Relatively few people realize that a loophole in McCain-Feingold allowed George Soros his family members to be particularly generous in support of Obama's Senatorial campaign. More

It was only a matter of time before Democratic politicians began commenting on the fact that the leading Republican candidates have an awful lot of ex-wives floating around. More

It's time for another transatlantic summit, and this one, set for Washington on April 30, will have a lot in common with previous EU-US bilaterals: It will be rather short on substance. More

It's a familiar scene: A Clinton holdover writes a book attacking the Bush administration and is paraded around through the network newsrooms for partisan fun and his own profit. I'm talking about George Tenet's soon-to-be released book More

These are dark days for the GOP. Chris Cillizza, the Washington Post's political prognosticator, is starting to talk seriously of the Democrat's being in position to obtain a filibuster-proof majority of 60 seats in the Senate after the 2010 election More

It would seem that Charles Darwin was not particularly fond of his own physical appearance. More

In modern Jesus scholarship that has apparently drunk deep of postmodern hyper-skepticism, he has been deconstructed to become a demythologized laconic teacher, the Pagan Christ, a Gnostic revealer More

War is hell. War is inevitable. Everyone agrees with the first assertion but not all agree with the second More

The publishers of Germany's top-line magazine, Der Spiegel, have proposed a cease-fire in the "Atlantic media war" between Europe and America. More

Writing in 1916, C. Snouck Hurgronje, the great Dutch Orientalist, underscored how the jihad doctrine of world conquest, and the re-creation of a supranational Islamic Caliphate remained a potent force among the Muslim masses More

The tiny nation of Albania has been pulled out of communist isolation and thrust into the era of globalization, and with it into the very real ideological and religious conflicts of the 21st Century. More

If I were George Bush right about now, I'd wrap my arms around Harry Reid and give him a great big kiss on the cheek. More

The media likes to portray Jessica Lynch as a victim of military propaganda that pushed her forward as a hero. That's not true. More

Ever since the 1960s the Democrats have won about ninety percent of the black vote in presidential elections. How do you get 90 percent of anyone to vote for one side or the other? More

Yesterday American Thinker suffered a temporary loss of control of our internet domain. The disruption lasted close to 24 hours, but has now been ended. More

Today is ANZAC Day, and it's my second since coming to Australia. It's a singular day from an American point of view More

Unlike a football game, progress in the Arab-Israeli conflict comes in inches, not yards. But in the midst of all the pessimism there is genuine movement on the Gordian Knot of the entire seven decades of struggle: The Arab refusal to recognize Israel's right to exist. More

Mass murders all differ in their particulars. And motive isn't even an element -- part of the definition -- of the crime. The key element is intent. More

Some people think that we have extended adolescence way too far into adulthood. You can live in the adolescent twilight zone between childhood and adulthood until way into your twenties. More

Deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan are too short, and need to be longer. Deployments of 24-36 months or even longer would be one way to address our problems in those wars. More

"I am already against the next war," read the bumper sticker on a car ahead of me. I long to tell the driver: the next war is already here; Islamists are waging it in every corner of the globe More

The anti-terrorism policies of Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, a self-proclaimed feminist, have led to so many blunders that Spaniards of all political leanings now fear that he has made Spain more, not less, vulnerable to terrorism. More

The fearsome Russian Bear appears to be coming out of a 16-year hibernation. President Vladimir Putin says he wants to regain Russia's prominence in the world community, and his actions are backing up his words. More

Just a few short years ago, what seemed to be a tidal wave swept across The Ukraine. More

We now have two "Harry" bookends to the current historical period. At one end is Harry Truman, "Give 'Em Hell" Harry. At the opposite end of the spectrum we have "Give 'Em Surrender" Harry, the Senate Majority leader. More

Deconstruction overturns privileged hierarchy and meaning. Defenders promise us that they do not practice Anything Goes in their deconstruction of texts. Do they keep their promise? How do we verify it? More

This week, federal prosecutors proposed a procedure that would have denied the defendants in the AIPAC case a public trial. Federal judge T.S. Ellis III laughed them out of court. More

Making the Muslim Brotherhood a major player in Middle East politics seems to be one of the few subjects on which both Democrats and Republicans seem to agree. More

