

    PBS anchor's take on Hillary's conflicting Benghazi explanations: 'Why does it Matter?'

    See also: Bob Woodward: It better bother us that Hillary told conflicting stories on Benghazi   Our tax dollars are at work on PBS, offering support for Hillary Clinton’s conflicting explanations of Benghazi: It was terror, dealing wit...

  • October 26, 2015

    Bob Woodward: It better bother us that Hillary told conflicting stories on Benghazi

    Bob Woodward disagrees with Judy Woodruff of taxpayer funded PBS and most of the Democratic Party, and thinks that it matters when a secretary of state and prospective commander in chief says different things publicly and privately over a major terro...

  • October 26, 2015

    Multibillion-dollar scandal in Malaysia has echoes for American conservatives

    As scandals go, the current imbroglio in Malaysia ring a lot of bells for American conservatives accustomed to home-grown crony capitalism: a gigantic Stimulus-like program intended to spur lagging growth, billions of missing dollars, allegations of ...

  • October 25, 2015

    Canada's new liberal prime minister: the disaster has already begun

    Canadians have spoken – well, 39.5% of them – and installed a new liberal government headed by Justin Trudeau in office, and the disasters have already begun.  Fasten your seat belts, Canucks, it’s going to be a bumpy ride. Ezr...

  • October 23, 2015

    Both sides can claim triumph on Hillary's Benghazi testimony

    In the short run, as the media will try to persuade the American people, Hillary “won” the confrontation with the Gowdy committee yesterday. But enough damaging information came out in the hearings to spell trouble for her later in the el...

  • October 23, 2015

    Brace yourselves: CNBC GOP debate coming next week

    Maybe I am just paranoid, but I see signs of danger ahead for the next GOP presidential debate, to be telecast on CNBC. Maybe the actual debate itself, with luminaries such as Lawrence Kudlow, will be fine. But what are we to make of this graphic, pr...

  • October 23, 2015

    Property taxes and predatory government in Cook Country

    Can someone explain to me the difference between the property tax system in Cook Country and a shakedown?  Illinoispolicy.org explains: Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Sept. 22 announced plans to enact the largest property-tax hike in modern ...

  • October 23, 2015

    Benghazi Committee cost: most hypocritical Dem complaint

    It’s hard to imagine how Democrats complaining about the cost of the House Special Committee on Benghazi manage to keep a straight face. After all, the total cost to date is under 5 million dollars, not even close to the actual cost of a weeken...

  • October 22, 2015

    Muslim migrants in Europe torch own tents to protest <em>one day</em> delay in processing

    Tiny Slovenia, with barely 2 million people, is being overrun by Muslims claiming to be refugees and expecting the infidels to provide them services promptly. When Hungary closed its border, Slovenia became the new route to Austria and Germany, but t...

  • October 22, 2015

    Through the looking glass with Joe Biden

    The natural temptation with Joe Biden is to treat him as a slow-witted buffoon, the kind of guy who refers to J-O-B-S as a three-letter word.  But the clownish verbal façade conceals a crafty and ambitious politician. And yesterday’...

  • October 21, 2015

    Humbling a giant government bureaucracy

    The Obamacare exchanges that cost hundreds of millions of dollars and didn’t work are recent examples of an apparently universal principle: government bureaucracies are ridiculously slow, costly, and inept.  MacRumors reports on a similar ...

  • October 21, 2015

    'Clock Boy' Ahmed Mohammed moving to Qatar

    It is really easy to sucker the knee-jerk left – a group so broad that it includes President Obama, Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook, Sergey Brin of Google, and Bill Nye the purported “Science Guy.”  Ahmed Mohamed (or maybe his dad)...

  • October 20, 2015

    UN agency voting today on making Western Wall a <em>Muslim</em> holy site

    UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, is to vote today on a resolution assigning the holiest site in Judaism status as a Muslim holy site.  If the resolution passes, the imprimatur of the United Nations wi...

  • October 20, 2015

    19 months before 9/11, Trump warned of terror attack on major city

    Donald Trump has taken a lot of heat for his comments about George W. Bush and 9/11, but it turns out that he wrote extensively about the inevitability of a major terror attack almost two years before the event, and even mentioned Osama bin Laden. ...

  • October 20, 2015

    SF school principal suspends student council election outcome because results not 'diverse' enough

    The children attending Everett Middle School in San Francisco’s Mission District just got an object lesson in liberal fascism.  Eugene Volokh, writing in the Washington Post, cites a report by KTVU television: There’s a bit of c...

  • October 20, 2015

    Three refugee centers in Sweden burned, bringing total to 14 suspected arson attacks this year

    Sweden virtually forbids dissent on the matter of mass immigration of Muslims, castigating as racist any who complain over the skyrocketing rape rate or the trend line showing that in 15 years, Swedes will be a minority in their own country. ...

  • October 19, 2015

    Bernie Sanders finally admits <em>everyone's</em> taxes must rise to pay for his spending

    Bernie Sanders has been peddling the fantasy that by soaking Wall Street and other mega-rich people with high taxes, a bonanza of freebies – free college, free health care, etc. – can be available for all. Pure covetous class envy worthy ...

  • October 19, 2015

    Europe's first national election since mass Muslim invasion drives power to conservatives

    Switzerland just elected a new parliament, and a conservative, anti-immigration party, the Swiss People’s Party (SVP) won a record vote, enabling it to form a government with a conservative majority. The political fallout in Europe is just begi...

  • October 18, 2015

    Report: UN agency employees inciting violence against Jews in Israel

    UNRWA, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, has long been a radical, anti-Israel organization. Since its sole reason for being is providing for Palestinian “refugees” – the only “...

  • October 18, 2015

    The blogger who brought down Chicago Public Schools chief

    The national media barely gave any attention to the criminal bribery of the head of the Chicago Public Schools admitted to with a guilty plea last week.  (AT was on the case when she was indicted, though.) After all, public schools are supposed ...

  • October 18, 2015

    'Smoking gun' emails just released by UK Daily Mail prove Hillary a bigger liar than Tony Blair

    The UK Daily Mail is making big headlines (at the top of the Drudge Report page as I write) with its exclusive story purporting to prove that former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair was committed to war with Iraq at a time he was telling the British publ...

  • October 18, 2015

    Chicago homicides up 20% this year; gangs target children as young as first and second grade

    President Obama’s own US Attorney in Chicago has created a report that demonstrates how terrible the gang murder situation in president’s hometown on his watch.  Tanja Babitch of WLS Television in Chicago reports: U.S. Attorney ...

  • October 18, 2015

    Video reveals America is either greatest country in the history of the world, or the low point of human civilization

    I have been struggling for several days now, trying to wrap my mind around the video embedded below. It was recorded on a cruise ship, the Carnival Breeze, as a fight broke out among passengers waiting for cheeseburgers at Guy’s Burger Joint, a...

  • October 17, 2015

    MSNBC uses 'the map that lies' about Israel

    Omri Ceren asks , “@MSNBC have you actually lost your minds?” over the left wing network’s posting of a series of maps originally distributed by years ago by pro-Palestinian groups. The maps alleged depict the loss of land by Palest...

  • October 17, 2015

    Hillary deploys her ultimate weapon -- her cackle -- to deflect serous question on emails

    Jake Tapper did not get a chance to question Democrats in their first presidential debate, for some reason, even though he was chosen by CNN for the GOP debate the network broadcast. Perhaps as a consolation prize, he was able to get a one-on-one sit...

  • October 17, 2015

    In case you still had any doubt about Obama...

      If a picture is worth a thousand words, then this juxtaposition is worth 10,000. From Bar Porati via Clarice Feldman:  ...

  • October 16, 2015

    France's leading TV weather forecaster suspended for questioning global warming orthodoxy

    Philippe Verdier is a household name in France, known for his nightly weather forecasts on government television broadcaster France 2.  That gig ended abruptly on Monday, when he released a promotional video for his new book.  The U.K. Tele...

  • October 16, 2015

    Hillary's email legal peril: 'Gross negligence' under terms of 'Espionage Act'

    According to leaks from the FBI investigation of Hillary Clinton’s homebrew email server, she could be in deep legal peril, on charges that sound absolutely terrible for someone seeking the office of commander in chief.  The reliable, smar...

  • October 16, 2015

    Germany's 'wilkommen' to Muslims will include publishing <em>Mein Kampf</em>

    Just as hundreds of thousands of Muslims are arriving in Germany at the invitation of Chancellor Merkel, the publication of Mein Kampf will resume after decades of suppression.  And it will be Merkel’s government that is paying for the pub...

  • October 16, 2015

    Leading Reagan historians take on Bill O'Reilly's <em>Killing Reagan</em>

    Bill O’Reilly and his “co-author” Martin Dugard have the ability to sell millions of books, so it matters a lot what they have to say in their latest collaboration, Killing Reagan.  I have not read the book, but some leading Re...

  • October 15, 2015

    Muslim 'refugees' <em>sue</em> Germany for not paying benefits fast enough

    See also: Germany changing in the wake of Muslim invaders Pay up, dhimmis!  NOW!  That’s the attitude evident (via the U.K. Daily Express): Around 20 Syrian migrants have filed a case against the Berlin state Government demand...

  • October 15, 2015

    NYT staffer tweets: 'F*ck you, Jeb Bush'

    Philip B. Richardson, whose Twitter profile identifies himself as a New York Times employee, posted a tweet at 8:12 PM yesterday that was as ignorant as it was vulgar: NRO’s The Corner posted the tweet, which is perhaps why the tweet was...

  • October 14, 2015

    Bernie Sanders, Hillary's 'damned emails,' and the cheering press room

    Bernie Sanders crawled into the tank (where he joined the media) and strengthened the possibility of being Hillary Clinton’s running mate (or, God forbid, cabinet member) last night when he said during the first Democratic debate: Let me s...

  • October 14, 2015

    Two winners of the CNN debate

    There were two winners last night in the CNN Democratic presidential debate.  One was expected, the other a fairly big surprise. The expected winner was, of course, Hillary Clinton, who was well-prepared, looked the best she has in years (the...

  • October 14, 2015

    Do white and Asian lives matter to the Democrats?

    Apparently, with the exception of James Webb, only black lives matter.  Examine the transcript from last night’s debate, when a video of a young black man was played: WILKINS: ...law school. My question for the candidates is, do black...

  • October 14, 2015

    Congratulations! You get to pay for Cuba's retirees

    Cuba, that paragon of compassion, universal health care, and the glories of socialism, is outsourcing the support of its retirees to the United States.  Investor’s Business Daily points to the little noticed operation underway that was unc...

  • October 14, 2015

    Was Biden the biggest loser last night?

    If you believe the mainstream media (always dangerous!), Hillary Clinton was the overwhelming winner last night.  The Washington Post’s 202 blog provides a valuable summary of more than a dozen conventional wisdom takes on the debate, all ...

  • October 14, 2015

    The study published by Harvard that gun-grabbers fear

    A truly amazing study published in the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy debunks just about every argument of the gun-grabbers.  No wonder the media have managed to ignore it ever since it was published in 2007.  But Beliefnet (hat...

  • October 13, 2015

    University of Iowa too white?

    So desperate to achieve a fashionable mix of minorities are the bureaucrats running the University of Iowa that they are reaching out of state, to Chicago, in order to recruit minorities, who apparently are in short supply in Iowa, and offering them ...

  • October 13, 2015

    Hillary's State Dept chief of staff Cheryl Mills received foreign government money

    The scandal involving the former chief of staff for Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is what is legal, not illegal.  In simultaneously working for Hillary Clinton as she entered her term as SecState and receiving over half a million dollars fr...

  • October 13, 2015

    Hillary's Chappaqua server used remote access software, making it especially vulnerable to hacking

    In a staggering display of negligence, Hillary Clintons private email server incorporated software to permit it to be controlled remotely, an open invitation to hacking.  Despite U.S. government and industry warnings that even low-skilled hacker...

  • October 13, 2015

    Muslim migrants dump garbage (free stuff) from the balconies of their free apartments in Germany

    Danke schoen, Deutschland! The Muslim invaders are showing their gratitude for the help Germany is providing them by trashing (literally) the free housing they are receiving.  Via Gateway Pundit, we find this video of the resulting mess from Liv...

  • October 13, 2015

    Young woman who aggressively questioned Trump yesterday was a Bush plant

    The television networks gleefully featured footage from yesterday’s “No Labels” meeting in New Hampshire of a young woman aggressively challenging Donald Trump on abortion and equal pay for women (video below).  But thanks to w...

  • October 12, 2015

    Obama makes startling admissions in 60 Minutes interview

    President Obama was visibly annoyed to face persistent questions from CBS’s Steve Kroft in a 60 Minutes interview the likes of which the president has not had to endure.  At one point, Kroft accused Obama of “filibustering” ...

  • October 11, 2015

    Jeremiah Wright claims 'Jesus was a Palestinian'

    The man who married Barack and Michelle Obama, baptized their daughters, gave him the title of one of his books, and was the only beneficiary of his charity dollars before Obama’s presidential run, has made a remarkably ignorant antisemitic cla...

  • October 11, 2015

    'Frog march' for Sid Blumenthal?

    During the Bush Derangement Syndrome era, a common fantasy on the left was that Karl Rove would be “frog marched out of the White House in handcuffs” for his alleged crime of revealing the name of CIA desk jockey Valerie Plame. Plame, and...

  • October 11, 2015

    Watch: Syrian refugees in Germany complain about slow internet speeds

    There is an ironic phrase much in fashion these days, used to trivialize problems that people complain about. Just call it a “white people problem,” or its variant, “first world problem.” Things like slow internet, expensive p...

  • October 11, 2015

    Two cheers for 'chaos' in House leadership struggle

    Yesterday my colleague Rick Moran opined that “It’s Ryan for Speaker or chaos,” and he implied that “chaos” is a bad thing. I am not so sure. The order that has prevailed in the House of Representatives has enabled the m...

  • October 10, 2015

    Obama's Syria policy now officially a 'fiasco'

    With the mercy killing yesterday of the half billion dollar program to train Syrian rebels, an effort Rick Moran correctly labeled an “epic fail,” President Obama’s entire Syria policy is a fiasco.  Even the New York Times admi...

  • October 10, 2015

    Read of the day: Bloomberg Business Week plumbs the 'vast right wing conspiracy'

    In a cover story this week, Bloomberg Business Week devotes thousands of words to profiling Steve Bannon, executive chairman of Breitbart News, and, the article’s title claims, “the most dangerous political operative in America.” I ...

  • October 9, 2015

    Chicago has had 16 mass shootings so far this year, with no presidential notice

    No presidential trips to funerals in Chicago for victims of any of the 16 mass shootings in President Obama’s hometown.  It is amazing how some mass shootings rate more media and political attention than others. Joe Ward of DNAinfo writes:...

  • October 9, 2015

    The Great Democrat Budget Con Game in Illinois

    Democrats have run the corrupt state of Illinois into the ground, and now in classic fashion they are prepared to demonize the Republicans for the consequences. It is a drama that can be repeated elsewhere. Disgusted voters in deep blue Illinois e...

  • October 9, 2015

    Rahm-appointed former Chicago Schools CEO indicted on 23 counts of bribery and kickbacks

    Public schools are a huge business, spending hundreds of billions of dollar annually, and although educrats and unions like to portray themselves as doing the Lord’s work, there is plenty of self-interest at work. Sometimes corruption. Particul...

  • October 9, 2015

    Multiple scandals revealed in Hillary emails, as Trey Gowdy writes a letter to Elijah Cummings

    Trey Gowdy has written a remarkable 13 page open letter to his Democrat counterpart on the House Benghazi special committee that reveals multiple scandals involving Hillary Clinton’s tenure at the State Department revolving around her correspon...

  • October 9, 2015

    EPA triggers another toxic spill in Colorado

    Once again, the EPA, rather than preventing pollution, is causing toxic spill at a mine in Colorado. Last August 5th it was the Gold King Mine, and the 3 million gallon spill polluted the Animas River.  This time, it was the Standard Mine, near ...

  • October 8, 2015

    Kevin McCarthy withdraws from Speaker contest, Boehner postpones election

    Rep. Kevin McCarthy put party above ambition and announced to a stunned Republican conference gathered to choose the next Speaker that he would not run. Almost immediately, outgoing Speaker Boehner postponed the election and adjourned the meeting, pr...

  • October 7, 2015

    Top Dem propagandist calls it 'almost treasonous' to point out Putin 'kicking around' Obama

    The spectacle of America’s catastrophic default in the Middle East has rattled the top levels of the progressive movement.  So desperate are they to obscure the damage (beyond changing the subject to gun control – and racism at the n...

  • October 7, 2015

    Dem pol arrested after slapping TV reporter who asked about vote fraud

    We constantly hear from Democrats that there is no serious vote fraud in the United States, so we don’t need photo ID.  Yet for some reason, it appears that when asked about specific allegations, a sensitive nerve is touched.  Conside...

  • October 7, 2015

    Ben Carson disarms the lib ladies of <em>The View</em>

    Ben Carson, out promoting his new book and making numerous TV appearances, ventured into hostile territory on the ABC daytime chatfest The View.  With his mild manner, calm voice, and earnest demeanor, in my opinion he disarmed the liberals ther...

  • October 7, 2015

    Hillary camp warning Biden against run

    Joe Biden has a cemetery’s worth of skeletons in his closet, and the Clinton campaign is letting it be known he will face humiliation and scorn if he heeds the current polls, which show him beating the GOP field, and joins the presidential race...

  • October 7, 2015

    Study finds fed workers earn 78% more than private-sector workers on average

    I am old enough to remember when government careers meant trading off job security for less money than you could earn in the private sector.  But that was before government workers could unionize and start bribing politicians with campaign donat...

  • October 7, 2015

    Rep. Jim Jordan: House <em>will</em> impeach IRS commissioner Koskinen

    In remarks to a group of students from Young Americans for Freedom Saturday that were picked up by the Washington Examiner: This Congress will impeach Internal Revenue Service Commissioner John Koskinen, Rep. Jim Jordan, a member of the House Ov...

  • October 7, 2015

    Feds provide Spanish-language study guide for citizenship exam

    President Obama wants as many immigrants naturalized as possible before the 2016 election.  And the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services is responding by offering a Spanish-language study guide to help non-English-speakers pass the 100-ques...

  • October 5, 2015

    How to make a progressive's head explode

    Progressives love to emote when discussing politics.  Right now, in the wake of the Roseburg shootings, they are emoting about the need for “commonsense” gun control, which gives them an opportunity to compassionately wring their han...

  • October 5, 2015

    Hungary builds border wall to keep out Muslim migrants, faces potential expulsion from EU

    Push is rapidly coming to shove in the European Union, as the flood of Muslim “migrants” is encountering resistance from populations well aware of what happens when Muslim immigrants take over entire districts and convert them into sharia...

  • October 5, 2015

    High school students engage in mass disobedience after principal cancels 'America Pride Day'

    It was a sight to warm the cockles of my heart: students proudly wearing “American flag capes, American flag headbands, American flag shorts and all manner of beautifully and garishly patriotic American flag ornamentation” in defiance of ...

  • October 4, 2015

    Saturday Night Live all but endorses Hillary for president

    Apparently the attitude at Studio 8H in Rockefeller Center last night was: humanizing Hillary is a tough job, but somebody’s got to do it. Almost certainly, the blaze of publicity for Mrs. Clinton’s appearance helped push the ratings up o...

  • October 4, 2015

    How illegal immigrants help swing presidential elections to Democrats without even voting

    Thanks to the Constitution’s provision that House seats are apportioned to states based on the “whole number of persons in each state,” Electoral College membership (based on one elector per senator and one per representative) is sk...

  • October 4, 2015

    Hillary's chronic lateness to campaign rallies is taking a toll

    Like her husband and President Obama, Hillary Clinton has a very hard time showing up on time. And people are starting to walk out of her events when they get too tried of waiting. Bernie Sanders, on the other hand, treats his audiences with respect ...

  • October 3, 2015

    Obama's wink and nod on gun confiscation

    President Obama couldn’t be more eager to change the subject of national news discussion away from the catastrophic failure of his Middle East foreign policy.  So the shooting in Roseburg, OR offered an opportunity to gin up his base and r...

  • October 3, 2015

    Obama admin reverting to its pathetic Twitter strategy to counter Russia

    Many have observed that President Obama and his administration act as if words are the same as deeds.  This is a habit of academics, for whom the power of words is supreme, while actual deeds in the real world, including deeds with force behind ...

  • October 3, 2015

    The awful truth about Obama's hometown that he and the media ignore in gun discussion

    Why has no one asked President Obama what “commonsense” gun control measures in addition to those already at work in Chicago he would like to see?  Why has no one asked him about the disparity in his concern over a handful of white v...

  • October 3, 2015

    'Massive planned invasion' storms channel tunnel as 'migrants' seek to enter Britain

    The tunnel connecting Britain and France was closed to train traffic for up to 6 hours, as hundreds of "migrants" engaged in a planned assault to use it to enter the U.K.  The Daily Express reports:  Eurotunnel services betwe...

  • October 3, 2015

    Hillary's Spielberg makeover

    The news that broke a week ago about Steven Spielberg unsuccessfully attempting to help make Hillary Clinton more likable was soon followed up the news that she would be guest on tonight’s Saturday Night Live.  Oh well, if Spielberg’...

  • October 2, 2015

    Obama pulls Kerry and Power from audience of Netanyahu's powerful UN speech

    In another slap in the face for Israel and its Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Obama pulled Secretary of State Kerry and U.N. Ambassador Samantha Power out of the General Assembly during Netanyahu’s powerful address.  A large ...

  • October 2, 2015

    Roseburg, Charleston, and their aftermaths

    A man brings a gun into a black church in Charleston, South Carolina, horrifically executes worshipers, and the nation plunges into an orgy of recrimination over white racism that culminates in a campaign to banish the Confederate battle flag.  ...

  • October 2, 2015

    Obama disgraces himself with rush to politicize Roseburg shooting

    President Obama couldn’t wait for the facts to come in before addressing the nation on the Roseburg shootings, openly calling them “something we should politicize.”  Eager to distract the country from the collapse of his Syria ...

  • October 2, 2015

    Oh-oh! Global warming RICO letter writers may have opened Pandora's Box

    Finally, we may be getting some cosmic justice for the gang of warmists who have spread hysteria over their shaky theory of global warming.  Owing to an outrageous act of witch-hunting dissenters, a congressional investigation has begun, and who...

  • October 1, 2015

    Latest Hillary email release doubles number of classified emails, demonstrates attempted hacking

    There is media spin aplenty in coverage of the latest tranche of emails from Hillary Clinton’s private server, released yesterday evening.  In a stunning display of contrasting headlines, Politico – no member of the Vast Right Wing C...

  • October 1, 2015

    Valerie Jarrett throws Hillary under the bus

    Double-teaming with MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell, Valerie Jarrett, President Obama’s Supreme Leader, demonstrated what the White House really wants to happen in the race for the Democratic nomination.  Joe Biden most assuredly got the mes...

  • September 30, 2015

    Cecile Richards of Planned Parenthood caught in a lie to Congress

    Yesterday was a tough day for Planned Parenthood’s chief executive officer Cecile Richards (daughter of former Texas governor Ann Richards).  In addition to a grilling on the shocking videos (she denied everything – it was all ...

  • September 30, 2015

    The tangled web linking Sidney Blumenthal, CBS News, and a secret Clinton spy network starting to come to light

    This is a story that has the feel of a slightly implausible spy thriller.  Unfortunately, it is all too real, and it suggests that hidden forces have indeed been at work shaping the narrative on the Benghazi attack that was so deftly manipulated...

  • September 30, 2015

    The Clinton Fortune: Follow the (missing) money

    “Things just don’t add up” could be the motto on the Clinton family crest, if such an aristocratic appurtenance were ever to be created for the Arkansas clan.  And that goes double when money is involved.  Writing in Forbe...

  • September 29, 2015

    Clinton Foundation was given classified information by Hillary aide Cheryl Mills

    Close examination of the Hillary Clinton emails so far released by the State Department reveals some disturbing insights.  Alana Goodman of the Free Beacon noticed that an email from longtime Hillary aide Cheryl Mills, her chief of staff at the ...

  • September 29, 2015

    Why isn't this a bribe?

    This story has all the elements of Democrat establishment corruption: an entrepreneur seeking affirmative action preferences, a congressman who is also a preacher, and a nonprofit organization receiving the money.  The Better Government Associat...

  • September 28, 2015

    Signs of panic in the Jeb Bush camp

    Among the many unpleasant surprises the GOP establishment has had to endure this election cycle, the failure of the Jeb Bush campaign to catch fire is one of the most perplexing.  (For them.  Conservatives expected this all along.)  Af...

  • September 28, 2015

    Hillary attends fundraiser hosted by convicted cocaine dealer

    How low will she go?  We already know that the Clinton Foundation has rather…uh…lax standards when it comes to accepting massive donations.  But now Hillary Clinton has attended a campaign fundraiser at the home of a convicted...

  • September 28, 2015

    Saudis bulldoze bodies of Hajj stampede victims

    Stunning pictures are coming out of Mecca that, if genuine, reveal a stunning level of brutal disregard for human life.  Jim Hoft of Gateway Pundit picked up the story, as revealed by tweets from Tarek Fatah: Pictures emerge of #Saudi officia...

  • September 27, 2015

    Feminist Planned Parenthood Supporters throw condoms at Carly Fiorina during Iowa campaign event

    Doing their best to convince Americans that Planned Parenthood is at odds with mainstream values, a group of feminist demonstrators attempted to disrupt an appearance by Carly Fiorina at an Iowa Hawkeyes tailgating event in Iowa City. Jordyn Phelps o...

  • September 27, 2015

    Bubba plays the victim card in Hillary email scandal

    In yet another sign that the Hillary campaign is quietly panicking over her fall in the polls and the accumulating evidence of her lies about her emails, Bill Clinton was wheeled out for an interview with Fareed Zakaria taped Thursday for Sunday morn...

  • September 27, 2015

    Shocking surveillance video captures unprovoked attack on 83-year-old man

    If you pay attention to what the media tells you, the impression you’d get is that the primary victims of interracial violence are black people attacked by law enforcement officers. But that is at variance with the facts, which show: T...

  • September 26, 2015

    State Department hides disclosure of hidden Hillary emails under cover of pope in New York and Boehner resignation

    Doing its best to minimize damage to the candidacy of Hillary Clinton, the State Department released news that new private server emails that were not turned over by her earlier had been discovered.  Bradley Klapper of the AP writes: The Ob...

  • September 25, 2015

    Move over, Hillary: Rahm Emanuel sued over use of private email

    Hillary Clinton is not the only person facing trouble over the use of personal email to avoid the pesky necessity of turning over communications to public scrutiny.  Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel has just been sued by the Chicago Tribune over his u...

  • September 25, 2015

    Another big fat Hillary lie exposed

    Hillary Clinton has been caught in another lie.  She claimed that she was “not directly involved” in her close aide Huma Abedin gaining approval for a suspicious, conflict of interest-redolent job arrangement, but a document has just...

  • September 25, 2015

    Boehner resigning at end of October

    Speaker John Boehner will leave Congress, including his speakership, at the end of October.  The New York Times: Speaker John A. Boehner, under intense pressure from conservatives in his party, will resign one of the most powerful positions...

  • September 24, 2015

    Chicago TV station uses Nazi badge to recognize Yom Kippur

    Chicago television station WGN, a cable TV “superstation” seen nationwide, used a Nazi badge that Jews were required to wear in the course of commemorating Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, to its viewers on a newscast.  Evidently so...

  • September 24, 2015

    Angry Germans torch 'migrant' housing

    Angry Germans with torches in the streets is about as unpleasant a memory as can be (for those who have memories of the last century’s history).  But we are seeing them once again, as Europeans expected to quietly pay their taxes and host ...

  • September 24, 2015

    New Quinnipiac poll: Hillary loses in head-to-head matchups with GOP contenders

    Hillary Clinton is damaged goods.  Despite universal name recognition and turmoil on the GOP side, she losing in head-to-head matchups against leading GOP contenders (with one exception), according to a new Quinnipiac poll just released this mor...

  • September 24, 2015

    Huma Abedin and the web of influence-peddling revealed in newly released emails

    The slow-motion exposure of emails related to Hillary Clinton’s tenure as secretary of State is revealing the way things get done at the upper reaches of government and society, and it is a very ugly picture, indeed.  Most Americans (75%) ...

  • September 24, 2015

    Report: Obama will endorse Biden if....

    While this report from the author Ed Klein, via the Boston Herald, may or may not be true, it makes an awful lot of sense from Barack Obama’s perspective. Former Gov. Deval Patrick — long touted as a potential 2020 White House conten...

  • September 23, 2015

    State Department reveals Hillary lied about request to turn over private server emails

    Hillary Clinton’s tangled web of lies about her private server for official emails just got snagged by a State Department release of information.  This may be the beginning of throwing her under the bus to protect the institutional interes...

  • September 23, 2015

    FBI leaks that it has recovered deleted 'private' emails on Hillary's server

    Just hours after being attacked by Senator Grassley for “rebuffing a judge's request for information on the law enforcement agency's investigation into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's private email system,” Bloombe...

  • September 23, 2015

    New poll reveals yet another disaster for Hillary

    A Bloomberg poll released this morning shows that only a third of Democrats and leaning-Democrat voters support Hillary, and even more startling, undeclared potential but unsure candidate Joe Biden is supported by a quarter of the same sample.  ...

  • September 23, 2015

    Comparing GM penalties with threatened VW penalties

    General Motors fudged on reporting problems with its ignition system and killed people as a result.  The fine, announced last Thursday, was $900 million.  Volkswagen fudged on testing its diesel cars for air pollution, killing exactly nobod...

  • September 23, 2015

    Higher education cartel challenged in North Carolina lawsuit

    The cloak of altruistic search for truth and selfless education of young minds worn by higher education obscures a self-serving, vast industry that sees nothing wrong in behaving like a cartel.  Do you think it is a coincidence that tuition leve...

  • September 21, 2015

    If Bush were still president, this would be a huge story

    Imagine for a second that cancer-stricken children had been ejected from a park where they had been conducting a candlelight vigil because President Bush had been leaving the White House to attend a gala with Texas Republicans.  I daresay it wou...

  • September 21, 2015

    As Cuban dissidents arrested, Pope Francis enjoys 'friendly and informal conversation' with Fidel Castro

    Pope Francis’s visit to Cuba is proving to be a very comfortable event for the brutally repressive and dictatorial regime.  The closest thing, so far, to a challenge to the oppression of dissidents has been the invitation to a dissident gr...

  • September 21, 2015

    Average NYC school janitor makes $109K a year

    There’s just not enough money for education, right?  Did you know that in Japan, Taiwan, and other countries whose students outperform American public schools by orders of magnitude, there are no janitors, and the kids do cleanup of the sc...

  • September 20, 2015

    Debbie Wasserman Schultz heckled by Dem crowd over limiting number of debates

    Democrat opposition to their deeply flawed “inevitable” nominee Hillary Clinton is boiling over, and cannot be ignored any more.  Liz Kreutz of ABC News writes: The chair of the Democrats [sic] National Committee got heckled tod...

  • September 20, 2015

    Stunning: New York Times selling access to Iranian oil official

    The New York Times is sponsoring a conference in London where, for a mere four thousand dollars (at current exchange rates) each, oil company executives can meet with “H.E. [“His Excellency” – gotta be respectful] Seyed Mehdi ...

  • September 19, 2015

    Hilarious: Hillary <em>dodges every question</em> in 14-minute CNN interview with Wolf Blitzer

    Among the first to take advantage of the well-crafted plan for Hillary Clinton to be spontaneous was CNN, fresh off its staging of a GOP food fight designed to set Republican rivals at each others’ throats.  Perhaps in gratitude, the Hilla...

  • September 19, 2015

    Clinton Global Initiative loses sponsors and prestige speakers

    The Clinton brand is becoming toxic. The family and its purportedly “non-profit” entities have been so seriously damaged that major corporate sponsors and high ranking speakers are deserting the Clinton Global Initiative. David Mastio of ...

  • September 17, 2015

    State Department stonewalling key documents that could trash Hillary's email defense and send her to jail

    Hillary Clinton could be in big trouble if she signed two key documents relating to classified information and U.S. government ownership of official communications.  If she did sign them, her public line of defense will lie in tatters, and she c...

  • September 16, 2015

    Bill Kristol threatens to support third party nominee if Trump nominated

    I think it is fair to say that we have entered the era of Trump Derangement Syndrome, as Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol tells CNN Money, "I doubt I'd support Donald. I doubt I'd support the Democrat," Kristol told CNNMoney...

  • September 15, 2015

    Sanders served up a pile of BS at Liberty University

    Bernie Sanders is getting a lot of credit for supposedly stepping into the lion’s den at Liberty University.  In fact, the students at that evangelical university founded by Jerry Falwell are far more polite and well-behaved than their cou...

  • September 15, 2015

    Hillary's new video is the most tone-deaf ad ever

    A lot of pundits are telling Hillary Clinton to fire her bloated campaign staff, but I have to believe that the problem lies between her ears.  This woman has absolutely no realistic perspective on herself.  I cannot believe that someone wi...

  • September 14, 2015

    CNN panel laughs at Hillary --even the Dems

    The public already associates words like “liar” and “dishonest” with Hillary Clinton more than other terms. It has reached the point where on serious political cable news programs she has become the object of outright derision...

  • September 14, 2015

    How about some questions on the Federal Reserve at the CNN debate?

    The Federal Reserve Bank System has become one of the most important institutions in the American political system, despite being a private entity, completely politically unaccountable to the public.  Through the euphemistically-named “Qua...

  • September 14, 2015

    Biden had secret meeting with top Dem bundler officially supporting Hillary

    Now Hillary Clinton has to worry about her donors deserting her, as her poll numbers collapse and she becomes a laughingstock on mainstream cable news shows.  She may be experiencing a tingle between the padded shoulders of her pantsuits, as the...

  • September 13, 2015

    Uh-oh: Hillary's server data may be recoverable

    Hard though it is to believe, maybe all that feigning of ignorance (”You mean like with a cloth?”) about wiping a server was genuine. Three writers from the Washington Post (Rosalind S. Helderman, Tom Hamburger, and Carol D. Leonig) burro...

  • September 13, 2015

    Impeachment resolution filed for EPA head Gina McCarthy

    It may ultimately be unsuccessful, but nonetheless it is a good thing that Arizona Representative Paul Gosar has filed articles of impeachment for Gina McCarthy, head of the EPA. A press release from his office notes that this: begins the impeac...

  • September 12, 2015

    Stunning: Justice Department lawyers argue Hillary Clinton had the right to delete any emails she chose

    Using laugh-out-loud justification, Justice Department lawyers have asserted to a federal judge that Hillary Clinton should be trusted to decide what records she chooses to delete, with no outside review. Ruby Kramer of Buzzfeed is correct: a brief f...

  • September 11, 2015

    Last-ditch efforts to stop the Iran deal

    It may well be that yesterday marked the beginning of the Iran deal, as Carol Brown laments.  But some have not given up the fight and are pursuing strategies to snatch victory from the jaws of Obama.  Two paths are apparent, both involving...

  • September 11, 2015

    Obamacare enrollment tumbles

    Is anyone other than the Obama administration surprised that the actual enrollment report for Obamacare issued by the Centers for Medicare Services came out almost two million lower than the level claimed just last spring?  Investor’s Busi...

  • September 10, 2015

    Justice Department declined to prosecute Huma Abedin on $10k embezzlement

    The State Department’s Inspector General has uncovered damning evidence in a criminal probe of Huma Abedin and turned it over to the Justice Department, which declined to prosecute Hillary Clinton’s right hand woman. Jay Soloman reports i...

  • September 10, 2015

    Don't worry about those Syrians flooding Germany: Saudi Arabia offers to build 200 mosques there

    Saudi Arabia, which so far has refused to accept a single refuge from Syria (or Libya, or… well, you get the picture) has an offer on the table to build 200 mosques in Germany.  Daniel Greenfield notes the multiple infuriating ironies at ...

  • September 9, 2015

    Hillary apologizes (sort of)

    Using the vacant, flat tone of voice of a hostage captured by the North Koreans forced to apologize for American imperialism and crimes against the Korean people, Hillary Clinton finally apologized for her email Tuesday, in an interview with David Mu...

  • September 9, 2015

    After campaign promises 'heart,' Hillary chokes up about her mother in TV interview

    Right on cue, the day after the New York Times noted that her aides, “want to show her heart, like the time she comforted former drug addicts in a school meeting room in New Hampshire,” Hillary Clinton choked up about her mother’s d...

  • September 9, 2015

    Immunity deal for Bryan Pagliano testimony being floated

    Tick, tick, tick. If Bryan Pagliano knows anything incriminating about Hillary’s email set-up, he may have to spill his guts, his Fifth Amendment invocation notwithstanding. Stephen Dinan and S.A. Miller report in the Washington Times: Two...

  • September 8, 2015

    Hillary's campaign floundering so badly that WaPo and NYT reporters wink and nod to readers

    Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign is floundering badly, and the latest attempts to launch a post Labor Day new tone reveal how devastatingly ineffectual her effort is.  Still firmly stuck in the twentieth century, the campaign grante...

  • September 8, 2015

    House Dem offers pathetic call to disband Benghazi Special Committee

    It is obvious that Democrats are really worried about what Trey Gowdy’s House Special Committee on Benghazi will find. They are going to the absolute bottom of the barrel to find a way of arguing for shutting it down, and come up with this (via...

  • September 7, 2015

    Poll shows Trump receiving 25% of black vote against Hillary

    It is being called a “shock poll” because Democrats take for granted the support of 90%-plus of the black vote, and expect black turnout rates to equal or surpass those of other ethnic groups, simply because of President Obama’s sta...

  • September 7, 2015

    Cop union boycotting Obama speech in Boston

    Anger over President Obama’s many snubs (from the Cambridge Police “acted stupidly” to Ferguson and beyond) has reached a boiling point among cops. As he speaks this morning at a Labor Day breakfast in Boston, President Obama is bei...

  • September 7, 2015

    Pagliano didn't disclose off-the-books pay for secret work on Hillary's server

    Well, well, well, we now know at least one reason why Bryan Pagliano took the Fifth.  Buried in the 13th paragraph of the Washington Post  story on him two days ago is this tidbit, spotted by Scott Johnson of Powerline: Pagliano did no...

  • September 6, 2015

    Shocking poll shows UK majority favor leaving the EU in forthcoming referendum

    Great Britain is going to have a referendum by 2017 on whether or not to stay in the European Union, and a shocking new poll shows that a majority wants to leave. The UK Daily Mail reports: A majority of British people would vote to leave the Eu...

  • September 6, 2015

    Huge majority of Californians oppose sanctuary cities

    A conducted by the Institute of Governmental Studies (IGS) at the University of California, Berkeley contains bad news for the lefties who run so-called sanctuary cities, where federal law is openly flouted, but nobody is being sent to jail like an e...

  • September 5, 2015

    Chinese flotilla off Alaska entered US territorial waters

    There’s no mistaking the message China was sending while President Obama was in Alaska. The days of US dominance of the seas are over. President Obama has gotten his way as far as the Chinese are concerned: the US is an exceptional nation in th...

  • September 5, 2015

    Get ready to say hello to your new neighbors from Syria

    The war in Syria is generating millions of refugees, who are genuinely to pitied. But as a result of this internecine strife in the Islamic world, Western countries are expected to accept major inflows of un-vetted immigrants, even as Islamic fundame...

  • September 5, 2015

    13-year-old black boy found guilty of first-degree murder of 9-year-old white boy

    In a case that has received remarkably little national attention, 13-year-old Jamarion Lawhorn has been found guilty of first degree murder (by stabbing, on a playground) of 9 year old Connor Verkerke in a Kent County (Grand Rapids) Michigan trial. T...

  • September 5, 2015

    Hillary's server wipe has done incalculable damage to US counter-intelligence

    Hillary Clinton’s decision to wipe clean her email server has already done enormous damage to US intelligence efforts. The logic is so clear and compelling that it is amazing to me that only now, and only via an email to the blog Powerline, has...

  • September 5, 2015

    Hillary's interview with Andrea Mitchell made her problems worse

    Hillary Clinton resembles the chorus of Little Richard’s immortal 1956 song, The Girl Can’t Help It.  She just can’t help it.  Yesterday she attempted to apologize for her illegal and national-security-damaging use of a pr...

  • September 4, 2015

    Word games used to inflate 'sexual violence' statistics

    The American Left is following Saul Alinsky’s dictum to “rub raw the wounds” in order to incite hatred, and then accomplish its ends. In order to incite hate and fear on campus, trickery has been employed to generate false statistic...

  • September 4, 2015

    #ThanksMichelleObama: Schools laying off cafeteria workers as kids refuse to buy skimpy and tasteless lunches

    A new group can join the school kids using #thanksMichelleObama as a bitter hashtag. The kids were merely Tweeting pictures of unappetizing and skimpy school lunches conforming to her anti-obesity program. The newcomers to the hashtag will be unemplo...

  • September 4, 2015

    How do you say 'chutzpah' in Turkish?

    Turkey’s Prime Minister Erdogan has worked himself into a high dudgeon over Europe’s failure to adequately handle the Muslim refugees arriving on its shores. Tom McTague of the UK Daily Mail: European leaders were today accused of tu...

  • September 3, 2015

    'Settled Science' chronicle: world has <em>7.5 times</em> more trees than previously believed

    It seems that scientists were a little off in calculating the number of trees on the planet. You remember trees: they turn CO2 into oxygen and water. In fact, if you buy a “carbon credit,” you are paying to plant trees to buy an indulgenc...

  • September 3, 2015

    Iranians take entire Democratic Party hostage, as Mikulski provides 34th vote in Senate for Iran deal

    Those four hostages that were not freed by the mullahs as a goodwill gesture in the recent nuclear deal negotiations now have a lot of company. The president and his party have gone all-in, now that Barbara Mikulski has announced that she will provid...

  • September 3, 2015

    Guilty verdict in Alabama vote fraud case

    Democrats who oppose voter ID laws (why is it always Democrats? Hmmm…) solemnly tell us there is no big problem with vote fraud in the United States. The how do they explain this, by Matt Elofson of the Dothan (Alabama) Eagle: A Houston C...

  • September 3, 2015

    Hillary staffer plans to take the Fifth Amendment

    Move over, Lois Lerner, you’ve got company on the bench for government officials who refuse to testify under oath because they might incriminate themselves. And the staffer in question, Bryan Pagliano, conveniently ties together the Hillary Cli...

  • September 3, 2015

    Rahm proposes massive property tax hike for Chicago

    In the beginning of a series of tax hikes that will drive up the cost of living for Chicago residents, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel is proposing half a billion dollars in property tax hikes, along with another hundred million bucks in mandatory garbage...

  • September 3, 2015

    Chinese flotilla in Bering Sea off Alaska

    Welcome to the new post-Obama world power structure, in which the United States is no longer the dominant world power. Jeremy Page and Gordon Lubold report in the Wall Street Journal: Five Chinese navy ships are currently operating in the Bering...

  • September 2, 2015

    Religious liberty: The Kentucky county clerk and the Muslim flight attendant

    Two current cases may help clarify the issue of the degree to which religious conviction exempts a person from performing job duties.  The New York Times and the rest of the national media are giving front page treatment to Kim Davis, the Rowan ...

  • September 2, 2015

    CNN caves on GOP debate criteria, opening the door for Carly

    Faced with the prospect of angry criticism for excluding Carly Fiorina from its GOP presidential debate two weeks from now, CNN has caved in and re-jiggered its criteria, which had heavily weighted old polls. The problem was that Carly Fiorina, releg...

  • September 2, 2015

    Latest emails reveal the end of Hillary's claim to be a friend of Israel

    Over the decades, Hillary Clinton and her husband have posed as friends of Israel, and not so incidentally collected a lot of money from Jewish donors. The latest tranche of emails released by the State Department blow apart any pretense that Hillary...

  • September 1, 2015

    Poll reveals huge majority support mandatory deporting of illegals

    The headline from Investor’s Business Daily on their own poll uses the word “shock” – “Shock Poll: 59% Back Trump On Deportation of Illegals.”  But as Jared Peterson wrote on these pages yesterday, for the las...

  • September 1, 2015

    Obama to seek more icebreakers for Arctic ice that is supposedly disappearing

    Maybe the reason President Obama refuses to release his college grades has to do with his performance in a course on logic.  Compare and contrast this: President Obama on Tuesday will propose speeding the acquisition and building of new Coa...

  • September 1, 2015

    Hillary's email hole gets deeper

    The State Department chose to release the latest 7,000 page tranche of emails at 9 PM on the last day of the month, grudgingly meeting the court order, but making review of the many pages in time for news media deadlines as difficult as possible. Wel...

  • August 31, 2015

    Obama panders on Mt. McKinley, disses great Republican president

    President Obama is declaring that Mt. McKinley henceforth shall be named Mt. Denali, after the Athabascan tribal name, despite the fact that legislation to do so has failed.  The New York Sun editorializes: … legislation has been bef...

  • August 31, 2015

    New 'supergiant' natural gas discovery may be the largest ever

    Remember “peak oil”? We were solemnly lectured that the world was running out of hydrocarbon energy sources, so we must immediately lower our standard of living and reduce energy consumption.  But as with all Malthusian predictions o...

  • August 31, 2015

    Clinical trials to begin on Israeli technology to freeze lung cancer tumors

    If this innovative therapy proves out, I sincerely hope that every BDSer in the world will boycott it.  Nocamels reports: We’ve told you before about IceCure’s amazing tumor-freezing technology that destroys breast tumors by fre...

  • August 27, 2015

    Trouble in paradise for Federal Reserve

    Jackson Hole, Wyoming may not be paradise, but in late August it is about as close as any place on the face of the earth.  So it is not surprising that the annual Federal Reserve retreat, an invitation-only gathering of the power elite, takes pl...

  • August 26, 2015

    Huma is starting to look like the fall-girl for Hillary

    When the New York Times headline writers roll out the “Republicans seize on…” code, you know that a Democrat is in real trouble.  This morning, the comforting gauze of “it’s all just politics” is being used t...

  • August 26, 2015

    <em>Politico</em> softening the ground for a Biden run

    I was just about to slip the secret decoder ring off my finger after reading between the lines of a New York Times story on Huma Abedin when this story from Politico by Glenn Thrush caught my eye. Coming a day and half after the startling press brief...

  • August 25, 2015

    Another Lois Lerner secret email account uncovered

    Judicial Watch has uncovered a secret email account linked to official business that was used by Lois Lerner, the IRS executive who took the Fifth Amendment and retired to an estimated $100,000-a-year retirement income.  The effect of using a se...

  • August 25, 2015

    President who once called for a 'new era of civility' now calls opponents 'crazies'

    Remember when, following the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, President Obama sanctimoniously lectured the nation on the need for a “new era of civility”?  Speaking before thousands in an arena at the University of Arizona, he so...

  • August 24, 2015

    Did a hacked Hillary email set up the ambush of Ambassador Christopher Stevens?

    Putting together the information now publicly available, the question has to be asked: Did an ISIS hack of Hillary Clinton’s virtually defenseless home brew server set up the death of Ambassador Christopher Stevens? ISIS has proven itself ad...

  • August 24, 2015

    Amazing picture of the Obamas coming home to the White House

    It doesn’t look like being on vacation improved the spirits of the Obama family. Of course, it’s hard to tell what’s going on.  Maybe back-to-school has the girls depressed, though Sidwell Friends is supposed to be really delux...

  • August 24, 2015

    Stock market plunges, then regains half the loss in 30 minutes

    The end of the world has been postponed. Following dramatic plunges in Asian and European markets, the Dow Jones futures index predicted over a 600 point loss by opening. And sure enough, panic selling pushed the Dow Jones Industrial Average down ove...

  • August 23, 2015

    Why is the Obama administration keeping Cuban doctors out while letting unskilled illegals in?

    A group of about 100 Cuban doctors who fled to Colombia, and who are entitled to visas to enter the US, are being stalled by the Obama administration, even as open border policies permit unskilled laborers to flood in. Yesterday, they held a protest ...

  • August 22, 2015

    Team Hillary reveals lame plan to recover from her email scandal

    Hillary Clinton evidently thinks she can tough her way out of her email server problems by blaming others and deflecting attention, strategies she is already employing to no useful effect.  Her latest gambit was revealed in an interview with fri...

  • August 22, 2015

    Judge lifts restraining order on Planned Parenthood videos; new one released immediately

    The prior restraint censorship of videos taken by the Center for Medical Progress of StemExpress officials discussing the trafficking in baby parts has ended, as a judge who understands the First Amendment lifted a restraining order.  In respons...

  • August 21, 2015

    Hillary and the vast <del>right</del> left wing conspiracy

    Hillary Clinton is twisting in the wind, a victim of a vast conspiracy to torpedo her candidacy.  But this time, it is a real conspiracy, and it comes from the left. The “vast right wing conspiracy” that she identified in 1998 as beh...

  • August 20, 2015

    Critics Miss How Well Trump's Deportation Plan Actually Could Work

    Donald Trump has laid out the bare bones of a deportation plan that has an excellent chance of working well. The caricatures presented by his critics overlook the clever incentives he apparently is building into it. The reaction has been as negative ...

  • August 19, 2015

    Hillary goes to Vegas, loses big with performance at press conference

    Wearing a prison-orange pantsuit yesterday, Hillary Clinton dug the hole she occupies several feet deeper with Tuesday’s North Las Vegas gym presser.  Even normally supportive liberal pundits were appalled at her performance. Ron Fournier ...

  • August 19, 2015

    DEA privacy abuses far worse than NSA phone records scandal

    Whatever else you may think about the NSA collecting records of every international telephone call from the United States, at least the National Security Agency worked through the judiciary in obtaining its subpoenas.  The Drug Enforcement Agenc...

  • August 19, 2015

    Does #blackprivilegematter at #blacklivesmatter?

    Move over, Rachel Dolezal! We may have another prominent example of a white person adopting the identity of black in order to gain opportunities. This embrace of black privilege is all the more delicious because it involves the current media darling ...

  • August 18, 2015

    Senior Iranian official declares that it holds right of approval over any nuclear inspectors

    The assurances President Obama and John Kerry offered on tough inspections of Iranian nuclear facilities have crumbled into meaninglessness. First, the “anytime, anywhere” slogan fell to only the sites the Iranians approve, and 24 days...

  • August 18, 2015

    Wow! Obama drives down coal company stocks, and Soros buys them on the cheap

    I have always believed that global warming is a gigantic scam, driven by greed and lust for power. Now comes the shocking news, via Steve Milloy writing on Breitbart, that following President Obama’s use of CO2 emissions as a weapon to drive ma...

  • August 18, 2015

    As only 2% of Americans believe her on emails, Hillary's long goodbye is getting shorter

    The ground is collapsing under Hillary Clinton’s feet, as friendly liberal pundits turn on her, and a poll revels that a lonely 2% of Americans believe her claim that emails on her private server did not contain classified information. The late...

  • August 17, 2015

    Hillary classified email scandal: And then there were 60

    As the State Department continues to review the emails that Hillary chose to submit to them (before having her server professionally wiped), the number of emails discovered to contain classified information is ballooning.  John Solomon reports i...

  • August 17, 2015

    Bernie Sanders backs away from campaign's apology to #blacklivesmatter

    The Soros-funded #blacklivesmatter movement is a big problem for the Democrats, and Bernie Sanders just stumbled over it.  Failure to grovel risks dampening the extraordinary black turnout necessary for Democratic victories in many states. ...

  • August 17, 2015

    Clinton Crime Family Comics

    As AT readers know, getting into the nitty-gritty of the Hillary Clinton email scandal is complicated.  Yesterday, Clarice Feldman untangled some of the weeds.  But many voters are not paying much attention, or are incapable of handling muc...

  • August 17, 2015

    Chuck Todd lets the mask slip, reveals the Awful Truth about Hillary

    This primary season has the mainstream media establishment off balance, with their certitudes (Hillary’s a lock; Trump will quickly crumble) in ruins.  So discombobulated are they that occasionally a bit of frank truth slips past the inter...

  • August 17, 2015

    Al Sharpton channels Pat Buchanan

    Al Sharpton is pushing hard for the Obama Iran surrender deal, and, Sharpton being Sharpton, there is an ugly racist tinge to his comments.  Daniel Chaitin reports in the Examiner: The reverend argued there needs to be a "balance"...

  • August 16, 2015

    Rahm's 'Chicago way' pays off with huge profits with the right political connections

    Wow! A 400% profit on a million dollar land deal in just 14 months. Hiring people with the right connections definitely pays off in Chicago. And don’t worry about Chicago going bankrupt under billions of dollars of debt. The check will be cashe...

  • August 16, 2015

    Biden calls Chattanooga killer a 'jihadist'

    Speaking at a memorial service in Tennessee for the Marines and Sailor killed by a Muslim immigrant born in Kuwait, Vice President Biden staked out ground nobody else in the Obama administration has gone near. He called the perp, Muhammad Youssef Abd...

  • August 16, 2015

    Hillary in deep email scandal denial: 'It's not anything that people talk to me about as I travel around the country'

    The candidate renowned for hand-picking the people with whom she speaks and roping off the press corps is now claiming that nobody is interested in her deepening email scandal because “It's not anything that people talk to me about as I tra...

  • August 15, 2015

    NY man who wounded a fireman, died in shootout with police, apparently was a Democrat activist

    It made breaking news bulletins and headlines across the country when a reputed gang member allegedly shot a firefighter who came to rescue him: U.S. Marshals arrived at Tyree’s home early Friday to serve him a federal probation ...

  • August 15, 2015

    Tick, tick, tick... following the email trails leading to and from Hillary's scrubbed server

    Hillary Clinton’s email server may have been scrubbed clean. Some experts claim that merely overwriting the data several times will make it unrecoverable, while others claim the FBI’s superpowers will enable it to recover at least some of...

  • August 14, 2015

    Hillary has been playing a shell game with email server

    Like a Times Square hustler with three walnut shells and a pea, Hillary Clinton has been playing a game of misdirection with her email server.  No, it wasn’t in Chappaqua; it was in New Jersey, although not dumped in a Meadowlands bog or b...

  • August 13, 2015

    Federal court throws out scheme allowing windmills to kill bald and golden eagles for the next 30 years

    At last, a federal court has taken a move to limit the slaughter of our national symbol, otherwise protected by law, in the headlong rush to produce expensive, unreliable wind power, based on the unproven theory that carbon dioxide emissions lead to ...

  • August 13, 2015

    Hillary is following the Clinton Scandal Playbook in email criminal investigation

    The skill set of the Clintons includes mastery of handling scandals, because, as the saying goes, “Practice makes perfect.” Bimbo eruptions, shady commodities trades, dodgy land deals – ever since the earliest days in Arkansas polit...

  • August 12, 2015

    Trump's website

    A friend who prefers to remain anonymous – no fan of Trump – writes: Checked out T’s website (decided to demote him as I have O, by using only the first letter of his name). As you might imagine, there’s nothing, zer...

  • August 12, 2015

    Polls starting to show Trump weakness

    Recent history shows that predicting a decline in Donald Trump’s popularity is risky for pundits.  Nevertheless, there are some signs that his appeal may be wearing thin.  But keep in mind that many pundits (and probably pollsters) ha...

  • August 11, 2015

    Black ministers petition Smithsonian to remove bust of Margaret Sanger

    Now that the left is demanding no memorializing of those who defended slavery and racism, it is time to turn the spotlight on Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, who sought to use abortion and birth control to limit the black populati...

  • August 11, 2015

    Obama White House staffer charged after shooting gun at boyfriend

    In yet another “unprecedented” (one of Barack Obama’s favorite terms) landmark, a special assistant to the president and House legislative affairs liaison has been charged with first- and second-degree assault charges, as well as on...

  • August 10, 2015

    One man critically wounded by cops as Ferguson erupts in gunfire

    Following a day of peaceful protest premised on the notion that the late Michael Brown had been an innocent “gentle giant,” not the perpetrator of a strongarm robbery videotaped moments before his demise exactly one year ago, Ferguson, Mi...

  • August 10, 2015

    Buzzfeed accuses Breitbart of selling favorable coverage to Trump

    Relying on unnamed sources, Buzzfeed goes nuclear against Breitbart, accusing the site of taking Trump money in return for favorable coverage.  There is no more serious accusation that can be made against a publication than selling favorable cov...

  • August 10, 2015

    Media covering up EPA's responsibility for Colorado river pollution

    The Animas River in Colorado has been despoiled with million of gallons of toxic mine waste, turning the stream bright orange.  Is this the result of a heartless capitalist?  Hardly.  Our purportedly all-caring, wise, and reliable Envi...

  • August 8, 2015

    Jury finds that lesbian couple burned down own house in fake hate crime

    The self-inflicted phony hate crime must be the defining crime of our era.  Just as bootlegging defined the 1920s, fake hate crimes seem to define the early years of the 21st century. For the third time this week, we have a report of a fabuli...

  • August 7, 2015

    Texas Dem bigshot's police complaint busted by dash cam evidence

    Police dash cam and body camera evidence is turning out to be a remedy for fabricated complaints.  Just two days ago, I reported on the Connecticut professor arrested for filing a false report of racist abuse.  Now, a much bigger fish has b...

  • August 7, 2015

    DNC accidentally declares a winner in yesterday's debates

    I rarely agree with the Democratic National Committee, but yesterday they told us who they thought won the debates, albeit indirectly, and they were spot-on.  The only debater their Twitter feed attacked during the debates was Carly Fiorina, and...

  • August 7, 2015

    Debating Fox News moderation of GOP prime-time debate

    Fox News Channel tried two different approaches to political debate moderation yesterday: a rather straightforward approach by Bill Hemmer and Martha MacCallum in the second-tier candidates’ debate and a far more pointed and combative approach ...

  • August 6, 2015

    Comparing Reagan and Trump

    It may be heresy to some, but astute political observers are beginning to compare Donald Trump to Ronald Reagan. Speaking last night to Chris Matthews on MSNBC’s Hardball, Rudy Giuliani made the association (via Real Clear Politics):  ...

  • August 6, 2015

    70% of Americans know little to nothing at all about Planned Parenthood videos

    The liberal mainstream media may have lost their monopoly, but they retain an oligopolistic control over the mindshare of the American public. By choosing to minimize or completely ignore the five videos of released so far of shocking conduct by Plan...

  • August 5, 2015

    Professor arrested in racial profiling hoax

    False claims of racism and hate crimes related to sexuality seem to be endemic. So desirable is the status of victim that some people, especially those in academia, have been known to vandalize their own cars, attach nooses to their office doors, and...

  • August 5, 2015

    FBI is investigating Hillary Clinton's email server

    Could this be the beginning of the end for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign?  The possibility most assuredly cannot be ruled out, for several reasons. But first, the breaking news from the Washington Post, confirming that an FBI ...

  • August 5, 2015

    Latest Planned Parenthood undercover video deepens crisis for top abortion provider

    The undercover videos created by the Center for Medical Progress get worse and worse for Planned Parenthood.  Obviously, thought and care have gone into the sequencing of the release of the dozen or so videos CMP reportedly has made.  The l...

  • August 4, 2015

    Hillary Clinton's tax returns: the most hilarious chart

    There was a good reason why Hillary Clinton chose a Friday afternoon document-dump time slot to release her and Bill’s joint 2007-2014 tax returns.  The income total of $139 million over eight years is awfully one-perecenter-ish ($17.4 mil...

  • August 4, 2015

    Netherlands abandoning multiculturalism

    Famously progressive and permissive Holland has tried multiculturalism and decided that it just doesn’t work.  In a historic reversal, the Dutch are abandoning government policies in support of multiculturalism and demanding intregration a...

  • August 4, 2015

    Loretta Lynch and the Democrats' Hillary Problem

    You won’t see anything about it in the mainstream media, but the power players of the Democratic Party realize they have a Hillary Problem.  She has repeatedly demonstrated an inability to shrug off the appearance of corruption the way her...

  • August 3, 2015

    Report: Boehner avoiding vote on his speakership before August recess

    Rep. Mark Meadows put John Boehner on the spot with his “motion to vacate” the speakership last week, and now it appears that the challenge has legs.  According to an exclusive report by Matthew Boyle of Breitbart, Boehner’s fo...

  • August 3, 2015

    Debbie Wasserman Schultz <em>still</em> can't explain the difference between a socialist and a Democrat

    After embarrassing herself a few days ago by being dumbfounded when MSNBC host Chris Matthews asked her to explain the difference between a Democrat and a socialist, the chair of the Democratic National Committee had plenty of time to think about an ...

  • August 3, 2015

    Signs of Democrats' subterranean civil war emerge on <em>Meet the Press</em>

    Chuck Todd made a startling claim yesterday on Meet the Press: that the Hillary Clinton camp was behind the leaks about the Biden family urging the vice president to enter the race for the Democrats’ nomination, challenging Hillary Clinton....

  • August 2, 2015

    Iran's Supreme Leader Khameni publishes book on how to eliminate Israel

    Ayatollah Ali Khameni has published his version of Mein Kampf, a 416 page book outlining his strategy to eliminate Israel, which he describes as  “a cancerous tumor.” Although it is currently available only in Iran, an Arabic transla...

  • August 2, 2015

    Desperate Dems panicking over Hillary as stilettos are unsheathed

    The sheer awfulness of Hillary Clinton’s candidacy is sinking in on the power elite of the Democratic Party, and signals are being sent. It is going to be stiletto time soon. The lethal combination of her scandals and her unappealing, wooden, p...

  • August 1, 2015

    Huma Abedin and Cheryl Mills put on the spot by 'blockbuster' court order

    Judge Emmett Sullivan, who is hearing the FOIA lawsuit brought by Judicial Watch, has put Hillary Clinton’s top aides Human Abedin and Cheryl Mills (and their boss Hillary) on the spot, in a ruling JW president Tom Fitton describes as a “...

  • August 1, 2015

    Oops! Top French diplomat contradicts Kerry, says a 'no' vote could lead to a better deal with Iran

    The major premise of Obama administration efforts to force acceptance of the Iran deal by one third plus one of the Senate and House just got blown out of the water. The word “gaffe” comes from the French language and famously was defi...

  • July 31, 2015

    Iran Deputy Foreign Minister reveals what a big joke the inspections will be

    Iran will not allow US or Canadian inspectors at nuke facilities and will allow no access to “sensitive and military documents” by the International Atomic Energy Agency. AP reports: [I]n remarks broadcast by state TV on Thursday...

  • July 31, 2015

    Hillary's private server emails contained info from 5 intelligence agencies

    Hillary Clinton’s presidential prospects are evaporating as more details emerge on her abuse of classified information and her lies about it.  A McClatchy story published yesterday must have Democratic Party elders and the Obama White Hous...

  • July 30, 2015

    Federal judge threatens to hold IRS's Koskinen, Justice Dept. attorneys in contempt over Lerner email stalling

    Fed up with stalling and failure to follow orders he issued regarding the disclosure of status reports and recovered emails of Lois Lerner, US District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan yesterday threatened to hold the IRS Commissioner and Justice Departm...

  • July 30, 2015

    Big-budget Hollywood movie on Benghazi attack due out 2 weeks before Iowa Caucuses

    Hillary Clinton isn’t catching a lot of breaks from her former friends in Hollywood.  Or so it seems, considering the fact that big-name, big-budget director Michael Bay is premiering his latest move, 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Bengh...

  • July 29, 2015

    Mark Levin's <em>Plunder and Deceit</em>

    Once again Mark Levin, the constitutional scholar and radio talk show host, has written an important book that should be in the library of every thoughtful conservative. But this book is different, in that thoughtful conservatives should buy multiple...

  • July 29, 2015

    Planned Parenthood was fine with secretly recorded videos once upon a time

    Planned Parenthood hasn’t got many arguments to explain away the damning evidence of its grotesque trafficking in human body parts as revealed in the recordings made by the Center for Medical Progress.  So, in desperation, the largest memb...

  • July 29, 2015

    IRS's fake search for Lois Lerner emails didn't even cover 5 of 6 possible sources

    Face it: the IRS is a rogue agency, politicized, and contemptuously failing to undertake its duty to uncover evidence of political corruption within itself.  The fact that, unique among agencies of the federal government, it can presume guilt an...

  • July 29, 2015

    Dem Rep. Chaka Fattah indicted on racketeering charges

    In a move that surprised no one familiar with the guilty plea last year of his close aide, Gregory Naylor, U.S. representative Chaka Fattah of Philadelphia was indicted today. Rep. Fattah, 58, and four associates were charged with bribery; consp...

  • July 28, 2015

    Hillary and the Dems have a #blacklivesmatter problem

    The Democratic Party has painted itself into a corner with its heavy reliance on the black vote and its pandering to the extreme left. The problem is that the reservoir of hatred and violence on the black left is deep, and by pandering to it, the Dem...

  • July 27, 2015

    Dem, media outrage over Huckabee likening Iran deal to Holocaust

    Mike Huckabee is taking a lot of heat from President Obama, Democrats, media figures, and liberal Jewish groups over remarks he made over the weekend in a radio interview with Breitbart editor Alexander Marlow: “This president’s fore...

  • July 27, 2015

    Carly Fiorina demolishes EMILY's List representative on 'heavily edited' body parts videos

    Planned Parenthood and the abortion-supporting Democrats are taking on water over the stunning videos of PP reps haggling over the price of fetal body parts and discussing how to conduct abortions to preserve the most valuable organs for handing over...

  • July 27, 2015

    A sign of post-video abortion industry desperation

    Apparently, it’s pretty hard to generate volunteer excitement over “less crunchy” abortion practices.  So the abortion industry enthusiasts are resorting to paying  “grassroots” (paid grasroots?) organizers....

  • July 27, 2015

    Hillary reeling

    I am beginning to dread Hillary Clinton quitting the presidential race.  Here I have been gleefully looking forward to reporting on her many criminal acts, not just the classified email crimes, but bribery and many other acts – depending o...

  • July 25, 2015

    Secretary of Defense 'concerned' that 'Iran will not obey the agreement'

    Now he tells us. Well, actually he didn’t really tell us in the sense of an announcement to the general public or via the media. The declaration came during a question and answer session with troops in Iraq. As Breitbart reports: [Secretar...

  • July 24, 2015

    Back to Main Street

    During the summers of my boyhood, between the ages of 7 and 11, I was sent to stay for a week with my maternal grandmother in Sauk Centre, Minnesota each year. In that small (population about 3000 then; these days, about 4300) town I enjoyed the glor...

  • July 22, 2015

    Outrage: Iran deal commits U.S. to teach them how to defeat a cyber attack

    Perhaps the very worst aspect of the Iran deal reached in Vienna is the commitment of the U.S. and European powers to teach the Iranians how to resist attacks such as Stuxnet.  Although it has received very little media coverage (Adam Kredo of t...

  • July 21, 2015

    Scott Walker shows how it's done confronting video ambush by illegal alien family

    The illegal immigration activists who set up a video ambush of Scott Walker in Plainfield, Iowa thought they could really embarrass him, but Walker deftly turned the tables on them. The Washington Post’s account (video below): As pres...

  • July 20, 2015

    High-ranking cardinal rebukes Pope Francis on climate change encyclical

    The hierarchy of the Catholic Church is not much noted for open dissent, but Pope Francis has run into serious flak from a member of the College of Cardinals.  The Sydney Morning Herald reports: Cardinal George Pell has publicly criticised ...

  • July 20, 2015

    Obamacare plans much worse than predecessors

    Investor’s Business Daily summarizes a report from Avalere Health with stunning numbers on the results of Obamacare for policyholders, compared to the health insurance plans previously enjoyed: ... enrollees in ObamaCare plans have access ...

  • July 18, 2015

    A new application of a label?

    A reader from Cleveland writes: It was a subtle change, and you may have missed it.  But I suspect it will be significant.  Until yesterday, the term “domestic terrorist” was used mostly to describe misanthropic white America...

  • July 17, 2015

    K Street lobbyists pick their candidate: Hillary

    Hillary Clinton is reportedly building her presidential campaign on the theme of “fighting for the middle class.”  She had better hope her friends in the media pay no attention to those lobbyists behind the curtain on K Street. ...

  • July 17, 2015

    Unbelievable: <em>New York Times</em> claims snapback 'an Easy Way to Reimpose Iran Penalties'

    The New York Times has gone into full Obama Ministry of Propaganda mode with an article today by Somni Sengupta, headlined “‘Snapback’ Is an Easy Way to Reimpose Iran Penalties.” Actually, it will be far from easy to reimpo...

  • July 16, 2015

    Hillary's amazing shrinking lead

    The Democrats’ “inevitable” nominee, Hillary Clinton, is watching her polling lead evaporate at an alarming rate.  Nick Gass of Politico writes: Hillary Clinton is still leading the Democratic field for 2016, but her lead ...

  • July 15, 2015

    Video of Planned Parenthood official discussing fetal body parts for cash has abortion advocates scrambling

    The latest in a series of pro-life undercover sting videos features to reach the public shows Planned Parenthood’s senior director of medical research, Deborah Nucatola, graphically discussing over lunch how to harvest organs from a baby being ...

  • July 14, 2015

    Big 3 broadcast nets deep-six Obama's suburb-busting plan

    The Democrat-Media Complex have just told us what they fear the most as an issue in the 2016 election: President Obama’s plan to “fundamentally transform” suburbia (as explained today by Jeannie DeAngelis).  This is an issue th...

  • July 13, 2015

    Bizarre blowback as corporations ponder the end of Iran sanctions

    Among the many big corporations salivating at the prospect of the relaxation of sanctions against Iran, assuming some sort of deal is reached (no matter how inadequate), Boeing and Airbus are in the forefront.  Iran is a geographically large cou...

  • July 13, 2015

    Former head of Chicago Urban League charges Dems with racial insensitivity

    What goes around comes around.  The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) has chosen to back Rep. Tammy Duckworth as challenger to Republican Senator Mark Kirk in the 2016 election.  This has royally aggravated Andrea Zopp, former...

  • July 13, 2015

    Trump and the Democrats' fault line

    Perhaps the dirtiest little secret of the Democrats’ coalition is the absolute conflict of interest between the open borders/Hispanic wing of the party, viewed as the future of the party, and the black faction, whose reliable high turnout is es...

  • July 12, 2015

    IMF may commit billions of US tax dollars to Greece

    The US government and media have treated Greece as a problem for the European Union, with nothing to do with us -- or our tax dollars. That may be ending. As a friend pointed out to me, one of the 3 possible future lenders to Greece is the IMF. The I...

  • July 11, 2015

    Archuleta OPM hack disaster crystallizes Obama administration incompetence

    Katherine Archuleta resigned as head of the Office of Personnel Management yesterday, but the effects of her spectacular incompetence will harm the United States for many years to come. Her rise and fall symbolically and substantively capture the ess...

  • July 11, 2015

    Eric Holder continues his struggle for social justice at law firm that lobbies for big banks

    You just can’t be cynical enough when it comes to Eric Holder. The only attorney general to be cited for contempt by Congress is demonstrating his contempt for all the suckers who bought his line about crusading for the little guy. Mike Krieger...

  • July 11, 2015

    Democrat county chairman punches blind veteran at polling place (video)

    Leroy Jones is Chairman of the Essex County Democratic Committee, the third most populous county in New Jersey, whose county seat is Newark.  According to LiveLeak: Video was released purportedly showing Leroy Jones punching 75-year-old Bil...

  • July 11, 2015

    Signs of Dem panic over Hillary (#1 -- with video)

    Hillary Clinton’s spectacular lack of political skill, along with the trail of scandals that just won’t go away as they used in the heyday of quelling bimbo eruptions, is causing panic among Democratic Party insiders. You still have to us...

  • July 11, 2015

    Signs of Dem panic over Hillary (#2 -- with gossip)

    You have to read between the lines a little bit, but that’s the way it is with the secretive Hillary Clinton campaign.  Megan Murphy of the Financial Times writes, “Clinton’s stumbles fray Democratic nerves,” and chronicl...

  • July 9, 2015

    Prominent Australian scientists seek to block parliamentary investigation into the evidence for anthropogenic global warming

    Genuine science is built on the basis of skeptical inquiry, and people confident in their conclusions welcome independent investigation and confirmation.  But neither of those practices is comforting to the prominent Australian scientists who ar...

  • July 9, 2015

    Trey Gowdy proves Hillary's big fat subpoena lie

    In her increasingly notorious CNN interview with Brianna Keilar, Hillary Clinton told a whopper, justifying her deletion of the e-mails because she “never had a subpoena” (transcript here).  She should have known better than to try s...

  • July 8, 2015

    Hillary speaks

    There was a very important message in the subtext of Hillary Clinton’s widely heralded CNN interview with Brianna Keilar yesterday.  For those readers who enjoy the sound of nails on a chalkboard, the entire interview is embedded at the en...

  • July 7, 2015

    Stop Iran rally slated for NYC July 22

    A large “Stop Iran” rally is being planned for Times Square in New York City on July 22, timed to coincide with congressional deliberation of the deal being negotiated in Vienna.  This is based on the assumption that the deal will be...

  • July 7, 2015

    Greek voters and their 'morning after' problem

    I bet it felt just great for the almost two thirds of Greeks who voted a middle finger salute to the Northern Europeans who have been paying their bills.  But they are only beginning to reckon with the consequences.  The left-wing PM Tsipra...

  • July 6, 2015

    GOP field (except Trump) giving a pass to all four Dem candidates on sanctuary cities support

    A huge campaign issue for the GOP is being ignored, raising the specter of another presidential race in which the Republican nominee fails to press the Democrat’s weaknesses.  A gentlemanly campaign always loses to the bare knuckles of the...

  • July 6, 2015

    Video of black race rioters brutally beating white man at July 4 gathering taken down by YouTube

    According to a video posted to the Facebook account of QbabyOfTeamQ, a white man attending a July 4 concert in Fountain Square, the heart of downtown Cincinnati, was beaten bloody and unconscious.  Unfortunately, I am not able to embed the video...

  • July 6, 2015

    Spot the clown

    George Takei, who enjoys fame and a certain degree of fortune for his portrayal of a character in the original Star Trek, was apparently one of many homosexuals eager to avenge the victory of same-sex marriage in the Supreme Court.  Not content ...

  • July 5, 2015

    Hillary campaign publicly humiliates media with New Hampshire roping

    Hillary Clinton’s campaign showed the traveling media who’s boss yesterday during a campaign event in New Hampshire. As the pear-shaped presidential contender walked in an Independence Day parade in Gorham, New Hampshire, her aides kept m...

  • July 5, 2015

    Dark Money group threatens Dems on opposing Iran nuclear deal

    Even as the contours of the nuclear deal with Iran remain unknown (though a total cave in is strongly suspected), a progressive “Dark Money” group, whose donors’ identities are hidden, is threatening Democrats who might oppose the d...

  • July 5, 2015

    Hilarious: 'million person march' to take down Confederate flag in Columbia, SC draws almost nobody

    You might expect the usual disputes over crowd size when a leftist group calls a “million man person march.” Usually these feature aerial photos and arguments over how many individuals are crowded how densely into a certain amount of spac...

  • July 4, 2015

    Random killing Trumps San Francisco's sanctuary city policy

    The horrific murder of a pretty young woman by an illegal alien at a prime tourist location in San Francisco is validating the argument of Donald Trump on the influx of violent criminals, and causing at least some local media reflection in arguably t...

  • July 3, 2015

    As Puerto Rico's economy falters, Democrats benefit

    With Puerto Rico in a sustained economic decline and its government in arrears on debt, the exodus of its residents to the mainland is having a powerful benefit for the Democrats.  Alan Yuhas of the U.K. Guardian writes: Facing a crisis of ...

  • July 3, 2015

    Organized mob (of no particular race, according to media) ransacks a Walmart, attacks handicapped man in motorized cart

    The fragile bonds of civilization that keep society peaceful and orderly are fraying in the face of mobs organized online.  Last Sunday, an organized mob of about four dozen people attacked a Walmart in Macon, Georgia, intentionally doing damage...

  • July 2, 2015

    Bernie Sanders sends a chilling message to Hillary campaign

    Hillary Clinton and her campaign cronies saw something frightening yesterday: a fired-up crowd of ten thousand people in Madison, Wisconsin, packing the Veterans Memorial Coliseum to the rafters in support of a candidate best known as Not Hillary....

  • July 2, 2015

    Justice Department probe of airlines is too little, too late

    Faced with an American public fed up with cattle-car dense seating, extra fees for checked baggage, and perceived poor service from overworked airline employees, the Department of Justice is launching an antitrust probe of the industry, complete with...

  • July 2, 2015

    Kim Jong-un opens new terminal at Pyongyang Airport, reportedly has designer executed

    Pyongyang International Airport, which receives roughly 60 flights a week, yesterday opened a gleaming new terminal, after Kim Jong-un, the portly young heir to the Kim Dynasty, inspected it and offered what the North Koreans call “on the spot ...

  • July 2, 2015

    Report: U.S. blocking shipments of heavy arms to the Kurds fighting ISIS

    Does President Obama even want to defeat ISIS?  If so, why is the United States blocking shipments of heavy armaments to the Kurds?  They should be our best friends in the Muslim world and have demonstrated their capacity as excellent fight...

  • July 1, 2015

    Latest tranche of Hillary e-mails reveal Sid Blumenthal's large role as covert State Department official and fixer

    It turns out that Sidney Blumenthal, denied an official position at the State Department by the Obama administration, played a much larger role as a top aide to the secretary of state for much longer than has been realized.  The expression ...

  • July 1, 2015

    Five important takeaways from the latest release of Hillary Clinton's e-mails

    First of all, the release has been bowdlerized, with redactions of e-mails that were previously regarded as “routine” suddenly upgraded to “classified,” so as to shield their contents from public scrutiny.  The New York T...

  • June 30, 2015

    And now for something completely different...from the Rick Perry campaign

    I confess to a strong case of ambivalence toward the new Rick Perry presidential campaign commercial embedded below.  On the one hand, with its animation style incorporating elements of South Park and multiple references to popular television sh...

  • June 29, 2015

    Greek banks closed for 6 days as default looms Tuesday

    Greece must repay 1.6 billion euros to the International Monetary Fund Tuesday and lacks the cash.  That country’s central bank has closed its banks for six days and is limiting ATM withdrawals to 60 euros a day.  In essence, Greece i...

  • June 29, 2015

    The scariest aspect of the current financial crisis

    Greece is a comparatively small economy, so the economic crisis there ought to be manageable.  But there is something far more worrisome on the horizon, and the Bank for International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland is ringing the alarm bell. ...

  • June 29, 2015

    Father Jonathan Morris spat upon at gay marriage parade

    Father Jonathan Morris has gained prominence as a Fox News commentator on religious affairs.  A man with an air of gentleness and reason, he is as far from a hateful person as it is possible get.  Yet he reports on his Twitter feed that he ...

  • June 29, 2015

    How low will Hillary go in fighting off increasingly serious Bernie Sanders threat?

    At first, the Hillary forces tried laughing off Bernie Sanders, for it was a given that the nomination was rightly hers, and after all, who could take seriously a 73-year-old guy in rumpled suits from a tiny state full of white people?  But with...

  • June 29, 2015

    CNN legal analyst accidentally reveals worst-kept secret in American journalism

    Michael Kinsley long ago defined a gaffe as accidentally telling the truth, and that’s exactly what Jonathan Toobin did Friday.  And in good Beltway fashion, he walked it back as quickly as possible, convincing absolutely nobody. Brad W...

  • June 29, 2015

    'Sid Vicious' Blumenthal played covert role in shaping <em>The Daily Beast</em>

    Rival left-wing website Buzzfeed has revealed the secret role that Sidney Blumenthal played in the early stages of Tina Brown’s website, The Daily Beast.  A longtime political ally of Hillary Clinton, and sometime employee of the tax-exemp...

  • June 29, 2015

    Judge orders Brady Center to pay legal fees of gun dealer it sued

    It is all too rare that those who file a frivolous lawsuit undertaken for questionable reasons are forced to pay the legal fees of those whom they sue.  But it has just happened in Colorado.  Stephen Gutowski reports in the Washington Free ...

  • June 28, 2015

    TV talking head moment of the week

    It passed by with relatively little notice, but there was a remarkable moment on an MSNBC show last week. A well-known beltway pundit actually apologized for believing the White House over what his Republican sources told him.  P.J. Gladnick of ...

  • June 27, 2015

    Since Obama's economic record is so terrible, it's time to start ignoring GDP

    One characteristic of dysfunctional, self-serving bureaucracies is the elimination of measurement systems that make them look bad and the substitution of alterative metrics that make them look good.  In her brilliant and prophetic 1989 analysis ...

  • June 27, 2015

    Native Hawaiian protestors halt construction of $1.4-billion telescope

    Construction on the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) atop Mauna Kea on the Island of Hawaii has been brought to a stop by native Hawaiian protestors, who have built four “altars” (ahu, in Hawaiian) on the access road leading to the constructi...

  • June 27, 2015

    The politics of delusion

    The left rules, with an increasingly iron hand, the commanding heights of culture, including the arts, media, and the academy.  Capitalizing on the respect and power this endows the progressives with, they have been creating an alternative reali...

  • June 26, 2015

    Uh-oh! Hillary caught in lies about emails

    It is now established that Hillary Clinton hasn’t been telling the truth about her emails. The only question is how far the lies extend. This is not a comfortable basis on which to run a presidential campaign. So far, the deceptions are abou...

  • June 26, 2015

    IRS destroyed evidence in Lois Lerner case

    The cover-up of Lois Lerner’s email correspondence has been unusually thorough and effective. The former IRS senior official who took the Fifth Amendment has, through either a miraculous series of coincidences or an unusually effective criminal...

  • June 26, 2015

    SCOTUS declares 14th Amendment requires same sex marriage in 5-4 decision

    The Supreme Court declared today that the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment requires that the definition of marriage be altered.  The long (103 page) decision can be read here. Justice Kennedy joined the four liberals in the majority...

  • June 25, 2015

    Worse than Obamacare: SCOTUS upholds 'disparate impact' as discrimination

    As bad as today’s Supreme Court decision in King v. Burwell is, the Supreme Court sowed even worse mischief today.  After all, Obamacare can be repealed.   Today, the court definitively upheld the principle that even absent discrimina...

  • June 24, 2015

    Clinton Cash Comix

    Explaining the complexities of the vast amounts of money that flowed into, and the vast number of favors that flowed out from, the Clinton family and its various nonprofit arms is a challenge, especially when a significant share of the presidential e...

  • June 24, 2015

    Judicial Watch sues for Secret Service records on costs for Bill Clinton's travel to Orgy Island

    One of the most shameful episodes in Bill Clinton’s life is his buddying up with Jeffrey Epstein, hedge fund billionaire and proprietor of a private Island, Little Saint James,  where underage girls served as sex slaves.  And given hi...

  • June 23, 2015

    Researchers discover conservatives tend to have better self-control than liberals

    There is something quite shocking about a study just published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and summarized by the Los Angeles Times.  It’s not the conclusions, which are common sense (in the eyes of most conservat...

  • June 23, 2015

    Congratulations to Jesse Jackson, Jr.!

    Former Democrat congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr. was reunited with his wife, Sandi, yesterday, as he was released from a halfway house in Baltimore, and returned to his Chicago home, to serve the remainder of his prison term on home confinement.  ...

  • June 23, 2015

    Hillary foundering on the uranium sale

    The sale to Russia of 20% of existing U.S. uranium production, and 50% of potential reserves, may well be the issue that takes down Hillary Clinton.  She chose New Hampshire TV station WMUR as the venue to provide her rebuttal to Peter Schweizer...

  • June 22, 2015

    AP photo positioned and cropped to point gun at Ted Cruz's head

    Remember when Sarah Palin was blamed for the insane shooter who killed a federal judge and severely wounded Gabby Giffords?  Crosshairs on a map were blamed for inciting that violence.  As Paula Bolyard of  PJ Media reminds us: AB...

  • June 22, 2015

    20,000 pages of e-mails released showing MIT economist Gruber played key role in Obamacare

    As the Supreme Court prepares to issue its decision in King v. Burwell, whether or not the rewriting of the law’s explicit language on state exchanges only being eligible for subsidies is constitutional, embarrassing revelations indicate that d...

  • June 22, 2015

    Milwaukee Art Museum acquires portrait of Pope Benedict made out of condoms

    Some religions are more equal than others.  When Pamela Geller organized the “Draw Mohammed” contest, she was widely denounced by the mainstream media.  The New York Times editorialized, “[T]he Muhammad Art Exhibit and Con...

  • June 22, 2015

    U.S. appears to be playing footsie with Venezuela to save Marxist dictatorship

    Is the Obama administration planning to rescue the failing Venezuelan Chavista regime?  With oil prices down by half, the Marxists running Venezuela are running out of money and selling off their crown jewels to raise the cash to pay for essenti...

  • June 21, 2015

    Prominent Dem on MSNBC reveals the stupidity of gun grabbers

    President Obama couldn’t resist exploiting the deaths in Charleston to advance the gun control agenda, and he has a lot of company in the Democratic Party, which is desperate to energize its voters as the 2016 election looms with a very unappea...

  • June 21, 2015

    NY Times at center of international uproar over racist characterization of Irish

    The editors at the New York Times let slip by them a negative stereotype the Irish as violent drunkards in writing about the horrible deaths in Berkeley of Irish students, and the government and people of Ireland have taken grave offense. Michael Wal...

  • June 20, 2015

    IRS loses another round in its court battle with Z Street

    Tick, tick, tick.  A day of reckoning for the IRS gets closer with a unanimous opinion from a three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals in the Z Street case.  Z Street explains: The pro-Israel organization Z STREET was tod...

  • June 20, 2015

    <em>Salon</em> indicts itself as the ultimate example of liberal hypocrisy

    It is not clear who originally found and juxtaposed two tweets from Salon, but whoever did so deserves our thanks.  Although that online magazine ranks as one of the nastiest examples of self-righteous leftism, it now pulls ahead in the contest ...

  • June 20, 2015

    Hilarious: <em>NY Times</em> chronicles Hillary's problems hiding her wealth and elitism

    I have got to hand it to Amy Chozick of the New York Times for her deadpan article on Hillary Clinton’s “quandary” over what to do about the Hamptons this summer.  You see, she and Bill have for years vacationed there, among th...

  • June 19, 2015

    Valerie Jarrett profited from tax loophole She and Obama rail against

    For Valerie Jarrett, following President Obama’s lead as “point man” for repealing the carried interest loophole (which allows certain non-cap gain income to be taxed at capital gains rates), made good politics. But her personal wea...

  • June 19, 2015

    Read of the Day: The Hillary Paradox

    Andrew Ferguson, the witty and insightful senior editor of the Weekly Standard, has done one of those jobs Americans don’t want to do: he has re-read a shelf’s worth of admiring biographies of Hillary Clinton. The result is a wonderful an...

  • June 18, 2015

    Absolutely no one surprised that Rachel Dolezal in talks for TV reality show

    This was in the cards the moment the story broke.  Radaronline is reporting that Rachel Dolezal, who faked being a real black, has been offered two “reality” shows by production companies and is in talks with others.  According ...

  • June 18, 2015

    Windmills and solar plants kill hundreds of times more birds than oil spills

    Along with polar bears in ice floes drifting out to sea, a favorite image of the greenies is oil-soaked birds, flung before us every time there is an oil spill, even one so minor that the media expresses it in gallons, not barrels of oil in order to ...

  • June 18, 2015

    Brian Williams to move from NBC to MSNBC

    In a move that will bolster the credibility level of both networks, Brian Williams reportedly is to move from NBC News, where he formerly was anchor, to MSNBC.  The New York Times: NBC is planning to announce on Thursday that Brian Williams...

  • June 17, 2015

    Hillary took $200,000 from a kids' charity for a speech

    The stunning disclosures keep on coming, as the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation releases new data on contributions.  Patrick Hawley of The Daily Caller breaks the story: Hillary Clinton charged a kids’ charity $200,0...

  • June 17, 2015

    Hillary losing her inevitability

    R. Emmet Tyrrell of The American Spectator joins me in exposing the growing sense among Democrats that Hillary’s a loser.  In fact, he goes so far as to write: Hillary is going to have a very tough time winning her party’s nomin...

  • June 17, 2015

    Third arrest in Garland, TX 'Draw Mohammed' mass assassination attempt

    If the charges being made pan out, the conspiracy to commit mass murder in the name if Islam was bigger than first understood.  Todd L. Davis of NBC DFW reports: An indictment filed in federal court in Phoenix last week says that 43-year-ol...

  • June 17, 2015

    Shocking poll for Hillary

    The American Spectator and American Thinker are not the only ones calling out the danger signs popping up for Hillary’s supposedly inevitable nomination.  It turns out that if you dig down into the internals of a recent poll in New Hampshi...

  • June 16, 2015

    121 alien convicts ICE should have deported now face murder charges

    President Obama has claimed that prosecutorial discretion is the basis for his executive actions amounting to amnesty for illegal aliens. But the evidence is that no real discretion is being exercised.  Joel Gehrke of NRO has the story: One...

  • June 16, 2015

    Rachel Dolezal: Progressive Postmodernism's Pin-up Girl (or Maybe Guy)

    Tongues are wagging over the disclosure that Rachel Dolezal sued Howard University for discriminating against her as a white person. But this is a matter of applying outdated concepts like reality and consistency to the new postmodern era the progres...

  • June 16, 2015

    Russ Feingold PAC spent only 5% of money raised on direct support to candidates

    It’s quite the fashion among Democrats to set up a nonprofit organization and then use it to support your political machine while you’re out of office. The Clintons have done this on a scale lesser lesser lights can only envy. But that di...

  • June 16, 2015

    Hillary campaign outrages press pool

    Hillary Clinton reinforced her well-deserved reputation for arrogance and seriously aggravated the media covering her campaign with an unprecedented attempt to choose who will be permitted to act as pool reporter. Annie Linskey of the Boston Globe re...

  • June 15, 2015

    IRS using absurd excuse to avoid turning over newly discovered Lois Lerner e-mails

    The IRS is using a laughable excuse to stonewall the disclosure of 6,400 e-mails from Lois Lerner that were “forensically recovered.” Remember these names: Geoffrey J. Klimas and Stephanie Sasarak.  They are lawyers working for th...

  • June 15, 2015

    NY prison break fiasco may take down Governor Cuomo

    Law enforcement is starting to get egg on its face in upstate New York, and the long knives are being unsheathed.  The scion of one of the Democratic Party’s second-tier (just below the Kennedys and Clintons) dynasties has a bulls-eye on h...

  • June 14, 2015

    CNN anchor calls Dallas Police HQ attacker 'courageous and brave'

    The atmosphere of hatred ginned up against police nationwide received a boost yesterday from CNN anchor Fredericka Whitfield, who found it “courageous and brave” for a deranged gunman to have attacked the Dallas Police Headquarters with b...

  • June 14, 2015

    Hillary throws a slow ball over the plate and Rubio knocks it out of the park

    Obviously, the Hillary campaign is so arrogant that they don’t pay any attention at all to the leading GOP candidates. How else can one explain that the intended clincher line of the speech she gave yesterday at Roosevelt Island played directly...

  • June 14, 2015

    Hillary's gaffe-filled Roosevelt Island re-launch

    Hillary Clinton’s re-launch speech yesterday was as wooden as ever. Has she been seeing a speech coach that is an android? The implicit message of needing a re-launch was that the original launch was a dud. So you’d think that the campaig...

  • June 13, 2015

    In 2008, ABC News 'reported' that by today, 'global warming' meant NYC would be flooded, milk $12.99 a gallon, gasoline $9

    Only seven years ago, a disgraceful fear-mongering ABC News Good Morning America broadcast that “reported” doom would be upon us by today.  Scott Whitlock of Newsbusters reported at the time the outlandish attempt to panic Americans ...

  • June 13, 2015

    'Pelosi knifes Obama' on trade bill

    House Democrats humiliated President Obama yesterday, sending his Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) bill down to defeat, 302-126.  The pro-free trade Wall Street Journal did not exaggerate with its headline, “Pelosi knifes Obama.”...

  • June 13, 2015

    Dallas Police HQ under siege

    Generally, we do not cover breaking news at American Thinker, as analysis is our forte.  But for several hours now, a van that appears to be armored has been attacking the Dallas Police Department headquarters with gunfore and has dropped off se...

  • June 13, 2015

    Huge problem for gun-grabbers: Polls reveal Americans know guns make their homes and neighborhoods safer

    A new poll from Rasmussen shows that Americans overwhelmingly want to live in neighborhoods where gun ownership is permitted.  A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just 22% of Likely U.S. Voters would feel safer livi...

  • June 13, 2015

    Declassified CIA memo shows Bill Clinton crippled anti-terrorism efforts in lead-up to 9/11

    In a classic Friday-afternoon document dump, a CIA memo written by then-agency head George Tenet in 2005 has been released, incriminating the Bill Clinton administration in crippling anti-terror efforts.  Stephen Dinan of the Washington Times wr...

  • June 12, 2015

    Shia Iran backing Sunni Taliban with cash

    As the Obama administration dangles the carrot of up to $50 billion's worth of immediate economic relief from sanctions for Iran, the mullahs are already using spare cash to invest in Sunni fighters for the Taliban in Afghanistan.  Margherit...

  • June 12, 2015

    Hillary embarrassing herself with Roosevelt Island 're-launch' tomorrow

    Hillary Clinton's campaign comprises a bunch of clueless dolts, who don't understand symbolism at all.  The choices they have made for tomorrow's event intended to bolster a flailing effort are only digging her hole deeper. It wil...

  • June 12, 2015

    Did the Hillary campaign slip the notorious fake list to Diane Rehm?

    I admit that I may have been insufficiently cynical when it came to discussing NPR’s syndicated host Diane Rehm yesterday.  I took it for granted that Rehm herself was perusing anti-Semitic websites and Facebook pages in order to come up w...

  • June 12, 2015

    New U.N. peacekeepers rape/prostitution scandal

    The many horrific stories of U.N. peacekeepers engaging in illicit sex, often involving underage girls who trade sex for food and medicine, have a new chapter.  The Associated Press/Daily Mail reports: UN peacekeepers forced hundreds of Hai...

  • June 11, 2015

    NPR host resurrects anti-Semitic canard

    Diane Rehm, whose political interview show is nationally distributed by National Public Radio, is considered a peer of the realm when it comes to DC liberal pundits, able to interview pretty much any Democrat she chooses, and almost any Republican....

  • June 11, 2015

    High ranking Senate Dem threatens government shutdown

    Remember when GOP lawmakers were called suicide bombers, arsonists, and kidnappers by a senior White House spokesman for raising the specter of a shutdown? Well, the shoe is on the other foot, but don’t expect any heated rhetoric from the WH. R...

  • June 10, 2015

    Even lefty MSM laughing at NY Times story on Rubio 'luxury speedboat'

    As I type this, the Morning Joe crew (no, not Fox and Friends), including Mika Brzezinski, is laughing at the New York Times front-page story on Marco Rubio’s personal finances that portrayed him as squandering money on a “luxury speedboa...

  • June 10, 2015

    Two State Department whistleblowers threaten Hillary with cover-up charges

    Evidence of a cover-up of scandal at the State Department during Hillary Clinton’s tenure as secretary of state is in the hands of a congressional committee and has been leaked to the Washington Examiner.  At this point, it is a loose thre...

  • June 10, 2015

    Baltimore state's attorney Marilyn Mosby filed gag order motion in <em>wrong court</em>

    Marilyn Mosby is well on her way to laughingstock status.  Perhaps “Mosbying” will join “Harfing” in the Urban Dictionary soon.  Chuck Ross of the Daily Caller reports: Baltimore city state’s attorney Mari...

  • June 9, 2015

    Obama admits still no 'complete strategy' for ISIS

    A year after ISIS took control of Mosul and 18 months after dismissing it as “jayvee,” President Obama still does not have a “complete strategy,” and he is blaming it on the Iraqis and the Pentagon.  Speaking at a press c...

  • June 9, 2015

    The great McKinney, Texas Rorschach inkblot test

    Cell phone video of a suburban Dallas cop pinning a bikini-clad black teenager with his knee on her back and drawing a gun on a crowd of black teens has become the latest cause of the race grievance industry.  Last night “hundreds” o...

  • June 9, 2015

    Why is the New York Times acting so guilty over the Clinton Family Foundation donation to its pet charity?

    The New York Times is doing an excellent imitation of an institution with something to hide.  Or, in the charitable interpretation, incompetent. The story began yesterday, as I noted here.  The Free Beacon dug through records and discove...

  • June 9, 2015

    President Obama's loose tether to reality

    President Obama has made so many statements a variance with reality that it is time to question whether he is delusional or merely lying.  My hope is on the latter.  If he really believes his spin (as he once told a reporter – "Y...

  • June 8, 2015

    Turkey's election takes nation a step back from the Islamist brink

    Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had plans to move his nation toward an authoritarian Islamist dictatorship, vastly enhancing the powers of the presidency, and needed an election to provide him the 400 votes in parliament necessary for c...

  • June 8, 2015

    Report: Brazilian Jews being forced to register

    I hope this turns out to be incorrect.  The ever-vigilant Pamela Geller reports on something deeply disturbing: Israel Bloom from Portugal’s blog AMIGO DE ISRAEL (Friend of Israel) sent me this. It’s 1938 all over again. Diff...

  • June 8, 2015

    Hillary's nightmare scenario accelerating

    Democrats from the grassroots on up are awakening to the awful truth: Hillary Clinton is a scandal-ridden, unlikable, arrogant, nasty, wealth-obsessed, awkward, gaffe-prone nightmare of a nominee.  Inevitable?  Well, she’s got the par...

  • June 8, 2015

    Cosmo editor admits to 'liberal cheerleading'

    One reason why the female vote supports Democrats far more than males is the serious bias among media directed at women.  It is rare that this is admitted, but the editor of Cosmopolitan just did so on Sunday.  Jeffrey Meyer of Newsbusters ...

  • June 8, 2015

    Clinton-controlled charity donated $100k to NYT-controlled charity in year the paper endorsed her for president

    One hand washes the other.  In the oh-so-cozy circles of the elites, charity is about a lot more than helping deserving causes.  Charities and their fundraisers act as gatekeepers and markers of prestige.  So when the charity sponsored...

  • June 8, 2015

    Obama admin quietly drops amnesty preparations

    The courts have spoken, and even President Obama has gotten the message.  Jerry Markton reports in the Washington Post: A series of legal setbacks have halted the government’s intensive preparations to move forward with President Obam...

  • June 7, 2015

    US Embassy moves Fourth of July Celebration to June 4 'out of respect for Ramadan'

    In a mind-boggling gesture of official US Government dhimmitude, the US Embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia celebrated our sacred Independence Day holiday on June 4, so as to avoid any conflict with the month-long Ramadan celebration. If you think any Isla...

  • June 7, 2015

    Carly and the Debates: A Simple Plan

    A number of my politically astute friends are deeply upset that Carly Fiorina is not moving into the top ten GOP candidates in polling, the arbitrary cutoff line being used by Fox News to determine eligibility for the very first televised debate amon...

  • June 6, 2015

    Connecticut's tax greed may cost it dearly

    Connecticut seems determined to follow the Illinois path into a death spiral of higher taxes driving out business, leading to less revenue and the need to raise taxes on the remaining businesses unable to flee.  The Democrat governor and legisla...

  • June 6, 2015

    New York Times ignored 15 unpaid tickets of Obama in 2007

    You can’t get much more hypocritical than the New York Times, which acted as a megaphone for the oppo research efforts of American Bridge, the pro-Hillary operation founded by David Brock.  The “scandal” amounted to four traffi...

  • June 6, 2015

    The panic that dare not speak its name: Hillary looks like a loser to Dems

    No Democrats are willing to go on the record with their doubts about Hillary Clinton’s electability – not even the gaggle of hopeless, sad-sack nominal opponents for the nomination: Lincoln “metric system” Chafee, Bernie ...

  • June 5, 2015

    Israel and Saudi Arabia publicly acknowledge secret bilateral talks

    Sometimes, high school romance is the best analogy for diplomacy.  If so, then Saudi Arabia just told the other kids she’s been secretly dating Israel despite her well-known declaration back in freshman year that Israel was totally uncool....

  • June 5, 2015

    Trouble in Dem-land as unions freeze cash contributions

    For decades, labor unions have floated the Democratic Party with massive contributions (based on money taken out of the paychecks of members who are forced to join as a condition of employment) and donations of manpower, expecially useful in get-out-...

  • June 4, 2015

    Baltimore state's attorney Mosby seeks to hide Freddie Gray autopsy

    Marilyn Mosby, the state’s attorney prosecuting six Baltimore police officers, had no concerns over speaking out on her evidence on a national stage, but now she wants to deny the public access to the autopsy performed on the late Freddie Gray....

  • June 3, 2015

    Clinton Foundation set-up fundraising arm in Sweden as Iran sanctions deliberated at Hillary's State Department

    The Clinton Foundation followed Rahm Emanuel’s adage of never letting a crisis go to waste when Swedish companies faced potential blacklisting over sanctions on doing business with Iran. John Solomon ands Julie Riddell of the Washington Times r...

  • June 2, 2015

    Terrible news for Hillary in latest polls

    Two new polls released this morning show that Hillary Clinton is losing the trust of the American people, other than Democrats, who remain committed to her.  Both the polls by CNN/Opinion Research Corporation and ABC News/Washington Post show th...

  • June 2, 2015

    Evidence mounts that Hillary's campaign in crisis

    Face it, MSM: the Hillary Clinton campaign is an Edsel, unsalable because she is unappealing and untrustworthy.  But the media will not report it this way until there is a viable alternative in sight for the Dems.  O’Malley can’...

  • June 1, 2015

    Meet the Canary Mission

    It is no secret that Jew-hatred and Islamic supremacism are growing and well-organized phenomena, and that efforts to fight back are scattered.  An organized response, however, is growing.   The Canary Mission (canarymission.org) is a da...

  • June 1, 2015

    China's hi-tech stealth-hunter technology revealed

    The comforting assumption that the U.S. can rely on a technological advantage to counter China’s aggressive push in Asia may need some re-thinking.  Popular Science presents pictures and descriptions of Divine Eagle, a high-altitude/low ob...

  • June 1, 2015

    Qatar agrees to temporarily extend travel ban on ex-Gitmo detainees released for Bergdahl

    The United States has paid an unknown price to temporarily avert a propaganda and potential tactical disaster arising from the release of accused deserter Bowe Bergdahl.  Faced with a chorus of concern that the five senior Taliban leaders exchan...

  • June 1, 2015

    Univision keeping the lid on Democrats' coalition of victims

    One key to the future viability of the Democratic Party is suppressing the serious conflicts of interest between its black and Hispanic constituents.  The influx of 12 to 16 million mostly low-skilled labor force entrants across the southern bor...

  • June 1, 2015

    Privileges of the political class (California edition)

    California taxpayers (like me) pay the highest or second-highest tax rates on income, sales, and gasoline in  the nation, and fund a hundred-billion-plus state budget that doesn’t have enough money to maintain the state's highways, muc...

  • May 30, 2015

    <em>Majority</em> of Democrats favor allowing illegal immigrants to vote

    Farewell, sweet America. The concept of citizenship is dead among a majority of Democrats.  Ramsussen reports the results of a phone survey that spells doom: The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that one-out-of-three...

  • May 30, 2015

    Five reasons why the Dennis Hastert scandal disgusts me

    1. It looks like the man Republicans turned to as a unifier in the wake of Newt Gingrich being driven from the speakership engaged in homosexual sexual abuse when he was a high school teacher and wrestling coach back in Yorkville, Illinois, prior to ...

  • May 29, 2015

    Flashback: Marilyn Mosby was all for protecting private property when it was her own

    Weasel Zippers has unearthed quite a blast from the past.  Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby, who notoriously told the mobs, “Our time is now,” was not enthusiastic about providing a “space to destroy” (in th...

  • May 29, 2015

    Bernie Sanders in 1972: Women 'fantasize about being raped'

    Oops!  The current darling of the American left committed a Thought Crime in 1972.  There is probably no hot button hotter among the feminist left than the contention that women all secretly want to be raped.  And what with rape on cam...

  • May 29, 2015

    National Spelling Bee and political correctness

    The National Spelling Bee has a new winner.  Actually, two winners, in a tie.  Congratulations to Gokul Venkatachalam, 14, of Chesterfield, Missouri, and Vanya Shivashankar, 13, of Olathe, Kansas.  They join winners of recent years, Sa...

  • May 27, 2015

    The Clintons' financial rabbit hole gets deeper

    The Associated Press has broken the story that Bill Clinton created and used a previously undisclosed LLC shell company to receive and pass along “consulting” income to the former commander in chief.  There is nothing inherently shad...

  • May 26, 2015

    Wow! Egyptian TV political panel discusses Obama's climate-change-is-our-biggest-security-threat address to Coast Guard Academy

    Update: Dang, it is a spoof. Hold onto your hats, and don’t start watching this while there’s hot coffee in your mouth.  They don’t discuss President Obama in such frank terms on American television, but then again, Egypt f...

  • May 26, 2015

    56 shot, 12 dead in Chicago's Memorial Day weekend

    The carnage among black young men in Chicago escalates as the weather warms, yet no leftists or race agitators seem to care.  The police shooting of a young man in Cleveland draws demonstrations, but the ongoing large scale slaughter in Chicago ...

  • May 26, 2015

    Mayor of Antwerp threatened: 'Convert to Islam or die'

    The wonders of diversity are on display in Antwerp, Belgium, the largest municipality in that country and second largest metropolitan area.  Gateway Pundit picked up the news from European sources: A sign was hung in a public square in Antw...

  • May 25, 2015

    SecDef Ash Carter tiptoes around Obama administration failure in Iraq

    It’s got to be tough being Ashton Carter, Secretary of Defense for President Obama. When your boss persists in a failed strategy and you desperately reckon with the disaster pending, you either resign and leave the Republic in the hands of a le...

  • May 25, 2015

    Paul Krugman Busted

    Like some global warming theorist, Paul Krugman has been caught massaging the data to support his theory. He’s not “adjusting” temperature data like the warmists, but he is presenting data in a form that omits the 40% of the data th...

  • May 25, 2015

    The awful truth about Hillary is beginning to dawn on Dems

    We live in an age of narratives, not news. The narrative in the mainstream media is that Hillary Clinton is “inevitable” as the Democratic nominee, with supporting polling data from the New York Times (that oversamples Democrats and under...

  • May 25, 2015

    Airline flights grounded for lack of fuel in major oil exporting country

    It turns out that it’s pretty easy to screw-up an intrinsically rich, purportedly market-based economy with price controls and corruption. Witness the state of chaos reigning in the Nigerian fuel industry. AP reports: Nigerian airlines gro...

  • May 25, 2015

    Jerry Brown pitches another plan to screw the middle class and especially the wealthy

    California operates an outrageous system of extortion, masquerading as traffic fines, as a way to raise billions of dollars in revenue without making the highest-in-the-nation taxes even farther out of line with national norms. Not only have fines be...

  • May 24, 2015

    What Hillary hasn't been able to cover-up on Benghazi

    Byron York of the Washington Examiner has sacrificed part of his holiday weekend to plough through the tranche of Hillary Clinton private server emails released late Friday. His take is quite interesting:  The only warnings about Benghazi s...

  • May 24, 2015

    Missing Hillary's Libya forest for the Benghazi trees

    Deplorable as were the deaths in Benghazi, a much larger disaster can be laid at Hillary's feet, and the just-released emails prove the point. By far the most interesting take on the nearly 300 Hilary emails released in a classic pre-holiday week...

  • May 24, 2015

    Obama Memorial Day tweet from the Democrats slammed

    The official Democratic Party Twitter account, @TheDemocrats, is being slammed by a media figure who himself has a history as a Democrat operative.  Jake Tapper of CNN has, by almost all accounts, worked hard (harder than George Stephanopoulos b...

  • May 23, 2015

    Thin gruel: Sanitizers did their job deleting Hillary's emails

    The first release of doubly-sanitized emails from Hillary Clinton’s private, unsecured email server proves to be exactly what Charles Krauthammer called it: “A farce.”  She got her Clinton Foundation donors’ money’s...

  • May 23, 2015

    Did Sid Vicious trip himself up over the Foreign Agents Registration Act?

    If the Obama administration were remotely as honest as the Nixon administration was, the attorney general would be investigating Sidney Blumenthal over his potential offenses in violation of the Foreign Agents Registration Act. We know about the pote...

  • May 20, 2015

    Top Dem raising 'alarm bells' over Obama Ramadi claims

    It’s becoming clear that President Obama really is a Marxist – but of the Groucho, not Karl school.  “Are you going to believe me, or what you see with your own eyes?” is the next logical answer for administration apologi...

  • May 20, 2015

    Ferguson protesters demand paychecks for gig they were hired to perform

    This would be hilarious if the consequences hadn’t been so disastrous.  The destructive riots in Ferguson, Missouri over the bogus narrative that Michael Brown was shot while his hands were raised were far from spontaneous.  Protester...

  • May 20, 2015

    FTC cracks down on 'bogus charities' - no word yet on Clinton Foundation

    The Federal Trade Commission (not the IRS division until recently headed by Lois Lerner) is accusing four cancer philanthropies of charity fraud and bilking donors out of $187 million.  The FTC is demanding restitution.  What is most intere...

  • May 19, 2015

    Report: Staff fleeing Clinton Foundation as Chelsea takes over

    File this one under “not surprising.”  Chelsea Clinton, having grown up entitled, arrogant, and accomplishment-less, is screwing up the first executive job handed her on a silver platter.  Remind you of anyone? Richard Johnso...

  • May 19, 2015

    Jeb Bush-affiliated company paid Hillary $225K for a speech

    Jeb Bush already has plenty of problems with the GOP base, but this latest revelation, dug out of Hillary Clinton’s financial disclosure form, will up the poison dosage pretty close to the fatal level.  Lee Fang of The Intercept, the websi...

  • May 19, 2015

    Citadel of progressive higher education to cut hundreds of staff, including 70 faculty

    Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit calls it “the higher education bubble” – the inflation of salaries, administrative staff, physical plant, and perks in universities and colleges, all paid for by tuition hikes, parental sacrifice, and s...

  • May 19, 2015

    More trouble ahead for Jeb?

    As everyone knows, it’s been a tough ten days for Jeb Bush, and not just regarding his bumbling response to Megyn Kelly’s rather straightforward “If you knew then what you know now…” question.  The revelation today...

  • May 19, 2015

    Frontiers of Islamophobia

    There is so much that is claimed to be “Islamophobia” that it’s difficult to keep up.  But this one surely bears mention.  Daniel Greenfeld of Frontpagemag reports on Homaidan al-Turki, a Saudi rapist imprisoned in Colorad...

  • May 19, 2015

    Hillary caught in another e-mail lie

    Oops!  Under oath, too.  Breitbart reports: Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has been caught in another lie regarding her private email accounts that she used during her tenure at the agency. Though her lawyer David Kendall...

  • May 18, 2015

    Former ABC News anchor turns on Stephanopoulos

    “He really isn’t a journalist” is a devastating, if accurate assessment of George Stephanopoulos’s activities at ABC News, where he is the front man, the most visible embodiment of that organization. And this doesn’t com...

  • May 18, 2015

    Self-immolation? Look who's stepping up to play defense for Hillary on ABC as Steph falters

    You would think that the on-air talent at ABC News would get a clue and realize that the position of defensive lineman for Team Hillary carries with it risk of injuries. But that hasn’t stopped ABC News (and NPR, too) political analyst Cokie Ro...

  • May 18, 2015

    Clueless Dem Senate candidate apologizes for non-PC war whoop

    Ethnic political correctness has tripped-up Democrat Congresswoman and Senate candidate Loretta Sanchez, and forced her to apologize for letting out a pretend Indian war whoop at a Democrat state convention in California. CNN reports: Sanchez wa...

  • May 17, 2015

    Peter Schweizer says Stephanopoulos still has not fully disclosed Clinton Foundation ties to viewers

    In a hard-hitting column for USA Today, Clinton Cash author Peter Schweizer takes on George Stephanopoulos and ABC News, calling them our for continuing to obfuscate ties to the Clinton Foundation by the network’s chief newsman. He lays it on t...

  • May 17, 2015

    Sharpton's daughter sues NYC for $5 million over sprained ankle

    The apple doesn’t fall very far from the tree, even in the Big Apple.  Or, as Kathianne Bonniello of the New York Post puts it, “She learned at the feet of the master.” Shakedown artist Al Sharpton’s eldest child wan...

  • May 17, 2015

    Jewish neighborhood in Chicago hires off-duty cops to protect against anti-Semitic attacks: Chicago cops criticize it

    It’s come to this. Not only in Paris and Malmo, but right here in the United States of America, Orthodox Jewish communities feel besieged and are paying for security forces that the police cannot or will not provide. And the police (those not g...

  • May 17, 2015

    MSNBC hits a new low

    The mind boggles at the mentality on evidence at the Comcast-owned news network. Kudos to Kristinn Taylor at Gateway Pundit for noticing, publicizing, and saving the evidence after a grown-up (apparently there still is one) at MSNBC deleted the tweet...

  • May 16, 2015

    Liberal affirmative action racism facing new threat

    Finally, push is about to come to shove regarding the systemic racism exercised in the name of diversity.  Almost anyone paying attention realizes that nearly all elite universities and colleges discriminate against Asian-Americans in admissions...

  • May 16, 2015

    U.S. attorney's bizarre statement on Tsarnaev death sentence

    There is something very suspicious in the statement made by U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz, following the death sentence handed out by the jury that convicted  Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.  The Blaze reports on it: After a jury sentenced Boston Mara...

  • May 15, 2015

    Stephanopoulos and ABC News now in a no-win situation

    George Stephanopoulos’s self-recusal from the GOP debates constitutes an admission of his lack of impartiality, but he refuses to take it to the logical conclusion and recuse himself from the presidential campaign. That is going to be increasin...

  • May 15, 2015

    MSNBC ratings plummet to lowest in 10 years

    Wednesday was a terrible day for MSNBC, though in fairness there hasn’t been a good day for a long, long time. The Comcast-controlled cable news outlet had its worst day in ten years. Mediaite (hat tip: Powerline) provides charts for the prime ...

  • May 15, 2015

    Time for Dems to apologize for their ghoulish 'infratstructure' claims in Amtrak disaster

    Even before the bodies were all recovered, Democrats started blaming Republicans for the accident, alleging that Amtrak had been starved of capital investment, causing the crash.  Now, those claims have been revealed to be utterly false in the s...

  • May 15, 2015

    News from Saudi Arabia you won't see in the MSM

    A friend in Saudi Arabia who must remain anonymous writes to me with a couple of telling little signs from Saudi cable TV  telling us the direction things are going in the Kingdom: 1.  A real shocker, at least for me.  Israeli new...

  • May 15, 2015

    Why did the Census Bureau pay a racist left wing wacko $15 to 20k to address employees?

    Once upon a time, Dick Gregory was a talented comedian, but that was decades ago, and the man has descended into race and conspiracy obsessions. However, that didn’t stop the Census Bureau from paying him between $15 and 20 thousand dollars plu...

  • May 14, 2015

    What's up with all those Jeb Bush gaffes?

    Jeb Bush, the overwhelming frontrunner in the GOP Money Primary, has not covered himself in glory this week. Following his amazingly inept discussion of his brother’s decision to invade Iraq, yesterday he inadvertently declared himself to be ru...

  • May 14, 2015

    Pope continues his leftward course with recognition of 'Palestinian State'

    Pope Francis, the first Jesuit pope, is proving true to that order’s leftist inclinations. Yesterday, his Vatican crossed a line: The Vatican announced Wednesday that it would soon sign a treaty that includes recognition of the “stat...

  • May 14, 2015

    Breaking: George Stephanopoulos donated $50k to Clinton Foundation, did not disclose when interviewing Peter Schweizer

    Update: Even worse, it's now $75K that he cops to. See also further update below. The last nail in the coffin of MSM credibility? Dylan Byers of Politico reports: ABC News chief anchor George Stephanopoulos has given $50,000 to the Clinto...

  • May 13, 2015

    Record Antarctic ice hampers research scientists

    Remember when the polar ice caps were supposed to be melting due to global warming?  That’s why they call it “climate change” now, a meaningless construct that merely affirms what we’ve always known: the Earth’s cli...

  • May 13, 2015

    Chicago debt downgraded to junk status

    Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel must be wondering why he bothered to get re-elected.  The unfunded pension liability financial crisis that the Windy City has been ducking for years now just got a step closer to what everyone dreads: catastrophic prop...

  • May 13, 2015

    Signs of panic in the Clinton War Room

    For more than a quarter of a century, the Clintons have followed a strategy for overcoming the scandals that arise out of their personal greed and sexual misbehavior, one that always worked – until now. The pattern is familiar.  Dismiss...

  • May 13, 2015

    President Noselfawareness denounces parents who send their children to private schools and join private clubs

    The president who sends his kids to the ultra-elite Sidwell Friends School and hasn’t been seen playing a public golf course in many years beclowned himself yesterday.  Susan Jones of CNS News writes: President Barack Obama told a gat...

  • May 12, 2015

    Signs of savvy in GOP candidates dealing with biased media

    One of the key ingredients in a successful Republican candidacy for president is skill in handling media bias. Ronald Reagan was a master of the craft, but others who followed were much less so. Perhaps the worst moment of the Romney campaign in 2012...

  • May 11, 2015

    Obama's Gulf Summit collapsing (along with Arab support for his Iran negotiations)

    Saudi Arabia’s King Salman delivered a slap in the face of President Obama when the state-run Saudi press agency announced late yesterday that the King had better things to do than coming to Camp David for a retreat with President Obama and oth...

  • May 11, 2015

    Anti-cop race agitators claim another victim

    A young woman with a winning smile is now unemployed, thanks to her buying into the lies of the race agitators and repeating them on social media. Sierra C-Babi Mccurdy used to have a job at Subway, until she took to Facebook and celebrated the murde...

  • May 10, 2015

    Brit leftists riot protesting Tory victory, deface war memorial on VE Day

    The British people have spoken, and the Left in Britain has replied, “Shut up!” Unable to accept democracy, the hard left in Britain rioted yesterday, violently protesting their failure to win control of the Mother of Parliaments, and sho...

  • May 10, 2015

    Pentagon warns of China's island-building in the South China Sea

    Finally, the Department of Defense is officially taking note of China’s aggressive moves to assert sovereignty over disputed areas in the South China Sea. But it is just beginning to catch up to the danger American Thinker has been warning of. ...

  • May 10, 2015

    Wealthy town has a fit over #WhiteLivesMatter flyer

    Honestly, this is hilarious. There are few things more pathetic than wealthy liberals who go out of their way to avoid contact with the black underclass protesting their racial tolerance and throwing hissy-fits as a means of demonstrating their enlig...

  • May 10, 2015

    Steyn on Garland, Texas terror attack

    I am very sorry to learn from his latest column that Mark Steyn has been ill, but very glad that he has managed to find the energy to comment on the media and political response to the terror attack in Garland, Texas. As you would expect, he is witty...

  • May 10, 2015

    Yet another rape hoax busted

    Rape hoaxes seem all the rage, from Lena Dunham claiming to have been raped in her best-selling autobiography to Rolling Stone getting a fraternity shut down by a fraudulent story of an improbably gang rape. The Daily Caller brings us the story: Y...

  • May 10, 2015

    NY Times seems to announce Jews are now the majoritiy in the US

    Jews number around 4 million in the United States, roughly 1.4% of the population. But this tiny group obviously looms large in the minds of New York Tims headline writers. Or else, in their minds, being a "minority" means having dark skin,...

  • May 9, 2015

    38 Excuses for Baltimore Riots

    As seen on TV. Via our friends at Grabien:    ...

  • May 9, 2015

    Enviro-crazies trying to get court to tear down the dam that supplies San Francisco's water

    The drought (aka, the failure to build new water storage capacity while population doubled) that plagues California has not stopped the fundamentalists of the Green Religion from pursuing one of their most insane demands. They want to tear down the d...

  • May 9, 2015

    Uh-oh! Terrible news for Hillary in new poll

    How long will it take for Democrats to realize that Hillary Clinton is terrible candidate who will lead them to disaster in 2016?  That is the key question that most of them are unable to face as the former first lady and disastrous secretary of...

  • May 9, 2015

    Look who's standing up to jihadis!

    Norway is one of the most politically correct countries on earth, so this, via Eugene Volokh, caught me by surprise: The Local [Norway] reports: Norway has scrapped its longstanding blasphemy law, meaning it is now legal to mock the beliefs o...

  • May 9, 2015

    Dem Senator: working hard to escape poverty 'not right'

    Democrats from blue states have a tendency to let the mask slip. The idea that work should be related to standard of living seems wrong to some of them. Among them would seem to be Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey, who recently posted this mind-bend...

  • May 8, 2015

    Has ISIS hacked the Associated Press, or are they serious?

    My jaw dropped when I saw the tweet below, purportedly from the Associated Press. “Pamela Geller says she has no regrets about Prophet Muhammad cartoon contest that ended in 2 deaths”   Pamela Geller says she has no regrets a...

  • May 7, 2015

    IRS arguments draw derision from D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals

    The IRS was almost laughed out of court yesterday when the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals heard oral arguments in the case Z Street v. Koskinen.  Z Street, founded by AT contributor Lori Lowenthal Marcus, is a pro-Israel educational group that ap...

  • May 6, 2015

    Baltimore prosecutor Mosby shockingly incompetent

    It is already clear that Marilyn Mosby, the state’s attorney who is prosecuting the Baltimore Six, is not up to the responsibilities of her job.  The only questions are: 1. how deeply incompetent? and 2. what consequences will result from ...

  • May 6, 2015

    Do Judicial Watch and Wayne Allyn Root now have the smoking gun on IRS?

    Thanks to assistance from Judicial Watch and the Freedom of Information Act, prominent conservative Obama administration critic Wayne Allyn Root believes that “I was targeted by the IRS in a coordinated attack at the highest levels of governmen...

  • May 5, 2015

    ISIS claims responsibility for Garland jihad attack, making Pamela Geller a target

    Pamela Geller is apparently on the hit list of ISIS.  French press agency AFP reports that ISIS is claiming responsibility for the attack on the Draw Muhammad cartoon competition in Garland, Texas: "Two of the soldiers of the caliphate...

  • May 4, 2015

    The media attacks on Pamela Geller begin

    The U.K. Daily Mail, which claims to be the world’s most-read English-language news site, has published an attack on Pamela Geller, just hours after the terror attack against the Draw Muhammad art exhibit in Garland, Texas. The very headline...

  • May 4, 2015

    #Globalwarmingfail: New England ski season extended into May

    Remember when “global warming” was confidently predicted to bring about “The End of Snow”?  Actually it wasn’t that long ago (15 months, to be exact) that the New York Times published an article by that name, comple...

  • May 4, 2015

    The Muhammad cartoon that won the Draw Muhammad contest

    Bosch Fawstin, a former Muslim, won with this drawing: Does this justify mass murder? If so, how about this? Andres Serrano's "Piss Christ" – a photo of a crucifix in a jar of urine that won a competition sponsored b...

  • May 4, 2015

    Epic takedown of liberal 'fact checker'

    We tip our AT caps to Sean Davis of The Federalist for his superb takedown of a so-called “fact checker” from PunditFact, a nonprofit, tax-exempt organization that pretends to investigate claims found in journalism and render a fact-based...

  • May 4, 2015

    MSNBC's appearance of a 'pay to play' problem

    Face it: credibility has not been much of a consideration at MSNBC, the far-left cable news network majority-owned by Comcast, the nation’s largest cable television provider.  The biggest (but far from sole) problem at MSNBC is Al Sharpton...

  • May 4, 2015

    Not enough money? Baltimore got $1.8 <em>billion</em> from Obama Stimulus

    Last Tuesday, President Obama blamed the GOP-controlled Congress for its failure to fund the “massive investment in urban communities” that could “make a difference.”  Well, how does $1.8 billion for the 622,000 people of...

  • May 3, 2015

    Another NYC cop shot in the head following wave of anti-cop hatemongering

    NYPD plainclothes officer Brian Moore was shot in the head twice yesterday. The 25 year-old is in a medically-induced coma, to relieve pressure on his brain, and in the words of a fellow officer, “He’s far from out of the woods.” ...

  • May 3, 2015

    Hey liberals, keep those attacks on Scott Walker coming

    Yet another attack on Scott Walker is only adding to his appeal to those people Hillary Clinton calls “everyday Americans,” as his critics from the left reveal their own snobbery.  The New York Daily News (hat tip: Legal Insurrection...

  • May 3, 2015

    Los Angeles city workers threaten strike, but already paid far more than others doing similar jobs

    The greed of government worker unions seems to know no boundaries. Even the left-leaning Los Angeles Times notices that unionized workers for the City of the Angels are already heavily overpaid compared to their counterparts in not just the private s...

  • May 3, 2015

    Shock: the deep blue state GOP governor with 70% approval ratings

    I have to admit that this one crept up on me, unnoticed (and I lived in this state for 20 years).  Karyn Bruggeman of National Journal reports:  And then there's Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker. After four months in office, the Re...

  • May 2, 2015

    Paying criminals to not commit crime

    My gut instinct is revulsion over this: Richmond, located in the eastern region of the San Francisco Bay area has been quietly implementing a program that identifies the worst troublemakers in the community and pays them a monthly stipend to beh...

  • May 2, 2015

    Prosecutor Mosby sowing seeds of disaster

    Reportedly, State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby has become a rockstar on the left for her announcement of the prosecution of the Baltimore 6, using the catch phrase “No justice, no peace,” favored by race agitator Al Sharpton.  ...

  • May 2, 2015

    With membership now voluntary, Wisconsin AFSCME forced into big cutbacks

    Governor Scott Walker and the GOP-controlled state legislature freed government employees from involuntary forced union membership, enabling them to choose or not choose to pay dues. The results have shown that roughly two-thirds have not chosen unio...

  • May 2, 2015

    Contemptible leftist fallback as 3 black cops indicted, ruining the race narrative

    The Left is in an awkward fix, what with having staked their protest over the (justified) death of Michael Brown in the proposition that a disproportionately white police force in Ferguson, Missouri was the problem. Now that 3 black and 3 white cops ...

  • May 1, 2015

    Trying to ban the word 'thug' to describe Baltimore rioters

    A battle is underway to make the word “thug” a racial epithet, comparable to (or even worse than) the n-word.  When the president of the United States (“thugs who tore up the place”), the governor of Maryland (“Our ...

  • May 1, 2015

    Report: Obama library to be built in America's most corrupt major city

    As a sort of farewell present to the city he adopted as his political base but will leave for more glamorous New York City after his presidency, the Barack Obama Presidential Library is to be built on parkland taken from the citizens of Chicago....

  • April 30, 2015

    The Clinton Foundation as a money-laundering scheme

    When you put together all the revelations about the Clinton Foundation and its affiliates that have cascaded our way (and continue to arrive), one explanation makes sense.  It was a money-laundering scheme designed to obtain and camouflage forei...

  • April 30, 2015

    Washington Post reports that Freddie Gray was trying to hurt himself in police van

    Did Freddie Gray throw himself against the walls of the police van carrying him in an attempt to be taken to a hospital instead of jail, after officers dismissed his claim to be injured?  That is the implication of a document provided to Washing...

  • April 30, 2015

    FAA raised concerns about mental stability of Germanwings suicide crash pilot

    As Germany, the EU, and the world grapple with the horror of Andreas Lubitz plotting and carrying out a suicide crash that killed 149 innocents, a document has surfaced demonstrating that the American Federal Aviation Agency had concerns over his men...

  • April 29, 2015

    Lois Lerner's emails recovered

    Lois Lerner, now retired and enjoying a six-figure income courtesy of taxpayers, has plenty of time to wonder which of her emails are now in the hands of congressional investigators.  Bernie Becker of The Hill reports: An inspector general ...

  • April 29, 2015

    Valerie Jarrett in 'regular contact' with Baltimore Mayor over handling the riots

    Is Valerie Jarrett the mastermind behind the reported order to Baltimore cops to “stand down”? The mayor’s announced policy to allow a “space to destroy”? Did she counsel Mayor Rawlings Blake to avoid calling up the Nati...

  • April 29, 2015

    Dems desperate to avoid blame for Baltimore riots

    Baltimore is among the bluest of blue cities, with decades of Democrat  mayors and city council majorities. The police department’s leadership reports to the elected Democrats, and is roughly 50% black. (See this great article by Kevin Wil...

  • April 29, 2015

    Blaming 'Inequality' for riots is an opportunity for the GOP

    Big government’s failures are on display in Baltimore. Watching the often-incoherent TV interviews of angry demonstrators in Baltimore, a theme that recurred was “inequality.” The Democrats, from Elizabeth Warren to Hillary Clinton ...

  • April 29, 2015

    More Clinton Foundation secret donors uncovered, and Foundation lies about it

    Not only did the Clinton Foundation conceal the names of 1100 big foreign donors to an affiliate, it has lied about doing so. First, the concealment, via Rosalind S. Helderman and Tom Hamburger of the Washington Post: A charity affiliated with t...

  • April 28, 2015

    Plenty of 'space to destroy' last night in Baltimore

    Baltimore mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake has earned an unwelcome immortality with her remark: I’ve made it very clear that I worked with the police and instructed them to do everything they could to make sure that the protesters were able ...

  • April 28, 2015

    Baltimore's arrest policies have left plenty of 'space to destroy' (and mug) ever since Mayor Rawlings-Blake took office

    Many commentators have noted the paltry number of arrests last night in the widespread rioting and looting that afflicted a wide area of West Baltimore.  The governor of Maryland is bringing in large numbers of National Guard troops and is askin...

  • April 28, 2015

    Apply the Bob McDonnell standard to Hillary

    It wasn’t too long ago that the media were full of stories about the arrest and conviction of former Virginia governor Bob McDonnell and his wife for corruption.  But that case was brought, and a conviction obtained, without any so-called ...

  • April 28, 2015

    Taxpayers on the hook for $2.2 billion in green energy loan guarantees

    There’s lots of red ink on green energy projects receiving government loan guarantees.  The Government Accountability Office has a new estimate of the cost of loans and loan guarantees issued by the federal government under a 2005 law, and...

  • April 27, 2015

    A very, very bad sign for the Clintons

    An insider with connections says that the Clintons’ Russian uranium deal was definitely hinky.  Michael R. Caputo, writing in the PoliticsNY blog, says that he has in the past run public relations for Renaissance Capital, the Russian inves...

  • April 27, 2015

    Hillary's scandals starting to affect fundraising

    The most serious threat yet to Hillary Clinton’s planned cakewalk to the presidency is finally being spoken about in public. Donors, observing that donations to Team Clinton are now under scrutiny as possible bribes, are thinking twice about in...

  • April 27, 2015

    George Stephanopoulos makes the case why he should be fired from his ABC News job

    George Stephanopoulos got aggressive yesterday in challenging author Peter Schweizer on his book Clinton Cash.  But in relying on the principal talking point proffered by the Clinton campaign, he indicted himself on charges of bias.  Ramesh...

  • April 27, 2015

    Charity watchdog puts Clinton Foundation on 'watch list'

    Charity Navaigator functions as a guide to the reliability of nonprofit organizations, to inform donors.  Isabel Vincent of the New York Post reports on the questions being raised by it over the Clinton Foundation. Charity Navigator, which ...

  • April 26, 2015

    Bill Clinton bails out from for-profit college company as Schweizer book highlights hijinks

    Laureate Education, Inc., and its subsidiary Laureate International University, are very profitable companies, successfully competing with the higher education cartel. Nonprofit higher education does not like the competition (which doesn’t offe...

  • April 26, 2015

    Japan's PM Abe begins weeklong visit to US today, to address a joint session of Congress Wednesday

    As China moves forward with a massive military buildup and challenges Japanese territorial claims to islands between the two countries, a set of newly revised and strengthened security guidelines for the US and Japan is to be signed by lower level of...

  • April 25, 2015

    Hillary and the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution

    Article 1, Section 9, Clause 8 of the U.S. Constitution is known as the Emoluments Clause, and it bans payola to U.S. government officials from foreign governments.  It reads: No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And ...

  • April 25, 2015

    Chelsea Clinton and the wannabe Clinton dynasty: The blood thins

    It has been obvious for some time that Bill and Hillary Clinton wish to emulate the Bush and Kennedy families and establish a transgenerational political dynasty.  Poor Chelsea Clinton is stuck in the role of heir, whatever her own desires may o...

  • April 25, 2015

    Believe it or not, Biden Fever growing as Hillary falters

    It’s very easy (and fun) to ridicule Joe Biden as a buffoon, but there are more than a few people who take him seriously as an alternative to Hillary Clinton as Democrat nominee.  Biden fever is rising as Hillary herself is getting harder ...

  • April 25, 2015

    Hillary channels Madame Mao: 'deep-seated cultural codes, religious beliefs and structural biases have to be changed'

    Barack Obama was a piker when he wrote about audacity.  Hillary Clinton seems to be calling for nothing less than a Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution in the United States, mimicking Mao Zedong’s wife Jiang Qing, who sought to overturn ...

  • April 25, 2015

    Hillary condemns sexual assault (with a straight face)

    Hillary Clinton is caught in an irony trap of her own devising.  In her first real campaign speech yesterday, the enabler of a man who assaulted Juanita Broaddrick, exposed himself to Paula Jones, and sexually exploited a teenaged intern decried...

  • April 24, 2015

    Target of 'Mattress Girl' protest files suit

    Turnabout, as the saying goes, is fair play. In an age where “microaggressions” become the launching pad for protest, the left pretty much has dominated the use of victim strategies, particularly on campus, where claims of feeling “...

  • April 24, 2015

    Mitt Romney on Hillary's Uraniumgate: 'It looks like bribery'

    Mitt Romney has taken the gloves off. If only he had done so in 2012, a lot more people in Syria, Libya, and elsewhere would be alive, and the American economy and Supreme Court would be in far better shape.  Speaking to Hugh Hewitt on the latte...

  • April 24, 2015

    NYT reporter: Clinton Foundation lied about Bill Clinton meeting with Kazakhstan officials

    Jo Becker, the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for the New York Times, is no right-winger, and in fact has enjoyed a sterling reputation in media circles. So it’s going to be hard to dismiss her reporting on the tangled web of financial ties be...

  • April 24, 2015

    Analysis shows Bill Clinton's speaking fees skyrocketed after Hillary became SecState

    One more indication of the corruption at the heart of Hillary Clinton’s term as secretary of state: while the speaking fees of ex-presidents typically fall over time after they leave office, Bill Clinton’s jumped when his wife became Amer...

  • April 23, 2015

    Blockbuster NYT story on Clinton Foundation money and deals giving Russia control of American uranium mines

    The New York Times published a story just before the morning television news shows went on air today at 6 AM EDT that appears to contain bombshell information about the nexus of many millions of dollars of donations to the Clinton Foundation and U.S....

  • April 23, 2015

    Marie Harf passed over for promotion in favor of <em>white male</em>

    Poor Marie Harf!  Shortly after attaining immortality by having her name become a verb, she suffered the ultimate indignity: her boss left, and a white male has been hired to fill the vacancy instead of promoting her.  Jamie Crawford and El...

  • April 22, 2015

    Why doesn't the left criticize Saudi Arabia for doing what it attacks Israel for?

    Andrew Bolt, of the Herald-Sun newspaper of Australia, raises a question that should be posed to leftist critics of Israel. Saudi Arabia fights Islamist extremists in a neighbouring country and kills civilians. No international fuss at all, and ...

  • April 22, 2015

    Congratulations, Marie Harf!

    At the tender age of 33, Marie Harf has attained a special kind of immortality, joining a list of luminaries (for instance, Thomas Crapper) whose names have become verbs.  The Urban Dictionary now lists “Harfing” as a verb: Harf...

  • April 22, 2015

    South African anti-illegal immigration riots

    I’m so confused. When Americans peacefully petition their government to stop illegal immigration, they’re call xenophobic racists.  When South Africans riot and attack illegal immigrants by the thousands, they’re called what...

  • April 22, 2015

    Cornel West called out

    An extraordinary open letter to Professor Cornel West has been published in the Jewish Journal by Judea Pearl, chancellor’s professor of computer science and statistics at UCLA, father of Daniel Pearl, and president of the Daniel Pearl Foundati...

  • April 21, 2015

    David Koch signals support for Scott Walker

    According to a New York Times report by Nicholas Confessore: On Monday, at a fund-raising event in Manhattan for the New York State Republican Party, David Koch told donors that he and his brother, who oversee one of the biggest private politica...

  • April 21, 2015

    Netanyahu snubs Jimmy Carter on Israel visit

    Jimmy Carter has been turned down flat by Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Reuven Rivlin on his invitation to meet with those officials during his forthcoming visit to Israel.  Tamar Pileggi writes in the Times of I...

  • April 21, 2015

    Hillary 'surprised' that small business not creating jobs under Obama

    Hillary Clinton appears to be opening some daylight between herself and President Obama on economic policy.  Of course, she has to walk on eggshells and not criticize The One, since she will depend on black turnout in the general election. ...

  • April 21, 2015

    Hillary's Scooby van clocked at 92 MPH in the rain racing to NH campaign event

    Laws are for little people, and Hillary Clinton most definitely is not one of the masses.  The U.K. Daily Mail followed the former secretary of state and senator Clinton, who is now a private citizen, as she made her campaign rounds in the Grani...

  • April 20, 2015

    MSM welcoming Clinton muckraking book

    Peter Schweizer’s new book, Clinton Cash, due out May 5, is getting the sort of treatment from the New York Times and Washington Post usually reserved for leftist takedowns of conservative icons. The book, whose subtitle is “The Untold St...

  • April 20, 2015

    NYC Mayor de Blasio positioning himself against Hillary for nomination

    The long knives are out for Hillary. New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, who was inaugurated and enthusiastically endorsed by her husband Bill, is making clear moves aimed at challenging Hillary from the left for the Democrat nomination. The New York Post...

  • April 19, 2015

    Two Scandals in One: Newsweek Uncovers Clinton Foundation's Biggest Donor Likely Violating Iran Sanctions

    Newsweek writer Rory Ross has done a valuable service bringing to light the activities of the largest single donor to the Clinton Foundation, a man most Americans have never heard of: Ukrainian oligarch Victor Pinchuk, 54, has courted the Clinto...

  • April 19, 2015

    No inspections of Iran military sites: Revolutionary Guard leader

    It’s getting harder and harder for anyone to keep a straight face when contemplating the so-called framework for a deal that was announced by President Obama and his Secretary of State.  There’s almost nothing left constraining the I...

  • April 18, 2015

    Cardinal Francis George, R.I.P.

    Cardinal Francis George, the first Chicago native to serve as that city’s archbishop, died yesterday at the age of 78, succumbing to cancer. He retired in November 2014 after receiving his cancer diagnosis, having served for 17 years as Archbis...

  • April 18, 2015

    Obama is going Alinsky Rule 12 on Republicans

    Although he doesn’t reference Saul Alinsky the Associated Press’s Jim Kuhhenn does notice a nasty turn in President Obama’s rhetoric: With a tone of outrage and eye-rolling dismissiveness, President Barack Obama and his White H...

  • April 18, 2015

    Study: conservatives have far more balanced diet of social media than liberals

    An interesting new study confirms what most conservatives suspect. We are far better than liberals and leftists at seeking out opposing views, the better to understand what the other side is saying and writing. T Becket Adams in the Washington Examin...

  • April 17, 2015

    Obama plans to hand over F-16s to Iranian-infiltrated Iraq government

    Last year, the US government delayed the delivery of 36 F-16 fighter aircraft to Iraq, as ISIS threatened to take over the Balad air base where they would be located. But in the wake of Tuesday’s White House visit of Iraqi PM Haider al-Abadi, i...

  • April 17, 2015

    IRS puts $70k tax lien on MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry

    Joining her MSNBC colleague Al Sharpton as a tax deadbeat, Melissa Harris-Perry and her husband were hit with a $70,000 tax lien by the Internal Revenue Service. Michael Hewlett of the Winston-Salem Journal reports: The Internal Revenue Service ...

  • April 17, 2015

    Barney Frank fantasizes about banning 'House of Cards'

    The Netflix breakout mega-hit House of Cards portrays Washington, DC as a nest of ruthless, self-interested hypocrites, advancing their own interests and agendas by capturing the power of government, all the while mouthing platitudes about the public...

  • April 17, 2015

    Compare and contrast: Same TV reporter approaches Hillary Clinton and Marco Rubio

    The following contrasting videos should be enough to chill the bones of every Democrat sensibly worried about how good a candidate Hillary Clinton will be. Dan Calabrese, of Herman Cain’s CainTV.com website brings us the two videos of the same ...

  • April 16, 2015

    Harry Reid changes his story again on injuries

    As anyone who has watched a few police procedurals knows, when subjects of interrogation change the details of their stories, it is a signal they may be lying.  Prosecutors seize on inconsistencies during trials to convince jurors that the defen...

  • April 16, 2015

    Hillary Potemkin Clinton busted for driving in Dem campaign worker to pose as 'student' at staged event

    I almost feel sorry for the people running Hillary Clinton’s campaign.  They work for a foul-mouthed, angry woman who is known to become enraged when things don’t go the way she expected.  And she has laid down the law that she ...

  • April 16, 2015

    Bizarre Clinton Foundation attempt to limit damage from accepting donations from foreign governments

    The spectacle of foreign governments donating to the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation is damaging Hillary Clinton’s credibility as a presidential candidate.  Hillary may have “resigned” from the board (are they form...

  • April 16, 2015

    Why is Hillary's 'Scooby van' parking in handicapped spaces?

    Nothing could better represent the “rules are for little people” attitude of Hillary Clinton than cavalierly parking in parking spaces reserved for the handicapped. But that is exactly what was captured in a video report aired by Omaha te...

  • April 15, 2015

    Study finds bias for women, against men, in hiring for science faculty positions

    The Democrats’ War on Women™ just got a bit tougher to sell.  Supposedly, science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) are hotbeds of anti-woman bias, which is why women account for fewer positions in those fields, including in ...

  • April 15, 2015

    Hillary was asked by Issa committee about private e-mails in 2012, refused to answer

    Letters leaked to the New York Times reveal that Hillary Clinton was asked while still in office as secretary of state whether she used a personal e-mail account to conduct official business, and she never answered.  Michael S. Schmidt writes: ...

  • April 15, 2015

    The astonishing incompetence of Hillary's campaign rollout

    If the intent of the Hillary campaign machine is to portray her as a woman of the people, a champion of the little gal, the staging of her rollout has been shockingly counterproductive.  Because she will be raising more than a billion dollars an...

  • April 15, 2015

    Prediction from NRO: Hillary will win

    Writing at National Review Online (and speaking for herself, not the editorial board), Myra Adams offers “Five Reasons Why Hillary Wins in 2016.”  It is worth examining her reasoning and looking not to dismiss it, but rather for mean...

  • April 15, 2015

    TN passes bill allowing schools to drop Michelle's school lunch program

    National food scold Michelle Obama has sparked a revolt against her strictures on school lunches.  Perhaps aware of how much food gets tossed into the trash as inedible, or perhaps merely anxious to please constituents, legislators in Tennessee ...

  • April 14, 2015

    What's behind Debbie Wasserman Schultz's over-the-top attack on Marco Rubio

    The head of the Democratic National Committee, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, turned up her obnoxious dial to ten yesterday and launched an all out attack on Marco Rubio. Appearing on MSNBC’s “The Rundown with Jose Diaz-Balart,” she reve...

  • April 14, 2015

    Rubio's debut speech

    Marco Rubio exceeded my not terribly high expectations in his presidential campaign announcement. If you haven’t seen it, the video is embedded below. I admit that I haven’t been a big fan of the Florida freshman senator ever since he ...

  • April 14, 2015

    The Onion parodies Hillary's campaign announcement

    It is definitely not safe for work, for children, or for those of a delicate disposition when it comes to profanity, but The Onion has captured an aspect of Hillary most of us on our side of the spectrum well appreciate. Saturday Night Live would nev...

  • April 14, 2015

    Decoding the symbols from the Democrats

    I am slapping my forehead and shouting, “Doh!” How could I be so obtuse and fail to grasp the deep meaning of the symbols on offer from Democrats over the past several years. Some might call it esoteric, but others would call it hiding in...

  • April 13, 2015

    Punishing 'climate change deniers'

    Failing to convince the public that global warming is an urgent cause for concern, hysterical fear-mongers are turning to the armory of tyrants, and demanding punishment for those they call “deniers,” consciously inking Holocaust denial....

  • April 13, 2015

    Hillary's campaign press release: 'she's fought children and families all her career'

    Was this an allusion to Hillary Clinton’s support for abortion?  Her official campaign press release contained the phrase “she’s fought children and families all her career.”  Much fun is being had on Twitter over wh...

  • April 13, 2015

    Gaffe insurance: Hillary excluding media as she warms up in Iowa

    When you’re Hillary Clinton, you make the rules, because...well, you’re Hillary Clinton, and you put up with a philandering husband all those years, and damn it, you deserve the presidency.  So, well aware of how much practice she ne...

  • April 13, 2015

    Anti-Hillary guerilla street art grows in Brooklyn

    I love conservative guerilla street art.  Among other things, it conveys the message that the establishment is controlled by the left, and conservatives are the true rebels.  Owing to the nature of hormonal development, teens and young adul...

  • April 13, 2015

    Barf alert: 19 months of Chelsea in your face on the way

    Chelsea Clinton is no longer the innocent teen she was when she lived in the White House and reportedly called the Secret Service agents guarding her family with their lives “pigs.”  She has signed on as a key part of her mother...

  • April 13, 2015

    Cabbie ordered to pay $15K for telling couple not to kiss in his cab

    A New York taxi driver has been ordered to pay $15,000 – several months’ pay – for telling a couple not to kiss in his cab.  “Keep that for the bedroom or get out of the cab,” New York City taxi driver Mohammed...

  • April 12, 2015

    Pope uses the word 'genocide' for Turkey WW1 massacre of Armenians

    Turkey steadfastly denies there was any genocide in Armenia during World War One, despite the facts. It threatens and cajoles those who tell the truth, using its diplomatic and economic muscle to intimidate those who speak the G-word about its behavi...

  • April 12, 2015

    Media Matters: we should coronate Hillary

    The Soros-funded anti-conservative attack dog website Media Matters for America has staked out its territory on the Hillary campaign, warning potential opponents to stay out of the race and let Hillary become the first non-incumbent, non-VP in histor...

  • April 12, 2015

    Latest food disorder 'experts' warn of: too much healthy food

    It was inevitable. Now that salt has ben shown to be healthy, and too little salt more dangerous than too much salt, the class of people who enjoy bullying others about what they should eat have gone full circle. The UK Daily Mail: Orthorexia ne...

  • April 12, 2015

    SNL cold open mocks Hillary campaign announcement

    Let’s see how long this lasts. I bet there are going to be some phone calls to NBC, for Hillary does not suffer mockery quietly. The humor was not quite as cutting as it could have been, but I will take what I can get from NBC. Watch for yrouse...

  • April 12, 2015

    It's heeere... Hillary releases campaign announcement video

    Hillary Clinton has released her campaign announcement video, getting massive free exposure for her commercial on every news channel and the websites of most news outlets. You should vote for her because…family businesses, old people, young pe...

  • April 11, 2015

    Hilarious White House tweet aims for the 'My Little Pony' demographic

    Perhaps it is nostalgia for the heady days of the past, when the media could be counted upon to publish photos of Barack Obama with a halo surrounding his head (Google Obama+Halo for countless examples), and journalists called him a “lightworke...

  • April 11, 2015

    Bloomberg falls for fake Nancy Reagan 'endorses' Hillary story

    You don't get much more "mainstream" in the media than Bloomberg News and it's hard to be more embarassed if you're a dues paying member of the MSM to run a fake story from a fake website. That's what happened to the augu...

  • April 11, 2015

    Capitol Police chief who stonewalled release of Harry Reid injury data reportedly resigns

    After stonewalling release of reports filed by the Capitol Police protective detail that was with Harry Reid when he suffered mysterious injuries on New Year’s Day, Kim C. Dine, chief of the Capitol Police, is reported to have resigned. Bridget...

  • April 11, 2015

    Doonesbury cartoonist criticizes Charlie Hebdo for 'hate speech'

    Garry Trudeau, the creator of Doonesbury and frequent mean-spirited attacker of conservatives, lately Sarah Palin (and her family) in particular, seemed to suggest that the Charlie Hebdo staff had it coming. Accepting the George Polk Award, he remark...

  • April 11, 2015

    Muslim student at U Michigan unmasks American Sniper protestor who he says vandalized his apartment

    Zeinab Khalil is quite the star at the University of Michigan, from which she recently graduated. Nominated for a Rhodes Scholarship and: a student commencement speaker for the Honors Program graduation ceremony in May 2014, president of th...

  • April 10, 2015

    'Sources' reveal Hillary to announce campaign for president on Sunday

    Nothing could better encapsulate the obsessive secrecy and media manipulation characteristic of the Clinton Machine than the way news of Hillary Clinton’s kickoff of her presidential campaign was spread throughout the press.  Anonymous ...

  • April 10, 2015

    Hillary campaign leaks plan to raise 'insane amount of money'

    Another anonymous insider is leaking to friendly media the nature of Hillary Clinton’s campaign plans.  David Freedlander of the Daily Beast reveals: After the announcement comes the deluge. Hillary Clinton is expected to announce ...

  • April 10, 2015

    Hillary supported trade deal after pledges of $100 million to Clinton Foundation

    A report in the International Business Times adds to the woes of the soon-to-be-announced Hillary Clinton presidential campaign.  Matthew Cunningham-Cook writes a long and interesting account of the dealings between the Clinton Foundation and an...

  • April 10, 2015

    Another potential challenger for Hillary makes his move

    The supposedly inevitable nomination of Hillary Clinton got more trouble yesterday with a scathing critique and possible challenge from the left.  Former Republican governor and senator from Rhode Island Lincoln Chafee pronounced Hillary disqual...

  • April 10, 2015

    Charles Murray's brilliant plan to win back our rights

    Charles Murray of the American Enterprise Institute is one of the most insightful social and political analysts of our era.  He has come up with a plan, illustrated by the infographic below, to win back our rights appropriated by the federal bur...

  • April 9, 2015

    Poll finds Obama almost twice as popular in Cuba than in the U.S.

    As he considers where to make his post-presidency home, Barack Obama might want to consider someplace where he is really popular.  That would be Cuba: A new Bendixen & Amandi Poll for Univision Noticias – Fusion in collaboration w...

  • April 9, 2015

    Rand Paul comes out swinging...at interviewers

    In a round of interviews yesterday, Rand Paul took on questions he found unfair, and got into an argument with Savannah Guthrie of the Today show. The predictable result was return fire from talking head pundits, unhappy over his refusal to play the ...

  • April 9, 2015

    One industry that is thriving under Obama

    President Obama has managed an historic achievement that he would rather not get credit for.  Gun sales are booming.  Stephen Dinan reports in the Washington Times: The American firearms industry is as healthy as ever, seeing an unprec...

  • April 8, 2015

    Why would Rand Paul say <em>that</em>?

    I really want to like Rand Paul, but he keeps saying things that give me pause.  I like that he wants to fight the GOP establishment.  I like that he wants to roll back big government.  And I like that he wants to expand the base to in...

  • April 8, 2015

    Judicial Watch and Clarice Feldman attempt to force D.C. government to obey the law

    In the Bizarro World of the District of Columbia government, laws are optional, apparently.  But not if Clarice Feldman and Judicial Watch have anything to say about it.  Mark Tapscott of the Washington Examiner reports: A nonprofit go...

  • April 8, 2015

    Poll reveals huge majority of British Jews will vote Conservative

    British Jews are far ahead of the American co-religionists in rejecting the left’s siren calls.  The Jewish Chronicle reveals the results of a poll of British Jews: British Jews will vote overwhelmingly for the Conservatives, an exclu...

  • April 8, 2015

    Obama visit sparking anger in Jamaica

    President Obama’s visit to Jamaica later today is causing anger on the part of poor people there.  Not because of anything he has done, but rather because of actions of authorities going Potemkin Village and cleaning out street vendors to ...

  • April 8, 2015

    Video of cop shooting fleeing black man sparking outrage

    A horrifying video of Walter Scott, a black man who is the father of four children, being shot in the back as he flees a police officer is all over the nation’s airwaves and cable systems.  The officer who fired the shots has been charged ...

  • April 7, 2015

    Capitol Police stonewalling release of information on Harry Reid's injuries

    The story told by Harry Reid to explain the serious injuries he received on New Year’s Day does not stand up to scrutiny. And now, the Capitol Police, which had a security team on duty with him in his Henderson, Nevada home, is refusing to rele...

  • April 7, 2015

    Latest polling shows public wants to get much tougher on illegal immigration

    The political elites of both parties are ramming illegal immigration down the throats of Americans, and the public is increasingly opposing them. There is a message here for GOP hopefuls for the presidency though they may have to forego the megabucks...

  • April 7, 2015

    Report: NCIS determined in 2009 Bowe Bergdahl 'going over to the other side with a deliberate plan'

    So far, this is only hearsay, but if the report by retired Lt. Col Anthony Shafer is true, it raises huge issues over President Obama’s trade of five senior Taliban commanders for a man who may have committed treason. Col. Shafer is a Fox News ...

  • April 7, 2015

    Obamacare enrollment appears to have hit the wall

    John Merline of Investor’s Business Daily has been examining the numbers on Obamacare enrollment and discovers that, contrary to predictions of millions more signing up, new enrollments are dying up. Earlier this year, the Obama administra...

  • April 6, 2015

    Why is Trey Gowdy allowing Hillary to testify behind closed doors?

    When it was announced that Hillary Clinton was being asked to testify behind closed doors to Trey Gowdy’s committee investigating Benghazi, I assumed the veteran prosecutor had a strategy.  The testimony will be under oath and taken down b...

  • April 6, 2015

    Bystander with concealed carry gun foils carjacking

    Guns are used to deter and foil crime, but this reality eludes many gun-grabbers.  Typically, the media also ignore such stories, enabling the grabbers to continue in their delusion that gun control will diminish violence, when all it really doe...

  • April 6, 2015

    The 'Bamboo Ceiling' has its poster child

    Jim Crow is alive and well in America, but instead of blacks, the new target of officially sanctioned racism is Asian-Americans.  For the crime of being too successful academically, Asian-Americans are discriminated against at virtually every pr...

  • April 6, 2015

    Iran reportedly helping Hamas rebuild Gaza tunnels for attacks on Israel

    According to Con Coughlin of the U.K. Telegraph: Iran has sent Hamas’s military wing tens of millions of dollars to help it rebuild the network of tunnels in Gaza destroyed by Israel’s invasion last summer, intelligence sources ...

  • April 5, 2015

    Young Muslims: 'The better integrated, the higher the risk of radicalization'

    A Dutch research study on the radicalization of young Muslims discovers what it calls the “integration paradox.” It is not disaffected, impoverished young Muslims who are at greatest risk of turning radical and going to fight for ISIS. Ra...

  • April 5, 2015

    Game on? Qatar newspaper reports Israel air strike on weapons depot supplied by Iran

    A report by Al Watan newspaper in Qatar indicates that Israel has conducted air strikes on a weapons depot supplied by Iran in southern Libya. Arutz 7 reports: Arab news sources reported at week's end that an unidentified jet belie...

  • April 5, 2015

    Palestinian Hamas leader reportedly beheaded by ISIS

    The war between Sunni ISIS and Shiite Iran is taking a toll on Hamas, allied with the mullahs.  ISIS has taken control of 90% of a Palestinian “camp” (really just a district of Damascus) that once housed half a million people, but wh...

  • April 5, 2015

    What's a progressive food bully to do?

    A Missouri state legislator has proposed a regulation that could make progressives’ heads explode. Two causes beloved by the liberal left are in conflict. One the one hand, nothing delights a liberal more than no strings attached money given to...

  • April 4, 2015

    ACLU laying off 7 percent of its lawyers

    As the punch line to an old joke about lawyers goes, it’s a good start. The American Civil Liberties Union, theoretically a non-ideological defender of the Constitution but in practice increasingly hard left, is running into financial difficult...

  • April 3, 2015

    Iran's nuke program: A deal from hell

    The framework announced yesterday in Lausanne is the sort of agreement you would expect when one side is desperate for a deal and the other side knows it.  President Obama has given away the store. There is a little lipstick on the pig, but even...

  • April 3, 2015

    IRS former ethics officer disbarred

    A former lawyer for the IRS’s Ethics Office has been disbarred for ethics violations.  The institutional rot at the most-feared agency of the federal government, one with extensive arbitrary power, should be an election issue if the GOP no...

  • April 3, 2015

    Shocking allegations of gay sexual harassment at CBS

    Keep in mind, these are only allegations. If CBS doesn’t settle, they will be aired in court, and we will know more. If CBS does settle, we can infer that there is information so damaging, or potential legal costs so daunting, that the network ...

  • April 3, 2015

    Kim Jong-un recruiting 'pleasure troupe' of concubines

    It’s a family tradition! Following in the footsteps of his grandfather and father, now that the official three year period of mourning is over, The Democratic People’s Republic of North Korea’s leader is acquiring a harem of the pre...

  • April 2, 2015

    Jerry Brown orders mandatory water restrictions in California

    Propaganda, hidden agendas, and government revenue are at the heart of the mandatory water restrictions – a cutback on 25% on residential and commercial users – announced by California governor Jerry Brown yesterday.  Water and money...

  • April 2, 2015

    Timeline reveals Bergdahl was a cover story for Obama

    Investor’s Business Daily has put together the facts to demonstrate that the release of Bowe Bergdahl from Taliban captivity was just a ruse to provide cover for President Obama to release the Taliban commanders, a goal he had long pursued. ...

  • April 2, 2015

    Taxpayer money to be used to bring in relatives of illegals

    Mind-boggling corruption is afoot in the crash program to import as many impoverished people from south of the border as possible.  First, President Obama illegally granted “parole” for illegals here, on the legal grounds of prioriti...

  • April 2, 2015

    France walks out of Iran negotiations

    The negotiations in Lausanne are becoming enough of a farce that France has announced it is leaving, and will return when the talks are “useful.”  By the standards of diplomatic language, this is a full-throated proclamation that the...

  • April 2, 2015

    Not enough 'hate groups' to go around?

    While California battles a water shortage, the Southern Poverty Law Center, which raises millions of dollars a year purporting to fight a rising tide of “hate groups,” apparently is running out of bogeymen.  The SPLC embarrassed itse...

  • April 1, 2015

    The things professors say

    The academic hothouse breeds a lamentable number of fragile intellects among the faculty.  The noxious combination of arrogance (as presumed superior minds) and an environment sheltered from the harsh reality of markets results a vast class of p...

  • April 1, 2015

    Is Barack and Michelle's marriage falling apart?

    Ordinarily, the state of other people’s marriages is of no concern to me, unless I know them and their children personally and observe the consequences of strife and disintegration.  But we are all affected by the mental and emotional stab...

  • April 1, 2015

    Probably just Obama being Obama, not an April Fools joke

    The sad fact is that the Obama administration does so many things contrary to its expressed intentions that one day a year we have to wonder if the latest news is just an April Fools Day joke.  For instance, as Elizabeth Harrington reports a the...

  • April 1, 2015

    New study from Germany could be 'death blow' for global warming hysteria

    The Max Planck Institute in Germany is among the world’s most prestigious scientific research institutions, and a new study coming from its Institute for Meteorology cannot be dismissed by warmist profiteers like Al Gore.  Michael Bastasch...

  • March 31, 2015

    Iran talks 'deadline' as meaningless as Obama's Syria red line

    With breathless TV news coverage and Marie Harf temporarily relocated to Lausanne, the looming “deadline” for the Iran nuclear talks appears to have lots of drama.  Tick, tock, will they make the deadline? Except that the deadline...

  • March 31, 2015

    Leaked e-mails reveal Hillary's henchman Sid Blumenthal illegally lobbied for Putin ally

    The anonymous hacker known as Guccifer is the wild card for Hillary Clinton in her cover-up of her activities during her service as secretary of state.  It is already established that her close aide, Sidney Blumenthal, ran an off-the-books intel...

  • March 31, 2015

    Stunning admission from federal health agency after initial denial

    How to escape taxation on millions of dollars by entering “public service” regulating the very people who made you rich.  That’s the lesson of Andrew Slavitt, deputy administrator for the vast and expensive Centers for Medicare...

  • March 30, 2015

    Calling BS on Harry Reid's story about his injuries

    It is an emperor has no clothes moment.  The partisan mainstream media has failed to show the slightest curiosity about an improbable story peddled by one of the central figures of the last six years of politics.  John Hinderaker of Powerli...

  • March 30, 2015

    Reconciliation karma could hit Obamacare

    If the GOP has the wit and guts to follow through, a workable strategy to repeal Obamacare has come into view, using the very reconciliation process that led to passage of the unpopular bill.  Writing at Breitbart, Mike Flynn explains the opport...

  • March 30, 2015

    Trouble for the Jeb Bush money machine?

    The ace in the hole for Jeb Bush’s presidential candidacy has always been the “money primary.”  Big donors line up to support a chosen instrument, and the overwhelming organizational, advertising, and campaigning advantages mon...

  • March 30, 2015

    Kerry 'out of touch with reality,' says former Obama intel chief

    The proposed Iran deal on nuclear weapons is so shockingly bad that serious people are beginning to press the panic button and warn the public in the strongest possible terms.  So far, other than Senator Robert Menendez, who, coincidentally has ...

  • March 30, 2015

    O'Malley races off the reservation in opposing Hillary nomination

    Martin O’Malley may have been such a lousy governor of Maryland that his chosen heir was defeated by a Republican (in a deep blue state), but he is turning out to be good for something.  Hell may have no fury like Hillary scorned, but as E...

  • March 30, 2015

    Is a stressed out Obama turning to drink?

    When the news broke Saturday from the White House press pool report accompanying President Obama on his golf outing in the midst of world crisis, I filed it away for possible future developments:  On a sunny and beautiful, if chilly morning...

  • March 29, 2015

    Black Democrat accuses 18 month-old boy of being a racist

    When race becomes the explanation for everything, no one is safe from accusations of racism. Even innocent little children. Don Surber, the eagle-eyed chronicler of the absurdities of contemporary politics, highlights what he calls a “horrible ...

  • March 29, 2015

    St. Louis man viciously attacked on commuter train by perps citing Michael Brown

    Make no mistake; a race war is being ginned up, with the assistance of major media, and the lead role being occupied by profiteers of conflict. The shooting of Michael Brown, which even Eric Holder acknowledges was fully justified, has been establish...

  • March 29, 2015

    Extreme violence against Republicans in SNL cold open last night

    Explicit and extreme violence against Republicans John Boehner, Ted Cruz and Tom Cotton was the punchline last night in the “cold open” skit that begins Saturday Night Live every week. Hilarious, if you are a Democrat hater of Republicans...

  • March 29, 2015

    White House hobbling media coverage of Obama's shameful golf outing as world spins toward crisis

    President Obama ought to be ashamed at bugging out of town to play golf at a fancy resort with a celebrity as the Middle East spirals toward an all-out Sunni-Shia war and negotiations with Iran are in critical condition. And perhaps he is, judging by...

  • March 28, 2015

    Philly transit agency to evade federal court decision in attempt to stifle anti-sharia free speech

    Score a (temporary) victory for the right of Americans to point out the Jew-hatred embedded in the foundations of Muslim theology.  The American Freedom Defense Initiative, led by Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer, has won a victory in federal co...

  • March 28, 2015

    Downside of those solar panel leases

    In sunny California, it is impossible to listen to talk radio very long without hearing an ad for a solar panel installation company that promises to lower your cost of electricity.  You agree to lease the panels, and the company will install th...

  • March 28, 2015

    President Obama off on another golf weekend, in Florida this time

    If you are spending your weekend struggling with your taxes, take comfort in the fact that President Obama is using your taxes, this year and probably all the income taxes you will pay in your lifetime, to fly Air Force One ($228,288 per hour to oper...

  • March 28, 2015

    Hillary's lawyer discloses she expunged her email server hard drive

    In a letter to Trey Gowdy, Hillary Clinton’s lawyer has made a stunning admission. The AP reports: In a six-page letter released late Friday, Kendall said Clinton had turned over to the State Department all work-related emails sent...

  • March 27, 2015

    Convicted terrorist allowed to use TSA's 'Pre-Check' system at major airport

    Rest easy, our unionized federal TSA is at work protecting us. Or not. KMSP television reports (hat tip: Instapundit) Convicted domestic terrorist Sara Jane Olson, 68, of St. Paul, was allowed to go through TSA's expedited security screening...

  • March 27, 2015

    Major peer-review scandal causes withdrawal of 43 published scientific papers

    There’s a lot of unsettled science going on these days. The peer-review system, which is supposed to serve as a quality assurance system, allowing credentialed experts to pass judgment on new research before it is published, is breaking down. T...

  • March 27, 2015

    Desperate Rahm suggests renaming airport after Obama

    Rahm Emanuel is in a fight for his political life, facing a tough re-election election vote on April 7, and running against Jesus “Chuy” Garcia in a city with a large and growing Hispanic population. That is probably the reason he would s...

  • March 27, 2015

    The joke that got a Seinfeld episode cancelled

    It is a minor moment in cultural history, but perhaps worth noting for what it says about the sensitivities of our age. NBC, which tolerated ethnic jokes about Jews, jokes about penis size, and jokes about which males character Eileen Elaine would sl...

  • March 27, 2015

    Kerry warns of 'climate refugees' in not-distant future.

    Revealing profound ignorance,   Secretary of State John Kerry warns U.S. ambassadors that they will be dealing with “climate refugees” in the not-too-distant future. Hey, John. They exist right now. They’re called ...

  • March 26, 2015

    Psaki doubles down on Bergdahl release

    Jen Psaki, in her final week as State Department spokeswoman as she prepares to become the White House director of communications on April 1, claimed that the deal for the release of Bowe Bergdahl was “worth it,” despite the charges pendi...

  • March 26, 2015

    Germanwings co-pilot made 'deliberate' attempt to destroy plane

    French authorities have just identified the co-pilot who was at the controls of the crashed Germanwings flight as Andreas Lubitz, 28 years old, and claimed he made a  “deliberate” attempt to destroy the aircraft. The shocking reve...

  • March 26, 2015

    Hillary supporters warn media against using words of criticism as 'sexist'

    It should be unsurprising that the Hillary Clinton camp feels free to dictate what words cannot be used in writing about her. After all, on Monday, media reporters at an awards ceremony gave her a standing ovation after she joked about her server iss...

  • March 26, 2015

    Frontiers of victimization

    In the upside-down world of the left, everything good is bad.  Thus, we have a prominent lesbian in the U.K. posing as a victim for the oddest reason imaginable: being seen as a fashion leader, imitated by others.  Katherine Timpf writes in...

  • March 26, 2015

    Eleanor Holmes Norton makes her own rules on parking

    Washington, D.C.’s nonvoting delegate to Congress, Eleanor Holmes Norton, is not about to be oppressed by majority society’s ideas of the right way to do things.  And when it comes to parking, she acts as though she is entitled to ma...

  • March 25, 2015

    Lee Kuan Yew and the lessons of Singapore

    The life and spectacular success of Lee Kuan Yew is a challenge to everyone who believes in the virtue of democracy.  In the words of Theodore Dalrymple, he was “undoubtedly the most intelligent and capable world leader of the past half-ce...

  • March 24, 2015

    WH chief of staff calls for end to Israel's '50-year occupation'

    The Obama administration is ratcheting up its rhetoric in its war on Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu.  As the Times of Israel reports: White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough called for the end of Israel’s “50-year oc...

  • March 24, 2015

    Khamenei's political rhetoric versus Bibi's

    Has there ever been a more blatant double standard than the positions taken by two White House spokesmen yesterday?  Speaking to Soros-funded J Street yesterday, White House chief of staff Denis McDonough refused to back down from the claim that...

  • March 24, 2015

    Susan Rice makes a fool of herself on Twitter

    Susan Rice, our national security advisor, is supposed to be a bona fide expert on Africa.  And the credentials she brings to her job are impressive.  Former ambassador to the United Nations, graduate of Stanford, Rhodes Scholar, and author...

  • March 24, 2015

    FEMA to deny funds to global warming skeptic governors

    Warmist efforts to shut down scientific skepticism – the very heart of the scientific method – have escalated from mere rhetoric to mobilizing the financial might of the federal government to punish those who dare doubt the orthodoxy....

  • March 24, 2015

    Multiculturalism triumphs, even in Japan

    The reigning orthodoxy of race in enlightened circles has triumphed in just about the last place would expect.  Japan, which takes pride in its racial homogeneity, has selected a young woman with a Japanese mother and an African-American father ...

  • March 23, 2015

    Netanyahu pollster charges that millions of dollars funneled into Israel by Obama forces to defeat Bibi

    President Obama’s obvious displeasure with the electoral victory of Israeli prime minister Netanyahu may be in part based on frustration that his own efforts to defeat Bibi went to naught.  Now, John McLaughlin, the American pollster hired...

  • March 23, 2015

    Starbucks ends 'race together' campaign

    Following an explosion of derision on social media and in the blogosphere, Starbucks has instructed its baristas to stop writing “race together” on coffee cups in hopes of generating deep conversations on sensitive issues as caffeine-addi...

  • March 23, 2015

    Brunch patrons fight back against #BlackBrunch protesters in suburban Atlanta and Minneapolis

    Some sort of tipping point seems to have been reached, with Sunday morning brunch patrons no longer willing to sit passively as noisy protesters attempt to guilt-trip them about being white, or having the disposable income to go out for a nice brunch...

  • March 22, 2015

    Ted Cruz to announce his candidacy Monday

    According to “senior advisers with direct knowledge of his plans, who spoke on condition of anonymity,” Ted Cruz will announce his candidacy for president Monday, speaking to a convocation at Liberty University in Virginia. Theodore Schle...

  • March 22, 2015

    Iran supreme leader Khameni publicly calls for 'Death to America' while Kerry hails progress in talks

    Nothing could better sum up the delusional nature President Obama’s quest to substitute Iran for Israel as our ally in the Middle East than a speech given yesterday by Ayatollah Khameni, the Supreme Leader of Iran. The Times of Israel reports: ...

  • March 22, 2015

    New Republic writer calls for eliminating the word 'taxpayer'

    The left always tells you what it fears the most. Not content with dominating the media and education, the two organs that generate the linguistic framing of politics in our society, the left wants to delegitimize political terms that reflect realiti...

  • March 21, 2015

    Jeb Bush foreign policy advisor to give keynote address at J Street conference

    James A. Baker III says he is on “Team Bush,” offering advice on foreign policy to Jeb Bush’s candidacy.  This weekend, Baker is also on “Team J Street,” delivering the keynote address to that notorious Soros-funded...

  • March 21, 2015

    Clinton Foundation's chickens coming home to roost in Haiti?

    It has always been apparent to me that the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation was a poorly disguised vehicle for bribery, kickbacks, and political operations, all under the guise of tax-deductible fundraising.  A veneer of do-gooderism...

  • March 20, 2015

    Hawaii abuzz with talk of rumored purchase of beach-front estate for Obama

    A very famous 3-acre beachfront estate has been purchased by wealthy people linked to President Obama, and many neighbors are convinced it will be one of his post-residency homes. It is a luxurious mansion suitable for a plutocrat, which is what rece...

  • March 20, 2015

    Time for Trey Gowdy to subpoena Sidney Blumenthal's emails

    The key to unraveling Hillary Clinton’s private email system may well be found on the hard drive (if it still exists) of Sidney Blumenthal, longtime Clinton family consigliere. If not, his email provider can be subpoened. Writing in the Washing...

  • March 20, 2015

    Dianne Feinstein's husband wins near-billion dollar California 'high speed rail' contract

    Update: questions have been raised as to whether or not Richard Blum still owns a substantial or any interest in Tutor Perini. A number of published accounts, in addition to those cited, claim he does. This report indicates he sold 3 million shares i...

  • March 19, 2015

    Obama's fired brother-in-law left Oregon State basketball program a mess

    Metaphor alert! Craig Robinson, Michelle Obama’s older brother (whom she credits for helping her get into Princeton, where she wrote an appalling graduation thesis), has left behind a basketball program in ruins at Oregon State after 6 years as...

  • March 19, 2015

    Linda Sanchez completes a hat trick of absurd liberal proposals this week

    It almost seems as though liberals beclowning themselves with bizarre proposals come in threes, as celebrity deaths are supposed to. First, Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz (now dubbed a horrible boss) told his employees to start engaging customers in di...

  • March 19, 2015

    We now have the poster child for the government-union pension racket

    When it comes to handing out pension benefits to government employees, nobody outdoes the Great State of Illinois, whose unfunded pension liabilities hit $187 billion two years ago (the latest data) and are still rising.  And when it comes to sc...

  • March 19, 2015

    It begins: Hillary's standing in polls starts to plummet

    I am hoping that Hillary Clinton hangs in there, bullying her way to the Democratic nomination, but her polling is starting to collapse. Amanda Becker of Reuters notices what is going on, not just among the general public, but among Democrat insiders...

  • March 18, 2015

    Hillary amnesia strikes former top aide to Clinton at State Dept.

    “I have no recollection” is a term of art in Washington, D.C. that enables someone under oath to avoid perjury charges should he or she later be shown to have known about something that would be incriminating if acknowledged.  When M...

  • March 18, 2015

    White House sulking, refuses to congratulate Netanyahu on victory

    Did anyone ever expect President Obama to be gracious in defeat?  If such a person exists, she would be very disappointed at the extremely visible sulking underway.  Daniel Halper reports in The Weekly Standard: On CNN this morning, Wh...

  • March 17, 2015

    White House deep-sixes transparency regs on the worst possible day

    What on Earth can account for the White House choosing the confluence of “National Freedom of Information Day” and Sunshine Week to remove a federal regulation that subjects its Office of Administration to the Freedom of Information Act?...

  • March 17, 2015

    Jen Psaki chumming the water for media sharks (Updated: can't locate Hillary's document)

    Update: Brian Hughes of the Washington Examiner reports: The State Department Tuesday said it had "no record" that Hillary Clinton signed a form declaring she turned over all work-related materials upon leaving her post as the nation...

  • March 16, 2015

    Team Hillary changes its story on e-mail deletions

    “That’s my story, and I’m sticking to it” worked for Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon, but Hillary Clinton’s undeclared presidential campaign is taking a different approach to explaining how thirty-some thousand e-mails o...

  • March 16, 2015

    Big fat 'no comment' from State Dept. and WH on reports that Valerie Jarrett orchestrated Hillary e-mail server story

    Well whaddya know!  They’re not denying it.  Jeffrey Scott Shapiro in the Washington Times: The State Department declined to comment Sunday on whether senior White House aide Valerie Jarrett had orde...

  • March 16, 2015

    Missouri Lt. Gov: Eric Holder 'on many occasions' seemed to 'be inciting the mob'

    Cue the indignation from Eric Holder.  The lieutenant governor of Missouri just called him out on the relentless Justice Department search for racism in the Ferguson Police Department, followed by an exoneration of Officer Darren Wilson and a se...

  • March 16, 2015

    Imagining the Walker/Clinton presidential debate

    Generally, we eschew fantasies imagining what various people would say in favor of analysis of what they actually have said.  But Jennifer Rubin’s Washington Post column laying out a scenario for a presidential debate between Scott Walker ...

  • March 15, 2015

    Jon Voight speaks out on Obama and Israel's election

    It is not uncommon for Hollywood celebrities to make videos on politics, but when a major star speaks out against President Obama, it is news. And when that star, criticizes the appeasement of Iran and makes comparisons to Neville Chamberlain’s...

  • March 15, 2015

    Valerie Jarrett fingered as the source of leak on Hillary's email server

    According to Ed Klein, writing in the New York Post, President Valerie Jarrett was the source of the information published by the New York Ties on Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server for all her official correspondence as secretary ...

  • March 15, 2015

    Report: Bipartisan Senate panel probing Obama admin support for defeating Netanyahu

    Steven Edwards of Fox News is exclusively reporting that a bipartisan investigation has been authorized by the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of possible use of taxpayer funding to defeat Benjamin Netanyahu in Tuesday’s Israeli...

  • March 15, 2015

    Hilarious skewering of Hillary in the New York Times

    When the New York Times turns on Hillary Clinton it has got to hurt. All of her friends and donors read the Gray Lady’ even new mother Chelsea, sipping her Sunday morning coffee in her multimillion dollar Manhattan luxury pad, peruses the pages...

  • March 14, 2015

    Report: Obamas will snub Chicago, move to New York after 2016

    Chicago’s inferiority complex may be getting even more complex. Barack Obama is reported to be planning to set up shop in New York City at the end of his second presidential term. Michael Sneed of the Chicago Sun-Times writes: Sneed is tol...

  • March 14, 2015

    Mocking Hillary in parody commercial

    Derisive laughter is the best response to Hillary Clinton’s lame UN press conference defending her indefensible evasion of public records laws and regulations. Our friends at Reason TV have put together a clever parody of the ubiquitous PC-Mati...

  • March 14, 2015

    More body blows to Hillary's presidential prospects

    Each day seems to bring more disasters for Hillary’s image as a potential president. Democrats not in thrall to her (or under her thumb) have got to be asking themselves hard questions. The latest: the veil of secrecy over who traveled with Hil...

  • March 13, 2015

    The University of Oklahoma's morning after

    The virtually universal reaction to the secret recording of racist chants by fraternity members at the University of Oklahoma was disgust and outrage.  The urge to declare oneself opposed to such blatant racism, and to somehow undo the fear and ...

  • March 12, 2015

    Hillary's criminal liability in the e-mail scandal

    Shannen W. Coffin, a lawyer who was formerly counsel to VP Dick Cheney, has delved into the detailed legalities of State Department officials and their records and believes that Hillary Clinton may well have committed at least one felony when she dep...

  • March 12, 2015

    Secret Service scandals keep on coming

    According to reports the Secret Service is investigating, two senior agents, including a member of the president’s protective detail, got liquored up and drive an official vehicle into a barricade outside the White House.  They were able t...

  • March 12, 2015

    The incredible shrinking Pulitzer Prize awarder

    The Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, the body that awards the Pulitzer Prizes, is shrinking, just like the newspaper industry it feeds and the prestige of the award.  Ad Age reports: Columbia University's Graduate Scho...

  • March 12, 2015

    Latest consequence of 'global warming'

    Remember the "melting polar ice caps" and poor polar bears drifting out to sea on remnants of the vanishing ice?  Tell it to residents of Cape Cod.  Watts Up With That reports:  CBS Boston has published a story with phot...

  • March 12, 2015

    More trouble for Jeb Bush (and his establishment backers)

    Common Core- and amnesty-loving Jeb Bush may be winning the so-called money primary, where big donors choose their candidate for president, but a little farther down the income scale, it looks like there is trouble for Jeb.  Matthew Boyle of Bre...

  • March 12, 2015

    Dem rival twisting the knife in Hillary

    It begins!  Like a wounded gazelle on the Serengeti, the “inevitable” Democrat nominee Hillary Clinton is attracting predators.  Nick Gass of Politico reports: Former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley says if he were pres...

  • March 11, 2015

    New head of Clinton Foundation tried to suppress campus conservative group

    There’s no danger that the tax subsidy granted to donors to the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation will be used to benefit conservatives.  Not if the new president of the 2-billion-dollar slush fund foundation has anything to say...

  • March 11, 2015

    The dangerous precedent of the Oklahoma University expulsions

    It is necessary to stipulate up front that the anti-black Oklahoma University fraternity chanting captured on a cellphone and posted to social media is repulsive, racist, and worthy of censure by all sentient beings.  What follows is in no way a...

  • March 10, 2015

    GOP senators called 'traitors' over letter to Iran on nuke deal

    Democrats and their media allies are hitting back hard over the letter (text here) sent by 47 GOP senators to Iran, reminding the mullahs that any deal that is not ratified by the Senate could be reversed by the next president.  From the White H...

  • March 10, 2015

    Obama's Hillary e-mail claim walked back by Josh Earnest

    President Obama’s claim that he only learned of Hillary Clinton’s private e-mail account from the media was a lie that lasted only two days.  He told CBS: President Obama only learned of Hillary Clinton's private email addre...

  • March 10, 2015

    Hillary playing it coy over presser to address e-mail scandal

    In tones more characteristic of  1950s Kremlinologists than American reporters covering politicians, Glenn Thrush and Josh Gerstein of Politico suss out the possibility that Hillary Clinton may speak about the private e-mail scandal “in th...

  • March 10, 2015

    Hillary speaks on email scandal

    Speaking before a microphone with the UN logo on it, Hillary Clinton staged a press conference in which she made a statement and took questions.  She may think she has put the controversy to rest, but for those not her dedicated fanboys and fang...

  • March 9, 2015

    Trey Gowdy says 'months and months and months' of Hillary's emails are missing

    Hillary Clinton tweeted that she wants her e-mails released, but when the Benghazi Select Committee asked for her e-mails during the Benghazi crisis, they came up empty.  Appearing on Face the Nation Sunday, Trey Gowdy said (hat tip: Daniel Halp...

  • March 9, 2015

    Hillary being hung out to dry by her own

    Hillary Clinton has a lot fewer friends than she must have supposed.  In a stunning turn of events, people she should have been able to count on are turning on her in the wake of her mushrooming e-mail scandal. The way things are going, we may h...

  • March 9, 2015

    Blowback for flag-banning student government at UC Irvine?

    The anti-America brainwashing of the American education system reached some kind of apogee with the vote of the UC Irvine student council  (the “Associated Students of the University of California”) to ban the American flag in its ma...

  • March 8, 2015

    Another state health exchange bites the dust

    Oregon, which has an assisted suicide bill, pulled the plug on its own state Obamacare health exchange, Cover Oregon. It was mercy killing for the website, which after nearly a quarter billion dollars of “investment” (the liberals’ ...

  • March 8, 2015

    Hillary says nothing about emails at public appearance Saturday, as Obama says he first heard about private email account on the news

    Hillary Clinton continued her strategy of ignoring the firestorm over her use of a private email account as secretary of state in an appearance with daughter Chelsea at the University of Miami in an event sponsored by the family’s in-house char...

  • March 8, 2015

    Harry Reid accused of racism by Dems

    Racial politics chickens…are coming home to roost for the Democrat leadership. Evidently, the new rule among Democrats in Maryland is that for political jobs, ‘No white men need apply.” Harry Reid just found about this the hard way...

  • March 7, 2015

    Justice Department leaks investigation of Sen. Menendez after he publicly opposes Obama Iran policy

    You could say that the Chicago way met the New Jersey way yesterday, as the Obama administration moved to neutralize a critic who stands in the way of its Iran policy (which seems to be ensuring that the mullahs get their apocalypse-seeking hands on ...

  • March 7, 2015

    Why the media turned on Hillary: a theory

    After decades of enjoying media cover in scandals ranging from her miraculous cattle futures trading profits to her drinking habits, suddenly Hillary Clinton’s secret email accounts are drawing media scrutiny usually reserved for Republicans. T...

  • March 7, 2015

    Holder threatens to 'dismantle' Ferguson PD

    Denied the opportunity to prosecute Officer Darren Wilson for the bogus “Hands up, don’t shoot” allegations, Eric Holder may instead be seeking a consolation prize: the death penalty for the Ferguson, MO police department.  Reu...

  • March 7, 2015

    WaPo's Dana Milbank beclowns himself with doomsday prediction on King v. Burwell

    Did you realize that if the Supreme Court decides that Obamacare subsidies can only be paid via state exchanges (as the law’s text demands), the entire country will fall apart? Dana Milbank, the increasingly hysterical left wing columnist at th...

  • March 6, 2015

    15 second TV spot ad if Hillary is 2016 nominee

    Even though hostile foreign governments and hackers are able to steal government emails, Hillary Clinton placed top-secret emails on a personal server in her basement. She put personal ambition ahead of America’s security. And, there’s...

  • March 6, 2015

    Hillary sent cable barring State Dept. officials from using personal email for business

    “Rules are for thee, not for me” could be Hillary Clinton’s motto, and we have proof. Fox News obtained a copy of a cable sent to State Department employees admonishing them to not use private emails for official business. Sent...

  • March 6, 2015

    House Dems vow to back Boehner if a coup is attempted

    You can judge a man by friends, the old saying goes. And Congressional Democrats are telling The Hill that they would prefer John Boehner to any conservative insurgent, should a coup attempt to remove him from his speakership. Mike Lillis writes: ...

  • March 5, 2015

    Imam who called for death for Ayaan Hirsi Ali hired by feds to teach Islam to prisoners

    Your tax dollars at work, teaching Islam to federal prison inmates. Chuck Ross of The Daily Caller reports: According to federal spending records, Fouad ElBayly, the imam at Islamic Center of Johnstown in Pennsylvania, was contracted by the...

  • March 5, 2015

    Awkward Petraeus precedent as Hillary may face criminal liability over her secret email system

    It must have seemed like a good idea at the time to prosecute General David Petraeus over mishandling of classified material. But that was before it came to light that Hillary Clinton did not bother with an official and secure State Department email ...

  • March 5, 2015

    Biden surrogate: Hillary will 'die by 1,000 cuts' over email

    The role of the Fool in medieval courts was to speak awkward truths to the king that no sane person would dare to utter. It is not much of a stretch to consider Joe Biden a fool, and by extension, his surrogates as well. So when Dick Harpootlian, a l...

  • March 4, 2015

    Hillary's top aides also used secret e-mail accounts

    The plot thickens.  Not only Hillary Clinton, but her top aides used secret private e-mail accounts for official business.  This makes a mockery of the public records law and has already led to requests under the Freedom of Information Act ...

  • March 4, 2015

    Hillary set up her own server in Chappaqua for secret e-mails

    There was no danger of subpoenas forcing Gmail, Yahoo, AOL, or any other outside e-mail service to turn over her official e-mails with the extra trouble Hillary Clinton took in setting up the secret e-mail accounts she and her top aides used to condu...

  • March 3, 2015

    Hillary violated law, used private email for SecState correspondence

    See also: Hillary secret email account established as she faced confirmation hearings Hillary Clinton conducted her official business as Secretary of State on a private email account, hiding them from laws requiring archiving and ultimate public d...

  • March 3, 2015

    Hillary secret email account established as she faced confirmation hearings

    See also: Hillary violated law, used private email for SecState correspondence Joining the New York Times in uncovering details of the Hillary Clinton conspiracy to violate public records disclosure, Phillip Bump of the Washington Post connects so...

  • March 3, 2015

    Psaki's reassurances on Clinton Foundation donations walked back by State Department

    Last week’s claim by Jen Psaki that donations by foreign governments to the Clinton Foundation were reviewed by the State Department and passed review was not true. Josh Gerstein of Politico reports: The State Department is stepping back f...

  • March 3, 2015

    Netanyahu exposes madness of a bad deal with Iran in speech to Congress

    Speaking to a joint meeting of Congress, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu showed the world what strong diplomatic leadership looks like in facing the threat of a nuclear Iran.  It was a historic speech, and Netanyahu used the opportunit...

  • March 2, 2015

    AIPAC breaks with Obama

    Throughout its history, the American Israel Public Affairs Council, or AIPAC, has been studiously nonpartisan, aiming to reinforce the broad consensus in support of Israel that has characterized both major political parties.  But Barack Obama...

  • March 2, 2015

    Fallback justification of Obama's Paris 'random' shooting remark destroyed by new evidence

    Barack Obama’s outrageous labeling of the shootings at the Hyper Cacher market in Paris as “random” caused Josh Earnest and other administration flaks to come up with a rationale that was ridiculous at the time. But now, release of ...

  • March 2, 2015

    Obama wins four Pinocchios for Keystone veto claim

    Congratulations to President Obama, whose reputation for lying received another boost courtesy of Glenn Kessler, the Washington Post’s fact-checker. When one attempts to govern in  opposition  to the will of the American people, a cer...

  • March 2, 2015

    Turmoil at Clinton Foundation

    The Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation, a $2 billion honey pot of money extracted from a mix of the venal influence-seekers and the charitable, attracts a lot of flies. Unsurprisingly, it appears that battles already are breaking out over c...

  • March 1, 2015

    The long knives come out for Ted Cruz

    Ted Cruz is being pilloried in a most curious fashion, by people who ought to know better. Byron York, a reporter and analyst whose work I admire greatly, reported something Cruz said Friday at the winter meeting of the Club for Growth as if it were...

  • February 26, 2015

    Walker Derangement Syndrome appearing in mainstream media

    The Democratic-media establishment is rolling out the hate for Scott Walker. An article in the New Yorker (“The Dangerous Candidacy of Scott Walker”) by John Cassidy gives away the game in its first sentence: Let’s stipulate up f...

  • February 23, 2015

    Snopes.com's dishonest attempt at debunking 'Obama and the Muslim Gang Sign'

    See also: Rebutting Snopes on ‘Obama’s Muslim Gang Sign’ Snopes.com has attempted to debunk the article “Obama and the Muslim Gang Sign,” by F.W. Burleigh, with a dishonest entry.  It makes two points, both ...

  • February 22, 2015

    Reformist Muslims were banned from 'White House Conference on Violent Extremism (by nobody in particular)'

    This is an outrage that should be taken up by GOP leaders.  Charles Hoskinson reports in the Washington Examiner:  The White House excluded members of a prominent group of reformist Muslims from its terror summit this week, apparently ...

  • February 22, 2015

    David Axelrod busted on lie about his father's Communist Party membership

    David Axelrod was a hugely consequential figure in the rise of Barack Obama, and he has been caught in a big lie. A former Chicago Tribune reporter, political consultant Axelrod latched onto Barack Obama as an ideal vehicle for a stratospheric politi...

  • February 21, 2015

    500 Muslims Attend Funeral of Copenhagen Jihadist

    Yesterday saw an outpouring of grief in Copenhagen related to the jihad murders aimed at cartoonists and Jews. But the mourners were honoring Omar El-Hussein, who killed filmmaker Finn Nørgaard, 55, and volunteer synagogue guard Dan Uzan, 37, ...

  • February 21, 2015

    Scott Walker will sign fast-tracked right-to-work legislation in Wisconsin

    Unions already hate Scott Walker as much as they possibly could, so there is not that much downside in the governor of Wisconsin’s decision to sign legislation that will ensure workers the right to decline union membership. This was not somethi...

  • February 21, 2015

    Will the last host to get fired by MSNBC please turn out the lights?

    MSNBC’s lurch to the left is failing big time. Embarrassingly so.  As Lisa de Moraes reported Thursday: One year after debuting them with unimpressive numbers, MSNBC finally threw in the towel on Ronan Farrow’s sh...

  • February 20, 2015

    Emails show Debbie Wasserman-Schultz offering to change her position if major donor stops criticizing her

    As DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman-Schultz mulls a 2016 run for the Senate, a spat with a major Democrat donor has become public, showing her as willing to change her position on a major issue for reasons unrelated to policy considerations. Marc Caputo of...

  • February 20, 2015

    Rudy Giuliani and the one-way taboo

    The selective nature of taboos in American political and media culture has been exposed this week. Democrats are free to impugn their opponents’ decency and patriotism while Republicans never are allowed to do so. Speaking at a “privat...

  • February 19, 2015

    Swedish public radio interviewer suggests Jews are responsible for anti-Semitism

    Another danger sign for Europe’s surviving Jews, as powerful media turn hostile. Haaretz reports: Sveriges Radio, Swedish public radio, has apologized for a presenter’s question to the country’s Israeli ambassador about whether J...

  • February 19, 2015

    State Department issues travel warning on Israel

    As the Easter and Passover peak tourism season begins, the State Department does its best to discourage travel to Israel by Americans. Yesterday, John Kerry’s Department issued this Travel Warning: The security environment remains complex ...

  • February 19, 2015

    At summit on 'violent extremism' (by nobody in particular) Obama stresses need to placate Muslims

    Fresh off his op-ed in the Los Angeles Times that spent as much space chronicling the “legitimate grievances” of Muslims as on attacks by Muslims, yesterday President Obama addressed his “Summit on Countering Violent Extremism...

  • February 18, 2015

    Bad news for warmists: Sun has entered 'weakest solar cycle in a century'

    The conceit that human production of carbon dioxide is capable of driving the earth’s climate is running smack into the sun. CO2 accounts for a mere 0.039% of the atmosphere, while the sun accounts for 99.86% of all of the mass in our entire so...

  • February 18, 2015

    Marie Harf ignores the First Law of Holes

    The First Law of Holes, a proverb generally attributed to the British Labour Party’s Denis Healy, states, “If you are in one, stop digging.” Marie Harf is in the process of discovering the cost of ignoring that rare bit of wisdom fr...

  • February 18, 2015

    Italy fears ISIS invasion from Libya, Muslim refugee 'Trojan Horse'

    ISIS has already managed to stun the world with its cruel barbarity, media sophistication, and military effectiveness. Now, having announced its intention to capture Rome, some Italians are taking the threat very seriously, indeed. Barbara Latza Nade...

  • February 17, 2015

    State Department spokeswoman says jobs, not killing, the key to defeating ISIS

    Marie Harf has taken the Obama administration to new depths of self-parody, seemingly shocking even Chris Matthews of MSNBC with her naiveté. Via The Right Scoop:  “We’re killing a lot of them and we’re going to kee...

  • February 17, 2015

    Federal judge halts Obama amnesty program

    Federal judge Andrew Hanan of the Brownsville, Texas federal court issued a temporary order blocking implementation, scheduled to start Wednesday, of President Obama’s amnesty program. Acting on a lawsuit brought by Texas Governor Greg Abbott, ...

  • February 17, 2015

    2 fiery train wrecks in 3 days demonstrate the need for Keystone XL

    President Obama’s obstruction of the Keystone XL Pipeline is taking a toll on people who live within a mile or two of rail lines. Twice in the last three days trains carrying crude oil from areas that Keystone would safely serve have exploded i...

  • February 16, 2015

    Randomness rampant

    A random killer randomly shot and killed one person each at an event celebrating free speech attended by a cartoonist who portrayed Mohammed as a dog, and at a synagogue in Copenhagen. Other 21st Century random shootings and random bombings of random...

  • February 16, 2015

    NY Times discovers that Saddam did have WMDs after all

    President Bush “lied” about Iraq’s WMDs – thus goes the article of faith among liberals, endlessly repeated by the likes of Ron Fournier and Jon Stewart as a kind of progressive catechism.  Except that it is a libel, as e...

  • February 15, 2015

    Outrage in Texas over preferences in UT college admissions

    The Dallas Morning News is one of many liberal media outlets outraged over admission preferences at the University of Texas, especially its elite and highly selective flagship Austin campus. No, not racial preferences, appartently they are just dandy...

  • February 15, 2015

    Hillary's excess baggage penalty

    Will Bill Clinton’s libido derail Hillary’s candidacy for president? That’s the question posed by Maureen Callahan in the New York Post today. The horndog in chief has not bothered trying to control his libido very much, and new sca...

