Pundits will surely attribute the gradual rise and swift freefall of the long-time Republican frontrunner more to a lengthy rap-sheet of liberal social misdemeanors than a flawed campaign strategy. More

Since I think the Clintons would probably sell their souls and firstborn for another White House tenure, the idea they would play the race card raises no eyebrow here. More

The unstated - yet obvious - conclusion the breathless coverage of Sen. Ted Kennedy and Caroline Kennedy conferring their endorsement of Sen. Barack Obama for the presidency is that their endorsement also has the imprimatur of the late John F. Kennedy. More

When conservatives lay out their long list of apostasies committed by John McCain, one of them is always his role in the Gang of 14, the 7 Democrats and 7 Republicans in the Senate who agreed to a judicial compromise in 2005. To put it plainly, the critics of the deal are flat out wrong. More

Does free speech exist in Hawaii? A government department of the State of Hawaii is demanding the retraction of a political cartoon More

At the end of the Bush administration conservatives need to clear their heads and think about the future. It's time to do some serious political philosophy. More

Senator John McCain's lifetime rating of 82.3% from the American Conservative Union is often cited as proof that he is conservative. Here is a closer look at that 82.3 rating. More

American Thinker's articles on the disturbing ties of candidate Barack Obama to anti-Isarel adviusors have provoked a torrent of criticism from his supporters. More

The outcome of the US presidential election affects the lives of millions of people around the world. So it's probably not surprising that many Europeans are resentful that only Americans will have a say in it. More

When the New York Times endorsed John McCain last week, the conservative blogosphere was quickly abuzz with the obvious harm the left-wing newspaper would do to McCain's chances. More

Influential voices are peddling a dangerous fallacy: that the threat of terror is overblown, another example of scare tactics, like the supposedly nonexistent Communist threat in the 1940s and 1950s. More

Like the Jedi Knights in Star Wars, much of Israel's safety depends on an absurdly small number of daring pilots and their jet planes. More

The sole mission of Liberals Anonymous is to establish and maintain recovery programs designed to help similar individuals overcome the plethora of congenital illnesses inherent in postmodern American liberalism with which they are embittered. More

We like to think that the Internet, the I-Pod, the I-phone, and all the other "Eyes of the Future" will bring about a new Age of Enlightenment. But suppose we're wrong. More

While Lawrence Murray offers American Thinker readers a perceptive critique of many serious problems accompanying the arrival of the internet, all is not yet lost. More

For connoisseurs of the idiocies and ironies of American politics, the primary season has offered a smorgasbord of delights. The dumbest, sleaziest, most mind-numbing reality show can't compare with this stuff More

In today's progressive milieu, the evolutionary psychologist is the anointed high priest to the morally disoriented masses. More

Atheism as an organized, evangelizing movement has been on the offensive lately. More

Liberals don't actually choose their leaders --- they just fall in love. To the rest of us that might seem pretty strange --- but then can you imagine conservatives going to a Broadway musical like Camelot, to sing songs about a politician? More

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

Large and wealthy not-for-profit organizations are apparently escaping taxation on income earned on commercial ventures by offsetting the income with expenses from other activities More

Obama was up; now he's down. Even though Obama seems to be harnessing the South Carolina black vote that will give him that state's delegates, he has been feeling the brunt of the Clintons' mastery of the tactic of polarization, taught decades ago to Hillary by Saul Alinsky. More

On January 27, 2008, our nation celebrates an important political anniversary. Ten years ago Hillary Clinton (then the First Lady) went on television with Matt Lauer More

Conservatives have long understood that socialism and fascism are two sides of the same coin. They are both reactionary movements attempting to roll back the modern era to a simpler, less corrupt age driven by something higher than money, money, money. More

Barack Obama's real thinking about Israel and the Middle East continues to be an enigma. One of his advisors in particular clearly warrants attention, as does the reasoning that led him to being chosen by Barack Obama. More

Have you noticed how all of the Republican candidates can barely conceal their contempt for Governor Mitt Romney? More

Al Gore's prediction that ice caps will melt and raise the sea level 20 feet within a century appears to ignore a certain well-understood law of physics. More

Today markes the 35th anniversary of a Supreme Court decision that changed America. More

Chris Matthews is in trouble. The socialist progressives are now accusing him of being part of the dreaded vast right wing conspiracy, a terrible insult in their world More