Two months after the mass murdering acts of jihad terrorism on 9/11/01, Dr. Walid Faitihi boasted that this carnage engendered two related "successes" -enhanced Muslim proselytization efforts, and damage to Christian-Jewish relations in the U.S. More

With the recent tragedy at Virginia Tech in which 32 people were slain on campus by a lone gunman who turned his weapon on himself, no doubt the clamor to ban personal ownership of guns will be raised again. More

How could a loving god allow one crazed maniac to kill in such horrible fashion so many innocent people at Virginia Tech University last Tuesday? More

They called it a "massacre." Students and faculty at Virginia Tech were gunned down by a madman. They were taken by surprise with little means to protect themselves, except to run and hide. More

In 1632 Galileo Galilei was accused of heresy for questioning the Aristotelian "consensus model" of the universe which held that the sun and all other heavenly bodies revolve around the earth. He was threatened by the Inquisition with torture for holding these views More

It was in the summer of 2005 that the Bush Administration began to lose the support of the American public for the war in Iraq. A principal catalyst of this momentous transformation was the mother of a soldier killed in Iraq. More

So the State of North Carolina is finally officially recognizing what has been blatantly obvious to every honest and objective observer of the Duke lacrosse Team debacle since it first made national news. More

When it comes to media reports of bad conduct by Administration officials and appointees, it is a good idea to Just Say No to the first accounts you read. More

I have observed first-hand the effects of the Bush Administration's new Iraq security plan since it began two months ago. More

So Don Imus has been fired from his radio show, and all is well in the world. More

Senator Carl Levin (D-MI) challenges the assertions of the Vice President of the United States Richard Cheney regarding the cooperation of the Saddam regime and al Qaeda. The Senator relies on "intelligence reports" that are in fact political documents created by the Senate, not intelligence products More

We are running a war from the banks of the Potomac much as we did in Vietnam. The Bush administration has been fighting a regional war without any semblance of unity of effort. More

General Douglas MacArthur in his final address given to the Corps of Cadets at West Point on May 12, 1962 spoke these words that every officer in the military knows by heart More

It is time for us - especially us women -- to come down hard on the woman who cried "Wolf" and those who enabled her. They caused a whole lot more damage than the little boy in the fairytale. More

On Wednesday, Peter Baker and Tom Ricks wrote a front page story in the Washington Post that reported that the White House allegedly is trying to recruit a "War Czar." More

Major issues can rise from minor things, and so it is with last weekend's Masters golf tournament. More

Have you noticed how many young people are wearing jewelry these days? I don't mean wristwatches, bracelets, and finger rings. I'm talking about nose rings, lip rings, tongue studs,and much, much more. More

It seems that everyone in the media uses the terms "deconstruction" or "deconstruct." More

Among my first experiences in the metaxy, the place that philosopher Eric Voegelin defined as "the middle ground of human existence between the divine and material realms," occurred in 1958, when as a twelve year old, I attended a celebration of the Mass at St. Aloysius Catholic Church. More

Inevitably the question arises: how do the French deal with anxiety about their national manliness, their will to stand and fight? More

Three and a half years after congressional Democrats made that slaughter possible by cutting off all US aid to anti-communist forces with their so-called December, 1974 "Foreign Assistance Act", a genocide began in Cambodia. Will see similar events in Iraq following a funding cut off? More

"What are you smoking?" is a familiar question meant to imply mental impairment from the ingestion of controlled substances, usually in a sarcastic vein. But I have to wonder if we shouldn't be paying closer attention to this very question More

This is not a guide to shoplifting, but about the wholesale theft of U.S. strategic material and its consequences. Increasingly, American classified information and material is being compromised, either through espionage, outright theft or though negligence More

In the post-Easter crucifixion of the "Imus in the Morning" radio show that substituted for news this week, the hypocrisy would make a Pharisee blush. More

According to the Hoover Institution's Dinesh D'Souza, the Western radical left has so repelled Muslims with its secularity, impiety and license that it, rather than gruesome Islamist imperial ambition, is a primary cause of Muslim rage and terror against America. More

Is Congressman Henry Waxman, Chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, ignorant, lying or counting on the fact that the press is both? More

Mahmoud Ahmadi-nejad has been hopping around like a male chimp performing a threat display --- pant-hooting, baring his big canine teeth, and tearing off branches to impress the hell out of all the other apes More