  • February 14, 2015

    It's time to pushback on the lies of the Netanyahu speech boycott movement

    Some Democrats are planning to boycott the speech Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is scheduled to deliver to Congress in March on the basis of false charges.  A phony narrative has been ginned up, alleging that “protocol” was breac...

  • February 14, 2015

    Bird conservation group files petition to regulate wind power

    One of the dirtiest secrets of the green energy scam is the toll exacted on avian life by wind power. In order to combat the entirely theoretical menace of carbon dioxide emissions, heavily-subsidized killing machines have been erected that exact a b...

  • February 14, 2015

    Nightmare scenario unfolding for Obama at Ayn al-Assad Air base

    The massive air base at Ayn al-Assad in Iraq’s Anbar Province hosts 400 US Service members, who are training Iraq Air Force personnel. They now are in danger of serving as hostages to ISIS, which has conquered the nearby city of Al Baghdadi and...

  • February 13, 2015

    Unsettled Science: The return to grace of the egg

    The American Left believes that it can accuse conservatives of being “anti-science” and thereby frighten voters into electing people who, in the name of science, will cajole and coerce the populace into obeying the social engineering drea...

  • February 12, 2015

    Southern Poverty Law Center issues totally unconvincing apology to Dr. Ben Carson

    The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) apparently realized its primary goal, fundraising, was in danger by its placing of Dr. Ben Carson on its “Extremist File” list. But the apology it has issued is the least convincing pretense of remor...

  • February 11, 2015

    NBC News suspends Brian Williams for 6 months

    After dithering a few days, the brass at NBC News and Comcast have acted in a way that defers the hard choices another half a year, by “suspending” Brian Williams without pay for 6 months. Based on the gossip and speculation rife in the n...

  • February 11, 2015

    Axelrod reveals that Obama lied about his 'Christian faith'

    David Axelrod may have opened a can of worms for his former boss, Barack Obama, when he revealed in his new book that: …he knew Obama was in favor of same-sex marriages during the first presidential campaign, even as Obama publicly said h...

  • February 10, 2015

    Barack Obama, jihad denier

    Some truly appalling statements of President Obama in his softball Vox interview yesterday deserve note for what they reveal about his position on violent jihad: it either doesn’t exist or is so insignificant it can be ignored. He offered his c...

  • February 10, 2015

    University of Texas Dean offers guidelines for politically correct theme parties

    Students at the University of Texas, Austin can breathe a sigh of relief, now that they have an extra layer of protection against any hint of hurt feelings on the part of officially designated victim classes. The campus already boasts a Campus Climat...

  • February 9, 2015

    Stunning: Bob Woodward alleges Susan Rice micromanaging the generals

    Bob Woodward is one of the most credible and well-connected reporters in Washington, DC. So his conversation yesterday with Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday ought to be making waves. It appears that the White House National Security officials are mic...

  • February 9, 2015

    MSNBC solidifies its standing as the clown version of cable news

    I suppose you call this another historic first for Eric Holder: the first attorney general asked by a TV interviewer to quack like a duck on air. The incident came toward the end of a fawning interview by Melissa Harris-Perry (no stranger to clownish...

  • February 9, 2015

    Southern Poverty Law Center places Dr. Ben Carson on its extremist watch list

    The Southern Poverty Law Center has descended to the level of self-parody (though it has a lot of company on the left) with its posting of Dr. Ben Carson on its “extremist files” list. Dr. Carson, a world-renowned brain surgeon, has serve...

  • February 9, 2015

    Language police at University of Michigan propagandize at taxpayer expense

    You’d better watch what you say at the taxpayer-funded University of Michigan, for the language police are on guard against politically incorrect language, which might lead to politically incorrect thoughts. Samantha Audia of College Fix report...

  • February 9, 2015

    Control your excitement: Kerry doesn't rule out a presidential bid in 2016

    You know the Democrats have a thin bench and worries about Hillary when John Kerry, fresh off his triumph in being rated the worst secretary of state in the last 50 years in a survey of historians, drops a hint that he may run for the Democratic nomi...

  • February 9, 2015

    Stand by for MSM self-immolation in Brian Williams scandal

    Oh boy! I am laying in a supply of popcorn as Joe Scarborough warns that he’s “seen a lot, know[s] a lot” about people in his industry and politics, so they had better think twice about piling on Brian Williams. “Cast the firs...

  • February 9, 2015

    Coexist graffiti artist badly beaten by Muslim 'youths'

    Every time I see a “Coexist” bumper sticker (and I see a lot of them in Berkeley), I think of soft-headed liberals who don’t understand the first thing about jihad. One of those Coexist fans just got mugged by reality (in Irving Kri...

  • February 8, 2015

    Steyn on Brian Williams

    He’s the one we’ve been waiting for. The inimitable Mark Steyn has taken on Brian Williams, perhaps the most satirized figure in public life of the last month.  Actually, with Williams, Steyn offers both wisdom and potshots, musing o...

  • February 8, 2015

    Who gets shot in Chicago?

    Sociology, which is sometimes defined as the painful and tedious explication of the obvious, occasionally comes up with useful insights, or at least proof that some useful insights are true. That seems to be the case with a study by Yale sociologist ...

  • February 8, 2015

    As Obama leads from behind, the UK steps forward with Special Forces to rescue downed Jordanian pilots

    Yes, it is a good thing that other nations step forward to share the burden of combatting ISIS, but it still downright embarrassing that it is the UK on which Jordan (and maybe the UAE) will be relying on to rescue pilots who may be downed during bom...

  • February 8, 2015

    Qatar website published fatwa permitting the burning of people to death, but removed it after ISIS video of Jordanian pilot's immolation

    Our purported allies in Qatar have long played a double game, hosting US military facilities, but also financing Hamas (among other villainous groups). Now, AT contributor Raymond Ibrahim has caught a Qatar government website hiding the evidence that...

  • February 7, 2015

    High school student in NJ wins case to keep 'under God' in Pledge of Allegiance

    A case filed by the American Humanist Association in New Jersey has gone down in flames, defeated by a high school student named Samantha Jones, backed by lawyers from the  Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, and the Knights of Columbus and the Americ...

  • February 7, 2015

    Biden 2016! Seriously?

    As Joe Biden plans to travel to Iowa next week, the question arises: is this guy seriously planning to run for president?  Doesn’t he realize that he is a national laughingstock? Jennifer Jacobs of the Des Moines Register reports: ...

  • February 7, 2015

    Woman ordered to stand trial for murder after argument over presidential politics

    In a dramatic and colorful case with strong political overtones, a Livonia, Michigan woman was ordered to stand trial for murder after allegedly bashing her neighbor to death with a slow cooker following an argument over presidential politics.  ...

  • February 6, 2015

    Will ISIS fall apart from internal struggles?

    Reports are emerging from ISIS-held territory of a reign of terror, with lethal infighting among groups making up the diverse and hastily-assembled “caliphate.” It is quite possible that internal bloodletting could cripple the organizatio...

  • February 5, 2015

    Largest newspaper in Oregon calls on Dem governor to resign in green energy scandals

    Governor John Kitzhaber of Oregon is hanging tough in the face of a scandal that makes progressives look bad on multiple grounds.  Kudos to the Oregonian newspaper for calling him out and demanding his resignation.  So far, the national med...

  • February 5, 2015

    Wasserman Schultz goes off the reservation, repudiates Obama position on Islamic terror, attacks MSNBC

    Apparently unaware that audio was being recorded, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, chair of the Democratic National Committee took positions off the reservation when speaking to a Jewish group when speaking in South Florida. The Shark Tank, which covers Flo...

  • February 4, 2015

    Sen. Sessions eloquently calls out Senate Dems

    The voters of Alabama do a genuine service to the Republic by electing and re-electing Jeff Sessions to the Senate.  In a statement released yesterday, the senator reminded his colleagues in the Democratic Party of their duty to the Constitution...

  • February 4, 2015

    Does ISIS risk blowback, or is there a plan?

    The airwaves are full of talking heads telling us that ISIS has made a mistake in posting the horrific video of the burning alive of Jordanian pilot Muath Al-Kassasbeh.  The theory is that this may be a turning point, mobilizing not just Jordani...

  • February 3, 2015

    State Department admits it lied about Muslim Brotherhood visit

    Caught lying by the investigative work of Free Beacon reporter Adam Kredo, State Department mouthpiece Jen Psaki confessed yesterday.  (Hello, Pulitzer Committee!) The State Department admitted on Monday that it misled reporters about a rec...

  • February 3, 2015

    FOIA request reveals 'shadow' work permit system not authorized by law adding millions to labor force

    In a stunning report based on data obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, The Center for Immigration Studies has revealed that the Obama administration has been flooding the United States with work permits not authorized by law for millions...

  • February 3, 2015

    Dude, where's my 'emerging Democratic majority'?

    John Judis, co-author of the famous 2002 book The Emerging Democratic Majority, positing that we are in for a period of Democrat political dominance, has, in the word of Michael Barone, “recanted.”  Schadenfreude may be not the most ...

  • February 2, 2015

    Picture of the day

    I just can’t help myself. The picture below comes from the Facebook page of someone called Graduate Fasttrack, with a hat tip to Clarice Feldman.  Sure, it is a sample of two, but there is something about it that rings true.  I am ...

  • February 2, 2015

    Refinery workers' strike a challenge to Obama

    The United Steelworkers Union has called a strike at refineries accounting for about 10% of refining capacity in the United States.  The USW has organized refinery workers, having driven down employment in the steel industry to a fraction of wha...

  • February 1, 2015

    It's already 'GOP nominee was a bully in high school' season

    The mainstream media have decided that Jeb Bush is going to be the Republican nominee, and have deployed the now-familiar “he was a bully in high school” story, Jeb Bush edition.  Deploying a lot of investigative resources, the long ...

  • February 1, 2015

    Hillary's not looking so inevitable, after all

    My spidey sense has been telling me for a while that Hillary Clinton would not be a very strong candidate for president, despite those polls that seem to show her ahead of the GOP field.  First of all, she has tons of baggage, including a disast...

  • February 1, 2015

    Warmists getting angrier

    As their computer models fail and their predictions of doom fail to materialize, the warmist cult is employing more and more extreme language to denounce those who disagree with their cant. The UK Mail on Sunday provides a vivid example from the expe...

  • February 1, 2015

    Teen defends his grandma during home invasion, kills intruder

    A 14 year old, visiting his grandmother, used a firearm to defend her against a burglar breaking into the house. In some states, he would be charged with a crime. But because he lives in a sane state, North Carolina, he is likely to be regarded ...

  • January 31, 2015

    New York Times floats trial balloon for next Obama admin anti-Israel initiative

    Step One: Manufacture outrage against PM Netanyahu, Israel, Speaker Boehner, ands Republicans with an agit-prop exercise, falsely claiming that President Obama was not consulted before an invitation was issued and accepted for the Israeli leader to a...

  • January 31, 2015

    Netanyahu's Likud moves ahead in Israeli election polling as party seeks ban on Obama-affiliated organizations campaigning in Israel

    Despite claims by Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson that Speaker Boehner’s invitation to PM Netanyahu has “backfire[d] on them both,” in the real world Netanyahu’s Likud Party has just moved ahead in the latest poll of...

  • January 30, 2015

    Head of Communist Party USA announces plan to work with Democratic Party

    John Bachtell, chairman of the National Committee of the Communist Party USA, has penned a 2,000-plus-word essay explaining to his True Believers why the party has chosen to use the Democrats as its vehicle.  Eric Owens of the Daily Caller notic...

  • January 30, 2015

    Sen. Cruz fires off letter to SecState Kerry demanding info on political campaign against Netanyahu by administration-funded organizations

    The intervention in Israel’s forthcoming election by groups that have received funding from the U.S. government, and which are staffed by veterans of the Obama campaign, certainly sounds like intervention on the internal politics of another nat...

  • January 30, 2015

    White House counsel John Podesta may have violated ethics rules

    John Podesta is a major player in D.C., founder of the leftist Center for American Progress, currently on the White House staff, and preparing to join the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign in a top role.  That’s why an ethics scandal w...

  • January 30, 2015

    Obama's Cuba initiative backfires big-time

    Raúl Castro knows a sucker when he sees one.  Having watched Barack Obama, the world’s worst negotiator, hand concession after concession to the mullahs of Iran, he is going for a big score in the current negotiations over resumptio...

  • January 30, 2015

    Biden tells the truth

    Never missing an opportunity to put his foot in his mouth, Joe Biden commits the classic Washington gaffe, defined by Michael Kinsley as accidentally telling the truth, this time among friends at the House Democratic caucus, meeting in Philadelphia. ...

  • January 29, 2015

    AG nominee Lynch says illegals have the same right to work as Americans

    An astonishing assertion came from Loretta Lynch, President Obama’s nominee for attorney general, in the course of her confirmation hearing yesterday.  Matthew Boyle of Breitbart reports: “Senator, I believe the right and the ob...

  • January 29, 2015

    US chooses new airplane for Air Force One fleet

    To the surprise of absolutely no one, the United States has decided to buy Boeing 747-8 airplanes, not Airbus A380s, to equip the next generation of the Air Force presidential fleet with long-range aircraft.  The formal specifications require fo...

  • January 29, 2015

    Israeli watchdog slams U.S. taxpayer-funded organization intervening against Netanyahu in election

    NGO Monitor, an Israel-based group that scrutinizes the activities of nonprofit organizations in Israel, is criticizing the intervention in the forthcoming Israeli elections of a nonprofit group that has received funding from the U.S. State Departmen...

  • January 28, 2015

    High-ranking defector from Venezuela accuses regime of narcotics trafficking

    Leamsy Salazar is the highest-ranking official ever to defect from Venezuela, and he entered the United States Monday, under federal protection.  His credentials are impressive: for ten years he served as Hugo Chávez’s chief of secu...

  • January 28, 2015

    Common Core Follies: California report cards to include grades for 'grit', 'gratitude', 'sensitivity to others'

    The entire state of California pubic education system is to begin grading students on matters a teacher cannot possibly know or evaluate objectively. In a sign of descent into full indoctrination camp mode, the Common Cores standards adopted by the s...

  • January 26, 2015

    Once again, Obama offends foreign hosts with inappropriate gum-chewing at a serious public event

    Embarrassing himself, his office, and the American people, President Obama has allowed the nicotine monkey on his back to get the better of his duty.  At least that’s the charitable interpretation of his public gum-chewing.  Why, othe...

  • January 25, 2015

    The missing (white) faces of Southern Poverty Law Center

    Richard Keefe of Watching the Watchdogs writes us: A recent review of the Senior Program Staff page on the Southern Poverty Law Center's website turned up an interesting anomaly: More than half of the 24 names listed on the page were not acc...

  • January 25, 2015

    ISIS video of executed Japanese hostage puts conservative PM Abe on the spot

    ISIS has issued (and then deleted) a video showing an image of Japanese hostage Kenji Goto holding an image showing the decapitated body of Japanese hostage Haruna Yukawa.  The video contained a demand that Japan obtain the release of a Jordania...

  • January 25, 2015

    Freed Gitmo fighter opens ISIS base in Afghanistan

    President Obama persists in the fantasy that Gitmo is the reason that jihadists want “death to America” and that closing it on the installment plan by releasing battlefield captives will appease them.  That highly dubious theoretical...

  • January 25, 2015

    Germany halts arms exports to Saudi Arabia

    Citing “instability,” Germany is cutting off arms sales to Saudi Arabia, one of its biggest export markets for weapons.  That can hardly be comforting move for the new monarch Salman as he faces an Iran-dominated Houthi regime on his...

  • January 25, 2015

    You're probably a 'racist' and here are six more reasons why

    It never fails to amuse me when people who make their living peddling racial indignation work hard to associate negative characteristics with black people, blissfully unaware of how racist they are. The latest example comes from a black-oriented news...

  • January 25, 2015

    Days after claiming credit for increased oil production, Obama moves to limit it

    In his State of the Union address, President Obama toured America’s accomplishments in expanding oil and gas production (as if federal actions had anything to do with it).  Just 5 days later, the Obama administration is preparing steps to ...

  • January 24, 2015

    Obama changes plan and will fly to Saudi Arabia Tuesday to 'pay respects' to late King Abdullah

    The White House has announced a sudden change of plans. President Obama will cut short his visit to India this week, skipping a planned excursion to the Taj Mahal, in order to fly to Riyadh and pay respect to the man he famously bowed down to in 2009...

  • January 23, 2015

    Out of Africa...support for Israel

    While Europe increasingly sides with the Palestinians (Sweden recently recognized “Palestine” – a country that doesn’t actually exist) and for the most part tolerates an ongoing Muslim immigrant pogrom on the remaining remnant...

  • January 23, 2015

    Obama fuming at Netanyahu invitation to Congress, plans retaliation

    “Netanyahu spat in our face.  There will be a price.”  With these words, an unnamed Obama administration official declared war on Israel’s prime minister in an interview with the left0wing Israeli newspaper Haaretz.  ...

  • January 23, 2015

    Obama debases the presidency in sit-down interviews with YouTube celebrities

    In an effort at outreach to the large and growing Moron-American voting bloc, President Obama went to considerable trouble to conduct sit-down interviews with three YouTube celebrities at three specially constructed sets erected in the White House fo...

  • January 23, 2015

    Another Obama embarrassing foreign policy flop: Yemen

    It was only four months ago that President Obama cited his fabulous success in Yemen in explaining his strategy for defeating ISIS. This strategy of taking out terrorists who threaten us while supporting partners on the front lines is one that w...

  • January 23, 2015

    Obama seems to acknowledge overwhelming liberal bias in TV

    Speaking to his customary audiecne of indoctrination camp inmates college students yesterday in Boise, Idaho yesterday, President Obama appeared to acknowledge that television broadcasting is overwhelmingly dominated by liberal outlets, with  co...

  • January 22, 2015

    Obama used a ringer in SoTU shout-outs

    To me, one of the most uncomfortable features of the contemporary State of the Union speeches is the shout-out to people in the gallery, often in the first lady’s box, as exemplars of some quality the POTUS wants to praise or use as an example ...

  • January 22, 2015

    DoJ investigators reportedly find no basis for Ferguson civil rights violation

    According to a report by Matt Apuzzo and Michael S. Schmidt in the New York Times, Department of Justice investigators have been unable to find any basis for a civil rights prosecution in the death of Michael Brown at the hands of Officer Darren Wils...

  • January 22, 2015

    Boehner and Bibi blindside Barack

    Boehner and Bibi blindside Barack There is a heaping helping of poetic justice in Speaker Boehner’s invitation to Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to address Congress on Iran sanctions. Just a week ago, the president stood al...

  • January 21, 2015

    Epic hypocrisy: 1,700 private jets fly to Davos to discuss perils of 'climate change'

    With the World Economic Forum, the premier gathering of the world’s elite, convening in Davos, Switzerland, private jets are as thick as locusts in the air over Zurich Airport.  Seventeen hundred of them, according to Twitter feed of Fligh...

  • January 21, 2015

    Words I never thought I'd write: 'Ruth Bader Ginsburg speaks for me'

    Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg offered an eloquent critique last night of President Obama’s State of the Union address. She joins a new tradition of Supreme Court feedback during a SoTU. Her colleague, Justice Alito, made a bit of history in 2010 ...

  • January 21, 2015

    Joni Ernst strikes fear in the hearts of Dems

    Joni Ernst has got Democrats worried, following her rebuttal to the Obama State of the Union address.  It was not so much the brilliance of her insight or the skill of her delivery, but her down-to-earth appeal.  In the age of identity poli...

  • January 20, 2015

    Obamacare to make filing income taxes a nightmare for many low-income taxpayers this year

    There are gong to be many millions of newly befuddled, fearful, and angry taxpayers this April, hit with the consequences of Obamacare’s social engineering when they try to file their taxes in April.  Many will suffer unexpected financial ...

  • January 20, 2015

    ISIS reportedly executing soldiers who fail

    The old joke that “floggings will continue until morale improves” is no joke when it comes to ISIS.  According to a Kurdish spokesman, at least.  Nadiah Sarsour reports in Fox News: Some 56 members of ISIS learned their so-...

  • January 20, 2015

    Lethal compassion

    A convicted terrorist with close ties to the Paris massacre can’t be deported from the U.K. because he has a right to his “family life.”  The U.K. Daily Mail reports (hat tip: Jihad Watch) Baghdad Meziane was jailed for 11...

  • January 20, 2015

    ISIS demands $200 million or will behead 2 Japanese hostages

    Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, currently on a Middle Eastern tour with an entourage including many CEOs, faces a serious crisis.  ISIS has released a video of two Japanese hostages with a threat, apparently from the same British-accent...

  • January 19, 2015

    Selfie outrage in Lebanon over friendly photo

    Donald Trump, owner of the Miss Universe Pageant, is smiling all the way to the bank as a worldwide controversy erupts over a selfie taken with four  beautiful contestants.  The photo posted on Instagram has caused outrage in Lebanon becaus...

  • January 19, 2015

    Canada's amazing new stamp

    It really shouldn’t be noteworthy, but in today’s world, it is.  Check out Canada’s new* stamp, and ask yourself if Obama’s post office would ever issue such a stamp. *Oops! The stamp actually dates from 2010. My m...

  • January 19, 2015

    Jane Fonda regrets 'Hanoi Jane' activities that made her unpopular

    Media, even conservative media, are characterizing Jane Fonda’s remarks Friday as an “apology” for her actions in Vietnam.  Most notoriously, she posed with an anti-aircraft gun crew who were shooting down American planes, clea...

  • January 18, 2015

    <em>American Sniper</em> breaks box office records

    The Hollywood Reporter calls it a “shocker” that a patriotic movie by one of the best directors working today, about an American hero who kills jihadists, is really, really popular.  To me, that sounds like a formula for success, but...

  • January 18, 2015

    Worst. State Department. Ever.

    The embarrassing spectacle in Paris as Secretary of State John Kerry hauled out a singer popular 4 decades ago to sing (badly) a song written by somebody else that nobody in France is family with clinches the case. The State Department has been infil...

  • January 17, 2015

    Alas, Mitt Romney is no Ronald Reagan

    It pains me to disagree so emphatically with an article published today on American Thinker, but Jim Guirard’s advocacy of Mitt Romney as a 2016 presidential candidate leaves me no choice.  There is no reason at all to believe that a secon...

  • January 17, 2015

    Dems clash behind closed doors as Obama blames 'donor' pressure for Senate move toward Iran sanctions

    President Obama, meeting with Senate Democrats at their retreat in Baltimore, stirred up anger by implying that “donors” (meaning Jews) were the reason why the Senate is pursuing an Iran sanctions bill.  At least one Democrat, Senato...

  • January 17, 2015

    Hillary Clinton: A Life in Pictures

    Here’s your morning laugh, with a bit of electoral optimism mixed in.  Andrew Stiles at the Free Beacon reminds us that, as they say in Hollywood, the camera does not love Hillary.  In fact, I would venture to say that few people phot...

  • January 17, 2015

    Holder ends abusive asset seizure policy for local police

    I will give the lame-duck attorney general, Eric Holder, credit for doing the right thing, though I wish he hadn’t waited six years to do it.  Robert O'Harrow Jr., Sari Horwitz and Steven Rich report in the Washingt...

  • January 16, 2015

    Duke caves, bans Muslim call to prayer from chapel bell tower

    Duke University caved in to pressure and reversed its politically correct decision to permit weekly Muslim calls to prayer to ring out from its iconic chapel bell tower.  The University’s official statement: Duke University has recons...

  • January 16, 2015

    Jindal to take on Islam's 'problem' and blast Hillary's 'Mindless Naivete'

    Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal is staking out a strong position in an area outside a governor’s normal portfolio, and positioning himself in the race for the 2016 GOP presidential nomination. Though he is not a declared candidate yet, this is ...

  • January 15, 2015

    Obama releases five 'violent extremists' from Gitmo

    The army of Allah received some reinforcements last night, as President Obama’s plan to close the Guantánamo Bay terrorist detention center moved forward. Five Yemeni “detainees” captured in Pakistan were released, leaving 12...

  • January 15, 2015

    Duke University finds homosexual haters it can embrace

    Duke University is one of the most politically correct campuses in the nation, a title for which there is abundant competition.  Chick-fil-A’s outlet on campus closed in 2013, after its contract expired in the wake of concerns expressed by...

  • January 14, 2015

    Outrage: Federal prosecutors who railroaded Ted Stevens escape punishment (updated)

    Obamacare would not have passed if Senator Ted Stevens had been re-elected in 2008. But two Alaska federal prosecutors, assistant U.S. attorneys Joseph Bottini and James Goeke, charged him with accepting tens of thousands of dollars of illegal contri...

  • January 14, 2015

    Wow! Venezuela bishops tell Pope Francis the downside of socialism and communism

    Wow! Venezuela bishops tell Pope Francis the downside of socialism and communism Pope Francis, a native of Argentina, has established himself as a critic of capitalism, but now he has received a statement from the bishops of Venezuela offering som...

  • January 14, 2015

    Snopes confirms open letter blasting Holder is from retired FBI agent

    There is quite a buzz surrounding an open letter from a retired FBI agent to Attorney General Eric Holder. So much so that Snopes looked into it and confirms that it is indeed from retired FBI Special Agent K. Dee McCown, currently Director, Glo...

  • January 13, 2015

    Josh Earnest admits both Obama and Biden were 'sitting at home' during Paris march

    Carefully avoiding the word “mistake,” because the Obama White House never admits a mistake, Josh Earnest yesterday made some damaging admissions to the White House press corps. I think it’s fair to say that we should have sent...

  • January 13, 2015

    Where is Hillary on Paris attacks?

    For someone supposedly running for president, Hillary Clinton is awfully scarce lately, completely silent on the jihad attacks on Charlie Hebdo and the kosher supermarket.  Wasn’t she secretary of state?  Isn’t foreign policy su...

  • January 13, 2015

    Al Jazeera America folds morning programming

    John Nolte of Breitbart aptly summarizes the changes announced by Al Jazeera America: “The collapse begins.” Instead of producing its own programming, the basement-rated cable news network will simply re-broadcast Al Jazeera programs...

  • January 13, 2015

    CAIR asks Fox News to drop 'Islamophobe' commentators

    How do you say "chutzpah" in Arabic?  For that's the most appropriate word to describe a Hamas-linked organization designated by the United Arab Emirates as a terror organization telling an American news operation to stop talking a...

  • January 13, 2015

    Muslim mayor of Rotterdam tells Islamists to 'f**k off' on live TV

    Brave Muslim political leaders have started to speak out against jihadists who adhere to the literal meaning of the Koran.  First, there was President al-Sisi of Egypt, telling clerics of the need to reform Islam.  Now comes the mayor of Ro...

  • January 12, 2015

    Confirmed: Obama watched NFL playoffs instead of going to Paris

    You won’t find it in the American media, but the U.K. Daily Mail has obtained confirmation from an administration spokesman that President Obama spent much of yesterday watching the NFL Playoffs (as I speculated). According to an administ...

  • January 11, 2015

    Obama absent as world leaders gather in Paris to protest Islamic terror

    An impressive array of world leaders is gathered in Paris to march in solidarity with the victims of Islamic terror. British Prime Minister David Cameron, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and even Palestinia...

  • January 11, 2015

    Lame duck Holder issues lame invitation in Paris

    Having insulted France (and the causes of free speech and fighting against violent jihad) by staying home with no official business to take care of today, President Obama compounded the slight by having his lame duck Attorney General Eric Holder issu...

  • January 11, 2015

    NYPD issued no tickets during New Year's Eve million-strong gathering

    NYPD issued no tickets during New Year’s Eve million-strong gathering A fascinating, perhaps terrifying, experiment is underway in New York City as rank-and-file cops are giving Mayor de Blasio what he asked for – and more. Having been...

  • January 11, 2015

    Dem governor: 'My feelings were hurt' by those mean voters

    Maryland’s Democrat governor complained about rejection by voters of his chosen successor in a way that could doom his presidential prospects. S.A Miller writes in the Washington Times: Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley said Thur...

  • January 10, 2015

    Canada's PM Stephen Harper speaks out honestly on Islamic terror

    While President Obama still speaks vaguely of “extremists,” north of the border is a man playing Winston Churchill to Obama’s Neville Chamberlain: "The International Jihadist Movement Has Declared War" Watch his comment...

  • January 10, 2015

    NYT exec editor calls Mohammed cartoon censorship critic 'asshole'

    You can tell a nerve has been touched when a highly placed wordsmith resorts to vulgar epithets in response to criticism.  So we can reasonably assume that New York Times executive editor Dean Baquet has some deeply conflicted emotions regarding...

  • January 9, 2015

    As France wakes up to Islamic threat, 'far right' Le Pen surges

    “Time’s up for denial and hypocrisy,” says Marine Le Pen, leader of France’s Front National political party.  “The absolute rejection of Islamic fundamentalism must be proclaimed loudly and clearly.” Le Pen...

  • January 9, 2015

    Barbara Boxer announces she won't run for re-election

    Barbara Boxer, who has served in Congress since 1982, is finally retiring, having yesterday announced that she will not seek re-election.  The National Journal reports: In an interview with her grandson Zach Rodham (who is also Hillary Clin...

  • January 8, 2015

    Malia Obama pictured wearing logo of cop-hating rap group

    I hesitated to write about this until it became reasonably clear that the picture posted on Instagram by the rap collective known as Pro Era was not a lookalike. But the White House all but confirmed it. Here is her picture on Instagram, with one ...

  • January 8, 2015

    Idiotic leftist responses to Charlie Hebdo #1

    For complicated and fundamentally irrational reasons, the American left is determined to deny the obvious and pretend that Islam is a “religion of peace,” and if religion has anything to do with violence, why, all religions are equally ba...

  • January 8, 2015

    Idiotic leftist responses to Charlie Hebdo #2

    For some reason, former Vermont governor and Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean has taken it upon himself to declare that the Koran does not sanction violence.  This is so profoundly ignorant and counterfactual that it suggests h...

  • January 8, 2015

    Idiotic leftist responses to Charlie Hebdo #3

    A fatal witch’s brew of arrogance, ignorance, and patronizing was broadcast from the podium of the White House pressroom yesterday by Imam Josh Earnest.  Daniel Halper of the Weekly Standard reports: White House press secretary Josh E...

  • January 7, 2015

    'Prophet has been avenged' in attack on Paris magazine that kills 12

    Terrorists armed with AK-47s and rocket-propelled grenades attacked the offices of Charlie Hebdo, a snarky satirical magazine, killing 12 – ten journalists and 2 police officers. The attack was clearly revenge for the magazine’s mockery o...

  • January 7, 2015

    De Blasio's trouble with NYPD gets worse and worse

    Bill de Blasio does not know how to stop digging the hole he has put himself in by slandering the New York Police Department with the clear implication of racism on its part. Short of an abject apology for his remarks and an embrace of the policies o...

  • January 7, 2015

    Shocking video of Charlie Hebdo attack

    You can hear cries of “Allahu Akbar” in video now available online of what appears to be the sophisticated attack on Charlie Hebdo. If the Obama administration applies the same criteria it used on the Fort Hood attack, it will advise the ...

  • January 6, 2015

    Weasel Zippers attacked, taken down for 12 hours

    Our colleagues at Weasel Zippers suffered a DDoS attack yesterday that took them down for 12 hours, following their exclusive publication of a manual “for blacks only” used by the #BlackBrunch crowd that attacked “white spaces...

  • January 6, 2015

    Warmists apoplectic as Brazil president names climate skeptic as science minister

    You can almost feel the sense of betrayal emanating from this diatribe from the Environmental Defense Fund’s Steve Schwartzman, denouncing two cabinet appointments in Brazil.  You see, Brazil has a leftist government, and until now had mou...

  • January 6, 2015

    Frontiers of microaggression

    In the pursuit of utopia, where there are never any hurt feelings, America’s wealthy, cosseted college campuses have given birth to the nonsense concept of microaggression, typically employed to denounce as “racist” anything someone...

  • January 5, 2015

    Cops again turn their backs on de Blasio at funeral for Officer Liu

    Despite the pleas of Police Commissioner Bill Bratton, New York Police, and many spectators, turned their backs on Mayor Bill de Blasio as he spoke at the funeral of Officer Wenjian Liu Sunday.  The New York Times and Reuters both put the number...

  • January 5, 2015

    Valerie Jarrett Obama's 'real chief of staff'

    With the seating of the new Congress today, Barack Obama is officially a lame-duck president.  That means that insiders and former insiders feel freer to start telling tales, a process already underway.  The latest example comes from today...

  • January 5, 2015

    Venezuela's president off to China seeking help with financial crisis

    Seeking the international equivalent of a payday loan, Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro is embarking on a trip to China and unspecified OPEC countries.  Reuters reports: "I'm leaving today for an international tour ... a ...

  • January 5, 2015

    RFK Jr: 'We have so much to learn from Cuba'

    No, apparently this is not a spoof.  The scion of the man who was responsible for the Cuban blockade is full of awe for the Cuban dictatorship.  Sure, it’s a dictatorship, but other than that, it’s just ducky, apparently.  ...

  • January 4, 2015

    Child exploitation the new tactic of #BlackLivesMatter agitators

    Perhaps it is desperation over the failure of the vanguard of the proletariat to spark a revolution that has caused the explicitly communist backers of agitation over recent deaths of suspects at the hands of police to scrape the bottom of the barrel...

  • January 4, 2015

    Palin 1, PETA 0

    Once again, Sarah Palin has made her critics look like idiots. A fake controversy (I like the neologism, fakeroversy) was generated when PETA expressed outrage over a picture of Palin posted of her Down syndrome son Trig standing on his service dog, ...

  • January 4, 2015

    Those poor Palestinians!

    You would think from all the press they get, and all the special treatment from the UN and donor countries, that the Palestinians were among the poorest people in the world, with short life spans and extreme poverty. But as an examination of the actu...

  • January 4, 2015

    Did you hear the one about the editor, two dogs, and 25 Muslim girls?

    I came to dog ownership late in life, and like many a religious convert, I have become fervent, a lover of canines for the faithful companionship, the unceasing excitement they show when I return from even a brief absence, and from their utter devoti...

  • January 3, 2015

    Nonunion Tesla buys UAW union hall adjacent to factory formerly employing union members

    Call the irony police! Tesla Motors, the non-union manufacturer of innovative, stylish, and highly rated cars is buying the former union hall of the United Auto Workers next door to its factory. That plant in Fremont, California was built by General ...

  • January 3, 2015

    Barf alert! NYT gets weepy over cop-killer Ismaaiyl Brinsley

    He was a victim! The man who cold-bloodedly shot Officers Ramos and Liu gets a shocking amount of sympathy and understanding from the New York Times today.  The three (!) writers assigned to the story, Kim Barker, Mosi Secret and ...

  • January 2, 2015

    Why Obamacare won't let you keep your insurance plan

    The three-minute video embedded below does a great job explaining why Obamacare keeps forcing people out of their existing health insurance plans – and will continue to do so.  Robert Graboyes is a senior research fellow at George Mason Un...

  • January 2, 2015

    De Blasio rift with NYPD could cost NYC the Democratic Convention

    New York City is going to pay a very high price for electing Bill de Blasio mayor.  Maybe the 75% of registered voters who did not turn out will pay attention next election.  National Democrats understand what mayor de Blasio does not want ...

  • January 2, 2015

    Mario Cuomo dies

    Mario Cuomo, the three-term governor of New York who inspired liberals with his idealistic oratory and led New York into decline with crushingly high taxes to fund lavish social services, has passed away.  His death came shortly after his oldest...

  • January 1, 2015

    New Year begins peacefully in USA despite threats; Shanghai sees dozens killed

    Despite alleged threats to kill cops and disrupt New Year’s Eve revelry, 2015 was rung in peacefully in the United States, it appears. No major incidents have made the internet news feeds, though there was a “die-in” at Boston...

  • January 1, 2015

    De Blasio slaps NYPD in the face on last day of 2014

    New York Mayor de Blasio’s actions speak louder than words when it comes to respecting the NYPD, and he used the last day of 2014 to emphasize how little he values the lives of the officers that serve the city. The New York Post reports: ...

  • January 1, 2015

    Wendy Davis comes clean on her fake gun rights election position

    Wendy Davis, the crushingly defeated Democrat nominee for Texas governor, should go down in the history books as the ultimate expression of the fakery and hype that characterize the Democratic Party of the early 21st century.  But considering th...

  • January 1, 2015

    National Enquirer reports famed White House chef quit over abusive behavior of Michelle O

    Say what you will about super market tabloids, but the National Enquirer was the only media outlet to expose John Edwards’ lying and cheating about fathering an out-of-wedlock child. Because it pays news sources, the Enquirer often gets stories...

  • December 31, 2014

    Election called off in Sweden in stunning backroom deal

    Three weeks ago, Sweden was set to have a snap election that would offer the voting public a chance to be heard on Sweden's immigration policy, which is importing one percent of its population per year from impoverished Muslim countries.  No...

  • December 31, 2014

    Hilarious: NY Times editorial comes out against the politics of victimhood

    In an act of unconscious self-parody, the New York Times editorial board at long last denounces the “stifling sense of victimhood” in politics.  Charles Lipson delightfully savors the irony: The NYT has changed its tone after ma...

  • December 31, 2014

    Historic first: Non- Mexicans outnumber Mexicans in border apprehensions

    I guess you could chalk this up under celebrating diversity.  The International Business Times notes data just released by Pew:  More non-Mexicans than Mexicans were detained by the Border Patrol in 2014 for the first time on record, a...

  • December 31, 2014

    Oil prices hit 5.5 year low

    Remember when President Obama said in 2012, “We can’t just drill our way to lower gas prices”? The Smartest President Ever was as wrong as he was on Obamacare saving the average family $2500 a year. Oil prices have just skidded belo...

  • December 31, 2014

    Fox News dominates ratings again, CNN lowest ratings ever, MSNBC mulls changes to fix ratings

    Once again, for the 13th year in a row, Fox News dominated the cable news industry in 2014. Lisa de Moraes of Deadline Hollywood writes: As 2014 draws to a close, FNC celebrates its 13th consecutive year as the most-watched cable news network, t...

  • December 30, 2014

    Stunning data on <em>average</em> compensation for municipal employees in California

    Forget the old-fashioned term “civil servants”; America’s new ruling class is government employees.  Would you like your kids to go to work for an outfit where employees average between two hundred grand and a quarter mill?...

  • December 30, 2014

    Who's behind the anti-cop demonstrations planned to disrupt New Year's celebrations?

    We learned yesterday that plans are afoot to disrupt traditional midnight celebrations of the New Year to protest deaths at the heands of police (deaths of police officers are of no apparent concern to these people).  Lee Cary provides some dete...

  • December 30, 2014

    Mayor de Blasio meeting with police unions today

    Does Bill de Blasio realize how deep he has stepped into it?  He has been openly and publicly disrespected by large numbers of cops on three high-profile occasions already, and the funeral for Officer Wenjian Liu is scheduled for the coming week...

  • December 30, 2014

    Top New York pol under federal investigation

    Although not well-known outside New York, Sheldon Silver, speaker of the New York State Assembly for the last two decades, is one of the most powerful politicians in the country.  And he is now under investigation by the feds for what looks like...

  • December 29, 2014

    Oil slick, debris spotted in Sea of Java

    Reports indicate that debris and oil patches have been spotted in the Sea of Java near where Air Asia 8501 disappeared. Jakarta's Air Force base commander Rear Marshal Dwi Putranto said an Australian Orion aircraft had detected suspicious ob...

  • December 29, 2014

    Giuliani to de Blasio: say to police that you're sorry

    Some unsolicited and unwanted advice yesterday from former mayor Rudy Giuliani to current mayor Bill de Blasio of New York, on Face the Nation.  Jessica Chasmar in the Washington Times: Rudy Giuliani said Sunday that New York City Mayo...

  • December 29, 2014

    Anti-cop demonstrations planned to disrupt New Year's Eve celebrations

    The left’s plan to completely alienate mainstream America continues apace.  The website of The Stop Mass Incarceration Network (hat tip: Breitbart) agitates: On New Year's Eve, as the clock winds down on 2014, the powers that be w...

  • December 29, 2014

    Indiana Gov. Pence snubs Abbas Christmas invitation in Israel

    Traveling to Israel on a nine-day mission over the holidays that included three days of official activity to enhance trade and investment between Israel and Indiana, Governor Mike Pence bluntly snubbed Palestinian Authority head Mahmoud Abbas.  ...

  • December 29, 2014

    For Jonathan Gruber, 2015 could be even worse -- much worse -- than 2014

    The inimitable Howie Carr, Boston Herald columnist and syndicated talk show host, is on the case of MIT economist/Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber and has written a priceless column outlining what may lie ahead for the man who considers American v...

  • December 29, 2014

    Former White House counselor to Clinton calls on progs to abandon the Democratic Party

    Although the media loves to run stories on a “civil war” within the GOP, the real story of intra-party strife today is among the Democrats. That party has swung increasingly leftward, but to the (mostly white) progressives who make up the...

  • December 28, 2014

    Air Asia plane with 162 aboard missing over Java Sea

    Another airliner flying out of a Southeast Asia airport has gone missing on a flight from Surabaya, Indonesia to Singapore, normally a two-hour trip.  CNN reports: There was conflicting information about when exactly Flight 8501 went missin...

  • December 28, 2014

    Rookie cop, 24, slain in Arizona

    If anyone needed reminding of how dangerous police work can be, and how officers must be prepared to defend themselves at a moment’s notice, the death of Tyler Jacob Stewart provides it.  Fox News reports: A police officer in Flagstaf...

  • December 28, 2014

    'Peace advocate' in Ferguson protests charged with felony arson

    Another disgrace for the anti-cop demonstrators in and around St. Louis. Christine Byers and Michele Munz of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch write: One of the most frequently quoted and photographed Ferguson protesters was charged Saturday with sett...

  • December 28, 2014

    Christmas attack on Fresno Muslim center branded 'hate crime' by police chief was done by Muslim former member

    It’s odd how police sometimes are very reluctant to use the label “hate crime,” but other times rush to use it. An example of the latter phenomenon took place in Fresno, California. Patrick Poole reports in PJ Media: A vandalis...

  • December 28, 2014

    Clueless Lib journalists at GQ smacked down

    Kyle Smith of the New York Post performs the journalistic equivalent of an atomic wedgie on the smug liberal journalists at GQ. In a survey of the “Craziest Politicians of 2014,” GQ had difficulty locating any Democrats. Sevente...

  • December 28, 2014

    The high cost of Obama's and Holder's race mongering

    President Obama is either delusional or consciously lying when he claims that race relations have improved in his presidency. Writing in the New York Post, John Fund and Hans von Spakovsky not only show that the public disagrees quite strongly, they ...

  • December 27, 2014

    Obama admin trying to reverse UAE's designation of CAIR and MAS as terror-related

    The government of the United Arab Emirates has placed the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and the Muslim American Society (MAS) on a list of Islamist terror-related groups, and after some blowback from the groups, reaffirmed the decision...

  • December 27, 2014

    Christmas Day race violence that didn't make the national media

    The left-wing racial agitators have been working overtime to exploit every incident involving fatalities and injuries to black perpetrators, and it is having some effect.  In Oakland, California, where a dedicated cohort of a couple of hundred h...

  • December 27, 2014

    JetBlue facing boycott over free flights for cops to NYPD funerals

    The old adage that no good deed goes unpunished seems to be coming true for JetBlue.  As Rick Moran noted yesterday: JetBlue is offering police officers across the country free flights to New York City to attend the funerals of the two poli...

  • December 27, 2014

    Is <em>The Interview</em> deeper than PC critics are willing to admit?

    I haven’t seen The Interview (yet), but Bridget Johnson has, and at PJ Media she posits that the film is deeper than critics will admit, perhaps because it also contains some very un-PC material.  Her piece is worth reading in its entirety...

  • December 27, 2014

    Obama claiming US is 'less racially divided' than when he took office

    In a yet-to-be-aired interview with NPR, the state-sponsored left wing radio outlet, President Obama is making a startling contention. In a PR release, the network advises: In a year-end conversation with NPR News, President Obama told Morn...

  • December 27, 2014

    Cops turn their backs on de Blasio at Officer Ramos funeral

    Once again, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio was shunned by officers of the police force he supervises, as backs were turned on him at the funeral for slain Officer Rafael Ramos. The New York Post reports: Mayor de Blasio tried to make peace with t...

  • December 26, 2014

    Democrats the real party of the rich

    One of the great misconceptions in American politics is that Republicans are the party of the rich.  That title belongs to the Democrats, who regularly garner the big bucks of America’s moneyed elite.  David Elliott of the AP reports:...

  • December 26, 2014

    Jeb Bush quitting Tenet Healthcare board

    He’s been criticized and defended on AT for taking a board seat at Tenet Healthcare, a major beneficiary of Obamacare, but now Jeb Bush has decided to step down.  Joseph Tanfani of the Los Angeles Times reports: Bush is quitting Tenet...

  • December 26, 2014

    Sharyl Attkisson: Docs indicate ATF was using Fast and Furious to justify new gun regs

    Just as Second Amendment civil rights activists feared, federal government bureaucrats were supplying illegal firearms to Mexican drug cartels in the expectation that it would led to pressure for more regulation. Analyzing a 60 page document release ...

  • December 25, 2014

    Thugs win as NY Fire Department abandons station

    Thanks to a threat by the “Black Guerilla Family” against a precinct house next door to a fire station, the New York City Fire Department has temporarily abandoned the facility, leaving residents of the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood les...

  • December 25, 2014

    Evidence discovered that 'ocean acidification' scare may be as fraudulent as 'global warming'

    A startling discovery by a graduate student has uncovered what looks like a fraud remarkably parallel to the infamous “Hockey stick” graph of Michael Mann that purported to show global temperatures skyrocketing when atmospheric CO2 rose, ...

  • December 25, 2014

    A coal mine expands

    Flying in the face of President Obama’s threat that building a new coal-fired power plant will cause bankruptcy, a coal mine in Benwood, WV is expanding. This is one lump of coal in my Christmas stocking that I can welcome. The Times Leader ...

  • December 24, 2014

    France to end 75% tax rate

    France’s President Francois Hollande is quietly letting his nation’s 75% tax rate on high incomes expire as the year ends. The measure raised very little revenue, but aptly expressed the envy and hatred for the rich that animates many on ...

  • December 24, 2014

    More Trouble at the New York Times

    One hundred journalists, including some high-profile names, are leaving the New York Times as the paper desperately seeks to conserve cash in the face of a serious shortfall. It’s not a very Merry Christmas at the paper that still fancies itsel...

  • December 24, 2014

    FBI warns of ISIS plan to blow up Mississippi River bridge

    According to this Reuters dispatch, the FBI has warned of a threat by ISIS to blow up the Memphis & Arkansas Bridge, connecting Memphis, Tennessee and West Memphis, Arkansas. The Federal Bureau of Investigation passed the threat on to local ...

  • December 24, 2014

    Gay porn actor insanity defense rejected, convicted of cannibalistic murder in Canada

    This is a story so lurid, I hesitated to mention it on the blog. But because “insanity” has been invoked to deny any connection between the assassination of Officers Lin and Ramos by Ismaaiyl Brinsley and the political agitation and hate-...

  • December 24, 2014

    Study: North Korea could have 79 nuclear weapons by 2020

    The world is spiraling toward nuclear Armageddon, with Iran nearing nuclear weapons, and North Korea on a path toward a substantial nuclear arsenal. The crazy-sounding threats of the gangster regime in Pyongyang to inflict mortal damage in its enemie...

  • December 24, 2014

    Cop in St. Louis suburb near Ferguson shoots and kills black man pointing a gun at him

    A near-riot has already broken out in Berkeley, Missouri, two miles from Ferguson, where an armed man identified as Antonio Martin was shot and killed by a police officer after he pointed a loaded gun at the cop. Alastair Jamieson of NBC News writes:...

  • December 23, 2014

    Valerie Plame proves she is a big phony

    Remember when Valerie Plame was the poster girl for Bush and Cheney-haters?  A desk jockey at the CIA with some flowing blonde hair claim to glamour (in terms of image exploitation, a Wendy Davis-like figure), Plame was supposedly endangered whe...

  • December 23, 2014

    Obama was wrong: Sony hack was terrorism, not vandalism

    President Obama knows how to read the law, having received a diploma from Harvard Law School.  Even though he doesn’t seem to have actually, ahem, practiced much law, still he knows how to read the statutes, and besides, he has a gigantic ...

  • December 23, 2014

    De Blasio blames media for his troubles

    New York Mayor de Blasio revealed his true colors yesterday in a press conference, blaming the media for diving New Yorkers, by reporting on misbehavior of demonstrators. Ignoring his own casting of aspersions on the cops, ignoring the inflammatory r...

  • December 23, 2014

    Mall of America protesters expected to face charges

    Saturday’s massive anti-police demonstration at the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota may turn out to be an expensive lesson for the organizers in the difference between public and private property.  The demonstration was planned w...

  • December 23, 2014

    Is this the most irresponsible and reprehensible 'public service' commercial ever?

    Anti-gun activists know no bounds of decency.  Already notorious for their glee in exploiting the deaths of schoolchildren when “gun-free zones” become defenseless targets of opportunity for disturbed minds bent on slaughter, now the...

  • December 23, 2014

    Rolling Stone asks Columbia J-school to review its UVA rape story handling

    Rolling Stone Magazine is unable to save itself and is turning itself over to a higher power – in this case, reliably leftist Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.  Alexandra Alter reports in the New York Times: Rolling S...

  • December 22, 2014

    Obama calls for 'patient dialogue' on murder of cops but is 'impatient' on Ferguson and Staten Island incidents

    President Obama has revealed much more than he intended about his priorities in a pair of statements made public Friday and Saturday.  On Friday, in an interview with departing CNN anchor Candy Crowley, he addressed black activists protesting ag...

  • December 22, 2014

    Congress quietly saved internet freedom in CROmnibus

    The $1.014-trillion Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2015 (HR 83) may have been a 1,200-page cave-in on funding containing crony-capitalism goodies for the lobbyist class, but at least one gem was buried in the manure.  Go...

  • December 22, 2014

    Earth crumbling beneath the feet of Hillary's presidential campaign

    As Hillary Clinton continues to collect honoraria well into six figures for speeches and “conversations with…” public appearances, her presidential prospects are evaporating. The “inevitable” nominee is experiencing som...

  • December 22, 2014

    Two thousand years of cooling

    Alarmism about global warming has been dealt yet another body blow, as the so-called “settled science” gets some unsettling data.  Anthony Watts of Watts Up With That (hat tip: John Hinderaker of Powerline) reports on a new study of ...

  • December 21, 2014

    Assassination of 2 NY policemen has the left scrambling

    New York City Patrolmen Rafael Ramos and Wenjin Liu are dead at the hands of an assassin who executed them as they sat in their patrol car eating lunch, working an overtime shift. “They were, quite simply, assassinated,” a shaken NYP...

  • December 21, 2014

    Cop killer Brinsley may have been a jihadist

    There is not a whisper of this yet in the mainstream media, but there is a trail of evidence strongly suggesting that Ismaaiyl Abdullah Brinsley, the assassin of officers Liu and Ramos, was a jihadist. Daniel Greenfield of Frontpagemag. com discovere...

  • December 21, 2014

    Wear blue to support cops

    For months, ever since the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, MO, the left has been rampaging against the police. They implicitly (and sometimes explicitly) urged violence, and maintained systemic police racism was the cause of disproportionate numb...

  • December 21, 2014

    Time for sports teams to wear NYPD logo shirts

    Rep. Peter King has a great suggestion: if members of sports teams can wear “I can’t breathe” and “Hands up, don’t shoot” t-shirts, then members of college and professional sports teams can wear shirts with the NYP...

  • December 21, 2014

    Chicago Mayor Emanuel's son mugged on his home block

    New York Mayor de Blasio told his mixed race son to beware of police racism, but Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel understands that the real danger to the children of mayors (and everyone else) comes from violent criminals. The Chicago Tribune reports: ...

  • December 20, 2014

    Intimidating a studio to drop a film is outrageous - unless the Clintons do it

    Jack Hellner points out that some studio project cancelations under intimidation don’t seem to bother the mainstream media very much.  Remember this?  Amy Chozick and Bill Carter wrote in the New York Times, September 30, 2013: T...

  • December 20, 2014

    Anti-fracking fraud in NY state ban

    When New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced he was taking steps to ban hydraulic fracturing in the state, he was strongly influenced by the statement of Howard Zucker, acting state health commissioner: Dr. Zucker said his review boiled down to...

  • December 20, 2014

    Anti-Scott Walker prosecutorial skullduggery in Wisconsin exposed

    A huge political scandal is slowly coming to light in Wisconsin, as information comes to light about the conduct of that state’s Government Accountability Board (GAB) as it persecuted supporters of Governor Scott Walker, who bravely took on the...

  • December 19, 2014

    Creative cyberwar tactics

    If Sony Pictures’ abject surrender to hackers is allowed to stand, our First Amendment will become meaningless, and our nation will be a sitting duck for whatever crazed interests can pull together the resources to hack and blackmail anyone who...

  • December 19, 2014

    Doctors to get Medicare pay cut if they don't 'meaningfully' use electronic medical records

    The bullying of the nation’s physicians continues apace, now turning to penalizing doctors who don’t meet the administration’s one-size-fits-all approach to medical records. Bruce Japsen of Forbes reports: More than 250,000 phy...

  • December 18, 2014

    Obama rescues communism in Cuba

    Make no mistake: an existential crisis for the communist regime of Cuba has been brewing, and President Obama has just thrown the nation a lifeline.  President Raul Castro is 83 years old, and despite the glories of socialist medicine, he is not...

  • December 18, 2014

    NY Gov. Cuomo announces intent to ban fracking

    Upstate New York, burdened by high taxes and a decaying industrial base more than a century old, will get no share of the boom enjoyed by neighboring Pennsylvania, courtesy of the oil and gas-rich Marcellus Shale deposits. New York Governor Andrew Cu...

  • December 17, 2014

    Hillary cover worst-selling issue of the year for <em>People</em> Magazine

    Run, Hillary, run!  Outside the precincts of the Upper West Side and Washington’s tonier neighborhoods, Hillary Clinton is just not very popular. Not only did her book Hard Choices fail to sell, but her visage on the cover of People dro...

  • December 17, 2014

    Federal judge issues memo declaring executive amnesty unconstitutional

    It sounded and was too good to be true yesterday afternoon when news flashes indicated that a federal judge had “ruled” that President Obama’s executive action on not prosecuting millions of illegal aliens and issuing documents to t...

  • December 17, 2014

    Jeb Bush 'actively exploring the possibility' of running for president

    As if to prove he is a happening sort of guy, Jeb Bush announced on Facebook and Twitter his intention to run for president. Of course, he didn’t say it outright, but rather couched it in careful language that allows him an out, while signaling...

  • December 17, 2014

    Barack and Michelle playing the race card in <em>People</em> Magazine

    Having learned nothing from its in-the-tank-for-Democrats Hillary Clinton cover debacle, People Magazine is helping out President and Mrs. Obama in their efforts to play the racial victimization card with an interview bemoaning racial profiling, acco...

  • December 17, 2014

    Terror threat cancels movie premiere

    Giving in to an online threat from the group Guardians of Peace that claims responsibility for hacking Sony Pictures, the theatre owner of the venue where the New York premiere of The Interview was to take place has cancelled the event. Catherine Sho...

  • December 16, 2014

    Another liberal magazine falls for hoax that confirms its agenda

    New York Magazine fell hard for a story that was just too good to check.  A putative boy genius with the multiculturalist orgasm-inducing name of Mohammed Islam had made $72 million in the stock market.  The only problem was that he and his...

  • December 16, 2014

    Cringe-worthy Obama nominee withdraws

    I confess that I halfway looked forward to George Tsunis being confirmed as ambassador to Norway.  He could have made for a highly amusing storyline on Season 3 of Lilyhammer, the hilarious Netflix Original series that satirizes political correc...

  • December 15, 2014

    How to break through the IRS stonewall

    The Internal Revenue Service is currently employing a naked Catch-22 strategy in order to prevent disclosure of its potential misdeeds in disclosing private taxpayer information on conservatives to the White House.  The conservative legal group ...

  • December 15, 2014

    China decides not to honor Hong Kong rights

    In 1984, the U.K. and China issued the Sino-British Joint Declaration on the Question of Hong Kong as part of the handover of the crown colony to China.  In that agreement, China guaranteed certain rights for Hong Kong for 50 years.  But no...

  • December 15, 2014

    NYPD arrests protesting public university poetry prof

    The New York Post reports that Eric Linsker, who teaches poetry at City University of New York and is 29 years old, was arrested Saturday during anti-police demonstrations in New York City, … for allegedly attacking two NYPD lieutenants w...

  • December 15, 2014

    Woman arrested as 'teabagger' wins $1.2 million

    It is unlikely that any of the protesters clogging the streets of New York, Washington, and other cities this weekend over alleged police abuse would sympathize with Nancy Genovese, but I do. The New York Post reports (hat tips: Instapundit, Breitbar...

  • December 14, 2014

    New Justice Department study reveals White House exaggerating campus rape problem by a factor of ten

    Rape is a horrible crime, but the issue of rape is also a political tool of the left, useful in efforts to control people in the name of compassion. As the depth of the fraud perpetrated by the Rolling Stone article that caused all fraternities and s...

  • December 14, 2014

    Airbus may end production of A380 superjumbo airliner

    Just over 7 years after it entered commercial service, Airbus has let it be known that it may end production of the world’s largest passenger airliner, the A380. Last year, not one single frame was sold to an airline, and an order for 6 birds w...

  • December 14, 2014

    Michelle Obama's school lunch disaster

    By making herself queen of the school lunchroom, Michelle Obama has managed to screw things up almost as badly as Obamacare has screwed up health insurance, albeit on a smaller scale.  The Twitter hashtag #thanksmichelleobama accompanying pictur...

  • December 13, 2014

    Gruber's peril deepens after hearing testimony

    Jonathan Gruber may have thought that his self-abasement before the House Committee on Investigations would extricate him from his difficulties, but he may be in much deeper trouble.  You see, he was under oath. Peter Suderman of Reason lays ...

  • December 12, 2014

    Sen. Feinstein has opened Pandora's Box for the Democrats

    The Democratic Party is well on the way to restoring its reputation as weak on national security, not to be trusted with the nation’s safety.  Senator Dianne Feinstein and the Democrat majority on the Senate Intelligence Committee who insi...

  • December 12, 2014

    Public overwhelmingly supports further probe of IRS

    The IRS scandal is a ticking time bomb, with backup tapes of Lois Lerner’s e-mails discovered but so far not released and the news that the Justice Department was actively coordinating with Lois Lerner on targeting conservative groups for possi...

  • December 12, 2014

    It sure looks like Jeb Bush isn't running for president

    Forget about all those speeches, meetings with donors, and campaign appearances for others before the election.  Money talks.  Bloomberg reports (via The Weekly Standard): "Documents filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Com...

  • December 11, 2014

    State Department stonewalling AP on release of Hillary records

    The Associated Press is going public with its frustration over the State Department’s failure to release public records of Hillary Clinton’s tenure as secretary of state.  Stephen Braun of the AP writes: The State Department has...

  • December 11, 2014

    Dramatic polling shift on gun rights

    The American public now believes, by a six-point margin, that guns do more to protect people than put people at risk.  This reverses the attitude that had prevailed since Newtown and continues a long-term trend in favor of gun rights. The Pew...

  • December 11, 2014

    Arrogant Greenpeace creeps damage ancient site that cannot be repaired

    Radical environmentalists are religious fanatics, convinced that their beliefs can save the world and arrogantly dismissive of all other considerations.  How else to explain the unspeakable damage done in Peru to one of the world’s most pr...

  • December 11, 2014

    Smirking MSNBC reporter asks Rick Perry is he is 'smart enough' to be president

    MSNBC, the network that features former presidential candidate Al Sharpton, also employs a young woman named Kasie Hunt (no fan of Sarah Palin), who found it appropriate to ask potential presidential candidate Rick Perry if he is “smart enough...

  • December 10, 2014

    Anti-Walker forces in Wisconsin may have broken the law and altered documents in cover-up

    A major scandal involving a Democrat witch-hunt aimed at crippling the campaign of Governor Scott Walker may be breaking in Wisconsin.  Laws may have been broken by prosecutors seeking to discredit Walker, and it appears that documents may have ...

  • December 10, 2014

    Obama goes off-prompter and makes up biblical attribution

    Valerie Jarrett really has to crack down on President Obama going off-teleprompter.  Ever.  Speaking in Tennessee yesterday, a state where many people actually read the Bible, the smartest president ever mistakenly attributed an aphorism ro...

  • December 10, 2014

    Harvard Business School professor bullies Chinese restaurant

    There is a form of derangement to which professors at highly competitive elite institutions are vulnerable. Jonathan Gruber of MIT (Economics PhD, Harvard) is much in the public eye right now, but Ben Edelman of Harvard Business School (Economics PhD...

  • December 9, 2014

    Rowdy white protesters in Portland instruct articulate and polite black man on oppression

    It is a sign of the times that so many young white people find themselves able to lecture black people on their purportedly deficient understanding of their own oppression. Last week, I highlighted a video (embedded below) of a female UCLA student...

  • December 9, 2014

    Berkeley now grumbling about the hard left leading demonstrations

    Monday night was the third night in a row that about 500 demonstrators disrupted freeways and local traffic as they marched several miles around Berkeley.  They are beginning to wear out their welcome, even in the famously leftist and demonstrat...

  • December 9, 2014

    Video of Trey Gowdy's questioning of Jonathan Gruber today

    Trey Gowdy, the razor-sharp former prosecutor and Congressman from South Carolina, was Jonathan Gruber’s worst nightmare today, during his testimony before the Issa Committee. It becamse transparently clear that Gruber had been given a few line...

  • December 8, 2014

    Columbia University Law School offers to reschedule exams for students 'impaired' by 'trauma' over grand juries

    What kind of lawyers does Columbia University plan to foist on the courts and public of the United States?  Apparently people so emotionally vulnerable that an action of a grand jury could traumatize and in effect disable them are worthy of a la...

  • December 8, 2014

    States' lawsuit against amnesty draws judge unafraid to criticize immigration enforcement

    The 20 states suing the Obama administration over the president’s unilateral amnesty, led by Texas AG and governor-elect Greg Abbott, filed their lawsuit in Brownsville, Texas.  That was evidently a strategic choice.  Stephen Dinan of...

  • December 8, 2014

    Berkeley rocked by a second night of violence

    The hard-left cadre of revolutionary activists that always turns up to light fires, smash windows, block traffic, and inflict nuisance on civil society in the East Bay at any excuse (Occupy Wall Street, police shootings, or any whaddya got opportunit...

  • December 8, 2014

    Mitch McConnell plans a 'bipartisan' Senate

    There will be no negative consequences for Harry Reid’s abuse of Senate procedures.  These abuses include refusing to allow hundreds of House-passed bills  to come to a vote and his infamous change requiring only a bare majority to ap...

  • December 7, 2014

    Berkeley erupts in violent protest over police, racism, and 'whaddya got?'

    A friend far more plugged in than I to the scene in Berkeley warned me Friday to stay away from campus and downtown Saturday, starting at 5.  A demonstration was being planned, she told me, and trashcans were already being removed from the stree...

  • December 7, 2014

    Melissa Harris-Perry: Arson and looting 'not violence'

    Melissa Harris-Perry is taken seriously in some quarters, having her own weekend show on MSNBC and holding a professorship at Wake Forest University, even sporting a PhD from Duke. But she has a history of acting foolishly on air, as when she mocked ...

  • December 6, 2014

    Buh-bye, Candy Crowley

    Candy Crowley finally is out at CNN, in what sounds like her being fired. Of course, those words would never be used, but how hard is it to decipher the code when CNN head Jeff Zucker wrote in an internal memo that she “has made the decisi...

  • December 6, 2014

    Smoking gun video of Michael Brown's stepfather: 'I'm going to start a riot'

    Proof of intent doesn’t get any clearer than a videotape of a suspect proclaiming, “I’m going to start a riot….” Those words were from the lips of Louis Head, uttered before he climbed on a car and shouted, “Burn ...

  • December 6, 2014

    Al Sharpton rebuked by police shooting victim's family

    Al Sharpton has received a well-deserved scolding from the family of a suspect shot and killed by the New York police. Lorena Mongelli and Danika Fears report in the New York Post: The family of police-shooting victim Akai Gurley...

  • December 5, 2014

    Sweden's left-wing government collapses over immigration policy

    The left-of-center government of Prime Minister Stefan Lofven has been forced to call new elections less than three months after taking office.  Unable to pass a budget through the Rikstag (parliament), Lofven faced a choice of either resigning ...

  • December 5, 2014

    State Department mouthpiece Psaki caught on hot mic admitting her talking point is 'ridiculous'

    Jen Psaki had a very tough day Thursday, having to spout evasive blather.  Nothing unusual in that, of course, but AP reporter Matt Lee tried extra-hard to pin her down about the U.S. reaction to Egypt’s decision to clear former President ...

  • December 5, 2014

    Expensive 'Stand with Hillary' video reveals her desperation

    Several people who sent me the video embedded below, from the Hillary for President campaign that is not yet officially a campaign, warned me I might barf.  But actually, I found it quite interesting in a number of respects and, upon analysis, c...

  • December 5, 2014

    MSM blackout on Hillary's 'empathize' with our enemies remark

    You can tell how damaging the remarks made by Hillary Clinton at Georgetown University Wednesday are by the total blackout they have received from the mainstream media.  Here is Google’s listing of the keywords "Hillary+empathize...

  • December 5, 2014

    Eleanor Holmes Norton on Ferguson: 'My interest is not in what did happen'

    It is becoming clear that facts don’t matter to many of the people protesting grand jury No True Bill decisions in Ferguson and New York City.  Any opportunity to illustrate “the larger truth” that African-Americans are victims...

  • December 5, 2014

    National Urban League president can't deal with evidence on Garner case

    As with Eleanor Holmes Norton, Marc Morial, president of the National Urban League and former Mayor of New Orleans, found himself unable to deal with facts when discussing a grand jury No True Bill, this time in the Eric Garner death. Megyn Kelly of ...

  • December 4, 2014

    Grand jury does not indict NYPD cop in death of Eric Garner; Mayor de Blasio blames 'racism'

    No true bill was returned by the New York grand jury that considered the coroner’s “homicide” finding in the death of Eric Garner, who was subdued with a choke hold as he resisted arrest.  Note that the coroner uses the term ...

  • December 4, 2014

    <em>The People's Cube</em> freed from Twitter Gulag

    The People’s Cube is one of the funniest satirical websites, run by Oleg Atbashian, who honed his appreciation for the immorality of leftism by growing up in Soviet-era Ukraine and finding employment as an agitprop artist there, before defectin...

  • December 4, 2014

    GOP senators hold up nomination of new Social Security head

    Signaling closer scrutiny of incompetence and possible criminality, a group of GOP senators headed by Orrin Hatch of Utah has delayed confirmation of the nominee to head the Social Security Administration.  Stephen Ohlemacher of the AP reports: ...

  • December 4, 2014

    White leftist UCLA female student patronizingly instructs black cop on racism

    This is the video of the day.  It encapsulates so much that is wrong with academic leftism.  The arrogance.  The enrapture with theoretical constructs over experience. Watch, if you have the stomach, as the crowd of demonstrators ch...

  • December 3, 2014

    Donor threatens to withhold $4.2 million if Univ. of Illinois hires terrorist to teach

    Richard Hill has had enough of the University of Illinois hiring terrorists and now threatens to withhold a major donation if it goes through with announced plans to hire another convicted terrorist.  The University’s Chicago campus notori...

  • December 3, 2014

    Will Michael Brown's stepfather face grand jury indictment for inciting riot?

    Thanks to a video recording, there is no doubt that Louis Head, stepfather of the late Michael Brown, told a crowd gathered following the announcement of no true bill for Officer Darren Wilson to “Burn this bitch down.” Following his hars...

  • December 3, 2014

    On Thanksgiving eve, Obama issued more rewrites of ObamaCare law. Media doesn't even notice

    Almost completely unnoticed in the media, on Wednesday before Thanksgiving President Obama issued more unconstitutional rewrites of his signature legislation. Betsy McCaughey, perhaps our number one watchdog of the misbegotten health care law, did no...

  • December 3, 2014

    Disgraceful choices for ambassadors to Hungary and Argentina confirmed by Senate

    Colleen Bell is well qualified to produce television soap operas and raise money for President Obama’s elections, but it is a disgrace and an insult to Hungary that she has just been confirmed by the Senate to be Ambassador to Hungary. But at l...

  • December 2, 2014

    No room at White House meeting for Ferguson PD, but guy named 'T-Dubb-O' advises POTUS on police-'community' relations

    Priorities, priorities.  The president who promised to “bring us together” has thrown in his lot with racial agitator Al Sharpton (with blood on his hands from Freddy’s Fashion Mart) and rap artists like “T-Dubb-O,”...

  • December 2, 2014

    Falling oil prices huge boon for consumers, but California set to tax it away

    The American economy is getting the equivalent of a huge tax cut thanks to the decline in oil prices, down roughly 40% since June.  Steven Mufson, writing in the Washington Post, puts some numbers to the benefit: Every day, American motoris...

  • December 2, 2014

    Viral retaliation on Michael Brown propaganda

    The sheer quantity of BS on Michael Brown as saintly martyr is getting out of hand.  The latest example is this poster, allegedly created by first-graders, about the Gentle Giant (who was also a strong-arm robber).  Coming from the Twitter ...

  • December 1, 2014

    Hillary headed to rehab?

    The National Enquirer, still basking in the glow of its takedown of philandering John Edwards – a story well-known to many in the media but ignored because the man was, after all, the Democrats’ pick for veep and a darling of the left ...

  • November 30, 2014

    Obamacare causing middle class to defer medical care

    A Gallup survey shows that instead of the promised increased access to medical care, Obamacare is causing middle class people to put off treatment. Sarah Hurtubise reports in the Daily Caller: One in three Americans has put off seeking medical t...

  • November 30, 2014

    Standing up to Ferguson protester bullies

    “I got six kids to feed and you are going to get me fired.” With these words, San Diego father Tyree Landrum stood up to Ferguson protesters who were blocking busy Interstate 5, and expressed a growing revulsion of the nation toward the hard left dem...

  • November 30, 2014

    Farrakhan: 'we'll tear this goddamn country apart' over Ferguson

    Speaking at publicly supported Morgan State University in Baltimore, a predominantly black institution of higher learning, Nation of Islam leader Luis Farrakhan issued threats over the shooting of Michael Brown and the no true bill verdict of the gra...

  • November 29, 2014

    The biggest game of chicken in the history of business

    A high drama is playing out on the stage of the world’s economy, one that will affect everyone, except, perhaps, a few tribes in the remote reaches of the Amazon or New Guinea that do not participate in the cash economy. The global economy is p...

  • November 29, 2014

    Depression may be caused by infection

    There is no such thing as settled science. Ulcers, once thought to be caused by stress, have been discovered to be the result of an infection, no longer treated with a glass of milk and a less stressful job. Now, researchers are investigating depress...

  • November 28, 2014

    University closes interfaith prayer room to make more space for Muslim-only prayer room

    Western University in London, Ontario has been roiled over a controversial move from the university administration: closing a multi-faith prayer room to make space for a Muslim-only prayer room.  The London Free Press reports: London...

  • November 28, 2014

    OPEC meeting Thursday does not cut oil production as prices fall

    Meeting in Vienna yesterday, OPEC failed to enforce production cuts to halt the fall in world oil prices.  The AP reports: Reflecting its lessening oil clout, OPEC decided Thursday to keep its output target on hold and sit out falling ...

  • November 28, 2014

    DoD renames 'unlawful combatants' as 'unprivileged enemy belligerents'

    I swear, this does not come from The Onion. Via Glenn Reynolds,  Ed Morrssey, Steven Aftergood and Olivier Knox, we learn that the Federation of American Scientists noticed: When it comes to Department of Defense doctrine on ...

  • November 27, 2014

    Snow and cold quiet Ferguson demonstrators, but vandals in sunny California once again rampage

    “Only” two people were arrested in Ferguson, Missouri last night, as cold and snowy weather cooled the enthusiasm for rioting there. But in balmy Oakland and Los Angeles, California, the usual suspects turned out to vandalize storefronts,...

  • November 27, 2014

    Officer David Smith died when an enraged perp reached into his police car, got his gun, and shot him

    But for his willingness to use deadly force, Darren Wilson might be as dead today as his brother law enforcement officer, David Wilson, of the Johnson City, NY Police. William Jacobson of Legal Insurrection reminds us of the largely forgotten inciden...

  • November 26, 2014

    Obama on amnesty: 'I just took an action to change the law'

    President Obama went off teleprompter yesterday in Chicago, responding to a heckler, and admitted exactly what conservative critics have charged: that he unilaterally changed law, acting on immigration amnesty.  Eric Bradner of CNN reports: ...

  • November 26, 2014

    Sen. Schumer admits pushing Obamacare was a 'mistake'

    You can tell that Obama and his signature legislative accomplishment are a sinking ship based on who is jumping off it.  Kathleen Hunter of Bloomberg Politics reports: “Unfortunately, Democrats blew the opportunity the American people...

  • November 26, 2014

    Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson ignites firestorm with Ferguson comments

    By reputation, Mayor Kevin Johnson of Sacramento, a former NBA star, husband to education “reformer” Michelle Rhee, and president of the U.S. Conference of Mayors, is no dummy.  But evidently Ferguson Derangement Syndrome has overcom...

  • November 25, 2014

    'The left's war on civil society'

    The violence unleashed in Ferguson, Missouri and Oakland, California last night was well-planned – as far from a spontaneous reaction as could be imagined. The ultimate result in Ferguson is predictable.  Stores looted and burned mostly...

  • November 25, 2014

    Ferguson distracts from the big story: capitulation to Iran

    There are no burning stores or vehicles to illustrate the drama of what just happened in the cave-in to Iran that the “extension” of talks on its nuclear enrichment program represents.  The suspended sanctions continue to be suspende...

  • November 25, 2014

    'Let them eat cake' updated for modern elitists

    I suppose we should be grateful to British celebrity fashion designer Dame Vivienne Westwood for crystallizing contemporary elitist scorn for the rest of us. The UK Telegraph reports on words that should stand as her enduring legacy, much as Marie An...

  • November 24, 2014

    Major blowback from Obama's insult to Australia at the G20 in Brisbane

    Barack Obama has managed to damage the formerly close relationship between the United States and Australia, a cornerstone of our presence in the Pacific.  Unless you read American Thinker, you probably don’t know about the fuss created whe...

  • November 24, 2014

    More reason to love Mike Rowe

    Mike Rowe is a hero of mine, a tireless advocate of practical skills and knowledge who urges Americans to acquire a trade, rather than mindlessly go to college and acquire debt and a possibly useless degree.  The host of former cable TV hit Dirt...

  • November 24, 2014

    Miss Muslimah World crowned

    Congratulations to Fatma Ben Guefrache, crowned Miss Muslimah World (“Miss Islam”) in Indonesia (the world’s most populous Muslim country) over the weekend, in the Ummah’s answer to Miss Universe and other beauty contests....

  • November 23, 2014

    Marion Barry dies, faces his ultimate reward

    How on earth am I supposed to observe the journalistic convention of not speaking ill of the recently departed? The New York Times and Washington Post both heroically attempt to present the good sides of the former Washington, DC mayor and councilman...

  • November 23, 2014

    Illegal immigrants must not be mocked, according to this metropolitan daily

    The Indianapolis Star, once considered a conservative newspaper, has buckled to critics flinging the charge of “racism,” and pulled a cartoon it published mocking President Obama’s amnesty declaration. Jeff Taylor, executive editor,...

  • November 22, 2014

    Lois Lerner's IRS e-mails turn out to be not so lost

    Despite the sworn testimony of IRS commissioner John Koskinen that backup tapes are recycled after 6 months, backup tapes containing up to 30,000 e-mails from Lois Lerner’s “crashed” computer have been uncovered by the U.S. Treasury...

  • November 22, 2014

    Poll reveals public thinks there should be no Ferguson indictment and expects violent reaction

    It is not just conservatives who are on to the race grievance industry’s exploitation of the death of Michael Brown.  A vast majority realize what is going on. Valerie Richardson reports in the Washington Times: Only 1 in 4 American...

  • November 22, 2014

    Students tweeting pictures of disgusting school lunches with hashtag #thanksmichelleobama

    It was always a mistake for Michelle Obama to take on the role of national food scold, no matter how sincere her worries over the obesity problems of many Americans.  Telling people what they can and can’t eat leads to resentment, anger, a...

  • November 21, 2014

    Obama's deceitful claim illegals will 'pay their fair share'

    Last night’s presidential address on decreeing that millions of illegal aliens can stay here in violation of the law contained a deep deceit, buried in words that were, on the surface, true. President Obama’s rhetoric left the impression ...

  • November 20, 2014

    The Big Broadcast Fix for Obama's Amnesty Speech Tonight

    President Obama’s speech tonight on his immigration amnesty diktat isn’t aimed at you, if English is your primary language.  The White House didn’t even ask the Big Three broadcast networks – CBS, NBC, ABC – for tim...

  • November 20, 2014

    Ayatollah Khameni's revelation on ISIS

    In much of the Muslim world – Sunni and Shia – everything bad that happens is the fault of the kufrs (infidels).  So, of course, when President Obama’s new best friends in Iran are forced to deal with ISIS, the Sunni warriors w...

  • November 20, 2014

    IRS is monitoring comment threads on conservative blogs

    The Internal Revenue Service, which claims to be so understaffed that it can’t bother to collect unpaid taxes, or search backup tapes for Lois Lerner’s “missing” emails, apparently has plenty of time to read the comment thread...

  • November 20, 2014

    Poll: Hispanics closely divided on executive amnesty

    An NBC News poll discovered that President Obama’s planned executive amnesty order is not overwhelmingly popular among Hispanics, while nearly half of all Americans oppose it.  In fact, the margin of opposition among all Americans is great...

  • November 20, 2014

    Why the Supreme Court may invalidate Obama's amnesty

    Mickey Kaus makes an interesting argument that, contrary to the conventional wisdom, the Supreme Court may act on the lawsuit John Boehner is planning to file, and reverse President Obama’s planned executive action on amnesty: With Obama...

  • November 19, 2014

    Furor in Australia over Obama's closing remarks at G20 meeting

    Although ignored by the U.S. media, Barack Obama has been severely rebuked by media and politicians in Australia, host country for the recent G20 meetings, for his remarks at the closing session.  The national newspaper The Australian (behind a ...

  • November 19, 2014

    Politico rewrites history on Gruber

    Charles Lipson catches Politico red-handed, carrying water for the Obama administration and Obamacare, rewriting the role of Jonathan Gruber in Obamacare from “the law’s chief architect” on July 28 this year to “more of a scor...

  • November 19, 2014

    HuffPo political director calls for sanctions on newspapers reporting 'misrepresentations' on Islam and Muslims in UK

    The United Kingdom has no First Amendment, so the wishes of Mehdi Hasan, political director of the Huffington Post UK may come to fruition. The Guardian reports (hat tip: Breitbart): Misrepresentative portrayals of Muslims and other minorities w...

  • November 19, 2014

    Hilarious: Hillary could be the youngest Democrat seeking nomination in 2016

    Nothing better symbolizes how bankrupt of new ideas the Democrats are than the age of its bench of potential presidential nominees. Andrew Stiles of the Free Beacon points out that Hillary Clinton, who if elected would be the oldest-ever person in...

  • November 18, 2014

    Immigration and American Strength

    When progressives tout their claims that most Americans want immigration reform, they rightfully could include me, even though I am absolutely against amnesty and abhor the steps they want to foist on the public.  A properly constituted immigrat...

  • November 18, 2014

    Mob violence protesting grand jury will be about as spontaneous as Benghazi

    The demonstrations and violence that seem almost certain to break out if the grand jury returns no indictment in the death of Michael Brown have been planned for months.  Last week, Lee Cary documented (here, here, here, here, and here) the radi...

  • November 18, 2014

    Jerry Brown may challenge Hillary for Dem nomination

    Signs are accumulating that California Governor Jerry Brown, fresh off a 20-point re-election victory and with at least $20 million in unspent campaign funds available, may challenge Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination for president in 2016...

  • November 18, 2014

    New York Times notices Gruber comments and Obama's hypocrisy on amnesty executive order

    Is Pinch Sulzberger on vacation? For some reason, the New York Times is starting to report news that is inconvenient to the Democratic Party, something normally it avoids. A news story compares the president’s previous statements that he lacks ...

  • November 18, 2014

    Jonathan Gruber makes his debut in a political ad

    Thanks to the Louisiana run-off election in December, Jonathan Gruber has made his debit in political advertising (hat tip: Instapundit).  You can be certain that the nine Democrat senators up for re-election in 2016 [Michael Bennet (Colorado), ...

  • November 17, 2014

    Obamacare Facebook page full of astroturfed comments

    Astroturfing, the process of fabricating artificial grassroots movements, is a propaganda black art that was perfected by David Axelrod, the architect of the political rise of Barack Obama.  Though no longer a White House advisor, Axelrod’...

  • November 17, 2014

    Gallup poll finds record low approval, record high disapproval of Obamacare

    In a poll taken before Jonathan Gruber’s remarks on the stupidity of American voters who were misled about Obamacare became known, the Gallup organization has terrible news for Obamacare supporters. As the Affordable Care Act's second ...

  • November 17, 2014

    How the left recruits trolls to make website comments

    Earlier today I wrote about the way the official Obamacare website has apparently recruited people to post thousands of comments each, creating the appearance of mass support, a variant on the traditional astroturfing strategy of creating bogus grass...

  • November 13, 2014

    Former Muslim sounding the alarm

    Bosch Fawstin, a former Muslim raised in America, was recently interviewed (18 min) by Jamie Glazov.  Fawstin spoke the hard truth about Islam, which he describes this way: Islam is submission. Islam is death and destruction. Islam is here ...

  • November 12, 2014

    New Gallup Poll: Public wants GOP Congress, not Obama, to set agenda

    John Boehner and Mitch McConnell, as well Valerie Jarrett and Barack Obama, should take heed. By a commanding 17 point margin, Americans want Congress to take the lead, according to a new Gallup Poll (hat tip: Bloomberg and Instapundit): Followi...

  • November 12, 2014

    How Chelsea Clinton rebelled against her parents in her twenties

    New mother Chelsea Clinton sat down with a fawning Katie Couric and, perhaps relaxed by the flattery, revealed a bit more about her parents’ values than she may have intended. She averred that her form of rebellion against the ‘rents was ...

  • November 12, 2014

    Sen. Manchin warns fellow Democrats on 'bulls**t'

    Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia really ought to be a Republican, given his opposition to so much of the Democrats’ agenda. His state is being economically ravaged by the Obama administration’s self-proclaimed “war on coal,...

  • November 11, 2014

    Chinese repulsed by Obama chewing gum at formal summit

    President Obama was captured on live coverage of the summit talks in China chewing gum, causing much negative comment among Chinese viewers. USA Today: Live television coverage on China's top state-run channel Monday night showed the lead...

  • November 11, 2014

    Lib journo: Democratic Party in 'crisis' after election

    Mark Halperin may be a liberal, but he lives in what Rush Limbaugh calls “realville.”  And appearing on Bloomberg TV yesterday, he laid on the line a frank assessment of where the Democrats stand in the wake of the election a week ag...

  • November 10, 2014

    Sharyl Attkisson charges CBS kept secret Obama tape to help him lie about Benghazi

    Speaking with Michael Smerconish on CNN, former CBS News correspondent Sharyl Attkisson made a bombshell accusation that CBS News suppressed information that could have helped Mitt Romney at a key point in his campaign for the presidency. Bizpac R...

  • November 10, 2014

    Scientists find virus that makes humans stupid

    This could explain so very much.  Ben Tufft writes in the U.K. Independent: A virus that infects human brains and makes us more stupid has been discovered, according to scientists in the US. The algae virus, never before observed in heal...

  • November 10, 2014

    How Dems' plans to play Hispanic card crashed and burned in New Mexico

    A devastating blow has been dealt to Democrats’ plans to capitalize on the growing Hispanic population of the United States, playing on immigration concerns to create a solid voting bloc even larger than that of African-Americans.  From an...

  • November 10, 2014

    Messing with the Electoral College

    Plans are afoot on both the left and the right to alter the system of electing presidents without a constitutional amendment. On the left, it is proposed to short circuit the Electoral College by having states pass laws awarding their electoral votes...

  • November 10, 2014

    Minneapolis now requires superintendent of schools to approve any suspension of 'minority' students

    Racialists across America complain that minority students (chiefly blacks, not so much Chinese, for instance) are suspended for misbehavior at higher rates than whites. Questions of subculture and behavior are secondary to the quota mentality. Amo...

  • November 10, 2014

    Obamacare architect admits lack of transparency allowed capitalizing on 'stupidity of the American voter'

    Oops, Jonathan Gruber, MIT professor and acknowledged co-architect of Obamacare let the truth slip out, revealing the contempt he and his allies had for Americans. “This bill was written in a tortured way to make sure CBO did not score the...

  • November 9, 2014

    Party-switching state rep makes GOP history in Missouri

    In a move that I hope that Senator Joe Manchin notices, Missouri State Representative Linda Black announced this week that she was switching her party affiliation to the Republicans. The GOP had already won a record 117 seats out of 163 , and Rep. Bl...

  • November 9, 2014

    Greg Abbott's mother-in-law strategy and the Hispanic vote

    The smashing victory Greg Abbott pulled off in the Texas governor’s race, humiliating the endlessly touted Wendy Davis by more than 20 points, was accomplished with the help of 40% of the Hispanic vote.  Abbott, who as governor will have t...

  • November 9, 2014

    Stuck on stupid: Dems plan to continue attack on Koch Brothers

    Unfazed by their shellacking last Tuesday, Democrats plan to keep pushing the notion that the Koch Brothers are the root of all evil.  Or something.  More cow bell, in other words. Warner Todd Huston writes in Breitbart:  Despi...

  • November 9, 2014

    'Global warming issue going the way of gun control'

    The inimitable Don Surber wryly observed the failure of coal billionaire/environmental hypocrite Tom Steyer to get very much for his money last Tuesday. He has been around long enough and is appropriately jaundiced enough to note: Politics like ...

  • November 9, 2014

    Wind turbines declared health hazard in Wisconsin

    An historic first! Jack Spencer in Michigan Capitol Confidential writes: …the Board of Health in Brown County, Wisconsin, where Green Bay is located, has declared a local industrial wind plant to be a human health hazard. The specific facil...

  • November 8, 2014

    Obama's AG nominee name leaked and confirmed

    Disarray has marked the announcement of President Obama's nominee to replace Eric Holder, who leaves the attorney generalship of the United States under a cloud, cited for contempt of Congress. Steve Dennis writes in Roll Call:  Hours a...

  • November 8, 2014

    Outrage: green energy crony capitalists seek federal grant to pay off subsidized federal loans for bird-slaughtering, pilot-blinding solar plant

    The Ivanpah solar energy plant in Nevada is a horror, slaughtering thousands of birds annually by incinerating them mid-air, failing to deliver much more than 25% of the power it promised, soaking up hundreds of millions of dollars in subsidized fede...

  • November 8, 2014

    Sign-grabbing, pro-life teen-assaulting professor and her university sued

    One of the most blatant incidents of academic bigotry is going to end up in civil court and potentially cost the University of California, Santa Barbara and Assistant Professor Mireille Miller-Young a lot of money. You may recall that the good profes...

  • November 8, 2014

    WH chief of staff: 'Washington Will Work Better If Obama Has His Way'

    Does this remind anybody else of the Godfather’s making people an offer they can’t refuse?  This man just got what Democrat Senator Joe Manchin called an "ass-whuppin’."  And now his majordomo alludes to unpleasa...

  • November 7, 2014

    Outrageous 'John Doe' prosecution of Scott Walker supporters in Wisconsin ends

    An outrageous abuse of prosecutorial power for political purposes took place in Wisconsin, and now the perpetrators are saying, in effect, “Never mind” after the object of their vendetta, Scott Walker, was re-elected.  In a so-called...

  • November 7, 2014

    IRS admits to court it hasn't searched for missing Lois Lerner e-mails in the obvious places

    If there was ever any doubt that the IRS is stonewalling production of the missing Lois Lerner e-mails, recent IRS filings in the Judicial Watch lawsuit in the court of U.S. District Court Judge Emmett G. Sullivan remove all ambiguity.  Even tho...

  • November 7, 2014

    Did Sandra Fluke violate California residency requirements in her run for office?

    Sandra Fluke was resoundingly rejected by voters when she ran for the State Senate, but she may have been a fraudulent candidate for office.  The Beverly Hills Courier, which covers much of the affluent West Los Angeles district in which she ran...

  • November 7, 2014

    Mary Landrieu gets the big kiss-off from Dems

    Mary Landrieu is now irrelevant to the Democrats’ hopes to maintain a Senate majority, so the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee is pulling support for TV ads for her runoff election.  Josh Hohmann and Maggie Haberman report for Politico...

  • November 6, 2014

    Obama's presser goes Through the Looking Glass

    In yesterday’s post-midterm presser, President Obama seemed to channel Humpty Dumpty in Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass: "When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I ...

  • November 6, 2014

    GOP closing the data technology gap with Dems

    After Republicans got badly thumped in two presidential election cycles, RNC head Reince Preibus made it a priority for the GOP to catch up in the use of data technology to improve the ground game.  In the wake of a smashing midterm victory, the...

  • November 5, 2014

    Sandra Fluke crashes and burns in liberal West Los Angeles State Senate race

    Sandra Fluke, whose sole qualification for public office was being called a slut by Rush Limbaugh, has had a very long 15 minutes of fame, but they may be over.  With 100 percent of the votes counted, she was decisively defeated by fellow Democr...

  • November 5, 2014

    Fast and Furious document dump reveals Holder's anger at 'Issa and his idiot cronies'

    Overshadowed by Election Day focus on the polls, Eric Holder’s Justice Department dumped 65,000 documents in response to a court order late Monday.  It will take some time for Darrel Issa’s investigators to review them all, but alrea...

  • November 5, 2014

    Typhoid Barry

    Although asymptomatic herself, Mary Mallon is believed to have infected 53 people with typhoid fever at the start of the last century, of whom 3 died. Barack Obama, electorally immune from defeat, has become an asymptomatic carrier of the defeat viru...

  • November 5, 2014

    Historic repudiation of Dems at state legislature level

    In the wake of Typhoid Barry, the Democratic Party’s casualties are wide and deep. At the state legislature level, they are at their weakest since the 1920s. You might say a Great Depression has already started for them. John Fund at NRO brings...

  • November 4, 2014

    Michelle Obama grants black people permission to eat fried chicken <em>if</em> they vote today (updated)

    Speaking to Roland Martin on a black-oriented radio program, News One for Black America, Michelle Obama engaged in racial stereotyping that would get a white politician excommunicated from decent society, while joking about her belief in her own stat...

  • November 4, 2014

    'Civil rights' activists demand an investigation of Maxine Waters 'poverty pimp' guerrilla posters

    The left can dish it out, but it can’t take it, when it comes to underground street posters.  Do you remember a wave of protests from the left when President Bush was portrayed as Hitler or a monkey?  Neither do I. You can tell tha...

  • November 4, 2014

    Court rejects disparate impact housing suit as 'wishful thinking'

    Few legal theories are more pernicious than the “disparate impact” discrimination doctrine that ascribes any difference in outcomes by race to discrimination, even in the absence of any discriminatory acts.  The confirmation hearings...

  • November 4, 2014

    Begich's support for Libertarian candidate could swing Alaska Senate seat to Dems

    Senator Mark Begich occupies a seat in the Senate that was won by an outrageous dirty trick: the indictment of incumbent veteran Republican senator Ted Stevens a week before the election on charges that were utterly bogus and later thrown out of cour...

  • November 4, 2014

    Fox News calls Kentucky for McConnell

    The first batch of election results has come in, and the most significant close race race is Kentucky. Based on modeling of past voting trends, Fox News has called Mitch McConnell victor in Kentucky. Democrats poured tremendous amounts of money into ...

  • November 4, 2014

    Shaheen win called in New Hampshire

    Fox News has just projected that incumbent Democrat Jeanne Shaheen will win her Senate seat again, defeating a challenge from Scott Brown. This dashes GOP hopes of picking up another Senate seat, to add to those they have already captured from Democr...

  • November 4, 2014

    Gardner victory called in Colorado

    According to Fox News, Cory Gardner has won the Colorado Senate race, bringing the GOP net pick up to 4 so far. Udall attempted to push the war on women meme, and was successfully rebutted by Gardner advocating over the counter sales of birth control...

  • November 4, 2014

    Roberts victory called in Kansas, Perdue in Georgia

    According to the Fox News calculations, Pat Roberts will win re-election in Kansas and David Perdue in Georgia, clearing the way for a GOP majority in the Senate. Avoiding losses of seats in those states leaves the door open for Iowa, North Carolina,...

  • November 4, 2014

    Joni Ernst called winner in Iowa

    Fox News states that Joni Ernst has won her race in Iowa. This pushes the GOP to 51 seats in the Senate, with the opportunity for more pickups in the yet to be decided races. There is always the possibility of Senator Manchin switching parties, as...

  • November 4, 2014

    Tillis victory called in North Carolina

    Fox News calls the Tarheel State Senate race for Thom Tillis.  That makes 52 GOP senators next year, with even more possibilities for turnovers in Virginia, Alaska, and Louisiana. This is looking a lot like a wave election....

  • November 3, 2014

    Floundering Michelle Nunn refuses to say whether she would have voted for Obamacare

    Michelle Nunn was supposed to be a key part of the Democrats’ plan to hold onto the Senate.  Daughter of a popular Georgia Democrat senator, Sam Nunn, she was personable, well-spoken, and attractive.  The prospect of a “historic...

  • November 3, 2014

    Guerrilla warfare against Maxine Waters on the streets of Los Angeles

    The most powerful weapon keeping blacks voting Democrat is community pressure.  It is regarded as traitorous to desert the party, and those who openly question the dogma are subject to sanctions, with the dreaded epithet “Uncle Tom” ...

  • November 3, 2014

    Thousands of empty seats as Obama addresses campaign rally in deep blue Philly

    Another deep humiliation for President Obama and his party happened yesterday in Philadelphia, one of the most Democrat-dominated cities in the nation.  Party honchos had booked the 10,000-seat Temple University gymnasium for a rally in which Ob...

  • November 2, 2014

    Ernst surges to 7 point lead in Iowa Senate race

    A poll by the Des Moines Register published today offers multiple reasons for GOP joy. Jodi Ernst is breaking out into a lead that is beyond the poll’s margin of error, while, Harry Reid, in words he may regret, has gone on the record saying th...

  • November 2, 2014

    White House blame game 'a shootout in a lifeboat'

    As the presidency of Barack Obama collapses into a mire of crises, from Ebola to ISIS, New York Post columnist Michael Goodwin has penned a column that captures the mood in the White House and the country at large. It’s the read of the day. Sam...

  • November 2, 2014

    Dem Desperation: Mary Burke ad links Scott Walker to swastika

    It doesn’t get any lower than this. Democrat Mary Burke released a new ad Friday accusing Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) of using a Republican county chairman's "lies to attack" her. The ad includes images of swastikas, it s...

  • November 2, 2014

    ISIS slave auction video

    ISIS warriors cite the Koran as they look forward to raping captured Yazidi slave women. This is the most disgusting spectacle in a long time. This should be required viewing for anyone who calls Islam a “great religion” or for those Amer...

  • November 2, 2014

    Big Brother versus Big Soda in Berkeley

    The elitists who think it is their job to tell the great unwashed what to eat and to drink are at work in my hometown of Berkeley, California, with an initiative measure on the ballot that would tax sugary soda one cent per ounce. Measure D (full tex...

  • October 31, 2014

    Dr. Milton Wolf may have just helped the GOP take the Senate

    Despite having fought a bitter primary battle against incumbent Senator Pat Roberts for all the right reasons, Dr. Milton Wolf has now endorsed him in his race for the Senate against faux independent Greg Orman. Wolf definitely gets it: It is al...

  • October 31, 2014

    An FBI October surprise dirty trick in South Dakota Senate race?

    Why on earth would the FBI announce an “active” investigation potentially involving a GOP candidate for Senate just before the election? If you answered, “Because Eric Holder’s Justice Department supervises the FBI,” you...

  • October 31, 2014

    MSNBC host just fine with Dem race-baiting ads

    If blaming a Republican candidate for Trayvon Martin’s death is what it takes for Democrats to win, well then this MSNBC host thinks it’s just hunky-dory. No wonder the network is driving away viewers. Matk Finkelstein of the Media Resear...

  • October 31, 2014

    Susan Rice will say whatever Valerie Jarrett tells her to

    National Security Adviser Susan Rice has already earned Pinocchio status for her willingness to go on 5 Sunday talk shows and spout the phony tale of a video sparking the murderous terror attack on our Benghazi diplomatic facility. Credibility is not...

  • October 31, 2014

    Mary Landrieu accuses her constituents of being racist and sexist

    Never regarded as the brightest bulb in the Senate chandelier, Mary Landrieu’s desperation over her re-election chances has caused her to do something truly stupid: explain-away her unpopularity by calling her constituents racist for disliking ...

  • October 30, 2014

    Dem state senator's husband busted while stealing GOP lawn signs

    The Democrats have become the win-by-cheating party, so much so that the President of the United States jokes about vote fraud to a party rally, just as he joked about using the IRS to punish his political opponents. Just as a fish rots from the head...

  • October 30, 2014

    Scott Walker surges to lead in Wisconsin as former colleagues accuse opponent Burke of lying about her career

    Scott Walker’s reelection campaign as governor of Wisconsin got double good news yesterday. In the latest poll, done by Marquette University, he has surged to a 7 point lead over challenger Mary Burke. Ms. Burke is heiress to the Trek Bicycle f...

  • October 30, 2014

    Massive vote fraud lawsuit filed in Maryland

    The Democrat mantra that vote fraud “doesn’t exist” – as Eric Holder again proclaimed a couple of days ago – is once again contradicted by the facts. The Virginia Voters Alliance has filed suit with strong evidence: ...

  • October 30, 2014

    CDC changes its tune on Ebola again

    The Centers for Disease Control sacrifices more of its credibility on Ebola.  Bob Fredericks writes in the New York Post: Ebola is a lot easier to catch than health officials have admitted — and can be contracted by contact with a doorknob contami...

  • October 30, 2014

    La Raza ('The Race') promotes guide for illegals to vote

    Eric Holder says vote fraud “doesn’t exist,” but the National Council on La Raza, an openly racialist group, is helping illegal voters know where they can escape voter ID laws. Patrick Howley reports in the Daily Caller: “Voter ID laws are at-is...

  • October 29, 2014

    50 voters in Maryland complain voting machines changing GOP votes to Dems (updated with video)

    Coming in the wake of similar problems reported in Illinois’s Cook County, the Maryland Republican Party states it has “received complaints from about 50 voters in 12 Maryland counties who say machines at early voting centers ‘flipp...

  • October 29, 2014

    Senior Obama admin official calls Netanyahu a 'chickens**t'

    The Obama administration is publicly insulting and provoking our former best ally in the Middle East, provoking an unmistakable crisis in our relationship with Israel. An unnamed senior administration official, speaking with a reliable friend of the ...

  • October 29, 2014

    Obama moves to detente with Iran

    Not content to insult and provoke a crisis with democratic Israel, President Obama has moved toward a de facto détente with homosexual-hanging, demonstrator-slaughtering,  Armageddon-threatening, soon-to-be nuclear power, Muslim theocracy...

  • October 29, 2014

    Obama jokes about vote fraud as people walk on him speaking in Wisconsin

    Speaking at a rally for Mary Burke, Democrat candidate for governor in Wisconsin, President Obama once again suffered the indignity of people walking out of the auditorium, as he began to speak.  Below is embedded video (via the Weekly Standard)...

  • October 29, 2014

    Premature beatification of returned Ebola care-givers

    President Obama thinks it we shouldn’t force quarantines on those saintly people who voluhteer to go to Africa to treat Ebola. But Kaci Hickox, the nurse who rebelled against her quarantine in New Jersey and was released to return to her h...

  • October 28, 2014

    Elbert Guillory strikes again!

    Louisiana State Senator Elbert Guillory is one of the best spokesmen the Republican Party has.  Earlier this month, he produced an amazing video commercial telling Louisiana blacks how Mary Landrieu has failed them. Now, Senator Guillory has ...

  • October 28, 2014

    Tension flares between Scott Walker and Chris Christie

    Scott Walker, the champion of the right of employees to not be forced into unions, has a massive bull’s-eye on his back, as the labor movement is engaged in an all-out spending spree to knock him out of office next Tuesday.  Walker and his...

  • October 28, 2014

    Pat Roberts may win re-election in Kansas thanks to Obama's first campaign promise

    Barack Obama may re-elect GOP Senator Pat Roberts in Kansas, thanks to some adroit footwork by the aging moderate incumbent.  Capitalizing on the perceived squishiness of his opponent, Roberts is stoking fears that following the meidterms, Presi...

  • October 28, 2014

    Biden admits middle class left behind by Obama policies

    Good ol’ Joe once again blurts out the awkward truth, while trying to be helpful to Democrat Senate candidate in Iowa, Bruce Braley (known to Michelle Obama as Bruce Bailey).  The Washington Free Beacon noticed: After touting positive...

  • October 28, 2014

    College president calls on Univ. of North Carolina to lose accreditation over athlete grading fraud

    There is no question that the University of North Carolina committed fraud for almost two decades by giving fake grades to college athletes taking fake or nonexistent course, in order to profit from football and basketball revenues.  While the u...

  • October 27, 2014

    The Fast & Furious cover-up starting to be uncovered

    Doctors are granted confidentiality in discussing their medical patients’ problems, but the Obama administration is asserting that spin-doctors also enjoy a similar immunity from mandatory disclosure of their clients’ problems. That asser...

  • October 27, 2014

    Ruling class bullies defied on anti-'Redskins' campaign

    One of the most egregious and pervasive examples of the left wing ruling class exercising its cultural dominance is the vicious campaign to force the Washington Redskins football tram to abandon its historic name.  History and tradition are an i...

  • October 27, 2014

    Public school assigns students to inventory parents' medicine cabinets

    In Mapleton, Utah, a middle school teacher assigned students to take an inventory of their parents’ medicine cabinets, and fill out a form reporting back “medication names, what the medication is being used for and if it’s still bei...

  • October 26, 2014

    American Thinker Honored

    All of us at American Thinker are proud to be listed first in the enemies list of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP). It is badge of honor we proudly wear. You can judge an institution by its friends and also by its enemies.   William Ja...

  • October 26, 2014

    Report: Republican Governors Association cutting back spending in support of Scott Walker re-election effort

    Scott Walker is fighting for his political life in Wisconsin, tied with heiress Mary Burke in the Real Clear Politics average of polls.  Walker bravely took on the government employee unions, and won victories that have enabled people who don...

  • October 26, 2014

    California cop-killer suspect was illegal alien already deported twice

    The man who is believed to have killed two California deputies and injured a third, wielding an AR-15 rifle, apparently would not have been in this country if we had secure borders. And he has quite a history as a malefactor. AP reports: A man s...

  • October 26, 2014

    Democrats worried that youth vote alienation could lead to 'disaster'

    Slowly, ever so slowly, the millennial generation is waking up and noticing that they are getting massively screwed by the politics Democrats have imposed on the country. ObamaCare treats them as a cash cow, the economy, hobbled by excessive regulati...

  • October 26, 2014

    Guess which?

    Via Clarice Feldman and Judith Weiss comes the stunning question in the graphic below. Note that it has a slightly altered bit of language, using “swift” instead of “speedy” in quoting the Jen Psaki: Answer here...

  • October 26, 2014

    'Gender gap' turns against Dems in Colorado

    For at least a couple of decades, Democrats have relished the notion that a “gender gap” would lead them to victory. The entire “war on women” rhetorical strategy is premised on the notion that women can be herded into the Dem...

  • October 25, 2014

    Hillary: Corporations and businesses don't create jobs

    Hillary Clinton has gone on the record saying that corporations and businesses don’t crate jobs. Apparently, governments and nonprofits are where everyone works. And where they get the taxes and donations to spend is a mystery one best not prob...

  • October 25, 2014

    New York Times and Bill Clinton reveal Hillary's election game plan

    The basic outline of Hillary Clinton’s campaign appeal for the presidency is taking shape, revealed by her husband, and faithfully elaborated by the court scribes of the New York Times. That paper’s Amy Chozick  covers what the 42nd ...

  • October 25, 2014

    Inspector General finds DHS 'mismanaged' funds to prepare for Ebola

    Big government more than ever resembles a clumsy giant, unable to act effectively in carrying out its most basic and important functions.  Democrats may blame sequester spending “cuts” (actually declining rates of increase), but when...

  • October 25, 2014

    iOwnTheWorld is now iOTW Report

    Our friends at iOwnTheWorld.com, one of the liveliest and most satirical websites out there, have moved to a new URL and format. http://iotwreport.com I make it a daily must-read. It is sometimes juvenile, rude, and even scatological, so if you...

  • October 25, 2014

    Sen. Udall accidentally tells the truth

    I am not sure if this is best described as a gaffe, or as a Freudian slip. A gaffe is defined as accidentally telling the truth.  But probably Freudian slip best characterizes the remarkable statement from Senator Mark Udall, since he hastily co...

  • October 24, 2014

    Suppressing dissent on gay parenting

    Many AT readers have read and appreciated the work of Robert Oscar Lopez, who was raised by 2 lesbians and has bravely told the truth of his experience, a narrative that contradicts the orthodoxy pushed by the organized homosexual movement.  He ...

  • October 24, 2014

    Another lone wolf Muslim attack on uniformed personnel -- this time in New York City

    Following the call of ISIS for Muslims to attack soldiers and police, yet again a weaponized Muslim has launched a vicious, unprovoked attack. Two attacks in Canada this week, and now one in New York City.  CNN describes the events: A man c...

  • October 24, 2014

    Fast & Furious cover-up enters new and absurd stage

    Judicial Watch has been tenacious in pursuing the truth behind the outrageous operation known as Fast & Furious, by which the United States government provided weapons illegally to Mexican drug cartels, resulting in hundreds of deaths in Mexico, ...

  • October 24, 2014

    Saudis cut oil supply to markets

    Saudi Arabia is caught between a rock and a hard place when it comes to oil markets. The decline in oil prices from over a hundred dollars a barrel to the eighties is costing it a lot of money. But cutting the amount of oil produced and sold, in an e...

  • October 23, 2014

    Charlie Crist: losing 50,000 jobs 'worth it' to raise minimum wage

    Nobody ever accused Charlie Crist, former Republican, now Democrat, of being the sharpest knife in the drawer, but at least give him credit for honesty for once. In yesterday’s Florida gubernatorial debate, he admitted that in his value system ...

  • October 23, 2014

    Late-breaking scandal could cost GOP expected South Dakota Senate seat

    The largest newspaper in South Dakota broke a story that could cost the GOP a red state Senate seat. The Fiscal Times reports:  The three-way race for South Dakota’s open Senate seat got more complicated Wednesday, when the Sioux Fall...

  • October 23, 2014

    The Terror Threat of Weaponized Muslims

    Two terror attacks in Canada this week by recent converts to Islam have exposed the clear and present danger created by the violent rhetoric of the Koran.  Credit Prime Minister Harper for having the guts to use the T-word while President Obama...

  • October 23, 2014

    Save the fishes! Drill offshore

    It has been gospel truth among California’s wealthy and powerful environmentalists that offshore oil drilling is an assault on Mother Gaia. Despite the existence of rich offshore oil deposits that could generate billions in tax revenues annuall...

  • October 22, 2014

    White House to Red State Dems: Don't blame Obama for election results

    Some anticipatory posterior covering seems to be underway. President Obama is never responsible for anything bad, though when it comes to taking credit for good things, he is so fond of the personal pronoun that he used the word “I” 15 ti...

  • October 22, 2014

    Lundergan Grimes fail

    The flailing Senate campaign of Alison Lundergan Grimes in Kentucky is so desperate to find anything to criticize about Mitch McConnell that they tweeted before they checked.  Weasel Zippers noticed a snarky tweet from campaign hotshot Phillip T...

  • October 22, 2014

    Ben Bradlee dies at 93

    It is fair to say that Benjamin Bradlee, who died yesterday at the age of 93, did more to shape American newspaper journalism over the last fifty years than anyone else. If that sounds like a left-handed compliment, it is. His accomplishments are ...

  • October 22, 2014

    Hilarious 2001 commercial predicted feds' Ebola incompetence

    What does Holiday Inn know, and can I get some of that prescience? Need I actually stay in a Holiday Inn Express? Kemberlee Kaye of Legal Insurrection came across the video of a weirdly hilarious and knowing 2001 commercial that anticipates the incom...

  • October 22, 2014

    Department of Justice expert testifies blacks dumber and less sophisticated than whites

    It is amazing what Eric Holder’s minions are willing to say in order to facilitate vote fraud. Up to and including demeaning arguments about the intelligence and sophistication of blacks. The mainstream media can relied upon to avoid publicizin...

  • October 21, 2014

    Obama hands GOP another sound bite to use against Dem candidates distancing themselves from him

    Speaking with Al Sharpton yesterday on the radio, President Obama “giftwrapped” (in the words of the Washington Post) a sound bite for GOP challengers to use against Mary Landrieu, Mark Begich, Mark Udall, and other Democrats desperate to...

  • October 21, 2014

    Surveillance video captures man stuffing ballot box with hundreds of ballots

    File this one under the habitual Democrat claim that vote fraud is “extremely rare.” Jon Street reports in The Blaze:  “A person wearing a Citizens for a Better Arizona T-shirt dropped a large box of hundreds of early ball...

  • October 21, 2014

    State senator who threatened riots in Ferguson arrested

    Jamilah Nasheed, state senator from Missouri’s District 5, wants Ferguson police Officer Darren Wilson prosecuted, never mind the formalities of a grand jury investigation. She is possessed of knowledge so vast (after all, she has a G.E.D diplo...

  • October 21, 2014

    GOP candidate in Cook County, IL discovers voting machine casts his vote for the Democrat he is running against

    The Democrat mantra that voting fraud is rare takes another blow today with the stunning story of a GOP candidate unable to vote for himself in Cook County Illinois. The Illinois Political Review reports: Admitting his confidence in Cook County ...

  • October 20, 2014

    Report: Hamas leader's daughter received medical treatment in Israel

    Hamas, which wants to drive the Jews into the sea, has a leadership that takes very good care of itself. Nothing but the best will do, up to and including refuge in 5 star hotels in the UAE after starting a war with Israel. So when the daughter of Ha...

  • October 20, 2014

    Obamanesia: polls reveal people can't remember voting for Obama

    Buyer’s remorse for twice electing Barack Obama is taking hold. The first stage of grief is denial, after all, according to Kubler-Ross.  USA Today has just conducted some revealing polls in six states with competitive Senate races: N...

  • October 19, 2014

    Liberal mag urges readers to 'Stop Hillary'

    Harper’s Magazine is venerable and reliably left wing magazine catering to a readership that (justifiably or not) prides itself on being intelligent and sophisticated. That’s why its new cover story (available online to subscribers only),...

  • October 19, 2014

    Paradigm shift: from 'containment' to 'victory' in the Cold War

    How on earth did the United States change from a posture of hoping to maintain a deadlock with the USSR, to a push for victory? The inside story of this shift, one that changed the course of world history, is only coming out in dribs and drabs. Perha...

  • October 19, 2014

    Stunning federal corruption case moving forward with almost no media attention

    Corrupt federal prosecutors presenting false evidence in order to shake down a blameless corporation and bring in tens of millions of dollars seems like a pretty dramatic story. Especially when former prosecutors support the charge and a chief judge ...

  • October 19, 2014

    Gunfire exchanged at the Korean DMZ

    Is this anything serious or just a form of pep rally for a thug regime led by a gout-crippled overweight manchild with a bad haircut? The New York Times reports: South and North Korean troops exchanged gunfire across their tense border on Sunday...

  • October 19, 2014

    Ebola czar thinks global warming causes increased tornadoes and hurricanes

    Nobody credits newly-minted Ebola czar (for the sake of rhyme, shouldn’t it be “Ebola Ayatollah”) Ron Klain with any scientific credibility, but his embrace of warmist doctrine is nonetheless interesting. Back in 2011, when he was c...

  • October 18, 2014

    Polling shows possible GOP pick-up of 2 'safe' Dem House seats in Minnesota

    Some surprising good news from Minnesota. As Rich Baehr noted to me, because the Democrats are totally focused on holding onto the Senate,  the GOP stands a decent prospect of picking up House seats thought unwinnable just a few months back. In ...

  • October 17, 2014

    Report: Rove kept discovery of Iraq's WMD secret

    The “Bush lied/People died” chant flourished for years as the Left demonized George W. Bush for invading Iraq and finding “no” weapons of mass destruction. Except that our troops did discover vast numbers of chemical WMDs, but...

  • October 17, 2014

    Ebola's spread and Islamic burial ritual

    Oh-oh! This is the most politically incorrect dimension of the spread of Ebola in West Africa. Which is why you won’t see any of the mainstream media touch it with a ten foot pole.  Paul Sperry reports in Investor’s Business Daily: ...

  • October 16, 2014

    Hilarious: Another Dem Senate candidate refuses to answer if she voted for Obama

    Let’s hope refusing to let the voters of her state know whether or not she voted for Barack Obama works as well for her as it did for Alison Lundergan Grimes. Daniel Halper reports in the Weekly Standard: A video tracker for the opposition researc...

  • October 16, 2014

    Nurse Vinson called CDC, was told OK to fly despite her fever

    The calm reassurances offered by Dr. Thomas Frieden of the CDC that its protocols are effective and its information is “clear and correct” are now a laughingstock. (Note the smirk on his face as "corrects" Megyn Kelley in this v...

  • October 16, 2014

    Dutch biker gangs join fight against ISIS, government gives OK

    There are some Dutch boots on the ground fighting ISIS in Iraq, and they are attached to bodies wearing black leather jackets, apparently. AFP reports: The Dutch public prosecutor said on Tuesday that motorbike gang members who have reportedly j...

  • October 16, 2014

    Democrats demonstrating shame over Obama support

    Having inflicted a monumentally incompetent, ill-prepared president on the United States, Democrats are starting to feel some shame, it appears. Wait, are Democrats even capable of shame? Make that a pragmatic desire to escape their Election Day karm...

  • October 16, 2014

    One question every Democrat running for the Senate must be asked

    Sen. Mark Udall was put on the spot in the Colorado Senate debate, and shot himself in the foot. The question he was asked should be pressed by every Republican running for that body, and the House of Representatives, too. The Washington Free Beacon ...

  • October 16, 2014

    Michelle Obama insults Democrat voters

    You can tell that Democrats are starting to panic. They are saying stupid things. Add to the list that includes Wendy Davis, Alison Grimes, and Mark Udall the name of First Lady Michelle Obama.  She resorted to mocking Democrats as lazy and ungr...

  • October 16, 2014

    Frieden won't reveal who told him to 'protect fledgling democracies' instead of closing border to Hot Zone

    The refusal of the federal government to stop flights from the Hot Zone in Africa and deny entry to or quarantine people who have been spending time there is becoming a political issue. Point man for offering lame excuses, such as protecting fledglin...

  • October 15, 2014

    Second Dallas hospital worker tests positive for Ebola

    The Texas Department of State Health Services issued a statement over night announcing that an unidentified health care worker at Texas Health Presbyterian has tested positive for Ebola. A second health care worker at Texas Health Presbyterian H...

  • October 15, 2014

    Senate Dems giving up on Grimes in Kentucky Senate Race

    The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee has pulled their ads for Grimes. Alexander Bolton writes in The Hill: Senate Democrats announced Tuesday they won’t spend any more money on television in Kentucky, throwing in the towel on ...

  • October 15, 2014

    The case of the invisible Ebola Czar

    Did you know that we already have an Ebola Czar? But she’s MIA, at least as far as the media is concerned. Mollie Hemmingway of The Federalist has a great article on Dr. Nicole Lurie, who is: one of HHS’ eight assistant secretaries i...

  • October 15, 2014

    St. Louis teen whose shooting by police sparked demonstrations had abundant gun shot residue on hands

    His family and friends claimed that Vonderrit D. Myers Jr. was unarmed and holding a sandwich when an off duty St. Louis police officer shot and killed him. The officer claimed that he was fired upon by the teen. The usual outrage and demonstrations ...

  • October 15, 2014

    The <em>other</em> virus spreading rapidly: Baghdadbobism

    Our federal government seems to have been struck with a virus originating overseas that should be called Baghdadbobism. Its symptoms include straight-faced telling of the most improbable lies imaginable. One victim is Josh Earnest, who claims we a...

  • October 15, 2014

    Government employee unions openly fear GOP Senate win

    Federal government employees, those folks who can’t be fired, who got a paid holiday on Monday and whose pay is higher and work hours lower than the rest of us, are worried about a GOP-controlled Senate. Joe Davidson writes in the Washington Po...

  • October 14, 2014

    Soros fundraiser being held for 'independent' Kansas Senate candidate Greg Orman

    There are some serious people, including the normally insightful Pat Caddell, who see Greg Orman as a breath of fresh air, a truly independent man who will take us beyond the dysfunction of the current two parties. Enough Kansas voters tell pollsters...

  • October 14, 2014

    Wow! If you thought Debbie Wasserman Schultz was bad, check out the man in line to succeed her

    I had never heard of Ray Buckley, vice chair of the DNC and chair of the New Hampshire Democratic Party, until the great Jim Hoft of Gateway Pundit drew my attention to video compilation of his antics. Just like the first runner-up to Miss America, R...

  • October 14, 2014

    Because Michelle Obama could never make a mistake...

    You have to love the lickspittle pundits in the mainstream media who rationalize away the faults of members of their favorite political party. Case in point: Michelle Obama’s idiotic failure to learn the name of a candidate she was endorsing. (...

  • October 13, 2014

    More wisdom from Herb Meyer

    Steven Hayward of Powerline has posted the second part of his conversation with Herbert E. Meyer, one of the unsung heroes of the Cold War. (Part one of the conversation is here.) It is well worth your five minutes and a few seconds....

  • October 13, 2014

    White House stops using emojis after less than 3 days

    It was a pander too far, using emojis, popular in social media, in official White House communications aimed at millennials. Just last Wednesday, Buzzfeed reported:  The White House is preparing a new emoji-based social media campaign to ma...

  • October 13, 2014

    Leftist MSNBC being rejected by viewers

    There is no denying that the progressive cable news channel MSNBC is in trouble, its viewership in such serous decline that it has slipped past lame CNN into third place in the ratings, light years behind Fox News. But in an account of this situation...

  • October 13, 2014

    Lame ad blames GOP for Ebola

    Returning to the favorite theme of the left – everything bad that happens is due to budget cuts – a left wing propaganda outfit, The Agenda Project, has put out an ad blaming the GOP for Ebola. Letting travelers from Liberia into the coun...

  • October 13, 2014

    Unbelievable: New York Times selling guided tours of Iran with its writer

    As Iran hurtles toward welcoming the Twelfth Mahdi with its planned nuclear Armageddon, the New York Times is cheerily sponsoring guided tours of the Islamic Republic, in the company of its own Elaine Sciolino.  Ira Stoll reports in Smartertimes...

  • October 12, 2014

    Catholics have moved away from Democratic Party during Obama presidency

    Catholic voters, in particular those who attend mass weekly, have moved away for support for the Democrats in significant numbers. Anne Hendershott of The Catholic World Report summarizes the polling data: In a shift that may have consequences f...

  • October 12, 2014

    Iraq asks for return of US troops

    Faced with ISIS forces within 8 miles of Baghdad, the government of Iraq is pleading for the return of US troops. Alastair Beach reports in the UK Telegraph: Iraqi officials have issued a desperate plea for America to bring US ground troops back...

  • October 12, 2014

    Ebola-infected Dallas hospital worker followed all CDC procedures

    A just-concluded press conference in Dallas, featuring grim-faced officials, revealed that the anonymous worker at the hospital who came down with Ebola followed all CDC procedures, including the use of an isolation suit. Nonetheless, we were told no...

  • October 12, 2014

    Canada is fed-up with US delay of Keystone, now planning alternative pipeline

    President Obama and the Democratic Party have responded to deep-pocketed greenies, like coal billionaire Tom Steyer, by endlessly delaying the Keystone XL Pipeline, a project that enjoys wide public support, including that of labor unions in the priv...

  • October 12, 2014

    Armed standoff between rival factions closes tribal casino

    No, it’s not mobsters battling for control of an illegal gambling casino in the Roaring Twenties, it is today’s Indian casino business in California. The AP reports: A federal judge closed a Central California casino after an armed s...

  • October 11, 2014

    Michelle Obama embarrasses herself repeatedly bungling name of candidate she claims is a 'good friend'

    It was a tough day for FLOTUS yesterday in Iowa. When claiming to be a “good friend” of someone, a necessary element of credibility is knowing what his name is. Fox News summarizes the events: While campaigning in Des Moines, Iowa...

  • October 11, 2014

    Greenie demonstrators in Madison, WI accidentally prove why they should never be trusted with energy policy

    “Renewable” energy is unreliable, and can never replace secure base load sources like coal, natural gas, and hydro. And now a bunch of greenies have embarrassed themselves and proved the point. Attempting to show how wonderful solar po...

  • October 11, 2014

    Snowden documentary another sign the Left is about to throw Obama under the bus

    Last night, the first screening was held for Citizen Four, a new documentary about Edward Snowden that comes with backing from The Weinstein Company, one of the most powerful of Hollywood heavyweights. The trailer can be seen below. I haven’t s...

  • October 11, 2014

    Turnout fears scaring Dems

    It’s no secret that failure is everywhere in the Obama administration, and a major consequence is that Democrats are discouraged, and many may be embarrassed at the way their “god-like” champion has proven to be inept, incompetent, ...

  • October 11, 2014

    Dem hopes to snatch South Dakota Senate seat fading

    Two red Midwestern states feature faux independent candidates for Senate, intended to take Senate seats that should belong to Republicans. In Kansas, the deception is so blatant the Democrats prevailed upon their own nominee to withdraw, and the stat...

  • October 10, 2014

    ObamaCare forcing new wave of health insurance cancellations right before election

    More bad news for Democrats this election. Jim Angle of Fox News reports:  More than a dozen states plan to cancel health care policies not in compliance with ObamaCare in the coming weeks, affecting thousands of people just before the midt...

  • October 10, 2014

    Dr. Obama tells Africans 'You can't get Ebola sitting next to someone on a bus'

    The president who thinks he is “a better intelligence briefer than my intelligence briefers” evidently also thinks he knows more about the spread of Ebola than the doctors at the CDC. Is there anything that Obama doesn’t know? He te...

  • October 9, 2014

    Report: NBC tried to hire Jon Stewart to host <em>Meet the Press</em>

    New York Magazine reports, based on 3 anonymous sources, that NBC News tried to hire Comedy Central star Jon Stewart to host the longest-running television show in history, Meet the Press. Failing to attract Stewart, the network settled for second ch...

  • October 9, 2014

    WaPo investigation finds pre-2012 election intimidation of inspector general and cover-up by Obama White House

    As Obama scandals go, it is small beer compared to the Benghazi cover-up or the “If you like your plan…” lies. But the Washington Post investigation into the cover-up of embarrassing information about the Cartagena prostitution sca...

  • October 8, 2014

    Video of police smashing window and dragging black man out of car sparks outrage and lawsuit

    The racial grievance industry and its media allies have a new tool to whip up resentment and fear of the police among African Americans.  Call it the “Ferguson effect.” A law firm suing the Hammond, Indiana police has circulated to t...

  • October 8, 2014

    Public forces dropping of plan to name Hawaii beach after Obama

    After six years of his presidency, Barack Obama has become an anathema, a “historic first” president too radioactive to name stuff after, even in Democrat-dominated places like Hawaii and Chicago. First, Chicago dropped plans to name a sc...

  • October 7, 2014

    In a week of crisis, Obama focuses on fundraising, gourmet meals, elite schmoozing

    Kicking off a week of travel to raise political money, yesterday President Obama pushed “immigration reform” at a $10,000 a plate fundraiser held at a restaurant belonging to celebrity chef Jose Andres. Justin Sink writes in The Hill: ...

  • October 7, 2014

    How a corporation stymied Ebola

    A vivid natural experiment has just taken place in Ebola-ravaged Liberia. Scott Ott of PJ Media’s Tatler blog picked up a report from NPR and nails the significance: While governments and nonprofits have been stymied in their efforts to st...

  • October 6, 2014

    Could this be the biggest Obama administration scandal of all?

    One lesson that Watergate teaches us is that nothing says “scandal” better than prison sentences. And prison sentences are on the table in a long-developing scandal involving the IRS, but apparently not Lois Lerner.  In the words of ...

  • October 6, 2014

    Conflicting campaign advice from former Obama insiders

    Former Obama campaign media strategist David Axelrod is a realist. In effect, on Meet the Press he admitted that President Obama is so unpopular that he harmed Democrat prospects by telling voters that a vote for Democrats in October is a vote for hi...

  • October 5, 2014

    North Korea shock. <em>Something</em> big is happening

    It is impossible to know exactly what is going on in North Korea, but something big has happened. The third generation Kim dynasty heir, Kim Jong-un, has been missing from public sight for a month, and may be ill, dead, or overthrown. There is much s...

  • October 5, 2014

    Nurses union survey finds US hospitals widely unprepared for Ebola

    The bland reassurances of US officials, from President Obama and Dr. Frieden of the CDC on down, that the US is fully prepared to keep the “highly unlikely” spread of Ebola in check, are falling on deaf ears among some nurses. Rob Crilly ...

  • October 5, 2014

    ISIS Hostage Peter Kassig, next in line for execution, is a Muslim convert

    American aid worker Peter Kassig has been designated as next in line for beheading by ISIS in the video released Friday of the execution of British hostage Alan Henning. However, unlike the previous beheaded hostages, Kassig has taken the Muslim fait...

  • October 5, 2014

    Jahi McMath proves 'brain death' diagnosis is not irreversible

    There have recently been fascinating developments in the Jahi McMath case. In December, 2013, physicians at Children’s Hospital, Oakland, declared Jahi dead by brain death criteria, following complications of tonsillectomy and sleep apnea surge...

  • October 5, 2014

    Joe Biden shoots off his mouth, causes diplomatic furor among Middle Eastern allies

    Turkey demands and gets an apology from VP Biden, while UAE demands ‘formal clarification’ for remarks. Make no mistake, Joe Biden is Barack Obama’s impeachment insurance, and agood reason for all of us to hope the Secret Service re...

  • October 4, 2014

    Bedside firearm saves lives in Texas

    Lucky for a Texas man (and his family) that his state does not have the sort of restrictions on guns that New York and other states enforce. The gun he kept near his bed prevented a possible tragedy. Andrew Horanksy of KHOU TV in Houston reports: ...

  • October 4, 2014

    Another weird Obama pronunciation

    What on earth is an ohbee-guynee? Apparently it is a weird Obamaspeak pronunciation of OB/GYN (pronounced oh-bee-gee-why-en). For the president’s benefit, let me specify that means a doctor who delivers babies and takes care of the lady parts. ...

  • October 4, 2014

    Strange coincidence department

    I guess Obama is just lucky the way unemployment figures unexpectedly dropped right before the last two elections while he was in office, and then bounced upward afterwards. Sheer coincidence. Well, whaddya know? Unemployment just dropped again befor...

  • October 3, 2014

    Obama proven wrong, wrong, wrong about Ebola in just 2 weeks

    While Jack Cashill today focuses on why President Obama cannot be trusted on Ebola, Byron York of the Washington Examiner does a quick accounting of the president’s track record fully supports Cashill’s conclusion. On September 16, the...

  • October 3, 2014

    Farrakhan claims Ebola invented by feds to kill blacks

    Well, that didn’t take long. Adding Ebola to his list of evil white plots against blacks, including AIDS, Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan has claimed it was an invention to kill blacks. Warner Todd Huston writes at Breitbart: In...

  • October 3, 2014

    Obama nationalizes midterm elections

    Yesterday, speaking at Northwestern University’s much-esteemed Kellogg School of Management, President Obama committed a huge strategic blunder. It has been no secret that Democrats running for Senate seats have been distancing themselves fr...

  • October 3, 2014

    Jahi McMath video shows 'brain dead' child responding to mother and moving as instructed

    The diagnosis of “brain death” handed to teenager Jahi McMath is far from final, according to her family and their attorney.  They are seeking to have her declared “alive again” following her removal from California, whic...

  • October 2, 2014

    Obama's Secret Service 'Heckuva job, Brownie' moment

    The gods of irony struck the federal government hard yesterday.  Julia Pierson, the head of the Secret Service, an agency renowned for keeping its mouth shut, abruptly resigned just a few hours after receiving a hearty endorsement (“more t...

  • October 2, 2014

    Federal judge questions sacredness of government employee pensions

    When government employees buy the California legislature with huge campaign contributions, one of the benefits they expect in return is absolute protection of the lush pensions they are promised, even when their employer goes into bankruptcy. Thus, C...

  • October 1, 2014

    Article V convention moves a step closer

    Long dismissed as a crackpot idea, a convention of states to propose amendments to the Constitution to restore the limited government vision of the Founders is moving toward realization. It will not be an easy or quick process, but some great minds a...

  • October 1, 2014

    2300 Marines to be sent to Middle East

    We are being assured that these are not “boots on the ground” for use against ISIS or Al Qaeda in Syria the Khorasan Group. Because the government says so. AFP reports: The US Marine Corps plans to deploy 2,300 troops to the Middle E...

  • October 1, 2014

    Amazing ad tells Louisiana blacks that Mary Landrieu has failed them

    Senator Elbert Guillory of the Louisiana State Senate is known as a maverick, a black Republican in a state where the Democratic Party is sustained by solid support by the African-American population. But that doesn’t stop him from telling the ...

  • October 1, 2014

    New poll: 60% want ObamaCare repealed

    According to the “experts” who direct Republican campaign efforts, ObamaCare is yesterday’s issue. But for the voting public who have to pay for health insurance and endure the process of finding physicians who are participating in ...

  • September 30, 2014

    Obama will pay a price for blaming intelligence services for ISIS failures. The only question is how high it will be.

    President Obama’s 60 Minutes interview, taped last Friday and aired Sunday, is turning out to be a disaster for him, and may even be a tipping point of sorts. There are six dimensions to the disaster. 1.  By blaming the intelligence com...

  • September 30, 2014

    Sandra Fluke will have no cakewalk in her run for political office

    Has Henry Waxman joined the much-touted “war on women”? Sandra Fluke is the symbol of that war, establishing the principle that not giving her whatever she wants for her personal life amounts to a war on women. After rocketing to fame ...

  • September 30, 2014

    Judge allows Detroit to continue to shut off water service for unpaid bills

    Oh the humanity! Via Reuters: U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Steven Rhodes ruled on Monday that Detroit can continue shutting off water service to non-paying customers, saying his court does not have jurisdiction over the issue and that suspending discon...

  • September 29, 2014

    'Bizarre coincidence': Another Oklahoma Muslim threatened co-worker with beheading last week

    ISIS may have called on Muslims the world over to attack Americans (and the “filthy French”), but when two Muslims in Oklahoma act on that call using beheading (or the threat thereof) as their method, The Oklahoman, Oklahoma City’s ...

  • September 29, 2014

    'Settled science' and sprites

    The New York Times unintentionally provided evidence for climate skeptics in a fascinating Sunday article titled, “On the Hunt for a Sprite on a Midsummer’s Night.” The piece by Sandra Blakeslee features the work of  Thomas Ash...

  • September 29, 2014

    Dem rep in CT arrested for crime that 'doesn't exist'

    Democrats and the dominant media assure us that vote fraud doesn’t exist, so we certainly don’t need voter ID, and in fact it would be racist to demand as much proof of identity as is necessary to board an airplane or buy a drink.  N...

  • September 28, 2014

    Joni Ernst up 6 points over Dem Bruce Braley in Iowa Senate race

    Not so long ago, Iowa was considered a solid Senate seat for the Democrats to retain following the retirement of hard-left Senator Tom Harkin.  But no more.  As an article on the latest Des Moines Register polling put it, “The ground ...

  • September 28, 2014

    Chairman of the Joint Chiefs General Dempsey should resign

    An extraordinary thing happened on Friday: America’s top military leader went public contradicting the Commander-in-Chief’s strategy for prosecuting the war with ISIS. As Geoff Earle of the New York Post reported: As the massive US-l...

  • September 28, 2014

    Muslim leaders play victim in Oklahoma beheading

    Colleen Hufford of Moore Oklahoma may be dead, but the real victims are Muslims, or so we are being asked to believe. In fact, according to the Imam of the Islamic Institute of Boston, Islam suffers a “double hurt.” And here I thought Ms....

  • September 28, 2014

    Obama and Holder friend predicts next AG nominee will be a woman

    Charles Ogletree, a leftist black professor at Harvard Law School who taught and is said to have mentored both Eric Holder and the future Mr. And Mrs. Obama, is publicly predicting that the president’s nominee to succeed Eric Holder will be a w...

  • September 28, 2014

    A conversation with Herb Meyer

    Our friends at Powerline have done a video interview with our friend and frequent contributor Herb Meyer. If you get your information from the mainstream media, you may not know thaty Herb is one of the people most responsible for victory in Cold War...

  • September 28, 2014

    Tom Friedman says Reagan had it easy compared to Obama

    The rationalizations for Obama’s failures are already beginning, and Tom Friedman employs the laziest of all strategies, tearing down a great man to make a small man look bigger. In his Sunday column in the New York Times, Friedman makes a numb...

  • September 27, 2014

    Khorasan Group a made-up name for Al Qaeda in Syria

    So says Andrew McCarthy, a formidable expert on jihad groups, having served as lead federal prosecutor of the 1993 attack on the World Trade Center. “We’re being had. Again,” he warns in National Review Online, today’s must-re...

  • September 27, 2014

    Will Eric Holder's chickens come home to roost?

    One of the most formidable conservative legal minds, John Yoo, thinks “Eric Holder Will Regret His Recklessness.” On Holder’s watch, the Obama administration has refused to carry out the laws, as required by the Constitution...

  • September 27, 2014

    A very, very bad sign on Obama administration Iran nuke policy

    Those of us who believe that the Obama administration was never serious about stopping Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons received some powerful supporting evidence yesterday. Frankly, I’d rather be wrong, but this most definitely looks like a...

  • September 26, 2014

    Official German body says incest a 'fundamental right'

    With traditional sexual morality discarded, the last taboo is under attack by the fairness mafia. The UK Telegraph  reports: Laws banning incest between brothers and sisters in Germany could be scrapped after a government ethics committee s...

  • September 26, 2014

    Citigroup funding left wing immigrant voter registration drive

    Citigroup has figured out where its bread is buttered, and has signed on to the agenda to engineer an electorate that will keep the Democrats in power permanently, as Ed Lasky explained earlier this week. The Illinois Review (and almost nobody else i...

  • September 26, 2014

    Are bird-watchers racist?

    The National Geographic Magazine, a publication heretofore not noted for satirical excellence, has published an article that easily could have appeared in The Onion.  In Colorful World of Birding Has Conspicuous Lack of People of Color, aut...

  • September 25, 2014

    Nigerian Military claims Boko Haram fighters surrendered

    ISIS is not the only Islamist group to grab territory and seek to set up a Muslim state. In Nigeria, oil rich and the most populace country in Africa, Boko Haram has been seizing towns in the northeast aggressively and declaring it “Muslim terr...

  • September 25, 2014

    Immigration surges from Muslim-majority countries

    I guess because it has worked out so well for European countries (see Rotherham), the United States is welcoming more and more immigrants from Muslim-majority nations. A new report form the Center for Immigration Studies reveals (via Breitbart): ...

  • September 24, 2014

    Obama under fire for insult to military

    “Semper latte” is but one of the jokes following in the wake of a casual presidential insult of our military.  Yesterday, when exiting Marine One after landing in New York City, President Obama returned the crisp salutes of the Marin...

  • September 24, 2014

    Revealed: White House has been censoring pool reports

    The White House press corps frequently relies on a pool reporter, an individual who is selected to attend an event where it would be impractical for the entire press corps to participate. The pool reporter then writes up an account that is distribute...

  • September 24, 2014

    Fed regulations shut down special needs students' food cart

    Thanks, Michelle Obama! It was a nice program while it lasted, having special needs students in the culinary arts program at Marietta (GA) High School run a food and coffee cart selling baked goods to faculty and students. But the new federal regulat...

  • September 23, 2014

    Google chairman Eric Schmidt calls climate skeptics liars

    Google, one of the richest and most powerful companies in the world, is doubling down on the theory that atmospheric CO2 is causing global temperatures to rise (even though they haven’t for the last 17 years despite a large increase on CO2). Mo...

  • September 23, 2014

    ISIS calls for lone wolf attacks on civilians in the West

    ISIS has shown an ability to command the allegiance of Muslims who have traveled from a reported 70 countries to join its fight in Iraq and Syria. Now it is calling on those who stayed behind and those who have returned home to take action to “...

  • September 23, 2014

    Biden warned in 2012 that Romney 'ready to go to war' in Syria

    Call the irony police.  Joe Biden, speaking at a rally in York, Pennsylvania on September 2, 2012, urged voters to reject the Romney campaign to keep us from going to war in Syria. Doug Mataconis of Outside the Beltway (hat tip: Instapundit) tak...

  • September 23, 2014

    Navy used 47 Tomahawks last night, 47% of planned 2015 purchases

    Last night’s air strikes against ISIS in Syria used up 47 Tomahawk missiles.  The Tomahawk is an extremely effective weapon, capable of delivering its ordnance precisely, without risking a pilot’s life.  But the defense cuts of ...

  • September 23, 2014

    Treasury Sec. Jack Lew announces executive action to prevent companies moving HQ overseas to escape world's highest corporate taxes

    In good news for every foreign company that competes with US corporations -- from Airbus to Toyota -- Treasury Secretary Jack Lew announced “the agency would change several tax rules to stop companies from buying smaller, foreign firms and then...

  • September 22, 2014

    Why Ezekiel Emanuel is evil and a fool (illustrated edition)

    A few days ago, I wrote about the incredibly vile and dangerous article penned by Obamacare architect and Obama official Ezekiel Emanuel, making the case that 75 years is long enough for everyone to live. That way, the government saves a lot of money...

  • September 22, 2014

    Politico does weepy story about poor Lois Lerner

    Do you feel sorry for Lois Lerner? A remarkable long feature article in Politico about the former high-ranking IRS official who pleaded the Fifth Amendment paints a remarkably sympathetic picture of her. The title of the piece by Rachel Bade tantaliz...

  • September 21, 2014

    Montana mayor fires back at CAIR

    Nobody does bullying in the name of “sensitivity” more frequently than America’s rapidly-growing Muslim population. Remember the sign advertising bacon that was taken down in Winooski, VT?  The scholar Fouad Ajami has written k...

  • September 21, 2014

    Democrat candidate's war on women in Maine

    The Democratic candidate for governor of Maine, Michael Michaud, is promoting a vile and insulting rap song directed at Republican Senator Susan Collins. The Washington Free Beacon reports: A video promoted by Maine Democratic gubernatorial...

  • September 21, 2014

    A problem Obama desperately wants you to forget about

    President Obama is betting on the short attention span of the American public and a compliant media in hopes that the problem of Bowe Bergdahl will just fade away.  Obama infamously traded five senior leaders of the Taliban in exchange for Bergd...

  • September 21, 2014

    Incompetence at the State Department is the charitable explanation

    Claudia Rosett noticed a stunning mistake in an official State Department publication, a blog,   “UNGA 69: Why the UN Matters More Than Ever. No, the mistake is not expressing the view the view that the UN matters more than it did whe...

  • September 20, 2014

    Compare and contrast

    For many of us, it is starting to feel like Yogi Berra’s déjà vu all over again in Europe. Ed Lasky offers the following pair of observations: Mr. Putin is fighting to kill this fragile European democracy and bring Ukraine in...

  • September 20, 2014

    Susan Rice bolts from podium, unable to answer reporters' questions at White House press briefing

    The National Security Advisor of the United States did something astonishing yesterday. In the middle of a reporter’s questioning, she bolted from the podium of the White House pressroom, saying, “Nice to see you,” fleeing a situati...

  • September 20, 2014

    Turkish hostages freed by ISIS

    When ISIS seized the Turkish Consulate in Mousl, Iraq after overrunning the second largest city in that country (and grabbing half a billion dollars in the central bank branch there) in June, 49 Turks were taken hostage. Those hostages are now back i...

  • September 20, 2014

    Stunning: ex-SecDef Panetta on Obama's pullout from Iraq

    President Obama’s complete pullout of forces from Iraq, squandering the victory there that was handed to him by President Bush, has been a historic disaster, allowing the creation of ISIS. The precise magnitude of that disaster is yet to be und...

  • September 19, 2014

    Scots reject independence by 10-point margin

    Defying the predictions of pollsters, Scottish voters rejected independence by a comfortable 10-point margin yesterday. The many uncertainties surrounding currency, defense, and the economic consequences of a yes vote probably weighed heavily on thos...

  • September 19, 2014

    Unions criticize Scott Walker for lack of safety gear in ad

    The mentality of union bosses is on display for all to see in fierce criticism underway of a Scott Walker TV ad showing him climbing a ladder out of a hole, making the point that his budget and tax cuts as well as his union reforms have brought the s...

  • September 19, 2014

    Rahm cancels plan to name Chicago school after Obama

    Chicago’s plan to honor President Obama with the “Barack Obama College Preparatory High School” had a certain logic to it that I found compelling. The selective admissions school was to occupy the former site of the Cabrini-Green ho...

  • September 19, 2014

    OFA offering fire sale discounts on Obama merchandise

    Organizing for Action, alias “Obama for America,” is Barack Obama’s personal political organization, and it apparently has a lot of unsold Obama merchandise on its hands.  Does anyone wonder why it isn’t selling anymore? ...

  • September 19, 2014

    Ezekiel Emanuel says 75 years is enough

    Ezekiel Emanuel is one of the architects of Obamacare and the head of the Clinical Bioethics Department at the National Institutes of Health, and he thinks 75 years is about all a human lifespan should be.  In an article titled, Why I hope to di...

  • September 18, 2014

    The long knives are out for Debbie Wasserman Schultz

    The Democrats know they are in trouble with voters in November and are turning on one another, hoping to find not just scapegoats but actual incompetents whose departure would help them recover in time for 2016. So it is unsurprising to read a long a...

  • September 17, 2014

    Brussels synagogue torched

    Once again, Jews and Jewish institutions are the targets in Europe. Authorities in Belgium are being cautious about drawing conclusions in an incident Tuesday, in which several fires were set in a synagogue in a section of Brussels that used to be he...

  • September 17, 2014

    'Climate summit' turning into an embarrassment for Obama and UN

    The United Nations, eager to grab money and power as the global regulator (and taxer) of carbon emissions, is sponsoring a “climate summit” on September 21 in hopes of capturing the attention of heads of state coming to New York for the U...

  • September 17, 2014

    Air passengers forced to wait 2 hours for VIP politician stage revolt, kick him off flight

    Resentment over the arrogance of ruling elites has boiled over. While reports of air rage in the United States are increasingly common, the phenomenon of resentment over the indignities of contemporary air travel is global. An awesome video (below) i...

  • September 17, 2014

    California winery put out of business for using volunteers

    The State of California continues its war on productive activity, fining a small family-owned winery that earns $11,000 a year a whopping $115,000 for the crime of inviting volunteers to learn about wine while helping out with the harvest and the cru...

  • September 16, 2014

    Israpundit changes URL after a serious hack

    Cyberwarfare is alive and well, and forces hostile to Israel are among its most ardent practitioners. Thus it is not surprising that Israpundit, one of the most spirited defenders of Israel, was recently seriously hacked. (We at American Thinker have...

  • September 16, 2014

    Elizabeth Warren says it is 'fair' to compare Israel's actions in Gaza to Holocaust

    Speaking at Tufts University yesterday, Senator Elizabeth Warren cemented her position on the hard left by agreeing with a questioner that it is “fair” to compare Israel’s actions in Gaza to the Holocaust. Daniel Harper of The Weekl...

  • September 16, 2014

    Pelosi says we are not at 'war' with ISIS, after all

    President Obama’s chaotic, ill-considered response to ISIS is reflected in the messaging disarray of various spokesmen for the administration and Democratic Party leadership. By Sunday, it seemed that, however reluctantly, they were conceding t...

  • September 15, 2014

    Kerry was against calling action against ISIS 'war' before he was for it

    Secretary of State John Kerry has burnished his well-deserved reputation as a flip-flopper by switching positions on whether President Obama’s rather hazy plans to assemble a so-far unidentified coalition to fight ISIS can be called a “wa...

  • September 15, 2014

    Does Obama face a 'mutiny' in his administration?

    Ed Rogers of the Washington Post, which is read by everyone in the Obama administration, raises an important question, and one that we will be hearing a lot more about as the collapse of the Obama presidency accelerates: Is a mutiny happening ar...

  • September 15, 2014

    ISIS, Mao, Ho Chi Minh, and the futility of Obama's strategy

    Major General Bob Scales retired as Commandant of the Army War College, where he was responsible for training the future military leadership in the art of war, so he can be expected to know what he is talking about when evaluating military strategies...

  • September 15, 2014

    Now that Ray Rice has placed violence against women on the table...

    The powerful reaction to Ray Rice’s elevator assault against his then-fiancé raises an awkward question for the media and feminist groups. Where were they when news came out that Juanita Broderick was assaulted by Bill Clinton, and advis...

  • September 14, 2014

    The end of Turkey as an ally?

    Turkey has made a decision to not only refuse to join the “broad coalition” against ISIS that President Obama promised Wednesday night is more than just a major slap in face for Obama and America.  It also presents an obstacle to the...

  • September 14, 2014

    Weapons Obama sends to Free Syrian Army will be used to fight Assad, not ISIS

    The chaotic response of the Obama administration to ISIS is creating disasters wherever it operates. Turkey, a former ally (though still a member of NATO), now stands as an obstacle to action against ISIS. After two years of refusing to arm the Free ...

  • September 14, 2014

    Obama's terrible, awful, really not good at all choice of words in condemning David Haines beheading

    See also: The presidency as a private joke between the Obamas Doesn’t anyone in the White House bother to think about the metaphors they use? In the wake of the awful, disgusting, hideous, XXX rated (for violence) video of David Haines being...

  • September 14, 2014

    The presidency as a private joke between the Obamas

    Just a few minutes ago, I wondered in print if President and Mrs. Obama are, at heart, ironists of the first order, the Andy Kaufmans of the world stage. The presidency as put-on is a breathtaking bit of audacity, at first inconceivable to anyone who...

  • September 13, 2014

    A Granite State Diamond for the GOP?

    Marilinda Garcia, the Republican challenger to incumbent Democrat Ann McLane Kuster in New Hampshire’s Second Congressional District is someone to watch. And not just because she is gorgeous. She's good on the issues. She is also charismati...

  • September 13, 2014

    Vote fraud investigation roils Georgia Senate race

    Voting fraud doesn’t exist, according to the Democrats, who fight tooth and nail against measures intended to make it difficult to accomplish. But that hasn’t stopped the Secretary of State’s office in Georgia from launching a major...

  • September 13, 2014

    German Green Energy Policies Making Electricity a Luxury Good

    The German weekly magazine Der Spiegel is not exactly known as a conservative outfit. But Germany’s green energy policies have proven so disastrous that the magazine is writing that electricity is becoming a luxury good, owing to the vast expen...

  • September 12, 2014

    Unprovoked machete attack by illegal aliens caught on camera in Chicago

    A horrific machete attack by an illegal alien gang on two innocent young men waiting on a platform for a Chicago El train has been caught on surveillance camera, and is making big news in Chicago. Chicago is, of course, a sanctuary city for illegal a...

  • September 11, 2014

    IRS chief: 'Whenever we can, we follow the law'

    IRS commissioner John Koskinen probably meant to provide reassurance, but did no such thing yesterday in testimony yesterday. Via The Hill (hat tip: Gateway Pundit) “Whenever we can, we follow the law,” IRS Commissioner John Koskinen...

  • September 11, 2014

    Obama's poll-driven ISIS speech pleases almost no one

    President Obama commandeered 15 minutes of prime time network television last night (text here) because his advisors told him he had to.  After pulling American troops out of Iraq, he wanted reality to conform to his vision of a world that would...

  • September 11, 2014

    Obama's omen: From halos to horns

    Remember when Barack Obama was going through his “sort of god” phase in the media? Back then before he had a presidential track record, he was frequently pictured in the media with a halo: How times (and sta...

  • September 10, 2014

    Holder aide's wrong number call reveals Department of Justice partisan effort to hinder IRS investigation

    Brian Fallon, the top spokesman for attorney general Eric Holder, thought he was talking with the office of Democrat Elijah Cummings, the top Democrat on Darrell Issa’s House Investigation Committee when he spilled the beans. Bernie Becker of T...

  • September 10, 2014

    Cheney attacks Obama support for Muslim Brotherhood in closed door meeting with House Republicans

    Speaking to the House Republican Caucus yesterday, former Vice President Dick Cheney lambasted President Obama for his ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, which he identified as a precursor of today’s ISIS. Ben Jacobs of The Daily Beast: With ...

  • September 10, 2014

    Study by Rutgers University psychologist claims minorities are obese because of racism

    You just knew it had to be your fault, didn’t you Whitey? The only people ever responsible for anything bad are heartless, racist oppressors, also known as you. It’s now your fault when minorities eat junk food and don’t exercise. K...

  • September 10, 2014

    Hillary aides unsheathe stiletto and slip it into 'passive' Obama

    Barack Obama may derail Hillary Clinton’s express train to the presidency one more time, following his 2008 humiliation of the former first lady.  This time it is his own foreign policy incompetence and her supporting role as his first ter...

  • September 8, 2014

    Hamas using ceasefire to repair terror tunnels, manufacture more rockets

    The blood lust of Hamas, like rust, never sleeps.  According to Haaretz, the left wing Israeli newspaper, an unnamed Israeli Defense official indicates: Israel has received intelligence indicating that Hamas has begun reconstructing the att...

  • September 8, 2014

    Obama on Meet the Press

    Being Obama means never having to say you’re sorry. That’s the conclusion one has to draw after watching President Obama trying to help Chuck Todd and his allies at NBC News pull the venerable Sunday morning telecast out of third place in...

  • September 8, 2014

    Venezuelan socialism accomplishes the impossible, starts importing oil

    The country claiming the world’s largest oil reserves is now reduced to importing oil. Walter Russell Meade of The American Interest compiles the information: The management acumen of Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro continues to amaze. Reut...

  • September 8, 2014

    Irony alert: Obama seeking donations to combat cynicism

    For connoisseurs of irony, there’s a new treat today. Barack Obama’s permanent campaign organization OFA (Obama for America wait! now it’s Organizing for America) is addressing the twin evils of cynicism and money in politics by ask...

  • September 8, 2014

    Saudis building 560 mile long border fence to keep out ISIS infiltrators

    Undeterred by political correctness, Saudi Arabia is taking a step that makes common sense, yet has been difficult to accomplish in America: building a border fence. Israel National News reports: Saudi Arabia has launched the construct...

  • September 7, 2014

    Russia exposes Obama's empty security promises to Estonia

    Joining the now-notorious “red line” empty threat issued against Assad of Syria is a much more dangerous example of Barack Obama’s fatuous bluster, his assurance of NATO backing of the Baltic States last Wednesday in Tallinn, Estoni...

  • September 7, 2014

    The happy news: drinking is good for you

    Stanton Peele, who studies and treats addiction, has published a fascinating summation of the scientific evidence on drinking and health (hat tip: Instapundit), and it cuts against the grain of much of what you will hear from most public health spoke...

  • September 6, 2014

    David Plouffe joins Uber as lobbyist

    The taxi industry has declared war on Uber and its competitors, and the tech company, which dispatches unregulated drivers to supply rides at a lower price than taxis fare, is fighting back with some heavyweight Democrat lobbying talent. From NBC Chi...

  • September 6, 2014

    Scott Walker running behind for re-election

    Sound the alarm! Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, who has battled unions and cut taxes, spurring economic growth, s running behind Democrat Mary Burke in his race for re-election. That is based on the Real Clear Politics average of polls: ...

  • September 6, 2014

    Don't ever stand next to Obama in a group photo!

    It’s a lesson that may start sinking in for world leaders, now that Barack Obama has played the same trick twice. Bryan Preston of PJ Media noticed that the Ego-in-Chief (he uses the less polite term “attention-whore-in-chief” but I...

  • September 6, 2014

    'Eminent' prof of 'gender and sexuality studies' pleads guilty to sex with underage boys overseas

    Walter Lee Williams, a professor of “gender and sexuality studies” at the University of Southern California until he quit in 2011, pleaded guilty yesterday. Eichard Winton and Kate Mather of the Los Angeles Times report: A former USC...

  • September 5, 2014

    Feds seek Boston man as possible ISIS social media guru

    Yet another American is suspected of joining ISIS and using skills acquired in this country to advance the goal of a global caliphate.  Ahmad Abousamra, a graduate of Northeastern University in Boston with a degree related to computer technology...

  • September 5, 2014

    Bin Laden document trove kept under wraps to protect re-election narrative that Al Qaeda was 'on the run'?

    It looks a lot like the treasure trove of documents acquired in the Abbottabad raid on Osama bin Laden was suppressed by our intelligence agencies in order to protect President Obama’s re-election narrative. Evidence indicating that al Qaeda wa...

  • September 5, 2014

    Benghazi truth coming out, contradicting Obama administration story

    The rest of the media continues to ignore the revelations on Benghazi being uncovered by Fox News, but the scandal will not die. The official narrative has been a pack of lies from the start, beginning with the cooked-up video excuse. Now, thanks to ...

  • September 5, 2014

    Middle East Studies directors put on the spot over academic boycott of Israel pledge

    Six directors of taxpayer-supported Middle East Studies centers at American universities have signed a public letter pledging "not to collaborate on projects and events involving Israeli academic institutions." However, as Winfield Myers of...

  • September 5, 2014

    Fast food strikers: meet your replacement robot

    Yesterday saw a nationwide agitprop effort in the guise of a “fast food strike.” Funded by the hard left SEIU and intended to generate low income voter turnout in November, the stunt included a rash of arrests. The Huffpo approvingly repo...

  • September 5, 2014

    Wasserman-Schultz won't apologize, but says 'shouldn't have used the words I used'

    DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz outrageously slandered Governor Scott Walker of Wisconsin and trivialized domestic violence: “Scott Walker has given women the back of his hand. I know that is stark. I know that is direct. But that ...

  • September 4, 2014

    In Obama's never-never land, 'Borders cannot be redrawn by the barrel of a gun'

    A president who lives in a fantasy world is danger to world peace, and it appears that President Obama harbors some deep delusions about the nature of the world. His remarks yesterday in Estonia have rightly drawn gasps of astonishment at the naivet...

  • September 4, 2014

    Holder to announce major probe of Ferguson police

    AG Eric Holder is diverting major Department of Justice resources to investigating the Ferguson, MO police department. The Washington Post reports: Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. this week will launch a broad civil rights investigation into...

  • September 4, 2014

    Has Rand Paul changed his position on Islamic terror?

    Over the weekend, Rand Paul said something entirely out of character for him, and as Aaron Blake of the Washington Post commented, “almost nobody noticed.” A funny thing happened over the weekend: While President Obama took heat for ...

  • September 4, 2014

    Progressives exploiting low wage workers with 'fast food strike' today

    Left wingers are willing to sacrifice the actual interests of the poor in service to their aspirations of political power.  A perennial dream of the American progressives is to organize fast food workers into a union, a move that would be an abs...

  • September 3, 2014

    Devastating ad targets Mary Landrieu

    There are signs of life on the GOP side when it comes to going after vulnerable Senate incumbent Mary Landrieu. Last Friday, she was sued by Republican state senator Paul Hollis, …contending that she cannot represent Louisiana because she...

  • September 3, 2014

    Obama contradicts himself on ISIS strategy in Estonia presser

    Where in the world is Obama’s strategy for dealing with ISIS? Apparently not in Tallinn, Estonia, where the president of the United States contradicted himself this morning on his search for his strategy in dealing with ISIS. First, he said:...

  • September 3, 2014

    Report: 11 Libyan jetliners missing following takeover of Tripoli Airport

    Bill Gertz, a veteran Pentagon reporter with many contacts, passes along a worrisome anonymous report: Islamist militias in Libya took control of nearly a dozen commercial jetliners last month, and western intelligence agencies recently issued a...

  • September 3, 2014

    Fed autopsy: Michael Brown not shot in the back

    The narrative of Michael Brown being shot in the back while trying to surrender is dying a slow death, much to the embarrassment of the mainstream media that reported the story of his strong arm robbery accomplice Dorian Johnson. You can sense the ch...

  • September 3, 2014

    Incumbent Dem senator steps in it, endangers re-election

    This election cycle, it is Democrats who are making unforced errors.*  Democrats are clearly rattled over the prospect of losing the Senate, and starting to make stupid mistakes. Doing his Todd Aiken impression, incumbent Alaska Democrat Senator...

  • September 3, 2014

    Minnesota ISIS terrorist killed in Iraq had 'unfettered acces' to planes at Minneapolis Airport

    The next time you have to take off your belt and shoes to gain access to the airplane you want to board, give a thought to Abdirahmaan Muhumed, the ISIS jihadi killed in Iraq. Because before he left Minnesota to fight for Allah, he worked as an airpl...

  • September 2, 2014

    Dems in near-panic over Senate

    Schadenfreude, taking pleasure in others’ suffering, is a nasty emotion, one I take no pride in confessing as I watch Democrats attempting to dodge responsibility for foisting Barack Obama upon us.  Nevertheless, it is certainly satisfying...

  • September 2, 2014

    IS reported to have beheaded second journalist

    America journalist Steven Sotloff has been beheaded by ISIS, if a new video, entitled “A second warning to America” released by the group is to be believed. According to the UK Telegraph, “The video reportedly warns governments to b...

  • September 1, 2014

    Too hot for Rick Perry's Twitter Account

    It’s hilarious and politically incorrect, but clearly Rick Perry was correct in having it deleted from his Twitter feed, with the note:  “A Tweet just went out from my account that was unauthorized. I do not condone the Tweet an...

  • August 31, 2014

    Kansas cops fatally shoot unarmed teen 16 times, media and DoJ silent

    You probably haven’t heard about the case of Joseph Jennings, the unarmed Ottawa, Kansas 18 year old who was shot 16 times by police on August 23. Eric Holder is not outraged, nor is Al Sharpton. The town of Ottawa has experienced no riots or e...

  • August 30, 2014

    Courtiers at NBC bid farewell for now to Chelsea Clinton

    With all those hickeys on her posterior, will Chelsea Clinton be able to sit down for the next week? It’s hard for pregnant women to stay on their feet for extended periods of time, so there may adverse consequences to the abasement the Peacock...

  • August 29, 2014

    Obama's 'no strategy' gaffe may become the 'read my lips' signature of a failed presidency

    Let’s cut President Obama some slack. Golf is a challenging game, and he has been focused like a laser (as Bill Clinton used to say) on improving his game on Martha’s Vineyard, and there’s only so much a guy can do. Coming up with a...

  • August 29, 2014

    Dark horse watch: Mike Pence

    Keep your eyes on Mike Pence, governor of Indiana and 6-term member of Congress, where he was elected conference chairman and chaired the Republican Study Committee, the caucus of House conservatives. He is one of the most promising members of the 20...

  • August 29, 2014

    Ft. Hood shooter Nidal Hasan asks to join Islamic State as citizen

    Devout Muslim Maj. Nidal Hasan, whose jihad attack at Fort Hood has been termed “workplace violence” by the Obama administration, is throwing his support behind ISIS.  Fox News obtained a copy of an undated latter he wrote to the lea...

  • August 28, 2014

    Back to the Future in New York City

    Does New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio not understand that forbidding the police to engage in the stop and frisk policies instituted by Mayor Giuliani and continued by Mayor Bloomberg will lead to an increase in crime? Does he not care about the vic...

  • August 27, 2014

    Former AP staffer spills the beans on coverage of Israel

    Matti Friedman, a former editor in the Associated Press’s Jerusalem bureau, explains the nature of coverage of the Israel and its conflicts, and it is not a pretty picture. The essence of his point is: The Jews of Israel are the screen onto ...

  • August 27, 2014

    Obama's disconcerting speech to the American Legion

    Yesterday, as I was battling the flu and resting up, I happened to switch in the TV and saw Barack Obama speaking to the American Legion convention in Charlotte. Since I was already nauseated, there seemed to be little downside in watching the Comman...

  • August 26, 2014

    IRS cover-up revelation #1 today

    See also: IRS cover-up revelation #2 today The IRS is behaving as if it is desperately trying to cover–up serious crimes. Despite assurances that Lois Lerner’s emails are unavailable thanks to a hard drive crash and subsequent “r...

  • August 26, 2014

    IRS cover-up revelation #2 today

    See also: IRS cover-up revelation #1 today An IRS filing has revealed that Lois Lerner’s Blackberry, containing emails alleged lost in a computer crash, was destroyed by the IRS after the congressional inquiry had begun. The potential crimin...

  • August 26, 2014

    Cable Karma: Fox News soars as CNN reportedly to announce huge layoffs

    According to a report in The Wrap, CNN and sister network Headline News are planning to lay off 550 staffers, a huge and very painful cutback. Some 550 buyouts are to be offered at Time Warner's Turner network this week, including a large nu...

  • August 26, 2014

    Saudi Foreign Minister signals coexistence with Israel, pressure on Palestinians

    The rise of the Muslim Brotherhood, ISIS’s depredations in Syria and Iraq, and Hamas’s misrule in Gaza have finally caused the Saudis to publicly signal a rethinking of the reflexive commitment to destroying Israel. A tacit alignment of S...

  • August 25, 2014

    Ferguson logic: rebuild local businesses 'or it's going to be be hell to pay'

    Having burned down and looted many businesses that serve their community, some residents of Ferguson (or maybe it is just the outsiders who came in to join the outrage) are realizing that it is going to be inconvenient to have nowhere nearby to buy f...

  • August 25, 2014

    Did the Ditherer-in-Chief delay rescue of Foley until it was too late?

    According to a (pay walled) report in the London Sunday Times by Toby Harden, Hostage rescue raid came too late: The president waited nearly a month before giving the go-ahead for a daring bid to free western hostages including James Foley ...

  • August 25, 2014

    Time Magazine publishes, then retracts, blood libel on Jews

    The world has gone down the path of powerful institutions embracing crude blood libels against Jews before, and it led to the Holocaust and even earlier travesties against innocent Jews. Yet once again, powerful forces are conspiring to demonize Jews...

  • August 25, 2014

    The <em>other</em> ISIS

    Oops! The problem with acronyms, so beloved of government bureaucrats, is that they can be used by others. Consider ISIS. Kate Wright sent me a link to this ISIS, which turns out to be an arm of US intelligence: ISIS provides worldwide security,...

  • August 25, 2014

    Is this progress?

    The following juxtaposition comes from a friend who asks that his name not be used. Such is the state of discourse in America today that people fear retaliation for criticizing President Obama:    ...

  • August 25, 2014

    The beatification of Michael Brown

    It is essential to the Democrats’ hopes for a strong black turnout in November that the manufactured narrative of evil white cops assassinating an innocent black teenager be maintained.  As Richard Baehr noted to me, “…after t...

  • August 24, 2014

    6.0 earthquake hits Northern California

    At approximately 3:25 AM local time, a fairly significant earthquake hit Northern California. I had just woken up in Berkeley, and was annoyed that my neighbor’s large dog was barking when things started shaking. The epicenter of the quake, nea...

  • August 23, 2014

    ISIS: Obama's opportunity

    (see also: Isis: Obama's Peril) If President Obama were able to summon his intestinal fortitude and act decisively against ISIS, he could emerge as hero and protector of American security. General John Allen (ret.), the man who led American tr...

  • August 23, 2014

    ISIS: Obama's peril

    (See also: ISIS: Obama’s Opportunity) President Obama has placed his presidency in great peril through his brash, arrogant and condescending comment several months ago that ISIS is a “JV” team that may be donning Lakers jerseys, ...

  • August 23, 2014

    ISIS and Saudi Arabia: How much difference?

    It’s an awkward question. Of course, the Saudis are officially our allies, not to mention guardians of oil market stability. And barely disguised, they are supporters of Israel against Hamas and the threat of the Iranian nuclear arsenal. But th...

  • August 22, 2014

    Barack Obama, incoherent theologian

    Perhaps it was all those years spent at Jeremiah Wright’s church. Or maybe it was merely a clumsy attempt to whitewash Islam in the American public’s mind.  Either way, President Obama’s attempt to lecture ISIS on theology was ...

  • August 22, 2014

    GAO report concludes Gitmo detainee release for Bergdahl violated 2 laws

    You might think that a government watchdog body concluding that the President violated two laws in setting free dangerous combatants in exchange for a soldier under investigation for desertion might merit major attention. And you’d be correct ...

  • August 22, 2014

    State Department's Ostrich Strategy for ISIL

    Were the world not in such a perilous condition, State Department occasional spokeswoman Marie Harf would be welcome comic relief. Wearing a tight sweater yesterday, the young Ms. Harf took to the podium of the State Department press briefing room an...

  • August 22, 2014

    Over $200k already donated to support Office Darren Wilson

    On gofundme.com, a total of over $211,000 (at the moment of publication) has been donated to support Officer Darren Wilson, whose “vigorous prosecution” has been demanded by the governor of his state, Democrat Jay Nixon, a lawyer who shou...

  • August 21, 2014

    Nonwhite cop kills unarmed white youth, national media, AG and POTUS ignore

    A brutal natural experiment is underway demonstrating the role of race, riots, and radicals in determining whose death is noted, and whose ignored in racialized America when unarmed young men are shot and killed by police.  While American and wo...

  • August 21, 2014

    Obama lectures ISIS on Islamic theology

    Despite professing his faith in Jesus Christ, President Obama feels qualified to lecture ISIS on Islamic doctrine. Jim Hoft of Gateway Pundit caught the pretentious donning of the garb of theologian: Narcissist President Barack Obama lectured ISIS...

  • August 21, 2014

    'Devout Muslim' accused of murder spree avenging US military action in Middle East

    Ali Muhammad Brown, described as a “devout Muslim” as well as a registered sex offender, has told investigators that the gunning down of 19 year old Brendan Tevlin as he sat in his car in Livingston, NJ was “an act of retribution fo...

  • August 20, 2014

    Grand jurors who indicted Rick Perry break law, violate secrecy of proceedings

    The Travis County, Texas grand jury that indicted Governor Rick Perry is self-discrediting. Jurors have violated Texas law by speaking about grand jury proceedings to a newspaper, instead of keeping silent, as they are required by law to do. Bryan Pr...

  • August 19, 2014

    Hillary unmasked: the consequences mount

    The release of details of Hillary Clinton’s contract demands for speaking at UNLV, with incredible perks suitable for an empress, is deeply damaging her prospects for winning the presidency. The woman who complained about being “dead brok...

  • August 18, 2014

    Horrifying bird slaughter at solar power plant

    A solar power plant partly owned by Google is incinerating one flying bird every 2 minutes, igniting the poor creatures as they fly past the concentrated beams of light from focused mirror arrays. The phony scare over CO2 purportedly causing global w...

  • August 18, 2014

    Good news/bad news: NY State Common Core scores soar, but...

    Educrats are a tricky bunch. Their latest ploy, Common Core, has run into unexpected resistance, perhaps because parents are skeptical of fine-sounding slogans and names. But no matter, just bury ‘em with ginned up statistics. Susan Edelman rep...

  • August 17, 2014

    More evidence points to fed prosecutorial abuse of S&P over downgrade of federal debt rating

    If the Obama administration used federal prosecutors to exact vengeance on Standard and Poor’s for downgrading the rating of federal debt, that would be a serious crime, an impeachable offense if it could be traced to the Attorney General or th...

  • August 17, 2014

    Kurds surround Mosul dam as US supplies air support

    Kurdish forces have reportedly surrounded the strategic Mosul dam and have begun an offensive to take it back from the Islamic State. Fox News: Kurdish forces have launched a ground offensive to seize control of Iraq's strategic Mosul dam...

  • August 17, 2014

    Paying people to vote proposed in Los Angeles

    Buying votes is illegal, yet the misnamed Los Angeles Ethics Commission is proposing to pay people to vote, in the form of lottery prizes. David Zahniser of the Los Angeles Times reports: Alarmed that fewer than one-fourth of voters are showing up...

  • August 17, 2014

    Judge Jeanine demolishes indictment of Perry

    Judge Jeanine Pirro spent the first five minutes of her show utterly demolishing the politicized indictment of Texas Governor Rick Perry. She is a national treasure. The dicussion with Democrat Joe Trippi that follows shows that even Democrats are ap...

  • August 17, 2014

    Colorado Dems flee from fracking ban

    The green left, which wields enormous financial clout in the Democratic Party, wants to stop fracking in the United States. With San Francisco hedge fund billionaire Tom Steyer in the lead with his promise of $50 million of his own money (and another...

  • August 14, 2014

    Did Obama pressure Israel with missile cutoff last month?

    聽 According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, the Obama administration attempted to pressure Israel with a cutoff in missile shipments during the height of Operation Protective Edge in Gaza last month. The Jerusalem Post reports: Amid d...

  • August 14, 2014

    Al Franken another vulnerable Senate Dem

    For some reason, Al Franken has not appeared on many lists of vulnerable Senate Democrats. But he is no shoo-in for re-election in November, as John Feehery reminds us in the Wall Street Journal: In several polls the incumbent, a former Saturday...

  • August 14, 2014

    UN Human Rights Commission denounced

    The United Nations Human Rights Commission is a travesty, a Muslim tyranny-loving/Israel-hating open mockery of the ideals of human rights.  Finally, a foreign minister of a major democracy is telling the truth about it. From israelnationalnews.com: ...

  • August 14, 2014

    Top Medicare official and criminal conpiracy?

    There is a widespread pattern of Obama administration officials “losing” emails which they are legally required to maintain records of.  When the emails in question were under subpoena, there is a strong chance that crimes have been ...

  • August 14, 2014

    Progressive phony of the day

    It takes a whole lotta hypocrisy to cast yourself as a supporter of the Occupy movement, champion of the little guy and foe of the 1% while owning three homes and pulling down hundreds of thousands of dollars a year in pay and benefits. Welcome to th...

  • August 13, 2014

    The 'oil weapon' loses some of its power as supplies increase, demand falls

    World oil supplies have increased as demand has fallen in key Western markets, robbing petro-power Russia of some of its clout, and softening any potential disruption that Middle East turmoil could inflict on the world economy. We can thank fracking ...

  • August 13, 2014

    Look who's mocking Obama's 'transparency'

    Jay Carney’s descent to laughingstock status spokes-evader of the Obama administration may be eclipsed in rapidity by his ironically-named successor Josh Earnest. The evasions from the White House pressroom podium have gotten so ridiculous that even ...

  • August 12, 2014

    Foreign Press Association protests Hamas intimidation

    The dirty little secret of world media coverage of the conflict between Israel and Hamas is the intimidation used to prevent coverage of Hamas’s war crimes. The narrative put forward by the media has been one of Israeli villains victimizing Gaz...

  • August 12, 2014

    How to replace the EPA

    Of all the regulatory deadweight on the economy, the Environmental Protection Agency is almost certainly the heaviest of the federal government’s intrusions. If voters should hand control of the White House and Congress to the GOP in 2016, stru...

  • August 11, 2014

    Lunatic equivalency:ISIS and Israel

    A person who would equate ISIS and Israel must be driven by a deep hatred of Jews, in my opinion. Yet that comparison was made with a straight face yesterday by Lawrence Wilkerson, former top aide to National Security Adviser Colin Powell. Watch this...

  • August 11, 2014

    Relax! Things are going so well that Obama has plenty of time for golf

    Don't wory about the Yazdis, the Mosul Dam, the spread of ISIS, the possibility of the fall of Baghdad, and all the other apparent chaos in the Middle East. Things are going  so well that President Obama was able to chill out with a five hou...

  • August 6, 2014

    Wow! France 24 TV reporter changes his tune, exposes human shield strategy of Hamas after being used as one

    On more than one occasion, international media reporters working in Gaza have stood before the cameras showing the devastation from an Israeli strike only to have a rocket unexpectedly fired nearby toward Israel as they speak.  This tends to pro...

  • August 6, 2014

    Media bias in the Christie and Cuomo scandals

    If you are going to have a scandal, it really, really helps to be a Democrat if you are worried about media coverage. Consider the cases of neighboring big state governors Chris Christie and Andrew Cuomo. Christie’s “Bridgegate” sca...

  • August 5, 2014

    Prominent Brit medical journal will no longer publish letters from 'Israeli academics'

    The Lancet was once one of the world’s premier medical journals, but it has been captured by anti-Israel extremists, who are now banning letters of rejoinder from Israeli academics.  This is part of an effort to isolate and ultimate strang...

  • August 5, 2014

    Obama abandoning Kurds, keeping 'hands off' ISIS

    Why is President Obama passively standing by as perhaps the nastiest of all the Islamic radical groups in the world is expanding its “Caliphate” at the expense of longstanding (and highly capable) allies of the United States? Only the pre...

  • August 5, 2014

    As long as Muslims kill Muslims, the world is only 'concerned.' But Israel defending itself sparks outrage

    The most telling indicator of anti-Semitism is the application of standards to Jews that are not applied to non-Jews. Under that analytical focus, there is no question but that the response of most of the world’s media and the US government its...

  • August 4, 2014

    Weird Gender Bias Complaints at National Science Foundation

    On Thursday, Bret Baier reported on the Grapevine in Special Report that the National Science Foundation announced over $200,000 grants to discover ways to fix anti-women, gender bias at Wikipedia.  The Free Beacon reported: The National Sc...

  • August 4, 2014

    Leaked report: open border attracting people from all over the world

    It isn’t just adorable little tykes from Central America that are making long and perilous journeys to the United States, attracted by a border whose guards are busy changing diapers and offering care to those who already ignored our laws. Peop...

  • August 4, 2014

    Amazing: Finnish reporter tells the truth on rockets fired from Gaza hospital and then complains when pro-Israel media mention it

    Most of the world’s media have dedicated themselves to a narrative fiction that innocent Gazans are being cruelly slaughtered by callous Israelis. When information leaks out that challenges this narrative, they respond with anger, often attempt...

  • August 4, 2014

    120 years of climate scares

    Scientists seeking funding and journalists seeking an audience agree: panic sells. “Global cooling is going to kills us all!” “No, wait: global warming is going to kill us all!” All that’s  missing is a back-a...

  • August 3, 2014

    The skill of being lucky?

    Is luck a skill that can be learned? According to British researcher Richard Weisman, it is. Luck is certainly a topic that fascinates people across the world, and is the basis for the gambling gaming industry which has to rank as one of the bigge...

  • August 2, 2014

    Barney Frank 'appalled' by Obama administration

    No longer in office and safely on a Congressional pension, Barney Frank is doing some truth-telling about the Obama administration. Speaking with the Huffington Post, he expressed dismay with the party’s lame duck president. Zach Carter writes:...

  • August 2, 2014

    Russian Deputy Prime Minister savagely mocks Obama

    It is an uncomfortable fact for all Americans, even for opponents of President Obama, that his catastrophic pusillanimity in world power politics has made him an object of open derision overseas, even from high officials of major powers. Russian Depu...

  • August 2, 2014

    Obama approval drops to new low over Border crisis

    There is very bad news for President Obama and the Democrats in a new poll released last night by Investor’s Business Daily. John Merline writes: President Obama's approval rating dropped to his lowest levels as the public hammers him ...

  • August 2, 2014

    Nancy Pelosi should meet Jonathan DelCarmen

    Jonathan DelCarmen sounds like the kind of person Nancy Pelosi wants America to welcome and support. After all, he came to this country illegally as a child, at the tender age of 12.  According to the Minority Leader of the House of Representati...

  • August 1, 2014

    Michael Curtis appointed to Legion of Honor by the President of France

    All of us at American Thinker heartily congratulate our colleague Michael Curtis on his appointment by the President of France to the Legion of Honor (Légion d’honneur), the highest decoration in France, as Chevalier (knight). In addi...

  • August 1, 2014

    It's the suite life for our little friends from South of the Border

    Come to America for the safety, but stay for the amenities. That’s the message being sent to the children of Central America by the new detention center resident center just unveiled in Karnes City, Texas by ICE, which seems to be bursting with...

  • July 30, 2014

    Why the media bear moral responsibility for the Gaza civilian casualties

    Former Col. Richard Kemp, who was head of British forces in Afghanistan, has laid out with great clarity why the very media who bemoan the civilian casualties in Gaza bear moral responsibility for the carnage. The video below is short and eloque...

  • July 30, 2014

    More bad luck for Hillary

    If she weren’t such a ruthless and pathological power-hungry phony, I would almost feel sorry for Hillary Rodham Clinton. It’s starting to look as though 2016 may be another election like 2008, in which the presumptive nominee runs into s...

  • July 29, 2014

    Call the Irony Police!

    After John Kerry proposed a cease-fire that would leave intact Hamas’s rockets, tunnels, and all other instruments of terror, from the lips of Jen Psaki came a classic bit of irony yesterday. Via Yahoo News: The Obama administration pushed...

  • July 29, 2014

    Revealed: IRS and State Department conspired in targeting pro-Israel group

    The IRS scandal has just gained another dimension, and it is more than a "smidgen." Emails uncovered by the House Ways and Means Committee show that the State Department was involved in the IRS’s attempt to deny tax-exempt status to Z...

  • July 27, 2014

    Michigan incomes rise in wake of right to work legislation

    Former union stronghold Michigan shocked the labor inion bosses when it became a right to work state in December 2012.  There were threats of violence: "There will be blood, there will be repercussions," State Democratic Rep. Dougla...

  • July 27, 2014

    Things are going so well in Chicago that Rahm Emanuel extends welcome to 1000 border-violating children

    I confess that somehow I missed the story of the miraculous turnaround in the city government of Chicago. Apparently the severe budget deficits, including the onerous pension burden, have been erased. The murder epdemic on the Southside has een ended...

  • July 26, 2014

    Obamacare's <em>Halbig</em> trap

    The Halbig case, in which the DC Circuit Court overturned Obamacare subsidies paid through the federal exchange, is generating an onslaught of evidence that destroys the contentions of the law’s supporters. The Fourth Circuit in Richmond delive...

  • July 26, 2014

    Obama refuses to set upper limit on tax rate

    James Pethokoukis of the American Enterprise Institute noticed a very revealing moment in President Obama’s Thursday interview with CNBC’s Steve Liesman: STEVE LIESMAN: Mr. President, I just want to pivot back one more time to domest...

  • July 25, 2014

    Dr. Krauthammer's theory of Obama

    Of late, President Obama’s passivity towards events abroad and focus on fundraising and fun has been regarded as something of a puzzle, by both his opponents and some of his fellow Democrats, including California’s Senior Senator Dianne F...

  • July 25, 2014

    Hillary's sense of entitlement

    There is little doubt that Hillary Clinton has an extraordinary sense of entitlement. With no visible sense of shame, she demands and gets hundreds of thousands of dollars for speeches to fat cats while posing as an advocate of social justice. While ...

  • July 24, 2014

    IRS backup tapes discovered!

    You can tell that this is a huge story because the Mainstream Media are completely ignoring it, leaving Fox News the privilege of continuing to break the story that could well be bigger than Watergate. It requires a bit of reading between the lines (...

  • July 24, 2014

    Fake controversy over Twitter diversity figures

    Twitter is being hit with criticism, and promises to “do better” over an absolutely bogus controversy. The company is “guilty” of having many black and Hispanic customers, but few b&H employees. Oh, the horror! The company...

  • July 24, 2014

    Legal sanctions for missing emails?

    Government bureaucrats who violate the law and cover up the evidence are a potent threat to liberty. With its monopoly on the legitimate use of force and powers of taxation, government is an interest group that just be restrained; otherwise we descen...

  • July 23, 2014

    Hamas instructs Gazans how to lie on social media

    Thanks to the invaluable efforts of MEMRI, which translates Arabic media into English, the efforts of Hamas to use social media posts as propaganda tools have been exposed. The IDF Blog summarizes: According to MEMRI, the Hamas Interior Ministry...

  • July 23, 2014

    Report: Obama is in escrow on luxury home in Rancho Mirage

    According to the Los Angeles Times, whose Lauren Beale is renowned for keeping track of high-end real estate transactions among the rich and famous before they are publicly acknowledged: President Obama and his wife, Michelle, could be the owner...

  • July 23, 2014

    IRS experts: Lois Lerner's hard drive only 'scratched' and data mostly recoverable

    The behavior of the IRS is looking more and more like a cover-up. Byron York reports in The Examiner: Top IRS officials told congressional investigators that Lois Lerner's hard drive -- the one containing emails that could she...

  • July 22, 2014

    IRS changes its story on lost emails and hard drive crashes

    IRS Commissioner Koskinen’s testimony that all backup tapes of Lois Lerner’s emails have been destroyed may be “inoperative,” to use the term employed during Watergate when stories changed. The House Oversight Committee chaire...

  • July 22, 2014

    Hillary's silence is deafening

    You can’t exactly accuse someone who just finished a book tour of hiding, but Hillary Clinton certainly is ducking a lot of questions. And that’s understandable, because she would have a lot of problems coming up with answers that wouldn...

  • July 21, 2014

    The Arab-Israeli conflict is not elementary school

    But if it were, it would look something like the video below. Hat tip: Lauri Regan...

  • July 21, 2014

    Rick Perry reportedly sending 1000 National Guard troops to border

    Looking more presidential than Barack Obama, Texas Governor Rick Perry is reported to be announcing the dispatch of a thousand Texas National Guard troops to the southern border in response to the crisis  there. Ads President Obama enjoyed a rou...

  • July 21, 2014

    Arab casualties: Media don't care unless Jews can be blamed

    While the world media obsess over “disproportionate” casualties in the Hamas-Israel conflict, far greater numbers of Arabs are being slaughtered in Syria. Raheem Kassan write in Breitbart London: From reading the international and na...

  • July 20, 2014

    Perry Playing Well in Iowa

    Rick Perry evidently is running for president and is on the campaign trail in Iowa for the 2016 GOP nomination. According to the Des Moines Register, he is getting a good response. An animated Rick Perry yanked the microphone from the podium and...

  • July 20, 2014

    The Left's Big Fumble on Inequality

    In choosing “inequality’ as its red meat issue (sorry Vegans!), the American Left has gotten itself into what the Marxists like to call an “internal contradiction.” Tom Maguire outlines the big problem: Tyler Cowen t...

  • July 20, 2014

    Yet another #WarmistFail

    Global warming is not going to do it for the left, it has now become obvious to everyone but a few bitter enders like Al Gore and billionaire hedge fund-rich San Franciscan Tom Steyer. The latter may be getting a clue, however. Asche Schow reports in...

  • July 20, 2014

    The moral corruption of leftist ideology

    The Economist reports on a fascinating experiment that proves the dire moral consequences of living under Communism. It corrupts the soul by imposing an ideology that denies human nature. Here’s how it has been experimentally demonstrated: ...

  • July 20, 2014

    Hilarious: lefty flips out over billboard explaining consequences of $15 minimum wage

    The left-leaning tech blog Pando seems to be angry about a lot of aspects of reality.* Witness David Carr flipping out over this billboard that he spotted in San Francisco, “walking home from Pando’s office a few nights ago.” ...

  • July 19, 2014

    Joel Gilbert's <em>There's No Place like Utopia</em>

    Last night saw the premier in Denver of Joel Gilbert’s There’s No Place Like Utopia, a film that gets to the heart of the progressive/communist project for America and where it is leading us. Joel uses the Wizard of Oz as an extended meta...

  • July 19, 2014

    Company cofounded by Nancy Pelosi's son charged with fraud

    Natural Blue, a company cofounded by Paul Pelosi, Jr. to focus on “environmentally-friendly” investments, has been charged with fraud by the SEC.  Pelosi had served as the company’s president and chief operating officer.  ...

  • July 19, 2014

    Sickening: Washington Post cartoonist depicts Netanyahu punching baby in the face

    Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes has descended into the fever swamps of anti-Semitic tropes with her cartoon animation depicting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu punching a Hamas-Gaza baby in the face, ...

  • July 18, 2014

    US taxes pay for terrorist education via the UN

    Perhaps the most wretched and corrupt arm of the UN is the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, though there is a lot of competition for that title. UNRWA houses and feeds 75% of the population of Gaza, who are being kept there since 1949 under th...

  • July 18, 2014

    Talk about bad luck!

    From De Lowe in Israel, we learn of this amazing run of bad luck. Pictures show that the same family that was killed in Syria by Assad, was also killed by IDF bombing Gaza few days ago, according to Arab media. Hat tip: Ed Lasky...

  • July 17, 2014

    Muslim couple pleads 'not guilty' to threatening to blow up synagogue in Hamptons during Ramadan

    In a story that has received no national media attention, save for the efforts of the indomitable Pamela Geller, a woman and her former husband have been arrested by police in East Hampton, Long Island for allegedly making threats in writing to blow ...

  • July 17, 2014

    The unhappiest workers of all

    How’s that feminism workin’ out for ya? According to a survey reported in a Psychology Today article, the unhappiest workers are:Female 42 years old Unmarried Have a household income under $100,000 Work in a professional posit...

  • July 17, 2014

    The decline and fall of summer jobs for teens

    One of the many social transformations America is undergoing is the ending of the custom of teenagers working summer jobs. A generation ago, most teens had this experience, but today, not so much. Shelby Travis writes: According to data from the...

  • July 17, 2014

    Boeing 777 shot down over Ukraine

    Malaysian Airlines has lost another Boeing 777 airliner, this time over Ukraine to a missile allegedly fired from a Buk ground-to-air system, according to a Ukrainian source. Reportedly, 295 people (280 passengers, 15 crew) were aboard the plane, on ...

  • July 16, 2014

    Company run by daughter of Dem senator moves to Europe to escape US corporate tax

    US taxation of corporate profits is the highest in the world, and hobbles American companies competing on world markets, thereby costing American jobs. Just last month, medical equipment giant Medtronic announced plans to move its headquarters from M...

  • July 16, 2014

    RINO stampede in Kansas

    The headline from AP certainly is alarming: “100 Kansas GOP endorse Democrat for governor.” And the lead paragraph continues the theme: Democratic challenger Paul Davis sought Tuesday to give his campaign for Kansas governor a bipart...

  • July 16, 2014

    Feds to pay for $50 million resort for illegal alien teens

    Do you wish you were able to afford to go to a resort with pool, sauna, tennis courts, exercise room, sauna, steam room, racketball courts, and all the trimmings? Too bad you aren’t an illegal alien teenager, maybe a member of MS 13. Because yo...

  • July 15, 2014

    Another fed hard drive containing evidence in criminal case 'recycled'

    Corrupt federal bureaucrats who have operated illegally as political agents have established a pattern and practice of destroying evidence of their crimes by claiming their computer hard drives have “crashed” and the “recycling...

  • July 15, 2014

    Sidewalk memorial to a cop killer

    Office Melvin Santiago, a rookie cop in Jersey City, NJ, was gunned down early Sunday morning responding to a robbery call at a Walgreen’s pharmacy. His alleged killer, Lawrence Campbell, was killed when Santiago’s brother officers return...

  • July 15, 2014

    Israel accepts Egypt cease-fire proposal, but Hamas rejects

    Now it is clear which side wants violence. William Booth and Griff Witte write in the Washington Post: Israel’s security cabinet voted to accept an initiative from Egypt’s military-backed government that had been announced ...

  • July 15, 2014

    Study finds people's friends genetically similar to them

    Diversity mongers lament.  It turns out that people’s good friends tend to share a lot of genes with them. Are we hard wired to associate with people who share our genetic traits? CNN reports:  A new study published Monday in...

  • July 14, 2014

    Israel derangement syndrome: 'Iron dome' blamed as 'likely to prolong conflict'

    Just when you thought Jew-hatred double standards applied to Israel couldn’t get any more ridiculous, along comes this gem, via Rob Garver of The Fiscal Times and Yahoo News: … while the missile defense system is undoubtedly saving ...

  • July 14, 2014

    Read of the day: Israel as the Last Man Standing

    The Middle East, always complex, is descending into a form of chaos that seems baffling. Bringing order to the complexity is Daniel P. Goldman, aka Spengler, writing in Tablet Magazine.  A former Wall Street numbers guy, Goldman brings together ...

  • July 14, 2014

    Signs of Obamaite desperation

    How desperate are Barack Obama and his henchman Eric Holder? This desperate: (via The Hill) Attorney General Eric Holder said Sunday he and President Obama have been targets of “a racial animus” by some of the administration’s po...

  • July 13, 2014

    Never Again? No so much anymore

    Jew-hatred is on the rise around the world. More and more openly, a new Holocaust is being called for.  And not just by the usual suspects in the usual places – the Middle East and France, where Jews are attacked on the streets with regula...

  • July 13, 2014

    Many Egyptians openly hope that Hamas is destroyed

    There are a few good things coming out if the current turmoil in the Middle East. One of them is that at last sensible voices are being heard, here and there, in reaction to the crazies and haters that doomed Arabs for so many decades, distracting th...

  • July 12, 2014

    Hilarious: Wisconsin Dem candidate for governor exposed as fundraising hypocrite

    I have got to hand it to Mary Burke, front-runner for the Democratic nomination to run against Scott Walker in Wisconsin’s governor’s race. She is a comedy genius, parodying the hypocrisy of the left. Is she, perhaps, a deep cover agent, ...

  • July 11, 2014

    Scientific Corruption Exposed, 'Peer Review Ring' Busted

    One of the pillars of Western Civilization has been corrupted, with profound negative consequences for our material and moral well-being. The huge amounts of money available from governments for scientific research, and the consequent high stakes inv...

  • July 11, 2014

    Reporter corners Rahm

    He can run, but he can’t hide. Chicago’s Mayor Rahm Emanuel is facing a nightmare as sections of his city descend into lethal violence, and he is on the hook. Charles Lipson, writing in the Chicago Tribune, aptly compares last weekend...

  • July 10, 2014

    Yet another Illinois governor under investigation

    Four of the last seven governors of Illinois* have ended up in prison. Is the Land of Lincoln poised to smash its own record?  The feds have indicated (in a most unusual fashion) that they have Governor Pat Quinn in their sights.  Dave McKi...

  • July 10, 2014

    Are you ready for a TB epidemic?

    Is stupidity or malevolence behind the policy of distributing Central American illegal alien children around the country among the general population? The question must be asked because alarming numbers of these unfortunates are carrying tuberculosis...

  • July 8, 2014

    The Skeptics' Ball

    Arriving in Las Vegas yesterday for the Ninth International Conference on Climate Change, the taxi driver taking me to the Mandalay Bay Hotel cheerfully informed me that the temperature was 106 degrees. The hundreds of scientists, activists, journali...

  • July 7, 2014

    The spoiler who could deliver NC Senate seat to Kay Hagan

    By all rights, the GOP should easily pick up the North Carolina Senate seat currently held by Kay Hagan. Except: Most evenings, Sean Haugh is a pizza deliveryman. But every other week or so, the Libertarian Party’s Senate nominee in Nor...

  • July 7, 2014

    Grant immunity to gay activist Matthew Meisel and catch the IRS leaker

    Of all of the outrages perpetrated by the IRS, one of the most felonious was the leaking of confidential donor information from the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) to groups opposed to it.  The IRS has already admitted culpability for t...

  • July 6, 2014

    Report: Obama secretly urging Elizabeth Warren to challenge Hillary

    According to Edward Klein, author of Blood Feud: The Clintons vs. the Obamas, President Obama and Valerie Jarrett are working to derail Hillary Clinton’s plan to be the Democratic nominee by urging Elizabeth Warren to run. According to Klein, w...

  • July 6, 2014

    The fate of Jay Carney

    After leaving the White House with a reputation for telling lies, what are the career options open for Jay Carney?  Once upon a time, he was an actual reporter who gathered news and was supposed to be believed, working for Time Magazine, which s...

  • July 6, 2014

    It's happening: Border Patrol personnel infected by illegal immigrant flood

    Along with piteous pictures of children flooding across our borders and being distributed across the country courtesy of US taxpayers come disease vectors. Maybe flying them around to various parts of the country isn’t the smartest idea. NBC Ne...

  • July 6, 2014

    Purists criticizing Islamic State leader for flashy wristwatch

    No decadent western toys for those who proclaim the superiority of Koranic purity! Now there’s a fundamentalist Islamic movement I can get behind. Oliver Duggan reports in the UK Telegraph: The emergence of the highly-secretive Abu Bakr al...

  • July 5, 2014

    When Obama promised to not bypass Congress on immigration

    My how things change! Back in May 2011, President Obama took the position that changing immigration law without Congress is “not how a democracy works.” Breitbart reminds us of the about face: "Sometimes when I talk to immigrati...

  • July 5, 2014

    Michelle Obama versus GOP (and kids) on school lunch rules

    It’s high noon in the lunchroom, as a political battle looms over Michelle Obama’s pet project to force school lunches to provide “healthier” meals. Her lobbying for the “Hunger-Free-Kids-Act” of 2010 is credited w...

  • July 4, 2014

    Hillary embarrasses herself in Britain

    If a prominent Republican in contention for the presidency had suffered a brain injury and subsequently started making the sort of gaffes Hillary Clinton has been spouting, we’d be seeing front page stories on the New York Times analyzing brain...

  • July 3, 2014

    Hillary caught between two forces

    Poor Hillary Clinton is caught between two formidable forces: her greed versus her ambition. At the Washington Post, Jennifer Rubin lays out the greed problem, citing an earlier Post report: At least eight universities, including four public ins...

  • July 2, 2014

    Bad news for voter ID foes

    The forces which seek to enable vote fraud have been pressing several dubious contentions in order to protect their hold on power. In addition to the questionable notion that it benefits democracy to herd people who don’t care much about politi...

  • July 2, 2014

    Japan moves to loosen restraints on military

    The label “historic” is being applied to the move yesterday by Prime Minister Abe to “reinterpret” Article Nine of Japan’s constitution, which limits the use of armed force to self-defense. In the new dispensation, Japan...

  • July 2, 2014

    Nothing but the best for Consumer Financial Protection Bureau HQ

    It’s another case of bureaucrats gone wild, DC mandarins lavishing money on their own offices, and spending more per square foot on renovations to existing, perfectly usable office space than it cost to build lavish buildings like Trump World T...

  • July 1, 2014

    White deaths exceeded births last year

    The same failure-to-thrive cultural ennui gripping Italy, Japan, and a host of other “advanced countries” is evident among Americans of European descent. Katherine Peralta writes in US News: For the second year in a row, the number o...

  • July 1, 2014

    The limits of the media claque

    Despite the best efforts of his mainstream media handmaidens, The American public is aware of President Obama’s responsibility for the mess we find ourselves in on the border and in Iraq, and the public by a margin of more than two-to-one suspe...

  • June 30, 2014

    Hillary Clinton: poor little rich girl

    The Deep Thinkers among the Democrats are coming up with new and creative excuses for Hillary Clinton’s stumbles on the campaign book promotion trail. Stuck with a frontrunner that demands between two and three hundred thousand dollars for a 60...

  • June 30, 2014

    The undeclared race war rages on

    It should surprise nobody that the tidal wave of racial resentment peddled by the left has resulted in a virtual race war. Unprovoked attacks by groups of young African-Americans on whites (and other non-blacks, particularly Asians) are now a feature...

  • June 30, 2014

    Antarctica puts the lie to warmist nonsense

    Laughter seems to the only proper response to the current wave of alarmism about global warming. The facts so severely contradict the prophets of doom that scorn is more than appropriate, it is virtually required. Those pictures of polar bears suppos...

  • June 30, 2014

    IRS emails too smelly even for Candy Crowley

    The Democrats have no more loyal a media servant than Candy Crowley, who proved her devotion by derailing scrutiny of Benghazi and the phony video cover story in a 2012 presidential debate. Yet even Candy can’t accept the line that the destruct...

  • June 30, 2014

    Hobby Lobby 1, Obamacare 0

    The Supreme Court upheld the religious freedom rights of Hobby Lobby, the closely-held corporation owned by believing Christians who objected to being required to supply the abortion pill to their employees. Steve Ertelt of Life News reports: ...

  • June 29, 2014

    Bookstore remainder tables bracing for hundreds of thousands of copies of Hillary's book

    It’s not like they weren’t warned. Ed Timperlake wrote about the coming ordeal facing the bookstore remainder tables of America over a month ago in American Thinker: Clinton Inc. sycophants will do everything possible to hype her boo...

  • June 29, 2014

    Time for rich open borders libs to put up or shut up

    Two of my favorite authors are thinking along the same lines today. The wealthy liberals who insist that the rest of us must make room for an unlimited number of lawless young border-crossers in need of education, health care, jobs, and places to liv...

  • June 29, 2014

    Liberal newspaper rebukes Obama, calls for IRS special prosecutor

     President Obama made headlines in Minneapolis on Thursday, rolling out his “phony scandal” rhetoric to address the cascade of questionable acts now receiving public outrage, and not just from Republicans. In a stunning rebuke, the d...

  • June 29, 2014

    Sleeper SCOTUS decision could devastate unions

    Almost everyone paying attention to politics knows about the Hobby Lobby case, due for a Supreme Court decision as soon as Monday. But a more obscure case due for a decision, Harris v Quinn, has the potential to rock the union movement to its foundat...

  • June 28, 2014

    How to decry poverty and get rich on the public payroll

    Isn’t it amazing how people can make a career decrying poverty and end up collecting big bucks from taxpayers for not much work? Consider the case of University of North Carolina Law School Professor Gene Nichol, who teaches one course per seme...

  • June 28, 2014

    Bill seeks to disarm federal SWAT teams

    Does the Department of Education really need SWAT teams? How about the Department of Agriculture or HUD? Finally, legislation has been introduced to reverse the militarization of the federal bureaucracy.  Representative Cynthia Loomis (R-WY) ...

  • June 28, 2014

    Hilarious: Hillary's book sales versus Ed Klein's <em>Blood feud</em>

    Give the public what it wants and they’ll turn out, goes the old Hollywood adage. It’s equally true for books.  Amidst reports that the publisher of Hillary Clinton’s new book Hard Choices is likely to lose a lot of money on th...

  • June 28, 2014

    Libs agonize as Hillary crashes and burns

    The more perceptive members of the Hillary Clinton fan club, a group that includes most of the mainstream media’s members, are aghast at Hillary Clinton’s series of gaffes introducing her new book, and by implication, her campaign. They r...

  • June 28, 2014

    Elizabeth Warren crouches in the not-running tall grass as Hillary flounders

    I am rapidly coming to the preliminary conclusion that Elizabeth Warren will be the Democrats’ 2016 standard bearer. Hillary Clinton  is just too unlikable (remember that Barack Obama called her “likable enough” in one of the m...

  • June 27, 2014

    IT professionals' trade association not buying IRS story on Lerner emails

    The IRS is peddling an unlikely tale on the alleged destruction of Lois Lerner’s emails. The International Association of Information Technology Asset Managers (IAITAM), a trade association that administers internationally accepted certifi...

  • June 27, 2014

    The sleeper case that could bust open the IRS scandals

    In the absence of a special prosecutor, the best opportunity for piercing the veil of secrecy and evasion that surrounds the IRS handling of groups perceived as enemies of the Obama administration lies in civil litigation.  The National Organiza...

  • June 27, 2014

    US troops in Bahrain told to observe Ramadan customs

    Sharia law applies equally to Muslims and infidels, and the United States Military is taking note and complying in Islamic Bahrain.  As Ramadan begins, US forces are being instructed to follow prohibitions of Sharia. Hedrick Simoes writes in Sta...

  • June 27, 2014

    <em>All</em> job growth since 2000 has gone to immigrants -- legal and illegal

    The Center for Immigration Studies has released a report that should be political dynamite.  Since the year 2000, legal and illegal immigrants have taken all new jobs, while native-born Americans have suffered a decline in the numbers employed. ...

  • June 26, 2014

    No way out for Dems and media?

    The Democratic Party and mainstream media both bet big on Barack Obama in 2008, and doubled down in 2012. Both institutions wagered that his policies and his purported skills and abilities would benefit America. Now, with scandal and disaster breakin...

  • June 26, 2014

    Lois Lerner's Blackberry may hold smoking gun

    No hard drive crash could prevent the release of the email revealing Lois Lerner’s attempt to persecute Senator Chuck Grassley for receiving an invitation because it was sent from her Blackberry (hat tip: Ed Driscoll). This immediately raises t...

  • June 26, 2014

    SCOTUS unanimously rejects Obama's NLRB recess appointments

    President Obama’s abuse of the recess appointment process got a unanimous slap-down from the Supreme Court today. Even the two justices appointed by him joined the rebuke. Robert Barnes reports in the Washington Post: The Supreme Court...

  • June 26, 2014

    SCOTUS unanimously rejects 35 foot no-free-speech buffer zone for abortion clinics

    Today was a very bad day for the left.  The Supreme Court rejected the notion that abortion protestors lose their First Amendment rights when standing within 35 feet of an abortion clinic. Mark Sherman reports for AP: The Supreme Court on T...

  • June 25, 2014

    Leftist bigshots openly proclaim they won't live by the rules they want others to follow

    George Orwell’s Animal Farm aptly satirized the attitude self-righteous leftists take when imposing rules on others, when the pigs who had seized power from the farmer in the name of the animals proclaimed, “some animals are more equal th...

  • June 25, 2014

    As students face tuition hike, Hillary to collect 225k for UNLV speech

    Hillary Clinton will continue to “work hard” recovering from being “near broke” to stay not “truly well-off” by collecting $225,000 for a speech in Las Vegas at the public university campus there. The University of...

  • June 24, 2014

    Koskinen kept a straight face at IRS hearing Monday night

    Trey Gowdy, the former prosecutor, was on fire during last night’s hearing of the House Oversight Committee, grilling IRS Commissioner John Koskinen. The video excerpt below displayed his mettle and revealed Koskinen as a loyal apparatchik. ...

  • June 23, 2014

    Hillary presses the self-destruct button again over money

    Hillary Clinton’s weird inferiority complex about money is doing in her potential presidential campaign. Only a couple of weeks ago she lamented being “dead broke” when leaving the White House, evoking gales of laughter and waves of...

  • June 23, 2014

    Walmart hands NY Times' editors their own posteriors

    I have never met David Tovar, Walmart’s vice president, corporate communications, but I’d like to shake his hand. In this brilliant response to a column by Timothy Egan of the New York Times, Mr. Tovar puts to shame the editors who worked...

  • June 23, 2014

    Data fudging: The great global warming scandal

    The most amazing and costly scientific and financial fraud of all time is being exposed, bit by bit, and yet serious and intelligent people continue to cling to the fraudsters’ story. Writing in the UK Telegraph, Christopher Booker brings to li...

  • June 23, 2014

    New book claims Hillary's health problems far more serious than reported

    The new book by Ed Klein on the Clintons versus the Obamas, Blood Feud, is being previewed in the media. And some of the information (largely based on anonymous sources) is explosive. Drudge has the latest: Page 193  The true story of wh...

  • June 23, 2014

    Kerry's diplomacy for an imaginary world

    As the world moves toward crisis in the Middle East, Secretary of State John Kerry has got his own priorities inverted. Jeryl Bier reports in the Weekly Standard: With much of the Obama administration's foreign policy in tatters, John Kerry ...

  • June 22, 2014

    The feud between the Clintons and the Obamas

    Ever since the bruising 2008 campaign for the Democratic nomination, it has been obvious that there was bad blood between the Clintons and the Obamas.  Hillary Clinton regarded herself as the rightful heir to the presidency, and the intimations ...

  • June 22, 2014

    Gallup: George W. Bush favorability 6 points higher than Obama

    Given that Barack Obama and the Democrats waged his first presidential campaign on the premise that George W. Bush was the worst president ever, and that Hope and Change were just the ticket, the latest Gallup Poll results must be disheartening: ...

  • June 22, 2014

    MSM cofferdam around IRS scandal springs a leak

    Update: See also: Bombshell: IRS cancelled email backup contract just weeks after Lois Lerner’s computer ‘crashed’ Make no mistake: the weaponization of the IRS and the subsequent cover-up is the biggest political scandal in the ...

  • June 22, 2014

    Bombshell: IRS cancelled email backup contract just weeks after Lois Lerner's computer 'crashed'

    Nothing suspicious here, at least to Democrats and mainstream media types. But it would be interesting to see the paperwork leading to this contract termination, since the IRS is required by law to backup its communications. (via Patrick Howley of th...

  • June 21, 2014

    IRS contracted with email archiving company in 2005

    Is that a smoking gun  I smell?  It turns out the IRS contracted with a company that provides email backup services starting in 2005.  This first came to light in the Twitter feed of moregenr, who noticed that the IRS appears on the cl...

  • June 21, 2014

    Million dollar Obama donor reportedly indicted for multimillion dollar fraud and manslaughter charges

    A man who managed to funnel at least one million dollars in support of President Obama’s 2012 campaign is reportedly under indictment in Orange County, California.  TPM reports: A California grand jury has indicted Kareem Ahmed, a maj...

  • June 21, 2014

    Border Patrol watchdog under investigation

    McClatchy brings us news (hat tip: Instapundit) of an investigation underway of the watchdog arm – internal affairs – of the US Customs and Border Patrol Agency: The internal affairs division of U.S. Customs and Border Protection is ...

  • June 20, 2014

    NATO chief claims Russia backing anti-fracking movement

    See also: US Crude Oil Production On-Target for All-Time Record in Early 2016 There! A person in the know has finally said it. Fracking is a game-changer in world politics, depriving Russia and the Islamic world of their greatest strategic asse...

  • June 20, 2014

    Outrageous media malpractice on Scott Walker 'accusations'

    The media-Democrat complex has carried out another disinformation campaign targeting Scott Walker, the Wisconsin governor who stood up to government worker unions and won. As such, he is s grave threat to the institutional foundation of the Democrati...

  • June 20, 2014

    Obama lost without his 'prompter'

    Yesterday’s presentation by President Obama on his dispatch of 300 Special Forces to Iraq (which isn’t “boots on the ground” somehow – will they be forced to wear flip-flops?) was pathetic. When he is not reading prepare...

  • June 20, 2014

    Stunning: DHS solicited bids for vendor to handle 65,000 unaccompanied minors -- IN JANUARY!

    The Obama administration’s claim to have been surprised by the wave of children flooding over out borders may turn out to be another political lie of the year. Sundance of Conservative Treehouse noticed a very peculiar advertisement: On Ja...

  • June 19, 2014

    Lois Lerner email cover-up may succeed

    Somewhere, Richard Nixon is chuckling bitterly to himself. When it comes to burying scandal, Tricky Dick was an amateur compared to the gang in the White House today. Obama and Company may well succeed in weaponizing the IRS to hobble his opposition ...

  • June 19, 2014

    Food stamps and the vicious circle of unemployment

    Food stamps may be a key factor driving long-term unemployment.  Now re-branded as SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program), and turned into a credit card-like piece of plastic to spare recipients the shame of letting others in the super...

  • June 19, 2014

    Awesome new TV ad attacks free-spending Dem senator

    Stand-by for the most enjoyable 30 seconds you will spend today sitting upright. Generation Opportunity, which seeks to reach young adults, has produced a terrific new TV commercial that makes the fiscal problems of the nation – normally a dry ...

  • June 18, 2014

    Clintons: estate taxes for thee but not for me

    Bill and Hillary Clinton are using perfectly legal, but complex and expensive legal strategies available only to the rich in order to avoid the estate taxes they have assured us are essential to fairness and economic justice. So much for the crusade ...

  • June 18, 2014

    Hillary claims 'fog of war' on Benghazi

    Faced with a disastrous first week of her presidential campaign book tour, Hillary Clinton is attempting to rescue her standing by distancing herself from her own performance as secretary of state. On Benghazi, she backed away from the hard line she ...

  • June 18, 2014

    Issa subpoenas IRS for Lerner's hard drive

    It will be interesting to see if the usual suspects will make their usual cries of protest against House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa for demanding the actual hard drive which the IRS claims makes Los Lerner’s emails inaccessible. ...

  • June 17, 2014

    Obama-appointed DHS adviser calls return of Caliphate 'inevitable'

    As ISIS rolls through Iraq vowing to re-establish the global Caliphate, an appointee of President Obama is telling us that the return of the Caliphate is “Inevitable.” John Rossomando reports for the Investigative Project on Terrorism: ...

  • June 17, 2014

    Evidence aired that VA appears to have ordered employees to stonewall Congressional inquiry

    It is a crime to obstruct a congressional investigation, but this form of criminality may well be part of the Department of Veterans Affairs response to the falsified waiting list scandal. Patrick Hawley of the Daily Caller reports: Officials in...

  • June 17, 2014

    Hillary's book bombs

    It turns out that the American public is not that interested in laying out hard cash for Hillary Clinton’s new book, despite a massive amount of publicity accorded it in the media. Daniel Halper reports in The Weekly Standard: In an email ...

  • June 16, 2014

    Saigon flashbacks as evacuation of Baghdad embassy begins

    Almost anyone old enough to remember the Fall of Saigon in 1975 is having unpleasant feelings as news of the partial (for the moment) evacuation of the US Embassy in Baghdad spreads.  Tim Arango and Michael R. Gordon write in the New York Times:...

  • June 16, 2014

    US asking Iran for direct talks on Iraq

    Faced with a bloodbath in Iraq as ISIS rolls through territory and approaches Baghdad, the United States is reportedly asking Iran for direct talks on the situation. The mullahs’ regime, of course, remains dedicated to the obliteration of Israe...

  • June 16, 2014

    New PR nightmare looms for Hillary

    The real Hillary Clinton is a nasty piece of work. Unlike her husband, who genuinely likes people and understands one or two things about relating to them, Mrs. Clinton is an arrogant, angry, phony, who disdains the ordinary courtesies toward people ...

  • June 16, 2014

    Poor Hillary!

    It’s just so darn unfair, isn’t it? She was only doing her job. Alana Goodman reports in the Washington Free Beacon (hat tip TWS): Newly discovered audio recordings of Hillary Clinton from the early 1980s include the former first ...

  • June 16, 2014

    Communist Party USA opens convention in Chicago

    Mayor Rahm Emanuel apparently passed up the opportunity to welcome the CPUSA to his town, not so incidentally the city of its birth. And so far, no note has been taken of former Chicagoan and Party member Frank Marshall Davis, who mentored future Pre...

  • June 16, 2014

    Hillbama?

    The simultaneous implosions of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, as the Middle East threatens to degenerate into a brutal conflagration between Shiites and Sunnis, raises an interesting question. Is the Democrat brand being sullied? Are Hillary and O...

  • June 15, 2014

    IT experts call BS on IRS claim to have lost Lerner emails

    The cover-up is always worse than the crime, the conclusion drawn from Watergate, does not seem to have been learned by the IRS or whoever directed it to make the claim late Friday that emails from Lois Lerner to outside agencies (including most nota...

  • June 15, 2014

    Startling evidence that Scott Walker scares the left

    Leftists always tell us which conservatives they are most afraid of, so the new cover of The New Republic is quite revealing. Ann Althouse broke the story of a disgusting smear of the Republican governor of Wisconsin because she subscribes to that ma...

  • June 14, 2014

    Lifestyles of the Rich and Politically Connected

    Chelsea Clinton debuted as a prime time NBC correspondent to what could charitably be called mixed reviews, but has stayed on at the network as a part timer. Nothing too strenuous because of all her duties at the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Fou...

  • June 14, 2014

    Is it possible Obama is hoping to goad the GOP into impeaching him?

    It is a confounding spectacle. The President of the United States faces a grave crisis in Iraq that threatens to undo the hard-won victory of his predecessor and flies off for a weekend of golf and fundraising in Palm Springs, blandly assuring the Am...

  • June 13, 2014

    Who is this man impersonating Chris Matthews?

    That couldn’t possibly be Chris Matthews saying nice things about conservatives and the Tea Party on MSNBC, could it?  On Ronan Farrow’s little-watched MSNBC program Wednesday, someone looking and sounding exactly like Chris Matthews...

  • June 13, 2014

    A containment strategy for jihad

    The looming fall of Iraq, with Afghanistan posed to follow, is forcing a re-think of the misnamed War on Terror, what is more properly thought of as our defense against the War of Jihad.  Unless there is another catastrophe like or worse than 9/...

  • June 13, 2014

    Kevin McCarthy set to replace Cantor as House Majority Leader

    Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. Or worse. Rep. Kevin McCarthy of California now stands to inherit the position of Majority Leader in the House of Representatives, as Reps. Hensarling and Sessions have withdrawn from contention.   The...

  • June 13, 2014

    Looking for the right hashtag on Iraq

    Barack Obama has made an utter hash of foreign policy, so of course we can expect little more than a hashtag response to the problems his national security cluelessness has created. Experience teaches us that when hard problems arise, Obama dithers a...

  • June 13, 2014

    Media attempts to smear Brat reveal desperation

    The media left was caught unawares by the victory of David Brat, so their initial attempts to smear him are particularly pathetic. Mollie Hemmingway does an excellent job in The Federalist demonstrating how shameful and ignorant they are. Needless to...

  • June 12, 2014

    First Benghazi whistleblower emerges

    It’s subpoena time. And Hillary Clinton’s book tour may not be a warm-up for a presidential campaign so much as a financial and ego exercise. There will be hell to pay on the campaign trail, unless the GOP nominates a dummy. President ...

  • June 12, 2014

    Texas prosecutor fired for dismissing juror over NAACP activism

    A senior prosecutor in Travis Country (Austin) Texas has been fired for dismissing a juror in a trial and is likely to sue, which could lead to a fascinating court battle over the nature of the NAACP.   Findlaw reports: A top Travis Co...

  • June 12, 2014

    Fed bureaucrats back down on foolish rules

    The ruling class loves its artisanal cheese, and won’t let any pointy-headed bureaucrats take it away from them. That’s the only conclusion that can be drawn from a kerfuffle playing out in the Food and Drug Administration. The arbitra...

  • June 11, 2014

    Political Earthquake as David Brat Handily Defeats Eric Cantor in Primary

    Reports of the Tea Party’s death have been highly exaggerated. The Republican Establishment and (the United States Chamber of Commerce) suffered a humiliating defeat in Virginia 7th Congressional District, as Eric Cantor lost his primary race t...

  • June 11, 2014

    Oops! Hillary lets the cat out of the bag on Benghazi paper trail

    The interviews promoting Hillary Clinton’s new book are serving as a test drive for a presidential run, and she has just encountered a serious bump in the road. Despite obvious effort put into crafting careful rationalizations of her miserable ...

  • June 11, 2014

    Intelligence agencies warned Taliban detainees would rejoin Taliban leadership

    President Obama chose to override warnings that he was re-stocking enemy leadership as American troops continue to battle (and lose lives to) Taliban forces in Afghanistan. Julian E. Barnes and Siobhan Gorman write in the Wall Street Journal: Be...

  • June 10, 2014

    Say it ain't so

    According to the Wall Street Cheat Sheet, which frequently reports information that could have an influence on market prices, President and Mrs. Obama have purchased a house in Asheville, North Carolina to live in post-presidency. A source close...

  • June 10, 2014

    Jewish teens barely escape axe attack in Paris suburb

    There is a good reason why Jews are fleeing France in numbers not seen since the 1930s. A virtual pogrom is developing there. Where are all the interfaith councils who should be denouncing this sort of thing? What about the meeting just convened by t...

  • June 10, 2014

    Obama practicing the mushroom theory of Congressional relations

    An old joke has it that keeping people in the dark and heaping excrement on them can be called the “mushroom theory of management.” But after last night’s hearings on the Bergdahl deal on Capitol Hill, members of Congress couod be f...

  • June 10, 2014

    It looks like Obama has found his Bergdahl deal patsy

    Every cover up needs a fall guy, and according to Rep. Buck Mckeon’s comments after last night’s Congressional briefing on the Bergdahl deal, the Obama administration seems to be floating the name of their patsy. The Weekly Standard repor...

  • June 9, 2014

    Bergdahl parents were given extraordinary access to insiders and sensitive data

    While their son was missing and being sought by US military forces, Robert and Jani Bergdahl are reported to have received extremely unusual treatment. Rowan Scarborough reports in the Washington Times: The Obama administration gave the parents ...

  • June 9, 2014

    Psaking it to State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki

    Highly visible among the hacks who are now in charge of US foreign policy (such luminaries as Ben Rhodes and Susan Rice) is Jen Psaki, official spokesperson for the United States Department of State. Psaki is now an object of ridicule on Russian tele...

  • June 9, 2014

    Hillary rewrites history in new book

    Hillary Clinton has written a deceitful campaign book that papers over her own role in one of the Obama administration’s’ biggest foreign policy flops, its attempt to pressure Israel into talks with the Palestinians by enforcing a freeze ...

  • June 9, 2014

    Taliban claims responsibility for attack on Karachi Airport

    A savage sustained guerilla attack last night on Karachi’s Jinnah International Airport, the largest airport in a country of 190 million people, was defeated, but only after 5 hours of open battle, and the deaths of 28 people. The Taliban in Pa...

  • June 8, 2014

    Was Bowe Bergdahl's father in contact with Al Qaeda?

    Bloggers Lady Liberty and Doug Ross have done some digging into the social media history of Robert Bergdahl, and found what looks like evidence he has had a disturbing cozy online relationship. As Doug Ross summarizes the work begun by Lady Liberty: ...

  • June 8, 2014

    MSNBC's Toure explains how to end the war on terror

    Touré Neblett is giving Al Sharpton a run for his money for the coveted title of MSNBC’s most deranged and morally obtuse commentator. In Touré-world, the concept of jihad, holy war against the infidels, has nothing to do with the...

  • June 8, 2014

    Obama and Hillary: pioneers of post-achievement politics

    Daniel Greenfield has put his finger on an important strategic dimension of politics today, as exemplified by the careers of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. Both have accomplished little in their jobs, and have created serious problems, yet both en...

  • June 8, 2014

    Illegal immigrant flood bringing disease outbreaks

    There are serious worries in Texas and beyond over the current flood of illegal immigrants and the diseases they are carrying into the United States. ABC 15 reports from the southern border: U.S. Border Patrol agents are worried that what's ...

  • June 7, 2014

    Was a ransom paid for Bergdahl?

    An unnamed source characterized as “a high-level intelligence official involved in efforts to find and rescue” Sgt. Bergdahl as well Col. Oliver North both allege that a ransom was paid for the release of Bowe Bergdahl. Lachlan Markay of ...

  • June 7, 2014

    Released Taliban leader vows to kill Americans

    Noorullah Noori, following his release from Guantanamo Bay is not exactly  telling reporters he wants to go to Disneyland. Sophia Rosenbaum reports in the New York Post: Upon arriving in Qatar, Noorullah Noori, one of the five top Tali...

  • June 6, 2014

    Why Obama's foreign policy is so amateurish

    Short answer: it’s run by political hacks who have muscled aside or ignored the sober-minded and experienced professionals who have served in the National Security Council since President Truman established it to deal with the realities of the ...

  • June 6, 2014

    President Perks

    Has there ever been a president more in love with the perks of office and less interested in the actual duties? It’s hard to think of anyone who comes close to Barack Obama in that regard. And now that he is well into his second term and losing...

  • June 6, 2014

    Special Counsel investigation of 37 cases of harassment of VA whistleblowers

    The VA scandal deepens and enters a new stage: busting the cover-up. Any thought that Bowe Bergdahl would make this national disgrace go away is a fantasy. Kerry Picket reports for Breitbart: The U.S. Office of Special Counsel (OSC) announced on...

  • June 5, 2014

    Meet Mohammed Fazi, one of five exchanged for Bowe Berdahl

    This war criminal’s freedom is President Obama’s responsibility. The horrifying details of the crimes of Mohammed Fazi are chronicled by Nathan Hodge in the Wall Street Journal: Taliban forces led by Mohammed Fazl swept through this ...

  • June 5, 2014

    Hometown cancels Bergdahl welcome ceremony

    The good citizens of Hailey, Idaho have had second thoughts about welcoming home Bowe Bergdahl with a parade. Fox News reports: This small, central Idaho city of about 8,000 is wilting in the international spotlight brought by what was supposed ...

  • June 5, 2014

    Hillary aides tried to bully New York Times over her coverage

    Hillary Clinton wants to set the terms on which the media cover her. As first lady, she got away with that, and as a weird feminist icon who owed her position to her husband, as senator and secretary of state, she enjoyed protected status. Consider h...

  • June 5, 2014

    The awful truth about Obama beginning to dawn on his allies

    It’s finally happening!  Libs are starting to realize that the manufactured image of Barack Obama as a brilliant, capable executive is hooey, and that they have bought into an incompetent who threatens to sink them.  Chris Cillizza of...

  • June 4, 2014

    How Obama Lost His Mojo

    It must have seemed like a good idea at the time.  One pen-and-phone executive action driving the stubborn VA scandal out of the limelight, welcoming home an American held captive by our enemies. The vanquisher of Osama bin Laden now bringing ho...

  • June 4, 2014

    Another Obama campaign pledge quietly bites the dust

    We have another astounding example of hypocrisy, deceit and betrayal by Obama.  But he is embroiled in so many scandals that this received little notice. Philip Klein reports in the Examiner: During the 2008 presidential campaign, as i...

  • June 4, 2014

    A sure sign Obama's in really big trouble this time

    Oh-oh, the Bergdahl deal is blowing up in Obama’s face like an Acme brand cigar lighted up by Wile E. Coyote. It’s gotten so bad that even NBS News and its kid brother MSNBC have had it with the BS. Evan McMurray of Mediaite: The Oba...

  • June 3, 2014

    Medicare officials don't plan to investigate $ billions in fraud

    According to a new Inspector General’s report, Medicare lost 6.7 billion dollars to fraud and error in 2010, and I would venture a wild guess that the annual figure has grown since then.  Charles Ornstein of NPR explains the source of a lo...

  • June 3, 2014

    Lest we forget: the six soldiers who died searching for Bergdahl

    Bowe Bergdahl’s departure from his post and the events that followed are controversial. He either deserted, as many of his former comrades at the base believe, or for legitimate reasons as yet unknown (dazed and confused?), wandered off. Then h...

  • June 3, 2014

    Watch Obama's face as Bergdahl's dad invoked Allah in Arabic

    When Bob Bergdahl launched in Arabic, invoking Allah while standing next to President Obama in the White House Rose Garden, a number of Americans were startled. Claire Lopez, a former CIA operations officer, a strategic policy and intelligence expert...

  • June 3, 2014

    Carney in 2013: No detainee transfer for Bergdahl 'without consulting Congress'

    Did Jay Carney decide to quit his job because he knew about news of the Bergdahl deal coming, and remembered what he had said less than a year ago? The Washington Free Beacon  certainly remembered: “With regard to the transfer of Tali...

  • June 2, 2014

    Government in UK can't keep their global warming story straight

    Summers in Britain will be drier, oh wait, make that rainier. Well something bad is going to happen and you can bet it will be the fault of global warming, oh wait, make that climate change, uh…actually, make it climate disruption. For now, an...

  • June 2, 2014

    How UCLA violates the law to use racial preferences in admissions

    Racial preferences in college admissions are hideously ineffective in achieving the intended goal of helping target groups, and sow bitterness among those who see themselves losing out on opportunities because of their skin color. Yet academia remain...

  • June 2, 2014

    Bergdahl story crowds out VA scandal in news

    Exactly as intended, the story of the return of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl  has dominated news coverage, maing the VA scandal yesterday’s news. It’s the “look, squirrel!” theory of news management, and it works every time. Welcom...

  • June 2, 2014

    Surprise! $15 an hour minimum wage backfires

    It turns out that leftists can’t repeal the law of supply and demand. In the Seattle suburb of Seatac, adjacent to the airport and full of parking lots, hotels, and restaurants with many low wage employees, the minimum wage was hiked to $15 an ...

  • June 2, 2014

    Canada bans its meteorologists from discussing 'climate change'

    Shut up, they explained. M.L. Nestel of Vocative reports: Meteorologists are paid to talk expansively about the weather. But in Canada, they have to choose their words a little more carefully. The government has made it clear that none of the...

  • June 1, 2014

    The high price of Bowe Bergdahl's freedom

    President Obama got a feel-good moment from the release of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, dominating the weekend news with a positive story: “On behalf of the American people, I was honored to call his parents to express our joy that they can expect ...

  • June 1, 2014

    Report: French detain suspect in Brussels Jewish Museum attack

    A report in the Times of Israel, based on unnamed sources involved in the police investigation, raises the specter of more terror attacks on Jews and Jewish institutions in Europe. Chillingly, the suspect has French citizenship and terror ties to Syr...

  • June 1, 2014

    Scott Walker says he will stand by conservative allies in Wisconsin

    Three days ago, I expressed alarm over a report in the Wall Street Journal that Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker was negotiating a deal that would relieve him from any liability in the infamous John Doe secret investigation against conservative groups...

  • June 1, 2014

    Big Labor's big friends at the VA

    While the Department of Veterans Affairs lets people languish on waiting lists for years, it is much more attentive to the needs of union officials. Kimberly Strassel of the Wall Street Journal describes just how lavish is the assistance and subsidy ...

  • June 1, 2014

    Oops, those 'oppressed' Arabs <em>like</em> living in Israel

    A major scientific poll of Arab Israelis has discovered some facts that put the lie to the narrative pushed by the jihadists and their allies on the worldwide left, including practically all media. Camera reports: According to a study by Pr...

  • May 31, 2014

    Chicago police not registering sex offenders

    I am beginning to conclude that Chicago is hopelessly broken. Saddled with impossible pension obligations to public employee unions (that have been donating money and support to the political machine running the city for decades), basic city services...

  • May 31, 2014

    Call them Jillary

    The strangely intertwined careers of Jill Abrahamson and Hillary Clinton are explored by Noemie Emery in a long article at The Weekly Standard, titled Jillary’s Wars. Call them Jillary: as in Jill Abramson plus Hillary Clinton, two women o...

  • May 31, 2014

    Chinese Communist propaganda in American public schools

    Is it really wise to allow a foreign state propaganda agency to control the content of education about that country in our public schools? That’s what is happening now, thanks to the Confucius Institute, and arm of the Chinese government, fundi...

  • May 31, 2014

    Charlie Rose's contemptible interview with Susan Rice

    Charlie Rose of PBS (and CBS News) enjoys an elevated reputation among a wide swath of the educated public, and not just limited to the left leaning portion of that demographic slice. But an hour-long interview he conducted Thursday night with Nation...

  • May 31, 2014

    Scientist confesses he made up polar bear population estimates

    The greatest scientific fraud in history is slowly but surely unraveling, and the breadth of the corruption revealed is stunning. As any good con man knows, and emotional appeal is necessary, and the warmists found their cuddly-looking icon of endang...

  • May 30, 2014

    Reporters laugh at claim Obama 'doesn't give himself enough credit' on foreign policy (video)

    The cult of Obama has entered laughingstock territory. The West Point graduates who stayed seated when a standing ovation was attempted were far too polite to openly laugh at the president, but the behavior yesterday of reporters at the State Departm...

  • May 30, 2014

    Is it time yet to talk honestly about Maya Angelou?

    When excited bulletins on cable news let the public know that Maya Angelou had passed away, I bit my tongue and stayed my keyboard.  I generally follow the rule of letting the dead rest in peace for a day or two before writing critically of them...

  • May 30, 2014

    Bloomberg speaks out for tolerance at Harvard

    I can’t really give three cheers to Michael Bloomberg’s declaration at Harvard that academia must learn to be tolerant of dissenting views from conservatives, even though his is an important message, and coming from a rich alumnus who may...

  • May 30, 2014

    New York Times apparently thinks Asians are now 'white'

    Its’ quite a telling moment from the Gray Lady, spotted by Eugene Volokh of The Washington Post:  The New York Times Bits blog reports: Google on Wednesday released statistics on the makeup of its work force, providing numbers t...

  • May 30, 2014

    Jay Carney resigns

    Just before Jay Carney began his daily White House press briefing session today, President Obama made an unusual appearance before the assembled reporters. The New York Daily News reports: White House Press Secretary Jay Carney is stepping down,...

  • May 29, 2014

    Obama's West Point Speech signals a presidency in deep trouble

    Yesterday’s speech to the graduating class of West Point by President Obama may be remembered as the signal that his presidency has entered a crisis of confidence, much as Jimmy Carter’s infamous “malaise” speech has gone down...

  • May 29, 2014

    Hilarious: Al Sharpton versus the Teleprompter, Part Deux

    Apart from being a vile race-baiter with blood on his hands (Google “Freddy’s Fashion Mart”), Al Sharpton is train wreck of a teleprompter reader, who somehow manages to keep a show on MSNBC. Perhaps it is because its parent Comcast...

  • May 28, 2014

    Did you hear about the Memorial Day riots in Ft. Lauderdale?

    Unless you live in the Miami-Ft. Lauderdale metropolitan area, you probably didn’t. And if you learned about it from spotty local media coverage, you have no idea what the rioters looked like, what common characteristics bound them together. Po...

  • May 28, 2014

    Doctor reveals the VA Hospitals' real problem

    America is having what President Obama called a “teachable moment” on single-payer health care, the goal toward which Obamacare is but the first step. Doctor Hal Scherz  has written an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal today in which ...

  • May 28, 2014

    Will Scott Walker sell out his conservative allies?

    Disturbing news from Wisconsin, where Scott Walker, a conservative hero who took on the public employee unions and won, is reported to be considering a deal that would undercut his conservative allies in a case of outrageous prosecutorial abuse. W...

  • May 28, 2014

    Michelle Nunn, nonprofit profiteer

    Usually, the left is quick to denounce CEOs who pull off a merger, and then cut more than half of their employees while doubling their own salaries. But I am waiting for MSNBC and the New York Times to work up some outrage over Michelle Nunn, who pul...

  • May 27, 2014

    CAIR official questions whether troops deserve honor on Memorial Day

    The Council on Islamic-American Relations, CAIR, remains a go-to entity in the media for opinions on matters pertaining to the Religion of Jihad, despite being an unindicted co-conspirator in a terrorism-financing trial and a group labeled by th...

  • May 26, 2014

    White House PR outs Kabul CIA station chief during Obama's Afghanistan visit

    The name of a CIA station chief overseas normally is a deep secret, most especially in a war zone like Afghanistan. Yet the brand of “smart diplomacy” practiced in the Obama administration resulted in outing the CIA’s top man in Kab...

  • May 26, 2014

    Democrat disquiet over Hillary as nominee

    All is not well in Hillaryland. Despite the media consensus that Hillary Clinton would not only cruise to an inevitable nomination as the Democrats’ nominee, if she runs, but also likely defeat any potential GOP candidate, Democrats are express...

  • May 25, 2014

    Isla Vista rampage killer's parents blame guns

    It’s started, and took less than 24 hours. The parents of “suspect” Elliot Rodger, who is believed to have murdered 6 and injured several more people in Isla Vista, California, are blaming guns for their son’s crime. A.W.R Haw...

  • May 25, 2014

    The downfall of American journalists

    It ought to be a matter of deep shame that the most popular news website in the United States is the U.K. Daily Mail. And the fact that so many top editors and journalists in the United States happen to be from Britain is something that ought to dist...

  • May 25, 2014

    Was Elliot Rodger on anti-depressants?

    It is by now well established that the Isla Vista rampage killer was being treated for psychological and psychiatric issues. But I want to know if he was being treated with anti-depressants. With all the attention to guns lavished on any instance of ...

  • May 25, 2014

    ObamaCare numbers no longer being released

    It’s a deafening silence as far as ObamaCare enrollment numbers are concerned. Erika Johnsen points out at Hot Air: During the initial open enrollment period, the Obama administration released monthly enrollment reports that — even i...

  • May 25, 2014

    Democrats turning on Obama in (semi) private

    Wow, it’s finally happening. Democrats are catching on and turning on President Obama, at the moment off-the-record, but that won’t last for long if another midterm “shellacking” takes place in early November. Daniel Halper re...

  • May 25, 2014

    Premature suicide belt explosion dampens jihadi party

    It’s the feel-good video of the day. I’d trade it for six cute puppy or kitten videos. (WeIl, except maybe this one.) It happened in Syria, when a bunch of terrorists, said to be from abroad, got together for a little party.  (Video ...

  • May 24, 2014

    Piketty, darling of the left, appears to have fudged his data

    The Financial Times’ economics editor has published two important pieces of detective work on French economist Thomas Piketty that suggest he manipulated his data to get the conclusion he wanted, that wealth inequality is growing, as an inevita...

  • May 24, 2014

    Paul Ehrlich, of 'Population Bomb' infamy, now predicts we will be eating our dead

    After making a small fortune out of being wrong over predictions of doom because of overpopulation, Stanford University Professor Paul Ehrlich is embracing the lunatic fringe of environmentalism, perhaps noting that Al Gore has made a large fortune o...

  • May 24, 2014

    Tough love from Poland

    Lech Walesa, one of freedom’s great heroes of the 20th century, plans to administer some tough love to President Obama when he visits Poland next month. The AP reports: Speaking to The Associated Press Friday, Walesa said the ‘...

  • May 24, 2014

    How Hillary's Chinese baggage could see the light of day

    Hillary Clinton remains the presumptive Democrat nominee for president on 2016, and if polls are to be believed, has an excellent chance of being elected. One of the most shocking elements of her past is the access the Chinese government was given to...

  • May 24, 2014

    Don't make Shinseki a scapegoat for the failures of socialized medicine at the VA

    Although I am no fan of Eric Shinseki (see below), I am worried that firing him (or rather, accepting his resignation, as it will be characterized, giving President Obama another opportunity to call him “Ric”) will do little to help our v...

  • May 24, 2014

    Kerry seeks to limit testimony on Benghazi

    Acting like someone who has something to hide, Secretary of State John Kerry is insisting that he will appear only one time before the Congressional Select Committee investigating Benghazi. The AP reports via the UK Daily Mail: Secretary of Stat...

  • May 24, 2014

    Oh-oh, here comes another crisis for Obama

    When a president assumes office with no executive experience at all and a faculty lounge contempt for the details of management, events have a way of sneaking up on him and creating crises.  Writing in Time, Michael Crowley explains another fine...

  • May 24, 2014

    Rahm on the rocks

    Chicago’s Mayor Rahm Emanuel is discovering that being an aggressive and ruthless Democrat in a solidly blue city may not be enough to get re-elected, despite having friends in both the Clinton and Obama camps of the Democratic Party. Break out...

  • May 24, 2014

    British elections dismay establishment leftists

    All over Europe, voters are turning in a conservative direction, and against the autocratic European Union and its big government enablers. New York Times reporters Steven Erlanger and Stephen Castle write a dripping-with-disdain account of local ele...

  • May 24, 2014

    The technocrats' dream crumbles

    The read of the day is Noemie Emery’s “They Had Dream,” in The Weekly Standard, and excellent review of the rise and fall of rule by technocrats. From the very beginning, progressivism’s belief in the perfectibility of human n...

  • May 23, 2014

    Harry Reid, meet Tom Steyer

    Harry Reid has been declaring that billionaires interested in profit who donate lots of money to political causes are evil.  Well, he should state his position on Tom Steyer, the California billionaire who is promising 50 million dollars of his ...

  • May 23, 2014

    Shameful: Gitmo detainees get better medical treatment than our vets

    How do we explain this to vets and their families, especially those families who lost loved ones while waiting for treatment? From Fox News, a former Pentagon spokesman, J.D. Gordon, writes:  Al Qaeda detainees get better medical treatment ...

  • May 23, 2014

    Our masters in the federal bureaucracy scoff at paying taxes

    They live off the taxes you and I pay, but don’t bother paying their own taxes. I am talking about the 318,462 federal employees who owe an average of $10,391 each in back taxes. TRhere is absolutely no reason to tolerate this behavior, but it ...

  • May 22, 2014

    Did the Obama administration defraud purchasers of GM shares?

    When a controlling shareholder in a corporation sells shares to the public, and the corporation subsequently discloses damaging information known to it at the time of the sale, the SEC normally gets to work investigating a possible crime. Withholding...

  • May 21, 2014

    Hollywood biggies caught on tape agreeing to hide Middle East funding for anti-fracking film

    James O’Keefe of Project Veritas has struck gold with his latest sting operation (video below) . The Hollywood Reporter explains how the guerilla warrior is publicizing his latest achievement in unmasking the left. Journalist James O...

  • May 19, 2014

    Haiti earthquake recovery a debacle under management of Mr. and Mrs. Clinton

    Any examination of Hillary Clinton’s qualifications for president should include close study of the Interim Haiti Recovery Commission (IHRC), set up to raise money and Haiti recover from its devastating 7.0 earthquake four years ago. IHRC is he...

  • May 19, 2014

    Politico Poll: 'Mounting danger for Dems'

    Obamacare is the gift that keeps on giving – to Republicans. Politico today publishes its first 2014 election poll and finds “mounting danger for Dems,” owing to health care issues. Alexander Burns writes: President Barack Obam...

  • May 19, 2014

    Dem Rep wants $50 billion for more Solyndras

    You’ve got to credit Maryland Democrat Congressman Chis Van Hollen with chutzpah. Undeterred by the massive waste of money lavished on green schemes like Solyndra, and heedless of the failure of predictions of global warming models to come true...

  • May 18, 2014

    President Obama and US Embassies ignore Armed Forces Day, but honored 'International Day Against Homophobia Or Transphobia' yesterday

    The Obama administration’s priorities were on display yesterday.  Weasel Zippers noticed that that President Obama and a number of United States embassies commemorated ‘International Day Against Homophobia Or Transphobia’ wh...

  • May 18, 2014

    Hillary criticizing Obama economic performance

    For Hillary Clinton, there are no friends, only interests. And as 2016 looms, Hillary’s interests diverge from those of the man who was her rival for the 2008 presidential nomination, and then her patron as president to her secretary of state. ...

  • May 18, 2014

    Riots in Vietnam against Chinese territorial claims

    Thousands of Chinese citizens are being evacuated from Vietnam in the wake of riots there targeting Chinese-owned factories for firebombing. CNN reports: China has evacuated more than 3,000 of its citizens from Vietnam and is sending ships to re...

  • May 17, 2014

    No explosion

    Firefighters in Calgary, Alberta were called to the scene of a possible house explosion. It turned out to be something else. From the website Nothing To Do With Arbroath:  Crews were called to a home along Sanderling Hill N.W., Sandstone Vall...

  • May 17, 2014

    Sun Trust Banks quickly reverses decision to cut ties with Benham Brothers

    The movement to punish those who do not support gay marriage evidently overstepped when it caused Sun Trust Bank to sever ties with the Benham Group. Yesterday, the Daily Caller reported: SunTrust Banks is cutting ties with would-be reality stars ...

  • May 17, 2014

    'Vile at Vassar'

    Anti-Semites are running wild on US campuses, with far too little blowback. The situation at Vassar College, once a respected elite campus, is so dire that the New York Daily News had editorialized: After allowing an anti-Semitic, anti-Israel infe...

  • May 17, 2014

    Stunning election in India

    India may be at a historic turning point, as voters delivered a sweeping victory to the BJP party led by Narendra Modi, as predicted on these pages more than 2 weeks ago. This represents a repudiation of the Congress Party, the heir to the Gandhi-Neh...

  • May 17, 2014

    Study finds racial bias in UCLA admissions

    California voters outlawed taking race into account in university admissions, but a new study by UCLA professor Tim Groseclose finds  strong statistical evidence that university officials are breaking the law and illegally discriminating in favor of ...

  • May 16, 2014

    Report: US threatened Nigeria with sanctions in 2013 for fighting Boko Haram

    According to a Nigerian website, in 2013 the United States threatened Nigeria with suspension of military assistance following suppression of Boko Haram after an attack by the Muslim jihadist group on a military outpost outside the city of Baga. ...

  • May 16, 2014

    Unbelievable: State Dept. official says 'Just Not Accurate' to call Boko Haram as Muslim philosophy

    Ambassador Robert Jackson, principal deputy assistant secretary of state for African affairs, testified yesterday before the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on African Affairs, and according to Pajamas Media, said: …while anti-Chris...

  • May 16, 2014

    Perhaps the most despicable thing Debbie Wasserman Schultz has said yet

    There’s a lot of competition, but Debbie Wasserman Schultz has disgraced herself in a way that may surpass anything else she has said. So far. Via Lifesite News (hat tip: Weasel Zippers): Democratic Party Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schult...

  • May 15, 2014

    Jill Abramson fired as executive editor at New York Times

    It doesn’t get much more dramatic than the publisher marching into the newsroom and telling the assembled journalists that their boss for the last few years is being replaced: “I chose to appoint a new leader for our newsroom because...

  • May 15, 2014

    Documents reveal lies on IRS scandal

    Judicial Watch has released more documents indicating that the American public has been lied to about the IRS scandal. The entire “rogue agents in Cincinnati” story was an outright fabrication, and the targeting was specifically of groups...

  • May 15, 2014

    Push on for deal with Iran that would allow weapons-making capability

    Armageddon is a step closer to reality. USA today has a report that should disturb anyone concerned about the mad mullahs of Tehran getting their hands on nuclear weapons.  Their avowed goal is Armageddon, that could usher in the 12th Mahdi. ...

  • May 15, 2014

    Warmists pressure skeptical scientist to resign

    I remember a time when skeptical questioning was regarded as the essence of scientific inquiry. No longer, thanks in large part to the billions of dollars in annual funding that go to “scientists” who push the global warming agenda. ...

  • May 15, 2014

    Federal bureaucrats don't get fired for serious misbehavior

    Federal employees get enviable pay and perks, especially retirement benefits that are unthinkable these days for most private sector workers. But perhaps the biggest perk of all is job security, near-immunity from getting fired no matter how serious ...

  • May 15, 2014

    Bill now says it took Hillary 6 months to recover from concussion

    In the wake of Karl Rove poking the hornet’s nest of Hillary Clinton’s health, the ever-helpful Hubby has stepped into the issue and made life a little more difficult for his loving spouse. Readers will recall that the Party Line in Decem...

  • May 15, 2014

    Why does the Department of Agriculture need submachine guns?

    Those federal bureaucrats who can’t be fired want to be able to defend themselves from angry taxpayers.  Or something.  AWR Hawkins reports for Breitbart: A May 7th solicitation by the U.S. Department of Agriculture seeks "t...

  • May 15, 2014

    Calif. Dems vote down bill outlawing sex-selection abortion

    It’s official: the feminist movement and their willing servants in the California Democratic Party are willing to see in utero females killed because they are female in order to protect their existing legal right to abortion. You can’t ma...

  • May 14, 2014

    Bernie Sanders blames Koch Brothers for VA scandal

    In the demented world of aging Senate leftists, apparently the Koch Brothers have no limits to their power.  Joining Harry Reid (who blamed global warming on the Koch Brothers) in the fitting room for straightjackets soon may be Vermont’s ...

  • May 14, 2014

    Who gets to be a 'journalist'?

    An important test case on the legitimacy of internet journalism is unfolding, as SCOTUSblog, which has been denied credentials to the Supreme Court press gallery, is going to make its case for an appeal in public on May 23rd, in the Capitol Visitors...

  • May 14, 2014

    Huge Dem bungle: no candidate in competitive House race

    Democrat political blunders don’t get much bigger than this one: alienating black voters while handing a competitive district to the Republicans. And in a district that had just seen a high profile, closely fought special election. The Democ...

  • May 14, 2014

    Chelsea's mother-in-law may have a lot of time to play with her new grandchild

    Marjorie Margolies, Chelsea Clinton’s mother-in-law, has bungled her candidacy to return to the House of Representatives in a heavily Democratic Pennsylvania district. Emily Cahn of Roll Call reports: A week out from Pennsylvania’s D...

  • May 14, 2014

    'Robust evidence' found that Fed leaked interest rate announcements

    Bloomberg BusinessWeek informs us: A research paper has found “robust evidence” that for years some traders got early news of U.S. Federal Reserve rate announcements and then traded on it during the Fed’s media lockup. The pap...

  • May 13, 2014

    Darkness again falls on Europe: Jews fleeing France

    The number of Jews leaving France for Israel is up 400% in the first quarter of 2014, according to AFP. The largest remnant of Jews in Europe surviving the Holocaust is now under a new threat, one that echoes the last century’s, but with new fa...

  • May 13, 2014

    Karl Rove asks if Hillary suffered brain injury

    Rather clumsily, Karl Rove has placed Hillary Clinton’s health in question with remarks delivered last week to a conference in Los Angeles. Emily Smith of Page Six reports: Onstage with Robert Gibbs and CBS correspondent and “Spies A...

  • May 13, 2014

    Tweet of the day

    If I understand college administrators correctly, colleges are hotbeds of racism and rape that everyone should be able to attend. — David Burge (@iowahawkblog) May 12, 2014 This is just too much fun to ignore. Iowahawk is perhaps the pr...

  • May 13, 2014

    Hilarious: Correlation is not causation

    Ever since Al Gore made himself a centimillionaire pushing a chart showing the rise in atmospheric CO2 correlated with a (bogus) hockey stick graph purporting to show global temperature rise, we have had to be on guard against matching graph trendlin...

  • May 13, 2014

    What the House Select Committee Must Subpoena

    Marc Thiessen, a former presidential speechwriter, understands how the White House operates, and he has pointed out where the House Select Committee can go to answer the mystery of where Barack Obama was as four Americans, including an ambassador, we...

  • May 13, 2014

    Illinois voters don't want tax money going for Obama library

    Illinois political boss Michael Madigan, Speaker of the House in the state legislature, pushed through preliminary approval of a hundred million dollars in state funding for a Barack Obama presidential library to be located in Chicago, something Mayo...

  • May 12, 2014

    UK Guardian: climate change is responsible for Boko Haram

    Climate change – is there anything it can’t do?   James Delingpole of Breitbart London noticed the absurd claim: Britain's Guardian newspaper has come up with a novel explanation for the kidnapping of over ...

  • May 12, 2014

    Turnaround at the IRS

    Sometimes, it’s amazing what a contempt citation can accomplish. The New York Post reports: That’s quite some efficiency. Back in March, IRS Commissioner John Koskinen told a House committee investigating the targeting of conservativ...

  • May 12, 2014

    All of a sudden, Hillary's not feeling the love from Democrats

    It’s almost as if Democrats are starting to realize that Benghazi is going to take down their formerly presumptive 2016 nominee.  Ben Wolfgang, Washington Times: Progressive darling Sen. Elizabeth Warren repeated her Shermanesque p...

  • May 12, 2014

    Sad, yet hilarious

    According to America’s alarm companies, all burglars are Caucasians. Nary a black one to be found. Oleg The People’s Cube has collected the evidence, in a piece by “Olga Photoshopova”: Just when we thought the rash of...

  • May 11, 2014

    Conservatives defeat Cantor's choice to lead GOP his home district

    Eric Cantor, the number two Republican in the House leadership, faces a tea party challenger, David Brat, in his bid for the GOP nomination. The auguries yesterday couldn’t have been worse for the House Majority Leader. Jenna Portnoy of the Was...

  • May 11, 2014

    John Conyers may not qualify for primary ballot

    Cue the world’s smallest violin. Veteran (almost 50 years) Democrat House member John Conyers managed to bungle the petition to put his name on the primary ballot, and may not be eligible for re-nomination to his seat on Congress.   K...

  • May 11, 2014

    Hawaii health care exchange spent $10,800 per enrollee

    Obamacare is proving to be a lesson in government waste, inefficiency, and incompetence. Does anyone in the world think that a private company could survive if it spent money the way several states have done on their health care exchanges? Massachuse...

  • May 11, 2014

    Another Secret Service scandal

    Corrupt, self-serving bureaucrats are everywhere in the federal government, even in the most elite and theoretically self-sacrificing arms like the Secret Service.  Carol D. Leonnig reports in the Washington Post: Top Secret Service officia...

  • May 11, 2014

    Did forbidden science cost 30 year New York Times writer his job?

    Although nobody is speaking on the record, it appears as though a veteran science writer and editor at the New York Times has lost his job because he published a book about genetics and sub-Saharan Africans.  No topic is more sensitive than gene...

  • May 11, 2014

    NPR names new CEO, a major Democrat donor

    National Public Radio has named a new CEO, Jarl Mohn, aka Lee Masters. Mr. Mohn (his first name is promounced “Yarl”) was formerly known as Lee Masters when he was a radio DJ, and an executive at MTV, CNET, and E! Entertainment.  Nee...

  • May 10, 2014

    The case that Snowden was an espionage agent

    A lot of people, from Ron Paul to the Pulitzer Prize committee, have staked their reputations on the conviction that Edward Snowden was a public-spirited whistleblower. But what if they are wrong, and he was from the start an espionage agent of a for...

  • May 10, 2014

    DOJ official's testimony demonstrates that Holder's IRS probe 'a joke'

    The top Department of Justice official in charge of overseeing 'public integrity' prosecutions made a fool of himself yesterday in Congressional testimony and demonstrated that getting to the truth is the last thing on the Department’...

  • May 9, 2014

    Biggest lobbying firm in DC caught in Ecuador mess, pays $15 million settlement to Chevron

    It must have sounded like a great idea at the time for Patton Boggs, the DC law firm/lobbying powerhouse (annual lobbying revenues: $40 million) to enter into a deal to help Ecuadorian plaintiffs and their American lawyer Steven Donziger to collect b...

  • May 8, 2014

    Rahm Emanuel shocked, shocked to discover he's been speeding and running red lights

    Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel has his story and he’s sticking to it. Caught on camera with his car and driver running red lights and speeding after piously declaring that red light cameras were all about the safety of children, not the $130 millio...

  • May 7, 2014

    Red Light Rahm doesn't let traffic rules get in his way

    “Rules are for little people” seems to be the motto of Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, at least when those rules pertain to traffic. WLS in Chicago reports: Red lights? Speed limits? They're apparently not a problem if you are drivin...

  • May 7, 2014

    The comedy stylings of Nancy Pelosi

    She’s back spouting outrageous nonsense. Nancy Pelosi, the woman who told Americans that Congress has to pass a bill to find out what’s in it is now demanding something from Speaker Boehner that she refused to provide when she held the Sp...

  • May 7, 2014

    GOP establishment strikes back in primaries

    It was pretty much a rout for Tea Party/insurgents in yesterday’s primaries, as establishment-backed candidate for the North Carolina Senate nomination Thom Tillis easily exceeded the 40% threshold necessary to avoid a run-off, while incumbent ...

  • May 7, 2014

    'Rogue law enforcement agency' inside EPA the subject of testimony today

    The House Oversight Committee under Darrell Issa is slated to hear testimony today on another Obama administration cover-up. Dina Cappiello of the AP reports:  A unit run by President Barack Obama's political staff inside the Environmen...

  • May 6, 2014

    Another agency head caught using secret private emails for official business

    It is against the law for government officials to conduct their business via private email accounts not subject to public scrutiny, yet we now have a second such instance on the record. White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Director Joh...

  • May 6, 2014

    It looks like China is seriously worried about North Korea's nuclear warheads

    North Korea is the wild card in world politics, ruled by a basketball-loving young dictator who executed his uncle to secure his power base, and in possession of missiles capable of launching space satellites with nuclear warheads that can be fitted ...

  • May 6, 2014

    Bad Polling News for Dems on Benghazi

    Democrats face an uphill climb in persuading the public to shun the forthcoming Select Committee hearings on Benghazi. They may want to reconsider the call for a boycott of the hearings by House Democrats. Rasmussen polling indicates that a majority ...

  • May 6, 2014

    Liberal Obama biographer: 'the world seems to disappoint him'

    David Remnick, editor of the New Yorker and author of The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama, is a genuine heavyweight in the literary/intellectual world dominated by leftists (and a foe of Jack Cashill). It is fair to consider him highly symp...

  • May 6, 2014

    Is Tom Donilon the key to Benghazigate?

    Tom Donilon, President Obama’s National Security Advisor, is likely to be sitting on a hot seat very soon, as the Benghazi investigation moves forward. Ben Rhodes and Tommy Vietor have a boss, and it is Donilon. Two experienced White House hand...

  • May 5, 2014

    The Democrats' Dilemma on Benghazi

    Though they may publicly deny that there is any scandal in the Obama administration’s response to the Benghazi attack on September 11, 2012, there must be doubts emerging, if only because we now know with certainty that a critical email was wit...

  • May 5, 2014

    Indiana to host meeting for planning Constitutional Convention

    The movement toward calling a state-led Constitutional Convention for the purpose of altering the Constitution bypassing Congress, as specified by Article V of the Constitution, has taken a step forward. Dan Carden of the Northwest Indiana Times repo...

  • May 5, 2014

    Another 'green' vehicle company Obama visited in trouble

    Four years ago, President Obama invited the nation to, “Come see what’s going on at Smith Electric," a manufacturer of electric vehicles that was receiving government funds. A look today reveals another dodgy statement from the man w...

  • May 5, 2014

    Joni Ernst is back with another attention-grabbing commercial

    Having rocketed to national fame and a slim lead in the Iowa Republican primary for the Senate nomination with her hog castration TV ad, Joni Ernst has a follow-up that includes a Harley-Davidson, a leather jacket, and a gun range. This isn’t y...

  • May 4, 2014

    Are non-English-speakers fast tracked for disability payments?

    It seems hard to believe, but according Elizabeth Harrington’s reporting for the Washington Free Beacon, that is indeed the case. Harrington reported: Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee Jeff Sessions (R., Ala.) sent a le...

  • May 4, 2014

    Incredible: Planned Parenthood thinks no need to reveal you have AIDS to sex partner

    Just when you thought the organization founded by Margaret Sanger to help diminish the number of babies of less desirable races could not get more evil. Chris Rostenberg of Life News reports: If someone with the AIDS virus was about to have sex ...

  • May 4, 2014

    Benghazi cover-up is starting to unravel

    There is a lot more to come on the Benghazi cover-up, and it could well lead to criminal charges for withholding subpoenaed evidence. Trey Gowdy, an experienced prosecutor who will head the House Select Committee, has gone on the record (on Greta van...

  • May 4, 2014

    New Dem Benghazi strategy floated: boycott Select Committee

    Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) has unveiled the latest desperation tactic of the Democrats as the Benghazi scandal cover-up comes into clearer focus. Interviewed on Fox News Sunday, he suggested that Democrats should boycott the Select Committee hearings un...

  • May 3, 2014

    How the GOP establishment plans to defeat conservatives

    A long and revealing article in National Journal explains how the GOP establishment is focusing on its real enemy, tea partiers and other conservatives who have the temerity to offer primary voters and alternative to get-along-go-along candidates who...

  • May 3, 2014

    The Democrats' war on women

    Imagine for a moment the hell that would break out if a Republican had done what Chicago’s Mayor Rahm Emanuel just did. It is not difficult to write the script that would be followed by Pelosi, Boxer, Mikulski, and Michelle Obama.  A White...

  • May 3, 2014

    Tommy Vietor Comix

    The first shock watching the now-notorious “Dude interview” conducted by Bret Baier came when the guest was introduced as “Tommy.” I have to confess that because I share the same given name, I am sensitive to the nuances of it...

  • May 3, 2014

    The tangled web of media-Obama administration ties

    Thanks to the work of Crayfisherfiles, we have an at-a-glance chart available to trace the intermarriage of the Obama administration and the Alphabet networks plus CNN. It is a tangled web, in the Sir Walter Scott sense of the term ("Oh, what a ...

  • May 2, 2014

    Grand jury launches criminal probe of Illinois anti-crime program

    The environment chosen by Barack Obama to launch his political life, the corrupt (and virtually bankrupt) State of Illinois has provided yet another head-shaker of an example of government gone wild. Natasha Korecki and Dave Mckinney of the Chicago S...

  • May 2, 2014

    The appalling Obama foreign policy team: The case of Tommy Vietor

    Former National Security Council spokesman Tommy Vietor appeared last night on Bret Baier’s Fox News Channel program Special Report, in an attempt at damage control, but only made things worse for the Obama Benghazi cover-up. Two pieces of actu...

  • May 2, 2014

    CBS struggling with the appearance of conflict of interest with Rhodes Bros

    CBS News has a serious credibility problem with an obvious solution it refuses to take.  With a president named David Rhodes who is the brother of the man at the center of a firestorm over the Obama administration’s Benghazi cover-up, Ben ...

  • May 2, 2014

    Hillary fangirl: 'Don't Run for President, Hillary'

    I suppose it could be just a coincidence that as Benghazigate explodes, bigtime Hillary Clinton supporter Tina Brown publishes a Daily Beast article imploring her not to run for president. The political world and her most fervent fans may be exe...

  • May 2, 2014

    Boehner reported to OK House Select Committee on Benghazi with Trey Gowdy as chair

    At last, we have a chance of getting to the bottom of who created the lie that Benghazi was a spontaneous demonstration motivated by a YouTube video almost nobody saw, who authorized the series of lies from Susan Rice, Jay Carney, and pothers, and wh...

  • May 1, 2014

    Bird conservation group taking feds to court over windmill slaughter of eagles

    At last! Until just now, the horrific toll on birds of gigantic wind farms has gone largely unprotested by groups which ought to have been up in arms. Perhaps cowed by the might of the warmists who insist that because windmills generate no carbon, th...

  • May 1, 2014

    Benghazigate enters new phase

    There are a few conclusions to draw from Jay Carney’s performance yesterday before the White House press corps when responding to questions from ABC News’s Jonathan Karl on the Ben Rhodes email released by court order following a Judicial...

  • April 30, 2014

    The <em>real</em> scandal about Donald Sterling

    Maybe the NBA should ban the NAACP while it’s in high dudgeon over Donald Sterling. That purported “civil rights” organization must have, or least should have known about his pattern and practice of shunning African-American tenants...

  • April 30, 2014

    Why Hillary is being so coy about declaring her candidacy

    The Democratic Party is being held hostage by Hillary Clinton, who hints but does not declare that she is running for its presidential nomination in 2016. So powerful is the political money machine that she commands, other possible contenders such as...

  • April 30, 2014

    Dem governors writing off Wendy Davis

    I must be a bad person because I am enjoying the public humiliation of Wendy Davis. Perhaps it is because she is such an obvious phony and exploiter of other people, draining her ex-husband’s retirement savings to finance her law school and han...

  • April 29, 2014

    DoJ spending millions to manufacture race grievances

    Eric Holder’s Department of Justice is offering almost 5 million dollars to private groups who will be competing for grants to discover “racial disparities” in police stops, searches, and arrests across the United States. Based on t...

  • April 29, 2014

    Politico gives away the game

    If you ever wondered what the real political issue of the day is when it comes to presidential politics, an article in Politico gives you the answer. Wall Street Big Money wants a presidential candidate who will allow the financial games enabling hed...

  • April 29, 2014

    Barack Obama High School plan runs into opposition in Chicago

    Apparently the imperative to honor Barack Obama in Chicago with a very special high school named after him was supposed to override all other considerations. But at least one group is not ready to sacrifice its concerns. And expresses dismay over the...

  • April 28, 2014

    Inflation-adjusted newspaper print advertising revenues now below 1950 levels

    Can you say “dying industry”? How about “creative destruction”? You are reading this news on a digital platform, and that is, in short, why the newspaper industry, not so long ago the monarch of news dissemination in the Unite...

  • April 28, 2014

    Just when you thought academia was hopeless...

    Along comes the British journal Philosophy Now, which has used two illustrations by our friend Oleg Atbashian, the ex-Soviet agitprop artist who now runs The People’s Cube, an often hilarious send-up of the left. And what illustrations they are...

  • April 28, 2014

    UK politician arrested for quoting Churchill, could face 2 years in prison

    Paul Weston, co-founder and leader of the GB Liberty party and a candidate for Member of the European Parliament, was arrested Saturday, hauled off in a police van, and could face two years in prison. All for reading a passage from Winston Churchill...

  • April 28, 2014

    David Brock acknowledges Soros 'generosity' to Media Matters

    Media Matters for America, the 501c3 tax exempt organization founded by David Brock after his miraculous transformation from conservative attack dog to left wing attack dog, is responding to charges made by former CBS News correspondent Sharyl Attkis...

  • April 28, 2014

    Terrible poll results for Obama and Senate Dems

    Ronald Brownstein of the National Journal is reporting on the findings of a new poll, the 20th quarterly Allstate/National Journal Heartland Monitor Poll conducted by the Strategic Communications Practice of FTI Consulting, and it looks very grim for...

  • April 28, 2014

    British poll shocker: anti-EU party in first place

    With elections to the European Parliament coming on May 22, the UK Independence Party (UKIP) has surged into first place in a YouGov poll taken for the Sunday Times, with 31 percent support. As a result, Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron is f...

  • April 28, 2014

    A solution for the NBA and Clippers

    It’s all so simple, makes sense, and is such a win-win it should have been obvious. Why didn’t anyone think of this before? Richard Baehr proposes a solution to what ails the NBA and America, too:  I think we should start a new ...

  • April 28, 2014

    California Dem legislator says Asians not 'people of color'

    Rep. Luis Alejo (D-Salinas) is on the record telling the Sacramento Bee that Asian-Americans are not “people of color” – the magical status that allows one to claim the spoils of victimhood.  Bemoaning the end of affirmative ac...

  • April 28, 2014

    Toyota moving marketing HQ out of California to Texas

    California’s ridiculous taxes, regulations, and high costs are driving away thousands of high paying jobs (and consequent tax revenues) as Toyota Motor Sales (USA) is poised to announce the moving of their headquarters from Torrance, CA to Plan...

  • April 27, 2014

    Are the media finally turning on Obama?

    Michael Goodwin of the New York Post thinks that they are, and cites this front page article from the Obama-friendly New York Times that points out his failure to get a trade deal with Japan and the collapse of the Mideast Peace Process. As he notes,...

  • April 27, 2014

    Dartmouth now bans white people from using the word 'fiesta'

    The race to the bottom for most obsessively politically-correct Ivy League campus has a new front-runner. Dartmouth, once known as the most free-spirited home of the “Dartmouth animal” in the 1960s, when it was all-male, has seized the le...

  • April 27, 2014

    Marxist publisher sues over property rights

    Call the irony police! A Marxist publishing company in Britain that used to be affiliated with the British Communist Party is protecting its property and denying access to Marx’s writings to the public for free. David Kravets of Ars Technica re...

  • April 27, 2014

    Former Michelle Obama staffer creates a new triumph for feminism

    If doing everything the same way men do it constitutes progress for women, then Michelle Obama’s former staffer Sarah Grossman stands (ahem) a pioneer. The Stanford graduate has invented a device called Stand Up that enables women to use men...

  • April 27, 2014

    Clinton Library document dump reveals 'subprime bubble' responsibility

    One of the great triumphs of progressive propaganda was sticking responsibility for the subprime mortgage bubble on “de-regulation” and ultimately capitalism itself. In fact, the origins of the crisis in mortgage backed derivatives goes b...

  • April 27, 2014

    Randi Rhodes leaving talk radio, blasts Al Franken and Rachel Maddow

    The bones of failed liberal talk radio network Air America were rattled this week as Randi Rhodes, one of its stars (such as they were) announced the end of her talk radio show. Inadvertently, she indicted progressives on two separate grounds. Curren...

  • April 26, 2014

    The conservative boomlet for Elizabeth Warren

    Some highly-respected conservatives are taking the opportunity of Elizabeth Warren’s current book tour for A Fighting Chance to have fun, pushing the notion that she could actually win the Democrats’ nomination in 2016 and be a more formi...

  • April 25, 2014

    War on Women? How about this major Democrat donor?

    You could hardly find a better poster boy for the future of the Democratic Party than Gurbaksh Chahal, a fabulously wealthy San Francisco high tech entrepreneur and, according to the Daily Caller, a major donor to the Democratic National Committee ($...

  • April 25, 2014

    Wow! Emails expose CNN's propaganda series on Rahm Emanuel

    Does CNN stand for “Corrupt News Network”? It might as well, considering a blatant propaganda effort that has been uncovered by The Chicago Tribune. Rahm Emanuel, the Mayor of Chicago, is a man with limitless ambition, high intelligenc...

  • April 25, 2014

    Samantha Power neglects opportunity to stop Iran from gaining seat UN women's rights body, then tweets her outrage

    Has there ever been a more transparent human rights poseur than UN Ambassador Samantha Power? The self-styled “genocide chick” rose to academic prominence riding the topic of genocide (she’s against it, doncha know), formulating a d...

  • April 24, 2014

    The Sebelius legacy: more than half of Obamacare deadlines missed

    We have more proof that assigning control over our health care to government bureaucrats is very bad idea, with the release of a Congressional Research Service report on the deadlines for action contained in the Obamacare legislation. Elizabeth Harri...

  • April 24, 2014

    The 'Wise Latina' jumped the shark

    Conservatives may, in the long run, owe a thank-you to the “Wise Latina.” Justice Sonia Sotomayor jumped the shark Tuesday with her lengthy dissent from the Schuette decision, read aloud from the bench. Although the liberal media sympathi...

  • April 24, 2014

    28 homeless people given $3,000 each to stop trespassing

    It’s nice work, if you can get it. Squat on public land, refuse to leave, get a law firm to represent you for free, and then get $3k if you “agree” to leave. The plot of land involved is a small peninsula jutting into San Francisco ...

  • April 23, 2014

    Justice Sotomayor and the affirmative action bitter-enders have lost bigtime

    The American public has woken up to the folly of trying to end racial discrimination by practicing it, dooming affirmative action to a slow death, and the racialist left is not taking the news very well. That is the only conclusion to draw from the e...

  • April 23, 2014

    IRS bonus scandal demonstrates that it's time for the GOP to wake up and run against the IRS

    The partisan bureaucrats at the IRS who were ready and willing to harass conservative groups are just the tip of the iceberg at a corrupt and irresponsible agency that just happens to be the most unpopular and feared arm of the federal government. So...

  • April 23, 2014

    Hilarious: State Department pressed to identify one 'tangible achievement' of Hillary as Secretary of State (video)

    Oh-oh, this makes two highly embarrassing moments when Hillary Clinton’s lack of achievement as Secretary of State has led to disconcerting responses to perfectly legitimate questions about her accomplishments. Yesterday, State Department Spoke...

  • April 22, 2014

    Petition to denounce Tom Steyer

    It’s time for a little Koch Brothers jiu-jitsu on the left, in particular former Labor Secretary Robert Reich. Over at MoveOn.org, Reich has launched a petition for people to sign to publicly “denounce’ and “condemn” the...

  • April 22, 2014

    CNN reporter ignites firestorm overseas

    CNN reporter Jeanne Moos sparked outrage in New Zealand and Australia for her coverage of the visit of Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge to New Zealand, for mocking the dress and customs of the Maori people who greeted the royals.  It ...

  • April 22, 2014

    Chicago program to put poor people into subsidized luxury apartments encounters flak

    In Chicago, poor people receiving Section 8 housing vouchers are being encouraged to move into nicer neighborhoods and apartments that are beyond the reach of many middle class taxpayers, sparking an interesting public controversy.  NPR’s ...

  • April 22, 2014

    Michelle Obama tells us how to eat (again)

    Yesterday Michelle Obama took it upon herself to tell us that "splurging is the key to life," but warn that the price of the “key to life” is eating healthily at home most of the time. The Associated Press reports on her questio...

  • April 22, 2014

    Revelation: Jeb Bush and Carlos Slim

    Back in 2008, Barack Obama was called “the anointed one,” but when it comes to the Republican establishment and 2016, that term could be applied to Jeb Bush. So it is important to examine the sorts of issues that just might occur to Democ...

  • April 22, 2014

    Helpful advice to GOP from Dem consultant: nominate Jeb Bush

    If you believe Democrat consultant and attack dog Robert Shrum has the best interests of the GOP at heart, then you might want to take seriously his advice to the GOP: Does anyone really believe Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, or Chris Christie can contend...

  • April 22, 2014

    Third world America: phony statistics

    Face it, America is hurtling toward third world status, and the signs are all around us, from the growth of a violent underclass to the rise of an oligarchy to a government that lies without shame and re-doubles on those lies when challenged.  O...

  • April 22, 2014

    Obama's new White House Counsel is veteran of handling scandals in Clinton White House

    Tea leaf readers may want to pay close attention to a staff change at the White House. The lawyer who claims that “when an IRS audit found that the tax collection agency had been targeting conservative political groups,” it was her ...

  • April 21, 2014

    Politico's dirty little secret blasted by WaPo blogger

    It’s going to be an unsettling day for the Ruling Class in Washington, DC. One of the little tricks that keeps the Beltway media-special interest alliance prosperously spinning along has been exposed to the light of day by Washington Post blogg...

  • April 21, 2014

    Sharyl Attkisson charges Media Matters helps produce news reports for CBS

    Now that she has left CBS News, Sharyl Attkisson is revealing all sorts of interesting facts about the way news is shaped by ideologues. Appearing on CNN’s Reliable Sources (transcript) Attkisson: “Media Matters, as my understan...

  • April 21, 2014

    Debbie Wasserman Schultz's delusional ranting continues

    Appearing on Meet the Press yesterday, DNC chair Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz claimed that Republicans are nominating “extremists,” and that there were no politics involved in President Obama’s decision to delay the Keystone Pipeli...

  • April 21, 2014

    Government funded, peer-reviewed study concludes biofuels worse than gasoline for the environment

    The $30 billion or so wasted each year on the federal government’s biofuels mandates and subsidies needs to end now. The program is a complete disaster, and now has been shown to harm the environment, something anti-warmist skeptics (aka, denie...

  • April 21, 2014

    Unions turning against greens on fracking

    The diminishing private sector portion of the union movement is turning on their Democrat coalition allies, environmentalists, waking up to the fact that well-paying jobs are created by permitting fracking. Already hip to the notion that the Keystone...

  • April 21, 2014

    Retired Justice Stevens lets the cat out of the bag on politicized Supreme Court

    Liberals are amping up pressure on Ruth Bader Ginsburg to retire from SCOTUS, but in the process, they are letting the truth rear its ugly head. The Supreme Court is less a deliberative and scholarly body that plumbs the depth of the Constitution, an...

  • April 20, 2014

    White House honors French neo-Marxist

    Thomas Piketty may not be a household name in this country (yet), but the French economist who is updating Karl Marx has quite a following at the White House and among thought leaders of the Democratic Party.  Thomas Hubert of France24 explains:...

  • April 20, 2014

    Why did President Clinton send a friendly note to Al Awlaki's 911 mosque?

    The Good Friday document dump from the Clinton Library archives includes a hand-written friendly note on official White House stationery to the chairman of a mosque former led by senior al-Qaeda operative Anwar al-Awlaki as an imam. The note dates fr...

  • April 20, 2014

    All enemies, foreign and domestic

    The Bundy Ranch showdown has once again raised the issue the proliferation of SWAT teams and militarized response forces proliferating throughout the federal government, and the spread of military-style units to local governments. It is almost as if ...

  • April 20, 2014

    The vanishing urban middle class

    America’s big cities are moving in the direction of third world demographics. A smallish upper class lives comfortably, even glamorously, accompanied by a much larger underclass, the more energetic of whom serve the upper class as waiters, hous...

  • April 19, 2014

    A disgraceful Keystone decision delay

    The Obama administration signaled its shame* over a nakedly political decision to indefinitely delay the Keystone Pipeline by burying the news on Good Friday afternoon. The decision was bought and paid for by wealthy green ideologues and green energy...

  • April 19, 2014

    Lewinsky still too hot to handle for Clintons

    The latest release of Clinton presidential documents is redacting an e-mail from Monica Lewinsky on the basis of “personal privacy.”  The old leftist slogan, “The personal is political,” is not operative when it might inc...

  • April 19, 2014

    Logic and standards jettisoned in college debate to aid black debaters

    I am unbelievably sad to learn that college debate has been utterly corrupted in a condescending effort to cater to African-American debaters and hand them debased championships. I was a high school debater for three years, though I had other priorit...

  • April 19, 2014

    Elizabeth Warren could face a nightmare on her book tour

    I can feel the schadenfreude welling inside me as I read that a group of Cherokee women are preparing to confront Elizabeth Warren as she sets forth on a national book tour to publicize her new book.  Sen. Warren matters a lot more than most fre...

  • April 19, 2014

    The hilarious history of 'climate tipping points'

    The UN is trying to scare us into believing we have only 15 years left. It looks ridiculous doing so, considering all the similar declarations that have come and gone. A brief history of “climate tipping point” declarations discloses t...

  • April 18, 2014

    Major Hillary donor pleads guilty on fundraising

    A Democrat donor who raised at least $100,000 for Hillary Clinton has pleaded guilty to more than $180,000 in illegal campaign donations and coaching someone to lie about it. Tom Hayes of the Associated Press reports: An informant caught Sant Si...

  • April 18, 2014

    Prog-on-prog conflict as Media Matters rejects union card check effort

    Media Matters for America, the Soros-funded champion of unions and hater of Fox News, has rebuffed an effort by the SEIU to organize its staff. Sean Higgins writes in The Examiner: Media Matters for America is apparently resisting an effort by S...

  • April 18, 2014

    Powerful Illinois political boss wants state taxpayers to pony up $100 million for Obama presidential library

    The State of Illinois, whose financial problems are the worst of any state, and which imposed draconian tax increases, would offer $100 million to the Barack Obama Presidential Library if House Speaker Michael Madigan gets his way. Illinois Policy Co...

  • April 18, 2014

    GAO to investigate Hawaii's disastrous health care exchange

    After spending $204 million in federal grants on a health care exchange that doesn’t work as required, Hawaii’s Health Connector is going to be investigated by the GAO, at the request of a Republican, State Senate Minority Leader Sam Slom...

  • April 18, 2014

    Hillary Clinton to be a grandmother

    For Hillary Clinton, it is all about politics, all the time, even in the most intimate, human and fundamental aspects of life. Chelsea Clinton’s announcement yesterday that she is pregnant gives Hillary Clinton an opportunity to campaign for pr...

  • April 18, 2014

    GOP candidate ties his opponent to Harry Reid

    Is Harry Reid unpopular enough to become an election issue for races nationally? A GOP incumbent in North Carolina is trying to find out. Stuart Rothenberg reports in his Roll Call blog: The 30-second spot, titled “Meddling,” accuses...

  • April 17, 2014

    Nightmare time for Jews of eastern Ukraine (updated)

    A leaflet distributed on Passover eve in the city of Dontesk in the Russian-speaking eastern region of Ukraine is reviving memories of pogroms of a century ago for the 17,000 Jews resident there. Ynet news provides details: The leaflet, signe...

  • April 17, 2014

    Elizabeth Warren's new book features whining and positioning

    Is Elizabeth Warren positioning herself for the veep slot on a Hillary Clinton ticket in 2016? It sure looks that way. The Democrats have discovered that “historic first” candidacies do wonders for turnout, and an all-female ticket would ...

  • April 17, 2014

    NBC against money in politics, except when it is for it

    Call the irony police. CNS News catches the Today Show in some blatant hypocrisy when it comes to the role of money in politics. In a glowing interview with former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Wednesday's NBCToday, co-host Savann...

  • April 17, 2014

    In his own words: Barack Obama on Christianity and Islam

    A website called Now The End Begins has compiled 40 comments by Barack Obama on Christianity and Islam. Collectively, they create quite an interesting picture.  I admit that there may be instances of the president speaking as favorably of Christianit...

  • April 16, 2014

    NYPD drops surveillance of mosques

    See also: Al Qaeda holds big rally in Yemen Candidate Bill de Blasio was “deeply troubled” by NYPD surveillance of mosques, and now his police commissioner is dropping the program. Matt Apuzzo and Joseph Goldstein report ion the New Yo...

  • April 16, 2014

    Al Qaeda holds big rally in Yemen

    Not exactly “on the run,” as candidate Obama claimed in 2012, Al Qaeda brazenly held an open rally with over 100 people and posted video of it online. CNN reports (video below): A new video shows what looks like the largest and most ...

  • April 16, 2014

    Mary Landrieu's video fakery reveals desperation

    When Democrats get desperate they resort to fakery. And Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu sees her re-election chances evaporating, so it’s time to pretend. Byron York in The Examiner reports on a video ad she is running that contains fake footag...

  • April 16, 2014

    More prog-on-prog class warfare in San Francisco

    If you live in flyover country, lay in a supply of popcorn and get ready to watch a continuing comedy drama being staged for your amusement by the progressives of San Francisco. The driving force is the classic dirty little secret of progressivism, g...

  • April 15, 2014

    Better Soviet posters for Jay Carney and Claire Shipman's house

    If Jay Carney and Claire Shipman want appropriate Soviet propaganda posters to decorate their house and raise their children among, they went to the wrong source. The irrepressible Oleg Atbashian of The People’s Cube knows a few things about So...

  • April 15, 2014

    Sylvia Burwell has got a lot of explaining to do

    Barack Obama’s nominee to replace Kathleen Sebelius as HHS secretary already is implicated in Politifact’s “political lie of the year.” Marc Thiessen, the former Bush speechwriter who now writes a column for the Washington Pos...

  • April 15, 2014

    Eric Holder's dog whistle

    Eric Holder blew his dog whistle and Rep. Steve Israel heard it loud and clear. A dog whistle being, in case you are not familiar with the metaphor, a coded message (usually on race) supposedly audible to all who share the mental framework of the whi...

  • April 15, 2014

    Social Security stops seizing tax refunds from children of parents who received overpayments

    Faced with a firestorm of criticism just as Americans are preparing to file their tax returns today, the Social Security Administration has “halted” the outrageous practice of seizing tax refunds from children of parents believed to have ...

  • April 15, 2014

    What was that again about Al-Qaeda on the run?

    From the US Embassy in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia comes an Emergency Message for US citizens which transmits a world wide caution on continuing threats from terrorist groups.  The entire document gives the lie to Obama’s declaration from a few y...

  • April 15, 2014

    HHS nominee Burwell a poster child for rich progressives cashing in

    One of the defining characteristics of the progressive ruling class is its ability to get rich while simultaneously cloaking itself in the mantle of public service and charity. Take Sylvia Burwell, the OMB director nominated to succeed Kathleen Sebel...

  • April 15, 2014

    Time for a little Koch jiujitsu on Democrats

    Harry Reid’s jihad against the Koch Brothers has already yielded a hilarious video compilation (by the Free Beacon) of his 134 mentions of their name. But now with new information, his Koch addiction can become a potent tool in the hands of Rep...

  • April 14, 2014

    Public humiliation as judicial punishment

    A case in Cleveland raises the issue of the appropriateness of using public humiliation in place of incarceration or fines as a means of punishment for certain crimes. In the distant past, public shaming and discomfort, in the form of the pillory sto...

  • April 14, 2014

    Coming attractions for the Obamacare disaster film

    Betsy McCaughey, who knows as much about Obamacare as anyone who wasn’t involved in writing it, offers a preview of the new disasters about to unfold as the health care law kicks in. If the law were a disaster film, her article could serve as t...

  • April 14, 2014

    Was Hillary the 'Secretary of State from Boeing'?

    The Late Henry “Scoop” Jackson, D-WA, was nicknamed “the senator from Boeing” for his relentless advocacy of defense spending that would benefit the defense contractor based in Washington State (at that time). But Hillary Clin...

  • April 14, 2014

    Portents of the looming Democrat nightmare

    As the old saying goes, the only poll that matters is the one where votes are cast. So it makes sense to pay close attention to special elections leading up to November, even for local offices the national; media ignore. Eagle-eyed John Fund, writing...

  • April 14, 2014

    Wendy Davis's halo tarnishes with ethical questions

    Once upon a time, Wendy Davis was the golden girl of the feminist Democrat left, able to raise millions in out of state contributions as part of her effort to take control of the Texas governorship. Her halo started to tilt when it was discovered tha...

  • April 14, 2014

    It's prog-on-prog class warfare in San Francisco

    The internal contradictions of the progressive alliance that dominates San Francisco have erupted into violence, and there is every sign it will continue. Conservatives have an opportunity if we are clever.  Official and unofficial harassment of...

  • April 13, 2014

    Augusta blanketed with anti-Obama art for the Masters

    Greeting the rich and connected as they take in the Masters Golf tournament in Augusta, GA is a plethora of anti-Obama art. Breitbart features one photo, but thanks to an anonymous source, we have access to over 30 views of the extent of the campaign...

  • April 13, 2014

    Feds back down in Bundy Ranch confrontation

    Faced with the potential for a 21st century range war, the federal government has pulled back and returned the cattle it rounded up to rancher Cliven Bundy. At least for the moment, the federal government has realized that it would have to potentiall...

  • April 13, 2014

    Obam's HHS nominee Burwell is a political hatchet woman

    Sylvia Matthews Burwell, nominated to replace Kathleen Sebelius, will do anything he bosses tell her. Up to and including rummaging through a dead man’s trash to seize anything that might embarrass her boss.  Andrew Stiles of the Free Beac...

  • April 13, 2014

    Carney's Red Art

    Now that we know that Presidential spokesman Jay Carney and his wife, ABC correspondent Claire Shipman decorate their house with Soviet art, it is time to take a look at exactly which messages the DC power couple choose to surround themselves and the...

  • April 13, 2014

    The Democrat Platform, Illustrated

      Well, he's done it again. Doug Ross of Director Blue provides a comic book format explanation of the Democrats' strategy to divide Americans from one a nother and incite hatred. For your sub-literate Democrat friends, this could ...

  • April 12, 2014

    Why do Jay Carney and Claire Shipman decorate their house with Soviet propaganda posters?

    The moral blindness of the American Ruling Class is on display.  The Washingtonian Magazine, a glossy lifestyle and politics rag, has published a fawning profile of D.C. power couple Jay Carney and Claire Shipman that was a bit more revealing th...

  • April 12, 2014

    Conservative professor wins promotion and 50k in discrimination case

    A federal court has let the world of American academia know that it is not OK to deny a promotion to a professor just because he or she is a conservative. A door has been opened to a nightmare for progressive academics who believe that conservatives ...

  • April 12, 2014

    Vermont embarks on single-payer health care plan

    The laboratory of democracy is about to run a test on single-payer health care, as the state of Vermont has passed a bill to implement a Canadian-like system on our side of the border. Megan McArdle reports for Bloomberg: Of the plans that state...

  • April 12, 2014

    Witness to Sharpton drug deal: 'It was greed. He just wanted money'

    Al Sharpton, whose organization just hosted President Obama and Eric Holder, was forced into becoming an FBI informant because the feds had him cold in a drug deal for cocaine, according to a former pal of his. Frank Rosario of the New York Post repo...

  • April 11, 2014

    Sebelius resigns HHS

    Kathleen Sebelius is staring up at the underside of the Obamacare bus this morning, clearing the way for her already-announced successor Sylvia Mathews Burwell, director of the Office of Management and Budget, to claim that the “new HHS” ...

  • April 11, 2014

    Black legislator called out over racist remarks on transracial adoption

    Alabama state representative Alvin Holmes ought to become a household word for his foolish, ignorant, and racist comments on whites preferring aborting black babies over adopting them. On the floor of the Alabama State Legislature, he made an exceedi...

  • April 11, 2014

    Obamacare in pictures

    The Heritage Foundation has published a series of 15 charts that it aptly titles, “The Charts Obama Doesn't Want You to See,” telling the story of Obamacare in at-a-glance style. Here are two samples. For your leftist frien...

  • April 11, 2014

    PC persecution in Sweden

    If you think the American MSM and left wing establishment are tough on their opponents, take a look at what is happening in Sweden.  If you dare speak out against that country’s immigration policies, admitting Muslims who are rapidly trans...

  • April 11, 2014

    Ugly divorce exposes spoils of progressive shakedown racket

    Two of the biggest and best-connected lobbyists in Washington, DC are divorcing each other, and in the process they are placing on the public record the amazing wealth that can be generated by helping rent-seeking powerful interests shape the laws an...

  • April 11, 2014

    Nightmare: Feds seizing money from children for old debts of their parents

    In a case that is a perfect storm illustration of an arbitrary and incompetent federal government running roughshod over its citizens, “a single sentence tucked into the farm bill” had led to outrageous behavior. Marc Fisher of the W...

  • April 10, 2014

    Pathetic: Holder plays the race card before Al Sharpton's group

    Signs are that Eric Holder is getting desperate, wrapping himself in the robes of victimhood the day following his “don’t go there, buddy” confrontation with Rep. Louis Gohmert over his contempt citation. But the choice of venue rai...

  • April 10, 2014

    Emails reveal IRS collaboration with Democrat Rep. Elijah Cummings

    Emails delivered to the House Oversight Committee by the IRS have revealed shocking collusion between committee Democrats and the IRS bureaucrats in the targeting of conservative groups. Moreover, the staff of Rep. Elijah Cummings, who has done every...

  • April 10, 2014

    New evidence on Lerner leads to new criminal referral

    The House Ways and Means Committee, the powerful tax-writing committee, has issued a criminal referral on Lois Lerner to Eric Holder’s Justice Department. The evidence it cites is damning, and Holder would face a difficult task claiming racism ...

  • April 10, 2014

    House has ability to jail Lois Lerner without Holder's cooperation

    Should John Boehner cooperate, the House of Representatives has the ability to jail Lois Lerner until January 2015. An editorial in the Washington Examiner explains: Under the Constitution, the House can do that under its “inherent co...

  • April 9, 2014

    Washington Post in hole, keeps digging

    The storied Washington Post  is mired in a scandal and behaving more like Nixon than Ben Bradlee. It is a David and Goliath story, pitting a blogger in Minneapolis against the Beltway journalism powerhouse, the Washington Post. But John Hinderak...

  • April 9, 2014

    Pennsylvania AG caught lying about Dem corruption case she wouldn't prosecute

    A scandal is brewing in Pennsylvania involving a Democrat attorney general who declined to prosecute four Democrat state legislators caught on tape accepting bribes. The Philadelphia Inquirer reports: Federal prosecutors in Philadelphia never de...

  • April 8, 2014

    Obama has fallen into the 'pay equity' trap

    Apparently the Obama administration has run out of ideas and is reduced to distracting the nation from the Obamacare disaster with ammunition that explodes in its own face. Having declared in the Rose Garden that the debate is over on Obamacare, Obam...

  • April 8, 2014

    A sobering poll for the GOP establishment

    While the GOP establishment is going ga-ga over the prospect of nominating yet another Bush for the presidency and Jeb Bush explains how love is part of violating our immigration laws, the American people are telling them another story. Rasmussen rep...

  • April 8, 2014

    Racial spoils system starting to fall apart in California

    California’s ruling Democrats are in danger of splintering their coalition over an attempt to re-introduce affirmative action, which has been banned ever since the passage of Proposition 209 in 1996, which banned the use of racial preferences b...

  • April 8, 2014

    Holder claims 'vast amount of discretion' in enforcing laws

    In testimony before the House Judiciary Committee Tuesday, Eric Holder offered an alarming new doctrine for the Republic: laws are only suggestions, and the real authority to enforce or not enforce them lies in the hands of the president and his cabi...

  • April 7, 2014

    We're back!

    American Thinker experienced a serious server issue beginning late Saturday night that prevented many readers from gaining access to our site. We apologize for the inconvenience. Early this morning, we were able to get the problem fixed, thanks to...

  • April 7, 2014

    Las Vegas is not the place for the GOP convention

    Speculation abounds that the 2016 Republican National Convention will take place in Las Vegas. Some of this names Sheldon Adelson, casino magnate and major donor to GOP causes, as the reason. Richard Johnson writes for Page Six: Las Vegas has a ...

  • April 7, 2014

    Pathetic: New York Times writer <em>justifies</em> Mozilla's ouster of Eich

    The self-absorption of some on the left prevents them from even the most elementary shoe-on-the-other-foot perspective on the intolerance at Mozilla. Writing in a New York Times blog, Farhad Manjooo thinks it is fine to cater to the intolerance of th...

  • April 5, 2014

    Has Nancy Pelosi stepped in it again?

    Well, this is interesting (via Weasel Zippers): “I have to note that today we have replaced all of the jobs lost under the Bush economic policies and recession that that took us into,” Pelosi told reporters on Capitol Hill. “It...

  • April 5, 2014

    Hilarious: When Hillary is asked to name <em>one</em> accomplishment as Secretary of Stateâ\¦

    When Hillary is asked to name one accomplishment as Secretary of State… Hillary Clinton faced a friendly audience and a sympathetic interviewer, New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, at the “Women of the World Summit” Thursd...

  • April 5, 2014

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

    Another Hillary Clinton legacy at the State Department is going to need a lot of explaining, aside from Benghazi and the lack of any notable achievements. There has been, in the most charitable interpretation, grave sloppiness in spending and account...

  • April 5, 2014

    'Abortion is a gift from God'

    So blares a poster on exhibit at the taxpayer-funded University of Michigan. So far, I have been able to find no protests from the ACLU or other groups that decry religious expression at venues that belong to governmental authorities.  The poste...

  • April 5, 2014

    Why is the US Government easing a critical sanction on Iran now?

    Iran, which is hurtling toward nuclear power status with a government intent on wiping Israel off the map and then taking on “The Great Satan” (us), just received a very helpful gift from the Obama administration, The BBC reports: Th...

  • April 4, 2014

    House Oversight Committee to vote on contempt citation for Lois Lerner

    Lois Lerner could face as much as a year in jail, though there are several steps between the vote next Thursday scheduled by Chairman Issa and the Ms Lerner checking in to the Graybar Hotel. Eliana Johnson reports for NRO: The House Oversight Co...

  • April 4, 2014

    Buh-bye, David Letterman

    Late night television talk shows have become an important part of the national political conversation, a forum for digesting news and personalities of the day. Although their individual audiences number in the single digit millions, the political qui...

  • April 4, 2014

    Obama asked for free April Fool's Day prime time network slot to celebrate ObamaCare enrollment

    Conflating the announcement of the questionable numbers offered up as “enrollment” statistics for Obamacare with a message of grave national concern, the Obama administration asked the three broadcast networks for free prime time for an a...

  • April 4, 2014

    Self-identified 'middle class' radically shrinks under Obama

    The “fundamental transformation” President Obama promised us is well underway. The largely self-reliant, proud, and prosperous American middle class is shrinking, and the dependent, subsidized, and generally envious lower middle class and...

  • April 4, 2014

    Hillary decries 'partisanship'

    It is becoming clear how Hillary Clinton plans to defend her disgraceful handling of Benghazi: decry those who want to get to the bottom of the scandal and cover-up as partisans, and tell us to “move on.”. Of course, at this stage, she is...

  • April 4, 2014

    Splintering the 'comprehensive immigration reform' coalition

    The House GOP leadership is under increasing pressure to wake up to the need to torpedo the euphemistically-titled “comprehensive immigration reform” effort. Byron York of the Washington Examiner explains the developing movement. ...

  • April 3, 2014

    The Koch Ness Monster

    Democrat demonization strategy explained so that even a low information voter can understand it.  Based on Rate the Oligarchs, and illustrated by @BiffSpackle. Brought to us by Doug Ross.   ...

  • April 3, 2014

    Leftists apoplectic over SCOTUS free speech ruling in <em>McCutcheon</em>

    The American left is outraged that the Supreme Court has voted 5 to 4 that limits to the aggregate amount of donations to federal campaigns have been found unconstitutional. Prior to the ruling, there was a 123,200 limit ($48,600 for candidates and $...

  • April 3, 2014

    Another slaughter of disarmed soldiers at Fort Hood

    The policy of preventing military personnel on base from carrying firearms has cost more lives, as an enlisted man undergoing mental health evaluation for PTSD opened fire at Fort Hood yesterday, killing 3 others, and wounding 16, before turning a gu...

  • April 3, 2014

    The Government Motors scandal deepens

    No matter how sympathetic a figure General Motors CEO Mary Barra presents (a woman leading an auto maker!!), the company has been caught deciding that it would be cheaper to let people die in accidents caused by a faulty ignition switch than to corre...

  • April 3, 2014

    The EPA channels Dr. Mengele

    “You can’t make a regulatory omelet without breaking a few eggs,” could become the new motto of the Environmental Protection Agency. Human experimentation on the children and elderly designed to justify new regulations was funded by...

  • April 2, 2014

    'My 7-Step Plan to Destroy America'

      For your low information voter friends, a comic book version of the famous 2008 speech by former Colorado Governor Richard Lamm, on the progressive plot to destroy America. Doug Ross at Director Blue published it, based on illustrations ...

  • April 2, 2014

    Obama's Rose Garden phony numbers 'tell'

    The April Fool’s Day show put on in the Rose Garden yesterday was no triumph, but rather an act of desperation, touting “enrollment” numbers generated without any transparency, intended to arrest the downward spiral of Obamacare and...

  • April 2, 2014

    Wind turbine farms becoming electoral poison

    Ugly, bird-killing, noise-generating, land-hungry wind turbine farms have generated enough backlash that a major politician is reported to be about to run on a plan to “eradicate” them. Peter Dominiczak, Assistant Political Editor of the ...

  • April 2, 2014

    The poster boy for liberal hypocrisy ignored by national media, but outrages San Francisco

    The liberal media are trying to ignore his arrest, but California State Senator Leland Yee is such an amusing piñata of liberal hypocrisy that even his home town liberal newspaper is joining in the mockery fun. Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit fa...

  • April 1, 2014

    April Fool's Day ObamaCare Enrollment Numbers

    This is the perfect day to receive Obama administration claims of success in ObamaCare enrollment. "No one expected us to come back from the brinkтАжbut we have," claims Jay Carney, following a script that could have been written by one of the Hollyw...

  • April 1, 2014

    As November disaster looms, Dems forming circular firing squad

    The standard MSM trope is that the GOP is riven by conflict, but even they are beginning to notice Democrats turning against one another. There is going to be hell to pay for the Democrats in November. Having rammed through a disastrous transformatio...

  • March 31, 2014

    Iran pokes a finger in Obama's eye

    Behaving like the “strong horse” Osama bin Laden used to talk about, Iran: …has named a member of the militant group that held 52 Americans hostage in Tehran for 444 days to be its next ambassador to the United Nations. The...

  • March 31, 2014

    The 'first lady of justice' and the convicted abortion Medicaid fraudster

    Dr. Sharon Malone may not be a household name to you, but Essence Magazine has bestowed upon her the title of  "The First Lady of Justice," because she is the wife of Attorney General Eric Holder. And it turns out that she is also...

  • March 31, 2014

    California Dems cook-up strategy to deflect Leland Yee scandal

    With one Democrat state senator convicted and two more under indictment, the California Democratic Party calls to mind a slogan Nancy Pelosi used to great effect back in the day when Jack Abramoff was a household name: “culture of corruption....

  • March 31, 2014

    GOP establishment turns to Jeb Bush

    The Washington Post has laid on the table a story sure to rile conservatives: Influential Republicans working to draft Jeb Bush into 2016 presidential race. LAS VEGAS — Many of the Republican Party’s most powerful insiders and financ...

  • March 30, 2014

    Noel Sheppard, R.I.P.

    The conservative blogosphere has lost a star and I have lost a friend.  Noel Sheppard of Newsbusters died far too young, at the age of 53, on Friday. Noel had a great talent at spotting mainstream media foibles and highlighting them at Newsbuste...

  • March 30, 2014

    Did Justice Kagan embarrass herself during the Hobby Lobby oral arguments?

    If Betsey McCaughey is correct (and I bet she is, because she has not only read the entire ObamaCare bill, she has written a book about it), Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan publicly humiliated herself during the oral arguments on the Hobby Lobby ca...

  • March 29, 2014

    Should Putin have been careful what he wished for?

    Will Crimea turn out to be a disaster for Putin? At the moment, with Obama looking weak and Putin powerful, that would seem unlikely. But then again, George W. Bush, standing under a Mission Accomplished banner looked pretty macho at the time, only t...

  • March 29, 2014

    A quiet coup ratchets up the propaganda quotient in education with Advanced Placement exams

    While alarm bells are loudly ringing over the Common Core, a much quieter, yet potentially devastating, coup is underway, enabling the progressives to subvert secondary education. In classic leftist fashion, the vehicle chosen to propagandize our you...

  • March 29, 2014

    Rahm Emanuel puts some daylight between himself and ObamaCare

    Here’s where it starts to get fun for conservatives. The sinking ship of ObamaCare is causing the more ambitious Democrats to scurry away as fast as they think they can get away with it. Rahm Emanuel, former Obama White House chief-of-staff (wh...

  • March 28, 2014

    Pope and President disagree about what was discussed in their meeting

    Hmm, whom are we going to believe? The current occupant of the Throne of St. Peter or the current laureate in Politifact’s “Lie of the Year” award? Here is CNN’s reporting of the clashing accounts given by President Obama a...

  • March 28, 2014

    Harry Reid claims he never called Obamacare horror stories lies

    Is Harry Reid coming apart under the strain of the ObamaCare fiasco and his potential criminal liability for the misappropriation of campaign funds? He is now claiming on the Senate floor that he never said what C-SPAN clearly shows he did say one mo...

  • March 28, 2014

    Sebelius claims she can't rule out more ObamaCare delays

    If Harry Reid seems to be preparing an insanity defense, Kathleen Sebelius may be preparing to claim incompetence. How else to understand her remarkable statement that ObamaCare is too “complicated” for her to know whether or not there wi...

  • March 28, 2014

    Biden: Illegal immigrants are 'already American citizens'

    Joe Biden may be an idiot, but in the context of the Obama administration rewriting laws as political convenience dictates, his latest embarrassing declaration becomes chilling. Tony Lee of Breitbart reports: "You know, eleven million peopl...

  • March 28, 2014

    Feminism's internal contradiction exposed in Britain

    The head of a British organization that executes one quarter of all abortions in England and Wales has addressed the question that American feminists avoid at all costs. Alice Philipson of the UK Telegraph reports: Ann Furedi, of BPAS, said the ...

  • March 28, 2014

    Putin deploys 100,000 troops while Obama admin deploys...a selfie

    The Obama administration has demonstrated what it means by “soft power.” As Ukrainian defense sources assert that 100,000 Russian troops have been stationed on its borders, an obvious invasion force ready to be deployed at the command of ...

  • March 27, 2014

    Hilarious: Only one person slow claps after Obama speaks in Netherlands

    The magic is gone, and the adoring crowds in Berlin 2008 must seem only a distant memory. While spring has arrived for everyone else in the Northern Hemisphere, Barack Obama is entering his winter. As his presidency implodes in a cloud of Obamacare i...

  • March 27, 2014

    Dem gun control advocate charged with gun-running

    The irony police are going to need reinforcements to handle the tsunami being generated in San Francisco. State Senator Leland Yee appeared in federal court yesterday in shackles, and faced a lengthy indictment for a series of corruption charges, inc...

  • March 27, 2014

    Harry Reid used campaign funds to give granddaughter $17,000

    In a repeat of the same crime that sent Jesse Jackson Jr to prison, Harry Reid’s campaign used $17,000 of campaign funds as a gift to his granddaughter, and covered it up in a mandatory disclosure document by omitting her last name (Reid). Karo...

  • March 26, 2014

    Let's pretend in La-La Land vital records

    The California state legislature looks likely to pass a bill allowing people with y chromosomes to be listed as female on death certificates, and people with two x chromosomes to be listed as male on their death certificates. All of this is being don...

  • March 26, 2014

    Race bullies are losing the voter ID battle

    Using the cry of “racism,” those who see benefit in voter fraud have been attempting to bully courts and legislatures into forsaking reasonable voter identification requirements. But the rhetoric has reached and passed its limits of effec...

  • March 26, 2014

    Never mind that March 31 Obamacare enrollment deadline

    Once again, the Obama administration is rewriting Obamacare on the fly, in response to political convenience. Amy Goldstein of the Washington Post reports: The Obama administration has decided to give extra time to Americans who say that they ar...

  • March 26, 2014

    Dem Demonization Fail

    Democrats have put a lot of effort into demonizing the Koch brothers, but it looks like that strategy is working out for them about as well as Nancy Pelosi’s advice to run on Obamacare. It turns out that launching a daily Two Minute Hate agains...

  • March 26, 2014

    Famous Illinois Democrat bolts from the party's nominee for governor

    States controlled by the Democratic Party tend to suffer from a failure to thrive. Jobs, people, and economic growth tend to flow to states like Texas that practice a low tax, low regulation, low unionization approach. Normally, Democrat politicians ...

  • March 26, 2014

    All in the family: Valerie Jarrett and the Chicago communists

    Valerie Jarrett is the most powerful figure in the White House, rivalling President Obama in the scope of her influence over the fate of the Republic. Her personal Secret Service detail attests to the importance of her role in our government – ...

  • March 26, 2014

    Obama calls Russia a 'regional power' but Putin has different ideas

    Barack Obama’s arrogant dismissal and mockery (“the 1980s are now calling to ask for their foreign policy back.”) of Mitt Romney’s warning about Russia in the 2012 presidential debate probably already ranks second to his ...

  • March 26, 2014

    Calling out liberal racism

    It’s time to turn the tables on the left and start calling them out for their racism. For too many decades, conservatives have endured slander, and too many members of the voting public have casually accepted preposterous imputations of racism....

  • March 26, 2014

    Big political corruption arrest in California

    There are encouraging signs that the very corrupt Democrat political machine in the California state legislature may be finally getting exposed, indicted, and, God willing, destroyed.  The state of California is a corrupt banana republic, run by...

  • March 25, 2014

    Hosting Obama costs Belgium 20 times as much as hosting EU Summit

    The American presidency has become grotesquely imperial, and when a president travels overseas, the contrast between the entourage and security measures commanded by a president versus an ordinary head of government of a major nation is downright emb...

  • March 25, 2014

    Nothing to see here, move along

    Ho-hum, a mob of 200 teenagers rampages through the downtown of an American city, assaulting and hospitalizing people and robbing stores. The mayor calls for calm. And nobody outside that local media market, where it cannot be ignored, hears a thi...

  • March 24, 2014

    Rommel International Airport?

    Stuttgart, Germany is considering renaming its international airport after former Mayor Manfred Rommel, son of the Desert Fox, perhaps the most talented among the generals Hitler employed, Erwin Rommel. An article in the Stuttgarter Zeitung (English ...

  • March 24, 2014

    Leading scientific body to review its support for global warming 'consensus'

    The so-called “consensus” among scientists supporting anthropogenic global warming climate change may take a fatal hit. The American Physical Society, a leading scientific organization in the field of physics with 50,000 members, has a...

  • March 24, 2014

    Hilarious: <em>Mother Jones</em> says MH 370 debris not found because of...

    In the minds of progs, global warming is the devil incarnate, responsible for everything bad. So naturally, with the world focused on the mystery of Malaysia 370, it is time to blame global warming. Mother Jones Magazine took a break from blaming fre...

  • March 24, 2014

    Government waste chronicles

    The arrogant indifference toward the waste of taxpayer money on the part of government bureaucrats is infuriating. When coupled with self-righteousness, it becomes nearly intolerable. The latest example can be found in the new eastern span of the ...

  • March 23, 2014

    Michelle: 'My husband has dragged me kicking and screaming into things that I wanted no parts of'

    Good grief, Mrs. Obama seems to need a teleprompter even more than her husband.  Speaking at the Stanford Center at Peking University and responding to a question from a Chinese graduate student on cross cultural education, the first lady raised...

  • March 23, 2014

    Another healthcare.gov glitch discovered

    Despite the availability of years and hundreds of millions of dollars to produce a functioning website, the Kathleen Sebelius-led team at healthcare.gov is still discovering glitches just days before the enrollment deadline. At least this one gives t...

  • March 23, 2014

    The Washington Post has fallen and it can't get up

    Jeff Bezos, the multi-billionaire (via Amazon.com) new owner of the Washington Post has got a messy situation on his hands, and unless he steps in, it appears that his new property is in danger of losing the prestige that was its primary asset. After...

  • March 23, 2014

    The case of the dancing flight attendants

    While the world focuses on a missing jumbo jet, a brouhaha has broken out in India over a viral video of flight attendants treating passengers to a holiday dance performance. The government of India, unamused, has suspended five crew members and is r...

  • March 23, 2014

    Racism in America

    So what group of Americans tend to behave as if they disapprove of other members of the group associating with other races? A new study cited by Paul Bedard in the Washington Examiner provides this insight: But a new study of 212 black...

  • March 22, 2014

    Is it time for a Koch brothers drinking game yet?

    The Democrats’ game plan invoking Saul Alinsky’s rule # 13, “Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it,” has already reached the stage of self-parody when it comes to demonizing the Koch brothers. It’s ...

  • March 22, 2014

    Mooch and her mother making no friends among the Chinese proletariat serving them

    The imperial first lady and her mother reportedly are alienating hotel staff in Beijing. It is bad enough that taxpayers are forced to foot the multimillion dollar bill for a spring break adventure in China enabling Michelle Obama to bring her empres...

  • March 22, 2014

    Yet another hate crime hoax

    Americans are just too damn tolerant to suit the victim mentality rampant among blacks, Hispanics, homosexuals, and anyone else who delights in the exalted status contemporary America afford victims. There is just not enough bigotry ton go around, so...

  • March 22, 2014

    Drudge provokes lefties to demonstrate their ignorance on Obamacare and small business

    I have to hand it to Matt Drudge. He has baited the left and gotten them to jump all over him, thereby indicting themselves as know-nothings,  utterly ignorant on Obamacare and the way small business works in this country.   Matt...

  • March 21, 2014

    Guess who's coming to terror?

    A new British study of Muslims who become radicalized turns liberal victimology theories inside out. The Investigative Project on Terrorism summarizes the findings. A British research study of Muslim radicalization is challenging some ...

  • March 21, 2014

    Washington Post busted!

    A Washington Post story purporting to expose the Koch brothers as behind-the-scenes beneficiaries of the Keystone Pipeline has been exposed as an utterly false propaganda operation, hilariously wrong and politically malicious. Even worse, one of the ...

  • March 21, 2014

    Obama-appointed judge: border fence may have a 'disparate impact' on minorities

    Liberals can rationalize away anything in the name of discrimination against minorities. Even national sovereignty. The Corruption Chronicles blog of Judicial Watch reports: A Homeland Security initiative to put fencing along the U.S.-Mexico bor...

  • March 21, 2014

    Death throes at a pillar of the American left

    I confess to indulging myself in schadenfreude over the decline and fall of Pacifica Radio, one of the major organs of the media left. You may not have heard of the 5 station radio network, but Pacifica created the very first nonprofit radio station ...

  • March 21, 2014

    Fauxcahontas sending her Indian heritage down the memory hole?

    Senator Elizabeth Warren, aka Fauxcahontas -- the woman who gained Ivy League tenure by claiming to be of Native American heritage on highly questionable (i.e., phony) grounds – apparently has decided that it is no longer advantageous to claim ...

  • March 21, 2014

    Another warmist fantasy crashes to earth

    Leftists, especially those of the warmist persuasion, never should be allowed to run anything. Delusional people are incapable are exercising responsibilities in the real world, only in the theoretical realm, which is the only place where they live a...

  • March 20, 2014

    Possible debris from MH 370 spotted in Indian Ocean

    The Australian Maritime and Safety Agency has released two satellite photographs of objects that may be debris from Malaysia Airlines flight 370 floating in the Indian Ocean. The photographs date from March 16, and have been subjected to analysis by ...

  • March 20, 2014

    President Laughingstock

    Russian mockery of President Obama has taken a bizarre turn. The newly elected Prime Minister of Crimea, Sergey Aksyonov, has tweeted (in Russian) a photoshopped image of Barack Obama in a Russian military uniform, implying that our president’s...

  • March 20, 2014

    News you won't be hearing about Michelle Obama's China junket

    Evidently the White House realizes that Michelle Obama’s expensive and luxurious family junket to China, accompanied by her mother and daughters, looks like a colossal waste of taxpayer money. That’s the logical explanation for unusual re...

  • March 20, 2014

    Jesse Jackson does Silicon Valley

    Jesse Jackson follows the money, and Silicon Valley is rolling in it. Thus the self-ordained Reverend yesterday began a shakedown cruise through the San Jose metropolitan area. The Mercury-News reports with a straight face: The Rev. Jesse Jackso...

  • March 20, 2014

    Rand Paul does Berkeley

    It’s a catchy line: “The same guy gets standing ovations at CPAC and Berkeley.” Drudge, The San Francisco Chronicle, and many other people are impressed by the reception Rand Paul got last night at The Berkeley Forum, a lecture seri...

  • March 20, 2014

    Unsettled science: New study questions link between heart disease and saturated fat

    In my lifetime I have seen dietary advice supposedly based on “science” go through multiple iterations, so much so that I have little trust in any of it. Eggs, coffee, and other delights were demonized, only for subsequent studies to say,...

  • March 20, 2014

    Hilarious: Notorious Democratic Underground blogger tries Obamacare

    An Obama dupe has had his eyes opened by the experience of trying to sign up for Obamacare, and the results are hilarious for conservatives to read. P. J. Gladnick of Newsbusters chronicles the tale of Will Pitt, the guy who soared to fame with the 2...

  • March 19, 2014

    Retired USAF general says Malaysia 370 may have landed in Pakistan

    Lt. General Thomas McInerney USAF (ret) is a man to be reckoned with, and he has gone out on a limb citing sources  he cannot reveal for his assertion that Malaysia Airlines 370 was taken by a criminal act, that the United States government know...

  • March 19, 2014

    When the going gets tough...

    It’s good to know that our commander in chief has plenty of time for his March Madness bracketology, even as the United States is humiliated by Russian officials’ mockery of meaningless sanctions for Putin’s Anschluss in Crimea. I...

  • March 19, 2014

    Dem AG shuts down investigation of Dem reps caught on tape accepting bribes

    Something is rotten in the State of Pennsylvania, at least if a Philadelphia Enquirer report of a tape existing are true. Joel Gehrke writes in the Washington Examiner: Pennsylvania Democrats reportedly were caught on tape accepting cash bribes,...

  • March 19, 2014

    Jerry Brown resorts to old people joke to sell faltering high speed rail project

    It takes a lot of chutzpah for a 76 year old who is sounding increasingly like Grandpa Simpson to make an old people joke. Or maybe it is just a lack of self-awareness. Even worse, it wasn’t funny, even if the audience of labor union stooges la...

  • March 19, 2014

    After 'bossy' is eliminated 'meritocracy' may be next on the feminist ban list

    The feminist left may be crazy, but it is powerful. Witness what happened in San Francisco at a fast-growing company that is a web-based hosting service for software development named GitHub. (hat tip: Instapundit). Via readwrite.com: You might ...

  • March 18, 2014

    Massachusetts fires CGI from healthcare exchange website work

    CGI, the Canadian company that botched the design and rollout of healthcare.gov, the federal government’s Obamacare website, has just been given the boot by the state of Massachusetts as well. Priyanka Dayal McCluskey reports in the Boston Hera...

  • March 18, 2014

    Michelle Obama leaves for China tomorrow

    As the world reels from Russia’s annexation of the Crimea, Michelle Obama departs for China tomorrow, travelling in the grand style lesser mortals cannot begin to comprehend, bringing along her mother and her two children. The trip fulfills her...

  • March 18, 2014

    The Hillary '16 propaganda machine launches a second foray

    It is now clear that a finely-tuned plan to soften-up opposition to Hillary Clinton rolling into the Oval Office is being executed through willing proxies. Last week saw the “ban bossy” campaign launched by Hillary enthusiast Sheryl Sandb...

  • March 18, 2014

    Does Obama have the scariest 'A Team' in American history?

    The headline in the New York Times reads like a punchline: “Biden Arrives in Europe to Reassure Allies.” Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. arrived here Tuesday for a lightning visit to reassure Poland and the Baltic states that the Un...

  • March 18, 2014

    Another Obama nominee faces confirmation struggle

    Another stupid Democrat trick threatens to blow up in the face of Harry Reid like Wile E. Coyote lighting an exploding cigar given to him by the Roadrunner. In theory, Harry Reid’s “nuclear option” change to simple majority Senat...

  • March 18, 2014

    Epitaphs for the Obama presidency (1)

    See also Epitaphs for the Obama presidency (2), Epitaphs for the Obama presidency (3) Things are falling apart for Obama so fast (“freakout” is the current term showing up in even liberal outlets) that the measure of his presidency is ...

  • March 18, 2014

    Epitaphs for the Obama presidency (2)

    See also: Epitaphs for the Obama Presidency (1), Epitaphs for the Obama presidency (3)  Bringing home the point that the youth vote has caught on that Obama is a big phony, a former Obama groupie has taken to YouTube to vent her disgust with ...

  • March 18, 2014

    Epitaphs for the Obama presidency (3)

    See also: Epitaphs for the Obama presidency (1), Epitaphs for the Obama presidency (2) American voters don’t care much about foreign policy … until they do. And President Barack Obama has painted himself (and our national security...

  • March 17, 2014

    You want to see a 'war on women'?

    The oh-so-tolerant multiculturalists on the American left have got little or nothing to say (Sandra Fluke, call your office!)  about the glories of celebrating diversity in marriage laws, at least when it comes to our Muslim friends planning to ...

  • March 17, 2014

    North Korea's reassuring sign of aggression

    It is actually a good sign that North Korea fired off 25 rockets to protest US-South Korea military exercises. Whenever the two allies stage joint maneuvers the North feels obligated to do something in protest, such as fire missiles into the open sea...

  • March 17, 2014

    RNC Chair Priebus plans changes to presidential nomination process

    Calling the current primary process "a complete disaster," Reince Priebus outlined changes intended to make the run to the nomination shorter and less cringe-worthy. CNS News reports: Priebus said shortening the primary process by movi...

  • March 17, 2014

    Navy SEALs to the rescue in tanker drama

    A supertanker carrying Libyan oil from the rebel-held port of As-Sidra was boarded and seized by Navy Seals around 10 PM last night, EDT, forestalling a variety of outcomes ranging from bad to disastrous. The nominally Egyptian-owned and North Korean...

  • March 17, 2014

    Not so fast, Michelle

    The first lady, Michelle Obama, was quick to grab credit for a study showing a whopping 43% decline in childhood obesity: “Today’s announcement reaffirms my belief that together, we are making a real difference in helping kids across...

  • March 17, 2014

    The best Obama 'diss' in recent memory

    Gary Kasparov, the Russian democracy activist, has uttered a telling comparison:  …when it comes to the crisis in Ukraine, “so far, Carter looks like Churchill in comparison.” (Time Magazine) The Ukraine crisis is se...

  • March 16, 2014

    Affirmative action drama in California

    Asian-Americans in California are in revolt against an attempt to reinstate affirmative action through a new statewide referendum.  Democrats in the California state legislature have been attempting to put such a referendum to voters, reionstati...

  • March 16, 2014

    Obamacare marketing desperation mounts

    Has there ever been an advertising campaign this well-funded that has produced worse results and lamer content than the $700 million devoted to Obamacare?  Pajama Boy may be fading into the dim recesses of the national memory, but in his place c...

  • March 16, 2014

    Car dealer fighting back against union

    It probably seemed like a good idea at the time, for the United Brotherhood Of Carpenters And Joiners Of America Local 201 to put up a sign reading, “Shame on Subaru of Wichita” in front of a car dealer that had the audacity to accep...

  • March 15, 2014

    Obama unintentionally reveals his insecurity

    An interview yesterday offers proof that Sarah Palin has really gotten under Obama’s skin. In the midst of a friendly on-the-air radio interview with Ryan Seacrest, President Obama offered us a rare glimpse inside the presidential mind, reveali...

  • March 15, 2014

    Progs start to realize the disaster ahead, but still are in denial

    The progressive dream, of a benevolent state led by the best and the brightest caring for a grateful population unable to fend for itself, is dying a painful death. And it is starting to dawn on some of the smarter Democrats -- people like David Plou...

  • March 15, 2014

    A SCOTUS 'fix' in the works?

    As the electorate starts to turn against progressives in the wake of the ObamaCare disaster, creative minds on the left are pressuring liberal Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer to retire before Democrats lose control of the Senate, pote...

  • March 15, 2014

    Jay Carney may be bailing out

    Jay Carney hasn’t been having a very good time in the White House press room. The kindest adjective I can apply to the look on his face as he dances around the uncomfortable truth on so many issues is “dyspeptic.” Keep in mind that ...

  • March 14, 2014

    Pure coincidence? The 'ban bossy' movement and Hillary's campaign

    The bizarre movement to “ban” the word “bossy” because it allegedly stigmatizes girls struck many people as ridiculous. But on consideration, it is something far more sophisticated and sinister than mere feminist hyperventilat...

  • March 14, 2014

    The face of Obamacare's uselessness

    The television ads are writing themselves for use against Democrats who voted for Obamacare.  The notorious and very effective “Mitt Romney gave my husband cancer” ad used to demonize the GOP presidential nominee in 2012 and re-elect...

  • March 14, 2014

    Kerry's ultimatum to Russia, translated

    Secretary of State Kerry has issued another ultimatum to Russia. Susan Crabtree reports in The Examiner: Secretary of State John Kerry warned of serious repercussions forRussia on Monday if last-ditch talks over the weekend to res...

  • March 14, 2014

    Malaysia Airlines scariest scenario getting more thinkable

    The most alarming scenario for the fate of Malaysia Airlines flight 370 seems to come right out of a thriller novel: a jumbo jet stolen, landed at a clandestine airfield and being prepared for a terror mission. According to the latest information (an...

  • March 14, 2014

    A glimpse inside the dysfunctional federal bureaucracy

    We are governed by an arrogant, dysfunctional, self-serving organization that couldn’t care less about us.  The federal bureaucracy, which increasingly behaves as our overlords, regulating what we may or may not do, prosecuting (or declini...

  • March 13, 2014

    Welcome to BadBlue News: Breaking News, Sourced by Social Media

    Doug Ross of Director Blue is a very talented guy whose work I admire. He has created a new website that may well become an important portal for conservatives seeking the best of the web. Doug’s own visual work is excellent; much of it is bi...

  • March 13, 2014

    Sheila Jackson-Lee, performance artist?

    Congresswoman Sheila Jackson-Lee is at it again, this time claiming that the Constitution is 400 years old. From the Washington Free Beacon: “Maybe I should offer a good thanks to the distinguished members of the majority, the Republi...

  • March 13, 2014

    Can the White House please get its story straight on the CIA spying on Congress?

    How can we reconcile two media reports on the White House role in the dispute between Senator Dianne Feinstein and the CIA? Article A. Obama: White House won't wade into CIA torture report dispute at this point | World news | theguardian...

  • March 13, 2014

    Congressional Dems getting that sinking feeling from latest poll

    It isn’t a lot of fun being a Democrat member of the House or Senate Democrat facing voters this November. Alex Sink’s defeat in Florida’s special election despite a money and name recognition advantage was bad enough, but the conte...

  • March 13, 2014

    Florida TV station documents ineligible voters as DoJ sues to prevent state from purging rolls

    WBBH TV in Ft. Myers, Florida has performed a public service with its investigative reporting documenting non-US citizens voting regularly in local elections.  The segment can be seen below, but Judicial Watch summarizes it: The segment foc...

  • March 12, 2014

    Why America overpays for bridges, highways, transit, and other transportation infrastructure

    American taxpayers are getting a terrible deal when it comes to large government-sponsored infrastructure projects. We pay 2 or 3 times as much for them as we should in many cases. The result is that we are put to shame by many other nations when it ...

  • March 12, 2014

    David Jolly's huge 2% victory in bellwether congressional special election

    The prospect of a wave election sweeping out Democrats nationally in 2014 just got stronger, as first time GOP candidate David Jolly defeated former Democrat Florida gubernatorial candidate Alex Sink in a special election by 48.5 percent to 46.6 perc...

  • March 12, 2014

    Dartmouth surrenders to threat of 'physical action' and offers $31 million

    Update; Alec Torres has withdrawn and apologized for his story: Contrary to what I reported, Dartmouth College did not allocate $31 million and expand other programs in direct response to the “Freedom Budget” issued by the anonymous ...

  • March 12, 2014

    Nations dependent on Russian supplies plead for US gas exports

    Fracking is a strategic weapon in the US arsenal that, instead of costing billions of dollars, actually generates tax revenues and prosperity. It should be obvious that rapid expansion of our gas production and gas export terminals is an imperative f...

  • March 12, 2014

    House Oversight Committee lays groundwork for charging Lois Lerner

    A 140 page report issued by the House Oversight and Government Reportm Committee, headed by Rep. Darrell Issa, takes Lois Lerner a step closer to a contempt of Congress charge. Because federal bureaucrats live privileged lives, her legal bills are be...

  • March 11, 2014

    Echoes of Edward R. Murrow in Sharyl Attkisson's departure from CBS News

    CBS News has lost its strongest claim to be a fair and non-partisan news source with the departure of Sharyl Attkisson from the network. The award-winning reporter has been squeezed-out because of her reporting on investigative themes inconvenient to...

  • March 11, 2014

    Stupid Democrat Tricks: the all-night 'climate change' <em>faux</em>libuster

    Perhaps because there has been no global warming for the last 16 years, Senate Democrats spent last night generating hot air in an all-night stunt. Democrats from safe seats  and those not up for re-election this year pulled an all-nighter talki...

  • March 11, 2014

    Frontiers of Victimology: female black obesity edition

    Why are more African-American women obese than any other demographic segment? Why racism, of course! That’s the suggestion of a new study by Boston University senior epidemiologist Julie Palmer, who is a coordinator of the “Black Women...

  • March 10, 2014

    The Obamas' Hyde Park mansion after 2016

    Will the Obamas return to Chicago and live in their Hyde Park mansion? I would be very surprised. The post-presidency life of Barack and Michelle Obama is already a matter of much media speculation. Will the presidential library be in Chicago, whe...

  • March 10, 2014

    Rev. Wright's chickens come home to roost

    Jeri L. Wright, the daughter of President Obama’s spiritual mentor Rev. Jeremiah Wright, has been convicted of money laundering, siphoning “as much as $11,000 in cash from more than $30,000 in checks” from “a $1.25 million sta...

  • March 9, 2014

    A law so stupid California legislature seeks to repeal it two months after it took effect

    See also: California legislative stupidity (continued) California’s state legislature is seeking to repeal an idiotic law that took effect January 1st.  It turns out that some feel-good regulatory efforts generate enough blowback that t...

  • March 9, 2014

    California legislative stupidity (continued)

    Having screwed up restaurants and bars so badly that it seeks to repeal a new 2014 law that is generating plastic refuse for the state’s landfills, the California state legislature is contemplating new regulatory legislation in the name of redu...

  • March 9, 2014

    Lefty blogger reveals White House censorship of tax-exempt nonprofit's writings

    A former blogger with ThinkProgress, published by the Center for American Progress Action Fund, a 501c4 tax-exempt nonprofit that meets with IRS approval, has revealed the extent to which the White House coordinates with it, and censors what gets pos...

  • March 9, 2014

    Harvey Weinstein wants more tax breaks

    Taxes, as Leona Helmsley once put it, “are for the little people.” That certainly seems to be the operating philosophy of Hollywood mogul and Democrat moneybags Harvey Weinstein.  Speaking at California taxpayer-subsidized UCLA, he a...

  • March 8, 2014

    Malaysia Airlines mid-air horror

    The specter of a modern long range jumbo jet suddenly falling from the sky with no distress call suggests horrific causes. Two hundred and thirty-nine souls have apparently lost their lives as Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 suddenly disappeared from ra...

  • March 8, 2014

    Is the IRS using a 'modified limited hang-out' strategy?

    Two startling disclosures raise questions about the IRS strategy in handling the scandal over its singling out opponents of President Obama for extra scrutiny and obstruction of in granting tax-exempt status. Disclosure number one (from the Wall S...

  • March 7, 2014

    Oops! Was Section 8 a giant mistake?

    One of the pillars of liberal social engineering is the belief that subsidies permitting poor people to move into nicer neighborhoods helps improve their life prospects. The multi-billion dollar Section 8 rent voucher program is premised on this noti...

  • March 7, 2014

    Run, Bernie, Run!

    The mainstream media prefer a narrative that has the GOP bitterly divided and the Democrats one big happy family, but the fact is that Democrats are at least as fractured as Republicans. So much so that Vermont’s socialist senator Bernie Sander...

  • March 7, 2014

    First state passes Article V Convention of States resolution

    Hey libs, it’s happening. The first state has passed a resolution to convene a constitutional convention and right the balance between the federal and state governments. Politisite reports: State Representative Buzz Brockway (R-Lawrencevil...

  • March 7, 2014

    Buyers' remorse in NYC as De Blasio polling tanks

    Even New York City is not prepared for a genuinely leftist agenda. Having elected Bill De Blasio in a 73% landslide, New Yorkers are waking up to their folly. Jonthan Lemire of the Associated Press reports: Only 39 percent of registered New York...

  • March 6, 2014

    Shocker: IRS estimates cheapest Obamacare plan $20k per family in 2016

    In an official document, the Internal Revenue Service, the enforcer of Obamacare’s mandates, is estimating that the cheapest Obamacare plan (the Bronze level of coverage) will cost a family of four $20,000 per year. Matt Cover of CNS News write...

  • March 6, 2014

    Obama budget guts joint missile defense research with Israel

    The Obama budget sent to Capitol Hill contains drastic cuts of up to two thirds to a joint missile defense program undertaken with Israel. This news coincides with news that Israel has intercepted a shipment of advanced surface-to-surface missiles fr...

  • March 6, 2014

    Ezekiel Emanuel lets the cat out of the bag on Obamacare

    Obamacare architect Ezekiel Emanuel has made two damning admissions about Obamacare, and he doesn’t even know it. Last year I wrote about Ezekiel Emanuel becoming a “favorite” of mine for his obnoxious and unpersuasive attempts to e...

  • March 5, 2014

    Rachel Maddow: Ukraine is Bush's fault

    Right on schedule, George W. Bush is being blamed for President Obama’s problems, this time in Ukraine. My goodness, what an incredibly powerful figure, to be causing Obama to fail so consistently. Here’s the tortured logic as reported by...

  • March 5, 2014

    Doomsters foiled by new study of ocean fish

    Oops! Scientists have just discovered that they didn’t know about the existence of most of the fish in the oceans – 95% of the biomass of the world’s oceans. That’s a rather formidable oversight. Stephen Adkins of The Universi...

  • March 5, 2014

    War on Women Chronicles: Alan Grayson under investigation in domestic violence complaint

    Democrat Representative Alan Grayson has been charged with domestic violence by his wife, and is under investigation by authorities. Jeff Weiner of the Orlando Sentinel reports: A judge has granted a temporary protective injunction against U.S. Re...

  • March 5, 2014

    Yet another hate crime hoax

    Add another instance to the long list of hate crime hoaxes, this time to the currently popular category of “transgender” faux-victims. Kurtis Alexander and Henry K. Lee of the San Francisco Chronicle report: A 15-year-old transgender...

  • March 5, 2014

    OFA caught selling access to Obama officials

    This is a major scandal, involving Organizing for Action, formerly known as Obama for America, and still found on the web at barackobama.com. It involves a top fundraiser caught red-handed trying to sell access to top officials in return for a $100,0...

  • March 5, 2014

    Senate rejects Obama nominee for DoJ Civil Rights Division

    Seven Senate Democrats joined with Republicans to deliver a humiliating defeat to President Obama and to the far left race demagogues. Debo P. Adegbile, head of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, and an avid supporter of convicted cop-killer...

  • March 4, 2014

    China watches Ukraine, eyes Taiwan

    Barack Obama is bringing Pax Americana to an end, convinced that American domination of the world is a bad thing. Bashir Assad and Vladimir Putin both have taken the measure of the man and acted in the manner of tyrants and bullies throughout the age...

  • March 4, 2014

    Report: Obama plans new Obamacare delay to help Dems in midterms

    Although there is no official announcement yet, Elise Viebeck of The Hill is reporting that: As early as this week, according to two sources, the White House will announce a new directive allowing insurers to continue offering health plans that ...

  • March 4, 2014

    Michelle Obama's help for 'confused and bewildered' grocery shoppers is lame

    Face it, Michelle Obama is a busybody, the kind of person who thinks she knows what everyone else should be doing, and is eager to unburden herself with gratuitous, unwelcome advice. It’s one thing to have such a person as a neighbor; you can i...

  • March 4, 2014

    Emails revealed on Lois Lerner's attorney agreeing to her testifying

    Fox News has received copies of the email exchanges between Lois Lerner’s attorney William Taylor, and counsel to the House Oversight Committee chaired by Darrell Issa, Steve Castor.  Rep. Issa had revealed on FGox News Sunday that Lerner ...

  • March 4, 2014

    Vulnerable Dem Senators on the spot tomorrow

    The Senate is to vote tomorrow on cloture on the nomination of Debo Adegbile to head the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, which poses a difficult test for red state Senate Democrats facing the voters this fall. Over the weekend, Penn...

  • March 4, 2014

    Warren Buffet disses global warming extreme weather fear-mongering

    In the wake of Apple CEO Tim Cook’s outburst telling global warming skeptics to sell their shares in his company, Berkshire Hathaway’s Warren Buffet has publicly stated that warmists’ predictions of an increase in catastrophic weath...

  • March 3, 2014

    Ho-hum: Hollywood had a big self-congratulatory party last night

    There was a time when I actually watched some of the Academy Awards ceremonies on television. But last night continued a long streak of indifference, principally because I got tired of being insulted for my political beliefs from the podium and weary...

  • March 3, 2014

    Corruption costs Democrats their California supermajority

    Ever since the 2012 election, California Democrats have been able to pass any legislation they wish without Republican support, thanks to enjoying 2/3 majorities in both houses of the legislature. But as of today, no more. Two Democrat state senators...

  • March 3, 2014

    Lerner's attorney says she won't testify

    Chaos reigns in the House investigation of the IRS targeting of conservative groups. Following Darrell Issa’s claim on Fox News Sunday that Lois Lerner would testify before his committee, Ms. Lerner’s attorney issued a denial. Via Politic...

  • March 3, 2014

    Even WaPo sees Obama foreign policy is based on a 'fantasy'

    The Washington Post’s editorial board is so alarmed at President Obama’s that it uses the f-word -- fantasy -- to describe his approach to international relations: FOR FIVE YEARS, President Obama has led a foreign policy based more o...

  • March 3, 2014

    Man sues McDonald's over this?

    This is an excellent example of why we need a “loser pays” system of tort reform, to discourage frivolous lawsuits. From the New York Daily News: McDonald's has been hit with a supersized lawsuit. Unhappy eater Webster Lucas r...

  • March 2, 2014

    Obama skipped Saturday's meeting of national security team on Ukraine crisis

    “What, me worry?” seems to be the operating philosophy of President Obama as a serious crisis brews in Eastern Europe. Daniel Halper reports an almost unbelievable level of Obama nonchalance toward his national security responsibilities i...

  • March 1, 2014

    The Difference between God and Obama

    One of the oldest jokes lawyers tell begins, “What’s the difference between God and a federal judge?” The answer, of course, is, “God doesn’t think of himself as a federal judge.” So that is what I expected when re...

  • March 1, 2014

    Obama signals Putin he isn't really serious about Ukraine

    President Obama yesterday signaled Russia that he doesn’t intend to go to the mattresses over Ukraine.  First, he made a televised statement from the White House that kinda, sorta sounded a tough if you weren’t paying close attention...

  • March 1, 2014

    President Selfie strikes again

    Yesterday saw an Obama trifecta of foolishness. Not only did the President deliver a weak response and declared a “Happy Hour,” as Vladimir Putin sent 2000 troops into Ukraine, he reverted to his penchant for taking selfie photos, this ti...

  • March 1, 2014

    Jimmy Carter plans trip to Venezuela

    What could go wrong? A lot, if you consider the former peanut farmer and president’s last intervention in Venezuela. Joshua Goodman of AP reports on Carter’s expressed interest in going to Caracas: Former U.S. President Jimmy Cart...

  • February 28, 2014

    Culture of corruption in federal bureaucracy

    Evidence is accumulating of a corrupt bureaucratic culture in many, if not all, federal agencies. Revelations of lavish meetings at fancy hotels, featuring stupid but expensive custom-made videos emerged in the last couple of years. But even worse, c...

  • February 28, 2014

    Fed Chairman Yellen backs CBO study on minimum wage job loss

    Janet Yellen, the newly-installed head of the Federal Reserve System, is exercising her political independence (she cannot be fired during her five year term as Chairman of the Fed’s Board of Governors) and telling the truth about the new minim...

  • February 28, 2014

    Hilarious take-down of New York Times minimum wage hypocrisy

    Tom Maguire gives the New York Times a well-deserved thrashing over its pretensions of offering wisdom on the minimum wage. From his website Just One Minute: Business and the Minimum Wage By THE EDITORIAL BOARD Paying workers more can help...

  • February 28, 2014

    Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ratifies thug rule

    America’s most-reversed federal circuit court of appeals, San Francisco’s Ninth, has issued another doozy. Eugene Volokh writes in the Washington Post: Today’s Dariano v. Morgan Hill Unified School Dist. (9th Cir. Feb. 27, 2014...

  • February 28, 2014

    CNN journalist admits Obama racial double standard on air

    Kudos to Don Lemon, the CNN journalist, for admitting what conservatives have maintained ever since Barack Obama became president with unquestioning media support and suppression of any conservatism as racist: “As a journalist, you weigh how...

  • February 26, 2014

    Clinton Library Secret Files a Landmine for Hillary?

    Sensitive documents including those related to the Hillarycare debacle and presidential pardons for the likes of Marc Rich are being withheld from release. As the prospect of a Hillary Clinton presidential candidacy looms, the public’s right to...

  • February 26, 2014

    Report: 125,000 illegals in California qualified to be covered by Medicaid

    I could have sworn Obama promised this wouldn’t happen. Via Weasel Zippers, the LA Times writes: A new report shows that as many as 125,000 young California immigrants may qualify for an expansion of Medi-Cal, the state’s Medicaid pr...

  • February 26, 2014

    Dem House candidate: Without immigration reform, where will we get our landscapers and maids?

    In a genuine gaffe (accidentally telling the truth), Florida Democratic congressional candidate Alex Sink revealed the class system at the heart of so-called “immigration reform.” The Washington Free Beacon reports: Florida Democrati...

  • February 26, 2014

    Stars discovering Obamacare is box office poison

    Obamacare has become so unpopular that entertainment industry stars are discovering that speaking out in favor of it comes at a cost. Take Will Ferrell for example. Evan Murray reports at Mediaite: Will Ferrell is the latest celebrity enlis...

  • February 25, 2014

    Rep. John Conyers honors Farrakhan after denouncing his anti-Semitism

    Rep. John Conyers, one of the founders of the Congressional Black Caucus and widely considered the dean of the African-Americans in Congress, bestowed a great honor on Louis Farrakhan over the weekend, by attending a three hour sermon before a crowd ...

  • February 25, 2014

    Something is rotten in the state of science

    Evidence is accumulating that quality control is a serious issue in academic publishing, which is the key to career advancement for scientists and other scholars. In an age when appeals to "peer reviewed" "settled science" have become standard operat...

  • February 24, 2014

    Climatology Fail

    Climatology has been falling on its face lately. In addition to the failure of global warming predictions to come true in the last 16 years of "pause," this year's severe winter for most of the country came as a surprise to the Climate Prediction Cen...

  • February 24, 2014

    NY Times publishes cartoon about killing global warming 'deniers'

    When apocalyptic cults turn murderous, they become a danger to the public. The warmist cult, frustrated by the failure of nature to back-up their prophecies of doom, apparently is turning to homicidal fantasies, and venting them in the pages of the N...

  • February 24, 2014

    Buh-bye Piers Morgan

    Piers Morgan will no longer enjoy CNN's best time slot (9 PM Eastern) in which to harangue Americans over their provincial ways, and especially their attachment to the right to bear arms. The haughty former tabloid journalist from the UK is leaving t...

  • February 24, 2014

    Alec Baldwin's latest rant disses MSNBC, Rachel Maddow

    Taking to the pages of New York Magazine, Alec Bladwin has spoken at length, attempting to justify his nasty use of anti-gay slurs when angry, and dump on MSNBC which fired him in the wake of a backlash from the powerful gay lobby. He wants people to...

  • February 23, 2014

    Dem Rep threatens TV stations showing anti-Obamacare ad

    Democrat Rep. Gary Peters is running for the Senate in Michigan and he doesn't like a political ad from Americans for Prosperity being shown on TV stations there. His attorneys at Perkins Coie have sent a letter to local television stations implying ...

  • February 23, 2014

    Another Kennedy seeks plea deal

    The descendants of Joseph P. Kennedy are regarded as something of an American Royal Family, partaking in a glamour that still thrills many buyers of supermarket rack magazines. But they also have piled up a series of scandals to match their media pro...

  • February 23, 2014

    Good news and bad news in Ukraine

    There is a lot to celebrate in the victory of popular resistance to President Yanukovych's submission to Russia in turning down a deal to associate Ukraine with the European Union. The best symbol of the good news is the toppling of statues of Lenin,...

  • February 23, 2014

    Obamacare's crisis of legitimacy

    Despite a lot of brave talk publicly, Democrats are scared about the consequences of Obamacare, to the point of trying to silence critics through federal regulatory agencies. But the law is a stinking mess, with more losers than winners, and the Pott...

  • February 22, 2014

    Just when you thought the news couldn't get any worse for the UAW...

    The nature of the automobile industry is changing, and the United Auto Workers, once the flagship of organized labor in the United States and the world, has been left behind and is now a shadow of its former self. From a peak of over a million and a ...

  • February 22, 2014

    Michelle Obama listed daughters Sasha and Malia as 'Senior Staff' on Africa junket

    In the wake of Michelle Obama's revelation to Jimmy Fallon that her daughters Sasha and Malia "want nothing to do with us," (a feeling many share), it is worthwhile noting that just a couple of years ago the First Lady officially termed them "Senior ...

  • February 22, 2014

    Even more De Blasio 'rules are for little people' behavior

    Bill De Blasio loves to lecture New Yorkers about how they should behave, but when it comes to his own behavior, he flouts the very measures he wishes to impose on the 'little people.' Kevin Fasik writes in the New York Post: Mayor de Blasio, who h...

  • February 22, 2014

    Sore Losermen: Desperate UAW wants a do-over on VW workers' rejection of union

    __PLACEHOLDER____PLACEHOLDER__The United Auto Workers Union refuses to accept that "no means no," when Volkswagen workers reject their $7 million campaign to impose a union on the Chattanooga assembly plant. Tom Raum and Erik Schelzig of AP report: ...

  • February 21, 2014

    Lefty American foundations funding Canadian oil sands opposition

    Thanks to an audit by Canada Revenue, we know that several big money American foundations have been active trying to build domestic Canadian opposition to the development of oil sands in Alberta, the source of petroleum for the Keystone XL Pipeline, ...

  • February 21, 2014

    'Rules are for little people' - the De Blasio edition

    Whenever a leftist planning an assault in inequality gets a little power, you can safely wager a week's wages that it won't be too long before he or she starts behaving with haughty disdain for the rules pronounced for others to obey. So it is with N...

  • February 21, 2014

    Scott Walker is the next target of the MSM knockout game

    Having successfully demonized Chris Christie over the closure of traffic lanes on a bridge, the leftist mainstream media are now targeting Scott Walker, another very promising potential GOP candidate for president.  All of this in the context me...

  • February 21, 2014

    Police State Chronicles: New Orleans hands out something that police can arrest you for

    Lavrentiy Beria, Stalin's police state enforcer as head of the NKVD, famously boasted of his ability to make anyone a criminal when he said, "You bring me the man, I'll find you the crime." Contemporary America is dangerously close to that situation,...

  • February 21, 2014

    FCC backs away from First Amendment-trashing survey

    As public outrage has built over an FCC plan to put monitors (or as Greta Van Susteren calls them, "spies") into newsrooms and ask questions about philosophy, news judgments, and fulfillment of what the government thinks are "critical information nee...

  • February 19, 2014

    CBO confirms Dem minimum wage hike will cost at least half a million jobs

    The Congressional Budget Office has issued a study on the proposed minimum wage hike being offered by President Obama and the Democrats in an effort to distract the public from Obamacare, demonize Republicans as mean, pose as guardians of the poor. E...

  • February 19, 2014

    Inspector General audit finds up to 39% IRS employees not reporting taxable income on long term travel allowances

    The mess at the IRS is worse than people realize, and a new report from the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration, Internal Revenue Service's Executive Long-Term Taxable Travel, reveals widespread flouting of rules, and underreporting of ...

  • February 19, 2014

    $100 billion in improper welfare payments per year

    The federal government is wasting an astonishing hundred billion dollars a year in improper welfare payments to recipients not entitled to them. This is an amount of money greater than the GDP of most nations on earth, more than Morocco and within st...

  • February 19, 2014

    Another reason to avoid de Blasio's New York

    Shocking news on rat infestation of New York City restaurants has come to light.  While it almost certainly cannot be blamed on the nascent administration of far left Mayor Bill de Blasio, the symbolism is nonetheless intriguing. Frank Rosario a...

  • February 18, 2014

    Nemesis of the pretentious feminist left strikes again

    The funniest, most satisfying read of the day has to be Zombie's delightful takedown of an attempt by feminists to hijack Valentine's Day and turn it into a celebration of victimology. On February 14, Vagina Monologues author Eve Ensler had earlier d...

  • February 17, 2014

    After decrying inequality, Obama golfs at personal course of mega-billionaire

    Inequality in America is a terrible thing, unless it results in a nice afternoon at a golf course so private that "uncrowded" does not begin to describe the solitude a presidential foursome can enjoy. Few things in this world are more unequally enjoy...

  • February 16, 2014

    Your at-a-glance guide to illegal Obamacare revisions

    The adjective "historic" has been used to describe Obamacare from the moment it was proposed. Democrats and President Obama himself used the term admiringly, seeing in the 2000 page bill an "unprecedented" (to use another favorite Obama term) commitm...

  • February 15, 2014

    UAW crashes in Volkswagen unionization defeat

    The United Auto Workers Union lost a hugely important unionization election vote at Volkswagen's Chattanooga, Tennessee assembly plant, going down to defeat in a 712-626 vote (53%-47%), with roughly 165 workers, or 11%, not voting. Thus, in fact, onl...

  • February 15, 2014

    Obamacare signs of desperation

    After enduring gales of laughter in response to the Pajama Boy Gambit, the folks at Organizing for Action, aka my.barackobama.com, have turned to the stalest cliché possible in an effort to put lipstick on the healthcare.gov pig. This email came out ...

  • February 15, 2014

    Dems face another unexpected Senate seat potential loss

    The list of vulnerable Democrat-held Senate seats in 2014 just got longer. And in a state that used to be reliably blue. The Wall Street Journal reports: The race to succeed retiring Democratic Sen. Carl Levin of Michigan is still rated "Democratic...

  • February 14, 2014

    Stuff Bush didn't do

    In the face of five years of Obama failure, the American Left still invokes the specter of George W. Bush as the all-purpose explanation for everything that has gone wrong. Yet the 43rd president is steadily climbing in public esteem, as his sunny d...

  • February 14, 2014

    Immigration and the underclass

    I suppose we owe US Chamber of Commerce CEO Tom Donohue thanks for his candor on immigration. The Chamber that he heads is very strongly in favor of immigration "reform" that would legalize those here without benefit of law, and open the doors for mo...

  • February 14, 2014

    Pelosi, Marx, and 'Job Lock'

    Did you ever wonder what inspired Nancy Pelosi and many other Democrats to spout off about the liberating freedom Obamacare provides people to escape from job drudgery and find their inner poet, photographer or musician? Is it merely aristocratic con...

  • February 13, 2014

    San Diego's really, really bad news for Democrats

    San Diego, the eight-largest city in America, elected a Republican as mayor by a 9% margin that surprised all the "experts," 54.5% to 45.5%.  Republican city councilman Kevin Faulconer defeated Democratic Councilman David Alvarez in a city that ...

  • February 13, 2014

    The Democrats have a serious Hillary Problem and are in denial

      There is a stark question that remains largely unspoken, as Hillary Clinton dominates polling and super-PAC fundraising, as the all-but-decided Democrat candidate for the 2016 presidential race. What if she doesn't run? After all, she suffered...

  • February 13, 2014

    Crony Capitalist Chronicles: Comcast wants to gobble up Time Warner Cable

    One of the Obama administration's best corporate friends wants to buy its biggest competitor, using stock. Ryan Nakashima of AP: Comcast Corp. will buy Time Warner Cable Inc. for about $45.2 billion in a deal that combines the nation's top two cab...

  • February 12, 2014

    Ray Nagin found guilty on 20 of 21 counts

    Former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, whose tenure in office included disastrous incompetence in handling Hurricane Katrina (for which the media blamed President George W. Bush), has been found guilty on 20 of 21 counts of corruption in a federal trial...

  • February 11, 2014

    Latest Obamacare delay to deny millions of women their free contraceptives

    The Hobby Lobby case establishes the principle that free contraceptives are a basic human right, as the Democratic Party sees it.   The Obama administration and its liberal supporters argue that Hoppy Lobby must comply with the portions of ...

  • February 11, 2014

    Strange green mentality

    A tale of environmentalists who are also meth heads comes from Wisconsin. I always thought that methamphetamines polluted body, mind, and soul. But for some people, the proper green credentials are more important than personal behavior. Environmenta...

  • February 11, 2014

    'Food desert' fallacy shocks liberals

    It turns out that you can bring produce sections to poor neighborhoods, but you can't get poor people to eat healthier food. This comes as a shock to liberals who believe in the comprehensive theory of victimology -- that all problems afflicting peop...

  • February 11, 2014

    Stunning insensitivity from Michelle Obama

    Michelle Obama's lust for luxury has always been a bit of a problem for her husband and Democrats in general. Jetting off to five star resorts with a large entourage has too much dissonance with the rhetoric denouncing inequality currently in favor w...

  • February 10, 2014

    Rep. Keith Ellison thinks Americans work too much

    Appearing on This Week with George Stephanopoulos, Representative Keith Ellison went all in on the Democrats' new Loafer Nation strategy, denigrating work and celebrating those who choose to work less, and relying on the taxes paid by other Americans...

  • February 10, 2014

    Yet another Obamacare disaster

    We had to pass Obamacare to find out what's in it, and it's not pretty. It turns out that in the thousand-plus pages that nobody read before passage is an onerous requirement for restaurants to post the caloric content of the dishes they offer. The p...

  • February 10, 2014

    Politically incorrect Swiss vote to limit immigration

    The European Union is fuming and contemplating retaliation against the nation of Switzerland in the wake of majority vote by Swiss citizens limiting immigration, one of political correctness's core sacraments. Switzerland uses direct referenda to dec...

  • February 9, 2014

    ID's required to attend NAACP rally to protest voter ID requirements

    Call the irony police! The North Carolina State Conference of the NAACP is holding a rally to protest that state's new voter identification law, but participants are being advised to bring photo identification. Aurelius of Pundit Press discovered the...

  • February 9, 2014

    Karma catches up with school gun ban activist

    As he faces felony charges for bringing a gun onto a school campus, Dwayne Ferguson may be contemplating the wisdom of the New York SAFE Act for which he tirelessly campaigned as a community activist in Buffalo. The Buffalo News reports: Dwayne Fe...

  • February 9, 2014

    Wendy Davis now alienating her own base

    Texas Democrats must be hoping that Wendy Davis will drop out of the governor's race before she causes even more damage to the party and to the cause of feminism. By embellishing her life story (which served as the "inspiring" basis for her campaign,...

  • February 8, 2014

    Michelle Obama urges students to seek taxpayer money

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  • February 8, 2014

    Dems declare war on Inspector General uncovering IRS scandal

    The IRS scandal is so bad that Democrats are unleashing total war in an attempt to beat back a full airing of the abuse. The old adage, "The best defense is a good offense," is all the more valid when the major media outlets are on their side. It is ...

  • February 8, 2014

    Was Obama stoned during Bob Costas interview?

    The emergence of Twitter as a social media goliath has unleashed gossip and speculation as a media force. The long term consequences are unknowable, but in the meantime, with a far left president with a dicey past, it is producing some highly amusing...

  • February 8, 2014

    Satisfying smackdown of Prince Charles

    Prince Charles, heir to the British throne, is also heir to the sort of mush-headed liberalism that permeates high society on both sides of the Atlantic. Accordingly, he has thrown his lot in with the warmists, decrying the alleged danger to the futu...

  • February 7, 2014

    More than a smidgen: IRS whistleblower's terrifying charges

    A brave IRS lawyer named William Henck, a veteran of 26 years in the general counsel's office, has gone on the record with stunning charges of corruption. In a letter to Powerline, he details several instances of corruption that he has observed. Thes...

  • February 7, 2014

    Boehner caves on immigration bill

    House Speaker John Boehner finally got the message the conservative base has been shouting, and has indicated that no immigration "reform" bill will pass the House in 2014. Even better, in his announcement, he made the point that the Obama administra...

  • February 7, 2014

    Obama may illegally further delay Obamacare provision

    Desperate over the impact of Obamacare on voters, the Obama administration is leaking a plan to extend suspension of the requirement for insurance companies to drop "substandard" individual plans until safely after the 2016 elections. The president a...

  • February 6, 2014

    Congressional Dems get the Big Kiss-off from Big Money Dem Super-PAC

    A Super PAC funded by big money Democrat donors seems to have made up its mind that 2014 is hopeless, and is concentrating its resources on electing Hillary in 2016. Tough luck for all those Democrats who bet their political careers on backing Obamac...

  • February 5, 2014

    Wendy Davis imploding

    Democrats across Texas and America may be regretting their choice of Wendy Davis as the Great Feminist Hope, designated warrior in the battle to lock-up the female vote. Having raised something north of 12 million dollars for run at the Texas governo...

  • February 5, 2014

    Elitist lipstick on the CBO pig

    Yesterday's Congressional Budget Office report on Obamacare's jobs impact is, in the words of liberal Dana Milbank of The Washington Post, "a game-changer." The congressional number-crunchers, perhaps the capital's closest thing to a neutral refere...

  • February 4, 2014

    Debunking the 97% 'consensus' on global warming

    The main pillar of the warmist argument is the contention that a "consensus" exists among scientists that global warming is caused by man and threatens catastrophe. But a Canada-based group calling itself Friends of Science has just completed a revie...

  • February 4, 2014

    Obama's fatuous claim of Fox News 'unfairness' to him

    Boo-hoo, President Obama thinks Fox News is "unfair" to him, but when challenged for examples, all he could cite was asking questions about difficult subjects. This was revealed in the most interesting segment of Bill O'Reilly's taped interview with...

  • February 3, 2014

    Philip Seymour Hoffman flubbed his greatest role

    He may have won the Academy Award for Best Actor as Truman Capote, but in life's drama, Philip Seymour Hoffman flubbed his role as father and mate. The death of the extravagantly gifted actor from an apparent heroin overdose boggles my mind. A man...

  • February 3, 2014

    Obama denies 'even a smidgen' of IRS wrongdoing in O'Reilly interview

    To me, the biggest story of the Bill O'Reilly interview with a slippery Barack Obama was the president's absolute denial of "even a smidgen" any IRS wrongdoing: O'REILLY:  I've got to get to the IRS... OBAMA:  Yes. O'REILLY:  -- be...

  • February 2, 2014

    White House desperately searching for another excuse to not build Keystone XL

    The long-awaited and long-delayed State Department report on the environmental impact of the Keystone XL Pipeline is in, and avers no net increase in carbon emissions. So now the Obama administration is reduced to scrambling for alternative justifica...

  • February 2, 2014

    White House Soap Opera: Alleged Marital Discord between Obamas Breaks into Media

    Desperate to distract from the ongoing Obamacare disaster, alleged marital discord between Barack and Michelle Obama is being strategically leaked by White House insiders, and beginning to break into the mainstream media via familiar channels. Anyo...

  • February 2, 2014

    How Sandra Fluke could hand a safe Dem House seat to the GOP

    It sounds almost too good to be true, but it is plausible. The oh-so-smug contraception-devouring Georgetown Law graduate is contemplating a run for the Congressional seat being vacated by Henry Waxman. John Fund outlines a scenario in National Revie...

  • February 2, 2014

    Once again The Onion's satire uncomfortably close to the truth

    It's hard to figure out whether to laugh or to cry when a report from The Onion is so spot-on: Man Who Couldn't Defeat George W. Bush Attempting To Resolve Israel-Palestine Conflict AMMAN, JORDAN-Arriving in the Middle East today for top-level nego...

  • January 30, 2014

    Another Dem candidate heads for the hills when Obama visits

    Just call him President Poison. So unpopular has Barack Obama become that when he visits a state that is a priority for the Democrats, prudence dictates that those who wish to get elected refuse to share a stage with him. The Associated Press, via WK...

  • January 30, 2014

    Cruz Grills Holder on IRS Scandal Investigation

    Ted Cruz demonstrated again yesterday why he sets conservative hearts aflutter, pointedly questioning Attorney General Eric Holder when he appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday over the IRS's going-nowhere investigation of the IRS ...

  • January 30, 2014

    Hatred of Israel costs Oxfam an ambassador

    Oxfam, the worldwide charity that purports to fight poverty, has diverted its energies into the crusade against Israel. In the process, it has lost the services and affections of one of the world's most famous actresses, Scarlett Johansson. The Guard...

  • January 30, 2014

    Holder Fail: AG can't explain why Obamacare executive orders are constitutional

    Yesterday was a bad, bad day for the Attorney General of the United States. Senator Mike Lee twice asked Eric Holder to explain the constitutional basis of President Obama's executive orders suspending parts of Obamacare, and the AG fumbled badly, es...

  • January 30, 2014

    'Ignorance is bliss' when it comes to crime alerts, according to black student groups at the University of Minnesota

    A formidable assemblage of groups representing black students at the University of Minnesota is requesting that crime alerts on campus avoid including race. CBS Minnesota reports: School officials at the University of Minnesota are working with bla...

  • January 30, 2014

    Despicable MSNBC racism compounded

    MSNBC has disgraced itself yet again, heaping unfounded accusations of racism upon conservatives, and in the process revealing its own bigotry. The network's official Twitter account put out the following garbage: Maybe the rightwing will hate it, ...

  • January 29, 2014

    Biden offered the best SOTU commentary of all

    How boringly familiar was the State of the Union address? Boring enough that Joe Biden, seated right behind Obama and on camera for the entire snooze fest, started mugging and interacting with members of Congress in the audience. It was quite a good ...

  • January 29, 2014

    What Americans really think of each other

    A new public opinion survey of Americans' attitudes toward the major regions of the country reveals that we generally like each other, and associate positive qualities with the four major regions of the country: The Northeast, South, Midwest, and Wes...

  • January 29, 2014

    President Obama's brother declares his intent to destroy Israel

    President Obama may not be his brother's keeper, but he certainly has honored his half-brother Malik. When he married Michelle Robinson, his best man was Malik. And the president of the Barack H. Obama Foundation? None other than Malik. And that very...

  • January 28, 2014

    Credibility Lost: Poll reveals Americans not taking Obamacare deadlines seriously

    Having demonstrated that the provisions of Obamacare are subject to revision whenever the president deems it politically convenient, the American people have concluded that they don't really need to take seriously the deadlines of the law. Barac...

  • January 28, 2014

    Credibility Lost: Bipartisan House group demands Clapper be replaced

    The great theme of Barack Obama's second term may well turn out to be the loss of his and his administration's credibility. His Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, blatantly lied to Congress, and now that is coming back to haunt him and...

  • January 28, 2014

    Credibility Lost: Will Obama push global warming measures in SOTU?

    As President Obama prepares to deliver his State of the Union address, a long list of public schools and agencies are closed today in the nation's capital owing to extreme winter weather. This comes on the heels of what is shaping up to be the coldes...

  • January 27, 2014

    Benghazi cover-up continues

    The Obama and Clinton political machines know how to protect and reward their friends and punish their enemies. The 9/11 attack on the Benghazi diplomatic facility represents a clear and present danger to continued Democrat domination of the White Ho...

  • January 27, 2014

    Rand Paul calls out Democrat 'GOP war on women' hypocrisy

    The Democrats get away with posing as the defenders of women from horrible GOP ogres only because nobody dares to point out that they are the same party which defended, honors, and seeks to perpetuate the political dynasty of a president who seriousl...

  • January 26, 2014

    How Global Warming Makes it Warmer and Colder

    Every time events fail to confirm the predictions of the global warming models, we see putative scientists thinking up excuses, like a "pause" that just interrupts the inevitable, absolutely beyond dispute, no discussion allowed predictions that...uh...

  • January 25, 2014

    Taking it to the New York Times

    Advocates of getting in the face of the mainstream media when they behave outrageously have something to cheer about. CAMERA, The Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America, has put up a giant billboard across the street from the New ...

  • January 25, 2014

    Obama's effort is doomed

    I guess we have to give him credit for trying, but so far President Obama's attempt to damage our relationship with Canada has been failing. Andrew Malcolm of Investor's Business Daily has got his number, and in a highly amusing, very sarcastic piece...

  • January 25, 2014

    Pulitzer Prize-winner sacked by AP

    It is not often that a Pulitzer Prize winner gets fired in disgrace. Certainly not often enough, considering that Walter Durranty's name still is honored at the New York Times, despite having served as Stalin's propagandist, denying the Ukraine starv...

  • January 25, 2014

    Ship of Warmist Fools to get bill for rescue

    The Federal Government of Australia laid out $2.4 million (Australian dollars) to help rescue the ship full of global warming true believers, who got ice-bound in Antarctic waters they were dead certain had to be melting. And now it wants to paid bac...

  • January 25, 2014

    The liberal elite's irony-deficient glamour couple

    Matthew Continetti has written a must-read piece, chronicling the coupling (as in affianced) of two ruling class up-and-comers: MSNBC's Alex Wagner and Sam Kass, executive director of Michelle Obama's Let's Move health initiative. The article in the ...

  • January 24, 2014

    Obama betraying democracy forces of Ukraine

    Just as he did with the Green Revolution in Iran, which had the potential to topple the mullahs, President Obama is giving a cold shoulder to the Pro-Western demonstrators in Ukraine. Ever since President Viktor Yanukovych last November decided to pu...

  • January 24, 2014

    Just don't call them death panels

    When the government is in charge of health care, rationing happens, and some people are handed death sentences. The ObamaCare Left would prefer that this reality remain hidden for as long as possible, submerged in a warm bath of "healthcare for every...

  • January 23, 2014

    Another sign Obama is going to blame Jews for his Iran policy failures

    AT has for some time been warning that President Obama is preparing to set up Jews and the "Israel Lobby" as scapegoats for the failure of his Iran policy to prevent the acquisition of nuclear weapons. Needless to say, potential catastrophe lurks whe...

  • January 23, 2014

    Hilarious portraits of low information voters

    Oleg Atbashian, proprietor of The People's Cube, has outdone himself with a graphic presentation on low information voters. You can see a sample below, but read the whole thing here.   ...

  • January 23, 2014

    Texas executes Mexican national over protests from Mexico and John Kerry

    Edgar Tamayo, 46, met his maker last night, executed by lethal injection for the cold-blooded murder of a Houston police officer. The government of Mexico strongly protested the execution because Tamayo had not been informed of his right to receive c...

  • January 22, 2014

    Bombshell sworn allegation against Tim Geithner

    If anyone thinks "Bridgegate" is an example of political bullying and abuse of power, then the sworn (under penalty of perjury) allegation of a corporate heavy hitter against Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner is off the charts. Bloomberg Bu...

  • January 22, 2014

    Greenies and their twisted sense of risk

    One of the latest badges of greenie virtue is the mini-car. Supposedly, if you drive one of these contraptions, you demonstrate your concern for Mother Gaia and help diminish the risk that catastrophic global warming will engulf low lying coastal are...

  • January 20, 2014

    Wendy Davis, unmasked

    It is not exactly a surprise that the latest feminist political icon, Texas state Senator Wendy Davis, turns out to be a phony and an exploiter.  Davis, you may recall, rocketed to progressive superstardom by conducting an ultimately futile fili...

  • January 20, 2014

    Poor Obama! People have turned against him because he's black

    That tattered, dog-eared race card has been hauled out once again by President Obama, to explain-away his decline in public esteem to Nixonian levels. Bloomberg and the New York Post both pick up on a nugget buried in David Reminick's hagiographic, e...

  • January 20, 2014

    EU backing away from warmist agenda

    The persistent failure of the earth's weather to fulfill the catastrophic predictions of the warmist climate modelers for the last 17 years is taking its toll. So, too, the extreme cost of reducing those carbon emissions that have increased dramatica...

  • January 20, 2014

    Fracking foes crassly bought support of Indian chief

    The enemies of the fracking revolution have deep pockets, and they are willing to spend big if a propaganda point can be made. And who better to rail against what they see as the rape of the earth than a chief of a tribe of indigenous people? Thus, w...

  • January 19, 2014

    Reports of Obama marital strife break out of the National Enquirer ghetto

    For the past couple of weeks, the National Enquirer has been publishing prominent stories claiming that the marriage of President and Mrs. Obama is in deep trouble, and that after his term in office is over, she will file divorce papers. Because the ...

  • January 19, 2014

    Technology deals another blow to abortion supporters

    One of the reasons abortion is losing support among the American people is the improvement in fetal imaging. The ability to see the "clump of cells" or "tissue mass" on a screen is enough to convince many people that a real human being lives inside t...

  • January 19, 2014

    Did Snowden have help from Russian spies?

    In what is either an explosive revelation or a reckless charge, the Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee is suggesting on Meet the Press today that Edward Snowden had help from Russian spies. Joel Gehrke of The Examiner writes: National Se...

  • January 19, 2014

    Voting with their feet against China

    Wealthy Chinese are implicitly rebuking mush-headed admirers of their dictatorship such as Thomas Friedman of the New York Times and UN climate change officials.  CNBC reports: Do the wealthy Chinese know something we don't? A new report shows...

  • January 18, 2014

    Muslim Brotherhood delegation allowed to skip airport inspections entering the United States

    The United States Department of State under Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama offered VIP treatment to a delegation of Muslim Brotherhood representatives entering the United States in April 2012. We know this thanks to the efforts of Steve Emerson's I...

  • January 18, 2014

    Obama's NSA Speech: More mush from the proto-tyrant

    Yesterday, President Obama delivered a speech to an audience at the Justice Department on NSA telephone spying that, in typical fashion, said very little of substance but sounded nice until you paid attention. Almost every change announced included a...

  • January 17, 2014

    Arab League kills UNESCO exhibit

    If there was ever any doubt that the United Nations is a craven political entity, this disturbing news should end it. From Dovid Efune of The Algemeiner: UNESCO, the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization, has pu...

  • January 17, 2014

    'Core Al Qaeda' nonsense: The Big Mac problem

    Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have a huge problem explaining away the lies about Benghazi, and they are digging themselves an ever-deeper hole. Underlying all of this is a presidential election that was fraudulently won by perpetrating a lie, that...

  • January 16, 2014

    White women cut out of affirmative action preferences

    The Washington State Department of Transportation may be deciding that white women are no longer victims deserving of affirmative action preferences in awarding contracts. KING TV Seattle reports: WSDOT hired a consultant to conducta disparity stud...

  • January 16, 2014

    Students against diversity

    Did you hear about the students at a famous university who have gotten upset because a member of a small racial minority there was pictured in an ad directed at the student body? For some reason, the national media doesn't find this anti-diversity po...

  • January 16, 2014

    Amazon workers vote to reject union

    Let's face it: unions are dying, at least in the private sector, which is where the movement originated. The only source of growth is among government employees, where competitive pressures do not exist, and where, to be frank, unions should be prohi...

  • January 15, 2014

    The Democrats' 'Bridgegate' trap

    The glee with which the Democrat media and political classes have jumped on the actions of staffers of Governor Chris Christie apparently punishing the public as a means of punishing his political enemies is going to come back to haunt them. At least...

  • January 15, 2014

    Warmists' desperation is showing

    The spectacle of a ship of warmist fools trapped in the very Antarctic ice that they posited was melting away has so seriously damaged the cause that signs of panic are setting in. The problem the warmists face is that they have no new tactics. The e...

  • January 15, 2014

    Nothing to worry about with the NSA?

    Do you feel that democracy is slipping away? If not, consider three  new  stories out this morning. David Sanger and Thom Shanker of the New York Times: The National Security Agency has implanted software in nearly 100,000 computers arou...

  • January 15, 2014

    Putting Dems on the defensive over insurance company bailout

    Congressional Republicans are acting on a plan, first suggested by Charles Krauthammer, to foreclose the possibility of a massive bailout of the health care insurance industry. Such a bailout now appears very likely, thanks to the fact that older and...

  • January 15, 2014

    Bombshell bipartisan Senate report: Benghazi was preventable

    A bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee report on Benghazi has just been released, and it is worse news for Hillary Clinton than Bridgegate is for Chris Christie. Adam Goldman and Anne Gearan of the Washington Post report: The bipartisan report ...

  • January 14, 2014

    Obama: 'Give peace a chance' with Iran

    Who said the 1960's are over? The president of the United States is conducting high stakes nuclear diplomacy with an apocalyptic cult bent on Armageddon on the basis of mush-headed, pot-influenced slogans coined by John Lennon. Caleb Howe of The Righ...

  • January 14, 2014

    Sarah Palin's father harassed by IRS six times since 2008

    The problems with a politicized IRS may be far more serious than we have yet suspected. Sarah Palin's brother Chuck Heath, Jr. posted the following on his Facebook account January 11th:  My father, who worked multiple jobs and faithfully and ...

  • January 14, 2014

    Obamacare may kill Brick Williams

    Jim Hoft of Gateway Pundit highlights the story of his friend Brick Williams, who is missing lifesaving treatments because of Obamacare: My friend Brick Williams has a genetic immune deficiency disorder that requires a weekly blood transfusion so h...

  • January 13, 2014

    Does this disgusting crime have a name?

    Until recently, rape was the only way a man who wanted to sire large numbers of children with women who did not volunteer to be their mothers could spread his seed. History is full of examples of conquerors engaging in mass rape as a means of conques...

  • January 13, 2014

    Islamic fashion statement

    Thanks to the University of Michigan's Population Studies Center, we have a fairly accurate sense of what the Muslin world thinks is appropriate dress for a woman, and it ain't pretty. On purpose. Daniel Pipes describes the results at NRO: A survey...

  • January 13, 2014

    When the Commander-in-Chief is a narcissist

    No wonder the media are pushing the Chris Christie bridge story so hard; the revelations about President Obama's conduct in office in Robert Gates's new book are frightening. America's national security is in the hands of a flat-out self-obsessed nar...

  • January 12, 2014

    Liberal self-congratulation: hilarious, sad, and a little frightening

    A new breed of website has sprung up, powered by social media, in which liberals congratulate themselves, and attempt to provide spiritual instruction on improving the world through their ideology. Bookworm chronicles two of them, in a fascinating po...

  • January 11, 2014

    The Obama Jobs Index

    The official unemployment rate has become a joke, what with massive numbers of people dropping out of the workforce and therefore becoming invisible. The latest report of a decline in unemployment in the face of a pathetic 74,000 new jobs indicates t...

  • January 11, 2014

    Avoiding single-payer as Obamacare collapses

    There are many analysts on both ends of the political spectrum who see Obamacare as a stalking horse for single-payer, Canadian-style government-run healthcare. The latest person to warn of this is none other than Scott Serota, head of the Blue Cross...

  • January 10, 2014

    Bad timing for the Christie scandal?

    Historically, the Democrat-media complex prefers that the GOP commit to a presidential nominee before bringing out the high caliber ammunition. But in the case of Christ Christie, the Dems are intent on destroying the New Jersey governor in plenty of...

  • January 8, 2014

    Top Saudi lets the cat out of the bag

    It is worthy paying close attention when a certain Saudi prince speaks his mind.  Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal is sometimes described as the most powerful Arab in the world, thanks to his enormous wealth, business acumen, and influence in the Saudi...

  • January 8, 2014

    An incomparable strategic weapon for the United States

    See also: Top Saudi lets the cat out of the bag As Russia prepares to strut its stuff before the world at the 2014 Sochi Olympics, the economic foundation of Russian power and prosperity is crumbling, thanks to a strategic weapon developed by the Uni...

  • January 7, 2014

    Al Gore's Nightmare Intensifies

    It's been a tough week for warmists, and it is getting worse. The spectacle of the Ship of Warmist Fools stuck in Antarctic ice they expected to see melting, and then their rescuers getting stuck in ice, was bad enough. But then the East and Midwest ...

  • January 7, 2014

    Why is there no Benghazi Special Committee?

    The 9/11 12 attack on the Benghazi Diplomatic Facility is a deep stain on America, and the Obama administration, with the cooperation of media allies like the New York Times, is determined to dismiss it from public consciousness. That's understandabl...

  • January 7, 2014

    Canada's former Defense Minister says that aliens exist and walk among us

    I have always been agnostic on the subject of UFOs and alien intelligent beings visiting earth. For one thing, there is no definitive proof one way or another. For another, it is far more amusing that way, especially since there are so many entertain...

  • January 7, 2014

    The first ex-cabinet secretary to attack Obama writes his memoir

    Robert Gates, Barack Obama's first Secretary of Defense and a holdover from the Bush cabinet, has written a book that reveals his deep dismay over the leadership provided by the 44th president. Bob Woodward provides a preview of the book, which will ...

  • January 6, 2014

    Yet another Obamacare deadline fudged

    Has there ever been a law whose provisions are so illegally, willfully and blatantly ignored, suspended, or changed? It is a measure of the incompetence and hubris of the Obamacare architects that so much of the law has been illegally rewritten on th...

  • January 6, 2014

    Catholic woman awaiting execution for blasphemy under sharia pleads with Pope Francis for support

    Pope Francis has declared that "authentic Islam and the proper reading of the Koran are opposed to every form of violence," but the religious and civil authorities in Pakistan, the second most populous Islamic state, seem to disagree. Asia Bibi, a Ca...

  • January 6, 2014

    Following the money in De Blasio's horse-drawn carriage ban

    Many people, including the New York Times' editorial page editor, found it puzzling that one of New York's leftist mayor Bill De Blasio's first priorities was ridding the city of one of its iconic diversions, the horse-drawn carriages at Central Park...

  • January 6, 2014

    FBI quietly drops 'law enforcement' as its primary mission

    Without any fanfare, "law enforcement" has been dropped from its status as the FBI's primary mission. John Hudson reports on The Cable blog of Foreign Policy: The FBI's creeping advance into the world of counterterrorism is nothing new. But quietl...

  • January 5, 2014

    Obama's winter vacation hypocrisy

    Is Barack Obama entirely lacking in self-awareness, or does he simply think that his intended audience will believe anything he says? Maybe both. Otherwise it is hard to explain away the obvious irony inherent in a president from Hawaii on a long win...

  • January 5, 2014

    Has Melissa Harris-Perry learned anything?

    As tearful on-air apologies go, Melissa Harris-Perry's performance yesterday on MSNBC was pretty good. It looked sincere, and if it was just an act, then the lady may have a future in drama. (For background on what she apologized for see this.) But t...

  • January 5, 2014

    Barack gives Michelle a magnificent birthday present

    Kudos to President Obama for giving his wife a birthday present we all can envy, indeed covet. CBS News reports: President Barack Obama is going to give his wife the birthday present that many parents can only dream of - time off, alone, without th...

  • January 4, 2014

    New York Times comes out in favor of hunting

    The gun-hating, anti-hunting liberals at the New York Times editorial board are all in favor of hunting as long as the targets are deer whose exploding population is making life miserable for the rich and famous in the Hamptons. In a year-end editori...

  • January 4, 2014

    Ship of Warmist Fools

    Warmist dupes and true believers in the media are having a very hard time with the hilarious spectacle of a ship of literal fools who were so deluded by the warmist cult as to believe it was safe to venture into the Antarctic waters in a vessel that ...

  • January 3, 2014

    Another ObamaCare screw-up

    Who could have predicted that people would have babies and want to add them to their health insurance? Not the geniuses who are so smart that they could take over and redesign one sixth of the American economy.  Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar of the AP...

  • January 3, 2014

    Execution, North Korea-style

    If a report in a Chinese newspaper closely connected to the North Korean regime is to be believed, Kim Jong-un had his uncle (and former mentor) executed by stripping him naked and putting him in a cage with a hundred and twenty dogs that had been st...

  • January 2, 2014

    Thank Gaia for carbon

    The spectacle of wealthy environmentalists trapped in Antarctic ice on a mission to demonstrate the ravages of purported global warming is both hilarious and edifying.  Alas, the participants themselves are just about the only ones not getting t...

  • January 2, 2014

    Chart of the Century

    The Carpe Diem blog of The American Enterprise Institute has published what it calls the, "Chart of the greatest and most remarkable achievement in human history, and one you probably never heard about." Mark J. Perry writes: Everybody's featuring...

  • January 1, 2014

    Taking organic food too damn far

    Everything in moderation we are advised, and that would seem to be the case with organic food. This, from Sarah Nassauer of the Wall Street Journal, makes the case rather conclusively: While eating her lunch-time salad, a Wall Street Journal employ...

  • January 1, 2014

    Four injunctions against the Obamacare contraceptive mandate yesterday

    Is this some kind of record? On the last day of 2013 four different federal appeals courts issued temporary injunctions against enforcement of the Obamacare contraceptive mandate. The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals acted on two different cases, Michi...

  • January 1, 2014

    The biggest Obamacare whopper of all

    President Obama told an even bigger lie than his promises about keeping your insurance and doctor, if you like them. And Politifcat already has a leading candidate for the biggest lie of 2014. Betsy McCaughey explains in the New York Post why his wor...

  • December 31, 2013

    A deep sickness on race on MSNBC and CNN (updated - apology issued)

    It used to be unacceptable for national news shows to broadcast race hatred as commentary. No longer. So extreme is the loathing of white Republicans that black commentators on two cable news channels have uttered patently ridiculous and shameful com...

  • December 30, 2013

    Left is getting desperate over Pajama Boy

    The palpable embarrassment of the Left over Obamacare has led to an odd and disturbing reaction. Following the creation of the now-infamous Pajama Boy tweet from Barackobama.com (aka Obama for America, aka Organizing for Action), embodying so much th...

  • December 30, 2013

    CNN signs up for Obamacare propaganda barrage

    Pay no attention to those people whining about losing their insurance; all is well with Obamacare. That is the essence of the propaganda campaign just launched with the help of CNN. Jim Hoft of Gateway Pundit spotted the launch of the offensive: La...

  • December 30, 2013

    Obama parties hearty in Hawaii

    Saturday was a financial ordeal for Skydive Hawaii owner Frank Hinshaw. President Obama and his family attended a barbecue at the oceanfront house of his Punahou School pal Bobby Titcomb on the North Shore of Oahu. That meant that Skydive Hawaii, bas...

  • December 30, 2013

    Obama idolater to teach 'humility'

    David Brooks is a New York Times columnist, an occupation not much noted for the quality of humility. But Brooks has known humiliation first hand. He was the first prominent conservative (as he was known at the time, in fact the Times' resident token...

  • December 30, 2013

    What the media isn't telling you about that ice-bound ship

    Call the irony police. You've probably been hearing a lot about that "cruise ship" stuck in the ice off the coast of Antarctica, especially now that two icebreakers have been frustrated in their attempts to rescue the 74 occupants. But until this mor...

  • December 30, 2013

    Nanny staters find a new cause on the 'inequality' front

    Here comes another excuse for the government to take over child-rearing responsibilities from parents. All in the name of the best of intentions.  NPR (who else?) reports on the "word gap": In the early 1990s, a team of researchers decided to ...

  • December 29, 2013

    Politifact's pants on fire

    One of the favorite propaganda organs of the left is self-appointed "fact checkers" which exist to damage conservative spokesmen and talking points. One of several such institutions is Politifact.  In order to maintain some shred of credibility,...

  • December 29, 2013

    DNC sends out email warning of Obama impeachment

    Guilty conscience? More likely, just a device to open the pocketbooks of Democrat donors. But nevertheless it is quite a sign of the times that the Democratic National Committee is raising the specter of impeachment as a means of urging financial sup...

  • December 28, 2013

    Yet another Obama bungle: Turkey

    Barack Obama bet big on Turkey becoming an anchor of stability and democracy in the Middle East. And he is losing. As David Goldman writes at PJM: Obama went out of his way to make Erdogan his principal pal in foreign policy. I have been ridiculing...

  • December 28, 2013

    Some occupied territories are more equal than others

    The European Union is being challenged to explain why it treats Israel's "occupation" of (its homeland) territories in the West Bank differently from Morocco's occupation of Western Sahara and Turkey's occupation of Northern Cyprus. Raphael Ahren of ...

  • December 27, 2013

    The War on Vitamins

    Hundreds of millions of people around the world (including me) take daily doses of vitamins because we find that they help our energy, our immune system, our cognition, and other benefits we perceive. But for reasons about which I can only speculate,...

  • December 27, 2013

    More science fraud

    When big money for scientific research is at stake, as it so often is when federal government funding is on offer - especially for trendy topics with powerful constituencies (as in AIDS and global warming climate change) - corruption is to be expecte...

  • December 26, 2013

    Obamacare so sloppily drafted that US Territories may be unable to have health insurance

    The geniuses who foisted Obamacare on the public have another embarrassing failure on their hands. In drafting Obamacare, they left US Territories such as Guam, the Northern Marianas, and the Virgin Islands in an unsustainable limbo, covered by some ...

  • December 26, 2013

    Think the Middle East is dangerous? Check out Northeast Asia

    Northeast Asia is starting to look uncomfortably like a tinderbox, and Japan's Prime Minister Abe is playing with matches. While I have assumed for decades that the Middle East had the greatest potential to ignite a catastrophic world war, Japan, Chi...

  • December 26, 2013

    GOP Establishment's war on its base

    A political party blessed with a large, enthusiastic, and active base is planning a war against that very base. They don't call it "The Stupid Party" for nothing. Neil King, Jr. and Patrick O'Connell report for the Wall Street Journal: Republican l...

  • December 24, 2013

    No, the GOP's 'civil war' is not about 'tactics'

    The struggle between the GOP Establishment and its conservative base is often even bitterer than the Republican-Democrat contest. Civil wars are like that: differences among people who ought to be on the same side engender a special kind of anger. Th...

  • December 23, 2013

    Susan Rice calls blaming Benghazi on the Mohammed video a 'false controversy'

    The Obama administration Benghazi stonewall continues to add boulders, as inner circle member Susan Rice parroted the "nothing to see here, move along" line on 60 Minutes last night: Susan Rice: I don't have time to think about a false controversy....

  • December 23, 2013

    Merry Christmas from our Muslim friends in Canada

    Right at holiday time, a Muslim "charity" in Toronto has started a highly offensive advertising campaign in the Toronto subway declaring Jesus is no God. Just for a micro-second, imagine what hell would break loose if a Christian group on the eve of ...

  • December 22, 2013

    Bizarro Lake Woebegon

    Welcome to Camden, New Jersey, where the new superintendent of schools recently announced that only three students in the public school system who took the SAT tests in the 2011-12 academic year scored high enough to qualify as college-ready, accordi...

  • December 22, 2013

    Oregon Obamacare fail

    The Oregon state health insurance exchange is all but admitting failure and sending Oregonians elsewhere for insurance.  Oregonlive.com writes: Oregon's troubled health insurance exchange began robocalling applicants Friday, warning them that ...

  • December 22, 2013

    The Fall of NBC News

    It seems that turning itself into an Obama lapdog has not worked out too well for NBC News.  The once-respected and prosperous news organization is facing cutbacks and an alienated staff. Claire Atkinson of the New York Post writes: NBC News ...

  • December 21, 2013

    Was Pajama Boy a set-up?

    Megan McArdle of Bloomberg thinks that opponents of ObamaCare are being played by Organizing for Action (aka America for Obama, aka barackobama.com). The goal of the tweet was, in her view, to rile up the right, in order to cause the left to rally ar...

  • December 21, 2013

    Major gay media figure says gays should practice toleration for Duck Dynasty's Robertson

    Kudos to Harvey Levin, founder of TMZ, and therefore a major media figure. Speaking with Greta Van Susteren last night on Fox News Channel, he came out against GLAAD's pressure to get Phil Robertson suspended from A&E's Duck Dynasty. In an earlie...

  • December 21, 2013

    Foreign airlines stop selling tickets in Venezuelan currency

    Venezuela's economic implosion is creating yet another crisis for the Marxist regime. Ever since the late Hugo Chavez instituted drastic foreign exchange restrictions, the difference between the official value of the nation's currency, the bolivar, a...

  • December 21, 2013

    A bleak White House Christmas card this year

    The Obama family this year sent out what must be the most depressing White House Christmas card of all time. Not only is there no mention of God or Jesus, or anything vaguely religious, the aesthetics of the thing are downright depressing. Start with...

  • December 21, 2013

    NY Times admits Obamacare will cause middle class suffering -- more than a year after the election

    The mainstream media follows the New York Times' lead in deciding what is and isn't news. Hardly an editor or news director anywhere in the country lacks a subscription to the Gray Lady. So, when the Times practiced omerta about the downsides of Obam...

  • December 19, 2013

    Abortion rate down again

    Conservatives may despair at losing the culture wars, but there are bright spots where persuasion is working. No doubt aided by the improvements in fetal imaging as well as studies revealing the ability to feel pain and respond in utero, Americans ar...

  • December 19, 2013

    Americans see big government as biggest threat

    The only way that the Democrats, the party of big government, can win elections is by demonizing Republicans as mean, stupid racists, and by lying about their own beliefs and intentions. That is the logical conclusion to draw from the consistent poll...

  • December 19, 2013

    Christianity on trial in Duck Dynasty controversy

    America may be on the verge of a long-needed discussion over the limits of discourse on homosexual acts. Phil Robertson, patriarch of the family that stars in Duck Dynasty, the most popular program in the history of cable television, was interviewed ...

  • December 19, 2013

    How's that gun-free zone working out for Starbucks?

    Three months ago, Starbucks' CEO Howard Schultz proudly announced a gun-free zone policy for his company's stores. Few topics in America generate a more polarized and emotional debate than guns. In recent months, Starbucks stores and our partners (...

  • December 19, 2013

    Warmist fundamentalists ban dissent

    First the Los Angeles Times, and now the popular website Reddit have banned critical comments on global warming orthodoxy in responses to their articles. Giuseppe Macri of The Daily Caller reports: A content editor on Reddit's science forum wrote M...

  • December 18, 2013

    Retirement opens the door to Congress for Mia Love

    See also: House retirements present problems for both parties Ever since she delivered an electrifying  four minute speech at the 21012 Republican National Convention on the importance of self-reliance and entrepreneurship  (video here...

  • December 18, 2013

    Barbara Walters on Obama: 'We Thought He was Going to be the Next Messiah'

    Has the cult of Obama seen its first media apostate? When false gods are seen to fail, their believers turn against them. There seems to be the beginning of something like this happening to Barack Obama, who promised to halt the rise of the oceans an...

  • December 18, 2013

    Tech execs disappointed in their meeting with Obama

    As his presidency sinks in popularity faster than George W. Bush's, Barack Obama is discovering that key constituencies are disappointed with him, and in danger of turning against him. Along with the media, high tech played a major role in achieving ...

  • December 17, 2013

    Creepiest Obama story yet just got creepier

    Rick Moran called the hanging of a huge Barack Obama portrait at the US Embassy in London the "Creepiest Obama story yet" yesterday. But it gets worse. Check out the size and placement (hat tip: Weasel Zippers) of the portrait, a tapestry by renowned...

  • December 17, 2013

    Snowden seeking asylum in Brazil

    Edward Snowden apparently has discovered that Moscow in December is not quite as comfortable as his previous digs in Hawaii.  So he is requesting asylum in Brazil, in an "open letter to the people of Brazil," published today in the Brazilian new...

  • December 17, 2013

    GM president to taxpayers: Thanks, suckers!

    The outgoing president of General Motors has said that the company will not consider compensating taxpayers for the $10 billion losses incurred in rescuing his company. Todd Spangler of the Detroit Free Press (via USA Today): The General Motors bai...

  • December 17, 2013

    Despicable: Dem group sends gotcha tracker to funeral

    Progressives understand very well that they cannot be honest about their political agenda, and that in order to win they need to demonize Republicans. This systematic program includes generalized propaganda (Republicans are mean! Republicans are raci...

  • December 17, 2013

    LA police break up hotel brawl involving over 1000 people

    Does the Guinness Book of Records have a category for drunken brawls? If so, perhaps this event qualifies. Q. McCray of KABC TV reports: Police say a holiday charity event turned into a brawl involving more than 1,000 people at the Radisson Hotel n...

  • December 16, 2013

    Gun control epic fail in Colorado school shooting

    The gun grabbers have got a lot of explaining to do in the wake of the Arapaho High School shooting. Colorado's new gun control laws, which sparked a landmark recall but remain on the books, failed to stop Karl Pierson from buying the shotgun he used...

  • December 16, 2013

    NPR trying hard to take race out of Knockout Game

    Our taxpayer-subsidized national radio network NPR faces a difficult task in covering the nationwide outbreak of unprovoked attacks by young black males. The result is a sad, yet hilarious segment, whose transcript is found here, suggesting we call t...

  • December 16, 2013

    Polling reveals even worse news for Obama

    The extent of the Obamacare disaster is coming into focus with a new poll by Associated Press-GfK. Democrat hopes that the much-touted "fixes" to the healthcare.gov website would begin to turn around public perceptions of Obamacare are being dashed. ...

  • December 16, 2013

    Robert Reich and the politics of envy

    Kevin Williamson pens a devastating takedown of Robert Reich, one of the most annoyingly self-righteous left-liberals in the Democrat-academia-media firmament. Robert Reich [who has] practically made a cult of envy, has taken to abusing the we...

  • December 16, 2013

    Prosecutors demand at least 30 months in prison for fraud by EPA's highest-paid employee, a global warming expert

    What do you call a prison term for a top EPA global warming expert convicted of fraud? How about a good start? In this instance, the fraud is not the global warming con game, but rather the selling of a ludicrous tale of working for the CIA, and char...

  • December 14, 2013

    Hanoi Jane's charity scandal

    Oops! The Jane Fonda Foundation, a charitable foundation, has not made a single charitable contribution during the last five years, a violation of Internal Revenue Service rules. The Smoking Gun has the story: According to the Jane Fonda Foundatio...

  • December 14, 2013

    Hilarious: NYC artists and independent professionals realize ObamaCare targets them

    The New York Times is wringing its hands over the damage being done to the city's artists and independent professionals by Obamacare. The sort of people who worship at the altar of Obama and who regard the Times and its editorial pronouncements (incl...

  • December 14, 2013

    A plague of Kennedys

    Ready or not, a "tsunami" of young Kennedys is headed our way. Charlotte Rudge of Yahoo Shine informs us: "Know what?"  Robert Kennedy, Jr.said at a 2011 fundraiser. "There are 85 cousins in the fourth generation. About half of them say th...

  • December 13, 2013

    Stunner: Ed Schultz receiving big bucks from unions

    Does MSNBC know that one of its hosts is receiving large amounts of money form an interest group whose political activities he covers? Does the network have any journalistic ethics guidelines at all? Elisha Krauss of truthrevolt.org presents the res...

  • December 13, 2013

    White House desperation on Iran deal

    Somebody leaned hard on Steny Hoyer, the second-ranking Democrat in the House of Representatives, and possible successor to Nancy Pelosi. As Minority Whip, the Maryland Democrat is in charge of marshalling votes, keeping his party members in line. So...

  • December 13, 2013

    HHS goes lawless, flailing around as Obamacare deadline looms

    "Nice little insurance company you've got there. Be a shame if anything happened to it."  In essence, that's the message just delivered to the health care insurance industry. Panicking, they're just making it up as they go along, under pressure ...

  • December 13, 2013

    Union bosses playing chicken with Boeing on jobs

    The bosses of the International Association of Machinists & Aerospace Workers District 751, representing the Washington State workers at Boeing would rather jeopardize thousands of jobs than accept a 401k-style pension instead of a guaranteed pen...

  • December 12, 2013

    Obama's Syria dithering has led to disaster

    Barack Obama has a new foreign policy disaster on his record, this time in Syria. Having dithered as a revolt against Iran's ally built, he allowed Islamists to stream in and take over the opposition. Then he destroyed his and America's credibility w...

  • December 12, 2013

    Yeah, that'll help

    Michelle Obama tries to improve her image. Emily Goodin of The Hill reports: Michelle Obama will have a new spokeswoman next year, the first lady's office announced on Wednesday. After almost two and a half years with the first lady, Hannah August...

  • December 12, 2013

    Megyn Kelly, superstar

    The liberal media starts to take the measure of a media figure they must be afraid of. Make that very, very afraid. Dan Zak of the Washington Post has a long and interesting article on Megyn Kelly, whose new show on Fox News Channel has become a majo...

  • December 11, 2013

    Iran's sanctions relief reportedly worth $20 billion, not 6 or 7

    The Geneva cave-in to Iran on its nuclear weapons program is turning out to be even worse than we knew. In addition to ratifying Iran's claim to have a right to a nuclear enrichment program and permitting the centrifuges to spin, the doors have been ...

  • December 10, 2013

    Voting fraud in Iowa

    One of the talking points of the left in fighting identity verification for voting is the contention that there is "no evidence" of voter fraud. Well, how about this? Shellie Nelson of WQAD: Two people face criminal charges for allegedly registeri...

  • December 10, 2013

    Obamacare allies giving up on White House leadership

    The political collapse of Barack Obama continues apace, with his own allies in the Democratic Party  starting to give up on him.  Now comes news that Obamacare supporters outside the party have decided to take matters in their own hands, ra...