Advanced mobile technology and lack of regulations combine for a swift, cheap and undetectable way to fund terrorists. More

It seems at times that not a week goes by without a child disappearing or being found dead under ghastly circumstances. More

All the liberal wing and the moderates on the Supreme Court have done, in regulating CO2 as a pollutant, is give the ratchet of compulsion one more turn. More

Deniers of 9/11 and of the Holocaust are two of a kind. It is a given that television networks put profits above pride, but ABC has reached a new low in its sponsorship of Rosie O'Donnell. More

On the Rush Limbaugh radio program, VP Cheney restated his position that Saddam had ties to al Qaeda. The Vice President is completely correct. More

It was no coincidence that former President Jimmy Carter praised House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's (D-CA) trip to the Middle East last week. After all, Pelosi and her fellow congressional Democrats are simply implementing Carter's political philosophies once again. More

Europe gets forty percent of its oil through the Persian Gulf. But by an accident of history (and civilized policy -- ours, that is) it is the United States that guards the Gulf from madmen like Ahmadinejad. More

I've often wondered why people don't care about the 30 Years War these days. It's relevant today as the West fights militant Islam. More

According to UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency) tens of billions of dollars (one-third from US taxpayers, the rest mostly from Canada and European countries) have been spent over the last 50 years providing "Palestinian refugees" and their descendents More

Tensions between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the West have been heightening. After years of appeasement in the hope of getting something in exchange, Western leaders now seem to have realized that multilateral talks on the nuclear issue inevitably lead nowhere. More

According to Mark Thompson, writer for Time magazine, America's army is broken. More

One postmodern theorist states: "Postmodernism swims, even wallows, in the fragmentary and the chaotic currents of change as if that is all there is" More

One of the biggest problems we conservatives have always faced is language. Conservatives all too often allow liberals to bamboozle us into arguing issues on liberal terms. More

It seems that the more we come to believe that "Violence has to be taught," the more our children learn to be violent. It's a strange, Jean-Jacques Rousseau-like fantasy, this fancy that a child sports a halo until some neanderthal adult knocks it off More

At a very young age I had the good fortune to learn a life lesson that appears not to have taken hold among the Democrats' elite, nor much of the legacy media and only scarcely among academics. More

The Supreme Court of the United States has arrogantly ruled that the second most vital gas to sustaining life on Earth is a "pollutant." More

The Democrats claim that the November 2006 election gave them a mandate to end the war in Iraq. That isn't what they were saying late last year. More

Would the United States be better off with a new counterterrorism agency? More

Today Britain is being raked over the coals by the nasty old Barbary Pirates, in the shape of the Madcap Mullahs of Qom More

Don't think it's easy being a Democratic officeholder. More

Despite the current imbroglio over the British hostages, Iran's mullahs have repeatedly indicated their willingness and ability to help restore order in Iraq, on the condition that the United States packs up and leaves the region. More

In a few weeks the US Congress is likely to vote to phase out the standard incandescent lightbulb within a decade. More

Last week, Democratic strategy for the rest of the Bush presidency was rendered transparent: the Dems intend to impeach George W. Bush by whatever means necessary. More

I get very queasy when I consider the fact that we are urged by our media and the Democrats to fight the Iraq War using newspaper/television opinion polls for decision making. More

Now that Congress has passed the Iraq Accountability Act, one of the best questions that I have heard is: "when will the lack of funds start hurting the troops?" More

Tehran isn't interested in loving the West, or even in tolerating us. If you doubt it, just listen to the Khomeini gang. More

The Muslim Brotherhood (MB) is heightening its U.S. propaganda offensive in advance of the 2008 presidential elections, taking advantage of the political uncertainty and opposition to the current Administration's defense policies More

Whenever I hear of rich people like Martha Stewart, Dennis Kozlowski or Leona Helmsley being convicted and sent to prison, I find myself wondering how these jet-setting sybarites withstand incarceration. More

In a recent analysis of current gender disparities in communication, Selwin Duke wisely refrained from tackling the toilet-seat-position (TSP) issue. More

A veritable war among the states has broken out, with various locales claiming to be the home of our iconic national meal on a bun. More