  • December 10, 2013

    IRS terminates audit of Bill Elliott

    Yesterday, AT publicized the IRS audit and planned visit to Obamacare whistleblower Bill Elliott. Today comes news via C. Steven Tucker and iOwnTheWorld.com that: Just found out from Bill that his IRS audit has now been TERMINATED thanks to the he...

  • December 9, 2013

    Hilarious: MSNBC host likens word 'ObamaCare' to n-word

    MSNBC is the gift that keeps on giving, serving up propaganda intended to benefit the far left, but which in its absurdity repels people grounded in reality. Now, one of its hosts, Melissa Harris-Perry, already familiar to AT readers for her theater ...

  • December 9, 2013

    More evidence Obama is in serious trouble with his own party

    The old media won't tell you so, but President Obama is facing a revolt from within his own political party. It was bound to happen once the dimensions of the ObamaCare disaster started to become obvious. Yesterday, I pointed out that Charles Rangel ...

  • December 8, 2013

    Intel adviser resigns; was being paid by Chinese firm

    Well, this is disquieting. Steven Braun of the Associated Press reports: A longtime adviser to the U.S. Director of National Intelligence has resigned after the government learned he has worked since 2010 as a paid consultant for Huawei Technologie...

  • December 8, 2013

    Obama's Democrat enemies

    I claim no special insider knowledge of the Democratic Party's inner workings, but still I am rather certain that discontent with President Obama is bubbling beneath the veneer of public unity behind the Nation's First Black President. The unfolding ...

  • December 7, 2013

    Friday afternoon news dump: healthcare.gov enrollment catastrophe

    More Obamacare bad news being buried with a Friday aftrenoon release.  Susan Crabtree of the Washington Examiner: After refusing for weeks to detail the extent of back-end problems with healthcare.gov, the Obama administration on Friday said a...

  • December 7, 2013

    Ted Cruz and Mike Lee being vindicated on shutdown

    The GOP establishment is loath to admit it, but the government shutdown is turning out to be a brilliant political chess move on the part of Senators Ted Cruz and Mike Lee. The Obamacare disaster, fully predictable by anyone who understands the effec...

  • December 6, 2013

    Hilarious: New Jersey's middle finger to Obamacare

    The poor, pathetic Democrats trying to defend Obamacare have adopted the talking point that there is "pent-up demand" for "affordable" (i.e., subsidized by other people) health care insurance. The citrizens of the Garden State have just flipped the b...

  • December 6, 2013

    Obama bundler sees opportunity in healthcare.gov failure

    I will say one thing for bigtime Obama bundler James Chanos: he doesn't let his politics get in the way of making money. Lachlan Markay of the Washington Free Beacon reports: James Chanos made his fortune by short-selling companies before the value...

  • December 5, 2013

    Average grade at Harvard is A-

    Life is very, very good for the select few who gain entrance to Harvard University as undergraduates. Thanks to Harvey Mansfield, the very rarest of phenomena, an outspokenly conservative member of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the world now know...

  • December 5, 2013

    Is Bill Ayers getting ready to fess up on writing Dreams from My Father?

    There are signs building that the unrepentant terrorist Bill Ayers is getting ready to confirm what AT contributor Jack Cashill demonstrated years ago: he was the actual author of Barack Obama's first purported autobiography, Dreams from My Father. I...

  • December 5, 2013

    Nelson Mandela, R.I.P.

    South Africa's essential man, Nelson Mandela, passed away Thursday night, South African time, after a long illness. His nation and the world will mourn his passing, but more importantly, celebrate his life. The mainstream media are already full of th...

  • December 4, 2013

    CNN commentator 'can live with' Obama's lies

    Barack Obama's term in office is the first postmodern presidency, in which there are no truths, only narratives. So the truthfulness of his promises on keeping your health insurance and doctor matters not at all - and some are willing to say so expli...

  • December 4, 2013

    Healthcare.gov can't calculate subsidies, so will pay insurance companies whatever they ask for

    The federal government is dumping the consequences of its Obamacare website failures onto the private sector health insurance companies. The private sector is now expected to scramble and under severe time pressure do what the feds couldn't in the th...

  • December 3, 2013

    Surprise! Guess who loves the Iran deal?

    The Communist Party of the USA is providing some very interesting signals lately. Yesterday, I blogged about CPUSA Chairman Sam Webb offering advice on Obamacare that looks eerily familiar to what we have heard from the DPUSA - the Democratic Party. ...

  • December 3, 2013

    Hillary under water in shocking new poll

    The news keeps getting worse and worse for the Democratic Party as it contemplates 2014 and 2016. The congressional wing of the part finds itself strapped to Obamacare, a disaster that promises to anger voters even more next year than this, with tens...

  • December 3, 2013

    Barackobama.com urges Newtown anniversary parties

    Organizing for Action (OFA), which lives at the web address barackobama.com because it is an outgrowth of the Obama presidential campaigns, is shamelessly seeking to exploit the deaths of school children at the hands of a maniac in Newtown, CT. ...

  • December 3, 2013

    American education's race to the bottom

    The Department of Education spends billions of dollars annually, and touts phase three of its "race to the top," but the sad fact is that based on testing results, American education is on a race to the bottom. We spend more than any other nation on ...

  • December 3, 2013

    Federal judge allows Detroit bankruptcy, including pension cuts

    Federal Judge Steven Rhodes has ruled that the City of Detroit is eligible for bankruptcy protection, despite the heated opposition of creditors, including "the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, the United Auto Workers, De...

  • December 2, 2013

    White House calls Netanyahu 'desperate and weak'

    Israeli television reporters spoke with unnamed White House officials and they were extremely harsh in condemning Prime Minister Netanyahu. Israelnationalnews.com reports (hat tips: Gateway Pundit and Free Republic): Senior officials in the White H...

  • December 2, 2013

    GOP Senate takeover: Just what the doctor ordered?

    No fewer than 11 medical doctors are running for GOP nominations in forthcoming Senate elections. The underlying logic as Obamacare wrecks the medical system is strong. Alexandra Jaffee of The Hill writes: Eleven Republican doctors are running for ...

  • December 2, 2013

    Arctic ice cap grows 29% in one year

    Global warming hysterics at the BBC warned us in 2007 that by summer 2013, the Arctic would be ice-free. As with so many other doomsday predictions by warmists, the results turn out to be quite the opposite. The UK Daily Mail reports: A chilly Arct...

  • December 2, 2013

    In order to claim progress, Feds finally admit how bad healthcare.gov was

    Like someone who has been cheating on his diet but claims he is doing better because he only ate 6 double cheeseburgers with bacon last week, the Department of Health and Human Services is fessing up how bad the Obamacare website was, to demonstrate ...

  • December 2, 2013

    Obama admits to profiling!

    President Obama publicly claimed he could tell where immigrants are not from America by looking at their faces, and the media mostly ignored this startling confession of profiling. But not Andrew Malcolm of Investor's Business Daily: "As I was gett...

  • December 2, 2013

    Top American communist speaks out on Obamacare

    It turns out that in the politics of Obamacare, as in sports, you can't tell the players without a scorecard. The invaluable Trevor Loudon spotted Communist Party USA Chairman Sam Webb giving advice that looks awfully...familiar. Communist Party US...

  • December 2, 2013

    Obama's home town by the numbers

    Chicago, which has some of the toughest gun control laws in America, had a rough November. Despite the cold weather, it was a popular month for shooting. The website heyjackass.com has collected the final November totals: Shot & Killed: 23 ...

  • December 1, 2013

    Income, IQ, and Effort

    Liberal media bon pensants are in a huff over remarks delivered by London's Mayor Boris Johnson suggesting that IQ and effort have something to do with income. See, for example, Steven Erlanger of The New York Times: Boris Johnson, the flamboyant, ...

  • November 30, 2013

    Speak about ObamaCare, get audited

    In what would be an astounding coincidence if it isn't evidence of IRS targeting those who embarrass ObamaCare, two people suddenly find themselves being audited by the IRS. Bill Elliott, a cancer patient who lost his insurance thanks to ObamaCare an...

  • November 30, 2013

    Sellout to Iran at Geneva worse than sellout to Hitler at Munich

    It was startling enough to hear a comparison of the Geneva accord with Iran to the Munich accord with Hitler, widely blamed for paving the way for WW II. But there is a good argument to be made that Geneva was actually worse.  Mark Steyn in NRO:...

  • November 30, 2013

    Cultural Chauvinism at the University of Colorado (updated)

    The University of Colorado at Boulder is known for being one of the most politically correct campuses in the United States, particularly when it comes to Native American cultures. Academic poseur Ward Churchill thrived there for many years claiming N...

  • November 30, 2013

    Crime rate plunges after city dumps unionized police

    Camden, New Jersey dumped its unionized police force last spring, unable to afford the lucrative union contract the city was stuck with, and instead contracted for police services with the nonunion county force. Crime promptly dropped. Ed Krayewski r...

  • November 29, 2013

    The ObamaCare lie and the global warming lie

    Now that Americans have largely caught on that their government will lie to them to support the expansion of state power, America's progressives are in for a rough time ahead, according to Peter Ferrara, writing at Forbes. The second shoe is prepa...

  • November 29, 2013

    Obama's cave-in to Iran may be worse than we knew

    While Americans enjoyed their day of thanks and feasting yesterday, news emerged from the Arab world about a shocking dimension of the cave-in to Iran at Geneva. If true, this report from Al-Arabiya is highly disturbing: Iran and the United States...

  • November 29, 2013

    Report: Obama asked Netanyahu for a 'breather' over Iran deal criticism

    Did President Obama call up Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to request a little help in dealing with the blowback form his historic cave-in to Iran at Geneva? That is what the Washington Post (via The Hill) is reporting: President Obama r...

  • November 29, 2013

    Liberal media's chickens...coming home to roost

    The laws of karma seem to be operating when it comes to the Obama sycophant cable news outlets. The website Hang the Bankers puts together some data: It's been a tough year for the liberal cable news outlets. Data released Tuesday show CNN she...

  • November 28, 2013

    Yet another elite campus hate crime hoax exposed

    I wonder what percentage of reported hate crime incidents at elite colleges have been hoaxes? I suspect the number is north of half. In recent memory, Oberlin College was convulsed over a series of fake hate crimes (with the administration shamefully...

  • November 28, 2013

    Demnesia strikes IRS political appointee

    One of only two political appointees at the IRS, a generous Democrat donor, at the IRS is relying on purported memory failure to evade testifying on embarrassing and potentially incriminating activities related to the targeting of Tea Party groups. E...

  • November 28, 2013

    Hate Crime Tip-hoaxing

    Two recent incidents have caused many people, including blogger Elizabeth Scalia, to suggest that people stop tipping with cash, in order to prevent being falsely accused of a hate crime. In the first incident, a Red Lobster waitress in Tennessee pos...

  • November 27, 2013

    Who are the Obamacare navigators?

    Via the office of Senator Ted Cruz, the most up-to-date list of recipients of grants to act as Obamacare navigators. Hat tip: Lee Cary. Navigator Grant RecipientsNavigators will serve as an in-person resource for Americans who want additional assista...

  • November 27, 2013

    Common Core third grade book goes full Dear Leader on Obama

    The ground is being laid for future racial strife over Barack Obama once he is out of office. His fanatical supporters, especially in the African-American community which has remained solidly in his camp despite all his demonstrated incompetence and ...

  • November 26, 2013

    Report: Karl Rove has been funding Grover Norquist

    Students of the GOP establishment take note: new documents revealed by ProPublica, the George Soros-funded "investigative journalism" outfit that supplies free content to media outlets, reveal that Rove's fundraising behemoth Crossroads GPS supplied ...

  • November 26, 2013

    McAuliffe appoints scandal-tainted cabinet member

    The signs are that corruption will be the byword of the administration of incoming Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe. Right Wisconsin reports: The name Levar Stoney may not ring a bell to many in Wisconsin, but the new Secretary of the Commonwealth...

  • November 26, 2013

    Defining down 'fixed' on healthcare.gov

    It is now obvious that that the December 1st deadline for "fixing" healthcare.gov won't be met. In characteristic Barack Obama fashion, the response of the administration to its latest failure is to play word games. Elise Viebeck of The Hill chronicl...

  • November 26, 2013

    California high speed rail boondoggle blocked by judge

    California's plan to squander potentially hundreds of billions of dollars on a "high speed" rail line that would achieve average speeds no higher than railroads routinely achieved a century ago has hit a serious roadblock. Melody Gutierrez of the San...

  • November 25, 2013

    Dems join Repubs in questioning Iran deal

    Barack Obama's cave-in to Iran, just as sanctions were inflicting unbearable pain on the country, is arousing bipartisan ire on Capitol Hill. Sen. Charles Schumer, a loudmouth, highly partisan Democrat, is joining top Republicans in expressing seriou...

  • November 25, 2013

    Valerie Jarrett reportedly dating a Muslim

    Normally, I don't traffic much in gossip, but the case of Valerie Jarrett is different. She may well be the most powerful woman in America, and almost certainly is the most powerful member of the Obama administration. The adjective "shadowy" definite...

  • November 25, 2013

    More bad polling news for Obama

    "Trust is like virginity: once you lose it it's hard to get it back." So spoke pollster John Zogby, commenting on his latest poll on President Obama's handling of his office. Quoted by Paul Bedard in the Washington Examiner: "Most ominous for Mr. O...

  • November 24, 2013

    Obama taking a tough stand on Iran deal - with Congress

    See also: Israel: Iran deal a 'historic mistake' See also: Iran nuke deal: Wait for details President Obama knows how to play hard ball with his enemies. But you have to understand that his definition of an enemy revolves around his personal politica...

  • November 24, 2013

    New York Times and the redistributionist scheme of Obamacare

    As I write, I am glancing out the window, looking for airborne swine, for the New York Times today published an op-ed, revealing to its readers for the first time that redistribution of wealth is the engine that powers Obamacare. John Harwood, who wo...

  • November 24, 2013

    State Department issues travel warning for Venezuela

    Very quietly, almost unnoted by the media, the US State Department issued a travel warning for Americans visiting Venezuela on Friday. Is this some sort of signal to the Maduro regime, which is carrying on the Marxist program of the late Hugo Chavez?...

  • November 24, 2013

    Unbelievable incompetence led to no-bid contract for healthcare.gov

    It appears that management of the rollout of healthcare.gov was delegated to the Keystone Kops, the famous symbols of comic incompetence created by Mack Sennett. A level of ineptitude that surely must be termed negligence has led to at least one no-b...

  • November 23, 2013

    Now that Obamacare taking hits in media, Rahm says First Amendment 'overrated'

    Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE The totalitarian impuls...

  • November 23, 2013

    The Obamacare Scheme

    Former federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy has done the nation a service by laying out the grand design underlying the secret plan to force the United States into a single payer system, with the government deciding who gets care and who is left to lan...

  • November 23, 2013

    Oppression in Higher Education: Hilarious and Sad

    In the politically correct hothouse of an elite university campus, all sorts of bizarre theories and beliefs flourish. Did you know that grammar is racist? That's the gist of a kerfuffle currently playing out at UCLA, the taxpayer-funded institution ...

  • November 23, 2013

    Green karma ran over Obama administration dogma

    Energy Secretary Stephen Chu, the man overseeing the Obama administration's subsidies and loan guarantees to purportedly "green" enterprises, has another giant failure on his hands. Professor Chu, who has a Nobel Prize in Physics under his belt, is a...

  • November 22, 2013

    Dem Congressional aides bitching about Obamacare

    OK, I am a bad person because I am really enjoying the pain that Democrats are experiencing over Obamacare. Jonathan Allen and Jennifer Haberkorn report on Politico: Veteran House Democratic aides are sick over the insurance prices they'll pay unde...

  • November 22, 2013

    Lefties fabricate a new reason to hate online college courses

    The ability of people to enroll in online college course is a grave threat to the power of professors. First and most obviously, it is low cost, high quality competition. If students can listen to lectures by superstar professors from elite schools l...

  • November 21, 2013

    Harry Reid takes nuclear option on Senate confirmation

    Harry Reid today broke 225 years of precedent in the U.S. Senate, and had his Democrat majority change Senate rules for confirmation of judges and most executive branch officials. From now on, only a simple majority will suffice, not the 60 votes for...

  • November 19, 2013

    Explosive charge that Unemployment figures faked before 2012 election

    John Crudele of the New York Post presents evidence that the surprising decline in the unemployment rate reported by the Department of Labor just prior to the 2012 election, taking it below 8%, may have been the result of faked data: Just two years...

  • November 19, 2013

    McKinsey warned senior govt. officials of healthcare.gov problems

    More than five months prior to the disastrous launch of healthcare.gov, HHS secretary Kathleen Sebelius, CMS head Marilyn Tavenner, and White House Chief Technology Officer Todd Park all attended briefings that warned them of impending problems. McKi...

  • November 19, 2013

    Woman Obama cited as evidence Obamacare is working is victim of website screw-up

    The irony is just too delicious. Remember when President Obama rounded up some of the few people who were able to sign up for Obamacare, and one of them fainted? He also cited a letter he got from a Washington State woman, Jessica Sanford. Libertyfir...

  • November 18, 2013

    Obamacare spurring increased demand at food banks

    There is a group named "Thanks Obamacare" that is running advertising in highly questionable taste encouraging young people to join up in order to be able to be promiscuous thanks to "free" birth control pills, among other dubious bits of advice. Wel...

  • November 18, 2013

    Sen. Gillibrand: 'We all knew' about Obamacare Big Lie

    Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) is going to have an uncomfortable day in the Senate cloakroom, and probably not just for today. She committed a true DC gaffe -- accidentally telling the truth, appearing on ABC's This Week yesterday. Ben Shapiro of ...

  • November 18, 2013

    Obama booed at college basketball game

    While families across the Midwest were reeling from tornadoes and storm damage, President Obama spent four hours playing golf Sunday (his 151st round of golf as president) and then took in a college basketball game at the University of Maryland....

  • November 18, 2013

    Green backlash spreads as French protest 'eco-tax'

    The decades-long run of environmentalists cloaked in holy righteousness is coming to an end, as the cost of their prescriptions comes due, while the fraud underlying the man-made global warming becomes obvious to all. France 24 reports: At least 2...

  • November 18, 2013

    Let the Obamacare body count begin

    There can be little doubt that by applying the logic of the left, the Obamacare body count can commence soon. David Henderson laid out the basics, rebuking lefty Matt Iglesias: In comparing Bush on Hurricane Katrina and Obama on ObamaCare, Mat...

  • November 17, 2013

    GOP takes off the gloves on Obamacare

    It appears that the leadership of the GOP is finally reading and paying attention to the conservative blogosphere. Yesterday, Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin delivered the weekly GOP message that serves as equal time for the President's weekly addre...

  • November 17, 2013

    Did Obama ask Oprah to play the race card?

    We know that President Obama is desperate because he has lost the trust of the American people. A majority, according to some polls, believe he deliberately lied about keeping your insurance and doctor. Once the majority doubt his word, all sorts of ...

  • November 17, 2013

    Is Saudi Arabia working with Israel on an Iran strike?

    That is the contention of the UK Sunday Times, as noted by the Times of Israel: According to the Sunday Times, Riyadh has agreed to let Israel use its airspace in a military strike on Iran and cooperate over the use of rescue helicopters, tanker pl...

  • November 17, 2013

    American education: mediocre is the new excellent

    More evidence that American public education is systematically dumbing down the American people. From Breitbart's Jon David Kahn: Parents are generally proud when their child makes the honor roll, but Beth Tillack, the mother of one such student at...

  • November 17, 2013

    Swiss referendum may limit executive pay

    The green eyed monster, envy, is inflaming people all around the world, even in usually sensible, pro-business, rich Switzerland. The Swiss, great believers in direct democracy, are going to the polls this week to vote on a referendum that would limi...

  • November 15, 2013

    Obama's fallen and he can't get up

    The tangled web Barack Obama has woven for himself and the Democratic Party, which passed his signature legislation in lockstep, has left him with no way out. The multiple deceptions inherent in Obamacare are becoming obvious, and because they affect...

  • November 15, 2013

    Upton Bill passes with bipartisan support

    No fewer than 39 House Democrats threw Obamacare under the bus, joining with Republicans to pass legislation sponsored by Rep. Fred Upton that allows insurers to offer noncompliant health care policies not just to grandfathered policyholders, but als...

  • November 14, 2013

    Articles of Impeachment against Eric Holder slated to be introduced today

    Rep. Pete Olson, a Republican from Texas, plans to introduce Articles of Impeachment to the House for Eric Holder of Representatives today. Bridget Johnson of PJ Media reports: A Texas Republican plans to introduce a resolution of Articles of ...

  • November 14, 2013

    Obamacare: Is it time to gloat yet?

    The must-read column of the day is Jonah Goldberg's hilarious take on the Obamacare belly flop in National Review Online. Acknowledging the "obligatory caveats" ("It is no laughing matter that millions of Americans' lives have been thrown into anxiou...

  • November 14, 2013

    Emerging Democrat Civil War

    One leading indicator of a rift in the Democratic Party is a spate of media articles on divisions among Republicans. We were told only a few weeks ago that the Tea Party rift with the Establishment wing of the GOP was going to elad to disaster, and t...

  • November 14, 2013

    Obama announces he will allow subpar or junk policies to be sold by bad apple insurance companies

    President Obama's press conference on Obamacare "fixes" today started more than half an hour after its announced time, a good indicator of last minute panic over wording. That's because appearances, not substance, are the essence of this "plan." For...

  • November 13, 2013

    Chicago TV Pitchman faces prison for lying about healthcare product

    No, he's not named Barack Obama. ABC News reports: It took jurors in a Chicago courtroom only one hour of deliberation to decide that controversial TV pitchman Kevin Trudeau was guilty of criminal contempt for making misleading claims in TV infomer...

  • November 13, 2013

    WebMD received almost 5 million bucks from feds to promote Obamacare

    A performer who pays for good reviews from critics usually isn't any good, and that would seem to be the case for Obamacare, too. Except that it is the taxpayers, not the performer laying out the bribe money, and the magnitude of the bribe dwarfs eve...

  • November 13, 2013

    Lib columnist tries to slime conservatives but finds himself covered in it

    Richard Cohen, left wing columnist for the Washington Post, finds himself accused of what he attempted to pin on the conservatives. It couldn't happen to a more deserving fellow, and depending on your spiritual  orientation, stands as evidence o...

  • November 12, 2013

    Troubling sign of incipient national security tyranny

    Tyrants will not stand for being mocked, and by that indicator, the lavishly-funded national security apparatus of the United States is rending tyrannical. From Judicial Watch: The feds have threatened to criminally prosecute a novelty store owner ...

  • November 12, 2013

    Obamacare victimizing cancer patients

    Cancer, the most feared disease in America, just got scarier thanks to Obamacare. Despite the barrage of propganada claiming our health care system is in "crisis," the fact is that if you are diagnosed with cancer, the best country in the world to re...

  • November 12, 2013

    An ex-Federal Reserve official apologizes for Quantitative Easing

    Slowly, ever so slowly, the realization is spreading that the vast debasing of our currency known as Quantitative Easing is a giant swindle. Formerly limited to the sort of critics on the right who would never get invited to the best cocktail parties...

  • November 12, 2013

    Almost no hope for Obamacare fix: panic may be the best option

    People who know a lot more than I do about how the insurance industry works and how complex websites work are coming to the conclusion that come January 1st, the current uproar over Obamacare is going to seem like to good old days for Barry, Valerie,...

  • November 12, 2013

    It begins: Dem Congressman calls Obama's promise 'grossly misleading'

    Stampedes begin with one animal making a move in fear; others follow, and soon enough it gets crowded near the exit. A Democrat congressman has now denounced President Obama's Big Lie on Obamacare in terms that can't be described as gentle. Via Danie...

  • November 11, 2013

    Showdown in Seattle: Boeing vs. Union

    A dramatic showdown is underway in the State of Washington, pitting Boeing against its largest labor union, the International Association of Machinists (IAM).  If the union, voting Wednesday,  rejects a proposed contract that includes lower...

  • November 10, 2013

    Role reversal: France pre-empts American surrender to Iran's nuke program

    It is a measure of how low American has fallen on the world stage that France was forced to man up and prevent a sell-out deal at the nuclear talks in Geneva that would have, in the words of the New York Times, "do too little to curb Iran's uran...

  • November 9, 2013

    If Obama were a corporate executive, he'd be prosecuted for fraud

    Andrew McCarthy, a former federal prosecutor of distinction, has written an important column for National Review Online, laying out what would happen to a corporate executive who behaved as President Obama has, selling an insurance product. I laid ou...

  • November 8, 2013

    Obama offers fauxpology for 'situation'

    Using lawyerly care in choosing passive-construction words, President Obama last night apologized for something, but most definitely not for lying to the American people in order to sell his health care plan on false promises and get re-elected. Here...

  • November 8, 2013

    Obama goes soap opera

    People joke about the Washington, DC soap opera, but President Obama has brought a genuine soap opera figure into the mix. Variety reports: Colleen Bradley Bell, producer for soap opera production company Bell-Phillip Television Prods., has been n...

  • November 5, 2013

    Obama revises history

    Yesterday, President Barack Obama claimed that when he promised Americans that they if they liked their health care plan they could keep it, he also stated "if it hasn't changed since the law passed." The stunning video below amounts to a Groucho Mar...

  • November 5, 2013

    Website collecting Obamacare health insurance cancellation notices

    Kudos to the Independent Women's Voice, which is collecting Obamacare cancellation notices for health care at MyCancellation.com. As Ashe Schow at the Washington Examiner notes, all the cancellation letters begin a similar way: "Due to changes hande...

  • November 5, 2013

    White House claims Obamacare exempt from law banning rebates, kickbacks, bribes

    Using pretzel logic, the Obama administration is claiming that Obamacare doesn't have to meet the same anti-corruption standards applied to other laws. Robert Pear of the New York Times writes: The Affordable Care Act is the biggest new health care...

  • November 5, 2013

    Libertarian con in Virginia governor's race revealed

    It has been revealed that the libertarian candidate for governor in Virginia, who is siphoning votes away from Ken Cuccinelli, was funded by an Obama campaign bundler. Meredith Jessup of the Blaze reports: A major Democratic Party benefactor and Ob...

  • November 4, 2013

    The 'you can keep your doctor' lie starting to hit Medicare recipients

    The firestorm over President Obama's blanket false assurances on Obamacare is only going to intensify, as more groups discover they have lost either their coverage or their doctor thanks to the health insurance changes imposed on the country without ...

  • November 4, 2013

    Don't know much about history (updated with university response)

    One has to worry about the fate of the young minds entrusted to the Center for Inner City Studies at Northeastern Illinois University. As well, one must worry about the quality of the faculty at that publicly-funded institution.  Thanks to Wease...

  • November 3, 2013

    They knew! Obama aides debated 'you can keep your plan' lie

    In a bombshell report, the Wall Street Journal has gotten Obama advisers -- some on the record, others anonymous -- talking about the internal debate over the president's false guarantee that Americans could keep their insurance plan if they liked it...

  • November 3, 2013

    Reverse the races....

    An arrest has been made in a horrifying crime, but thanks to races of the victim (white) and the perp (black), the national media are burying the story.  As David Paulin summed it up to me: Black guy murders white guy (in front of white guy's ...

  • October 31, 2013

    Time to use the f-word about Obamacare

    The word is "fraud." It is now clear that the American people and their representatives in Congress were lied to, in order to obtain passage of Obamacare. When someone is induced to undertake an action based on false representations, that constitutes...

  • October 29, 2013

    Jack Cashill's <em>If I Had a Son</em>

    The definitive account of the conspiracy to send George Zimmerman to prison for the self-defense shooting of Trayvon Martin is reaching bookstores today. Jack Cashill's If I had a Son: Race, Guns, and the Railroading of George Zimmerman is a must-rea...

  • October 29, 2013

    Band loses college gig because 'too white'

    A popular jazz band named Shokaboza that "blends jazz and old school funk, with a West African beat" has just been told by Hampshire College in Massachusetts that it is "too white" to be allowed to perform a scheduled Halloween party gig on campus. G...

  • October 29, 2013

    It's official: GM bailout has cost taxpayers almost $10 billion

    If Drudge had not linked to this Detroit News story by David Shepardson on his website today, there would have been no national media attention to news of the massive subsidy given primarily to labor unions: The U.S. Treasury has booked a $9.7 billi...

  • October 28, 2013

    Obama the Dysfunctional Executive

    Barack Obama entered the Oval Office with no executive experience whatsoever, and the Obamacare website is the logical consequence of his contempt for the discipline of management. This much is obvious to most people who have ever had responsibility ...

  • October 26, 2013

    Charles Krauthammer, revealed

    Fox News Channel is featuring a documentary on Charles Krauthammer this weekend, with two airings yesterday, and another two to follow on Sunday (9 PM and midnight, Eastern). It is truly must-see TV, because the life story of a very private man is re...

  • October 25, 2013

    Gangster government in a Seattle parking lot

    A business owner earning a decent and honorable living is visited by someone, armed and willing to use force, who demands to take over the business, whether or not the owner wants to sell. This is the plot line of many gangster movies, from the 1930s...

  • October 23, 2013

    Bizarre Obamacare ad

    Condescension is rarely an effective marketing tool. The ad below, which is the collective product of  no less than three progressive organizations: Thanks Obamacare, Colorado Consumer Health Initiative, and Progress Now Colorado.  I am, to...

  • October 22, 2013

    Dems and media backing away from the name 'Obamacare'

    As problems mount with Obamacare, it seems that Democrats and their allies in the media are trying to detach the name "Obama" from the law that is his "signature achievement," the "game-changer" that was to ensure Americans' health would depend on th...

  • October 21, 2013

    Obamacare phone number crashes shortly after Obama tells Americans to use it to enroll

    The idea that telephone enrollment in Obamacare was a suitable substitute for a seriously flawed website was always stupid. But when President Obama gave out the toll free number for Obamacare enrollment this morning, the lack of preparation was glar...

  • October 19, 2013

    Could the Obamacare defunding effort have worked?

    Andrew McCarthy of NRO has written an important article evaluating the failure of the GOP shutdown, and the GOP establishment line that it was a suicide mission that never could have worked. More importantly, he considers the alternative offered by t...

  • October 17, 2013

    Historic documents may be burned if Harvard does not cough up cash

    If Rufus McDonald were white, you'd already know his name, and he'd be on the path to pushing George Zimmerman aside as the most hated man in America. But because he is black, you probably have never heard of him, unless you live in Chicago. You see,...

  • October 16, 2013

    Obamacare exchanges and a free enterprise one: compare and contrast

    More evidence that the mainstream media is catching on to the disaster of Obamacare and the incompetence of the federal government compared to the private sector. The Detroit News, with its front row seat for watching the consequences of unrestrained...

  • October 16, 2013

    Hillary disses Biden in speech

    Hard though it may be to take seriously Joe Biden running for president, evidently Hillary Clinton thinks it important to dump on him. In a speech to convenience store owners (the sort of speech that yields a six figure fee), Hillary stuck the stilet...

  • October 15, 2013

    Healthcare.gov source code reveals 'no reasonable expectation of privacy'

    The unpleasant surprises keep coming as the Healthcare.gov website is examined more closely. The latest revelation indicates a stealthy warning, not visible to most users but there for those who knowledgeable enough to look at the source code: You...

  • October 15, 2013

    Bernardine Dohrn claims Ann Coulter 'committed violence'

    Bill Ayers, admitted terrorist and the man who launched Barack Obama's political career with a fundraiser in his house, is peddling a book, and speaking in public, sometimes accompanied by his wife, fellow Weatherman terrorist Bernardine Dohrn. Spea...

  • October 14, 2013

    Obamacare is undermining the 'foundational premise' of American liberalism

    Professor Charles Lipson of the University of Chicago calls our attention to what he calls "a useful, clear, and brief article on the data" of Obamacare sign-ups in Health Policy and Marketplace Review. Robert Laszewski writes: Based upon my survey...

  • October 14, 2013

    Newest urban legend: Obamacare enrollees

    Mockery of Obamacare's incompetent rollout has spread to the mainstream media, no longer able to ignore the fiasco. Case in point: The Miami Herald, not exactly a right wing rag. Nearly two weeks after the federal government launched the online Hea...

  • October 14, 2013

    Cory Booker's imaginary Newark residence

    With New Jersey voters going to the polls on Wednesday to choose a senator to replace the late Frank Lautenberg, more evidence is emerging that Cory Booker, the Democrat candidate, is a fraud. Today, The Daily Caller reveals that according to neighbo...

  • October 14, 2013

    Peace in Our Time, 75 years later

    That's the title Richard Baehr chose for his trenchant analysis of President Obama's Iran policy, comparing it to Chamberlain's appeasement of Hitler at Munich. Writing for Israel Hayom, the largest newspaper in that country, he writes: It is fitti...

  • October 13, 2013

    On the menu: Grilled Yellen

    Senator Rand Paul has announced that he plans to "grill" Janet Yellen in her confirmation hearing as President Obama's nominee for the next chairman of the Federal Reserve. Currently serving as vice chairman of the Federal Reserve, Yellen is, in the ...

  • October 13, 2013

    The 'Bagdad Bobs of Obamacare'

    Scott Johnson of Powerline has come up with a wonderful phrase to describe the public denial of the reality of healthcare.gov by Kathleen Sebelius (and others), calling them "Baghdad Bobs": Sebelius told the assembled faithful that the federal Obam...

  • October 10, 2013

    Issa Committee uncovers IRS providing confidential taxpayer information to White House

    Rep. Darrell Issa must be at the top of the White House's enemies list. His House Oversight and Government Reform Committee has released copies of emails from former IRS official Sarah Hall Ingram indicating exchange of information with White House o...

  • October 9, 2013

    House and Senate gyms not shut down -- despite guidelines to the contrary

    It's good to be a member of the ruling class. Once again, Congress is not suffering while punitive shutdown measures have been taken against citizens trying to walk in the woods at national parks, or visit the monuments on the National Mall (unless o...

  • October 9, 2013

    Almost half a billion for public broadcasting, but nothing for families of fallen troops

    The ruling class takes care of its own, but has nothing for those who die in service to the nation. The very partial shutdown of the federal government has served to expose the real values of the Obama administration. Contrast this, by Terrence Jeffr...

  • October 7, 2013

    Obama: Shutdown for thee, but not for me

    It is now quite clear that President Obama is managing the shutdown of 17% of the government to inflict pain, while sparing himself and his family any discomfort. Although his media lickspittles will not publicize the worst abuses, social media offer...

  • October 7, 2013

    Obama reportedly opens National Mall for amnesty rally Tuesday

    That government "shutdown" which keeps Honor Flight veterans from entering their memorial on the National Mall in Washington, DC is suddenly going into abeyance because immigration law amnesty advocates are planning a rally there Wednesday. Tony Lee ...

  • October 6, 2013

    Obamacare Catch 22?

    When Chief Justice Roberts rendered his bizarre opinion that Obamacare was constitutional because it was a tax (despite what the president himself had claimed), he may have opened a door that leads to a successful future challenge. Andrew McCarthy of...

  • October 6, 2013

    A sign of Dem disquiet on shutdown

    Publicly, the Democrats are full of confidence that they have the Republicans cornered on the partial government shutdown. They figure that with the help of their media friends, they can keep the public ignorant of Harry Reid's refusal to pass legisl...

  • October 6, 2013

    How Stupid is Snopes.com?

    Snopes.com is a website that purports to investigate the truthfulness of news reports and internet rumors. But apparently, its primary readership is stupid people. Why else would it bother to "debunk" an  obvious work of satire, by well-known br...

  • October 4, 2013

    Poster boy for Obamacare website launch is a ringer

    What's a leftist to do when a cherished program fails embarrassingly? Of course, create a phantom success, and publicize it relentlessly. And that is exactly what has happened with the disastrous launch of Healthcare.gov and the assorted state websit...

  • October 4, 2013

    Occupy Wall Street plans a debit card

    Call the irony police! Those oh-so-pure rebels of Occupy Wall Street, so adored by the progressive media despite the crime wave engendered at their camps, are planning to get into the money business themselves. Very altruistically, of course. Alan F...

  • October 3, 2013

    Quite a coincidence

    Guess what the new Obamacare 1-800 National Hotline spells out? Weasel Zippers first figured out  what 1-800-318-2596 spells.  That is, 1-800-3(F) 8(U) 2(C) 5(K) 9(Y) 6(O) Here is the clueless Kathleen Sebelius giving o...

  • October 3, 2013

    Obamacare 'sticker shock' being reported

    Via KING TV in Seattle, not exactly a red state television outlet, comes news of "sticker shock" on the part of Washington State folks signing up for Obamacare.  The station cites Eric Levy, whose existing health insurance plan was too costly, h...

  • October 1, 2013

    Federal judge rejects Eric Holder's attempt to keep Fast & Furious documents from House committee investigators

    The purported "most transparent administration in history" lost another round in its efforts to hide documents form the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee headed by Rep. Darrell Issa. Josh Gerstein reports in Politico: In a ruling Mon...

  • October 1, 2013

    Wall Street shrugs off 'shutdown' as Dow Jones Industrial Average rises

    So much for the "crisis" predicted by doomsayers. The purported catastrophe that the partial federal government "shutdown" would cause on Wall Street has failed to develop. Marketwatch reports, "U.S. stocks on Tuesday climbed for the first session in...

  • September 30, 2013

    Awkward: Group embraced by Obama hit by Canadian government for terror support

    Canada's version of the IRS, The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA), has revoked the charitable status of The Islamic Society of North America (INSA) over charges that the group has channeled over $280,000 to a group in Pakistan linked to a terror outfit. S...

  • September 29, 2013

    NSA snooping creates a boon for foreign tech competitors

    One of the only bright spots in the US economy is high tech, particularly internet-related businesses. But thanks to the close collaboration between tech giants like Google and the NSA spying apparatus, a significant opening is being created for fore...

  • September 27, 2013

    The Obamacare sales effort is this desperate (updated)

    Apparently, people are not looking like they will sign up for Obamacare at anywhere near the levels necessary to sustain the illusion of public acceptance. We know this not because any data has been released, but rather by the self-evident desperatio...

  • September 26, 2013

    It's nude week at college

    Imagine scraping together $45,612 for tuition and 11,620 for room and board for your child to go to Brown University this year. Why, an Ivy League degree must be worth it, right? Learning at the feet of renowned scholars, making lifelong friendships ...

  • September 25, 2013

    Is Lois Lerner cutting a deal?

    The intriguing possibility that Lois Lerner might turn John Dean is on the table.  Patrick Howley of The Daily Caller has tracked down what seems to be going on behind the scenes. IRS scandal figure Lois Lerner is negotiating through her lawye...

  • September 24, 2013

    Is Ted Cruz the new Ronald Reagan?

    That's the provocative thesis of Jeffrey Lord, writing at The American Spectator. He's the one we've been waiting for, to borrow an expression. Here is some of the case Lord makes: ...terrified Republicans have turned on Ted Cruz like they once wen...

  • September 24, 2013

    What happens next in the Obamacare funding fight?

    The GOP is factionalizing, with the conservative base backing the Cruz-Lee strategy to defund Obamacare, and the GOP establishment attacking it directly but mostly indirectly. It is a remarkable moment, crystallizing the long-simmering revolt against...

  • September 23, 2013

    Medical school official urges denial of care for Obamacare 'nonbelievers'

    More and more leftists are becoming unhinged and revealing their brutal inner totalitarian. The latest is a fundraiser at the University of California, San Francisco, one of the nation's top medical schools.  An official at that medical school t...

  • September 23, 2013

    German voters deliver big victory to Angela Merkel's conservative party

    Europe's increasingly dominant power Germany is keeping the Christian Democrats of Angela Merkel in power, with an unexpectedly big victory in an election that was supposed to be close. Final results are not yet in (updates here), and it is unclear w...

  • September 23, 2013

    Ruling class Princess Chelsea Clinton

    The rise of a ruling class at the intersection of business and politics is the most explosive political issue of our time that remains tacit. It falls to serious conservatives to launch into mass political consciousness the importance of the seizure ...

  • September 22, 2013

    How much cuteness can a grown man take?

    I don't know about you, but if I had to take a 12 hour or so trip across the Pacific Ocean (something I used to do with regularity), at the very bottom of my list of criteria for selecting a flight would be the presence of a cartoon figure beloved of...

  • September 21, 2013

    Obama claims, 'We're not some banana republic' and Mark Steyn examines the evidence

    The speech President Obama gave yesterday at a Ford assembly plant just outside of Kansas City in Liberty, Missouri delivered to the country two very memorable lines, which is two more than most speeches he has ever given. The one that is getting the...

  • September 20, 2013

    Sickening attack damages religious statues at a Catholic church in New Jersey

    Religious statues gracing the grounds of St. Mary's church in Malaga, New Jersey were subject to a vicious attack that left extensive damage to statuary dear to the hearts of parishioners and Catholics everywhere. Local police are not yet ready to de...

  • September 19, 2013

    Swindler tied to Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama sentenced to 12.5 years in prison

    You've probably never heard of Claudio Osorio, and that's just fine with the liberal media establishment. But he is emblematic of the new culture of corruption that has overtaken American politics, combining political influence, government grants, la...

  • September 19, 2013

    Another Obama 'smart diplomacy' belly-flop

    They are laughing at Barack Obama and the United States down in Brazil, but with no mirth.  Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has just delivered a diplomatic slap in the face. Dave Boyer of the Washington Times reports: In an unprecedented sn...

  • September 19, 2013

    Slowing the Biden juggernaut

    It's the most depressing poll of the month: believe it or not, in a Rasmussen Reports poll of 1000 likely voters, Joe Biden handily beats almost every potential GOP candidate for president in 2016 except one.  Andrew Malcolm of IBD delivers the ...

  • September 19, 2013

    Tom Delay conviction overturned

    The wheels of justice have finally ground into dust the conviction of former Majority Leader Tom Delay, whose brilliant political career was ruined by a politicized indictment undertaken by a left wing district attorney named Ronny Earle. Mike Snyder...

  • September 17, 2013

    Naval Yard shooting aftermath went according to script

    Yesterday saw the nation's news dominated by continuous coverage of the shooting at the Washington Naval Yard. Twelve innocents were slaughtered, leaving behind grieving family and friends as well as a nation horrified at the carnage.  They dese...

  • September 17, 2013

    Why did Aaron Alexis get a security clearance?

    It turns out that there were a lot of danger signs about Aaron Alexis, but none of them prevented him getting a "secret" security clearance. Reuters: "He did have a secret clearance. And he did have a CAC (common access card)," said Thomas Hoshko, ...

  • September 17, 2013

    Life is good for Janet Napolitano

    Higher education is an enormous industry, heavily subsidized, and the people who run it consider themselves entitled to the lifestyle of the mega rich. Even at taxpayer-owned institutions. Take the example of Janet Napolitano, newly installed presi...

  • September 16, 2013

    Peak Warmism

    The Warmist scare -- the officially-backed theory that the earth's temperature was spiraling upward and would soon fry the planet -- is receding, if leaks from the forthcoming (September 27) "fifth assessment report" of the Intergovernmental Panel on...

  • September 16, 2013

    'Hot dog seasoning emergencies' and other stupid Illinois political tricks

    Most Americans may struggle to make ends meet in the Brave New Obama World of 29 hour work weeks, but for the political class in the state he sought out as the perfect political home, there's always room for no-bid contracts, those guaranteed profit-...

  • September 16, 2013

    MSM covering for Obama's Syria disaster

    It's desperation time for MSMers committed to President Obama. That's the only explanation for some of the credibility-sacrificing moves made by a couple of prominent members of the MSM, attempting to downplay Obama's foreign policy disaster. I wonde...

  • September 16, 2013

    Louie Gohmert's Capitol tour

    I already liked Louie Gohmert (R-TX) a lot, but after reading about the tours he provides for constituents, I realize I have underrated him. Andrew Evans of the Washington Free Beacon "tagged along" with the congressman as he guided constituents on a...

  • September 15, 2013

    J.R. Dunn, multimedia hero

    One of the great badges of honor among conservative writers is to be cited by the Day by Day cartoon series, created by Chris Muir. J.R. Dunn must now deal with the envy of the rest of the staff, as he is immortalized in today's cartoon. ...

  • September 15, 2013

    Syrian opposition charges Assad sending chemical weapons 'back' to Iraq

    Call the Irony police! According to the pan-Arab daily newspaper Arsharq Al-Awsat, a spokesman for the Syrian opposition party is charging that the Assad regimes is shipping its chemical weapons "back" to Iraq, using the time provided by President Ob...

  • September 15, 2013

    Union bosses in the hated one percent

    A new report from Mediatrackers reveals that there are quite a few union bosses who have made their way into the hated one percent on the backs of dues their members have to fork up out of every paycheck. In fact, more than 400 union officials are be...

  • September 15, 2013

    The unnaturally youthful-looking face of American diplomacy

      There's so much buzz going around about Secretary of State John Kerry's apparently Botoxed face that the Washington Post's Reliable Sources column to the time to analyze all the other possible reasons the highly decorated veteran of the Vietna...

  • September 13, 2013

    Socialists never learn

    The socialist president of France, Francois Hollande, thinks the French government can pick winners when it comes to the industries of the future. Nicholas Vinocur of Reuters writes: Francois Hollande laid out a 10-year roadmap on Thursday to r...

  • September 13, 2013

    'Obama wants your sexual history'

    The all-knowing federal government is collecting a massive database on its citizens, including their sexual histories. The abuses that Edward Snowden revealed the NSA is conducting are nothing compared to what Obamacare is offering to wannabe  t...

  • September 13, 2013

    Teachers Union Decertified in Wisconsin

    Teachers in Kenosha, Wisconsin - the third largest school district in the state -- have voted overwhelmingly to free themselves from the clutches of the teachers union, the Kenosha Education Association, which will now disband. Thanks to the reform b...

  • September 11, 2013

    'The President's Utility'

    The highly regarded think-tank Capital Research Center has published a detailed article by American Thinker's Ed Lasky that displays the almost incestuous ties between Barack Obama, David Axelrod, Rahm Emanuel and the Chicago utility giant Exelon. Wh...

  • September 11, 2013

    Obama's Syria address to the nation flops

    It was all too obvious last night that the only reason President Obama gave his speech to the nation was that it would have been too embarrassing to cancel it. The result was inconsistent and unsatisfying at any level. (Transcript here) Obama comman...

  • September 10, 2013

    In Syria, Putin's the Player and Obama's the Playee

    President Barack Obama has become a comic figure on the world stage, a laughingstock unable to keep his story straight, while his principal rival seizes the initiative in Syria.  So desperate is Obama for a face-saving retreat from his ultimatum...

  • September 9, 2013

    Why Obama is Floundering

    The sheer ineptitude of President Obama's handling of his Syria red line has made jaws drop all across the political spectrum. The man who garnered so much admiration for his oratorical brilliance, personal charm, and political genius has managed to ...

  • September 9, 2013

    New poll delivers bad news for Obama

    A just-released poll by CNN reveals that President Obama's strongest argument for congressional authorization of an attack on Syria does not carry much weight with the public. Paul Steinhauser and John Helton of CNN write: The CNN/ORC International...

  • September 9, 2013

    Things Fall Apart for Obama

    It's so bad for President Obama that there is now talk of impeachment, not from his foes on the right but from his former allies on the left, if he proceeds with an attack on Syria absent Congressional approval. Dennis Kucinich kicked off the talk l...

  • September 8, 2013

    Racism at the IRS

    While the nation is focused on presidential bumbling over red lines, the media are collectively ignoring the scandal at the Internal Revenue Service. It is now clearer than ever that the nation's most feared agency took sides in the last presidential...

  • September 4, 2013

    Cleveland kidnapper Castro discovered hung in cell

    Ariel Castro, the monster who kidnapped and kept 3 girls imprisoned for decades in his basement raping and impregnating them, is dead, and already burning in hell, I trust. Fox News reports: A statement from the Ohio Department of Corrections said ...

  • September 4, 2013

    The Awful Truth about Obama

    The advocates of congressional backing for an Obama strike on Syria claim that America would be weakened if the president is rebuked. Unfortunately, America already is weakened, and backing a dangerously incompetent president's pinprick won't do anyt...

  • September 4, 2013

    Obama blames 'the world' for his foolish red line ultimatum

    The dog didn't eat his homework, but Barack Obama's latest attempt in Sweden to blame somebody else for the mess he has gotten himself into is scarcely more plausible. If you haven't heard yet, Lesley Clark of McClatchy writes: President Barack Ob...

  • September 3, 2013

    Foreign policy pros aghast at Obama's 'rookie mistake' on Syria

    As Congress prepares to debate President Obama's proposed strike on Syria, normally taciturn foreign policy experts, including some former members of his diplomatic team, are letting the Solons know that we do not have a steady hand at the helm. Writ...

  • September 2, 2013

    Union resigns from the AFL-CIO

    America's largest labor union organization is licking its wounds this Labor Day, having suffered the embarrassing defection of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU).  Robert McEllrath, president of the ILWU quietly sent a letter...

  • September 2, 2013

    Making Arab Heads Explode

    When trying to solve a mystery and determine who was responsible for a particular act or incident, the first question to ask is cui bono - who benefits?  The question is much beloved by conspiracy theorists, of course. Victor Davis Hanson point...

  • September 2, 2013

    Even the Washington Post

    Even The Washington Post editorial board finds one Obama administration policy unconscionably stupid: NINE OF 10 Louisiana children who receive vouchers to attend private schools are black. All are poor and, if not for the state assistance, would b...

  • September 1, 2013

    Obama's Provocative Syria Retreat

    In the eyes of the only people who really  matter - Bashir Assad, Vlad Putin, Ayatolla Khameni, Kim Jong Un, and assorted lesser examples of ruthless heads of state, not to mention terror groups - Barrack Obama has retreated from his redline. He...

  • August 31, 2013

    Here come the baptism police?

    The National Park Service has begun enforcing a new policy aimed at cracking down on baptisms in national parks. I have never been aware that baptisms were regarded as a threat to public safety or welfare, but evidently in the age of Obama, people co...

  • August 31, 2013

    California police subdue sword-wielding Muslim shouting 'Allahu akbar!'

    You wouldn't know it from reading the Los Angeles Times account of the incident (which omitted all mention of "Allahu Akbar" or Islam), nor from glancing at the headline the Huffington Post chose ("Montasir Ishag, California Man, Charged Deputies Wit...

  • August 31, 2013

    Sarah Palin mocks Obama on Syria dithering

    One of my favorite elements of American popular culture is our tradition of mocking pretentious know-it-alls whose self-importance leads them into blunders. A comedian named "Professor Irwin Corey, the world's greatest expert" experienced great popul...

  • August 31, 2013

    Obama seeking political cover by asking for a Congressional vote on Syria intervention

    Contradicting his own position of a couple of days ago that a timely response to Syria's alleged chemical weapons use was important, President Obama today backed off and postponed any action until Congress reconvenes on September 9th, and has time to...

  • August 30, 2013

    It's lonely out there, leading from behind

    Until Barack Obama's presidency, the one certainty an American president could count on in the risky realm of war and peace was the support of the Brits. But now Obama finds himself with only France, as the UK Parliament debated and rejected support ...

  • August 28, 2013

    Study reveals newborns recall words heard in utero

    The little human being living inside a pregnant mother turns out to be a lot more capable than previously known.  Kathy Drummond describes the research that led to the startling finding that newborns can recall words they heard in the womb in Th...

  • August 28, 2013

    Obamacare layoffs hit major Chicago hospital system

    NorthShore University HealthSystem, a large ($1.8 billion annual revenue) Chicago-area hospital network is laying off 130 employees "in a cost-cutting move intended to address uncertainty created by the new health care law," as reported by Crain's Ch...

  • August 28, 2013

    Censoring Martin Luther King

    The grievance industry that pretends to embrace Martin Luther King's speech of fifty years ago today has been actively suppressing a key message he delivered on the Washington Mall that historic day. Neoneocon, writing at Legal Insurrection, points o...

  • August 28, 2013

    Obama has painted himself into a corner

    Not only is there no outcome of an attack on Syria that would benefit the United States, President Obama has already denied he has the authority to take such action. It takes ineptitude of historic dimension to fashion such a no-win situation in worl...

  • August 27, 2013

    Yet another racism hoax revealed

    It is a measure of how successfully the United States has overcome racism that there doesn't seem to be enough of it to go around to satisfy the demands of race hustlers. Thus, we have the phenomenon of racism hoaxes metastasizing within the educatio...

  • August 27, 2013

    Speaking truth to power about Obama

    It's getting so that you have to be a true believer in the mainstream media not to notice that Barack Obama's presidency is floundering. His signature legislative accomplishment Obamacare is a disaster and his foreign policy has belly-flopped. And no...

  • August 26, 2013

    When the going gets tough, Obama goes golfing

    While his underlings selflessly toil to determine whether or not all the Assad government of Syria used chemical weapons against its own people (as seen on TV), President Obama played a 5 hour round of golf Sunday, closing in on a presidential total ...

  • August 26, 2013

    Colin Powell sprinkles gasoline on racial fires of resentment

    For reasons known only to himself, Colin Powell chose to heighten racial tensions with an ignorant comment. Evan McMurray of Mediaite reports: On CBS' Face the Nation, former Secretary of State Colin Powell called the George Zimmerman verdict into ...

  • August 25, 2013

    Ruling Class Rules: Getting Kids into the Ivies

    Populists of all political persuasions can take delight in an amusing and enlightening essay written by a college applications counselor who spent 15 years getting children of wealthy families into Ivy League colleges. Lacy Crawford has a new novel o...

  • August 25, 2013

    Arctic Ice Melt Bonanza

    For years the warmists have bleated about the melting of Arctic ice as a consequence of their hypothetical global warming. Of course, they ignore the build-up of Antarctic ice and the failure of the earth overall to warm for the last decade and a hal...

  • August 25, 2013

    Progressives fulminating over impeachment talk

    Progressives are having conniption fits, sputtering with indignation over growing talk about impeachment as the constitutional remedy for President Obama's flouting of the law, most prominently in declaring that he will not enforce certain aspects of...

  • August 25, 2013

    Whatever happened to German efficiency?

    Germany twice humiliated itself badly this week, at least when it comes to airports. Once upon a time Germany was renowned for its ruthless efficiency, but those days seem gone forever at least when the government is involved. Humiliation number on...

  • August 24, 2013

    Should Hasan face death penalty?

    It is not much of a surprise, but Maj. Nidal Hasan has been convicted. AP reports: A jury of 13 high-ranking military officers reached a unanimous guilty verdict on all 13 counts of premeditated murder and a guilty verdict on 32 counts of attempte...

  • August 24, 2013

    Liberty Amendments debuts at #1 on NYT bestseller lists

    Disturbing news for progressives in the newest list of bestsellers, as compiled by the New York Times. Mark Levin's new book, The Liberty Amendments, has debuted at the number one spot in both lists of nonfiction bestsellers: hardcover, and combined ...

  • August 24, 2013

    Will Eric Holder ever learn to be careful what he asks for?

    Eric Holder, perhaps the worst, most corrupt attorney general in history, famously demanded Americans stop being cowardly and have a conversation about race. Well, in the aftermath of the deaths of Trayvon Martin, Christopher Lane, and now World War ...

  • August 22, 2013

    The War that dare not be named

    Our government won't admit it, but jihadists are at war with the West. The futility of this response is dissected by Ali Salim, in a long, frank discussion of the Jihad War on the Gatestone Institute website. A representative sample: The leaders of...

  • August 22, 2013

    Facing prison, Bradley Manning declares himself 'Chelsea'

    Whatever else you think about Bradley Manning's declaration that he is now assuming a transgender identity as "Chelsea Manning," you have to admit it is a shrewd move. It likely will delay or even spare him the ordeal of joining the male prison popul...

  • August 22, 2013

    How Hillary pulls the strings at NBC

    Noel Sheppard at Newsbusters exposes the way Team Hillary is manipulating the NBC networks over the planned miniseries on her life. The planned offer of fealty turned into a disaster when Reince Priebus and the GOP stood up, cried foul and threw NBC ...

  • August 21, 2013

    Report: Feds have no clue what data Snowden took

    If a report by Michael Isikoff, Matthew Cole, and Richard Esposito of NBC News is correct, the NSA domestic spying effort is even worse than we realized. It is bad enough to collect massive amounts of data on Americans' electronic communications, but...

  • August 21, 2013

    A Stalinist libel of America comes true

    During the Cold War, the USSR propaganda apparatus portrayed the United States as a decadent society, falling apart, with conditions far worse than those that prevailed in the Soviet Union. One recurring theme was that packs of wild dogs roamed the s...

  • August 20, 2013

    Obama donor gets a heckuva deal

    Yossi Gestetner spotted something in the news that ought to be raising a stink but, strangely enough, isn't. He asks: Do you remember the Obama Donor Phil Falcone whose Lighsquared went under after getting $267M in green loans?  Do you remembe...

  • August 20, 2013

    A surprising crystal meth epidemic

    According to a report in the Asian Wall Street Journal, North Korea is grappling with widespread use of crystal meth. Jason Strother writes: North Korea is experiencing a "drug epidemic," according to a study published in the Spring 2013 edition ...

  • August 19, 2013

    Poor Mary Landrieu

    Break out the world's smallest violin to play a tune of sympathy for poor Senator Mary Landrieu (D - LA). It seems the senator, up for re-election in 2014 is embarrassed by our country when visiting Europe. Daniel Halper of the Weekly Standard writes...

  • August 18, 2013

    Headline of the day: 'Iraq wants U.S. Troops back'

    Glenn Reynolds has rewritten Stars and Stripes' headline of a lengthy AP dispatch by Lara Jakes: 'Iraq seeks help from US amid growing violence.' A resurgence of violence and a renewed threat from al-Qaida have recently revived flagging U.S. intere...

  • August 18, 2013

    Democrats split on fracking

    Greenies may find that their campaign cash is not enough to get the Democratic Party to squash fracking, for its alleged environmental hazards and because they are absolutists on CO2 emissions. But the beneficiaries of fracking include labor unions, ...

  • August 17, 2013

    The voting bloc that is the GOP's best opportunity

    President Obama's party faces a strategic threat that should not be underestimated by the GOP. More than any other group, younger voters are turning away from Obama, and by extension from the Democratic Party which faces congressional elections next ...

  • August 16, 2013

    Newspapers floundering on digital paywalls

    The newspaper industry is flailing about, desperately trying to replace the revenue which disappeared with the arrival of the internet, giving every appearance of being in its death throes.  In the latest example of pre-demise convulsions, the S...

  • August 15, 2013

    Holder and FBI admit lying about data released before election last year

    In their efforts to promote the re-election of Barack Obama, our nation's premier law enforcement agencies presented false data to the American public about a "crackdown" on mortgage fraud.  Fox News reports: The Justice Department and FBI hav...

  • August 14, 2013

    Obama-inspired climate change rally epic fail

    What if Obama for America Organizing for America held a rally and nobody showed up? Could we all conclude that this is nothing but a giant David Axelrod-style astroturf effort, designed to give the appearance of genuine citizen concern, but really ju...

  • August 14, 2013

    Barack makes a fool of Michelle in public

    I am actually experiencing a new emotion: empathy for Michelle Obama. It's bad enough when an ordinary husband makes his wife look like a fool in public, but when the husband is the most visible man in America, the sting is all the more intense. Yes...

  • August 13, 2013

    Worried about NSA snooping?

    Relax, it's being thoroughly investigated. The entire policy of technology and intelligence gathering is going to be reviewed. So the American public has nothing to worry about. Who is going to investigate? Why, of course, it will be James Clapper, ...

  • August 13, 2013

    The government-media complex epitomized

    The incestuous mating of the highest levels of government and the major media could not be better illustrated than by this, from Daniel Harper in the Weekly Standard: President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama attended a cocktail party t...

  • August 12, 2013

    Mark Levin's The Liberty Amendments

    Tomorrow marks the publication of Mark Levin's important new book, The Liberty Amendments. I must confess that I had some trepidation when starting to read it, for as the editor of American Thinker I turn down most submissions that propose amending ...

  • August 11, 2013

    Reagan's 'top hand' dies

    One of the giants of the Reagan administration has passed away. Judge William P. Clark, dubbed the "top hand" by his biographer Paul Kengor, succumbed to Parkinson's Disease at the age of 81. Judge Clark became one of the most significant aides in th...

  • August 11, 2013

    Breaking Bad returns tonight

    I was late to discover Breaking Bad, the AMC miniseries that returns tonight for its final 8 episodes, the last half of season five. In my mind, BB may be the best, most moral long form drama ever to appear on American television. Yes, that good. If...

  • August 10, 2013

    Dramatic story of political 'gun violence' is ignored by the gun-grabber media

    The extent of the transformation of our mass media into a mere propaganda apparatus can be gauged by the black hole treatment given to a story that pushes all of the buttons needed for wall-to-wall treatment, save one: the villain is a member of vict...

  • August 10, 2013

    A tenured professor tells the truth about academia on his way out the door

    Higher education is a vast industry about to face years a crisis. Like housing, it has expanded based on unsustainable debt. And like the American auto industry, it got fat, lazy, inward-focused, and expensive during its decades of monopoly on certif...

  • August 9, 2013

    Satisfying slap down of an insufferable Democrat

    One of the Senate's top three most obnoxious Democrats just got a serious thrashing by the editorial board of the home state's largest newspaper. No, it wasn't Chuck Schumer or Barbara Boxer. It was Dick Durbin and the Chicago Tribune. The editorial...

  • August 9, 2013

    Ron Paul, Inc?

      A brand news conservative blog based in Virginia, The Bull Elephant, is kicking off with a full throated attack on some of the consultants that have worked for the Ron Paul presidential campaign, and who, the piece alleges, may guide the ...

  • August 8, 2013

    Petty tyranny in Illinois

    A federal lawsuit filed in Illinois is exposing what appears to be a case of bureaucratic tyranny on the local level in southwestern Illinois. Beth Hundsdorfer of the News-Democrat in Belleville reports: Dianne Rogge, the owner of the old Pour Haus...

  • August 8, 2013

    South Korea calls North Korea's bluff and wins

    President Park Geun-hye of South Korea has more stones than Barack Obama. She isn't content to lead from behind when it comes to dealing with North Korea. Instead of groveling apologies, she called a bluff.  Jack Kim of Reuters reports: Impove...

  • August 8, 2013

    Thanks, Obama!

    President Obama has just handed his opposition a powerful focus for resentment over Obamacare, by exempting Congress and its army of staffers from the Obamacare disaster foisted on average folks.  David Lawder of Reuters writes: Congress has w...

  • August 7, 2013

    Laugh track sorely missed as Obama does Leno

    President Obama played it straight, but friendly, last night on America's top-rated late night TV show. Jay Leno, whose rating have surged as he cracks more and more jokes about the president, played the straight man on the Tonight Show. For Obama, i...

  • August 7, 2013

    Is the clock ticking on a New York Times sale?

    Morale at the New York Times took a further blow when news broke of the sale of the Washington Post to Jeff Bezos. Inevitably, a potential sale of the Times to another mega-billionaire seeking prestige and political clout becomes a topic of conversat...

  • August 7, 2013

    Your tax dollars at work

    Fraud is rampant in the vast array of benefits the American welfare state is providing to all comers. And now we have a poster child for the abuse. In Boston, the perpetrator of a horrifying drunk driving incident caught on camera, turns out to be an...

  • August 6, 2013

    BBC ties Tsarnaev to 'right wing' literature

    The BBC has degenerated into a propaganda organ dedicated to sanitizing Islam and libeling conservatives. That is the only possible conclusion to draw from this scurrilous report that ignores the elephant in the bathtub that ignores Tsarnaev's expres...

  • August 6, 2013

    Beltway narcissism rampant in wake of WaPo sale to Bezos

    The capital's ruling class and its vast army of hangers-on (especially the media branch) is abuzz with the sale of the Washington Post to Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos.  For as long as most of them have been adults, the Post has been the arbiter...

  • August 5, 2013

    Hanky panky in sale of Boston Globe?

    The New York Times Company may be facing some serious scrutiny over its planned sale of the Boston Globe to Boston Red Sox owner John Henry for a mere $70 million, after having paid $1.1 billion in 1993. The owner of the San Diego Union-Tribune, Doug...

  • August 5, 2013

    Obama the Front Man

    The must-read essay of the day, perhaps of the week, is Kevin Williamson's dissection of President Obama's vast expansion of the arbitrary powers of the bureaucratic state and his lawless behavior in office.  The piece, titled "The Front Man," i...

  • August 5, 2013

    Jerry Brown delays BART strike

    Governor Jerry Brown has stepped in to prevent a strike of Bay Area Rapid Transit workers at midnight Sunday night, imposing a seven day waiting period and appointing a committee to investigate the dispute and issue a public report.  CBS/AP repo...

  • August 5, 2013

    Washington Post sold

    Yet another famous newspaper has changed hands. The Washington Post has announced its pending sale to Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon.com, for $250 million. The Graham family, which has controlled the Post for four generations, waited two decades too l...

  • August 4, 2013

    Elite colleges confronting failure of affirmative action

    A new report from researchers at Georgetown University must be horrifying diversicrats at elite colleges and universities. The report's title, "Separate and Unequal: How Higher Education Reinforces the Intergenerational Reproduction of White Racial P...

  • August 4, 2013

    What should be next to Trayvon Martin's hoodie in the Smithsonian?

    I have a suggestion. How about an exhibit on Tawana Brawley? If the purpose of the new National Museum of African American History and Culture at the Smithsonian is to remember racial controversies, as the proposed Trayvon exhibit seems to confirm, t...

  • August 3, 2013

    Weiner getting hit where he lives

    Anthony Weiner's increasingly pathetic campaign for mayor of New York is spawning hilarious mockery on the streets of New York. Weiner and Huma may be able to ignore talking heads on TV and newspaper articles that slam him, but they have a much hard...

  • August 2, 2013

    Progs openly conspire to disrupt GOP town halls

    The left has abandoned stealth when it comes to their efforts to generate sound bites and video clips at town halls conducted by GOP members of Congress during the August recess. According to a Huffington Post  article by Amanda Terkel: GOP la...

  • August 2, 2013

    Government unions flex muscles

    Big labor is threatening to strangle the liberal San Francisco Bay Area in order to protect the principle that government workers should be insulated from the effects of rising medical costs and enjoy generous pensions to which they contribute nothin...

  • August 1, 2013

    NSA documents vindicate some of Snowden's claims

    The UK Guardian is making good on its promise to release more information provided by Edward Snowden, revealing a Powerpoint presentation marked top secret, used to train NSA analysts in using the vast data gathering resources the agency provides. Gl...

  • July 31, 2013

    The betrayal of Anthony Weiner? (updated)

    Boo hoo! Anthony Weiner's a victim, doncha know. He has taken to bemoaning a betrayal by "people I trusted when I communicated with them." Democrat pros are now taking the position that he is delusional. At least that is the gist of an article in Po...

  • July 31, 2013

    Liberals will believe anything if you call it a 'study'

    Yesterday saw two ridiculous claims accepted by leftists in government and media, backed by purported "studies." President Obama claimed that the Keystone XL Pipeline would produce on 50 jobs. And he has doubled down despite criticism even from usual...

  • July 30, 2013

    Who paid for Weiner's wedding?

    You've got to hand it to Anthony Weiner and Human Abedin; they seem to have a real knack for getting other people to pay for their lavish lifestyle. Not only do they live in a $3.3 million Manhattan apartment owned by a Hillary supporter, they appear...

  • July 30, 2013

    San Diego media 'pretty much knew' about Filner molesting women

    San Diego mayor and veteran Congressman Bob Filner is a serial molester of women who enjoyed immunity from exposure by his friends in the media who "pretty much knew" about his abuses but chose to ignore them as a non-story. We know this because a br...

  • July 30, 2013

    Manning found not guilty on most serious charge, guilty on others

      Bradley Manning will face prison time for his leak of classified information, but was acquitted on the most serious charge, of aiding the enemy. Evidently, the case was not made beyond a reasonable doubt that he knew that the information would...

  • July 29, 2013

    Clintons reported turning on Weiner

    Anthony and Huma appear to have antagonized Bill and Hillary by implying a comparison of their sex scandals. Fred Dicker, a veteran political writer at the New York Post has an exclusive story making this case. Bill and Hillary Clinton are angry wi...

  • July 29, 2013

    Big talk radio realignment possible

    Hardball corporate negotiations may well end up causing some of the top hosts in the radio world to go head-to-head against each other in the same time slots. The two biggest players in the national radio market, Clear Channel and Cumulus, are clashi...

  • July 28, 2013

    Obama's Sordid Survival Strategy

    We have a president engaged in the most cynical kind of politics, harming the country to maintain his own power and influence.  The media claque that undergirds his waning influence paint a happy face on the ugly reality of this administration....

  • July 28, 2013

    Reality trumps fiction in latest Hollywood scandal

    The executive producer and a guiding light of Showtime's hit new series Ray Donovan has pleaded guilty in a huge scandal involving big names. It would seem Bryan Zuriff, credited with championing the series about a crooked Hollywood fixer, knows his ...

  • July 25, 2013

    Obama: 'Phony scandals' effort 'needs to stop'

    Barack Obama is pitching the line that the scandals engulfing his administration are "phony" and is blaming the Republicans for preventing economic progress by seeking to uncover the truth about Benghazi, the IRS and other matters. In very long, very...

  • July 24, 2013

    Hillaryizing Huma (updated: it's begun)

    Money can't buy the kind of political boost Huma Abedin is receiving.  Like her mentor Hillary Clinton, the stand-by-your-man strategy will be her gateway to widespread popularity and respect. Don't feel sorry for the Democrats over losing a fo...

  • July 23, 2013

    Duke and Duchess Did their Duty

    I find myself in the odd role of defending the British Monarchy. My colleague Rick Moran has published a deeply critical blog marking the birth of an heir to the British Throne, as is his prerogative. I beg to differ. I do so a bit reluctantly, as I ...

  • July 22, 2013

    Obama co-sponsored bill strengthening Illinois stand-your-ground law in 2004

    Now we have proof that the current Obama-Holder campaign against stand-your-ground laws is nothing more than a pose intended to distract from their political problems, having whipped up a racialist fury and pushed prosecution of George Zimmerman. Alt...

  • July 21, 2013

    Journalist calls out his newspaper's coverage of IRS scandals

    We live in a time of extraordinary media corruption when testimony late last week tying a presidential political appointee to the IRS' suppression of the president's political opposition was widely ignored, except for Fox News and the conservative ta...

  • July 19, 2013

    Obama quietly institutes mandatory HIV testing (updated)

    With almost no public notice, President Obama has issued an imperial decree executive order requiring universal HIV testing. Yasmeen Abutaleb of Reuters published a blandly-title dispatch, "Obama orders stepped up effort against U.S. HIV/AIDS epidemi...

  • July 19, 2013

    IRS scandal is unraveling

    We can now officially say that the IRS harassment of conservative groups is a political scandal connected to the Obama political machine. Despite the best obfuscatory efforts of Obama henchmen like Rep. Elijah Cummings, yesterday the IRS scandal was ...

  • July 17, 2013

    Zimmerman prosecutor Angela Corey may face a reckoning

    Angela Corey, the special prosecutor who struck out going after George Zimmerman, has not taken defeat well.  At Red State, streiff catalogues her outrageous behavior in an article that should be read in its entirety: I think everyone can now ...

  • July 17, 2013

    Two good questions for Eric Holder

    A friend who wishes to remain anonymous (but whose name many would recognize) writes: Here are two questions that someone ought to raise, somehow: 1.  Zimmerman was on neighborhood watch because there'd been a rash of break-in at that housing d...

  • July 17, 2013

    Obama political appointee involved in IRS targeting scandal

    The IRS targeting scandal has taken a step toward White House involvement, according to congressional investigators and a partial transcript released by Darrel Issa of the Ovesight Committee and Dave Camo of the Ways and Means. Josh Hicks of the Wash...

  • July 16, 2013

    Poll: Public interest in Zimmerman trial 'modest'

    Can we admit that the Zimmerman trial was a media event foisted on the public? Despite constant flogging in the media and race grievance industry, the public just isn't that interested in the George Zimmerman trial. So say the folks at Pew: The fina...

  • July 16, 2013

    Rachel Jeantel's makeover

    When she appeared on CNN last night with Piers Morgan to explain the difference between ni**a and ni**er, Rachel Jeantel was sporting a serious makeover. I just can't help wondering how that happened. It is not uncommon for attorneys to suggest attir...

  • July 14, 2013

    Violence after Zimmerman verdict: why Oakland?

    While law enforcement authorities in Florida braced for violence following George Zimmerman's vindication, it was 2500 miles away in Oakland, California that store fronts were smashed, walls vandalized with graffiti, and small fires ignited in the st...

  • July 14, 2013

    Salute to the Treepers

    If you've never heard of the Treepers, that's because the media have studiously ignored the best journalism done on the Zimmerman trial. The moniker denotes a group of bloggers posting at The Conservative Treehouse whose painstaking research uncovere...

  • July 13, 2013

    Steyn on the Zimmerman trial

    Today's column from Mark Steyn combines wit and profundity on the significance of the Zimmerman trial. He lays out the true extent of the corruption of the judicial process underway, with his trademark irony at full throttle: In real justice syste...

  • July 13, 2013

    Houston Supplants New York

    When I had the great good fortune to study business history with the founder of the discipline, Alfred D. Chandler, one question we pursued was the historical competition for commercial dominance between Boston and New York in the 18th and 19th Centu...

  • July 13, 2013

    Zimmerman not guilty

    After a long Saturday of deliberations, the six women on the George Zimmerman trial delivered a verdict of not guilty on all counts at nearly 10 PM local time. Justice has been done, in a case that never should have been brought. I join with law prof...

  • July 12, 2013

    Homeland Security Fail

    Frightening evidence of how lax our airport security has become is provided by an incident near Los Angeles, where a parked private jet airplane was tagged by a graffiti artist vandal. Russ Niles of AVweb reports: Los Angeles World Airports has con...

  • July 12, 2013

    SEIU threatening San Francisco Bay Area Greenies

    An ugly drama is playing out as the most powerful leftist union in the country is signaling its intention to paralyze the transit backbone of San Francisco Bay Area travel by striking BART, possibly for an extended period, devastating air quality and...

  • July 11, 2013

    DC City Council bullies Walmart to enrich unions

    The city council of the nation's capital is engaged in a game of chicken with the nation's biggest private employer, Walmart. Legislation custom-designed to force the Arkansas retailer to employ unionized workers in its planned new stores in the Dist...

  • July 11, 2013

    Lois Lerner's big mouth

    Lois Lerner is a nasty piece of work, and one aspect of her arrogance could well be her undoing. She enjoyed wielding her power so much that she boasted about it, and in doing so in a 2011 interview with Business Week, she conceded a point that could...

  • July 10, 2013

    Egypt, Islam, and Modernity

    Herbert E. Meyer has a track record of seeing the big picture when others are mired in the details. When President Reagan proclaimed his Cold War strategy to be, "We win; they lose," it was Herb Meyer who mobilized the CIA into devising the strategy ...

  • July 10, 2013

    MSM protecting Hillary from scandal taint

    A former member of then- Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's protective detail has been sentenced to a year in prison, extending the string of scandals that have engulfed the agency since Mrs. Clinton's tenure began.  The diplomat had faced a p...

  • July 9, 2013

    Canada disaster a lesson for Keystone XL opponents

    American greenies imagine they can save the planet by stopping construction of the Keystone XL pipeline, but in the real world they will expose Mother Gaia (and human beings) to greater harm by forcing more oil to be transported by rail.  Pipeli...

  • July 8, 2013

    Asiana Who?

    I would wager that most Americans had never heard of Asiana Airlines until flight 214 crashed, and now the company has entered the national consciousness in the worst possible way. But it is a company that has aggressively carved out a niche in the w...

  • July 6, 2013

    Muslim Brotherhood strikes back in Egypt

    The Muslim Brotherhood, having lived underground for decades, is not about to give up and go away after the military coup that ousted President Morsi. Supporters of the MB and opponents have been clashing on the streets of Cairo, Alexandria, and else...

  • July 6, 2013

    Snowden receives asylum offers

    Edward Snowden must be so sick of airport food by now that the prospect of asylum in Venezuela, where they can't even keep a steady supply of toilet paper on the store shelves, looks pretty good. Fabiola Sanchez and Luis Manuel Galeano of the AP repo...

  • July 6, 2013

    What telephone metadata shows

    Thanks to legal action taken by a German politician, we have access to the kind of surveillance possible using telephone metadata only. This is the kind of information the NSA reportedly collects about all Americans. Michael Kelley of Business Inside...

  • July 6, 2013

    The Green Religion and Fracking

    Environmentalism has become a religion for most adherents, where reason takes a back seat to faith. This can be seen quite clearly in the environmentalist response to fracking, which actually benefits the very goals the greenies proclaim. The green c...

  • July 6, 2013

    Huma stonewalls Senator's inquiry

    Huma Abedin, the photogenic aide to Hillary Clinton with strong family connections to the Muslim Brotherhood, married to New York City mayoral candidate and sexting devotee Anthony Weiner, is back in the news. Dan Friedman of the New York Daily News...

  • July 6, 2013

    Psaki's pants on fire

    The State Department's new spokeswoman Jen Psaki has sacrificed her own, the State Department, and Secretary of State John Kerry's credibility with her readily proven lying about his whereabouts as the coup in Egypt unfolded. Jennifer Epstein at Poli...

  • July 5, 2013

    The unlikely hero of Egypt?

    Egypt is a wreck of a country, so unable to feed itself that the Muslim Brotherhood foundered on the rocks of economic reality after winning the country's first democratic election by a bare majority. At a distance, Americans fail to perceive the sta...

  • July 5, 2013

    WaPo reveals the ugly Chicago tactics of Obama

    Readers of American Thinker are well aware of the bring-a-gun-to-a-knife-fight nature of Presiddnt Obama's political tactics. But for the Beltway denizens who read the Washington Post, not the Times or Free Beacon, may have an underdeveloped apprecia...

  • July 5, 2013

    Employer mandate suspension to worsen deficit

    President Obama's decision to suspend the employer mandate of ObamaCare will mean that $10 billion in fines, which were expected to be added to federal revenues, will not be received by the United States Treasury. This makes the delay what McClatchy ...

  • July 5, 2013

    Fatah calls for overthrow of Hamas in Gaza

    Hamas, the terror outfit that governs Gaza with backing from the Muslim Brotherhood, is under attack by its rival for governance of the Palestinians, Al Fatah, which governs the West Bank.  Khaled Abu Toameh of the Jerusalem Post reports: Pale...

  • July 5, 2013

    Potentially explosive development in IRS scandals

    One of the most important and so-far least noted threads in the IRS sandal cloth is the inexplicable remark made by Austan Goolsbee, at the time the Chairman of the White Council of Economic Advisors about the taxes paid by the Koch brothers - arch v...

  • July 5, 2013

    Media hyping bad job numbers

    The mainstream media are trumpeting the latest Labor Department jobs figures as good news (really great news," according to the National Journal), but don't be fooled. What is concealed in the raw data (7.6% unemployment, 195,000 new jobs -- "slightl...

  • July 4, 2013

    Texas Rises

    The gift of fracking has created vast new oil supplies, capable of making America energy independent in a few years, creating millions of jobs, powering economic growth, and crippling the power of OPEC and the Islamic oil producers. Such attention as...

  • July 2, 2013

    Should Congress telecommute?

    Freshman Democratic Congressman Rep. Eric Swawell filed a resolution last Friday to change the rules of the House of Representatives to allow members to vote remotely, presumably from their home districts, but in any event, without being physically p...

  • July 1, 2013

    SF Bay Area faces crippling transit strike

    Workers have gone on strike and walked off the job at BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit), threatening to paralyze San Francisco area freeways, with 400,000 daily riders having to find alternative ways of getting to work, most of them over long distances. ...

  • July 1, 2013

    Same sex cultural imperialism

    For decades the American left made a business of denouncing "cultural imperialism," the imposition of Western values on third world cultures. Coca-Colonialism, as it was sometimes caricatured, needed resistance abroad and at home. So the left came up...

  • June 29, 2013

    Rachel Jeantel testimony reveals racial rift

    The nation's media remain focused on the George Zimmerman trail, making Rachel Jeantel suddenly a public icon. Criticisms of her communications difficulties and problematic attitudes have sparked a heated backlash from liberal defenders, claiming rac...

  • June 29, 2013

    Wasserman Schultz global warming hysteria

    Debbie Wasserman Schultz has claimed her Florida constituency will be underwater "in a few short years" because of global warming. Andrew Johnson in NRO: Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D., Fla.), who represents the Miami area, warned that...

  • June 28, 2013

    Copperhead

    It's a miracle! A fascinating and compelling movie whose plot is driven by the protagonist's fidelity to the Constitution. (In fact there were more mentions of the Constitution than any other movie I have ever seen.)  You have never seen a movie...

  • June 27, 2013

    Obama admin bungled Snowden extradition

    The Obama administration's "smart diplomacy" wasn't able to get the paperwork done properly in extraditing Edward Snowden from Hong Kong. At least that's the story the Hong King government is telling. Lydia Warren of the UK Daily Mail writes: Hong ...

  • June 26, 2013

    Radical Muslim Cleric honored with White House meeting

    Schoolchildren may still be unable to visit the White House, but radical Muslim cleric Sheik Abdullah Bin Bayyah was welcomed and attended a June 13 meeting with National Security Advisor Tom Donilon and White House communications director Jenni...

  • June 26, 2013

    In his own words: Amb. Stevens diary revealed

    Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE Ambassador Chris Stev...

  • June 26, 2013

    SCOTUS overturns DOMA

    The Supreme Court has overturned the Defense of Marriage Act, in a 5-4 decision with swing voter Justice Kennedy joining the liberal bloc. The 77 page decision can be found here. It appears that the major argument embraced by the majority is that DOM...

  • June 26, 2013

    SCOTUS allows California gay marriage

    The Supreme Court dodged expressing an opinion that same sex marriage is a constitutional right, while at the same time allowing California to resume homosexual marriage.  It is now obvious that June 26 will become an annual day of celebration i...

  • June 25, 2013

    Werfel's chaff obscures tea party targeting

    The IRS wants the public to think that they also targeted progressives. It's just chaff. When the Luftwaffe lost so many aircraft to British-developed radar, they developed the countermeasure of spreading clouds of aluminum strips that offered multip...

  • June 24, 2013

    Obama administration bungles Snowden, leaves great power diplomacy in shambles

    It would be comic if the national security of the United States were not in peril. The Obama crew, which smugly promised us "smart diplomacy," has totally bungled relations with China and Russia, America's two major potential global rivals, in its ha...

  • June 24, 2013

    Al Jazeera greasing Newseum to rent prestige?

    With enough money, Al Jazeera figures it can overcome skeptics and earn some traction in the American news business. Al Jazeera America, the forthcoming cable news service owned by the Royal family of Qatar, seeks to reach and mold the national dialo...

  • June 23, 2013

    NPR flaunts its wealth as MSM struggles

    An understandable wave of envy is sweeping through the Beltway mainstream media, in the wake of NPR (formerly known as National Public Radio) showing off a spectacular new headquarters building in Washington, DC.  NPR is spending big on creating...

  • June 22, 2013

    Obama administration throttling fracking

    Very quietly, noticed only by Fox News, the Obama administration's Bureau of Land Management has been planning put two thirds of the federal lands open to fracking out of play. This was accomplished via bureaucratic regulation, of course. Fox News re...

  • June 19, 2013

    New documentary alleges TWA 800 cover-up

    American Thinker has long taken a skeptical attitude toward the official account of the TWA 800 disaster. Jack Cashill, who also wrote a book on the subject, has an impressive body of work on the subject, some of it published on these pages. Co-found...

  • June 18, 2013

    Media bias on same sex marriage: by the numbers

    The Pew Research Center has published a study confirming what any sentient viewer of major media already knows: a full bore propaganda campaign has been underway to build public support for the redefinition of marriage. Paul Hitlin, Amy Mitchell and ...

  • June 15, 2013

    When dealing with a tyrant like Putin, don't show him your good stuff

    Robert Kraft, owner of the New England Patriots, serves as an object lesson in the hazards of interacting with tyrants.  The New York Post reports: New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft revealed the real story behind a 2005 meeting with Vla...

  • June 14, 2013

    Race discussion may crowd out scandals in wake of Supreme Court affirmative action decision

    Get set for a Supreme Court decision that could alter or even end affirmative action. Or not. Predicting SCOTUS decisions is hazardous, but Fisher v University of Texas could plunge the nation into heated discussion of the role of racial preferences ...

  • June 13, 2013

    Voices rise from under the Cincinnati bus

    One of the dumbest moves made by Lois Lerner (and those above her who presumably approved her strategy to deflect blame) was blaming her subordinates in Cincinnati as "rogue agents" who launched the anti-tea party jihad the IRS has been carrying on e...

  • June 13, 2013

    Top Egyptian pols caught on camera being their America-hating selves

    It would be funny if it were not so grim. Thanks to the Obama-supported Arab Spring, Egypt has gone from ally to enemy.  We know this because the country's political leadership was caught on camera speaking in the belief that they were in privat...

  • June 13, 2013

    A flawed federal law enforcement agency?

    The federal government maintains a bewildering number of armed law enforcement agencies, including the 295 armed Social Security special agents, for whom 174,000 .357 Sig 125 grain bonded jacketed hollow point bullets were recently put up for bid. A...

  • June 11, 2013

    Did Verizon build a fiber optic cable to give feds access?

    That's the allegation contained in a class action lawsuit, and it was reported by no less than the New York Times in 2007.  Business Insider noted this and other troubling information on the possible magnitude of NSA spying on Americans. Over ...

  • June 10, 2013

    City of San Francisco funds religious place of worship

    Perhaps you, like me, assumed that the City of San Francisco, California would avoid any governmental sponsorship of a particular religion, and would never house a place of worship of a specific religion on its own property. And if such government sp...

  • June 10, 2013

    Hezb'allah's Syrian Quagmire?

    Has Hezb'allah, the Iranian-backed terror organization, bitten off more than it can chew in Syria? Could the transnational terror group have fond its own Viet Nam in backing Alawite dictator Assad?  Michael Young, writing in Now, makes the case:...

  • June 8, 2013

    Obama among the tech rich

    Barack Obama has been coming to California to scoop up high tech money and support, as it starts to sink in on the nation that arm-in-arm with the plutocrats of Silicon Valley, he is using Big Data in scary ways. So it is [particularly welcome that Z...

  • June 6, 2013

    Obama, the second 'Teflon president'

    Much to the dismay of his political opponents, President Obama's personal approval ratings have remained steady, despite the burgeoning scandals enveloping his administration. Dylan Stableford of Yahoo News summarizes the situation: Despite contro...

  • June 5, 2013

    Greenies increase probability of oil spills

    It was article of faith among green groups that opposition to the Keystone XL Pipeline was going to save Mother Gaia from the threat of oil spills along the route, particularly in the sensitive Sand Hills area of Nebraska. In their one dimensional th...

  • June 5, 2013

    Obama: The Ghost of Columbia University

    Why does no one attending the thirtieth reunion of Barack Obama's graduating class at Columbia University remember meeting him? That's the intriguing question raised by Wayne Allyn Root in a piece published at the Blaze: We shared the same exact m...

  • June 4, 2013

    Obama administration may have a fourth big scandal

    The Associated Press has uncovered what may become a vast new scandal for the Obama administration: the possibly widespread use of covert email accounts by political appointees, enabling evasion of sunshine laws designed to protect the public. Jack G...

  • May 29, 2013

    Eric Holder, standing joke

    As Barack Obama's political guru Saul Alinsky instructed, ridicule is among the most potent political weapons. That is another reason (besides that awkward perjury investigation being conducted by the House) why the president's longtime political all...

  • May 29, 2013

    Democrats forming circular firing squad

    You can tell that the Democrats are off balance, perhaps even already reeling, in anticipation of another mid-term "shellacking" in 2014. Billionaire politician/propagandist Michael Bloomberg is funding an effort to punish Democrats running for re-el...

  • May 28, 2013

    Obama 'a passenger on the ship of state'

    Jennifer Rubin, house conservative blogger at the Washington Post, focuses on what may be the most effective argument against President Obama's conduct in office: his detachment, if not laziness.  In the context of Benghazi 9/11, she does not mi...

  • May 27, 2013

    Saudis getting fed up with Obama's dithering on Syria?

    That historic Obama bow before the King of Saudi Arabia is wearing off, it appears, if an article published by a Saudi author for a London Arabic language newspaper is to be credited. The invaluable site MEMRI, which translates notable Arabic languag...

  • May 26, 2013

    Euphemism alert!

    Maybe Eric Holder wasn't wrong when he called us a nation of cowards when it comes to discussing race. Certainly, that is evident in coverage of an annual gathering of young blacks in Miami Beach, called "Urban Beach Week." It is necessary for journa...

  • May 25, 2013

    A tasty victory in the war against over-regulation

    The European Union's unelected bureaucrats are notorious for sticking their noses into places they shouldn't go. For example, regulating the length and curvature of bananas. Often, these regulations are the product of pressures from interest groups t...

  • May 23, 2013

    Is Brennan behind the leaks witch hunt?

    A heretofore obscure document revealed by Wikileaks points to John Brennan, current head of the CIA, as the man behind the media subpoena abuses just revealed. Hmm, the same guy who insisted on being sworn into office on a copy of the original Consti...

  • May 22, 2013

    Obama has lost the New York Times editorial board

    Make no mistake: by criminalizing James Rosen of Fox News for asking government employees to give him information, the Obama administration is suppressing the ability of the press to do its job. It is so egregious that even the New York Times, normal...

  • May 22, 2013

    Lois Lerner thrown under the bus

    Lois Lerner, the head of the IRS operation that targeted Tea Party groups is being thrown under the bus by Obama. As both John McCormack of The Weekly Standard and Bryan Preston of the PJ Tatler noticed, in the wake of her taking of the Fifth Amendme...

  • May 21, 2013

    Never Mind Impeachment; Keep your Eyes on the Prize

    See also: The Case for Impeachment Conservatives and Republicans would be unwise to pursue President Obama's impeachment as my colleague Bruce Walker today argues.  The odds are the effort would backfire, and there is a much more important goal ...

  • May 21, 2013

    Lois Lerner to plead the Fifth Wednesday before Issa Committee

    We can now officially call the Obama administration besieged.  One of President Obama's underlings is set to plead her Fifth Amendment Right against self-incrimination in the burgeoning IRS scandal. The Los Angeles Times broke the story: Lois...

  • May 20, 2013

    A very bad sign for Obama

    Anne E. Marimow of the Washington Post alerts fellow MSMers and the public that the DoJ's AP scandal might be the tip of the iceberg, and that in spying on the press, the Justice Department "did more than obtain telephone records of a working journal...

  • May 19, 2013

    The Complete IRS Scandal Timeline in Spreadsheet Format

    A huge thank-you to Doug Ross of the invaluable Director Blue website for compiling a complete timeline of the IRS scandal. So many lies and misleading statements have already been made that the American public must evaluate Obama administration repr...

  • May 16, 2013

    The Mainstream Media Obama Psychodrama

    Do not underestimate the psychological shock currently being processed by many members of the mainstream media and the low-to-medium information voters who rely on them for political analysis. To them, the election and re-election of Barack Obama, th...

  • May 16, 2013

    IRS Scandal: The Union Connection

    Jeffrey Lord of the American Spectator has done us a great favor by investigating the left wing union that represents IRS and other Treasury employees - 150,000 of them in 31 separate government agencies including the IRS. The union has signed on to ...

  • May 16, 2013

    Is a constitutional crisis brewing? (Updated)

    California Congressman David Nunes dropped a bombshell yesterday on the Hugh Hewitt Show, one that could occasion a constitutional crisis. Duane Patterson offers us a transcript at Hot Air: HH: The idea that this might be a Geithner-Axelrod plan, ...

  • May 15, 2013

    The End of the Obama Illusion

    President Obama is shattering the illusions of his supporters, and eyes are opening, even among his former media allies.  As if waking from a slumber, a newly aggressive White House press corps yesterday raked Jay Carney over the coals over vari...

  • May 15, 2013

    Obama's Harvard mentor keeps hope of SCOTUS appointment alive

    In an email to Reuters commenting on Obama's troubles, Harvard Law School mentor, Professor Lawrence Tribe provides a nice nonthreatening commentary on his troubles.   Tribe wrote in an email to Reuters that on campus, 'Barack Obama could liv...

  • May 14, 2013

    Media discovering Obama doesn't return the love

    Somewhere, Andrew Breitbart is smiling. You can almost see the metaphorical light bulbs going on in bubbles over the heads of liberal media figures. Obama loyalists are expressing outrage at the subpoenaing of the phone records of 20 lines serving ov...

  • May 14, 2013

    Stay classy, Pelosi

    We learn via Kevin Robillard of Politico: "Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says her GOP successor would be considered the 'weakest speaker in history' if he were a woman. 'I will say this about John Boehner, and I have a good relationship with h...

  • May 13, 2013

    Double Standards at University of California

    A troubling double standard appears to exist when it comes harassment at the publicly funded University of California. The University has taken strong action against harassment, physical assault, terrorization and targeting individuals on the basis o...

  • May 13, 2013

    Obama's fixer and the New York Times' 'beat sweetener'

    See also: Ben Rhodes: Obama's Fixer behind the Benghazi Cover-Up Ben Rhodes, the master of fiction who was Obama's fixer in the talking points cover-up, has a friend at the New York Times, it appears. Mark Landler wrote a glowing profile of Rhodes on...

  • May 13, 2013

    Benghazi bureaucratic blame game escalates

    Now that the Big Lie about the Mohammed Video that helped re-elect Barack Obama has been exposed, the people involved are worried about becoming the fall guy. Jennifer Rubin of the Washington Post thinks Victoria Nuland, of the State Department is be...

  • May 13, 2013

    Benghazi and Obama's Legitimacy

    Did Barack Obama in effect steal the election in 2012? It is impossible to know, of course, how matters would have played it if Americans had been told the truth about Benghazi. And what if the IRS had not hobbled conservative nonprofits (and therefo...

  • May 12, 2013

    The twelve minute video that could make Jay Carney curl up in the fetal position

    Saturday night on her Fox News show, Judge Jeanine Pirro spoke out with eloquence and righteous indignation over the Benghazi affair. It was a tour de force presentation of the issues in bold and commonsense language. I have always enjoyed Judge Pirr...

  • May 12, 2013

    Scenes from the Democrat ruling class

    A lengthy criminal investigation of the son of prominent Congressman Chaka Fattah is underway in Philadelphia. It is always a bad thing to have the feds looking into throwing you in the slammer, but if it's going to happen, then it really helps to ha...

  • May 11, 2013

    HHS Secretary Sebelius using 'donations' to defy Congress on Obamacare implementation

    Chalk up another outrage to the Obama administration. Health and Human Services Secretary  Kathleen Sebelius is shaking down health industry executives for "donations" to provide funds Congress refuses to appropriate. Sarah Cliff writes in the W...

  • May 11, 2013

    It's the character, stupid

    Mark Steyn has a magnificent column today on the Benghazi Lie. He directs our focus to an issue more important than policy" character. The Benghazi episode reveals what he later characterizes as "depravity." With his trademark incisiveness and wit, h...

  • May 10, 2013

    MSM Benghazigate cofferdam breached

    The thread is starting to unravel on the fabric of lies surrounding the Benghazi 911 incident woven by the president, his secretary of state, and their political appointees. An important step is that ABC News has broken the story that the talking poi...

  • May 10, 2013

    IRS political scandal a new political nightmare for Obama administration

    Out of the blue, the Internal Revenue Service has apologized for targeting conservative groups with "tea party" or "patriot" in their titles for special treatment in applying for tax exempt nonprofit organization status.  Stephen Ohlemacher of A...

  • May 9, 2013

    Send His Body to Cambridge

    Uncle Ruslan has it right: give Tamerlan's corpse to Cambridge, no matter what they say. He said: "He lived in America. He grew up here and for the last 10 years he decided to be in Cambridge, therefore any contemplation that the body should be ta...

  • May 9, 2013

    Will CBS News disgrace itself over Sharyl Attkisson's honest reporting?

    Sharyl Attkisson has distinguished herself with skeptical inquiry into Obama administration stories on Fast and Furious and Benghazigate, and perhaps as a result is reportedly in trouble with her bosses at CBS News. Dylan Byers of Politico reports: ...

  • May 9, 2013

    Progressive Propaganda Machine to the rescue of Rahmbo

    Rahm Emanuel has discovered that being Mayor of Chicago is hard, and his popularity way down: From the Chicago Tribune: Mayor Rahm Emanuel faces growing voter disenchantment, particularly among African-Americans, even as the overall number approvi...

  • May 8, 2013

    Sanford wins House seat with 9 point margin in South Carolina special election

    It wasn't even close, despite some polling that indicated a tight race between disgraced former Governor and Representative Mark Sanford and Elizabeth Colbert Busch, sister of the comedian Stephen Colbert. Glenn Smith of the Charleston Post and Couri...

  • May 8, 2013

    Curious plea for mercy for Jesse Jackson, Jr.

    No, it's not the Onion, it's the Los Angeles Times and Chicago Tribune that bring this statement of support and plea for mercy for former Representative Jesse Jackson, Jr. Katherine Skiba writes: Asking for mercy for former Rep. Jesse Jackson...

  • May 8, 2013

    ZING!

    It's being called the tweet of the decade, which might be a slight overstatement considering the short history of Twitter, but nonetheless it is a satisfying putdown of an insufferable ninny beloved by the progressive media from (who else?) Iowahawk....

  • May 8, 2013

    Jerry Brown excuses government incompetence: 'Sh*t happens'

    A massive screw-up by the state of California is being brushed off by Governor Jerry Brown with a barnyard expression: "Sh*t happens." The new eastern span of the Bay Bridge, a multi-billion dollar endeavor, turns out to have used faulty bolts to fas...

  • May 7, 2013

    Anti-gun hysteria in schools would be comic if not for the impact on little boys

    A form of madness apparently has spread widely throughout the nation's government schools, as evidenced by comic behavior in reaction to imaginary guns. This time, it not a pop tart chewed into the shape of a gun, or a pencil drawing of a gun, it is ...

  • May 7, 2013

    Chris Christie tosses his fat in the ring

    By letting it be known (to the New York Post) that he had lap band surgery on Feb. 16 and has already dropped forty pounds, Chris Christie semi-officially announced he's running for president. If he successfully addresses his obesity problem, his app...

  • May 6, 2013

    Talk radio turmoil

    Rush Limbaugh is embroiled in a public spat with Cumulus Broadcasting, owner of 40 of the biggest stations on which his show currently appears. While liberal media enjoy the spectacle of intramural conflict in the talk radio biz, this appears to be n...

  • May 4, 2013

    Obama's problems with Syria chemical weapons could be Israel's fault

    That is the proposition being cast into public discussion by Colin Powell's former chief of staff, retired Col. Lawrence Wilkerson. Speaking on cable news about how President Obama should handle early evidence that Syria may have used chemicals weapo...

  • May 4, 2013

    Academic warmists celebrate book burning at San Jose State University

    At the San Jose State University Meteorology Department, they'd rather burn books than read them, if their faith in the gospel of man-made global warming would be challenged by the contents. That is the message conveyed on the Department's own websit...

  • May 4, 2013

    The Complete Benghazi Timeline in Spreadsheet Format

    The evidence of a cover-up is becoming clear, thanks to information recently released about what happened at Benghazi. Doug Ross of Director Blue has pulled together information from  Stephen Hayes and the House Oversight Committee that lea...

  • May 3, 2013

    CNN joins Fox in covering Benghazi revelations

    Fox News is no longer alone in uncovering revelations about the Benghazi attack the Obama administration wanted nobody to hear about.  CNN has done some investigating of its own and discovered that 3 Al Qaeda operatives were involved in the sust...

  • May 2, 2013

    MSM face Benghazigate dilemma

    For the moment only Fox and conservative media are covering the revelations of a Benghazi whistleblower, limiting knowledge of the disturbing revelations to perhaps a third of the public, if that. The vast pool of low information voters will never kn...

  • May 1, 2013

    'Any race except Caucasian'

    Oops! A casting call for a new host of a children's program on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the taxpayer supported, government-owned television and radio network of Canada,  accidentally told the truth, when it specified "any race exce...

  • April 30, 2013

    Tsarnaev family received at least $100,000 in public assistance

    Thanks to the Boston Herald, Americans are learning about the cornucopia of benefits enjoyed by the Tsarnaev family as "asylum" seekers in the United States, and the information is enough to make many taxpayers' blood boil.  Chris Cassidy writes...

  • April 30, 2013

    The most bizarre prediction of global warming doom ever

    When apocalyptic religious cults like Warmism fail the reality test, their devotees get desperate and unintentionally start producing self-parodies. The mass slow-mo mental implosion can be hilarious. We have just such an instance involving a group o...

  • April 28, 2013

    Russians wiretaps of Tsarnaevs leaked

    Mama Tsarnaev talked jihad with her darling son Tamerlan - the one she named after one of history's most brutal jihad conquerors - according to 2011 wiretaps by the Russians, which have been recently revealed to American authorities and now leaked to...

  • April 28, 2013

    Obama doubles down on failed budget strategy

    In his weekly address, President Obama promised Americans "pain" unless his budget is accepted, junking the small cuts in the rate of increase in federal spending that Sequester brought, and "replacing" it with a "balanced" approach (more taxes). ...

  • April 27, 2013

    Obama's National Security Fraud

    Andrew McCarthy, the former federal prosecutor who handled the Blind Sheikh and thus a man to be reckoned with, calls out the fraud at the heart of the Obama Administration's handling of the Tsarnaev case in National Review Online today.   ...

  • April 26, 2013

    Egypt re-starting nuclear program

    As North Korea has demonstrated, an impoverished, an impoverished, starving population is no obstacle to a determined leader desiring nuclear weapons.  So now, Mohamed Morsi, the Muslim Brotherhood President of Egypt, is committing billions of d...

  • April 26, 2013

    Fast and Furious stonewall hits the courts

    The Obama administration gave us its oral argument resisting a congressional subpoena to turn over documents related to Fast and Furious. There is reason to believe they may be falling flat, though of course predicting any judicial ruling is hazardou...

  • April 26, 2013

    Guess who is making out like a bandit on Obamaphones?

    Well, well, well, roughly a quarter of the 2.2 billion dollars being spent on Obamaphones, has gone to a company owned by Carlos Slim. Todd Shields of Bloomberg reports: Slim's TracFone Wireless Inc. received about a quarter of the funds from the ...

  • April 25, 2013

    Strangling the Second Amendment

    General Electric Capital, part of the crony capitalist clique backing the Obama regime, quietly is telling gun dealers that they will no longer provide financing. Joe Palazzolo and Kate Linebaugh of MarketWatch write: This month, Glenn Duncan, own...

  • April 25, 2013

    Oh-oh! The Tsarnaev narrative looks worse and worse for Obama

    The Obama administration and liberal policies look awfully bad in the face of the facts emerging about the Tsarnaev family's insertion into the United States. The Boston Herald yesterday broke the story of the family having received welfare, after ...

  • April 24, 2013

    The Bushido Bishop

    The Mormon bishop who used a samurai sword to defend a neighbor lady being attacked by a stalker is just an irresistible story. So many contemporary memes collide. (Check out this picture. Is it just me, or does he look a little like Glenn Beck?) ...

  • April 23, 2013

    How Louis Farrakhan got a police escort for his 'unofficial motorcade'

    Wouldn't it be great if you could get a police car to accompany you for "traffic control" when you drive somewhere? It would be sort of like the president, except for the bulletproof limo and Secret Service. Louis Farrakhan of the Nation of Islam, ...

  • April 23, 2013

    Army scraping off biblical reference from weapons scopes

    For years, weapons scopes supplied to the Army by a company called Trijicon ("Brilliant Arming SolutionsTM")have carried serial numbers ending in JNB:12 and 2COR4:6. To the biblically untutored, they appeared to be just a continuation of an alphanume...

  • April 21, 2013

    What did Dzhokhar learn about Chechnya in school?

    We've heard a lot of speculation about Tamerlan Tsarnaev as the reason Dzhokhar went bad, but maybe there were other influences, as well. Steve Urbon, a columnist for the local newspapers where Dzhokhar went to college, has broken the story of his ac...

  • April 20, 2013

    The Tsarnaev Meme Wars Begin

    Boston and the nation have gone through a trauma and a degree of catharsis over the attack in Boston, and now the battle to define how we discuss that incident and the perps is underway. Media progressives openly hoped and predicted the perp would tu...

  • April 19, 2013

    Marathon bombing suspects identified as Chechens

    Suspect Number One is reported dead, while Suspect Number Two is on the loose and being sought with neighborhoods locked down as police search. The two suspects are believed to be brothers from Chechnya, with Number Two identified as Dzhokhar A. Tsar...

  • April 19, 2013

    Oh no! Marathon bombers not 'white Americans'

    Boo-hoo! David Sirota of Salon Magazine must be in mourning this morning, for the hopes he expressed in a piece titled "Let's hope the Boston Marathon bomber is a white American," have been dashed. One can only imagine he has plenty of company among ...

  • April 19, 2013

    About 'prestigious' Cambridge Rindge and Latin School

    The word "prestigious" is being attached to the public high school serving Cambridge, Massachusetts in public discussion of Suspect number two, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who attended Cambridge Rindge and Latin, and even won a scholarship. This meme appear...

  • April 18, 2013

    Dancing on the graves of 'old media'

    See also: A growing sense that we're not getting the turth about Boston bombing The mainstream media have once again eroded their own credibility in reporting the Boston bombing, and they know it. Yesterday, for example, CNN repeatedly reported an ar...

  • April 18, 2013

    A growing sense that we're not getting the truth about Boston bombing

    See also: Dancing on the graves of 'old media' While the media are bearing the brunt of public skepticism over the handling of the Boston bombing, the behavior of government is also eroding public trust. Yesterday's promised but cancelled news brie...

  • April 17, 2013

    Media lefty admits ideology suppressed Gosnell trial coverage

    The shaming of the mainstream media over suppression of news of the Gosnell trial has achieved another victory. A familiar liberal talking head, Professor Marc Lamont Hill, has 'fessed up in a segment streamed on HuffPo Live, the internet television ...

  • April 17, 2013

    Campus Derangement Syndrome gets prof arrested

    A faculty member at New York State's largest public university was arrested yesterday, espousing a very peculiar interpretation of the First Amendment.  Laura E. Curry, an adjunct instructor of media studies, was incensed at a display erected by...

  • April 16, 2013

    Those nasty conservatives forced us to cover the Gosnell trial

    Those nasty conservatives forced us to cover the Gosnell trial.  That's my translation of the New York Times headline, "Online Furor Draws Press to Abortion Doctor's Trial." The piece by Trip Gabriel appeared on page A12 of today's print edition...

  • April 15, 2013

    Media on trial, too, as Gosnell trial resumes

    The most famous empty press section ever, symbolizing the media blackout of the sensational trial of Dr. Kermit Gosnell, may have a few occupants today when the trial resumes. The past few days have seen active shaming of the mainstream media over i...

  • April 15, 2013

    Lethal explosion at Boston Marathon finish line

    Early reports indicate multiple casualties from two explosions at the finish line of the Boston Marathon. Fox News is reporting on air that the devices do not appear to have been very sophisticated. A picture at the time of the blast featured on Drud...

  • April 14, 2013

    MSM facing a new game with Gosnell blackout

    Conservatives have studied Alinsky long and hard enough that they are starting to employ his rules against the legacy media establishment.  In the face of the MSM blackout on the Gosnell trial, conservatives are fighting back with "a challenge t...

  • April 13, 2013

    Public school assignment: 'must argue that Jews are evil'

    Oh, the glories of government schools! In Albany, New York, a teacher -- whose name has not been revealed for some reason - instructed students, according to the New York Times: ...to imagine that their teacher was a Nazi and to construct an argum...

  • April 13, 2013

    Washington Post executive editor admits it should be covering Gosnell trial

    The legacy media blackout of the horrific trial of Dr. Kermit Gosnell's alleged multiple murders of infants born alive is finally seeing a little light. Yesterday, I recommended shaming the media, and it now appears that something like shame and even...

  • April 12, 2013

    Kim Jong Un's Shoes

    If you can mentally put yourself in Kim Jong-un's shoes, once you are aware of the constraints he faces you will understand why the South Koreans aren't getting terribly worried about how the current round of threats will end. Far from being crazy, K...

  • April 12, 2013

    Terry McAuliffe Crony Capitalism Watch

    One of the most interesting races this year is the Virginia governorship battle, pitting constitutionalist Ken Cuccinelli, the commonwealth's current attorney general, against Democratic fundraiser and close Clinton pal (chairman of Hillary's 2008 pr...

  • April 12, 2013

    State Department suffering from Benghazi Syndrome in Afghan death reports

    Why can't the State Department tell us the truth the first time when its diplomats are assassinated in Islamic countries? Is there a malady we can call the Benghazi Syndrome at work? Mere incompetence may be the parsimonious explanation, but it doesn...

  • April 12, 2013

    Shaming the MSM on abortion house of horrors blackout

    The progressive media are deliberately ignoring the horrifying practices of Dr. Kermit Gosnell, the Philadelphia abortionist who executed babies born live and is now on trial for murder. Mark Steyn does not mince words: "The U.S. media's unanimous ag...

  • April 12, 2013

    RIP Jonathan Winters

    When I was a teen aged boy, Jonathan Winters exploded into my consciousness, a manic, inventive, hilariously imaginative presence on the TV screen. He was a master of improv, a great mimic, and a creator of archetypal characters who rang very true, w...

  • April 11, 2013

    The McConnell Test of Progressive Media Power

    The progressives who run the Democratic Party and the mainstream media are flexing their muscles, attempting to frame the story of a possible political crime through the wrong end of a telescope, in the belief that the MSM's sheer mindshare can win o...

  • April 11, 2013

    News that must be suppressed

    If our major media were not fully committed propagandists, they would report the findings of a large scale survey of law enforcement personnel on the subject of further gun legislation. After all, they are currently following the President's strategy...

  • April 10, 2013

    Architect of ObamaCare admits it is 'just beyond comprehension'

    In effect admitting that it might have been a mistake to pass ObamaCare before reading it, Senator Jay Rockefeller has warned that matters could get even worse, thanks to the overwhelming complexity of the law. Paul Bedard reports in the Washington E...

  • April 10, 2013

    The Warmist Empire Strikes Back

    The stubborn failure of actual climate to follow the model of the Warmists may have turned the tide of public opinion toward skepticism, but the ruling elites of the post-Gramsci intellectual establishment have many weapons with which to fight back....

  • April 9, 2013

    A new phase of combat in the language wars?

    We are at a very interesting point in the conservative awakening, following the trauma of the 2012 presidential electoral defeat. Many conservatives have grasped one of the key lessons of the Progressive takeover of the media and academy: the ability...

  • April 9, 2013

    The most shocking news you won't see in the MSM today

    The murder trial of abortionist Kermit Gosnell largely is being ignored by the mainstream media, even in the face of grisly testimony, such as what we heard yesterday. Life News reports: ...a former employee described how she heard a baby scream du...

  • April 8, 2013

    Baroness Thatcher succumbs to stroke at age 87

    Baroness Margaret Thatcher, known as the "greengrocer's daughter" who revitalized Britain with conservative economic policies and brought down Soviet communism in cooperation with Pope John Paul II and Ronald Reagan, died today of a stroke at the age...

  • April 8, 2013

    Pulling the Benghazi loose threads: Spec Ops Vets Speak

    More than 700 veterans of Special Operations have spoken up about Benghazi, and laid a challenge on the table for the loyal opposition to get going and form a special committee that would be focused solely on getting to the bottom of what really happ...

  • April 6, 2013

    By his own standards, Obama is 'self-delusional'

    It's one thing for President Obama to be cocky and overstate his prowess at governing. People are used to politicians grabbing credit, and besides, you can always rationalize when it comes to explaining why things didn't quite work out as you claimed...

  • April 5, 2013

    Offshore secret bank accounts exposed

    What the New York Times approvingly calls a "trove of secret financial information" was released Thursday, highlighting offshore secret bank accounts held by various individuals. The breathless story begins: They are a large and diverse group that...

  • April 5, 2013

    Barry butches up with comment on California AG

    During his two day flurry of fundraising in Northern California, the President of the United States took it upon himself  (and allow to be released to the public - not all of his fundraising comments make it to the masses) to praise the attracti...

  • April 4, 2013

    Muslim Brothers learning to be careful what they wish for

    The Ikhwan, or Muslim Brotherhood, has endured decades of political repression in Egypt, the most populous country in the Arab world, and finally has achieved its goal of political power (with a big assist from Barack Obama who turned his back on US ...

  • April 4, 2013

    Oh-oh! The dreaded i-word starts attaching itself to Obama

    We have already seen Peak Obama; from here on, it's going to get rougher and rougher for Barack Obama. Even worse, the one word he must fear the most has just been uttered by a man regarded as a bit of a truth-teller among liberal elites. Joe Klein, ...

  • April 3, 2013

    It's Almost 3 AM and North Korea's Calling

    President Obama has a situation on his hands where charisma and media support do him no good.  He is dealing with a nuclear-armed regime with a history of military attacks, provocations as a means of extortion, and brutality.  Now they have...

  • April 3, 2013

    Finally! School Choice can show its stuff

    The Great State of Indiana is about to test statewide school choice on a meaningful scale. This a major victory that has attracted little media attention at a time when the MSM  narrative is focused on same sex marriage splitting the Republicans...

  • April 3, 2013

    Chevy Volt sales fiasco

    President Obama and eco-mandarins around him made a very bad call when they calculated that a mix of appeals to greenies, lavish subsidies, and a marketing push from General Motors could convince the public to buy lithium-ion battery-powered electric...

  • April 2, 2013

    Busting the EPA's secret government

    Something is rotten in the EPA, and Christopher Horner is the man exposing it. For reasons undisclosed, the agency with vast discretionary power over the minutiae of operating a business in the United States has chosen to violate the law and engage i...

  • March 31, 2013

    Lynching Ben Carson as a 'homophobe'

    "[T]he new savior Ben Carson seems to be a homophobe." Thus began an email yesterday from a smart conservative who is anxious to make the GOP gay friendly.  What Clarence Thomas called a hi-tech lynching is underway and it has been very successf...

  • March 31, 2013

    An Easter story like no other

    American popular culture surrounding Easter is utterly bewildering to people overseas, especially those in poorer non-Western cultures.  Having lived overseas and at times made my living from explaining the intricacies of American ways, I apprec...

  • March 30, 2013

    Hilarious 'Prof or Hobo?' Quiz

    One of the oddest correlates of the left wing takeover of academia is the adoption of full facial hair, the wilder the better, among a substantial portion of the aging male professoriate. For some reason (because they can thanks to tenure?), well-pai...

  • March 28, 2013

    Michael Mann's latest bogus claim

    Michael Mann, the Father of the Hockey Stick graph -- you know, the one where they had to "hide the decline" -- seems to have a predilection for making implausible claims. Mann has sued the Competitive Enterprise Institute and Mark Steyn for libel, u...

  • March 28, 2013

    Facing facts on Islam

    In the face of the powers that be in government, education, and the media, Pamela Geller and her collaborators toil away to present a more realistic picture of the implacable Islamic religious war underway against the West for over a millennium. Thei...

  • March 27, 2013

    Austin's Great White Defendant gets sentenced

    There were three fatal hit-and-runs in Austin, Texas in the last few days, and at least two of the drivers were young and drunken Hispanic men (drunken illegal immigrants). But guess what everybody is talking about? Nestande sentenced to 180 days i...

  • March 27, 2013

    Ashley Judd backs away from Senate run in Kentucky

    Too bad! It looks like a fading movie star has realized she would have lost a contemplated attempt to defeat the Republican Senate Minority Leader in the 2014 Kentucky Senate race. In a series of tweets, Ashley Judd has recognized that she would be...

  • March 26, 2013

    Judge bans ads featuring ex-gays

    A judge in London has banned bus ads sponsored by a Christian group, Core Issues Trust, proclaiming "Not gay! Ex-gay, post-gay and proud. Get over it!" British-based Christian group Core Issues Trust had hoped to run the slogan...on the sides of Lo...

  • March 25, 2013

    Warmist criminal honored with 'lifetime achievement award'

    A warmist who has admitted to crimes of fraud is being honored with a 'lifetime achievement award." The Heartland Institute, which was defrauded and victimized by criminal Peter Gleick reports: the Silicon Valley Water Conservation Awards gave him a...

  • March 25, 2013

    New York Times tells Supreme Court Liberals to go narrow on gay marriage

    The New York Times, in its role as the bible of the liberal mindset, instructs the liberal justices of the Supreme Court to avoid a sweeping ruling imposing gay marriage across the nation by judicial fiat. And it cautions its readership to be careful...

  • March 23, 2013

    Latest Obamacare goal: avoid 'third world experience'

    Talk about managing expectations! Where once President Obama promised cheaper, universal health care, extending the blessings of the highest quality medical care in the world to all, now an Obamacare official merely wants to be better than Zimbabwe w...

  • March 23, 2013

    Sandstorm disrupts Obama's Holy Land travel

    What does one make of the sequential embarrassment of President Obama's armored limousine ("The Beast") conking out, and now a sudden sandstorm disrupting his travel to Bethlehem? "A violent sandstorm that kicked up in Jerusalem on the last day of...

  • March 23, 2013

    Chutzpah! The unlikely austerity advocacy of the Obama administration

    The Obama administration is pulling the tail of the Chinese dragon in a most unlikely way: posing as symbols of modesty when it comes to personal consumption as office holders. John Chin of the Wall Street Journal reports: U.S. Treasury Secretary J...

  • March 23, 2013

    NBC reported slated to get big taxpayer subsidy

    If this report by Kenneth Lovett of the New York Daily News is to be believed, faithful Democratic Party vassal NBC is to be awarded money by New York taxpayers. Call it the Jimmy Fallon tax credit. Quietly tucked into tentative state budget is a ...

  • March 21, 2013

    Janet Napolitano upgrading Saudis into 'trusted traveler' program

    Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, who famously declared "The system worked" after an underwear bomber was able to partially detonate his weapon aboard a jumbo jet bound for Detroit, has completed her divorce proceedings from reality. The ...

  • March 21, 2013

    Jason Chaffetz baits trap for Dem Senators

    Congratulations to Rep. Jason Chaffetz, who had the wit to recognize an opportunity to help change the political narrative without relying on consultants, focus groups, or a hundred page report. Alex Pappas of The Daily Caller reports: Citing figure...

  • March 20, 2013

    Clinton lied, Americans died

    The tenth anniversary of the Iraq War offers a chance to review the actual historical record leading up to that conflict. Any honest examination will reveal that the continuity between the Clinton and Bush presidencies when it comes to Iraqi weapons ...

  • March 20, 2013

    How clueless is the RNC?

    Psst! Somebody tell Reince Priebus about the blogosphere. Evidently, neither he nor anyone else at the RNC understands the new information order the internet has wrought. William Jacobson of Legal Insurrection, a site which regularly breaks new groun...

  • March 20, 2013

    Call the Irony Police

    The brilliant progressives, who are so smart they should be telling everybody else how to manage their lives, have accidentally yoked the welfare of the government bureaucracy they love (and often inhabit) to the welfare of the hated rich, the one pe...

  • March 19, 2013

    Hacking Hillary and Sid Blumenthal

    Sidney Blumenthal is a senior consigliere in the Clinton political machine, renowned as a ruthless hatchet man. His emails were hacked by an entity known as "Guccifer" and a tranche of emails was distributed to selected media over the weekend, accord...

  • March 18, 2013

    Biden Press Office Apologizes for Forcing Reporter to Delete Photo

    Just imagine if VP Cheney's office had accosted a reporter at public event and demanded that a photo be deleted from the reporter's camera. It would be the lead story on every MSM outlet, offered as proof of the rising tide of fascism. Yet such an in...

  • March 18, 2013

    The lessons of CPAC

    Andrew Malcolm of IBD does the best job so far of summing up CPAC and explaining what it says about the state of conservative politics.  A genuine veteran, he provides perspective, beginning with an acknowledgement that the movement is still hea...

  • March 18, 2013

    History Channel's The Bible has Satan that looks like Obama

    Hell, yeah! It's about time our side started employing the dark arts of media propaganda just as the left has been doing for decades. The tweets started flying with people noticing that last night's episode of the high rated series employed a version...

  • March 17, 2013

    Ann Coulter does a 180 on Chris Christie

    During a twenty minute-plus, highly entertaining speech/comedy routine at CPAC yesterday, Ann Coulter turned against Chris Christie, who was her darling not so long ago. I suppose Ann must now think it was a good thing that the GOP ignored her advice...

  • March 16, 2013

    Anthony Weiner testing Dems' tolerance for lying sexual predators

    Perhaps encouraged by Bill Clinton's status as a beloved-by-Democrats figure, Anthony Weiner has reportedly spent six figures on polling to determine if he should run for mayor of New York or some other public office. Steven Shepard reports at Nation...

  • March 12, 2013

    Black teacher suspended for racial slur

    Racial sensitivity is a minefield for Americans, and not just whites. A black schoolteacher in Broward County, one Leslie Rainer, has discovered that while blacks apparently can use the n-word, the word "chocolate" applied in any way to a black child...

  • March 8, 2013

    JihadWatch.com wins CPAC 'People's Choice Award' but is barred from receiving it (updated with responses)

    The controversy over the CPAC Peoples' Choice Blogger Awards continues to develop, with a response from John Hawkins, printed below. Here is the original blog entry, followed by John Hawkins' response: 03 06 original post: In a shocking developm...

  • March 7, 2013

    Mr. Paul Goes to Washington

    Senator Rand Paul's filibuster of John Brennan's nomination to head the CIA yesterday accomplished four important things: 1. It delayed, if not aborted, a terrible nominee's confirmation. Brennan should not assume directorship of the CIA, and a litt...

  • March 7, 2013

    Breaking News: Hugo Chavez is still dead

    The last time a dictator spent a long time dying, generating repetitious reports of his impending death, Saturday Night Live, then it in its very first year, mocked the tyrant with periodic bulletins: "Breaking news: Generalissimo Francisco Franco is...

  • March 6, 2013

    Fearing Ken Cuccinelli

    Congratulations to Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, who has advanced into the ranks of GOP presidential timber candidates targeted for destruction by the political establishment. The latest evidence, coming in the wake of publication of his ...

  • March 6, 2013

    Michelle Obama and John Kerry to honor vicious anti-Semite

    Incompetence would be the charitable explanation, and let's hope that is the reason behind the stunning decision of the State Department to honor one Samira Ibrahim with the State Department's "International Women of Courage Award." (see pr...

  • March 5, 2013

    Hugo Chavez finally dead

    The man who claimed he could smell sulfur at the UN General Assembly podium after George W. Bush, (whom he called "El Diablo") spoke may finally be getting a real dose of the smelly element. After a bout with cancer that began in 2011, Hugo Chavez is...

  • March 4, 2013

    American Thinker a finalist in international weblog award competition

    It came as quite a surprise when AT contributor Russell Cook wrote me to inform us that American Thinker is a finalist in the 2013 Bloggies Awards, one of five sites competing for the title "Best weblog about politics." To be honest, I had never hear...

  • March 4, 2013

    In the face of sequester, Obama finds $190 million for Egypt's Morsi

    Gee, how many meat inspectors will be laid off to pay for this? How many air traffic controllers? How many kids will go hungry? Nancy A. Youssef of the McClatchy Newspapers writes: U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry promised Sunday to give Egyp...

  • March 3, 2013

    American Thinker accused of publishing 'a general attack on traditional Judaism'

    A blogger normally worthy of respect has hurled a charge at an article published in American Thinker.  Sultan Knish, the blog published by Daniel Greenfield, posted "A BRIEF NOTE" which is reproduced below in its entirety.  Mr. Greenfield d...

  • March 3, 2013

    Democrat war on women continues

    Somebody tell Sandra Fluke: a Democrat state rep on Connecticut made a lewd remark to a 17 year old girl in a hearing, and also refuses to accept females as interns on his staff. Political Wire covered both incidents.  Connecticut state Rep. Er...

  • March 3, 2013

    CPAC turns away Pamela Geller

    CPAC already has earned headlines for narrowing the conservative tent this year. Now, after not inviting Chris Christie to speak, and declining to allow GoProud to participate, CPAC is refusing to allow Pamela Geller to have a booth or rent rooms to ...

  • March 2, 2013

    Harvard: Love it or Leave it

    According to the editors of the Harvard Crimson, conservatives who find aspects of the liberal dominance of Harvard troubling, should not even bother applying.  We don't want your kind around here. And if they have graduated, they should keep t...

  • March 2, 2013

    What's a warmist to do?

    Warmism - the belief that CO2 emissions are dangerously warming the earth - gets all the propaganda support the mainstream media can offer, and yet the public stubbornly refuses to give a damn. It must be terribly frustrating for Al Gore and all the ...

  • February 27, 2013

    Obama boxed in on sequester

    It turns out that the "across the board cuts" of Sequester leave plenty of flexibility for the Obama administration. Within a rather large budget category (in many cases), the feds would be free to prioritize. The devil is in the details, and it turn...

  • February 27, 2013

    Bob Woodward threatened by White House over sequester reporting

    "...you will regret doing this," Bob Woodward was told by a senior White House aide. He told Wolf Blitzer this today in an interview, embedded below. Woodward also noted that nobody disputed the factual basis of his reporting of authorship of the Seq...

  • February 26, 2013

    The Green-Nazi Axis

    AT author Mark Musser will be interviewed on the connections between National Socialism and environmentalism on the Janet Mefferd Show, a nationally syndicated radio show out of Dallas, Texas, between 3 and 4 PM Eastern time today. An internet live f...

  • February 26, 2013

    Obama's Sequester Strategy Backfiring

    Barack Obama is overplaying his hand in the latest manufactured crisis of his presidency, Sequestration, and may be alienating his most important constituency of all, the media.  He and his advisors are heedless of the psychology of the media, w...

  • February 25, 2013

    Hollywood ratifies Obama alliance

    Last night's Academy Awards made political history, surprising the claimed one billion viewers with an appearance by a gowned Michelle Obama via satellite from the White House to present the Best Picture Oscar®.   While anyone who pays atte...

  • February 24, 2013

    An Oscar for the tax man?

    As Hollywood's annual orgy of self-congratulation, the Academy Awards ceremony, is warming up in the wings, Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit  has penned a valuable WSJ op-ed detailing the enormous tax breaks lavished on American film production. Ma...

  • February 24, 2013

    Left wing blueprint exposed

    Progressives, operating through tax-exempt foundations and union affiliates, have a detailed plan in place to swing North Carolina blue through personal attacks demonizing leading Republican politicians.  They have been exposed by Matt Vespa of ...

  • February 23, 2013

    Oregon Dems introduce bill banning most modern guns and authorizing warrantless searches of homes

    With the outrage over the Newtown massacre fading, gun-grabbers are hastening their efforts at the state level. The Oregon Firearms Federation (hat tip: Gateway Pundit) reports: Two days after Senate Democrats claimed they would not seek a ban...

  • February 22, 2013

    Democrat pol pleads stupidity

    In what could ignite a trend, a Democrat politician on trial for ripping off taxpayers has pled stupidity. The UK Daily Mail reports: The former mayor of Bell, California, was too stupid and uneducated to know his $100,000 salary for the part-time c...

  • February 20, 2013

    EPA covert email system scandal deepens

    Something is very rotten at the Environmental Protection Agency, and you can tell because they are resisting full disclosure of the communications that took place illegally.  The EPA imposes enormous costs on the economy through use of its burea...

  • February 19, 2013

    China denounces report accusing it of cyberwar attacks on USA

    China has been accused of sponsoring a vast cyberwar apparatus attacking the United States, and has reacted harshly. The New York Times obtained an advance copy of a 60 page report by the cyber security consulting firm Mandiant that has traced the or...

  • February 19, 2013

    Richard Viguerie offers cash prize for conservative strategy

    Richard Viguerie is the man who virtually invented targeted direct mail political fundraising, giving the GOP a technological advantage for over a decade, similar in magnitude to the current Democrat advantage in social media. On his site Conservativ...

  • February 18, 2013

    McCain charges 'massive cover-up' on Benghazi

    Senator John McCain yesterday escalated his rhetoric on the Obama administration stonewalling over Benghazi, and said a lot of important things.   Then, in the manner that has maddened conservatives over the years, he proceeded to pre-empti...

  • February 17, 2013

    Oops, your racism is showing

    The New York Times and Washington Post have been called out for what grievance industry types like to call racism - treating a person of minority ethnicity more harshly than members of the dominant ethnicity. And the target, unsurprisingly, is Ted Cr...

  • February 16, 2013

    Russia delivers a message for post-superpower America as sequestration defense cuts loom

    Russia delivered a powerful message to the United States just hours before President Obama's State of the Union address, one the American people are only just now beginning to learn about, starting with the conservative blogosphere. Bill Gertz of the...

  • February 16, 2013

    Miss Qu'ran and the feminists

    The left wing propaganda machine is a wonder to behold, managing the theoretically impossible feat of propagandizing for Islam at a radical feminist rally. It happened in San Francisco, of course, where government, the media, political organizations ...

  • February 15, 2013

    Rubio's 'Watergate' triumph?

    Marco Rubio's handling of the media overkill on his awkward sip of water during his response to the State of the Union address is emerging as a net plus for him, and an embarrassment for the media which became hysterical on the subject - particularly...

  • February 15, 2013

    Dems fear Ashley Judd is political Kryptonite in Kentucky Senate race

    Ashley Judd is thinking about challenging Mitch McConnell in the 2014 election, and it is reportedly worrying local Democrats, even as the Beltway establishment is transfixed at the prospect of an attractive and energetic female celebrity emerging as...

  • February 15, 2013

    Charges filed against Jesse Jackson, Jr. and wife

    Late Friday afternoon, when news traditionally is buried, the federal government filed charges against former Congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr., scion to a race shakedown empire, and his wife Sandra. In essence, they are accused of using campaign funds ...

  • February 14, 2013

    A little perspective on Rubio's sip of water

    You want a cringe-inducing gaffe involving a sip? How about this incident of Obama's, now consigned to the memory hole? In their haste to denigrate Senator Marco Rubio over his sip of water during the State of the Union response, progressive media fi...

  • February 14, 2013

    Airline oligopoly advances as American and US Airways announce merger

    Fasten your seat belts, the ride for airline passengers is going to get if not bumpier, more expensive. Completing this stage of the consolidation of the legacy airline sector, American Airlines, currently in bankruptcy, will merge with US Airways. I...

  • February 13, 2013

    Global warming 'scientific consensus' debunked

    A peer-reviewed survey of 1077 geoscientists and engineers finds that "only 36 percent of geoscientists and engineers believe that humans are creating a global warming crisis," according to James Taylor, writing at Forbes.com. As he points out, if th...

  • February 12, 2013

    Dr. Ben Carson leaving Johns Hopkins surgery post

    Be still, my heart. Dr Benjamin Carson is freeing up time and energy to pursue his passions in politics and education, retiring from surgery at Johns Hopkins University Hospital. Could world-renowned, up-from-the mean-streets of Detroit inspirational...

  • February 10, 2013

    Univision stacking the deck against Rubio

    Extreme bias against Senator Marco Rubio by members of the news division of Univision could torpedo the national political ambitions of Senator Marco Rubio. A shocking article by Marc Caputo of the Miami Herald has exposed the social media rantings o...

  • February 10, 2013

    Talking heads, Hezb'allah-style

    When Hezb'allah's al Manar TV has a talking heads show with experts, it's not exactly Charlie Rose. Deluded progressives insist that Israel is the obstacle to peace in the Middle East. Watch this 42 second political discussion on Hezb'allah's al Mana...

  • February 9, 2013

    Reports: Jesse Jackson, Jr. signs plea agreement, will do prison time

    After having skated despite reports that his representative offered $6 million dollars to then-Governor Rod Blagojevich to be appointed to fill Barack Obama's vacated Senate seat in 2009, it appears that Jesse Jackson Jr. may be joining his erstwhile...

  • February 8, 2013

    F-16s for Egypt but not for Taiwan

    If you watch what the Obama administration does, as opposed to what it says, it becomes clear that the armed might of the United States is backing the Muslim brotherhood in Egypt, and abandoning Taiwan in its struggle to maintain independence and dem...

  • February 7, 2013

    Iranian financial aid offered to Egypt

    Iran, which supposedly is financially crippled by the sanctions the Obama administration has made the centerpiece of its policies to prevent it from acquiring nuclear weapons, is offering a credit line to Egypt. You may recall that the Obama administ...

  • February 7, 2013

    Apparently Tony Bennett also left his brain in San Francisco

    Call the irony police. Tony Bennett has argued that unless America controls guns, it will become like Nazi Germany. (Text and video here.) It's the kind of turn that happened to the great country of Germany, when Nazis came over and created tragic t...

  • February 6, 2013

    AT author's family slated for Today Show Thursday

    An amazing video of his toddler son Titus shooting baskets, posted to YouTube, is igniting national media focus on Joseph Ashby's family.  They are scheduled to appear on tomorrow's edition of the Today Show. Joseph is a longtime contributor of ...

  • February 6, 2013

    Gay marriage fanatic pleads guilty in attack on Family Research Council

    Floyd Lee Corkins II, who planned an attack to kill as many people as possible at the Family Research Council in August last year, because of that group's opposition to gay marriage, has pleaded to guilty to "interstate transportation of a firearm an...

  • February 5, 2013

    First line of defense: whistles

    What do you do when rapists start preying on young women at a university that proudly declares itself a gun-free zone? Why, of course, you start giving out free whistles. Yeah, that'll work. Oliver Darcy of CampusReform.org writes: Administrators at...

  • February 5, 2013

    San Francisco greenies devastate foodies

    The green religion has scored a small but highly symbolic victory in San Francisco, using the bureaucratic state and courts to vanquish a den of sin, where humans have used part of nature for their own benefit and enjoyment. In the process, two of th...

  • February 2, 2013

    Do we really need a 'policy intervention' to prevent cats from chasing mice?

    You can't make stuff like this up. The Huffington Post reports that a new study, led by Scott Loss of the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, is calling attention to the baneful problem of domesticated cats chasing mice, birds, and other prey...

  • February 1, 2013

    Hagel's Senate confirmation hearing shocks supporters

    The big question about former Senator Chuck Hagel's nomination as Secretary of Defense used to be the content of views. Now, it is his competence. He embarrassed himself and those who have publicly backed his nomination, in particular Senators Chuck ...

  • January 30, 2013

    Chicago NPR station issues bizarre plea: 'Go make babies today'

    Is the pro-abortion left beginning to have second thoughts? Could that be the impulse behind a campaign being conducted by Chicago NPR affiliate WBEZ?  Anne Sorock of Legal Insurrection highlights the curious appearance of this Facebook-based ad...

  • January 28, 2013

    Japan cuts dole to ensure work pays better than welfare

    Japan distinguishes itself from the other economically advanced countries by caring for the principle that people who work should have more stuff than people who go on the welfare rolls. The Kyodo News Service reports: Welfare benefits will be slash...

  • January 21, 2013

    China reconsidering one-child policy?

    Oh, the perils of social engineering in a world ruled by the Law of Unintended Consequences! American mush-heads like Tom Friedman of the New York Times may openly pine for an American government that could act as swiftly and arbitrarily as China's (...

  • January 21, 2013

    Obama's Perfect Second Inauguration

    The real oath of office was administered yesterday, as per the Constitution of course, so the polite term for today's TV event is "ceremonial," a pleasant euphemism for "let's pretend." Today's fake taking of the oath of office by President Obama is ...

  • January 20, 2013

    CBS News Political Director: Obama Should 'Pulverize' and 'Delegitimize' GOP

    The radical leftists who have staffed up the legacy media are losing all pretenses of being neutral reporters, and coming out of the closet as rabid partisans lately. It is one thing to openly swoon over Barack Obama at off-the-record events, which k...

  • January 19, 2013

    Tax Dogfight over O'Hare

    Desperately hungry for money, Chicago, the big dog of Illinois cities, is circling lesser municipalities currently feeding off big corporations by collecting sales taxes that Chicago wants for itself. Jack Nicas writes in the Wall Street Journal (lin...

  • January 19, 2013

    Ray Nagin indicted

    Former New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin, who rose to national prominence by blaming the Bush administration for his own incompetence in preparing for and handling Hurricane Katrina, has been indicted by a federal grand jury , Gordon Russell of NOLA.com wr...

  • January 18, 2013

    Weird Rahm's weird joke

    Rahm Emanuel, mayor of Chicago and former Obama chief of staff, is one weird dude. Known for sending a dead fish, mafia-style, to an opponent, for a mouth so foul that President Obama publicly joked about how rare it is for him to use the word "mothe...

  • January 17, 2013

    Grounding the Dreamliner

    Is the Boeing 787, heretofore known as the Dreamliner, becoming a nightmare for Boeing? The bet-the-company bird has had a difficult entry into service, with a number of early incidents such as a crack windshield. And now, two incidents with lithium ...

  • January 16, 2013

    Germany pulls home gold from London and New York

    As progressives openly advocate the coining of a pretend trillion dollar platinum disc and the Fed continues to balloon the world's stock of dollars, Germany is bring home a good part of its gold bullion currently held in the Federal Reserve Bank of ...

  • January 16, 2013

    'Jew' becomes 'cool' in Holland?

    I can hardly believe my eyes. Yet there it is, a headline from the JTA: 'Jew' is the new 'cool' in Dutch, linguist says. The sub-headline explains it all: Teenagers use the word "jood" as an expression of enthusiasm; Dutch also use Yiddish word "tof"...

  • January 15, 2013

    The plot to attack Hagel's critics

    A window on the soul of the left has opened with the release of excerpts from an email chain revealing a coordinated effort to discredit critics of the Hagel nomination. The Daily Caller obtained a copy of the email chain containing comments by promi...

  • January 13, 2013

    A modest proposal on gun control

    Why didn't I think of this? There is a way to give liberals what they want on gun control, while not infringing on any actual Second Amendment rights. Everybody wins! If they prefer to live in a fantasy world, pass gun control measures against imagin...

  • January 13, 2013

    Wonder Bread lives!

    The wonder of capitalism includes an ability to correct failures and preserve the useful parts of failed endeavors. Compared to government projects, whose failure usually leads to increased budgets, capitalism conserves resources, and builds on succe...

  • January 12, 2013

    Gloom and Doom for Journalism's Elite

    The Obama economy is not working out too well for elite journalists. No wonder so many of them work actively to undermine the workings of the market economy, and put their faith in the radical left. When consumers are sovereign, they have no regard f...

  • January 12, 2013

    Obama's Great Big 2014 Problem

    Never mind the propaganda media's barrage of epitaphs for conservatism and the GOP, the midterm elections are shaping up to heavily favor the purportedly down-and-out opposition to "fundamental change" in America. Conn Carroll of the DC Examiner anal...

  • January 10, 2013

    Two years in the slammer if your dog bites a burglar

    The United Kingdom seems to have a lot of concern for protecting the rights of burglars as they commit crimes against law abiding citizens. The case of Tony Martin, convicted of murder (later reduced to manslaughter after an international outcry) in ...

  • January 9, 2013

    Teachers Union Head: Kill the Rich

    In a December 2nd speech just recently made public, Karen Lewis, president of the Chicago Teachers Union, placed mass murder on the table as a political tactic for union movement. Carefully steering clear of actually calling for violence, Ms. Lewis n...

  • January 8, 2013

    China's dictatorship facing press censorship crisis

    The autocrats of China, having just installed a new generation of leadership led by Communist Party General Secretary Xi Jinping, is facing a burgeoning crisis over press censorship. This is emblematic of a wider crisis of legitimacy, as the dictator...

  • January 8, 2013

    The war between makers and takers

    Modern autocrats love the idea of high taxes on those who produce wealth, and income redistribution to those who don't. The reason is simple: dependence on a check from the government breeds support for an ever-bigger, ever higher-taxing government. ...

  • January 5, 2013

    The good news nobody is noticing

    It requires a special kind of mind to challenge the commonly-accepted beliefs, take note of facts that others overlook, and stand up to tell people what is really going on, what nobody else seems to notice. Such a mind is that of Herbert E, Meyer, fr...

  • January 5, 2013

    Government criminality exposed

    The evidence is in: state officials in California willfully defrauded the public in order to enhance their budgets. If nobody ends up in jail over this fraud, we can expect more of it - much more. In fact, we have no idea how serious the problem alre...

  • January 1, 2013

    He's got Obama's number

    Andrew Malcolm of IBD greets the new year with an appropriate degree of skepticism. Yes, that much. In a year that looks to be...shall we say, difficult, it is important to tell the truth and make it sting. ...the South Side president forgets to me...

  • December 31, 2012

    Hillary hospitalized

    Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has been hospitalized at New York-Presbyterian Hospital, one of the nation's finest health care facilities, and is being administered anti-coagulants, in the wake of discovery of a blood clot by doctors examining he...

  • December 31, 2012

    Subverting the Constitution

    Another line is being crossed in the campaign to fundamentally change America. The Left has long regarded the American Constitution as an obstacle to the sort of fundamental change it desires, and now the seeds of delegitimizing the Constitution itse...

  • December 31, 2012

    Mayor Bloomberg's double standard on the availability of lethal objects

    Yossi Gestetner writes that he enjoyed my blog yesterday commenting on Mayor Bloomberg's contrasting reactions to deaths by gun violence and death by violence involving trains. In the case of the former, Little Big Gulp (as Selwyn Duke has named him)...

  • December 30, 2012

    Mayor Bloomberg's selective perspective

    Mayor Bloomberg has called for a little perspective in evaluating the latest horrific death from being shoved in front of an oncoming train. Unlike his hysterical reaction to gun deaths, seeing no reason on earth why the benefits of gun ownership (se...

  • December 29, 2012

    New Yorkers with iPads and iPhones beware!

    Mayor Bloomberg, who believes in using government bans to prevent behavior of which he disapproves, may be casting his eyes on a ban of iPads and iPhones. Michael M. Gyrnbaum writes in the New York Times: Major crime in New York City inched up this ...

  • December 29, 2012

    Sean Penn, sliced and diced

    One of the most ridiculous public figures of our age, Sean Penn, should have great utility for conservatives. He exemplifies the incoherence of the Hollywood Left, and doesn't know when to keep his mouth shut. Even better, he thinks that he can write...

  • December 28, 2012

    Worrisome trends in American support for Israel

    While overall support for Israel remains strong, with 50% of Americans sympathizing more with Israel, compared to 10% sympathizing more with the Palestinians, according to the latest Pew poll, worrisome trends exist. Elliott Abrams blogs at the Counc...

  • December 27, 2012

    Here comes the Alinskyite Right

    David Gregory and Piers Morgan have both met the Alinskyite Right, and progressives in positions of power should take note. Both men are the targets of digital petition drives aimed at holding them to their own standards, and ridiculing them, invokin...

  • December 23, 2012

    Obama and Bush Eulogies: The Grotesque and the Graceful

    President Obama has a very serious ego problem, and when he goes off teleprompter, it sticks out like a sore thumb.  His eulogy for Senator Inouye on Friday was grotesque in its focus on the speaker, not the dearly departed. Unsurprisingly, Pres...

  • December 22, 2012

    Grotesque Obama eulogy for Sen. Inouye

    Signs are accumulating that re-election has aggravated an already serious ego problem for Barack Obama. His eulogy for Senator Daniel Inouye yesterday shocked even some people favorably inclined toward the president, for its focus not on the departed...

  • December 19, 2012

    Nobody in particular is to blame for Benghazi, State Department Report claims

    The federal government has investigated its performance in the 9/11 Benghazi massacre and found - surprise! - that nobody should be disciplined, that it was all the problem of "the system." Predictably, the pilot fish media that set the tone for most...

  • December 18, 2012

    Professor calls for murder of NRA president

    [Caution: contains obscene language, quoting a threat] A professor at a taxpayer-supported state university has called for the murder of the president of the NRA. Apparently the carnage in Newtown, Connecticut was not enough slaughter to satisfy the ...

  • December 16, 2012

    Zero Dark Thirty confounding liberal film critics

    What if Hollywood made a high profile movie that carried an implicit message supporting George W. Bush's War on Terror policies and made Barack Obama look naïve? What if the movie were made by an acclaimed director, and was really, really good? Why, ...

  • December 15, 2012

    It Gets Even Worse for Newspapers

    It's been a hellish decade for members of the once-mighty newspaper industry, but down in Miami, the ink-stained wretches have just endured the deepest insult of all. It is now official policy that the Miami Herald's long and powerful history of...

  • December 14, 2012

    Zombie brand apocalypse

    There has been much premature angst expressed over the bankruptcy of Hostess Brands, on the assumption that Twinkies are in danger of disappearing from the shelves of the nation's Seven-Elevens. In fact, most observers presume that the brand name Twi...

  • December 14, 2012

    Obama declares federal pot laws not 'top priority'

    America's descent into tyranny is accelerating with Barack Obama's unconstitutional de facto nullification of duly enacted and signed federal law. Speaking in a soft journalism forum, to Barbara Walters in an interview for 20/20 accompanied by Michel...

  • December 13, 2012

    News the media manipulators don't want you to see

    In case you haven't noticed, the propaganda masters of the progressive media have a demoralization campaign underway, targeting conservatives in general and the GOP House majority in particular. The goal is to convince us that resistance is futile, t...

  • December 13, 2012

    Susan Rice withdraws for Secretary of State

    I told you so four days ago. It was already clear then that Susan Rice was so tainted by her Benghazi coverup role that confirmation hearings would be too costly for President Obama. Now the UN Ambassador has told NBC News she no longe...

  • December 10, 2012

    Handwriting on the wall for Susan Rice

    Why would the New York Times choose to publish an attack on Susan Rice ("a surprising and unsettling sympathy for Africa's despots") in its Sunday edition? The Times turned over prized op-ed real state to Salem Solomon ("an Eritrean-American journali...

  • December 9, 2012

    Monckton mocks UN Climate Conference

    Lord Christopher Monckton, the man Al Gore is afraid to debate, managed to get before a microphone and speak to the startled delegates at the UN Climate Conference in Doha, Qatar for just under a minute. One just couldn't resist. There they all were...

  • December 7, 2012

    Gun-grabber meets karma (updated)

    Illinois state senator Donne Trotter has gotten himself into a hole and can't seem to stop digging. You see, the good senator is an advocate of harsh gun control measures, and is an important co-sponsor of Governor Pat Quinn's latest bill banning "as...

  • December 7, 2012

    Phony cheer in unemployment numbers

    Obama partisans are hailing the "surprising" fall in unemployment as a sign that a recovery is showing strength. But the official metric for unemployment, U-3, counts only people actively looking for jobs, and that is the figure which has declined to...

  • December 6, 2012

    Ghettoizing Israel in Australia

    The campaign to destroy Israel has many fronts, with information war a critical non-kinetic battlefield. Israel thrives on information, its science, technology, and business prowess strengthening Israel's survivability immeasurably. So the worldwide ...

  • December 6, 2012

    Jim DeMint leaving the Senate

    Senator Jim DeMint has delivered a shock to conservatives with the announcement of his decision to leave the Senate in order to take up the reins as head of the Heritage Foundation. Unquestionably, Heritage is a great organization, and it may need hi...

  • December 3, 2012

    Rahm Emanuel plays hardball

    If Rahm Emanuel were a Republican mayor, he would be pilloried in the media as heartless, and become the number one enemy of organized labor. But with barely a yawn from either faction, the Chicago mayor has been carrying out a program of privatizing...

  • November 29, 2012

    Work is for suckers

    The GOP has a golden opportunity, if it has the wit to grasp it. Mitt Romney was correct in bemoaning the reality that we have 47% of the population receiving a subsidy from the federal government, but he chose the wrong focus. Instead of framing the...

  • November 28, 2012

    Civility lessons from the left

    Remember President Obama's sanctimonious words on violence and rhetoric in the wake of the shooting of Gabrielle Giffords? Well, where is the president now that a left wing talk show host has called for the "beheading" of "tea-baggers"? Using the pub...

  • November 26, 2012

    State offers ten bucks for young women's sex secrets

    State offers ten bucks for young women's sex secrets The conceit of the social engineers of the liberal elite has found vivid expression in the state of Florida. There, the state Department of Health is handing out $10 gift cards to nubile young wome...

  • November 26, 2012

    UN advances effort to grab control of the internet

    Next week, the UN's International Telecommunications Union will convene a meeting Dubai aimed at grabbing control of and taxing the internet, all in the name of global peace, justice, and harmony. The revolutionary interactive telecommunications...

  • November 25, 2012

    The Repulsive Rice Race Card

    The pushback is getting very ugly on criticism of UN Ambassador Susan Rice for going on 5 Sunday TV interview shows and stoutly maintaining Benghazi was a riot over the Mohammed video -- in the face of what we now know was available information that ...

  • November 25, 2012

    Intolerant Liberals at Macalester College

    As Alexis De Tocqueville demonstrated convincingly, sometimes a foreigner can visit these shores and see clearly aspects of our society that remain unquestioned, unexamined, and unnoticed by Americans. At Macalester College, an elite and highly selec...

  • November 23, 2012

    Walmart picketers rage against the market

    The picketing of a few Walmart stores is more about political theater than a genuine attempt to organize workers at any of the particular locales on the receiving end of today's stunt. As American unions have devolved from workers' representatives to...

  • November 23, 2012

    Where we go from here

    John Podhoretz of Commentary has a thoughtful article today, on "The GOP's Way Forward," re-thinking what went wrong and responding to the doomsayers who bemoan the putative hopelessness of the future of conservative politics.  There are many wo...

  • November 22, 2012

    America's Iron Dome Dividend

    The great success of Israel's Iron Dome rocket defense system is a good example of how Israel's military advances are important to the American military maintaining our cutting edge capabilities. An article by Bill Smearcheck of the Jewish Institute ...

  • November 22, 2012

    Conservatives using Alinsky's Rule Number 5

    Two of the most interesting stars in the world of conservative broadcasting have newly published books timed for the for the Christmas season.  Michael Savage and Greg Gutfeld are both masters of ridicule, a tool extensively deployed by the left...

  • November 21, 2012

    Who killed Hostess?

    The left is madly spinning (aka, lying about) the impending demise of Hostess, trying to blame the free enterprise system, and even Mitt Romney's former firm, Bain Capital. This is a lie. It was inside job of the left, with a prominent Democrat helpi...

  • November 19, 2012

    Allen West and the Big Fix

    The legitimacy the electoral process in St. Lucie County, Florida is now in question, as Rep. Allen West seeks judicial intervention to prevent certification of as vote count that is indisputably incompetent, and very possibly corrupt. John Fund, the...

  • November 16, 2012

    Hostess Brands to close in face of strike

    The announcement that Hostess Brands will liquidate itself in the face of a potentially long strike will cost 18,000 people their jobs, and close the maker of Twinkies, Wonder Bread, Drakes Cakes,  and other unhealthy yet iconic baked goods. ...

  • November 15, 2012

    Suspicious vote count in Allen West race

    The Allen West re-election campaign is raising questions about the very odd behavior of the St. Lucie County Supervisor of Elections, Gertrude Walker. Rep. West carried the other two counties in his district, but "lost" St. Lucie County. The campaign...

  • November 14, 2012

    Government-owned Utility Fails on Long Island

    New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, once considered a rising star Democrat, is facing a storm of criticism over the dismal performance of the state-owned electrical utility, Long Island Power Authority, in the wake of Superstorm Sandy. Even today, over t...

  • November 14, 2012

    Truth-telling on Petraeus

    The Petraeus Affair is a hall of mirrors, full of so many distractions that the truth cannot be perceived. Nearly the entire pundit class is consumed with following the many titillating and alarming questions being raised. They are legitimate, but th...

  • November 12, 2012

    Elena Get Your Gun

    The national media have ignored a fascinating development, one worth keeping an eye on: Justice Elena Kagan has taken up recreational shooting and hunting. She likes it so much that she has moved from small game (quail) to big game (elk). Wade Payne ...

  • November 9, 2012

    David Petreaus resigns from CIA

    CIA Director David Petraeus has resigned, citing "extremely poor judgment" for having an extramarital affair. "Yesterday afternoon, I went to the White House and asked the President to be allowed, for personal reasons, to resign from my position," Pe...

  • November 8, 2012

    Allen West demands recount amidst 'disturbing irregularities'

    In an election full of bad news for conservatives, the media reports of Allen West's "defeat" in Florida was among the worst body blows. But all may not be lost. CBS News reports:  Tim Edson, West's campaign manager, issued a statement Wednesda...

  • November 8, 2012

    Michigan voters rebuke unions

    Well below the national media's radar, Michigan voters delivered a defeat to the unions, especially the SEIU, rejecting two ballot measures that would have entrenched union power. Proposal 4, a proposed constitutional amendment that would have in eff...

  • November 7, 2012

    Chris Matthews: 'I'm so glad we had that storm last week'

    In their gloating over Obama's victory, members of the left are letting the mask slip. Chris Matthews, already notorious for his over the top enthusiasms for Obama, and vitriolic rhetoric toward conservatives, has actually reveled in the death and de...

  • November 7, 2012

    Obama's appalling victory speech

    President Obama signaled a hard left agenda for his second term in the very first words of his victory speech in Chicago last night. It required only 31 words (23 if you omit 'thank-you's) for me to become doubly appalled with the speech, delivered ...

  • November 6, 2012

    Election night blog

    The presidential race is still too close to call, but as of 10:15 PM EST, Mitt Romney's path to victory is getting narrow, as states like Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Minnesota, which appeared to be possibilities for upsets have gone for Ob...

  • November 4, 2012

    It's second thoughts Sunday for 2008 Obama supporters

    Today looks like a very bad day for President Obama's campaign, as former 2008 supporters are having second thoughts. Beneath the radar of most media elitists, the nation's observant Catholics (a demographic slice that favored Obama in 2008) are hear...

  • November 3, 2012

    From 'hope' and 'change' to 'revenge'

    Going off teleprompter yesterday, President Obama let the mask slip and revealed the ugliness at the heart of his political mission. Amie Parnes of the Hill: President Obama called voting "the best revenge" on Friday at a rally in Ohio. The line was ...

  • October 30, 2012

    Shock to Obama Camp: Gallup finds early voters favor Romney 52-47%

    The Gallup Organization has some very bad news for the Obama camp, but is being discreet about it, entombing it at the bottom of an article innocuously titled "In U.S., 15% of Registered Voters Have Already Cast Ballots." Given the apparent intimidat...

  • October 30, 2012

    Picture of the day

    I know exactly how he feels. With hat tips to Patriot Caucus Facebook page and iOwntheWorld.com ...

  • October 23, 2012

    Islamists welcomed in Obama White House

    Why are Islamists being welcomed into the Obama White House? Steve Emerson and John Rossomando of the Investigative Project on Terrorism combed through Obama White House visitor logs and came up with some disturbing information. They have catalogued ...

  • October 22, 2012

    Obama failed to break Romney's momentum in third debate

    Each side will claim a win by its champion, but the important result of the third presidential debate is that Mitt Romney looked presidential, and Barack Obama failed to paint him as a dangerous warmonger. For his part, Romney notably did not prosecu...

  • October 20, 2012

    Back in the EUSSR

    The European Union, which just won the Nobel Peace Prize, has delivered a poker tell, an unconscious sign of its true nature. The Union, which concentrates power in the hands of an unelected bureaucracy, while going through the motions of electi...

  • October 16, 2012

    Feisty second debate yielded confrontation, but no clear winner

    The second presidential debate was less one-sided than the first, meaning President Obama was not as distracted, while Mitt Romney turned in a solid performance.The level of confrontation was far higher than anything previously seen between the two m...

  • October 15, 2012

    New federal probe into Jesse Jackson, Jr.' s campaign finances

    The Wall Street Journal has revealed that a federal investigation is targeting the possible use of campaign funds to redecorate Jesse Jackson Jr.' s home. The Chicago Sun-Times adds: The Sun-Times reported that the investigation was being handled ou...

  • October 14, 2012

    It's official in Florida: Blacks can't be held to same standards

    The deep internal contradictions of liberal race dogma have reached their logical, horrifying conclusion at the hands of the Florida State Board of Education. CBS Tampa reports: The Florida State Board of Education passed a plan that sets goals for...

  • October 13, 2012

    Clint Eastwood called out Biden

      Prescient   ...

  • October 12, 2012

    Biden Disgraced Himself

    The vice presidential debate may turn out to be almost as much of a debacle for the Democratic ticket as the first presidential debate.  Vice President Biden's inappropriate smiles, his scoffing during Rep. Ryan's speaking, his obnoxious interru...

  • October 12, 2012

    Nobel Peace Prize Committee Outdoes Itself

    Once upon a time getting the Nobel Peace Prize was a big deal. But with the award of the 2012 Peace Prize to the European Union, it has become banal. In the race to diminish the prestige of the prize,  the committee may have topped its disastrou...

  • October 11, 2012

    Benghazi and the bureaucrats

    It is desperation time for the Obama administration, its attempt to falsely characterize the 9/11 anniversary terror attack in  Benghazi lying in ruins as burned out as the Benghazi consulate.  The late American ambassador to Libya, Chris S...

  • October 10, 2012

    State Department bureaucracy versus Obama administration

    See also: State Department said it never linked video to Libya attacks It looks a lot to me as though the professional State Department lifers are bailing out on their political appointee bosses Susan Rice and Hillary Clinton, hanging them out to dry...

  • October 9, 2012

    Something important is happening in Massachusetts

    The Senate race between Scott Brown and Elizabeth Warren is being shaped by the efforts of a blogger, Professor William Jacobson, of Legal Insurrection. This very high profile race reveals how important the internet has become to political discourse....

  • October 8, 2012

    Hugo Chavez wins reelection

    Following a strategy similar to that pursued by President Obama, Venezuela's president Hugo Chavez won reelection by a reported ten points. His opponent, Henrique Capriles, has conceded.  Frank Bajak and Ian James of Associated Press write:...

  • October 8, 2012

    Social engineering is working in California gas market

    One of the great priorities of the left is to get Americans out of their cars and onto public transportation. When the masses no longer have access to cars, it clears the streets for the limos of the nomenklatura, just as it did in the old USSR, and ...

  • October 8, 2012

    A year and a half after the AT headline...

    The phrase of the day, drawn from Mitt Romney's landmark foreign policy speech today at Virginia Military Institute, is "Hope is not a strategy." Drudge, as usual, has his antennae tuned into the resonance it has: In April, 2011, Ed Timperlake wrote...

  • October 7, 2012

    Signs accumulate that liberals are embarrassed by Obama

    President Obama's poor debate performance may have shattered some illusions among his supporters in the liberal media elite. Having invested themselves in the illusion of him as the fulfillment of the liberal dream of shattering glass ceilings and pe...

  • October 4, 2012

    Romney triumphs in first debate (bumped)

    Mitt Romney won a clear victory on points in the first presidential debate in Denver. Even Journolist conspiracy member Ben Smith, formerly of Politico and now of Buzzfeed, called the debate for Romney 40 some minutes into the debate. Mitt Romney, t...

  • October 4, 2012

    So, what does Obama do now?

    In the wake of his miserable debate performance last night, what does Obama do now?  I mean, besides smoking a whole pack of cigarettes when he got back to his Denver hotel suite. One option would be to actually prepare for the next debate, inst...

  • September 30, 2012

    Pssst, Mitt! Read this before Wednesday's debate

    While Mitt hunkers down with Rob Portman preparing for the Big Debate #1, the finest minds of the conservative blogosphere are explicating the themes that could win the debate for him, narratives that go to the heart of what is wrong with Obama's ten...

  • September 29, 2012

    What could possibly go wrong?

    After giving advanced weapons to the Taliban in Afghanistan, only to have them recycled and turned against us later, and after arming the anti-Gaddafi rebels in eastern Libya, only to suffer an RPG attack on our Benghazi consulate, now we are giving ...

  • September 28, 2012

    Susan Rice blew off Netanyahu UN speech

    Our UN ambassador, last heard from selling the lie that Benghazi was a spontaneous response to an internet video on 5 Sunday shows, was simply too busy to honor the Prime Minister of Israel's speech to the UN General Assembly with her attendance. Thi...

  • September 28, 2012

    'Gamechanger': Elizabeth Warren practiced law in Massachusetts federal court without law license

    A prominent defender of Elizabeth Warren's legal work while on the Harvard faculty has been presented with new facts and conceded that she is in heap big trouble. I wrote about Mark Thompson's defense of her right to file briefs in federal court thre...

  • September 25, 2012

    Claim: Elizabeth Warren doesn't need Massachusetts law license

    Legal Insurrection's William Jacobson questioned the legality of Elizabeth Warren's engaging in legal practice from her office at Harvard Law School without having gotten a license to practice law in that state. Now a counter-argument has been offere...

  • September 24, 2012

    Missing piece surfaces in the Obama puzzle (updated)

    Nobody knows for sure how Barack Obama managed to get into and pay for the elite higher education he received, particularly given his self-admitted lackadaisical approach to school in his younger years. The president's decision to keep his higher edu...

  • September 24, 2012

    Obama campaign send desecrated flag down the memory hole

      What if the Obama campaign had a disaster and the media refused to report it? I suspect we are about to find out. The Obama campaign has in effect confessed to what I called "virtual flag desecration" with the grotesque Obama flag campaign stu...

  • September 22, 2012

    Predicting Genocide

    Genocide has happened often enough that it is a legitimate field of study, and a very important one at that. Dr. Gregory Stanton has made a study of it --all 55 instances of it he has identified.  Like hurricanes, they can be predicted. Unlike h...

  • September 20, 2012

    Horror of Black Christian Crucifixion in Egypt, Yemen

    While Hillary Clinton and the Obama administration continue to grovel over the existence of the First Amendment and a movie that insults Mohammed (while ignoring if not applauding a play insulting to Mitt Romney's church), Christians in Egypt are end...

  • September 20, 2012

    Obama store sells Obamerican flag

    I am shocked that the Obama store would sell a version of the American flag with the fifty stars replaced by the campaign's iconic O with flowing stripes across the bottom. But for 35 bucks you can get a "Screen print designed by Ross Bruggink and Da...

  • September 19, 2012

    Who's 'dead'?

    In only the past week we have been treated twice to predictions that a "gaffe" by Romney means that his campaign is dead. First was the purported outrage of Romney criticizing the Cairo embassy's full grovel over the First Amendment.  Then came ...

  • September 19, 2012

    The Redistribution States of America?

    The very same progressive media that have touted Romney's "gaffes" as fatal to his campaign are studiously ignoring the just-surfaced tape of Obama declaring himself in favor of redistribution. Displaying an adroitness that belies the doomsayers, Rom...

  • September 19, 2012

    Oops! Turns out Romney 47% tape was 'doctored'

    We can take it from the mainstream media themselves that when embarrassing tapes turn out to be missing any portion, they are "doctored" and therefore discredited.  By this standard, the tape released of Mitt Romney discussing the 47% -- conside...

  • September 19, 2012

    As Middle East erupts in anti-American demonstrations, Obama talks with Letterman about White House homebrew

    It's time to discard "Forward." as the Obama campaign slogan and replace it with "What, me worry?"  The Obama outreach to the Muslim world has collapsed in flames and the economy is accelerating toward the fiscal cliff, but Barack Obama, who had...

  • September 19, 2012

    Give war a chance?

    Writing as Spengler in the Asia Times, David P. Goldman challenges the conventional wisdom, asserting that an Israeli strike on Iran's nuclear facilities could lead to positive outcomes for the United States in Middle East. After establishing that cu...

  • September 19, 2012

    State Department hands Mitt Romney an issue

    Thanks, Hillary! Your State Department has all but admitted it was asleep at the switch on 9/11 by trying to hide evidence of its failure to take seriously the obvious threat to overseas American facilities on the anniversary of 9/11. If the cover-up...

  • September 18, 2012

    Rodeo clown media frantically distract from Obama's foreign policy disaster

    As Obama's national security strategy lies in smoldering ruins (just like the Benghazi consulate), his outreach to the Muslim world a dismal failure, the media claim that the biggest story of the day is Mitt Romney noting that nearly half of the coun...

  • September 18, 2012

    Professor allegedly required students to sign pledge to vote for Obama and Democrats

    The corruption of higher education in this country has reached the point where a professor allegedly sees nothing wrong with requiring students to sign a pledge to vote for Obama and Democrats up and down the ticket.  The Blaze cites a report by...

  • September 18, 2012

    Michelle Obama's school lunch rhetoric collides with reality

    When first lady Michelle Obama told the nation's school children about the "exciting changes" ahead for them in their school cafeterias this year, it became clear that she has a serious disconnect with the reality of school lunchrooms, despite being ...

  • September 17, 2012

    Obama's black turnout nightmare may be coming true

    When Barack Obama suddenly changed his position on gay marriage, many people (including me) predicted that this could have a dampening effect on black turnout, because many black churches take their Scripture quite seriously.  It might be too mu...

  • September 17, 2012

    Obama in hiding about the Chicago teachers strike

    If the media were not totally in the bag for Barack Obama, they would be pestering him for a comment on the Chicago teachers strike, which is disrupting the lives of hundreds of thousands of Windy City families deprived of their day care services. On...

  • September 17, 2012

    Thanks for clarifying that, CNN

    A CNN political reporter has taken an active role raising money for the Obama campaign. The cable network, which has in the past claimed to be a neutral ground between Fox on the right and MSNBC ont he left, still employs him. We appreciate the clari...

  • September 15, 2012

    Report: Obama to meet with Netanyahu, as Naval ships heading for Strait of Hormuz

    Are matters coming to a head in the Middle East? According to a report by Sean Rayment of the UK Telegraph, the leaders of the United States are going to meet tomorrow, something that had previously not been announced, as annual naval exercises - the...

  • September 13, 2012

    Jihad denial

    The events of 9/11/12 should make obvious to even more Americans that Islamists dedicated to jihad by any and all means, not only control many Middle Eastern countries, they also enjoy wide popular support. But there are certain species of Americans ...

  • September 12, 2012

    Right on cue

    Were the stakes not so grave, it would be quite amusing to note how the Secretary of Defense demonstrated the wisdom an article published on AT within hours after it was published. Herbert E. Meyer's article yesterday, A Dose of Real-World Intel on I...

  • September 12, 2012

    Obama's 'smart diplomacy' now a bad joke

    What a difference a day makes! Just 24 hours ago, the "informed" commentariat was telling us President Obama's foreign policy was going to be a big plus for him in the election.  In the wake of assaults on US diplomatic compounds in Cairo and Be...

  • September 12, 2012

    Christopher Stevens and the fall of Gaddafi

    An AT article published almost a year ago revealed the key role played by the late (now) Ambassador Christopher Stevens in the fall of Gaddafi, and the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood, as revealed in the flying of a black MB flag. Written by Ernest S...

  • September 12, 2012

    Report: Obama skipped intel briefings in the week leading up to Cairo and Benghazi attacks

    In an exclusive report, Wynton Hall writes in Big Peace that there is no record of President Obama attending his daily intelligence briefing, known as the Presidential Daily Brief (PDB). Readers may check for themselves the official record: 9/6/2012-...

  • September 11, 2012

    San Francisco's Second Annual Slut Walk

    For sheer colorful political lunacy, no spot on earth matches San Francisco. And fortunately for the rest of us, an anonymous journalist going by the name of Zombie chronicles in word and image the public events of the lunatics. The latest chapter in...

  • September 11, 2012

    Obama's support down 25% in key demographic

    One group in particular stands out in its decline in support for President Obama. Oddly enough, the major media are ignoring this startling finding.  Jonathan Tobin writes in Commentary Contentions:  President Obama may be enjoying a sligh...

  • September 10, 2012

    No picketing allowed in front of Mayor Emanuel's home

    Chicago, where Saul Alinsky lived and trained his acolytes, has seen more than its share of demonstrations in front of homes of chief executives. But now that Chicago's teachers are on strike, well, some animals are more equal than other animals. Fro...

  • September 9, 2012

    'Occupy' terrorists now called 'radical right' by Southern Poverty Law Center

    Did you know that the Occupy Movement is actually a part of the "radical right"? The movement, which received favorable comments from the commanding heights of the American left -- President Obama, Nancy Pelosi, the New York Times, and MSNBC -- has n...

  • September 7, 2012

    Obama State Department officially refusing to say Jerusalem is Israel's capital

    The day after Democrats booed down a resolution affirming Jerusalem as Israel's capital (only to have it rammed through by the chair, Chicago-style), the Department of State officially refused to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital.  From th...

  • September 6, 2012

    Democrat Convention enters fiasco territory (updated)

    Democrats shot themselves in the foot in the second day of their convention. Twice. If a Republican convention had suffered similar fiascoes in the same day, the media would be claiming the convention was verging on chaos. Today, the Democrats showed...

  • September 5, 2012

    Thinking about an Israeli first strike on Iran

    Gabi Avital, former chief scientist of the Israeli Ministry of Education (who holds a Stanford PhD), has a reputation for speaking  his mind. That's why he is the former chief scientist. He is speaking out in Israel Hayom, the largest circulatio...

  • September 4, 2012

    New York Times drifting into self-parody territory

    Those photo editors at the New York Times think they are really clever, diminishing GOP enemies by cropping photos so that the target appears as a small object at the bottom of a picture. They used this device with Paul Ryan to great effect, and now ...

  • September 1, 2012

    Targeting regretful 2008 Obama voters

    It has become clear that many people who voted for Obama in 2008, buying into the diaphanous hope and change promise, are disappointed in his performance.  Yet many of these good hearted people still are reluctant to abandon the First Black Pres...

  • September 1, 2012

    'Give the people what they want, and they'll show up'

    The famous aphorism in the title of this blog is variously attributed to Red Skelton at the funeral of legendary movie mogul SOB Harry Cohn, or George Jessel at the funeral of even more legendary movie mogul SOB Louis B. Mayer. It also is quite apt i...

  • August 30, 2012

    MSNBC's newest race code-word

    Clearly, the pundits at MSNBC are being driven mad by the success of the GOP convention, particularly Paul Ryan's barn-burner Wednesday night. When desperate that the message of limited govenrment and opportunity is connecting with the American publi...

  • August 30, 2012

    NYT bias bleeds through photos of Ryan at RNC

    You've got to hand it to the photo editors at the New York Times: they are even better progressive propagandists than the NYT's writers and their editors.  With Paul Ryan hitting it out of the park to anyone who listened, the challenge was to cr...

  • August 27, 2012

    Barack's beer initiative

    Suddenly, the American media are touting Barack Obama as the beer guy. There was the famous Iowa State Fair Bud Tent beer bash, where the president opened his wallet and paid for ten people to have a beer on him, while costing the owner of the tent 2...

  • August 26, 2012

    New Republic admits how bad Obama economy is

    A pillar of the liberal establishment has admitted how bad  the Obama economy is. Timothy Noah writes in  the New Republic calls it "a stunningly bad economic record for an incumbent president to run on." Of course, The GOP is blamed, and R...

  • August 26, 2012

    Semi-tough love from NY Times public editor

    In his farewell column as public editor of the New York Times, Arthur Brisbane diplomatically but clearly told the paper it has drifted off in a liberal bubble, serving a group of like-minded people, and losing credibility as a result: I also noted ...

  • August 21, 2012

    Dem poll pushes Todd Akin

    A Democrat polling operation, Public Policy Polling, is giving away the Democrats' desire to have Todd Akin stay in the Missouri Senate race. In so doing, it also reveals how polls are manipulated to produce the desired PsyOps effect. It is simply a ...

  • August 20, 2012

    Christine O'Donnell has some explaining to do

    Remember when Christine O'Donnell was a tea party favorite and promised she would win a Senate seat from Delaware for the Republicans?  On the strength of her appeal to tea party conservatives, she defeated Mike Castle, a former governor and the...

  • August 20, 2012

    Obama's MSM shield starts to crumble

    A shocking development is rocking the Obama campaign, as a reliably supportive media outlet has published a cover story with the shocking caption, "Hit the Road, Barack: Why We Need a New President." This from Newsweek, a magazine which all too recen...

  • August 17, 2012

    Joe Biden twisting in the wind

    President Obama's Biden Problem is going to be with him through the election. Yesterday, Jay Carney explicitly denied any possibility of Biden being replaced on the ticket. Naturally, it is the Republicans who are at fault because people are noticing...

  • August 16, 2012

    Spot the haters

    The rhetoric of the left appears to have provoked a terror attack on a leading conservative organization yesterday.  Floyd Corkins II, who shot a guard at the Family Research Council yesterday, appears to have been a gay activist who may have be...

  • August 14, 2012

    Ryan attracting younger voters

    Paul Ryan's realism about the fiscal cliff is showing signs of appealing to younger voters, a group which overwhelmingly voted for Obama, and which has been buffeted by the economy worse than most other demographic slices. The Washington Examiner rep...

  • August 13, 2012

    The Race to Define Ryan

    Obama and the mainstream media are salivating over the opportunity to define (i.e., smear) Paul Ryan to a national public that knows relatively little about him.  Ilya Somin of The Volokh Conspiracy quotes John Sides and Lynn Vavreck: A series ...

  • August 12, 2012

    Compare and contrast

    Barack Obama and Paul Ryan both drove unusual vehicles during their teen years. The old saying goes, "As the twig is bent, so grows the tree." Perhaps there is something to be learned from teenage vehicle exotica. The great Jim Hoft of Gateway Pundit...

  • August 11, 2012

    A man, a plan, an election, Ryan

    Mitt Romney has gone for the gold with his choice of Paul Ryan as running mate. The combined IQ of the two men on the ticket is probably higher than that of any other ticket in American history.  But IQ alone doesn't win elections, and Ryan has ...

  • August 11, 2012

    Obama lickspittle busted on plagiarism

    If schadenfreude -- enjoying the distress of others -- is a sin, then I am a sinner. I confess that Fareed Zakaria has always annoyed me with his sanctimony and thin veneer of intellectualism. Having spent the first two decades of my professional li...

  • August 10, 2012

    What's next from Team Obama?

    While Romney supporters fume about bogus superPAC accusations that Romney killed a steelworker's wife and Stephanie Cutter's lies, the Onion provides useful commentary on how low the Obama forces will go. You might think that there is nothing funny ...

  • August 9, 2012

    Sheldon Adelson sues Jewish Democrat group for $60 million

    The National Jewish Democratic Council (NJDC) libeled Sheldon Adelson, megabillionaire casino magnate and conservative pro-Israel philanthropist by accusing him of involvement in prostitution at his hotels. It was a false claim, and the Democratic Co...

  • August 9, 2012

    GSA scandal just got a lot more interesting

    Thanks to a Freedom of Information Act request by Judicial Watch, we now have a picture of White House blessing of a decision to have law enforcement "stand down" and not take action against Occupy protestors. A person at the center of the interventi...

  • August 7, 2012

    'Call Obama's bluff!'

    President Obama has now placed the documentary history of a presidential candidate on  the table as a legitimate demand. His stooge Harry Reid has demanded 10 years of financial documentation from Mitt Romney.  Wayne Root, who was Obama's c...

  • August 7, 2012

    Campaigning Mitt Romney makes joke about Road Runner and Coyote

    The question begs to be asked: Is Mitt a fan of Clarice Feldman, who has been chronicling on AT the Obama campaign's imitation of the Roadrunner cartoon's Coyote character, most recently in Wile E. Coyote Joins Obama Campaign Team. Mark Knoller of CB...

  • August 6, 2012

    Obama's inner circle and Iranian influence

    David Plouffe (rhymes with 'fluff") is one of the most powerful unelected officials in the United States, "a key member of Obama's inner circle, a confidant whose desk is just steps from the Oval Office," according to the liberal Washington Post....

  • August 5, 2012

    Former governor sentenced to 78 months in prison

    Former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman was sentenced to 78 months in federal prison Friday, plus 3 years on supervised release and a $50,000 fine. In a report several hundred words long by Kim Chandler of the Birmingham News and AL.com, no indication ...

  • August 5, 2012

    Chick-fil-A kiss-in protesters show their colors

    Leftists, when they get angry and let themselves be themselves, tend to behave in repellant ways. That certainly seems to be the case with the gay marriage movement's anger at Chick-fil-A, as a former CFO now understands.  Captured on video (emb...

  • August 3, 2012

    The Shame of the Democrats

    The Democrats are dragging national politics into the gutter. Harry Reid's outrageous charges about Mitt Romney's income taxes are demeaning the office of Majority Leader of the Senate, and the Senate itself.  What must it be like for Sen. Diann...

  • August 3, 2012

    July employment stats bad, but give Obama a talking point

    "Mediocre" is the kindest adjective that comes to mind about the July jobs report. The seasonally-adjusted figure (subject to revision) has the economy adding 163,000 jobs, not enough to keep up with population growth.  The separately calculated...

  • August 1, 2012

    Harry Reid, rumor monger, with an assist from the Washington Post

    The desperation to defeat Mitt Romney has induced Democrats to demean themselves with tactics no respectable adult would embrace. In order to keep alive unsubstantiated allegations about Mitt Romney's taxes, Harry Reid, the Huffington Post, and the W...

  • July 31, 2012

    Once again, Obama unwittingly reveals himself

    President Obama gets into trouble when he relaxes in front of a friendly group, and lets the real Barack Obama come out. In front of a teleprompter, or in a situation where guards his words, the carefully cultivated facade comforts all who want to be...

  • July 28, 2012

    News that will be ignored by establishment media

    Ordinarily, the story of a heroic citizen saving lives would be big news. But not when it demonstrates that an armed citizenry stops crime and saves lives.  The national media will ignore this dramatic story. Don Hudson of ABC4 News in Salt Lake...

  • July 23, 2012

    Oops! Giant plane lands at tiny airport

    A United States Air Force C-17 cargo plane accidentally landed at Peter O. Knight airport, a small civil aviation field with a runway 3405 feet long, instead of 11,000 feet at nearby McDill Air Force Base.  Because the C-17 is designed for short...

  • July 23, 2012

    Aurora and Chicago: A little perspective, please

    President Obama flew to Aurora, Colorado to comfort the victims of the theatre massacre yesterday.  That is something we expect of our presidents in contemporary America, evidently. But meanwhile, in the president's chosen home town and politica...

  • July 22, 2012

    To France with Clarice Feldman

    When Clarice Feldman, whose Clarice's Pieces column graces AT every Sunday, missed a week on July 8, we heard from readers. She had good reason: she and her husband Howard were visiting the south of France for a week or so, something they have done w...

  • July 22, 2012

    Latest embarrassing Obama fundraising gimmick is downright creepy

    The Obama campaign has a serious disconnect when it comes to understanding the boundaries between a political candidate and people's real lives. Apparently the vast campaign organization in Chicago that was burning through money faster than they coul...

  • July 20, 2012

    Something bizarre is happening at CNBC

    An inexplicable graphic appeared on CNBC's website yesterday. A reader writes us: When clicking articles on cnbc.com, for maybe a second the attached image of Obama appears, then the article.  I took a screen shot.  This is truly bizarre. ...

  • July 20, 2012

    When Rush talks about you on-air

    AT contributor John Drew yesterday found out what happens when Rush Limbaugh starts talking about you on air.  John is the author of three landmark articles on his experiences with Barack Obama when both were young Marxists, while Obama was a st...

  • July 19, 2012

    Bulgaria terror bombing suspect identified

    A former Gitmo detainee of Swedish nationality, released to Swedish custody and let go, has been identified as the man who bombed the busload of Israeli tourists yesterday, killing 5 of them and the driver.  Medhi Ghazali, 36, is being named by ...

  • July 17, 2012

    Green power regulators trip over each other in Illinois

    When governments try to micromanage business via regulation, ineptness is to be expected as the norm. Why do liberals have to learn this simple lesson over and over again? It is the law of unintended consequences. The latest example comes from Illi...

  • July 17, 2012

    Sheldon Adelson threatens libel lawsuit against DCCC

    Sheldon Adelson, gaming magnate and major donor to Newt Gingrich and no Romney-supporting super Pacs, is threatening to sue the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee for libel. Jonathan Easley of The Hill reports that the DCCC confirmed: "We j...

  • July 15, 2012

    Gutting welfare reform for fun and political profit

    The July 12 gutting of welfare reform, announced as guidance by the Obama administration, serves at least 2 agendas for the Obama administration. On the one hand, it adds to the number of people dependent on feds, as Richard Baehr put it, "vastly exp...

  • July 14, 2012

    World's smallest violin playing for Jesse Jackson Jr.

    If you thought that Jesse Jackson Jr. had an easy life, growing up the son of a multimillionaire racism entrepreneur, with a seat in Congress virtually handed to him on a platter because of his father's position in Chicago black politics, think again...

  • July 13, 2012

    Obama administration undermining work requirements for welfare recipients

    Yesterday, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued guidance" to states that could undermine the work requirements introduced in the 1996 welfare reform. The HHS guidance explains how states can seek "waivers" of work requirements for...

  • July 12, 2012

    Mitt gets a standing ovation at the NAACP

    Did Mitt just have his first moment of "campaign magic" with the NAACP? Tim Stanley of the UK Telegraph thinks so, though he specifies that it was not the usual charismatic sort of oratorical magic, but rather a challenge, and it came late in the spe...

  • July 12, 2012

    GAO busts $8 billion Obama Medicare fraud

    The nonpartisan Government Accountability Office has issued a report on a program being run by the Obama administration that stretches the law, in order to cover up the cuts in Medicare funding under ObamaCare until after the election. Stephen Dinan ...

  • July 12, 2012

    Where in the world is Jesse Junior?

    Jesse Jackson, Jr. is in rehab in Arizona. For a "mood disorder"!  I know a lot of people that have a mood disorder ever since Obama was elected. He has been "on leave" for a month, which means he is getting full pay and his constituents back in...

  • July 12, 2012

    AT launches new video section

    This morning American Thinker has launched a new section devoted to videos. (Click here.)  You can find it right below today's articles, or click the word "video" just below the AT logo on the masthead at the top of our page. We plan to...

  • July 9, 2012

    Gizmo, the miracle dog is thriving

    Many readers were moved by the story of Gizmo, the dog who miraculously survived a devastating fire, emerging from the ashes of an incinerated building in his home town of Lander, Wyoming.  Many readers have wanted to know how his recover is pro...

  • July 8, 2012

    Iowahawk's done it again

    The web's most gifted satirist has managed another breathtaking double bank shot, finding what might be humor's god particle in the Chief Justice's ObamaCare decision. As Iowahawk explains the arcane science, all becomes clear: Jubilant scienti...

  • July 8, 2012

    Another Randy Dem Has a Twitter Problem

    Considering the humiliation Anthony Weiner experienced flirting with women on Twitter, one would think that other Democrats would catch on. There must be something about the immediacy and brevity of a tweet that lulls men into allowing blood to flow ...

  • July 6, 2012

    Lies my president told me

    The disaster that ObamaCare is bringing to America will take years to unfold, with the worst of it kicking in after Obama is beyond the reach of voters, irate at the decline in their health and wealth. The Heritage Foundation has assembled of 5 broke...

  • July 4, 2012

    NC Dem rep accidentally casts deciding vote legalizing fracking in Tar Heel State

    Has the United States slipped into the Twilight Zone? How else to explain an outbreak of bizarre political behavior, including the Chief Justice of the United States apparently writing opinions on both sides in the ObamaCare case, and now a North Car...

  • June 30, 2012

    Romney goes pants-on-fire

    Finally the Romney campaign is hitting back hard on the libels being told about Bain Capital. And they have enlisted Hillary Clinton in the cause. The ad below may actually be effective, although there are plenty of people who have already ...

  • June 28, 2012

    SCOTUS strikes down Stolen Valor law

    It is no longer illegal to falsely claim to have won a medal. The Supreme Court has thrown out the Stolen Valor law. The opinion is here: http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/11pdf/11-210d4e9.pdf I think this is a good move, even though people who st...

  • June 28, 2012

    ObamaCare mandate upheld as constitutional

    Chief Justice Roberts delivered a shocker joining the liberal wing of the Court in finding the mandate is a tax, and therefore permissible. The entire ACA act has been upheld, except for some limitations on the federal power to affect state Medicaid ...

  • June 28, 2012

    The politics of the ObamaCare decision (repeatedly updated with dissents)

    It looks to me that there are some sweet lemons for conservatives in the ObamaCare decision. Before we burn the chief justice in effigy, let's read the decision and think about the implications. First of all, upholding ObamaCare is going to energize ...

  • June 26, 2012

    Jesse Jackson Jr. takes leave from Congress for 'exhaustion'

    Everyone knows how exhausting it is to be a congressman from a safe district. Everyone also knows that the prospect of an indictment on corruption charges can really sap the energy. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr.'s office has announced that the poor congress...

  • June 26, 2012

    Rule of law now an election issue

    The Obama administration's response to yesterday's Supreme Court decision affirming the right of authorities to seek proof of legal residency when otherwise engaged with suspects has now made manifest Barack Obama's contempt for the rule of law. This...

  • June 25, 2012

    Poll: Obama over-reached on F&F executive privilege

    The mainstream media cofferdam around the Fast and Furious scandal didn't work. Reassurances from Democrats and their media lickspittles that this is just a "fishing expedition" have been to no avail. The Hill has taken a poll, and discovered that th...

  • June 25, 2012

    Unconfirmed report Debbie Wasserman Schultz getting canned by DNC

    The Florida political blog The Shark Tank is reporting that Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz is going to lose her position as spokestroll for the Democratic National Committee. This would be a smart move, considering  what an embarrassing  gaf...

  • June 25, 2012

    The brave professor and the brave newspaper

    Two days ago we featured the views of a brave University of Chicago professor, Charles Lipson, who objected to considering his campus as home for an Obama presidential museum, which inevitably would become a promotional organ for the president and hi...

  • June 24, 2012

    New York Times ponders the decline of NBC News

    In an unintentionally hilarious article, New York Times scribes Bill Carter and Brian Stelter manage to analyze the ratings fall of NBC News without ever considering the effects of the swing to Obama sycophancy that has characterized that operation. ...

  • June 23, 2012

    Obama stumbles

    No, we're not metaphorically speaking of his campaign. President Obama actually went three quarters of the way to a pratfall yesterday at a campaign event in Tampa, which in anticipation of the GOP convention has gone over to the dark side, as far as...

  • June 22, 2012

    Another sign Dems are writing off Obama

    The grown-ups in the Democratic Party are looking beyond what they anticipate will be Barack Obama's single term, and positioning themselves to survive the aftermath. How else to explain the words of "Obama surrogate" Ed Rendell, former governor of P...

  • June 22, 2012

    Fast and Furious Desperation

    There is a school of thought among GOP party pros that Fast and Furious is a distraction, that President Obama would rather talk about anything other than the economy.  Much as I admire the insight and focus of people like Karl Rove, President O...

  • June 22, 2012

    Lessons in civility from Politico

    So desperate are Obama supporters in the media that the more bigoted liberals among them have resorted to horrifying racism and sexual innuendo to demonize Mitt Romney.  John Nolte of Breitbart: Politico, the unofficial web-branch of MSNBC, and...

  • June 21, 2012

    Obama's red ink problem spreads to his campaign

    Deficit spending has become such a habit with President Obama that now his campaign is doing it. Oliver Knox of Yahoo News reports: President Barack Obama's campaign spent more than it took in over the month of May despite his frenetic fundraising s...

  • June 20, 2012

    California State Bar embraces lawlessness

    The slippery slope leading down from rule of law to tyranny has been getting a lot of lubrication lately. The President of the United States bypassing the Constitution to announce he will not enforce immigration law for a category of offenders has se...

  • June 20, 2012

    Gum chewing at the G20

    This is embarrassing. The President of the United States looks like an unpopular kid at a high school dance in the early seconds of the video below, circling around the more popular kids, chewing gum. I suppose it is Nicorette gum, but we don't know ...

  • June 20, 2012

    Obama goes Nixon, claims executive privilege on F&F

    Having lived through Watergate and Richard Nixon's cover-up effort to claim executive privilege, I find that President Obama's claim of executive privilege sounds like a desperation move.  Tom Cohen of CNN: The White House move means the Depart...

  • June 18, 2012

    Nation marks a grim milestone

    After suffering three and a half years of economic stagnation, high unemployment, war, and civil unrest, the United States marked a grim milestone, never before seen in our history. President Obama yesterday played his 100th round of golf in office. ...

  • June 18, 2012

    Clemens walks

    Roger Clemens has been acquitted of all six counts of lying to Congress over his use of performance enhancing drugs.  After a reported 3 million dollars in taxpayers' money being expended on prosecuting him twice -- the first prosecution ending ...

  • June 18, 2012

    Occupy Oakland protests conference combating child sex trafficking

    The mind boggles. Occupy groups have done stupid, disgusting, unpopular things before, but never have they acted as enablers of child sex traffickers. The irrepressible Zombie of PJ Media found them doing exactly that. On Wednesday, June 13, members...

  • June 17, 2012

    The Wintour-Parker fundraiser wasn't such a success after all

    Despite the best efforts of a compliant media to puff up the alleged star power of the Preezy of the United Steezy, the entertainment industry gloss on his most recnet high profile fundraiser in New York turns out to have been rather dull.  Roge...

  • June 16, 2012

    Bizarre violent anti-Romney fantasy broadcast by MSNBC

    MSNBC's Martin Bashir's featured a witless, embarrassingly crude video segment cutting from the Romney campaign bus to movie clips of exploding busses, apparently to stoke violent viewer fantasies of assassinating the presumptive Republican nominee w...

  • June 15, 2012

    Obama's dine-and-dash 'responsible fatherhood' meeting

    Now we know why President Obama came up with his ridiculous analogy for George Bush's legacy: ordering a big steak dinner with a bunch of martinis, and leaving the bill for poor Barry to pay.  Charles Krauthammer already pointed out that if the ...

  • June 14, 2012

    The Wrath of Michelle O Strikes Again

    The coming weekend will be a painful one for Desiree Rogers, the beautiful former White House Social Secretary  who discovered that outshining Michelle Obama is a very, very bad idea. After following the Obamas from Chicago to DC and entering th...

  • June 14, 2012

    Obama White House admits rampant egotism led to mistake (source issues correction: no, they didn't)

    Our source on this story, Scott Shackford, has issued a correction: CORRECTION: I need my eyes checked. The Obama infoboxes are still there, but they appear to have been redesigned to look less like part of the other presidents' biographies. My apol...

  • June 13, 2012

    Today's must-see video

    Wow! If you were worried about another softball campaign against Obama, this 60 second ad from American Crossroads will reassure you that Obama is going to have do a lot of explaining. Hat tip: Jerry Long...

  • June 13, 2012

    Burying the Bishop

    This might be the smartest, funniest, and most effective putdown of a green mush head yet written. James Delingpole of the UK Telegraph devastatingly criticizes and morally checkmates the Bishop of Exeter, deftly exposing the logical consequences of ...

  • June 12, 2012

    Our fastest-growing export market?

    Wow! Exports tripled between March and April, while April 2012 is up 200% over April 2011. Which country is our great customer? Uh-oh, It is Iran. Michael Rubin reports at Commentary: On the same day the Obama administration has exempted S...

  • June 12, 2012

    Is Obama's black support tanking?

    Public Policy Polling, a Democrat-leaning organization is out with a new poll of blacks in North reporting that Mitt Romney would get 20% of the black vote in the Tar Heel State. Business Insider, in analyzing the poll, writes: Obama received 95 perc...

  • June 11, 2012

    The Clintons' Covert War on Obama

    Panic is setting in among the people who ran the Democratic Party prior to the miraculous arrival on the scene of Barack Hussein Obama and the perfect storm of events that propelled him into the White House.   These people, starting with Bi...

  • June 10, 2012

    State Dept. drops religious freedom from human rights reports

    Secretary of State Hillary Clinton should be grilled about why her department has removed the sections on religious freedom from its Country Reports on Human Rights, which are statutorily required.  Pete Winn of CNS News notes: The new human ri...

  • June 8, 2012

    Fast and Furious stonewall is working

    Yesterday, AG Eric Holder evaded questions and continued his stonewall on the House Judiciary Committee subpoena for thousands of documents related to the Fast and Furious scandal, which has claimed the lives of two sworn federal agents and hund...

  • June 7, 2012

    President of Estonia calls out Paul Krugman

    Paul Krugman used to be an eminent economist, a Nobel Prize winner and Princeton professor. But something happened to him, and his role as a New York Times columnist seems to have captured his soul.  He is in the thrall of Keynsianism, the faith...

  • June 6, 2012

    Big Labor's Other Disaster: California

    Voters in San Diego and San Jose, the 8th and tenth biggest municipalities in the United States, decisively voted to redistribute income from the rich (public employees) to the middle class taxpayers who earn far less on average.  Both cities ha...

  • June 5, 2012

    Walker and Kleefisch appear victorious in Wisconsin

    Good news for the sane sector of the public, as Wisconsin voters appear to have handed victory to Scott Walker and Rebecca Kleefisch in the recall election sponsored by the unions.  So says Fox News after taking an hour to be certain of the outc...

  • June 4, 2012

    Disillusioned Obama 2008 donors not giving to 2012 campaign

    Where has all the love gone? The Obama campaign must be asking itself why those donors who flocked to its support in 2008 are sitting on their pocketbooks this election cycle. JournOlist member Ben Smith, editor of Buzzfeed, highlights the startling ...

  • June 1, 2012

    A movie with Christian heroes fighting atheists

    It seems almost a miracle, but a major motion picture is opening nationwide today celebrating Christian resistance to aggressive atheists. For Greater Glory, starring Andy Garcia, has the potential to break out, and reach a wide audience of people no...

  • May 31, 2012

    Jonah Goldberg nails it for Mitt

    The Mitt Romney campaign needs to follow the excellent advice of Jonah Goldberg in countering Obama's claim that compared to Bush he has raised spending very little. In The Corner: Obama wants to cast Romney as a return to Bush. It's nearly the only...

  • May 27, 2012

    Washington Post notices Obama was a stoner in high school

    After spending 5000 words examining Mitt Romney's high school days at Cranbrook, where he allegedly harassed a long haired student who later in life came out as gay, implying he was a gay-basher just as Obama suddenly evolved and began a multimillion...

  • May 27, 2012

    Boston Globe plays catch-up on Fauxcahontas Warren the wrong way

    The Boston Globe, a New York Times subsidiary, has been caught flat-footed on the story of Senate candidate/Harvard Law professor Elizabeth Warren's phony claim of Cherokee heritage, with the rival Boston  Herald loudly telling all of Massachuse...

  • May 27, 2012

    Another Democrat positioning himself for the post-Obama era

    The smart Democrats who don't have a direct stake in Obama (and this includes many people with ties to Hillary Clinton still smarting from the 2008 primary season) are speaking out about the miserable Obama campaign, putting themselves on the record ...

  • May 26, 2012

    Silence of the shams

    Senator Chuck Schumer, one of the mouthiest politicians of the last half century never at a loss for words, can't be reached for comment on President Obama's Bain Capital attack strategy.  Which is rather odd, considering his remarkable past abi...

  • May 26, 2012

    What the...!

    Is President Obama losing it, or trying to fill in some missing pieces of his biography? No, we're not discussing his college and law school grades, SAT scores, or place of birth. We are discussing his offspring, or in Joan Walsh's word, his spawn. T...

  • May 25, 2012

    The Awful Truth about Obama begins to break through the liberal bubble

    It has gotten so bad for the Obama campaign that even Politico is starting to notice that Obama's got nothing much to offer voters and can't articulate an appealing message. Of course, in order to break this news to inhabitants of the liberal bubble,...

  • May 24, 2012

    Media Matters Unhappy with AT Report on Situation Room Photo

    The Soros-funded website run by the eccentric David Brock featured American Thinker's article yesterday on the illusion of presidential leadership in the Bin Laden raid.  Unable to actually engage the detailed analysis offered in the article, Me...

  • May 24, 2012

    Big Fur Hat gets his own site

    One of the most talented members of the conservative blogosphere finally has his own website. Big Fur Hat, the irrepressible visual artist, writer, and phone interviewer, has established itsbigfurhat.com. Already famous for his activities on iOwntheW...

  • May 23, 2012

    Uh-oh! Obama losing the suck-ups

    Colin Powell, who supported the "transformational" Obama in 2008, is hedging his bets on 2012. Renowned as a DC weathervane who skillfully identifies and sucks up to those who can do him the most good, General Powell now must see the which way the wi...

  • May 23, 2012

    More Dems dump on Obama's Bain attack

    Advertising attacking Romney and Bain as vampire capitalists turns out to be latest exploding cigar of the Obama campaign. First, Cory Booker called the ads "disgusting" (likening them to attacks on Rev. Wright) and was forced to publicly humiliate h...

  • May 22, 2012

    Freed domestic terrorist arrested with $800k in cash

    State Troopers in Illinois have arrested a murderous terrorist who served 8 years in prison, was freed, and is now up to something mysterious that has resulted in a huge amount of cash hidden in his vehicle. Ed Treleven of the Wisconsin State Journal...

  • May 22, 2012

    Will Obama dump Biden?

    Vice President Joe Biden is a continuing embarrassment to Barack Obama, the man whose first decision as nominee was to pick him for the ticket. Forcing his boss into premature evolution of his views on gay marriage is only the latest gaffe of the man...

  • May 22, 2012

    Hey Democrats, here's what rich people are good for

    About a week ago, Gallup informed us that half (48%) of Democrats believe rich people offer no benefit to society. Hey dummies, think about this, those of you capable of thought.  President Obama has ended the US manned space flight program, and...

  • May 21, 2012

    Mass Dems are stuck with Elizabeth Warren

    Mitt Romney just got the best political news he's had from Massachusetts since he won the governorship in 2002.  Elizabeth Warren, the poster girl for biographical fabulists, will stay as the Democratic nominee for Senate, twisting in the wind a...

  • May 18, 2012

    Literary agency explanation raises more questions than it answers on Obama Kenya birth assertion

    Miriam Goderich, who was identified as the person who edited the text of the 1991 brochure listing Barack Obama as having been born in Kenya, has issued a statement that seeks to accept personal blame for the "mistake" but which only raises more ques...

  • May 18, 2012

    The Media Cofferdam Around Obama's Biography is Leaking

    The real significance of the Breitbart revelation that Obama's literary agency promoted him as a Kenya-born author in 1991 is that it demonstrates that up-and-comer Barack Obama was going around until at least 2004 claiming Kenyan birth as a way to m...

  • May 17, 2012

    Unions may have brought on disaster for themselves in Wisconsin

    Karma may be catching up to Big Labor in Wisconsin.  Remember when noisy, vulgar vandals invaded Wisconsin's State Capitol, spray painting graffiti on the pristine white marble? Remember when the legislative Democrats fled the state to prevent m...

  • May 17, 2012

    Welcome to the Bureau of Womanhood Conformity

    A brilliant ad by the Susan B. Anthony Fund satirizes the Democrats' propaganda alleging a "war on women" by Republicans.  Hip, funny, and visually stimulating, the ad does more than throw back in their face the Democrats' phony words, it signal...

  • May 17, 2012

    Look who's headed to Chicago for the NATO summit

    It must have seemed like a good idea at the time: President Obama would hold the NATO summit in Chicago as a consolation prize for his humiliating loss of the Olympics after flying to Copenhagen with Michelle to lobby the IOC. Back then, the possibil...

  • May 17, 2012

    Blockbuster disclosure: Obama literary agency touted his birth in Kenya

    Joel Pollak of Big Government publishes a blockbuster story that the mainstream media simply will not be able to embargo, one which trespasses upon one of the most widespread taboos in political discourse today.  He writes: Breitbart News has o...

  • May 16, 2012

    Nebraska stuns GOP establishment

    It is no fun being a member of the GOP establishment these days. Another upstart has pulled off a surprise victory, this time  in Nebraska. Shades of Indiana! Even worse, Sarah Palin's endorsement seems to have made a big difference. The peasant...

  • May 16, 2012

    Team Obama's latest exploding cigar

    It is hard to understand how anyone at the White House thought it was a good idea to insert a reference to Barack Obama into items about previous presidents on the official White House website.  My first thought was that it was a parody, a stunt...

  • May 15, 2012

    North Carolina DA seeks fraud investigation of black studies at UNC

    It may be a firing offense to criticize the standards and practices in black studies if you are part of the higher education industry, but district attorneys are not subject to the fashions of academic life. North Carolina, a scandal is vrewing at th...

  • May 14, 2012

    That Newsweek cover

    Days after arch-competitor TIME magazine garnered oodles of buzz over its mommy porn cover, struggling Newsweek opted for calling President Obama the First Gay President in a cover story that is generating even more chatter.  The big question is...

  • May 14, 2012

    Prince Philip's savage green dream

    There is a deep sickness in parts of the green movement, an utter hatred of humanity as despoilers of a natural order. Usually, this is somewhat hidden, though obvious if one goes looking. Sometimes, however, a prominent greenie will let something sl...

  • May 13, 2012

    CAIR Board member on Egyptian TV: Bugs Bunny spread anti-Islamic propaganda

    Continuing the proud tradition of offering one image in English -- mainstream, sensible partner to American law enforcement and media --  and another in Arabic, CAIR board member Lamis Deek (as claimed by her personal website) adds her own bit o...

  • May 12, 2012

    An Occupier gets an education

    The following 15 minute video from the Media Research Center is both highly entertaining and a peek inside the mind of a young man, barely out of childhood, who has been subjected to liberal brainwashing, with no access to facts that do not fit the l...

  • May 11, 2012

    Postgate? Washington Post behaving scandalously in wake of Romney hit piece (Updated)

    The Washington Post is behaving in a rather Nixonian fashion, refusing to openly admit that its hit piece on Mitt Romney in high school yesterday contained serious errors that seem to reveal malevolent intentions. The coverup -- quietly altering the ...

  • May 9, 2012

    Spiking the underwear bomb plot bust

    The Obama administration is harming national security in order to benefit politically.  It is a wonderful thing that Saudi intelligence and the CIA were able to infiltrate a double agent into Al Qaeda on the Arabian Peninsula, but it is terrible...

  • May 9, 2012

    Obama declares support for gay marriage, but suddenly embraces federalism

    Painted into a corner by Joe Biden's explicit support of gay marriage Sunday, and facing pressure from gay donors, who are regarded by his campaign as a rich source of funds, President Obama gave an interview to ABC News in which he embraced gay marr...

  • May 8, 2012

    Obama's 'likeability' fading fast

    Ever since he burst on the national scene, up from obscurity as an Illinois State Senator addicted to voting present, his purported "likeability" has been cited as one of Barack Obama's principal political assets. Polling has historically shown that ...

  • May 8, 2012

    'Shut up,' they explained

    The trade paper of the academic industry just fired a writer who dared express skepticism about the academic worth of a number of doctoral dissertations in the field of black studies. Liz McMillan, editor of the Chronicle of Higher Education wrote a ...

  • May 8, 2012

    Another terrible day for Elizabeth Warren

    Poor Elizabeth Warren has become a laughingstock, a status that is exceedingly difficult to exit. She stands before the nation peddling implausible stories to explain away the obvious fact that she gamed the affirmative action racket. Warren joins th...

  • May 7, 2012

    Iran's Photoshoped missile test picture busted

    If you are going to try to intimidate people with fake photos of your missile arsenal, it is a good idea to carefully remove all traces of the origins of your propaganda shots. Unfortunately for Iran's semi-official Mehr news agency, the dumb schmuck...

  • May 6, 2012

    Elizabeth Warren's punchline problem

    The awful truth is dawning on many Democrats, possibly including Elizabeth Warren herself: her candidacy for "Teddy Kennedy's seat" has turned into a nightmare, raising all sorts of uncomfortable issues for public scrutiny. Even worse, Alinsky's...

  • May 5, 2012

    Tucker Carlson called 'bow-tying white boy' by Fox News contributor Jehmu Greene

    One of Barack Obama's major contributions to American life has been a heightening of racial antagonisms, despite his promise to "bring us together." Perhaps his attorney general's taunt that Americans are "cowards" when it comes to race has encourage...

  • May 4, 2012

    99% fashion statement

    The story arc of the Occupy movement is reaching its natural conclusion, as the crazies plot actual terror, and the hangers-on, who were never motivated by any serious thought, expose themselves as merely interested in a fashion statement.  As s...

  • May 3, 2012

    Re-vetting wars: Obama's girlfriends speak

    One of the foremost concerns of the Obama re-election effort is the promised re-vetting of Obama, playing off the widespread perception that the media utterly failed to investigate the reality beneath the highly manufactured identity peddled in 2008....

  • May 2, 2012

    Obama's Midnight Ramble to Kabul

    Perhaps the most notable aspect of President Obama's sneak visit to Afghanistan was its transparency. Every aspect of the trip indicates it was a campaign function, building the Obama brand. The timing was blatant.  The anniversary of Osama kill...

  • April 30, 2012

    Elizabeth Warren, poster girl for liberal hypocrisy

    No novelist could concoct a believable character to match Elizabeth Warren, the strategist behind the scarily-powerful and unaccountable Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and Democratic candidate for Senate. Professor Warren (she is a professor a...

  • April 29, 2012

    Great news for America from North Dakota

    America stands on the cusp of an energy boom, so long as the government doesn't derail the prosperity train barreling down the tracks out of North Dakota.  The mammoth Bakken field, it is proving to be bigger -- much bigger -- than previously es...

  • April 26, 2012

    Video treats

    Four brief videos merit viewing today, with a diverse cast of characters: Andrew Breitbart, Hillary Clinton, the Dalai Lama, and Bo, the presidential dog Begin with the moving tribute to Andrew Breitbart, with words and music by Chris Cassone and vid...

  • April 25, 2012

    Romney Rising

    Last night in Manchester, NH, Mitt Romney gave his best speech of the campaign in the wake of sweeping the five primaries held Tuesday. Clearly, some sort of mental and strategic switch has been thrown, and Romney emerged as a formidable challenger w...

  • April 25, 2012

    Governor knows best?

    Once again a liberal is letting his sense of moral superiority show. Connecticut Governor Daniel P. Mallory reportedly is about to sign a bill ending the death penalty in that state, despite the fact most residents of the Nutmeg State support it....

  • April 24, 2012

    Obama recruiting young cadres

    Attention young people of diversity! The leader has need for a youth corps. So says the leader's dear comrade and consort.  Something like that is underway now.  Andrew Malcolm writes in IBD: President Obama's election campaign is rec...

  • April 23, 2012

    Google Books lists Bill Ayers as author of Dreams from My Father

    Google, which sits atop more data than anybody outside the NSA, is presenting Bill Ayers as the author of Barack Obama's purported first autobiography, Dreams from My Father. Follow this link and see it while you can. If it is gone by the time you re...

  • April 23, 2012

    Was Michelle Obama behind Hilary Rosen's attack on Ann Romney?

    The National Enquirer, which was the only publication with the gumption to break media blockade around the story of John Edwards' love child, has an exclusive story citing insider sources that it was Michelle Obama who was the brains behind the explo...

  • April 22, 2012

    The Secret Service and the Imperial Presidency

    If God created war so as to teach Americans geography, then perhaps He created scandal so as to teach us about bureaucracy. The Secret Service scandal, with its irresistible sex-sells appeal to the media, guarantees that an aspect of Big Government t...

  • April 22, 2012

    Celebrate Earth Day: Buy This Book

    If they were honest, the greenies would admit they have precious little to celebrate this Earth Day. More people than ever are on to the scam of global warming, and realize that single-minded pursuit at all costs of an ecotopian vision is simply impr...

  • April 21, 2012

    Signs and wonders for the Obama faithful

    You can tell they are desperate in Chicago at Obama reelection headquarters. After 3 years of abject failure, Obama supporters could use a little encouragement. Signs that the guy who scorns those who cling to the guns and religion enjoys some sort o...

  • April 18, 2012

    Richard Baehr takes on Peter Beinart on the air

    AT co-founder Richard Baehr will take on Peter Beinart, author of the controversial new book The Crisis of Zionism, in what promises to be a spirited and highly informed debate. If you've never heard Richard speak about Israel, you have treat in stor...

  • April 18, 2012

    Kim Jong Chelsea

    If you think North Korea is the only country in which the child of a previous leader is treated as a demi-god, pampered and puffed-up by state-controlled media, accustomed to royal treatment, you need a quick visit to Planet Chelsea. Buzzfeed, which ...

  • April 18, 2012

    Romney on the 'vast left wing conspiracy'

    Mitt Romney has signaled the media and the GOP conservative base that media bias is an issue in the campaign.  In a Breitbart TV interview (view here),  he dropped the phrase, quite consciously: "There will be an effort by the quote vast l...

  • April 14, 2012

    Obama Launches meme, Jonah Goldberg shoots it down

    The narrative spinners in the Obama machine have recently deployed the term "Social Darwinism" as a weapon with which to define what Romney and the GOP would bring to the victim class. A clever tactic, for it provides a talking point, lending a venee...

  • April 14, 2012

    Who is this guy pretending to be president?

    Andrew Malcolm has written a wonderful -- no, make that marvelous -- political column in Investor's Business Daily cutting through the layers of BS feed to us by the progressive media machine, and takes a clear eyed look at the promises of Obama 2008...

  • April 13, 2012

    Obama: The Narrative Versus the Evidence

    A serious tactical rift within conservative ranks exists over the anomalies in Barack Obama's documentary record. The establishment insists that voters like Obama, so that campaign attacks should focus on his policies. Much of the base, a handful of ...

  • April 11, 2012

    NASA rocked by global warming rebellion

    Fifty top astronauts, scientists and engineers at NASA have signed a letter asking the agency to cease its global warming buffoonery. The global warming emperor has no clothes, and people are finally saying so out loud and in public. Notrickzone brin...

  • April 11, 2012

    Myth-spinning greenies alienate the greatest myth-maker of our time

    George Lucas is the newest victim of the green religion to recognize that there is no reasoning with religious fanatics intent on saving the world (and you), no matter what you want.  The film maker has been trying to build a new movie making fa...

  • April 11, 2012

    George Zimmerman to be charged with second degree murder

    Florida special prosecutor Angela Corey told a 6 PM EST press conference that George Zimmerman will be charged tomorrow with second degree murder, a charge that could carry life imprisonment. Zimmerman, whose legal counsel resigned from his case yest...

  • April 10, 2012

    Santorum suspends campaign

    Rick Santorum suspended his campaign today, effectively conceding the nomination to Mitt Romney. He went out with class, in a heartfelt address making the announcement. Michael D. Shear and Jim Rutenberg of the New York Times write: Mr. Santorum mad...

  • April 9, 2012

    Yippee! Free government money! Come and get it!

    So anxious is the federal government to give away money to lower income people (up to $49k!) that it is buying expensive full page advertising in magazines like Sports Illustrated urging people to take advantage of the "Earned Income Tax Credit"...

  • April 7, 2012

    The Left is Losing the Media Wars

    The leftist media overstructure -- the network of committed individuals and institutions that keep the media narrative congruent with the goals of the left -- is starting to self-destruct, devouring itself with headstrong recklessness, ego, and inabi...

  • April 6, 2012

    Harry Reid's dilemma

    American broadcasting this week featured the worst example of hateful religious bigotry broadcast to a national audience since the days of Father Coughlin's antisemitic rants.  MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell, a former Democrat congressional staffer,...

  • April 5, 2012

    Obama's Vegas Values

    President Obama's rhetoric frequently displays a moral posture, as if to ground his actions in  values resonant with most Americans. It is all a sham, of course. The transcendent value of Barack Obama is power, and right now that means re-electi...

  • April 5, 2012

    Obama's Freudian Slip

    Yesterday, President Obama addressed a White House prayer breakfast, going all Christian on us as Good Friday and Easter approach. No more separation of church and state as the official function on government property showcased the president as a fol...

  • April 4, 2012

    Obama campaign's big blunder

    Move over, Etch-a-Sketch! The Obama campaign accidentally handed its opponents a huge present, if they have the wit and the guts to use it. The portion of the public that is paying attention is justifiably alarmed at Obama's overheard promise to Puti...

  • April 3, 2012

    SCOTUS meets Chicago style politics

    President Obama's Rose Garden remarks yesterday on the Supreme Court are shameful, a blot on his presidency. "Ultimately, I am confident that the Supreme Court will not take what would be an unprecedented, extraordinary step of overturning a law tha...

  • April 3, 2012

    Was $10 million government prize competition corrupted?

    Something smells very bad in the Department of Energy's awarding of a ten million dollar prize to Philips Lighting.  The requirements of a competition the Department sponsored (without congressional authorization) for an LED bulb appear to have ...

  • March 31, 2012

    OWS inciting May Day violence

    May 1st is Communism's favorite holiday, meant to celebrate the rise of the working class. Communists appropriated the day, which was long celebrated (it is pre-Christian) in Northern Europe as a spring festival. Naturally, the Occupiers, somewhat do...

  • March 31, 2012

    Resistance to warmism must be 'treated'

    Warmists have jumped the shark -- or maybe make that jumped the Stalin. The old Soviet trick of defining political opposition as a mental illness is back, this time at the Unioversity of Oregon.  Their media relations folks are bursting wit...

  • March 29, 2012

    Celebrate clothing diversity?

    When former Black Panther and current Democrat Congressman Bobby Rush appeared on the floor of the House of Representatives in a hoodie and was ejected for violating the dress code (which forbids head covering), he added a new dimension to the racial...

  • March 28, 2012

    Media Matters Humiliated

    A senior official at Soros-funded Media Matters falsely accused Matt Drudge of publishing a bogus picture of Trayvon Martin, that turned out to be genuine, taken from his Twitter page. After the bogus nature of his accusation was forcefully impressed...

  • March 27, 2012

    Obama hands Romney an election issue

    The live microphone in Seoul that picked-up President Obama sending a private message to Putin that he needed "space" that he would have after the election for "flexibility" with Russia over missile defense will be a big election issue, not matter ho...

  • March 27, 2012

    ObamaCare's very, very bad day in court

    The second day of Supreme Court oral arguments on ObamaCare has supporters of the law woprried, mainly over the line of questioning pursued by swing vote Justice Anthony Kennedy. Business Insider's headline says it all: "People Are Saying That Obama'...

  • March 25, 2012

    Calling out self-censorship on the right

    An insidious form of self-censorship has gripped not only the mainstream media but most of the conservative media as well. All Americans who believe in the quest for the truth should be concerned that a rigid taboo is being enforced to prevent the di...

  • March 24, 2012

    Life imitates art in Kuwait

    When a medalist from Kazakhstan was awarded her gold in an international competition in Kuwait, the music played was not the national anthem of her homeland, but rather music from the satirical film Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benef...

  • March 23, 2012

    A courageous columnist tackles the birth certificate forgery

    Syndicated columnist and author Diana West tackles the media taboo on the subject of the serious evidence that President Obama presented to the nation an electronically-created document purporting to be his actual birth certificate. In "Silence of th...

  • March 22, 2012

    When is race relevant to the New York Times?

    Why is it that in its coverage today of the dead Muslim terrorist in France, the New York Times says only that he is a Frenchman that killed 7 people, with no indication whatsoever that he is of Arab descent? The very same paper, in covering the Sanf...

  • March 20, 2012

    Crony Capitalism and Algae Energy

    Why on earth did President Obama offer algae as a solution to America's energy problems? I suspect that if he could, he would press the rewind button and erase the comment, as it has exposed him to widespread ridicule from heavyweights like Charles K...

  • March 16, 2012

    Unleashing the government parasite

    President Obama wants to dispense with prohibitions on government spending taxpayers' money to lobby for bigger government. Stephen DeMaura of the Washington Times: In his 2013 budget proposal, President Obama erased three critical anti-lobbying pro...

  • March 14, 2012

    Santorum number one in MS and AL primaries, Romney wins Hawaii caucuses (updated)

    Rick Santorum picked up media momentum in yesterday's Southern primaries, but did not narow Romney's lead in the delegate count.  Mitt Romney came in third, a big disappointment considering poll numbers reported before the election indicating a ...

  • March 13, 2012

    Liberal intolerance, by the numbers

    At last we have statistical evidence that liberals are less tolerant of views that disagree with theirs than are conservatives.  Andrew Malcolm of Investor's Business Daily points us to the data, found in a Pew Center for the Internet and Americ...

  • March 12, 2012

    Sexuality no longer a private matter in California

    The relentless advocates of identity politics don't care about antique notions like privacy in their campaign to make everything subject to quota.  Three weeks ago, Lee DeCovnick wrote about the State of California requiring all judges to make a...

  • March 11, 2012

    Stunning study on anti-white racism in America

    It takes a British newspaper, the Daily Mail, to publicize a study with tremendous political implications: White Americans feel they are more discriminated against than blacks, a new study reveals.   Sociologists from Harvard and Tufts universi...

  • March 11, 2012

    Derrick Bell and the media shrug

    The brilliant graphic artist Big Fur Hat has summed up the stunning double standard of our friends in the media with the following cartoon strip. I can't stop smiling. See what you think. More Big Fur Hat here. ...

  • March 10, 2012

    Shocking payout to former New York Times Company CEO

    Why would any company pay off a departing CEO who saw the stock price decline 80% with an 8 figure package equal to more than the last 4 years of earnings, or 2.4% of the company's formerly billion-dollar market value? The foundering New York Times C...

  • March 8, 2012

    'We hid this during the election': Latest Breitbart tapes debut

    The first of the posthumous Breitbart tapes debuted last night on Hannity, and today on Breitbart.com.  You can tell the left is concerned by the fact that: 1. Journ-O-lister Ben Smith, now running Buzzfeed, pre-empted the debut by licensing the...

  • March 6, 2012

    Those geniuses at the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee

    I love it when Democrats reveal the depth of their ignorance. You would think that for a concept as familiar to them as hateful, they would learn how it is spelled. Hat tips: Peter Wilson, Peter von Buol  ...

  • March 2, 2012

    Breitbart Lives!

    The bitterness of Andrew Breitbart's premature departure may be tempered if his courage inspires conservatives to press the case that President Obama's life story, as accepted by the media and McCain campaign in 2008, contains a series of d...

  • March 1, 2012

    Oops, NPR accidentally tells the truth

    Something that sounds an awful lot like a confession that New York's public radio station WNYC "go[es] after" the New York Police department slipped past the lips of reporter and senior producer Collin Campell, during a fundraising marathon. The New ...

  • March 1, 2012

    Stunning news: Andrew Breitbart has died (Further Updated)

    According to a brief announcement on Biggovernment.com, Andrew Breitbart died shortly after midnight in Los Angeles. No details have been released. Andrew passed away unexpectedly from natural causes shortly after midnight this morning in Los Angele...

  • February 29, 2012

    Romney gets the job done in Michigan and Arizona

    It cost him millions of dollars and intense focus of his well oiled machine, but Mitt Romney won a plurality of the Michigan primary vote tally, a test much-hyped by the media as a critical test of campaign momentum. The fact that statewide majority ...

  • February 29, 2012

    The Hillary Follies

    Two years ago, Hillary Clinton enjoyed near universal media praise for her work as Secretary of State. Several months ago, Mrs. Clinton wisely announced that she would not serve as SecState beyond Obama's first term. Today, the reasons why are becomi...

  • February 25, 2012

    Sharia trumps First Amendment in Pennsylvania courtroom

    A Muslim man who assaulted a man in a Halloween parade dressed as "Zombie Mohammed" (who was walking next to a "Zombie pope"), has had assault and harassment charges dismissed by a Pennsylvania judge, who just happens to be a Muslim convert. National...

  • February 25, 2012

    Norman Finkelstein accidentally tells the truth about BDS

    Norman Finkelstein is a leading light of the anti-Israel movement, including the Boycott, Divest, and Sanctions (BDS) movement, which seeks to destroy Israel through commercial, cultural, and legal sanctions imposed through international organization...

  • February 22, 2012

    Welcome to the Brave New Obama World

    The master propagandists of the left have taken on a breathtaking task: selling the public on Obama's economic disaster as a good thing.  The witting left understands that the "fundamental transformation" Obama promised means permanently high un...

  • February 17, 2012

    Why are Jewish philanthropies supporting Media Matters? (updated)

    Why are four Jewish community philanthropic foundations supporting an antisemitic website? Prof. Alan Dershowitz has brought appropriate attention to the antisemitism of Media Matters for America, and now thanks to the Daily Caller, it has been revea...

  • February 2, 2012

    Chicago-style democracy at work

    Chicago mayor and Democratic Party powerhouse Rahm Emanuel is giving the nation a good overview of ruthless Democrat-style politics in the redrawing of ward boundaries for the Chicago City Council. Crain' Chicago Business reports: Anyone hoping that...

  • February 2, 2012

    Here it comes: sugar as a regulated substance

    You're too stupid to know what to eat, but fortunately your betters are about to prevent you from harming yourself by eating stuff that you like. Welcome to the new America, where people who think they are smarter than you get to run your life. CBS N...

  • January 30, 2012

    Guilty verdict in Muslim honor killings

    They are not celebrating diversity quite as much in Canada these days. UPI reports: An Afghan immigrant to Canada, his second wife and his son were convicted Sunday of the honor killings of his first wife and three daughters. Mohammad Shafia, 59, To...

  • January 28, 2012

    Reuters Busted on Rubio Hit Piece

    The Reuters news service once again has made itself a laughingstock by publishing a mistake-riddled hit piece on Marco Rubio, all but ruling him out as a vice presidential nominee for the GOP because of alleged financial problems. Many of which turne...

  • January 27, 2012

    Jacksonville debate: Santorum & Romney up; Newt down; Paul remarkably fit for his age

    Last night's debate in Jacksonville featured a more aggressive Mitt Romney, who appears to have benefitted from debate coaching, a somewhat tired-looking Newt Gingrich, a sprightly Ron Paul, and Rick Santorum getting much more attention than usual. S...

  • January 27, 2012

    Electric car scheme squanders nine figures' worth of taxpayer dollars

    Yet another bankruptcy emerges from the green subsidies handed out by federal, state, and local authorities, wasting an additional hundred million dollars-plus belonging to taxpayers.  Like Solyndra, the newly bankrupt lithium ion battery maker ...

  • January 26, 2012

    Should a Navy ship be named after Murtha?

    Under current plans, the United States Navy plans to honor the late Democrat congressman from Pennsylvania with a ship named for him. Opponents are organizing to prevent this, and launching the website NoMurthaShip.com: Secretary of the Navy Ray Mab...

  • January 25, 2012

    Sen. Mark Kirk suffers stroke; media reaction troubling

    Senator Mark Kirk, the Republican who took the seat formerly occupied by Barack Obama out of the Democratic Party, has suffered a debilitating stroke that is not expected to damage his cognitive functions, but which could lead to some physical impair...

  • January 23, 2012

    The Romney collapse

    The South Carolina primary is being characterized as a stunning upset, with pundits registering amazement at the fall of Mitt Romney from a double-digit frontrunner in polls a week ago, to a distant second, by a double digit margin, losing 44 of the ...

  • January 20, 2012

    CNN's John King loses GOP debate to Newt Gingrich

    Newt Gingrich seized control of last night's GOP candidate debate in Charleston, SC with his first 4 words: "No, but I will," delivered in response to moderator John King's lead question for the night, asking if Gingrich "would like to comment" on hi...

  • January 19, 2012

    Obama's Keystone Blunder

    Using the fig leaf of a State Department review of the environmental impact on Nebraska of a possible pipeline rupture, Barack Obama has killed the Keystone XL pipeline project, and with it tens of thousands of good paying jobs. Aside from the oddity...

  • January 17, 2012

    Mixed Debate Outcome in Myrtle Beach

    Monday night's GOP debate in Myrtle Beach, SC  probably will add points to Newt Gingrich's polling data, but it remains to be seen if he will generate the momentum change he needs to overtake Romney. As the frontrunner, Mitt was the principal fo...

  • January 11, 2012

    Romney, Paul big winners in New Hampshire

    Mitt Romney scored almost 40% of the vote in the New Hampshire primary, not a blowout, but still a strong showing.  Paul Steinhauser and John Helton of CNN.com: Romney finished with around 40% of the vote, slightly better than what Sen. John Mc...

  • January 7, 2012

    The most ridiculous charge of racism ever?

    The Obama media are once again playing the race card, but in the process making fools of themselves and exposing their own racist consciousness. It is by now a cliché that any criticism of President Obama' will be denounced as "racist," so how does o...

  • January 4, 2012

    Did Romney 'win' in Iowa with 8 vote margin? (updated)

    Mitt Romney squeaked through last night with 8 vote margin over Santorum in Iowa But at least three candidates have a plausible claim to have "won" the Iowa caucuses: 1. Mitt Romney, whose vote total of 30,015 votes exceeded that of Rick Santorum by ...

  • January 2, 2012

    Military Intelligence is not an oxymoron

    One of the conceits of far too many members of the American elite is that military people are less intelligent than they.  Such people usually have little contact with members of the military, much less any familiarity with the way responsibilit...

  • December 29, 2011

    NY Times crisis becomes farce

    The family-controlled New York Times Company is gripped by a crisis, its news staff near mutiny over the escalating financial squeeze on their pay and benefits, and its president abruptly dismissed with a $15 million golden parachute. According to un...

  • December 21, 2011

    Airline flight attendants reject union

    New rules more favorable to unions were not enough to enable the Transport Workers Union (TWU) to succeed in unionizing the flight attendants at Virgin America Airlines, who rejected the union by a 59% to 41% margin. Terry Maxon of Dallasnews.com rep...

  • December 21, 2011

    The Power of Brainwashing Displayed in North Korea

    Amazing as it seems to Americans, there is actual grief, with spontaneous tears flowing for Kim Jong-il, late dictator of North Korea. Absolute tyrannies which create a cult of personality around the leader are capable of brainwashing their populace ...

  • December 21, 2011

    Christians in peril

    The persecution of Christians in Muslim-dominated countries is increasing. Raymond Ibrahim has written an article on the subject in support of a petition urging President Obama to present during his forthcoming State of the Union Address his "ad...

  • December 20, 2011

    Barney Frank lets it all hang out

    Yesterday, on the floor of the House of Representative, Congressman Barney Frank let it all hang out. Literally.  It is not a sight for the faint of heart.  Now that he no longer will face voters, Frank is going to be treating us to views o...

  • December 19, 2011

    North Korean Communist dynasty goes into its third generation

    The world's only hereditary communist dynasty is going into its third generation, as the secretive dictatorship in Pyongyang announced to its people Sunday that the "Dear Leader" died the day before, allegedly of a heart attack brought on by overwork...

  • December 18, 2011

    Tea Partiers for Huntsman?

    The GOP field is getting a second look from some conservatives. As Newt Gingrich's support slides, a substantial chunk of the GOP base remains uncommitted, in the wake of the rise and fall a series of not-Romneys. Inevitably, this leads to a reconsid...

  • December 16, 2011

    'The smartest guy I know'

    The Democrats have new albatross, a symbol of corruption in the Obama era. Former Senator, Governor, and almost Treasury Secretary Jon Corzine is radioactive thanks to a billion plus missing dollars. The Republican National Committee has put together...

  • December 15, 2011

    OWS child abuse

    What kind of political cause would motivate a mother to place her child at grave risk?  The incoherent self-righteousness that characterizes the occupiers has found a frightening new level of irresponsibility in Portland, Oregon. Pictured in a v...

  • December 15, 2011

    The none of the above vote

    Jay Cost of the Weekly Standard calls for new entrants into the GOP field, including those who earlier took themselves out of the field for personal and family reasons. He asks the drop-outs (and potentially others) to follow the example of George Wa...

  • December 13, 2011

    Chelsea speaks!

    Not since Greta Garbo has there been a figure so famous whose voice remained a mystery to the American public. Chelsea Clinton, who has enjoyed complete media immunity for 2 decades following her move to the White House at age 12, and who had never g...

  • December 11, 2011

    Debating the GOP Debate

    The circular firing squad returned last night at Drake University in Des Moines, as the GOP contenders took to the stage in an ABC-Des Moines Register-sponsored debate. Michael Barone in the Examiner: It is just 24 days from the Iowa precinct caucus...

  • December 10, 2011

    Michael Barone calls out Obama

    A heavyweight writes bluntly about the shameful speech President Obama gave in Osawatomie, Kansas (see also: Obama's Kansas Declaration). Among the most respected of political pundits, Michael Barone occupies a special niche. As the co-author of the ...

  • December 9, 2011

    EPA Fracking Report and Energy Politics

    Yesterday's EPA report raising water pollution worries about fracking in Wyoming amounts to psy-ops in the Obama re-election campaign. One of President Obama's biggest electoral vulnerabilities is his energy policy, which impoverishes America and han...

  • December 9, 2011

    Peter Wilson talks to executive producer of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

    AT's Peter Wilson had a 20 minute on air conversation with the executive producer of the film he reviewed today. Douglas Urbanski is both a film executive and a talk show host. He is also a self-avowed AT reader, and invited Peter to discuss the...

  • December 6, 2011

    DoJ lied about Fast and Furious in letter to Congress

    The Fast and Furious Scandal gets worse for AG Eric Holder and his Department of Justice. The Watergate adage that it is not the crime, it's the cover-up that matters comes to mind, with the reservation that the crime in F&F -- supplying thousand...

  • December 3, 2011

    Cain 'suspending' presidential campaign

    Promising that he won't shut up, drop out, and go away, Herman Cain told a crowd in front of his campaign office that he would follow "Plan B" to help address the country's problems, as opposed to running for the president, which is "Plan A.' His wif...

  • December 2, 2011

    'Someone's got to take responsibility'

    The victim culture of the United States has found its poster child. The massive disconnect between behavior and consequences held as an article of faith by those who embrace victimology is epitomized by this mother of 15 (!) children.  She ...

  • December 2, 2011

    Saudis fear virgin shortage if women allowed to drive

    You can't make this stuff up. The Saudis, our close allies, are dramatically illustrating their mindset. We share the planet with them, and have a deep (and often troubling) relationship with the regime, but we live in different moral orders. The Dai...

  • December 1, 2011

    Obama is feeling the heat

    The conventional wisdom on Barack Obama is that he is one cool character, "no drama Obama," as he liked to say during the 2008 campaign. But this demeanor is a pose, a self-constructed facade, designed to conceal the deeper issues that trouble him. P...

  • November 30, 2011

    Eric Holder channels Richard Nixon

    The Attorney General of the United States is the victim of a media conspiracy. At least that's the line being peddled by Eric Holder and the Soros lackeys at Media Matters. They are reacting to the call for Holder's resignation currently supported by...

  • November 30, 2011

    Prominent Dem: Dems need to 'get real' on energy

    Another defection from the gospel of renewable energy, and it's a biggie: no less than the head of the Brookings Institution's energy initiative. Brookings is the most prestigious of the liberal think tanks in Washington, and carries considerable wei...

  • November 30, 2011

    New York Times 'outed' Sandusky rape victim

    The New York Times is drawing flak in media circles over its transgressing a canon of journalistic ethics by identifying one of the alleged rape victims of Jerry Sandusky, not by name, but by supplying so much detail that anyone who cared to could id...

  • November 30, 2011

    'Most transparent administration in history' seals file on border agent murder

    The Fast and Furious scandal is causing the Obama administration to try to suppress evidence from public view. Judicial Watch reports: The Obama Administration has abruptly sealed court records containing alarming details of how Mexican drug smuggle...

  • November 29, 2011

    Chris Christie slams 'bystander in the White House'

    New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, a brilliant rhetorician, has done it again, cutting through the media cloud around President Obama, providing memorable and telling terminology for his failure to lead on spending. Justin Sink in The Hill's Blog Br...

  • November 29, 2011

    Cain 'reassessing' candidacy

    The latest woman to come forward accusing Herman Cain of an inappropriate relationship appears to have triggered a possible withdrawal from the presidential race. Jeff Zeleny of the New York Times writes: In a morning conference call with his advise...

  • November 28, 2011

    Prince Charles' latest eco-fantasy

    The man who has done more to destroy the British monarchy than anyone since Oliver Cromwell has a new playground and a new eco-fantasy. Prince Charles now wants to build a thousand-home housing development on the Galapagos Islands, effectively doubli...

  • November 28, 2011

    Another blow for warmist fraud: Canada pulling out of Kyoto Protocols

    Canada is reported to be planning tom announce it is leaving the Kyoto Protocols, intended to reduce CO2 emissions in the hope of halting global warming, which hasn't occurred in the last decade, according to theories which lack actual scientific pro...

  • November 28, 2011

    Barney Frank retiring from Congress

    Multiple news sites are reporting that Barney Frank will announce today that he is not running for re-election. This comes as no surprise, because Massachusetts is losing one Congressional seat, and redistricting is adding conservative voters in New ...

  • November 27, 2011

    OWS arrest total nearing 5000

    The legacy media won't bother keeping count, but as of Friday, 4,752 people had been arrested nationwide in connection with the Occupy demonstrations. A spreadsheet breaking down these arrests by location an date can be found here. Arrest number...

  • November 27, 2011

    UN Official Questions Biofuel Commitment

    The warmist fraud continues to unravel, with the impracticality of the biofuels program impressing even an important United Nations official. He is making a point that skeptics have reiterated for years now, but for the UN, any recognition of reality...

  • November 26, 2011

    How to make an occupier's head explode

    Natalie Solent asks, "Upon what basis can an Occupy protest ask someone to leave?" As the Marxists say, there are certain internal contradictions to deal with. She offers amusing responses. For more along the same lines, see Ezra Levant's amusing vid...

  • November 26, 2011

    Astounding video shows fetal development in detail

    Science is providing answers to the single most contentiontious issue in American doemstic politics. The central question of the abortion debate has always been: when does a fetus become a human being? Abortion advocates like to claim there ther...

  • November 26, 2011

    157 Air Force Majors terminated without retirement benefits

    One of the best ways to destroy American military capabilities would be to convince career military personnel -- both officers and enlisted -- that their commitment to service will not be rewarded with the retirement benefits they have earned by thei...

  • November 23, 2011

    GOP debate changed few minds

    The CNN-Heritage Foundation-American Enterprise Institute debate Tuesday night featured the best questions from the audience -- mostly scholars from Heritage and AEI -- of any debate so far. Wolf Blitzer did a tolerable job as moderator, though he di...

  • November 22, 2011

    The way out of our financial mess is transparency

    David P. Goldman, writing as Spengler in the Asia Times, diagnoses the heart of the Wall Street crisis, and lays out the solution to the rot in our financial markets. This is an important article to read and digest. Goldman was himself an executive a...

  • November 16, 2011

    New data refutes warmist hypothesis

    Warmists and their media allies are averting their eyes from new scientific data from Japan that demonstrates some of the flaws in global warming theory (called "settled science" by those who refuse to look at all the evidence). Dr. Tim Ball, a clima...

  • November 14, 2011

    Sfc Billy Honey's message for Occupiers

        Finally, someone tells these kids what they need to hear in a way they can understand. It makes perfect sense that it would take a Sergeant First Class to lay it out so clearly for a bunch of recent recruits to a cause very differ...

  • November 12, 2011

    Move over, Solyndra, here comes Siga

    If you thought Solyndra was bigtime corruption, wait until you read the details of the Siga scandal. David Willman of the Los Angeles Times reveals a huge no-bid contract bearing all the signs of intervention from above, that could dwarf  Solynd...

  • November 11, 2011

    Murder at Occupy Oakland leads Mayor Quan to call for end of tent city

    It required the death of an as yet unnamed young man, but hapless Oakland Mayor Jean Quan has finally reversed herself and is calling for an end to encampment in Frank Ogawa Plaza in front of City Hall. Matthai Kuruvila,Demian Bulwa of the San Franci...

  • November 11, 2011

    Solyndra modified limited hangout continues

    President Obama continues to dribble out evidence demanded by House subpoena on the Solyndra scandal, ignoring a Thursday noon deadline for compliance, and then announcing (via CNN): The White House agreed Thursday to turn over some documents d...

  • November 10, 2011

    Rick Perry has 53 second 'brain freeze' at debate

    Last night's presidential nomination debate in Rochester, MI was a disaster for Rick Perry, as he experienced a temporary memory loss while attempting to name the third of three federal agencies he would close if he were president. While on the one h...

  • November 10, 2011

    Joe Paterno fired; Penn State students riot

    Students have been known to riot over ridiculous grievances, but last night's melee in State College Pennsylvania must take the cake. Beloved football coach Joe Paterno, who, it now develops, tolerated a child rapist as his subordinate without inform...

  • November 9, 2011

    Citizen J. Edgar?

    A friend who knew that I saw a press screening of director Clint Eastwood's heavily-promoted new movie J. Edgar asked if it was worth seeing or politically skewed.  I answered, "Both, unfortunately."  The film opens today in a few major cit...

  • November 9, 2011

    Unions win a round in Ohio; ObamaCare goes down bigtime

    Government worker unions won big yesterday in Ohio, persuading voters (by a massive 61 - 39 margin) to reverse reforms passed by Gov. Kasich and the GOP-controlled legislature.  But the victory celebration should be tempered by the knowledge tha...

  • November 9, 2011

    Refuting the 'Israel lobby' libel

    A growing chorus of critics maintain that Israel is at the root of America's foreign policy problems in the Middle East.  Abandoning Israel, they imply, would solve our problems. They identify the "Israel lobby" as the villain, corrupting Americ...

  • November 7, 2011

    IAEA says Iran on the brink of nukes; Ron Paul says 'offer friendship'

    The UN's nuclear watchdog, the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) is releasing a report this week on Iran's nuclear program, and leaked details reveal that thanks to assistance from foreign scientists, the mad mullahs are on the brink of posse...

  • November 6, 2011

    Cain and Gingrich stage collaborative, informative debate

    Escape from the media-dictated sound bite gotcha format is possible!  The "Lincoln-Douglas" style debate between Newt Gingrich and Herman Cain Saturday night was congeni8al, collaborative, informative, and completely devoid of any gotchas. ...

  • November 6, 2011

    OWS news flash!

    A reader emails: Rapists are not all created equal!  It turns out that the rapists in Park Slope are way scarier than the rapists at OWS.  Who knew? "I think it's a great idea, especially for a movement like ours, to show we're supporting ...

  • November 3, 2011

    Occupy Oakland builds bonfire, trashes Whole Foods, banks, clashes with police overnight

    It was not exactly insurrection, but the rowdies gathered in Oakland for a grandiosely-named "general strike" Wednesday, finally got the street action they wanted after nightfall, building a bonfire in a downtown street with flames 15 feet high (pict...

  • November 1, 2011

    Bill Maher performance tickets discounted 65%

    It must be getting tough to attract a full price audience for the foul-mouthed lefty, despite years and years of promotion on HBO.  So promoters in Los Angeles -- the second largest metropolitan area in America -- have resorted to Groupon, and a...

  • November 1, 2011

    At last! A serious televised GOP debate

    If you are as sick of the sound bite debate format as I am, there is cause to cheer today. C-SPAN has announced that it will televise Saturday night's debate between Newt Gingrich and Herman Cain in  Texas.  We shall finally have a shot at ...

  • October 31, 2011

    Obama framing the election narrative

    Desperate to avoid responsibility for the economy wrought by Stimulus-based Obamanomics, the Obama re-election organization is framing the GOP as responsible for preventing him from fixing things.  Helped along by Mitch ("The single most importa...

  • October 31, 2011

    Another 'scientific consensus' bites the dust

    It turns out that human beings have been using tools a lot longer than the scientific consensus used to allow.  A dissident scientist, who discovered the proof almost 35 years ago, stands vindicated, thanks to the development of technology....

  • October 28, 2011

    Ten richest celebs supporting OWS have collective net worth over a billion dollars

    Celebrity airheads who are supporting the occupiers are feeding Wall Street to the crocodile, forgetting that the beast quickly gets hungry for more. Celebrity Net Worth has a highly amusing article on the subject. The top ten: #1 Yoko Ono Net ...

  • October 27, 2011

    Obama's con on 'no lobbyist money' pledge

    Remember Obama's pledge not to take money from lobbyists? He was going to usher in a new era of clean politics. He even repeated the pledge in a recent fundraising letter: "We don't accept any money from special-interest groups or Washington lobbyist...

  • October 26, 2011

    Obama reverses himself on Libya

    Now that Libya is perceived as a success story (for the moment), Barack Obama is shamelessly claiming that he led from the front, after all.  From the Hill (with video):   President Obama said Tuesday the often-repeated idea that the U.S....

  • October 26, 2011

    Potemkin Occupation

    There's apparently less than meets the eye at an OWS occupation in London -- vacant tents masquerading as demonstration participants. The UK Daily Mail headlines: The thermal images that prove 90% of tents in the Occupy camp in London are left E...

  • October 25, 2011

    Cain-Romney 2012?

    The GOP has a problem: the political pros, aka the elite, aka the establishment, think Mitt Romney has the qualities to make a great candidate and a great president.  But the conservative base, aka the Tea Party, aka the grassroots, doesn't like...

  • October 25, 2011

    Police clearing OWS Oakland

    The OWS Oakland contingent, camped out in Frank Ogawa Plaza in front of City Hall, is being cleared out by the Oakland Police this morning. According to local news reports, the police began assembling at 3 AM, and moved into the plaza at about 5...

  • October 25, 2011

    Obama ruling by decree

    Remember when the Constitution applied, and a president wanting to implement a new program would have to persuade Congress to pass a law and appropriate money? President Obama, facing a GOP House, has chosen to use executive orders and is getting awa...

  • October 24, 2011

    Key general labels Obama's Iraq pullout 'absolute disaster'

    "We won the war in Iraq, and we're now losing the peace."  So said retired General John Keane to Rowan Scarborough of the Washington Times, in a scathing critique of the plans announced to the nation on Friday. General Keane was an architec...

  • October 24, 2011

    Hey, VP Biden! Here's a crime wave for you to worry about

    Instead of claiming rape is increasing (it isn't) and shilling for the Administration's "jobs" (stimulus) spending, which is not specifically directed at funding police, VP Biden ought to worry about the effect of the OWS demonstrations on crime. ...

  • October 24, 2011

    Occupy Oakland through Zombie's eye

    The inestimable photoblogger Zombie spent some time at Occupy Oakland, overrun with rats but ignoring a city deadline to evacuate for a cleanup. He found lots of interesting things, such as this man counting a lot of cash, for some reason.  Inte...

  • October 23, 2011

    Brave Dem Supports Voter ID Law in Alabama

    Isn't it news when a black former Congressman from Alabama announces his support for that state's voter ID law, on the ground that widespread fraudulent voting suppresses legitimate voters' voting rights?  Artur Davis, who represented Alabama's ...

  • October 21, 2011

    Wash Post hit piece on Marco Rubio debunked

    The same newspaper that drove George Allen out of the Senate on a made-up scandal over the made-up word "macaca" has taken shabby hit-piece journalism a step lower. In a piece by Manuel Roig-Franzia, the paper accuses Sen. Marco Rubio of embellishing...

  • October 20, 2011

    Must-see video

    Our friends at Powerline have come up with a brilliant video linking Obama and Jimmy Carter. It is only 90 seconds long and makes the case well. Enjoy this and pass it along. Hat tip: Lauri Regan...

  • October 19, 2011

    'Zionist Jews...need to be run out of the country' teacher fired by LAUSD

    Patricia McAllister, who leapt to fame for her proud and succinctly expressed (18 second video here) Jew hatred at OWS Los Angeles, has been fired by the Los Angeles Unified School District. Publius at Big Government has the story. It turns out she i...

  • October 18, 2011

    OWS links

    A reader who prefers anonymity has sent in a compendium of links and resources ont he Occupy Wall Street movement.  It is a work in progress, so readers are invited at add suggestions in the comments. This movement is a seirous, orchestrated eff...

  • October 18, 2011

    Lunacy at Occupy Baltimore

    Cliff Notes version: if you've been sexually assaulted, contact one of our counselors for help and support, not the police. Derek Hunter of Big Government visited the Occupy Baltimore demonstration and picked up some of the literature laying down the...

  • October 17, 2011

    Romney's Smoking Gun Picture

    Does Mitt Romney have a political death wish?  When I heard him utter the phrase, "There are plenty of reasons to vote against Mitt Romney...," I cringed, imagining endless repetition of this sound byte in the attack ads that will be the basis o...

  • October 17, 2011

    Occupy LA protestor a proud Jew hater

    Tea parties are supposed to be incubators of race hatredm and the Occup Gang a bujnch of idealists. Well, at least some of them are unashamed of their bigotry. A woman identifying herself as Patricia McAllister was not shy about wanting to get rid of...

  • October 17, 2011

    Brit taxpayers subsidize Muslim harems

    The United Kingdom has gone mad with cultural "sensitivity"  and is now officially subsidizing polygamy for Muslims on welfare, despite the fact that bigamy is a crime in Britain. From James Slack writing in the Daily Mail: Husbands living in a...

  • October 17, 2011

    JournOlist 2.0: Leaked emails reveal Occupy activists collaborating with media

    A leak of emails reveals that media figures have been working actively with Occupy activists. This should surprise exactly no one, but documentary proof that media figures conspire with the left is always valuable in convincing the fair-minded member...

  • October 17, 2011

    Why US Forces are in Uganda?

    Pepe Escobar, writing in the Asia Times, contends that the motive for the mission sending 100 servicemen to Uganda is not humanitarianism but geopolitics in a mineral-rich region of East Africa. Museveni's government (helped by Washington) has also ...

  • October 15, 2011

    Freedom Confronts Tyranny: A Visit to the Demilitarized Zone

    Nowhere on earth does the contrast between freedom and tyranny, and their corollary prosperity and poverty, reveal itself more vividly than on the Korean Peninsula.  South Korea has boomed, producing an ultramodern high tech society whose corpor...

  • October 14, 2011

    Obama's Fundraising Fail

    The media will not hype it, but the Obama re-election effort is on track to fail at raising the promised billion dollars for his re-election campaign.  After it's hard to raise money when you look like a loser and part of your base is alienated....

  • October 13, 2011

    Barack Obama and the Seoul Brother

    South Korea's President Lee Myung-bok is getting the hat trick of official honors for a foreign head of state today in Washington, DC: a one-on-one summit with President Obama, an address to a joint session of Congress, and a state dinner at the Whit...

  • October 4, 2011

    Ohio the next boom state?

    Ohio has had a difficult few decades, as a manufacturing state devastated by the migration of jobs to China and elsewhere. But a renaissance of prosperity and revival of manufacturing may be at hand, thanks to a happy combination of technology and na...

  • October 3, 2011

    Holder lied to Congress about Fast and Furious

    Oops! Documents just unearthed show that the attorney general of the United States lied to Congress about when he first knew of the scandalous Operation Fast and Furious. Misstatements of fact by senior government officials under oath can be treated ...

  • October 2, 2011

    The Washington Post smells blood with Perry

    The Washington Post, famous for using the vague word "macaca" to demonize George Allen out of the Senate, has come up with a far more potent word to use against Governor Rick Perry. Stephanie McCrummen reports: In the early years of his political ca...

  • October 1, 2011

    What one group in America really loves Obama?

    Hint: it is not the African-American community. In 2008, Barack Obama rode a tidal wave of support from blacks and Hispanics. But both elements of his base are having second thoughts according to pollsters, at least as refletced in their "approval" r...

  • October 1, 2011

    Obama refers to his wife as 'Michael'

    There's no fool like a teleprompter fool. If anyone needs any further proof that Barack Obama merely says what the teleprompter tells him to, the remarks delivered at yesterday's ceremony marking the new chairman of the joint chiefs provides it...

  • September 30, 2011

    Solyndra fall guy named

    Now we know who is going under the (Obama campaign) bus to take responsibility for squandering over half a billion dollars on Solyndra, and the choice is an excellent one, if I do say so myself.  Carol D. Leonnig and and Joe Stephens of the...

  • September 29, 2011

    How's that 'smart diplomacy' working out for you, Barry?

    Among the most annoying claims of candidate Barack Obama in 2008 was the promise that he would give America "smart diplomacy." Coming from an amateur dependent on the advice of academic theoreticians like Susan Rice, the hubris was overwhelming. Thre...

  • September 29, 2011

    The 'highest duty' of government?

    New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is one strange dude. He clearly has issues with food -- not the food that he puts in his own body, but the food chosen by other people for consumption. Mayor Mike evidently is tormented by the thought that other peopl...

  • September 28, 2011

    Solyndra was in technical default on its loan on 2010, yet DoE extended more credit

    It is starting to look as though all the usual rules were ignored in the rush to shovel taxpayer money at Solyndra,even to the point of overlooking technical default on its loan conditions.  Deborah Soloman of the Wall Street Journal reports: S...

  • September 28, 2011

    The Chris Christie tease intensifies

    Last night's Reagan Library address by New Jersey Governor Chris Christie did nothing to indicate if he will throw his hat into the presidential race, and seemed to be designed as a tease. It sounded a lot like a campaign speech, and a damn good one ...

  • September 28, 2011

    Hillary's Turnabout on Jerusalem

    In a stunning reversal, Hillary Clinton has done a 180 on her position on Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, contradicting the position she took when she was New York's junior senator, and needed Jewish votes.  The great Rick Richman writes in ...

  • September 27, 2011

    Is Herman Cain the left's worst nightmare?

    Politico, which pretends to be a nonpartisan website while harboring three members of the infamous JourNoList conspiracy to shape news to favor Obama, has revealed how deeply it and the Democrats fear Herman Cain.  American Glob noticed that in ...

  • September 26, 2011

    What did Obama stop himself from saying?

    Frankly, I hate to jump to conclusions when they involve something as ugly as anti-Semitism. So I cannot fault Obama for what he almost said in his address to the Congressional Black Caucus, but caught himself after the first syllable escaped his lip...

  • September 22, 2011

    One day re-hire yields taxpayer millions for Chicago union boss

    Meet Dennis Gannon, poster child for public employee union greed. Jason Grotto of the Chicago Tribune lays out the amazing tale of how the bankrupt city of Chicago (which received a billion dollars of stimulus money to pay its bills)  is providi...

  • September 21, 2011

    Another amazing Obama photo

    Our genius president has done it again. In a group photo of national leaders at the Open Government Partnership event at the United Nations, President Ego decided to wave at the camera, blocking the face of the man standing next to him, so it is not ...

  • September 19, 2011

    Riot at Chinese solar plant

    Angry over pollution issues, Chinese villagers have rioted at a solar panel plant in Zhejiang Province, just south of Shanghai, according to a BBC report:   Around 500 people started gathering at Zhejiang Jinko Solar company in Haining city, Zh...

  • September 18, 2011

    Obama team's twitter trap

    The purportedly internet-savvy Obama team has fallen into a Twitter trap, and it can't get out. The AttackWatch.com snitch website, already the butt of jokes, is the subject of endless mockery on Twitter, thanks to the site's creation of a so-called ...

  • September 16, 2011

    Reclaiming the law that governs government

    Veteran of the conservative movement for over 50 years, Richard Viguerie, and American Thinker contributor Mark Fitzgibbons have published what they call an "e-pamphlet" for Constitution Day. The 63-page pamphlet is called The Law That Governs Govern...

  • September 16, 2011

    Worse than Solyndra

    Add the name LightSquared to your crony capitalism watch list. The story emerging has elements even worse than the squandering of half a billion dollars on an Obama bundler's venture.   Brendan Sasso of The Hill reports: LightSquared plans to p...

  • September 15, 2011

    Nobel laureate resigns in global warming protest

    So much for the much-touted "scientific consensus" on global warming. A Nobel Prize physicist has resigned from the American Physical Society over the group's position endorsing global warming. Marc Morano of Climate Depot has the story: Nobel prize...

  • September 14, 2011

    Weiner's NY District elects Republican Turner in special election (updated)

    It is time for Democrats across the United States to panic, as a Congressional district that has not elected a Republican in almost 90 years handed an easy victory to the GOP candidate. The victor Bob Turner cast his effort as a referendum on Preside...

  • September 14, 2011

    Emails reveal White House kibbitzed Solyndra loan approval

    Newly-released emails show that White House officials closely monitored the Soloyndra loan guarantee, implicitly pressuring officials to approve it. ABC News received some emails: ... internal emails uncovered by investigators for the House Ene...

  • September 13, 2011

    What is Michelle Obama saying during the 9/11 flag ceremony?

    There is a growing internet buzz over the First Lady's comment to her husband during the 9/11 commemoration Sunday, as the flag ceremony is taking place. Watch the video clip below, and lip readers are invited to comment on what she is saying. To my ...

  • September 12, 2011

    At least another thousand words' worth

    Channeling his inner Mussolini, President Obama told us a lot about himself, standing next to President George W. Bush at the Ground Zero memorial service prayer. Boker Tov Boulder has the photo, taken by Kristoffer Tipplaar, and published ont he fro...

  • September 10, 2011

    Mayor Rahmbo hasn't grown into the dignity of his new office

    Rahm Emanuel is a nasty piece of work, and now that he holds elective office as mayor of Chicago, he hasn't mellowed out, as the head of the Chicago Teachers Union recently found out. Rahm had run for office partly on the basis of a pledge to extend ...

  • September 10, 2011

    Propaganda Protection

    What is a parent to do for children in the care of the politicized, dumbed-down, government schools, one of the most expensive system of public education in the world? Not everyone can pay for, or has access to, private schools. Not everyone can mana...

  • September 10, 2011

    Left starting to panic over Weiner seat special election

    Polling shows that the special election to replace Anthony Weiner in New York's 9th congressional district could very well yield a GOP victory in the 60% Democratic registration Queens/Brooklyn district.  Steven Shepard and Jessica Taylorof Hotl...

  • September 9, 2011

    Using a Joint Session of Congress as a Prop

    I was secretly hoping that Speaker Boehner would arrange to have Styrofoam columns brought into the House of Representatives' chamber, to be installed adjacent to the podium when the teleprompters were carted in.  It would have been a fitting re...

  • September 8, 2011

    Breaking: Feds raid Solyndra

    Acting at the request of the Inspector General at the Department of Energy,FBI agents executed a search warrant at Solyndra, according to NBC Bay Area. The investigation comes after a request by the Department of Energy's inspector general, FBI spok...

  • September 7, 2011

    Energy Sec. Chu's office declares Solyndra a success

    I could scarcely believe my eyes when I read in David A. Keene's excellent article on Obama's green follies:  Mr. Chu's spokesman argued that "the project that we supported succeeded. The facility was producing the product it said it would...

  • September 7, 2011

    How to be a good dhimmi

    Sunny, the YouTube humorist who plays a liberal airhead woman, has advice for us all on how to commemorate 9/11, perhaps inspired by the Obama administration's guidance.  ...

  • September 6, 2011

    Dems' new civility: 'Let's take these son of a bitches out' (updated)

    James Hoffa, Jr., warming up a Labor Day crowd in Detroit before President Obama addressed them, issued an apparent call for violence against the Tea Party, calling the peaceful movement "son of a bitches." "And you see it everywhere, it is the tea ...

  • September 5, 2011

    Plotting how to deny Obama re-nomination

    As Democrats awaken to the fact that President Obama is taking their Party down the path to oblivion, stalwart liberals such as Maureen Dowd are thinking one term. Some leftists even are openly plotting how to deny him re-nomination. Writing in ...

  • September 3, 2011

    Turkey expels Israeli ambassador

    In the wake of the UN report on the Mavi Marmara Gaza flotilla raid (See Wash. Post inverts UN report on flotilla raid to blacken Israel), Turkey has expelled Israel's ambassador, and reduced relations to the level of Second Secretary, suspending all...

  • September 2, 2011

    Fast & Furious scandal may have its first cover-up

    Evidence has emerged that suggests a cover-up of the Fast & Furious scandal involving the Department of Justice - specifically the recently-departed US Attorney in Phoenix. Fox News has been almost the only major outlet following the story, but t...

  • September 1, 2011

    Calif. Assembly passes ridiculous babysitting bill

    The nanny state impulse runs strong in the Golden State, where the State Assembly has passed a bill that would virtually regulate babysitting out of business.  After 2 hours of babysitting, a mandatory 15 minute break must be provided, meaning t...

  • August 31, 2011

    Fast and Furious cover-up shifts into second gear

    Decoding the recent bureaucratic moves at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, it looks a lot as if people are being given incentives to keep their mouths shut, and stick with the party line that higher-ups in the Department of Ju...

  • August 31, 2011

    Wisconsin mayor stands up to union bullies

    Wisconsin continues to be the crucible of organized labor's decline as a political force. The electorate endured a takeover of their state capitol building, fleeing legislators, and recall elections, only to learn that cutting out certain collective ...

  • August 30, 2011

    Obama's Uncle and his phony documents

    President Obama's Uncle Onyango Obama, currently in custody in Massachusetts on DUI and immigration charges, has much to teach Americans about how illegal immigrants have been able to get documentation and function in society.  "Uncle Omar," as ...

  • August 30, 2011

    If the best hair wins...

    An old adage of presidential politics is that the nominee with the best hair usually wins. Ike was a notable exception, but it is probably fair to say that good hair is a plus. It so happens that a very convincing indicator exists as to which preside...

  • August 28, 2011

    Unemployment up, crime down

    It's a paradox for liberals.  How can this be? James Q. Wilson, the eminent sociologist and criminologist, examines the recent decline in crime, which contradicts liberal orthodoxy that unemployment creates desperation, that creates crime, in Ci...

  • August 28, 2011

    Inside Gaddafi's private A340

    Col. Gaddafi's former private four engine A340 private jet has been shown off to the BBC. Here is a brief tour:  Here is an exterior view of the airplane. ...

  • August 24, 2011

    Obama's Big Labor Albatross

    Big Labor funnels big money to Democrats, but for Barack Obama's re-election chances, the alliance is a mixed blessing.  Voters are catching on that public employee unions have bought themselves salaries, work conditions, job security, and retir...

  • August 23, 2011

    Those darn millionaires and billionaires

    Once again, the liberal mind is satirized by our friend Sunny, of Sunny TV.  I find myself wondering if liberals who happen to see this video would even understand they are being mocked.  Make up your mind for yourself:    ...

  • August 22, 2011

    Rebels claim control of Tripoli

    The whereabouts of Col. Gaddafi remain unknown today, as Libyan rebels claim to control 80% of the capital, Tripoli. President Obama interrupted his vacation to issue a statement last night: Tonight, the momentum against the Qadhafi regime has reach...

  • August 20, 2011

    Will NATO-backed Libyan rebels launch a bloodbath in Tripoli?

    President Obama committed America to the cause of the Libyan rebels based on the theory of R2P -- a responsibility to protect innocents, the innocents of Benghazi and other rebel strongholds, who presumably faced slaughter at the hands of loyalist fo...

  • August 16, 2011

    Refreshing candor on the supercommittee

    One of the Democrats on the congressional budget supercommittee has let the cat out of the bag as to his real goal, in all its ugliness.  Rep. James Clyburn, appointed by Nancy Pelosi, sees it as a vehicle for exacting racial spoils, further ent...

  • August 14, 2011

    UK Riots Blamed on Liberals

    Peter Hitchens, the conservative brother of Christopher Hitchens, has written a magnificent polemic in the Daily Mail laying the blame for the British insurrection at the feet of the liberals, whose policies have produced the social decay underlying ...

  • August 13, 2011

    Exasperated lib columnist admonishes Obama

    I confess that I'm having great fun watching the liberals waking up to the fact that the image of President Obama they bought into was a fantasy, and underneath is an arrogant, cold, and incompetent executive, with no experience at all in running any...

  • August 13, 2011

    Concealing black hate crimes

    Investor's Business Daily joins American Thinker in responding to Eric Holder's challenge to avoid cowardice on racial issues.  The esteemed publication writes:  Across the U.S., mobs of black youths are organizing on Facebook to loot stor...

  • August 12, 2011

    Rahm's race politics showing

    Now that he is running Chicago, Mayor Rahm Emanual apparently finds it necessary to play race politics. A scandal in Chicago Fire Department has him downplaying fraud, and suggesting that it would be more expensive to fire the alleged miscreants than...

  • August 12, 2011

    Court of Appeals finds ObamaCare individual mandate unconstitutional

    A second federal circuit court of appeals has spoken in the ObamaCare case, the one brought by 26 states. A split three judge panel for the Atlanta-based 11th Citcuit has found the individual mandate unconstitutional, but leaves the rest of the law i...

  • August 8, 2011

    The perfect symbol for an administration of academic theoreticians

    Hats off to Michelle Malkin for bringing to wide attention the perfect symbol of a government of talkers, not doers.    "Inspired by President Obama's "Sputnik moment" speech back in January, the government-sponsored Smithsonian ...

  • August 6, 2011

    Yes we can! (lose our AAA credit)

    Chalk up another historic achievement for the Obama presidency. For the first time ever, United States government obligations have been downgraded from AAA to AA by Standard & Poor's. Barack Obama's vision of America as an exceptional country, ju...

  • August 2, 2011

    Police: Teens Leave Church Picnic To Riot

    Boy, church picnics have really changed since I was a kid. WPXI TV, Pittsburgh reports About 100 teenagers swarmed from a McDonald's to Trader Joe's to a new Target store during a riot in East Liberty on Sunday, police said. Police said the trouble...

  • August 1, 2011

    'The other guy won'

    Nobody loves the debt ceiling compromise. Does that mean it is a true compromise? Certainly, that is a theme found in left and some establishment right commentary. The debt ceiling deal reached in the Senate, touted in a Sunday evening presidential ...

  • July 31, 2011

    'They sure as hell didn't call him a leader'

    A fascinating bit of gossip from Joe Scarborough, on his MSNBC Morning Joe show (via RCP, which has video): Joe Scarborough: "I have got to clear this up. Mika heard two days ago on Capitol Hill Democrats all saying the same thing. And that is, this...

  • July 30, 2011

    'Arab Spring' becomes 'Sharia Summer' on Tahrir Square

    Why do you suppose it is that so many conservative commentators saw this coming, while starry-eyed liberals heralded the flowering of genuine up-from-the-streets democracy in the Arab world? Elizabeth Harris reports for the New York Times: As m...

  • July 30, 2011

    Reid Strikes Back

    Harry Reid's response to the Boehner Bill quite naturally gives President Obama what he needs to continue his spending a quarter of the GNP. Alexander Bolton and Josiah Ryan  of The Hill explain: Reid would give the president almost unilateral ...

  • July 29, 2011

    Ho hum. Boehner's third version of debt ceiling bill passes the House

    It was hard for me to get worked up over the supposed drama of the close vote in the House.  Speaker Boehner averted a serious humiliation when his third iteration of the two stage commission-laden debt ceiling bill passed the House 218 to 210, ...

  • July 26, 2011

    Kerry spokesman stripped of Silver Star

    John F. Kerry almost became president running on the basis of his alleged heroism in Vietnam. Thanks to the efforts of a group of truth-tellers, the Swiftboat Veterans for Truth, the serious holes in the fantasy narrative propounded by the Kerry camp...

  • July 26, 2011

    Thanks, Matt Drudge

    An AT link (to Kerry spokesman stripped of Silver Star) has made it to near the top of the Drudge Report. Thanks, Matt. ...

  • July 23, 2011

    The blond, blue-eyed terror suspect in Oslo (updated)

    Anders Behring Breivik is the name of the Norwegian man being held by Norwegian authorities as a suspect in the horrific slaughter of children at a summer camp, and the bombing of central Oslo.  Brevik is being identified as "right wing," "Chris...

  • July 23, 2011

    LA Lawsuit Bait (updated)

    Los Angeles Mayor Anthony Villaraigosa has on his desk legislation that will empower bicyclists and their lawyers to go after motorists in a lawsuit gambit that is all upside and no downside. Motorists, meanwhile, have no upside, only a downside. A...

  • July 22, 2011

    Massive blast hits Oslo

    No one has yet claimed credit for a big apparent explosion near the Prime Minister's Office in Oslo, Norway.  ABC News cites "sources" that it was vehicle bomb. Drudge linked to the video below, indicating the extent of the damage. Norway has n...

  • July 21, 2011

    Executive truth-tellers about Obama's disastrous policies

    Two billionaire magnates, the founds of huge successful enterprises, have dramatically spoken out against President Obama's management of the economy. They have been joined in criticizing the president by several CEOs of big companies.  Normally...

  • July 20, 2011

    Gang of Six gambit revives spending shell game

    The combined forces of Democrats, the liberal media, and squishy Republicans are working to stampede Republicans into ratifying the expansion of the federal government from an average of under 20% of GDP up to 25%, where it stands after two and a hal...

  • July 18, 2011

    Herb Meyer: Now (part of) the story can be told

    Sometimes a brilliant mind changes history. Many AT readers are familiar with the name Herbert E. Meyer, frequent contributor to our pages, and holder of the nation's highest honor for intelligence service. As a friend of Herb, I have long wanted hi...

  • July 18, 2011

    Clarice Feldman tribute

    AT readers already know about the lively wit and insightful analysis brought to this site by Clarice Feldman, whose Sunday column "Clarice's Pieces" is a smash hit. But word is getting around. On Pajamas Media's Tatler Blog, Belladonna Rogers pens a ...

  • July 18, 2011

    Who is this?

    Who could this be? He was a youthful leader with a law degree elected on the promise of reforms that would revitalize a world power trapped in the economic doldrums by its bureaucracy and huge debt. His approach of international engagement attempted ...

  • July 18, 2011

    First Lady smashes another barrier

    I recognize that it is not the end of civilization, but standards are falling across a broad spectrum of life in America since the Obama's moved into the White House. For the first time ever, a First Lady has been photographed barefoot in the White H...

  • July 18, 2011

    So clear even a liberal could understand

    Noemie Emery has written an important essay in the Weekly Standard on the problem with the welfare state. It expertly explains the politics of  entitlements, full of insight. Best of all, it is written in a way that makes it accessible to libera...

  • July 17, 2011

    Obama's Tibet Two-step (updated)

    Tibet is one of those issues where Barack Obama wants to have it both ways. On the one hand, he wants smooth relations with China, which regards Tibet as an integral part of China, and Tibetan religion and culture as impediments to massive immigratio...

  • July 15, 2011

    The network that produced Barack Hussein Obama, Jr.

    The must read article of the day surely is "The Chosen One"by Angelo Codevilla, of The Ruling Class fame.  Professor Codevilla raises the intriguing network of connections among President Obama's family and programs sponsored by the CIA and a va...

  • July 12, 2011

    North Korea chairs UN Disarmament Conference; Canada quits, US downplays

    The moral bankruptcy of the United Nations is once again on display, as nuclear proliferator/serial liar North Korea assumed chairmanship of the Geneva-based U.N. Conference on Disarmament. For the Obama administration, of course, moral bankruptcy is...

  • July 10, 2011

    A guide to the CA-36 special election Tuesday

    A machine Democrat faces a surprise tea party challenger for a House seat in California Tuesday.  Zombie, of Pajamas Media, has put together all the information you need to know about the race.  A sample: Front-runner Janice Hahn, a Democr...

  • July 9, 2011

    Holder's Justice Department bullying banks

    A cadre of racialists bent on achieving social justice via reparations from banks to minority communities has been installed by Eric Holder in the Department of Justice. They are using legal bullying tactics to intimidate banks into once again loanin...

  • July 8, 2011

    New unemployment numbers up

    New unemployment numbers were just released, and unemployment went up from 9.1% in May to 9.2% in June.  This puts the lie to Obama administration claims we are in a "recovery."  That seems an inappropriate label for a situation in whi...

  • July 6, 2011

    New study shows lowering salt intake doesn't help

    Say it loud, say it proud: please pass the salt.  All those people hectoring me all those years to cut back on salt have been pushing phony advice, according to a major new study. Sophie Borland in the UK Daily Mail: Research involving nearly 6...

  • July 5, 2011

    A lost era loses its last human thread

    The news is obscure in the United States, but a milestone passed yesterday, with the death of Otto Habsburg-Lothringen, a man most people have never heard of. OHL, you see, when he was born in 1912, was the eldest son of the Emperor of the Austro-Hun...

  • July 5, 2011

    Thaddeus McCotter explains 'how to speak Democrat'

    Maybe his fundraising base is not to be compared to Mitt Romney, and maybe he has never held an executive office, but Thaddeus McCotter has certain talents that commend him as a member of the GOP 2012 field. Alinsky taught President Obama and the res...

  • July 5, 2011

    Casey Anthony found not guilty; TV talking heads found guilty

    I have paid as little attention as possible to the sad, sordid murder trial of a young mother with a lurid indifference to her daughter's death.  Too depressing.  But now that the woman has beaten the charges against her, convicted solely o...

  • July 3, 2011

    An inconvenient Justice

    It is dawning on the Left that their messiah is turning into a Pied Piper, and some among them are scared that a conservative successor to President Obama would appoint too many Supreme Court justices.  Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is 78 and a co...

  • July 1, 2011

    Wisconsin union reforms an early success

    Wisconsin unions and their Democrat lackeys, who fought union contracting reform noisily and ferociously,  and who predicted doom, now look like knaves.  The reforms already have saved jobs, saved money, and improved education.  Taking...

  • July 1, 2011

    Excitement accompanies news Thaddeus McCotter will run for president

    Not too many people are excited about the news that Thaddeus McCotter revealed this morning on radio station WJR in Detroit he will be filing papers for his candidacy for President.   But I am. Seriously. At least a little. The GOP needs hi...

  • June 30, 2011

    Rick Perry calls out Eric Holder on Gaza Flotilla

    Texas Governor Rick Perry is looking a little like a presidential campaigner, challenging Attorney General Eric Holder to enforce the law against US citizens who plan to participate in the Gaza Flotilla. Noting that their "naval expedition"...

  • June 29, 2011

    Unions 'off Target' at Apple, too

    The union movement in the United States is declining in popularity, as Americans see them responsible for the sending formerly great corporations into decline and bankruptcy, in a short sighted grab for money and restrictive work rules that hobble co...

  • June 29, 2011

    Obama's Afghan troop withdrawal not among options presented by his generals

    Yesterday in testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee, Lt. General John Allen, slated to be the new top commander in  Afghanistan, contradicted an (anonymous) administration spokesman, and stated under direct questioning that the tro...

  • June 28, 2011

    Big money fundraising getting harder for Obama campaign

    President Obama appears to be botching his campaign fundraising almost as badly as he is screwing up the economy. It was mind-bogglingly stupid to announce a plan to raise a billion dollars for his re-election. This was a potent signal that he would ...

  • June 28, 2011

    North Korean Army reportedly going hungry

    Heartbreaking new video has been smuggled out of North Korea, where mass starvation has reappeared, even affecting the army.  A magazine called Rimjin Gang (using the name ASIAPRESS in English), headed by Jiro Ishimura, is devoted to smuggling i...

  • June 28, 2011

    Time Magazine's Buffoonery Exposed

    Let's face the ugly truth: there is a movement in this country to diminish the weight of the United States Constitution, the very basis of our liberties and the most successful framework of governance int he history of mankind. It stands in the way o...

  • June 27, 2011

    Medical secret police calling doctors

    The federal government is conducting a stealth survey, calling up doctors and lying to them, seeking a way to catch doctors turning down Medicare and Medicaid patients, now that ObamaCare will be vastly expanding the number of people seeking treatmen...

  • June 27, 2011

    Blago found guilty on 17 counts

    Former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevitch has been found guilty on 17 counts of corruption, including seeking to sell Barack Obama's former Senate seat. The governor faces a sentence potentially decades in length. US Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald manag...

  • June 26, 2011

    Media deep thinkers grapple with the rise of the internet

    Nearly everyone reading American Thinker understands how the internet has reshaped journalism, but the denizens of what remains of the journalistic establishment are only very slowly beginning to catch on.  Their baby steps are actually quite am...

  • June 25, 2011

    Netherlands abandoning multiculturalism

    In a landmark turnabout, one of the cornerstones of contemporary liberalism is being rejected by one of the fountainheads of liberalism.  The politically correct doctrine of multiculturalism is heading for decline, as Holland, one of the most so...

  • June 24, 2011

    Minimum wage madness exposed

    A real life experiment has revealed the madness of raising the minimum wage. One of the tenets of brain dead liberalism is that raising the minimum wage benefits workers.  In the imaginary world of liberals, government edicts make the world run,...

  • June 24, 2011

    'Settled science' chronicles

    There is no such thing as "settled science." All scientific theories are subject to testing and falsification by new data and theories. The latest example: static electricity. Devin  Powell writes in Science News: A balloon rubbed against the he...

  • June 23, 2011

    Obama's troop withdrawal speech: when politics trumps victory

    President Obama's speech to the nation last night, announcing the withdrawal of the surge troops he sent into Afghanistan by September, 2012, was transparently political. The deadline has nothing to do with military strategy, for it comes in the mids...

  • June 22, 2011

    Obama's speech tonight to announce beginning troop withdrawal from Afghanistan

    President Obama will address the nation tonight, and according to leaks in the press will announce the withdrawal of 5,000 or 10,000, or some other number of troops from Afghanistan. In doing so, he is reportedly ignoring the advice of his top milita...

  • June 22, 2011

    President 'words matter' Obama's doubletalk on Israel

    Rick Richman nails President Obama's "confusing" (a word he uses to be polite) and contradictory positions on Israel at Jewish Current Issues. President Obamaspeaks about "the President's speech" as a basis for new negotiations, which speech does it...

  • June 22, 2011

    Medicare Trustees Confirm Democrats' Medicare Plan Would Result in 'Actual' 17% Medicare Cut

    Further confirmation came today that the GOP must play offense on Medicare, rather than getting trapped into defending the Ryan budget. The status quo is not an option. In testimony before the House Ways and Means Committee today, two Medicare Truste...

  • June 22, 2011

    Watching the Charity Regulators

    The nonprofit sector the American economy is big and important, and, regrettably, many nonprofits are dominated by liberals. It is also a sector that is highly regulated at both the state and federal levels. The character -- and expense -- of charity...

  • June 21, 2011

    Spot the idiots

    We are fortunate to live in an era in which the pompous so readily identify themselves for mockery by the rest of us. The single most common form of such self-revelation is an attack on Sarah Palin's alleged stupidity. The latest blowhard to reveal h...

  • June 21, 2011

    Obama's foreign policy: where's the credibility?

    President Obama has made consensus the cornerstone of his foreign policy decisions, and that is a huge mistake. What America needs is credibility in our promises and threats. That is the message of the Wall Street Journal's Bret Stephens in an import...

  • June 20, 2011

    NBC edits out 'under God' from the Pledge (twice)

    (update: NBC has apologized, but doesn't mention the words "under God") The agenda-driven NBC Television Network just can't help itself. Even in sports programming. At the start of its 2011 US Open coverage, it edited out the words "under God" from t...

  • June 20, 2011

    SCOTUS throws out massive class action sex discrimination case

    Unanimously overruling the San Francisco-based 9th District Court, the Supreme Court threw out a massive class action sex discrimination case against Walmart. The key issue was whether the one and a half million women hired by Walmart, or who were no...

  • June 18, 2011

    Defiant Spanish Language lecture of Texas legislators goes viral with video

    Video of the testimony of immigrant rights activist Antolin Aguirre, who chose to lecture Texas legislators in Spanish Monday, despite living in the United States for 23 years and taking naturalized citizenship in 2001, was posted on YouTube, and has...

  • June 18, 2011

    Obama's chief of staff calls economic policies 'indefensible'

    Oops! I bet William Daley is catching some heat for letting the cat out of the bag at a meeting with the National Association of Manufacturers. Matthew Boyle of the Daily Caller writes: Daley also said he didn't have any good answers for some of wha...

  • June 18, 2011

    RFK Jr: Air America 'was beating out right wing radio,' but evil corporate advertisers boycotted it

    Conspiracy theorist Robert Kennedy, Jr is one of those leftists living in an alternate universe, a man who feels entitled not just to his own opinions, but to his own facts. Utilizing the taxpayer-subsidized airwaves of PBS, he told Tavis Smiley that...

  • June 17, 2011

    California budget circus gets even more bizarre

    The nation's largest state (by population) is not only near bankruptcy, its government is doing a fine imitation of a banana republic, complete with a shoving and shouting match (video here) on the State Assembly floor Wednesday.  Last night, Go...

  • June 16, 2011

    Weiner reported to be resigning (update: he's gone)

    Update: in a Brooklyn press conference marked by heckling, Weiner bade farewell to office -- for now. He left open the door to future public service (it is a mark of the man's degradation of the public discourse that even this conventional phraase ta...

  • June 15, 2011

    AT taken down this morning by DOS attack (updated)

    American Thinker suffered a massive Denial of Service attack this morning, taking our websbite down for over three hours during peak traffic time. Thanks to the hard work of our tech consultsants (who have labored mightily over recent software upgra...

  • June 14, 2011

    GOP New Hampshire debate kept the gloves on

    There was no circular firing squad last night at St. Anselm's College in Manchester, New Hampshire, to the disappointment of many in the media who love GOP infighting.  President Obama's mishandling of the economy was the focus of criticism. Whi...

  • June 14, 2011

    Lots of empty seats at Obama Miami fundraiser

    Oh-oh! The magic is gone for the onetime rock star campaigner. It's hard to be full of hope and change with worse long term unemployment than the (first) Great Depression, and with "smart diplomacy" getting us into a war in Libya whose relationship t...

  • June 14, 2011

    Wisconsin Supreme Court upholds law limiting public employee unions

    The public employee unions lose a big one, as the high court upholds the law passed by the Republican-led legislature and signed by Governor Scott Walker. Recall that this is the law that led to 14 Democrat state senators fleeing the state, and to ra...

  • June 13, 2011

    Reports: Obama pressuring Netanyahu on negotiations based on '67 borders

    Israel National Radio and left-leaning newspaper Haaretz are both reporting that President Obama is pressuring Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu to commence negotiations with the Palestinians, using the 1967 borders as the basis.  Barak Ravid of ...

  • June 12, 2011

    NYT editor: 'This is not a witch hunt'

    In a statement eerily reminiscent of Richard Nixon's "I am not a crook" moment, New York Times assistant managing editor Jim Roberts denies the obvious truth of the media frenzy to find something with which to beat up a former vice presidential candi...

  • June 11, 2011

    Are the Mainstream Media Enameling Sarah Palin With Teflon®?

    The media feeding frenzy over 24,000 emails pertaining to Sarah Palin's governorship in Alaska is already redounding to her benefit, while further eroding the vestiges of credibility once enjoyed by the shrunken giants of American journalism, includi...

  • June 10, 2011

    Palestinians change bargaining stance

    Thanks, President Obama!  The Palestinians understand that you gave them a huge gift, and are taking advantage of it. No matter how much spin the president and his Democrat supporters put out, the State Department speech in which Barack Obama c...

  • June 10, 2011

    European E-coli outbreak traced to organic farm

    According to Der Spiegel, German authorities have traced the lethal outbreak of e-coli to a single organic farm in Germany: Health authorities in Germany have finally been able to show that the pathogens which caused the deadly EHEC outbreak came fr...

  • June 9, 2011

    Maxine Waters ethics probe being stalled

    California Democrat Rep. Maxine Waters was supposed to be on trial last November for abuse of power before the House Ethics Committee (the very same body Nancy Pelosi wants to investigate Rep. Weiner), but that trial has been postponed indefinitely. ...

  • June 9, 2011

    Newt's senior staff bail out

    The most important members of Newt Gingrich's presidential campaign have resigned today. Via Politico, the departed include: campaign manager Rob Johnson, strategists Sam Dawson and Dave Carney, spokesman Rick Tyler, and consultants Katon Dawson in ...

  • June 7, 2011

    Slave masters, real and imagined

    One of the fantasies we see in public statements by certain prominent blacks is that their opponents constitute a new version of slave masters. Black NFL player Adrian Peterson, a man earning millions of dollars a year, compared the situation of his ...

  • June 7, 2011

    New Civility Chronicles (continued)

    A TV star vows to assassinate Sarah Palin if she is elected president. Remember that brief moment when progressives huffed and puffed about how awful it was to use a bulls-eye on a map of electoral districts in play? When they decried the right for i...

  • June 6, 2011

    Weinergate not petering out (updated - new pictures)

    It's been a tough 10 days for Rep. Anthony Weiner, his only hope for redemption being that the media and the public would get tired of the story. But if his  nemesis Andrew Breitbart is correct, this week is going to be even worse. A new woman h...

  • June 6, 2011

    Wasserman Schultz watch: Dim bulb Debbie is at it again (updated)

    The loose cannon DNC Chair is at it again,  mouthing stupidities. Via JournOlister Ben Smith of Politico: ...now you have the Republicans, who want to literally drag us all the way back to Jim Crow laws and literally - and very tr...

  • June 6, 2011

    Weiner: 'I haven't told the truth'

    Speaking to the press assembled at a Sheraton hotel in New York City, Anthony Weiner admitted he did send the notorious crotch photo to a Seattle coed published by Andrew Breitbart.  "I haven't told the truth," he averred. "I deeply regret ...

  • June 5, 2011

    Wasserman Schultz looking ridiculous again

    Rick Moran calls the DNC chair the "gift that keeps on giving" and he keeps being proven correct by the DNC cahir. The latest example unites the annoying, hypocritical, not-nearly-as-smart-as-she-thinks Congresswoman with her House Democratic colleag...

  • June 3, 2011

    China's 'blue army' just warming up with cyber-attacks

    The latest example of China's cyberwar against the USA, hacking into Gmail accounts of senior US officials, is a warning sign of much worse to come. Make no mistake, China wants to dethrone the United States from its dominant position in the world, a...

  • June 3, 2011

    Obama camp knows he has a problem with Jewish voters

    President Obama's gut-level identification with the Palestinians has become obvious to voters, including many habitual Democrat supporters in the Jewish community. Billionaire big donor Haim Saban very publicly announced he will no longer contribute ...

  • June 2, 2011

    Newspaper death throes (continued)

    And the hits keep on coming. The latest newspaper to take extreme measures is the Austin American-Statesman, which is offering nearly one quarter of its employees voluntary buyout offers. "Austin American-Statesman Publisher Jane Williams on Wednesda...

  • June 2, 2011

    The Jewish video Obama doesn't want on the web

    Mysteriously, the Office of the President has requested that a video of a Jewish singing group performing at the White House be removed from the web. Matzav.com reports: Matzav.com, in the Featured Video section, recently presented a video ...

  • June 1, 2011

    Muslim man gets sexual assault sentence reduced because of 'culture shock'

    The old argument that "she was asking for it" has resurfaced in multicultural guise. Where are all the feminists?  This shocking report from Melbourne, Australia tells the tale of a Libyan student recently arrived in Australia as a scholarship s...

  • June 1, 2011

    Anthony Weiner 'can't say with certitude' that the picture isn't him

    Has Anthony Weiner taken so many pictures of his tumescent crotch that he can't remember them all?  That would seem to be the implication of his statement to NBC today.  Stephanie Condon of CBS reports: Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) said tod...

  • May 31, 2011

    American Thinker upgrades its publishing software today

    Beginning at noon EDT, American Thinker will be switching to an upgraded publishing platform. Although the look of our site will stay the same, behind the scenes, there will be considerable work going on. It is possible that readers will experience a...

  • May 31, 2011

    Weinergate: Distasteful, but now a public issue

    Many readers already know that late last week, a twitter account belonging to Democratic Rep. Anthony Weiner sent out a picture of a man's underwear showing a tumescent male member, normally the type of distasteful story we would prefer to ignore. Ho...

  • May 31, 2011

    Students suspended for wearing white T-shirts

    Is wearing a plain white T-shirt a sign of membership in a white supremacist group? Apparently so, at least according to a government school principal in Soquel, California (a suburb of PC Central Santa Cruz). A local television station covered the s...

  • May 31, 2011

    Honoring our military heroes by playing golf

    The American media have ignored the story, but President Obama, fresh off his gum-chewing appearance at the Joplin victims memorial service continued his pattern of treating solemn occasions lightly by playing his 70th round of presidential golf whil...

  • May 31, 2011

    Weiner speaks to press, makes himself look guilty of something

    Why is Rep. Anthony Weiner acting like someone who has something to hide, if he is claiming to be innocent of any misbehavior in Weinergate? He appeared today before a gaggle of reporters and cameras, but declined to answer any meaningful questions, ...

  • May 30, 2011

    Obama chews gum at Joplin memorial service (updated)

    Unbelievably, President Barack Obama sat in public chewing gum at the memorial service for victims of the Joplin tornado. Right there in the front row. Watch the video below and see.Is it nicotine gum? That is the most plausible explanation for this ...

  • May 28, 2011

    'Slut': What's in a name?

    I love it when media leftists make themselves look ridiculous defending their own, caught in misbehavior. The latest example, CNN's Randi Kaye, actually defending Ed Schultz's vile slander of Laura Ingraham as a "slut." She actually defende...

  • May 28, 2011

    The decline and fall of newspapers, continued

    The Miami Herald, owned by McClatchy, has announced the sale of its landmark Biscayne bayfront newspaper offices and printing plant to a Malaysia-based resort and gambling conglomerate, Genting Malaysia Berhad, which operates resorts and casinos worl...

  • May 26, 2011

    EPA Administrator confirms no water contamination from fracking

    It is close to an article of faith on the left that any hydrocarbon-based source of energy must cause severe pollution problems. The extraordinary benefits to America from cheap natural gas released by the fracking technique have been fought with gin...

  • May 26, 2011

    SCOTUS backs Arizona immigration law

    The Supreme Court has now validated at least some state involvement in immigration enforcement, upholding Arizona's law that suspends the business license of a company that knowingly and willfully hires illegal aliens. The United States Chamber of Co...

  • May 25, 2011

    Guilty until proven innocent of unspecified acts

    The Conservative government of UK Prime Minister Cameron has just reaffirmed in Orwellian language the decision of its Labour predecessor to ban radio talk show host Michael Savage from the UK, as a threat to public order. World Net Daily reports:As ...

  • May 25, 2011

    Obama dumped by big Dem donor (updated)

    Haim Saban, a billionaire Israeli-American donor to the Democrats has announced he won't be donating to President Obama's re-election effort.  Michelle Caruso-Cabrera of CNBC reports: The most prominent Israeli-American business leader in the U...

  • May 23, 2011

    Pakistan grants China a naval base near Persian Gulf entrance

    China is moving a big step closer to global military power with the news that Pakistan is permitting the Middle Kingdom to build a naval base at Gwadar, on the Arabian Sea, close to the Strait of Hormuz and the Persian Gulf. Exactly as predicted on t...

  • May 23, 2011

    Obama's limo 'bottoms out' in Dublin

    In a richly symbolic embarrassment, Barack Obama's armored limousine, nicknamed "the Beast," got stuck on a ramp coming out of the underground parking garage at the US Embassy in Dublin.  Many wags have suggested that Michelle Obama be...

  • May 19, 2011

    Report: Obama to call for Egypt debt forgiveness today

    According to Josh Gerstein of Politico, President Obama's much-hyped speech today at the State Department regarding the Middle East will include praise for the Arab Spring and a call for debt forgiveness to provide  "cash flow relief" ...

  • May 19, 2011

    GOP establishment darling Mitch Daniels wants to avoid wedge issues

    Conservatives suspicious of the GOP establishment's tendency to foist wishy-washy candidates on the party, and wary of Mitch Daniels as another John McCain, have had their doubts vindicated. The GOP establishment is begging Mitch Daniels to run for p...

  • May 18, 2011

    Quick: name the president who's shown contempt for the War Powers Act

    Remember when the campaigning Barack Obama solemnly pledged to end indiscriminate warmaking?  Remember when Democrats and their media lickspittles reviled George W. Bush's imperial military adventures as illegal wars. That all seems like distant...

  • May 17, 2011

    Report: Iran building missile base in Venezuela

    German newspaper Die Welt reports that Iran is constructing an intermediate range  missile base on Venezuela's Paraguaná Peninsula, and that engineers from  the  Khatam al-Anbia consstruction firm,  owned by the Revolutiona...

  • May 17, 2011

    Another Senate seat becomes likely GOP pickup

    Last Friday, Wisconsin Democrat Herb Kohl (of the Kohl's Department Store fortune) announced he is retiring from the Senate, and will not run for re-election in 2012. Richard Baehr notes that he has had health problems, but was likely to have been re...

  • May 13, 2011

    The European Union suffers another body blow

    One of the crowning achievements of the European Union was the elimination of passport controls when crossing national borders within the Union itself, making the EU analogous to the United States in terms of ease of travel.  Yesterday, that edi...

  • May 12, 2011

    Turkey's PM Erdogan: Hamas is not a terror group

    NATO-member Turkey, which came close to gaining membership in the EU, is accelerating its slide into Islamism. Its  Prime Minister  Recep Tayyip Erdogan last night told PBS's Charlie Rose Show:"Let me give you a very clear message, I d...

  • May 12, 2011

    Harvard grapples with rejection

    Harvard is far more accustomed to giving rather than receiving rejection. But in the wake of the devastating electoral rejection of alumnus/professor Michael Ignatieff and the Canadian Liberal Party, the university community is struggling to cope. ...

  • May 11, 2011

    The California strategy for wasteful spending

    The cabal of unions, politically connected companies, bureaucrats, and Democrats that runs California has a clear strategy for continuing to spend money beyond tax revenues, enriching themselves at the expense of obligating the taxpayers to huge debt...

  • May 11, 2011

    Ireland plans pension fund grab

    Ireland plans to levy private pension funds a tax on their assets, a grab at private retirement funds, while exempting government workers' pensions from the confiscation. The Irish Times reports:PRIVATE SECTOR pension funds will be hit with a €1...

  • May 6, 2011

    The debate's big winner was Herman Cain

    If you put any credence in focus groups, this video of Frank Luntz's post debate session is worth considering:The usual disclaimers apply. It is very, very early, and one focus group does not an election make. But this cannot help but provide a huge ...

  • May 4, 2011

    The Obama bungle and dither team

    Andrew Malcolm of the Los Angeles Times has a marvelous satirical piece today exposing the incredible bungling and dithering of the Obama team in the Osama bin Laden raid. It is becoming increasingly clear that only the superb professionalism of the ...

  • May 4, 2011

    After bin Laden, the torch passes to the Muslim Brotherhood

    While gratifyingly symbolic, the death of Osama bin Laden has done little to advance our cause in the war against radical Islam. The Muslim Brotherhood, which predates AQ and has roots all over the Muslim world, is now leading the Islamist cause, and...

  • May 4, 2011

    Obama's secret teleprompter coach revealed

    Barack Obama, the purported master orator, is spending a hundred thousand dollars of our tax money on an outside consultant to help him with his teleprompter skills. Perhaps last minute coaching is the reason why Sunday night's OBL speech was delayed...

  • May 4, 2011

    The Obama Admin post-OBL bungling continues

    We warned America that Barack Obama was hideously unprepared for executive responsibilities, and now in the wake of the OBL op (conceived and implemented by military Special Ops, not by Obama pols), the stumbling has reached serious dimensions. Yeste...

  • May 3, 2011

    Did Wikileaks force the attack on Osama 18 months before the election?

    I confess to being such a cynic about Obama that when the death of Osama was announced Sunday night, the first question in my mind was, "Why so long before the election?" This is exactly he sort of event (like the financial crisis of 2008) that can s...

  • May 2, 2011

    Obama's Osama speech: once again he goes for the reverb (updated)

    When presidents address the nation without an audience, it is customary for the Commander in Chief to sit behind the Oval Office desk, speaking one-on-one, as it were, to the American people. But not President Obama, who strongly prefers a godlike re...

  • May 2, 2011

    Was Osama's burial at sea Islamically correct? (updated)

    Apparently, the United States has decided to play the respect-for-Islam card with the mortal remains of Osama bin Laden. The official press briefing by an unnamed senior US Official claims: "We are ensuring that it is handled in accordance with ...

  • May 2, 2011

    Now Can We Stop Condemning Israel for Targeted Assasinations?

    Michael Rubin asks the important question, at Commentary Contentions.   Perhaps it is time for Americans, Europeans, and their media elite to reexamine their most glaring double standards: If Americans can kill a master terrorist targeting ...

  • May 2, 2011

    Privatize Social Security - A necessary step to restore fiscal health to America

    A must-read article appeared over the weekend in Investor's Business Daily, demonstrating the incredible success of social security privatization in Chile thirty years ago Sunday. The author, Monica Showalter (full disclosure: a friend of mine), inte...

  • May 2, 2011

    Was there a deal to pull out of Afghanistan for getting OBL?

    A friend in the intelligence community (let's call him Harry the Spook) has an interesting theory.  He writes:As Petraeus' tendency is to wheel and deal instead of fight, I think he and the Paks cut a deal: Pak offers up OBL (remember, Pak is a ...

  • April 29, 2011

    Harvard and State Department colluded to get rid of Obama's father

    Barack Hussein Obama Senior was forced to leave Harvard in 1964, prior to the completion of his doctoral thesis, according to documents released under the Freedom of Information Act.  Jack Cashill comments today on what they tell us about t...

  • April 28, 2011

    Obama's long form COLB may be 'fake but accurate'

    The document released yesterday by the White House has been demonstrated to have been electronically compiled -- in other words digitally altered. There are "layers" buried within the code, indicating that it is not a simple copy of a real ...

  • April 28, 2011

    2009 Report: Hawaii Health Department went paperless, discarded documents

    In the words of Lewis Carroll, it gets curioser and curiouser. According to this report, back when Lou Dobbs (then a CNN host) began to raise questions about Obama's birth, CNN president Jon Klein had his researchers contact the Hawaii Department of ...

  • April 27, 2011

    Obama releases his long form birth certificate

    Evidently concerned over the foothold Donald Trump has obtained, and the polls which show a substantial number of independents have doubts about his birth, President Obama this morning released his long form birth certificate.The certificate is ident...

  • April 27, 2011

    Nader calls for primary challengers to Obama

    Discontent on the left with President Obama is finally moving toward some form of primary challenge. Jennifer Epstein of Politico writes:Nader told POLITICO on Wednesday that he is working on bringing together about half a dozen presidential candidat...

  • April 26, 2011

    Trump takes up Obama's grades and affirmative action

    In an interview with AP, Donald Trump raises the issue of Barack Obama's undergraduate grades and his admission to 2 Ivy League schools -- Columbia University and Harvard Law. Trump avers that Obama wasn't merely an OK student, he was "terrible,...

  • April 25, 2011

    French police threaten to strike over ban on drinking on duty

    Public employee unions claim all sorts of benefits for their members, but in France they take matters a bit further. The UK Daily Mirror reports:FRANCE'S notoriously tough riot police are threatening to go on strike - over a ban on drinking alcohol o...

  • April 23, 2011

    Koran-burning transit worker re-hired, receiving monetary damages

    Derek Fenton, the New Jersey Transit worker who was fired after he burned a Koran, has been ordered re-hired, paid back wages, with a $25,000 solatium payment from the public agency. Larry McShane of the New York Daily News reports:Fenton, a train co...

  • April 22, 2011

    'Earth Day co-founder killed, composted girlfriend'

    That's the hilarious (and accurate) headline on a story today from MSNBC, of all places. And it's true. For those who don't remember:Ira Einhorn was on stage hosting the first Earth Day event at the Fairmount Park in Philadelphia on April 22, 1970. S...

  • April 21, 2011

    EPA: Let's Rap About Climate Change

    When government bureaucrats try to be hip to appeal to the youth demographic, disaster awaits. Consider this:If you ever wanted evidence that the people who think they ought to be regulating our lives overestimate their own wisdom, this waste of taxp...

  • April 21, 2011

    Outing Obama's Bay Area fundraiser fat cats

    The irrepressible blogger known as Zombie managed to publish the names of the 85 guests who attended the fat cat fundraiser ($35,800 a head) the Commander-in-Chief threw last night in San Francisco at the home of  billionaire Marc Benioff. To me...

  • April 19, 2011

    Leading warmist admits he was bamboozled by fear-mongers - on nuclear power

    The original moonbat, GeorgeMonbiot, columnist for the left wing UK Guardian, now admits that he was bamboozled by fearmongers whipping up anti-nuclear fears.Over the last fortnight I've made a deeply troubling discovery. The anti-nuclear movement to...

  • April 18, 2011

    S&P downgrades entire nation's financial health

    Regardless of happy talk from the Obamacrats, sober minds in the world financial community recognize that the US is following a suicidal economic plan. The latest sign comes from Standard and Poor's, the bond rating agency. CNBC reports:Standard ...

  • April 15, 2011

    Obama's 16 tons

    The inimitable Iowahawk has done it again, bringing home the real extent of the debt Obama is foisting upon us. The following video is sheer genius, not least because of its use of Tennessee Ernie Ford's classic song about the working stiff lured int...

  • April 13, 2011

    Community Service Block Grants spared much pain in 2011 budget deal

    The devil is in the details when it comes to the budget deal hammered out last Friday night. Philantrophy.com reports:The program that President Obama singled out in his State of the Union address for a deep spending cut-Community Services Block...

  • April 11, 2011

    'Easter eggs' reportedly renamed 'spring spheres' at Seattle public school

    The educrats strike again, and make themselves look ridiculous again, according to a 16 year old student identified only as Jessica, who volunteered to do a project at a local elementary school, supplying plastic eggs filled with jellybeans.  Fr...

  • April 11, 2011

    Warmists strike out in attempt to stifle criticism

    The humiliation of the University of East Anglia, home of "hide the decline" global warmist Phil Jones, deepens, as its attempt to suppress criticism has come up a cropper. Lawrence Soloman, writing in the Financial Post, explains:James Del...

  • April 9, 2011

    The GOP did just fine

    There is more good in the budget deal than is revealed in the budget cut number agreed on last night. Measured against the size of budget cutting necessary for the future, the numbers are small, to be sure, but this number was a tactical, not a strat...

  • April 7, 2011

    Obama's 'Let them eat cake' moment deep sixed by media

    As gasoline prices soar, while domestic oil production struggles under regulatory and permitting burdens imposed by the Obama administration,  the American public is suffering, and so are Obama's reelection prospects. The sad fact is that Obama ...

  • April 7, 2011

    Treasury Dept official appears to cross a line

    Blogger Don Quixote, who writes for Bookworm Room, quotes an email from a Treasury Department official to employees that appears to cross a serious line:... an e-mail today from the Dan Tangherlini, Assistant Secretary for Management, Chief Financial...

  • April 7, 2011

    Prosser ahead in Wisconsin Supreme Court race

    Expect howls of outrage from the Democrats, and an effort to dig up new votes for Kloppenburg. From the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel:In a political bombshell, the clerk in a Republican stronghold is set to release new vote totals giving 8,000 votes in ...

  • April 5, 2011

    Obama's bizarrely discouraging pep talk

    Is President Obama depressed about his re-election prospects? It would appear so, based on a truly weird phone call made to grassroots activists. He began the pep talk by stating,"I'm fired up, I don't know about everyone else."Huh?  D...

  • April 4, 2011

    The Bookworm Turns

    Many readers of American Thinker are familiar with the work of Bookworm, who has contributed many articles here, and whose blog Bookworm Room is a steady source of insightful commentary. A thoughtful conservative trapped in deep blue Marin County, Ca...

  • April 4, 2011

    Ryan Budget Forces Dems' Hands

    Rep. Paul Ryan has released his deficit reduction plan, to screams of outrage from the usual suspects on the left. "The Path to Prosperity," as the document is called,  is full of specifics on cutting six trillion dollars from Obama's ...

  • April 3, 2011

    Bitter irony of socialized medicine

    A former director of Britain's National Health Service, which runs the country's socialized medicine system, has died while waiting 9 months for an operation. The UK Daily Mail reports:A former NHS director died after waiting for nine months for an o...

  • April 1, 2011

    Farrakhan got $8 million from Gaddafi

    Louis Farrakhan, head of the Nation of Islam (respectfully referred to as "Minister Farrakhan" by our president), is defending Gaddafi -- and received $8 million dollars from the Libyan dictator. Mary Mitchell of the Chicago Sun-Times repor...

  • March 31, 2011

    Obama administration chaos over 'boots on the ground' in Libya

    Testifying before Congress this morning, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates claimed that the United States would put no military "boots on the ground" in Libya, only hours after the New York Times revealed that President Obama had signe...

  • March 30, 2011

    Medicaid for non-American non-immigrants?

    Liberals just love spending tax money taken from you, and call it "compassion." The latest example is a proposal by Hawaii Congresswoman Mazie Hirono to add Medicaid coverage for Pacific Islanders whose nations voluntarily made the decision...

  • March 30, 2011

    Trump birth certificate: asked and answered

    Media efforts to ridicule Donald Trump's questions about President Obama's birth certificate have backfired. JournOlist member Ben Smith of Politico ridiculed Trump's release of the birth certificate issued by the hospital where he was born:The paper...

  • March 28, 2011

    The energy superpower

    According to the Congressional Research Service, which nation has the largest energy reserves of all? Surprise! It is the United States. Peter C. Glover of the Energy Tribune writes:In case anyone missed it, let me repeat something that is of a magni...

  • March 28, 2011

    Robots MIA in Fukushima

    Almost a week ago, I asked, "Where are the robots?" to deal with the nuclear crisis in Fukushima. Brian Vastag of the Washington Post has done some reporting, and discovered they are in Europe:Inside a nondescript warehouse south of Mannhei...

  • March 28, 2011

    Obama's Libya speech reverb watch

    President Obama's speech to the nation on Libya  will not be an Oval Office address in which the Leader of the Free World calmly explains why we are engaging a kinetic military action, what our objectives are, and our exit strategy. The address ...

  • March 22, 2011

    The Fall of the House of TEPCO

    Every good drama needs its villain, and in the nuclear crisis afflicting Japan that role has been filled by Tokyo Electric Power, aka TEPCO. The once-proud firm has let down its neighbors, customers, regulators, employees, shareholders, and the gener...

  • March 22, 2011

    Obama praises Chile's policies that he won't permit for us

    Monday, President Obama was gushing with praise for Chile's reforms, which are exactly the things he blocks from happening in the US.  If Chile's reforms are so good, why isn't he encouraging them in America, too? Things like privatizing social ...

  • March 22, 2011

    Playing taxpayers for suckers

    One of numerous ways taxpayers are being ripped off by public employees is through phony "retirement" schemes that enable the employee to collect a fat pension in addition to continuing to work and receive salary and benefits. The "ret...

  • March 21, 2011

    Your tax dollars funding a second left wing radio network: the BBC

    As Republicans try to defund NPR, the Obama administration laughs in the face of critics and sends US taxpayer moneys to fund Britain's left wing BBC. Ben Dowell of the UK Guardian writes:The BBC World Service is to receive a "signific...

  • March 20, 2011

    'This case will proceed under Ecclesiastical Islamic Law'

    "This case will proceed under Ecclesiastical Islamic Law"A mind-boggling court order from Judge Richard A. Nielsen, of Hillsborough County (Tampa) Florida. Read the whole court order, via Jihad Watch.Oklahoma voters passed a law barring the...

  • March 19, 2011

    IPCC guru was a student when writing 'authoritative' reports

    The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, whose reports have motivated governmental action to cut carbon emissions, relied on an uncredentialed student named Sari Kovats for writing and supervising its supposedly authoritative reports.  Don...

  • March 16, 2011

    Miami-Dade voters recall big-spending mayor by 9 to 1 margin

    In a stunning recall election Tuesday, Miami-Dade voters recalled mayor Carlos Alvarez by a 9 to 1 margin. The mayor had pushed for a property tax hike and labor contracts with pay hikes for most county employees. Matthew Braggman and Martha Branniga...

  • March 15, 2011

    Why The Japanese Aren't Looting

    Foreign observers are noting with curiosity and wonder that the Japanese people in disaster-plagued areas are not looting for desperately-needed supplies like bottled water. This behavior contrasts sharply with what has so often happened in the ...

  • March 12, 2011

    Japan's Third Disaster

    Disaster has come in threes to Japan. Earthquakes, tsunami, and the Fukushima nuclear power plant explosion. The crisis there may get worse, but it is already bad, and will have a huge impact on Japan's future, even if the feared meltdown never takes...

  • March 11, 2011

    Japan hit by 8.9 earthquake

    An unknown number of people have been killed, and tsunami damage is extensive in the wake of a huge offshore earthquake striking Japan in mid-afternoon, local time, Friday.  Dramatic pictures are reaching American television of damage from the r...

  • March 9, 2011

    NPR President Resigns

    NPR's own news blog has just posted the announcement that its president Vivian Schiller has reigned:NPR just sent this statement from NPR Board of Directors Chairman Dave Edwards to its staff and member stations:"It is with deep regret that I te...

  • March 9, 2011

    Wisconsin limits collective bargaining rights for gov workers

    The Wisconsin state senate has passed legislation limiting collective bargaining for state employees. This was accomplished via legislation that did not involve fiscal matters, thus lowering the threshold for a quorum. The remainder of the current di...

  • March 5, 2011

    Where have the civility police gone?

    When the left loses, it goes thuggish. The latest example comes from Ohio's state capital, in the wake of passage of a bill limiting public employee union collective bargaining. From Jim Seagal and Kathy Gray of the Columbus Dispatch:... police ...

  • March 4, 2011

    What's wrong with this map?

    Cliff Thier notices something odd in a map of the Middle East, offered today in an article in the Wall Street Journal.Interactive map graphic from the WSJ here.One expects this sort of thing from the Arab League, not the WSJ....

  • February 28, 2011

    Why liberals love trains

    I enjoyed riding high speed rail the years I lived in Japan. But the Obama administration's ridiculous push to bring a high speed rail network to America is suicidal. Under far more favorable conditions of population density, transit usage, and traff...

  • February 27, 2011

    Scared straight: Drugs before and after

    Young people do foolish things because they can't foresee the consequences. For this reason, it is incumbent to offer them negative examples, vividly bringing to their attention the life outcomes a certain, superficially attractive, course of action ...

  • February 23, 2011

    Fed Judge: Now the Commerce Clause covers 'mental activity'

    According to federal Judge Gladys Kessler of the DC US District Court,  the powers granted to the federal government on the Commerce Clause extend to regulating "mental activity."  Ruling on an ObamaCare challenge brought by 2 ind...

  • February 21, 2011

    Dems have boxed themselves in

    Madison is becoming an even bigger disaster for the Democrats. They have now undercut their top talking point agianst the Republicans in the budget battle.  Mark Hemingway raises a great question in the Weekly Standard:If it's so "reckless...

  • February 20, 2011

    Dedicated teachers and union teachers

    Madison, Wisconsin has been a showcase for the sort of irresponsibility fostered by teacher unions: falsely calling in sick, exploiting young students as demonstrators, and even using fraudulent doctors' notes. Meanwhile, just southeast of Madison is...

  • February 18, 2011

    Tennessee moves toward ending collective bargaining for teachers

    Democrats may soon be loading up those buses in Madison and heading their mobs toward Nashville. The Tennessee state senate Education Committee voted Wednesday to abolish collective bargaining with teachers. Tom Humphrey of Knoxnews.com reports:House...

  • February 17, 2011

    Watching Wisconsin (updated)

    As the nation watches, Wisconsin teachers and other government workers discredit themselves and indirectly make the case for GOP spending cuts at the national level. Coming in the wake of the left's civility tantrum following Tucson, demonstrations b...

  • February 14, 2011

    Obama's Egypt bungling

    Niall Ferguson has written a wonderful Newsweek cover story on how Obama blew it in Egypt. For those who are not famiuliar with his background, here is a brief bio of the academic all-star. He is not a man who can be dismissed by the left as a stupid...

  • February 13, 2011

    Obama's Middle East disaster

    Barack Obama's Middle East fumbles are clearly explained and placed in context by Niall Ferguson, whose Harvard/Oxford/Stanford credentials are difficult for ruling class elitists to ignore.  In essence, Obama is winging it (my term, not Ferguso...

  • February 12, 2011

    Joshua Goldberg, R.I.P.

    Joshua Goldberg, son of Lucianne, brother of Jonah, and husband of Chantal, died long before his time, following injuries resulting from a fall. Although he was less well-known than his mother and brother, Josh quietly edited the sites Lucianne.com, ...

  • February 12, 2011

    The Dear Leader wishes you a safe and pleasant flight

    North Korea, easily the most bizarre regime on earth, invests huge resources in erecting a facade to appear to foreigners like a normal, reasonably prosperous country. But one doesn't have to be terribly observant  to notice the small details re...

  • February 12, 2011

    Obama refers to self as 'the Gipper'

    Is nothing sacred? Real Clear Politics has the story, complete with video:President Obama recounts an anecdote about the 2004 Democratic National Convention at White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs' final press briefing:"The most challenging ...

  • February 11, 2011

    Holder's Justice Department stonewalling FOIA requests

    Add another outrage to Eric Holder's tenure as Attorney General.  J. Christian Adams reveals that there is a pattern of stonewalling Freedom of Information Act requests from conservatives, while expediting those from liberals. From Pajamas Media...

  • February 11, 2011

    Mubarak steps down

    Egypt's Vice President Suleiman has told Egyptians that President Mubarak is stepping down. ABC News reports:"My fellow citizens. In this difficult time that the country is going through, President Mohamed Hosni Mubarak has decided to relieve hi...

  • February 10, 2011

    Saudi King lays down the law to Obama on Egypt

    The Times of London has an exclusive report (subscription required) that Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah warned  President Obama not to "humiliate" Egypt's President Mubarak, Fox News (a sister company of the Times) provides some details:...

  • February 10, 2011

    Mubarak hangs in

    After hours of hints about the Egyptian President stepping down, Hosni Mubarak gave a televised speech at 10:45 PM local time, telling Egyptians he was handing over some of his duties to his vice president, but would remain in office. "I announc...

  • February 9, 2011

    Massive disapproval of Obama's handling of budget deficit

    A new Gallup poll reveals 68% of the public disapproves of President Obama's handling of the budget deficit. Building on a base of disapproval, public support for the president's handling of the budget crisis (yes, it's time to call it a crisis) is, ...

  • February 9, 2011

    Michelle Obama denies husband is dyeing hair

    Michelle Obama, who yesterday claimed that her husband has quit smoking, now claims that he doesn't dye his hair to get rid of gray. Rachel Rose Hartman of The Ticket blog writes: First Lady Michelle Obama addressed recent speculation ...

  • February 7, 2011

    Obama-O'Reilly Interview: The Big News is Obama's Graying Strategy

    The big news from the pre-Super Bowl interview of President Obama  by Bill O'Reilly is the unveling of one aspect of the 2012 re-election strategy -- Obama will be going grayPresident Obama, as usual, refused to answer substantive questions he d...

  • February 6, 2011

    Egyptian Christian Pro-Israel activist reports arrest and torture

    Egyptian pro-Israel activist Nabil Maikel Sanad (of Coptic Christian origin), reports (February 5th, 2011, 7:48 p.m. Egypt time) that he has been tortured by Egyptian Intelligence, but has been released....

  • February 5, 2011

    Singapore's Lee: 'we can integrate all religions and races except Islam'

    Lee Kuan Yew ranks as one of the most successful statesmen of the 20th century, having led Singapore to independence, and built a thriving prosperous mini-state with a world class economy, out of an ethnically diverse population. He retired as the wo...

  • February 4, 2011

    California global warming regulations voided by judge (updated)

    California's sweeping plan to institute cap and trade and regulate "greenhouse gases" has been thrown out by a San Francisco judge. SFGate.com reports:The California Air Resources Board violated state environmental law in 2008 whe...

  • February 3, 2011

    It's baaack...

    Just when you thought Obama's media image as messiah was passé, along comes Reuters with a brand new halo for the LightworkerSee it here.  Hat tip: Michael Geer, whose groans can be heard over a three state area....

  • February 2, 2011

    Valerie Jarrett's Arrogance

    It was a moment that crystallizes an important facet of the Obama crowd from Chicago: unself-conscious arrogance marinated in utter ignorance of the guardians of our liberty.  Mike Riggs of the Daily Caller reports:During an exclusive dinner hos...

  • January 31, 2011

    ObamaCare 'Must Be Declared Void' (updated)

    The lawsuit in Florida against ObamaCare's individual mandate, joined by 26 states, has resulted in a victory for the states. Federal judge Roger Vinson has issued a decision declaring the entire act "void" because of the lack of a sev...

  • January 28, 2011

    Mubarak tells cabinet to resign (updated)

    According to a report on Fox News, Hosni Mubarak has asked his government to step down. Contrary to the first report, he has not resigned himself. Here we go.I am no expert on Egypt, but it is hard to be optimistic about what lies ahead. It is possib...

  • January 27, 2011

    Abercrombie friend recants 'no birth certificate' claim

    Mike Evans, the celebrity journalist/friend of Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie who claimed the Governor told him that there was no Barack Obama birth certificate, is now claiming he "misspoke." Jana Winter of Fox News reports:Mike Evans told F...

  • January 27, 2011

    The laughable propaganda comparing Obama and Reagan

    You can tell that Barack Obama is in trouble when his minions and media lickspittles try to compare him to Ronald Reagan, whom he disparaged in the first of his two ghostwritten autobiographies. His aides had him photographed carrying around a book a...

  • January 25, 2011

    The ruins of Detroit

    No place in America better symbolizes the ruination brought by Democrats than Detroit. The city has been run by Democrats for decades, while its economic life has been in thrall to the unions, which drove up wages to unsustainable levels, ruining the...

  • January 24, 2011

    China announces its real foreign policy (updated)

    In the context of Chinese culture, the state dinner piano  tune scandal is a particularly troubling insult -- for what it has announced to the Chinese people.  Hu and China's leadership have proclaimed the contempt in which they hold Americ...

  • January 24, 2011

    Rahmbo thrown off Chicago mayoral ballot

    An Illinois appellate court panel of three judges has thrown Rahm Emanuel off the ballot for mayor of Chicago, over the residency requirement. Abdon M. Pallasch of the Chicago Sun-Times reports:An appellate panel ruled 2-1 that Emanuel did not meet t...

  • January 23, 2011

    WaPo mounts 'boycott Sarah' movement (updated)

    Like an addict vowing to give up booze or heroin, Washington Post writer Dana Milbank is organizing readers  to vow to not read about Sarah Palin for the next month. Kristinn Taylor and Andreea Shea King write in Big Journalism:The Post...

  • January 23, 2011

    Texas Gov. Perry fast tracks pre-abortion sonogram requirement

    Speaking to a pro-life rally in Austin on the anniversary of Roe v Wade yesterday, Texas Governor Rick Perry made a promise. Chuck Lindell of the Austin American-Statesman reports:Receiving the day's loudest and longest applause from thousands rallyi...

  • January 23, 2011

    How dare you publicize my call for violence? It might provoke violence against me!

    Frances Fox-Piven, the Marxist academic (she teaches at CUNY after retiring from Columbia), is complaining about death threats allegedly provoked by Glenn Beck accurately quoting her desire to see Greek-style riots (remember, there were deaths in the...

  • January 22, 2011

    Anti-Chavez demonstrations slated for Sunday in Caracas and around the world

    Tomorrow, opponents of the dictatorial regime of Hugo Chavez are gathering in Caracas and around the world for demonstrations against the regime. The demonstrations are slated for 9:30 AM EST. In Venezuela itself, there are worries of severe repressi...

  • January 22, 2011

    Shocker: pro-abortion politics gutted normal inspection of abortion horror clinic

    The Pennsylvania grand jury that indicted Dr. Kermit Gosnell for murder and infanticide for his botched abortions carried out in horrifyingly unsanitary conditions also has revealed a second scandal: Pro-abortion politics prevented normal inspection ...

  • January 21, 2011

    Obama's claim of Boeing export deal highly exaggerated

    Almost the only claim Barack Obama had to get something out of the summit and state dinner honoring Hu Jin-tao turns out to be far less than advertised. Dominic Gates, Seattle Times aerospace reporter, writes:The deal President Hu signed does not inc...

  • January 20, 2011

    Frogs bounce back, contradicting warmist doomsayers

    Just a few years ago, we were told that frogs were disappearing because of global warming. We were told that there was no further time to waste, that soon the world would be frog-bereft, so we had no choice but to limit crabon emissions or all would ...

  • January 20, 2011

    Was Obama just kidding about 'civility'?

    Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn) is refusing to apologize for his words on the House floor likening GOP opponents of ObamaCare to Goebbels, and invoking the Holocaust. So far, neither Robert Gibbs nor President Obama has commented on this obvious slap in th...

  • January 19, 2011

    Steyn at his best

    If there is another writer better at combining thought-provoking ideas with wry humor, I haven't discovered him. Mark Steyn's powers are on display in a must-read essay available in The New Criterion, discussing the decline in the civilizational will...

  • January 19, 2011

    Hawaii governor hasn't found Obama's birth certificate yet

    Neil Abercrombie, the newly elected governor of Hawaii promised to make public the original long form birth certificate of Barack Obama, to quell the controversy over the President's birth. Yesterday, in an interview with the Honolulu Star-Advertiser...

  • January 18, 2011

    Sen. Kent Conrad announces retirement

    The GOP has just been given a gift: a likely pickup of the Senate seat currently held by Senator Kent Conrad (D-ND) in 2014. Chris Cillizza of the Washington Post reports:North Dakota Democratic Sen. Kent Conrad announced today that he will...

  • January 17, 2011

    Costly 'green jobs' solar plant sued by greenies

    A costly proposed solar power plant in Ivanpah, California, touted by President Obama as a "green jobs" initiative, is being sued by environmentalists. Nichola Groom of Reuters reports:According to court papers, the non-profit Western Water...

  • January 13, 2011

    Tell us everything about yourself so we can discriminate against you

    If you think affirmative action in the United States is ridiculous discrimination in the name of equality, you ain't seen nothing yet. The United Kingdom plans to ask intrusive questions of every public employee -- "[m]illions of teachers, nurse...

  • January 13, 2011

    CAIR scrubs poster, claims 'subject to misinterpretation'

    CAIR's California chapter is removing from its website a poster showing a sinister silhouette of an old fashioned sinister detective, and carrying the words "Build a Wall of Resistance - Don't Talk to the F.B.I." Ibrahim Hooper (aka, Doug H...

  • January 12, 2011

    Hillary doubles down on Loughner as politically motivated

    Not content to have made a fool of herself by calling the clearly insane Jared Loughner an "extremist," SecState Hillary Clinton has doubled down and averred that he "acted politically." "Based on what I know, this is a crimi...

  • January 11, 2011

    Obama snubs Britain again

    Is France really our greatest ally? Barack Obama finds no ally greater, in a comment that is roiling the British:Mr Obama said: 'We don't have a stronger friend and stronger ally than Nicolas Sarkozy, and the French people.'It is true that France hel...

  • January 11, 2011

    Gun metaphors in American politics (continued)

    All the scapegoating of Sarah Palin's map and conservative rhetoric is just so much eyewash, as is becoming clear to nearly everyone except committed leftists. Consider, for example, Governor Jerry Brown's comments on the state budget, reported today...

  • January 10, 2011

    Aussie Warmist tossed under the bus

    Oops. Can't let the public know how wacko you really are.Professor Tim Flannery is one of the world's most prominent global alarmists -- as Chairman of the Copenhagen Climate Council, and 2007 recipient of the Australian of the Year award in his nati...

  • January 10, 2011

    Report: Kennedy family members killed miniseries

    The Hollywood Reporter, which broke the story that the History Channel was dropping plans to broadcast the miniseries "The Kennedys" (believed to include unflattering information long suppressed by the media) today reveals that direct press...

  • January 9, 2011

    Iranian Christians under arrest

    According to Elam Ministries, the Iranian government arrested 25 Christians on Christmas Day, and planned to detain 16 others, but was unable to locate them.One of those detained was able to make a call to friends from an unknown location on the morn...

  • January 9, 2011

    New low in exploiting Giffords shooting

    Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse comes news that a Democrat group has used the shooting of Rep. Giffords, Judge Roll, and others as a fundraising device. Warner Todd Huston reports on Big Government:An extreme, left-wing Democrat group...

  • January 9, 2011

    Dem. operative: 'They need to deftly pin this on the tea partiers'

    Politico quotes an anonymous source it identifies as a  "veteran Democratic operative":"They need to deftly pin this on the tea partiers," said the Democrat. "Just like the Clinton White House deftly pinned the Oklahoma ...

  • January 8, 2011

    History Channel pulls the plug on 'The Kennedys'

    It is hard to avoid deep suspicion that political pressure has been brought to bear on The History Channel to cancel broadcast of the multi-million dollar 8 part miniseries, "The Kennedys." An exclusive report in The Hollywood Reporter cont...

  • January 8, 2011

    The slow motion ethnic cleansing of Jews in Europe

    Muslim immigrants are being permitted to finish Hitler's grand plan to make Europe Judenrein -- ethnically cleansed of Jews. That's the inescapable conclusion when one observes what is happening in many European countries. David J. Rusin writes on Is...

  • January 8, 2011

    Congresswoman shot and recovering

    Updated substantially based on news reports:  U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) and a reported 12 others have been shot during a public event outside a supermarket in Tucson, Arizona. She is recovering from surgeryWe picked up NPR's report tha...

  • January 7, 2011

    Obama's mouthpiece forced out by his new henchman

    Toby Harnden, British journalism's gift to America (he is the Telegraph's Washington correspondent) brings refreshing candor and colorfulness to his coverage of the White House staff shake-up. The actual headline of his blog covering the departure of...

  • January 6, 2011

    Major scientific fraud uncovered

    An influential study linking childhood vaccines to autism has been exposed as a fraud, funded by lawyers hoping to sue vaccine makers. CNN reports:A now-retracted British study that linked autism to childhood vaccines was an "elaborate fraud...

  • January 6, 2011

    The perfect gift for old media journalists?

    Nostalgia just ain't what it used to be. There must be a lot of ink stained wretches out there who miss the old days of filing copy. From Etsy.com:NOTE: DUE TO OVERWHELMING DEMAND, THIS ITEM HAS A 4 WEEK LEAD TIME. SORRY FOR THE DELAY.This antique ty...

  • January 5, 2011

    NY Times has a hissy fit over GOP-run House

    Losing is tough, but some people know how to lose gracefully. Not so the New York Times, which welcomes the incoming GOP-majority House of Representatives with what can only be called a hissy fit of an editorial. Recall that only a few weeks ago we w...

  • January 5, 2011

    Manipulative cats fake illness when upset

    Everyone knows that cats and dogs, America's most popular pets, are very, very different. Dogs are loyal, truly man's best friend. Cats, on the other hand are diffident at best. Now, from veterinary research comes confirmation that cats are psycholog...

  • January 5, 2011

    San Francisco Happy Meal ban mocked by Daily Show

    The nanny state's nagging, especially that of the food police, is becoming deeply unpopular. Are you listening, Michelle Obama? The Daily Show on Comedy Central may be liberal in orientation, but it has a nose for the resentments of the younger gener...

  • January 3, 2011

    Which identical twin is black?

    The peculiar conceit that the remedy to racism involves discriminating against certain citizens in favor of others grew in the United States in the 1960s, but has metastasized globally. Brazil, which is generally regarded as the most racially interma...

  • January 2, 2011

    Hope, change, and helplessness

    The anniversary Barack Obama most dreads is approaching, providing stark evidence, even to his base, that he is way over his head when it comes to the responsibilities of governing. That anniversary, of course, is, as Toby Harnden of the UK Telegraph...

  • January 2, 2011

    Left Targets filibuster to ease way for Obama agenda

    With a new Senate coming in, the left has once again begun targeting  the Senate's filibuster rule, which in effect requires a supermajority of 60 votes to pass anything to which an impassioned minority objects. This applies to not just laws but...

  • January 2, 2011

    Sorry AP, your template is showing

    Why would a race-obsessed wire service like the Associated Press neglect to mention that New Mexico's first woman governor is a Hispanic? Obviously, because the governor is a Republican, and that just doesn't fit the template of GOP-Racist, Democrats...

  • January 1, 2011

    Canada slashes corporate tax rate to 16.5%

    American lefties typically gaze northward with envy at Canada's high taxes, socialized medicine (never mind the waiting lists and Canadians fleeing southward for quick access to technology unavailable at home), and higher-density, mass transit-depend...

  • January 1, 2011

    2010's leading state: North Dakota

    The most dynamic economy in America belongs to the state of North Dakota, aka "The Peace Garden State." The underlying reason (pardon the pun) is development of the vast Bakken shale oil deposits underway. As a result, North Dakota has the ...

  • January 1, 2011

    AT's 'blogress divas'

    Congratulations to Robin of Berkeley and Clarice Feldman, who came out (pardon the pun) number one and number two in an online poll conducted by the Gay Patriot blog. At stake was the crown of "Grande Conservative Blogress Diva, also known as th...

  • December 31, 2010

    Congress after the Kennedys

    Insufficient note has been taken of the departure of Patrick "Patches" Kennedy from Congress, making the 112th Congress the first in 66 years lacking a descendent of bootlegger and stock swindler Joseph P. Kennedy.  In his own way, Pat...

  • December 31, 2010

    Katie Couric wants a Muslim Cosby Show

    Deep thinker Katie Couric believes that "a seething hatred many people feel for all Muslims" is such a  major problem that we need a Muslim version of The Cosby Show to give Americans the warm-and-fuzzies about Islam. Ms. Couric, who l...

  • December 30, 2010

    Manmade famine in America

    It seems inconceivable, but people in America are going hungry en masse due to a famine caused by political authorities. Fresno, California is not yet a sister city of Kiev, Ukraine, but the two cities, capitals of rich agricultural regions, share a ...

  • December 29, 2010

    President Obama and Michael Vick

    President Obama seems to have stepped into quicksand with his telephone call to the owner of the Philadelphia Eagles praising the decision to hire Michael Vick. Among animal lovers (a very substantial voting bloc -- perhaps even rivaling football fan...

  • December 27, 2010

    Janet Napolitano, performance artist

    There can be no other explanation for the ever-expanding list of outrageous statements of our Secretary of Homeland Security, Janet "The system worked" Napolitano. She is some sort of postmodern performance artist, bent on illuminating the ...

  • December 24, 2010

    Seattle Transit caves on anti-Israel bus ads

    The indefatigable Pamela Geller has chalked up a victory in the Seattle Transit controversy. Also on Atlas Shrugs:King County transit issued a statement that they would be refusing the anti-Israel, anti-semitic ads. It's a bad day for nazis and ...

  • December 23, 2010

    TSA punishes pilot for criticizing its security flaws

    Behaving more like a thuggish third world dictatorship than the guardians of a democratic society, TSA agents have swooped down on a pilot who had the temerity to publicly point out flaws in the security system at San Francisco International Airport....

  • December 22, 2010

    The sinister forces behind Net Neutrality (updated)

    Behind the innocent-sounding name and expressed aims of the FCC's Net Neutrality initiative, voted in by the Commission yesterday by a 3-2 partisan vote, is a very sinister leftist agenda. John Fund of the Wall Street Journal has done excellent work ...

  • December 22, 2010

    Seattle bus ad controversy escalates

    Seattle's Metro bus agency, a public entity, set off a controversy by accepting anti-Israel advertising to run on the sides of its busses. The ads were sponsored by a group calling itself the Seattle Mideast Awareness Campaign, run by a veteran anti-...

  • December 22, 2010

    Taxpayer-subsidized solar cell maker shuts down

    So much for green jobs being the wave of the future, as promised by President Obama. Taxpayer-subsidized solar cell maker Spectra-Watt has announced it is shuttering its plant. The Poughkeepsie Journal reports:In a stunning reversal, the frequently l...

  • December 21, 2010

    Whatever happened to 'Dissent is the highest form of patriotism'?

    Remember when Democrats opposed to the war in Iraq became furious when it was pointed out that they were encouraging the enemy? Remember when Harry Reid said "This war is lost"? "How dare you challenge my patriotism?" was the cry ...

  • December 21, 2010

    Census hands big advantage to GOP

    The just-released official Census data means that Democrat-leaning states will lose congressional representation, while Republican-leaning states will gain. Sean Trende of Real Clear Politics: The apportionment winners were: Texas (4 seats), Florida ...

  • December 20, 2010

    Food supply control bill passes in surprise Sunday night vote

    Like some horror movie zombie that can't be killed, S510, the federal power grab over family farms and the entire food production system passed the Senate in an unexpected Sunday night vote. Alexander Bolton of The Hill reports:Reid's staff earlier i...

  • December 20, 2010

    Duke lacrosse rape hoaxer convicted of child abuse

    The liberal media (and 88 Duke University faculty) had no problem rushing to judgment when a stripper accused the Duke lacrosse team of rape. The university took action against the team, all on the word of this woman. DA Mike Nifong took action, igno...

  • December 18, 2010

    A royal snub for the Obamas

    Michelle Obama may be ruing the day Barry sent back the bust of Winston Churchill. The Obamas are not being invited to the royal wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton. Andrew Malcolm of the LA Times writes:... the current residents of the Whit...

  • December 18, 2010

    Dream Act nightmare fades -- for now

    The Dream Act, which would have rewarded young illegal immigrants with permanent residence and access to to citizenship, failed to receive the requisite 60 votes in the Senate today, postponing if not ending a potential nightmare. In addition to ince...

  • December 17, 2010

    McConnell throws Reid under the Omnibus

    The Tea Parties have had their first major victory, as Harry Reid pulled the pork-laden omnibus spending bill from Senate consideration, in the face of Republican opposition capable of winning at least 41 votes to sustain a filibuster. GOP senators l...

  • December 15, 2010

    Green v. Green

    I love it when holier-than-thou greenies attack one another. When the global warming scam was in its regnant phase, we saw former China Syndrome hysterics start embracing nuclear power. (Now that the con is falling apart, will nukes become evil again...

  • December 14, 2010

    ObamaCare mandate and SCOTUS

    Nearly everyone agrees that Judge Hudson's finding that the ObamaCare health insurance mandate is unconstitutional will be appealed to the Supreme Court, which will have the final say. The only question is whether the government will agree to expedit...

  • December 14, 2010

    Japan cuts corporate tax rate to spur economy

    Japan offers a lesson to President Obama and the Democrats: cut taxes on job creators to spur the economy. Japan's liberal Prime Minister Naoto Kan has announced his decision to cut Japan's corporate tax rate -- currently the highest in the world -- ...

  • December 14, 2010

    The good life on 36 weeks a year of work

    Champion News has just published data on the top teacher salaries in Illinois, making it clear that unionization has enabled a massive raid on the taxpayers' funds. Teaching can be a noble profession, but many of these teachers are cleaning up like b...

  • December 13, 2010

    Bill Takes the Podium

    The mind continues to reel over Friday's bizarre and historic White House Press Room performance, marking a milestone in the presidency. President Barack Obama's descent into ineffectuality, his minimal work ethic, and the phoniness of his reputation...

  • December 13, 2010

    ObamaCare mandate found unconstitutional by federal judge

    Federal Judge Henry Hudson has found parts of ObamaCare unconstitutional. Professor William Jacobson of Legal Insurrection highlights the principal elements of the decision. He based his opinion on the individual mandate to purchase health insurance,...

  • December 12, 2010

    Another Democrat defection

    A Texas state legislator has announced he is leaving the Democratic Party, and a colleague is likely to follow suit, giving the GOP a two thirds majority, and the ability to pass constitutional amendments, and tap the state's rainy day fund without a...

  • December 10, 2010

    Court to rule on ObamaCare constitutionality Monday

    A decision on Virginia's challenge to the constitutionality of ObamaCare's mandating of individual health insurance purchases is set to be announced Monday. The decision by the Eastern District Court of Virginia could potentially invalidate major por...

  • December 9, 2010

    Pelosi's latest embarrassment: compares illegals to Founders

    Is there no limit to this woman's chutzpah? In praise of the DREAM Act, allowing those who violated our immigration laws to attain citizenship, the San Francisco leftist invokes the Founders. Via RCP:In coming here, these new comers, from that time a...

  • December 9, 2010

    WikiLeaks vindicates Bush

    President George W. Bush was subjected to one of the most vicious smear campaigns in history, based on the false assertion that he lied about Saddam Hussein pursuing weapons of mass destruction as a justification for the Iraq War. WikiLeaks documents...

  • December 9, 2010

    House Dems reject Obama's tax plan

    Left wing Democrats in the House of representatives have decided to raise everyone's taxes January 1st because President Obama's compromise "framework" doesn't punish higher income earners with tax increases. This is as clear a demonstratio...

  • December 7, 2010

    Obama's Tax Triangulation

    Channeling Dick Morris, President Obama last night announced his compromise deal with Republicans on the expiration of the Bush tax rates, caving in on a 2 year extension of income tax rates, a 35% estate tax rate with a $5 million exemption, and a 2...

  • December 6, 2010

    Hillary's Long Goodbye

    For the moment I am still consigning the rash of stories writing Hillary Clinton's political obituary to the too-good-to-be-true file. Yes, the Secretary of State has openly stated that Secretary of State will be her "last public position."...

  • December 5, 2010

    Dems' class warfare theater a flop in the Senate

    As the nation agonizes with high unemployment, the lame duck Senate Democrats play class warfare games. Yesterday, in an unusual Saturday session, the  Senate refused to go along with a scheme to target tax hikes on employers -- economic insanit...

  • December 2, 2010

    S510 Food Power Grab May be Stymied

    There is hope for a reprieve from Senate Bill S510, the awful, expensive, bureaucracy-expanding, federal power grab over our food supply. The reason is that the bill contains new fees, which can be regarded as taxes, and the Constitution requires all...

  • December 1, 2010

    Obama's Offshore Drilling Ban Flip-Flop

    The Obama administration is reversing its March decision to open up the eastern Gulf and certain Atlantic and Pacific offshore areas to oil drilling. This means, of course, fewer jobs and more reliance on foreign oil.This is good news for Saudi Arabi...

  • November 30, 2010

    The Dead Green Treaty

    As thousands gather in Cancun to sip Margaritas on taxpayers' money and "work" on a new climate treaty to replace Kyoto, some of the smarter liberals who believe the anthropogenic global warming theory are throwing in the towel on the hopel...

  • November 30, 2010

    Julian Assange, Neocon?

    If one judges the WikiLeaker by whose politics he vindicates in the most interesting revelations from the latest document dump, there is a case to be made that Julian Assange is pro-Israel. Writing in The Tablet, Lee Smith maintains: ...one...

  • November 28, 2010

    Wikileaks hacked as document dump approaches -- to no avail (update)

    The US government which has been sweating bullets over the pending release of as many as 2.7 million documents by Wikileaks, now has at least a temporary reprieve. The Hill's Bridget Johnson reports: Just hours ahead of an expected release of three m...

  • November 27, 2010

    Why is Homeland Security Seizing Domain Names? (updated)

    I find it bizarre (and somewhat alarming) that the Department of Homeland Security has apparently taken as its mission the enforcement of copyright laws, and is seizing domain names of websites that reportedly violate copyrights. The Hill reports:The...

  • November 26, 2010

    Healthy Thanksgiving Dining the Obama Way

    President Obama and his anti-obesity crusading wife Michelle role-modeled a Thanksgiving feast for the nation. The great Andrew Malcolm of the Los Angeles Times: presents the menu:Too many appetizers to bother listing.Kick-off the main event with:Tur...

  • November 23, 2010

    North Korea shells South Korean island

    As an apparent dynastic transition looms, the impenetrable North Korean regime is acting up, and has killed at least two South Korean marines and injuring 17 (including civilians) on Yeonpyeong Island, near the United Nations-drawn maritime border be...

  • November 22, 2010

    Time to allow states to go bankrupt

    Currently, states are not allowed by federal law to go bankrupt, a situation David Skeel seeks to change, in an important article in the Weekly Standard. He argues that this is far preferable to the inevitable federal bailouts for spendthrift states ...

  • November 18, 2010

    The Folly of Civilian Trials for Terrorists Demonstrated

    It's hard to resist the impulse to say to Eric Holder, "We told you so." Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, accused of complicity in the Al Qaeda embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998, was acquitted on 284 of 285 counts in his civilian trial....

  • November 18, 2010

    Firing the TSA

    Janet Napolitano is getting a lesson: treat customers unreasonably and they will leave. Airport operators do not have to use TSA to screen passengers, and an airport has already announced it will  use one of the five private screening firms...

  • November 18, 2010

    S 510 breezes through first step in the Senate

    Senate Bill 510, a massive power grab by government -- as explained to AT readers yesterday by Michael Geer -- passed its first test with the support of every Democrat and 14 Republicans.   Lyndsey Layton of the Washington Post reports:...

  • November 18, 2010

    Ex-Car Czar Pays up $6.2 million in Pay-For-Play Pension Scandal

    Steven Rattner, Obama's former car czar, is forking over $6.2 million and is banned from associating with any investment advisor or broker-dealer for two years, in a settlement with the SEC, avoiding further court action over his role in a pay-to-pla...

  • November 17, 2010

    Conservatives Put GOP Leadership On Notice

    A large number of conservative leaders are laying their cards on the table for the establishment GOP to see. They will not sit still for co-optation, and are backing Senator DeMint to the hilt. The following letter has been drafted and signed, a...

  • November 16, 2010

    Obama feeling sorry for self

    Poor President Obama is upset at the American White House Press Corps, a group whose adulation was responsible for him being elected to the nation's highest office with the thinnest of resumes, picturing him with halos, forbidding serious inquiry int...

  • November 16, 2010

    Venezuela the Narcostate (updated)

    Hugo Chavez has turned Venezuela into a narcostate, openly posting people with backgrounds in the cocaine trade to high office, including the head of the Venezuelan military Even worse, there is evidence of collaboration with the drug lords of Mexico...

  • November 15, 2010

    Marine life flourishing in Gulf

    The doomsayers were wrong in their predictions of an ecological disaster from the Deepwater Horizon oil well disaster. Researchers form the Dauphin Island Sea Lab in Alabama have discovered that there has been a population explosion, because of the f...

  • November 14, 2010

    The Luxurious Fairmont Hotel You're Not Allowed to Visit

    The Fairmount hotel chain offers some of the most luxurious hostelries on the planet, including the new Makkah Clock Royal Tower hotel in Mecca, adjacent to the holy of holies, the Kaaba. Because it is in Mecca, infidels like me (and most AT readers)...

  • November 12, 2010

    The Incredible Shrinking President

    Barack Obama's global stature has taken a catastrophic fall, as evidenced by his latest trip overseas.  Even the New York Times cannot avert its eyes from the disastrous decline in his (and therefore America's) influence: Obama's economic view i...

  • November 11, 2010

    New York Times Editor on the 'Beauty' of Readers' Ignorance

    Occasionally, in friendly company, the mask slips. Jeff Bercovici reports for Forbes.com on the disarming honesty of Gerald Marzorati, assistant managing editor for new media and strategic initiatives of the New York Times, speaking at an industry co...

  • November 10, 2010

    Deficit Commission Proposals Floated

    In time to influence lame duck session debate on extending the Bush tax cuts, outlines of the proposals of the bipartisan deficit reduction panel are being floated. They are unimpressive, and unlikely to win support.Proposed discretionary spending cu...

  • November 8, 2010

    Inside the Climate Fraud

    More and more details are emerging on the greatest fraud in the history of science, the manufacturing of pseudo-scientific theories and data intended to panic the world into carbon control, empowering the leviathan of government to regulate all human...

  • November 3, 2010

    The Dialectic of Obama

    America's left, and the party it dominates, faced a reckoning yesterday. Two short years ago, exultant progressives believed America had shifted permanently to the left. Now that sweet taste of victory has turned to acrid ashes in their mouths.The sc...

  • November 3, 2010

    Barney Frank, angry in victory

    One of the biggest disappointments last night was Barney Frank's victory over challenger Sean Bielat. In victory, Frank appeared to be angry that he had faced actual competition in his heavily gerrymandered district in the bluest of blue states, and ...

  • November 3, 2010

    California dreaming

    California voters appear to have migrated to Fantasyland, at least when they entered the voting booth yesterday. They even elected a dead candidate. But electing Jerry Brown, who more than anyone else, wrecked the state government by allowing unioniz...

  • November 2, 2010

    Here We Go Again

    Pulitzer Laureate Eugene Robinson of the Washington Post offers an Election Day pre-emptive strike to demean the coming rejection of Democrats as racist. The Pulitzer committee has a lot of sins to answer for.The first African-American president take...

  • November 2, 2010

    The Dems' empty seat problem

    Last minute rallies may tell the story about voter turnout today: people are just not showing up for the Dems. A couple of days ago, President Obama faced thousands of empty seats at a Cleveland rally. Yesterday, Michelle Obama went to Las Vegas to p...

  • November 1, 2010

    Spelling guide for Alaskans

    As a public service, our pals at The Pacific Intelligencer have created a spelling guide for Alaskans going to the polls tomorrow. Read it here. ...

  • November 1, 2010

    Don't nationalize banks and car companies, nationalize elections

    Republicans are set to do very well tomorrow. But they could have done much better. Richard Viguerie makes some excellent points in his pre-election letter on Conservative HQ:Republicans never win elections unless the elections are nationalized....

  • October 30, 2010

    Manchin scandal brewing?

    News of an ongoing federal investigation of West Virginia Governor and Senate-candidate Joe Manchin breaks in a Huntington News editorial:A growing number of media outlets across West Virginia are beginning to cover the federal investigation involvin...

  • October 29, 2010

    You can't fix stupid

    The billboard wars continue. AT comments moderator John Hunt spotted this one visible from the northbound lanes of I-45, the route between Dallas and Houston, at exit 242, near the town of Rice. ...

  • October 28, 2010

    Democrat Civil War Already Underway

    The long knives are going to come out after the election, when Democrats wake up to the damage Barack Obama has done to their party. I have long suspected that there will be a serious effort behind the scenes to get him off the ticket in 2012, as hap...

  • October 27, 2010

    It's Climate Fools Day Today

    Today marks the third annual observation of Climate Fools Day, which was named by protestors outside the British House of Commons on 27th October 2008 when the House was debating a Climate Bill.In the UK this year, those marking the event plan t...

  • October 27, 2010

    The Coffee Party Con Continues

    Remember the Coffee Party, the purportedly spontaneous groundswell of purportedly sensible Americans sickened by the purported extremism of the purportedly astroturfed tea parties? That was the narrative created around the movement sparked by former ...

  • October 26, 2010

    Harry Reid aide lied to FBI, INS, but faces no charges

    Enabling a terror suspect to get a resident visa, lying to authorities and no charges? Something's very wrong.  Fox News reports:An aide to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid repeatedly lied to federal immigration and FBI agents and sub...

  • October 26, 2010

    Jerry Brown: ' it's all a lie... I didn't have a plan for California'

    Jerry Brown on his previous run for governor:This video is from Brown's unsuccessful 1992 campaign for the Democrats' presidential nod. In 2010, Brown is the man who enabled unions to collectively bargain with the state while providing massive donati...

  • October 23, 2010

    Barack Obama, Marxist student

    A fascinating interview with someone who knew Barack Obama at Occidental College, and was a fellow Marxist at the time, can be heard here. Dr. John Drew is interviewed by frequent AT contributor Paul Kengor, as he guest hosts the Glen Meakam Show. Dr...

  • October 23, 2010

    The Exciting Journey of Juan Williams

    "If you're not a liberal at twenty, you have no heart; if you're not a conservative at forty, you have no brain."  - Winston ChurchillUnlike my esteemed colleague C. Edmund Wright, I commend Roger Ailes for his decision to immediately ...

  • October 22, 2010

    NPR's Crack-Up

    National Public Radio is behaving as if it has a death wish, acting in ways that imperil its welfare. In this, it reflects a syndrome affecting the broader American left as the dream of shifting America permanently to the left crumbles in the face of...

  • October 22, 2010

    Obama's Teleprompter Embarrassment in India

    The pathetic inability of Barack Obama to speak without the help of a teleprompter will be showcased to the world's most populous democracy when the president flees the electoral aftermath and decamps for India after the November electiona. Daily New...

  • October 21, 2010

    Fannie, Freddie bailout could double in cost

    Grab your wallet! Federal regulators warn that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the quasi-government (not Wall Street) mortgage entities are going to cost lots more taxpayer dollars to fix. Zachary A. Goldfarb of the WaPo reports:Fannie and Freddie, the f...

  • October 20, 2010

    Janet Napolitano's New Advisor

    Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano would no doubt claim "The system worked" when she vetted Mohamed Elibiary, her latest appointee to the Homeland Security Advisory Council, but Daniel Pipes raises some serious questions:Mohame...

  • October 20, 2010

    Obama omits 'Creator' from Declaration rights language again

    He's done it again! President Obama has removed "Creator" from the language of the Declaration of Independence when citing the rights with which we are endowed -- by God, as the Declaration tells us. From the Whitehouse.gov website, the tex...

  • October 19, 2010

    Obama's foreign money can of worms

    The Democrats, including President Obama, have embarked on a disastrous campaign impugning the US Chamber of Commerce as a source of nefarious foreign money corrupting our campaigns. Not only has the accusation failed to resonate, it has opened a doo...

  • October 16, 2010

    Mexican drug cartel war spills onto American soil

    The expression "lawless frontier region" no longer solely applies to remote lands like Pakistan and Afghanistan, it includes part of the United States of America. Turf wars between Mexican drug cartels are taking place on American soil, in ...

  • October 16, 2010

    Obama just making it up

    The descent of Barack Obama's image from messiah to con man is accelerating, to the point where even the New York Times is onto the game. Peter Baker, whose Sunday Times interview with the president has already made headlines (Golly gee, who knew tha...

  • October 16, 2010

    Soldier admits erasing video of Hasan's shooting spree

    A stunning admission yesterday at the evidentiary hearing on Major Hasan's Islamist terror attack at Fort Hood. The Houston Chronicle reports:A Fort Hood soldier testifying in an evidentiary hearing Friday for an Army psychiatrist charged in a deadly...

  • October 15, 2010

    The new hierarchy in news

    Struggling CNN got a big ratings boost from the rescue of the Chilean miners, but the magnitude of the breaking news viewership growth actually is bad news for the Time-Warner cable net.CNN's sole claim to importance, after being overshadowed by Fox ...

  • October 15, 2010

    Arrest warrant filed for Rahm's Chicago press thug

    In one of the most outrageous examples ever of liberal media doing the dirty work for a liberal politician, last Monday Jay Levine, a reporter for the CBS affiliate in Chicago assaulted WIND radio talk show host as he tried to ask penetrating questio...

  • October 14, 2010

    Dem Dirty tricks in Illinois Senate race

    The Wall Street Journal reports that Democrats are up to their old tricks:Democratic operatives have apparently begun "push polling" in Illinois, trying to drive a wedge between conservative voters and Rep. Mark Kirk, the centrist Republica...

  • October 13, 2010

    Government unions gone wild

    Campaign advertising can be annoying, even disgusting. But sometimes an ad comes along that is so disturbing, it suggests derangement. Such an ad is brought to us by a government employees union, the American Federation of Government Employees (afge....

  • October 12, 2010

    Stink of desperation attends Jon Stewart DC rally

    Viacom, owner of Comedy Central, is pulling out all the stops (and then some) to avoid an embarrassing turnout for Jon Stewart's announced rally in Washington, DC, squandering corporate funds in a desperate bid to stave off humiliation -- from Glenn ...

  • October 12, 2010

    Money bomb: Angle raised 14 million dollars in the last 3 months

    Once upon a time, Barack Obama's presidential campaign was regarded as the ultimate expression of the power of the internet to raise money and mobilize supporters. That was then, this is now. Shira Toeplitz of Politico reports:Sharron Angle produced ...

  • October 11, 2010

    Yet another Kennedy cover-up revealed

    How evil was Ted Kennedy? Shocking new details have emerged, now that the man himself is dead.  While many conservatives realized that Ted Kennedy was a morally compromised man (his record of walking away from Mary Jo Kopechne as she suffoc...

  • October 11, 2010

    Brave scientist calls out the global warming fraudsters

    Big money and big politics have corrupted Big Science, and global warming is the proof.The American Physical Society is the pre-eminent academic organization of American physicists, and supportive of the global warming fraud, which has generated bill...

  • October 9, 2010

    Another great campaign ad

    This election is different, and some GOP contenders seeking to unseat Democrat liberals are cutting through the usual political blather and talking seriously to voters. Case in point: Joe Walsh, running in Illinois 8 (north and west suburba...

  • October 8, 2010

    Progressive Feudalism

    The changes wrought on the American political economy by progressives have taken us in the unmistakable direction of feudalism. The morphological resemblance between the progressive version of America and the historic feudal regimes of Western E...

  • October 8, 2010

    Kos Konspirators Try to Rig Google

    In accord with the elevated tone set by the founder, the Daily Kos openly urges readers to rig Google rankings of articles, in order to make the most damaging material about Republican candidates appear prominently when their names are searched....

  • October 7, 2010

    How radioactive is Obama?

    A fascinating vignette from West Virginia, via the New York Times:Gov. Joe Manchin III, the Democratic candidate for the Senate here, could barely contain his frustration during an interview at the Capitol.He complained that his Republican oppon...

  • October 7, 2010

    Time for the IRS to investigate Media Matters

    Mark Levin is calling for an IRS investigation of Media Matters for using the tax exempt funds to promote Obama and the Democrats, rather than promoting principles, which would be consistent with its status as a 501 (c)(3). He points out that because...

  • October 7, 2010

    Government by Favoritism

    ObamaCare is an even bigger disaster for America than previously suspected, going beyond merely wrecking the health care sector. It is changing the rule of law, the sacred principle of our political economy, into rule by government favor.One of the m...

  • October 6, 2010

    Obama To Get Out of Dodge After the Election

    More evidence Obama knows there will be a Democrat bloodbath at the polls: he has changed his schedule and is flying away for 12 whole days, just two days after election, and is going to the other side of the world. Those recriminations are not ...

  • October 5, 2010

    Green fever

    A mental disorder we should name "green fever" is the only explanation I can come up with for suicidal environmental policies, such as the cutoff of water to California's San Joaquin Valley, impoverishing farmers and creating a new dust bow...

  • October 5, 2010

    The Sharron Angle sting operation

    All signs point to a set-up of Sharron Angle in the recently released secret recording of a private conversation she had with Scott Ashjian, the Senate candidate of the "Tea Party of Nevada" - an organization that was created out of thin ai...

  • October 5, 2010

    Separated at birth?

    Separated at birth?Hat tip: So the blonde says...

  • October 5, 2010

    Rick Sanchez's Problem with the Jews

    Ed Koch adds some depth to our understanding of Rick Sanchez's attitude toward Jews, recalling his appearance on Sanchez's show . He reminds us that FDR had a problem with Jews, too. Writing in the Yonkers Tribune (via JewsforSarah):...some time ago ...

  • October 4, 2010

    Nevada's largest newspaper endorses Sharron Angle

    The Las Vegas Review-Journal has never been known as a conservative paper, yet the daily has just endorsed Sharron Angle over incumbent Harry Reid for Senate. Although editorial endorsements by newspapers are not as influential as they once were, thi...

  • September 30, 2010

    Thank-you, Gloria Allred

    Gloria Allred may be doing Meg Whitman a favor with her ridiculous stunt accusing Meg Whitman of knowingly employing an illegal alien housekeeper. The story is so full of holes that it is transparently bogus, and will serve to discredit not just Allr...

  • September 30, 2010

    Ground Zero Mosque's Stunning Symbolic Design Motif Unveiled

    The newly unveiled "official" architectural renderings of the Ground Zero Mosque, now being rebranded and sanitized as the "Park 51 Community Center" reveal a disturbing, insidious message. (Big hat tip: Pamela Geller, Atlas Shrug...

  • September 28, 2010

    Biden to Dem base: 'Stop whining'

    Not to be outdone by Sen. John Kerry who attacked voters for being too stupid to support Democrats, Vice President Biden is now attacking members of the Democrats' base for "whining." Glenn Thrush of Politico writes:Vice President Joe Biden...

  • September 28, 2010

    Perfect move: GOP call for ethics trials of Rangel, Waters

    A shrewd political move from the GOP. John Bresnahan and Jonathan Allen of Politico report: In an extraordinary public statement, all five Republican members of the House ethics committee are calling on Democrats to schedule ethics trials for Re...

  • September 27, 2010

    White House Amateur Hour Again

    Another diplomatic blunder from the dilettante crew Barack Obama brought into the White House. The geniuses there demonstrated their amateur standing and general sloppiness by displaying the flag of a close ally upside down, as the leader of the coun...

  • September 27, 2010

    The Coffee Party Now Embarrasses Media Which Hyped It

    The faux "rival" to the tea parties has become an embarrassment to the left and the journalists who hyped it. Last winter, it sounded like such a good idea to the left: gin up a rival to the tea parties and call it The Coffee Party. Pretty ...

  • September 26, 2010

    Another great political ad

    Joel Demos is running against the execrable Keith Ellison for the House seat representing the city of Minneapolis and a few suburbs. His witty ad focuses on the debt being foisted on our children -- a theme many GOP candidates are using. ...

  • September 25, 2010

    Another Soros-front left wing religious group exposed

    The left-wing Jewish group J-Street, which purports to represent "moderate" Jews opposing "hard line" Israelis, has been revealed to be a Soros front, receiving Soros money and lying about it. Thus, J-Street joins left winger Jim ...

  • September 25, 2010

    Another Dem leader blames stupid voters for not supporting Dems

    The Death Wish Democrats added another member yesterday, as Senator John Kerry claimed that voters were, in essence, too stupid to vote for his party.Hillary Chabot reports in the Boston Herald: A testy U.S. Sen. John F. Kerry yesterday blamed c...

  • September 24, 2010

    Devastating Black Panther voter intimidation testimony today (updated)

    Christopher Coates, former voting chief for the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, has given powerful testimony this morning, under oath, about the dismissal of charges against members of the New Black Panther Party who carried truncheons at...

  • September 23, 2010

    Shocking video of race-baiting Dem Congresswoman

    Rep. Loretta Sanchez has never distinguished herself as an intelligent woman, but now it is clear that she is an idiot. How else to explain her appearance in Spanish-language Univision TV openly race-baiting? Breitbart TV found the video:Does Sanchez...

  • September 23, 2010

    Undying opposition to Obama

    I didn't know the late Donald Charles Unsworth, but based on his choice of memorial donations, I think I would have liked him.Rest in peace, sir. We will do everything we can.Hat tip: J.D. Dantone...

  • September 22, 2010

    Metastasizing Unemployment

    Reader Brad Pierson sends us a link to this fascinating interactive map of county-by-county unemployment. If you don't want to click on the link and guide the pace, you can watch this YouTube version of the blight of unemployment spreading: ...

  • September 22, 2010

    Obama: 'We can absorb a terrorist attack'

    Bob Woodward's latest book provides an insider look at the Obama administration's handling of war, and the tidbits released to promote the book, as is usual with Woodward products, reveal infighting in the White House. Wodward's modus operandi is to ...

  • September 20, 2010

    Media Matters attacks those who noticed Obama edited the Declaration

    The Soros-funded empire strikes back. Media Matters rushes to defend Barack Obama's editing of the Declaration of Independence,  a story that American Thinker broke nationally Saturday morning*, and which has now spread to other conservative sit...

  • September 19, 2010

    John B. Dwyer, R.I.P.

    John B. Dwyer, military historian and a veteran American Thinker contributor, has passed away, a notice I must pass along to the AT community with great sadness. Barry, as his friends all called him, was a prolific writer, especially of military hist...

  • September 18, 2010

    The Murkowski Betrayal

    Senator Lisa Murkowski has placed personal ambition and sheer pique above party and principle in announcing a write-in campaign for Senate in Alaska, thereby earning the eternal enmity of conservatives throughout the United States. The question is no...

  • September 17, 2010

    The group most out of step on walking away from mortgages

    Pew released a very interesting poll Wednesday that provides a revealing look at American values and a particular demographic group that is out of step with the rest. The topic could hardly be more relevant to the economic crisis that has caused so m...

  • September 16, 2010

    Harry Reid's 'Pet'

    Harry Reid has taken leave of his senses. There is no other explanation for his choice of words in praising Chris Coons, Democrat nominee for Senate in Delaware, who will face Christine O'Donnell. He actually called him "my pet" as a way of...

  • September 16, 2010

    Illegal Immigrants and Slavery

    AT submissions editor Larrey Anderson compares the morality of America's tolerance of illegal immigration to the morality of America's tolerance of slavery a century and a half ago in an article on Pajamas Media:Our continued tolerance of illegal imm...

  • September 16, 2010

    Democrat Alderwoman hits poll worker with car

    As the nation turns against them, more and more Democrats are going nuts, behaving in bizarre, and sometimes violent ways. Milwaukee television station WTMJ reports:Milwaukee Alderwoman Milele Coggs hit a poll worker with her car Tuesday after what i...

  • September 16, 2010

    Public school children forced to pray to Allah

    Shocking video was released today by Americans for Peace and Tolerance:The video was taken inside the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center - Boston's controversial Saudi-funded mega-mosque - during a Wellesley Middle School social studies trip t...

  • September 15, 2010

    GOP Leadership Betrayed by the Base? (updated)

    In surveying the reaction of GOP party pros to Christine O'Donnell's upset victory over Mike Castle, I am picking up the scent of a feeling of betrayal on the part of the leadership.  Karl Rove's appearance last night on Sean Hannity's Fox News ...

  • September 14, 2010

    Obama's empathy gap

    It has finally dawned on Barack Obama and his advisors that his cool, imperious, arrogant style, however effective it may have been when he was taking potshots at George W. Bush during the campaign, is a turn-off for the citizenry he is leading as pr...

  • September 10, 2010

    The Grudge: Barry Soetoro's Indonesian Expatriate Hell

    Where did Barack Obama acquire the self-evident disdain he has for major corporations, especially oil companies, and for the striving classes who have made America  prosperous and strong? Many conservatives have noted Barack Obama's class envy, ...

  • September 9, 2010

    US finally gets illegal alien czar -- for fish

    The Obama administration finally found a group of illegal aliens it wants to contain: Asian carp. Joel Hood of WGN TV in Chicago writes:The White House has tapped a former leader of the Indiana Department of Natural Resources and the Indiana Wildlife...

  • September 9, 2010

    Great news from Hollywood

    At last, a degree of sanity has come to Hollywood. A film biography of Ronald Reagan based on the work of AT contributor, and executive director of the Center for Vision & Values at Grove City College, Paul Kengor, is set to go into production, a...

  • September 9, 2010

    You can't choose your high school classmates

    From everything I have heard, Cape Girardeau, Missouri is a great town -- a historic river city, whose residents love it (I have a friend from "Cape" as they call it). The town is most famous as the home of Rush Limbaugh and his brother, Da...

  • September 7, 2010

    Obama to skip 9/11 Ground Zero ceremony

    President Obama will mark 9/11 at the Pentagon, as he did last year, rather than risk facing angry demonstrators at Ground Zero, where his convoluted remarks and walk back on the Ground Zero mosque might subject him to criticism "like a dog....

  • September 6, 2010

    Obama's political toxicity on display today

    Today, President Obama is flying to Milwaukee to mark Labor Day at a union picnic ("Laborfest"), at a far smaller venue than he used when marking the same event in 2008. Don't worry about a rambunctious crowd, protest signs, or any other in...

  • September 6, 2010

    The power of images turned against the Democrats

    A new ad for the November elections is playing hardball with the Dems, utilizing the power of images very skillfully. I have no idea who made the ad.  These days, thanks to the democratizing nature of the internet and cheap computing power, it c...

  • September 4, 2010

    Smartest President in History Botches Oval Office Rug Quote

    Woven into the new presidential seal rug adorning the Oval Office is a misattributed quotation, offering us a perfect metaphor for the Obama presidency. Jamie Stiehm reports in the Washington Post:"The arc of the moral universe is long, but it b...

  • September 3, 2010

    As Dems face defeat, lib columnist attacks voters

    The stupid public is unworthy of their Democrat masters, according to Washington Post Pulitzer Prize winner Eugene Robinson, in his column today. The public, you see, wants quick fixes, and isn't willing to accept  with equanimity the harsh real...

  • September 3, 2010

    Liberal hypocrites on the estate tax

    Ira Stoll has an indecent amount of fun at the expense of rich liberals pontificating on the need to resume the estate tax, while carefully guarding their own wealth, at the site The Future of Capitalism. Do not read this unless you enjoy laughi...

  • September 1, 2010

    Greenie nut takes Discovery Channel HQ hostage, killed by police

    "Awakened" by Al Gore's "Inconvenient Truth," an eco-nut named James Lee took hostages and held off police for much of the day, protesting the channel's failure to become a complete propaganda outlet for his anti-human, eco-nutty ...

  • August 30, 2010

    Forty Seats

    A new conservative 527 group called 40 Seats has debuted. Forty Seats aims to match concerned citizens with competitive Congressional races near them, to facilitate volunteerism.   The goal is to maximize our potential to take 40 seats...

  • August 29, 2010

    Louisianans give Bush higher marks than Obama on disaster response

    In a fruitless quest to change the subject from Obama's failures, the liberal media, particularly NBC and MSNBC, are having an orgy today of Hurricane Katrina retrospectives on the fifth anniversary of the disaster. The obvious subtext is that George...

  • August 28, 2010

    Massive crowd for Restore Honor Rally

    Without question, the rally sponsored by Glenn Beck today in front of the Lincoln Memorial drew a massive crowd. Although there already are dueling estimates and will be more, the lowball figures concede well into the tens of thousands, with six figu...

  • August 25, 2010

    Political ad of the day

    Congressional Democrats are staring into an abyss in November. Few deserve defeat more than Barney Frank, whose fingerprints are all over the subprime mortgage crisis. Yet Frank's district, comprising Boston's Back Bay and adjacent neighborhoods, is ...

  • August 25, 2010

    Hamstringing nonprofits that disagree with the Obama administration

    Is the IRS discriminating against nonprofit organizations that disagree with Obama administration policies? A lawsuit against the IRS filed by the pro-Israel group Z-Street alleges that,An IRS agent told Z STREET's lawyers that the application was de...

  • August 24, 2010

    Chris Matthews' latest verbal blunder

    Watch this video (you can scroll to 3:25 if you have a limited tolerance for Matthews, although it's worth it to see the whole video) and see Chris Matthews flaunt his ignorance. Discussing the Ground Zero Mosque:Matthews: "Suppose they built th...

  • August 22, 2010

    Yet another Soros tentacle exposed

    Jim Wallis, the man behind the so-called "religious left" - a left wing evangelical activist who worked to get evangelical support for Obama -- has been exposed as another stooge of George Soros. And he had the gall to accuse Marvin Olasky,...

  • August 19, 2010

    Sarah Palin, wordsmith

    The Left will never admit it, but Sarah Palin has genuine literary gifts. As poets and advertising copywriters know, finding exactly the right word that will encapsulate a concept and stick it in the mind requires a certain genius. Yet Sarah, the aut...

  • August 19, 2010

    Growing number of Americans believe Obama a Muslim

    There is a lot of media handwringing this morning over a poll indicating 18 percent of the American public (up from 11 percent in March, 2009) believe President Obama is a Muslim. The AP's headline on its article about the poll sets the tone: "P...

  • August 18, 2010

    Nancy Pelosi calls for investigation into opponents of Ground Zero Mosque

    The most powerful woman in government "join[s] those who have called for looking into how is this opposition to the mosque being funded." KCBS radio in San Francisco interviewed the Speaker. Listen here.Pelosi made a fool of herself calling...

  • August 16, 2010

    Prizes for Life Advocates - A Welcome Cultural Development

    Sadly, the left dominates the awarding of most of the major prizes and honors in the United States and the world. Hence, Al Gore and Barack Obama receive Nobel Prizes, Gore receives an OscarTM and a GrammyTM, and the Pulitzer Prizes normally are awar...

  • August 15, 2010

    Hillary and the Ground Zero Mosque Imam

    It is time for Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to step up to the plate and investigate Imam Feisel Abdul Rauf, who is currently touring the Middle East at the expense of American Taxpayers as an envoy of her Department of State. Claudia Rosse...

  • August 14, 2010

    Obama Embraces Ground Zero Mosque (updated)

    At a White House dinner honoring Iftar (the first meal permitted during Ramadan), President Obama reversed previous statements by Robert Gibbs claiming the Ground Zero Mosque was a local decision, and fully embraced the project before a group of Musl...

  • August 13, 2010

    So much for the racist tea partiers meme

    As the old saying goes, "Money talks." Alex Isenstadt reports in Politico:Florida Republican Allen West is continuing his torrid fundraising pace, raking in a mammoth $530,000 during July. West, a former Army colonel who is waging a tea par...

  • August 12, 2010

    Doing well by doing the bidding of the left (updated)

    American Thinker has long harbored suspicion about ProPublica, a nonprofit investigative journalism outfit that distributes its work to newspaper gratis. The organization has found a hearty welcome in the precincts of the leftist mainstream of Americ...

  • August 12, 2010

    If the military can cut fat, why can't the rest of the government?

    Ilario Pantano, GOP candidate for the House of Representatives in North Carolina's 7th district, makes a superb point: "Secretary of Defense Robert Gates announced military spending cuts in programs that he has found to be bloated, redundant, an...

  • August 10, 2010

    JournoList update

    The known members of JournoList, a conspiracy to manipulate media coverage to favor leftist positions, now number 151. Which means that about 2/3 of the list remain covert operatives, still functioning without public knowledge of their membership. Ne...

  • August 10, 2010

    Another blow to warmist claims

    The theory that the minute amounts of CO2 in the atmosphere have an outsize influence on climate was dealt another serious blow by the publication in a peer-reviewed journal of a study showing that the climate about 460 million years ago was similar ...

  • August 9, 2010

    Sometimes the proles need a firm hand

    A remarkable, yet brief, editorial appears this morning in the Boston Globe newspaper. It can be considered an artifact that crystallizes the attitudes of the contemporary American ruling class toward those they consider their charges, a group in nee...

  • August 8, 2010

    Southern Poverty Law Center is less diverse than the tea parties

    One the most repulsive of the hypocritical organizations on the left is the Southern Poverty Law Center, which constantly gins up findings of what it calls "hate", and which has been critical of the tea party movement, including this report...

  • August 7, 2010

    Most Dems Avoiding Town Halls

    Want to attend a town hall meeting with your Democrat representative in Congress? Good luck! Most seem to be hiding from voters over the August recess. The National Republican Congressional Committee has prepared a list of Democrats having town hall ...

  • August 4, 2010

    The Michael Steele Follies Continue

    Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele is once again engaging in troubling activities.  Now, he is active seeking private meetings with foreign ambassadors to the United States, a group of people who can either vote nor contribute...

  • August 3, 2010

    Hugo Chavez, Madman

    The Venezuelan dictator's derangement is becoming ever more visible as his petrobucks-fueled reign enables him to indulge his eccentricities. In mid-July, Chavez disinterred the remains of Simon Bolivar (with whom he is obsessed). Thor Halvorson of t...

  • August 2, 2010

    Constitutional challenge to ObamaCare wins the first round (updated)

    The lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of ObamaCare, brought by Virginia's Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, has won the very first legal step in a long process. A motion to dismiss brought by the Obama Administration was rejected by the judge....

  • August 1, 2010

    Paying tribute to Charlie Rangel

    With impeccable timing, the Democrats' leadership and big donors plan a gala 80th birthday bash for tax-cheating tax writer Charles Rangel, soon to face an Ethics Committee trial on 13 charges. Alexander Bolton of The Hill writes:Lobbyists and other ...

  • July 31, 2010

    Professor Earl Thompson, R.I.P.

    The American academic elite lost one of its most distinctive and original conservative dissident thinkers with the death of UCLA Economics professor (and AT contributor) Earl Thompson. Professor Thompson was an invaluable resource to us during the fi...

  • July 30, 2010

    The Post American Presidency

    Pamela Geller, publisher of Atlas Shrugs and frequent AT contributor, has just published, with co-author Robert Spencer,  The Post American Presidency, available from Barnes & Noble, Amazon, and at book stores that are Sharia non-compliant. ...

  • July 29, 2010

    A Sordid Tale at the University of California

    Greed and self-dealing by public employees has sparked outrage in Bell, California and beyond. But officials at the University of California trumped the bad behavior of Bell officials, who at least had the grace to admit their wrong. The story of the...

  • July 23, 2010

    Tea party redux in Bell, California

    Bell, California has become the poster child for greedy public employees, a subject closely related to the TEA (taxed enough already) parties. The City Manager was making almost $800,000 a year, and the Police Chief nearly $500,000 in a city of under...

  • July 23, 2010

    The unbearable whiteness of being on Journolist (important update)

    The left wing cabal  to manage the news known as Journolist is apparently guilty if one of the cardinal sins of the left: lack of diversity. Big Fur Hat, the comic genius who posts regularly on iOwnTheWorld.com, has assembled head shots of the p...

  • July 21, 2010

    The Vast Left Wing Conspiracy (continued)

    The second installment of excerpts from the left wing journalist secret discussion site journalist has been published at the Daily Caller. It reveals that your tax dollars have been helping pay the salary of Sarah Spitz, producer at an NPR stati...

  • July 20, 2010

    NAACP meeting calmly listened to racist remarks from black fed official

    Andrew Breitbart has scored another bullseye, revealing hypocrisy of the highest order on the part of another leftist establishment organization, the NAACP.   On March 27 of this year, speaking before an NAACP 20th Annual Freedom Fund Banqu...

  • July 20, 2010

    Luxury shopping mall opens in 'beleagured' Gaza

    If Israel's blockade on shipping weapons and war materiel to Gaza were really so terrible, would Gaza have celebrated the opening of a new luxury shopping mall last weekend? To be sure, numbers of people are kept in tents to provide photo ops for the...

  • July 19, 2010

    Obama's little Freudian slip

    Usually I would not ask readers to suffer through the following video. O drones on and on, doesn't answer the question, and before you know it you're lost in the hypnosis....But, check out the 1:13 mark. He says: "...throughout this cam--, effor...

  • July 18, 2010

    Iran's friends at AARP

    If AARP's support of ObamaCare wasn't enough to convince you that this tax-exempt nonprofit organization is really just another part of the extreme left apparatus, an article in the latest issue of the AARP Bulletin should do the trick. AARP is actua...

  • July 16, 2010

    Weekend Reading

    The unspoken central political phenomenon of our time is the emergence of a ruling class which seeks to transform American society into a collectivist polity led by themselves. The best explication of this phenomenon I have seen, and one of the most ...

  • July 15, 2010

    Destruction of American Energy Production Contuinues

    "What does it say about America's investment climate when the Republic of Congo now attract[s] oil rigs that once drilled the Gulf of Mexico?" asks Investor's Business Daily today, highlightin g the progress made by the Obama administration...

  • July 13, 2010

    Who do you think is lying?

    White House denies NASA chief's claim that he was told his mission was to make Muslims feel good.Bolden or Obama? One of them is lying.I put my money on Obama any day. If Bolden misspoke on Al Jezeera, one would think the administration would have co...

  • July 11, 2010

    The Pacific Intelligencer

    A new satirical website has debuted, The Pacific Intelligencer, created by occasional AT contributor Greg Collins. Greg is a wounded, decorated, and partially disabled veteran of Iraq.  You might think of the Pacific Intelligencer as someth...

  • July 8, 2010

    Unseemly haste in spy swap

    What is the big hurry to get rid of the alleged Russian agents? Signs are accumulating that the US will soon give up 10 potential songbirds, who could be pressured into revealing valuable information, particularly because of the presence of  2 c...

  • July 6, 2010

    TSA blocks employee access to 'controversial' opinions on net

    Say hello to the thought police. The Transportation Security Agency is making certain that its employees do not have access to websites featuring "controversial" opinions, leaving the exact definition of "controversial" unclear. S...

  • July 5, 2010

    The Culinary Historian

    Humans have always needed to eat, but the ways in which we satisfy our nutritional needs are subject to change.  I doubt that the pace of change in food has ever been swifter than in our lifetimes, due to the striking internationalization of our...

  • July 1, 2010

    Sam Besserman on the air

    Eleven year old Sam Besserman, whose AT article about the problems facing a conservative kid in liberal schools drew widespread attention, will be interviewed at 2 PM PDT on the Dori Munson Show on Seattle's KIRO radio. An internet feed is available ...

  • June 30, 2010

    SEIU official under oath indicates Obama lied

    Thomas Balanoff, head of the SEIU Illinois Council, testified under oath at the Blago trial that President Obama called him to lobby for Valerie Jarrett to be named by Governor Blagojevich to replace Obama in the Senate. This directly contradict...

  • June 29, 2010

    Dems Seeking Macaca Moments

    The Democrats are organizing an effort to gather and publicize embarrassing moments on the part of Republican candidates. Mike Allen of Politico reports:THE DNC today opens an "iReport" for politics -- a website that a party official says w...

  • June 28, 2010

    Robert Byrd, RIP (updated)

    Senator Robert Byrd has died at the age of 92. The former Klu Klux Klan official was no favorite of mine, for he turned from racist politics to pork politics, of which he was a master, bringing billions of dollars of federal spending to his economica...

  • June 28, 2010

    Supreme Court: Second Amendment applies to states and localities, too

    A huge civil rights victory today from the Supreme Court, as the Justices voted 5 to 4 that constitutional protections for the right to bear arms apply to state and local governments, as well as the federal government. This should not have been a dif...

  • June 26, 2010

    AFL-CIO chief economist swears at Neil Cavuto during TV interview

    The American labor movement's chief economics spokesman ran into a tough interview with Neil Cavuto of Fox News. Instead of facts, figures, and reason, he offered profanity. When pressed about his support for the triollion dollar stimulus bill that h...

  • June 24, 2010

    Obama's ally ousted as Aussie PM

    President Obama's endorsement is proving to be a political kiss of death overseas as well as at home (ask Arlen Specter about the value of an Obama endorsement).Barack Obama publicly acknowledged two months ago that Kevin Rudd, just ignominiously ous...

  • June 22, 2010

    Gen. McChrystal staff criticized Obama war management in magazine interview

    General Stanley McChrystal's career is hanging by a thread in the wake of revelations contained in a forthcoming article in Rolling Stone, quoting the General criticizing President Obama and some of his team members. Gordon Lubold of Politico writes:...

  • June 18, 2010

    BO poison

    Barack Obama now has negative coattails for candidates: an endorsement by him causes more voters to reject the candidate endorsed than support the endorsee.  Variety, the showbiz newspaper, refers to unpopular actors as "BO [Box Office] Poi...

  • June 17, 2010

    What took so long?

    Times truly have changed. The RNC (!) has come up with a hard-hitting ad holding President Obama accountable for his desultory management of the Gulf crisis. The more Americans who see this, the better.Hat tip: Susan L...

  • June 16, 2010

    Obama's First Oval Office Speech a 'Flop'

    That harsh judgment was delivered this morning by Dana Perino on Fox News Channel. She has plenty of company (see below) in regarding the effort as less than successful. As predicted, he used the free TV time to shill for cap and trade (although avoi...

  • June 16, 2010

    Creeping Sharia

    A suburb of Paris is enforcing sharia restrictrions, ordering the cancellation of a pork sausage festival, lest Islamic sensibilities be offended. From the Boston Herald:French cops have said "non!" to a "Sausage and Booze" street...

  • June 15, 2010

    Even New York Times notes Obama's oil cleanup fiasco

    Even the house organ of liberalism is stunned at the incompetence:From the beginning, the effort has been bedeviled by a lack of preparation, organization, urgency and clear lines of authority among federal, state and local officials, as well as BP. ...

  • June 14, 2010

    Dem Congressman assaults student asking him a question

    Remarkable video of Representative Robert Etheridge, a Democrat representing North Carolina's Second Congressional District, assaulting a student who attempted to ask him a question. Watch for yourself:President Obama has called for civility in polit...

  • June 13, 2010

    Saudi Arabia denies green light for Israeli airstrikes on Iran

    Yesterday's Times of London report that  Saudi Arabia has "conducted tests to stand down its air defences to enable Israeli jets to make a bombing raid on Iran's nuclear facilities" has been denied by Saudi Prince Mohammed Bin Nawaf, a...

  • June 12, 2010

    Home Depot official sponsor of which country's World Cup soccer team?

    As the US meets England in World Cup soccer play, one of America's major retailers is celebrating by backing the team of our neighbor Mexico. I suppose the influx of Latin Americans into the construction industry might have something to do with this....

  • June 11, 2010

    The years have not mellowed Governor Moonbeam

    Jerry Brown, the former two term Governor of California who wants to be governor again, has already made a fool of himself in his campaign against GOP candidate Meg Whitman, shooting off his mouth when a radio reporter happened to run into him while ...

  • June 9, 2010

    Sarah Palin the big winner Tuesday, unions the big loser

    The woman the left fears most emerges as an electoral powerhouse. Candidates backed by Sarah Palin visibly were powered victory, or in one case, near-victory. Andy Barr of Poltico writes:Palin had four primary endorsements in play - Carly Fiorina, Ni...

  • June 9, 2010

    Obama parties on

    As the nation watched election returns rolling in from 12 states, and Gulf Coast residents watched oil rolling in to their beaches and marshes, Barack Obama does what he does best: par-tay!Last night was picnic night (not at an oily beach, though). A...

  • June 9, 2010

    AT writer Linda Halderman wins primary election

    The year 2010 is going down as a year for not just women candidates, but newcomers. One of the female newcomers is AT writer Linda Halderman, who handily won the Republican nomination for the 29th Assembly District in California. The Fresno Bee repor...

  • June 8, 2010

    So much for Obama the master orator

    Things fall apart for Obama at an accelerating pace. Now he can't even keep a high school student sitting behind him awake as he delivers a commencement address. From WOOD-TV Grand Rapids:One of the Kalamazoo Central students -- who was seated behind...

  • June 8, 2010

    Rahm Emanuel lived rent free in BP flack's apartment

    If you or I lived rent free for five years in an apartment in pricey Washington, DC, we would have to pay income taxes on the value of the rent on the place. But apparently not Rahm Emanuel. The wonderful Andrew Malcolm of the LA Times writes:We...

  • June 7, 2010

    Shunning Helen Thomas

    Helen Thomas, who has covered the White House for over fifty years, is in the process of being shunned from polite society for her horrifying comments, caught on tape, that Jews should "get the hell out of Palestine" - going to Poland or Ge...

  • June 7, 2010

    Iran offers military escort for next Gaza flotilla

    Already committed to Israel's destruction, Iran is leaping at the chance to help break the Israeli naval blockade of Gaza, and thereby ship weapons to Hamas, equally committed to Israel's destruction, under the guise of humanitarian aid. Ian Black of...

  • June 7, 2010

    Ding dong, Helen Thomas is 'retiring'

    Fox News is reporting that Hearst Corporation has announced that Helen Thomas is "retiring" effective immediately. Apparently raw Jew-hatred is more than even they can stomach.A long career ends in disgrace, the woman shunned. She has prove...

  • June 7, 2010

    North Korea sets up apparent regency for Kim Dynasty succession

    With Kim Jong-il seriously ailing from an apparent stroke suffered 18 months ago, and his chosen heir still a little green, it looks like the regime is setting up a regency in preparation for dynastic succession when the Dear Leader passes on to his ...

  • June 3, 2010

    Carly Fiorina injects global warming into her race with Barbara Boxer

    Carly Fiorina, former Hewlett-Packard CEO, and likely GOP nominee for the Senate seat held by Barbara Boxer has made the Democrat's support of global warming as a "national security threat" a campaign issue in the 30 second commercial:Trans...

  • June 1, 2010

    Global Warming Theory Challenged by Top UK Scientific Body

    The Royal Society, Britain's version of the US National Academy of Sciences, has been forced by climate dissidents to officially review its previous statements in unquestioning support of global warming theory. The Times of London reports:Britai...

  • May 31, 2010

    At least 10 Gaza blockade runners killed in seaborne clash (updated)

    News dispatches from Reuters and AP provide first details of an encounter between Israeli forces and the blockade runners attempting to bring "relief supplies" to the terrorist Hamas regime in Gaza, which both Israel and Egypt have agreed t...

  • May 31, 2010

    The Gaza Flotilla Op

    The latest elaborate operation put into effect to marginalize Israel, as a predicate to destroying it, has succeeded. William A. Jacobson of Legal Insurrection puts it all into perspectiveThe left-wing blogosphere is full of useful idiots, who preten...

  • May 30, 2010

    ACORN insider lays out the 'stealth socialism' strategy

    Anita Moncrief has written a worthwhile personal account of her involvement with ACORN, and effectively lays out the entire strategy the Alinksy left, and its chosen instrument, Barack Obama, to "fundamentally change" America. Moncrief desc...

  • May 29, 2010

    Serving those who lost loved ones in military service

    TAPS - the Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors - exists to assist the loved ones of those who die in the service of our country, through programs including peer based emotional support, case work assistance, crisis intervention, and grief and tr...

  • May 28, 2010

    Bill Clinton made the job offer to Sestak

    Fox News previews a White House report that is about to be released revealing that Bill Clinton was the chosen operative to make the job offer to Joe Sestak:The conversations with Sestak were initiated by Clinton at the behest of White House Chief of...

  • May 26, 2010

    James Carville lays into Obama's do nothing Gulf Spill policy

    James Carville, a Louisiana Cajun, is moved to near desperation in his denunciation of President Obama's failure to lead in the Gulf oil leak. He is puzzled and anguished over the failure to capitalize politically, as well as the failure to lead the ...

  • May 25, 2010

    Words to remember

    A friend recently visited Lusk, Wyoming, and discovered that out west the public understands that government officials are not our masters. Below is a picture of the local Court House. Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal take note:...

  • May 25, 2010

    A candidate video worth watching

    I don't know anything about Rick Barber, who is running for Congress from Alabama's Second Congressional District. But I like the brief campaign video below. I wish more candidates and office holders spoke this clearly about the Ground Zero Mosque, w...

  • May 24, 2010

    State of Emergency in Jamaica's Capital

    Jamaica is in crisis, as its capital city Kingston is experiencing shootings and fire bombings of police stations, as streets have been barricaded in an effort to resist the government's attempt to extradite eponymous drug lord Charles "Dudus...

  • May 24, 2010

    Which side are you on? NY judges consider joining teachers' union

    In a remarkable display of self-degradation,  some New York State judges are considering joining the United Federation of Teachers, a highly politicized, big bucks political donor, in an effort to raise their pay. The New York Post reports:...

  • May 24, 2010

    Illegal injures state rep in Mass, laughs that 'nothing is going to happen to me'

    Arizona just acquired a poster boy for its policy of questioning people about their immigration status in the course of police investigations. Boston Fox 25 reports:A serious car crash involving a local lawmaker and a suspected illegal immigrant is t...

  • May 24, 2010

    Illinois Dem Senate Campaign Disaster Deepens

    The Illinois Senate seat Barack Obama once occupied may well be picked up by Republican nominee Rep. Mark Kirk. The hapless Democrat nominee Alexi Giannoulias is sinking in polls, and now faces an almost unthinkable event. Politico reports:His family...

  • May 23, 2010

    GOP captures House seat in Obama's hometown

    Charles Djou, a Republican Honolulu city councilman has won the normally safe Democratic seat in Congress from Barack Obama's hometown of Honolulu. It has been 20 years since a Republican represented the district.However, prospects for holding onto t...

  • May 23, 2010

    Mocking Arizona border law critics

    Laughter is one of the most powerful political weapons, and Arizona Governor Jan Brewer is taking advantage of that principle in a new television ad. In it, a frog puppet, reminiscent of Kermit from Sesame Street, extols the virtues of reading - with...

  • May 23, 2010

    Sen. Bob Bennett declines to 'pull a Crist'

    Kudos to Senator Robert Bennett, who lost the nomination for re-election to the United States Senate from Utah. He has declined to launch an independent candidacy, offering a lesson in humility and class to Florida Governor Charlie Crist, who lacks b...

  • May 20, 2010

    Is the left finally reckoning with Rush?

    I have long believed that Rush Limbaugh is one of the most important figures in American politics, and easily the most significant person in American media for the last two decades. Yet, for most of this time, the left and its house organs have chose...

  • May 20, 2010

    Sestak's little bribe problem

    Joe Sestak, Democrat nominee for Senate in Pennsylvania has got some ‘splainin' to do, and he is dodging the question. Sestak revealed some time ago that he was offered an inducement (rumored to be appointment as Secretary of the Navy) to stay ...

  • May 19, 2010

    The Morning After

    The media spin is "anti-incumbent", but the reality is that voters are rebuking President Obama. Jay Cost of Real Clear Politics does a fine job of debunking the media meme.But how many Republican incumbents are in severe jeopardy of losing...

  • May 17, 2010

    The Self-discrediting Democrats

    They're at it again. Democrats are caught red-handed playing dirty pool, in this case, spending substantial sums to gin up a decoy Tea Party in Michigan, in order to siphon votes from GOP candidates. Chetly Zarko, of the site Outside Lansing, uncover...

  • May 14, 2010

    Another one for the Obamas' 'Do as I say, not as I do' file

    America's First Couple loves to hector us about our failings. We are racist, our police act stupidly, and (most annoyingly), we eat the wrong stuff and we're too fat.But when the rubber hits the road in the Obamas' own life, well then the rules don't...

  • May 12, 2010

    Embracing dhimmitude

    America is tip-toeing across an important line: we are becoming dhimmis, infidels cowed into observing sharia law against our wills. We are engaged in submission. Mohammed may not be represented in our media. Ask Parker and Stone of South Park. ...

  • May 11, 2010

    Elena Kagan's unequal justice?

    Does Elena Kagan believe in impartial justice? That's a very important question for a Supreme Court nominee, and there are disturbing questions raised by her handling of a scandal at Harvard Law School. Evan Gahr, writing at Jewish World Review:As De...

  • May 8, 2010

    Obama Chicago crony part of grand jury investigation

    One of President Obama's closest friends from Chicago days, Dr. Eric Whitaker, has had his records subpoenaed by a grand jury in Chicago. Dave McKinney, Chris Fusco And Tim Novak of the Chicago Sun-Times report:The investigation involves "faith-...

  • May 7, 2010

    The dollar crisis

    One of the great issues of our day receives almost no attention from the media, politicians, or public: the collapse in the value of the dollar. Yesterday's sudden 1000 point drop of the Dow and equally sudden near-recovery contribute to the public's...

  • May 6, 2010

    Students sent home for wearing American flag on Cinco de Mayo

    Are you worried yet? As President Obama, most Democrats, and most of the media proclaim it racist to enforce immigration laws, five students were sent home from school in Morgan Hill, California because they wore American flag bandannas and t-shirts,...

  • May 6, 2010

    Navy Seal Matthew McCabe Not Guilty on All Counts

    The disgraceful prosecution of Navy Seals for allegedly abusing a detained terror suspect has ended with not guilty vedicts for all 3 Seals on all counts. Navy SEAL Officer 2nd Class Matthew McCabe was found not guilty after an hour and fortry minute...

  • May 5, 2010

    Virginia AG investigates possible Climategate fraud

    Ken Cuccinelli II, attorney general of the state of Virginia, is pressing a civil fraud investigation into the research carried out by Michael ("hide the decline") Mann while he was professor at the state-funded University of Virginia. Rosa...

  • May 5, 2010

    Carbon credit traders in EU raided by anti-fraud investigators

    Call it a fraud within a fraud. Carbon credits trading in Europe is suspected of massive fraud, with prosecutors in Britain and Germany raiding firms engaged in the business. The EU Observer reports:Traders involved in Europe's flagship climate chang...

  • May 5, 2010

    Is Michelle Obama a Birther?

    The question has to be asked, now that a second YouTube video has surfaced in which Michelle Obama refers to her husband as a Kenyan.In a rather whiny harangue during a fundraiser in Tampa in December 2007, in which she discussed how hard it was for ...

  • May 4, 2010

    Surprise! Times Sq Bomb Suspect a Muslim

    The American left must be disappointed this morning to learn that the suspect in the failed Times Square bombing is not the longed-for "Caucasian male" right wing extremist. Faisal Shahzad, a naturalized American citizen of Pakistani origin...

  • May 2, 2010

    Obama overstretch

    Will President Obama's attempt to bring "fundamental change" to America backfire and ultimately push America to the right? Although far from certain,  the possibility grows, as the tea parties symbolize a growing public awareness that ...

  • May 1, 2010

    When Barry met Billy

    I am much less interested in the recycled National Enquirer report of an Obama tryst with a mistress than I am with the question of when Barack Obama first met William Ayers. The estimable Ed Morrissey of Hot Air previews a new book that claims to ha...

  • April 29, 2010

    Show us your papers (San Francisco-style)

    As San Francisco prepares to boycott Arizona, the city itself issues identity cards, intended to prove residency. Papers? In San Francisco? How oppressive!Hat tip: John Grigorian ...

  • April 29, 2010

    Al Gore's growing carbon footprint

    The environmental impact of Al Gore is growing faster than his waistline. The warmist con game has been very lucrative for the king of carbon credits. He and Tipper have just added to their collection of energy-gobbling homes with a nearly 9 million...

  • April 28, 2010

    Congress Creating California Dust Bowl

    Can this be happening in America? Federal authorities are deliberately destroying farming in the nation's most productive agricultural region. Monica Showalter of Investor's Business Daily writes an outstanding report on the situation. She asks:Would...

  • April 26, 2010

    The Great Phony Volcano Ash Scare and Global Warming

    The Global Warming alarmists who want to wreck the world economy over an illusory danger, have already wrecked the finances of airlines and stranded passengers over an illusory danger, based on computer models from the same UK bureaucrats.The UK Met ...

  • April 26, 2010

    A Government Worker Takedown from an Unexpected Source

    The public employee unions do not realize the forces they have unleashed with their greed. Openly boasting of their relationship with Obama as they are protected from the recession as no other Americans, recipients of lavish benefits unthinkable in t...

  • April 24, 2010

    Next Brit PM an Israel-basher?

    Nick Clegg is the rising star of the first-ever British televised debates among party leaders prior to an election. The leader of the UK Liberal Democrats, and possible future prime ministerm is an Israel-basher. Four days ago, Adam Shaw warned AT re...

  • April 24, 2010

    Murdoch aims for the New York Times' jugular

    The jugular vein of the New York Times Company is local advertising in the New York editions, and the company just acquired a price-slashing competitor that is likely to cost it dearly. In early 2006, Jack Risko and I explained why local ads in the N...

  • April 24, 2010

    The do-as-I-say (not as I do) duo

    The First Smoker and his wife don't always follow their own advice on living healthy to reduce the burden on ObamaCare finances. On yet another long weekend away from the White House, the First Couple indulged in ultra-unhealthy North Carolina barbec...

  • April 19, 2010

    Trust in government falls among Americans

    Nearly 80% of Americans say they don't trust Washington, according to a new survey by Pew Research. Almost one in three sees government as a major threat to their personal liberty, and wants to see government reined in. Moreover, although Republicans...

  • April 19, 2010

    The Solar Power Scam

    The left has no understanding of the role of market prices in matching supply with demand. To haughty elitists, central planners are wiser than the unorganized mob of buyers and sellers. So it should not surprise us that when environmentalists muck u...

  • April 18, 2010

    The Obama leadership vacuum

    Barack Obama's level of detachment from his duties has come to the point where even his cabinet secretaries quietly are letting it be known that he has defaulted on his leadership responsibilities. Congress was delighted to step into the breach and w...

  • April 17, 2010

    China's military buildup: What, me worry?

    China is rapidly building up its military capabilities, but thanks to changes quietly slipped into law with last year's Defense Authorization law and a National Security Council staff intent of finding sweetness & light in the hearts of the Butch...

  • April 16, 2010

    Professor removed for tough grading

    Grade inflation appears to have become policy at Louisiana State University, where Professor Dominique G. Homberger was removed from teaching an introductory biology course for giving tough grades. USA Today reports that the professor ... gives ...

  • April 15, 2010

    Cheap energy and genetic engineering

    The holy grail of energy independence resides in breaking the bond tying hydrogen atoms to two oxygen atoms in the water molecule. If a way can be found to break that bond cheaply and liberate the hydrogen atoms, the world would have a source of limi...

  • April 14, 2010

    Argentina grabs private pension funds

    In a move sure to be observed by other cash-pressed governments, Argentina has seized control of privately-managed pension funds. Ambrose Evans-Pritchard writes in the UK Telegraph:Here is a warning to us all. The Argentine state is taking control of...

  • April 14, 2010

    A political beating in New Orleans?

    Since the liberal media have raised the question of political incivility and potential violence, one would expect them to be deeply interested in what might well be a politically-motivated beating. Except, of course, the victim is a Republican -- Lou...

  • April 13, 2010

    Stanley Dunham's FBI file reportedly destroyed

    Stanley Dunham, the man President Obama called "Gramps", was monitored by the FBI, but like President Obama, his paper trail has been obscured. News comes from Cliff Kincaid, via the Christian News Service and Canadian Fee Press:"The F...

  • April 13, 2010

    Lt. Col. Lakin to face court martial

    Lt. Col. Terry Lakin, MD is to face a court martial for his refusal to obey deployment orders, pending proof that it is a lawful order, issued by a commander in chief who meets the constitutional requirements of office. Dr. Lakin explained his refusa...

  • April 13, 2010

    Dirty bomb danger revealed in India

    The frightening ease with which ingredients for a dirty bomb can be assembled has been dramatically illustrated in New Delhi, where cobalt-60 turned up in a scrap metal market, injuring five people, one seriously. According to DNA India:"The exp...

  • April 12, 2010

    Calling Out David Remnick

    New Yorker editor David Remnick's new book smears Jack Cashill, and honest observers are noticing. (Reminick's biography of Barack Obama is discussed today by Jack Cashill).Ron Radosh, who does not accept Cashill's thesis that Bill Ayers did the...

  • April 11, 2010

    WaPo ombudsman calls for 'spittlegate' investigative reporting

    Andrew Alexander, the Washington Post's ombudsman is forthrightly confronting charges of misreporting of allegations that Congressman Cleaver was spat upon ("spittlegate" in Jack Cashill's term), and that racial slurs were chanted and used ...

  • April 11, 2010

    Ron Paul sees only one tree in the socialism forest

    Ron Paul's declaration at the Southern Republican Leadership Conference that Barack Obama is not a socialist has drawn much notice today. The Wall Street Journal reports he said:"In the technical sense, in the economic definition, he is not a so...

  • April 11, 2010

    Not letting libs get away with it anymore

    Evidence accumulates that the left isn't getting away with as much media malice as it used to. Twice on recent television shows, liberal poppycock has been corrected, and even laughed at on talking head shows.Newsbusters, which was knocked off the ne...

  • April 7, 2010

    Obama and the Guerilla Billboards

    The presidency of Barack Obama has given birth to a new phenomenon in the world of political protest, the guerilla billboard. Traditionally, political protest extended to demonstrators carrying signs, spray painted graffiti, and even the occasio...

  • April 7, 2010

    Obama's credibility crisis

    The most valuable tool in a president's political arsenal is slipping away from Barack Obama. Once people believe a leader is a liar, it is very hard for that person to be effective in his role. The credibility crisis that is starting to engulf ...

  • April 6, 2010

    Obama's national security giveaway

    Details are scarce on the new START Treaty to be signed in Moscow on April 8th, but if I read accounts correctly, President Obama has given a major American strength by limiting American delivery systems, not just warheads. Russian Foreign Minister S...

  • April 5, 2010

    California state universities' financial shenanigans

    University administrators love big building projects. It gives them a sense of accomplishment ("I built that while running this campus"), and the opportunity to hand out big contracts, while raising money for donors interested in funding mo...

  • April 2, 2010

    Chicago faces union work rule dilemma

    Barack Obama's home town is hemorrhaging jobs thanks to union work rules and outlandish pay scales, and even government officials are concerned. Conventions used to be a big business in Chicago, but absurd union pay scales and work rules have been st...

  • April 1, 2010

    Election Theft Underway in Wisconsin

    More evidence the Obama Democrats are playing by Chicago rules, and rapidly altering the nature of our political regime. Nancy Pelosi's strong arm legislative tactics have metastasized to the state level in Wisconsin. According to a Republican Wiscon...

  • March 30, 2010

    Liberal media death spiral intensifies

    CNN, the liberal cable news network which reported "at least dozens" of people attended the Tea Party Express rally in Searchlight, NV last week, may soon be measuring its audience in similar quantities. Bill Carter of the New York Times re...

  • March 30, 2010

    See you in November

    Democrats and their media allies are counting on voters forgetting the intensity of their opposition to ObamaCare and other elements of the state takeover of parts of American life formerly safely in private hands. "Six months is an eternit...

  • March 28, 2010

    Another 'visionary' with no practical experience

    Medicare and Medicaid are to be headed by a new Obama appointee, and I smell trouble. Robert Pear of the New York Times reports:President Obama will soon name Dr. Donald M. Berwick, an iconoclastic scholar of health policy, to run Medicare and Medica...

  • March 27, 2010

    Attack on GOP HQ in Virginia

    Don't expect Keith Olbermann to fulminate or the New York Times to editorialize over the dangers of violence on the left, bricks have been thrown through the windows of the Albemarle County, Virginia headquarters of the Republican Party. Three window...

  • March 27, 2010

    Airport worker caught in body scanner abuse

    That didn't take long. Human nature (male variety) remains constant. The BBC reports:A Heathrow Airport security guard was given a police warning after he was allegedly caught staring at images of a female colleague in a body scanner.Israel manages t...

  • March 25, 2010

    France dumps carbon tax plan

    Just as Obama and the Democrats prepare to foist Cap and Trade on an unwilling nation, crippling our already struggling economy, France -- that paragon of European social democracy -- offers an example of pragmatism. From Investor's Business Daily:Pr...

  • March 21, 2010

    Rules: 'We make 'em up as we go along'

    The ObamaCare push is causing Democrats to unmask themselves and display the ugliness of their power grab. Democrat Rep. Alcee Hastings (who was impeached and removed from office as a federal judge, and subsequently nominated and elected as a Democra...

  • March 21, 2010

    America's new standing in the world

    Barack Obama promised to change America's standing in the world, and he has delivered results. Unfortunately for us, the change has made us a doormat - a nation whose Secretary of State can be humiliated in front of the world's press with impunity.Je...

  • March 21, 2010

    House passes first of three ObamaCare votes

    The House just adopted a rule to govern the discussion and voting to follow, making the 216 votes they needed. According to Carl Cameron of Fox News, when the magic number was reached, a number of Congressmen voted "no", as if they would ha...

  • March 21, 2010

    House passes ObamaCare

    At  10:48 PM Eastern Daylight Savings Time, the United States House of Representatives passed the Senate ObamaCare bill with 219 yay votes and 212 nays. The Stupak cave-in turned out to be critical. Nancy Pelosi got her “historic...

  • March 19, 2010

    President Ahab and Moby ObamaCare

    ObamaCare has crossed the line separating political initiatives from obsessions. President Obama has snubbed Indonesia again, at a cost yet to be determined. The President is damaging our relationship with Indonesia thanks to his obsession with ...

  • March 19, 2010

    Coffee Party 'founder' in Astroturf hole, keeps digging

    Annabel Park, the purported creator of the Coffee Party movement does damage control with the help of CNN, claiming that her movement, aided by Soros-funded organizations and planned at RootsCamp, a left wing organizing workshop held at the teachers ...

  • March 17, 2010

    The Beast that Will Not Die

    Should Nancy Pelosi be unable to assemble sufficient votes to pass ObamaCare, look for ObamaCare to live on, to resurface after the November election, even if the Democrats lose a lot of seats. Jack Kemp, writing on tbirdnow.mee, looks ahead to such ...

  • March 16, 2010

    The Coffee Party Con

    The new and much-publicized Coffee Party movement sports a fairy-tale narrative about a spontaneous uprising of concerned Americans appalled at the Tea Parties and determined to restore civility. The truth, easily researchable on the internet, is tha...

  • March 11, 2010

    Flight cancelled due to drunken crew

    According to Der Spiegel (German original here, computer translation here), Ukranian security forces cancelled a Donbassaero Airlines flight and arrested a pilot, co-pilot and cabin attendants at the airport in Simferopol, Ukraine for being falling-d...

  • March 10, 2010

    Obama's worst day ever on Rasmussen

    The relentless push for ObamaCare is driving down President Obama's net disapproval rating to its worst performance ever. The Rasmussen Daily tracking poll, which is based on an automated telephone poll of likely voters, making it one of if not the m...

  • March 8, 2010

    The other reconciliation outrage

    As long as they are jamming healthcare through via reconciliation, the Democrats are about the use the same parliamentary dodge to pass another takeover that could never attract 60 votes in the Senate. They want to nationalize another sector of the e...

  • March 4, 2010

    NY Times, WaPo willing tools of astroturf scam

    Thanks to bloggers, two liberal newspapers have been busted as willing tools of a sophisticated astroturf PR scam by the Obama camp. Desperate over the wildfire success of the Tea Party movement, an astroturf group, the Coffee Party Movement, was cre...

  • March 4, 2010

    Pete Stark out as Ways & Means Chairman

    Politico reports that after a tenure measured in hours, Bay Area Congressman Pete Stark has "stepped aside" as Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee. Jonathan Allen and Jake Sherman write:Officially, Stark stepped aside to keep the...

  • March 3, 2010

    Loose cannon replacing Rangel

    Fortney "Pete" Stark, the San Francisco-area Congressman who is to replace the corrupt Charlie Rangel as Chairman of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee, is a nasty piece of work. The charitable way to put his verbal outbursts is...

  • March 2, 2010

    Will GM execs be dragged before Congress?

    Do the same standards apply to Government Motors as to Toyota? Christian Science Monitor:After more than 1,100 complaints about the sudden loss of power steering in its compact cars, General Motors announced Tuesday it is preparing to recall 1.3 mill...

  • February 25, 2010

    Obama's Summit Posture

    Why is Obama calling everyone by their first name while they all address him as Mr. President? Does anyone remember the hissy fit Barbara Boxer had when a distinguished military leader addressed her as "ma'am"? Obama is behaving arrogantly ...

  • February 23, 2010

    A bureaucratic takeover of healthcare

    It's right there in black and white. Dennis Byrne of the Chicago Tribune spoke with Newt Gingrich on the posted Obama-version of health care reform:Gingrich pointed out:Pages 25 and 26 of the House version of the health care bill require that when ex...

  • February 23, 2010

    A Cancer Grows at the Huffington Post

    The Huffington Post has shown a disturbing pattern of anti-Israel bias and worse, as chronicled by the website HuffWatch. When a story broke concerning criminal allegations against a defense technology executive, HuffWatch recorded the way other webs...

  • February 22, 2010

    The New Swedish Pogrom

    Sweden was once upon a time known as a tolerant, civilized country. No longer. A lethal combination of Muslim and left wing "progressive" anti-Semitism is driving Jews from the city of Malmo, in fear for their lives, as violence is targeted...

  • February 22, 2010

    The new scandal?

    Jeffrey Lord of the American Spectator breaks a potentially important story, making the case that there is ample ground for a formal investigation of potential law-breaking by the Obama Administration.The discovery that the White House has now been r...

  • February 20, 2010

    Is this the most pressing problem in California?

    California's mismanagement is so acute that the state cannot even afford bread and circuses to distract the public from the state's looming insolvency. Instead, 30 State Assembly members, including the outgoing and incoming Speakers, are focused on t...

  • February 18, 2010

    Duke Lacrosse Accuser Arrested

    Crystal Gale Mangum, the Duke Lacrosse team rape accuser, has been arrested in Durham, NC, on charges of "attempted first-degree murder, five counts of arson, assault and battery, communicating threats, three counts of misdemeanor child abuse, i...

  • February 16, 2010

    Bayh rules out run for president in 2012

    Appearing on Morning Joe on MSNBC, retiring Senator Evan Bayh averred that under no circumstances would he run for president in 2012. Responding a request for a "Shermanesque" denial of interest in running for the presidency, he responded a...

  • February 16, 2010

    IPCC Report of Increased Hurricanes Not Supported by the Data

    A new study raises serious questions about yet another IPCC forecast of doom.Six IPCC statements about activity increasing were tested against raw data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric (NOAA) Administration by Dr. Les Hatton, who found claim...

  • February 16, 2010

    'Little Barry' Statue Tossed Out of Jakarta Park

    Obama fans planning a pilgrimage to Jakarta's Menteng Park to see the statue of young Barry Soetoro, placed there by admirers of the 44th president, will have to change their plans. Hasyim Widhiarto of the Jakarta Post reports:Bowing to public pressu...

  • February 9, 2010

    Bad news for Dems: Here comes another special election

    The death of Rep. John Murtha will require a special election to replace him before November, according to Pennsylvania Law. The Washington Post reports:According to state law, the governor has ten days once the vacancy is officially declared to deci...

  • February 9, 2010

    They were warned

    That Major Nidal Hassan was not recognized for the obvious terror danger he represented is an outrage, made even more acute by the fact the Army terror experts were warned of the dangers of jihadism to personnel serving in the United States. Bill Ger...

  • February 3, 2010

    At last! GOP plays hardball

    Illinois Democrats nominated Alex Giannoulias to run for the Senate seat vacated by Barack Obama. As Richard Baehr noted Monday on AT, Giannoulias has substantial weaknesses that could enable Congressman Mark Kirk, the Republican nominee, to take the...

  • February 1, 2010

    Media malpractice on display

    Few stories elicit as much distorted coverage as the annual Pro-Life March in Washington. This video from Jack Cashill tells the story....

  • January 27, 2010

    Lib columnist notices we don't know much about Obama

    Richard Cohen, liberal columnist for the Washington Post, has suddenly realized that we know very little about Barack Obama, and that's kind of unsettling. This admission is buried 389 words into an op-ed today ostensibly on John Edwards.This column ...

  • January 26, 2010

    Defending the rights of the 'unreliable'

    The lazy, shiftless, unreliable masses, long the victims of discrimination, finally have a brave champion: Jobcentre Plus, and arm of the UK Government. The UK Daily Mail reports:Recruitment boss Nicole Mamo, 48, tried to post an advert for a £...

  • January 26, 2010

    Formerly Useful Idiots

    Christopher Buckley, formerly of National Review, who endorsed Barack Obama for president, has published a scathing satire of the man who at one point thrilled him: The Audacity of Oops.  Oddly eough, the "Oops" in question does not re...

  • January 24, 2010

    Jews 'had to be periodically massacred'

    The former elected leader of Malaysia, Mahathir Mohamad, spoke openly of Jews this way at an Islamic conference. Australian journalist Andrew Bolt brings us the story, and notes "he expected his views to win support." The former premier als...

  • January 22, 2010

    National Enquirer and the Pulitzer Prize

    The National Enquirer is planning to enter its coverage of John Edwards' paternity cover-up for a Pulitzer Prize. Howard Kurtz of the Washington Post reports:"It's clear we should be a contender for this," Barry Levine said by phone Thursda...

  • January 22, 2010

    Another Big Democrat Tax Scofflaw

    The Mayor of Oakland, California, far-left former Congressman "Red" Ron Dellums, has been hit with a second IRS lien for unpaid taxes. Henry K. Lee of the San Francisco Chronicle writes:Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums and his wife, who alrea...

  • January 21, 2010

    Free Speech Breakthrough from Supreme Court

    A landmark ruling on a 5-4 vote in the Citizens United case was handed down by the Supreme Court. Corporations and nonprofits may spend general funds on election-related activity. No more need to set up political action committees in order to have a ...

  • January 19, 2010

    Brown Wins Massachusetts (updated: Coakley concedes)

    With votes coming in fast, Scott Brown is maintaining about a 5% lead: 52% to 47%. Howie Carr, on The O'Reilly Factor, reported that in minority areas, turnout is lower than in other areas, favoring Brown.Richard Baehr adds:I do not like what I am se...

  • January 18, 2010

    San Francisco MLK Day march and rally cancelled

    Ending a tradition of 20 years' standing, San Francisco today will have no large rally and march honoring Martin Luther King Jr. Day. The San Francisco Chronicle reports:... the Northern California Martin Luther King Jr. Birthday Observance Committee...

  • January 17, 2010

    Sarah Palin at Mid-Career

    Sarah Palin's debut on FOX News last week engendered the usual disdain from the usual suspects, but more significantly, not much enthusiasm from her fans. The ratings were great, but it is clear that the governor has not yet mastered the skill set of...

  • January 17, 2010

    Panic sets in on the left

    A moment to savor! "The end of change as we know it." Ed Schultz realizes that cheating may not be enough to gain victory in Massachusetts. In his moments of scoundrel's honesty, the man is becoming a favorite of mine.  ...

  • January 17, 2010

    More bad news for Democrats

    Another Democrat in Congress in trouble. Politico's Scorecard  points to an automated phone poll commissioned by liberal site Firedoglake, showing: Rep. Steve Driehaus (D-Ohio), a freshman Democrat who represents the Cincinnati area, losing to f...

  • January 12, 2010

    'It's not the Kennedy's seat, it's not the Democrats' seat, it's the people's seat.'

    In the Senatorial debate yesterday in Massachusetts, moderator David Gergen posed a question to Scott Brown, mentioning the "Kennedy seat." Brown immediately responded,"With all due respect, it's not the Kennedy's seat, it's not the De...

  • January 6, 2010

    Democrat electoral prospects worsening (updated)

    Like rats leaving a sinking ship, incumbent Democrats are deciding to avoid the wrath of voters next year. Democrat Senator Chris Dodd announces his retirement today, joining North Dakota's Democrat incumbent Senator Byron Dorgan. Colorado Gov. Bill ...

  • January 6, 2010

    How DHS decided which terrorists not to screen

    Terence P. Jeffrey, writing for CNSnews.com, looks into the on-the-record reasoning behind the TSA's current policies, which do not screen against the government's full Terrorist Screening Database (TSDB). It turns out there is a report, demande...

  • January 5, 2010

    American Thinker's First Six Years

    American Thinker turns six today. Like six-year-old human beings, we're still growing and learning rapidly, with lots more eventful life ahead. Following a few test posts in late 2003, AT began daily publication of original articles and blog items on...

  • January 5, 2010

    More GOP momentum

    Democrat Senator Byron Dorgan has announced he will retire when his term ends this year, and will not run for re-election after three terms in the Senate. The North Dakota seat should be an easy pick-up for the GOP, since the state leans Republican a...

  • January 4, 2010

    Berkeley's Unbearable Whiteness of Science

    The racial madness that has left-wing America in its thrall finds its apogee in the Berkeley, California public schools. Berkeley High School is now poised to eliminate science laboratory classes because "science labs were largely classes for wh...

  • January 4, 2010

    Are you scared yet?

    Deputy National Security Adviser John Brennan's appearance on Fox News Sunday yesterday (transcript) -- as well as the other Sunday talk shows -- to discuss the handling of would-be Northwest Airlines terrorist Abdulmutallab may have been intended to...

  • January 2, 2010

    Muslim attacking Danish cartoonist shot by police

    Police in Denmark shot a Somali man attempting to assassinate Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard, the man whose 12 cartoons in Jyllands-Posten set off worldwide unrest, including fatal riots in 2005. The 27 year old Somalian, armed with an axe, broke...

  • January 1, 2010

    Rush released from hospital (updated with news conference video)

    Rush Limbaugh has been discharged from his hospital stay in Hawaii, and just held a press conference. Reportedly, he did NOT suffer a heart attack. "The pain was real, and they don't know what caused it." Via Reuters:Limbaugh, 58, underwent...

  • December 31, 2009

    Rush in hospital after chest pains

    While on vacation in Hawaii, Rush Limbaugh experienced chest pains and was taken to The Queens Medical Center in Honolulu, where he is reported to be resting comfortably. No further information on his condition is available. Millions of Americans, in...

  • December 31, 2009

    Even Maureen Dowd dissatisfied with Obama

    The world's oldest teenage girl, in her latest column for the New York Times, is not very happy with President Obama's handling of the latest man-caused incident, surely a bad sign for Barry from DC. She still makes her predictable digs at Republican...

  • December 31, 2009

    New study finds no rise in atmosphere share of CO2

    Another nail in the coffin on man-made global warming theory. A study by Wolfgang Knorr of the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Bristol, published in Geophysical Research Letters, finds that the airborne fraction of carbon dioxide ha...

  • December 30, 2009

    A slowly dawning realization

    Barack Obama could get you killed. That's the reluctant conclusion more and more Americans are contemplating in the wake of the bizarre handling of the Northwest 253 attempted bombing. "Feckless" is one of the kinder terms one could use to ...

  • December 29, 2009

    Pelosi's very private Hawaii vacation

    In stark contrast to Sarah Palin, whose Hawaii vacation was photographed and touted in the press, Speaker Nancy Pelosi is enjoying a very private luxurious time at the Four Seasons Hualalai resort on the Big Island. Andrew Walden, editor of Hawa...

  • December 27, 2009

    Iranian street protests escalate, media and Obama administration yawn

    The anti-mullah protests inside Iran are getting bolder, overwhelming guards and cutting down two students who were about to be publicly hanged. Despite a lack of encouragement from Obama, the protestors are stepping up their actions. You have to go ...

  • December 27, 2009

    Percy Sutton dies; His Obama revelation omitted from obituaries

    Legendary lawyer and politician Percy Sutton has died at the age of 89, and the major media are omitting mention of one of his most notable acts. The former Borough President of Manhattan, Sutton had a long and distinguished career as a lawyer (he wa...

  • December 24, 2009

    Senate passes healthcare takeover bill

    As expected, the Senate passed its version of the healthcare takeover bill at 7:16 AM. Harry Reid, either joking, exhausted, or perhaps overcome with a brief moment of sensibility, initially voted "no" before voting "yes." Politic...

  • December 22, 2009

    Warmists versus pets

    The warmists' ‘carbon footprint' obsession continues to escalate, with academic extremists in New Zealand now maintaining that "the carbon pawprint of a pet dog is more than double that of a gas-guzzling sports utility vehicle." Good ...

  • December 16, 2009

    How the Dems hide the cost of the health care bill

    Evidence has surfaced of the process by which Democrats hide the cost of health care reform from the public. Michael F. Cannon of the Cato Institute has done the detective work. A CBO memorandum issued last weekend reveals overt gaming of the Congres...

  • December 13, 2009

    PC bureaucrats making themselves look really stupid

    Nothing makes me laugh harder than a dimwitted race grievance industry bureaucrat fired up on diversity rhetoric attempting to outwit the general public by making up phony evidence of inclusiveness, and failing miserably. I do believe it has somethin...

  • December 12, 2009

    Sarah Palin visits Conan O'Brien on the Tonight Show (video)

    Governor Palin paid an unannounced visit to the Tonight Show Friday night, doing a rather good reading from William Shatner's autobiography. I have to wonder if there isn't a subtle message in the choice of an autobiography, all very low key of cours...

  • December 12, 2009

    Newspaper industry trade journal to cease publication

    The grim situation facing the newspaper industry is reflected in the news that Editor & Publisher, a venerable (108 years old) trade publication is to cease publication this year. E&P has been a reliable source to follow the waves of layoffs ...

  • December 11, 2009

    'Social justice' comes to North Korea?

    Dramatic proof that those who abhor inequality can never be satisfied comes from North Korea, where the government of Kim Jong-il has recently confiscated a substantial portion of the wealth built up in recent years through toleration of small privat...

  • December 10, 2009

    Obama's surprising Nobel speech

    Fresh on the heels of announcing more troops for Afghanistan and snubbing the Norwegian King, President Obama delivered a surprising speech accepting his Nobel Prize. He acknowledges that many have regarded the prize as undeserved, and went on to del...

  • December 4, 2009

    Head of UN climate body wants climategate inquiry

    It's getting harder and harder for the legacy media to ignore climategate. Now even the UN itself is recognizing climategate is serious business.The BBC reports:The head of the UN's climate science body says claims that UK scientists manipulated data...

  • December 3, 2009

    Climategate will 'derail' Copenhagen agreement - delegate

    Next week's Copenhagen conference may well see discussion of climategate, as at least Saudi Arabia is preparing to make an issue of it. It is getting harder and harder for the mainstream media to keep intact their embargo of news on the biggest scien...

  • December 2, 2009

    Climategate and Gore mocked by Jon Stewart

    It's going to be harder to keep the youth demographic supporting the global warming fraud. All that environmental propaganda force-fed to kids in schools and college goes for naught once it becomes cool to mock the fraudsters. And where do young vote...

  • December 2, 2009

    The lame leftist talking points on climategate

    As the left grapples with rising public awareness of the global warming fraud, talking points are being mass emailed to supporters. An example comes from ThinkProgress, and it is lame. They have got nothing but the old tricks.Name-calling: [all boldi...

  • December 1, 2009

    Phil Jones reportedly steps down pending climategate investigation

    AP is reporting that Phil Jones, head of the "prestigious" Climate Research Unit at the University of Anglia is stepping down pending the outcome of an "independent" investigation. No further details are forthcoming.I hope the uni...

  • November 29, 2009

    CRU emails were leaked before they were hacked

    The BBC received copies of some of the CRU emails more than a month ago, but did nothing about them, sitting on explosive evidence of fraud. The UK Daily Mail reports:The BBC has become tangled in the row over the alleged manipulation of scientific d...

  • November 27, 2009

    Warmist denial won't work

    The warmists really have no argument when it comes to the CRU whistleblower leak.The evidence in their own words, in the leaked emails that were being withheld from a Freedom of Information request is already deeply incriminating.  Even worse fo...

  • November 27, 2009

    The Dubai bubble

    World financial markets are quaking in the wake of a request by Dubai World, a principal investment vehicle for the Emirate of Dubai, to suspend debt service amounting to billions of dollars in the next 6 months. The company owes a total of $59 billi...

  • November 25, 2009

    Obama's granny gets free Haj trip from Saudi King

    In the words of Steve Gilbert, "it looks like Mr. Obama's bow to the Saudi king has paid off." Channel Africa reports: Sarah Obama, US President Barack Obama's 87-year-old Kenyan grandmother, has arrived in Mecca to perform the Muslim pilgr...

  • November 22, 2009

    Climate fraud continues unraveling

    The 62 megabytes of compressed data from one of the world's premier climate research organizations continue to be mined for further evidence of fraud, and conspiracy to violate freedom of information laws in the UK and USA. A keyword search engine no...

  • November 21, 2009

    Obama bungle produces 'worst U.S.-Japan summit in history'

    A magazine in Tokyo is reporting that President Obama's summit with Japanese Prime Minister Hatoyama was a frosty disaster, precipitated by incompetence on both sides and an entirely avoidable diplomatic slight to the Japanese side by Obama. The visi...

  • November 20, 2009

    Obama's Expatriate Years

    Surprisingly little attention has been paid to the crucial years Barack Obama spent growing up in Jakarta, Indonesia from 1967 to 1971, ages 6 to 10 in his life. These formative years, in which a child first spends significant time in the wider world...

  • November 16, 2009

    Here comes the Sarahlanche

    Class warfare is breaking out as Sarah Palin begins promoting her book. The left is already hard at work finding passages in Going Rogue to make fun of. On MSNBC this morning, the Morning Joe crew cited a passage mentioning hunky Todd as worthy ...

  • November 15, 2009

    Obama's botched bow

    Bad enough that Obama bowed down to another head of state yesterday. Even worse, he did not bother to learn how one bows in Japan, and just winged it. I agree with Scott Johnson, Steve Gilbert, Andrew Malcom, and many others that the President of the...

  • November 12, 2009

    What's wrong with this picture?

    The First Lady, a woman widely acclaimed for her fashion sense in the courtier media, has no common sense at all when it comes to respecting a solemn occasion. Apparently, nobody among her score of personal aides in the White House had the gumption t...

  • November 11, 2009

    Whitewashing ACORN

    Deeply disturbing evidence has surfaced that a cover-up may be underway, protecting ACORN from prosecution for misbehavior in California. Andrew Breitbart's BigGovernment.com publishes audio excerpts of a talk given by ACORN spokesman David Lagstein ...

  • November 10, 2009

    Reframing the Ft. Hood massacre

    Despite the best attempts of the Obama administration and its media claque, very few Americans are buying the narrative that Major Hasan was a lone psycho who snapped. His PowerPoint presentation warning of "adverse events" if Muslims were ...

  • November 10, 2009

    Obama's Berlin snub in focus

    The President of leisure has a pretty slow day Monday, highlighting the point that no pressing business kept him from celebrating the fall of communism 20 years after the Berlin Wall fell. Jim Gerraghty of The Campaign Spot on National Review goes ov...

  • November 8, 2009

    Hasan attended same mosque as two 9/11 hijackers

    Philip Sherwell and Alex Spillius of the London Telegraph report:Hasan, the sole suspect in the massacre of 13 fellow US soldiers in Texas, attended the controversial Dar al-Hijrah mosque in Great Falls, Virginia, in 2001 at the same time as two of t...

  • November 7, 2009

    The return of the inflation tax

    Buried in the Pelosi Healthcare bill is a very dangerous tax feature: repeal of indexing of progressive tax rates for inflation. Via the Wall Street Journal:"Buried in Nancy Pelosi's health-care bill is a provision that will partially repeal tax...

  • November 6, 2009

    Obama and Islam

    President Obama is playing out a drama on the world stage, addressing Islam as a virtual supplicant, and conceding serious issues, while getting nothing in return. Why?Richard Baehr writes:The President demanded a complete freeze on Israeli...

  • November 6, 2009

    Hasan and Jihad

    AP is now reporting that Lt. Gen. Cone of Ft Hood confirmed on the Today Show that Maj. Hasan shouted "Allahu Akbar" during his attack. Until this point, the American media have studiously refused to report this. As usual, the entire media ...

  • November 4, 2009

    Soros and Russia

    Kim Zigfeld, who blogs at La Russophobe, recounts some very interesting interactions with a George Soros-funded website, Transitions Online, over the site's refusal to cover a subject very embarrassing to both Russia and the Obama administration's ou...

  • November 3, 2009

    Citizen power comes to DC Thursday

    Rep. Michele Bachman is leading an effort to bring citizen-lobbyists to Capitol Hill, starting noon Thursday, in anticipation of a possible vote Friday on ObamaCare, Judi McLeod of Canada Free Press reports. Within hours of Rep. Bachman's call for ci...

  • November 3, 2009

    Liberal politics, BO poison

    Barack Obama's liberal policies are proving to be poisonous for Democrat gubernatorial candidates in New Jersey and Virginia. Bob McDonnell's smashing victory in Virginia indicates a net 25% point move away from Democrats in the Old Dominion, when co...

  • October 31, 2009

    Scozzafava suspends her campaign for NY's 23rd District

    The conservative base appears to have won a smashing victory, as the liberal GOP Nominee suspends her campaign, opening up a path to victory for conservative Doug Hoffman to win. The Watertown (NY) Times reports:Dede Scozzafava, the Republican and In...

  • October 30, 2009

    J Street and Judge Goldstone: the plot thickens

    Michael Goldfarb of the Weekly Standard reveals a document that demonstrates the comingling of apparatchiks in the anti-Israel universe of organizations. J Street, George Soros, and the author of an anti-Israel UN Report are all linked. ...

  • October 28, 2009

    Krauthammer on Obama's blame-Bush dithering: 'Truly disgusting' (video)

    Charles Krauthammer is widely known and respected as a thoughtful commentator, not given to hyperbole. Der Spiegel called him "the leading voice of America's conservative intellectuals." He was one of the D.C. conservatives who predicted th...

  • October 28, 2009

    Obama's astroturf pitchfork brigade

    Reverting to Chicago-style politics in the open last April, Barack Obama told the heads of 13 mega-banks, "My administration is the only thing between you and the pitchforks."This sort of indirect verbal thuggery needs periodic refreshment ...

  • October 27, 2009

    How to throttle small business

    Uncertainty over health care costs is preventing small businesses from adding jobs, part of the reason for the so-called jobless recovery, said by some to be underway. Gary Fields paints a compelling picture of the worries and doubts faced by small b...

  • October 26, 2009

    Obama voters have let down their leader

    As Obama flails about, a very few of his fans are beginning to notice he can't deliver.  His image sold to the public during the campaign was as phony as a David Axelrod astroturf group shilling for Commonwealth Edison. But for those who bought ...

  • October 25, 2009

    The buck stops down there in the ranks

    More foolishness over Fox from the White House, now showing an inability to keep their story straight when making excuses. From essentially claiming it was an accident and Fox didn't even request an interview (via Talking Points Memorandum), to blami...

  • October 25, 2009

    Big Brother in Britain, 25 years after 1984

    When government gets the ability to spy on its citizens, abuses will take place. The UK well illustrates the problem. Sarah Lyall writes in the New York Times:... under a law enacted in 2000 to regulate surveillance powers, it is legal for localities...

  • October 25, 2009

    Evita Obama

    A New York Times op-ed today verges on self-parody, as the biggest cheerleader for Michelle Obama, graphics editor Charles Blow, expresses his adoration for the First lady. He has enough sense to begin with the words, "Forgive me in advance for ...

  • October 24, 2009

    Dude, where's my magic?

    Last night in Boston, President Obama faced a half-empty hotel ballroom at a fundraiser for his pal, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick, who is unpopular and facing a difficult re-election campaign. Instead of confidence, he actually expressed doub...

  • October 20, 2009

    RNC chair Steele praised ACORN

    What on earth was Michael Steele thinking? With Democrat vote maximizing ACORN on the rocks, he offers praise and excuses. ACORN president Bertha Lewis gave a National Press Club speech portraying ACORN as a victim that provoked even liberal Dana Mil...

  • October 19, 2009

    Dreams authorship questions mounting

    Thomas Lipscomb, the founder of Times Books -- publisher of Dreams from my Father, has particular credibility when it comes to examining the dispute over the book's authorship. In an important and thorough examination of the evidence to date on Pajam...

  • October 18, 2009

    UK universal health care bypassed by its own workers

    Stunning! Britain's National Health Service care standards may be good enough for ordinary folks, but the people who work there know better. They are getting taxpayer money to pay for their own private care. The UK Times reports:THE National Health S...

  • October 18, 2009

    Obama's new pastor?

    I could get excited about this if I thought that President Obama actually paid attention to sermons. However, we have it on his own word that he never picked up on Jeremiah Wright's attitude toward "G..D... America" so why should his new ap...

  • October 18, 2009

    Obama 'HOPE' poster artist looks like a big phony

    It turns out that Obama, the manufactured candidate, was given his iconic campaign poster by a manufactured poster "artist" named Shepard Fairey, who has just formally admitted lying to a court to evade a lawsuit brought by AP. The news age...

  • October 18, 2009

    US condemns suicide bombing attack on Iran's Revolutionary Guards

    No, this is not satire from The Onion. If only it were, we could laugh instead of cry. Laura Rozen reports in Politico:The U.S. has condemned a suicide attack that killed five Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps members today.Five commanders of Iran's...

  • October 17, 2009

    Osama bin Laden, family man

    Andrew Neatty of AFP previews a book to be published at the end of the month, written by his first wife and her son, revealing something of the personal side of the man. This is one angry, mean, cruel man. Not just to infidels. Some highlights:Soon a...

  • October 17, 2009

    They're giving away golf carts

    Thanks to various incentive programs for the purchase of "electric vehicles", purchasing a golf cart can actually cost little or no money. The Wall Street Journal's Review & Outlook writes:The federal credit provides from $4,200 to $5,5...

  • October 16, 2009

    Sharpton's corporate sugar daddies

    Al Sharpton thinks Rush Limbaugh should be shunned by the NFL. Rush never incited a murderous mob the way Sharpton did. So which corporations funding Sharpton and his National Action Network, instead of shunning him? The National Legal and Policy Cen...

  • October 15, 2009

    Backlash to Limbaugh smear campaign?

    The establishment media in the United States fears Rush Limbaugh more than any other media figure. Liberals who actually start to listen to his show frequently discover that his insights are rewarding, his humor is entertaining, and his combination o...

  • October 15, 2009

    Was Rush set up?

    In the first segment of today's broadcast (update: transcript here), Rush Limbaugh revealed that he was approached by Dave Checketts about becoming a member of the group bidding for the St. Louis Rams, and that he warned Checketts of a political back...

  • October 14, 2009

    Chavez shows off to other tyrants

    Hugo Chavez has become a parody of a tin horn Latin American dictator, strutting about trying to prove to his gang of buddies what a bad-ass he is. Last month Chavez hosted a group of 30 leftist leaders from African and Latin states at the Hilton Res...

  • October 13, 2009

    Leading warmist and his embarrassing 'coming ice age' video

    Warmist hysteria is starting to become brittle in the face of freezing cold weather, and 11 years of falling global temperatures. Even the BBC is asking awkward questions. Al Gore and the Society of Environmental Journalists cuts off the mic when Gor...

  • October 13, 2009

    ACORN one state at a time

    The ACORN scandal will widen with more investigations underway. In a number of states, attorneys general Spitzerized banks, and ACORN ended up with windfalls. MinnPost.com looks at the situation in Minnesota, where the settlement with Capital One was...

  • October 12, 2009

    The Sock Drawer Tapes: Did Clinton conceal evidence?

    Shades of Watergate! Funny business regarding secret White House tapes. No suspicious gaps, but rather tape recordings not turned over despite subpoenas.While Bill Clinton was under investigation by special prosecutors and Robert Fiske and Ken Starr,...

  • October 12, 2009

    Sunshine scares academic-labor complex

    It is not uncommon to find tax exempt and state-supported academic institutions hosting labor study centers that conduct research and offer training programs for unions. Because unions are highly partisan political powerhouses, the possibilities for ...

  • October 10, 2009

    Media wars

    The power struggle between print media and the internet is affecting many other institutions. Not only in politics, but in business, the arts, and nearly every other sphere of organized human activity. An intriguing case study is the world of arts cr...

  • October 10, 2009

    Look who predicted Obama's Nobel Prize on September 8

    Number 62 in Big Fur Hat's cartoon strip The Obamas, published September 8, 2009:...

  • October 9, 2009

    White House advisor says Sharia law misunderstood

    A female appointee with Obama's ear on matters of faith and society thinks Sahria is just swell in terms of "gender justice." All that awkward stuff about a woman's testimony not equaling a man's is apparently a misunderstanding. On a Briti...

  • October 9, 2009

    Govt-Funded Research Unit Destroyed Original Climate Data

    America is being asked to spend trillions on a theory, some of whose foundational data has been destroyed, allegedly for a lack of storage space. If the data cannot be reviewed, it cannot be trusted, scientifically. Via Christine Hall and the Competi...

  • October 8, 2009

    Back door to tyranny

    When there are so many laws that are vague, contradictory, and unfathomable, anyone can become a criminal if the state chooses to prosecute. America is too rapidly approaching this state, as a horrifying report from Brian W. Walsh of the Heritage Fou...

  • October 8, 2009

    Reaction to Ayers' claim to have written Dreams

    There is plenty of reaction across the conservative blogosphere and beyond, to the reports that Bill Ayers has at least twice stated he wrote Dreams from My Father. Comments on our two most recent pieces have presented many interesting interpretation...

  • October 7, 2009

    Spinning with the czars

    As Sen. Russ Feingold makes headlines with his concern over the Obama administration's reliance on unaccountable czars, Joe Markman of the LA Times obscures the Democratic senator's surprising words, and tells his readers there's nothing to be concer...

  • October 7, 2009

    Academic elitists want more of your federal tax money

    Robert J. Birgeneau, Chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley, who made almost $450,000 in salary last year, plus very healthy benefits, is concerned that California is running out of money to support him and his campus. He thinks the fed...

  • October 6, 2009

    NYT scrubs Obama's failure

    The New York Times has been caught red-handed sending unfavorable news about the Obamas down the memory hole. Tim Blumer at Newsbusters lays it all out in detail here. Blogger Weasel Zippers first spotted the Times deep-sixing prose datelined Copenha...

  • October 6, 2009

    Red Eye rising

    Stunning ratings news: in the prime demographic (25-54 -- the group most advertisers want to reach), the irreverent news-comedy show Red Eye, which runs at 3 AM in the East, outdraws the Campbell Brown show CNN shows to lead off its prime time schedu...

  • October 4, 2009

    Feelgood polling news for the antique media

    Morale is really low in newsrooms all across the country, as the public increasingly distrusts and decreasingly patronizes the corrupt left wing media outlets, which dominate the newspaper, magazine, and broadcast television industries. So, it's time...

  • October 2, 2009

    Chicago out of Olympics consideration (updated)

    Dude, where's my charisma?In a huge slap in the face for Barack, Michelle, and the Oprah, Chicago was the first city eliminated from Olympic consideration.It turns out the world is getting sick of Mr. Know It All. The President of France openly mocks...

  • October 1, 2009

    No sacrifice too great for Michelle Obama

    The First Lady has once again uttered words that reveal her self-absorbed interior life.  Speaking in Copenhagen, she referred to her trip as a "sacrifice." Byron York caught it yesterday:"As much of a sacrifice as people say this...

  • October 1, 2009

    State Dept rep called freed Gitmo detainees 'refugees'

    Words matter, as Barack Obama himself has instructed us. So I was startled when I noticed a report that State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley referred to Gitmo terrorists as "refugees."  Connie Hair of Human Events noticed, but there...

  • September 29, 2009

    Unmasking Obama

    It is now abundantly clear that the image of Barack Obama sold to the American electorate was tightly edited, air-brushed, and exaggerated. He has worn a series of masks -- eloquent orator, brilliant scholar, centrist, and literary sensation. All of ...

  • September 28, 2009

    Our Dear Leader Obama

    School children sing his praises. How long will it be before the next step? Big Fur Hat peers over the horizon and envisions coming attractions, in a remake of Pyongyang-style mass spectacles....

  • September 28, 2009

    Obama's Olympic bid stagecraft

    Sixteen days ago, Richard Baehr noted speculation that President Obama would make a last-minute dramatic trip to Copenhagen this week, to pitch the case for Chicago hosting the 2016 Olympics. The publicly-announced plan had been for Michelle to repre...

  • September 27, 2009

    How to fight poverty and live like a king

    The image of ACORN as a racketeering organization just got another boost from court records revealed in the New York Post. Dale Rathke, brother of the founder Wade Rathke was charging lavish spending to the family business.Ginger Adams Otis of the Po...

  • September 27, 2009

    The NEA arts scandal must be investigated

    A Washington Times editorial today explains the serious issues raised by the discovery that arts groups funded by the National Endowment for the Arts were being mobilized to support the White House political agenda. The official claims that this was ...

  • September 27, 2009

    'Insufficient tuned-in-ness' at the NYT

    Clark Hoyt, public editor of the New York Times, labors mightily to recover a shred of credibility in the wake of his newspaper's silly attempt to embargo and then denigrate the ACORN videos. He has a tough job. He reviews reader complaints, and gets...

  • September 26, 2009

    Obama's big, sincere smile

    Some say that big Obama grin is fake, and even speculate that Obama is a robot.  A stunning video by Eric Spiegelman offers more evidence, time compressing posed photos taken with 130 world leaders at the UN.  His 22 second video below real...

  • September 26, 2009

    Oba-Mao

    New Obama images creep into the public mind from sometimes unexpected sources. From Beijing comes Oba-Mao. The Anointed One, about whom American schoolchildren already chant ditties of praise, is being portrayed as The Great Helmsman, Chairman Mao hi...

  • September 25, 2009

    Why the Chosen People Choose Left

    AT chief political correspondent Richard Baehr has written an illuminating  review of Norman Podhoretz's new book, "Why Are Jews Liberals?" for the Wall Street Journal. Highly recommended....

  • September 25, 2009

    Referendum on Obama looms in Virginia

    Kim Strassel of the Wall Street Journal lays out the evolution of Virginia's Nov. 3 election for governor into a virtual referendum on Obama (my term, not hers). It is not going well for Obama, or for the Democrats' nominee, Creigh Deeds, despite a m...

  • September 25, 2009

    New Joker Poster Spotted in Los Angeles

    Socialism is out; fascism is in. Photographed by an AT reader at the Old Spaghetti Factory on Sunset Blvd between the Hollywood Freeway and Gower, in Los Angeles, in the heart of Hollywood. ...

  • September 24, 2009

    Shock video: Schoolchildren indoctrinated to praise Obama

    A YouTube video currently featured on Drudge shows school children being coached to sing praise of "Barack Hussein Obama." According to the poster, it was shot a round June 19, 2009 at the B. Bernice Young Elementary School in Burlington, N...

  • September 24, 2009

    How to install a Marxist dictator

    A strategy is well underway to unseat the legitimate government of Honduras and install a Marxist dictator-wannabe allied to Chavez and his band of Latin lefties. Sneaking ousted president Manuel Zelaya into Tegucigalpa, Honduras has genera...

  • September 23, 2009

    Political leadership from Canada

    Canada will show President Obama the honorable thing to do when Mahmoud Ahmedinejad  speaks today at the UN. Steven Edwards of Canwest news reports:Canada will boycott Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's speech at the United Nations on Wedne...

  • September 22, 2009

    Axelrod nixed selling health insurance across state lines

    The Club for Growth highlights an interview of David Axelrod by Wolf Blitzer, in which the CNN correspondent presses Axelrod on why not allow health insurance to be sold across state lines. Axelrod fumbles badly, having just touted the need for compe...

  • September 21, 2009

    High Noon for politicized arts funding

    The next Breitbart tape debuts at noon today (EDT). The National Endowment for the Arts and White House official Buffy Wicks are bracing for the new bombshell coming from Andrew Breitbart and BigGovernment.com. The website offers a preview this morni...

  • September 21, 2009

    White House caught on tape directing politicization of National Endowment for the Arts

    The latest Breitbart blockbuster has been released. The huge post by Patrick Courrielche on BigGovernment.com includes comprehensive transcripts and audios, as well as excerpted key segments. White House official Buffy Wicks, who works for ...

  • September 19, 2009

    Sweden cuts taxes because it needs growth

    After a generation and more of economic strangulation at the hands of the welfare state, Sweden is cutting income taxes to stimulate growth.   Via AFP:Sweden's centre-right government on Saturday announced income tax cuts of 10 billion kron...

  • September 19, 2009

    New York Times Company humiliates itself in public

    This just looks bad. Really bad. The New York Times Company has been required to reveal startling management incompetence, an inability to correctly apply its own executive compensation scheme to the top two figures in the company, overpaying the bos...

  • September 19, 2009

    Obama 'appointed by God'

    Obama was “appointed by God”, we are instructed by a man boasting academic credentials. Writing in the Orlando Sentinel, Jeremy Levitt, “associate dean for International Programs and a distinguished professor of international law at...

  • September 18, 2009

    Former SEIU boss jailed, media yawns

    Imagine if an official of a major conservative organization received 25 year prison sentence for child molestation. Would the media avert their eyes? Yet the head of the Sacramento chapter of major Obama ally, the Service Employees International Unio...

  • September 18, 2009

    Arianna's 'duh' moment

    The cluelessness of the left on display this morning, in the juxtaposition of two articles this morning. First, Michael Gerson in the Washington Post, on the loss of the former courting rituals, as sexual liberation encourages earlier onset of sexual...

  • September 18, 2009

    Desperate measures on the left

    Let any conservative in the media have an effect, and a counterattack will come from medial lapdogs of the left. Now the Glenn Beck has drawn political blood, he has a bulls-eye on his forehead. Poltico notices that the hyping of an alleged rivalry b...

  • September 18, 2009

    Irving Kristol, R.I.P.

    Irving Kristol, a brave intellectual who defected from the left and led many others behind him, has passed. I number myself among many influenced by his writing, and have always felt I owed him a debt of gratitude. Hillel Italie of the Associated Pre...

  • September 16, 2009

    Carter: 'Overwhelming proportion' of animosity to Obama based on race

    Just when you thought Jimmy Carter could not disgrace the office he once held any further, he goes out and tops himself. The former president avers that "an overwhelming proportion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack ...

  • September 16, 2009

    Media dam on ACORN videos has been breached

    The mockery of Charlie Gibson for being clueless apparently changed some minds. The media embargo on the ACORN tapes has been broken.  Today, the New York Times, NPR and Los Angeles Times have informed their readers of the scandal. The Times' sp...

  • September 16, 2009

    The 9/12 crowd size: you be the judge

    Estimates of the 9/12 crowd varied widely, but the DC Fire Department guess of 70,000 has been most-cited in the emdia. Now, a high resolution photo of the entire throng from the top of the Capitol is available here....

  • September 15, 2009

    Eviscerating old media pomposity

    The old media power structure is crumbling in the face of information provided by newcomers to the media scene. Instead of competing more vigorously, the old media disparages the newcomers. But a succession of stories which come as a complete surpris...

  • September 15, 2009

    ObamaCare's big problem: The Constitution

    Judge Andrew Napolitano has a brief and lucid guide to the serious constitutional problems with ObamaCare, in the Wall Street Journal today. A Mark Fitzgibbons just noted (below), the Left is in the process of demonizing those who point to inconvenie...

  • September 14, 2009

    Pattern and practice (updated)

    Isn't it time for RICO investigation of ACORN? A third videotape of ACORN employees counseling a couple posing as pimp and prostitute on evading the law has been published on BigGovernment.com. James O'Keefe, Hannah Giles, and Andrew Breitbart have d...

  • September 14, 2009

    Hypocrisy and double standards on Obama faith-based programs

    Mollie Ziegler Hemingway of Christianity Today pens a wonderful essay in the Wall Street Journal on the remarkable media and activist double standards when it comes to the faith-based programs launched by President Bush, and continued by President Ob...

  • September 13, 2009

    9/12 demonstration massive, well behaved

    [Note to readers: in my haste, I misread the Globe report forwarded to me as referring to the 9/12 deminstrations.  I apologize. TL]The 9/12 demonstrations were shockingly large and well-behaved.  We will never get an accurate estimate from...

  • September 12, 2009

    Key Boeing factory goes non-union

    Even as unions revel in their access to political power with Barack Obama, actual workers handed the union movement a stinging defeat. Watch for a political reaction to this news, from Dominic Gates of the Seattle Times:Workers at Boeing's 787 fusela...

  • September 11, 2009

    Beck bags another one

    The man the left loves to hate scores again! Few people provoke as much derision among media swells as Glenn Beck, but that man knows how to expose misconduct and get results. Michael A. Fletcher reports in the Washington Post:The National Endowment ...

  • September 11, 2009

    Conservatives behaving badly?

    Joe Wilson wasn't the only Republican who was fed up with Obama's dishonest, partisan speech Wednesday.  Rep. John Shimkus walked out on Obama's speech, as reported by Mark Silva of the Chicago Tribune's Washington Bureau Swamp blog."Congre...

  • September 11, 2009

    Best school answering machine message ever?

    If this isn't a comedy bit, there are educators with brains, fortitude and a sense of humor still teaching in Australia:This is supposedly the message that the Maroochydore High School, Queensland, Australia, staff voted unanimously to reco...

  • September 11, 2009

    Census Bureau severs ties with ACORN

    In the wake of a second videotape surfacing of ACORN employees counseling a pimp and prostitute on establishing their business and evading taxes, the Census Bureau has severed ties with ACORN. Fox News reports:The Census Director has sent a letter to...

  • September 4, 2009

    Texas school districts push back against Obama speech

    The president's address to American students, with its obnoxious study guide, has generated a push back in the great state of Texas. The superintendant of the Comal Independent School District in the San Antonio area has issued this letter on the dis...

  • September 4, 2009

    SecDef Gates slams AP over photo

    The Associated Press has published a photograph of a mortally wounded 21 year old Marine in the final moments of his life, something responsible media had previously avoided. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has blasted them (via Politico):"Out...

  • September 2, 2009

    Obama 笙･ hijabs and niqabs

    The president has a soft spot in his heart for the practice of covering women, lest they incite lust in the hearts of men. Bookworm points out that Barack Obama has on two occasions made rather a large point of supporting the Muslim practice if keepi...

  • September 2, 2009

    Deep oil: a giant discovery

    BP has announced a "giant" oil discovery in the Gulf of Mexico, drilled to a total depth of 35,055 feet. Drilling began at a depth of 4,132 feet below the surface of the water. No further details of the magnitude of the discovery are being ...

  • September 1, 2009

    Disrupting town halls for ObamaCare

    HCAN (Health Care for America Now), the Soros-funded group pushing for ObamaCare, is caught on tape instructing demonstrators on how to shout down questioners at a town hall being held by Rep Jan Schakowski (D-IL). So exactly who is a mob? Hat tip: G...

  • September 1, 2009

    David Brooks: Deep down, he's shallow

    Gabriel Sherman has written a priceless portrait of David Brooks in the New Republic. Perhaps beguiled by a fancy lunch at "Equinox, a few blocks north of the White House", and charmed by his host, Brooks let it all hang out. That first enc...

  • August 31, 2009

    It's going to get worse for Obama (updated)

    More grim news for Obama from the Rasmussen Daily Presidential Tracking Poll. The Net Approval (strongly approve minus strongly disapprove) index is minus 11. Overall, only 46% of the likely voters polled strongly or somewhat approve of Obama. AT pol...

  • August 29, 2009

    The Ted Kennedy moral whitewash peaks today

    Today marks the high point of Ted Kennedy's memory. The media's lavish coverage of his funeral and burial day will be full of praise for the departed. But underneath the thin coating of whitewash lie some ugly incontrovertible facts which will not go...

  • August 29, 2009

    A fresh face on the GOP bench?

    The palpable hunger for new leadership in the GOP makes most interesting the 2010 Senate run in Louisiana reportedly being mulled by Hurricane Katrina hero General Russell L. Honoré, for the seat currently held by David Vitter, seriously damag...

  • August 29, 2009

    Thanks Rush!

    When Rush Limbaugh, the most important conservative commentator in America, quotes AT on air, it gives all of us a thrill. We are proud when our work merits mention on his broadcast. Yesterday, Rush quoted AT's C. Edmund Wright twice in one broadcast...

  • August 28, 2009

    Closing the last auto factory

    Toyota has announced the demise of the last remnant of auto manufacturing on the West Coast, the New United Motor (Nummi) plant in Fremont, California. When GM announced it was withdrawing from the joint venture in June, I predicted the plant was a g...

  • August 28, 2009

    Obama's war on American sovereignty

    Andrew McCarthy explains on NRO what's really going on with AG Holder's investigation of the CIA over interrogation techniques. It's what McCarthy delicately calls Obama's "fondness for transnationalism," or what I would call his war on Ame...

  • August 28, 2009

    Massachusetts politics and the John Jay standard

    The Federalist Paupers blog finds an interesting historical parallel for the situation in Massachusetts today, trying to rig the rules for choice of an interim senator to fill our Ted Kennedy's seat. On the off-chance that Governor Patrick might have...

  • August 27, 2009

    DoJ drops prosecution of top Dem (updated)

    An unpleasant smell attends the Department of Justice decision to not prosecute New Mexico Governor (and Obama ally) Bill Richardson. Fresh on the heels of the Department declining to prosecute the New Black Panthers for voter intimidation, while app...

  • August 27, 2009

    Rebranding ObamaCare

    Yesterday's quick moves to use Ted Kennedy's name to pass ObamaCare struck me as a blunder. Liberals in politics and media (and those conservatives who socialize with them) see Ted Kennedy through rose colored lenses. As a brand name, Ted Kennedy has...

  • August 26, 2009

    Going for the media's throat

    Mark Lloyd, a scary radical who has a plan to impose stifling government control, has been appointed as "chief diversity officer" at the FCC. A disciple of Alinksy, he laid out his strategies in a 2006 book.Matt Cover of CNS News has done u...

  • August 25, 2009

    Too hot for ABC

    The Dick Morris-created ad against ObamaCare that ABC television has refused to run is available online. Courtesy of the League of American Voters:...

  • August 24, 2009

    NYT a little vague about those states west of the Hudson River

    The geniuses at the New York Times have published a map documenting the truth of Saul Steinberg's famous New Yorker Magazine cover depicting "The View of the World from Ninth Avenue."In illustrating the presence of the chemical atrazine in ...

  • August 23, 2009

    How many toes do you see?

    Surely this must be a trick of lighting, or a matter of blurred focus. Is it possible that the First Lady actually has six toes, as she appears to in this picture? And if she did have six toes, would she appear in public in sandals?  Perhap...

  • August 22, 2009

    NYT backs away from Obama party line on death panels

    Uncritical acceptance of Obama propaganda on "false rumors" has its limits, even at the New York Times. Tom Maguire of Just One Minute spotted the tactical retreat yesterday. Compare this headline from August 13False ‘Death Panel' Rum...

  • August 22, 2009

    Michelle Obama and the double-edged sword of fashion

    The other day, Michelle Obama went full Wal-Mart in her outfit on the First Family's taxpayer-funded Grand Canyon excursion, and the journalistic fashionistas are having the vapors. I am almost, but not quite, sympathetic to the First Lady. It s...

  • August 22, 2009

    'Less costly' health care 'reform' to hit middle class hard

    President Obama has recently begin speaking of a cheaper price tag for health care reform: 800 to 900 billion dollars. So how will a compromise bill achieve such savings? By a mandate forcing middle class Americans to buy expensive health care insura...

  • August 22, 2009

    The small matter of the constitutionality of ObamaCare

    The Washington Post hosts an op-ed (on Saturday, of course -- the lowest circulation day of the week) questioning the constitutionality of ObamaCare. Written by David B. Rivkin Jr. and Lee A. Casey, the article demonstrates that a health insurance ma...

  • August 22, 2009

    NY Gov plays a dog-eared race card

    One advantage of the Obama presidency may turn out to be the rapidly diminishing value of the race card -- for decades a tactical staple of Democrats facing criticism. New York's highly unpopular Governor David Paterson just played his race card...

  • August 21, 2009

    Friday funnies

    The irrepressible Big Fur Hat looks at what would happen if Joe Biden suddenly became smart, in a hilarious re-telling of the story "Flowers for Algernon" in episode 57 of his comic strip, The Obamas.  To see how Biden's brain function...

  • August 19, 2009

    IRS to be ObamaCare enforcer (Updated)

    What do you get when you cross health care with the IRS? Something very scary. William Jacobson of Legal Insurrection explains that the IRS will getting reports of who has health care coverage, and enforcing taxes as part of the deal in both House an...

  • August 17, 2009

    Stupid criminal tricks

    Fictional supervillains like the Joker aside, a life of crime is rarely the career choice of smart people. But a New Zealand robber takes the cake. Via AFP:A man vying for the title of New Zealand's most incompetent criminal left his name and contact...

  • August 15, 2009

    Four years of Sweetness & Light

    One of the best sites on the web turns four years old today. Congratulations to Steve Gilbert, researcher and blogger extraordinaire, on the track record he has compiled at Sweetness & Light. Many AT readers are already familiar with the regular ...

  • August 15, 2009

    Remember what victory means?

    Sixty-four years ago today, Japan's Showa Emperor (Hirohito) took to the radio for the first time ever to announce to his countrymen that Japan was going to surrender to the Allies. The formerly unthinkable option of capitulation became real for Japa...

  • August 15, 2009

    Orthopedic Surgeons respond to Obama on amputation comment

    President Obama has alienated the very profession whose services he will soon need to surgically remove the foot which is starting to chronically be stuck in his mouth. Orthopedic surgeons have defended their honor in response to an outrageous and ig...

  • August 15, 2009

    Obama's punctured gravitas

    Barack Obama's political glass jaw is the illusion of gravitas that was successfully sold to enough Americans to get him elected. His stentorian deep voice persuades many, never mind the pablum of vague clichés he dishes out. Rush Limbaugh bri...

  • August 14, 2009

    Dem Rep tried to bar TV cameras from town hall (updated)

    More signs of panic, as Dems desperately seek to limit the damage from their health care takeover gambit. CBS TV reports:In New York, Democratic Rep. Anthony Weiner's staffers tried to bar WCBS cameras from covering his town hall Wednesday night. Lat...

  • August 14, 2009

    Cheney-Bush relationship not all sweetness and light

    Vice President Cheney is writing his memoirs and is reported to be revealing something of a rift between him and President Bush in their second term. Brian Kates of the New York Daily News reports:Dick Cheney grouses that President Bush...

  • August 13, 2009

    Australian Senate defeats cap and trade legislation

    Sanity wins Down Under. The warmist fantasy embraced by Labour Prime Minister Kevin Rudd had led to what Reuters correspondent Rob Taylor earlier called a "day of reckoning." The BBC reports: The Australian parliament has rejected governmen...

  • August 10, 2009

    Wind Farm Blowback

    Neighbors of wind farms have discovered that they are far from the  benign, clean, efficient ways of harnessing energy to our needs that delusional greenies maintain. The truth is far different. Leaving aside the cost and problems associate...

  • August 10, 2009

    Astroturfers offered $10-15 an hour to demonstrate for Dems

    After I recovered from my outrage over the false accusations of town hall astroturfing by Obama opponents, I became a bit optimistic. Now that the Dems have introduced the term themselves, it opens the door to serious examination of their own deep ba...

  • August 10, 2009

    Lavish 'climate change' junket for House members (updated)

    How better to fight "climate change" than fly an executive version of the Boeing 737 all over the world taking ten House members (and six spouses) on a lavish vacation/study tour. And, yes, most of the group were Democrats. Brody Mulllins a...

  • August 10, 2009

    Wasting energy to conserve energy

    Another example of clumsy, wasteful, harmful consequences from the Stimulus Bill. The bill contained a tax credit in 2009 and 2010 for installing supposedly energy-efficient windows on houses. But Ashlea Ebeling of Forbes explains that the program is...

  • August 8, 2009

    Ice choking the Northwest Passage

    Warmist doctrine has it that the Northwest passage (through Arctic waters to reach the North Pacific from the North Atlantic) should be clear sailing anytime now.  In fact, according to the Ottawa Citizen:... the U.S. National Snow and Ice Data ...

  • August 7, 2009

    Obama's Black Panther Scandal

    Imagine if a Republican president's attorney general dropped charges against Klansmen who staked out polling places in hoods, carrying weapons, after a federal judge had ruled that the Department of Justice career prosecutors had won their case. Yet ...

  • August 7, 2009

    Powerful Dem Rep stonewalls subpoena of Countrywide

    We already know about two Senate Democrats -- Kent Conrad and Chris Dodd -- who received "friends of Angelo" special treatment from Countrywide, enjoying below market interest rates, while the company boomed during the property bubble cause...

  • August 6, 2009

    August 6, Hiroshima Day

    Once again, the world remembers the first use of a nuclear weapon in war, as Hiroshima was virtually obliterated by a bomb dropped by the Enola Gay. Many people see this as a brutal act, a war crime in fact. But any such moral posturing avoid the har...

  • August 6, 2009

    Something odd about those two freed journalists

    Something strikes me as weird about the two young women journalists freed from supposedly harsh captivity. What's up with all the baggage they carry?I am so impressed that the NoKos were able to keep track of all that stuff for five months!There is n...

  • August 6, 2009

    Obama tries to gin up turnout for health care events (updated)

    Fresh after denouncing the grass roots turnout to health care town halls as "Astroturf", the Obama administration desperately pleads with supporters to attend these events. Mike Allen reports on Politico:In an unusual e-mail appeal, Preside...

  • August 6, 2009

    Mary Robinson and terror against civilians

    Mary Robinson, slated to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom, apparently accepted terrorist acts against innocent civilians as legitimate, as chair of the UN Human Rights Commision. Michael Rubin, on Enterprise blog, points to the evidence:At t...

  • August 4, 2009

    Anti-Chavez TV network attacked in Caracas

    Hugo Chavez does not like criticism any more than does Barack Obama. He has gone after media which are critical of him, shutting down 34 radio stations that have been critical of him. However yesterday, suppression of dissident voices became violent,...

  • August 4, 2009

    Jewish Democrat Organization averts its eyes

    The National Jewish Democratic Council averts its eyes from Barack Obama's selection of Mary Robinson for the Presidential Medal of Freedom. The organization actively satirizes its willful blindness to an anti-Israel outrage by issuing a press releas...

  • August 4, 2009

    Duplicitous Chavez gulls Obama

    It turns out that offering a hand of friendship to tyrants is usually a bad idea, especially when they are focused on spreading communism and undermining democratic allies of America. It's one thing to spout platitudes in a classroom or campaign, but...

  • August 3, 2009

    New York Times notes AT blog on Obama body language with Gates and Crowley (updated)

    Not one iota of snark from Eric Etheridge, who writes a column entitled The Opinionator: A Gathering of Opinion From Around the Web. Here is what the Times readers are seeing today:American Thinker: Thomas Lifson deconstructs a photo from the beer su...

  • August 3, 2009

    Boo-hoo, poor Mary Robinson thinks she is 'bullied' (updated)

    The sponsor of the anti-Semitic hate fests known as Durban I and Durban II, Mary Robinson, can't stand even the slightest criticism of her receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom from Barack Obama.Stephen O'Farrell of the Irish Independent (Mary ...

  • August 3, 2009

    LA mulls spending federal money for Canadian circus

    Your tax dollars may soon finance a long term Los Angeles gig for the pride of Quebec: Cirque du Soleil, whose trippy acrobatic performances have delighted audiences at several Vegas casinos, New York, and of course back home in Montreal for quite so...

  • August 2, 2009

    Anti-Czar bill introduced

    It isn't getting a lot of media attention and with the Democrats' majorities in the House and Senate, it is probably doomed, but for the sake of the memory of our Constitution, somebody had to do it. From the Benton Country (Arkansas) Daily Record:H....

  • August 2, 2009

    Barack Obama, laughingstock

    It is starting. Open mockery of Barack Obama, as disillusionment sets in with the man, his policies, and the phony image of a race-healing, brilliant, scholarly, middle-of-the-roader.Via Tammy Bruce,  Atlas Shrugged and Newsbusters (three terrif...

  • August 1, 2009

    'Dear Skip...'

    A distinguished Harvard colleague writes an open letter to Henry Louis Gates, Jr. published in the Harvard Crimson, about his behavior toward Sgt. Crowley. Ruth R. Wisse is the Martin Peretz Professor of Yiddish Literature, and Professor of Comparati...

  • July 31, 2009

    Another Waxman folly: the Food Safety Enhancement Act (H.R. 2749)

    Paul Williams, Ph.D. writes on Family Security Matters about an unbelievable proposal from Henry Waxman, whose wealthy and liberal West Los Angeles district includes no farms, but plenty of upscale grocery stores selling organic food and exquisite im...

  • July 31, 2009

    Obama's revealing body language (updated and expanded))

    This picture truly is worth at least a thousand words. I am stunned that the official White House Blog published this picture and that it is in the public domain. The body language is most revealing. Sergeant Crowley, the sole class act in this trio,...

  • July 30, 2009

    Warmist editor faces blowback from scientists

    It's getting harder and harder to warmists to get away with their blanket statements that a "scientific consensus" on global warming exists. Now, an organization that bills itself as "the world's largest scientific society" is fac...

  • July 30, 2009

    Obama's birth certificate and the real issues

    I doff my cap and bow low to Andrew McCarthy of National Review Online, who has produced essential reading for anyone wondering what to think about the birther controversy rocking the right, and now breaking into the mainstream media, which sees an o...

  • July 30, 2009

    Sergeant Crowley speaks (updated)

    Sgt. James Crowley just had a news conference at AFL-CIO HQ in Washington, about the Beer Summit with Professor Gates, President Obama, and, to round out the foursome (and prevent a two-on one visual image), VP Joe Biden, a man of legendary affabilit...

  • July 28, 2009

    The universal health care dogs that aren't barking

    Oddly enough, as the nation considers ObamaCare, the press is completely uninterested in the experience of Massachusetts and Hawaii, both of which have ambitious, and failed, experiments in trying to provide universal health care. Mitt Romney, t...

  • July 28, 2009

    Your health care future?

    Bookworm Room is running a very pointed satire of what could lie in store for us if ObamaCare becomes law. The piece, by guest blogger Danny Lemieux, is a "Dear Citizen" form letter from the government, some years hence. Here's a taste:Dear...

  • July 27, 2009

    Islamist attack in Nigeria kills 150

    The BBC reports:Dozens of people have been killed after Islamist militants staged three attacks in northern Nigeria, taking the total killed in two days of violence to 150.A BBC reporter has counted 100 bodies, mostly of militants, near the police he...

  • July 27, 2009

    Skip Gates corrects his foundation's filings

    Oops, that research grant wasn't a research grant. And a conservative blogger apparently forced the "distinguished scholar" to come clean.Chalk up another leftist embarrassed into doing the right thing by a conservative blogger. Dan Riehl o...

  • July 26, 2009

    The distinguished gentleman and scholar, Henry Louis Gates, Jr (updated)

    Supposedly, the President's pal Skip is the most famous black scholar in America, at least if you are on the left. But there is disturbing pattern emerging of the good professor being a little sloppy with his facts.  And not just in terms of fli...

  • July 25, 2009

    Steyn on Gates

    The inimitable Mark Steyn knocks one out of the park, writing about the President and the Professor. Pretentious poseurs, which is what Henry Louis "Skip" Gates has been exposed as, are like candy to Steyn, and his column in the Orange Coun...

  • July 25, 2009

    Sarah of Liberty

    Sarah Palin may become the great champion of liberty in an era when it is under threat as never before. Two pictures contained herein in this express this hope.Blogger Arienne, of the site Motivation: Truth, took some pictures of Sarah Palin at the G...

  • July 25, 2009

    Brit ban on Savage was pure politics

    The political roots of the UK government's decision to bar talk show host Michael Savage have been revealed for the world to see, thanks to a freedom of information lawsuit in Britain that caused Home Office documents on the subject to be made public...

  • July 24, 2009

    The glorious people's revolution wind farm

    Dreaming red dreams, MoveOn.org is selling a bizarre poster portraying a glorious people's revolution wind farm. Obama's supporters in the far left cannot restrain themselves from giddily proclaiming  the socialist reality they foresee for Ameri...

  • July 24, 2009

    Obama throws 'Skip' Gates under the bus

    The polling and focus groups must be telling Obama, Emanuel and Axelrod that his presser remarks have been a disaster, so the President made an unannounced appearance at the White House press briefing still underway as this is being posted.The transc...

  • July 24, 2009

    Dem ObamaCare talks break down in anger

    House Blue Dog Dems are madder than a granny denied a hip replacement and told to take some painkillers.  Evidently Rahm Emanuel's strong-arm tactics, combined with Nancy Pelosi's cluelessness and the hopeless mess that is the House ObamaCare bi...

  • July 23, 2009

    The President and the professor

    So much for selling ObamaCare. The only real news coming out of the President's news conference last night was his outrageous slander of Cambridge, MA cops as "stupid". The cops' "stupidity" consisted of arresting his friend, Harv...

  • July 23, 2009

    More Obama brilliance (updated)

    President Obama has a very nice smile. But his presser last night was a lesson in how not to win or keep allies. A friend who is a very busy surgeon (and prefers to remain anonymous) emails his comments on the Obama presser:Wow--after the AMA endorse...

  • July 23, 2009

    Best headline of the day

    President Obama thinks greedy doctors are performing unnecessary operations? Well, he should read this: Why John Edwards Is Responsible for More Unnecessary Operations Than "Greedy Doctors"Even better, the article is solid, too.Hat tip: Sus...

  • July 23, 2009

    Obama disses the Secret Service

    President Obama didn't just insult the Cambridge Police and Sgt Crowley, he insulted the Secret Service, who guard him with their lives. Bookworm noticed the slight, though it has been largely ignored in the kerfuffle:Given the caliber of people surr...

  • July 22, 2009

    Feds issue guidelines to stay away from Vegas and Orlando for meetings

    I am sure the voters in Nevada and Florida will be very interested to know that the federal government is telling agencies to avoid booking meetings there. There are a lot of people in the hospitality industries whose jobs are at risk or already gone...

  • July 21, 2009

    Obama's Full-figured Surgeon-General Pick Object of Media Scorn

    ABC news reports:"Critics and supporters across the blogosphere have commented on photos of Benjamin's round cheeks, saying she sends the wrong message as the public face of America's health initiatives." Her supporters, on the other hand, ...

  • July 21, 2009

    Obama Care bill committee vote delayed

    Evidently, the votes are just not there to pass the Democrats' health care bill out of committee. Reuters reports that theHouse of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee has canceled its Tuesday debate and vote on healthcare legislation but ha...

  • July 20, 2009

    Obama raps

    Well, not really. Only in the following animated video. We're cautioned that this will be attacked as racist and sexist. So if you are really easily offended, please do not click the image to view it.Hat tip: Rick Moran...

  • July 19, 2009

    Ron Paul attacks Sarah Palin as 'country club' Republican

    What to make of Ron Paul? The word erratic comes to mind. On domestic spending, he is a righteous guardian of small government, while on foreign affairs he is a dangerous isolationist who believes the world will leave us alone if we just tend to our ...

  • July 19, 2009

    Gov paying over a half million dollars a pound for sliced ham?

    According to Recovery.gov, the new Obama website showing us how much the country is being stimulated by government spending, the taxpayers are buying sliced frozen ham at $550,000 per pound. I wonder what they would pay for fresh ham?Update: The USDA...

  • July 19, 2009

    The new labor aristocrats: government employees

    While ordinary Americans have seen their retirement funds diminish radically, retired  government workers seem to be making out really well. Especially in San Francisco, where 709 retired city employees are making over $100,000 a year (that's up...

  • July 19, 2009

    Recovery.gov: $1.4 million to repair a door?

    First it was frozen sliced ham for $550,000 a pound. Now, Recovery.gov is found to show paying $1,444,100 to fix a door.Either these people are very sloppy in the way they publish their statistics, or the program is scandalously corrupt. Imagine that...

  • July 18, 2009

    Walter Cronkite mourned by media colleagues as historic figure

    Walter Cronkite's family, friends, and broadcasting compatriots deserve our sympathy. May he rest in peace, and may those who miss him find solace in the worshipful media coverage. He appeared to be a very nice man, someone whose avuncular presence o...

  • July 18, 2009

    Feds to set wages

    The long battle of the statists to set wage levels may be near realization, thanks to a skillful use of rope-a-dope tactics by the Obama administration. The latest version of the notorious card check legislation reportedly drops the feared card check...

  • July 15, 2009

    Gov junketeers keep luxury hotel busy

    Now that corporate conference travel has fallen off a cliff, federal bureaucrats are stepping into the vacuum, providing customers for a luxury hotel in Phoenix, to help each other feel better. ABC News' Political Blotter reports:Claiming they needed...

  • July 14, 2009

    Teacher Unions, Dems vs. kids of DC

    A majority of the Washington, DC city council has sent a letter  to Education Secretary Arne Duncan expressing solid support for the imperiled DC voucher program:Earlier this year Illinois Senator Dick Durbin added language to a spending bill th...

  • July 13, 2009

    'Green energy' deal finds few takers in liberal Austin, TX

    Despite the dreams of mush heads, alternative energy sources remain economically marginal, meaning they cost a lot. The latest experiment in selling "green energy" is running into consumer price resistance in ultra-liberal Austin, TX. Marty...

  • July 12, 2009

    One Democrat realist gets it about Sarah Palin

    A shocking dissent from the party line on Sarah from one of the wiliest, most experienced wielders of power that the Democratic Party has ever fielded, a man who also knows a thing or two about charisma. A senior statesman warns his compatriots to st...

  • July 12, 2009

    Iranian Ayatollah Montazeri Issues Fatwa Against the Regime

    Hold onto your hats, mullahs. This could be a bumpier ride than you thought just two days ago. Yesterday, the most senior contemporary Shi'ite cleric, Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, issued a fatwa against the regime, essentially declaring it illegi...

  • July 11, 2009

    If one of those CFL light bulbs breaks...

    Those curly CFL light bulbs that we all will be forced to adopt are incipient environmental disasters. Should a table or floor lamp be knocked over by a dog or child, for instance, if the bulb breaks, you have a mercury contamination problem, one tha...

  • July 10, 2009

    US employment: Back to the 20th century

    Kamelia Angelova of Business Insider notes that total nonfarm payrolls are back to the level of the year 2000. In other words, all of the jobs added in the early 21st century growth spurt have been lost.And Obama has only just begun wrecking the econ...

  • July 9, 2009

    Geert Wilders could be next Dutch PM

    The two major opinion polls in the Netherlands show that the PVV Party of Geert Wilders is leading, and if PVV obtains a plurality in the next election, Wilders would be called upon to organize a ruling coalition. Maayana Miskin of Israel National Ne...

  • July 9, 2009

    Obama plummets to minus 8 Presidential Approval Index (updated)

    The American public awakens to the disaster that is the Obama presidency. Rasmussen's Daily Presidential Approval Index shows 38% of the public strongly disapproves and only 30% strongly approve of Obama's handling of his job.With the economy crashin...

  • July 8, 2009

    A little perspective

    The media madness surrounding the Michael Jackson death shows little sign of abating, despite the embarrassing predictions of crowds of up to a million revealing the magnitude of the hype. Posthumously enshrined as a civil rights hero at his memorial...

  • July 7, 2009

    Gallup sees Americans moving to the right

    Gallup has released a special report that puts the lie to Democrat claims that America has delivered a mandate for vast changes in our political economy along liberal-left lines.  The data is worth examining, but the narrative itself is surprisi...

  • July 7, 2009

    Obama Presidential Approval Index slips to -3 (updated)

    The public's disenchantment with Barack Obama continues to rise. Rasmussen reports:33% of the nation's voters now Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Thirty-six percent (36%) Strongly Disapprove giving O...

  • July 7, 2009

    Jackson funeral: BO Poison

    The true extent of the media hype surrounding the death of Michael Jackson has been exposed. Fox News reports on air that as the Michael Jackson memorial was starting, tickets were being handed out to bystanders, as embarrassingly empty seats inside ...

  • July 6, 2009

    Constitution apparently declared optional by Obama administration

    Evidence continues to accumulate that President Obama regards the Constitution's requirements as merely suggestions. ABC News reports:With the clock running out on a new US-Russian arms treaty before the previous Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, or S...

  • July 6, 2009

    An African entrepreneur eviscerates liberal academic do-gooders

    A most satisfying put-down of Jeffrey Sachs, notoriously arrogant liberal Columbia University economics professor comes from Magatte Wade, an Africa born immigrant who is a successful entrepreneur. It is found  (of all places!) on the Huffington...

  • July 5, 2009

    Obama merchandise news

    Do you want to buy merchandise featuring our 44th president? There are some odd things going on out there in the wonderful world of Barack Obama commemorative gewgaws.Reader Mary Yonts notes:Just out of curiosity, I was looking at eBay, and typed in ...

  • July 4, 2009

    Palin Derangement Syndrome - Photoshopping Trig

    How low will the left go? When it comes to Sarah Palin, there is no bottom to the hateful hole being excavated by the left, our guardians of compassion. Dan Riehl discovered an appalling use of Photoshop to mock Trig Palin at Firedoglake, one of the ...

  • July 4, 2009

    OAS kicks out Honduras, welcomes Cuba

    The Organization of American States embraces tyranny while rejecting a state for following its constitution. Not that the MSM notices. Steve Gilbert of Sweetness & Light is on the case, putting together the facts the liberals can't connect on the...

  • July 3, 2009

    Scary story of the week

    If you are spooked by the spate of recent airline crashes, read no further. You may not want to think about who worked on maintaining the next airplane you ride on. And don't let your mind turn to the question of how the elaborate and expensive regul...

  • July 3, 2009

    Airline mulls installing 'standing seats'

    As airlines cut back on amenities like hot meals, free soda, and clean interiors, word comes of a new innovation aimed at saving money while maximizing revenue: selling standing room.The report comes from a serious trade magazine, Flight Global:Priva...

  • July 3, 2009

    Greenies kill jobs, stymie increased gasoline production

    More unemployment means a smaller carbon footprint, as California greenies succeed in convincing a judge to shut down a needed modernization of California's oldest refinery, the massive 104 year old Chevron Richmond refinery. David R. Baker of the Sa...

  • July 3, 2009

    Sarah Palin breaks the mold again

    At this point there is much speculation about why Sarah Palin abruptly announced her impending resignation from Alaska's governorship. Her critics are already calling her "erratic" but she is consistent in one respect: she cares little for ...

  • July 2, 2009

    How deep the fractures among Iran's rulers?

    Vicious repression may work temporarily, but there may be fault lines exposed and widened as a result. MEMRI presents translations of extremely interesting remarks made to the Majlis by a member of the Majlis (parliament), Ghodratollah Alikhani. The ...

  • July 2, 2009

    WaPo cancels money-for-access dinner at publisher's home (updated)

    Howard Kurtz conveys - with a straight face! - the official Washington Post rationalizations of its public disgrace over selling access to administration officials and its reporters to lobbyists. "Absolutely, I'm disappointed," Weymouth, th...

  • June 30, 2009

    Obama's lavish luau

    Have you read about last week's White House luau, which flew in Hawai'i's premier luau entertainers as well as plenty of Hawaiian-grown fresh food? The rest of us, of course, are being told to eat locally. But who cares about the cost or th...

  • June 30, 2009

    GM pulls out from Toyota joint venture

    General Motors has announced that it will quit its joint venture auto manufacturing plant, operated with Toyota, leaving the unionized facility's future in Toyota's hands. Toyota already sells 80% of the products built there, but the workforce is org...

  • June 30, 2009

    MN Supreme Court decides for Franken

    Unless Norm Coleman decides to appeal to the US Supreme Court (and can raise the money), Al Franken will take a seat in the United States Senate, and give the Democrats a filibuster-proof 60 votes.Manu Raju reports  in Politico:The Minnesota Sup...

  • June 29, 2009

    One cheer for Mark Sanford?

    Unexpected support from the left for Governor Mark Sanford.  Cristina Nehring, a lefty who fancies herself a specialist   on love and sex, writes in The New Republic:Governor Sanford of South Carolina had what would, under ordinar...

  • June 29, 2009

    SCOTUS overturns Sotomayor on Ricci (updated)

    On a 5-4 vote, the Supreme Court overturned the Ricci case, in which white firefirefighters were denied promotion because not enough minorities passed it the promotion exam.It is good the Court ruled against targeting white males for discrimination. ...

  • June 29, 2009

    Creeping Sharia

    At least 85 Sharia Courts already exist in the UK, dispensing often illegal advice, according to the left wing Guardian:Decisions concerning marriages not recognised under English law, polygamy, and disputes regarding children are being made by at le...

  • June 28, 2009

    Media nervous on new Duke U. rape case (updated)

    A new and even more scandalous rape allegation has surfaced at Duke University. Yet the usual media and campus PC crowd are keeping mighty quiet. Identity politics apparently trumps all sense of outrage.Of course, after the disgraceful media and univ...

  • June 28, 2009

    The Global Warmists refuse to hear evidence that is 'unhelpful'

    If the evidence disproves alarmist cant from the Warmist cult, it is shunned. More stark evidence of the biggest con game in history.  Christopher Booker of the UK Telegraph has  the story:Over the coming days a curiously revealing event wi...

  • June 26, 2009

    Hawaii activists demand US military out, Gitmo detainees in

    The madness of leftists is on display in Hawaii, as local activists demand Gitmo detainees be sent to their islands, while US military installations be closed down. Andrew Walden has the story. ...

  • June 24, 2009

    Optimism on regime change in Iran

    Steve Shippert believes that beneath the surface, significant change may be underway in Iran because of splits among the senior clerics and the Council of Experts - the real rulers in Iran. Writing in ThreatsWatch.org, he posits that the position of ...

  • June 19, 2009

    Anti-Semitic mob puts swastikas on governor's house in Venezuela

    Shocking pictures of an anti-Semitic mob in Venezuela putting Nazi swastikas on the house of an opposition governor whose family are Holocaust survivors. The mob was generated following remarks by a Chavista, the mayor of of Los Teques, Alirio Mendoz...

  • June 18, 2009

    Not just Walpin! Three IGs fired

    If a Republican president had fired three inspectors general working on sensitive investigations, the media firestorm would drown out every other story. But that's exactly what The One has done, and only a home town newspaper (well-versed in the ways...

  • June 12, 2009

    San Francisco to fine $100 for food scraps tossed out

    AP reports that the ultra-enlightened city of San Francisco is about to impose $100 fines on residents who simply toss out food scraps, instead of placing them in a special container for composting. Miscreants will be let off with a warning at f...

  • June 9, 2009

    Oakland reportedly mulls bankruptcy filing

    Chip Johnson of the San Francisco Chronicle reports that Oakland, California is considering a bankruptcy filing, which would make it the Golden's State's largest city (so far) to declare itself unable to pay its bills."We have asked the (bankrup...

  • June 7, 2009

    Obama's food taster unpleasant surprise for French chefs

    When the World's Biggest Celebrity and his wife had their glam-date in Paris, part of their Family Dream Weekend in Paris, their food taster was on hand, ready to die for his president. I don't blame the The One for it. Lord knows the American oppres...

  • June 5, 2009

    Californians are servants of their public servants

    Who's the boss? In California, it looks like the alleged "public servants" working for the state are the overlords. Startling information from the Sacramento Bee:State workers make more than the "boss." California state employees'...

  • June 4, 2009

    Tienanmen massacre 20 years ago today (Updated)

    It was 20 years ago today that China savagely repressed the democracy protests in Tienanmen Square. Today, China remains a dictatorship, and continues to have high levels of civil unrest (almost completely ignored in the foreign press). Of course, th...

  • June 4, 2009

    Obama claims 7 million US Muslims

    The man who will conduct the next census is already putting out funny numbers. In his Cairo speech, the President claimed there are seven million Muslims in the US. This is a multiple of the Pew Research Center's careful estimate of 2.35 million.Even...

  • June 3, 2009

    Notes from an ex-fetus

    George Jonas writes a must-read column on abortion and the assassination of George Tiller. I reckon that it is exceedingly difficult to write something new on this issue, but I believe Jonas has done so. Hat tip: Richard Baehr...

  • June 2, 2009

    It really isn't that complicated

    We're told the roots of California's crisis are complicated. Really? Was sanity among governors always so rare? Why is it so refreshing to read some basic truths from a governor?... we have this quaint custom of not spending money we don't have....

  • June 2, 2009

    Kim reportedly names youngest son as successor in North Korea

    The world's first hereditary communist monarchy has apparently decided on a succession plan for ailing pot-bellied dictator Kim Jong Il. The Associated Press reports that his youngest son Kim Jong Un, 26, is already the subject of songs of praise bei...

  • June 2, 2009

    Chinese firm reportedly buys Hummer brand

    A Chinese company whose name most Americans can't pronounce* has purchased Hummer. I was wondering which GM and Chrysler brands would be gobbled up by rising Chinese auto producers. Turns out the first is a low volume product, which may make sense, e...

  • June 1, 2009

    How to sabotage domestic energy production

    A powerful Democrat in the House of Representatives has introduced a bill that will make it much harder to produce domestic energy supplies on federal land. Edward Felker of the Washington Times brings the insanity at work to light:A powerful congres...

  • May 31, 2009

    More doubts about Obama on the left

    The comic strip Doonesbury lost all appeal to me decades ago, and I no longer read a newspaper with comics anyway, like so many other Americans. But Friday and Saturday, Garry Trudeau, Doonesbury's author, took a couple of pot shots at Barack Obama's...

  • May 31, 2009

    Tales of the new American nomenklatura

    The new ruling elite of America consists of those favored by government power. You can forget about working your way up via honest hard work. The fruits will be confiscated, and given to those with political sway.It is a situation familiar to residen...

  • May 30, 2009

    Obama's broken promises start to cost him on the left

    Barack Obama's ability to spin words and seem to be everything to everyone is running smack into an unprecedented role for him: executive responsibility. When you actually make decisions, as opposed to voting present, well-written teleprompter speech...

  • May 29, 2009

    Obama's vanishing gray hair

    Steve Gilbert assembles the evidence, and it is conclusive. Either President Obama is dying his hair, or it has miraculously gone from graying to solid black since he took office.At one point in the campaign, as a young and inexperienced candidate, a...

  • May 28, 2009

    Let the Sun Shine! Again

    A beloved publication is back! The New York Sun returns to publishing on the web today. Check out the home page here.  If you like AT, you are bound to like the Sun. Alicia Colon, who graced AT with her remarkable insight when the Sun folded, is...

  • May 26, 2009

    Justice, ethnicity, immigration status, and empathy

    The Texas Supreme Court is being asked to void a $15.8 million damages award to a family which lost four members in a truck accident because the driver's illegal immigrant status was mentioned during the trial, and purportedly inflamed the jury. Chuc...

  • May 26, 2009

    Double standards in Canada on presidential assassination fantasy

    The CBC has been rebuked for broadcasting a joke about the assassination of President Obama. I agree that it is beyond the pale to do anything that could be construed as inciting assassination. But I am curious as to the seeming lack of Canadian comm...

  • May 26, 2009

    Transportation Secretary: 'Coerce People Out of Their Cars'

    Ray Lahood, Secretary of Transportation, commits a classic DC gaffe, telling the truth. The Mainstream media yawns, but Terrence Jeffrey of CNS News was not asleep at the wheel (as it were). He reports:Transportation Secretary Ray Lahood told a group...

  • May 24, 2009

    Labor unions pressure Wall Street on ending secret ballots for unionization

    Ben Smith of Politico documents far-from-subtle attempts of Big Labor to intimidate Wall Street money managers into dropping their opposition to the Orwellian-named Employee Free Choice Act,  that would end secret ballots in unionization electio...

  • May 23, 2009

    Reagan statue to be erected in front of US Embassy in London

    Via Bookworm Room, I learned that the US Embassy in London, located in posh Grosvenor Square, is about to be graced with a new 10 ft. tall bronze statue of Ronald Regan, loctaed in the park in front. Not everyone is pleased:Unsurprisingly, perhaps, t...

  • May 23, 2009

    It's not going to be pretty

    Obama's plan to get us all into small cars is going to cost lives. It is the blood for oil tradeoff we always heard about for Bush, brought to life by Obama. Doug Ross looks into the safety of the Smart Car, those little two-seaters. There haven't be...

  • May 22, 2009

    The era of state-controlled media

    Another line has been crossed by the Obama administration: state-controlled television reports only of a news event at the White House. ABC's invaluable Jake Tapper writes at the Political Punch:On April 27, President Obama welcomed the University of...

  • May 22, 2009

    Minneapolis Imam on 'the hell of living in America'

    The words "America, love it or leave it" sprang to mind as I read Patrick Poole's account of developments in my beloved home town, Minneapolis, surrounding Somali Imam Hassan Mahmoud. As the FBI has ongoing investigations in numerous cities...

  • May 21, 2009

    NYT admits 'lax' on ethics reporting issue

    James Rainey of the Los Angeles Times catches the New York Times not living up to its own standards, and prompts a memo from Editor Bill Keller reminding staff to report outside speaking income. The issue is reporting outside income, especially from ...

  • May 21, 2009

    The Cult

    The cultish appurtenances of the Obama image machine are ripe for satire, and two puckish souls have, in stages, discovered and developed a clever parody. First, Allahpundit of Hot Air remembered the cult TV series V, and dug up its trailer, noting t...

  • May 20, 2009

    Texas Senate approves guns on campus

    If a bill tentatively approved by the Texas State Senate passes a final vote and wins approval of the House, students will be permitted to possess guns on campus. The Austin Statesman reports:A controversial bill that would allow college students to ...

  • May 19, 2009

    California's budget crisis even worse than admitted

    If polls are correct about the outcome of today's vote on a series of ballot measures to raise taxes and supposedly rein in spending, California's tax-happy government will find itself in a corner. The measures look as though they will be defeated. C...

  • May 19, 2009

    Obama's 'blood for oil' plan

    American muscle cars are not the only ones being sent to an early grave thanks to President Obama's radical fuel efficiency standards. The inimitable Steve Gilbert points out at Sweetness & Light that smaller, more fuel-efficient cars are also mo...

  • May 18, 2009

    An appeal for help from our readers

    As we did last year, American Thinker is asking our readers to help with financial donations. For our first four years-plus, we avoided such direct appeals, but were gratified last year that hundreds of you responded so generously. As a result of you...

  • May 18, 2009

    The futility of soaking the rich

    A host of states -- California, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York and Oregon -- are planning to raise taxes on their richest inhabitants in order to overcome the consequences of overspending. Arthur Laffer and Stephen M...

  • May 18, 2009

    'Paradox' of carbon cap and trade dawns on German warmists

    Once again, the adverse consequences of poorly-conceived environmental policies dawns on mush-headed greenies. Germany's Spiegel posts an article puzzling over the consequences of that nation's sweeping carbon emissions legislation, conceding th...

  • May 17, 2009

    Another overblown warmist scare on the trash heap

    A few years ago, we were lectured that Australia's Great Barrier Reef was dying due to global warming. Warmer ocean waters were killing it. Oops! It didn't happen.Turns out that a "spectacular" recovery is underway, according to the leftist...

  • May 17, 2009

    ElBaradei: strike on Iran nukes 'completely insane'

    Mohammed ElBaradei, the head of the UN atomic agency, warns Israel that an attack on Iran's nuclear facility would be "completely insane" and "would turn the region into one big fireball." His version of sanity:"I think Freez...

  • May 17, 2009

    Marin County turning against "green energy"

    The citadel of fashionable green politics is having second thoughts about green energy, because it costs so much. Affluent Marin County, just north of San Francisco, is balking at switching over to (expensive and unreliable) green energy. Bookworm wr...

  • May 17, 2009

    Airman saves airliner

    Once again, we have reason to give thanks for the United States Military - in this case a United States Air Force Airman, Staff Sgt. Bartek Bachleda. Thanks to his alert action, a jumbo jet full of passengers was saved. Here is an account from t...

  • May 15, 2009

    NYT looking particularly ridiculous today

    It's been many a year since I actually paid money for a dead tree version of the NYT (once upon a time I subscribed - for many years). So I haven't confirmed the following, but it is believable.This morning, on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," Joe Sc...

  • May 15, 2009

    Liberal Fantasyland (continued)

    Add one more item to Randall Hoven's list: the solar house left in the dark with busted pipes that froze over the winter. Shawn D. Lewis of the Detroit News reports:It was supposed to be a shining example of the green movement -- a completely indepen...

  • May 14, 2009

    Boston Globe union on suicide watch

    Adam Reilly of the Boston Phoenix reports that the Boston Globe's largest labor union may vote down the supposedly last-ditch offer from the New York Times Company aimed at cutting costs enough to allow the paper to survive. The New England paper is ...

  • May 14, 2009

    The NYT looking for life support

    The struggling New York Times is reportedly facing at least two alternatives to stay alive involving rescuing angels.Newsweek reports that entertainment multibillionaire David Geffen, who has pledged to devote his fortune to charity, is interested in...

  • May 14, 2009

    Sheltering pedophiles

    Andrew Walden looks at Washington DC and Honolulu, as Democrats seem to have a soft spot of pedophiles. He provides an interesting case history of a key individual. It never ceases to amaze me what passes muster on the left....

  • May 13, 2009

    Durban II swag bag

    Film maker Ami Horowitz has a new film being released soon on the UN, titled U N Me. He's releasing three short satirical videos to promote it, satirizing the oh-so-ripe institution. Today's release is titled Durban Swag Bag, and it's pretty finny. O...

  • May 13, 2009

    Tales of the labor bosses

    Follow the money. Labor bosses with a friend int he White House are revealing their true nature.Harold Meyerson, one of the leading leftist intellectuals, writes an unintentionally revealing column in the Los Angeles Times today, bemoaning strif...

  • May 13, 2009

    Socialized medicine at work: 10 hour ambulance wait

    The future of socialized medicine, on display in the UK. Government bureaucracies and their characteristic lack of responsiveness are one thing when getting a driver's license, and quite something else when your life is at stake. From the BBC:An...

  • May 13, 2009

    Meanwhile, back in the physical economy

    The Dow may have risen in anticipation of a recovery, but rail car loadings, usually a reliable indicator of economic activity, tell a different story. Jack McHugh, writing at The Big Picture, examines a 24 page Credit Suisse report on rail car loadi...

  • May 12, 2009

    Multiple organ failure - what a hoot!

    The UK Daily Mail offers some necessary sanity on the disgraceful comments by Wanda Sykes at the White House Correspondents dinner Saturday, and especially President Obama's reaction to them. She said Limbaugh's opinions were treason and that he was ...

  • May 12, 2009

    Overreach

    My suspicion is that President Obama, with the media wind at his back and the support of powerful unions like the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), is going to overreach and alienate the great center of the American public, which, for the...

  • May 11, 2009

    Hawaii hoodwinked into 9/11 Islam Day

    AT contributor Andrew Walden noted something very odd indeed in an article in the Hawaii Free Press:Islamists have just tricked the Hawaii Legislature into celebrating Islam on September 11. Hawaii has no Christianity Day, no Judaism Day, and no Budd...

  • May 10, 2009

    Hard truths loom as GM faces bankruptcy

    Facing bankruptcy, GM has announced plans to shutter four more assembly plants and expand production abroad, where UAW contracts do not make profitable operations impossible. On the other hand, critics note with justification that federal handouts we...

  • May 10, 2009

    Why so few convenience stores are robbed in Israel

    An Israeli blog, The Muqata, makes an excellent point here.Hat tip: Philaver...

  • May 9, 2009

    In-N-Out Burger at a crossroads?

    Sometimes a company comes along that helps restore your faith in American capitalism. It is a shame that more Americans have not had the opportunity to visit In-N-Out Burger, which is just such a company.  It comes as close to the ideal of a ham...

  • May 8, 2009

    Gitmo backlash plagues Obama

    House Democrats, facing the voters next year, understand how Obama's decide first, plan later closing of Gitmo puts America at risk. Even though some of his supporters think that having said he will close is enough, the inconvenient truth is that the...

  • May 8, 2009

    Chavez seizes oil service companies

    The revolución in Venezuela follow a predictable path, as Hugo Chavez starts seizing assets of oil field service companies in Venezuela, the day after the National Assembly passed a law enabling this. Matthew Walter and Daniel Cancel of Bloomb...

  • May 7, 2009

    Warmist infighting reveals the folly of ethanol

    Those of us who believe Global Warming is a huge scam designed to profit those interests pushing it as "consensus science" just got a big boost from a powerful Democrat committee chairman in the House of Representatives. Rep. Collin Peterso...

  • May 7, 2009

    Pelosi lied about interrogation briefing

    If a CIA memorandum obtained by Jed Babbin of Human Events is genuine, then Nancy Pelosi shook her finger in the face of the nation and lied about not being told water boarding was used. A pdf version of the memo can be found here. Babbin writes...

  • May 4, 2009

    Iran Can 'Wipe Israel Out of Existence' in 11 Days

    Iranian Army General Commander Ataollah Salehi spoke on LBC television (video clip here) claiming it would take only 11 days "to wipe Israel out of existence."  But don't worry, the announcer proclaims that "according to the shari...

  • May 3, 2009

    Comments you never want to make to a coworker

    It sounds like a David Letterman bit, but it appears genuine and well-intentioned.  Joe Biden might want to take a look at the Delaware Department of Transportation's Diversity Spotlight, which is offering advice to employees on what not to say ...

  • May 2, 2009

    Another part of global warming theory 'topples'

    The fragile and tentative nature of climate science is once again on display, this time via "new data of novel high precision", obtained by glacier researchers in New Zealand, utilizing radioactive isotopes in studying behavior of a glacier...

  • May 1, 2009

    Charges to be dropped in AIPAC case

    The unprecedented charges brought against two former lobbyists for AIPAC are being dropped, after the two defendants, the first non-government civilians ever charged under the 1917 espionage act, have had to spend an estimated 5 to 10 million dollars...

  • May 1, 2009

    Pakistan doesn't waste a crisis

    Obama and the Congressional Democrats are being Allinskyed, as Pakistan panics them into sending more money with fewer strings attached. Candidate Obama may have pummeled the Bush Administration for sending $12 billion to Pakistan with too littl...

  • April 30, 2009

    Obama wins a battle in the war on corporate jets

    Cessna has announced that it is suspending development of a midsize corporate jet, the Citation Columbus, closing the factory in Bend, OR where the plane was being created. The company will return $50 million in deposits already received from willing...

  • April 30, 2009

    Australia does due diligence on Global Warming

    Lawrence Solomon, author of a book on global warming skeptics, alerts us to the global warming glasnost (his term) underway in the Australian government and press, in the National Post: With Australia's resource-based economy rocked by recession...

  • April 29, 2009

    Happy Birthday, Lucianne Goldberg

    Today is the birthday of a very special person. Lucianne Goldberg, publisher of the highly esteemed discussion forum Lucianne.com, celebrates another milestone in a life full of amazing stories.Lucianne was the person who coaxed me out of hiding, int...

  • April 29, 2009

    A small victory against 'prevailing wage' laws

    Big labor loves so-called "prevailing wage" laws, which force contractors to pay union wages on jobs performed on government contracts. In many cases, absent those laws, construction projects could be completed far more cheaply, so taxpayer...

  • April 29, 2009

    Nancy Pelosi explains it all

    Nancy Pelosi has to be the stupidest Speaker of the House in history.  Discussing Arlen Specter's decision to become a Democrat, she blurted out the Democrats' real thoughts on open government. From the Hill's Briefing Room blog:  ...

  • April 27, 2009

    The Obama cult madness deepens

    Outright Obama worship, sacreligious and offensive to many Christians, will be on display in New York's Union Square, to mark the breathtaking, world shaking 100th day in office of Barack Obama. Artist Michael D'Antuono worshipfully depicts the Presi...

  • April 27, 2009

    Taxpayers may bail out fat UAW benefits

    Bankruptcy is normally capitalism's most effective engine of creative destruction, a necessary cleansing mechanism to free up capital and labor for more productive application. But with Obama administration intervention to package a Chapter 11 filing...

  • April 26, 2009

    Murdering Miss California?

    Carrie Prejean, whose now famous answer on homosexual unions cost her the Miss USA crown, apparently has the power to inspire murderous fantasies from the powerful. Something very odd is afoot in the culture (and not just American culture), when an o...

  • April 25, 2009

    Media Sycophant of the week

    Congratulations to Mark S. Smith of the Associated Press for an extraordinary achievement in the propaganda arts. Skillfully combining the imagery Spring and rebirth with the new Obama administration, Smith helps generate the support the President ne...

  • April 24, 2009

    House Democrats shield Gore from debate on warming (Updated)

    The scandalous refusal of Al Gore to debate his contentions on global warming continues today, as House Democrats reportedly shielded him from testifying alongside Lord Christopher Monckton in a high profile hearing today. Climate Depot has an exclus...

  • April 24, 2009

    Bank of Canada head blasts Geithner's bank rescue plan

    Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of Canada, is blaming the ineffective moves of Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner for harming Canada's economy, in language unusually blunt in central banking circles. The Toronto Glove and Mail reports:Bank of Cana...

  • April 24, 2009

    A sad anniversary

    Twenty-nine years ago today Jimmy Carter micromanaged a disaster in the Iranian desert, the Desert One operation, intended to rescue the American hostages. Cuffy Meigs of Perfunction reminds us of this sad day, on which brave American soldiers lost t...

  • April 24, 2009

    Murtha Airport

    John Murtha ought to be the face of the Congressional Democrats, and the Johnstown airport named after him, upon which he has lavished at least $150 million federal dollars, ought to be the symbol of corrupt federal spending.The John Murtha Johnstown...

  • April 23, 2009

    Energy Secretary admits 'silly' position

    Marc Morano of the excellent new site Climate Depot catches the Secretary of Energy agreeing that his earlier comment on the desirability of European-level gasoline prices ($8 a gallon, at the time he made the comment) was "silly". Here is ...

  • April 23, 2009

    Pinch faces his shareholders

    Ira Stoll describes the hell Pinch Sulzberger faced this morning at the New York Times Company annual shareholders meeting in Commentary's Contentions blog. Just some of the questions Stoll recounts:One shareholder pressed the company's chairman, Art...

  • April 23, 2009

    The latest Obama flip

    Or is it a flop. I have lost count now. I am sure there will be another new position soon anyway.  Josh Gerstein reports for Politico:The White House is signaling in its clearest terms to date that President Barack Obama does not favor an indepe...

  • April 21, 2009

    Red ink mounts at the NYT

    Uh-oh! Pinch lost over $60 million last quarter, according to a press release from the New York Times Company announcing quarterly results. That would be a quarter billion dollars a year, at an annualized pace. Just about the same sum borrowed from C...

  • April 21, 2009

    Detroit city council member walks away from his mortgage

    Personal irresponsibility triumphs once again in Detroit politics. Kwame Kenyatta, who charmingly sports the first name of one African Marxist dictator who ruined his nation's former prosperity (Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana) and the last name of another (J...

  • April 19, 2009

    The Obama effect

    President Obama talks, and the world listens. Unfortunately, it also acts. The mullahs of Iran have suddenly found their regime no longer a pariah. The Jerusalem Post reports on German firm Bayerngas (Bavarian Gas) justifying a potential new energy i...

  • April 18, 2009

    Antarctic ice growing, not shrinking

    The EPA has now declared greenhouse gasses a threat, laying the foundation for sweeping controls certain to damage our economy and standard of living. Yet evidence continues to mount that global warming is a not underway. Greg Roberts of The Australi...

  • April 18, 2009

    More trouble for auto czar Rattner

    Bloomberg reports that Steven Rattner, already under investigation in New York State over possibly illegal payments to steer public pension fund management business to his firm, used an indicted adviser in New Mexico, to obtain state pension fund man...

  • April 17, 2009

    BBC officially finds Mideast bias

    The BBC has officially reviewed complaints of anti-Israel bias of its Middle East editor Jeremy Bowen, and found him biased. The Telegraph reports:The BBC Trust's editorial standards committee ruled on complaints about two pieces by Bowen, one o...

  • April 16, 2009

    Sarkozy mocks Obama

    It is almost as rare for a head of state to mock another head of state as it is for one to bow down before the other. Barack Obama has already featured in both forms of extraordinary behavior. A pro-American French blog  Sérum de Libert...

  • April 16, 2009

    Behold his glory!

    Apparently there shall be none greater than the magnificence of Barack Hussein Obama. Shocking news from Cybercast News Service: [all emphasis in the original]Georgetown University says it covered over the monogram "IHS"-- symbolizing the n...

  • April 16, 2009

    Snakes on a plane

    A Qantas plane has been grounded due to 4 pythons which escaped their container in the cargo hold. Unfortunately, Samuel L. Jackson was apparently not on board....

  • April 16, 2009

    Who sent you?

    Claims by Nancy Pelosi and Paul Krugman that the Tea Party deminstrations were arranged by a Soros-like campaign, and were astro-turf (phony grass roots) phenomena are pathetic. It is the Left which pays ACORN deminstrators, and David Axlerod, Obama'...

  • April 16, 2009

    Auto task force leader reported under investigation

    Steven Rattner, tapped by Barack Obama to head the auto industry task force, is reported to be under investigation over "payments now under scrutiny in a state and federal investigation into an alleged kickback scheme at New York state's pension...

  • April 15, 2009

    Tea party protests 'crazy' to MSM pundits

    In the Soviet Union, opponents of the regime were often declared insane and locked up. The American media, perhaps frightened by political demonstrations they don't understand, resort to the same despicable tactic. Rather than analyze, they sneer and...

  • April 14, 2009

    DHS warns of single issue groups as a threat

    Yes, it's true: those leaked documents showing that the Department of Homeland Security warning of "groups and individuals that are dedicated to a single-issue, such as opposition to abortion or immigration," are genuine. Audrey Hudson of t...

  • April 12, 2009

    UK cabinet minister recommends pandering to Islamists

    The UK social cohesion minister (yes! - there is actually a such a position) Sadiq Khan has gone on the record suggesting that Britain adopt an anti-US foreign policy so as to appease radical Pakistani youth (in Pakistan!), a major source of UK immig...

  • April 12, 2009

    Captain reportedly freed, 3 pirates dead and one captured (updated)

    Congratulations all around to the daring warriors who rescued Captain Richard Phillips and captured one of his captors alive.I am delighted that President Obama's team did not endlessly equivocate. I credit them with bringing the incident to a close....

  • April 10, 2009

    Lifestyles of the autocratic and famous

    What ever happened to leading by example? In the midst of a "financial crisis" Barack and Michelle Obama seem to be animated by a spirit of livin' large. The American press wasn't interested, so it fell to the UK Daily Mail to reveal that B...

  • April 9, 2009

    Obama doubles down on the bow to the Saudi King

    The White House is denying that President Obama bowed before the Saudi King, committing a major mistake. Ben Smith of Politico reports:"It wasn't a bow. He grasped his hand with two hands, and he's taller than King Abdullah," said an Obama ...

  • April 7, 2009

    Obama skipped Normandy visit to avoid offending Germany?

    A mostly overlooked Daily Telegraph report instructs us that White House advance teams went through the motions of exploring a presidential visit to Normandy, where thousands of American soldiers are buried after giving their lives in the cause of de...

  • April 6, 2009

    Four inches of global warming in Detroit today

    The ice bridges may be melting in Antarctica, but in Michigan NW of Detroit, the economy isn't the only thing frozen.  No, this isn't April Fools.  It's April Sixth.  A friend there sends this picture....

  • April 5, 2009

    Saving the American auto industry while driving a foreign car?

    How many of the government folks working to save GM and Chrysler (make that the UAW, actually) drive American-branded cars? Apparently not many. Andrew Malcolm and Johanna Neuman write in the LA Times:Oops, it seems that many on President Obama's tea...

  • April 4, 2009

    Drip, drip, drip -- the MSM coverup of the Presidential bow before the financier of radical Islam

    You have to look really hard to find it, but the American mainstream media are glancing at the stunning Obama bow before the King of Saudi Arabia, but only for the purpose of dismissing it.The Hotline, widely-read among political pros, publishes a br...

  • April 4, 2009

    When national leaders bow

    The 24th State blog does a review of bowing between leaders of countries, putting President Obama's deep bow to the Saudi King in context. (hat tip: Clarice Feldman) Particularly relevant are pictures of bows between other national leaders at interna...

  • April 4, 2009

    Another 'friend of the little people' shows his true colors

    Kevin Rudd, of the left wing Australian Labor Party, is Australia's prime minister. One of those brave politicians who posture as protector of the common man and woman. But Hillary Clinton Disease is a worldwide epidemic. This is London reports ...

  • April 3, 2009

    With bowed head and bended knee

    Has anyone ever seen Barack Obama publicly bow and bend his knee when meeting someone  prior to yesterday? I don't recall any photos of such a gesture of greeting, but I would be very happy if some of the President's defenders on the left could ...

  • April 3, 2009

    A sordid tale of corruption

    This story just about has it all: a six figure rip-off of public money from a public university facing major cutbacks, lying, a cover-up by higher-ups, and playing of the race card. Sex is the only missing ingredient.John Ellis, a courageous professo...

  • April 2, 2009

    Touchy Times

    Pinch Sulzberger's descent into a laughingstock accelerates. It's hard not to feel pity.  Even those who fully agree with the editorial prejudices of the New York Times are taking note of the company's peril under the leadership of the man ...

  • March 31, 2009

    Record fine for Soros 'illegal manipulation of financial markets'

    The principle financier of the Democrats, the man whose early support catapulted Obama into the lead for the nomination, the man who made billions from the stock market crash that changed everything in the fall campaign (McCain was in the lead when t...

  • March 31, 2009

    How the mighty have fallen

    The Washington Post reports that General Growth Properties, a major shopping mall developer, and owner of such landmark properties a Water Tower Place in Chicago and Tyson's Corner Mall outside DC, is having difficulty meeting its financial obligatio...

  • March 31, 2009

    South Park explains the mortgage crisis

    Trey Parker and Matt Stone of South Park have a definite conservative streak, and this week's episode of the often hilariously vulgar show was no exception. The following clip is available on YouTube for now. It is eight and a half minutes long. The ...

  • March 30, 2009

    Chris Dodd, Dem poster boy

    The New York Post reviews the "cavalcade of scandal" surrounding Connecticut senator Christopher Dodd, implicitly raising the question: why haven't the Republicans made him the daily target of corruption charges? If ever there were a poster...

  • March 30, 2009

    Embryos aren't fertilized?

    Democrats have spent years congratulating themselves on being smarter than conservatives. You can expect the media therefore to ignore appallingly stupid gaffes on the part of Ivy-educated leaders. Hillary's "smart power" diplomacy  is...

  • March 30, 2009

    How governments think about supply and demand

    Now that government has in effect seized control of General Motors, it is worthwhile considering the difference between government and private sector thinking on basic management issues. Any commercial enterprise quickly learns that it must supply pe...

  • March 28, 2009

    Obama seeking Muslims for high administration positions

    From the Denver Post:In a bid to get more Muslim Americans working in the Obama administration, a book with resumes of 45 of the nation's most qualified - Ivy League grads, Fortune 500 executives and public servants, all carefully vetted - has been s...

  • March 27, 2009

    Bill Ayers to speak in public school

    This is an abomination:William Ayers, whose history as a 1960s radical became a national campaign issue because of his association with President Barack Obama, will speak at Naperville North High School on April 8.But under certain conditions. School...

  • March 27, 2009

    Grab your wallet: Here comes the airliner bubble

    A substantial portion of the world's commercial aviation fleet is leased to airlines, rather than sold outright. One of the world's two largest aircraft leasing companies, ILFC (International Lease Finance Corporation) is owned by none other tha...

  • March 27, 2009

    First school named for Barack Obama

    Oakland today buries 4 murdered police officers, in the wake of a disgusting demonstration of support for the murderer. Perhaps this overshadows the naming of a pubic school for a living president of the United States with but two some months in offi...

  • March 26, 2009

    Green madness

    As the White House prepares to respond to an EPA request that carbon dioxide (a gas essential to sustaining life) be declared a pollutant, a move that would be disastrous for the already troubled economy, Doug Ross reviews the human toll of green mad...

  • March 26, 2009

    Marchers in Oakland support cop-killer

    Lovelle Mixon, the parolee who shot and killed four Oakland police officers, was honored last night with a march and rally in Oakland. As many as 60 people turned out. Charles Burress of the San Francisco Chronicle reports:"OPD you can't hide - ...

  • March 26, 2009

    Twisted liberal logic

    E.J. Dionne, a liberal's liberal and often a leading indicator of the liberal line, twists himself into a pretzel defending President Obama's plan to tax charitable deductions. Here is his indictment of the unfairness of it all under the current tax ...

  • March 26, 2009

    Missouri retreats on police targeting third party voters

    A Missouri State Police report that informed officers that militias are a danger, and that many militia members subscribe to fundamentalist Christian, anti-abortion or anti-immigration movements. It also informed officers that members are usually sup...

  • March 26, 2009

    Pay cut at the New York Times

    Once again the management at the New York Times Company is shocked to discover that their projections turned out to be optimistic, and business is worse than expected. So, in an apparent emergency measure to save cash, the company is imposing a 5% pa...

  • March 25, 2009

    Lefty truthful about Obama's real agenda on charitable contributions

    This writer at BeyondChron has this Obama policy about charitable tax deductions nailed:Charities are concerned that reduced deductions will translate into reduced donations, hurting nonprofits just as foundation and government support declines. But ...

  • March 24, 2009

    Your tax dollars at work

    Why is the taxpayer-funded Voice of America, chartered to help America's image overseas, trading in unproven allegations of CIA torture of detainees? And why illustrate the article with a picture from Abu Ghraib? Check out this article on the VOA's w...

  • March 23, 2009

    Mark Levin's Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto

    Mark Levin's new book, published today, is essential reading. It is a remarkable work on several different levels. It takes no degree of clairvoyance to predict that it will become an enormous best seller and very soon begin to influence the national...

  • March 23, 2009

    Obama's 'gallows humor'

    Steve Kroft's interview of President Obama on 60 Minutes has yielded its most famous quote. From USA Today's account: Obama occasionally laughed during discussion of the nation's economic woes, prompting interviewer Steve Kroft to ask, "Are you ...

  • March 23, 2009

    Another formerly useful idiot

    Mike Lupica of the New York Daily News, who "would have voted for [Obama] twice if they'd let me" is showing signs of buyer's remorse. In a column whose headline tells the President to "forget the popularity contest," he writes:.....

  • March 23, 2009

    Another 70's radical freed

    Sara Jane Olsen, the former Symbionese Liberation Army radical who was a fugitive from justice for a quarter of a century, has completed half of her 14 year prison sentence in California for placing shrapnel-laden pipe bombs under LAPD squad cars, an...

  • March 22, 2009

    4 Oakland police officers slain by parolee

    A paroled criminal shot and killed four Oakland police officers yesterday in crime-plagued East Oakland.  Once again, guardians of the public order have paid the ultimate price for the safety of the rest of us. The families, friends, and loved o...

  • March 21, 2009

    They're coming for you today

    Obama supporters are knocking on doors today, to try to get Americans to pledge personal loyalty to the President, as they have already done.The irrepressible Big Fur Hat of iOwnTheWorld was reminded of a movie classic, which he has updated.The movie...

  • March 21, 2009

    College scholarship for illegals only

    The San Mateo Community College District, on the San Francisco Peninsula, has sent a mass email announcing a scholarship for "undocumented" students of "Chicano / Latino descent" only. Here is the full text of an ungrammatica...

  • March 21, 2009

    Was Natasha Richardson a victim of government health care?

    Maybe the American medical system isn't so bad after all.President Obama and his supporters bemoan the American medical system with little or no understanding of the excellence that stands to be lost if we follow their guidance and institute a nation...

  • March 19, 2009

    Leftist union battles its own union

    Barack Obama's favorite union, the Service Employees Internal Union (SEIU), headed by Andrew Stern, is battling a union formed by its own employees. Hypocrisy rarely appears in such a pure and distilled form. If I recall correctly, ACORN has asked to...

  • March 19, 2009

    Welcome to national health care (updated)

    When the renowned efficiency of government bureaucracy gets ahold of your health care, this is predictable. Via AFP:Britain apologises for 'Third World' hospitalThe British government apologised Wednesday after a damning official report into a hospit...

  • March 19, 2009

    Speaking of bonuses, what about the educrats?

    Now that President Obama and the Dems have laid out the principle that paying bonuses the failed executives, where's the outrage over taxpayer funds being paid as bonuses to principals of failed public schools?Diette Courrégé of the Cha...

  • March 18, 2009

    White House Teleprompter Meltdown

    Barack Obama's dependence on a teleprompter may become the defining dependency of his presidency. He dodged fate yesterday, at a St Patrick's Day party with Ireland's Prime Minister Brian Cowen as his guest. The luck of the Irish favored O'Bama, not ...

  • March 18, 2009

    AIG bonus outrage exposed as a White House con game

    President Obama's credibility takes yet another hit, as the White House anger expressed over AIG bonus payments has proven to be, in the New York Post's words, "Manufactured outrage." As the utter phoniness of the calculated demagoguer...

  • March 17, 2009

    Federal Bureaucrats strike back at pay-for-performance

    Government worker unions object to measuring and rewarding performance in federal employees, so implementation of the planned National Security Personnel System is being held up. Joe Davidson of the WaPo reports:The Pentagon has temporarily stopped m...

  • March 17, 2009

    Short-circuiting capitalism's self-correcting mechanisms (updated)

    John Hinderaker of Power Line makes the essential point about the AIG bonus imbroglio: allowing AIG to go bankrupt would abrogate the bonus obligations the firm contractually entered into. Keeping the company alive and 80% owned by taxpayers merely s...

  • March 17, 2009

    Worst comparison of the day

    Usually we don't do news-of-the-weird topics in the AT blog, but this simile demands notice. On one level, it is a perfect example of a comparison that is relevant to anyone. But on a couple of other levels it is just wrong, not suitable for public d...

  • March 16, 2009

    The Obama pledge

    Another polarizing move from Barack Obama. His permanent campaign is organizing a political organization loyal to him, bound by a pledge, outside the government and existing party apparatus. The historical precedents are ominous. Only this time aroun...

  • March 16, 2009

    Are Obama Fingers racist?

    Pity the poor overseas entrepreneur hoping to capitalize on Obama's status as the biggest celebrity in the world. The American political correctness minefield awaits.Case in point: Obama Fingers.Charles Hawley of Der Spiegel points to the  new G...

  • March 15, 2009

    Obama's science hypocrisy

    President Obama makes claims about the importance of objective science, in support of his fetal stem cell decision, that he fails to apply to the global warming  debate.It is about ensuring that scientific data is never distorted or concealed to...

  • March 15, 2009

    Failing newspaper notes conservative talk radio woes

    Michael Finnegan of the Los Angeles Times wishfully all but writes an obituary for conservative talk radio in California.But for all the anti-tax swagger and the occasional stunts by personalities like KFI's John and Ken, the reality is that conserva...

  • March 13, 2009

    Safety of US Treausury Notes questioned by China

    Thinking the unthinkable out loud, from the top, in the midst of a world financial crisis. If the world stops trusting Treasuries, America will have to pay for what we consume from abroad out of foreign currency earnings. Belinda Cao and Judy Chen of...

  • March 12, 2009

    The New York Times death spiral continues

    Bye, bye corporate jet! At long last, the beleaguered company is sacrificing top management's plaything, the ultimate status symbol. A long overdue cost saving mechanism in a time when the company's workers endure downsizing and cost reductions, even...

  • March 11, 2009

    The New American Class Structure

    A new aristocracy walks among us. The formerly enormous middle class that dominated the American social structure for most of a century is crumbling before our eyes, as retirement accounts and home equity evaporate, while health care costs conti...

  • March 10, 2009

    Politically correct ethnic cleansing?

    The world, including the United States government and most so-called human rights groups, remains virtually mute when it comes to one of the largest and longest programs of ethnic cleansing ever undertaken. Imagine if the United States had a law allo...

  • March 10, 2009

    Chas Freeman withdraws

    Chas Freeman has withdrawn from consideration for office, reports Jake Tapper, star reporter on the story of the appointment of the Saudi-funded retired diplomat to the sensitive position of National Intelligence Council chairman.A statement from Dir...

  • March 8, 2009

    Behind Roger Cohen's useful idiocy

    New York Times columnist Roger Cohen has finally founder a defender in the blogosphere, in a manner of speaking. Cohen has received much ridicule  for averring that Iran's regime really isn't that bad, because they were nice to him when he visit...

  • March 7, 2009

    Coming soon: The glories of socialized medicine

    National health care is coming as one of President Obama's promises of change. So Americans can brace themselves for denial of care when bureaucrats decide that their remaining life span, quality of life (as seen by bureaucrats), or sheer cost make i...

  • March 7, 2009

    Sulzberger seismology: Bringing up baby

    Last November, AT informed readers that Pinch Sulzberger quietly moved his son Arthur Gregg Sulzberger into the New York Times Company, after the heir had served an apprenticeship of sorts with the Portland Oregonian. Now, Gawker updates us on the sc...

  • March 6, 2009

    Barney's Pre-emptive Prosecution

    The man who has the most to lose from a fair investigation of the Fannie, Freddie and the financial crisis wants to make sure prosecutors understand who the proper targets are. Kevin Drawbaugh and John Poirier of Reuters report about Barney Frank's p...

  • March 5, 2009

    Different presidents, a different Corps

    Stunning video comparison of 2 presidents and the Marines serving them.Hat tip: MILINET...

  • March 4, 2009

    The other side of interdependence

    Democrat Senator Evan Bayh opposes some of the Democrats' massive spending (good for him!), and notes the facts of life for a debtor nation:Washington borrows from foreign creditors to fund its profligacy. The amount of U.S. debt held by countries su...

  • March 3, 2009

    It gets worse in Venezuela (updated)

    Signs emerge that antisemitism is being systematized and bureaucratized in Venezuela, while the regime moves to officially identify its media opponents. Daniel, of Venezuela News and Views, updates us on the descent of a regime from democracy to Marx...

  • March 3, 2009

    NYT useful idiot update (updated further)

    Roger Cohen, the New York Times columnist who carries on the paper's  tradition of shilling for tyrants, has received a telling honor from Iran's leaders -- the folks who have announced their intention to wipe Israel off the map, and are ra...

  • March 2, 2009

    The Cure for Poverty

    A generation or two of American school children have grown up without a clue about how wealth is created. If they ever think about the people who organize and create businesses, the people who actually create wealth and carry out the innovations that...

  • March 2, 2009

    The Obama marketing magic

    Fascinating insights into the Obama campaign's success are drawn by Doug Ross's review of Doug Hall's revolutionary book Jump Start Your Marketing Brain (2005), a quantitative approach to analyzing successful marketing programs. Hall identifies three...

  • March 2, 2009

    The new American labor aristocracy

    Worried about being able to afford retirement and medical care? Lots of us are, but one group of labor aristocrats is supremely insulated from such mundane worry. Their pensions are guaranteed to rise with inflation, and may never be reduced. They ar...

  • March 1, 2009

    States and terror networks

    A long simmering dispute continues to evoke harsh feelings. Was Iraq involved in 9/11? The accepted response, that Al Qaeda acted without any sponsorship from Saddam, is not believed by everyone."To what extent are the networks of Islamic milita...

  • March 1, 2009

    NYT Useful idiot Roger Cohen snipes at American Thinker

    It is sad spectacle when a NYT columnist is reduced to responding to serious criticism by making a joke about a name rather than replying in substance. It becomes tragic when the columnist is behaving as a useful idiot defending a regime dedicated to...

  • February 28, 2009

    Media idiot of the day

    Combine Obama idolatry with malignant fanning of racism, and you get today's winner. The title goes to Jon-Christopher Bua, political analyst for Sky News, whose embarrassing near-orgasmic tribute to Obama betrays a singular lack of knowledge, combin...

  • February 28, 2009

    Blog hero Steve Gilbert to receive CPAC award at 1 PM EST

    My admiration for Steve Gilbert is boundless. The creator of Sweetness & Light , AT author before S&L, and peerless researcher/analyst/website creator for others, Steve has played an important role in defining, shaping, and informing conserva...

  • February 27, 2009

    Airbrushing Obama's name off earmarks

    History is written by the victors, so they say, and Obama famously declared, "I won." So the evidence he sponsored earmarks (which he is publicly speaking against) must be destroyed. Jonathan Allen of CQ Politics reports on the process of h...

  • February 26, 2009

    Spreading misery via unions

    A small company in North Carolina and its former unionized employees (mostly black) faces disaster. Kristin Collins of the Raleigh News and Observer reports:The union workers at Moncure Plywood had no idea when they walked off the job in July...

  • February 26, 2009

    Behind the scenes at Jindal's response

    Bobby Jindal's microphone was hot (an audio feed was available to the press) prior to his response to President Obama Tuesday night. He knew this, and proceeded to reveal interesting aspects of his state of mind just before going live. Nothing scanda...

  • February 25, 2009

    Obama's shaky claims before Congress (updated)

    If I were president I'd make damn sure every claim I made in an address before a joint session of Congress was verifiable. Last night, President Obama made two very dubious claims.The automobile was invented in AmericaYes, Henry Ford made the automob...

  • February 25, 2009

    Where's the outrage?

    Big Media goes ballistic over a chimp cartoon in the New York Post, but averts its eyes when one of their own fabricates a much more egregious insult intended to discredit a journalist at Fox News, based on doctoring a video clip. Apparently, it is o...

  • February 25, 2009

    Dilbert on the bailout hearings

    Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert, is one of our sharpest satirists. His Dilbert cartoon today wonderfully pokes fun at the pompous senators who raked executives over the coals. Check out the Dilbert site to see the strip. As I read the terms of u...

  • February 25, 2009

    'Consensus' on global warming collapsing

    Prominent Japanese scientists have made a "dramatic break" with the IPCC findings. From the Register (UK):Kanya Kusano is Program Director and Group Leader for the Earth Simulator at the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science & Tech...

  • February 25, 2009

    Airbrushing Obama's name off earmarks

    History is written by the victors, so they say, and Obama famously declared, "I won." So the evidence he sponsored earmarks (which he is publicly speaking against) must be destroyed. Jonathan Allen of CQ Politics reports on the process of h...

  • February 24, 2009

    Dem culture of corruption (cont.)

    Two members of Joe Biden's family were in business with accused mega-crook, R. Allen Stanford, suspected of swindling $8 billion. Biden's son Hunter and his brother James actually received $2.7 million from the accused swindler. According to Fox News...

  • February 24, 2009

    Democrat hypocrites

    Without question, the Democratic Party has become the part of "Do as I say, not as I do." How else to explain putting a tax cheat in charge of tax collection? Or a President who plans to wreck the economy with limits on carbon emissions, wh...

  • February 24, 2009

    The great American bargain housing bazaar

    Markets have a way of self-correcting if governments get out of the way. The latest example is the housing market, where plunging prices are starting to attract bargain hunters -- including foreigners anxious to exchange their renminbi for dollars (h...

  • February 23, 2009

    Philly newspapers bankrupt

    The latest newspaper publisher to declare bankruptcy is the publisher of the Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily News. As in the case of the Tribune Company and Minneapolis Star-Tribune, the newspapers were purchased by someone promising to ...

  • February 23, 2009

    NYT covers Murdoch newspaper woes

    The New York Times, whose circulation and advertising revenue are declining at crisis levels, and which just halted payment of dividends to shareholders, reports on the troubles rival Rupert Murdoch has encountered with the newspaper holdings of News...

  • February 23, 2009

    Who caused the mortgage crisis?

    A reader reminds us of this remarkable article from the New York Times in 1999 (before Bush 43 took office), headlined, "Fannie Mae Eases Credit To Aid Mortgage Lending." Some excerpts (emphases mine): ...Fannie Mae Corporation is easing th...

  • February 21, 2009

    UK schools teaching students to see things through terrorists' eyes

    A frightening degree of liberal insanity flourishes in the United Kingdom, where schools are actually adopting a curriculum to teach pupils to understand, and perhaps even sympathize with the terrorists who attack innocent civilians there (and elsewh...

  • February 19, 2009

    Iran destroys Sufi holy site

    The mullahs running Iran will tolerate no religious doctrine other than their own. Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty reports:A house of worship of the Gonabadi dervishes in Isfahan has reportedly been destroyed by the Iranian authorities. The reason fo...

  • February 19, 2009

    New York Times suspends dividend

    Members of the Sulzberger family are going to have to find new ways to pay their bills, as the New York Times Company suspends its dividend.NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The New York Times Company's Board of Directors today voted to suspend the quarterl...

  • February 18, 2009

    Problems with fetal stem cell 'cure'

    Fetal stem cell research became a craze on the left when it appeared that it could be used to justify "harvesting" of fetuses, thereby reinforcing the notion that human beings in utero are objects to be used for the benefit of others. Those...

  • February 17, 2009

    A tough 12 months for global warming theorists

    NOAA provides a map showing US average temperatures from Feb 2008 to Jan 2009. Read it and weep, Al Gore.Hat tip: Director Blue...

  • February 17, 2009

    No cuts or caps for executive salaries in Big Education

    Receiving federal assistance may entail pay cuts for fat cat executives in business, but no such worries for highly paid big shots in higher education. One of the largest industries in America, one far more dependent on federal largess than Wall Stre...

  • February 17, 2009

    The next big financial scandal

    Critical mass of public attention has been reached. A financial scandal uncovered by a blogger has led to charges of a massive financial scandal. It is yet  another financial scheme luring in investors with returns that actually w...

  • February 16, 2009

    Venezuela's Presidente for life?

    Hugo Chavez has won a referendum in Venezuela, abolishing the term limits that would have forced him out of office after the end of his current 10 year term in 2013.Was the referendum conducted honestly? We may never know. But Simon Romero of the New...

  • February 16, 2009

    New PBS outrage

    Our federally-funded propaganda broadcaster is dispensing with any pretense of nonpartisanship in a new documentary. Dan Riehl discovered via an Irish (!) source that only members of one party are interviewed on the reasons for the housing collapse:P...

  • February 15, 2009

    Obama delays signing 'urgent' stimulus for Chicago fun

    After telling the nation it was so urgent to pass the stimulus bill there was no time to even read it, President Obama took off for Chicago with wife Michelle, to dine at a fancy Chicago restaurant and spend the night at home in Hyde Park for Valenti...

  • February 15, 2009

    Saudi money behind wife-beheader's TV operation?

    Muzzammil Hassan, the man who started a TV operation to improve the image of Islam, and then beheaded his wife, turns out to be something of an international man of mystery. Dan Riehl has been researching his background, and discovered that, despite ...

  • February 13, 2009

    Muslim mob attacks Jewish center in Toronto

    Something approaching open season for attacks on Jews appears to be in force in Toronto. On the campus of York University, a Muslim mob attacked the Hillel House, pounding on the door and yelling antisemitic slogans. Unbelievably, according to this a...

  • February 13, 2009

    Here come exploding welfare rolls

    It's all about incentives, and buried in the stimulus bill is a huge inducement for states to explode the numbers of people receiving welfare. The editors of National Review spotted the fatal provision:Under the provisions in the stimulus bill, state...

  • February 13, 2009

    The buffoonery of Charles Rangel on display

    We live at an odd moment in time, when powerful politicians have no shame in flaunting their ignorance on the most pressing political issue of the day. Case in point: Charles Rangel, the most powerful individual shaping our tax code, who infamously ...

  • February 12, 2009

    Jindal to give SoTU response

    Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal has been asked by John Boehner to give the GOP response to BHO’s State of the Union address. A rising GOP star will get national exposure. Jindal is facing severe budget problems in Louisiana, where tax revenues ...

  • February 11, 2009

    Gaming public pensions

    Most government employees are different than you and me. They have more job security, better health care plans, and most of all, most enjoy defined benefit pensions, guaranteed by the government's ability to take money away from us and give it to the...

  • February 10, 2009

    A big Ploufe payoff hits a snag

    Obama campaign manager David Ploufe received $50,000 for a speech Monday in the repressive American ally Azerbaijan, a lucrative gig arranged by lobbyists. Subsequently, Ploufe has announced he is donating the lucre to "pro-democracy groups...

  • February 10, 2009

    Obama fear-mongering working to depress travel

    Dramatic evidence that Americans are cutting back on discretionary spending in the face of their President's prediction of doom. I made a quick trip to Chicago over the last few days, and was stunned by the empty airplanes and terminals I found in bo...

  • February 10, 2009

    Looting higher education (updated)

    Liberal elites often demonstrate contempt for ordinary Americans, on the assumption that rules for proles don't apply to them. The University of California System has been looted by senior managers over the last several years, something we have noted...

  • February 6, 2009

    Sen. Stabenow threatens talk radio with 'accountability'

    The specter of government censorship of political discussion on talk radio looms larger, as Senator Debbie Stabenow of Michigan tells radio host Bill Press (via Politico and Michael Calderone):I think it's absolutely time to pass a standard. Now, whe...

  • February 6, 2009

    The variable literary craftsmanship of Barack Obama

    For some strange reason, the literary gifts Barack Obama showed in his two autobiographies are nowhere in evidence in his op-ed yesterday in the WaPo. Kevin Williamson notes the poor quality of writing in the op-ed. Isn't it odd that a literary maste...

  • February 5, 2009

    The California implosion begins

    The most fiscally irresponsible state government is beginning to discover that it cannot continue its high handed ways. It is one thing to tell taxpayers they will have to wait for their tax refund checks until the state comes up with cash. But it is...

  • February 4, 2009

    The newspaper cartel?

    Desperate times for the newspaper industry have sparked a rash of terrible ideas. The overwhelmingly left wing industry flaunts its ignorance of the way markets work, and its collectivist/monopolist mentality. The latest embarrassment comes from Tim ...

  • February 3, 2009

    Form 1040 Dem

    Jeff Dobbs of The Voice in My Head took to heart Clarice Feldman's blog item about the need for a new tax form for Democrats, allowing them choose how much income they wish to report. Here it is:...

  • February 1, 2009

    Hamas Hummus (updated)

    Must-see TV. It may sound like an appetizer, but it is really just deserts.Hat tip: MGUpdate: Kate McMillan writes:What one Hamas mother said to the other Hamas mother..."They blow up so fast."...

  • January 30, 2009

    Did Hamas lose in Gaza?

    Mark N. Katz argues that Hamas did not win in Gaza, despite the contention that it has survived, gained in stature, and remains committed to eliminating Israel. Hezb'allah in 2006 was accorded a victory in many eyes.Prof. Katz thinks there is a reaso...

  • January 29, 2009

    Obamas' Chicago private chef comes to the White House

    It turns out the Obamas were living quite the high life in Chicago, employing the services of a very high-end private chef to cook for them. No word yet on whether Tony Rezko helped out with purchasing the time of Sam Kass, described by New York Time...

  • January 29, 2009

    WaPo shows the NYT how it is done (updated)

    Not every newspaper company is faltering as badly as the New York Times under Pinch Sulzberger. The Washington Post has just been awarded an A rating on a proposed new issue of debt by Standard and Poor's, and an A1 rating by Moody's, the agency whic...

  • January 28, 2009

    It's like Christmas for Democrat interest groups

    The stimulus bill written by the Democrats looks like a Christmas wish list for every interest group in their coalition.  The "Review and Outlook" column in today's Wall Street Journal has some startling facts about it. By the Journal'...

  • January 28, 2009

    Google covers President O's flank

    Google has changed the rules on its search engine to protect President Obama from the same sort of mockery it allowed of President Bush.For better or worse, Google's search engine has become the principal index for online information, giving the comp...

  • January 28, 2009

    'Mutual respect and mutual interest' with these guys?

    President Obama used the momentous occasion of his first television interview in office to address the Muslim world, and call for "mutual respect and mutual interest." Among those in the Muslim world are plenty of people who agree with Egyp...

  • January 28, 2009

    How California home schoolers struck back

    The website Culture 11 contains a good account by Tom Meyer of an ongoing attempt to ban home schooling in California, and how Golden State home schoolers have fought back (so far). As is so typical with liberal dictates to the rest of us, a judge wa...

  • January 27, 2009

    Why even call it a 'secret' lab?

    Our atomic secrets at Oak Ridge National Labs have been stolen by a low level employee. This Department of Justice document announcing a guilty plea is alarming. See the highlighted material if you are in a hurry:WASHINGTON - Roy Lynn Oakley, 67, a r...

  • January 27, 2009

    Obama's 'transparency' means no written record

    Promises of "transparency" by Obama increasingly looks like a Big Lie strategy. The latest example was noted by Mary Katherine Ham at the Weekly Standard:It's been four days since Press Secretary Robert Gibbs' first (and widely panned) appe...

  • January 26, 2009

    The Gray Lady turns a deathly shade of pale

    Arthur Ochs "Pinch" Sulzberger Jr. has driven the proudest institution in journalism to the doorstep of ruin, its corporate debt earning the humiliating label of "junk" from Moody's Investors Services. And it wasn't just a slide o...

  • January 26, 2009

    Sweetness & Light CPAC blog of the year

    Congratulations to Steve Gilbert of Sweetness & Light on being named CPAC's blog of the year. In a characteristically witty post, Steve discusses the awards ceremony to be held at CPAC's annual meeting in DC.AT readers have known of Steve's amazi...

  • January 26, 2009

    Who owns Chrysler?

    Your bailout money is going to anonymous investors. If the US Treasury is bailing out Chrysler, shouldn't the public know who owns it? Astonishingly, it appears that we don't know, and the government hasn't even asked. Robert Farago of The Truth abou...

  • January 25, 2009

    Think it can't happen here?

    Watch and weep as British police are humiliated on the streets of London by a Muslim Mob:Alas! The video has been taken off YouTube. ...

  • January 25, 2009

    Media averts eyes from subpoenas to Obama top staff

    "And on the fifth day, subpoenas were served to Obama senior staff."That's how Doug Ross of Director Blue puts it, describing the import of the story the media chose to ignore. In the deadest news hole of the week, Saturday, the list of sub...

  • January 24, 2009

    Pretty Poison

    Sometimes, synthetically-created phenomena can be both attractive and poisonous. Some colorful substances waiting for proper disposal at a defunct Silicon Valley factory:So know your rights and get rid of them in accord with the law....

  • January 21, 2009

    Fawning media embarrasses itself

    The media out outdoing each other in an escalating battle of fawning. Reuters makes a strong bid for the gold, with a piece suggesting that Obama is simply too handsome to caricature. New US President Barack Obama is too good-looking to provide inspi...

  • January 21, 2009

    The smoker-in-chief (Updated)

    It's been a long time since we've had a smoker in the White House. The media, of course, never really got around to telling the American public that the Democratic candidate for president was a nicotine addict. Even now, they prefer to write stories ...

  • January 20, 2009

    AQ was preparing bio weapon in plague outbreak: report

    Eli Lake, writing in the Washington Times, reports that the outbreak of plague among Al Qaeda operatives in Algeria reported yesterday by the UK Sun, was actually a bungled bio-weapons operation. An al Qaeda affiliate in Algeria closed a base earlier...

  • January 20, 2009

    Immortal BDS?

    Will Bush Derangement Syndrome vanish in a cloud of hope and change? Don't bet on it.Noel Sheppard writes a history of BDS ay Newsbusters and posits (correctly, I believe) that it will never go away. Many members of the American left have made Bush d...

  • January 20, 2009

    The anomalous Oath

    As everyone noticed, President Obama flubbed his oath of office. Twice. And he used his middle name Hussein. But one other circumstance was more fascinating.He took the oath as "Barack Hussein Obama" not as "Barack Hussein Obama, Junio...

  • January 20, 2009

    The age of Obama humor (updated with more humor)

    We probably will never know what George W. Bush said to Obama in that final embrace before the helicopter formerly (and soon again) known as Marine One took the ex-president to Andrews Air Force Base. But I'd like to imagine it was something along th...

  • January 20, 2009

    NYT gets no boost from deal with Mexican billionaire

    The deal the New York Times struck with Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim has done nothing for its share price. The stock closed down 50 cents today, closing at $5.91. That's understandable: the company is paying a whopping 14% interest rate, 11% in ca...

  • January 19, 2009

    Obama and Islam: the rules change

    Now that he is elected and almost inaugurated, the rules of public discourse have changed when it comes to Barack Obama and Islam. During the campaign, you were a racist if you noticed that his middle name is Hussein. If you added that his father was...

  • January 19, 2009

    UN ambulance used for Hamas troop transport (video)

    Don't hold your breath waiting for Ban Ki Moon to express outrage over UN facilities being used for combat purposes. Watch this video from Live Leak and see for yourself that the UN is far from a neutral observer in Gaza.Hat tip: MG...

  • January 19, 2009

    Pinch's den of thieves

    Would the New York Times take as a partner a man it virtually labeled a thief? Apparently so. The website Reflections of a Newsosaur discovered that Carlos Slim, the Mexican billionaire reported to be in talks to invest in NY Times preferred sto...

  • January 18, 2009

    An Inaugural omen for health care?

    Larwyn, a regular correspondent of ours and many other sites, makes a terrific point about the Obama inauguration: There's going to be 1 toilet for every 6,849 people (hat tip: Fausta). These are the folks who want to take over the provision of healt...

  • January 18, 2009

    Nuevo York Times?

    Last night, citing unnamed sources, the WSJ reported on its website that the New York Times Company is in talks with Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim, who is said to be interested in purchasing a new issue of preferred stock, as a way of injecting new...

  • January 17, 2009

    Obama's search for a dog

    Those wags at The People's Cube have found the answer for Obama's quest for the right dog. It turns out he already has one. Presented in cartoon format so even the Obama base can understand it. If nothing else, the Obama years promise a golden age of...

  • January 17, 2009

    The Flight 1549 blame game (updated)

    It didn't take long for the warmists to blame the US Airways crash on global warming, which is, after all, deemed responsible for anything bad. Time Magazine, which was once widely read, sprang into action:While officials use radar and radio collars ...

  • January 15, 2009

    Who is left in Gitmo?

    Barack Obama is going to have a tough crew to deal with when he closes down Gitmo, assuming he keeps his promise. These are not people in the wrong place at the wrong time. Ray Robison points to a report form the liberal Brookings Institution in the ...

  • January 15, 2009

    Chavez suddenly wants to be pals with oil companies

    What a difference low oil prices make! Bully boy Hugo Chavez expropriated oil companies operating in Venezuela when prices were high. But now that his oil revenues have fallen and Venezuelan production declined (turns out that running an oil producti...

  • January 14, 2009

    Calling out warmist bullies

    It should come as no surprise to find courage coming from the United States Naval Academy. But when the subject is global warming, it is a pleasant confirmation of a more general point. Professor Mark Campbell of the USNA is yet another hero from Ann...

  • January 14, 2009

    Was there a 'scientific consensus' on this?

    Nature is a lot more complex than many supposed scientists realize. Even in relatively simple systems like the ecology of an island, not to mention the global climate system. The latest example comes from Macquarie Island, declared a "world heri...

  • January 13, 2009

    No experience necessary?

    Barack Obama's team is top-heavy with academics. His touching faith in professors and lack of emphasis on practical experience extends to his pick for Solicitor General, the government's lawyer in court cases, Harvard Law School Dean Elena Kagan.Desp...

  • January 13, 2009

    Labor aristocrats on the public payroll

    The average employee of New York City earns $106,743, including the cost of fringe benefits. Thanks to unionization and politicians who appreciate the power of public employees as a voting bloc, wages of government workers are far outstripping those ...

  • January 12, 2009

    Another prominent scientist ridicules global warming theory

    Princeton University physics professor William Happer, director of the Office of Energy Research in the U.S. Department of Energy under President George H.W. Bush, has put himself on the record dissenting on anthropogenic global warming (AGW) theorie...

  • January 12, 2009

    Layoffs hit Planned Parenthood

    There's an unexpected upside to the Madoff scandal. Life News reports that one of the foundations affected by investments with Madoff was the Florida-based Picower Foundation, a heavy supporter of Planned Parenthood and other abortion groups.The Flor...

  • January 11, 2009

    A frightening Obama appointment

    The Wall Street Journal calls her "President Gulliver's Lawyer" because she wants to tie down the ability of the President to act against terror. And now President-elect Obama has named her to a post where she can do exactly that. Meet Dawn...

  • January 11, 2009

    War Crimes in Gaza

    Photos of Hamas kidnapping children for use as human shields have been posted on Director Blue. Go there and see for yourself. As Doug Ross writes: "Who is violating international law? Who has raped the Geneva Convention? This video will answer ...

  • January 10, 2009

    PBS host: 'We're all working for Obama'

    Joining MSNBC's Chris Matthews, taxpayer-funded PBS host Tavis Smiley has publicly declared his devotion to Barack Obama. Mark Finkelstein of Newsbusters has the story:The host of Tavis Smiley on PBS was a guest on Morning Joe.  Reacting to Harr...

  • January 10, 2009

    Who donated millions to Leon Panetta's foundation?

    Debbie Schlussel raises excellent questions about the source of CIA Director-designate Leon Panetta's source of income for the last several years, the Leon and Sylvia Panetta Institute for Public Policy. According to records, the tax-exempt foundatio...

  • January 9, 2009

    Italian union targets Jewish-owned businesses

    The world once again careens toward the madness of naked, shameless Jew-hatred. In Rome, Giancarlo Desiderati, president of a trade union representing 8000 shop assistants called for a plan to "identify and boycott" Jewish-owned shops. From...

  • January 9, 2009

    Obama Ministry of Truth favors 'recovery' not 'recession'

    The forthcoming Obama Administration looks like it will be in permanent campaign mode, using the assorted techniques of propaganda to sell its policies much as it sold the candidate. Hans Nichols and Lorraine Woellert of Bloomberg report:David Axelro...

  • January 9, 2009

    CNN busted running phony Gaza propaganda, doesn't fess up (updated)

    Down the memory hole goes fake video run by CNN to tug on viewers' heartstrings, following its debunking by clear-headed observers. The "most trusted name in news" lacks the integrity to fess up for channeling Palestinian propaganda, though...

  • January 8, 2009

    Rioters rampage in downtown Oakland

    Protesters decrying an allegedly unjust New Year's Day police shooting of a man involved in an altercation at a BART (rapid transit) station smashed store windows, and car windows, burned several cars (including police car) and blocked streets and tr...

  • January 8, 2009

    PETA jumps the sea tiger

    The fanatics at PETA continue to marginalize themselves with ever more ridiculous demands. Sweetness & Light brings to our attention the latest nuttiness:RADICAL international animal rights group PETA has launched its most bizarre campaign yet, d...

  • January 7, 2009

    LA Times gives column space to deported Hamas terrorist

    How low can a newspaper go? The LA Times edges closer to Der Stürmer territory, giving precious op-ed space to Hamas terrorist Mousa Abu Marzook, deported from the US in 1997. Little Green Footballs notices, and urges readers to contact the pape...

  • January 6, 2009

    Welcome to Big Hollywood

    Can Hollywood be rescued from the left? A small sign of hope begins today.Andrew Breitbart, website creator extraordinaire (he set up Drudge and the Huffington Post for their owners), today debuts his latest creation, Big Hollywood, a site intended t...

  • January 5, 2009

    Pro-Israel rally in Paris

    The day after a large pro-Palestinian demonstration in Paris, thousands turned out for a pro-Israel demonstration. Ynet News reports: Several thousand demonstrators waved Israeli flags and sang Hebrew hymns in Paris Sunday to show support for Israel ...

  • January 5, 2009

    Documenting the Global Warming Fraud (continued)

    The scientific fraud underlying global warming theory is starting to be exposed (see our first post on the subject), as data manipulations have been discovered,  and now, news of the placement of temperature measuring devices in locations design...

  • January 5, 2009

    Only one president-elect at a time

    It turns out that the presidency is a pretty thorny job after all. It's hard to be all things to all people, and "change" and "hope" are not policies. Who knew?Barack Obama is already taking flack from the Muslim world. Powerline ...

  • January 3, 2009

    Aussie senator denounces global warming scheme

    Australia's ruling Labor Party is seeking to impose an expensive emissions trading scheme. Barnaby Joyce, the leader of the small conservative National Party in the Australian Senate has denounced the move in unusually pointed language. Perhaps the G...

  • January 3, 2009

    Obama dodging questions

    An amusing YouTube compilation of the President-elect dodging questions, by Mary Katherine Ham. So much for transparency and openness. ...

  • January 3, 2009

    Harry Reid pressured Blago to not appoint blacks to Senate

    Noel Sheppard of Newsbusters reveals an amazing and unremarked-upon bit of reportage in the Chicago Sun-Times today. Days before Gov. Blagojevich was charged with trying to sell President-elect Barack Obama's U.S. Senate seat to the highest bidder, t...

  • January 3, 2009

    America's newest pundit: Bill Ayers

    How low will the Huffington Post go? Unrepentant terrorist Bill Ayers is now writing for Arianna Huffington's creation. Sweetness & Light notes:Mind you, only yesterday the Politico was just saying how the HuffPo was scooping the mainstream media...

  • January 2, 2009

    Roland Burris and justice (updated)

    Blago's appointment of Roland Burris to the Obama Senate seat was greeted with widespread praise for the designee as an honest man swimming untainted in the Chicago political sewer. But disturbing indicators of something other than a distinguished el...

  • January 2, 2009

    The Dems' Burris fiasco just gets better and better

    The GOP may have to relinquish its title as "the stupid party" if the Dems follow through on their idiotic plan to physically bar Roland Burris from the Senate floor next Tuesday when the new Congress is seated. CNN reports:  [An]...

  • January 2, 2009

    California mulls paying bills with IOU's

    When a company runs out of money with which to pay its bills, involuntary bankruptcy usually follows. But the State of California, which is expected run out of money at the end of February, plans to pay at least some bills with what amount to IOU's (...

  • January 1, 2009

    The monumental achievements of Roland Burris

    Nobody can say that the senate appointee of Governor Blago isn't prepared to meet his maker. The "pre-need" arrangements Roland Burris has made for his tomb ("grave" seems inadequate to describe it) reveal a healthy ego at work. W...

  • January 1, 2009

    Roland Burris advocated 'reparations' for slavery

    Grab your wallets! Blago's guy Roland Burris has a history of advocating payments to black Americans as "reparations for slavery. Internet sleuth extraordinaire Steve Gilbert has unearthed  from the years 2000, 2004, and 2005 in which senat...

  • January 1, 2009

    Crunch Time for Bobby Jindal

    2009 is looking like a difficult year for Louisiana and its rising star governor, Bobby Jindal. Falling oil prices have hit state revenues very hard. Louisiana columnist and talk show host Jim Brown estimates a $1.2 billion dollars decline in oil-rel...

  • December 31, 2008

    Hamas legalizes crucifixion

    And almost nobody noticed. No kidding! Caroline Glick of the Jerusalem Post reported that on December 23rd: Hamas legislators marked the Christmas season by passing a Shari'a criminal code for the Palestinian Authority. Among other things, it legaliz...

  • December 31, 2008

    The Friends of Roland Burris

    Blogo's appointee to the United States Senate has been hailed as an honest man, but he has served as a charcter witness for a couple of guys with Mob ties. Steve Gilbert has unearthed a report from over 5 years ago from the National Legal and Policy ...

  • December 30, 2008

    Financial desperation grows at the New York Times

    Silicon Alley blogger Henry Blodgett draws our attention to yet another sign of the impending financial crisis at the New York Times Company.  Two shelf-registrations, available for use sometime in the future, will enable to company to sell secu...

  • December 29, 2008

    Willie Brown predicts Caroline will hang in and get the senate seat

    The former San Francisco Mayor longtime political boss of the California legislature believes that Caroline is made of tough material:Kennedy will weather the storm, just like Barack Obama did throughout his media-blessed campaign.The U.S. Senate sea...

  • December 29, 2008

    Conspicuous by its absence

    The New York Times editorializes in favor of the Orwellian-named "Employee Free Choice Act" which would deny workers the right to a secret ballot in unionization elections. It does not even mention the issue. This from a paper which fashion...

  • December 29, 2008

    Mocking Blago: let the ads begin

    Advertising humor mocking politicians is a great American tradition. Rod Blagojevich offers rich material, which an enterprising furniture store in Chicago has exploited. The Cleveland Leader found it and brought it to the internet. Thanks to poster ...

  • December 28, 2008

    When the government designs cars

    Doug Ross illustrates what will happen when the government takes over the American car industry in "Let them Drive Buicks" at his site Director Blue. Anyone who remembers the East German Trabant will realize this isn't far-fetched. Sample:...

  • December 28, 2008

    Caroline Kennedy: the more you know (updated)

    I suspect Caroline Kennedy will take herself out of consideration for the Hillary Clinton senate seat in the face of the kind of derision she is encountering. The woman is not in the least an accomplished speaker, as the following YouTube video tabul...

  • December 26, 2008

    NYT scrounging for cash

    The New York Times is preparing to sell off its minority stake in the Boston Red Sox, one of its last major assets that can be readily marketed. The patrimony inherited by Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr. is being liquidated step-by-step to keep the ...

  • December 26, 2008

    Problems with 'green' energy you may not have heard about

    One major issue with many supposedly "green" energy sources is reliability, and another is maintenance. Both issues are highlighted in a strikingly honest report in today's New York Times by Kate Galbraith. Credit where it is due.  Som...

  • December 25, 2008

    Documenting the global warming fraud

    Global warming theory represents one of the greatest scientific con games in history. The putative intellectual foundations are based on data manipulated to support the desired conclusion, and have been conclusively debunked. Andrew G. Bostom pu...

  • December 23, 2008

    Not a Lincoln, not even a Ford

    The irrepressible Steve Gilbert has some pungent prose for the president-elect. Noting that Obama is to be sworn in using the Lincoln Bible, he writes:Log cabin (in Hawaii) sold separatelyOf course given "Honest Obe's" background, no family...

  • December 22, 2008

    Blago witness reportedly singing

    The Chicago Tribune reports that "individual D" is spilling his guts to prosecutors. Now identified by the Trib as medical serrvices entrepreneur/fundraiser Raghuveer P. Nayak, the witness is purportedly saying that he was pressured to rais...

  • December 22, 2008

    BDS at the NYT

    Noel Sheppard of Newsbusters deconstructs the disgraceful New York Times Sunday feature story blaming the mortgage debacle on Bush, and virtually ignoring anything that happened before 2003. Is it just me, or is the NYT getting worse and worse by the...

  • December 22, 2008

    All those big donors to the Clinton foundation

    How to spin the receipt of millions from Arab governments and wealthy business tycoons? With the Clintons, it is child's play. Literally. Hillary Clinton supporters are getting the following email this morning:You are receiving this message as a memb...

  • December 21, 2008

    The power struggle inside the Democratic Party

    With the Democrats in charge of Congress and the White House, intra-party power struggles become amplified, regardless of protestations of unity. Nancy Pelosi in particular has been sending signals that she expects to run the House of Representatives...

  • December 20, 2008

    Blago will get Emanuel tapes

    Hugh Hewitt, talk show host and law school professor, points out that Rod Balgojevich will get access to the entire wiretap records of Patrick Fitzgerald as soon as he is indicted. And, unless Rahm Emanuel is also indicted, or unless Balgo elects to ...

  • December 20, 2008

    Must-see TV on MSNBC

    Joe Scarborough challenges the MSM on the lack of attention to Obama's Chicago roots in light of Blago. Mike Barnicle and John Harwood of the NYT are pathetic in their rejoinders, but absolutely priceless is the facial expression of co-host Mika Brze...

  • December 19, 2008

    Shell abandons huge wind power project

    Royal Dutch Shell is abandoning plans for a billion dollar-plus wind power project in the UK. The Times of London reports:Shell, Danish firm Dong Energy and Scottish Power have cancelled the £800m Cirrus Array project off the northwest coast af...

  • December 18, 2008

    NYT worst quotes of the year

    Clay Waters of Times Watch, the website chronicling the political agenda of the New York Times, has posted the results of annual contest to name the worst quote of the year at that paper. It was my pleasure to serve as one of the judges.The list of q...

  • December 18, 2008

    Paul Weyrich,, R.I.P.

    Paul Weyrich, co-founder of the Heritage Foundation, founder of the Free Congress Foundation and other organizations, and conservative icon, has reportedly died. Our condolences to his wife and children, and all who knew and worked with him.Update:A ...

  • December 18, 2008

    Al Sharpton comes out against card check

    Card check, the system abolishing secret votes on unionization, is intended to re-unionize the workforce and strengthen the ability of unions to financially support the Democrats. But the plan has had a tough week. The failure of the UAW, and the new...

  • December 18, 2008

    Calif Dems plan end run around state constitution to hike taxes

    California's rconstitutional equirement that tax increases be passed by 2/3 majorities in the legislature will be eviscerated, if the Democrat majority gets its way.  Disguising taxes as "fees", the liberal solons hope to sock taxpayer...

  • December 17, 2008

    The UAW's gorgeous golf course

    Big 3 execs may have their corporate jets, but the UAW has its own lovely golf course, the championship caliber Black Lake Golf Club, designed by Rees Jones. It's all a part of the Walter and May Reuther Family Education Center the union maintains, a...

  • December 16, 2008

    Russia may cut oil production in tandem with OPEC

    The dramatic drop in oil prices is seriously hurting the petro-states, and now may redefine the pecking order of the world's major countries.Russia, according to a report by Toby Harnden of the UK Telegraph, is considering cutting its oil production ...

  • December 16, 2008

    Dubai and the greenies

    The sudden rise of Dubai as one of the world's most important cities surely must be accounted a symbol of the current era of world history. It has become the de facto New York and Miami Beach of the Arab world -- a business and tourist hub featuring ...

  • December 16, 2008

    Once could be luck, but twice must be skill

    Congratulations to our friends at Investor's Business Daily for once again having the best polling on the presidential election, comparing final polling to the actual voting results. As IBD itself notes, "the IBD/TIPP Poll not only came closest ...

  • December 15, 2008

    Warmist hysteria intensifies as temperatures plunge (updated)

    With temperatures falling since 1998's peak, and much of the nation shivering, global warming propagandists become have become shriller, even asserting counterfactual propositions. Case in point: Seth Borentstein "science" reporter for the ...

  • December 15, 2008

    Did the Chicago Tribune halt the Blago investigation?

    Writing in the Wall Street Journal's Washington Wire, Cam Simpson makes the startling case that it was the Chicago Tribune which caused the Blago wiretaps to be wrapped up before the actual crime of selling a senate seat was accomplished, by publishi...

  • December 14, 2008

    Sarah Palin's Wasilla church hit by suspected arson

    Providentially, nobody was injured, but an estimated one million dollars in damage was done to Wasilla Bible Church Friday night, in a fire that began while people, including children, were inside. The fire is being investigated as a possible case of...

  • December 14, 2008

    'More than a dozen' witnesses have come forward in the Blago investigation

    It is a process that warms the heart of every prosecutor with extensive wiretap evidence and a large potential pool of indictable miscreants. Those who squeal early get a better deal than the stand-up guys who hold their tongues, hoping the whole thi...

  • December 13, 2008

    If the Sopranos cast dramatized Blago's story

    Witty commenter Rat Patrol at Lucainne.com likened the cast of characters in Obama's Chicago milieu to The Sopranos. George(Uncle Junior)Ryan has been in jail for years now,Tony(Tony Soprano)Rezko was just thrown in jail a few months ago, and now Rod...

  • December 13, 2008

    How about some change we can believe in for Illinois?

    Illinois residents overwhelmingly (66%) want a special election to fill Barack Obama's Senate seat, but the Democrat pooh-bahs won't give it to them. That would be the only way the Democrats could lose the seat. A centrist GOP candidate like Congress...

  • December 12, 2008

    Obama and the Chicago Machine illustrated

    Way back last summer, Bill Barr, a Chicago blogger, wrote about Blago and Obama, and featured a great picture of a very happy Obama flanked by Blago and Mayor Daley. There's a caption contest underway. Go check out the picture and see what you can co...

  • December 11, 2008

    Blago claimed Obama and he had 'process' established to discuss filling Senate seat

    Doug Ross of Director Blue points us to this article from the Chicago Tribune before the election was held. Governor mum on Obama seatBy Monique Garcia and Rick PearsonOctober 30, 2008 Gov. Rod Blagojevich on Thursday cited the potential for bad...

  • December 11, 2008

    Dumbing down schools in the UK

    Schools on both sides of the Atlantic continue to remove serious subjects and substitute touchy-feely and politically correct subjects. From the UK, the biggest "reform" in decades is proposed that would add "nurturing pupils' personal...

  • December 11, 2008

    Apparently that TV reporter 'misspoke'

    Yesterday, we  noted that a report was published November 5th that Blago met with Obama over his successor, contradicting Obama's contention, and supporting the assertion of David Axelrod -- in a statement dismissed by the campaign as mis-speaki...

  • December 10, 2008

    Did a reporter also 'misspeak' about Blago meeting Obama? (update: report disappears from the website)

    The President-elect told the nation yesterday that he didn't meet with his governor over appointment of a successor. Later, top aide David Axelrod confessed that when he claimed otherwise, he misspoke.But what about this report (update: the report ha...

  • December 10, 2008

    Dr. Obamalove, or how I learned to stop worrying and love the 'fear bomb'

    Hurray! Everyone can now relax and use Barack Obama's middle name, Hussein. It is no longer racist to do so. The Chicago Tribune reports that the PEOTUS plans to "reboot America's image" and use his middle name when he sworn in. Ever the op...

  • December 9, 2008

    Obama needs to get his story straight

    Everyone from Patrick Fitzgerald on down insists Obama is not implicated in the Blago scandal. The President-elect told us so.Asked what contact he'd had with the governor's office about his replacement in the Senate, President-elect Obama today said...

  • December 8, 2008

    How to lose a civilization

    A very large memory hole is being dug in Britain, one sufficient to destroy the foundations of the civilization which brought science, mass democracy, and progress to mankind in the course of creating modernity. This goes beyond political correctness...

  • December 8, 2008

    New York Times to mortgage its building to cover cash needs

    Remember all those people who took out home equity loans on their homes to finance a lifestyle beyond their income? Well, the New York Times Company  is trying to pull off the corporate equivalent.  The Gray Lady announces today:The Ne...

  • December 8, 2008

    9/11 plotters' guilty plea solves big problem for Obama

    Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other Guantánamo detainees have issued guilty pleas and asked the military court trying them for the 9/11 plot to accept their confessions. Barack Obama is the big winner.Obama has indicted he will close down th...

  • December 8, 2008

    Obama birth challenge refuted by SCOTUS

    Let me get this straight.  We are about to swear in a new President without checking his actual birth certificate -- something many jobs require. Whatever you think about what the media call the "whispering campaign" about Barack Obama...

  • December 7, 2008

    Huh? What does Bill Richardson mean?

    New Mexico governor and Obama Secretary of Commerce-designate Bill Richardson has some 'splainin' to do. French television recorded him saying (in Spanish) that "Obama is an immigrant" (so Hispanics can relate to him).Is the Governor being ...

  • December 7, 2008

    Global warming debunkers to have conference in March

    Jeff Jacoby of the Boston Globe reports on a conference this coming March, sponsored by the Heartland Institute, which will gather together global warming skeptics: THE MAIL brings an invitation to register for the 2009 International Conference on Cl...

  • December 7, 2008

    Public works 'investment' hasn't worked so well in Japan

    As Obama promises massive public works spending, it is worthwhile looking at Japan, which has tried to use massive public works spending to lift its economy out of the doldrums for the better part of two decades.  The problem always is that when...

  • December 7, 2008

    Tribune Company prepares for bankruptcy?

    The Wall Street Journal reports that the Tribune Company, a major newspaper publisher, broadcaster, and owner of the Chicago Cubs, is preparing for a possible bankruptcy filing.   In recent days, as Tribune continued talks with lenders...

  • December 6, 2008

    When we all know the press is lying

    The masterful Mark Steyn captures the madness that has gripped the liberal media in reporting the Mumbai massacres, in a piece  titled "Jews get killed, but Muslims feel vulnerable."  The stunningly obtuse (or devious -- your...

  • December 6, 2008

    The downside of progress

    People used to understand how things worked by looking at the moving parts. Not in the information age. Jack Risko ponders the impact of technological evolution on the American character. This insightful essay contains a number of gems, such as:...

  • December 5, 2008

    Newspaper industry crisis deepens - can bailout demands be far behind?

    Collapsing advertising revenues are forcing extreme cuts in staffing, and may push major papers out of existence in 2009. The Gannett Blog reports the grim reality at that major chain, where thousands of jobs have already vanished, with many more on ...

  • December 5, 2008

    Yet another Rangel scandal

    The scandal of the week for the nation's chief tax writer concerns money paid to his son far in excess of reasonable charges for work on his campaign. Apparently it is completely legal, but Charlie Rangel has managed to recycle $80k in campaign donat...

  • December 5, 2008

    Low temperatures don't chill warmist doomsayers

    Despite the apocalyptic fears ginned up by the warmist cult, The UK Guardian reports: This year is set to be the coolest since 2000, according to a preliminary estimate of global average temperature that is due to be released next week....But don't w...

  • December 4, 2008

    Bizarre accident

    According to WWLT television, a Springfield, Ohio ... woman is in critical condition Wednesday after police say her husband shot her while they were having sex.Timothy Havens, 38, told Springfield police he was reaching for something on the nightstan...

  • December 4, 2008

    Demanding religious reciprocity from the Saudis

    Apparently it takes an oil exporting nation to do the obvious thing when confronting Saudi-financed Islam. For decades the Saudis have funded the construction and operation of mosques around the world, often of the radical stripe, teaching hatred and...

  • December 4, 2008

    How Rahm cashed in

    Rahm Emanuel faces no confirmation hearings as White House Chief of Staff, and that's a good thing for him. Michael Luo of the New York Times does a good job of examining how a political operative in the Clinton White House became a rich man in a bri...

  • December 4, 2008

    Osama bin Lego?

    Just in time for Eid come specially modified Lego figures in jihadi getup, for sale in the UK. The UK Sun reports: The masked follower of 9/11 mastermind Osama Bin Laden comes with a rocket launcher, assault rifle and grenades. [....]The £9.50 ...

  • December 3, 2008

    Toronto cracks down on the threat of bottled water

    It seems like only yesterday that bottled water was cool. Europeans drank it after all, and LA trendies carried bottles suspended from their necks in cute leather harnesses. How 90's that all is now! Hollywood North (aka, Toronto) has fearlessly take...

  • December 1, 2008

    Shocking allegation against CNN

    A Welsh couple trapped in the Taj Mahal Hotel in Mumbai during the terror attack has publicly accused CNN of aiding the terrorists in finding them, by broadcasting their location on air. From Wales Online: Lynne and Kenneth Shaw, of Penarth, war...

  • December 1, 2008

    The friends of Rahm Emanuel

    While serving as campaign treasurer for Rep. Rahm Emanuel, William Singer became involved in a real estate deal with two men who have pleaded guilty to corruption charges. The Chicago Sun-Times has the story:These days, Singer finds himself in the un...

  • November 30, 2008

    Blix blather

    Words fail me. "idiocy" won't do, and neither will "myopia." "Perhaps "willful blindness"?Hans Blix, the former UN weapons inspector in Iraq has put himself on record pooh-poohing the danger of proliferating nuclear...

  • November 30, 2008

    Here come Chinese jetliners

    The first domestic Chinese jet airliner had its first flight last Friday. A potentially serious new competitor is growing its capability in the most sophisticated and complex civilian manufacturing sector. Boeing and Airbus, both reeling from develop...

  • November 28, 2008

    Two dead in Black Friday stampede at Wal-Mart

    It sounds like an article from the Onion, but it's not. A surging crowd of bargain hunters at a Wal-Mart in Long Island trampled to death a store worker, and caused a miscarriage in a pregnant woman shopper, as they trampled human beings rushing into...

  • November 28, 2008

    Death toll at Jewish center in Mumbai high

    It appears that all five hostages captured by Muslim terrorirsts at the Jewish center in Mumbai have been killed, despite a rescue attempt. Vipin Nair, Chitra Somayaji and Anil Varma of Bloomberg report:Hostages taken at a Jewish center during attack...

  • November 27, 2008

    Financial system under attack in Mumbai?

    Could there be another dimension to the terror attack in Mumbai? We know that a primary objective of the Al Qaeda attack on 9/11 was a hypothesized financial collapse of the American economy. Given the fact that Mumbai is a major financial center not...

  • November 27, 2008

    A piece of American history preserved by Germans

    An airworthy example of the ultimate piston-powered airliner will survive, thanks to the efforts of our German friends. The most advanced version of the most beautiful passenger airliner ever built, the Lockheed Constellation L-1649, is being restore...

  • November 26, 2008

    MSNBC columnist calls for 're-regulating' airlines

    Here comes another mindless call for government-as-savior in the forthcoming Obama era. MSNBC travel columnist and "consumer advocate " Christopher Elliott calls for something he calls "re-regulation." Of course, airlines remain h...

  • November 26, 2008

    Unhappy employees in the newspaper industry

    Nobody likes working for a company in decline. So we should not be surprised at outbreaks of unrest in the newspaper industry.Unionized employees at the Associated Press (not a newspaper itself, but owned by and dependent on the newspaper industry) a...

  • November 25, 2008

    Yet another Rangel ethical question

    Charles Rangel, the powerful New York Democrat congressman, was instrumental in protecting a tax loophole that benefitted an oil-drilling company run by a benefactor of his pet project: the Charles B. Rangel School of Public Service at C.C.N.Y., for ...

  • November 24, 2008

    Desperate Networks?

    The broadcast television networks face a double whammy as advertising markets soften and audience erosion to cable and the internet continues. Big Three auto makers are among their biggest advertisers, and are not likely to be increasing their TV bud...

  • November 23, 2008

    The Obama Cult of Personality

    The Maximum Leader-elect will soon have his face everywhere. More signs of the times, this time in the form of Berkeley, California graffiti.Note that this is from a stencil. In other words, not one random work, but rather part of a campaign to leave...

  • November 23, 2008

    The Big Game

    Now that the election is over, I am beginning to have a personal life. No better symbol of my process of recovery from the stress of 14 hour days at work (I call it "vegecuperating©") could one find than attending what is called locall...

  • November 22, 2008

    Tough times get tougher for the Times

    Just as the Sulzberger family starts getting used to a 75% cut in their dividend income, more bad news accumulates for the New York Times, their principal source of wealth and prestige. Collectively receiving about $25 million a year, reportedly the ...

  • November 22, 2008

    Save the whales trapped in Arctic ice

    Global warming alarmists love to maintain that the Arctic ice pack is melting. Tell it the whales trapped in Arctic ice! AFP reports:At least 200 narwhal whales in Canada's Arctic, trapped by winter ice and facing starvation or suffocation, must be c...

  • November 21, 2008

    The Obama Market

    Doug Ross has some fun with charts, correlating the stock market and the market in electoral politics on Intrade. What caused the market plunge? Doug charts, you decide.Examples:The blue line represents the Obama futures while red represents McCain [...

  • November 21, 2008

    American troops through a French infantryman's eyes

    Shockingly positive views of our forces in Afghanistan are revealed in this translation of a post by a French OMLT (Operational Mentoring Liaison Teams) infantryman working with our toops there. A couple of brief excerpts:Heavily built, fed at the ea...

  • November 21, 2008

    Obese get two airline seats for the price of one in Canada

    The Supreme Court of Canada, by declining to take up an appeal, has ruled that obese people have a right to two airline seats on domestic Canadian flights for the price of one, Reuters reports.More cost pressure on airfares. Given the rising rates of...

  • November 21, 2008

    Che Guevara statue in Central Park?

    Abe Greenwald of Commentary reports  finding a statue of Che Guevara newly installed in Central Park. I am overcome with nausea. I hope that this is only a temporary installation. The man was a bloodthirsty murderer. AT contributor Humberto Font...

  • November 20, 2008

    Sulzberger seismology: Is the family easing out Pinch at the NYT?

    The Sulzberger family absolutely controls the foundering New York Times Company, and deliberates in secret on its future. Those interested in the fate of the company are reduced to a seismology-like reading of subterranean signs. Something interestin...

  • November 20, 2008

    NYT cuts its dividend 74%

    Members of the Sulzberger family have even more reason to regret letting Cousin Pinch run their patrimony into the ground. Just last year he raised their dividend almost a third, in the face of outsiders criticizing his talent. That kept him in ...

  • November 19, 2008

    Bill Ayers' first children's book

    Doug Ross thinks he may have found the first children's book written by Bill Ayers.He reminds us of the putative author's extensive research. ...

  • November 19, 2008

    Oligopoly and the fall of the American automobile industry

    GM, Ford, and Chrysler, who embodied industrial excellence and manufactured much of the equipment that defeated Japan and Germany more than sixty years ago, are reduced to begging the federal government to prevent their bankruptcy. But there is littl...

  • November 19, 2008

    Did you forget that it's 'world toilet day' today?

    If some greenie activists get their way, you will have more reason to remember "world toilet day" in the future. Fond memories of the way things used to be, in fact. Those flushes swooshing away unpleasant and odiferous substances will...

  • November 18, 2008

    German students trash Holocaust exhibit in Berlin

    In a shocking incident that somehow escaped much notice in the American media, rampaging German students vandalized an exhibit at Berlin's Humboldt University commemorating the persecution of Jewish business owners by the Nazis. John Rosenthal report...

  • November 18, 2008

    The perfect complementary video

    A YouTube video gaining much notice today perfectly complements Paul Kengor's article today on how the academic left elected Obama. John Ziegler has produced a new documentary on how the media played a role in the 2008 presidential election. An excer...

  • November 17, 2008

    Newspaper publishers waking up to 'crisis'

    The newspaper industry death spiral is becoming obvious even to the top leadership of some of the biggest newspaper publishing companies. Editor & Publisher, the industry's left-leaning trade paper, covers a weekend summit closed door "crisi...

  • November 17, 2008

    What's a Pulitzer Prize worth?

    Once upon a time the Pulitzer Prize meant something important to the winner, putting a career on steroids and garnering wide admiration. But no longer. The phrase "award-winning journalist" has been debased by the proliferation of journalis...

  • November 17, 2008

    Secret ballots for Senators but not for workers?

    Joe Liebrman's fate in the Democratic caucus will be decided by secret ballot, as revealed yesterday by Senator Byron Dorgan on Fox News Sunday. It comes at about :45 into this clip. Ironically, as Dan Riehl has pointed out before, Senate liberals ha...

  • November 16, 2008

    Getting to know the Obama team

    Personnel is policy, goes the old dictum on judging appointments of a president-elect. Regardless of the stated goals and policies, the people who are in charge of making things happen will shape an administration. So it is important to understand th...

  • November 14, 2008

    The 'global warming threat' is actually 'cooling' temperatures

    Warmist enthusiasm for claiming that anything and everything is evidence for their favorite crisis has reached new levels of absurdity. A new UN report cites clouds of soot and other particulate matter (i.e., real pollution) rising over 13 of the big...

  • November 13, 2008

    Pickens shelves plan for wind farm

    After a massive television advertising campaign, T. Boone Pickens has shelved his plan for a huge Texas wind farm. Ryan Randazzo of the Arizona Republic writes:Billionaire T. Boone Pickens said that his Texas wind farm is on hold because natural...

  • November 13, 2008

    Bill Ayers: Obama a 'family friend'

    Now that the election is over and he has a new edition of a book to peddle, Bill Ayers is comfortable telling the world that Barack Obama is a "family friend." Rex W. Huppke writes in the Chicago Tribune:In a new afterword to his memoir, 19...

  • November 12, 2008

    PC madness reaches new heights in Britain

    Our British cousins have begun to surrender their own identity in a fit of political correctness. The word a local council is now banning is a stunner. Neil Sears of the Daily Mail reports:The word ‘British' can be as offensive as ‘negro'...

  • November 12, 2008

    Profiteering off the Obama victory at the NYT

    The increasingly desperate financial straits of the New York Times Company have apparently driven it to what the left likes to call "price gouging" or "profiteering." The paper is offering copies of its November 5 edition with the...

  • November 11, 2008

    New York Times hits new low

    Not just journalistically. The common stock of the New York Times Company fell sharply Monday, and continues down today. As of the time of this posting is at $8.16, down from a high of over $50 six years ago.Note the high volume of trading recently o...

  • November 10, 2008

    The friends of George Soros

    One of the big winners last week wasn't on any ballot: George Soros. He has some very well-placed friends in the forthcoming power structure in America.The Capital Research Center highlights a 2004 letter on Rep. Barney Frank's website offering suppo...

  • November 10, 2008

    Obama is planning to 'rule' us?

    Warner Todd Huston of Newsbusters notices an alarming turn of phrase from a very important person in Barack Obama's circle:The co-chair of Barack Obama's Transition Team, Valerie Jarrett, appeared on Meet the Press this weekend and used, shall we say...

  • November 8, 2008

    The (overseas) friends of Barack Obama

    Steve Gilbert of Sweetness & Light notices that a rally of Georgian opponents of President Mikhail Saakashvili features posters of President-Elect Barack Obama. Saakashvili is, of course, a strong US ally, who suffered a defeat at the hands of Ru...

  • November 6, 2008

    Obama's first transition meetings

    According to the Wall Street Journal, Barack Obama launched his presidential transition with a series of meetings at Ariel Investments. "Obama spent much of Wednesday huddled in the offices of Ariel Investments, a Chicago-based mutual fund compa...

  • November 6, 2008

    Prediction: The Middle East will hate Obama

    Nibras Kazimi   of the Hudson Institute writes an intriguing column today predicting that the Middle East will come to hate Obama.  I fear that the Middle East is engrossed in the darker subplots of this story, and what speaks to ...

  • November 5, 2008

    Chicago, election night

    Waitress Tina W. (last name withheld) tells us she was working the late shift at a bar in Chicago Tuesday night, and served a group of 6 African-Americans (correction: Tina emailed that it was a mixed party, male/females, not all males as previo...

  • November 4, 2008

    Alaska t-shirt causes problem with voting in Houston

    In an apparent case of Palin Derangement Syndrome, a poll worker in tried to prevent a voter wearing an Alaska t-shirt from voting, because it constituted "campaign paraphernalia," which is banned from polling places. Jennifer Latson of the...

  • November 3, 2008

    The five minute guide to the Obama fundraising scandals

    The website Obama Shrugged has a good concise guide to the unprecedented fundraising practices of the Obama campaign, leaving the door wide open for fraudulent and illegal contributions. A sample:On October 22, a citizen does his own investigative wo...

  • November 1, 2008

    State of Hawaii avers Obama Birth Certificate genuine

    KITV television in Honolulu reports:The state's Department of Health director on Friday released a statement verifying the legitimacy of Sen. Barack Obama birth certificate.The state has received multiple requests for a copy of Obama's birth certific...

  • November 1, 2008

    Escape plan for liberals if McCain/Palin win

    Andy Bowers and the crew at LiveLeak have produced a hilarious spoof of an infomercial directed at elitist liberal Americans who might wish to flee to Canada after the election, should the GOP win. We can all use a laugh right now.Hat tip: Brett...

  • October 31, 2008

    Student suspended for publishing conservative website (updated)

    Back in the USSR, they sent dissidents to psychiatric confinement; in ultra-blue Marin County, they suspend them from school and send them for "psychological evaluation."According to the Marin Independent-Journal:Although school officials d...

  • October 31, 2008

    Notes from a battleground state

    The following comes to us from a GOP campaign worker in a heavily-contested battleground state. I know this person well, and trust him or her. The campaign worker wrote me: "This is an amusing document that was sitting on the desktop of a public...

  • October 30, 2008

    IBD Does AT

    Investors Business Daily devotes its entire front page and two editorial pages to reprinting an American Thinker column today.  We are proud that M. Jay Wells and his article Why the Mortgage Crisis Happened receive this distinction. I...

  • October 30, 2008

    Gitmo lawyers for Obama (updated)

    J. Michael Waller of the Center for Security Policy reports on another constituency for Obama:A group of lawyers suing the United States to extend constitutional rights to enemy combatants detained in Guantanamo has endorsed Obama. Even more, the sig...

  • October 28, 2008

    Biden said to ban another TV station (with video)

    Tough questions mean no further access. Only lapdogs get acces.This time it is close to home: KYW TV, channel 3 in Philadelphia,  a station serving Wilmington, DE, to which Biden famously commutes to every night while in the Senate. Joe just doe...

  • October 28, 2008

    Who else is heading for swing states?

    Warren Throckmorton has noticed  something odd and invites us to connect the dots:Dot one - Amy Little, former campaign manager for Rep. John Hall (D-NY) and current advisor, resides in New Paltz, New York (this is near Poughkeepsie).Dot two - M...

  • October 27, 2008

    Libelous allegations of 'fifth column conspiracies' from prominent progressives (updated)

    A prominent liberal magazine has published lies about American Thinker, spinning an absurd "fifth column" conspiracy theory. In a remarkably irresponsible blog entry titled "TOM RIDGE'S ROBO-CALL AND FIFTH COLUMN CONSPIRACIES...

  • October 27, 2008

    Disturbing report of pollster intimidation

    This report of death threats against a pollster finding positive data for McCain is disturbing, if true. Jim Geraghty of NRO's The Campaign Spot writes: "Strategic Vision polling company received several death threats through the contact e-...

  • October 27, 2008

    The Obama campaign targets young children to nag parents and grandparents

    Using tactics that would get any maker of sugary cereal in trouble, the Obama campaign shamelessly targets immature minds, and incites them to manipulate their elders into voting for Obama.  Dr. Slogan's Prescriptions has the details: ...

  • October 26, 2008

    Newspaper death throes (continued)

    The Newark Star-Ledger reportedly plans to reduce its newsroom staff by half, according to the Associated Press.  The editor is quoted as saying that 151 out of 335 editorial employees have so far accepted buyouts.Meanwhile, The Washington Post ...

  • October 26, 2008

    US helicopter raid inside Syria

    US forces have apparently attacked terrorist forces within Syria, pursuing them following their activites inside Iraq.  The Jerusalem Post reports:US military helicopters bombed targets in a Syrian border town near Iraq on Sunday, killing at lea...

  • October 25, 2008

    Political porn: anti-Palin violence as entertainment

    A serious sickness infects a part of the American left, which seems to gain satisfaction from violent fantasies about its opponents. A film about the future assassination of President Bush, along with books on the subject for example. Even Sarah Pali...

  • October 25, 2008

    Berg lawsuit on Obama birth certificate reportedly dismissed

    The Philadelphia Daily News reports that Philip Berg's lawsuit to compel the production of the Obama birth certificate has been dismissed by U.S. District Judge R. Barclay Surrick .Berg is appealing the decision. If anyone can show me where Obama has...

  • October 25, 2008

    Shocker: Star-Tribune endorses Norm Coleman

    There's a good reason why the normally left Minnesota paper endorses the Republican senatorial incumbent. Editorial: Norm Coleman for SenateCount this newspaper among the Minnesota voices that long for a lessening of partisan polarization and a ...

  • October 25, 2008

    The public must never see this tape (updated)

    Gateway Pundit avers that Peter Wallsten of the Los Angeles Times confirmed to him in a telephone call that his newspaper has a videotape of Barack Obama at an event with Rashid Khalidi at which Israel-bashing takes place.According to Wallsten the ev...

  • October 24, 2008

    Obama on on race and salvation

    A 1995 radio interview with Barack Obama contains some interesting verbiage on the subject of race and salvation: specifically his claim that his salvation lies in collective salvation through politics -- which is consistent with the Black Liberation...

  • October 23, 2008

    The forgotten Ayers manifesto

    The invaluable Zombietime blog has published excerpts from the 1974 short book/long pamphlet entitled Prairie Fire, published by the Weather Underground while they were in hiding as fugitives. I remember publication of Prairie Fire vividly, as it ser...

  • October 23, 2008

    Eliminating 25 million Americans

    That was the plan of the Weather Underground after taking power. The same Weather Underground headed by Barack Obama's friends William Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn, the people in whose house he launched his political career, and with whom he has worked ...

  • October 23, 2008

    New York Times Company sinking faster

    The death spiral accelerates, as NYTCo earnings fell by 51.4% in the third quarter. As AT predicted would happen after it was raised, the company now recognizes it is unable to sustain its dividend. That's critical because Sulzberger family memb...

  • October 21, 2008

    NYT admits its writer intentionally lied

    The "Corrections" column of the New York Times today contains an extraordinary admission that one of its writers deliberately misrepresented a study and misquoted a source:An article in the Itineraries pages last Tuesday reported about the ...

  • October 20, 2008

    Panic in Obama camp over Jewish vote

    In a clear sign of desperation, the Obama campaign has called a halt to all debates before Jewish groups with representatives of the Republican Jewish Coalition. The Jewish Journal reports:Barack Obama's campaign has decided advisers and representati...

  • October 20, 2008

    Another kind of poll shows who has the 'big mo'

    A poll counts heads. One way of doing that is to call people up and ask them about their political views. Another way is to see who shows up at rallies. Interesting data from New Mexico over the weekend.The must-not-be-quoted AP reports that 10,000 p...

  • October 19, 2008

    The Obama salute's creepy predecessor

    Nothing more than a creepy coincidence, of course, but the famous Obama hand salute does have an interesting precursor. The O-slaute:The LCA Broadside blog found the following picture:Turns out this picture comes from the German Propaganda Archive. T...

  • October 19, 2008

    Chuck Schumer has a lot of explaining to do

    Susan Schmidt of the Wall Street Journal has discovered a disconcerting coincidence: Senator Chuck Schumer took a highly unusual step of publicly criticizing a bank, sparking a run on it, just as big Democrat hedge fund donors were examining ass...

  • October 17, 2008

    A tale of two cities - and two campaigns

    The Daily Press of Hampton Roads, VA reveals a fascinating contrast between the Obama and McCain campaigns - one costs the host city money, while the other doesn't. Sabine Hirschauer reports:Two weeks ago, Barack Obama stopped in Newport News, attrac...

  • October 15, 2008

    Another ad questioning Obama's plans

    The group Let Freedom Ring has posted a one minute ad questioning Obama's plans and qualifications. It strikes me as very effective, using an analogy that may resonate with persuadable voters.It also sends voters to this site for more commercials.Hat...

  • October 15, 2008

    The 'guilt by association' Obama defense

    Legitimate concerns about the policies and character of Barack Obama are being caricatured as examples of persecution via "guilt by association" - a phrase popularized by anti-anti-communists in the 1950s, to defend people who allegedl...

  • October 15, 2008

    Tom Friedman's ironic column

    An unfortunate coincidence for Tom Friedman, the New York Times columnist who married the daughter of a billionaire real estate developer. In his NYT column he pontificates on the perils of financing real estate:I have a friend who regularly reminds ...

  • October 14, 2008

    'Spread the wealth around' with higher taxes says Obama

    A plumber asks Barack Obama about higher taxes, and the candidate responds that it's good to spread the wealth around. Watch it and see.Now that Obama thinks he is a sure thing, he is speaking a little more freely about his agenda, apparently. Hat ti...

  • October 14, 2008

    Obama funded education programs built on anti-American Afrocentrist ideology

    Stanley Kurtz's examination of the archives of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge provides us evidence of the sort of educational policies Barack Obama funded when handing out scores of millions of dollars he was entrusted with. In a must-read article a...

  • October 14, 2008

    The change Obama plans

    Jesse Jackson thinks he knows what Obama has in mind, and he recently told the first World Policy Forum in Europe about it. Amir Taheri of the New York Post has the story, cleverly titled "The O Jesse knows."He promised "fundamental ch...

  • October 14, 2008

    Academics sign on in support of Bill Ayers

    In academic leftist circles, it has become a badge of honor to proclaim support for unrepentant terror bomber Bill Ayers. Thousands of people claiming scholarly affiliation have already put up their names as signatories on a website in support of the...

  • October 13, 2008

    Friendly fire (updated with video - mystery solved)

    James Taranto, of the Wall Street Journal's opinionjournal.com site today criticizes my blog post of three days ago. I trust he enjoyed a restful weekend.A frequent refrain of our readers was also sounded by Thomas Lifson of American Thinker:We have ...

  • October 13, 2008

    Liberal incivility

    We've seen considerable left wing hyperventilation over an alleged "mob" mentality at McCain-Palin rallies. It is worthwhile taking a look at this five minute video by Oleg Abtashian of McCain-Palin supporters marching through Manhattan. No...

  • October 12, 2008

    Gasoline price: biggest drop ever

    Reuters reports the good news: The average price of a gallon of gasoline in the United States recorded its largest drop ever as consumer demand continued to wane and oil prices slid, a prominent industry analyst said on Sunday.The national average pr...

  • October 11, 2008

    This could be the game changer (updated)

    Someone with the unlikely name of Molotov Mitchell has produced a 10 minute and 52 second video [watch it below] that could well change the terms of the election -- if enough people watch it. Illuminati Productions has posted it to YouTube. They have...

  • October 11, 2008

    Thug rule brooks no dissent

    Michael Barone, renowned as a level-headed and fair conservative, joins AT in worrying about the prospect of an Obama administration silencing its critics. The campaign has behaved in thuggish ways to stifle criticism, as we and now Barone have repor...

  • October 10, 2008

    Why Ayers Matters

    Investor's Business Daily publishes a landmark editorial explaining in detail why we should be very concerned about the long association Bill Ayers and Barack Obama. The problem with Ayers is less his radical past than his radical present, including ...

  • October 10, 2008

    Obama campaign now publishing lies on his ties to Acorn

    Intrepid bloggers at Sweetness & Light, Gateway Pundit and Riehl World View have documented the lies that the Obama campaign is publishing on its "Fight the Smears" website. Confident that the media will not report the facts, the campai...

  • October 10, 2008

    Sabotaging GOP rallies

    The left is fighting a battle to define Republicans, as exemplified by Sarah Palin (who horrifies them), as a frightening mob, not just unfair to Barack Obama, but a clear and present danger.Rick Moran defines the 'angry mob' meme, and the ...

  • October 9, 2008

    How a President Obama will try to silence conservative critics

    Brian Anderson pens an important op-ed in Investor's Business Daily today demonstrating the real threat to political speech should Barack Obama win the election.  The campaign already has a track record of seeking to intimidate and silence criti...

  • October 9, 2008

    Worse than the AIG Spa Vacation (updated)

    The last few days we have been treated to hyperventilation over the outrage of AIG executives attending a lavish sales incentive meeting at a ritzy California spa. I hope that Henry Waxman and his committee will be evenhanded in exposing this outrage...

  • October 9, 2008

    Farrakhan calls Obama 'the messiah'

    Complete with fancy production values like a camera mounted on a crane, The leader of the Nation of Islam refers to Barrack Obama as "the messiah" before a crowd of Black Muslims. See it yourself. But of course, do not judge Obama because h...

  • October 9, 2008

    Federal court declares Ohio registration practices illegal

    Ohio's Secretary of State, the partisan Democrat Jennifer Brunner, is breaking the law by failing to give local officials the opportunity to check newly-registered voters against outside databases. Darrel Rowland and Mark Niquette of the Columbus Dis...

  • October 8, 2008

    Archives prove Obama was a New Party member (updated)

    Another piece in the puzzle of Barack Obama has been revealed, greatly strengthening the picture of a man groomed by an older generation of radical leftists for insertion into the American political process, trading on good looks, brains, educational...

  • October 7, 2008

    California to recognize 'bride' and 'groom' again

    Rachel Bird married Gideon Codding in church last month, but discovered that "Party A" or "Party B" have replaced "bride" and "groom" on California marriage licenses. Jenniger Garza of the Sacramento Bee report...

  • October 7, 2008

    Newspaper death spiral accelerates

    The Los Angeles Times, already significantly downsized, is planning to cut up to another 75 editorial positions. Kevin Roderick reports:Newsroom staffers are being told today individually and in department meetings that as many as 75 editorial positi...

  • October 7, 2008

    Wealthy leftists spread their influence while despising those they manipulate

    Evidence has been found of the contempt with which the elite left regards those whom they manipulate to gain power for themselves and their puppets.  A network of wealthy leftists using their money to support organizations like Media Matters and...

  • October 6, 2008

    Pro-Obama Jewish PAC uses deception to create political ad

    Left-leaning Israeli newspaper Haaretz reveals that a pro-Obama PAC deceived Israeli officials into issuing flattering comments about the candidate without revealing that it was to be used on political advertising. Some of them are angered by this de...

  • October 6, 2008

    It's always racist to criticize Obama

    Patterico deftly skewers the ridiculous claims of racism made when Obama is criticized:It's racist to point out the connection between Barack Obama and a white man - who happens to be a terrorist.It's racist to point out the similarity between Barack...

  • October 6, 2008

    Ayers and Barack and Michelle

    William Ayers, dismissed by Barack Obama as a "guy in my neighborhood", was sought out as a speaker on "juvenile justice" at a program apparently put together by Michelle Obama 11 years ago today. Ayers was concerned about protect...

  • October 6, 2008

    Teacher suspended in Obama video scandal

    The shocking video of uniformed youngsters marching and chanting about Obama we blogged yesterday turns out to have been organized during school hours by a middle school teacher at a (taxpayer funded) charter school in Kansas City.  The tea...

  • October 5, 2008

    Sarah's magic in Southern California (exclusive pictures)

    Sarah Palin was campaigning yesterday in Southern California and drew enormous, highly enthusiastic crowds. Two AT correspondents provide exclusive pictures that you will not find in the MSM.Dan Koblash and Carolyn Blashek were at the rally in Carson...

  • October 5, 2008

    Important documentary on the financial crisis

    A financially sophisticated friend highly recommends the Fox News special called "Saving the Economy", which will be rebroadcast tonight at 10PM Eastern, and again at 1 AM Eastern. He writes:I just watched Fox News channel's  hour-long...

  • October 5, 2008

    Utterly chilling video of Obama Freikorps

    First came the disturbing video of very young children singing the praises of Obama, in the style of North Korean children hailing the transformative powers of the Dear Leader.Now comes equally or more disturbing video of older children, this time in...

  • October 3, 2008

    Memo to McCain campaign

    Lee Cary offers some advice to the McCain campaign: name key members of his future administration now, particularly those who will handle financial affairs. From the Canada Free Press: McCain can't establish his credentials as a reformer if he's...

  • October 2, 2008

    Children told to record parents' 'climate crimes'

    A British power company named npower (they actually use the cutesy colors) is urging children to spy on their parents and record their "climate crimes" in a "challenge diary." Coming on the heels of the infamous child-exploitation...

  • October 2, 2008

    Joe Biden and the American nomenklatura

    The old Soviet Union used to boast about the flat income distribution under socialism, as compared with the "savage inequalities" found under capitalism. This never stopped its leadership cadre from living very well indeed. The secret was t...

  • October 1, 2008

    Cynthia McKinney said what?

    Former Democrat member of the House of Representatives and current presidential candidate of the Looney Tunes Party Cynthia McKinney is alleging that 5000 prisoners were executed with one bullet to the head, and the thousands of bodies disposed of in...

  • October 1, 2008

    City Council advises letting thieves have their way

    The mentality of surrendering civilization to evil continues to metastasize in the United Kingdom. The City Council of Bristol, the sixth largest city in England (pop. 410,000), has advised gardeners not to lock garden sheds, as this only forcers bur...

  • September 30, 2008

    Meat rationing proposed to fight purported global warming

    Warmist hysteria continues to escalate, as more drastic measures are proposed in tandem with hyperbolic predictions of doom. Big Brother will soon control what you eat if the hysterics get their way.According to the Guardian, a report from the "...

  • September 29, 2008

    European elites horrified by Austrian elections

    Voters in Austria have increased their support for "far right" parties in Sunday's general election there. The left wing UK Guardian reports:Austria was shaken by a political earthquake yesterday when the neo-fascist right emerged from a ge...

  • September 29, 2008

    Bailout bill fails

    The House of Representative has rejected the bailout bill pushed by Secretary of the Treasury (and former Goldman Sachs chief) Henry Paulson, the House Democratic leadership, and President Bush. The Dow "plunged" 400 points -- not a catastr...

  • September 27, 2008

    Obama, McCain, and Irving Berlin, on the lessons of history

    How quickly Americans forget the difficult and bloody lessons of the past! Human culture, prior to the invention of mass media, remembered the lessons of war via song ("Mine eyes of seen the glory...."). Prior to the post-60s emergence of m...

  • September 27, 2008

    Must-read to understand the Fannie Mae crisis

    During the Clinton Administration, the New York Times celebrated the disastrous loosening of credit standards that got Fannie Mae in trouble. Brainless liberalism on display. Steven Holmes included the following fateful words:In a move that could hel...

  • September 26, 2008

    Saul Alinksy in his own words

    The man who created the concept of "community organizer" left a legacy of notable aphorisms.A racially integrated community is a chronological term timed from the entrance of the first black family to the exit of the last white family. Saul...

  • September 26, 2008

    A lefty walks away from her mortgage

    A remarkable study in the self-absorption so common on the left has been published by blogger and author Alisa Valdez-Rodriguez, who bought a nice home in Scottsdale, AZ  that is now worth less than she owes on her mortgage. It is a textbook exa...

  • September 25, 2008

    The origin of specious mortgages (updated)

    The root of the current financial crisis is all those bad mortgages written to people who couldn't afford them. And why were so many bad loans made? Because the federal government pushed for it, in the name of expanding home ownership.The brilliant e...

  • September 25, 2008

    Hillary Clinton on mortgage foreclosures

    Steve Gilbert of Sweetness & Light points out the utter hypocrisy of Hillary Clinton on the current mortgage crisis. When buyers of property in her Whitewater scheme (remember that name?) defaulted, there was no mercy. Read it all here. ...

  • September 24, 2008

    Palin and the world leaders she met

    The list of leaders Sarah Palin met with yesterday in New York tells an interesting story. Huan Vu of the blog Neomodernism notices the theme:Today Palin met two head of states, Karzai of Afghanistan and Uribe of Colombia. While I recognize that this...

  • September 24, 2008

    Al Gore goes Alinsky

    Al Gore must know he is losing the argument over global warming, for he is now urging civil disobedience (i.e., taking the law into one's own hands) to stop the construction of new coal-fired electrical generating stations lacking carbon capture tech...

  • September 23, 2008

    Berkeley tree sitters face fines

    Accountability is a difficult concept for some. The Berkeley tree sitters who have no respect for property rights seem to think that free speech means no consequences. The San Francisco Chronicle's Matier and Ross write: Berkeley's infamous tree-sitt...

  • September 23, 2008

    If you want to reform DC...

    Straight from Barack Obama, a recommendation about who has been consistent on reform: John McCain.To be absolutely fair, I have no idea of the context here. Still, Obama is recognizing a basic fact. And what, exactly, has Obama ever reformed? The Chi...

  • September 22, 2008

    Former Clinton Staffers Jump to McCain Camp

    MSNBC reports on the former Hillary staffers now supporting McCain and making strong arguments against The One. One must wonder if (officially) pro-Obama Hillary urged these loyal staffers to not do this. It would be unusual for Clinton loyalists to ...

  • September 22, 2008

    Do you believe the WaPo or your lying eyes?

    Anne E. Kornblut and Juliet Eilperin of the Washington Post examine the number of ex-Bush people in the McCain camp, and conclude: "No parallel exists on the Democratic side.... Obama has wound up with an inner circle whose members have never wo...

  • September 22, 2008

    'Uncharacteristically low' turnout for Obama rally

    In Green Bay, Barack Obama drew 4000 fewer participants than McCain/Palin drew a week earlier in the same area. Abdon M. Pallasch reports in the Chicago Sun-Times:Hoping to shore up support in his suddenly undependable backyard, Democratic presidenti...

  • September 21, 2008

    The cultural left's Obama drumbeat intensifies

    The worldwide left is clearly alarmed that Barack Obama's campaign appeared derailed by Sarah Palin's emergence as a cultural icon representing all that they despise. As a result, they are pulling out all the stops to celebrate Obama and denigrate th...

  • September 20, 2008

    Speaking of federally-guaranteed debt...

    Ernest Nosworthy points out that the TVA, our FDR-era experiment in socialism, may soon need its debt ceiling expanded. Under private management, he thinks the utility could be a winner. As long as we are restructuring the federal government's role i...

  • September 20, 2008

    How the Palin email hacker suspect was caught

    TGDaily, a tech site, explains how the suspected Palin email hacker, 20-year-old David Kernell, a student at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville and son of Democratic Tennessee state representative Mike Kernell, was caught. He used a proxy server s...

  • September 20, 2008

    Selective outrage on the left

    The American left had a fit when lefty reporter/activist Amy Goodman was arrested in St. Paul at the Republican convention for violating a police order to clear an area.  Meanwhile, in communist Vietnam, one of their own, an AP reporter, was ...

  • September 19, 2008

    Brainwashing students using your tax money (updated)

    Our tax dollars are at work bashing Sarah Palin  in state-funded higher education.  Denver's CBS affiliate has a video and web report:Metro State College is investigating a professor who asked students to write an essay critical of Republic...

  • September 19, 2008

    Why does Joe Biden lie about a 'drunk driver' killing his 1st wife?

    It is terrible to lose family members to a traffic accident. But why on earth would a United States Senator fabricate an embellishment and claim that it was a drunk driver's fault, when the record clearly indicates it was not?Delaware Online reports:...

  • September 18, 2008

    Fannie Mae and Congressional Dems

    Check out this video with president of Fannie Mae discussing the close relations between the institution and the Black Caucus. There is no doubt that Fannie and Freddie are Democrat-dominated institutions.Hat tip: Milton ...

  • September 18, 2008

    Newspaper death spiral accelerates some more

    The decline in advertising revenues at the NYT accelerates again, and now the largest newspaper in New Jersey, the Star-Ledger of Newark, is threatening to shut down next January, if its employees do not voluntarily accept buyouts and unions do not a...

  • September 18, 2008

    Palin email hacker suspect identified (updated)

    No official confirmation yet, but it appears that the suspected email hacker is David Kernnel, son of a Democrat member of the Tennessee state legislature. A lot of material about him has been gathered by Michelle Malkin, Ace, and Gateway Pundit, amo...

  • September 17, 2008

    McCain's Big Invisible Advantage

    John McCain stands to benefit as a little-noted but significant change takes place in the way the American public forms its political preferences. Quite simply put, every four years, sometime between Labor Day and the end of the World Series, most of...

  • September 17, 2008

    CNN avers Dems want economic disaster

    Every once in a while a blunt truth is spoken by CNN political analysts. Such a moment occurred yesterday, as caught by the remarkable Noel Sheppard of Newsbusters:  On Monday's "Anderson Cooper 360," after CNN senior political an...

  • September 17, 2008

    McCain's Revenge on Streisand

    The morning after Barack Obama raised $9 million from Hollywood swells at a Barbra Streisand fundraiser (@$28,500 a plate) is probably the best moment to review McCain's Revenge on Streisand.McCain Sings Streisand!Hat tip: D. Phistry...

  • September 16, 2008

    Jamie Gorelick's two trillion dollar disasters

    Doug Ross reviews  the remarkable record of Democrat fixer Jamie Gorelick in two of the major disasters of this era of American history. Of course, nobody in the mainstream media is interested in exposing the role of the Democrat insider, especi...

  • September 16, 2008

    Obama won't leave home without it

    CNN's Political Ticker reports that Obama is now using his teleprompter even for campaign rallies, as in this one held in a bull ring (how appropriate is that!) yesterday in Pueblo, CO. The Democratic presidential nominee has never tried to hide...

  • September 15, 2008

    Obama and sex ed for kids

    Aided and abetted by his allies in the media and elsewhere, Obama is claiming that the McCain camp is lying about his bill to bring sex education to kindergartners. Really? Amy Proctor supplies the documents proving Obama and the press are lying. ...

  • September 15, 2008

    When Obama bragged about the Chicago Annenberg Challenge

    The Obama campaign and its media friends prefer to send his role in the Chicago Annenberg Challenge fiasco down the memory hole. It highlights his ties to William Ayers, and it was a colossal flop,  wasting $150 million dollars.But once upon a t...

  • September 14, 2008

    Charlie Gibson's interview questions for Obama vs. for Palin

    Charlie Gibson of ABC News applied very different standards to asking questions of Barack Obama and Sarah Palin. A side-by-side comparison is revealing. William Katz of Urgent Agenda lists the questions  Charlie Gibson asked Barack Obama and tho...

  • September 14, 2008

    Obama's mentor at Occidental College speaks

    Lawrence Goldyn, Barack Obama's mentor during his freshman and sophomore years at Occidental College, speaks out about the young Obama in an interview with The Southern Voice, a gay newspaper in Atlanta. He provides some helpful context in understand...

  • September 14, 2008

    Obama's embellished resume? (updated)

    Steve Gilbert of Sweetness & Light highlights the awkward difference between Barack Obama's description of his post-Columbia work at a "consulting firm" in Dreams from my Father, and an account  published by an source who worked at...

  • September 13, 2008

    How McCain is out-strategizing Obama

    Michael Barone describes how John McCain has gotten a strategically superior position to the Obama campaign, and the cluelessness of Obama about this situation. He uses the concept of the OODA (Observe, Orient, Decide, Act.) Loop, drawing on the work...

  • September 12, 2008

    More 'borrowing' by the Obama campaign

    For a campaign ostensibly offering a fresh and new voice, the Obama bunch certainly does a lot of borrowing of others' intellectual property. Recycling phrases from the speeches of Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick might be explained away by the f...

  • September 12, 2008

    'Pagans for Obama' group planning to 'heal' the right

    Yes, there really is an official Pagans for Obama group at the mybarackobama.com website. And tonight they plan a "magickal working."Really, I am not making this up.We're going to perform a "Rolling Circle" Healing Ceremony for th...

  • September 12, 2008

    Going after her kids

    To her political enemies, Sarah Palin must be destroyed, even if it means humiliating her children by exposing their faults to a worldwide audience. The National Enquirer claims to have discovered a drug problem and implies sluttiness, among other fo...

  • September 12, 2008

    Obama campaign mocking a disability

    The Obama campaign's new ad mocking John McCain for not using email fails to recognize that because of the torture he endured as a prisoner of war, he is unable to use a typewriter keyboard. They are mocking a somewhat physically challenged man for h...

  • September 11, 2008

    Down from the trees

    The smelly tree-worshipping protestors thwarting development of athletic facilities at the University of California have been skillfully plucked from their treetop aerie.Zombietime and Protest Shooter have terrific photo-illustrated accounts of the e...

  • September 10, 2008

    Dems want to have it both ways

    The American public is expected to believe that criticism of Barack Obama often contains hidden racial code words, but that when Barack Obama picks up the key word from the most famous line of the most electrifying speech of the campaign, he doesn't ...

  • September 10, 2008

    Pinch Sulzberger, union-buster

    The New York Times destroys the jobs of 550 union members, replacing them with non-union labor. And not for the first time is the very wealthy Pinch Sulzberger squeezing money out of workers who weren't born to a hereditary fortune. Silicon Alley Ins...

  • September 9, 2008

    Who supported that Bridge to Nowhere?

    When the rubber met the road, Governor Sarah Palin sent the money for the Bridge to Nowhere back to Washington, DC. In Congress, however, when it came time to vote on S.Amdt. 2165 in 2005, an amendment to take money being applied to that Bridge to No...

  • September 9, 2008

    Russia's Caribbean threat (updated)

    While our press focuses on discrediting Sarah Palin, dispatching reporters to examine her relatives' driving records and the divorce records of her husband's ex-partner, important news relating to our national security goes virtually unnoticed. Thank...

  • September 8, 2008

    The 'Obama is a Muslim' smear continues

    Yet another prominent political figure joined this man in saying the Barack Obama is a Muslim, which is of course a vicious smear. He was baptized by Jeremiah Wright and professes a faith in Jesus Christ. Nevertheless Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi,...

  • September 7, 2008

    The Tribe of Sarah: A Guide for the Perplexed Media

    Our friends in the media just do not understand the popular following Sarah Palin has attracted. In an effort to help, I thought I should explain her popular appeal to them in terms even an Ivy League graduate could understand. If you consider yourse...

  • September 7, 2008

    A Rich Case of Palin Derangement Syndrome (updated)

    Frank Rich, the drama critic turned political pundit, has a bad case of PDS today in the New York Times. Joe Lieberman is a "pathetic dupe." Let's call it the Kossification of the Times. Update: Cartoonist David Heisch has captured some of ...

  • September 7, 2008

    Another Sarah Palin smear nailed

    PDS strikes again! Michelle Malkin debunks a list of books Sarah Palin supposedly tried to ban in 1996. These lefty idiots project their bigoted image of evangelicals/Republicans, and believe it to be fact.The smear merchants who continue to circulat...

  • September 7, 2008

    The incredible shrinking New York Times shrinks again

    After shrinking the width of its print edition by 1.5 inches a year ago, the New York Times has announced it will be printing fewer sections. Editor & Publisher writes:The New York Times announced Friday that it will scale back to four separate s...

  • September 7, 2008

    Spreading the smear that Obama is a Muslim

    Look at who is spreading the vicious rumor that Barack Obama is of the Muslim faith. I trust the campaign will condemn this bigot and see to it that he is driven from the public stage.Dr. Freud was unavailable for comment.Hat tip: LGF, Ethel C. Fenig...

  • September 7, 2008

    It's about the drilling, stupid

    Kyle-Anne Shiver focuses her magnifying glass on the press and its treatment of Sarah. In her hands a little sunshine becomes awfully hot for them. Read it at Pajamas Media....

  • September 7, 2008

    Obama concedes the case on raising taxes

    As usual, Barack Obama shrouds his rhetoric in vague, multi-clause sentences. But if you examine what he actually said about raising taxes in his George Stephanopoulos interview, he concedes that raising taxes while the economy is in a delicate condi...

  • September 6, 2008

    What has Obama done?

    The media have so far focused on uncovering personal faults in Alaska Governor Sarah Palin and her family. As opposed to covering her record in expanding employment opportunities for Alaskans, while delivering energy to the rest of the nation. As may...

  • September 6, 2008

    McCain's sermon

    M. Simon has an interesting take on McCain's acceptance speech, seeing it as a sermon as much as a poltiical speech. "Blessed by misfortune. I think that is one of the very best lessons of life. To find out how to take misfortune and turn it int...

  • September 6, 2008

    Sarah smears continue

    While the full extent of the relationship between Barack Obama and William Ayers, and the utter failure of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge to produce results after spending over 100 million dollars, are of no interest to the nation's major media, the...

  • September 6, 2008

    The Rangel scandal deepens

    Charles Rangel, a man who writes federal tax laws as head of the House Ways and Means Committee, not only failed to pay taxes on income he received from a luxury resort property he owns, he financed the purchase with an interest-free loan from a camp...

  • September 6, 2008

    Powerful video addressed to Obama

    This is clearly the must-watch video of the day. If you click it, stay the entire two minutes. I promise you the time is well-spent....

  • September 6, 2008

    Nobody is saying they are unpatriotic... (updated)

    Actions do speak louder than words. Democrats tossed 12,000 American flags in the garbage following their convention. This sort of thing takes the breath away. How much do you have to hate America to do such a thing? Have they never heard of the fine...

  • September 5, 2008

    Who went negative at the national conventions?

    Jim Lindgren of the Volokh Conspiracy tallies up the negative comments about the other side in Obama's and Palin's speeches and discovers that the Democrat spent more time disparaging the opposition. Read the concise and entertaining analysis here. ...

  • September 5, 2008

    Barack Obama's Chicago and George Bush's Iraq

    The numbers tell the story. Via CBS2 Chicago:CHICAGO (CBS) - An estimated 123 people were shot and killed over the summer. That's nearly double the number of soldiers killed in Iraq over the same time period.Yes, yes statisticians, there is a differe...

  • September 5, 2008

    The Oprah brand in jeopardy

    Oprah Winfrey and her TV staff are reportedly in turmoil over whether or not to invite Sarah Palin. The wrong decision would change the nature of her brand, transforming her into a perceived partisan and an implicit antagonist of a large segment of h...

  • September 4, 2008

    The Palin phenomenon

    Sarah Palin has delivered a remarkable speech, perhaps the most electrifying vice presidential nomination acceptance speech in history. She has the uncanny ability to look right into the camera and see, to be talking directly to viewers at home. Her ...

  • September 4, 2008

    Hyde Park, we have a problem...

    The smug laughter among liberal elites at Sarah Palin is quieting down, replaced by low moaning. Clive Crook of The Atlantic admits that there might have been just a bit of misunderestimating going on among the left:   ...the Democrats have...

  • September 4, 2008

    Swiftboating McCain? Go ahead, make my day

    A new television ad attacking John McCain as unfit for the presidency because of his POW experience once again demonstrates the thick-headedness of the left. The Hill reports:  In the ad, Philip Butler says he would not like to see McCain in the...

  • September 4, 2008

    New York Sun in peril

    The New York Sun advises readers it may have to cease publication by the end of September unless it secures additional financing. The Sun has rapidly established itself as a high quality source for news and analysis, with some of the best writers any...

  • September 4, 2008

    The media sulking ugly

    In the wake of Sarah Palin's smashing debut as a major American political figure last night, some in the media are sulking over the public backlash to their outrageous treatment of her in the first few days of her national role, since being announced...

  • September 3, 2008

    Sarah Palin and the Two Americas

    Liberals have long lamented the existence of two nations in America. They are right to do so today, but in a way they never meant. It is not the divide between rich and poor which soon will be causing serious pain on the left. Sarah Palin's pending n...

  • September 3, 2008

    The case against the case against Palin

    Christopher Orr pens a great piece  in The New Republic: "The case against the case against Palin." A sample:Listening to the Democratic leadership respond to John McCain's selection of Sarah Palin as his vice presidential running mate...

  • September 2, 2008

    Keeping track of the Palin smears

    The left, driven mad by McCain's choice of Sarah Palin, has already tried a number of Sarah Palin smears, with more to follow. The conservative blogosphere is keeping track. Protein Wisdom has started a running list of Sarah Palin smears, and a new s...

  • September 2, 2008

    Sarah Palin and Israel

    Supporters of Israel, already smarting from Barack Obama's associations with Jeremiah Wright, Rashid Khalidi, and Zbigniew Brzezinski (among others), are beginning to breathe sighs of relief about Sarah Palin's joining John McCain on the GOP ticket....

  • September 2, 2008

    Lefty reporter gets herself arrested in St. Paul

    The left blogosphere is outraged! Amy Goodman, whose "Democracy now!" website/radio/TV empire inhabits the far reaches of left wing activism, got herself arrested in St. Paul, and the arrest (which you can see on YouTube is being denounced ...

  • September 1, 2008

    Outrageous insult to Jesus and Christianity

    Mobs riot, burn stores and cars, threaten lives... oh, wait a minute. These are Christians, not members of the Religion of Peace. Jihad Watch reports:The Pope asked them to take the thing down. They refused. That's the end of the matter. There will b...

  • September 1, 2008

    Obama and the 1995 Chicago heat wave

    While the media heaps guilt upon the GOP for weather events, it is worthwhile remembering the 1995 Chicago Heat Wave which took 600 -- 700 lives. What did Barack Obama do or even say? So far, we have been unable to locate any record of his response t...

  • September 1, 2008

    Biden said to tell Israel to get used to Iranian nukes (updated)

    Haartez, the left wing Israeli newspaper, quotes Joe Biden as telling Israeli leaders in effect to like it or lump it when it comes to Iran getting nukes:Democratic vice-presidential candidate Joe Biden was quoted Monday as telling senior Israeli off...

  • September 1, 2008

    Sarah Palin is no tool of Big Oil

    Sarah Palin can argue for energy development very effectively. She is immune from criticism for being a tool of Big Oil, a charge hurled at the GOP by the Democrats last week from the convention podium. Telis Demos of  Fortune Magazine describes...

  • August 31, 2008

    All in the Family for Biden and the tort lawyers

    The tort lawyers have a great friend in Joe Biden and his running mate, and there is a smelly "intersection of interests" among them.USA Today headlines the "intersection of interests" when Senator Joseph Biden worked to defeat a ...

  • August 31, 2008

    Biden's bogus blue collar roots

    Hats off to Steve Chapman of the Chicago Tribune for exposing blatant mainstream media propagandizing about Joe Biden's supposed blue collar roots. He points out shocking negligence or malfeasance by the MSM:"Sen. Joseph R. Biden accepted the vi...

  • August 31, 2008

    Who's more experienced? Palin vs Obama

    The best side-by-side comparison of Barack Obama's and Sarah Palin's relevant experience and background so far is found at justsaynodeal.com. It is a mordantly funny read too. See it here. Hat's off to Jeff Emanuel for this great post on Redstate.Hat...

  • August 31, 2008

    The abortion issue this election

    Bookworm anticipates the criticism coming Sarah Palin's way over abortion, and does some thinking. Liberals expect to win, but she thinks the Democrats may come out on the losing end, stuck in a box of their own making: ...the party faithful... ...

  • August 30, 2008

    Great Sarah Palin interview

    Sarah Palin spoke to Maria Bartiromo of CNBC about the North Slope and ANWR, and Alaska's readiness to unlock its reserves. You can watch it on video podcast here....

  • August 30, 2008

    Another fabulous Sarah Palin Video

    Sarah Palin shines, and ignites the comedic passions of Late, Late night comedian Craig Ferguson. How can Joe Biden compete in appeal? Worse for the Democrats, she is fresher, more accomplished and more genuine than Barack Obama. Hat tip Dennis Sevak...

  • August 29, 2008

    Obama, the Showman-in-Chief

    Appearances are at the center of Barack Obama's career. Those who believe he has never accomplished anything overlook his chosen career as a political impresario, a master of creating illusions that dazzle the public and capture its imagination. The ...

  • August 29, 2008

    Richard Baehr 'Live and in concert'

    Doug Ross heard Richard Baehr give a lecture, and was impressed enough to write:I recently attended a speech by the American Thinker's Richard Baehr on the topic of the Presidential race. First reaction: few commentators I've heard combine such an am...

  • August 29, 2008

    Lurking in the Chicago Annenberg files

    Clarice Feldman examines what we are learning and what we already know about the hundred million dollar project headed by William Ayers and Barack Obama. Surprise! Projects emphasizing racial identity were funded, while a project to teach algebra lan...

  • August 29, 2008

    Oakland in crisis as socialist mayor is MIA

    When Ron Dellums was elected mayor of Oakland, California, I knew that the city was heading for trouble. Combine hard leftism with self-absorption and a healthy dose of municipal corruption, and you have the crisis developing on Oakland."Red Ron...

  • August 29, 2008

    Berkeley tree sitters out on a limb

    The obnoxious, smelly tree sitters in Berkeley, who are trying to stop construction of a training facility for athletes, lost in court, and now are seeking an appeal and continuance of an injunction to prevent construction beginning. Carolyn Jones of...

  • August 29, 2008

    What we know about Sarah Palin

    Investor's Business Daily has had its eye on Sarah Palin for quite some time. They offer some first rate journalism on the woman of the hour, by their ace writer Monica Showalter.An interview with Sarah Palin on energyHow Palin achieved her gas pipel...

  • August 28, 2008

    'Please remove his distorted and misleading articles from your site' -- an email exchange

    The left doesn't want to win arguments with its opponents, it wants to silence them. More evidence comes from our mailbag. A letter and a response.Letter to the editor:Dear Editor:Perhaps Sheppard's unscientific rantings against those (84% of climate...

  • August 27, 2008

    Some people have to be told

    The editor-at-large of newspaper industry trade publication Editor & Publisher upbraids reporters at the political conventions for failing to stand when the National Anthem is played at the start of each night's session. Mark Fitzgerald writes: I...

  • August 26, 2008

    Change you can believe would wreck the economy

    Home Depot founder Bernie Marcus writes this morning in the Wall Street Journal about the Orwellian-named "Employee Free Choice Act." Speaking from experience, Marcus sounds the alarm that EFCA "would virtually guarantee that every com...

  • August 25, 2008

    Joe Biden's lack of charity (updated)

    According to this AP report, Senator Biden gave only $1,025.00 out of his $298,000 in earned income last year. That's 1/3 of one percent of his income. Before he became a millionaire via his book royalties, Senator and Mrs. Obama were also remarkably...

  • August 24, 2008

    Obama's teenage mentor liked sex with kids

    Closer scrutiny of the important people (that is, the poeple Obama himself identified as important) in Barack Obama's life is proving to yield what can only be called a "ick factor." Jeremiah Wright, William Ayers, Tony Rezko and Frank Mars...

  • August 24, 2008

    'This story is going to kill Obama at the polls'

    Clarice Feldman lays out the reasons why the William Ayers/Annenberg Challenge story will seriously damage the candidacy of The One. A sample:...the story was that Ayers was an old professor in Mr. Obama’s neighborhood who just happened to host...

  • August 24, 2008

    Obama's ego problem

    More and more signs (quite literally) point to Barack Obama as a man with an outsize ego. The One We Have Been Waiting For breaks precedent in demoting his running mate to not just a smaller typeface, but darker, washed-out, weak-looking lettering on...

  • August 23, 2008

    Life's so much easier without democracy. For the rulers anyway.

    Dan Riehl thinks Obama may have lost the election with his stupid remarks about China's airports, railways and port facilities being "vastly superior" to our own. Of course, the secret to China's success in building infrastructure quickly i...

  • August 23, 2008

    Pelosi property and the DC tax assessor

    The Web of Deception website uncovers a very odd situation regarding Washington, DC property owned by the Speaker and her husband:Our research into the land ownership of Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her husband revealed that the Speaker and her husband b...

  • August 23, 2008

    Joe Biden's plagiarism problem

    Political insiders have long known about Joe Biden getting caught plagiarizing almost word-for-word a speech given by British Labour politician Neil Kinnock. In fact, that killed his 1988 presidential campaign. But a more serious plagiarism charge ha...

  • August 22, 2008

    Bill & Barack's Excellent Adventure

    William Ayers, unrepentant terrorist and education professor, is once again being tied to Barack Obama in the public mind. Controversy builds over the withholding of the archives of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, an expensive failed school reform e...

  • August 21, 2008

    Obama's Lost Annenberg Years Coming to Light

    The cloak of media invisibility is slowly beginning to lift from Barack Obama's most important administrative leadership experience, helming an expensive educational reform effort in Chicago that failed to produce any measurable academic gains, accor...

  • August 20, 2008

    The LA Times makes excuses for Obama's poll decline

    Dave Pierre of Newsbusters catches the Los Angeles Times playing defense for Obama, explaining away his sharp decline in their own poll by blaming "attacks" by McCain, as opposed to the candidate's own poor performance, his arrogance or the...

  • August 19, 2008

    Iraq to send $ to Putin's Russia

    Stunning news that seems to be reported in the Russian media but not our own. Steve Gilbert of Sweetness & Light has the scoop:  From a gleeful Kommersant Moscow:Russia will proceed with executing electricity contracts in Iraq. The RF Energy...

  • August 19, 2008

    Kids who go to church get better grades

    Occasionally the discipline of Sociology redeems itself, as with a new study that confirms attending church is really good for your kids, and explains why in terms even an atheist can understand.Robert Roy Britt of LiveScience.com has a good report o...

  • August 19, 2008

    Obama campaign to hand out 'street money'

    The a new kind of politician is playing one of the oldest games in politics: handing out street money. Catherine Lucey of the Philadelphia Daily News reports: According to U.S. Rep. Bob Brady, the local Democratic Party chairman, Sen. Barack Obama's ...

  • August 18, 2008

    Prince Charles asked to prove his fear-mongering claims

    The heir to the British throne claims that genetically modified crops are a disaster. Now a cabinet minister has asked him in effect to put up or shut up. The Guardian reports: "If it has been a disaster then please provide the evidence,...

  • August 18, 2008

    The Oil and gas bubble

    Jack Risko of Dinocrat.com charts oil and gas prices, showing a pattern that looks very much like a speculative bubble. Notice in particular the freefall of natural gas prices (the red line), suggesting that oil prices may fall even further. Jack spe...

  • August 17, 2008

    Arctic ice fails to follow warmist doctrine

    The ever-astute Doug Ross notices that arctic ice is refusing to cooperate with the global warming agenda, and is actually increasing from 2007.With models this flawed, it's a good thing that Al Gore & Company are not in the business of designing...

  • August 17, 2008

    Obama's infanticide problem

    You can tell Barack Obama knows he has a problem when he starts lying about his record, and the lie is readily disprovable. Such is the case with his 2002 vote against the Illinois Born Alive Infants Protection Act (covered today by Kyle-Anne Sh...

  • August 17, 2008

    Book notes

    I was finally able to indulge one of my guilty pleasures: reading a summer novel, a political thriller, no less. I made a great choice. The book in question is A Time Like This: 2001-2008., written by AT contributor William Tate. It is never a good i...

  • August 16, 2008

    Obama and the Hillary voters

    Robert Stacy McCain sees trouble ahead for Obama when he announces his VP choice and it isn't Hillary. While political insiders have all but dismissed the possibility of a unity ticket, he sees many of Hillary's supporters as not yet aware of the ins...

  • August 16, 2008

    The global warming scare may have peaked

    New Jersey State Assemblyman Michael Doherty has earned a place in the history books. So far as I know, he is the first politician to call openly for repeal of economically harmful legislation deriving from the global warming scare. His PR release re...

  • August 15, 2008

    AP follies

    The Associated Press, which insists that internet journalists must not quote it, has two good reasons not to be quoted today, made obvious by enterprising internet journalists.  Professor Barry Rubin writes that AP has falsely reported Israel is...

  • August 15, 2008

    Another worrisome sign for Obama

    A website which sells custom kippahs (aka yarmulkes) for Jews to wear at worship reports that sales of McCain kippahs outdistance Obama ones substantially. John Cook's Venture Blog reports VanityKippah.com founder Shmuel Tennenhaus-- who recently lef...

  • August 14, 2008

    Vote early and often for Obama in Ohio

    The Associated Press takes note of a new Ohio law that permits voters to register on election day and vote via absentee ballot.  No ID will be required.Although Democrats maintain that election boards can put a hold on ballots about which there ...

  • August 13, 2008

    New York Times financial squeeze intensifies

    Almost a year and a half ago, The New York Times Company (NYTCo) announced  a large increase in the dividend paid to stockholders, a move difficult to reconcile with the rapidly declining business fortunes of the company. The only rational expla...

  • August 12, 2008

    A tale of two offices

    Bookworm examines a press account of the personal offices created by Barack Obama and John McCain, and sees telling evidence of their respective characters.One is a mensch, the other a product.  Obama's office is immaculate and beautiful.  ...

  • August 11, 2008

    More rumblings of a Hillary coup (updated)

    Evidence accumulates favoring the possibility of a Hillary coup at the Denver convention, and it is being noticed among the sharper observers of politics.From within the Hillary camp comes a far-from-innocent observation by her former communications ...

  • August 10, 2008

    'The coverup is always worse...'

    Of all places, the Huffington Post is debunking  John Edwards' claims during his ABC TV interview - the one he says will be his final word of the subject of his "affair" (is that what you call it when you also claim you weren't in love...

  • August 9, 2008

    The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism reviewed

    Andrew Bostom's work is familiar to AT readers from his many articles here. His latest book, The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism: From Sacred Texts to Solemn History receives a very positive review today from Bruce Thronton, writing in the estima...

  • August 9, 2008

    Cindy Sheehan qualifies for the ballot against Pelosi

    Nancy Pelosi faces an unwelcome challenge from the left, as Cindy Sheehan qualifies for the November ballot for the California 8th District House seat held by the Speaker. John Wildemuth of the San Francisco Chronicle reports:The collection of signat...

  • August 8, 2008

    Defining literacy down

    The war on standards accelerates in the English speaking world. Who needs to agree on spelling anymore? It is tough for students to learn to spell, so let's just let the little darlings slide. If we have a hard time understanding what a person is wri...

  • August 8, 2008

    Another magazine cover for the Obama campaign to whine about

    More evidence of the Obama bubble bursting: the thin-skinned candidate is the target of no less than a Mad Magazine cover.Speaking of complaints, I wonder if Mad will receive (as we did) an indignant demand, complete with a threat, from tal...

  • August 8, 2008

    Collateral damage in the Edwards confession

    Barack Obama and the MSM -- especially the NYT -- will suffer significant collateral damage from the Edwards fallout.A BIG Democrat, one of Obama's peers as candidate for president, is a phony. How big a phony remains to be seen, but the signs do not...

  • August 7, 2008

    Obama: America not a model for the world?

    A video clip taken from Obama's  Dreams from My Father Book Signing, on New York on 11/23/2004 is burning up the internet. In it he appears to see America today as not a model for the world:"The Basic Outline of the government we possess an...

  • August 6, 2008

    Environmentalists and 'snake oil'

    The Natural Resources Defense Council demonstrates a remarkable lack of self-awareness by seeming to offer the promise of $1gasoline while simultaneously lampooning George Bush as a ‘snake oil salesman'.Here's the NRDC near-promise:Want gas at ...

  • August 6, 2008

    Phantom subscribers at the New York Times

    Pity the poor New York Times Company! In addition to all its other woes, one of the company's newspaper distributors has been accused of defrauding the company with thousands of phantom subscriptions, recycling the papers supposed to have been delive...

  • August 5, 2008

    An inconvenient mockumentary

    A film reviewer in Variety worries that a new comic documentary intended to support global warming theory may end up inspiring doubt and further controversy:One of the funniest details of Randy Olson's funny "Sizzle" is that a film designed...

  • August 4, 2008

    Murtha's reckoning

    Rep. John Murtha's disgrace in denouncing the Marines of the Haditha incident is not going to fade away gently into the night. William Russell, has returned from a tour of duty in the military and is running against him. His campaign has produced thi...

  • August 4, 2008

    Is Obama's press shield slipping?

    CBS News highlights the interior of the renovated Obama campaign plane, features a picture of the rather startling large seat labeled "President" reserved for the candidate.His chair has his name and campaign logo embroidered on the back to...

  • August 4, 2008

    'I'm conservative too, but don't let anyone know.'

    Bookworm, the Marin County mom who lives a secret life as a conservative blogger in one of the bluest spots in America, wrote about her plight in a 2005 article, Confession of a Crypto-conservative Woman. On her own website Bookworm Worm, she feature...

  • August 3, 2008

    Terror in Santa Cruz

    Animal "rights" activists appear to have firebombed the home of a molecular biologist in Santa Cruz. California. The terrorists are trying to force a halt to scientific research that involves death and discomfort for animals. Mary Anne Ostr...

  • August 3, 2008

    Has the Obama fad peaked?

    Was Berlin the apogee of Obama's ability to draw a crowd? Apparently lacking a top name rock band to draw bodies, an Obama Summer-fest in Central Park has drawn a very sparse crowd. Check out the pictures at Sweetness & Light. Fads can be cruel i...

  • August 2, 2008

    Obama as a state senator

    A close-up look at Barack Obama's years in the Illinois State Senate reveals someone different from the post-racial Barack Obama we thought we knew. Stanley Kurtz writes a must-read article on  "Barack Obama's Lost Years", and it is in...

  • August 1, 2008

    BBC fined for 'repeated instances of premeditated, deliberate deception'

    The UK's official media regulator Ofcom has levied a record fine (£400,000/$790,000)  against the British Broadcasting Corporation for deliberate deception. The News Division of the BBC was not involved in this particular scandal...

  • August 1, 2008

    More outrageous Obama satire

    He who must not be laughed at has some more satire to complain about. A brand new site, an offspring of The People's Cube, has appeared: Best Obama Facts.  Lest anyone raise objections, let me stipulate that these are not actual facts, but rathe...

  • August 1, 2008

    A history lesson from Cuba

     History has its lessons. A Fourth of July letter to the editor of the Washington Times-Dispatch became something of an internet sensation, forwarded via email and read aloud in a YouTube video. The writer, Manuel Alvarez Jr. of Sandy Hook, desc...

  • August 1, 2008

    McCain campaign mocks Obama-the-god rhetoric

    Released shortly after publication of Kyle-Anne Shiver's article today on the Obama campaign's godlike reach, the McCain campaign's new commercial today is devastating. When people start laughing at your pretensions, how do you recover?...

  • July 31, 2008

    Obama Comics (continued)

    Doug Ross has been chronicling the Barack Obama story in comic book format - a style particularly well-suited for the minds of younger voters highly receptive to images and challenged by long sentences, big words and abstract concepts. A new issue is...

  • July 31, 2008

    Much ado about Barack Obama's offer of 'tenure'

    Was Barack Obama offered a tenured position at the University of Chicago Law School? Why don't law professors there remember such an offer?The New York Times was the latest source to indicate that he had, in an article by Jodi Kantor yesterday titled...

  • July 30, 2008

    As long as Obama is lowering the sea levels...

    The candidate who must not be laughed at endures some outrageous satire at The People's Cube, an anti-communist website published by a Russian emigre to America. "Despite the predictions that Barack Obama would not act on his promise to low...

  • July 30, 2008

    More bad news for the New York Times... tick tock, tick tock

    Moody's Investor's Services, the bond rating agency, has notified the New York Times Company that its bond rating may decline, according to Editor & Publisher. Without changing the current Baaa3 rating (at least for the moment), NYTCo's outlook h...

  • July 30, 2008

    The Edwards scandal is now an MSM scandal

    Roughly a week has passed since the National Enquirer revealed what it alleged to be evidence of John Edwards and his love child. The Enquirer had confronted Edwards in the early hours of the morning, leaving a hotel room where his alleged former gir...

  • July 29, 2008

    The stealth socialist

    Today's absolutely must-read article is an editorial in Investor's Business Daily laying out the powerful case that Barack Obama is in fact a socialist whose agenda in his first term alone would radically reshape the economy. IBD concisely sums up th...

  • July 29, 2008

    Sly fun at Obama's expense

    Despite his desire to be off-limits for satire, the RNC does an amazing good job parodying Facebook as a method of delivering some very important information about Barack Obama. By launching Barackbook.com,  the Stupid Party finally gets somethi...

  • July 28, 2008

    Progress comes to 'progressive' Berkeley

    Something useful is getting done in Berkeley, despite the best efforts of the Banana crowd (Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anyone). This hole in the ground represents real progress.Soon the hole will be filled with a brand new Trader Joe's st...

  • July 28, 2008

    How to twist the news

    The Associated Press frames a story about a shooter to make it look like he must be a conservative. Sweetness & Light asks the right questions and mocks their bias in a witty post titled "Welfare Recipient Shoots People at Church."Click...

  • July 27, 2008

    'The other side of Obama's brain'

    That phrase is used to describe Valerie Jarrett, the as-yet little known key adviser to Barack Obama. A long profile of Ms. Jarrett by Don Terry of the Chicago Tribune reveals some interesting data on the Obama inner circle. He describes her role as ...

  • July 27, 2008

    1/3 of UK Muslim students believe what?

    A survey of UK university students reveals some disturbing information about the attitudes of the Muslim subgroup, compared to their non-Muslim counterparts.  Duncan Gardham of the Telegraph reports:28 per cent said killing could be justified if...

  • July 27, 2008

    Minority journalists worried about too much enthusiasm for Obama

    The not-quite-yet chosen one addresses a meeting of minority journalists today, and the scribes are worried about unseemly displays of affection and enthusiasm. Apparently just letting nature take its course might raise a few awkward questions about ...

  • July 27, 2008

    NYT writes about terror bombing in India. Guess what's missing?

    Steve Gilbert of Sweetness & Light catches the New York Times being clueless again about jihadi violence. Perhaps if their editors got out among ordinary Americans they would realize how stupid this evasion of the obvious makes them look. After h...

  • July 26, 2008

    Why is Rush Limbaugh so popular and effective?

    Journalists and leftists love to hate Rush Limbaugh, all the while consumed with envy of his success. Journalists are an insecure and unhappy lot these days, and for good reason, as further budget cuts and layoffs loom. So Rush Limbaugh's enormous au...

  • July 25, 2008

    Obama's casual way with the truth

    Barack Obama gave us more than some magnificent photo-ops when he spoke in Berlin yesterday. By trying to look presidential, he revealed more then he intended to about his operating style - long on glossy production values, and painfully inadequate w...

  • July 25, 2008

    Violence breaks out at minority journalists' 'Unity' Convention

    Worst-named convention ever.Mark Fitzgerald of Editor & Publisher attended the so called "Unity ‘08" convention of the various minority journalists' groups. And the fellow he was interviewing started getting physically attacked by...

  • July 24, 2008

    Avert your eyes!

    Certain precincts of the left are upset that conservative bloggers notice the creepy resemblance between Obama propaganda art and that of assorted demagogues. Now he is in Berlin, speaking at Hitler's favorite monument (moved to its location as the p...

  • July 24, 2008

    A pact that must not be rejected

    We've had our disappointments with the Secretary of State, but Condoleezza Rice's article today at Real Clear Politics arguing for ratification of the United-States-Colombia Free Trade Pact is a pleasant surprise. Hat tip: IBD editorials ...

  • July 22, 2008

    New York Times and its plans

    Advertising Age profiles the New York Times today and reveals that the newspaper is planning to beef up its business coverage, as the Wall Street Journal moves in on the general news market:As it happens, the Times is about to dramatically expand its...

  • July 22, 2008

    American flag disappears from the Obama campaign plane's tail

    Nobody's saying he's unpatriotic, but what kind of man uses his own symbol instead of the flag on the tail of his official campaign plane?World Net Daily's Aaron Klein notices that the American flag has been painted over on the tail of the 757 airpla...

  • July 21, 2008

    Another disaster for 'compassionate' liberalism

    It seemed like such a good idea to the liberals in Seattle: let's have automated, graffiti-resistant toilets for the homeless. So what if it cost about a million bucks apiece for five of the German-made high tech water closets! People deserve the rig...

  • July 20, 2008

    Michelle Obama as racial victim

    Get out your handkerchiefs. Poor Michelle Obama apparently is now the emblem of the victimization of all black women. A media campaign is underway, ever since the candidate denounced criticism of his wife.According to Sophia A. Nelson, writing in the...

  • July 20, 2008

    The Onion to the rescue

    Just when our national humor crisis seemed to be at its lowest point, with comedy writers unable to conceive of anything to mock about Barack Obama, the satirical newspaper The Onion has risen to the occasion. In an article entitled "'Time Publi...

  • July 18, 2008

    'Obama' girl at the 'Netroots Nation'

    Amber Lee Ettinger, better known as the Obama girl, attended the left wing convention Netroots Nation meeting in Austin, TX. For someone who helped shape the Obama cult in the early days, Amber Lee does not seem to know very much. Watch this brief vi...

  • July 17, 2008

    Another inconvenient truth down the Obama Memory Hole

    The staggering implications of another embarrassing Obama statement would remain unexplored, with the public record obscured, were it not for a video clip of one of his speeches posted to the web and alert internet journalists. As first develope...

  • July 16, 2008

    'Undivided' Jersualem evasions dissected

    Rick Richman masterfully dissects the evasions of Barack Obama on an undivided Jerusalem in the New York Sun today. Anyone who still thinks Obama is committed to an undivided Jerusalem must read this piece. He has gone back on his expressed comm...

  • July 15, 2008

    Special rules for Obama?

    Sooner or later, voters are going to recognize the exquisite sensitivity of the Obama campaign to ridicule as weakness. By choosing to cry foul  over the New Yorker cover depicting the Obamas as the opposition supposedly sees him, the campa...

  • July 14, 2008

    A refugee from jihad who benefitted humantiy as an American

    Punditarian, writing on the Astute Bloggers website points out that the late Michael Debakey, one of the 20th century's most famous medical pioneers, ended up in the United States courtesy of jihad in his family's native Lebanon. The information can ...

  • July 13, 2008

    Subscriber sues newspaper over cutbacks

    A subscriber who renewed his subscription to a newspaper, only to read about major staff cutbacks in the newsroom after the check was cashed, is suing the paper, claiming in effect that the product he purchased has been degraded before delivery was c...

  • July 12, 2008

    Taking on Al Jazeera full throttle

    Mordchai Kedar, a professor of Arabic Studies at Bar Ilan University in Tel Aviv, was a recent guest via satellite on Al Jazeera television, where he gave the interviewer a lesson in the Koran and much more. A captioned video clip demonstrates w...

  • July 12, 2008

    Richard Baehr interview

    AT's indefatigable chief political correspondent Richard Baehr spoke with the Cleveland Jewish News for an interview, which can be read here. While the ideas presented will be familiar to AT readers, the picture of Richard which accompanies the artic...

  • July 11, 2008

    Obama for messiah (continued)

    Barack Obama is walking a dangerous path with his vague promises of hope and change, his arraogance and elitism, and his glass jaw when it comes to impromptu discussions of actual policy, much less the basic details of how presidential power actually...

  • July 11, 2008

    Run for president, see the USA (at last)

    Another oddity of the Obama campaign: the candidate hadn't really bothered to visit very much of America, prior to deciding to become its leader. The New York Times brings us the heart-warming story of Barack Obama finally getting to really see the U...

  • July 9, 2008

    First female wins top fighter pilot award

    Kudos to Captain Shannon Lippert of the United States Air Force, of the 336th Fighter Squadron at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base. She is the latest winner of the American Fighter Aces Association's Francis S. Gabreski Award, and the first-ever w...

  • July 9, 2008

    How much has the drilling moratorium cost you?

    Much of the most promising American oil lands have been declared off limits for oil drilling and production for many years. This has cost us all lots of money at the gasoline pump, but the effects elsewhere may be even bigger. The office of...

  • July 9, 2008

    The downside of MyBarackObama.com

    Now that Barack Obama is tacking to the center in his general election strategy, the true believers among his left wing fans, whose energy and donations propelled his primary and caucus campaigns, are getting disillusioned. The very instrument that r...

  • July 9, 2008

    Lehman Brothers slashes NYTCo price target

    Virtually announcing to the world that the New York Times Company is in the process destroying shareholder value, investment bank Lehman Brothers is telling investors that its 12 month price target for a share of New York Times Company stock is $8 a ...

  • July 9, 2008

    Air Force tanker contract bidding re-opened

    In what amounts to another rebuke for the Air Force, Defense Secretary Robert Gates is taking over  the process of buying a new fleet of aerial tankers, and partially opening it for rebidding. Last month, several comparatively small errors were ...

  • July 8, 2008

    Obama/Rezko -- the comic book version

    Doug Ross has told in pictures the shocking story of Barack Obama's ties to Tony Rezko and his indifference to the victims of Rezko's housing. This is more than a clever rendition, it makes the story accessible and understandable to those who do...

  • July 7, 2008

    Desperate warmists and weather reports

    Dr. Tim Ball, a Canadian climatologist, debunks  the desperate attempts of global warmists to assign blame for bad weather to rising atmospheric CO2 in a worthwhile and very readable article in the Canada Free Press. He posits that the current d...

  • July 7, 2008

    The multi-cultural one way street

    Demands for "tolerance" in the name of multiculturalism apply only to wealthy, predominantly white countries. And within them, only to whites.* A shocking situation in Denmark illustrates the point. The world yawns as Muslim immigrants in D...

  • July 7, 2008

    Obama's lack of understanding exposed again

    Dean Barnett noticed a stunning level of ignorance by Barack Obama about the command structure he seeks to head as commander-in-chief and blogged about it at The Weekly Standard. When Obama held his second press conference late last week to address h...

  • July 5, 2008

    Thank a Warmist for third world starvation

    A supposedly confidential World Bank report is said to blame biofuels demand for forcing world food prices up 75%. Aditya Chakrabortty of the UK Guardian, hardly a right wing publication, writes:  Biofuels have forced global food prices up by 75...

  • July 4, 2008

    Creeping sharia takes a big step

    Britain's most senior judge has endorsed the use of sharia law in the UK. The UK Daily Mail reports:The most senior judge in England yesterday gave his blessing to the use of sharia law to resolve disputes among Muslims.Lord Chief Justice Lord Philli...

  • July 3, 2008

    Der Spiegel (!) notices the good news in Iraq

    Normally the weekly German news magazine toes an anti-American editorial line, but evidently it has enough integrity to admit that the facts on the ground in Baghdad show amazing progress. Bookworm points out the story:The story is amazing ...

  • July 3, 2008

    The burglar and the barbecue sauce

    I am not sure quite how to interpret the following news item.  For me, the Fourth of July requires firing up the barbecue grill, for I consider genuine barbecue, as well as grilled hot dogs and hamburgers, part of our national culinary heritage....

  • July 3, 2008

    The friends of Barack Obama

    Would you accept a dinner invitation from Bernadine Dohrn and her husband Bill Ayers? Check out what your hostess said about dining etiquette on this independent video.The video raises some other intersting questions. Obama supporters will call it gu...

  • July 1, 2008

    Identifying perps as illegal immigrants (updated)

    It is almost an iron law of the MSM that the race and immigration status of criminals will not be identified if they are members of racial minorities or not in the country legally. Sometimes this aversion is almost comic, as when the subject of a man...

  • July 1, 2008

    Jindal reverses self on legislators' pay raise

    Bobby Jindal finally did the right thing.  He admitted he made a mistake -- a tough admission for any politician to make -- and opposed the state legislature pay raise bill yesterday. He had previously said he would sign it. ...

  • July 1, 2008

    North Pole ice melting fear mongers strike out

    Kudos to John L. Daly, who has written a very interesting study of ice at the North Pole. Global Warmists are once again observing cyclical changes and declaring them "proof" of the dire effects of global warming.Among the interesting ...

  • June 30, 2008

    Obama criticized on NPR

    Small signs emerge that at least some members of the liberal media are not buying into the Obama campaign. Binyamin Appelbaum of the Boston Globe, for example.  An alert reader led me to this commentary on NPR by the normally liberal Scott Simon...

  • June 30, 2008

    Radicals for Obama

    A lot of unrepentant 60s radicals -- the type of people who used to reject electoral politics as a choice between Tweedledum and Tweedledee -- are supporting Barack Obama. Maybe they have all matured, mellowed and decided to work within the system. O...

  • June 30, 2008

    Chavez rival being kept out of election

    Despite oil billions flowing in at a record pace, Hugo Chavez's mismanagement of Venezuela has made him less popular than "progressives" theorize a champion of the poor should be. So Chavez naturally fears a popular rival, Leopoldo L...

  • June 29, 2008

    If you thought Rathergate was bad....

    Anne-Elisabeth Moutet, a French journalist, writes a hair-raising account of the al-Dura case, in which a French TV network, France 2, broadcast (and supplied free to the world's press) edited footage making it appear that Israeli troops had cruelly ...

  • June 29, 2008

    Airline notes

    I try to stay off of airplanes these days, but have logged 10,000 miles in the last month in spite of myself. So my eyes tend to linger on stories about aviation despite the aversion therapy being administered by the TSA and the airlines themselves. ...

  • June 29, 2008

    Obama birth certificate mystery solved?

    Could it be a case of much ado about nothing? Doug Ross thinks so.  Questions have been raised about the copy posted on the Daily Kos site bore a state seal embossed. ..one of Pamela Geller's readers did some heavy-lifting with Photoshop and dis...

  • June 28, 2008

    UN Human Rights Commission bans criticism of Islam

    Free speech obviously does not rank very high on the list of human rights  for this group. From Israel Matzav:  The UN 'Human Rights Council' decided this week that it is forbidden to criticize Islam because "religious issues can be ...

  • June 28, 2008

    Advice to a dying industry

    As newspaper circulation and advertising collapse at an accelerating pace, the Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sports (TIDES) publishes a study with the shocking news that sports columnists and editors are the wrong sex and wrong color in too m...

  • June 26, 2008

    What is SecState Rice up to?

    Judith Apter Klinghoffer raises  that disturbing question at History News Network:If President Bush made Condi Rice a secretary of state in the hope that she can tame Foggy Bottom, he over estimated her. She is now as house broken as has predece...

  • June 26, 2008

    Arctic ice melt may be due to undersea volcanoes

    The Arctic ice that is supposedly melting, stranding those cuddly looking polar bears, just might be affected by a wave of volcanic eruptions on the ocean floor under the Arctic ice cap. AFP reports on the recently-documented volcanoes, but oddly mak...

  • June 25, 2008

    Outsourcing journalists' jobs

    The future just keeps getting dimmer and dimmer for American print journalists. As daily newspaper circulation and ad revenue plummet, newspapers are taking every possible avenue toward cost-cutting. The latest trend is outsourcing jobs to India. Bus...

  • June 24, 2008

    Bobby's Choice

    Bobby Jindal, Louisiana's governor, faces a major decision, one that could set the tone for the rest of his governorship, if not his political career. A commentary in bestof neworleans.com informs us that it looks very much like the governor cut a de...

  • June 23, 2008

    Decline and fall of the New York Times (cont.)

    Another milepost is passed in the fall of the house of Suzberger, as a major publisher of conservative books announces it will no longer send review copies to the New York Times. Roger Kimball, the estimable head of Encounter Books, announces:Beginni...

  • June 20, 2008

    Obama seen as a Muslim overseas

    The Obama campaign faces a burgeoning problem: the tendency of certain highly-placed  Muslims overseas to declare that he is of their faith.  The latest to do so is Libya's Qadhafi, in remarks made marking the anniversary of the U.S. air ra...

  • June 19, 2008

    Murtha's opponent

    Pork king Rep John Murtha (D-PA), who pre-judged the Haditha defendants as guilty, will face a highly decorated veteran next November. Lt. Col. Bill Russell, following reinstatement of his name to the ballot, after overcoming challenges to his petiti...

  • June 18, 2008

    Al Gore proves the futility of his policy recommendations (updated)

    The morality play on offer from greenies and their media buddies holds that "we can't drill our way" to cheaper oil prices, but "conservation" and "new technologies" for "alternative energy" are the answer. Thu...

  • June 18, 2008

    Obama's undivided inattention

    Barack Obama has no grasp of the basics of diplomacy, and doesn't even realize it. That is a frightening thought about a potential commander in chief. Jennifer Rubin of the Commentary blog writes:  "An advisor, Daniel Kurtzer, to Barack Oba...

  • June 17, 2008

    How to overcome opposition to oil drilling

    The solution is surprising, but really shouldn't be: government ownership. Mary Anastasia Grady of the Wall Street Journal notes  that where governments own substantial shares of oil producers, environmental concerns do not seem to prevent oil f...

  • June 17, 2008

    Will someone please ask Obama this question?

    Would you ever invite your friends and neighbors Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn to a function in the White House? If not, why not?...

  • June 16, 2008

    Boeing wins a round in the Air Force tanker dispute

    The Air Force decision to source its next generation tanker fleet from a Northrop-Airbus consortium did not go down well with a wide-ranging group of people. Boeing filed a protest over some of the assumptions used to generate Northrop-Airbus's lifec...

  • June 15, 2008

    WaPo: those anti-Obama meanies hurt his church

    Barack Obama threw the virtuous Jeremiah Wright and the very nice Trinity United Church of Christ under the bus, but once again it is the fault of the meanies who always criticize Barack Obama. That seems to be the gist of an article  by Eli Sas...

  • June 15, 2008

    WaPo editorial criticizes Dems on Iraq

    More evidence accumulates that even the press sees that American policy in Iraq has not just turned the corner, but is heading for success. A stunning Washington Post editorial  this morning actually criticizes Dems for their defeatism on Iraq. ...

  • June 14, 2008

    Farewell, Tim Russert

    Tim Russert, whom I only knew through his work, seemed a good man: hard-working, well-prepared, bursting with energy, and infectiously ebullient. Judging by the farewell he got from his television news colleagues yesterday, he was also a major politi...

  • June 14, 2008

    AP attempts to salvage Obama's VP panel story

    A notable example of the way the press is attempting to paper over Barack Obama's blunders was spotted and wittily mocked by Steve Gilbert of Sweetness & Light. Glen Johnson of the Associated Press penned an embarrassing paean to the sole member ...

  • June 14, 2008

    Judicial temperament?

    A poster of Che Guevara hangs on the wall of a judge who found Ohio's death penalty law constitutionally lacking. But his idol Che was not very respectful of the niceties of justice, and loved to watch firing squads at work. Che o...

  • June 13, 2008

    When the police get entrepreneurial

    The economic slowdown so often portrayed as a recession is pressuring tax revenues at every level of government. Hal Morris, the Grumpy Editor, warns of a possible wave of revenue enhancement efforts, citing a Chicago police plan:As if designing...

  • June 13, 2008

    Irish voters reject EU power grab

    The Treaty of Lisbon, in effect a new constitution for the European Union intended to add to the power of EU bureaucrats at the expense of democratically elected national governments, was rejected by Irish voters yesterday. Predictably, the New ...

  • June 12, 2008

    Politics in Zimbabwe beyond hardball

    While commentators fret  that the GOP will attack Michelle Obama and alienate voters, supporters of Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe don't limit themselves to mere criticism. Jan Raath reports  for the Times of London: Robert Mugabe's bloody regim...

  • June 12, 2008

    Jimmy Carter on Obama's lack of substance and experience

    Oops! Before Obama looked likely to win, Jimmy Carter said, "Obama does not have substance or experience to be president," when promoting his anti-Israel book on PBS' Charlie Rose Show.Hat tips: Chicago Against Obama, Obama's Gaffes, Gatewa...

  • June 12, 2008

    Obama on why he shouldn't have run for president

    Back in 2004, Obama felt that it would be too soon for a newly-minted senator to run for president (agreeing with Jimmy Carter that it was too soon). Rosslyn Smith reminds us of a November 2004 video (hat tip: Gateway Pundit) taken rig...

  • June 11, 2008

    Let the crossover donations begin

    Hillary's "suspension" of her campaign has opened a door to crossover Democrats donating to and supporting John McCain. Alexander Bolton of The Hill reports:Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) is attracting elite Jewish Democratic donors who backed ...

  • June 11, 2008

    George Soros and Obama's veep

    Soren Dayton of RedState notices that Barack Obama's choice of Jim Johnson to vet vice presidential choices is worse than previously understood:...there is more on Johnson. In 2001, he joined Persueus LLC as a Vice Chairman. Perseus has a number of f...

  • June 11, 2008

    Despicable animal rights demonstrators

    Self righteousness can be a disease afflicting the true believers in any cause. But the animal rights movement seems to be home to more than its share of people who believe their cause is so right that they are excused from normal human constraints. ...

  • June 11, 2008

    Free the offshore drillers

    Fox News reports  that Rep. John Peterson (R-PA) has introduced an amendment to s spending bill that would free up offshore drilling more than 50 miles off our coast, enabling American companies to drill in waters already being exploited by the ...

  • June 10, 2008

    Obama appoints a Wal-Mart defender as economic policy adviser

    Some leftists are in a tizzy because Barack Obama has appointed an economic policy adviser who has dared to praise the benefits Wal-Mart's low prices bring to low income consumers: Jason Furman.Recognizing the reality that efficiency brings benefits ...

  • June 9, 2008

    Stunning news from Hugo Chavez

    The Marxist president of Venezuela has  ytold the FARC guerillas in neighboring Colombia to give up their struggle to overthrow the US ally: (via BBC) In his weekly television and radio programme on Sunday, Mr Chavez urged the Farc's new le...

  • June 9, 2008

    What kind of war crimes trials does Obama plan? (updated)

    Barack Obama's plan for imposing unity on the nation after he takes office apparently entails a close look at war crimes trials for Bush administration officials. He has even said so in an interview with Will Bunch of the Philadelphia Daily News.This...

  • June 7, 2008

    Dems face the bitter harvest of identity politics

    Let the navel-gazing begin! Democrats now scramble to avoid the looming feminist backlash from Hillary supporters, disappointed that their identity politics candidate was passed over by the superdelegates (pledged delegates from caucus and primary el...

  • June 6, 2008

    NYT staff buyouts -- who's next?

    Media Bistro is chronicling  the grim news of staff buyouts at the New York Times.For months, we've been hearing about buyouts at The New York Times. But who's going and who's staying? We decided to do some actual reporting and create our own li...

  • June 5, 2008

    Todd Purdum, recycler

    R. Emmett Tyrrell, founder of The American Spectator and Clinton critic extraordinaire, exposes Todd Purdum of Vanity Fair (formerly of the New York Times), and in the process, the biases of the American press. Purdum's gossipy report on Bill Clinton...

  • June 5, 2008

    Blast from the past

    Though he refuses to repudiate them, merely "distancing" himself, Rev. Wright, Father Pfleger and James Meeks all have a public history with Barack Obama.Here is an interesting article on Obama's faith which mentions his close friendship wi...

  • June 5, 2008

    If the post turtle fits

    An old joke is being resurrected in honor of Barack Obama. Emails circulate with the name Barack Obama attached. While suturing a laceration on the hand of a 73 year-old Texas rancher, whose hand had been caught in a gate while working cattle, a...

  • June 4, 2008

    Does the IRS know about this?

    Father Pfleger may be in trouble with more than his church superiors. An eagle-eyed AT reader who must remain anonymous found that his church itself, St. Sabina, has made political donations.If you go to this Illinois campaign contributions...

  • June 4, 2008

    How Trinity United uses your tax dollars

    Fox News discovered that Rev. Wright's Trinity United Church of Christ didn't mind accepting $15 million in cash from the same federal government Wright believes planted the AIDS virus to kill African-Americans. So how wisely has that money been...

  • June 4, 2008

    What's on the rumored Michelle Obama 'rant' tape?

    It's existence is still not absolutely confirmed, but the Michelle Obama "rant" tape is being described with a fair amount of detail on the pro-Hillary website Hillbuzz.I mentioned the tape yesterday in my article on Hillary's next stage of...

  • June 3, 2008

    The Clinton-Obama Battle Continues

    The next stage of Hillary Clinton's battle with Barack Obama is coming into focus. With the primary season closing today, her efforts turn to the super delegates, who don't have to decide (in the only meaningful way) to support either Clinton or...

  • May 28, 2008

    The liberal vortex (updated)

    The liberal recipe of higher taxes and more government as a cure for economic distress sparks a vicious cycle of diminished employment, higher demand for services, lower tax revenues and consequent deficits. Which provides a feedback loop demanding y...

  • May 28, 2008

    Let Obama's weaseling begin -- the media will cover him

    Barack Obama seems to have realized that he dug himself a hole when he promised meetings with no preconditions with Ahmedinejad and other tyrants in the first year of his presidency, during a CNN debate last summer. He now is qualifying his blanket s...

  • May 27, 2008

    Obama the closer

    Barack Obama is the one American Marxists have been waiting for. Just look at his endorsements. He may be able to close the deal through the electoral process, a strategy his friends Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn thought impossible for the radical p...

  • May 26, 2008

    Avoiding humiliation for the public schools?

    Subway sandwich shops have chosen to sponsor a story-writing contest for students. Very laudable considering the serious decline in writing skills among Americans in recent decades. But why has the sandwich shop chosen to exclude home schoolers?...

  • May 26, 2008

    Jimmy Carter wants trade relations with Iran

    The former president is in a hole and can't stop digging. Joy Lo Dico of the UK Independent reports:The former US president Jimmy Carter has called for his country to resume trade relations with Iran, which he described as a "rational" nati...

  • May 26, 2008

    Welcome to Japan!

    A botched customs test at Narita Airport in Tokyo has bestowed an unusual welcome present on an unknown arriving passenger. The BBC reports:  An unwitting passenger arriving at Japan's Narita airport has received 142g of cannabis after a customs...

  • May 25, 2008

    Still too soon to count Hillary out

    Hillary has made a gaffe. But those who think she'll quit do not have long memories. When is a gaffe not a gaffe? The answer used to be simple: when a Democrat uttered a gaffe, it vanished into the memory hole. But no longer, now that Hillary Clinton...

  • May 25, 2008

    The lessons of Colombia

    Why is it so hard for Americans to learn about the successes of our war on terror? In the wake of the killing  of the leader of the FARC guerillas and the success of our Iraq policies in marginalizing Al Qaeda (all without much press notice), In...

  • May 24, 2008

    Who wins if Bobby Jindal gets tapped for veep?

    While many conservatives (like me) are excited at the prospect of Bobby Jindal appearing on the ticket with John McCain, back home in Louisiana all politics is still local. Governor Jindal has just began his first term as governor, with a massive ref...

  • May 24, 2008

    Parroting empty slogans

    Somehow this seems supremely symbolic to me:Hat tip: Hot Air, Dennis Sevakis...

  • May 23, 2008

    Michael Yon's book kept out of military bases

    In a stunning refutation of the freedoms for which our military fights, Michael Yon's new book Moment of Truth in Iraq is being kept out of distribution channels on military bases in most states. This is due to an arbitrary decision of Anderson ...

  • May 23, 2008

    The Crypto-Marxist mask slips

    As if to verify today's article by James Lewis  on how Marxism hasn't gone away, Maxine Waters let slip in a hearing yesterday her wish to "socialize" the oil industry. It comes at 1 minute 14 seconds into this Fox News report.Link: se...

  • May 23, 2008

    Feminist ideology meets motherhood

    The absurdities of radical feminism are being relegated to the ash heap of history, and not a moment too soon. You can't fight human nature forever. The latest example comes in a moving column in the UK Daily Mail by the daughter of feminist icon Ali...

  • May 23, 2008

    Reality check for those who decry American 'racism' and 'xenophobia'

    To the Left, America is irredeemably racist, and those who want our border protected are xenophobes. The insanity of these claims is evidenced by what real racism and xenophobia look like. In black-led South Africa, a country that is held to be the e...

  • May 22, 2008

    Obama supporters worried about the Jewish vote

    After dismissing concerns about Obama and Israel policy, Jewish advocates of Barack Obama's candidacy are starting to be openly concerned. An article by Ami Eden carried by the JTA news service reports:  The anxious mood was easy to detect Sunda...

  • May 22, 2008

    Fashion statement

    The socialist realism school of Obama posters (mimicking the personality cult art of Che/Mao/Lenin, among other communist icons) has hit the fashion racks at Urban Outfitters. Doesn't this amount to a corporate contribution to his campaign? Isn't tha...

  • May 22, 2008

    The trial lawyers and the Democrats

    One of the ongoing scandals of the Democratic Party is the mutual support between the Party and the tort lawyers. House Minority Leader John Boehner shines some light on the ties, and the relationship and the implications of the recent scandal involv...

  • May 22, 2008

    Hillary supporters to demonstrate at DNC meeting

    "Count every vote" is a very familiar war cry among Democrats. That cry is set to be heard this Saturday in Washington, DC, when the Democratic National Committee Rules Committee meets at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in tony Northwest Wa...

  • May 22, 2008

    Good news from Chessani case

    Lt. Col Jeffrey Chessani has been on trial on trumped-up charges in the so-called Haditha incident, in which brave fighting men were put in jeopardy of military prison and their careers ruined, to appease the global lynch mob left enraged at early an...

  • May 21, 2008

    What does Thomas Friedman mean here?

    One of the Big Lies of the movement to destroy Israel is the contention that there was a Palestinian nation before land was allegedly stolen from them. Now, it appears that NYT columnist Thomas Friedman is buying into the fraud. From his latest colum...

  • May 21, 2008

    What about the child's rights?

    Fathers and children lose big in the UK, as single mothers and lesbian couples score a political victory. A child-to-be has no right to a father. They are superfluous, according to legislation just passed in Parliament. The UK Times reports: Single w...

  • May 21, 2008

    Obama already reinforcing A'jad in Iran

    As predicted  by Ed Lasky, Barack Obama's cozying up to summitry with Ahmedinejad of Iran is damaging our efforts to contain him. Only faster than Ed anticipated. Amir Tehari says Obama is already creating a terrible impact with regard to Iran's...

  • May 20, 2008

    Global warming derangement syndrome

    After a year of falling temperatures, global warming fanatics grow more desperate. From Australia comes a scheme that only can be described as deranged, in my opinion:IN a doomsday scenario straight out of the Matrix trilogy, top scientist Tim Flanne...

  • May 20, 2008

    Tragedy at Columbia University

    Virtually all of the elite higher education institutions in the United States have fallen into the hands of the left, but among them Columbia University may have fallen farthest. The New York Sun editorializes on a revolting appointment as the n...

  • May 19, 2008

    Racial violence against immigrants soars

    Horrific racial violence has immigrants seeking shelter. France? Arizona?  Guess again.From Sky News:  Hundreds of immigrants have taken refuge in police stations and churches as the racial violence against them soars in South Africa.Office...

  • May 19, 2008

    Deficiencies in American military doctrine in War on Terror

    LTC Joseph Myers is a man whose name ought to be on the lips of all who care about victory in the Global War on Terror. For quite some time he has been fighting a lonely battle to get our military to study and counter-strategize against the distincti...

  • May 19, 2008

    Is Iran a threat or not, Senator Obama?

    Within the space of a day, the candidate has changed his position.May 18, 2008:  [If Iran] "tried to pose a serious threat to us they wouldn't . . . they wouldn't stand a chance."May 19, 2008:  "So, I've made it clear for yea...

  • May 18, 2008

    Authors against Obama

    We hear much from Michelle Obama about how unfair life can be for her and by extension all black people. Speaking of unfairness, Robert Stacy McCain has a complaint  of his own. How on earth did Barack Obama merit the kind of treatment he got fr...

  • May 18, 2008

    The end of free expression in Holland

    Something very scary happened in Holland last week.  The sort of thing one could imagine under Nazi occupation. The sort of thing against which brave Dutch Resistance fighters fought. Yet it happened at the hands of the government of the Netherl...

  • May 18, 2008

    Democrats recycling commie art themes

    What is it about Democrats that attracts them to retro-Communist posters? Earlier, I noted the affinity of the Obama camp for the Che Guevara look in posters.  The antecedents are clear, as pointed out by Daniel Montrose.  But now...

  • May 17, 2008

    Everything is caused by global warming (continued)

    Now kidney stones have been added to the list of maladies supposedly on the rise thanks to supposed global warming. Or could this be satire? Who can tell? The warmist movement moved beyond staire some time ago.But if you think kidney stones are bad, ...

  • May 17, 2008

    Shhh... nobody say anything

    Certain dogs are not barking when it comes to the question of Barack Obama as apostate Muslim. (No, we are not calling anyone a dog, this is an allusion to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, CAIR. Relax.)  In response to a New York Times op-ed by Edwa...

  • May 17, 2008

    Jihad in India

    Global Islamist terror is indeed global. In the media focus on the Great Satan (America) and the Lesser Satan (Israel), we often overlook the jihadist terror directed at India. Nothing at all to do with Israel or the Palestinians. Just the stubborn f...

  • May 16, 2008

    American public opinion on Islamist issues

    What do Americans think about demands for Sharia courts, or Muslim taxi drivers who refuse to carry dogs or passengers carrying alcohol? These and other questions relating to Islamist demands were the subject of a poll sponsored by Act for America...

  • May 14, 2008

    Al Jazeera reports Palestinians phonebanking for Obama

    It appears that some Palestinians in Gaza share American Thinker's skepticism over Barack Obama's devotion to the cause of Israel. Jim Geraghty of NRO's The Campaign Spot draws our attention to this video news report broadcast on Al Jazeera...

  • May 14, 2008

    Holocaust heroine dies at 98

    She may be less known than Oskar Schindler, but Rena Sendler, who died two days ago at the age on 98, was at least his equal in saving would-be victims from the Holocaust. The Age of Melbourne, Australia reports:RENA Sendler, who is credited with hav...

  • May 14, 2008

    See you in court, Mahmoud

    Aussie Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has announced he may take Iran's President Ahmadinejad to court in the Hague. AFP reports:Australia is considering taking Iran's president to the International Court of Justice for inciting violence against Israel, Pr...

  • May 14, 2008

    Hillary's portable 'person of color'

    Sweetness & Light notices what appears to be same p.o.c. appearing behind Hillary Clinton at the podium addressing campaign rallies in three states, providing a suitable ‘diversity' for her human backdrop.Meanwhile, Dana Milbrank of the Was...

  • May 13, 2008

    'I'm ready for my close-up, Rev. Wright'

    Kudos to Tom Blumer of BizzyBlog for obtaining and posting no less than three covers of Jeremiah Wright's Trumpet Magazine featuring Barack Obama as the cover subject, with photos. Check them out.  Blumer notes that he only has about 65% of the ...

  • May 12, 2008

    Gratuitous Bush-bashing alert

    Business Week joins the New York Times in sneaking Bush-bashing into articles on unrelated topics:"If Ballmer thought he would be greeted as a "liberator" in acquiring Yahoo, he was as misguided as the Bush Administration was about Ira...

  • May 11, 2008

    Obama campaign lies

    The Obama campaign is lying, and the New York Times is helping advance the lie. Despite having earlier published documentation proving the lie.  Barack Obama said something very stupid in a presidential debate last July: that he would meet with ...

  • May 10, 2008

    Obama's odd coincidence?

    A Chicago pol's wife gets a 200 grand salary bump (almost tripling her compensation) and a year later hubby seeks to channel a million bucks to the wife's employer. Good old time Chicago poltics, right?Apparently not, because the candidate in questio...

  • May 10, 2008

    Tobacco as a self-medication and 'wellness'

    Today's article on smoking restrictions and the "wellness" movement makes no mention of a politically incorrect truth: some people smoke because they find net positive benefits in it. Nicotine is not just an addictive drug, it is a powerful...

  • May 9, 2008

    Liberal intellectuals start to get a clue about Reagan

    Two decades after the end of his presidency, some of the smarter intellectuals are starting to realize the greatness of Ronald Reagan. Newsweek runs a fascinating interview  with Princeton University's Sean Willentz, the very definition of an ac...

  • May 9, 2008

    A hero's tale

    Whatever else one may think of his politics, only seriously deranged people fail to credit John McCain with heroism. The son and grandson of prominent Admirals, John McCain's refusal to leave behind his fellow inmates in the Hanoi Hilton reflects a g...

  • May 9, 2008

    Obama's misreads history

    Another (in addition to this) glaring instance of the smarty pants highly-educated elitists getting things totally, brazenly, wrong is offered today  by Jack Kelly. In his victory speech after the North Carolina primary, Sen. Bara...

  • May 9, 2008

    Obama sacks advisor foreign policy advisor Robert Malley (updated)

    Yet another advisor has been dumped overboard by the Obama campaign when embarrassing information has come to public notice. American Thinker has been out front in drawing attention to Barack Obama's scary team of foreign policy advisors. And we have...

  • May 8, 2008

    State penetration of terrorist organizations

    An important debate is underway over the role of states in Islamic terror. Some observers emphasize the primacy religion in Islamic terror, while others see states using terror groups to advance their own ends without leaving fingerprints.Today in th...

  • May 7, 2008

    Bankrupt government in California

    The city council of Vallejo, California voted last night to declare bankruptcy. Will the state of California follow? It may be far-fetched now, but thinking the unthinkable occasionally has value.The problems facing Vallejo bear some comparison ...

  • May 6, 2008

    Barack Obama and Karl Marx

    Why is Barack Obama so comfortable with so many Marxists? The question has long intrigued me. Despite being repudiated by history, Marxism remains powerful in the halls of elite academic institutions, where Obama imbibed so much of his worldview. Inv...

  • May 6, 2008

    President defends Israel book fair in Italy

    The European left hates Israel. Never mind oppression of women, hatred of homosexuals, and reliance on the worst sort of thuggery by the Palestinians. They are progressive darlings because they are oppressed and  they hate capitalism (and Jews, ...

  • May 6, 2008

    Deep thanks to our readers

    Yesterday we saw the first round of donations sent by mail to our fundraiser. Many readers sent thoughtful notes, expressing their appreciation for American Thinker. Some even wrote on note-paper used for thank-you notes. Words fail me in describing ...

  • May 6, 2008

    Lake County votes delayed in Indiana (updated)

    Watching the coverage of the Indiana primary tonight, everyone is wondering why the votes from Lake County, where Gary is located, are delayed.A cynic might assume that local officials are waiting to see how many votes are needed to put Obama over th...

  • May 5, 2008

    Prophets of recession hedging their bets

    Anatole Kaletsky of the Times of London heralds a recession in predictions of a recession in the US economy.[Warren] Buffett, having speculated against the dollar for years and declared that credit derivatives are financial weapons of mass destr...

  • May 5, 2008

    Coming soon on American Thinker thanks to your donations

    A huge thank-you to the hundreds of readers who have already contributed to our first-ever fundraiser. Your donations have enabled us to begin implementing the first project on our agenda, setting up a system to allow reader comments on articles and ...

  • May 4, 2008

    Star-Tribune may face bankruptcy

    The death throes of the daily newspaper industry continue in an entirely predictable manner, as the largest newspaper in Minnesota, the Star-Tribune, is reportedly unable to pay its debts and may face bankruptcy. According to the New York Post:One of...

  • May 3, 2008

    News junkies have a new tool

    WFLD television, the Fox affiliate in Chicago, has posted a new tool for those who simply can't get enough news. It is found here at livenewscameras.com, where live feeds from dozens of television news sources are presented. Want to see where Obama, ...

  • May 2, 2008

    Conservative students win control

    The Leadership Institute, which trains conservatives in political skills, claims a victory at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, where a conservative student group has swept to power in the student government.Students began organizing a coa...

  • May 2, 2008

    Al Franken on the ropes

    Alleged comedian and failed talk show host Al Franken hoped to move back to Minnesota and grab himself a seat in the Senate. Thanks to a local blogger, that probably won't happen, no matter how many millions his Hollywood friends donate. Michael Brod...

  • May 2, 2008

    It looks like a conservative upset in London (updated)

    The UK Times reports  that a major upset appears to be underway in today's mayoral election in London. The Conservatives were increasingly confident this afternoon that massive Tory gains in local elections across England and Wales would be capp...

  • May 1, 2008

    An Appeal to American Thinker Readers

    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. AT began almost four and a half years ago with the mission of providing a pl...

  • May 1, 2008

    Jimmy Carter defines terrorism

    David Bernstein of the Volokh Conspiracy caught the implications buried in Jimmy Carter's interview on Charlie Rose."I think any time any powerhouse takes military action when it's a high danger or almost an inevitability that women an...

  • May 1, 2008

    Why May Day?

    Why did American Thinker choose May 1st, the international socialist holiday, to ask for funds? The question raised is legitimate. A couple of thoughts:At least a millennium before Marx was born, May Day was a venerable Northern European celebration ...

  • May 1, 2008

    One time McCain is wrong on pork

    John McCain may not be the candidate to light up conservative hearts, but he has been a consistent foe of pork barrel spending. Given the disillusionment many conservatives feel over runaway spending under President Bush, and the imbroglio over the C...

  • May 1, 2008

    Iolani Palace takeover update

    Did a divorce spark the takeover of the only (former) royal palace in the United States? And you thought the House of Windsor's marital troubles were wacky?AT contributor Andrew Walden, writing in The Hawaii Reporter provides an update on the takeove...

  • April 30, 2008

    Disrespect and respect in Obama's press conference

    There was an odd confluence of respect and disrespect in Barack Obama's press conference distancing himself from the specifics of some of Jeremiah Wright's vicious and insane statements. He told us yesterday that it was Jeremiah Wright's disrespect t...

  • April 30, 2008

    Is Obama becoming radioactive?

    North Carolina and Mississippi Republicans have already attacked local candidates endorsing Barack Obama. Now comes evidence from a Democrat that Obama may be on his way to being an albatross around the Democrats' necks. Joseph Gerth of the Loui...

  • April 30, 2008

    Berkeley College Republicans seek to protest Code Pink

    Hats off to the Berkeley College Republicans who have applied for a permit to demonstrate in front of the Marine Recruiting Center in downtown Berkeley at the same time that Code Pink is demonstrating against the Marines.  The Campus newspaper a...

  • April 30, 2008

    Hawaiian 'sovereignty activists' seize palace

    This historic Iolani Palace  in downtown Honolulu, the only former royal palace in the United States, has been seized by activists apparently demanding Hawaiian sovereignty. The Hawaii Reporter writes:   Hawaiian sovereignty activists ...

  • April 29, 2008

    What is Bill Richardson thinking? (updated)

    Investor's Business Daily highlights  the very problematic private South American diplomatic initiative of Bill Richardson, who has endorse Barack Obama and is generally considered as a possible running mate on the Democrats' ticket, or perhaps ...

  • April 29, 2008

    Wright's evasion in his National Press Club speech

    Reverend Jeremiah Wright denied likening Israel's policies to apartheid in his speech yesterday at the National Press Club. From the transcript: MS. LEINWAND: You have likened Israeli policies to apartheid and its treatment of Palestinians with Nativ...

  • April 29, 2008

    Obama and McGovern

    Visions of a McGovern-style blowout election should Obama be nominated are already dancing through the heads of some Republicans, like children's sugarplums on Christmas eve. Writing in The American Spectator, Robert Stacy McCain extends the comparis...

  • April 29, 2008

    Another Obama falsehood

    Barack Obama's connection to Tony Rezko may rival his Rev. Wright ties as a damaging electoral issue. Wright is a racist, and Rezko is an alleged crook currently on trial. As with Wright, Obama's handling of the matter is only making things worse. Ob...

  • April 29, 2008

    California gun owners face further harrassment

    Bookworm calls our attention to a message from the NRA about an alarming bill being considered by California's left wing legislature, which is gerrymandered into permanent Democrat domination. Anti-gun hysteria has reached a fever pitch in the G...

  • April 29, 2008

    Who's suckering whom?

    Barack Obama is trying to have it both ways again.  On the campaign trail he decries  "predatory" subprime lending, and declares, "Part of the reason we got a current mortgage crisis has to do with the fact that people got su...

  • April 29, 2008

    Bobby Jindal on the Tonight Show

    My admiration for Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal keeps growing. He has already brought Louisiana the nation's toughest disclosure laws forcing sunlight into the dark corners of corruption that have kept that state poor and backwards for generations....

  • April 28, 2008

    An inconvenient movie poster

    Did somebody have a little fun at Al Gore's expense when creating the movie poster for An Inconvenient Truth? There may well be a hidden message, specifically, "See no evil" buried in it. At least that's the theory of Svend-Erik Hendriksen,...

  • April 28, 2008

    The spirit of the Olympics?

    Surprise, surprise! The Olympic Torch has begun its relay through North Korea, and there are no protests at all. The AP reports:  Assured of a trip free of anti-Chinese protests, the Olympic torch made its first-ever relay run Monday in authorit...

  • April 27, 2008

    A NYT non-story that ignores the real story

    The Democrat candidates are busy attacking each other, so the New York Times steps up  and criticizes of John McCain for doing something entirely legal:Given Senator John McCain 's signature stance on campaign finance reform, it was not surprisi...

  • April 27, 2008

    Another way the warmists cost you money

    Aside from all the other little problems (like starvation in poor countries) associated with ethanol production, gasoline blends using ethanol actually cost motorists more, even when the blend is cheaper per gallon. The Kansas City Star exp...

  • April 26, 2008

    'A rather savage, unsophisticated set of mores'

    Michael Hirsh, writing in Newsweek, tells us what he really thinks about people who are different than he, and although I don't think he is clinging to any guns or religion, he does seem just a tad bitter at those whom he sees as having "a rathe...

  • April 26, 2008

    NYT a no-show at White House Correspondents Dinner

    Editor & Publisher reports that the New York Times will not be sending anyone to this year's White House Correspondents Dinner. Last year, the paper bought two tables and had Karl Rove as one of its guests."These events can create a false pe...

  • April 26, 2008

    The latest environmentalist-generated fiasco (updated)

    Environmentalists have once again prescribed the wrong medicine, making matters worse instead of curing the problems over which they fret. Bookworm links to an article in the Guardian on the latest fiasco:The worldwide effort by supermarkets and...

  • April 25, 2008

    A gut level reaction to Obama

    Mary Grabar, a Slovenian-American college English teacher and poet, reacts to Barack Obama's condescending comments in his San Francisco fundraiser, articulating thoughts that many other ethnic groups may share.We know who you're talking about, ...

  • April 24, 2008

    Sarkozy on the rocks

    Nikolas Sarkozy, President of France, has fallen precipitously in polls, and plans to do something about it. Greg Milam of Sky News reports:A new poll for Paris Match, released today to coincide with the TV appearance, shows that 72% of French people...

  • April 24, 2008

    Useless green tax in Britain

    Further support comes from the UK for the theory that the point of global warming hysterics is to raise taxes, not help the environment. Even if you buy into the AGW hypothesis. Robert Winnett of the UK Telegraph reports:  The "green levy...

  • April 23, 2008

    BBC correspondent discovers gun-owning America feels safe

    Justin Webb, BBC's North America editor, reports to UK listeners and readers on the "paradox" that America is less violent (and feels much safer) than Britain, where private hand gun ownership is banned.Why is it then that so many...

  • April 23, 2008

    Surprise guilty plea of Rezko pal

    WBBM television reports that Ali Ata, 56, a close associate of major Obama fundraiser Tony Rezko, has pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI. The former executive director of the Illinois Finance Authority also stated that Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojev...

  • April 23, 2008

    Jeb Bush skeptical about global warming

    At Last! One member of the Bush family is expressing doubts about the theory of anthropogenic global warming. David Koenig of the AP reports:  Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush says he is "light green" on the environment and is skeptical th...

  • April 22, 2008

    Sunspots and a possible new ice age (updated)

    There is some serious evidence accumulating that we may be on the brink of not just global cooling, but an ice age. Sunspots are historically correlated with temperature on earth. During the Dalton Minimum, beginning in 1790, the number of sunspots w...

  • April 22, 2008

    Elegy for the newspaper industry

    John Podhoretz, editorial director of Commentary, was given a sneak preview tour of the brand new Newseum in Washington, DC, a nearly half billion dollar museum dedicated to the news industry, most especially newspapers. His review of the museum...

  • April 21, 2008

    Terrorists and the Dem candidates

    Colombia's FARC guerillas are Marxist narco-terrorists, fighting to overthrow the democratic government of our ally Colombia. That should be enough to keep any patriotic American politician at considerable distance. That's why documents captured...

  • April 21, 2008

    Cliché alert

    Watch out for "Wal-Mart women" as the newest demographic group group "holding the key" to the election. At least that is what Jane Sasseen of Business Week posits:  Move over, Soccer Moms, there's a new gal in town....  ...

  • April 21, 2008

    Dem state rep clings to gun

    Democrat Texas state representative Boris Miles has been indicted on two counts of deadly conduct. KTRK TV in Houston reports: The indictments stem from two different incidents on the same day back in December. The first incident happened during...

  • April 20, 2008

    Rupert vs Pinch

    Newsweek offers a 4000 word examination of the coming battle between Rupert Murdoch and Pinch Sulzberger. Tomorrow, the Wall Street Journal will debut some major changes reflecting the makeover underway since News Corporation purchased the paper from...

  • April 20, 2008

    Perspective on Pennsylvania economy

    To hear the Democrats talk, one would think that Pennsylvania is a basket case economy. That doesn't seem to be the case, as Donald Lambro points out  in the Washington Times today: With a 4.9 percent jobless rate in February, a level economists...

  • April 19, 2008

    Mary Katherine Ham attempts to bowl a 37... can she do it?

    Inspired by Barack Obama's bowling excursion in Pennsylvania, where he tried to earn white working class street cred, Mary Katherine Ham of Townhall.com took a video crew to a bowling alley, and did everything she could to prove it is posible, withou...

  • April 19, 2008

    Obama and FARC

    Investor's Business Daily, for which my admiration is great, has noticed something potentially very important in captured documents released by the government of our ally Colombia, currently fighting a Marxist guerilla insurgency commonly known by th...

  • April 19, 2008

    Marines demonstrate against Code Pink

    Today I attended a demonstration of Marine veterans against Code Pink, held in front of the  group's headquarters, on Solano Avenue in Albany, CA, just over the city line from Berkeley. Needless to say, it was quite a sight, and I took a few pic...

  • April 18, 2008

    The Obama Aesthetic

    Barack Obama's campaign has been all about image. The well-dressed, impeccably groomed, and elegantly articulate speaker was able to speak of hope, change, and unity, and for awhile the public bought it. Capitalizing on the huge store of guilt, compa...

  • April 18, 2008

    Obama's odd phrase distancing himself from Ayers

    Whenever I hear a lawyer include a qualifier in a statement, my suspicions are aroused. When that lawyer is Harvard Law School graduate Barack Obama, I am doubly suspicious, because the man has a history of  evasive qualifiers that is almost Cli...

  • April 17, 2008

    Obama's bizarre food stamp cred

    Barack and Michelle Obama have taken to invoking the claim that his mother received food stamps, perhaps in part to gain some sort of credibility as an advocate of the poor while pulling in more than 3 million bucks last year. And maybe to erase the ...

  • April 17, 2008

    Soros-funded group feigns support for Israel to play word games on McCain

    Think Progress, one of the leftist groups supported by George Soros, plays an incredibly stupid word game in order to score points against John McCain, and apparently believes that it can pose as an advocate for aid to Israel. From a  report by ...

  • April 17, 2008

    Washington Post catches Carter in a lie

    Jimmy Carter's campaign to ensure he goes down in history as the worst ex-president ever continues, with even the Washington Post noticing he is lying about Hamas and its supposed willingness to negotiate. A commendable editorial today makes this poi...

  • April 16, 2008

    In search of a neologism

    The world desperately needs to agree on a new word to describe what happens when fanatical environmentalists end up damaging the world with hare-brained schemes. Case in point: the chaos inflicted upon the world by the asinine drive to produce massiv...

  • April 16, 2008

    Layoffs finally coming in the NYT newsroom?

    As predicted  here a month and a half ago, it looks as though the New York Times newsroom will see its first-ever layoffs soon. Faced with continuing decline in profitability, thanks to both the general decline of the newspaper industry and the ...

  • April 16, 2008

    Sharpe James convicted

    Former Newark mayor Sharpe James was convicted  in federal court of five charges, including conspiracy and fraud, along with former girlfriend Tamika Riley. He could face 20 years in prison, but is said to be more likely to get a sente...

  • April 15, 2008

    Pin the tail on the deep pockets

    Two serious pollution cases at opposite ends of the size spectrum hit the news today in San Francisco. Last night an elegant gathering at the Opera House saw two Ecuadorian "activists" awarded $150,000 apiece for the Goldman Environmen...

  • April 15, 2008

    Ben Stein's intelligent radio appearance

    Ben Stein will be appearing on Dennis Prager's radio program today, at 11 AM Pacific Daylight Time, to discuss his new film on the suppression of advocates of intelligent design theory. Kate Wright's article for AT on the film appeared Saturday,...

  • April 15, 2008

    Further clarification of Obama's remark

    Barack Obama has had several things to say about his "cling" remarks (the cling part is much worse than the bitter part, as several others have noted). But I just read (via Ed Morrissey) some other remarks in the speech. The context cl...

  • April 14, 2008

    Bill Clinton's $30 million German paymaster

    That astounding figure represents what John Rosenthal calculates Bill Clinton may have received from German publishing giant Bertelsmann, via one of its many American publishing imprints, Knopf. Writing for Pajamas Media, Rosenthal also dredges ...

  • April 13, 2008

    The bitter left

    Politician, heal thyself (and thy electoral base). Yesterday Danny Huddleston suggested that Barack Obama was engaging in projection when talking about the "bitter" folks in small town Pennsylvania clinging to religion and guns, and hating ...

  • April 13, 2008

    Who is happier?

    Now that Senator Obama has placed bitterness of political factions on the national agenda, it is time to revisit the literature on the happiness and optimism of conservatives versus liberals. Most polling that I have seen shows that conservatives or ...

  • April 13, 2008

    The Democrats' recurring nightmare

    Hillary Clinton is getting a big boost from Obama's bitterness fumble. Her case that he is unelectable got a lot easier to make, and she doesn't even have to mention race. Not that Hillary ever gave anyone (except maybe Chelsea) the warm and fuzzies,...

  • April 13, 2008

    Deafening Madness

    The UK may be on the verge of allowing parents to choose to make their child deaf. Richard Gray of the UK Telegraph reports: Deaf couples could be allowed to use embryo-screening technology and choose to have a deaf child, after a climb-down by the G...

  • April 12, 2008

    Will Obama pay for play in Philly voting?

    Will Barack Obama lose critical votes in Philadelphia because his campaign refuses to spread out street money? That's the question raised by a Los Angeles Times story  by Peter Nicholas:Flush with payments from well-funded campaigns, the ward le...

  • April 12, 2008

    Theory and practice of voting for a Democrat

    All the conventional indicators predict a Democrat landslide election. If voters could choose a generic Democrat for president, that candidate would almost surely win. But when theory meets practice, and an actual individual human being must be suppo...

  • April 12, 2008

    Silvio lets it all hang out

    When Silvio Berlusconi reveals his inner contempt for certain others in public, he does it addressing a crowd massed in front of the Coliseum in Rome, not at a chi-chi Bay Area soiree of the rich and liberal. Malcolm Morre of the UK Telegraph writes:...

  • April 11, 2008

    Nicaragua more pro-oil than Florida and California

    Even Daniel Ortega, the leftist president of Nicaragua, understands the importance of offshore oil exploration in the oil-rich Gulf of Mexico waters. The International Herald-Tribune reports: Nicaragua has signed a contract with a unit of U.S.-owned ...

  • April 11, 2008

    How do you solve a problem like Petraeus? (updated)

    General David Petraeus is a problem for the Left. Not only has he falsified their predictions of a quagmire and facilitated the emergence of a new democratic political system in Iraq, he is brilliant, accomplished (PhD from Princeton), and strikingly...

  • April 10, 2008

    Obama has it both ways (updated)

    Peter Wallstein of the Los Angeles Times writes an excellent review of Barack Obama's association with Palestinian advocates and the difficulties this is creating for his outreach to voters who are friends of Israel. Clearly, Obama is able to me...

  • April 10, 2008

    Who is lying?

    Either the Los Angeles Times misrepresents noted Palestinian advocate (and Barack Obama friend) Rashid Khalidi.. or he is lying. The good professor should either challenge the LAT or clarify which of his statements misrepresents the facts of his...

  • April 9, 2008

    Barack does Billionaire's Row

    Barack and Michelle Obama like to claim they raise their money from small donors. So his recent visit with plutocrats in the Bay Area to raise millions of dollars in one day was not something about which publicity was wanted. The sight of Barack...

  • April 8, 2008

    Rahm Emanuel, fantasy figure

    Liberals are prone to fantasy, believing as they do that human nature is malleable. But theor most acute current fantasy is the belief that someone will tell Hillary to quit the race and make it happen.Suzanne Smalley and Evan Thomas of Newsweek deve...

  • April 8, 2008

    New logo for CBS News

    There has been much commentary on a New York Times report that CBS may outsource certain news functions to CNN. Blogger Bob McCarty has even come up with an appropriate logo:...

  • April 8, 2008

    Jay Rockefeller lets the mask slip (updated)

    Sen. Jay Rockefeller, august chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, has unwittingly revealed himself to be a PC-besotted hard leftist. The Charleston Gazette reports:Rockefeller believes McCain has become insensitive to many hu...

  • April 7, 2008

    Hillary doesn't know what she's talking about

    Steve Gilbert of Sweetness & Light noticed   that Hillary Clinton betrayed her ignorance of women's history, while trying to score political points. Speaking in Missoula, MT, home of the University of Montana as well as the residen...

  • April 7, 2008

    Fatah losing its grip in Lebanon

    Jonathan Schanzer, of the Jewish Policy Center, writes  about Fatah, the supposedly more "moderate" group claiming to represent the interests of Palestinians, losing support among the 400,000 Palestinians in Lebanon.Palestinian Islamis...

  • April 4, 2008

    Mexicans polled on presidential race

    Allan Wall reports on a poll conducted in Mexico by the newspaper El Universal on which presidential candidate would be best for Mexico. The results:Clinton               ...

  • April 4, 2008

    Obama advisor says 60 to 80 thousand troops need to stay in Iraq

    An Obama adviser calls for 60-80,000 US troops to stay in Iraq, in a confidential memorandum obtained by Eli Lake of the New York Sun. Lake writes:A key adviser to Senator Obama's campaign is recommending in a confidential paper that America keep bet...

  • April 4, 2008

    AQ's al Zawahiri: next year in Jerusalem

    How catastrophic would it be if the US abruptly pulled out of Iraq following the innaugural of a future President Obama? Gateway Pundit notices the news that the major media don't want to headline. Al-Qaeda's second in command Ayman al-Zawahiri ...

  • April 4, 2008

    Isn't this worth mentioning?

    The Chicago Tribune publishes an op-ed that fails to mention an important fact about its author. Larry Korb, a member of the Obama foreign policy team, pens on op-ed for the Trib arguing that Pastor Jeremiah Wright's military service deserves em...

  • March 31, 2008

    Barack: the legend grows

    An interesting look at Obama's early years from the Chicago Reader that was recently shown at Little Green Footballs  and other places.  Obama confirms that he marched with Louis Farrakhan at the Million Man March. (We had the story a coupl...

  • March 30, 2008

    The return of Jeremiah Wright

    After disappearing in the wake of his hate videos making the nation's news broadcasts, Jeremiah Wright has re-surfaced and is back in the pulpit. Not the pulpit from which he recently retired at Trinity United Church of Christ, but that of Father Mic...

  • March 30, 2008

    Hillary accepted this endorsement? (updated)

    My jaw dropped when I read  the latest example of strange political bedfellowship. Hillary Clinton received a big wet kiss from Richard Mellon Scaife, erstwhile leader of the vast right wing conspiracy's media food chain. The man who hired inves...

  • March 28, 2008

    Why the media love McCain

    Jack Risko of Dinocrat.com has identified an unspoken reason why the media like John McCain: he allows them to feel good about themselves. McCain is the media's perennial second choice. He affirms to the MSM that they are truly objective, neither Dem...

  • March 28, 2008

    Tell it to the Marines

    Bookworm flagged  for our attention a great story: an 84 year old man carrying a grocery bag in each arm, a Marine veteran, was accosted by a knife-wielding teenage boy on the streets of Santa Rosa, California at about 2 PM  Wednesday. The ...

  • March 28, 2008

    Cents of perspective

    Every single combat death and injury sustained by our fighting forces is a deep loss. But those who decry the 4000 military deaths related to the liberation of Iraq as somehow a disproportionate historic disaster do not have much perspective. A Navy ...

  • March 27, 2008

    Obama's Rezko deal: the view from above

    Thanks to the release of Barack Obama's income tax records, we are finally able to get some necessary perspective on the big favor Tony Rezko did for the Obamas in buying what has been termed in the press "the adjacent, undeveloped lot"...

  • March 27, 2008

    More chaos on the Democrat left

    The American left continues to form a circular firing squad, and now a divisive personal fight has broken out in the labor union on which Democrats have pinned so many hopes for future growth and funding, the Service Employees International Union (SE...

  • March 26, 2008

    Shadow body monitoring the Haditha prosecution?

    The Thomas More Law Center has issued an extremely troubling release suggesting former SecDef Rumsfeld was involved in politically influencing the Haditha investigation:Revelations by top Marine Generals, that former Secretary of Defense, D...

  • March 23, 2008

    Internet Dhimmitude

    The domain registry of Dutch politician Gert Wilders, who is set to release a new movie critical of Islam, Fitna, has been frozen, in effect silencing an internet voice and stifling his ability to get his film and his ideas to the world. Selwyn Duke ...

  • March 22, 2008

    There'll be a hot time in the old town

    The Democratic Party continues to lurch toward a tragic denouement in Denver for its nomination process, with various factions playing our their roles as prescribed by hubris. If you liked the drama of the 1968 Chicago Democratic Convention, prepare ...

  • March 21, 2008

    'Uttering' racial stereotypes

    When Barack Obama uses an awkward expression in a scripted speech, it is deliberate; the text has been finely polished. When he famously said that his grandmother "uttered racial stereotypes" he was evoking another word, "epithet....

  • March 21, 2008

    What if we agree with Pastor Wright?

    Bookworm performs a thought experiment: what if we agree with Pastor Wright's diagnosis of America as irredeemably racist? What then do blacks want? A sample:[As for] the same laws that Obama continues to demand we pass, Wright and other African...

  • March 20, 2008

    The audacity of phoniness

    A disturbing pattern of double lives emerges in the Barack Obama camp. He tells us we must transcend race, yet he takes his daughters to hear the rants of Pastor Jeremiah Wright and repeatedly honors the preacher in public. He tells us to believe in ...

  • March 20, 2008

    Disrespecting warriors

    Britain's Gurkha soldiers, renowned for their bravery and strength, are being paid far lower pensions than their fellow soldiers of British citizenship, even when they manage to obtain residency in the UK, which is no longer automatic since 1997.The ...

  • March 19, 2008

    Did Obama blow his chance?

    Noel Sheppard of Newsbusters thinks Barack Obama blew his big chance with yesterday's speech, justifying instead of rejecting his Pastor's hateful rhetoric, and offers an example of what the candidate could have said to pull his chestnuts out of the ...

  • March 19, 2008

    Reflections on Obama's Race Speech

    Kyle-Anne Shiver has some very personal reflections on the Obama speech. Our frequent contributor now her own blog, Common Sense Regained, up and running, and it features her latest essay,  Reflections on Obama's Race Speech. Two brief exce...

  • March 18, 2008

    Obama's Big Speech

    It does not speak well of his campaign's crisis management skills that Barack Obama has taken five days to wheel out his heavy artillery and give a speech today on Jeremiah Wright, Jr. and "the larger issue of race in this campaign" at a ve...

  • March 18, 2008

    Obama: 'no sudden moves' when talking to whites

    Judith A. Klinghofer cites a passage from Barack Obama's first autobiography to remember when listening to his speech today:On p. 94-95 he describes an effective tactic to deal with White people:It was usually an effective tactic, another one of...

  • March 18, 2008

    New Black Panther Party for Obama

    The ever-alert Steve Gilbert of Sweetness & Light catches  the Obama campaign website advertising the New Black Panther Party. How long will it take for this embarrassment to be swept down the memory hole?...

  • March 18, 2008

    More lawyerly evasions needed

    Politico notices a contradiction between Obama's speech and an earlier statement. Today's speech:"Did I know him to be an occasionally fierce critic of American domestic and foreign policy? Of course. Did I ever hear him make remarks that could ...

  • March 17, 2008

    Happy St. Patrick's Day!

    Once again, genealogy sleuths have in investigated the Irish ancestry of the leading candidates for president and discovered that two out of three have Irish roots. From the Dallas Morning News:Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain both ha...

  • March 17, 2008

    Sulzberger family capitulates on NYT outside directors

    The New York Times today carries the news that, "The New York Times Company has struck a deal with a pair of hedge funds that want to shake up the company, giving the funds two seats on the board in order to avoid a proxy fight, the two sid...

  • March 16, 2008

    Pastor Wright goes down the Obama memory hole

    Steve Gilbert of Sweetness & Light notices that Pastor Jeremiah Wright, Jr. has become a non-person on the Barack Obama campaign website. Thanks to a Google cache, before-and-after views of the website are available.I gather the hope is that...

  • March 15, 2008

    The politics of the Air Force Tanker Deal

    Christian Lowe, writing in the Weekly Standard, examines the politics and theatrics over the Air Force Tanker deal. It is well worth a read.On March 11, Boeing filed a formal protest of the Northrop Grumman/EADS award to the GAO, which hand...

  • March 13, 2008

    Worse than hypocrisy

    John Berlau of the Competitive Enterprise Institute identifies the best reason of all to be thankful Eliot Spitzer is gone, and it involves federalism. An important and insightful article well worth reading.Hat tip: Susan L....

  • March 13, 2008

    Tony Rezko's Dew Drop Inn

    There is a certain type of business promoter who solicits money from wealthy overseas private investors, and proves his bona fides and influence in America by displaying access to powerful politicians. The big time promoters have lavish offices displ...

  • March 12, 2008

    The Air Force Tanker Deal

    The next generation of Air Force in-flight filling stations is slated to ride on the wings of an airplane designed in France. A consortium of Northrop-Grumman and Airbus beat Boeing for the contract to supply the next generation of Air Force tankers....

  • March 11, 2008

    Spitzer's a Democrat?

    Eliot Spitzer's troubles offer an interesting unfolding case study in the way the media handles an embarrassment by a prominent Democrat. Clay Waters of Timeswatch monitored how the Gray Lady dithered yesterday with the revelation it broke:News broke...

  • March 10, 2008

    Hamas use of human shields documented

    One of the cruelest and most telling barbarities of Hamas is its use of civilians (especially children) as human shields, deliberately firing weapons from densely populated locations, so that counterstrikes will either be deterred or will cause civil...

  • March 4, 2008

    Decision day in the New York Times newsroom

    Today is the last day that New York Times newsroom employees have to accept buyouts or face the possibility of lay-offs. The newsroom is to be downsized by about 100. John Koblin of the New York Observer comments:If there aren't enough buyout offers ...

  • March 4, 2008

    The 700k mistress

    Sharpe James, former mayor of Newark, NJ, went on trial yesterday for fraud in a federal courthouse. The most colorful item to come out of Assistant US Attorney Phillip Kown's opening statement was the matter of his mistress' enrichment courtesy of t...

  • March 4, 2008

    Talk radio crisis looms

    Some of the most important talk radio outlets in the country face a serious crisis, thanks to a botched buyout of the former ABC/Disney owned stations by Citadel Broadcasting. The Las Vegas-based company, now called Citadel-ABC radio, has seen expens...

  • March 4, 2008

    Richard Baehr on air today (update)

    AT political director Richard Baehr will be the guest of syndicated talk show host Michael Medved in the first hour of his show today. (Update: ther appearance was delayed an hour) The program begins at 3pm eastern time, in markets where it is carrie...

  • March 4, 2008

    Young Iraqis turn against religious extremism

    One of the claims of leftist critics of the war and occupation in Iraq is that we have supposedly alienated Iraqis and now Al Qaeda has a strong presence there. The latter claim  is at odds with the reality that AQ is on the run and has turned t...

  • March 3, 2008

    Canadian diplomatic memo disproves Obama campaign claims (updated)

    The man who tantalizes the unhappy voter with promises of change may be discovering that this diplomacy stuff is a little more difficult than it looked. After threatening the NAFTA treaty while pandering to Ohio voters facing declining manufacturing ...

  • March 3, 2008

    UC Berkeley in Saudi deal?

    Does anyone remember how South Africa was shunned in the era of racial apartheid? It was simply unthinkable that a major university would enter into a deal with such a government. In fact universities were successfully pressured into selling their sh...

  • March 1, 2008

    The friends of Barack Obama

    Antoin (Tony) Rezko is not the only troubling source of political funds for Barack Obama to come out of the milieu of Chicago Democrat politics. Meet Michael Bauer, who has donated $300,000 to Democrats, while stealing roughly the same amount from a ...

  • February 29, 2008

    New York Times covers Obama's ties to Pastor Wright

    Jodi Kantor of the New York Times had an excellent account of Barack Obama's ties to Pastor Jeremiah Wright, Jr., just retired as head pastor of Trinity United Community Church. American Thinker has covered this topic extensively, and we have taken m...

  • February 29, 2008

    The danger of Obama's amateur diplomacy

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

  • February 28, 2008

    Obama plays both sides of the street on NAFTA (updated)

    From Canada comes a story that should give pause to any thinking voter. The CTV television network reports: (see update below)Barack Obama has ratcheted up his attacks on NAFTA, but a senior member of his campaign team told a Canadian official not to...

  • February 28, 2008

    Time Magazine's churlish obituary for William F. Buckley, Jr.

    The great Steve Gilbert of Sweetness & Light takes down an insufferable obituary for William F. Buckley, Jr. in Time Magazine, written by one Richard Corliss.Mr. Corliss ought to stick to his own intellectual weight class when sneering. ...

  • February 27, 2008

    In Obama's own words

    Blogger William Katz of Urgent Agenda  highlights Obama's own words on national security that provide fodder for a future TV commercial -- for his opponent.Obama gets substantive, and I don't like what I'm hearing.  I don't think you will, ...

  • February 27, 2008

    How do you say 'chutzpah' in Chinese?

    Sadly, my own studies* of the Chinese language decades ago never made it to the point where I could find the right word to describe China's response to America's destruction of the spy satellite falling to earth. AP reports:China asked the U.S. to re...

  • February 27, 2008

    A giant has left us

    William F. Buckley has passed away. Part of his legacy, National Review Online, reports  the sad news. Kathryn Jean Lopez writes:He died while at work; if he had been given a choice on how to depart this world, I suspect that would have been exa...

  • February 26, 2008

    The Obama-Rezko plot thickens (updated)

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

  • February 26, 2008

    Look who's calling for interfaith dialogue

    A Jordanian Institute that drafted and sponsored a highly-publicized "interfaith" letter signed by many prominent Islamic scholars addressed to Pope Benedict affirming religious freedoms and human rights has been found also issuing fatwas c...

  • February 25, 2008

    Farrakhan praises Obama: 'savior' and 'hope of the entire world'

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

  • February 25, 2008

    Obama and the former Weathermen

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

  • February 25, 2008

    What is the illegal alien death toll?

    Yet another illegal alien has caused injury to Americans from behind the wheel, this time in Michigan.  Coming in the wake of the slaughter of four children in Cottonwood, Minnesota, it is time for a Congressional study to determine the carnage ...

  • February 24, 2008

    Nader announces another run for president

    This morning, on Meet the Press, Ralph Nader announced yet another run for president, promising "to stem corporate crime and Pentagon waste and promote labor rights," according to AP's account. One has to wonder precisely what he thinks he ...

  • February 24, 2008

    Barack H. Obama pictured in Muslim garb (updated: it's genuine)

    A photo of Barack Obama in Muslim garb has been published by the supermarket tabloid, the National Examiner.  This is not the same tab that published pictures of George W. Bush shaking hands with space aliens, as I recall, but I am not entirely ...

  • February 24, 2008

    Hillary Clinton campaign steals AT intellectual property

    The Hillary Clinton campaign has blatantly disregarded the law on intellectual property and re-published an entire copyrighted article from the American Thinker website. The theft can be viewed at this URL: http://connect.hillaryclinton.com/blog-entr...

  • February 23, 2008

    Blowback from global warming fear-mongers

    One of the serious real problems being created out of worries over the phony problem of supposedly man-made global warming is the rush to replace incandescent light bulbs (the kind Thomas Edison invented) with CFL bulbs, which contain mercury. AT has...

  • February 23, 2008

    NYT ombudsman thinks McCain story should not have run

    Clark Hoyt, the ombudsman for the New York Times, goes on the record writing  that the story linking Senator John McCain to a female lobbyist should not have run:...I asked Keller why he decided to run what he had."If the point of the story...

  • February 21, 2008

    Pinch Sulzberger's legacy

    The decline and fall of the New York Times accelerates, with today's anonymously-sourced hit piece on John McCain.  I will leave to others like Rick Moran  and Ed Morrissey  the debunking of the story itself. What concerns me is the ma...

  • February 20, 2008

    Another 'scientific consensus' bites the dust

    Another alleged "scientific consensus" turns out to be wrong. And this time, the data disproving proving the consensus view was gathered from the internet. From the University of Sydney:  It took just a couple of hours using data avail...

  • February 19, 2008

    Obama's rhetoric versus reality on Korea free trade pact

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

  • February 19, 2008

    Media angst over low Asian-American support for Obama (updated)

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

  • February 19, 2008

    Iran to launch TV station in Bolivia

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

  • February 19, 2008

    Ronald Lauder: foreign policy advisors are important

    Controversy rages over Barack Obama's choice of foreign policy advisors, a topic familiar to AT readers. Today, one of the most prominent supporters of Israel, Ronald Lauder, spoke out on the subject of advisors, on  ShalomTV, a national cable n...

  • February 18, 2008

    Obama's spiritual mentor retires

    The Reverend Jeremiah Wright, Jr., Barack Obama's spiritual mentor, has caused no end of embarrassment for the campaign. His friendship with Louis Farrakhan, his trip to Libya with the Black Muslim leader and his church's "black value system...

  • February 18, 2008

    Official Obama web site mysteriously makes a page vanish

    I wonder why this web page, titled "Escalation is not the answer", has disappeared from the official Obama website?The missing page has been reprinted here Clinton/Obama Weblog: Escalation Is Not The Answer, at an unofficial site. Of course...

  • February 17, 2008

    California to mandate climate change education?

    A bill has been introduced to the California State Legislature to mandate teaching about global warming in the state's public schools. This would be a good idea, if two preconditions were met:1) If the government schools already did an adequate or be...

  • February 17, 2008

    Clintonian swoon envy

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

  • February 16, 2008

    Arctic Sea Ice Sees 'Significant Increase' in Size Following 'Extreme Cold'

    The ultraliberal CBC reports a truth that is mighty inconvenient for Al Gore. There's an upside to the extreme cold temperatures northern Canadians have endured in the last few weeks: scientists say it's been helping winter sea ice grow across the Ar...

  • February 14, 2008

    Obama gets down to specifics, and it's not pretty

    Is the American electorate solidly behind the idea of increasing foreign aid $845 billion over the next 13 years? Apparently that is what Barack Obama believes, for a bill he sponsored  doing exactly that probably is coming to a vote today in th...

  • February 14, 2008

    Fried cockroaches for dinner again?

    Hats off (for the umpteenth time) to Noel Sheppard at Newsbusters for uncovering  outright hysteria over global warming: it is going to require us to learn to eat bugs, or so goes the latest hysterical claim.HuffPoster Kerry Trueman on Tuesday s...

  • February 14, 2008

    Pinch Sulzberger's hypocritical choices for NYT board of directors

    Beleaguered by hedge fund shareholders angry at the dismal performance of the New York Times Company, Pinch Sulzberger has opted to nominate two new directors for the company's board. Unfortunately for him, the paper is already on the record sav...

  • February 13, 2008

    It's the sun, stupid

    Harvard astrophysicist Dr. Sally Bulinas is the latest distinguished scientist to declare anthropogenic global warming theory wrong. The Tyler (TX) Morning Telegraph reports: Dr. Sallie Baliunas shared her findings Tuesday at the University of Texas ...

  • February 13, 2008

    If you haven't got any facts use nasty words

    Joshua Micah Marshall does not like to see Barack Obama's stance toward Israel questioned. Alluding to the very wide circulation received by Ed Lasky's article  "Barack Obama and Israel," he calls AT, "the neanderthal American Thi...

  • February 12, 2008

    Who said that?

    Bookworm notes some interesting words from a surprising source:Western governments have "the moral imperative to intervene - sometimes militarily - to help spread democracy throughout the world."The same speaker says that "fosteri...

  • February 11, 2008

    Last Nominee Standing

    Thirty-seven weeks to go, and the presidential campaign already is in uncharted territory. At the moment, each party seems to be trying to defeat itself, discrediting its own future nominee. Thanks to a slew of winner-take-all contests, the new archi...

  • February 10, 2008

    Close Gitmo?

    Enthusiasts for closing down Guantanamo Bay as a prisoner for battlefield detainees rarely specify where they would re-locate prisoners. Close attention should be paid to this story  from the UK's left wing newspaper, The Guardian: Prison office...

  • February 10, 2008

    A mind is a terrible thing to waste

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

  • February 9, 2008

    The naked truth about the Democrats

    Jonah Goldberg expertly explains the vast and highly visible chasm between the two parties when it comes to fundamental principles, on National Review Online. Republicans are driven by issues, while Democrats are driven by feelings based on group ide...

  • February 8, 2008

    All in the family at the Washington Post

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

  • February 8, 2008

    Global cooling alarmism ahead?

    The debate over global warming theory is turning into a contest between two explanatory models for climate change: human activity or solar activity. Now comes news that solar activity may be declining, signaling that we may (no alarmism here) be ente...

  • February 7, 2008

    Now is the Winter of Our Conservative Discontent

    The prospect of John McCain as Republican nominee is inspiring sometimes angry resistance from millions of conservative stalwarts. Ann Coulter's famous support for Hillary Clinton  threatens to spark a wave of conservative "suicide voters...

  • February 7, 2008

    Religious coexistence with Islam

    The UK Times asks, and then two days later seems to answer negatively the question: "Does Islam fit with our law?  Two days ago, Ian Edge and Robin Griffiths-Jones (respectively, director of Centre of Islamic and Middle East Law (CIMEL) at ...

  • February 7, 2008

    Mitt Romney withdraws

    Mitt Romney has just told CPAC that he is withdrawing from the presidential race, to avoid prolonging a fight with McCain and thereby damage his prospects of defeating Clinton or Obama. The crowd groaned loudly, but Mitt went on, addressing the impor...

  • February 7, 2008

    McCain's speech to CPAC

    John McCain hit many of the notes I suggested this morning, and seems to have won over the balance of   the CPAC crowd's verbally expressed opinion. There was a brief moment of booing when he raised the topic of immigration, but a...

  • February 5, 2008

    Barack Obama Running on his Religion

    During his triumphant campaign in South Carolina, Barack Obama distributed a flyer in which he announced the spiritual dimension of his mission, running as a "committed Christian." This caused a certain amount of consternation on the secula...

  • February 5, 2008

    Breaking news: DNI says Iran could have nukes by 2009

    Never mind the National Intelligence Estimate alleging Iran has discontinued its nuclear program. According to Amir Oren of Haaretz, National Intelligence Director John Michael said that it is unclear whether Tehran has returned to its productio...

  • February 4, 2008

    Obama's spiritual mentor

    Barack Obama is on the record, in word and deed, that Jeremiah Wright, Jr. is an important man to him. John Perazzo, writing  on Front Page Magazine today, documents, in the words of Jeremiah Wright himself, just how radical this very important ...

  • February 3, 2008

    Who lost our nuclear warhead advantage?

    A new and promising website, the No Free Lunch Journal, examines how the UInited States lost its nuclear warhead design advantage.  If Hillary Clinton becomes the Democratic nominee, this issue should be raised in a presidential debate:...you ma...

  • February 3, 2008

    The UK faces a choice between science and new dark ages

    The United Kingdom, which gave the world limitations on the power of monarchs, representative democracy, the Industrial Revolution, and countless other gifts that constitute pillars of modernity, now faces a crisis that will signal whether it slides ...

  • February 1, 2008

    NY Sun worries about Obama and Israel

    The New York Sun editorially defended Barack Obama's stance toward Israel on January 9th. Since then, a number of Obama supporters have used that editorial to counter the effects the growing controversy (see Noah Pollak and and Eric Tr...

  • January 31, 2008

    Obama was for it before he was against it

    Decriminalizing marijuana, that is. Jen Haberkorn of the Washington Times reports that last Fall during a presidential debate Barack Obama "hesitantly raised his hand and joined with most of his Democratic rivals to declare that he opposed decri...

  • January 31, 2008

    Bill Clinton gives away the global warming game

    Astonishingly, Bill Clinton has conceded that global warming alarmism is aimed at policies that will make us poorer. Jennifer Parker of ABC News' blog Political Punch reports that yesterday in Denver he said:"We just have to slow down our econom...

  • January 30, 2008

    Ahmadinejad Makes Overture to Obama Advisors?

    Calling Robert Malley, Calling Samantha Power, Calling Zbigniew Brzezenski: Iranian leader Ahmadinejad has resumed his threats to carry out a Holocaust. Haaretz reports:In a speech today Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called on the W...

  • January 30, 2008

    Today's must-see photo (updated)

    Sweetness & Light, which has a track record of discovering telling news photos, has a new one here, and asks the important question: "Do we really want these children back in the White House?"Update:Photoshopped? A reader writes:I'd bet...

  • January 29, 2008

    Proxy fight for the New York Times Company launched

    As expected (and noted here on Saturday),  another proxy fight has been launched against the management of the New York Times Company. A letter to Times Chairman Pinch Sulzberger from Firebrand Partners and Harbinger Capital Partners was ma...

  • January 29, 2008

    Memories of Barack Obama's support for the Palestinian cause

    Ali Abunimah, co-founder of the online publication Electronic Intifada, looks back, almost nostalgically, to the time before the presidential campaign, before Barack Obama "moved to try to appease AIPAC and pro-Israel movements." Here is wh...

  • January 27, 2008

    Cream Rises to the Top, Even on the Internet

    In the Dark Ages, information was a rare and precious commodity. Books were copied by hand, and were expensive, rare, and unavailable to most people, who could not, in any event, read them, as literacy was limited largely to the nobility and clergy. ...

  • January 27, 2008

    Obama's adviser and genocide

    The people Barack Obama appointed to advise him on foreign policy are the best clue we have to his thinking, given his lack of a foreign policy experience. And Samantha Power, the Kennedy School of Government professor on his team gave some troubling...

  • January 24, 2008

    Noam Chomsky a hit in Iran

    Leftist academic/activist Noam Chomsky is visiting Iran and has found an avid audience for his America-hating and Israel-hating rhetoric. Gateway Pundit has the story. Don't read this item if you have eaten recently.Hat tip: Alan Fraser...

  • January 24, 2008

    The perception gap overseas

    Sometimes the vast gulf between elite opinion and popular opinion about the United States overseas comes into focus. Today is one such day.On the one hand, Foreign Policy magazine presents us a collection of a dozen articles from Deep Thinkers v...

  • January 24, 2008

    Our Marines

    A friend who is a proud Marine Dad sends me this stunningly evocative ad about our Marines. Give yourself a minute-plus of pride and watch it....

  • January 24, 2008

    Kiss of death?

    The New York Times edtorial board execises its vast influence of GOP primary voters in Florida and on Super Tuesday with an editorial endorsement of John McCain for the Republican nomination.We have strong disagreements with all the Republicans runni...

  • January 23, 2008

    Will Google Buy the New York Times?

    John Ellis, writing on Real Clear Markets, makes a strong case for the business logic of a Google takeover of the New York Times Company. And he lays out a plausible scenario leading to the Sulzberger clan deciding to sell out to Google. For any...

  • January 23, 2008

    Wal-Mart health insurance plan working well

    Give the New York Times credit for running this article about Wal-Mart, one which might even cause some readers to reconsider their hostility toward the retailing revolutionary. Headlined, "Wal-Mart Says More Than Half Its Workers Have Its Healt...

  • January 21, 2008

    A helpful suggestion for emergency room personnel (updated)

    Close friends of mine received the kind of phone call we all dread a couple of days ago:"Hello, this is the emergency room of xxxx General Hospital. We are trying to reach the parents of xxxx."My friends went through hell for about 20 ...

  • January 21, 2008

    Bill Moyers whitewashes his MLK dirty deeds

    The oleaginous Bill Moyers takes to taxpayer-funded airways and cyberspace to celebrate Martin Luther King Day by celebrating his boss President Lyndon Johnson, and Johnson's role in getting the 1965 Civil Rights Bill passed and signed.The follo...

  • January 17, 2008

    Fred Thompson and the GOP splits

    Alicia Colon, the New York Sun columnist, has earned my high esteem for her incisive writing. Today she publishes an interesting case for Fred Thompson  at Jewish World Review.Like Ms. Colon and many other conservatives, I am attracted to Fred's...

  • January 16, 2008

    Big Brother steps back from the thermostat

    AT is pleased to have played a small role in keeping Californians (and perhaps eventually all Americans) in charge of their thrmostat settings. For now, at least. Joseph Somsel first revealed here that California was considering requiring t...

  • January 16, 2008

    Obama's 'spiritual mentor' plays the Lewinsky card

    The Baltimore Sun reports  on the sermon delivered last Sunday by Reverend Jeremiah Wright, Jr., the man Barack Obama describes as his "spiritual mentor."News Alert 9 and Sweetness&Light draw our attention to the following rat...

  • January 15, 2008

    Does he or doesn't he? MSM notices Obama church Farrakhan link

    Barack Obama has been able to get away with a soft focus posture of "bringing us together" only because the major media have largely ignored his dedicated support for Pastor Jeremiah Wright, of the Trinity United Community Church, an advoca...

  • January 15, 2008

    Governor Jindal

    Bobby J. Jindal is the new governor of Louisiana, and that is excellent news for all of us. The adjective "impressive" does not even begin to describe his accomplishments at the age of 36.Given the importance of race in American politics, i...

  • January 12, 2008

    Hitchens alters the mix

    Christopher Hitchens has always been a puzzle and delight to me. He brings equal passion to being appalled by Bill Clinton and Mother Teresa, an odd coupling, and is always eloquent and funny, even when dead wrong. A legendary drinker and smoker, he ...

  • January 12, 2008

    The Mysterious lost archives of the Koran

    Andrew Bostom raises his eyebrows over a scandal in the world of Koranic scholarship. A priceless archive of photographs of early Koran manuscripts was claimed to have been destroyed in bombing of the Bavarian Academy of Science. This was a lie perpe...

  • January 11, 2008

    NRA wins one in San Francisco

    The National Rifle Association has won a court victory in California, as a state appeals court upheld a lower court decision overturning a sweeping San Francisco law penalizing gun ownership. The NRA writes:In 2005, NRA sought an injunction against t...

  • January 11, 2008

    Nonsense on Israel skewered by Powerline (updated)

    Scott Johnson of Powerline offers two outstanding commentaries on Israel-related matters.He first noted yesterday the puzzling (at best; shameful at worst) rhetoric President Bush used yesterday in speaking of a Palestinian state.The devolu...

  • January 11, 2008

    Who controls your thermostat? -- the MSM notices an issue first raised by AT

    Joseph Somsel broke the story of California's plan to eventually control the temperature set on thermostats of state residents on American Thinker a week ago. Since then, it has percolated through the blogosphere, talk radio, and now into the ma...

  • January 10, 2008

    Tribes turn on Al Qaeda in Pakistan (updated)

    As explained  by Ray Robison  on these pages, Coalition forces in Pakistan have been splitting Al Qaeda from local tribes, much as AQ has been isolated from its local support in Iraq, with tribal leaders turning against it. Now it appe...

  • January 9, 2008

    Not so fast

    Yet another media embarrassment, as the unstoppable wave of support for Obama turned out to be quite stoppable. Despite stories of hundreds of supporters bussed in from New York and Massachusetts to fill the empty rallies in New Hampshire, it appears...

  • January 8, 2008

    Obama and racial absolution

    Fred Siegel writes insightfully about the Obama phenomenon and the longing for racial absolution among Democrats in Commentary's blog.  Read the whole thing."...for those I've talked to who are older partisan Democrats who've...

  • January 7, 2008

    Endgame: Will Hillary quit the race? (updated)

    The prospect of a ringing defeat in New Hampshire has led to speculation that Hillary Clinton soon will fold up her tent and abandon the quest that has animated most of her adult life. I don't buy it. Not now.I see a slightly different scenario ...

  • January 7, 2008

    Huckabee and the home schoolers

    I had been puzzled by the touting of a homeschoolers endorsement for Mike Huckabee, given that the candidate also received an endorsement from the New Hampshire NEA. That made some sense, because I know he increased teacher salaries in Arkansas. I di...

  • January 6, 2008

    NYT covers Muslim domestic violence in US

    Neil MacFarquahar of the New York Times artfully navigates politically sensitive waters with an article on the problem of wife-beating among Muslims in the United States. The general question, simply put, is how to admit a pattern of outrageous ...

  • January 5, 2008

    NYT faces wrath from its base over move toward the center

    Although we have been very critical of the New York Times over its journalistic and business failings, there have been interesting signs of change there lately. The paper announced that Bill Kristol will write one column per week on its op-ed page. A...

  • January 4, 2008

    Free trade and 'soft power'

    Will Congress ever approve the free trade treaty with Colombia? Failure to do so could kill the burgeoning partnership with democratic Colombia, a nation which has made enormous strides economically and in combating left wing guerillas. It could also...

  • January 4, 2008

    The Big Mo

    I am one of those Iowa caucus skeptics, regarding it as a media-driven show. But even I can see that the momentum generated last night for Obama extends beyond mere media event dimensions.Even worse, the obvious enthusiasm on the Democrat side contra...

  • January 4, 2008

    Picture of the night

    The unerring eye of Steve Gilbert has found the picture which best sums up Hillary's disaster last night. You can read it on her face and enjoy a dose of schadenfreude. Go here and look at the top picture....

  • December 31, 2007

    Equal justice for a Marine? (updated)

    Marine Sgt Mike McNulty, on activation orders to Iraq (his second tour), and leaving January 2nd, is about to suffer a grave injustice.  An anti-military lawyer, apparently angy at the Marine Corps, damaged Sgt. McNulty's personal vehicle, seein...

  • December 31, 2007

    Chelsea dodges questions from 9 year old Scholastic reporter

    Media-savvy Chelsea Clinton is campaigning for her mother in Iowa, and has obviously received guidance on handling the media: don't answer any questions. Newsday reports: Sydney Rieckoff, a Cedar Rapids fourth grader and "kid reporter" for ...

  • December 31, 2007

    So much for life in prison

    AP reports:Sara Jane Moore, who took a shot at President Ford in a bizarre assassination attempt just 17 days after a disciple of Charles Manson tried to kill Ford, was paroled Monday after 32 years behind bars. Moore, 77, was released from the feder...

  • December 30, 2007

    Hollywood's new favorite dictator

    Hugo Chavez, the oil-powered Castro wannabe of Venezuela, has picked up a few fans in Hollywood, despite the Venezuelan public's rejection of his plan to be dictator-for-life by a large enough margin that he couldn't steal the election, and despite (...

  • December 29, 2007

    Obama's grandma lives in a 'tiny hut'?

    Sunlen Miller of ABC News reports  that Barack Obama informed Iowa voters yesterday that his grandmother lives in a "tiny hut":"It's that experience, that understanding, not just of what world leaders I went and talked to in the a...

  • December 28, 2007

    Is Allah the same as God of the Bible?

    Controversy rages over the question, but now the government of Malaysia has weighed in with the opinion that Allah is unique to Islam. The AP reports:  A Malaysian church and a Christian weekly newspaper are suing the government for banning them...

  • December 27, 2007

    Shoulda, Coulda, Woulda?

    Hillary Clinton may have just outdone Mitt Romney in the making-up self-serving stories department. Steve Gilbert of Sweetness & Light catches the following verbiage in her press release about Benazir Bhutto's assassination:I came to know Mrs. Bh...

  • December 26, 2007

    Where the Sightseeing Bus Won't Take You

    The holiday season provides a welcome opportunity to get away from the computer screen and explore some of the more obscure vantage points for photographing the stunning geography of the San Francisco Bay Area. Instead of the more serious analytical ...

  • December 24, 2007

    Fatah shows its true intentions

    Fatah, the supposedly moderate party that rules the West Bank, and which receives massive foreign aid (including American money), has a new poster to celebrate its 43rd anniversary. The Jerusalem Post brings it to our attention:Designed specifically ...

  • December 24, 2007

    The Clintons being the Clintons

    Steve Gilbert of Sweetness & Light catches  the Clintons being themselves: candidly sour, and then brightening up with the phony smiles when they see a photographer. And using a tax exempt church for campaigning, something that is against th...

  • December 22, 2007

    Bush is the devil and the devil made me do it

    That seems to be the gist of the argument being presented by Franklin Raines, to explain his fall from grace. Readers may recall that Raines was an extraordinary success story: son of black janitors, Harvard undergrad and law degrees, Rhodes Scholar,...

  • December 22, 2007

    When racial profiling doesn't matter in media eyes

    Media pop quiz: what does it take to get a liberal newspaper like the San Francisco Chronicle to ignore the racial implications of ethic profiling seriously violating the rights of minorities?The answer, of course, is that the victimizers must be mem...

  • December 21, 2007

    Lakotas leaving?

    A group claiming to represent the Lakota (aka Teton, Tetonwan) people, part of the Sioux, announces via press release  their independence from the United States. Details of any official standing of the press release and group are less than skimp...

  • December 20, 2007

    Neo-Nazi complains about Ron Paul's denial of ties to white supremacists (updated)

    American Thinker has extensively covered the troubling links between Ron Paul's campaign and neo-Nazis. For our trouble we were blasted by some critics, and subjected to a torrent of abusive letters from Ron Paul supporters. But now, a clai...

  • December 20, 2007

    Murtha may be put under oath about Haditha comments

    Jack Zimmermann, an attorney for Lance Cpl. Stephen B. Tatum, one of the Marines accused in the death of 24 civilians in Haditha, is asking to depose Cong. John Murtha (D-PA) about his comment that a general told him that the accused and his squad ki...

  • December 20, 2007

    Senate Report: No consensus on global warming

    A Senate Report from the Minority on Committee on Environment and Public Works puts the lie to claims that a "scientific consensus" exists on the theory of anthropogenic global warming. Over 400 scientists are cited disputing various e...

  • December 19, 2007

    A modest proposal

    Rick Richman, editor of Jewish Current Issues and AT contributor, has a proposal  for President Bush, when he makes his historic trip to Israel in January. Read the whole thing....

  • December 19, 2007

    Preparing for defense cuts if the Dems win the White House

    The following photographs came in via email. I have tried to track down the creator(s) and get permission to post them, but have been unable. If the creators step forward, we'll be glad to give them credit for their work. But these are just too funny...

  • December 18, 2007

    UN issues warning, but averts eyes from its own role

    The United Nations is issuing a warning about the world's food stocks dwindling, highlighting the possible future consequences of the future global warming it believes is coming. It mentions the problems created by high oil prices for aid agencies sh...

  • December 18, 2007

    The Cuban people will be the last to know

    I confess that when I read that Castro was supposedly planning to relinquish the reins of power, my first thought was that there is a power struggle underway, and that he was probably dead. Investor's Business Daily, which is far better informed than...

  • December 17, 2007

    Hillary Agonistes

    Has Hillary Clinton's candidacy for the Democrats' nomination gone from "inevitable" to "doomed" in the space of a few weeks? Momentum always is a precious factor as the compressed primary season looms, with undecideds making up t...

  • December 14, 2007

    Gucci Socialists

    Venezuelans seem to be feeling their oats after rejecting Hugo Chavez's attempt to install himself in the presidential palace for life. A YouTube video is causing a sensation there by exposing the hypocrisy of one of Hugo's top minions.First came the...

  • December 14, 2007

    Wolfowitz World Bank epitaph

    The so-called scandal that drove Paul Wolfowitz from his post as president of the World Bank has ended, not with a bang but a whimper. The Wall Street Journal ($link) points out that the world media which jumped at the chance to smear Wolfowitz is ig...

  • December 14, 2007

    The Anarchist Cookbook of the nursery? (updated)

    An entertaining illustration of the difference between Brits and Americans is on view with reactions to a book entitled, Forbidden Lego: Build the Models Your Parents Warned You Against. Fox News reports the book promises"You'll learn to cr...

  • December 12, 2007

    Celebrating diversity (continued)

    The glorious mosaic strikes again. From Canada.com:  A Mississauga, Ont. man will be formally charged on Tuesday with murder in connection with the death of his 16-year-old daughter. The girl, Aqsa Parvez, was in critical condition on Monday aft...

  • December 12, 2007

    The Legacy of Edward Said

    The late Edward Said is still one of the most influential figures in the postmodernist intellectual pantheon, and his students and followers dominate the study not only of the Muslim world, his ideas have influenced all cross cultural studies underta...

  • December 12, 2007

    Brazil's offshore oil bonanza may be even bigger

    We have covered  with great interest the discovery of a huge offshore oil field by Petrobras, the Brazilian oil company. The Tupi oil field was reckoned to contain as much as 8 billion barrels of oil, an as-yet unknown fraction of which will be ...

  • December 12, 2007

    Brown is beautiful

    Everyone knows that during December we are granted the caloric equivalent of universal carbon credits when it comes to fatty foods. Egg nog, latkes, butter cookies, roast duck, and prime rib: all are permitted with not a moment's hesitation and the m...

  • December 11, 2007

    The Southern Hemisphere ignores Al Gore

    If he is going to call it global warming, how can Al Gore ignore the Southern Hemisphere's refusal to go along? Alexandre Aguiar, of MetSul Weather Center, Brazil, reports:   "Southern Hemisphere's ice cover now is at the same lev...

  • December 10, 2007

    The friends of George Soros

    Yet another Soros associate explains himself in court. It's hard to know what to make of this case in Britain, but it once again features an associate of George Soros involved in a criminal trial. In this instance, Nick Roditi, described as "a f...

  • December 10, 2007

    Misanthropic Global Warming Theory

    The hysteria over allegedly man-made global warming increasingly reveals its true nature: founded in a sense of guilt and self-hatred. How else to explain this nonsense published in a medical journal. From Jen Kelley in the Adelaide Advertiser:A...

  • December 10, 2007

    The war on energy security

    Alberta's tar sands are already known to contain the world's second largest proven reserves of petroleum. The only problem is that extracting the oil requires energy and water, and the tar sands (also called "oil sands") must excavated (or ...

  • December 10, 2007

    Chavez and his plans to overturn the election

    Jorge Castañeda, Mexico's former foreign minister, writes in Newsweek online that Hugo Chavez attrempted to overturn the vote on his dictator-for-life constitutional "reforms" in Venezuela. ... by midweek enough information had emerg...

  • December 9, 2007

    Al Gore: Doing good or just doing well?

    More and more people seem to notice that Al Gore is making huge amounts of money while peddling fear of global warming. And he's just getting started. The prospects of serious wealth are unlimited should his recent affiliation with Silicon Valley ven...

  • December 9, 2007

    US Episcopal Church loses its first diocese

    The Episcopal Church of the United States has lost its first diocese over its rejection of Scripture and embrace of politically correct positions. In California's fast-growing Central Valley. Ellen Lee of the San Francisco Chronicle reports  The...

  • December 8, 2007

    Professor Matory and Larry Summers

    Professor L. Roland Matory of Harvard, the subject of Richard L. Cravatts' AT article today, is further revealed in this  post by Hillel Stavis, owner of the former Wordsworth Bookstore, a favorite hangout of mine in Harvard Square in ...

  • December 8, 2007

    Holiday cheer

    Evan Sayet is a funny guy. Make that hilarious. He did a comeday monologue at the recent Restoration Weekend in Palm Beach, and it is available to the rest of us in two parts via YouTube. His summation of the historical evidence that Jesus was Jewish...

  • December 7, 2007

    NIE Congressional Investigation demanded

    As former Vice Chairman of the National Intelligence Council and AT contributor Herbert E. Meyer suggested, Congressional conservatives are demanding an investigation of the NIE report. While Herb suggested Intelligence Committee members review ...

  • December 5, 2007

    BBC spending $2 million to learn how to tell the truth

    You can't make this stuff up. It's almost like the punchline to a joke: "How much does it cost to get the BBC to tell the truth?" The UK Times reports:  Training to remind staff about the importance of telling viewers the truth will co...

  • December 4, 2007

    'Local news': Democrat aide charged with soliciting sex from a 13 year old

    From the Seattle Times "local news" page:James Michael McHaney, 28, was charged Saturday in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., with using a computer to arrange a sexual encounter with an informant posing as a boy, according to court r...

  • December 3, 2007

    UK 12 year olds get morning after pill without parents' knowledge

    The Daily Mail reports  that girls as young as 12 years old are being given morning-after contraceptive pills at public expense, without informing their parents.Under a controversial Government scheme to cut teenage pregnancies, youngsters are a...

  • December 2, 2007

    Likening Republicans to beasts (updated)

    A new fad appears to be aborning among liberal commentators: likening Republicans to various beasts. Ron Brownstein's current "Political Connections" column in the National Journal, a conventional-enough analysis of the race among GOP ...

  • December 1, 2007

    Colombia captures terrorist documents

    The FARC narco-terrorists operating in Colombia were dealt a blow by government forces, which raided one of their camps and captured documents and videotapes offering "proof of life" for 16 hostages being held in the deep jungle lair. As we...

  • November 30, 2007

    Warmist polar expedition was cancelled due to extreme cold

    You can't make stuff like this up. The snicker factor just keeps mounting over the antics of global warming alarmists. Patrick Condon of the Associated Press reported last March:A North Pole expedition meant to bring attention to global warming was c...

  • November 29, 2007

    Moderate Muslim group slams Sudan over teddy bear case

    Excellent news, worthy of praise: The American Islamic Council has denounced the government of Sudan for jailing a British schoolteacher, and demands her immediate release.Judith Apter Klinghofer of the History News Netework has the news "The sa...

  • November 28, 2007

    Press coverage of the Muslim riots in Paris

    The British press is actually being more coy than the American press in covering the riots in the Paris suburbs, being vague about who is rampaging. Bookworm analyzes   the phenomenon. She cites this particularly comic contortion ...

  • November 28, 2007

    Another one bites the dust

    Left wing talk radio is apparently seeing another celebrity-based show going down in flames. Brian Maloney, who runs the excellent site The Radio Equalizer, reports  Just weeks after claiming she would reshape her faltering radio program to focu...

  • November 27, 2007

    Gore pal's eco-warrior ship deposits big carbon footprint in sensitive Antarctic waters

    Judi McLeod of Canada Free Press has the scoop on information the MSM is desperate to avoid reporting. It seems that a friend Al Gore in the business of taking wealthy eco-warriors on tours uses a ship (at this point, a former ship) with a histo...

  • November 26, 2007

    Poor and minorities hardest hit (updated)

    The media narrative on the Cosco Busan oil spill into San Francisco Bay has largely focused on piteous waterfowl and incompetence on the part of the ship's crew, the Coast Guard, and the slow response of disaster relief efforts. But today, Jonathan C...

  • November 26, 2007

    Hugo Chavez gets fired

    Unfortunately, the Venezuelan leader still holds onto office as president of Venezuela, but his neighbor Colombia has told him his services will no longer be needed as mediator between the Colombian government and narco-terrorists who hold hostages a...

  • November 23, 2007

    Airbus in 'life-threatening' situation?

    Tom Enders, CEO of Airbus, has told German unions that the company is in a ‘life-threatening' situation thanks to the decline of the dollar against the euro. Forbes cites a report from Der Spiegel that Enders said, "We need ...

  • November 20, 2007

    UN's 'tendency toward alarmism' exposed

    According to this report from the Washington Post, the United Nations is planning to acknowledge that it has vastly overstated a supposed looming global catastrophe. This time around it is not global warming, but AIDS.The United Nations' top AIDS sci...

  • November 19, 2007

    Pricing oil in dollars

    Hugo Chavez and Mahmoud Ahmedinejad, neither of whom has ever demonstrated much economic sophistication, contended at the recent OPEC Summit that the weak dollar is at the root of high oil prices. "The dollar is in free fall, everyone should be ...

  • November 19, 2007

    Downsizing a newspaper with 'dynamite'

    For an industry supposedly in touch with breaking events and trends, the newspaper business has been extraordinarily thick-headed in understanding the looming failure of its traditional business model. Now, this failure is coming home to roost.We hav...

  • November 18, 2007

    French and German foreign ministers sing along with an Islamofascist

    If it weren't so dangerous, the naïveté demonstrated by the foreign ministers of France and Germany would be almost touching. The two grandees have in effect endorsed a violent Islamist. You haven't read about it in our mainstream media, ...

  • November 16, 2007

    Ouch!

    We all make mistakes, but some mistakes are bigger than others. And some end up costing nine figures, like this mistake: (via Sky News)An Airbus pilot has written off a brand new jet after slamming it into a wall during engine tests.He was power...

  • November 16, 2007

    Buried news: Former Soros top aide faces fraud sentence

    Did you know that a man described as "a former top aide" of George Soros took a guilty plea on federal charges of conspiring to defraud investors and faces sentencing next week? I didn't. Now, having a former top associate cop a plea on cha...

  • November 15, 2007

    Reactions to Ron Paul campaign article

    Yesterday's article by Andrew Walden on the Ron Paul campaign's disturbing unwillingness to distance itself from neo-Nazi supporters predictably drew a lot of reaction. Some of the responses were rather surprising, and one of them, from a respected w...

  • November 15, 2007

    Website claim: 'Jews for Ron Paul' a fraud

    The website Sultan Knish claims the group "Jews for Ron Paul" is a fraud. These are serious charges, and the documentation behind the unclear to me, so I urge the blogger in question to go into serious detail on them on the IP address traci...

  • November 14, 2007

    Another pro-American wins victory in Europe: Denmark

    The list of countries leftists like Alex Baldwin can threaten (promise?) to flee to if another Republican is elected president is thinning. France and Germany have elected fairly pro-American leaders, and now Denmark, the brave country that withstood...

  • November 14, 2007

    Down from the trees (updated)

    One of the tree-sitting protestors illegally attempting to block construction of new athletic facilities next to Memorial Stadium at the University of California has fallen from his perch and sustained serious injury. Charles Burress of the San Franc...

  • November 13, 2007

    The battle for Middle East Studies

    Eminent intellectual dissidents have arisen and are taking on the leftist establishment which has dominated the study of Middle East affairs in the United States. Bernard Lewis and Fouad Ajami have given up hope of ever restoring balance and sanity t...

  • November 13, 2007

    Powerlessness: San Diego almost blacked-out

    During the recent wildfires, San Diego came perilously close to being blacked out, thanks to the vulnerability of its connections to the national power grid and the low portion of its electric power that is generated locally. The ability to figh...

  • November 12, 2007

    She survived a feminist mother

    Nancy Morgan writes a heartfelt and wise column in Rightbias.com on her mother:A die-hard, take no prisoners, true-blue feminist. Armed with a hard-won PhD., she has made her life's work the counseling of the transgendered, the gay and the sexually c...

  • November 10, 2007

    Academic Dirty Linen Revealed in California Law School Case

    Higher education, one of the biggest industries in America, has gotten wealthy beyond the dreams of previous generations of academics. Tuition increases at more than double the rate of inflation for a decade, taxpayer funding of research, tuition loa...

  • November 9, 2007

    Newspaper circulation decline even worse

    Bizzyblog aggregates newspaper circulation data for the past 60 months, and notices that the relatively slow declines at the two largest papers, USA Today and the Wall Street Journal, have partially masked the much steeper declines at most big city m...

  • November 9, 2007

    Michael Scheuer: AT is 'Goebbels wannabe'

    Michael Scheuer, the man in charge of al Qaeda at the CIA prior to 9/11, specifically labels Commentary, National Review, and American Thinker as "Goebbels-wannabes" and "anti-American."Nice to see the limits on civil discourse in...

  • November 9, 2007

    Battlefield memorial defaced

    Vandals have defaced the Tippecanoe Battlefield Monument in Indiana, on the 196th anniversary of the battle, and just in time for Veterans Day.From the Journal and Courier online of Lafayette, Indiana:Sometime late Wednesday, slogans were painted on ...

  • November 9, 2007

    Exposing a Global Warming hoaxer

    Gaius of Blue Crab Boulevard has tracked down the hoaxer who created a fake scientific journal to discredit critics of global warming theory. Thanks to alert reader Cedric, we now have a confession form David Thorpe that he was , indeed, the person w...

  • November 8, 2007

    The Girl Can't Help It (updated)

    Hillary has trapped herself in a mess where she dare not take a clear position on illegal alien driver's licenses, and seemingly is unable to stop waffling and obfuscating. Evasion has always worked for her in the past, but now, with a wartime p...

  • November 8, 2007

    Obama job-killers

    Barack Obama is letting us know the kind of welfare state he has in mind for America. In addition to government spending, he is proposing job-killing mandates for employers of all but start-up companies. As the EU social welfare states like Germany a...

  • November 6, 2007

    Defining down 'torture'

    Ray Robison highlights the lengths to which BDS sufferers will go in claiming "torture" by the Bush Administration. Carol Rosenberg of the Miami Herald is outraged that beard-trimming took place on Muslim detainees at Gitmo. That's right: b...

  • November 5, 2007

    Phoenix ACLU Legal Department head arrested

    Daniel Pochoda, head of the Arizona ACLU's Legal Department, was arrested for misdemeanor trespass over the weekend by deputies from the Maricopa County Sheriff's Department, headed by the legendary Sheriff Joe Arpaio. Pochoda, 65 years old and a Har...

  • November 4, 2007

    Barack Obama: behind the mask

    Barack Obama on SNL last night: "I have nothing to hide," Obama said. "I enjoy being myself."From David Edwards and Jason Rhyne of rawstory.com, Monday October 22, 2007:Weeks after coming under fire for his refusal to wear an...

  • November 3, 2007

    More on the Taliban/al Qaeda split

    Ray Robison's article yesterday outlining the emerging split between the tribal Taliban of Afghanistan and al Qaeda, run by the Saudi Arab Usama bin Laden, receives more support. The names are unfamiliar to most Americans, but the issue could not be ...

  • October 31, 2007

    Shaken, not stirred

    The Bay Area earthquake last night got my attention, but as felt in Berkeley in a house built on bedrock, it was not that big a deal. One fairly big shock, followed by an extended (news reports say one minute) period of modest shaking. The epicenter ...

  • October 27, 2007

    Immigration reform: Not with a bang

    Open borders advocates and immigration amnesty enthusiasts long have argued that draconian raids and inhumane mass deportations are the only alternative, should America take seriously national sovereignty and the rule of law. The straw man vision of ...

  • October 26, 2007

    Prosecutor in the WellCare investigation a formidable figure

    The dramatic raid on WellCare, a large Tampa company once controlled and profitably taken public by a George Soros financial entity, is likely to result in a long and rigorous investigation. The United States Attorney leading the investigation is Jay...

  • October 25, 2007

    Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week at Berkeley

    The intrepid crew at Zombie Time recorded the hoopla surrounding a speech by Noni Darwish, author of the book Now they Call Me Infidel; Why I Renounced Jihad for America, Israel and the War on Terror during Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week activiti...

  • October 25, 2007

    How do you say 'PR' in the Tiwa Language?

    A patron at the Sandia Resort and Casino was playing a slot machine when it indicated a $1.6 million jackpot, according to ABC News (hat tip: Drudge).  But the lucky gambler, Gary Hoffman, hit hard luck when it came to getting the Indian reserva...

  • October 24, 2007

    California wild fires

    It is extremely painful to watch the images of homes burning, all the more so because my late Uncle and Aunt were burned out of their Santa Barbara home in a wildfire almost two decades ago. Their household appliances were reduced to puddles of shiny...

  • October 21, 2007

    Rush Limbaugh and the Blue Bubble Narrative

    I wondered how the mainstream media would attempt to extricate themselves from the dilemma posed for them by Rush Limbaugh's political jiu-jitsu. Yesterday we got our answer from Stephanie Strom of the New York Times: report the auction result a...

  • October 20, 2007

    NYT shill-forHill coverage of campaign finance scandal

    Steve Gilbert of Sweetness & Light has done it again, exposing the New York Times shilling for the Clinton campaign in its coverage of yet another campaign donation scandal. By merely boldfacing the appropriate verbiage from the Times and adding ...

  • October 19, 2007

    The Media's Dilemma

    Rush Limbaugh’s political jiu-jitsu masterstroke comes to a climax at 1 PM, EDT today, when the ebay auction  for the letter sent by 41 Senate Democrats to the CEO of his syndicator Clear Channel ends. With four hours left, the bid ha...

  • October 19, 2007

    Curious timing of new 'investigative journalism charity'

    Investor's Business Daily shares our concern over the newly announced "charitable" investigative journalism project Pro Publica, being funded by left wing moneybags and George Soros associates Herbert and Marian Sandler. IBD writes:Could a ...

  • October 15, 2007

    Krugman's theories

    Paul Krugman, a man so wise that he alerted us to the looming economic disaster inherent in the very Bush Administration policies that have produced high growth, low unemployment, and a falling deficit, now explains why conservatives like me laugh at...

  • October 14, 2007

    Recreating an era

    Part of the magic of movies is the ability to recreate an era, usually to look at it with a distinctly modern perspective. This week, Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Harrison Ford, Shia LeBeouf and an entire production crew for the fourth Indiana Jon...

  • October 12, 2007

    Hollywood's Hidden Anti-Communist Classic

    A generation or two of Americans have grown up indoctrinated, in schools and by the popular culture, to believe that a bizarre dementia seized many Americans in the early 1950s: the groundless belief that a Communist conspiracy existed. Never mind th...

  • October 11, 2007

    Boeing Delays Dreamliner Delivery

    Yesterday, Boeing admitted that the first delivery of its next-generation wide-body airliner, the 787 Dreamliner, would be delayed by 6 months. While not a catastrophe, the setback erodes some of the competitive halo Boeing has enjoyed during a ...

  • October 11, 2007

    Noel Sheppard on Dennis Miller Show

    AT Contributor (and Newsbusters writer) Noel Sheppard will be a guest in the first hour of the Dennis Miller Show Friday. The show's live feed is available here starting at 7 AM PDT, and Noel is scheduled to appear about 7:15 AM PDT. The sh...

  • October 10, 2007

    Two hours of intelligent analysis of the coming election tonight

    AT's news editor Ed Lasky joins a blue-ribbon panel of political journalists and broadcasting legend Milt Rosenberg for two hours of informed and intelligent discussion of the coming elections. The broadcast originates from WGN AM 720 in Chicago, bet...

  • October 9, 2007

    Germany roiled by refusal of soccer match in Israel

    The Associated Press reports that an outcry has erupted in Germany over the refusal of dual citizenship member of a German soccer team to play a match in Israel. Both his coach and the soccer federation found nothing wrong with his refusal, sparking ...

  • October 9, 2007

    Confederate Yankee, TNR and the Beauchamp Affair

    The Confederate Yankee has been doggedly pursuing the questions raised by the Scott Beauchamp affair at The New Republic. In a post today, he examines some earlier statements made by the editors against facts he has dug up and finds behavior he does ...

  • October 8, 2007

    Look who's talking in the Ohio Capitol

    Politicians are interested in winning votes, not in snubbing potential voters and their ethnic groups. Perhaps that is why someone like Anisa Abd El Fattah receives an invitation to speak in the Ohio State Capitol. AT contributor Patrick Poole writes...

  • October 8, 2007

    An un-needed law school finds its constituency

    The new law school planned at the University of California Irvine was officially declared unneeded because the state already has plenty of law schools. But that didn't stop the institutional ambitions of UCI, and there was apparently enough support a...

  • October 8, 2007

    The contest for the Hispanic vote

    Anyone with a pulse realizes that Hispanics are the fastest-growing voting bloc in American politics. I think that the GOP does have a shot at garnering strong support based on  social and economic issues. Those Hispanics who legally vote a...

  • October 8, 2007

    Happy Government Employees' Day!

    Greetings from the People's Republic of Berkeley, where Columbus Day is known as "Indigenous People's Day." I have learned to get over my annoyance at the disrespecting of Columbus and implicit single digit salute to the America we really l...

  • October 5, 2007

    Children as state informants

    I remember being horrified as a child when I learned in the 1950s that under communism children were turned into informants against their parents. I could not believe that the cold hand of the state could be so cruel as turn child and parent against ...

  • October 5, 2007

    AT editor on NPR today

    Last week I spent some time being interviewed by a reporter for NPR. The news item aired today on the national morning NPR show, Morning Edition. In a news report on the online petition at Stanford University protesting the invitation ...

  • October 4, 2007

    Mainstreaming Hitler

    The evil vanquished by the Greatest Generation has returned. In an era when a head of state openly threatens wipe Israel off the map it should come as no shock that Hitler is so popular that he is being used as an advertising icon. In the Arab world....

  • October 4, 2007

    Al Dura incident raw footage ordered shown

    It looks as though France 2 Television will hand over the raw footage of the al Dura incident, subject of a complex lawsuit in France. The television network had garnered world outrage for its edited footage purporting to show that Israeli soldiers s...

  • October 3, 2007

    Making Jena notorious

    Jena, LA is taking its place among towns notorious for racial polarization. In the context of America's vibrant race industry, there has been no shortage of prominent actors anxious to exploit the situation for their own ends.Jason Whitlock, whose pr...

  • October 2, 2007

    The New York Times holds a yard sale

    Like an elderly spinster selling off possessions to pay her bills, the New York Times Company is liquidating peripheral assets. Having moved into its brand new 52-story headquarters building, the New York Times Company is holding a yard sale of ...

  • October 2, 2007

    Berekely tree-sitters ordered down

    The protestors who have been sitting in trees to block new athletic facilities at the University of California, Berkeley football stadium have been ordered down by a judge. Of course, the protestors plan to defy the orders, and thus the attention-hog...

  • September 28, 2007

    Clinton associate makes living from evicting middle class New Yorkers

    If the press eagerly jumps on stories about sexual misconduct by conservatives, hammering home the theme of "hypocrisy" when greedy financial exploitation is found in the camp of liberals purporting to champion the little guy, shouldn't the...

  • September 27, 2007

    Will Pinch Sulzberger be 'The Man Who Lost the New York Times'?

    Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr., known all but universally as "Pinch", may well be the last member of the Sulzberger/Ochs family to run the world-famous newspaper company. He is trapped in a financial and competitive trap of his own making, and ...

  • September 26, 2007

    The San Francisco Left and the Marines (updated)

    America's liberal-dominated media are doing their best to ignore a story of a leftist official snubbing the Marines. When the haters go too far in their anti-militarism, The Cause is damaged. MoveOn.org may have reaped a lot of donations from its fam...

  • September 25, 2007

    San Francisco disgraces itself. Again

    San Francisco turns a tolerant eye toward all sorts of behavior, all the while patting itself on the back for its virtue. NAMBLA used to march down Market Street in the Gay and Lesbian Pride Parade until the PR cost became too high and the group was ...

  • September 24, 2007

    Read this!

    Investors Business Daily continues its series investigating George Soros. The high standard set last week is exceeded today.  The reach of Soros is, simply put, mind-boggling. A brief surprising and tantalizing excerpt:George Soros is known for ...

  • September 23, 2007

    What did Pinch know and when did he know it?

    Once again, the Watergate maxim that "the cover-up is worse than the crime" is proving valid. And Clark Hoyt, "public editor" (ombudsman) of the New York Times is playing the part of John Dean in what could be titled "Al...

  • September 22, 2007

    More harbingers of victory against Al Qaeda

    Fawaz A. Gerges, writing in the International Herald-Tribune, notes that one of Osama bin Laden's most prominent Salafist mentors has turned against him....the preacher and scholar Salman al-Oadah, publicly reproached bin Laden for causing widespread...

  • September 21, 2007

    Tax dollars celebrating murderous invaders

    I am all but speechless over the latest manifestation of San Francisco madness. Fortunately, Bookworm suffers no such malady, so I will let her do the work of explaining to you how public funds are being spent to celebrate Jew-killers on their way to...

  • September 21, 2007

    America as a rest stop on the way to the promised land

    The always witty Texas Rainmaker notices Canada is expressing pain over a new influx of illegal immigrants: Mexicans, slipping over the border from the United States. Bienvenido a Canada, eh...Looks like Canada is beginning to enjoy the exciting...

  • September 20, 2007

    Dan Rather's road

    Now that Dan Rather is suing CBS for 70 million bucks, we are in for a lot of attention being paid to the man. Which is no doubt what he wants. Videotapes of the depositions will no doubt be entertaining. My suggestion to CBS is that they hire Hugh H...

  • September 19, 2007

    CAIR's choice of honorees

    Our contributor Patrick Poole blogs a report on the decision of CAIR (The Council on Islamic American Relations) to honor one of the men named as a co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation trial. Just a day after the 9/11 commemoration last week, t...

  • September 18, 2007

    Erwin Chemerinsky loses -- and wins

    Here's a "man bites dog" sort of story: California's notorious Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals handed down a wise decision yesterday. The ridiculous lawsuit against Caterpillar, launched by relatives of Rachel Corrie and various Palestinians...

  • September 18, 2007

    Senate extortion racket begins

    The Constitution specifies that the Senate has both the power and the duty to advise and consent to the President's appointments for various high offices. Usually, members of the Senate have the wit to at least pretend they are responsibly carrying-o...

  • September 18, 2007

    The return of Rathergate?

    Dan Rather is back and he has another "scandal" based on a source that is questionable. You might not have noticed Dan's return to "journalism" because he is on a channel called HDNet, obscure enough that Comcast, the nation's lar...

  • September 17, 2007

    O.J. Simpson 'cry racism' watch

    O. J. Simpson is in jail without bail (at least for now), and an audio tape of the "incident" (laughably called a "sting operation" by the Juice) is being broadcast courtesy of TMZ.com.It looks like O.J. is heading for prison. One...

  • September 17, 2007

    Accommodating Islamic practices to local circumstances

    Numerous controversies fester over the demands of many Muslims that the societies to which they emigrate accommodate their religious practices with special consideration. Just yesterday, AT covered the debate in Quebec over special accommodation...

  • September 17, 2007

    The grape harvest is underway

    California's glorious grape harvest is underway again. All signs indicate a great year for most varietals. Of course, compared to France, for example, California never has a bad year. But some years are better than others. It is too soon to tell if 2...

  • September 16, 2007

    Excellent podcast available

    AT contributor Herb Meyer knows a thing or two about analyzing information. He is, after all, credited with being the first United States official to forecast the Soviet Union's collapse in the early Reagan Administration, when he served as special a...

  • September 16, 2007

    The New McCarthyism at the University of California

    A group of University of California faculty has succeeded in silencing a voice with which they disagree. That voice belongs to Lawrence Summers, former president of Harvard University and former Secretary of the Treasury for the Clinton Administratio...

  • September 16, 2007

    Creeping Dhimmitude

    One small step at a time, America is joining the umma, the global community of nations dominated by Islam. The latest example comes from Indianapolis, where the new billion dollar-plus airport terminal will include foot bath facilities designed speci...

  • September 16, 2007

    How low has academia fallen?

    Very low indeed. I used to wonder how German universities, among the most distinguished in the world back then, fell into lockstep behind Hitler. How could the supposedly the best minds allow that?I wonder no longer. The signs are very discouraging, ...

  • September 15, 2007

    Going, going, gone

    A sign of the times from the San Diego Union-Tribune:To our readers September 15, 2007 You will notice today that the tables rounding up weekly stock and mutual fund performance have been eliminated from the newspaper. With an ever growing majority o...

  • September 14, 2007

    Time for Democrats to withdraw from Congress

    The Analyst Blog makes a great point about the Democrats and their double standards: Democrats say that, since the Iraqi government has only completed or made progress on 7 out of 18 (that's 39%) of the benchmarks on its agenda (here), we should...

  • September 14, 2007

    Correlation of Palestinian aid and Palestinian murder

    CAMERA presents a fascinating analysis of homicides by Palestinian militants and their correlation with the volume of international aid flowing to the Palestinian territories in Gaza and the West Bank. The analyst is careful to point out that this do...

  • September 14, 2007

    The return of Jew-hatred

    How bad has it gotten in the United States? This bad. Gawker, a site praised by the New York Times, apparently thinks this is clever....

  • September 14, 2007

    New York Times Company stock below $20

    Shares in the New York Times Company fell below the psychologically important $20 mark today, closing down 38 cents, at 19.86, a level it hadn't seen since February, 1997. This represents a 60% loss in shareholder value since the peak in 2002....

  • September 13, 2007

    The Obama-Brzezinski alliance

    One might think that the foreign policy disasters of the Jimmy Carter presidency would be enough to permanently retire his National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski from the league of  presidential candidate gurus. But Barack Obama, who...

  • September 13, 2007

    Baghdad by the Bay

    Legendary columnist Herb Caen, the only man in American journalistic history to publish a daily newspaper column for 50 years, used to call San Francisco "Baghdad by the Bay." That was in an era when Baghdad carried popular connotations of ...

  • September 12, 2007

    The decline and fall of the New York Times

    The disgraceful full page General "Betray Us" ad published Monday was a new low for both MoveOn.org and the New York Times. Newspapers can and do decide to reject advertisements which are below acceptable standards. It might be the case tha...

  • September 12, 2007

    Did Iran pay for Zogby's 9/11 poll?

    Sweetness & Light presents stunning information suggesting Iran paid for the recent Zogby poll which claimed that 42% of Americans believe Bush either caused 9/11 or let it happen....the poll was "commissioned" by Press TV, which i...

  • September 12, 2007

    Erwin Chemerinsky hired, then fired

    Erwin Chemerinsky, on whose reported candidacy for the proposed new UC Irvine Law School I commented here, has been hired and then fired before he even got to start the job, according to this report by Brian Leiter, a professor of Law at the Universi...

  • September 10, 2007

    Scenes from Londonistan

    Carol Gould writes about ethnic turf in London these days, and the wannabe Caliphate's new xenophobia.Hat tip: David Paulin...

  • September 10, 2007

    Hillary aide: international woman of mystery

    The New York Observer provided a look into the background of Hillary's "traveling chief of staff" and Middle East advisor, Huma Abedin. Very little is publicly known about her, which of course leaves plenty to talk about. And the rumor...

  • September 9, 2007

    Louisiana voters rejecting the politics of sleaze

    Bobby Jindal is one of our favorite rising star politicians, offering hope for truly reforming Louisiana's endemically corrupt politics. The state needs him now more than ever, with its reconstruction efforts mired down in bureaucracy and worse. The ...

  • September 8, 2007

    Multiculturalist Slurs Swiss

    As the Western European public awakens to the very real problems caused by high levels of immigration, little things like skyrocketing crime rates and riots in France, Denmark, Swden, and elsewhere, adherents of multiculturalism's dogmas are panickin...

  • September 7, 2007

    Football and the Soul of Berkeley

    The University of California is basking in the news that its Golden Bears have returned to the ranks of the top ten college football teams this week, two delicious notches above downstate rival UCLA, albeit still nine places below pere...

  • September 7, 2007

    Accountability for Durham, NC voters

    Normally I am skeptical of big ticket lawsuits, but I am making an exception for the three Duke students unjustly prosecuted by Mike Nifong, whose wrist-slap 24 hour jail sentence is an affront to every American potentially the victim of another...

  • September 6, 2007

    Feminist film festival 'horrified' by Israel boycott

    From the official website of the San Diego Feminist Film Festival:A statement was given by the San Diego Women's Film Festival Director in support of the Boycott of Israeli films. The San Diego Women Film Foundation and Festival would like to apologi...

  • September 6, 2007

    France rejecting arrogance?

    President Sarkozy just keeps getting better and better. I rub my eyes in disbelief as I read of the latest in a series of extraordinarily sensible acts in his young presidency. David R. Sands writes in the Washington Times:In a report commissioned by...

  • September 5, 2007

    Global warming faces popular backlash

    Further evidence that global warming enthusiasts have jumped the shark comes with the box office disaster experienced by Leonardo DiCaprio's film 11th Hour. Roger Friedman of Foxnews.com reports (hat tip: Drudge):"The 11th Hour," has been a...

  • September 5, 2007

    The NYT's Hillary college days puff piece

    There has been much laughter over the New York Times' flattering treatment of Hillary-the-Wellesly-student. Up to now, the paper seems to have focused its hagiographic biographical treatments more on Barack Obama than on Hillary. But in the...

  • September 4, 2007

    UNICEF, the killer (updated)

    From Bangladesh comes a story of criminal irresponsibility on the part of UNICEF, the United Nations Agency for whom I used to collect pennies, nickels and dimes as a child on Halloween in the 1950s. In an ill-considered move to "help" Bang...

  • September 4, 2007

    Hollywood elites keep public off of public beach

    Los Angeles County purchased 2.5 acre El Sol Beach in Malibu for public use in 1976. More than 30 years later the public is unable to get access because neighboring Hollywood figures Michael Eisner (former Disney CEO) and Gregory J. Bonann, co-creato...

  • September 3, 2007

    Labor Day, Work, and Progress

    Labor Day is one of my favorite holidays because it honors work. The history of work is the history of civilization itself. Aside from those relatively few of us who are engaged in the full time mothering or fathering of the next generation, it is wo...

  • September 3, 2007

    Ahmedinequeeg?

    Jack Risko of Dinocrat.com finds the appropriate literary referent for Mahmoud Ahmedinejad, president of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and holder of a Ph.D. in transportation engineering from Tehran Science and Technology University, as he spouts his...

  • September 2, 2007

    Scoundrel Time: More on Arthur Miller

    The late playwright Arthur Miller was a scoundrel to his Down Syndrome son, and even worse a pawn (at best) of communists. Reader Frank Sipes kindly sent me this article by Allan H. Ryskind from Human Events two years ago, following the eulogies acco...

  • September 1, 2007

    Death of a Phony

    I must confess that I never liked playwright Arthur Miller's work, even though I never really publicly criticized it. As an Ivy-educated, Ivy-employed intellectual, I was supposed to think he was deep. All the right people agreed on that point. ...

  • August 31, 2007

    Good news from Sarkozy

    Sometimes I have to pinch myself. Nikolas Sarkozy seems just too good to be true for a President of France. No longer the foreign policy antagonist of the United States, France looks forward to stabilizing Iraq, and strongly supports pressuring Iran ...

  • August 31, 2007

    The corruption storyline (updated)

    Liberals are salivating at the opportunity they see to portray the GOP as corrupt. For example, prominent blogger Josh Marshall's video maintaining that there is a corruption gap with the Republicans topping the Dems when it comes to crookedness. Con...

  • August 31, 2007

    Fencing in the tree-sitters

    The college football season begins tomorrow with a home game for UC Berkeley, playing Tennessee in a re-match of last year's opening game in Knoxville. Meanwhile, the tree hugging (literally) protestors outside have been fenced-in for their own prote...

  • August 30, 2007

    Sumo scandal

    Barry Bonds, move over. The world of sports has a new bad boy, this time hailing from Japan, via Mongolia. The current superstar of Japan's national sport sumo, Asahoryu, already facing a two tournament suspension, a pay cut, and reportedly under inv...

  • August 30, 2007

    The perfect candidate

    The nascent law school designed to produce left wing lawyers (aka "public interest lawyers") is reported to be considering the perfect dean: UC Irvine is talking with Erwin Chemerinsky, according to the Los Angeles Times. Despite being decl...

  • August 30, 2007

    'Brave' artists

    The oh-so-brave artistic world, ever ready to be "transgressive", is insulting Christians and Christ again. This time, it is in Australia, where an exhibit includes a picture with the visage of Christ switching to that of Osama bin Laden (c...

  • August 29, 2007

    Moody's lowers rating on NYT Company

    AP reports that Moody's Investors Services lowered it ratings outlook on the New York Times Company from "stable" to "negative." However, the service affirmed ratings for the company's commercial paper and senior unsecured debt at...

  • August 29, 2007

    Mexico's President Calderon insults the United States

    Mexico's President Calderon has delivered a slap in the face to the United States, and provided what amounts to an endorsement for his citizens violating the laws of the United States. Steve Gilbert of Sweetness & Light caught the significance of...

  • August 29, 2007

    Soros-linked group gets fined by FEC

    Kenneth P. Vogel of The Politico reports that America Coming Together (ACT), a group to which left wing financial powerhouses George Soros, Peter Lewis of Progressive Insurance and the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) are major donors, ha...

  • August 28, 2007

    The Racial Engineering of San Francisco

    One of the ugliest aspects of contemporary "progressive" thought is a thoroughly patronizing attitude toward African-Americans, regarding them as eternal victims unable to fend for themselves. The latest insult comes from America's most str...

  • August 28, 2007

    The iron fist of diversity

    Retired CNN anchor Bernard Shaw made some peculiar remarks addressing National Association of Black Journalists at their convention in Las Vegas, accepting a lifetime achievement award from the group. David Paulin of the site The Big Carnival, who ac...

  • August 27, 2007

    Saudi sets up oil facilities security force

    Saudi Arabia is taking quite seriously Al Qaeda's threats to attack its oil infrastructure, and has announced the formation of a 35,000 man (surely there will be no burka-clad women in it, one supposes) new security force to guard critical facilities...

  • August 27, 2007

    Israel's kibbutzim jettisoning socialism

    The kibbutz movement in Israel was founded on the rock of socialism, with communal ownership, dining, and even child-rearing arrangements expressing the unrealistic utopian egalitarian ideals rooted in 19th century Europe. But time was not kind to th...

  • August 27, 2007

    More on recognizing the Armenian Holocaust

    Robert Stacy McCain, of the Washington Times' Insider Politics blog, cites counter-arguments to Andrew G. Bostom's AT article yesterday insisting that Congress must recognize the Armenian Holocaust. He writes:...the Armenians suffered horribly under ...

  • August 26, 2007

    Newspaper nostalgia

    A leading scholar in the comparatively young academic field of popular culture studies told me years ago that people become nostalgic for something only after the object in question has lost its power and ceased to be threatening. The example he...

  • August 25, 2007

    An important and rewarding essay

    John J. Ray has written a stunning essay entitled "Hitler was a Socialist" that is the best treatment of the subject I have ever seen. This goes well beyond the usual talking points noting that "Nazi" meant "National Socialis...

  • August 25, 2007

    University heads and interior decorators

    What is it about being appointed to run a major university campus that causes the appointee to hire an expensive interior decorator? A trial just begun in Houston exposes yet another case of a senior administrator in state-funded higher education fea...

  • August 24, 2007

    Going green, really fast

    There appears to be a minor epidemic of greenies nabbed for topping 100 mph in their hybrid Toyota Priuses. The Gary Richards of the San Jose Mercury-News reports that Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has joined Al Gore III in the ranks of those caught...

  • August 23, 2007

    CAIR officials getting taxpayer dollars for schools

    AT contributor Patrick Poole has been looking at the taxpayer-funded charter schools run by CAIR officials in Columbus, Ohio and published his report today at Front Page Magazine. There are many serious problems uncovered, including use of the school...

  • August 22, 2007

    San Francisco's political theatre of the absurd

    San Francisco Supervisor Chris Daly last garnered a lot of press when he lauched a little vendetta against the Blue Angels flying over the city, something that went down in flames because even the most stupid supervisors aren't stupid enoug...

  • August 22, 2007

    Amnesty International now favors abortion rights

    O'Sullivan's First Law ("All organizations that are not actually right-wing will over time become left-wing) has just received more empirical support from the very organization that first prompted his formulation: Amnesty International. The U.K....

  • August 22, 2007

    Call it 'genocide'? (updated)

    The ADL's odd stance on the Armenian genocide may reflect a broader controversy and odd behavior on the topic. John Rosenthal of the excellent site Transatlantic Intelligencer wrote in 2005 about France's treatment of Bernard Lewis' (the Bernard Lewi...

  • August 22, 2007

    The lessons of the occupation of Japan

    President Bush has just cited the success of the occupation of Japan as demonstrating the need for persistence in our occupation of Iraq, in remarks to the VFW (God bless the VFW!) in Kansas City. He said:  I want to open today's speech wit...

  • August 21, 2007

    Chavez moves the clock forward

    Hugo Chavez is moving the clock in Venezuela forward by 30 minutes, in the name of reshaping Venezuelans' metabolism. The New York Times reports: Moved by claims that it will help the metabolism and productivity of his fellow citizens, President Hugo...

  • August 21, 2007

    ADL's curious indifference ends on Armenian genocide

    Andrew Bostom and I both found it very strange that the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) could not bring itself to condemn the genocide against the Armenians perpetrated by Turkey almost a century ago. The AP reports:The Anti-Defamation League has revers...

  • August 20, 2007

    The kids question

    The estimable Jules Crittenden takes on the questions stay-at-home-dads and of having kids, as in more than one. The miracle of birth and the sad decline of enthusiastic reproduction occupied two AT articles yesterday, and Jules makes some point...

  • August 20, 2007

    The New Republic's response to Scott Beauchamp

    Richard Miniter writes an astonishing account of the aftermath of the Scott Beauchamp scandal at The New Republic. The behavior of editor Franklin Foer and the magazine gets curioser and curioser as time goes on. For a magazine with a long ...

  • August 20, 2007

    Higher education executives want the best of both worlds

    The taxpayer-supported University of California is seeing off departing president Robert Dynes with a cushy severance package. Matier & Ross, the outstanding investigative reporters at the San Francisco Chronicle, lay out the shape of the going a...

  • August 20, 2007

    News service or press release?

    Steve Gilbert of Sweetness & Light catches Reuters filing a news story that is almost a press release for a George Soros-funded effort to stalk Congress members. As Steve puts it, Doesn't this article make it sound like our elected officials are ...

  • August 19, 2007

    Lost Posterity

    Posterity was once a central concept of American Civilization.  We sacrificed our welfare, even our lives, for the sake of future generations, especially for our descendants unto the remote reaches of time. This concept was so important, that it...

  • August 19, 2007

    Obama campaign retreats in the face of gaffes

    In what appears to be tacit acknowledgement of recent embarrassing blunders, Barack Obama will be cutting back on his appearances in candidate forums. When Obama has been asked to think on his feet about such weighty issues as meeting with foreign de...

  • August 19, 2007

    Speaking of phobias (updated)

    The charge of Islamophobia rings out at home and from our sworn enemies abroad, too, almost constantly. Yet who is truly irrationally afraid of whom? Pat Santy, of Dr. Sanity, posts an insightful examination of the psychological projection behind the...

  • August 17, 2007

    Canada's 'universal' health care

    We finally have good operating understanding of "universal" health care: somewhere in the universe there may be a place for you to get treatment. And if you are lucky enough to live near the United States before Hillary Care II ta...

  • August 17, 2007

    Free speech and the University of Maryland

    The mind boggles. A student buying food in the student union at UMD wearing a shirt saying "I stand for Israel" is denied service by a clerk who says, "Your shirt offends me, I won't ring you up." So was free speech defended on ca...

  • August 16, 2007

    The ADL's curious indifference to the Armenian genocide

    AT contributor Andrew G. Bostom examines the imbroglio over the curious unwillingness of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) to condemn the genocide perpetrated against Armenians by the Turks in the early part of the last century, in an op-ed op-ed in t...

  • August 16, 2007

    Relics of a 'beloved' leader

    Yassir Arafat's old military uniforms should be worth quite a lot of money, considering how beloved he was by the Palestinian people (or so we were told), and considering his stature as a Nobel Peace Prize laureate. Surely those honors translate into...

  • August 15, 2007

    When dullards run enemy propaganda (updated)

    Rocco DiPippo, AT contributor and blogger at The Autonomist, spotted enemy propaganda in the press, as delivered by the incompetent information warriors at French news agency AFP. Although we don't like to post news agency photos out of respect for c...

  • August 14, 2007

    The academic boycott absentees (correction)

    Academia generally takes great pleasure in moral exhibitionism, the conspicuous display of righteous indignation toward the world's supposed malefactors. At this historical moment, the world's academic community faces an important moral choice o...

  • August 14, 2007

    Cover-up in Columbus?

    AT contributor Patrick Poole exposed a troubling situation in his home town of Columbus, Ohio: a terror apologist sitting on the Franklin County (Columbus) Homeland Security oversight board. Now, in the wake of his revelations, there are troubling si...

  • August 10, 2007

    Charges dropped against 2 more Marines in Haditha case

    With remarkably little publicity, all charges have been dropped against two more of the 8 Marines charged in the prosecution of alleged crimes in the Haditha incident, a case which made headlines around the world. From the "state news" sect...

  • August 10, 2007

    Times they are a changing, eh?

    Sign of the times in our neighbor to the north. A simple notice of a conference from the Orilla Packet & Times in Ontario:Migration to Canada has vastly increased. A generation is growing up with transnational identities and foreign-born levels i...

  • August 10, 2007

    The 'Bear' is back in the air

    In yet another sign of Russia's prickly stance toward the west, an icon of the Cold War, the Tu 95 "Bear" bomber, has returned to the skies, running long haul sorties into areas patrolled by the United States and NATO. The swept wing turbop...

  • August 10, 2007

    What goes around....

    KPFA FM in Berkeley, California is the first "public" radio station in the country, predecessor of NPR, PBS and all the other various entities providing non-commercial broadcasting. Except that KPFA is even more left wing.But KPFA has now d...

  • August 10, 2007

    Obama reeling

    The stupidities keep accumulating. Barack Obama isn't even ready for the midnight to five AM graveyard shift, much less prime time. In the Tuesday labor union debate (the one that preceded last night's gay debate), Obama actually referred to the ...

  • August 10, 2007

    More Reuters photo fraud uncovered (updated)

    Barely over a year ago, in the midst of Reuters being proven to have fraudulently Photoshopped a picture of Beirut under attack, I wrote that founder Julius Reuter must be spinning in his London grave. Poor Julius has not gained any more peaceful rep...

  • August 9, 2007

    New York Times Co: The big squeeze continues

    The latest victims of cutbacks at the New York Times Company are employees of the company's subsidiary newspaper in Sarasota, FL, the Herald-Tribune. The paper notes the cutbacks coming:The Herald-Tribune is revamping its features sections and consol...

  • August 8, 2007

    How to fight a propaganda war against America

    Gen. Ion Mihai Pacepa is the highest-ranking intelligence official ever to have defected from the Soviet bloc. Someone who knows first hand the ins and outs of fighting the propaganda war against America. In a stunning op-ed on Opiniojournal.com toda...

  • August 8, 2007

    Forbes Magazine on Rupert vs Pinch

    Forbes Magazine offers an analysis of the impact on the New York Times Company of Rupert Murdoch's acquisition of the Wall Street Journal. Because I have a lot of respect for Forbes, I am delighted that their approach is consistent with my own analys...

  • August 7, 2007

    Vegan parents starve children (updated)

    A story of horrendous child abuse in Arizona was mentioned by Rush Limbaugh, and it got me thinking. Here is the story from 3TV and azfamily.com:A Scottsdale woman who severely malnourished her three children was sentenced to 30 years in prison, the ...

  • August 5, 2007

    The return of 'The Eternal Jew'?

    The website Serbiana draws our attention (hat tip: Ummah News Links) to an appalling front page headline story in a Bosnian Muslim newspaper, Novi Horizonti.In a front page cover bearing resemblance to the infamous Nazi poster Eternal Jew, Bosnian Mu...

  • August 4, 2007

    Bending the truth to slur Orthodox Jews

    Noah Feldman has a lot of explaining to do. The Harvard Law School professor published an article in the New York Times Magazine slamming Orthodox Judaism,  taking as its departure point the cropping of Feldman and his Korean-American wife from ...

  • August 3, 2007

    The tragedy of 'environmental injustice'

    Christopher Alleva writes today about the Society for Environmental Journalists, and their forthcoming meeting in the San Francisco Bay Area. Here is one of the excursions the journalists are going to be taking (in their words);"Amid the extraor...

  • August 3, 2007

    Obama takes himself out of the running

    Some people think we have been unduly harsh on Barack Obama. It's true that many of our contributors find him unprepared, shallow, arrogant, phony, and distrust his forthrightness. But his latest gaffe, stating that he would not use nuclear weapons, ...

  • August 3, 2007

    Iraq video, unfiltered

    AT contributor and blogger Rocco DiPippo has posted some videos from his recent time in Iraq working on a reconstruction project. If you are looking for unfiltered views, here is a place to start.A flight over BaghdadA ride through HusbayahReconstruc...

  • August 2, 2007

    Rupert Murdoch vs. Pinch Sulzberger: Let the Match Begin

    Many on the left regard Rupert Murdoch, architect of the rise of Fox News Channel, as the anti-Christ. More accurately, Murdoch deserves the title of the anti-Pinch. Murdoch's successful bid to take over Dow Jones & Company, publisher of Wall Str...

  • August 1, 2007

    Kyl: With Iran it is either the 1930s or 1980s

    Senator John Kyl has put our choices on Iran succinctly. Kenneth Timmerman writes in Newsmax:"During the run up to World War II, Europe failed to heed the warnings" coming from Germany and from Western leaders such as Winston Churchill, Kyl...

  • August 1, 2007

    Real torture

    The Bush-haters include alleged use of torture on detainees among their reasons why Amerika is already a fascist state headed toward dictatorship. They should read the accounts coming out from the 5 Bulgarian nurses and one Palestinian doctor recentl...

  • August 1, 2007

    The NYT goes after the Chief Justice

    The New York Times lavishes attention on the Chief Justice's health condition. Fair enough, since his fall and cautionary hospitalization has been in the news. But the paper includes rather speculative information on potential side effects of  p...

  • August 1, 2007

    Obama's erratic international stance

    Nothing is more dangerous than a naïve appeaser, other than a naïve appeaser who erratically takes rash steps in order to look tougher than he really is. Terrible, tragic events are set in motion by such threats of bluster. Tyrants are not ...

  • August 1, 2007

    Greenhouse gas

    Clay Waters of Timeswatch catches the New York Times being itself. When liberals aren't taunting conservatives with death wishes, they will often, under a guise of concern, talk of how hopefully this brush with fate will give the conservative a more ...

  • July 31, 2007

    The NYT hedges its bets

    Yesterday's New York Times op-ed by Michael O'Hanlon and Kenneth Pollock suggesting that the Iraq war just might be headed for victory has drawn tremendous note, more for who published it than for its ground-breaking conclusions. After all, J.R. Dunn...

  • July 31, 2007

    Harry Potter, Zionist plotter

    When it comes to lunatic conspiracy theorists, the Middle East dominates the world's supply as thoroughly as it does our oil reserves. The latest discovery is the extent of Zionist chicanery concerns Harry Potter. Nissan Ratzlav-Katz of Aruzt Sheva r...

  • July 31, 2007

    Obama still not ready for prime time

    It's an outrage what they're charging for arugula these days at Whole Foods. That seems to be the received message Barack Obama delivered to Iowa farmers recently. There is fair amount of hilarity among liberal bloggers over Barack Obama's ...

  • July 30, 2007

    The censorship cabal?

    The blog Let Freedom Ring is covering what it terms the censorship cabal - a group of interest groups like Daily Kos, MoveOn, and the Campaign for America's Future, preparing to attempt to pressure sponsors out of advertising on Fox News Channel with...

  • July 29, 2007

    Swedish DA wants to ban alcohol on flights to Sweden

    Apparently America is not alone in suffering from a plague of showboating, overreaching prosecutors. A Swedish district attorney is evidently seeking to ban alcohol from being served on flights within and to Sweden, as a countermeasure to incidents o...

  • July 29, 2007

    Will hell-for-Hill break out? (updated)

    Blogger Doug Ross brings us up to speed on what promises to be one of the most important political stories of the coming presidential election, one that (surprise!) the dominant media have been doing their best to ignore. Most people haven't been fol...

  • July 28, 2007

    Dissenting from the enforced Palestinian 'consensus'

    For some time now, we have been corresponding with Rami Abdel Rahim, a Palestinian residing in London. Rami categorically rejects the notion of a "right of return" for reasons grounded in practicality. Ynet news has published an interview w...

  • July 27, 2007

    Islamist rule in Turkey

    Our contributor Andrew Bostom has authored the first article in a two part history of the treatment of Jews under Turkish rule, and it is available at Front Page Magazine. There are many fascinating issues covered in the piece, which primarily focuse...

  • July 27, 2007

    NYT as plaything of rich libs

    Jon Fine of the Business Week blog writes a friendly, even sympathetic note of advice to Pinch Sulzberger, scion of the New York Times' ruling family, the Ochs-Sulzberger clan. Fine is worried over the possibility that the family might lose the abili...

  • July 27, 2007

    Democrats should pay attention

    Bill Gertz of the Washington Times reports on a nuclear nightmare in the making. Read the whole thing, even if it makes an easy and restful sleep more difficult:"Al Qaeda has and will continue to attempt visually dramatic mass-casualty atta...

  • July 27, 2007

    Qatari 'royalty' thrown off British Airways flight

    According this UK Daily Mail report, a Qatari sheikh caused quite a row at Milan's Linate Airport (used only for short-range flights within Europe) when checking in for British Airways flight to London. The reason: other passengers refused to move so...

  • July 26, 2007

    The perfect justice of Sharia strikes again

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

  • July 24, 2007

    Herbert E. Meyer on NPR

    AT contributor and my friend Herbert E. Meyer will apear on the National Public Radio program On Point Wednesday, July 25th. The program is broadcast at various times on local NPR stations, so check your local station's listings. Herb is one of the m...

  • July 24, 2007

    'British Police Go to Hell'

    The picture is aresting: women in the beekeeper outfit-like hijabs standing next to a British police woman carrying a sign reading "British Police Go to Hell."  It caught the eye of blogger Maxflack, and ocasioned a pointed essay on th...

  • July 23, 2007

    Does Hugo Chavez understand irony?

    One common characteristic of tyrants is their inability to appreciate how ridiculous they make themselves look. The yes-man syndrome strikes even harder than with Hollywood celebrities.  Case in point: Hugo Chavez. On his regular Sunday televisi...

  • July 23, 2007

    Expect a Tet-style offensive around the Petraeus Report in Sept.

    Historian D. M. Giangreco examines the historical precedents for an enemy offensive tied to the upcoming report by Gen. Petraeus on the Surge in an essay on the History News Network:  Five times within the last 100 years, the US Armed Force...

  • July 22, 2007

    Arab genocide in Darfur (continued)

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

  • July 22, 2007

    Sanctions economic incompetence = trouble for Iran

    The Economist reviews the struggles of Iran's economy under the rule of Ahmedinejad and the mad mullahs. Certainly "madness" is an appropriate descriptor of the economic policies being followed, which, along with American-sponsored sanction...

  • July 22, 2007

    Tip-toeing around the bias

    Clark Hoyt, public editor (ombudsman) of the New York Times, writes about that newspaper's own coverage of the business problems facing the paper. There is an acknowledgement of the fact that there is indeed trouble, that the paper has not covered it...

  • July 22, 2007

    Dubai (Air)Ports

    Bursting with cash, Dubai is going on what appears to be a buying spree for transportation infrastructure. The latest acquisition target is Auckland International Airport in New Zealand. Ummah News Links highlights the story from TVNZ:  A D...

  • July 20, 2007

    The earth shook (updated)

    At 4:42 AM, we just felt a pretty intense earthquake in Berkeley. The house shook back and forth, causing items to fall from shelves. The duration was perhaps 10 seconds. The first radio reports say it was only a 4.2 magnitude temblor, but ...

  • July 20, 2007

    Remember General Wayne A. Downing

    We published a notice on the passing of General Wayne A. Downing, former head of all Special Operations for the United States Military, and a remarkable man in many respects. Since then, we have heard from a number of relatives and friends, and espec...

  • July 19, 2007

    Al Gore: from politics to 'consciousness' (updated)

    Our friends at DraftGore have their work cut out for them. The man who gave us the internet has set his sights higher: a change in world consciousness. The Aspen Daily News reports that he told über venture capitalist John Doerr:I'm engaged in a...

  • July 19, 2007

    Dems lob a softball slow and over the plate

    Yes, the polls don't look so good for the GOP right now, but the Democrats just can't help themselves.  They continue to use their Congressional majorities to try really stupid stuff. If the GOP has the wit to make a big enough stink over select...

  • July 19, 2007

    The media whitewash of Arabs' genocide against blacks in Darfur

     Kudos to Tom Gross of National Review Online for exposing the media whitewash on the Arab genocide against black Africans in Darfur.For four years now, the left-liberal media has strenuously avoided mentioning that the perpetrators of the genoc...

  • July 18, 2007

    Dems are 'Monumentally shortsighted'

    Helle Dale of the Washington Times writes of the danger to which Democrats threaten to subject our future, by targeting for cuts ...one of the most important strategic, collaborative efforts between the United States, Poland and the Czech Republic. T...

  • July 18, 2007

    Terrible air crash in São Paulo

    The media are full of reports on the terrible crash of a TAM Airlines A320 at Congonhas Airport in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Total casualties are believed to be about 200, including 170 passengers filling the flight from Porto Alegre (a city of about 5 mill...

  • July 18, 2007

    Arrivederci, Alitalia?

    Another major company may vanish soon, unless something changes, and unions will have played a major role in killing it. This time, it is the Italian flag carrier Alitalia which may not survive.  Alitalia hasn't made a euro of profit since ...

  • July 17, 2007

    Airbus Takes a Baby Step Forward

    It took no less than a summit meeting between the heads of the German and French governments to accomplish, but Airbus and its parent EADS have finally eliminated the ridiculous practice of having matching French and German co-chairmen of EADS and co...

  • July 16, 2007

    Signatures, but little money for Gore? (updated)

    WSMV television in Nashville, Al Gore's home town, recently reported that "more than 100,000 people" have signed a petition urging Al Gore to run for president. Sounds like a lot of people really want him to run, doesn't it?But according to...

  • July 15, 2007

    Dutch cabinet minister: Netherlands will be Islamic

    The mind reels. Assuming this report in the blog Dutch Concerns is correct, Dhimmitude is being welcomed by a cabinet minister in a modern, advanced democracy. No accounts appear in the MSM, of course. Unbelievable as it may seem, the Dutch 'Min...

  • July 15, 2007

    I feel pretty, oh so pretty...

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

  • July 15, 2007

    A seer's predictions

    It is very gratifying to see the estimable Steven Hayward of the admirable Ashbrook Center recognize the astuteness of our contributor Herbert E. Meyer's predictions. As his editor and friend, I can only say Herb deserves the praise here.  ...

  • July 15, 2007

    Change comes to American Thinker

    This summer American Thinker is growing in ways that are noticeable. Last week, we added the ability to post photographs and other graphics to our articles and blogs. We will be restrained in their use, but I am sharpening up on my primitive photogra...

  • July 14, 2007

    No party label for Democrat scandals

    One the most comic aspects of liberal media bias is the well-established pattern of identifying politicians caught up in scandal by party only when they are Republicans. Democrats rarely if ever are identified by party. The past week supplies a good ...

  • July 13, 2007

    The BBC exposed

    We have been telling our readers for years that the BBC is in the habit of distorting the news to make those whom it disfavors look bad. Our archive contains well over 400 items on the BBC, many of them describing the distortions Britons are compelle...

  • July 13, 2007

    Blinded by hatred

    At a historical moment when Iran threatens to wipe Israel off the map, Princeton University professor-emeritus Richard Falk is worried about a new Holocaust - against the Palestinians. He is quoted as saying:"...is it an irresponsible overstatem...

  • July 13, 2007

    Obama hires felonious activist to teach campaign volunteers

    Barack Obama's pose as a fighter against cynicism does not comport very well with his employment of a convicted felon to instruct youngsters in the art of campaigning. Blogger Tom Roeser has an exclusive account:Robert Creamer, the husband of U. S. R...

  • July 12, 2007

    An MSM columnist actually does his job well

    Kudos to the Washington Post's Al Kamen for an excellent column yesterday full of really interesting, indeed some shocking, items. For example this (buried in the middle, of course, but still there):An eagle-eyed Senate GOP aide, perusing House Speak...

  • July 12, 2007

    The media lied; public support died

    Steve Gilbert of Sweetness & Light nails the liars for reporting none of the benchmarks in Iraq have been met. He comments:But you can't blame our media too much. It is their job to make US lose this war. Their Democrat masters insist. And the tr...

  • July 11, 2007

    Andrew Bostom on the terror docs (updated)

    AT contributor Andrew G. Bostom has a column in today's New York Daily News on the terrorist medics, a subject he covered for AT readers earlier. Doctors who justify the murder of innocents are disturbingly common in radical Islam. And there's a case...

  • July 11, 2007

    President Bush and the Libby commutation

    The website UM Nexus [UM as in United Methodist Church -- President Bush's church] argues that the President's commutation of Libby's sentence goes against the teachings and principles of Jesus Christ. Matt May says his actions define the t...

  • July 11, 2007

    New York Times bond rating cut again

    How much longer will Pinch Sulzberger's family allow him to drive the family fortune into the ground? Under his leadership, the company has not only turned to the hard left editorially, it has committed a series of business blunders imperiling their ...

  • July 10, 2007

    The Rachel Corrie Case against Caterpillar is back

    AP is reporting:The family of a woman killed trying to prevent the demolition of a Palestinian home in 2003 asked a federal appeals court panel to reinstate its lawsuit against Caterpillar Inc., saying the company knew bulldozers it sold to the Israe...

  • July 10, 2007

    NBC 'News' morphs into NBC Propaganda (updated)

    The levels of bias and ideological commitment demonstrated by NBC "News" rose to new heights over the past weekend. The Media Research Center has done its customary excellent job covering the media treatment of Live Earth concerts:Appe...

  • July 10, 2007

    What if Syria invaded Lebanon and nobody cared?

    Rick Moran issues a wake-up call: Syria is signaling its intentions quite clearly. Short version; Syria has invaded Lebanon, penetrating 3 kilometers into the Bekaa valley and not coincidentally, is urging its citizens in Lebanon to leave the country...

  • July 8, 2007

    Those vermin at the New York Times

    No, I am not employing extreme rhetoric to describe the biased bunch that turned the Grey Lady into a leftist propaganda rag. It turns out that the brand new fancy skyscraper headquarters of the Times has developed a slight problem with infestation b...

  • July 8, 2007

    Global Warming is So Yesterday

    My very favorite excuse for low attendance at the much-ballyhooed worldwide Live Earth global warming concerts yesterday came from Johannesburg, where concert organizer John Langford "believes extremely cold weather... kept people away from the ...

  • July 8, 2007

    Politics makes strange bedfellows

    Gateway Pundit is compiling some very suggestive reports that Los Angeles Mayor and Hillary Clinton campaign co-chair has moved on to yet another mistress, leaving behind Mirthala Salinas, suspended anchor of the Telemundo Spanish language network's ...

  • July 8, 2007

    Hair: long, beautiful hair

    Some anniversaries just should not be ignored. On this date in 2004, these immortal words were spoken by the man who almost became president:Kerry called the Democratic duo a "dream team.""We've got better vision. We've got better idea...

  • July 7, 2007

    Uncomfortable truths for Muslims

    Tanveer Ahmed was born in Muslim Bangladesh, but raised in a secular household. Now living in Australia, he writes in The Australian about some uncomfortable truths Muslims must face. The latest attack in Britain shows how the Islamist threat is bein...

  • July 7, 2007

    Worries in Bahrain

    Bahrain, with its three quarters of a million people, may seem a tiny concern, but the island nation is home to the US 5th Fleet, and has long been one of the outposts of moderation, relative tolerance, and fairly enlightened rule, at least by region...

  • July 6, 2007

    Chirac, de Villepin used dirty tricks, forged documents to frame Sarkozy

    Remember how many media libs swooned over former French prime minister Daniel de Villepin? He published poetry! He wrote a book about Napoleon! He dressed in fancy suits and was oh, so sophisticated. Not like you-know-who, the guy who makes self-styl...

  • July 6, 2007

    The no-jihad zone

    A mass epidemic of denial seems to have set in at senior levels of the British and American governments. Prime Minister Gordon Brown has notoriously banned the usage of "Muslim" and "terror" together, and is even banning the expre...

  • July 6, 2007

    MSM disgraces itself again

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

  • July 5, 2007

    'The capacity of the human mind to delude itself never ceases to amaze'

    So writes Melanie Phillips on her personal website, Melaniephillips.com, in today's must-read column. She lays out clearly the willful-self-delusion behind PM Brown's position that "Muslim" and "terrorist" should not be linked.The...

  • July 3, 2007

    One brave woman

    Questions have been raised in many quarters (including here) about the media's use stringers and translators in Iraq, Palestinian territories, and elsewhere, whose honesty amd loyalties may be suspect. But there have also been extraordinarily brave p...

  • July 3, 2007

    Venezuela gasoline for Iran

    The new axis of evil linking Venezuela and Iran is apparently being activated to bail out the mullahs' regime, which is unable to produce enough gasoline to meet domestic needs. The International Herald Tribune quotes an Iranian newspaper:Venezuela h...

  • July 3, 2007

    Scenes that didn't make SiCKO

    Our contributor Stefania Lapenna has posted some pictures of the Cuban medical system -- the real one that average Cubans experience -- to her blog Free Thoughts. The only question is: did Michael Moore deliberately leave these scenes on the cutting ...

  • July 3, 2007

    The doctors' plot

    Many minds are reeling with revelation that seven doctors - people supposed to be dedicated to saving lives - have been detained as suspects in the UK terror bombing plots and attempt. How on earth could such people seek to use nails to maim and kill...

  • July 2, 2007

    Spot the racist (updated)

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

  • July 2, 2007

    Media did our work for us - ex-terorist

    The U.K. Daily Mail presents a column by former jihadi Hassan Butt, in which he notes the media's supportive role in doing work for the terrorists:When I was still a member of what is probably best termed the British Jihadi Network - a series of Brit...

  • July 2, 2007

    California needs more nurses, not more lawyers

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

  • July 2, 2007

    The Libby commutation (updated)

    President Bush did the right thing in commuting I. Lewis Libby's jail sentence. Libby's appeals can now continue without him having to serve any prison time, and the remaining fine and probation can be addressed by a successful appeal, should justice...

  • July 1, 2007

    Japanese official: A-bombing 'couldn't be helped'

    Japan's Defense Minister Fumio Kyuma has stirred up a hornet's nest at home with a remark that can be interpreted as meaning the atomic bombing of Japan is not something that is blameworthy. From an AP/Kyodo [the Japanese version of AP] dispatch:Defe...

  • June 30, 2007

    A Blow to Wine Snobs

    It isn't exactly David slaying Goliath, but an equally unexpected victory has stunned the California wine industry. The cheapest wine in California just won top honors in one of the top wine competitions. When the national media catches-up, you will ...

  • June 29, 2007

    Tightening the screws on Iran

    As the gasoline riots continue in Tehran (and who knows where else in Iran?), popular discontent with the mullahs' regime increases as economic hardships multiply. Kenneth Timmerman, writing in Front Page Magazine, discusses both the economic roots o...

  • June 29, 2007

    The peasants are revolting

    The liberal media cannot believe that the immigration bill was defeated by people concerned about little things like mass violations of our sovereignty and rewarding law-breakers. It just has to be racism on the part of the unwashed. You know: the ki...

  • June 29, 2007

    Suing the radicals and winning

    Our contributor Lee Kaplan has undergone a harrowing experience at the hands of leftist anti-Israel radicals at Berkeley. The tale, originally published in Front Page Magazine,  is worth reading. With special permission, we present it to America...

  • June 28, 2007

    Become an instant Middle East expert (updated)

    Barry Rubin has published a minor masterpiece of sarcasm today at Front Page Magazine, entitled, "Become an Instant Middle East Expert!" He eviscerates the agenda-driven folk who, lacking other opportunities, jumped on the opportunity to re...

  • June 28, 2007

    Democrats and pre-emption

    Rick Moran posts a long essay this morning on Right Wing Nuthouse on the Democrats' attempt to pre-empt charges that they have deliberately undermined the war effort by likening supporters of the war to Nazis. Along the way, a lot of territory is cov...

  • June 27, 2007

    Israel's quiet friendships in the Muslim world

    Despite the blustery rhetoric about Israel heard in so many Islamic quarters, at least some groups in predominantly Muslim countries manage to talk and cooperate with Israel. Our friends at Ummah News Links, which covers the Islamic world for infidel...

  • June 27, 2007

    Gasoline rationing in Iran (updated)

    Iran has imposed, with only two hours' notice, fairly stringent gasoline rationing, according to the BBC:At least one petrol station has been set on fire in the Iranian capital, Tehran, after the government announced fuel rationing for private motori...

  • June 27, 2007

    How to analyze information

    Herbert E. Meyer tackles the characteristic dilemma of our age: how to cope with the deluge of data made available via the internet, and come up with meaningful and usable knowledge. His outstanding essay, "How to Analyze Information," real...

  • June 27, 2007

    All too brief

    I gagged yesterday when I read this article on "People's Park", the 3 acre plot of land seized from the University of California by rioters during the mass psychosis of the late 1960s, published in the San Francisco Chronicle, written by Ri...

  • June 27, 2007

    Obama's church (continued)

    Blogger and AT contributor Matt May attended last weekend's United Church of Christ meetings in Hartford. Obama famously attacked the "religious right" while speaking before an establishment element of the "religious left." Also s...

  • June 27, 2007

    Mike Nifong, fugitive?

    WRAL television in Raleigh, NC is reporting that there is some doubt locally whether or not Mike Nifong will show up for his court hearing tomorrow.A hearing to remove former Durham County District Attorney Mike Nifong from office is scheduled for Th...

  • June 26, 2007

    Jack Murtha, venture capitalist?

    A Washington Times editorial tells us that Rep. Jack Murtha "fancies himself a kind of taxpayer-backed venture capitalist," bringing companies to his depressed Pennsylvania coal country district."Murtha has almost - but not quite - sin...

  • June 26, 2007

    How the MSM portrays anti-immigration bill 'groups'

    Steve Gilbert of Sweetness & Light catches the Los Angeles Times stretching to impugn those who oppose the immigration bill. He also throws in a hilarious picture from the New York Times at no extra charge, something which has to be seen to be be...

  • June 25, 2007

    NYT print advertising decline close to 15% a year?

    I have been covering the failure of Pinch Sulzberger's business strategy, as documented in its latest earnings report, showing what the PR release called a "9.1% decline" in advertising revenue at the Times Media Group. But it now appears t...

  • June 24, 2007

    The odd alliance aiding Nicaragua

    Communism and shortages go together. When the price mechanism is tossed out and the planners take over, watch out!  That lesson is being re-learned in Nicaragua, which recently installed Daniel Ortega back in power, and is experiencing power sho...

  • June 24, 2007

    Airbus and Islamic finance

    It is no secret that Airbus has sold a lot of airliners to Islamic countries. Emirates Airlines of Dubai is by far the dominant customer for the A380 superjumbo jet, most famously, and the possibility of a major Arab investment entities taking an equ...

  • June 24, 2007

    Too liberal for the New York Times?

    Ten days later than American Thinker, The New York Times takes notice of the demise of Antioch College in a column deliciously titled "Where the arts were too liberal."Too liberal for the New York Times? The column's author, Michael Goldfar...

  • June 22, 2007

    The Incredible Shrinking New York Times

    Like some robber baron capitalist of yore, the New York Times is telling the remaining full price readers of its print product that they will pay more and get less, the same message it has been sending advertisers for years. But far from a sign of st...

  • June 22, 2007

    Harvesting the assets of dying newspapers

    The New York Times Company probably has a collection of historical artifacts, including letters from the famous, which could amount to a considerable sum if liquidated. There is no telling what might be in the Times' vaults and what the value might b...

  • June 22, 2007

    Rogue Prosecutors

    Dorothy Rabinowitz writes a wonderful essay on Mike Nifong and Patrick Fitzgerald on OpinionJournal.com [Fitzgerald] had known all along the identity of the person who had leaked the Valerie Plame story. That person, he knew, was Richard Armitage, de...

  • June 20, 2007

    The Clinton Political Family

    I was astounded when I first saw the Hillary Clinton YouTube spoof of the last episode of The Sopranos. Apart from the question of likening her family to mobsters, I didn't think the picture painted of Hillary was terribly appealing. Although tu...

  • June 19, 2007

    Airbus Struts Its Stuff in Paris

    It is the time for Airbus to shine in the spotlight of the Paris Air Show, the pre-eminent aerospace gathering of the year, announcing $45 billion in new orders, ten times the value of new orders Boeing revealed on Day One. Already basking in the rec...

  • June 19, 2007

    How to grow a terrorist at home

    The mechanism producing the home grown London Tube bombers, and presumably other radicals, has been identified, and it depends on two social factors in particular: drug addiction and marriage, with a big helping of Saudi money.Tantor of the blog Cons...

  • June 19, 2007

    Know your customer

    The bookshops in the EU's parliament in Brussels had no trouble selling a novel version of the "Protocols of Elders of Zion" in French. It took a personal ban from the President of the European Parliament Hans-Gert Poettering to have it rem...

  • June 19, 2007

    Richard Baehr and Rick Moran podcast

    AT contributors Richard Baehr and Rick Moran had a fascinating conversation about politics, domestic and international, on the Rick Moran Show. A podcast of the broadcast is posted here. I recommend it. ...

  • June 17, 2007

    The Democrats fumble

    For all the hoopla over the significance of the Hispanic vote and attention paid to the Univision voter registration (and certain to follow get-out-the-vote) drive, the Democrat presidential contenders seem to be "flunking Spanish," to quot...

  • June 15, 2007

    The friends and enemies of Fred Thompson

    The not-yet-candidacy of Fred Thompson, soaring in polls of Republican primary voters, has engendered plenty of excitement, and not a small amount of fear on the part of his rivals, Democrats, and the MSM. My trusted political friends are divided on ...

  • June 14, 2007

    Turmoil at DePaul follows Finkelstein rejection

    In the wake of rejecting tenure for Norman Finkelstein and one of his allies, the president of DePaul University is facing a possible ‘vote of no confidence' being discussed by left wing faculty members. Dave Newbart of the Chicago Sun-Times re...

  • June 14, 2007

    New York Times slo-mo business collapse

    The business model he established for the New York Times Company continues to collapse under the feet of Pinch Sulzberger. The very latest revenue figures of the company released just minutes ago show that advertising revenue and gross revenue are de...

  • June 14, 2007

    The little winery that could

    Long-time readers may remember that I am a partner in Sunset Cellars, a boutique winery that literally began in a garage (in the Sunset District of San Francisco). Ten years after we bought our first commercial fruit, we are finally able to open a wi...

  • June 13, 2007

    Obama: Trust me, that was not a favor

    In the now-discarded "build credibility first" Phase One of his long term strategic plan to become President of the United States in 2012 or 2016, Barack Obama performed like a journeyman, doing favors for the politically connected the way ...

  • June 13, 2007

    Wesley Clark is at it again

    Retired General Wesley Clark, beneficiary of funding from George Soros, attacks Senator Joe Lieberman and is once again using cute language to barely disguise ugly charges. First he muttered darkly in code ("New York money men"), alluding t...

  • June 13, 2007

    News from Egypt

    Sweetness & Light draws our attention to a MEMRI dispatch explaining a serious dispute in Egypt among the holy men of Islam: on drinking the Prophet's urine (or any other excretions) . From L. Azuri's article for MEMRI: An uproar in the Egyp...

  • June 13, 2007

    Berkeley and the homeless

    Even Berkeley has had it with street people, at least the aggressive and disruptive ones. Last night the City Council passed 9-0  the Public Commons for Everyone Initiative. The Initiative is a far reaching set of changes that empower the police...

  • June 12, 2007

    No Grand Schemes

    President Bush is threatening to revive the failed comprehensive immigration bill in "improved" form. He is wasting his and our time. No amount of improving can make the comprehensive approach the best path for America to solve its immigrat...

  • June 12, 2007

    Loose lips

    Gabriel Schoenfeld, writing in the Contentions blog at Commentary, wonders if leaked information published in the Los Angeles Times had anything to do with the arrest of 4 Iranian-Americans currently being held in Iran. He writes: Leaks of vital U.S....

  • June 12, 2007

    Inside the Obama machine

    Mike Dorning and Christi Parsons of the Chicago Tribune's Washington Bureau, write a fascinating account of the inside workings of the Barack Obama political machine since the Senator took office. This is first rate journalism, honest and unbiased as...

  • June 12, 2007

    Approval of Congress-lowest in a decade

    According to a new Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg poll,Just 27% of Americans now approve of the way Congress is doing its job, the poll found, down from 36% in January, when Democrats assumed control of the House and the Senate.Maybe, just maybe, C...

  • June 12, 2007

    The Obama brand

    Barack Obama is distancing himself from Tony Rezko, the Chicago developer under indictment. It looks a lot to me as though Obama played along with Rezko as would a creature inhabiting the Chicago political ecosystem. The problem is not that Obama was...

  • June 11, 2007

    Intelligence cooperation with Sudan

    Greg Miller and Josh Meyer of the Los Angeles Times reveal that the United States has been cooperating with the notorious government of Sudan, author of genocide in Darfur, using the steady flow of jihadists from Sudan to Iraq to insert agents among ...

  • June 11, 2007

    A 'relentlessly pro-American nation'

    Sheryl Gay Stolberg reveals a bit of attitude in today's article on the President's visit to Albania, which began this way: His poll numbers may be in the basement, but when he zipped through this small, relentlessly pro-American nation on Sunda...

  • June 11, 2007

    The obsession of the Times

    The New York Times is letting its obsessions bleed through its coverage with greater frequency. TV critic Alessandra Stanley, in a front page article on the final episode of the Sopranos, pronounces:The decline and fall of the Sopranos - Tony; his wi...

  • June 11, 2007

    Kazakhstan opens air route to Israel

    While Iran calls for Muslim nations to cut ties with Israel, Kazakhstan announces the beginning of direct air service between Almaty Airport and Ben Gurion Airport in Israel. Initially, the flight will run once a week, but is expected to increase to ...

  • June 11, 2007

    Bad Guy harmonic convergence

    Gateway Pundit draws out attention to the latest round of cozying up between Latin American Leftists and Radical Islam. Nicaragua's Ortega is being hosted by Ahmedinejad in Iran. The pictures alone are worth following the link. The only thing they ha...

  • June 10, 2007

    Hillary Clinton, neocon?

    Lefty Matthew Yglesias, blogging in The Atlantic, notes the ties between Haim Saban and Hillary that have troubled us so much, and which may be cooling. For Yglesias, Saban takes too seriously the threat of Ahmedinejad, the anti-Semitic madmen with n...

  • June 10, 2007

    Chicago Sun-Times column by Thomas Lifson

    The Chicago Sun-Times has run today a slightly edited version of my "Neglected Truths" article on immigration, which ran June 7. I am especially gratified to be sharing opinion column space with the great Mark Steyn in the Sunday Sun-Times....

  • June 9, 2007

    Hillary, the Hispanic vote and Univision

    Ed Lasky and I have been worrying about the close ties between Hillary Clinton and Haim Saban, a major investor in dominant Spanish language broadcaster Univision. Hillary. Clinton appears to be making a move to capture a large share of the Hispanic ...

  • June 9, 2007

    A respite for Libby

    Professor P.S. Ruckman of Rock Valley College has studied pardons, and wrote to David Frum of NRO about the extensive array of tools available to presidents seeking to avoid injustice through use of executive power as a check on the judiciary. Some h...

  • June 9, 2007

    One more reason to despise Jimmy Carter

    James Kirchik, writing in the Weekly Standard, reminds us of another foreign policy disaster, initiated by Jimmy Carter, with long-running horrendous consequences for the people forced to live under the rule of another leftist strongman Carter helped...

  • June 9, 2007

    Finkelstein denied tenure at DePaul

    AT has written extensively  about Norman Finkelstein and his quest for tenure at DePaul University, the nation's largest Catholic campus. It is a pleasure to report that Finkelstein has been denied tenure. The university avers that outside opini...

  • June 9, 2007

    Wine notes

    The news gets better and better for both the California and American wine industries, as reported in the San Francisco Chronicle:California wine sales in the U.S. reached an all-time high of 189 million cases in 2006, up 2 percent from 2005Okay, two ...

  • June 8, 2007

    Former Saudi US Ambassador named in Brit scandal

    Prince Bandar bin-Sultan, formerly the Saudi Ambassador to the United States and considered a power player near the top of the thousands of members of the Royal Family, has been named in a developing British scandal. The Los Angeles Times reports: Pr...

  • June 7, 2007

    The Neglected Truths of the Immigration Debate

    Most of the public debate over the immigration bill has taken place in a fantasy world where certain fairly immutable truths are blithely ignored. The vast gulf between the political elites and the bulk of the electorate is matched by the vast gulf b...

  • June 7, 2007

    How smart is Hillary?

    Our friends at Investor's Business Daily have been culling evidence from the two new books about the junior senator from New York on the question of her vaunted intelligence. IBD writes:Here's why this matters: Voters are supposed to want to ele...

  • June 6, 2007

    A typical British name - like Jack or Mohammed

    The U.K. Times reports that Mohammed, in all its variant spellings (Muhammad, Mohammad, etc.), is now the second most popular boys' name in Britain for newborns, and expected to overtake Jack as number one this year.Demography is destiny. If I rememb...

  • June 6, 2007

    Your taxes at work (updated)

    Ann Gearan, AP diplomatic writer, reports thatThe government's Arabic-language satellite television network is seeking an outside review after recent broadcasts that included broadsides and inflammatory language referring to Israel or Jews.The excuse...

  • June 5, 2007

    A mission critical post at the CIA is open

    Now that Valerie Plame has left the CIA and wants to publish a book over the Agency's objections, the CIA is recruiting for another "mission critical" post and warns applicants to keep it hush-hush. Gabriel Schoenfeld of Commentary spotted ...

  • June 5, 2007

    Stanford punishes Berkeley football fans

    I was one of many Bay Area residents shocked when Stanford announced plans to downsize its football stadium from a seating capacity of 85,000 to about 50,000, an "improvement" that was finished in time for last year's football season. To be...

  • June 5, 2007

    Judge Walton's last decision in the Libby Case

    Following the outrageous sentence of 30 months dealt to Scooter Libby, Judge Walton is allowing him to remain free - for a short while. AP reports:Walton did not set a date for Libby to report to prison. Though he saw no reason to let Libby remain fr...

  • June 5, 2007

    Larry and Laurie David said to be divorcing

    A couple of years ago, I wrote, "Redeeming Larry David from his wife's wacky politics is a life's mission for me."But I don't wish to celebrate the apparent end of the marriage of Larry and Laurie David, as reported  by gossip web...

  • June 4, 2007

    Save this blogger

    Rick Moran, one of the finest writers on the web, familiar to AT readers as one of our frequent contributors, is facing a financial crisis that will force him to stop publishing his excellent website Right Wing Nuthouse and return to 60 hour work wee...

  • June 3, 2007

    Thousands hurt as peace-loving youths protest the G-8

    Sweetness & Light posts photos of the gentle souls proclaiming their love for peace in Germany by waving flags with the face of mass murder Che Guevara, burning cars, and violently disrupting life. "Can't stop kaos," reads one bannerThe...

  • June 2, 2007

    Jazz Succumbs to Racism

    Jazz is the great cultural achievement of America where blacks took a leading role as creators and practitioners, and where blacks and whites and eventually Asians, Latinos, and well, everyone, performed and listened in harmony (literally and fi...

  • June 2, 2007

    The Dow Jones Islamic Index is Sharia-compliant

    Now that Dow Jones, publisher of the Wall Street Journal, may be sold to Rupert Murdoch's New Corporation, which has a very significant Saudi shareholder in the person of  Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal, it is worthwhile looking at the practice...

  • June 1, 2007

    Blacks, Hispanics and the Congressional Black Caucus

    LaShawn Barber addresses the papering over of the fault line in the Democrats' base that we have been looking at, most recently in today's Ed Lasky article: the dramatic conflict of interest between blacks and Hispanics over immigration. Drawing on t...

  • June 1, 2007

    AQ faces insurgency in Baghdad

    Ray Robison's thesis that jihad is fracturing gains more support in a report from the Washington Post:Sunni residents of a west Baghdad neighborhood used assault rifles and a roadside bomb to battle the Sunni insurgent group al-Qaeda in Iraq this wee...

  • June 1, 2007

    The most dangerous demographic segment

    Der Spiegel highlights another instance of the dangers inherent in a population of unattached young males unable to find suitable young females to marry them and thereby civilize their testosterone-fired energies:A new study has found that many more ...

  • June 1, 2007

    Too many white interlopers in jazz?

    Angry accusations of racism are being hurled at none other than Berkeley, California.  Not "enough" black jazz musicians have been invited to the city's Downtown Jazz Festival, you see, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. Even wo...

  • May 31, 2007

    Lou Dobbs, nutjob

    Several readers wrote in criticizing me when I called Lou Dobbs a "nutjob" recently. I am going to have to check the weather reports in Hell, where I expect some of the more violent deceased hockey players are strapping on their skates, bec...

  • May 31, 2007

    Mullahs fear a 'velvet revolution'

    Mehdi Khalaji of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy has written a highly encouraging essay on the fragility of the mullahs' regime. In his second decade of leadership, Khamenei is living in fear of just such a velvet revolution. Whereas hi...

  • May 31, 2007

    Fracturing the jihad

    A. Jacksonian offers an extensive commentary on Ray Robison's article today on the signs of fracture with the johad in Afghanistan/Pakistan and Iraq. The commentary is lengthy and rich with links to detailed information on the people and issues Ray c...

  • May 30, 2007

    The 'Youth Bulge'

    No, this is not an item about childhood obesity, it is about violence and terror. A demographic bulge of young males yields increased levels of violence, and in the right ideological circumstances, terror. This is the thesis of German sociologist Gun...

  • May 30, 2007

    Hillary and the Hispanics

    One of the major fault lines within the Democrats' constituency is the latent hostility between blacks and Hispanics. The media likes to pretend that only Republicans are capable of internal splits, and when compounded with the PC notion that all min...

  • May 30, 2007

    Malaysia's odd definition of freedom of worship

    Malaysia's Supreme Court has held that a woman who converted from Islam to Christianity cannot be officially recognized as a Christian, despite a constitution which guarantees the freedom of worship. The BBC reports:A three-judge panel ruled tha...

  • May 29, 2007

    Obama has it both ways

    Barack Obama hs made a speciality of having it both wasy: actring cynically while denouncing cynicism. So far, his Teflon coating has shielded him from any accountability in the mainstream media. The latest example was yesterday. Obama said Memorial ...

  • May 29, 2007

    Chavez silences opposition

    Hugo Chavez of Venezuela descends further down the vortex of communist totalitarianism. Anyone paying attention to events in Venezuela realizes that seizing land for distribution to cronies, buddying up with the likes of Castro and Ahmedinejad, and b...

  • May 29, 2007

    Jihad-by-lawsuit fails in Boston

    The American system of litigation, allowing anyone to sue anyone for anything, thereby inflicting major costs (for legal counsel and time) on any enemy, is an open invitation to legal thuggery by the wealthy. Proposals to implement the English system...

  • May 28, 2007

    I thought she was better than this....

    I have always held Linda Chavez in high regard. But this kind, rational, and (until now) honest commentator, has fallen in my estimation by resorting to scurrilous argument in favor of the deeply flawed immigration "compromise."  Of co...

  • May 26, 2007

    The most expensive ex-president ever

    Bookworm catches ex-president Clinton (I love that phrase, especially the first syllable) shamelessly seeking a lavish taxpayer subsidy for his career as an ex-president, one which has proven extraordinarily lucrative (for him, not for those of us su...

  • May 26, 2007

    Iberia Airlines pulls 'racist, sexist' ad (major update)

    YouTube brings us an ad for Iberia.com, the website of Iberia Airlines of Spain, that has been pulled by the airline after criticism from feminist groups that it was racists and sexist, in effect telling European males that Iberia can take them to Ha...

  • May 25, 2007

    Gaza gas for Israel

    No, not poison gas or tear gas, but actual useful, valuable natural gas. There's an old joke about Moses leading the Jewish people to one spot in the Middle East with no oil deposits, which recently got a lot more bite to it by the discovery and pend...

  • May 25, 2007

    Economic chaos looms in Iran

    The left wing UK Guardian reports  that Iran's economy is facing severe difficulty, as President Ahmadinejad ham-handedly (oops! I mean mutton-handedly) intervenes in the economy, defying the law of supply and demand, in addition to sharia law. ...

  • May 25, 2007

    Raider Nation ultra-nationalism

    When the City of Oakland and Alameda County (I live in Alameda County) agreed to pay the Oakland Raiders millions of dollars to return to the Bay Area, I was disgusted by the handout, and remain resentful of the yearly payment of my tax money to...

  • May 24, 2007

    Eating our own

    A very disturbing story comes from NewsMax, by Phil Brennan.A heroic Marine Lt. Colonel called by his superiors "a superb leader, who knows his men, knows the enemy, knows his business," is facing charges sparked by specious TIME  Maga...

  • May 24, 2007

    CAIR in Crisis?

    Our contributor Patrick Poole has taken a close look at CAIR's recently-published annual report and sees signs of an organization in steep decline. An excerpt from hsi article today on Frontpagemag.com:But their new 2006 Annual Report and their recen...

  • May 24, 2007

    Young American Muslims no cause for worry?

    Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN) is not alarmed at the Pew Research data showing one in four young Muslim-Americans supports suicide attacks.  ABC News reports:"It's not an alarm. Nothing to be alarmed about," Ellison said, "although it ...

  • May 24, 2007

    Migden changes her story

    Carole Migden, the powerful head of the Democrat caucus in the California State Senate, has changed her story about the series of accidents she caused (the number has climbed from two to three in one day)  over a 20 mile stretch of busy fre...

  • May 23, 2007

    Birth control riots in China

    I have been warning for years of the brittleness of the regime in China, despite (actually because of) its seemingly limitless autocratic power. While democratic India has trouble finding land for new steel mills and airports, roads and refineries, a...

  • May 23, 2007

    Michelle Obama resigns lucrative directorship

    Last year we noted the hypocrisy of Michelle Obama serving on the board of Tree House Foods, whose major customer is Wal-Mart, while her husband pandered to unions in their campaign against the giant retailer that has improved the lives of low income...

  • May 23, 2007

    The arrogance of (Democrat) power

    Carole Migden is one of the most powerful people in California, and she knows it. The lesbian activist (author of the state's original domestic partners act, "married" in a faux ceremony conducted by SF mayor Gavin Newsom) is chair of the m...

  • May 23, 2007

    Latest evidence of global warming scam (updated)

    Global warming alarmists love to point to Greenland and Europe, where ice covers and glaciers are receding, as evidence of their hypothesis. Nancy Pelosi is even making a showboating trip to Greenland. She ought instead to head south, that is if she ...

  • May 22, 2007

    Our French and Canadian friends

    Rachel Marsden, a Canadian journalist who appears on Fox News Channel quite often, makes an important point: it is time for American conservatives to revise their views of France (and Canada, too) and stop the bashing.  Both countries are led by...

  • May 22, 2007

    Paying rent for the dead in Berkeley

    For those of us in the business of highlighting the absurdities and outrages of the Left, Berkeley, California is the gift that keeps on giving. Now the city's Housing Department has now been shown to have been paying the rent for at least 15 dead te...

  • May 21, 2007

    Apologies and "reparations" for slavery

    The transparent ploy of demanding apologies for slavery from people who weren't born, and many of whose ancestors weren't even Americans  at the time of slavery, is merely a prelude to the demand for "reparations," aka government hando...

  • May 21, 2007

    The hole in the news hole

    The San Francisco Chronicle is laying off a full one quarter of its newsroom staff, according to the Los Angeles Times. About 80 union members and 20 management employees will lose their jobs, reducing the Chronicle's editorial staff to about 300. Th...

  • May 20, 2007

    The Ham Sandwich Hate Crime?

    When is a failure to respect the deep religious beliefs of a group regarded as a hate crime? In the state of Maine, we have an answer, one that ought to provoke outrage. In today's America, some groups are more equal than others, and media and local ...

  • May 20, 2007

    More Obama hypocrisy

    Call me a cynic, but what word other than "hypocrite" is appropriate for a candidate who goes to Detroit to berate the car companies for selling gas guzzlers (incorrectly citing supposed average fuel economy in Japan), yet drives a V-8 hemi...

  • May 20, 2007

    Selective sensitivity

    Ted Byfield, columnist for the Calgary Sun (probably my favorite newspaper in North America), points to a Canadian analogue for the selective sensitivity toward religions demonstrated in Lewiston, Maine. It seems that the taxpayer-owned and supported...

  • May 19, 2007

    Afghanistan and Iraq compared

    The Autonomist presents a post by anonymous author Orangeducks, who has worked as a contractor in both Iraq and Afghanistan, comparing his experiences in the two countries.  It is a highly personal perspective, one that pulls no punches in the n...

  • May 18, 2007

    Liberals demean blacks again

    The recent release of census figures divided by race, with the eye-catching datum that 100 million Americans now are racial "minorities", has revealed a host of assumptions on the part of liberal journalists. Of course the by-now widely-use...

  • May 18, 2007

    Obama's charity

    Last year Barack and Michelle Obama earned almost a million dollars and donated $60,000 (6%) of their income to charity. Not quite tithing in the face of exceptional prosperity, but nonetheless commendable charity. Judging by this Los Angeles Times r...

  • May 18, 2007

    Sgt. Rafael Peralta, American hero

    Saturday at 7 PM Eastern Time, the History Channel (as well as History Channel en Español) will be premiering a documentary on Sgt. Rafael Peralta, a hero of the Battle of  Fallujah in 2004.  Sgt. Peralta gave his life in t...

  • May 15, 2007

    More NYT double standards (updated)

    Serge Schmemann writes something called an "editorial observer" piece for the New York Times, an essay obviously intended to portray new French president Nicolas Sarkozy in an unfavorable light. The piece is titled, "The New Frenc...

  • May 15, 2007

    Money-saving bulbs low energy bulbs? (updated)

    One of the several CFL light bulbs in my house stopped working last night. This is maybe the fourth or fifth CFL bulb in my house that has lasted less than a year, despite the claims of advocates that they have a longer life than incandescent bu...

  • May 14, 2007

    The Death of an Intellectual Giant

    Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. is no longer among us, having passed away at the age of 88. He may not have been a household name, but Al Chandler was one of those very rare intellectuals who made a positive difference in the way we understand and cope with ...

  • May 14, 2007

    Critical Mass again

    The charming bicycling militants at Critical Mass have been involved in yet another traffic incident strikingly similar to one which took place last month. Critical Mass claims to not be an organization, yet somehow spontaneously assembles a large gr...

  • May 14, 2007

    Noor and Soros in a tree...?

    Normally we don't go in for celebrity gossip items here at American Thinker, but this alleged romantic pairing is a different order of rumor. From Rush & Molloy  of the New York Daily News:As they get ready to co-chair a D.C. fund-raiser for...

  • May 14, 2007

    Obama and prime time (continued)

    Senator Obama still isn't ready. Consider this exchange from the Stephanopoulos Sunday show highlighted by Tom Bevan of Real Clear Politics:  Stephanopoulos: You've also said that with Social Security everything should be on the table. Obam...

  • May 13, 2007

    Obama is not ready for prime time

    With almost 18 months left until the general election, it is becoming painfully obvious to those who look through the media smokescreen that Barack Obama is not ready for prime time. A nice smile, two autobiographical and admittedly not strictly fact...

  • May 12, 2007

    Opening a racial Pandora's Box in California

    Yesterday, America moved one baby step closer to apartheid, a society in which racial groups are officially considered unequal and consigned to their own separate spheres under the law. California's supreme court granted a temporary stay in a murder ...

  • May 12, 2007

    Make mine a root canal

    The Calgary Sun reports that Canadians would choose a root canal over a tax audit, if able to choose one and avoid the other:The Canadian Taxpayers Federation recently released the results of a survey asking Canadians if they prefer a root canal over...

  • May 11, 2007

    Greenie blowback: the mercury time bomb in your home

    Bookworm has been doing some research on what happens when you break one of those curly compact fluorescent bulbs. The ones with about 5 mg of highly poisonous mercury in them, the ones that we all may be forced to bring into our homes. It may not be...

  • May 10, 2007

    Kosovo and the War on Terror

    The arrest of the Ft. Dix Six has prompted a vigorous debate on America's Balkan policies, the war with Serbia over Kosovo independence, and the role of Albanians in global jihad. On one side, our contributor Patrick Poole, whose experiences in Alban...

  • May 10, 2007

    The world's true superpower? (updated)

    It appears that Disney has succeeded where the might of the United States has not: forcing Hamas, the terror organization/majority Palestinian party sworn to destroy Israel, to back down. From the AP's Mohammed Daraghmeh:Hamas militants have suspende...

  • May 10, 2007

    Never green enough

    Kevin Lunny thought he was doing the right thing when he bought the Drakes Bay Oyster Company off the Marin County coastline in Northern California. He spent hundreds of thousands of dollars fixing environmental concerns, and prides himself on a sust...

  • May 10, 2007

    French Babes for Sarkozy

    A.M. Mora y Leon, who contributes to both AT and Publius Pundit, has a wonderful post at Publius with photos of beautiful French women celebrating the victory of Nicolas Sarkozy. As is now widely known, Sarko actually carried both male and female vot...

  • May 10, 2007

    Heroes the media doesn't think are important

    Does the name Jim Gant ring a bell? If not, you have lots of company, and that is a shame. Major Jim Gant is a hero and a half.  Blackfive alerts us  to a man who serves as a model of bravery and compassion for everyone, military or civilia...

  • May 9, 2007

    Detroit continues its vector

    Pehaps no American city can match Detroit when it comes to losing population, destroying neighborhoods and creating an environment conducive to crime. Now the Detroit Free Press tells us that Detroit is taking decisive action: banning all forms of pr...

  • May 8, 2007

    The other France

    The Chirac presidency has taken an enormous toll on Franco-American relations. France is now actively despised by a substantial segment of the American public, regarded as a betrayer of trust, an ingrate and perfidious to the core. Of course, America...

  • May 7, 2007

    Death wish at the Star-Tribune

    James Lileks is an enormously talented and prolific newspaper columnist, blogger, and author, whose day job has been as a columnist for the Star-Tribune, the largest newspaper in Minnesota.  The blogosphere is now in a justifiable uproar over th...

  • May 6, 2007

    Iowahawk on the downfall of newspapers

    Iowahawk brilliantly satirizes the last half century of the American newspaper industry. Multiple follies on the part of the newspapering class are ridiculed, and the history of an industry ably encapsulated in a surprising format.  Drolly hilar...

  • May 5, 2007

    Cinco de Mayo

    Cinco de Mayo is one of the oddest of unofficial but important American holidays, commemorating a Mexican victory over French troops on Mexican soil.  Barely noticed in Mexico, it has become an enormous celebration of Mexican culture and hi...

  • May 3, 2007

    Steady state politics?

    Noting that Sarkozy's polling lead over Royal in France is considered a "large margin", the blog (new to me) Dr. Charlemagne's Woes posits an intriguing theory: "The 50/50 rule."It has to do with the scientific concept of a "...

  • May 2, 2007

    How the left argues

    Soros-funded Media Matters operates in essence a briefing organization, supplying left wing journalists and opinion leaders with talking points to discredit conservative media, especially talk show hosts, in a press release today. It was mass em...

  • May 1, 2007

    Obama snubs Black Caucus

    Senator Barack Obama has apparently failed to host a fundraiser or otherwise generate funds to support the PAC run by the Congressional Black Caucus. Alexander Bolton writes in The Hill,   Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) has failed to raise mone...

  • May 1, 2007

    The priorities of Human Rights Watch (updated)

    Muslim women are punished as adulterers after being raped. Darfurians are being slaughtered. Iran is cracking down on the way women dress. Homosexuals live in mortal peril throughout much the Islamic world. So what is Soros-funded Human Rights Watch ...

  • May 1, 2007

    Newspaper industry collapse intensifying

    The Audit Bureau of Circulation (ABC) has released the latest circulation numbers for big city dailies, and the news is almost uniformly bad for big newspaper publishers. The sole bright spot continues to be the New York Post, whose weekday circulati...

  • April 29, 2007

    SF Bay Area traffic nightmare (updated)

    Terrorists couldn't have picked a better spot. The San Francisco Bay Area faces months of horrible traffic disruption thanks to the explosion of a gasoline tanker truck at one of the worst spots imaginable, the so-called McArthur Maze where the Bay B...

  • April 27, 2007

    The UN at work

    Benny Avni of the New York Sun knows how to write a lede. For example, "Saudi Arabia, which does not allow women to drive or vote, says it has achieved ‘equality between the sexes.'"Saudi officials announced earlier this week that the...

  • April 25, 2007

    American Thinker returns

    After a battle lasting almost 24 hours, we have regained control of the domain http://www.americanthinker.com/, which was stripped from us unexpectedly yesterday. The details are complex, but all that really matters is that we are once again master o...

  • April 25, 2007

    Recovering Our Web Address

    Yesterday American Thinker suffered a temporary loss of control of our internet domain, http://www.americanthinker.com/. As a result, readers were unable to reach us, and we were unable to post new content to the site. The disruption lasted close to ...

  • April 24, 2007

    James Pinkerton on James Lewis

    James Pinkerton, Newsday columnist and Fox News contributor, picks up on James Lewis' coverage  of the English Department at Virginia Tech, and its possible influence on the hatreds of Cho. From his Newsday column:Lewis is on to something here. ...

  • April 24, 2007

    Life imitates American Thinker

    Writing in the subscription-only Political Diary at Opinionjournal.com, John Fund recounts a moment from the weekend's White House Correspondents' Dinner that suggests our own J. Peter Mulhern is once again way ahead of the pack. Last month, Peter wr...

  • April 24, 2007

    Germans and the Jews

    John Rosenthal, writing in World Politics Watch, debunks a recent study from Germany's prestigious Bertelsmann Foundation claiming that German antisemitism is on the decline. The picture he paints is a disturbing one, "secondary" antisemiti...

  • April 24, 2007

    Please stand by

    Some readers have had or will have difficulty reaching our website over the next few days. Our control over our domain has been affected by the error of another company. We are working to fully resolve the problem. Please bear with us, and rest assur...

  • April 23, 2007

    Hedge Fund John

    John Edwards, man of the people, turns out to be also a man of the hedge funds.  John Solomon and Alec MacGillis, writing in the Washington Post, expose his ties to one of those bastions of the wealthy, avoiding taxes by offshore registration, a...

  • April 23, 2007

    Hailing a hero

    Spc. Micheaux Sanders is one of the heroes of Iraq, and Investors Business Daily paints a portrait of the warrior and his valor, and gives us insight into the challenges our troops face in Baghdad. Sanders' tank pushed down the street between low-slu...

  • April 19, 2007

    New York Times Company earnings down again

    The string of bad business news for the New York Times Company and its shareholders grows longer and longer with each passing quarter. First quarter earnings were down a whopping 26%, propelled by trouble in the advertising print market, write-offs f...

  • April 17, 2007

    Virginia Tech news via Israeli media

    The Jerusalem Post offers information we haven't seen anywhere in the United States media, on a heroic professor from Israel who died protecting his students from the gunman at Virginia Tech.As Jews worldwide honored on Monday the memory of those who...

  • April 17, 2007

    The money primary

    Detailed data has been released on first quarter contributions to Clinton and Obama. Dick Morris goes for the meaningful minutiae, explaining Obama's strengthening hand. Morris is very consistent with the observations Richard Baehr has made of the ra...

  • April 15, 2007

    Europe -- Your Name is Cowardice

    That's the title of a document written by Mathias Dapfner, CEO of the massive German publishing house Axel Springer (AG) and published in Germany's largest newspaper Die Welt. Our contributor Paul Jackson calls attention to this document, remark...

  • April 15, 2007

    Critic of imams beaten senseless (updated)

    A Norwegian of Somali origin, known widely in Norway as a critic of female circumcision and the imams supporting it, was beaten senseless. The Aftenposten of Oslo reports (via Ummah News Links):"I was terrified. While I lay on the pavement they ...

  • April 15, 2007

    Who gets charged when "crying wolf" kills?

    Merv at Prairie Pundit points to a coming trial in Texas of a woman on chargesof mannslaughter for falsely crying rape. From AP:Darrell Roberson came home from a card game late one night to find his wife rolling around with another man in a pickup in...

  • April 14, 2007

    Scheduled airing of Red Lights movie

    Either I made a mistake reading the movie schedule earlier this week, or the Sundance Channel has re-scheduled its showing of the film Red Lights, which I see as an allegory about French fear of the violent Muslim young male population. The film...

  • April 14, 2007

    A Palestinian voice the MSM won't present

     Rami Abdulraheem, the Palestinian refugee whose letter we published has, via AT, been in touch with the website Zionism on the Web, which has published a longer essay from him. Zionists and Palestinians in dialogue! Meanwhile, back in Rami's ol...

  • April 13, 2007

    Fantasy Manhood from France

    Many Americans disdain French masculinity. Rightly or wrongly, they see France as poulet territoire, ready to partner with rogue regimes and surrender to the next semi-serious invader. The spectacle of Muslim youth gangs roaming the housing estates a...

  • April 13, 2007

    Dems will talk to dictators but not appear on Fox News

    E.J. Dionne pens an approving essay about Democrats who boycott Fox News for its sin of not being as liberal as the rest of the television news industry. Of course in E.J.'s universe FNC broadcasts "right-tilting programming" while CBSNBCAB...

  • April 13, 2007

    Obama: A long and careful plan

    The Chicago Tribune continues to investigate Barrack Obama's background, as the candidate who burst on the presidential nominating process with a sudden success rarely seen, proves to be the product of a well-laid plan. Today's article looks at the c...

  • April 13, 2007

    Duke fallout

    The media in general, like much of the Duke faculty, saw white frat boys and just knew what happened. Two of the worst examples were Nancy Grace of Headline News and Duff Wilson of the New York Times. Both have a lot to answer for.John Stewart of Com...

  • April 13, 2007

    Terry Moran and the class warfare theory

    Bookworm filets Terry Moran's controversial ABC News blog post sneering at the Duke 3. She boils down his argument to its pure essence: ...the Duke LaCrosse players are not nice people, so they shouldn't complain about having major criminal charges l...

  • April 12, 2007

    The Finkelstein tenure case

    Norman Finkelstein, a political science professor at DePaul University, is much-read and admired in Arab and leftist circles. This year he faces a tenure decision, and it has generated a lot of interest nationally and internationally. Alan Dershowitz...

  • April 11, 2007

    Richard Baehr quoted in the NYT

    The New York Times has finally quoted Richard Baehr, AT's chief political correspondent. The subject? Not the race for the GOP nomination or Middle East policy, but sports. Specifically, the pending sale of the Chicago Cubs, a subject in which he has...

  • April 11, 2007

    More bias at PBS

    In what appears to be a case of outrageous censorship by publicly-funded PBS, a documentary film, prepared by a partnership including the estimable Frank Gaffney, on the struggle between moderate and radical Muslims has been deep-sixed. We print belo...

  • April 10, 2007

    What the...?

    Maybe it is just me, but I feel almost punched in the gut reading the story of Marines in dress uniform being kicked out of a Target store because they were suspected of recruiting! Gateway Pundit brings us the story originally published in the Pilot...

  • April 9, 2007

    An inconvenient truth for the American left

    There is a lot the media refuse to tell Americans about the way the war on terror is going. But one of the dirtiest of the dirty little secrets is that the local left in countries like Iraq, Iran, and Afghanistan has turned against the American left,...

  • April 9, 2007

    How much are top newspapers worth?

    The website BizzyBlog does a rough calculation of the actual price being paid for the newspapers owned by the Tribune Company, if real estate billionaire Sam Zell's complex offer to buy the company in partnership with an employee ESOP goes through. T...

  • April 9, 2007

    Appalling bigotry

    Hugh Hewitt delivers a well-deserved slap-down to a New York Times op-ed  on the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and Mitt Romney. Among the reasons Americans distrust the Mormon church is Mormon clannishness. Because every worthy Mor...

  • April 8, 2007

    Slouching toward a new Dark Age

    We noted with great displeasure last week the decision by at least some UK schools to stop teaching about Holocaust and other sensitive topics like the Crusades because it might contradict what the students learn at home. Today in the New York Post, ...

  • April 8, 2007

    An inconvenient question for San Francisco (updated)

    Reader Sue K.  made a superb point about the visit of the French warship Prairial to San Francisco, which I mentioned yesterday. I wish I had made it myself. But I can pass it on to readers:Heh.  So American "warships" are not wel...

  • April 7, 2007

    Showing the Tricolor flag

    San Francisco is hosting  a French warship over the holiday weekend. The visit is entirely friendly, of course. From the San Francisco Chronicle:A small French warship from exotic places dropped by San Francisco on Thursday for a week's visit on...

  • April 7, 2007

    Passover tips from Japan (updated)

    There are a number of varieties of Japanese commercial television programming that seem almost unthinkable on an American screen. One of them is represented by this video showing how Matzoth crackers, the traditional unleavened bread of the Passover ...

  • April 7, 2007

    The other troubled Airbus model

    While Airbus struggles with the financial and technological consequences of its A380 superjumbo program, the company also faces potentially serious trouble with its next-largest airliner, the four-engine wide body A340-600. As American Thinker has pr...

  • April 6, 2007

    How leftists exploit grief over troop casualties

    At first glance, the home page for the "Iraq Veterans Memorial" looks like a genuinely respectful site honoring the troops.The Iraq Veterans Memorial is an online war memorial that honors the members of the U.S. armed forces who have lost t...

  • April 6, 2007

    Prosecute Pelosi's crime (updated)

    Robert F. Turner is a heavyweight* in the world of law and diplomacy, and he thinks Nancy Pelosi may have committed a felony violation of the Logan Act in her trip to Damascus.  In a column in the of the Wall Street Journal website (just posted ...

  • April 6, 2007

    An Arab-American rebukes Pelosi

    Emilio Dabaul, an Arab-American with relatives in Syria, writes a superb rebuke to Nancy Pelosi on the website of the American Congress for Truth.  This one is a must-read, and I take off my hat to Mr. Dabaul and ACT for a piece that is logical,...

  • April 5, 2007

    The politics of pettiness

    Democrats, led by John Kerry, are having a continuing hissy fit over President Bush's recess appointment of Sam Fox, a wealthy GOP donor, as his ambassador to Belgium. Such ambassadorships have long been used to reward political friends by both Democ...

  • April 5, 2007

    Warfare on the Streets of San Francisco (updated)

    One of many reasons I rarely drive across the Bay Bridge into San Francisco is the existence of Critical Mass, a group (that claims it is not an organization) which stages monthly mass bicycle rides through the streets, forcing all other traffic to s...

  • April 5, 2007

    The friends of Nancy Pelosi (updated)

    Ynet News went right ahead and published the politically incorrect headline: "Terrorists endorse Pelosi's ‘good policy of dialogue'. That just about sums up the downside of the Speaker's clumsy attempt at usurping diplomacy from the execut...

  • April 4, 2007

    AT author Gerd Schroeder TV interview

    Gerd Schroeder, a Major in the United States Army and American Thinker contributor, will be interviewed today (Wednesday, April 4) on the Glenn Beck Show on CNN Headline News. The subject will be his AT article "When the Money Runs Out," de...

  • April 3, 2007

    French train breaks speed record

    For all the troubles of Airbus, the French do trains very well indeed. A specially-outfitted TGV train set has broken the world speed record for railroads, reaching 357.2 miles per hour on a stretch of track in eastern France.Thirty years ago, the Fr...

  • April 3, 2007

    The WaPo's front page propaganda

    The Washington Post gives front page treatment today to a propagandistic "news" article  by Peter Eisner on the forged letter that is falsely claimed to have played a leading role in leading the United States into war with Iraq.  ...

  • April 3, 2007

    What would Jesus tax?

    Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich wants to raise taxes. Big time. No less than $7 billion, ostensibly to fund education and health care. But of course, he does not want voters to blame him for increased tax bills, so he instead is pushing one of the ...

  • April 2, 2007

    China's espionage

    While America is preoccupied with the war on terror, concentrating intelligence and counter-intelligence  resources on Islamic targets, China remains actively engaged in stealing defense secrets, particularly technology. That's the picture paint...

  • April 2, 2007

    "Push Israel"

    That's the editorial advice of the Boston Globe, owned by the New York Times, with regard to the resurrected Saudi peace plan. Of course, the plan requires Israel to allow 4 generations of Palestinians born in other countries to "return" to...

  • April 2, 2007

    Learning to love Quebec nationalism

    Since the 1960s, Quebec has seemed a rather tragic place to me, one that has lost much of the magic it once enjoyed. The rise of Francophone nationalism, at its extreme using kidnapping and assassination in the early days to demand the "liberati...

  • April 2, 2007

    The serious version

    Janet Ellen Levy, whose April Fools' Day satire "Send me to GITMO!" ran on American Thinker yesterday, has a serious article today on Front Page Magazine reporting on her trip there. There is a lot of detail, and it is well worth a read. ...

  • April 2, 2007

    The Christian terror threat to America's children

    I don't know whether to guffaw or vomit. It is vital that we reckon with the probabtiltiy of a terror attack on our schools.  But school officials of Burlington Township, NJ are planning a terrorism drill with the gumen role-playing,a right-wing...

  • April 1, 2007

    UK schools pander to prejudice and ignorance

    British schools are avoiding "controversial" subjects like the Holocaust, the Crusades, and the salve trade because they might contradict what children learn in their homes, or because they might cause negative emotional reactions by some. ...

  • April 1, 2007

    The perils of boilerplate leftism

    Joseph Massad is a member in good standing of the Columbia University Middle Eastern Studies faculty, teaching Modern Arab Politics and Intellectual History. He is up for tenure soon, by the way Just for April Fools' Day fun, we took one of his ...

  • March 31, 2007

    She forgot to learn Hebrew?

    Columbia University's Middle Eastern Studies faculty, once the home of the notorious Edward Said, has become dominated by politicized "scholars" and has been subject of much controversy over classroom indoctrination. Particularly controvers...

  • March 31, 2007

    Michael Crichton on GWT orthodoxy

    The Daily Ablution publishes an interview with Michael Crichton, certifiable genius and global warming skeptic.  I am proud that his position seems to mirror mine rather closely. He is struck most powerfully by that which bothers me the most:How...

  • March 31, 2007

    How low can the UN go? (updated)

    Yesterday, the UN Human Rights Commission pushed through a resolution demanding a global prohibition on the public defamation of religion. Lest there be any doubt about which religion they are concerned with, the only religion mentioned in the resolu...

  • March 31, 2007

    The Gaza sewage flood

    That sewage problem in Gaza this week, when raw sewage flooded from a broken embankment and killed five people, has tugged on the world's heartstrings. Of course Israel was blamed by many.Sweetness & Light, however, excavated the news of the past...

  • March 30, 2007

    Obama, the cynical poseur

     Barack Obama, who poses as an enemy of cynicism, is outdoing even Hillary in his cynical use of lobbyists, as detailed in this article in The Hill, reported by Alexander Bolton.Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) is benefiting from the support of w...

  • March 29, 2007

    Two hours?

    Houston, we have a problem. A city known for getting things done is having difficulties with the basics these days. Now run by Democrats, the city is currently seeing crime skyrocket, with a police response that seems inadequate. Consider this, via t...

  • March 29, 2007

    More than symbolism

    While the Democratic majority in Congress seems to treat Iraq as a symbol, real people's lives are on the line. Air Force Major C. L. Lucas is a Louisiana native, and was not pleased with the vote of Senator Mary Landrieu in support of the Democrats'...

  • March 29, 2007

    Law & order, Japanese style (updated)

    Bruce Wallace of the Los Angeles Times writes an amusing story of his experience in Tokyo when his clunky, cheap bicycle was stolen. When a drunk stole his bike, the police took the crime seriously. Very seriously indeed; up to and including staking ...

  • March 29, 2007

    Circumcision touted as AIDS preventative

    The San Francisco Chronicle reports that circumcision has been shown to reduce to probability of AIDS infection by as much as 60% in males. U.N. health authorities officially endorsed circumcision Wednesday as an effective means of curbing the spread...

  • March 28, 2007

    The Sarkozy intifada?

    The first round of voting in the French presidential election looms on April 22. One of the three leading candidates, Nicolas Sarkozy, has been blunt about the need to preserve French culture, has called Muslim "youth" rioters "scum...

  • March 28, 2007

    Unbridled academic arrogance

    The University of California is preparing to ignore the recommendation of the statutory body charged with passing on proposals for expansion of state-funded higher education, and press ahead with an unneeded new law school, for the University of Cali...

  • March 28, 2007

    Radical Islam - the lessons from anti-communism

    The RAND Corporation, a think tank that was influential in anti-communist strategy, has issued a report  on the lessons to be applied to the struggles against radical Islam."The struggle in much of the Muslim world today is a war of ideas,...

  • March 28, 2007

    Has a limit been reached?

    Many elites in the United States and Europe continue to behave as pre-emptive Dhimmis, submitting to demands for the application of Shari'a law in their countries. Think of the Metropolitan Airports Commission in Minneapolis-St. Paul, at first planni...

  • March 28, 2007

    Bullying from Turkey

    We are now quite used to being told by Muslim countries how we should conduct ourselves at home. Don't even think about running cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, though depictions of Jews as apes and pigs are commonplace in Islamic countries, for ins...

  • March 28, 2007

    A moderate Arab voice

    The estimable MEMRI blog brings us news of an Arabic language commentary in the London daily, Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, by moderate scholar Dr. Mamoun Fandy. In he decries the arab world's approach to the Palestinian issue as having drained the Arab world o...

  • March 27, 2007

    Herouxville, Quebec

    The town of Herouxville, Quebec, which gained notoriety by asking that recent immigrants adapt to local ways rather than vice versa, has established an English language website, seeking support for its policies, which have been denounced as racist. A...

  • March 27, 2007

    Leave no terror enabler behind

    As a recovering academic I have fairly close knowledge of hiring practices in higher education. In many, many fields, jobs are vastly outnumbered by candidates. After all, getting paid to study and research a subject you love is a pretty sweet deal. ...

  • March 27, 2007

    Flu season (continued)

    Discomfiting news via the Houston Chronicle: A group of sick passengers aboard a Continental Airlines flight from Hong Kong to Newark on Monday has prompted an investigation by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control. [....]Houston-based Continental sai...

  • March 27, 2007

    Chance Gardner on health care

    Barack Obama continues to remind us of the character Chance Garner in the movie (and earlier Jerzy Kosinski novel) Being There. People just project whatever they seek on a blank slate that doesn't get much filling in. Here is Chance Gardner on h...

  • March 26, 2007

    Bill Maher and Rosie O'Donnell

    Noel Sheppard thinks Bill Maher has become the Rosie O'Donnell of cable TV, with a few more IQ points and better clothes. I never watch either of them, but I will take Noel's word for it. Lately it seems that HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher...

  • March 26, 2007

    Hugo Chavez pushes "collective property"

    On his regular Sunday television show "Hello, President" Hugo Chavez announced he is pushing forward with his plan to seize rural lands he considers "idle." According to AP, he told Venezuelans that... the government was "adv...

  • March 26, 2007

    NYT: 150 years of global warming and cooling

    Noel Sheppard has collected New York Times articles from the past 150 years on climate change. Of one sort or another. It does seem as though people really like to talk about the weather changing. Only recently, hwoever, has the conceit arisen that w...

  • March 25, 2007

    A world without America

    A group called BritainandAmerica.org has produced a television commercial on the now-familiar themse of "a world without [fill-in... ]" It is very professionally and cleverly done (I like the hairstyles on the TV commentators from vari...

  • March 24, 2007

    Email issues resolved

    With thanks to those who worked very hard to get us up on running on an entirely new server, we are now back to more or less normal email service. There will be some continuing disruption while the new server propagates (as it is known), so please ha...

  • March 24, 2007

    The face of the antiwar movement (updated)

    Our contributor Rocco DiPippo has walked the walk in Iraq. He got ahold of pictures from last weekend's anti-war rallies, some of them from San Francisco and Portland (which seem to be competing with Seattle for wackiest city honors), and added some ...

  • March 24, 2007

    Carbon dioxide levels in history

    One of the pillars of the anthrpogenic global warming theorists is that CO2 levels were fairly  constant until fossil fuel burning changed everything. The Astute Bloggers point us to a paper published in the journal Energy and Environment, demon...

  • March 24, 2007

    A mind is a terrible thing to waste

    Sean Penn, who used to make good movies, and Barbara Lee, Congresswoman from Berkeley, addressed a "teach in" today at the Grand Lake Theatre, an old movie palace in Oakland. Penn was unable to summon rhetorical power beyond "Take this...

  • March 23, 2007

    Email disruption

    American Thinker's email server has come under a DDos (distributed denial of service) attack, and is no longer functional. The attack began Thursday evening, and continues. Until we are able to make alternative arrangements, we will not be able to re...

  • March 23, 2007

    Obama's pastor

    Manya Brachear of the Chicago Tribune has a blog hosted by the paper called The Seeker. In it yesterday, she covered some very interesting interactions between the press and  Barack Obama's spiritual mentor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Jr., whose Trin...

  • March 23, 2007

    Desperate Times at the NYT

    The drama at the New York Times Company just got a lot more interesting. In the face of declining revenues and profits, reported earlier this week, the company announced yesterday that it would increase its dividend by almost a third (31%), from 17.5...

  • March 22, 2007

    Oil pipeline to counter Iran's trump card

    As much as 6.5 million barrels per day of Gulf oil would be routed around the Strait of Hormuz by two newly-announced pipelines. Although barely noted by the world's press, this development has extremely important strategic implications for the handl...

  • March 22, 2007

    Censoring the internet

    The rise of the new media has already had profound political consequences. And it has provoked a reaction from the left, upset that its near-monopoly has been broken. When awkward questions are raised by internet sites like Powerline and Little Green...

  • March 22, 2007

    Sharia law used in German court?

    Der Spiegel reports, via Ummah News Links, on a disturbing ruling in Germany, where the judge cites a passage in the Koran that many Muslims believe justifies wife-beating. The case involves a Moroccan couple living in Germany.Cultural sensitivity is...

  • March 22, 2007

    Hedge funds, market risks, and James Cramer

    Noel Sheppard of Newsbusters raises very important questions about the major media ignoring a revelatory disclosure by CNBC host and market guru James Cramer, a former hedge fund manager himself.In an interview with TheStreet.com TV, Cramer ...told T...

  • March 22, 2007

    Tough Times at the Times

    Pinch Sulzberger, publisher of the New York Times and CEO of the New York Times Company, must be feeling pretty uncomfortable these days. His strategy to overcome the falling fortunes of the New York Times Company is simply not working well enou...

  • March 21, 2007

    Not progressive at all

    As a companion to Henry Wickham's article today on the term progressive, let me offer a few thoughts from 2004.The word 'liberal' has a bad odor to it these days, a situation which the American left blames on conservatives, accusing them of 'demonizi...

  • March 21, 2007

    What's old is new

    Hold on to your hats. Guess what the latest trendy beverage is at the hippest of temples of California cuisine? Tap water. Carol Ness of the San Francisco Chronicle writes,At a small but growing number of sustainably inclined Bay Area restaurants, bo...

  • March 21, 2007

    Rwanadans want an apology from France

    The self-righteous French have more than a few skeletons in their national closet. One of the biggest is probable French complicity in the 1994 genocidal massacre in Rwanda. For years now, Rwandan authorities have suggested that France and the French...

  • March 20, 2007

    Open elections

    Much verbiage has been devoted to the breakout YouTube commercial with Hillary as Big Sister in the famous Apple Computer 1984 ad. That the author of this parody remains a secret is one of several important aspects of its allure.The ad was run nearly...

  • March 20, 2007

    More opposition to UC Irvine law school

    Dan Walters of the Sacramento Bee is often called the dean of statehouse columnists. Today, he joins me in criticizing the proposed UC Irvine law school, albeit only on fiscal grounds, not on the school's obvious leftist political orientation. I'll t...

  • March 19, 2007

    A master wields the scalpel

    Jules Crittenden, who knows the news business, takes apart an AP dispatch from Iraq by Stephen R. Hurst, showing how it uses propaganda techniques to spin good news into bad. In my dreams (and nowhere else, I am sure), a vice president at AP would ca...

  • March 19, 2007

    Haditha on 60 Minutes

    Last night, 60 Minutes took aim at the Haditha incident, in which Marines are charged with a massacre of innocents. The blog In the Crosshairs has a few things to say about the interview, and quite a lot to say about such incidents in general. A samp...

  • March 19, 2007

    The A380 arrives in America

    Today marks the first time the Airbus A380 superjumbo jet will land at American airports. In fact, two of the jets will grace our runaways:  one will be operated by Lufthansa pilots and crew, and will carry a load of passengers, complete with in...

  • March 19, 2007

    Al Gore should put up or shut up

    Lord Monckton, whose challenge to Al Gore's theories we highlighted, has issued a challenge  to Gore to hold an internationally televised debate. An already existing written back-and-forth is on the record, but millions of people will not bother...

  • March 17, 2007

    The fraud behind carbon credits

    The sale of indulgences for those who emit so-called greenhouse gases is built on widespread fraud. The illusion of "carbon neutrality" is very often nothing more than smoke and mirrors. Business Week, hardly a conservative source, has inve...

  • March 16, 2007

    Politics in Command at Airbus

    When politics takes over from business in the operation of a world scale company, the consequences are often profound and unpredictable in the long run. With open talk of French government money to recapitalize Airbus so it won't "fail" (th...

  • March 14, 2007

    Academic blowback

    Marty Peretz of the New Republic draws our attention to one of the major downsides of the vast numbers of foreign students welcomed in our universities. Encouraged by then-governor Michael Dukakis of Massachusetts, a group of Iranians, including...

  • March 14, 2007

    NYT board of directors hears critics

    The Wall Street Journal reports ($link):In a sign that the New York Times Co. may be trying to appease investors who have criticized it, the newspaper publisher invited Morgan Stanley money manager Hassan Elmasry and another large shareholder, T. Row...

  • March 13, 2007

    Israel-hater in the Los Angeles Times

    The Los Angeles Times has provided op-ed space to Sareee Makdisi, the UCLA professor of comparative literature we examined  late last year, to question the use of such terms as Israel's "right to exist."He plays various word games whil...

  • March 13, 2007

    Thousands riot in China

    As many as 20,000 farmers recently rioted in Hunan Province, burning buses and raising hell. News has come out via the Boxun News site, linked at Gateway Pundit, which notes that the National People's Congress is underway in Beijing right now.Riots a...

  • March 12, 2007

    Halliburton and the Moonbats (updated)

    As soon as I read yesterday's Wall Street Journal article ($link) online, I knew the moonbats would have a field day:Halliburton Co. is making a big push to expand in the Middle East, with Chief Executive Officer Dave Lesar spending a substantial par...

  • March 12, 2007

    "The most influential person in Democratic politics"?

    The estimable Dean Barnett, writing on Hughhewitt.com, argues that Markos Moulitsas, a.k.a. Kos (as in Daily Kos), deserves serious consideration for the title.He contends that Kos chooses his fights carefully, focusing on those he thinks he has a ch...

  • March 12, 2007

    John Howard: Australia's "strong horse"

    One foreign leader who makes me stand up and cheer is John Howard, Prime Minister of Australia. In the last year, Howard has gained increased prominence for his willingness to stand up  for a truth too few other leaders in the democratic West ar...

  • March 12, 2007

    Cry me a violent river

    Bookworm read this morning's weepy New York Times article by Steve Erlanger on the poor little Palestinian children driven to despair and violence by Israel's attempts to protect itself from the murderous intent of those who send them out to be suici...

  • March 12, 2007

    Enron, Kyoto, and trading pollution credits

    Investigate Magazine is a New Zealand publication which has been looking into the history of Kyoto and pollution credit trading:...without Enron there would have been no Kyoto Protocol. About 20 years ago Enron was owner and operator of an interstate...

  • March 12, 2007

    Boeing presses its advantage

    While Airbus remains mired in difficulties created by its A380 super jumbo jet production difficulties and the need to develop a competitor for Boeing's next generation airliner, the 787 Dreamliner, Boeing is letting the world know it is pressing ahe...

  • March 11, 2007

    Venezuela and Nicaragua

    Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez continues his petrodollar-fuelled diplomatic offensive, aiding strategic political allies with access to lower cost energy. Caracas newspaper El Universal reports:Venezuela has started land surveys required for constru...

  • March 11, 2007

    Another milestone on the way in Iraq?

    Energy production is a key to the eventual success of a democratic Iraq. That is why over 300 attacks have taken place on energy production, refining, and transportation facilities. Not only are current supplies and revenues diminished, future exploi...

  • March 10, 2007

    Absolute power corrupts absolutely

    From Caligula to Kim Jong-il, history teaches us the wisdom of Lord Acton's dictum about tyrants. The latest example comes from the tiny West African nation of Gambia. Ummah News Links highlights a column by Hilary Baingimisha originally published in...

  • March 10, 2007

    Occupation, legitimacy and democracy

    The lessons of the occupation of Iraq will be debated far into the future. One theory is that it was mistake to disband the army and destroy the corrupt Baathist infrastructure which had kept a semblance of peace among the divisive factions, albeit a...

  • March 9, 2007

    It's official: 2006 was worst year ever for Airbus

    EADS, the parent of Airbus just released its earnings for the year 2006, prompting its co-CEO Louis Gallois to say, "It is clear ... it was the worst year for airbus in its life,"Or, as I put it almost a month and a half ago,"If Q...

  • March 9, 2007

    Reversible error

    The Wall Street Journal publishes a must-read article today by Elizabeth Loftus and Richard Steinberg on the injustice done to Scooter Libby by Judge Reggie Walton's refusal to allow a renowned memory expert to testify at the trial. Regrettably, the ...

  • March 8, 2007

    Obama, the silver-tongued orator?

    Watch Senator Barack Obama attempt to explain his investment improprieties.  I counted 26 uhs and ums.  Looks kinda guilty to me.  And he has been heralded as articulate and "clean"?It is one thing to speak before a...

  • March 8, 2007

    Another liberal "failing upward"

    Rick Kaplan has had a long career in the television news business, one distinguished by questionable relationships with liberal politicians he is supposed to cover in an unbiased manner, as well as by mediocre ratings when he is charge. Most notoriou...

  • March 8, 2007

    Good news for Airbus

    After a terrible spell of bad news, Airbus announced  the first firm order for its A350XWB wide body airliner, not due for delivery until 2014 at the earliest. Finnair today signed a firm contract for eleven A350XWBs as well as seven additional ...

  • March 7, 2007

    The Airbus Tragedy

    Like characters in an ancient Greek tragedy, players in the Airbus drama are betraying their fatal flaws, and moving, almost inevitably, toward a dénouement that will bring serious misfortune to all. Despite failure upon failure, no one i...

  • March 7, 2007

    Airbus: the bad news continues

    More evidence accumulates that Airbus' focus on it's a 380 super jumbo has robbed the company of the ability to produce competitive aircraft in other, much larger and more important market segments. Airwise.com reports that Airbus orders for new airc...

  • March 7, 2007

    Al Gore: the hypocrisy grows and grows

    Kudos to Dan Riehl for his continuing stream of excellent work on Al Gore. His latest: "Al Gore: an inconvenient tax scam"From taxation web UK - looks like something of a tax dodge.InvestorsInvestors in Carbon Credits Partnerships are gener...

  • March 6, 2007

    Shipping France's patrimony to the Gulf (updated)

    France may be having trouble shipping A 380 jumbo jets to Persian Gulf customers, but it will be shipping some of the masterworks from the Louvre to a "satellite" museum to be constructed in Abu Dhabi, according to the CBC, via Ummah News L...

  • March 6, 2007

    Muslims for freedom

    An important gathering of Muslims dedicated to retaking their faith from the hands of brutes and madmen has taken place in St. Petersburg, Florida. The St. Petersburg Declaration can be found at Jihadwatch.org. These are important people doing an imp...

  • March 6, 2007

    Global warming jumps the shark (a continuing series)

    Global warming can be blamed for anything and everything. The latest example:Brothel owners in Bulgaria are blaming global warming for staff shortages. They claim their best girls are working in ski resorts because a lack of snow has forced tourists ...

  • March 6, 2007

    Would global warming be a bad thing? (updated)

    Al Gore may love to show glaciers "calving" (dropping off chunks of ice - a normal phenomenon) as "proof" that ocean levels will rise, but so far Miami is still above water. And the world's coastlines don't seem to have been radic...

  • March 5, 2007

    A Purpose-Driven Law School

    The University of California is preparing to squander tens of millions of taxpayer dollars on a brand new law school for the University of California, Irvine, even though the new school has received a negative recommendation from the state's official...

  • March 5, 2007

    Stop me before I pander again

    There has been a lot of attention paid on the web and on talk radio to this audio clip of Hillary Clinton affecting a Southern accent addressing a rally in Selma, AL yesterday. Not the same rally Barack Obama spoke at, though. A seperate but equal ra...

  • March 4, 2007

    Saudi-Iranian summit apparently fails

    It appears that the talks between King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia and Iran's President Ahmedinejad blew up. Dr. Guy Bechor, head of Middle Eastern Studies at the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) in Herzliya writes in the Jerusalem Post that the Saudis we...

  • March 3, 2007

    Divorce by text message

    Sweetness & Light picks up from MEMRI an example of the latest innovation from Islam: the text message divorce.The Grand Mufti in the United Arab Emirates issued a fatwa (religious edict) permitting the performance of divorce through an SMS ...

  • March 2, 2007

    The perils of occupation

    Occupation is never easy. Even the most successful of military occupations under the best possible circumstances have their troubles. This is a factor to keep firmly in mind when considering the situations in Iraq and Afghanistan.The American occupat...

  • March 2, 2007

    Global warming's intellectual dissidents

    The oxymoronic "scientific consensus" claimed on global warming has generated its own intellectual dissidents. Not (yet) consigned to gulags in Alaska, but threatened with decertification by the American Meteorological Society, if a TV weat...

  • March 2, 2007

    "A flim-flam of epic proportions"

    Noel Sheppard, of Newsbusters and American Thinker, reviews  the story the mainstream media will not tell: Al Gore's highly questionable financial ties which enable him to personally profit from the Global Warming Scare. As Noel notes, the left ...

  • March 2, 2007

    Airbus suffers crippling blow

    Airbus has had an eventful and terrible week, with the unveiling of the Power8 restructuring program Wednesday, followed by protests from unions and a defense from the French Prime Minister, followed by spontaneous protests and walkouts by worke...

  • March 1, 2007

    Arthur Schlesinger, Jr, R.I.P.

    Rick Moran, a man notable for his lucid and graceful prose, as well as his prodigious output, pens a thoughtful essay commemorating Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., an author with similar qualities, who died yesterday dining with his family. In the end, he w...

  • March 1, 2007

    Blindingly stupid

    Sometimes a serious proposal emerges which is so stupid that it stuns me. Other times, proposals anger me. Rarely, both qualities are combined in one legislative proposal, but the California State Senate currently has such a bill, introduced with bip...

  • March 1, 2007

    The MSM's new best friend

    Our occasional contributor Bookworm has a long essay on her site Bookworm Room today making the case that the mainstream media owe a debt of gratitude to the blogosphere for serving as a "crucible" in which increasingly rushed and inaccurat...

  • February 28, 2007

    No jail time in throat slashing case

    One of the most bizarre near-murder incidents in memory has ended with no jail time for the mentally impaired assailant, and none for her accomplice, who has shown no remorse, and who broke several laws. I have followed the so-called "Bloodfeast...

  • February 28, 2007

    Thomas Lifson IBD op ed

    Just in case there are any readers who read the Investor's Business Daily editoral page every day, I am providing a link the op-ed I wrote for IBD, published yesterday. These readers are encouraged to bookmark IBDeditorials.com. ...

  • February 28, 2007

    Carbon credits: indulgence or commutation fee?

    The ability of wealthy individuals like Al Gore to purchase what amounts to rights to pollute by buying carbon credits is a repulsive moral dodge, demanding us to consider useful analogies. One comparison that has occurred to many is the sale of Papa...

  • February 27, 2007

    YouTube and conservatives

    When Google paid more than a billion dollars for YouTube, I was rather surprised. While it is an established brand name, YouTube enjoys weak barriers to entry for competitors. Ebay, in contrast, is very difficult to challenge because by having the la...

  • February 27, 2007

    The missing Oscar

    Once again, I failed to see any mention at the Academy Awards of Theo Van Gogh, a truly brave film maker who paid with his life for the courage of his work speaking truth to power. But then again, it was so boring that maybe I nodded off and missed i...

  • February 27, 2007

    Arise, ye wretched of the earth!

    The American labor movement has filed a complaint with the UN over the outrages committed against a powerless group by a presumably evil group of oppressors: America's research universities. It is all so delicious! The New York Sun reports:Labor grou...

  • February 26, 2007

    Brinksmanship at Airbus

    When a political project like Airbus falters while competing with a commercial enterprise like Boeing, political considerations predominate in developing countermeasures. The turbulent events of the past week demonstrate that the European rival of Bo...

  • February 26, 2007

    More bad news for NYT shareholders

    MarketWatch reports  that yet another prestigious securities firm, Lehman Brothers, has downgraded the stock of the New York Times Company:"We remain concerned about the deteriorating top line at all three of the company's newspaper divisio...

  • February 26, 2007

    Shame on the American Library Association!

    Nat Hentoff writes a stunning op-ed in the Washington Times about the persecution of librarians in Cuba, and the book burning that is engaged in by the totalitarian communist dictator, Fidel Castro. Of course, such hideous behavior is no surprise com...

  • February 26, 2007

    Blood libel author repudiates own work (updated)

    Yesterday, Rachel Neuwirth informed AT readers about the return of the ancient blood libel against Jews, in the form of a book by (of all people) a professor at Israel's Bar Ilan University. Today, we learn from Haaretz that the author, Professor Ari...

  • February 24, 2007

    How do they train "scholars" in Iran these days?

    A learned professor from Iran tells us how tricky Jews like Walt Disney (a Congregationalist) were to create Tom and Jerry to propagandize Europeans that Jews (Hitler broke the code and revealed that Jews were really mice) are not that bad. Neve...

  • February 24, 2007

    UK police and forced conversions to Islam

    The UK Daily Mail reports that police in the UK are investigating forced conversions to Islam through intimidation, and are providing protection to young women who were physically threatened in order to obtain their conversions.Extremist Muslims who ...

  • February 23, 2007

    Israel and Azerbaijan to consider natural gas deal

    Ummah News Links  offers the information that,"The government of Azerbaijan has invited Israel to begin negotiations on the supply of natural gas. Speaking at a recent meeting with Minister of National Infrastructures Benjamin Ben-Eliezer, ...

  • February 23, 2007

    Greenpeace co-founder changes mind

    Patrick Moore, co-founder of Greenpeace, pens an op-ed in the New York Post endorsing the use of nuclear power, an enemy that the greenies fought tooth and nail for decades. AS co-founder and former leader of Greenpeace, I once opposed nuclear e...

  • February 22, 2007

    Mookie on the run

    Ralph Peters pens an insight-rich column  for the New York Post on the spectacular opportunity handed to us by Shiite leader Muqtada al Sadr's fleeing of Iraq. Once the surge began and the rules of engagement changed, Mookie decided that martyrd...

  • February 22, 2007

    China cracks down on "internet addiction"

    China's autocrats abhor the free flow of information that is possible on the internet. They have already deployed thousands of "internet police" to monitor what gets posted. Now comes news  from the Washington Post via MSNBC.com that C...

  • February 21, 2007

    Investor's Business Daily editorials have a new home

    For some time now I have been an admirer of the insightful editorials published by Investor's Business Daily. Deeply grounded in the realities of markets and skeptical of political correctness, IBD's trenchant observations of topics from global ...

  • February 21, 2007

    German discontent with the EU

    Roman Herzog is a formidable figure in Germany's government and politics. He has been a professor at two of Germany's most distinguished universities (This carries more weight in Germany than in the US), a church official, presided over the Federal C...

  • February 21, 2007

    Feminism and female oppression

    Brussels Journal carries a long and interesting essay on the role of feminism as an enabler of the oppression of women. It attempts to explain the paradox of feminists demonizing Western Civilization as oppressive of women, and remaining mostly silen...

  • February 20, 2007

    The Self-Humiliation of Airbus

    Yesterday, Airbus humiliated itself before the world civil aviation community. Already suffering a massive loss of credibility due to the repeated delivery delays for the A 380 super jumbo, the company was to have unveiled its recovery plan, dubbed P...

  • February 20, 2007

    Not the usual moonlighting cop

    James Morris sounds like someone dreamed up by desperate Hollywood writers, looking to find a premise for a new television series. He is both a veteran homicide investigator for the Oakland Police Department and a preacher. Jim Herron Zamora of the S...

  • February 20, 2007

    The other Duke rape case

    LaShawn Barber has a must-read post on a Duke rape case that is not getting very much press attention yet. The accused is black and the victim white. The alleged scene of the crime is a black fraternity, not a house occuppied by LaCrosse players.LaSh...

  • February 20, 2007

    Who killed feminism?

    Jonathan Strong asks  an amusing yet serious question: "Did Hillary Kill Feminism?"A new polls shows that 62% of women and 50% of men believe that Hillary Clinton exhibited strength by sticking by her husband, Bill Clinton, after it wa...

  • February 20, 2007

    Lufthansa slams EU carbon trading proposal, threatens to move hub

    The European Union Commission has proposed legislation to include commercial aviation in its carbon trading scheme. Under such regulations airlines flying out of the EU would have to "buy" emissions rights from those who have been granted w...

  • February 20, 2007

    The little suicide bomber that couldn't

    Breaking news from Israel that an attempted suicide bombing was aborted by the bomber himself, with the backpack containing the bomb discarded in a dumpster. Ynet news reports that it unclear if the bomber changed his mind, or if the bomb failed to d...

  • February 19, 2007

    Questioning Mitt's Faith

    Like it or not, we are going to be hearing more about the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Last month I expressed my eagerness to see the media's treatment of Mitt Romney's faith. There are bound to be all kinds of treatments, some b...

  • February 19, 2007

    Do it yourself jihad

    The mall massacre in Salt Lake City, Utah, by a Bosnian Muslim killed in the attack, is another reminder that solo practitioners of jihad are a threat anywhere, anytime. Listen to this video recorded at the Trolley Square Mall, at 1 minute 37 seconds...

  • February 17, 2007

    "Progressive" rabbi apologizes to AT author

    Our contributor Rachel Neuwirth, whose article "Beyond Self-hating" appears today, has received a formal written apology and an unspecified cash settlement from Rabbi Chaim Seidler-Feller, director of Hillel at UCLA, it was revealed yesterd...

  • February 17, 2007

    The Dear Leader's birthday

    Yesterday, listening to the radio while driving, I learned that (once again) I had missed the Dear Leader's birthday, the major event of the year in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. Those North Koreans who haven't starved to death yet ...

  • February 17, 2007

    Somalis charge that BBC a "tool of propaganda" for Islamist Somali regime

    A group of 260 Britons of Somali origin has submitted a letter to the chairman of the BBC's board of governors, charging that the BBC's Somali service has become a "tool of propaganda" of the beseiged Islamist regime in Somalia. Here is an ...

  • February 16, 2007

    Oh those Jews!

    Just when you thought conspiracy theories couldn't get any weirder, along comes one that reaches new comic heights. Except, of course, that there are people who take the lunacy very seriously. For example, the rulers of Iran.The holocaust denial conf...

  • February 15, 2007

    Selective linking at the NYT (updated)

    The New York Times publishes an article today on the bloggers covering the Libby Trial, mentioning AT. Most of the article concerns Jane Hamsher (late of the Ned Lamont campaign) and her site Firedoglake.com. The title of the article evokes an "...

  • February 15, 2007

    Mexicans and Apocalypto

    Mel Gibson's Apocalypto, about life in Mayan times, generated a torrent of criticism for alleged racism, mainly because it depicted the brutality of human sacrifice as practiced by that civilization. Many of the critics also cited historical inaccura...

  • February 14, 2007

    Netherlands news

    Geert Wilders has no doubt been denounced already as an "Islamophobe", and I would suspect he is now or will soon be under death threats. He is the leader of a new party in Holland, the Party for Freedom (PVV). Lately he has been saying som...

  • February 14, 2007

    From Jew-hater to Jew-lover

    Our contributor Alamgir Hussain, who grew up Muslim, has written about his journey from a Jew-hater to a lover of Jews. Happy Valentine's Day to him and to all who eschew the hatred of others based on race, religion, or other in-born characteristics....

  • February 14, 2007

    The seventy three percent solution?

     In general terms, the poll found that 73 per cent of Canadian Muslims describe themselves as "very proud" to be called Canadians, even if many of them see their religion as coming first in certain instances." This is a common pat...

  • February 14, 2007

    globalwarminghysteria.com

    My British friend Peter Glover has established a new website globalwarminghysteria.com. The name pretty much says it all. Peter writes that he intends it to be "a one-stop site for all the anti-global warming hysteria articles people might ...

  • February 13, 2007

    The politics of assassination

    Rick Moran, who never lets political correctness of any sort interfere with his thinking, raises the very touchy question of assassination and Barack Obama's candidacy. Medgar Evers and Martin Luther King are only the most prominent names on a long l...

  • February 12, 2007

    The French. Again

    A pair of recent news items about France and its language once again demonstrate the ridiculous lengths to which that nation will go in fighting a rearguard Anglophobic campaign. The estimable Betsy Newmark of Betsy's Page discovered the two ite...

  • February 12, 2007

    Hugo Chavez can't repeal laws of economics

    Hugo Chavez may be able to receive dictatorial powers from Venezuela's legislature, but he still can't repeal the law of supply and demand. The Washington Post reports    that in the wake of price controls,Meat cuts vanished from Venez...

  • February 11, 2007

    Scenes from the media revolution

    A small terrestrial (i.e., the kind that uses normal tower-based transmission) broadcast television station, KFTY, Channel 50 in Santa Rosa, California, has fired its entire news staff and is going to rely on viewer-submitted material for news. ...

  • February 11, 2007

    Why watch the nickels and dimes? It's taxpayer money after all

    A favorite trope of the Left is to denounce greed. At least in others. But as the Clintons, Al Gore, and others have shown, denouncing the greed of the rich is no impediment to cashing in yourself after leaving office.For ex-Congressmen, it is usuall...

  • February 11, 2007

    Clarice Feldman intreview

    Clarice Feldman appeared on Macranger's internet radio program. A webcast can be heard here. She enters the broadcast at about the 26 minute mark.Hat tip: Lucianne.com poster summernite...

  • February 11, 2007

    The liberal halo in the media

    How bad are the liberal media in their relentless propagandizing? Check out the way halos magizally appear around the heads of the annointed. Sweetness & Light, which spots photos better than anyone else, has a nice collection today. ...

  • February 10, 2007

    Obama's declaration

    Rather than comment directly on Obama's announcement this morning, I will refer readers to the coverage at Sweetness & Light, which is doing a superb job of comparing the airy rhetoric of today with previous statements. I trust that S&L, whic...

  • February 9, 2007

    How to lose the war (and blame the GOP)

    Hugh Hewitt notes that the Democrats in Congress are serving notice to all our intelligence sources in Iraq that their identities will not be protected. An outrage. Yet another way to cripple our war efforts. Robert Torricelli may no longer be in the...

  • February 9, 2007

    Elie Wiesel attacked in SF

    Elie Wiesel was attacked in an elevator in San Francisco by a Holocaust denier who has apparently been stalking him, according to a report in the San Francisco Examiner. Nobel Prize-winning author Elie Wiesel was accosted recently by a Holocaust deni...

  • February 8, 2007

    Border crossing chic

    The New York Times carries a troubling piece today that almost glamorizes illegal border crossing. "Run! Hide! The Illegal Border Crossing Experience," reads the headline. The reporter carefully stayed within the bolunds of the law, and joi...

  • February 7, 2007

    The Caracas connection

    Aleksander Boyd reports in Vcrisis.com on the second seizure of a major shipment of cocaine coming out of Caracas airport on a flight to Mexico. It seems that the ever so efficient Venezuela Connection keeps sending thousands of kilograms of cocaine ...

  • February 6, 2007

    Escalation of the conflict with Iran

    Jack Risko of Dinocrat recently has been watching the escalation of our ongoing conflict with Iran, and has been watching the formation of US policy towatd that nation even longer. Today he has an alarming post with excellent links which concludes:Th...

  • February 6, 2007

    Damage toll mounts from NYT SWIFT leaks while MSM pays no heed

    When the New York Times chose to reveal  secret information about the monitoring of international financial transactions last June, critics, including American Thinker, posited that this would seriously hamper efforts to identify the financiers ...

  • February 6, 2007

    Ed Lasky, Jimmy Carter and Al Qaeda

    Ed Lasky was interviewed on Israel National Radio, and a web feed of the interview is now available here. During the interview the topic of Al Qaeda's position that Israeli Jews have abrogated their covenant with God and are thus deserving of destruc...

  • February 5, 2007

    Welcome Rush listeners!

    Here is the item Rush referred to. ...

  • February 4, 2007

    A Roman settlement in China?

    There is a lot of unknown history, and a lot of legends in obscure parts of the world which suggest very intriguing connections previously unknown. The new tools of science are offering a chance to plumb the truth in some instances. From China, via t...

  • February 4, 2007

    Viva Super Bowl Sunday

    Like millions of other Americans who have recently acquired large screen high definition televisions, I am hosting a Super Bowl party today.  Like even more millions, I feel the odd compulsion of offer tortilla chips, guacamole, and at least 2 v...

  • February 4, 2007

    The Islamic University of Minnesota

    An institution by that name has opened its doors in Minneapolis, according to Hiraan Online, as discovered and posted on Ummah News Links. So far, about 160 students have registered this spring for courses at $150 each. They will learn everything fro...

  • February 3, 2007

    Sherlock Holmes meets Sandy Berger

    Sherlock Holmes represents pure logic and astute powers of observation. A beloved figure all over the world, he is one of fiction's more enduring icons.Ray Van Dune (a pseudonym of somebody I know) has resurrected Baker Street's most famous fictional...

  • February 3, 2007

    Free speech and its consequences

    A senior Pentagon official has lost his job over comments criticizing the law firms which have represented Guantanamo Bay detainees. The Washington Post reports:Charles "Cully" Stimson, deputy assistant secretary of defense for detainee aff...

  • February 2, 2007

    San Francisco and Mayor Newsom

    The first reaction of many residents to Gavin Newsom's affair with one of his best friends' wife was a bit of a yawn, in line with the rest of the world's image of the city as a den of iniquity. Imagining itself to be sophisticated (in the same manne...

  • February 2, 2007

    Yale's elephant in the living room

    An unintentionally amusing and revealing news report comes from the Yale Daily News. (Note: at the time of this blog item's publication, the YDN server is down.) It seems that applications are down almost ten percent this year for next year's fr...

  • February 1, 2007

    2007: A Critical Year for Airbus

    If Queen Elizabeth II were to describe the year 2006 for Airbus, she would surely call it an annus horribilis. To recover its momentum in the civil airliner business it will have to overcome many serious challenges in 2007.  Customers, unions, g...

  • February 1, 2007

    No innocent lamb

    The Munich District Attorney's office has indicted 13 CIA employees allegedly involved in the Khaled Al-Masri "kidnapping." The incident is being used to whip-up anti-American sentiment throughout the world, painting the US as a carele...

  • February 1, 2007

    Clarice Feldman on the Libby Trial

    Our astute Libby Trial correspondent Clarice Feldman has been live blogging the Libby Trial from the media room, and has posted her reflections on yesterday's proceedings at Just One Minute. Clarice's many fans will find her characteristic wit and in...

  • February 1, 2007

    What does it take to shock San Francisco?

    Most of the country already thinks of San Francisco as a den of iniquity and licentiousness, dedicated to self-indulgence and heedless of the consequences. The political leadership of the city, specifically Gavin Newsom, hizzoner da mare, is doing wh...

  • January 31, 2007

    Indictment and separate guilty plea in threats against Debbie Schlussel

    The wheels of justice have ground slowly in the case of two Muslims who issued death threats against internet and newspaper columnist Debbie Schlussel. One man has been allowed to plead guilty to a misdemeanor in a felony case, while another, current...

  • January 31, 2007

    Instability in Iran

    The New York Sun offers a trio of items today offering hope for the possibility of regime change in Iran.Khameni's health Speculation is mounting in American and Israeli intelligence and defense circles about the declining health of Iran's 67-year-ol...

  • January 31, 2007

    New York Times reports massive loss

    Via AP and Breitbart:The New York Times Co. posted a $648 million loss for the fourth quarter on Wednesday as it absorbed an $814.4 million charge to write down the value of its struggling New England properties, The Boston Globe and the Worcester Te...

  • January 31, 2007

    The flying palace

    Airbus has unofficially christened (oops, make that "named") the personal jet transport version of its A380 super-jumbo jet "The flying palace" according to this article in Flightglobal.com.  Given the likelihood that most po...

  • January 30, 2007

    Air America assets sold

    Air America could potentially be re-born, with creditors stiffed, and new owners free to search for another path to viability as a left wing talk network. Buying the assets but not the liabilities is the brother of perennial New York Democrat losing ...

  • January 30, 2007

    More fauxtography

    Michael Totten has found another example of fauxtography. He skillfully demonstrates the steps needed to produce the photoshopped end product. Bloggers are getting better and better at visually depicting photo fraud. This link is a must-click.Hat tip...

  • January 29, 2007

    Boxer and CAIR in a tree...

    Well that didn't take long! Barbara Boxer, having shown unusual sense in withdrawing an award to a CAIR official, has gotten back to hugs and kisses with them. The JTA news service reports:"We have addressed the issues related to this unfortunat...

  • January 29, 2007

    Self-detonating houses

    Brian Ledbetter of Snapped Shot raises an interesting question about the vitriol heaped on Israel for detstroying houses used to attack it  - as during the past summer's war with Hezb'allah. On Saturday, Hamas attacked a house used by a riv...

  • January 29, 2007

    The return of the killing fields

    The Examiner publishes a telling editorial today on what is likely to happen after Hillary Clinton and other Democrats get their way, and the US makes a hasty withdrawal from Iraq.There is, however, one fundamental difference between 1972 and 2007. W...

  • January 29, 2007

    Clarice Feldman on-air

    Clarice Feldman will be a guest on the Dennis Prager show today (Monday) at 10:20 AM PST, 1:20 PM EST. The program is carried nationwide on the Salem Radio Network, and is also available online here and here.Following the broadcast, a podcast may bec...

  • January 29, 2007

    We are going to win this fight for civilization

    So writes our contributor Paul Jackson in his Calgary Sun column. He's been talking with the US ambassador to Canada. Sometimes, a little distance from the day-to-day political struggle helps clarify matters.President George W. Bush is going to perse...

  • January 29, 2007

    Effort to silence free speech on terror

    The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) is attempting to shut down speech with which it disagrees. Ummah News Links brings us the story:On Tuesday, Jan 30 at 7:00 PM, three former terrorists will present "Terrorism: The World's Gre...

  • January 29, 2007

    Why do they hate us? (a continuing series)

    Dinesh D'Souza has unleashed a torrent of criticism with his new book, The Enemy at Home,  which "explains" the hatred of the Islamic world for the United States and the West as a reaction to the excesses of our cultural left.Our contr...

  • January 28, 2007

    Censoring Obama's name?

    The Washington Post mounts its editorial high horse to denounce those who use Senator Obama's middle name "Hussein" when mentioning him. IT'S BECOME a fad among some conservatives to refer to the junior senator from Illinois by his full nam...

  • January 28, 2007

    Le jet-man

    Someone has lived the dream! And he is a French-speaker, albeit of Swiss nationality. He calls himself Jet-Man. You can see what he did on this video.  His background and a few other details are given here (in French)Hat tip: Dennis Sevakis ...

  • January 27, 2007

    Leftist Jews grapple with anti-Semitism on the left

    The San Francisco office of the Anti-Defamation League, concerned at the rise of anti-Semitism on the left, is convening a conference tomorrow on the subject. Finding Our Voice [is] a daylong conference in San Francisco aimed at empowering Jewish pro...

  • January 27, 2007

    Learned idiocy

    Robert Godwin, the often-brilliant proprietor of One Cosmos, offers some comments of relevance to the puzzle I mentioned in the previous blog post on leftist Jews trying to be "constructively" critical of anti-Semitism on the left.  He...

  • January 26, 2007

    How bad things have gotten in Venezuela

    David Paulin writes  at The Big Carnival of the degeneration of the Chavez regime into a thug state. It has gotten so bad that some of Chavez's leftist supporters are now disowning him, as they see that socialism is just an excuse for power and ...

  • January 25, 2007

    Uranium-235 (highly enriched) sales plot foiled

    Reuters reports from Georgia (the nation in the Caucasus, not the US state) that local authorities have confirmed they broke-up a plot by a Russian citizen to sell highly enriched uranium, the stuff of which nuclear explosions are made.Georgian speci...

  • January 24, 2007

    Don't let your brains fall out

    That's the advice of Breath of the Beast for those famously "open-minded" PBS viewers who watched the recent documentary on anti-Semitism.Anybody who has been paying attention knows that anti-Semitism is a problem. It is an especially bad o...

  • January 23, 2007

    Reviewing possible Libby trial witnesses

    Just One Minute, the excellent website run by Tom Maguire, is reviewing possible witnesses in the Libby trial, and speculating as to what they might say. The comments section at JOM has frequently served as the premiere forum for sifting through the ...

  • January 21, 2007

    LDS 101

    We are all going to be learning about the Latter Day Saints, should Mitt Romney gain the nomination. One side benefit of a Mormon candidacy for the president would be sustained attention to a fascinating religious group, comprising a distinctive thre...

  • January 20, 2007

    The Libby prosecution: a personal grudge?

    The Wall Street Journal's Opinionjournal.com carries a provocative editorial today, laying out a possible personal grudge that might help explain the peculiar prosecution of Scooter Libby by Patrick Fitzgerald.Libby had been one of the lawyers for Ma...

  • January 20, 2007

    "Hizbullah is a tool... of Iranian intelligence"

    Those words come from former Hizbullah secretary-general Sheikh Subhi Al-Tufeili in an interview with Kuwaiti daily newspaper Al-Siyassa, as translated by MEMRI. His bitterness toward the kidnapping of the two Israeli soldiers, which led to Israel's ...

  • January 19, 2007

    UK to leave Euro Human Rights Convention?

    The creation of transnational bodies clothed in the lofty rhetoric of human rights and justice all too often ends up constraining the ability of truly democratic states to defend themselves. After all, who can really resist an imperative delivered by...

  • January 19, 2007

    The specter of space war draws closer

    China's destruction of its own satellite in space with a ballistic missile is doing more than cloud the earth with yet more orbiting debris. It raises the specter of war in space. Make no mistake, our military and communications satellites are essent...

  • January 19, 2007

    The oil price weapon

    Numbers of leftists predicted with certainty that following the November elections oil prices would rebound. Their conspiracy theory had it that Bushalliburton was conspiring with its flunkies to dupe the ignorant masses into voting Republican. Once ...

  • January 19, 2007

    CAIR's concern

    One week into the new season of 24, CAIR is already complaining: (via AFP and Breitbart):The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) said "24's" season premiere, in which Islamic terrorists detonated a nuclear bomb near Los Angeles, ri...

  • January 18, 2007

    CAIR's big lie on America's Muslim population

    Investors Business Daily gives us yet another invaluable editorial today, deconstructing the lie that America's Muslim population has soared to 8 million. As IBD points out, the Census does not ask about religion, so Muslim population figur...

  • January 18, 2007

    Obama and apostasy from Islam

    Barack Obama was born to Muslim father, married to an American atheist. His father's religion is the reason both his first and middle names, Barack and Hussein, are Islamic in origin. Debbie Schlussel brought this to our attention last year.According...

  • January 18, 2007

    You knew this was coming

    According  to a news agency called All Headline News, a Jack Bauer action figure (aka, doll) is going to be coming to toy stores everywhere.Action figure Jack Bauer, played by Kiefer Sutherland on FOX's "24," is set to hit toy shelves ...

  • January 17, 2007

    Blacks benefit from crackdown on illegal immigrants

    Stark evidence now exists that a crackdown on illegal immigration greatly benefits poor blacks. We have a teachable moment in the immigration debate, if only the movement to protect our borders has the wit to capitalize on it, and add a vital and pot...

  • January 17, 2007

    Haditha counsel accuses Pentagon of deceit

    Counsel for the Marines on trial for a supposed massacre in Haditha is charging that Pentagon officials intentionally misled or deceived the public about the case. The first report written about the case completely exonerated the troops. Reuters repo...

  • January 16, 2007

    Jimmy Carter and the Palestinians

    Jimmy Carter and his peculiar attitude toward the Palestinians have taken another whuppin', this time at the hands of one of the most provocative and brilliant columnists in the English speaking world, a man who writes for the Asia Times under t...

  • January 16, 2007

    Flight or fight

    Prior to the beginning of the Haj (pilgrimage to Mecca) season, CAIR carefully warned  American Muslims to be on the lookout for possible violations of their rights. Air travel being the ordeal it has become thanks to terror hijackers, a majorit...

  • January 15, 2007

    Emergency update (updated)

    As of 7 AM Pacific time, we have had a very fragmentary and intermittent restoration of some email service. The problem is at the server level, and it appears that repairs are still underway. Only a tiny fraction of the normal flow of email has come ...

  • January 15, 2007

    The attack on KSFO

    KSFO radio in San Francisco is one of the most important talk-format stations in the country. It enjoys very good ratings, but more importantly, it is the flagshhip for the hearty band of conservatives in the Bay Area. The old saying that "what ...

  • January 14, 2007

    Aussiegirl, R.I.P. (updated)

    The blogger known by her screen name Aussiegirl, whose website Ultima Thule we have often linked to, has died at the age of 59. I only learned of it this morning, via Lucainne.com, where a tribute appears. A final post appeared yesterday at Ultima Th...

  • January 14, 2007

    American Thinker HQ email problems

    We have been undergoing severe internet and email problems at American Thinker since Saturday afternoon. As a result, today's article by Rick Moran was posted very late, and we apologize to Rick for that. Currently, our internet service is inter...

  • January 13, 2007

    Blair blames media

    Tony Blair has once again made an eloquent case that I wish President Bush had made. The UK Independent reports:Warning it would take the West another 20 years to defeat Islamic terrorism, the Prime Minister used a wide-ranging "swansong" l...

  • January 13, 2007

    Keith Ellison and impeachment

    David Swanson is a left wing activist who maintains a blog at the site Democrats.com. The latest item  posted there is his plan to impeach President Bush via state legislature initiative. Whatever the practicality of that approach, he makes an i...

  • January 13, 2007

    Dhimmitude in the UK

    In the UK, efforts to mollify Muslims continue to lead to absurd positions by pubic authorities. The Union Jack has been banned from at least one prison lest the sight of its Cross of St. George offend the inmates. Piggy banks were banned from one pu...

  • January 12, 2007

    Persian Gulf or Arabian Gulf?

    Place names can be charged with politics. Conquest sometimes leads to renaming, sometimes revolution, and sometimes just nationalism. The city which gave birth to Polish Solidarity was known as "Danzig" when the Germans ruled it, and is now...

  • January 12, 2007

    The Irbil raid

    Yesterday, we cited a BBC report of a raid on an Iranian "consulate" in Irbil, Iraq. According to this subsequent AP report,  At the Pentagon, a senior U.S. military official said the building was not a consulate and did not have any d...

  • January 12, 2007

    Oil prices on the way down

    Phil Gallagher thinks gasoline prices are heading below two dollars a gallon. He points out quite correctly that the same speculators who helped drive up prices in the futures market are now scrambling to unload their positions, driving down the pric...

  • January 12, 2007

    The decline and fall of academic standards

    Dr. Karla Holloway carries two lofty titles at Duke University: William R. Kenan Jr., Professor of English and Professor of Law. She is so upset with the university's re-admission of two indicted lacrosse players that she has resigned in protest...

  • January 12, 2007

    More New York Times hypocrisy

    Yet another heartless greedy profitable American corporation is downsizing and outsourcing, while cutting benefits. Sounds like just the sort of thing the New York Times loves to highlight. Except, of course, that the corporation in question is the N...

  • January 11, 2007

    Bush's course correction: will it work? (updated)

    Last night President Bush presented something for everyone. His long-carping critics got an admission of mistakes to crow about. He is sending more troops, in line with the demands of Rumsfeld-haters. He even nodded to James Baker and the Iraq Study ...

  • January 11, 2007

    The press, stringers, and American defeat in Vietnam

    Mackubin Thomas Owens reviews a new book of revisionist history on Vietnam, Triumph Forsaken: The Vietnam War, 1954-1965, by Mark Moyar in the Weekly Standard. The revisionist school holds that the Vietnam War was far from un-winnable, but that victo...

  • January 11, 2007

    Newsweek's Fineman unglued

    Noel Sheppard, writing on Newsbusters, calls attention to Newsweek's Howard Fineman's descent into inane propaganda. Bush Derangement Syndrome is the only explanation for a journalist debasing himself to this extent.Newsweek's Howard Fineman didn't w...

  • January 11, 2007

    Things are getting tense in Iran

    Regime Change Iran is reporting some very interesting news.The Fars News Agency reports an Unidentified Flying Object crashed in central Iran. Could this be an unidentified explosion in a top secret facility instead? An Unidentified Flying Objec...

  • January 10, 2007

    Cutting our own throat

    I often wonder at the motivations of those who oppose exploiting the oil resources of arctic Alaska. The Arctic National Wildlife Reserve is a frozen wilderness most of the year, and a swamp for the brief summer. The breathtaking pictures used to sel...

  • January 10, 2007

    Chafets to "realists": get real

    Writing in the Los Angeles Times, Zev Chafets pulls no punches on the subject of Iran.Israel has two basic choices. It can sit and wait, hoping the Iranians do not drop a bomb on Tel Aviv; or it can preemptively attack, hoping to destroy, or at least...

  • January 10, 2007

    Obstruction of justice?

    I am not a lawyer, and most of what I learned about the law has come out of the television. But in looking at the shocking account in the New York Sun of FBI investigations into leaks from intelligence agencies that have been "stymied" by a...

  • January 9, 2007

    Multi-culti pretensions skewered

    David Paulin, who inhabits the Austin, TX political ecosystem, has endured yet another Kwanzaa season celebrating a holiday invented out of whole cloth by a Marxist with a violent criminal past. Even my own home town of Berkeley, California has large...

  • January 8, 2007

    Moving the deck chairs as TIME Magazine sinks

    Eagle-eyed Noel Sheppard, who writes both for AT and Newsbusters, spotted the New York Times covering a new rescue strategy for TIME Magazine, a fellow media battleship taking on water and listing (to port, naturally). Noel asks:Have the brain-trust ...

  • January 8, 2007

    A European retreat for wealthy Arabs

    It was inevitable. All the wealth flowing into the hands of Arabs has spawned an exclusive high-end resort community in the EU, designed with Arabian themes and marketed to Arabs. The site will include luxury townhouses and estates, and is to be on t...

  • January 7, 2007

    War plans

    Jules Crittenden lays it out rather sharply on his blog site, and doubles down on President Bush being a tough leader making the tough choice.We've arrived at a crossroads in history. The choices are simple. In a letter to President Bush Friday, Hous...

  • January 7, 2007

    AT article is making waves internationally

    Herbert E. Meyer's article "How to Think about the War" is attracting considerable attention, internationally. The Italian newspaper Il Foglio requested translation rights and now the political party of former Prime Minister Berlusconi, For...

  • January 7, 2007

    NYT finally admits to its lie

    Give the New York Times more credit than Dan Rather. A full week after its own public editor Byron Calame laid bare the facts  behind the misreporting in a prominent Sunday Magazine cover story, stating that a Salvadoran woman had been sent to j...

  • January 6, 2007

    Ideas have consequences

    From an Australian blog, The Mind of Flapjack, comes a reminder that some of our most troubling societal characteristics are not that recent in origin.I've almost finished reading Ideas Have Consequences, and although it was written in 1948, it is qu...

  • January 5, 2007

    Dogfight over MSP

    If you arrive at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, 16th busiest in the world (just behind JFK and ahead of Hong Kong International), with a seeing eye dog and want to take a taxi, you may be out of luck.  God help you if it is January ...

  • January 4, 2007

    Origin of Ellison's Jefferson Quran gambit

    Keith Ellison has pulled off a PR masterstroke in using a Quran once owned by Thomas Jefferson to take his symbolic oath of office, Rick Moran writes today in American Thinker. But Steve Gilbert, writing in Sweetness & Light, debunks the claim El...

  • January 4, 2007

    Jefferson's Koran

    Curt at Flopping Aces highlights the very interesting history behind Thomas Jefferson's interest in the Koran, as published by the National Review in 2005. Thomas Jefferson once questioned Sidi Haji Abdul Rahman Adja, the Tripolitan ambassador to Bri...

  • January 4, 2007

    The Flying Torah (updated)

    The Arab airlines on which I have flown have all had copies of the Quran available for passengers in both Arabic and English. But Israel's "second "airline, Israir, a smaller competitor for the much larger and older El Al, has topped both i...

  • January 4, 2007

    Conservative persuasion

    One of the best short explanations of the different mentalities of government bureaucrats and private sector managers is found in this video posted on YouTube. I have no idea who created it, but I wish I could thank them. Steven Warshawsky today disc...

  • January 4, 2007

    ABC News embarrasses itself

    Our contributor Matt May has spotted an embarrassing contention by ABC News in its celebratory reporting of Nancy Pelosi's assumption of the role of Speaker of the House. Not only does it betray a startling ignorance of the Constitution, it features ...

  • January 4, 2007

    New York Times Company dumps broadcast properties

    The New York Times company has announced an agreement to sell its television station group to a private equity firm, Oak Partners for $575 million dollars. The group intends to sell off the profitable collection of nine broadcast properties. Last Fal...

  • January 3, 2007

    New York Times lowballs homeless numbers

    Estimates of the number of homeless have a long history of politics trumping accuracy. When President Reagan was in office, the American media often quoted made-up figures from "advocates" along with the mantra that many of us were "on...

  • January 3, 2007

    Iranians and Jews

    Our contributor Amil Imani has an article today on the Arutz Sheva website, "Iranians are friends of the Jews." Of Iranian origin and American citizenship, Amil is proud of the pre-Islamic history of tolerance and friendship of his native l...

  • January 3, 2007

    Times watchdog to get axed?

    Once again the New York Times is embarrassed by exposure of its low journalistic standards, compounded by the paper's failure to retract a lie prominently published in a New York Times Magazine cover story. When I praised the work of the Times' publi...

  • January 3, 2007

    Hispanic-on-black violence and PC

    La Shawn Barber makes several important points in a blog post today on the strange lack of protest and the "stunning" lack of blanket coverage on the problem in California with attacks on blacks by Hispanic gangs.Where are the "African...

  • January 2, 2007

    Nuclear doctrine in the age of terror

    Yankee Sailor is the blog of a Surface Warfare Officer of 20 years standing in active duty and reserve service. He posts a thoughtful commentary on nuclear warfare doctrine in the age of terror. This question is a central issue of our times, although...

  • January 1, 2007

    Wardrobe malfunction strikes Japan

    The New Year holiday is the major celebration on the Japanese calendar. Unlike the Chinese, who celebrate the Lunar New Year, Japan adopted the western calendar thru-and-thru, and so on January 1st, the nation virtually shuts down for two or three da...

  • January 1, 2007

    Eid in pictures (updated)

    Sometimes a picture really is worth a thousand words. It is the season for Eid, the Muslim holy days. Sweetness & Light presents a series of photos of the colorful celebration in various Islamic countries. Not for those with a weak stomach. Or PE...

  • January 1, 2007

    Iran's infernal combustion engines

    Iran has seen well over one hundred Iranian-manufactured cars spontaneously burst into flames, in many cases killing the occupants. The cars are a locally-manufactured version of the Peugeot 405, licensed to the rogue state by France. While I am ce...

  • January 1, 2007

    Iraqi reaction to Saddam's hanging

    Our contributor Rocco DiPippo is working in Baghdad, and writes a first hand account of the Iraqis' reaction to Saddam's execution in The Autonomist.  Rocco was opposed to brutality of a televised hanging, but recognizes:...in a country where ma...

  • December 31, 2006

    European reaction to Saddam's execution

    David's Medienkritik, the excellent review of European journalism, presents both public opinion polling data and journalistic reactions to Saddam's hanging. Somewhat surprisingly, most countries had small majorities favoring the execution of the...

  • December 31, 2006

    The New York Times' own Rathergate

    Byron Calame, public editor of the New York Times, has laid out a carefully worded exposé of the utter breakdown of editorial standards at the New York Times. The fact that paper prominently published a falsehood is only the beginning of the p...

  • December 31, 2006

    Passing events

    We have tended to avoid typical year-ender articles around here: ten best/10 worst, for instance, or people who have died. Not that there's anything wrong with them. A new-to-me website, The Thomas Chronicles (somehow I like that name) has an amusing...

  • December 30, 2006

    Jackie Mason on Barack Obama

    The inimitable Jackie Mason guest-hosted on the Laura Ingraham radio talk show, and did quite a riff on Barack Obama. The website Speedgibson has posted an "edited for brevity" transcript. Check it out. A brief excerpt:Let's be honest about...

  • December 29, 2006

    Litigious Muslims seek their own justice

    The Saudi-published Arab News reports that the Muslim World League wants to take the courts to prevent "insults" to Isalm and Muhammad.A two-day conference organized by the Makkah-based Muslim World League yesterday called for a consultativ...

  • December 29, 2006

    First encounter with the beast

    A new blog, Breath of the Beast, has debuted. If the first post is an indicator of things to come, it has a terrific future. Read it and be engrossed. We welcome a new and important voice to the blogosphere....

  • December 28, 2006

    Syria: The mullahs' plan B?

    Our contributor Olivier Guitta has a fascinating article in The Examiner newspapers today concerning Syria's possible role as an alternative nuclear site for Iran. while world attention is rightly focused on the nuclear capabilities of Iran and ...

  • December 26, 2006

    This explains a lot

    An Australian researcher reports that about 40 per cent of the world's population is infected with Toxoplasma gondii, a parasite that, he claims, makes men dumber and women sexier. A report in the Sydney Morning Herald does note that the study i...

  • December 26, 2006

    Iran's oil output to decline drastically

    That's the conclusion of a new report from the National Academy of Sciences, reported  in today's Washington Times. Iran is experiencing a staggering decline in revenue from its oil exports and, if the trend continues, income could virtually dis...

  • December 26, 2006

    Jet lag and death

    In my younger years, I endured periods of coast-to-coast and even intercontinental frequent travel. For about half a year I actually  commuted between the East Coast and Japan every three weeks, managing somehow to survive the ordeal. All those ...

  • December 26, 2006

    Worst newspaper in US destroys value

    The McClatchy Company, recent purchaser of the Knight-Ridder chain of newspapers, is taking a huge loss on its 1998 purchase of the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, considered by many to be the worst, most politically correct newspaper in the United States....

  • December 25, 2006

    Keith Ellison's crowd: Allahu Akhbar

    Rep.-elect Keith Ellison (D-MN) gave a speech yesterday to a crowd in Dearborn, Michigan, home to a large Muslim community. According to an account  in the Detroit Free Press, "You can't back down, you can't chicken out, you can't be afraid...

  • December 23, 2006

    Turning the tide on Che?

    One of the enduring irritants of contemporary American culture is the iconic status afforded Che Guevara, a bloodthirsty psychopath on his better days, henchman of a long-lived murderous tyranny that has both impoverished and oppressed the Cuban peop...

  • December 23, 2006

    Dynastic dispute in Saudi?

    Something appears to be going on inside the ruling circles of Saudi Arabia. Which means that something is up among the various branches of the Saud family, with its thousands of princes. On this family rests ownership of the world's largest pool of o...

  • December 23, 2006

    Apparatchiks Anonymous

    That's the name suggested by Gagdad Bob, of One Cosmos, the always provocative and amusing website. Bob uses James Lewis's essay "Why isn't the Whole Left Neoconservative?" as a point of departure for his own essay on the pathologies of the...

  • December 23, 2006

    Surely not Calgary?

    It's one thing for Mike Bloomberg's New York City to ban trans fats in food. We're used to "Nurse Bloomberg's" view of big government's role, forcing citizens to behave in ways the bureaucrats decree to be healthy. Nevermind the way in whic...

  • December 22, 2006

    Duke does damage control (updated)

    Duke University's track record in rocketing into the first tier of American higher education, after being founded in the 1930s, has been one of the most notable success stories in American higher education. But as Richard Baehr pointed out to AT...

  • December 22, 2006

    Russia's gas grab update

    Russia and the industry partners in the Sakhalin 2 LNG gas project have "agreed" on the terms under which Russia will take over half ownership of the $20 billion project. From Bloomberg:  Shell, Mitsui Co. and Mitsubishi Corp. will eac...

  • December 22, 2006

    Hillary's chances

    Martin Peretz, editor-in-chief of The New Republic, has a delightfully jaundiced take on Hillary Clinton's run for the presidency. There is some wonderful prose here.One of the problems about figuring all the angles is that you can't. And, believe me...

  • December 21, 2006

    Don't ever drive in Saudi without a navigation system

    The horrible death of James Kim in the Oregon wilderness reminds us of the potential danger in taking a wrong turn. A number of scary movies, such as 2003's Wrong Turn, remind us that uncivilized territory inhabited by barbarians can also be let...

  • December 21, 2006

    I'd watch even on pay-per-view

    A battle royale is set to take place in London, and it won't be a heavyweight boxing match. Daniel Pipes, a leading critical scholar of Islam, is to debate Ken Livingstone, leftist admirer of Islamic culture and all things left. Our contributor Peter...

  • December 21, 2006

    Try reversing the situation

    The wonderful Melanie Phillips, London Daily Mail columnist, blogger, and author, makes a wonderful point in commenting on Ed Lasky's article on the connections of ISG personnel with the Saudis.Can you imagine what the media response would have been ...

  • December 21, 2006

    "Hundreds of millions of dollars"

    Rachel Ehrenfeld writes an eye-opening column in today's Washington Times, on the Arab money connections of Jimmy Carter. Like James Baker III, the only president ever called "Jimmy" has lots and lots of lucrative connections to money with ...

  • December 20, 2006

    The Al Gore/Lord Monckton debate

    Lord Monckton's critique of Al Gore's assertions on global warming theory drew a response from Al Gore. Lord Monckton has responded, and the Center for Science and Public Policy has published the resulting dialogue.The deabte gets to the heart of iss...

  • December 20, 2006

    Hillary takes a big hit

    Chicago's Mayor Richard Daley, a Democrat with a reputation for pragmatism, patriotism and making a big city work reasonably well, has broken tradition and endorsed a presidential candidate before the Democratic Party's nominating process is complete...

  • December 20, 2006

    Goode hangs tough

    Under criticism from Muslim rights groups, Rep. Virgil Goode is refusing to apologize for remarks he made about immigration. From the Richmond Times-Dispatch:U.S. Rep. Virgil H. Goode Jr. will not apologize to upset Islamic groups for a letter he wro...

  • December 19, 2006

    Jihad in Ireland (updated)

    Our friend Tom Carew blogs from Ireland. He calls our attention to a television documentary produced by state-owned RTE 1 TV covering the state of jihad in Ireland. It does not bring comforting news. Tom outlines the content of program in s...

  • December 19, 2006

    Outrage in Libya

    In February of this year, Eric Schwappach called AT readers' attention to an ongoing travesty of justice in Libya....five Bulgarian nurses and one Palestinian doctor were arrested and made scapegoats for "scandalous hygienic conditions and bad l...

  • December 19, 2006

    The Annanklatura (updated)

    Claudia Rosett has another journalistic coup  to her name, with her exposé of Kofi Annan's shameless exploitation of what amount to housing subsidies intended for low to moderate income New Yorkers, even while employed as Secretary-Genera...

  • December 19, 2006

    David Zucker on James Baker

    David Zucker, the comedy genius, has his own pointed and hilarious video commentary on James Baker and the ISG. It is a perfect video compliment to Ed Lasky's article today. It is highly recommended. Hat tip: poster #16 at Lucianne.com....

  • December 18, 2006

    Lives of the rich and famous: The UN

    There is a certain kind of "wealth" that goes undetected by tax authorities, surveys, and the general public. It is the wealth that consists of the ability to spend other people's money on pleasurable objects. A shining example is on offer ...

  • December 18, 2006

    Lives of the rich and famous: The Obamas

    Poor Mrs. Barack  Obama! "My income is pretty low compared to my peers" she says. How much is she scraping by on? According to a tax return released by the senator this week, the promotion nearly tripled her income from the hospitals t...

  • December 17, 2006

    Pipeline power for Israel?

    Relatively quietly, and with tantalizingly few details available, Israel and Turkey have reached agreement on construction of a strategic pipeline linking the Black Sea and Red Sea, traversing Israel to eventually deliver energy resources to Far East...

  • December 17, 2006

    Mind over madness

    Once again, the capacity of free Western societies to create inventions is trumping the brutality of the Islamist terrorists, who seek to restore a seventh century steady-state society, based on the "perfection" of Shari'a law. God-given gi...

  • December 14, 2006

    Russia's Great Gas Grab

    The global economy is held together by silken threads of trust, the belief that contracts will be honored once signed. Without the assurance that governments will honor their agreements, individuals and companies would be reluctant to advance the sub...

  • December 14, 2006

    Naked Jew-hatred on display

    Noel Sheppard, in his role at Newsbusters, the media watchdog site, covers a shootout of sorts that took place on CNN yesterday. David Duke, speaking from the "What Holocaust?" conference in Tehran, strutted his Jew-hatred in a lengthy inte...

  • December 14, 2006

    The Democratic Party and Jews

    Gabriel Schoenfeld, senior editor of Commentary Magazine, pens an essay in the January issue (now online here) on the paradox of Jewish support for a party (the Democrats) that is becoming more and hostile to Jews and Israel, and friendly to anti-Sem...

  • December 14, 2006

    More partisan "reporting" from al-Reuters

    Thomas Ferraro of Reuters has written what amounts to a summary of Democrat talking points on the party's effort to raise the minimum wage. The very title of the article reflects partisanship: "Democrats to raise wages for poor workers...

  • December 13, 2006

    Ward Churchill's student base

    He's back in the news, this time being cheered by 200 students at the New School, where he called the school's president, Medal of Honor Winner and former Senator Robert Kerrey, a "mass murder and serial killer to boot"Clearly the man has h...

  • December 13, 2006

    The agony of Lebanon continues

    Rick Moran of RightWing NutHouse long has been covering developments in Lebanon, a task which cannot be a happy one, but one which he explains in great detail. He has two different stories posted today.Efforts by the Arab League to mediate a solution...

  • December 13, 2006

    Best media blog contest

    One of our central concerns here at AT is media behavior. Accordingly, we have more than a pasing interest in the competition for best media blog underway. Check it out here. All of us are eligible to vote....

  • December 12, 2006

    CAIR on the prowl for (certain kinds of) discrimination

    The Council on American Islamic Relations is urging Muslims, especially those planning to Haj travel to Mecca (a city which the rest of us infidel Americans are forbidden to enter), to be exquisitely senitive to any slights they may feel they en...

  • December 11, 2006

    Jimmy Carter: "worse than plagiarism"

    Jimmy Carter's recent book, Palestine: Peace, not Apartheid, has taken a lot of serious criticism, not least in these pages (see Rick Richman's devastating review). In recent days, apparent plagiarism on the part of the former president has come to l...

  • December 11, 2006

    In case you had any doubt

    Iran isn't taking any chances on facts getting in the way of its planned "conference" on the Holocaust. It wants to rewrite history to make the Jews entirely unsympathetic, and so the Holocaust must be "discredited" and ultimately...

  • December 10, 2006

    UN retreating on global warming theory

    The "science" underlying global warming theory is about to be recognized as a bit shakier by the UN itself, according to the UK Sunday Telegraph.Mankind has had less effect on global warming than previously supposed, a United Nations r...

  • December 8, 2006

    Gaza meets Hollywood

    Jules Crittenden, City Editor of the Boston Herald, has a hilarious and outrageous satire on his personal blog: a Hollywood-stle pitch for a drama about a suicide bomber. The hyperlinks are devastating. Speaking as an editor, satire is very...

  • December 7, 2006

    In the genes?

    The success of Israel, modern, democratic, wealthy, and above all Jewish, has obsessed the Arabs. The cannot tolerate the Jews being among them. Their entire sense of themselves rides on solving their problem with the Jews. It gnaws at their self est...

  • December 6, 2006

    The Arab world's Dr. Ruth

    Apparently, the Arab world is ready for its own version of Dr. Ruth's sex talk show. According to Israel Insider, a Cairo University professor of forensic medicine is moonlighting on television with a weekly show featuring explicit discussion of sexu...

  • December 4, 2006

    A Norwegian tip-off

    Craig Whitlock of the Washington Post reports very disturbing news from Oslo about a terror suspect eluding the CIA, thanks to an apparent tip-off by a Norwegian official: Two months after he helped kidnap a Muslim cleric in Italy, records show, ...

  • December 4, 2006

    Poisoned Litvinenko asked for Muslim burial? (updated)

    The mind boggles. Polonium-poisoned ex-KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko's father says that he asked for a Muslim burial. At least that is what MosNews.com is reporting, based on a Russian language daily newspaper report. Alexander Litvinenko, the fo...

  • December 1, 2006

    What if the US left Iraq?

    One increasingly relevant perspective on Iraq is that it is the latest front in the ongoing war with Iran, started when our embassy was invaded and Carter did nothing to stop it. But beneath the obvious surface of US-Iran tensions lurks the larger fi...

  • November 30, 2006

    Freedom of speech and mob rule on campus

    Cinnamon Stillwell, an AT contributor, describes the serous problems with freedom of speech on college campuses in a San Francisco Chronicle column. "...it's the students who have become the bullies as of late. A disturbing number seem to f...

  • November 30, 2006

    Our true friends and allies

    "...when duty and honor call, the Canadian soldier has always stepped forward, front and center, to be counted as a true friend and ally of the United States." So writes Rick Moran today on Rightwing Nuthouse, in an article covering the maj...

  • November 30, 2006

    Tom Carew's new blog

    Our occasional contributor and friend Tom Carew, of Dublin, Ireland, has a new blog containing many video links that should be of great interest. The blog's name is no surrender-ne pasaran. Tom writes that "The blog title of "no surren...

  • November 28, 2006

    More propaganda on stem cells

    The debate over funding for stem cell research has been marked by deliberate obfuscation and overblown promises. There is a huge difference between embryonic stem cell research and the other two types of stem cell research. Today, the left ...

  • November 28, 2006

    Europe ignores market, pays the price

    While American wine dealers, restaurants and wine bars advertise the recent arrival of Beaujolais nouveau, the young, raw-tasting wine that the French have persuaded some Americans and many Japanese to celebrate, back in France 8 million liters of Be...

  • November 28, 2006

    Citigroup cuts NYT to "sell" rating

    Citigroup has downgraded the New York Times Company to a "sell" rating from "hold",  according to Marketwatch. "Even though two secular forces should be helping the industry -- older demographics and slowing broadba...

  • November 27, 2006

    Is the war on Wal-Mart escalating?

    Two Maine teen-agers are under arrest for detonating 2 acid bombs inside a shopper-filled local Wal-Mart, according to the Associated Press. Fortunately, no shoppers were seriously injured by the explosives, which were reportedly made from household ...

  • November 27, 2006

    "In God we trust" and new coin (updated)

    Can this report possibly be true? And if so, why am I reading about it first from an Isareli website, Arutz Sheva?(IsraelNN.com) The American mint has removed the official "In God We Trust" motto from the face of it dollar coin and has rele...

  • November 27, 2006

    Pope insulted by attempted assasin of JP II

    Mehmet Ali Agca, the man who attempted to kill Pope John Paul the Great, only to be forgiven by his target, has apparently not had his heart permanently affected. Via Ummah News Links, we see a dispatch from the Zee News revealing that would-be assas...

  • November 26, 2006

    The downside of family gatherings

    At our Thanksgiving table, we had a discussion among friends and family of our own memories of Thanksgivings past. Inevitably, the topic turned to family arguments that went bad. People storming out of the celebration and driving away in a cloud of d...

  • November 26, 2006

    Who's minding the store?

    Our friend John Rosenthal of Transatlantic Intelligencer has noticed that the Department of Homeland Security has just issued a waiver to permit Khaled Al-Masri to obtain a visa and enter the United States. The State Department had previosuly de...

  • November 22, 2006

    American Thinker's Big Weekend

      Over the extended holiday weekend, big change is coming to American Thinker. I want to share with readers why this is happening, and describe some of the new features that will be appearing. Conservatives tend to have a bias against change, so...

  • November 16, 2006

    Airbus Blamed for Poor French Economic Growth

    French economic growth is slumping and the problems at Airbus are getting blamed for it. The two year delay in delivery of the A380 super jumbo is reverberating throughout the French and EU economies. Politics, always a factor at the mammoth 'social ...

  • November 10, 2006

    Airbus Must Thread a Needle

    The past week, which saw Europe celebrating the triumph of America's Democrats, produced more bad news for Airbus. Europe's champion 'social enterprise,' intended to serve the interests of more than just shareholders, and its chosen instrument rival ...

  • November 8, 2006

    The Morning After in the House of Representatives

    The House of Representatives appears to be securely in the hands of presumptive Speaker Nancy Pelosi. After the celebration of the historic first female speaker, and the Democrat leadership moves into new more spacious offices, the business of holdin...

  • November 1, 2006

    Kerry Drops a Bomb on the Democrats

    Why is there never a GOP couple parked at a Waffle House, innocently listening into cell phone conversations among Democrat political leaders in order to capture some history for their grandchildren? Actually we know the answer to that question, and ...

  • October 30, 2006

    Airbus: Good News and Bad News

    It's no joke, but there is good news and bad news for Airbus, manufacturer of the thrice—delayed (for a total of two years) A 380 ultra—jumbo airliner, Moby Jet, as I like to term it. First, the good news. — Airbus has signed an ag...

  • October 13, 2006

    The Desperate Dictator: Kim Jong-il

    Any dictator who can allow a million or two of his 20 million countrymen to die of starvation, rather than open up his country to allow the adequate provision of proffered aid, must be pretty well invulnerable. Death by starvation is visibl...

  • October 10, 2006

    Streiff-torn Airbus

    Christian Streiff's brave experiment in playing save—the—company hardball  is over at Airbus. Inheriting a mess not of his own making, he laid out a series of possible maneuvers, ranging from cutting jobs to outsourcing, while procla...

  • October 8, 2006

    The Return of Sexual McCarthyism

    The left, in possession of a scandal which they think can drive a wedge between evangelicals and the GOP, is behaving like a shark driven mad by the scent of blood in the water. Certain individuals strike out blindly in a political feeding frenzy. Th...

  • October 4, 2006

    Airbus at the Crossroads

    Yesterday's announcement of a third round of delay, this time for roughly a year, in the delivery of Airbus A 380 superjumbo airliners drove down shares of parent company EADS so far that trading in them had to be suspended on the Paris arm of the Eu...

  • October 3, 2006

    Mark Foley and the New Rules

    The Mark Foley October Surprise operation is yielding rich dividends for the Democrats. So far. As long as the battle remains one of vague impressions based on talking points, sliming the GOP with allegations of being soft on a homosexual predator of...

  • October 2, 2006

    Two Narratives: the Politics of the Foley Scandal

    Regardless of whether or not some sort of plot existed to hold onto evidence of potentially criminal internet misconduct by former Rep.  Mark Foley, and spring it on the public as an October Surprise, the fallout of the case is going to be power...

  • September 28, 2006

    The Dark View of Islam and the American Street

    Private conversations and correspondence indicate that I am far from the only person who has recently been giving more credence to what Max Boot of the Los Angeles Times calls 'a dark view of Islam.' The furious, sometimes violent, and often abu...

  • September 23, 2006

    Australia, the Beacon of Sanity

    Australia is once again making more sense than any other country on earth with regard to issues of culture and immigration. Like its Anglosphere cousins the United States and Canada, Australia's political economy, personal freedom, rule of law, and o...

  • September 22, 2006

    The Airbus Fiasco

    As a supreme symbol of Europe's prowess in aerospace, indeed in modern technology itself, the A 380 superjumbo jet, is melting down. No longer the embodiment of European cooperation and unity, its third announced delivery delay reveals internal chaos...

  • September 13, 2006

    New York Times Company Spirals Further Downward

    It is sad to watch a once—great company decline. Jobs are sacrificed, historic facilities closed, and an atmosphere of failure and fear usually permeates the surviving operations. When a company needs to sell—off profitable crown jewels t...

  • September 12, 2006

    AP Responds to Captured Iraqi Intelligence Document

    We received an email from a Mr. Jack Stokes with an Associated Press email address, containing a statement from Ms. Linda Wagner, Director of Media Relations & Public Affairs, Associated Press. The subject line of the email from Mr. Stokes' is: ...

  • September 8, 2006

    September Song: The Political Season is Changing

    Democrats are once again experiencing the adrenalin rush that accompanies the prospect of regaining power in one or both houses of Congress. Polling data tells them that the President has low approval numbers, and the Republican—controlled Cong...

  • September 1, 2006

    The Death of a President: Political Pornography

    Britain's Channel 4 is to broadcast and market worldwide, via the Toronto Film Festival, a docudrama, The Death of a President (DOAP), depicting the future assassination of President Bush, providing the latest and highest budget artifact of the lefti...

  • August 31, 2006

    Who's Crazy?

    Was Hitler crazy? He certainly believed in bizarre contra—factual conspiracy theories, had a deep interest in the occult, and is believed by many historians to have so ineptly and arbitrarily handled German military strategy and weapons develop...

  • August 26, 2006

    To be Young, Gifted, and in Reno

    My attitude toward public education in America usually vacillates between anger and despair. Despite spending more money per pupil than any other major country, American public schools progressively dumb down our kids, as revealed in international co...

  • August 16, 2006

    Throwing Pinch Overboard

    It has finally happened. The left is beginning to turn against New York Times publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr., known far and wide as 'Pinch.' It is simple to understand why: the New York Times is becoming a failing business under his stewardshi...

  • August 8, 2006

    Downsizing Credibility: Cleaning Up the Reuters Mess

    Journalism has changed forever. Two of the world's most prominent news organizations have been forced to retract material and eat humble pie, thanks to the debunking of internet journalists. Spotting anomalies and, in spontaneously self—organiz...

  • August 7, 2006

    Institutional Failure at Reuters

    Though I am five thousand miles away, I think that I can detect the vibrations emanating from West Norwood Cemetery in London. For surely Paul Julius Reuter, the German rabbi's son who founded the Reuters News Agency a century and a half ago, is spin...

  • August 6, 2006

    Reuters Admits Photo Fraud: Now What About Qana?

    Stop the pixels! Caught red—handed publishing a fake photo, using PhotoShop or similar program to exaggerate the smoke rising from Beirut after an Israeli air raid, Reuters has withdrawn the picture. As in the case of the Rathergate memo, credi...

  • August 3, 2006

    You Can't Teach (Some) Old Media New Tricks

    Jefferson Morley writes about the international online media for the Washington Post.  He is sneering at conservative websites which dared to raise questions about the troubling inconsistencies in reports, and some very curious photographs ...

  • August 2, 2006

    Mad Mel

    Most guys who made a personal profit well into the hundreds of millions of dollars on their last film might feel pretty happy. If the film triumphed over a generally hostile press and the opposition of industry big—shots, the pot of gold would ...

  • July 18, 2006

    Downsizing the New York Times

    A profitable company is to shutter a factory it built in 1992 as part of a much—hailed visionary strategy to take advantage of technology. But now it is just a cost to be cut. Eight hundred jobs, many of them well—paying blue collar posit...

  • June 27, 2006

    Airbus Agonistes

    Airbus, the European champion of the cause of state—directed enterprise, is in crisis. Even French President Jacques Chirac has been forced to acknowledge "management problems"  at Airbus' parent EADS, which is partially owned by the Frenc...

  • June 22, 2006

    Airbus Roils French Politics

    Aircraft manufacturers regularly conduct stress testing of the vital components and systems of their new airplanes, to make certain they can withstand the forces that will come with actual use. Lately, the troubles  of Airbus have been applying ...

  • June 20, 2006

    North Korea Rattles the Cage

    The important thing to keep in mind about analyses of North Korea's behavior  is William Goldman's famous dictum about producing hits in Hollywood: nobody knows anything. Until Madeleine Albright made her journey to Pyongyang in 2000, paying cou...

  • June 15, 2006

    Moby Jet?

    Airbus crashed this week. Not an actual airplane, but the stock price of its parent, EADS, which fell by almost a third yesterday, before recovering and posting a mere 26% loss in a single day, making it down a third this year. The most fascinating b...

  • May 22, 2006

    Historians riled by book award on the A-bombing decision

    We have been covering the continuing fight among historians over President Truman's decision to use atomic bombs on Japan to end World War II. One of the most important awards for historians, the Ferrell Prize, was given to Tsuyos...

  • May 18, 2006

    Red Ken and Red China

    The Mayor of London, fresh from palling around with Venezuela's Hugo Chavez, 'dropped a clanger' yesterday, as the Brits say. 'Red Ken' Livingstoneаis defending the memory of Chairman Mao, usually reckoned to be the deadliest dictator in history, wit...

  • May 12, 2006

    Airbus Loses Altitude

    The largest and most technologically sophisticated companies in the world rarely surrender to the competition and admit they have made a poor decision about what to produce. That's why the leakаof Airbus' latest product plan is so significant. A stat...

  • May 9, 2006

    The Politics of Anger on the Left

    America's Left and the political party it calls home, the Democrats, have been seized by anger ever since the disputes of the 2000 presidential election, with its razor—thin margin, judicial intervention called forth by Gore, and the ultimate v...

  • April 26, 2006

    The White House Shifts Gears

    Gears are shifting at the White House. We are moving into election mode. Expect the national conversation to change. The White House has a new spokesman, Tony Snow, whose appointment is being confirmed by his former employer, Fox News. He will be doi...

  • April 21, 2006

    Pinch Gets Punched

    Arthur Ochs 'Pinch' Sulzberger, Jr., the scion of a family dynasty founded by his great grandfather, is well into the process of destroying the patrimony handed to him on a silver platter. Even worse, the whole world is starting to notice, something ...

  • March 30, 2006

    Airliner Wars

    A momentous battle is taking place over dominance of the enormous market for commercial jetliners. Europe's Airbus and America's Boeing each seek to cripple their rival with better products, more attuned to the needs of the airlines and the flying pu...

  • March 28, 2006

    Citizenship: The Precious Legacy

    The problem posed by the presence of millions of illegal aliens in our midst has no easy and immediately practical solution. Sweeping rhetoric from advocates of one clean—cut position or another may sound satisfying, but would cause chaos in pr...

  • March 12, 2006

    The Sopranos, Television, and the Human Sewer

    It has been more than 21 months since I last saw a brand new episode of The Sopranos, an artistic achievement that has begun to make a lasting impact on the medium of television. Artistically superior to the vast majority of movies, The Sopranos has ...

  • March 7, 2006

    Secret Orbiter System Revealed

    A formerly secret system for orbiting satellites and (implicitly) conducting space warfare has been revealed. A stunningly complex and sophisticated 'black project' was developed, utilized to an unknown degree, and is now mothballed — all witho...

  • March 3, 2006

    Google Goes Gourmet

    Google is a company that enjoys its mystique. A bit of the shine may be off its stock, but it remains a formidable internet technical, financial, market and market powerhouse, making very impressive amounts of money for company only a few years old. ...

  • February 27, 2006

    The Islamist Attack on Intellectual Property

    It becomes clearer with every day that the Islamist faction within the Muslim world has an idealized vision of society entirely at odds with foundations of American society, and with the values of modern civilization. Free speech (including cartoon s...

  • February 22, 2006

    The Left Seizes Harvard

    The American left, long in decline, has shored up its base, definitively seizing the high ground of American academia. The resignation  of Lawrence Summers as president of Harvard University, the nation's oldest, and the world's richest and most...

  • February 8, 2006

    Strange New Respect

    It is hard for us Westerners to understand the deep reverence so many overseas have for this man. He was, after all, human, not a god in the eyes of even his most devout believers. But his followers regard him as a special and different kind of ...

  • February 6, 2006

    The Cartoon Crisis Conspiracy and Moderate Muslims

    The cartoon crisis which has left embassies ablaze and sparked riots from Beirut to Bangkok and Jarkarta was a set—up job, planned and executed by a group of Muslim leaders from Denmark in concert with leading lights of the Islamic world. ...

  • February 2, 2006

    Comic Outrage

    This week people have been doing more agonizing than laughing at newspaper cartoons. Not just Muslims, but now America's military forces — and the rest of us who support our warriors — are disgusted by a cartoon. Specifically the car...

  • February 1, 2006

    Denmark Under Siege

    In the heart of Old Europe, a loyal ally is standing firm for principles essential to the survival of western civilization. So far America has done nothing of substance to help Denmark stand up in the face of intense pressure to impose de facto censo...

  • January 24, 2006

    The Antique Media

    The power structure of the American media is undergoing a convulsion that surpasses even the revolution wrought by the advent of television broadcasting sixty years ago.  At first, television was politically neutral, and neither party took ...

  • January 19, 2006

    The New York Times executive editor writes to me

    The situation is worse at the New York Times than I thought. Bill Keller, executive editor of the Times, sent me an email the other day. At least I think it is an email to me from the Bill Keller who runs Grey Lady's editorial staff. Actually, it is...

  • January 16, 2006

    Photo fakery at the New York Times

    Is a fake staged photo fit to print? What if it staged in a way that makes the US forces fighting the War on Terror look cruel and ineffective? The evidence argues that yes, it can run, and in a prominent position — at least in the case of...

  • January 15, 2006

    24: Fantasy, Reality, and the War on Terror

    Tonight's season premier of 24, the innovative 'real—time' television series portraying (over 24 one—hour episodes) an eventful day in the life of Jack Bauer, counter—terrorism fighter extraordinaire, has generated unusual buzz for ...

  • January 12, 2006

    Have you no sense of decency?

    Most Americans were not glued to their televisions yesterday watching the Alito confirmation hearings. But today a substantial portion of the electorate is aware that Judge Alito's wife Martha—Ann Bomgardner was driven to tears, as Senator Lind...

  • January 10, 2006

    The Two Seasons of American Politics

    Contemporary American politics has two seasons, not four. Life is very different for politicians, the public and the media in the two respective seasons, and the ebb and flow of power operate in very distinct modalities in them. Unless we are clear a...

  • December 27, 2005

    The most controversial book you never heard of

    Can you name the book which has the Islamic world in an uproar, and caused the United States government to deny any involvement with it? The book banned in the world's most populous democracy? No, not Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses, a cause cele...

  • December 26, 2005

    The choice of anger

    [Editor's note: during the holidays, we are re—publishing some classic American Thinker articles. This article comes from early 2004.] The Democrats have built a mythology around the 2000 Presidential election, as Richard Baehr convincingly ...

  • December 26, 2005

    Hello, India

    [Editor's note: during the holidays, we are re—publishing some classic American Thinker articles. This article comes from the Beta—test period, before we started daily publication on January 5th, 2004] The widespread use of English is ...

  • December 20, 2005

    The Liberal Bubble

    To a remarkable degree, America's liberal elites have constructed for themselves a comfortable, supportive, and self esteem—enhancing environment. The most prestigious and widest—reaching media outlets reinforce their views, rock stars an...

  • December 15, 2005

    The Mask Slips

    The past year has seen a spate of shocking statements revealing hatred and contempt for President Bush and his supporters on the part of important media figures who claim objectivity and sneer at conservatives unafraid to characterize themselves...

  • October 30, 2005

    Saving people from themselves

    The nanny state is marked by an impulse to prevent people from making foolish decisions about their personal welfare. The very notion that wise public officials should make personal choices about the intimate details of foolish citizens' lives is rep...

  • October 25, 2005

    Mine's bigger

    For more than a century skyscrapers have been the visible expression of American ingenuity, energy, and prosperity. The skylines of Manhattan and Chicago were seen as uniquely American phenomena, while lesser cities of the land had their own clusters...

  • October 20, 2005

    Food and ideology

    Sometimes an event comes along which crystallizes a mindset, and stands as self—parody, its serious—minded participants unaware of the irony their ideology embodies. Even the San Francisco Chronicle could not resist noticing th...

  • October 9, 2005

    Calame-brain

    The New York Times is rapidly becoming a parody of its former status as the newspaper of record. Today's column by Byron* Calame (pronounced "Kuh—lame"), ombudsman ('public editor') for the Times, certainly reads like a parody, an embarras...

  • October 6, 2005

    Groupthink

    Based on some of the commentary from respected conservatives distressed over the SCOTUS nomination of non—judge, non—scholar, non—intellectual Harriet Miers, one would think that the Supreme Court has always been populated by Olympi...

  • October 5, 2005

    Touching a nerve

    Something about the nomination of Harriet Miers touched a nerve among many  conservatives, especially those who write in public. Although I support the President's choice, I will concede that there are legitimate grounds to question his act...

  • October 5, 2005

    E-books

      I have just read my first e—book, plunging into the brave new world of publishing's future. I can report that I am extremely happy with my experience. For a mere two dollars, you too can try out the new technology for yourself, and ...

  • October 4, 2005

    Don't misunderestimate Miers

    President Bush is a politician trained in strategic thinking at Harvard Business School, and schooled in tactics by experience and advice, including the experience and advice of his father, whose most lasting political mistake was the nomination of D...

  • October 2, 2005

    Litigation fever hits China

    China is catching litigation fever. Not that victims of pollution or faulty consumer products have begin dragging companies into court, or predatory law firms are launching class action lawsuits on flimsy pretexts. Yet. Instead, a free—lance en...

  • September 29, 2005

    Lilya 4-ever

    For the movie fan, these are the best of times and the worst of times. Hollywood, in thrall to a dissident segment of American culture at war with traditional values, and addicted to special effects, violence, sex, and adrenalin—producing clich...

  • September 24, 2005

    Lessons learned

    Hurricane Rita is far from spent, but it has spared the major population center of Houston from its full fury, and has already diminished in intensity. While further destruction and suffering is all but certain, it is not too soon to begin thinking a...

  • September 21, 2005

    Misunderestimated again: Bush and recovery from Katrina

    George W. Bush is well—accustomed to his political opponents handing him the invaluable asset of their misplaced contempt for his abilities. An overconfident enemy is a blessing to any strategist. But in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, memb...

  • September 13, 2005

    The new Supreme Court looms over Democrats

    Step—by—step, judicial activism, a trend with half a century's momentum behind it, is being rolled back. The confirmation hearings of John Roberts as the nominee for Chief Justice of the United States got off to such a mild start yesterda...

  • September 7, 2005

    New York Times smears Houston

    The New York Times Company is facing an abyss, and seems to be doing its best to hurtle faster into the realm of public scorn and business disaster. For a company whose most valuable asset is its prestige as a news source, the now—frequent will...

  • September 4, 2005

    Big labor splits

    A pillar of the Democratic Party is crumbling before our very eyes. The AFL—CIO has been the greatest financial patron of the Democrats, as well as an indispensable adjunct for organizing on the ground, precinct—by—precinct. For ye...

  • September 3, 2005

    Anger-based politics

    A Holiday Weekend Classic Anger has become the energizing force of America's Left. The legacy of the 2000 presdiential election for the Democrats is a crippling sense of entitlement to the support of the American people, unjustly denied them by villa...

  • September 1, 2005

    New Orleans, the tragedy

    As Hurricane Katrina headed toward New Orleans, sticklers for the actual meaning of words told us that it would be wrong to label the impending disaster a tragedy. That term, with its origins in drama, refers to horrible consequences produced out of ...

  • August 12, 2005

    The Great Raid

    I really wanted to like The Great Raid. As soon as the television ad campaign began almost two weeks ago, my appetite was whetted. There are a lot of us who are hungry to see the exploits of our military heroes, and this particular story of derr...

  • August 9, 2005

    Politics and housing prices

    High housing prices make people blue. Not just the young first—time home—buyers stunned at what a starter house or condo costs, or the families scrimping to pay an oversized variable—interest mortgage. There is very substantial stat...

  • August 4, 2005

    Claiming historical priority for Islam

    Did you know that the Greeks and Greek Civilization are actually descended from Arabs? Did you realize that the Greek Language is actually 'of an Arabic origin'? Surely you knew that the rituals, poetry and beauty of Apollo were descended from the an...

  • August 1, 2005

    China's weakness

    China's rulers face an ongoing crisis of legitimacy. There is abundant evidence that very substantial discontent exists among its population. We must never forget that China's leadership is frightened not just of losing power, but of the disintegrati...

  • July 27, 2005

    The Democratic Party: Left Behind

    The Democratic Party just took a body blow this week, deepening the crisis of the American Left. The historic split  of organized labor which took place Monday will slash the Democrats' cash flow and remove thousands of 'volunteer' union workers...

  • July 17, 2005

    Cover Girl

    The newspaper industry is very, very slowly coming to grips with the rise of a new technology which delivers news cheaper, faster, interactively, using lower cost (in fact, usually free) labor. A reading of the history of industrial structure suggest...

  • July 15, 2005

    The Rove-is-a-traitor meme

    Desperate people say stupid things. Democrats are increasingly desperate, and in increasing numbers have moved from uttering the merely ridiculous to shouting self—destructive rhetoric from their media rooftops. Karl Rove occupies a unique role...

  • July 7, 2005

    No panic today

    Britain is now burning with fear, terror and panic in its northern, southern, eastern, and western quarters. — al Qaeda website, as reported by the BBC  Waking up to the awful news that terrorists have attacked rush hour commuters in Lond...

  • July 5, 2005

    The Supreme Court Circus is coming to town

    The Supreme Court bans television cameras from its public sessions on the ground that it does not want its proceedings to become a 'circus.' Whether the august Court likes it or not, the struggle over the replacement to be nominated for retiring...

  • July 1, 2005

    The Air Force's future fleet of fuelers

    Airbus Industrie, more specifically, its parent EADS, the chosen instrument aerospace powerhouse keeping the French...err...Europeans in the military aerospace technology game, is getting closer to landing a potential hundred—billion dollar ord...

  • June 30, 2005

    The Anglosphere rules

    We live in an age in which few important conflicts can be described accurately and economically, which is to say, bluntly. Race and religion are obvious examples of domains in which condescension—masquerading—as—sensitivity mus...

  • June 26, 2005

    Free trade is good for US

    A trade liberalization agreement with Central American nations, CAFTA, is before Congress. Regrettably, the usual assemblage of protectionist forces has amassed enough political force to torpedo this highly desirable treaty, and its passage appears u...

  • June 20, 2005

    Airbus, Boeing and risk

    Airbus and Boeing have been fighting over the market for civilian jetliners for over three decades. As Airbus, a subsidized multi—national offspring of French firm Sud Aviation, grabbed market share, other firms suffered. Along the way, long...

  • June 16, 2005

    Tribute

    Faithful readers of this site know that I took several days away from regular posting due to a death in my family. I have struggled with issues of family privacy over the last few days, in deciding whether or not to write about my dearly departed mot...

  • June 8, 2005

    Airbus hits turbulence

    Europe, as a potential superpower rival to America, is reeling in the wake of voter rejection of its constitution in France and Holland. Speculation abounds that Italyаand even Germanyаmay abandon the euro as currency. Now Airbus, the flagship for Eu...

  • June 1, 2005

    Hoover's guy, Mark Felt

    I am confused by the liberal media. Until yesterday's revelation that Mark Felt was Deep Throat, I was pretty sure that liberals disapproved when a top official of the FBI gathered information from the Bureau's formidable investigative apparatus, and...

  • May 24, 2005

    Steals and deals

    There is a surprising amount of ambivalence among the pundits about the last—minute deal fashioned by 14 Senators yesterday to avoid a decisive end to the conflict over the filibustering of judicial appointees. Almost all are certain that their...

  • May 18, 2005

    Harvard is wasting $50 million

    Harvard University, in the wake of intense criticism of its President Lawrence Summers for daring to entertain a hypothesis that women and men may differ in their abilities to undertake science, has announced a plan to buy—off its critics....

  • May 17, 2005

    'Very, very bleak'

    Democrats, sustained by a mainstream media in friendly hands, can handle election losses, at least when facing the cameras. Deprived of a Senate majority, they are capable of unprecedented filibuster threats to block judicial appointments, while simu...

  • May 13, 2005

    Senate Democrats: plenty of trees, but no forest in sight

    The nomination of John Bolton to be United States Ambassador to the United Nations once again demonstrates the tactical brilliance of the national Democrats. Until the campaign against him was in full bloom, I had never suspected that personal abrupt...

  • May 1, 2005

    Counterpoint: a red state kinda guy, livin' blue

    [Charles Coulombe, in his article today, raises issues both familiar and important to many people. Like me.*] I am hopelessly attracted to the blandishments of the big city. Not all big cities, necessarily, but the ones which offer great food, lots o...

  • April 28, 2005

    Air combat

    Looking rather like a fat bratwurst sausage with wings, the massive Airbus A—380 supercolassalextrajumbosizeXXXLplus jetliner completed its maiden flight Wednesday. The taxpayers of Western Europe, who have once again coughed—up bill...

  • April 27, 2005

    No deal

    Senate Democrats appear to realize that they have painted themselves into a corner. Republicans are calling their bluff on the threat to filibuster appeals court judicial appointments, by threatening to change Senate rules to restore the status quo a...

  • April 20, 2005

    Our Pope

    Pope Benedict XVI instantly became one of the most important figures in the world yesterday. As a non—Catholic, I am in no position to comment on his spiritual role, by far the most important aspect of his job. But his predecessor, Pope John Pa...

  • April 16, 2005

    Confusion at Smith College

    Whenаone starts down the path of imposing fantasies upon and againstа the basic categories of natural history, and insists that your ownаimagination, not nature itself, ought to be the basis for determining action, no end of trouble and confusion wil...

  • April 14, 2005

    France: a riddle in a mystery inside an enigma

    I was just about ready to give up on the French. Again. But this morning I am pausing to wonder if there might be some hope for their redemption. France presents many dilemmas for me. Despite all the reasons they have given us to dislike them, there ...

  • April 12, 2005

    The Cardinal

    As the world's attention is focused on the Vatican Conclave of Cardinals selecting the next pope, a nearly—forgotten epic film from the early 1960s's, The Cardinal, has been released on DVD, and is available for rental from subscription DVD ren...

  • April 7, 2005

    Blood-feast in Berkeley

    On March 18th, a shocking crime took place in Berkeley, California, at a spot famous for sweeping Bay views, distinguished architecture, and the genteel atmosphere that wealthy 'progressives' create for themselves. An elderly woman, walking home with...

  • April 3, 2005

    Sic transit gloria

    There was a time when mass transit plus capitalism yielded urban development of the highest order. In the late Nineteenth and early Twentieth Centuries, enlightened entrepreneurs built streetcar and interurban electric transit routes to serve real es...

  • March 29, 2005

    Japan's new gateway

    Nagoya is the city other Japanese love to look down on. I have been told confidently by many Tokyoites, Osakans, and especially by the haughty natives of Kyoto, that 'Nagoya has no culture.' Most foreign tourists only catch a glimpse of its massive c...

  • March 25, 2005

    The old media game

    It seemed so long ago that the old media and their liberal cohorts were able to mount successful campaigns manipulating the public into support for dubious propositions: Bill Clinton's veto of a GOP budget as a 'Republican shutdown' of the government...

  • March 21, 2005

    Dense poets society

    Poetry is a window on the human soul. Sad to say, American poetry has fallen on hard times. At least that branch of it represented by the dozen or so poets recently outraged by an article we published  which dared to criticize anti—Israel ...

  • March 17, 2005

    Judicial activism's perfect storm

    After six decades of expansion, the tendency of judges to impose their preferences on society, rather than simply interpret the law as written, may have reached its apogee. Judicial activism, as this writing of law from the bench is known, faces a co...

  • March 9, 2005

    Say 'Good night,' Dan

    Like millions of other Americans, I will be tuning—in tonight to the CBS Evening News with Dan Rather for the first time in well over a decade. I don't really expect Dan Rather to own—up to any of his egregious sins as a newsman, or even ...

  • March 8, 2005

    The desperate left

    The desperate left is reviving old clichés and images, fighting a reactionary rear—guard effort to defend the vision of a secular state and society they have tried to build in the Twentieth Century. Faced with continuing losses at the polls, th...

  • February 25, 2005

    Guaranteed reservations

    Have you ever been issued a "guaranteed" reservation by a hotel? You know the drill: they take a credit card number and tell you that you will be charged for the room if you don't show up. But in return, you comfort yourself with the assumption that ...

  • February 18, 2005

    Dazed and confused

    I find myself stunned by the magnitude of the quick victory President Bush has won on tort reform, with the new bill, now awaiting his signature federalizing most class action lawsuits. No longer will judges and juries in obscure rural counties of Il...

  • February 4, 2005

    Feds nail Berkeley on race discrimination

    The United States government has caught the City of Berkeley, California in what appears to be a pattern of flagrant racial discrimination in handing out 'free money' to certain lucky residents. Although no formal finding has been issued, a routine f...

  • January 29, 2005

    Secretary Rice's swearing-in ceremony

    Watching the ceremonial swearing—in of Secretary of State Rice, I was moved by the occasion, especially by the President's remarks. Faithful readers know that I regard Dr. Rice as an inspirational figure for all Americans, albeit one of sp...

  • January 19, 2005

    Social Security, strategery – and South Park

    Astute political observers such as Bill Kristol have puzzled over President Bush giving top second term priority to Social Security reform. Unlike tax cuts or other possible priorities, the payoff for private Social Security accounts will come many y...

  • January 15, 2005

    Respectful disgreement

    I am a great admirer of Dennis Prager, the radio talk show host and writer. he is one of the most thoughtful commentators on politics, culture, and current events. And I agree with him that American leftists are entirely too full of hatred for our co...

  • January 11, 2005

    CBS tries to cop a plea

    CBS News is undoubtedly hoping that release of the Thornburgh/Boccardi Report, with its embarrassing admissions, will satisfy critics enough that the Rathergate scandal will be allowed to disappear into dim memory. They are wrong. Many observers, our...

  • January 2, 2005

    A movement in search of a cause

    France has found a new tale of good and evil about which to make clever conversation. As usual the villains are capitalism and America, and 'globalization' is the bogeyman combining the two malign forces which have, in their paranoid vision, conspire...

  • December 31, 2004

    Fear of the black man

    It is becoming self—evident that the American left is terrified at the prospect of Clarence Thomas becoming Chief Justice of The United States. Senator Harry Reid launched a vicious and wholly unsupported denunciation of the level of writing of...

  • December 29, 2004

    Not a fair fight

    Oh Boy! Just when you thought the legacy media might have wised—up in the wake Dan Rather's career crash, along comes Nick Coleman, the worst columnist at the Worst Major Daily Newspaper in America. The old adage is that when you find yourself ...

  • December 26, 2004

    Intelligent design of a newspaper

    Hugh Hewitt does a terrific job this morning, taking down an appallingly poorly—researched and —written front page story in the Sunday Washington Post, on the subject of "intelligent design" —аthe intellectually—respectable th...

  • December 21, 2004

    Get Rummy

    The long knives have been unsheathed, and Donald Rumsfeld's back targeted. One of the most capable, energetic, intelligent, determined and articulate public servants in the history of the American Republic is under fire for not being omniscient and i...

  • December 5, 2004

    Yes, but...

    Tom Friedman writes one of his maddening columns today in the New York Times. There is a core of truth to it, but what is left out is more important than what is mentioned. And, of course, the principal thrust is to bash Bush for a problem whose orig...

  • December 1, 2004

    O Canada

    All my life I have been an American friend of Canada. As a child, I knew that one branch of my family had fled European tyranny and persecution and found shelter north of the border, where they had prospered and enjoyed the blessings of liberty, tole...

  • November 29, 2004

    Confusing signals

    Nobody outside a small circle of internal power actors — party officials and senior military — knows what is going on in North Korea, but something is up. Probably something very big. Although the major press largely ignores these develop...

  • November 28, 2004

    Sideways

    I waited far too long to see Sideways, the latest film of Alexander Payne (the director of Citizen Ruth, Election, and About Schmidt). It is so good that I am kicking myself for having procrastinated.а Gratification for the mind, the eye, the heart, ...

  • November 23, 2004

    The rectification of names: progressive

    [Editor's Note: The American Thinker believes in calling things by their proper names. Euphemism is a tool of misrepresentation and ultimately of control, stripping away accurate and evocative connotations, and substituting false associations. George...

  • November 19, 2004

    Misdiagnosis

    The extended post—election public despair of disappointed Democrats has been nearly as remarkable as the Republican victory, its supposed proximate cause. Therapists, anxious to keep their couches warm, have rushed in to make up a self—se...

  • November 16, 2004

    Mandate for change

    The reported appointment of Condoleeza Rice to the job of Secretary of State is yet another signal that President Bush plans fundamental changes in the way the government of the United States operates. The Department of State, like the Central Intell...

  • November 13, 2004

    The man you love to hate

    Our long national nightmare is nearly over. No, I don't mean the terrorism nightmare. The other nightmare. The daily unrelenting media coverage of Scott Peterson's murder of his cute, perpetually smiling, very pregnant wife Laci, and their unborn chi...

  • November 4, 2004

    The real majority

    The people have spoken. President Bush's convincing victory, supplemented by a fortified Republican majority in both houses of Congress, unmistakably reveals that America is making the kind of progress abhorrent to reactionary  'progressives,' a...

  • November 3, 2004

    Licking their wounds

    It is amusing to scan the left wing pundits and read their sorry ruminations on the election results. William Saletan of Slate thinks that Bush won because he is simple (and so are you, stupid Americans). Bush is a very simple man. You may think tha...

  • November 3, 2004

    No contest

    President Bush has won a convincing re—election in terms of the popular vote. His margin is in the millions, and he has won an absolute majority, something Bill Clinton never did. The Electoral College total, absent provisional ballots, also ap...

  • November 2, 2004

    The deep breath factor

    Just about everything that could be said about today's election has already been proclaimed repetitively. But one imponderable remains: the last minute voting booth thoughts and reflections of citizens choosing a war time leader for a nation under co...

  • October 26, 2004

    The Body Shop bends

    In August, the American Thinker broke the story that The Body Shop, a prominent worldwide chain of stores selling hair care, skin care, and related products, had given a 'human rights award' to a group in Israel called the 'National Committee fo...

  • October 25, 2004

    Religious strife in America

    Why are we being treated to a public meltdown of the left? From Lawrence O'Donnell screaming variants of the word 'liar' 46 times in a ten minute span, as Swift Boat Vets leader John O'Neill was being interviewed on MSNBC, to a Guardian columnist wi...

  • October 23, 2004

    Chilling effect

    Political thuggery is on the rise in America. Because most of it is directed at the right, the legacy media does not find the trend towards organized political violence of much interest, beyond briefly noting individual incidents, particularly if vid...

  • October 21, 2004

    The stress test

    Suddenly, it doesn't seem like much fun being a billionaire couple in the national spotlight, with a focus of intensity that only a presidential campaign can provide. Queen Teresa and her prince consort John had always enjoyed being the center of att...

  • October 16, 2004

    Team America: World Police

    This movie, the latest product of South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone, is vulgar, juvenile, crude, offensive, and sometimes repulsive. And I loved it. If gutter language, marionettes engaging in explicit sex acts, ethnic stereotypes, ...

  • October 15, 2004

    Eloquence, debates, and the election

    Verbal facility is one of God's great gifts. A few among us are born with the capacity to charm or even inspire others with words. To be sure, it is a capacity which can be cultivated, but as with athletic abilities, intelligence, and a sense of humo...

  • October 14, 2004

    Twin Towers

    Do you remember 9/11? Unlike World War II, where 'Remember Pearl Harbor!' was a constantly—enunciated slogan, meant to inspire and motivate warriors and home—fronters alike, we barely ever see or hear any references to the worst...

  • October 14, 2004

    Bush won

    Don't believe the 'flash polls' and network news commentators who are spinning that last night's presidential debate was a draw or even a Kerry win.   Newsweek editor Evan Thomas promised that the MSM would add 15 points for Kerry, and they...

  • October 8, 2004

    The odd couple

    What a pair! John Forbes Kerry and Teresa Heinz Kerry would be an utterly new kind of team, running the wartime federal government. Make no mistake, Teresa has no intention of 'making tea and baking cookies,' as Hillary snidely caricatured the tradit...

  • October 4, 2004

    The food police win a big victory

    The Food Police are coming. You and I are presumed no longer capable of deciding on our own which foods we are to consume, at least in California. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, at the last minute in the current legislative session, signed into law...

  • October 1, 2004

    No sale

    The snap polls showing John F. Kerry 'won' last night's presidential debate miss the point entirely. Maybe a few teachers of rhetoric will base their voting decision on the quality of the self—presentation last night. Lawyers, actors, college p...

  • September 26, 2004

    Determination

    There was no atonement yesterday in Israel for the car bombing in Damascus, which removed senior Hamas official Izz El—Deen Al—Sheikh Khalil. Today, the day after Yom Kippur, the solemn Jewish Day of Atonement, Israeli defense source...

  • September 24, 2004

    More conspiracy theories

    I hope all my conspiracy theory—loving readers will put on their tinfoil helmets before they read any further. Their brains may explode and ruin a perfectly good computer monitor if they don't, once they absorb the information contained below. ...

  • September 22, 2004

    Conspiracy theories

    Rathergate has opened wide the floodgates for conspiracy theorists. No less a figure than the chairman of the oldest political party in the world, Terry McAuliffe, is sticking by his guns, claiming that Rathergate is, or least could be, a product of ...

  • September 19, 2004

    Viacom's Redstone dumps stock during Rathergate

    Unless someone has hacked the Security and Exchange Commission's website, it would appear that Viacom's Chairman and CEO Sumner Redstone chose to sell almost $12 million worth of stock in the midst of the Rathergate scandal roiling its wholly—o...

  • September 18, 2004

    It's the White House's fault

    The Los Angeles Times, with an assist from CBS News, once again earns the prize for most imaginative leftist political rationalization. Alert readers will remember the vicious attempts of the LAT to slander Governor Schwartzenegger as a groper prior ...

  • September 16, 2004

    Blind Anger

    Anger, the most toxic of emotions, has poisoned the American left and much of the Democratic Party. To the astonishment of many level—headed political professionals, the Kerry campaign is unable to let go of its charges that George Bush's Air N...

  • September 16, 2004

    CBS hangs tough - for today

    CBS's performance of September 15, 2004 was bizarre. First, they put—off for more than six hours the promised issuance of a statement. Then the Tiffany network released a puzzling vague promise ('we believe we should redouble our efforts t...

  • September 15, 2004

    Kerry, the executive

    John F. Kerry has already demonstrated a frightening level of incompetence as an executive. Regardless of any agreement or disagreement American voters may have with him on the issues, his demonstrated inability to handle the complexities of a presid...

  • September 10, 2004

    The blogosphere never sleeps

    Three years ago tomorrow, the awe—inspiring towers of the World Trade Center collapsed, following a completely unanticipated mode of attack. Today, the once proud tower of CBS News threatens to collapse under an attack clearly unanticipated by ...

  • September 9, 2004

    Kerry loses traction

    It is all coming home to roost for John F. Kerry. He now has so many different positions on record that any time he makes a forceful declaration or proposes a policy initiative, a contradictory quotation or, worse, a video clip, can be found, reinfor...

  • September 5, 2004

    Minnesota, again. This time, Republican

    When I was growing up in the Minnesota of the 1950s and 60s, the state was a proud bastion of national Democratic politics, producing Hubert Humphrey, Walter Mondale, Eugene McCarthy, Orville Freeman, and a host of lesser—known names active nat...

  • September 5, 2004

    Conspiracy theorists at the Times

    The left wingers on the op—ed page of the New York Times are becoming unhinged.   Frank Rich today joins Paul Krugman in articulating conspiracy theories to explain the success of the political movement backing President Bush. You se...

  • September 4, 2004

    The smoking gun

    The Associated Press, a powerful worldwide news source owned by its member daily newspapers, has perpetrated a vile and slanderous lie about President Bush and his supporters, and been caught read—handed. The smoking gun exists safe and sound i...

  • September 2, 2004

    Revolution in the infostructure

    Television news, the dominant source of political information for Americans, was transformed Tuesday night. A death knell for broadcast network news has pealed its initial toll. For the first time in history, coverage of an important news event by a ...

  • September 1, 2004

    It gets worse for the liberal media

    Viewership of the Republican National Convention on cable news has swung decisively toward Fox News Channel, according to ratings figures published on Drudge today. Monday night, FNC pulled over three times as many viewers as CNN, and over four ...

  • August 31, 2004

    The important good news you haven't heard

    Wonderful news of great significance has been announced, and America's major media are yawning. Mexico's state—owned oil company Pemex has revealed that it has discovered a gigantic new oil field, one capable of delivering millions of barrels a...

  • August 27, 2004

    Kerry's box

    The Kerry campaign is in crisis. Polling data is beginning to reflect a turn against his candidacy by the uncommitted and weakly—committed voters. The temptation for the campaigners is to blame the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth television comme...

  • August 22, 2004

    Shochu

    More than a decade after the Japanese boom in it began, the San Francisco Chronicle's wine section (which provides the best wine industry coverage in the nation) introduces Shochu, a distilled liquor traditionally made in Japan from sweet potatoes, t...

  • August 21, 2004

    No pain, no gain

    Once again, a seeming strength of the Kerry campaign has turned into a liability. Adam Nagourney, writing in the New York Times, speculates that Kerry spent too much time letting the Swiftvets' charges go unanswered: ...more than a few Democrats exp...

  • August 20, 2004

    The two elections

    The elections are really heating up. Yes, that's a plural noun, for America is making two important choices this Fall. The first choice is about whom to elect as President of the United States. The second choice is about which media to trust to bring...

  • August 20, 2004

    The first MBA President

    [Editor's note: We are re—publishing a few articles this summer from the early days — 7 months ago — of the American Thinker, for the benefit of our new readers. This article originally appeared on February 3rd of this year.] P...

  • August 19, 2004

    Extra! Wave of fraud hits major industry

    The Texas—based corporate giant has been caught red—handed, cheating its customers and lying to those entrusted with auditing its most important reports. Massive refunds to customers are due for overcharging them. Halliburton? Enron? Nope...

  • August 17, 2004

    Government by fiat

    The Governor of Illinois announces his defiance of federal regulations and unveils a program today to help residents import foreign drugs. In justification, he states: "The federal government has failed to act," Gov. Blagojevich said in a statement. ...

  • August 15, 2004

    Julia Child, R.I.P.

    Julia Child, who played a major role in changing the way Americans think about, prepare and eat food, has died at the ripe old age of 91, after a lifetime of urging Americans to go ahead and use butter in their sauces and fry lardons to render some p...

  • August 14, 2004

    Twilight of the press gods

    The genie is out of the bottle. The best efforts of the mainstream media to blockade the story of Kerry's lies about Cambodia, and the charges by the vast majority of men who served with him in the Swift Boat operations, have failed. Glenn Reynolds...

  • August 14, 2004

    Bordeaux in crisis

    Bordeaux is in crisis, with many of the region's small wine producers staring bankruptcy in the face. Only the very top producers, whose snob appeal ensures the marketability of their product, are immune from the financial distress. A few innovators,...

  • August 10, 2004

    The passing of a genuine hero

    This past weekend America lost one of its great heroes, a man who combined technical genius, creativity, and physical courage of the highest order. A high school dropout, he rose to become the unchallenged world leader in his field, and was pers...

  • August 7, 2004

    Monuments to the auto age

    Architectural history is one of the most fascinating mirrors of human existence. For far too long, America discarded its old structures and forgot the past human—built environment. Fortunately, the architectural preservation movement arose in t...

  • August 6, 2004

    The Jigsaw Man

    Is it a mistake for opponents of John. F. Kerry to question his Viet Nam service? Dick Morris thinks it is, on the ground that you don't attack the opposition's strength. Others, like Senator John McCain, Bill O'Reilly and much of the establishment m...

  • August 5, 2004

    The Body Shop and the end of Israel

    The worldwide Body Shop chain of stores maintains that it is 'values—driven' and lists 'the pursuit of social and environmental change' first on its mission statement. It proclaims that its skin care, hair care, and make—up...

  • August 4, 2004

    How do you solve a problem like Teresa?

    'Isn't she great?' said candidate Kerry in Milwaukee, following the 'four more years of hell' remark of his wife Teresa. Lawyer Kerry surely knows that, technically speaking, he is asking a question, not necessarily paying  a compliment. 'And by...

  • August 2, 2004

    Reporting for scrutiny

    John Kerry's duty in Viet Nam is the service which keeps on serving him. Flinging those decorations (of disputed ownership) over the fence at the Capitol was the sort of dramatic visual image irresistible to television news directors. He parlayed the...

  • August 2, 2004

    Paying our debts

    All Americans owe a profound personal debt, one that never can be repaid. We are heirs to the courage, vision and sacrifices of the Founders, and obligated to all those who fought to establish, and subsequently protect in war and peace this nobl...

  • July 28, 2004

    All about Teresa

    Teresa Heinz Kerry made it through her unprecedented speech at the Democratic National Convention without losing control of her famous temper, losing her place in the well—rehearsed speech, or otherwise providing dramatic entertainment. But she...

  • July 20, 2004

    The girlie-man gambit

    Once again, Arnold Schwarzenegger is outsmarting his California Democrat opponents, and leading the state in the direction of long—needed structural change. The Governator is a brilliant man, a master of strategy and tactics, and possessed of e...

  • July 19, 2004

    Share the hate

    Last night, at a claimed 3192 locations nationwide, Moveon.org held house parties to view the new film Outfoxed,  an unfair and unbalanced attack on the Fox News Channel. Already hyped by the New York Times and discredited by Fox News, the film ...

  • July 12, 2004

    The lesson of Radio City

    Last week's profanity—laden Democratic fundraiser in Radio City Music Hall has important consequences, far beyond its impact on voters' understanding of candidates Kerry and Edwards, and their relationship with the Hollywood elites. The audienc...

  • July 8, 2004

    Declare war

    Satire The failure of the Bush Administration to seek a Declaration of War following the 9/11 attack is once again causing problems, in the wake of the recent Supreme Court rulings on the rights of detainees.  The lack of an official war status ...

  • July 5, 2004

    The siege of Western Civilization

    Television, for the most part, belongs to the left. The advent of the Fox News Channel, and the occasional History Channel program to the contrary notwithstanding, 'progressive' pabulum dominates the tube. Anyone who has ever raged at the unfairness ...

  • July 5, 2004

    Let's do lunch

    Berkeley, California, my home town, has a well—deserved reputation for leftist absurdity. Many bad ideas either originated here, or were developed to their logical extreme by activists in and out of the local municipal government. Yet, like a b...

  • June 30, 2004

    Politics, polarization, and polls

    Is America flying apart at the seams? Observers of political rhetoric like to generalize about increasing polarization, especially a vast cultural and political divide between coastal urban 'blue state America' and inland, suburban, exurban, and rura...

  • June 29, 2004

    The big hostage

    John F. Kerry likes to drone on about courage and leadership, recalling his long—ago wartime bravery, topics which have the potential to electrify audiences in the hands of a skilled orator. But his own candidacy, indeed his very lifestyle, bet...

  • June 26, 2004

    Europe doesn't work – well, not as much

    Europeans earn less than Americans, by a large and growing margin. But they also work less. Substantially less. Shocking less, according to a study by Alberto Alesina, a professor of economics at Harvard.  The good professor has determined ...

  • June 24, 2004

    Berkeley, city of hookers?

    The November election in Berkeley just got a little more interesting. In addition to the expected tight race between Nader and Kerry for the favor of the city's eccentric voters, a citizen initiative measure will grace the ballot, calling on the...

  • June 22, 2004

    Air America's shrinking pains

    One could almost feel sorry for Al Franken. It must be difficult waking up in the morning and wondering if his paycheck will bounce. At forty thousand or so samoleans per week, according to the Wall Street Journal's report yesterday, a rubber ch...

  • June 21, 2004

    Memorandum to Karl Rove

    Satire   We at Overstep Strategies, LLC, are proud to have been selected by the re—election campaign for counsel on opposition disempowermentЩ. Undermining the other side's ability take advantage of their natural strengths is a complex pro...

  • June 16, 2004

    Arnold and the academic "progressives"

    A small but significant budget struggle is underway in the state of California, with labor unions, 'progressive' academics, and the Democrat—dominated state legislature on one side, and Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger on the other. At issue is a...

  • June 14, 2004

    Koizumi demonstrates Japanese-style leadership

    The Japanese prefer to communicate their most important messages indirectly, using subtle signals, with the true meaning visible only via implication. For this reason, key elements of important debates often soar right over the heads of foreign obser...

  • June 10, 2004

    The Democrats' looming debacle in Boston

    What if they had a national political convention, and the arena wasn't ready? The elaborate podium, with its mini—elevator to make every speaker tall enough to look authoritative, the network skyboxes, where Dan, Peter, and Tom deliver their us...

  • June 8, 2004

    Gratitude, grief, and -- guilt

    Ever since the news of his death reached me, I have been struggling with my thoughts and emotions. Ronald Reagan changed my life for the better, as he did for hundreds of millions. Some were liberated from Communist tyranny, while others of us were f...

  • June 5, 2004

    Counterpoint: The Sopranos is about moral struggle

    The finest television series ever produced is ending its fifth season tomorrow night, and once again I must turn to my boxed DVD sets of previous years, for comfort and artistic sustenance. My life will have a little less joy in it, until David Chase...

  • June 1, 2004

    The Eurofighter debacle

    How much would you pay for a new 'fourth generation' fighter jet subject to an 'official warning that its pilots should not fly in cloud'? How about if I told you that it is to appear four years behind schedule? And what if I added that some critic...

  • June 1, 2004

    Thanks - we needed that

    Singaporeans are the most pragmatic people on earth, and they don't care a whit about political correctness. Living as they do in a Confucian city—state, Singapore's leaders are free to speak their minds on certain subjects, without worry about...

  • May 28, 2004

    The Governator rides high

    A recent poll reveals that Californians support Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's performance in office by almost a 2—to—1 margin. Startling as this enthusiasm in a dispirited state may be, it is only part of the story of his extraord...

  • May 24, 2004

    Lost posterity

    Posterity was once a central concept of American Civilization.  We sacrificed our welfare, even our lives, for the sake of future generations, especially for our descendants unto the remote reaches of time. This concept was so important, that it...

  • May 18, 2004

    The Oil-for Food scandal

    Is the investigation into the United Nations Oil—for—Food Program degenerating into chaos? Disconcerting news reveals that Coalition Provisional Authority head Paul Bremer has appointed a second auditing firm, Ernst & Young, to begin ...

  • May 15, 2004

    Propagandists protecting their own

    What do you do if you're a left wing newspaper, and you have hyped—to—the—limit a leftist propaganda venture, which goes on to become a disaster? Admit that you were wrong? Not if you are the Minneapolis Star—Tribune, perennia...

  • May 12, 2004

    The media are unwittingly helping Bush

    How do we account for the continued strength of President Bush in the polls, relative to his presumptive Democratic opponent, despite the stream of bad news from Iraq? Much of the journalistic and intellectual establishment is plainly baffled ...and ...

  • May 10, 2004

    Their own worst enemy

    Fanatic opponents of George W. Bush and the war in Iraq are running headlong into a cul—de—sac. The prisoner abuse pictures at Abu Ghraib have given them a tool with which to attack, and they are intoxicated with the potential they sense....

  • May 7, 2004

    Hillary's path to the White House

    Hillary Clinton is ambitious, audacious, and fully capable of creating devious, multi—step strategies. Blindsiding her fervent opponents, she may yet shock the world and realize her longstanding ambition to win election as President —...

  • May 6, 2004

    The UN bribery scandal cover-up

    While the American and world press obsess about photographs of abusive behavior by soldiers assigned to be prison guards, Kofi Annan and his minions at the United Nations are covering up the paper trail of what appears to be the largest bribery scand...

  • May 5, 2004

    The college tuition scam

    The higher education industry has ruthlessly exploited its privileged role as the assigner of prestige to young adults beginning their professional lives, in order to grab a larger share of national income. Tuition has increased substantially faster ...

  • May 4, 2004

    Prestige and the left

    During the past century, the left managed to seize the commanding heights of those institutions which generate and grant prestige in American society. Control over higher education, arts organizations, charities, publications and broadcasters, as wel...

  • May 3, 2004

    Happy Birthday, Godzilla

    Marking the fiftieth anniversary of its debut in Japan, a crisp clean print of the original uncut Japanese version of the first Godzilla movie is being released in the United States. What a long strange journey it has been for the beast. First came m...

  • April 30, 2004

    Kerry's medical secrecy

    Some of the most important questions about Senator John F. Kerry remain unasked, even in the midst of a hard—fought Presidential race. Senator John Kerry is enduring much critical commentary over the circumstances of his participation in Vietn...

  • April 24, 2004

    Counterpoint: high voter turnout is not always good

    Bob Weir writes, as he always does, movingly, about the debt we owe to the men and women who fight today, and who have fought for us in America's wars, throughout our two—plus centuries of political liberty. Our freedom has never been free, and...

  • April 21, 2004

    Big news brewing in Japan?

    Almost unnoticed by the American press, the aftermath of Japan's hostage crisis in Iraq is developing in a direction which may have permanent and serious positive implications for American foreign and military policies. Prime Minister Koizumi's respo...

  • April 19, 2004

    Teresa's tax returns

    John Kerry is stonewalling on the issue of releasing his wife's tax returns. Probably, he has no choice in the matter. They aren't his to release. We can't be certain that he has even seen them himself.   His wife, on whose fortune rests his la...

  • April 18, 2004

    Japanese hostage update

    The first three Japanese hostages kidnapped in Iraq have now returned to Japan, accompanied by Senior Vice Foreign Minister Ichiro Aizawa, who met them in Dubai, where he had been standing by. Yesterday, we noted that their behavior —— tw...

  • April 15, 2004

    Let them keep digging

    A substantial portion of the American left is so obsessed with hatred for George W. Bush that they cannot fathom how their words and deeds appear to others. Events of the last few days provide several examples of counter—productive behavior by ...

  • April 9, 2004

    The battle for Japan's soul

    The Iraqi kidnappers of three Japanese civilians have launched another front in the War on Terror: a battle for the soul of Japan.   Prime Minister Koizumi has resolutely ruled—out capitulation to the demand that Japan withdraw its Self De...

  • April 7, 2004

    The Most Important WMD Story You Haven't Seen

    The U.K. newspaper Scotsman on Sunday has publicized a leaked document which shows that Charles Duelfer, the new director of the Iraq Survey group, concludes that hard evidence does exist that Saddam had the ability to wreak terror with the wea...

  • April 7, 2004

    A Boston Surprise this Summer?

    The Democrats have hitched their Presidential hopes to one of the strangest nominees in a long time, John Kerry. His cold aloofness, his thin—skinned nastiness, his habit of marrying wealthy women and living grandly on the proceeds, and his uni...

  • April 6, 2004

    Spinning Their Wheels

    The left wing journalists, who dominate the staffs of most large newspapers and the alphabet television networks, have reached a critical point. Driven by their conviction that George Bush simply must be defeated, and surrounded by friends and collea...

  • April 5, 2004

    EU Corruption Exposed. Again

    The European Union, the would—be global rival of America, is a deeply corrupt institution. Its design insulates its bureaucrats, and even its ostensibly democratic representative body, the EU Parliament, from public accountability. Eurocrats ma...

  • April 4, 2004

    What It Takes to Make a Bottle of Wine

    Kudos to the San Francisco Chronicle for beginning today a promising 39—part (!) series of articles, explaining the numerous  steps which go into making a bottle of wine — from dormant vines to popping the cork at the Four Seasons Re...

  • April 3, 2004

    The Latest Cause Among Blacks

    In a rally at Harlem's large and influential Abyssinian Baptist Church (once under the pastoral care of the late Cong. Adam Clayton Powell), 'community leaders' agitated against the new liberal radio network Air America, as a victimizer of the b...

  • April 1, 2004

    On the Backs of Minorities

    It's a familiar story of good and evil. A new boss comes into a company, and immediately fires minorities, replacing them mostly with whites, hoping to earn more money for the venture capitalists backing the takeover. Liberal journalists normally rus...

  • March 31, 2004

    CNN Loses Half its Viewership

    Information is a powerful solvent. It can melt away the illusions created by propagandists. The truth is addictive. People with a hunger for news generally crave the rush they get from learning the 'rest of the story' the way a jittery junkie craves ...

  • March 29, 2004

    Richard Clarke, Meet Linda Tripp

    Democrats, it would seem, have developed a sudden new sense of protectiveness for those who tell tales out of school. Anyone who remembers the name Linda Tripp cannot help but be amused at the Democrats rushing forward to decry the 'trashing' of Rich...

  • March 26, 2004

    Thank-you, Toronto Police

    Americans owe a huge debt of thanks to the Toronto Police, for extraordinary work, above and beyond the call of duty. Members of the child exploitation branch of the Toronto Police sex crimes unit managed to extract enough information from a collecti...

  • March 20, 2004

    The Fourth Reich?

    The European Union has a demonstrated record of corruption, most recently in its statistical agency. Even though it has a 'parliament' which sits in Strasbourg, its bureaucracy, based hundreds of miles away in Brussels, is notably endowed with arbitr...

  • March 18, 2004

    Yet Another Hate Crime Hoax

    I hope that someone is collecting a comprehensive list of all the hate crime hoaxes which have been discovered in recent years. It often seems that hoaxes are so common that skepticism should always be appropriate when a new instance of racist, sexis...

  • March 13, 2004

    What's Brown and Squishy?

    Brown University has been the most radical left wing campus in America, ever since failed Clinton health care plan guru Ira Magaziner led a successful student revolt in the 1960s, and 'reformed' the university out of handing out grades, and supportin...

  • March 10, 2004

    Forty Million Frustrated Bachelors

    Demography is, as the saying goes, destiny. China faces a time bomb. Official population policy, which forces families to abort or prevent pregnancies beyond the state—imposed limit of one, combined with the Confucian preference for boys over g...

  • March 10, 2004

    Different Strokes for Different Executives

    Senior executives of a certain large organization faced a problem. They owed the public a periodic report of their results, and the numbers just weren't good enough, jeopardizing future access to money. So, they decided to fudge: change some assumpti...

  • March 8, 2004

    The New Threat Facing Enlightened America

    The New York Times has just run two unintentionally hilarious articles by David Kirkpatrick, covering evangelical Christians attending Patrick Henry College in Virginia, which was established to serve graduates of home schools.   Writing in a to...

  • March 4, 2004

    The Big Lie

    Democrats, including presumptive Presidential nominee John Forbes Kerry, have learned well the art of the Big Lie. Assert early and often something contrary to the truth, and it will be repeated by others (especially by allies in the press). The shee...

  • March 3, 2004

    Arnold Wins Big – and Liberals Lose

    California voters handed Arnold Schwarzenegger a huge win on Tuesday, solidly backing two ballot measures he supported, enabling the state to refinance its 'credit card debt' of operating deficits inherited from Gray Davis. Remarkably, the two measur...

  • March 1, 2004

    Bureaucracy from Hunger

    Berkeley, California has done it again. America's most 'progressive' city now finds itself unable to feed many of its children school lunches, and in those few schools still with a cafeteria, is resorting to pre—packaged airline—style foo...

  • February 27, 2004

    Peddling anti-Semitic Myths

    The critics of Mel Gibson's latest film were correct. It has triggered an outbreak of anti—Semitism, one which caught me completely by surprise. One of America's largest newspapers is now openly peddling noxious myths about Jews, stirring ...

  • February 26, 2004

    The Passion of the Christ

    Mel Gibson's masterpiece, The Passion of the Christ, is remarkable on many levels. It is not merely a serious work of art, it is a profound work of sacred art. The Passion of the Christ grounds for a Twenty—First Century viewer not just th...

  • February 16, 2004

    First They Came for the Foie Gras

    The Food Police are coming.   You and I are going to be presumed no longer capable of deciding on our own which foods we are to consume. Powerful elements within California's state government, the all—knowing, supremely wise guardian of a...

  • February 15, 2004

    An Era of Pre-emptive Strikes

    We are in an era of pre—emptive strikes. The Democrats may not like Bush's foreign policy of pre—emptive measures against potential threats from abroad. But pre—emptiveness becomes bipartisan for the Democrats, when it comes to...

  • February 15, 2004

    San Francisco Hustles for Business

    It's difficult to maintain an attitude of arrogant superiority when entire million square—foot office buildings stand nearly vacant and are sold for half of their original construction cost, when local unemployment rates remain well above natio...

  • February 14, 2004

    Get a Life, eh?

    Canada would seem to be a country with a very fragile ego. It is currently convulsed with outrage over disparaging comments about Quebec and Quebeckers (aka, les Quebecois), made by a television sock puppet character known as Triumph the Insult Comic...

  • February 12, 2004

    The Sacred and the Profane

    Almost two weeks after the fact, the Super Bowl halftime show continues to generate outrage and threats to regulate, fine, or even revoke the broadcast licenses of the media outlets which have brought degrading and crude images to our televisions for...

  • February 9, 2004

    Leftists Win: Minorities and the Poor Hit Hardest

    The homeless and poor population of a prominent California city is about to lose its largest and oldest source of a free meal. We can blame those cruel budget cuts forced by Governor Schwarzenegger's refusal to increase taxes on the 'rich,' and a des...

  • February 3, 2004

    GWB: HBS MBA

    President George W. Bush is the very first President to hold a Masters Degree in Business Administration. Even better (or worse, depending on your perspective), his MBA is from Harvard Business School, where postgraduate management training was inven...

  • January 29, 2004

    The Rectification of Names: 'Suicide Bombers'

    Editor's Note: The American Thinker believes in calling things by their proper names. Euphemism is a tool of misrepresentation and ultimately of control, stripping away accurate and evocative connotations, and substituting false associations. George ...

  • January 21, 2004

    The Carnival of the Carbophobes

    The most caloric trade show in the universe must certainly be the three—times—a—year gatherings of the manufacturers and purveyors of gourmet (transl: 'expensive') food, known by one and all in the industry as the Fancy Food Show. T...

  • January 17, 2004

    G'day, Australia

    The already close US—Australia strategic relationship is becoming visibly closer, to the distress of some Australia's Southeast Asian neighbors of the — ahem — Islamic persuasion. The AP reports that Malaysia and Indonesia 'wor...

  • January 5, 2004

    The choice of anger

    The Democrats have built a mythology around the 2000 Presidential election, as Richard Baehr convincingly demonstrates in today's American Thinker. The energy generated by the resulting anger has been a prize sought by party officials and candidates ...

  • December 21, 2003

    Hello, Bulgaria

    A very important development in Bulgaria is attracting little—to—no attention in the American Bigfoot Media. The intricate and far—reaching recasting of America's military force deployment is one of the most important facets of G.W....

  • December 18, 2003

    Coalition of the willing and able

    Very good news, likely to be ignored by the American media, is receiving important play in Japan. The Yomiuri Shimbun, Japan's largest newspaper, reports that the Japanese government is "re—examining" (trans: preparing to revise) aspects of its...

  • December 12, 2003

    The American Thinker Debuts

    Welcome to the American Thinker! We are sneaking onto the web on a Friday evening, so as to have the entire weekend to debug our operations in comparative obscurity. As the days pass, we will be presenting ongoing commentary on the news, as well...

  • December 12, 2003

    Hello, India

    The widespread use of English is a huge advantage for India over China, in terms of integrating itself into the high tech service economy of the 21st Century. Both China and India have no shortage of smart, studious, and ambitious young people. Both ...

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