The American mediascape is about to experience an earthquake, Rupert Murdoch is preparing to topple the New York Times from its position as the pre-eminent general interest daily newspaper, generating severe financial pressure on a struggling media company reeling from mismanagement. More

John McCain promised to do "whatever is necessary" to get Osama bin Laden, including following him "to the gates of hell." More

A pertinent question for 2008 might be: How many 9/11's does it take to wake a sleeping giant and keep him alert at the helm? More

To use a play on Winston Churchill's cynical words, the best argument against democracy is a five-minute perusal of election coverage. More

Political campaigns are fought with the weapon of language. Barack's campaign uses it as a subtle and surgically-applied force. Hillary's uses it as a blunt instrument More

You're not ready to call yourself a "mature Christian voter" if ... 1. You think Jesus cares about carbon credits. Newsflash: He was a carpenter! More

Not once during my six months serving in Iraq did I ever hear anyone refer to our conflict there as "World War IV." But for properly identifying our Islamist enemy and for putting this global fight in epic historical context, Podhoretz's World War IV deserves great credit. More

The answer, of course, depends upon who you are, where you are and whether you're an individual or a sovereign government. More

In this election year, people are swayed by emotion. They know what they want. They will tell anyone willing to listen what they want. But what do we need? More

At her radical core, Hillary Clinton is the candidate of female vengeance. One of the most revealing facts is that Senator Clinton is surrounded by an inner circle of women only, her Amazon Battalion. More

Fred Thompson is perhaps the most substantative candidate to run for President in many years. He has taken the time to think about what should be the relationship between the government and the governed. More

Why would a magazine committed to feminism, the empowerment of women, and the evolution of women's rights in the Middle East refuse to run photos of three senior women in a Middle Eastern government? More

The emergence of a racial tinge to the Democratic Party nomination fight was all but inevitable, given both Hillary Clinton's and Barack Obama's training as disciples of Saul Alinsky. More

Hillary Clinton's praise for LBJ over Dr. King as a deliverer of civil rights reflects her own decision more than three decades ago to forgo a career as a Saul Alinsky organizer. More

When the first woman to be a major party candidate for president wins her first presidential primary by playing the gender card it tells you something. The Romantics were right and the rationalists were wrong. Life really is all about feelings and not about reason. More

One seemingly consistent theme running throughout Barack Obama's career is his comfort with aligning himself with people who are anti-Israel advocates. More

When Bill Maher suggested on Friday night's Real Time that Republicans had somehow hacked the voting machines in order to assure a Hillary win, I must admit to being quite shocked. More

Senator Barak Obama's default oratorical motif imitates the speech patterns of Martin Luther King. While imitation is a form of flattery, it can also be a tool of self-promotion More

Barack Obama has a racial problem, but it's not what the media thinks -- it's not rednecks, older voters, or even women offended by attacks on Hillary Clinton. Obama's racial problem is white liberals. More

With the victories of Mike Huckabee and John McCain in the first two primary contests and Mitt Romney's recently falling star, a fiction is being bandied about: The anti-amnesty position wasn't playing well in Peoria. More

It may not be too late to save the career of a Pentagon analyst of jihad threats whose frank and honest work has gotten him into trouble. More

When liberals refer to "leaders", they're not talking about the same thing as everybody else. More

Ron Paul is not a nut. But Ron Paul holds the vain hope that American government would return to constitutional law anytime soon, even if he did win the presidency. More

Given the past record of political campaigns run by the Clintons, it was bound to happen. The very same couple who coined the phrase, and practiced the politics of personal destruction are now being accused of racism. More

I take second place to no one in my admiration for George W. Bush. But there are times when he comes out with something so obtuse, so ill thought out, that it simply grates on the brain. More

The new media's ability to move the news may not survive. The attack upon free expression is more varied than one may think. More

Star op-ed columnist (and Princeton University professor) Paul Krugman tries to paint Europe as doing better than the U.S. economically, and he credits that to its big government ways. More

I'm an historian, not a film critic. My objective here is to show where the movie is inaccurate -- at times, woefully so. More

At the beginning of the Voice Of America-Somali program, Somalis in the Diaspora and back home were very enthusiastic about the radio service. More

No issue seems to excite the GOP base more than immigration and the estimated 12 million illegal immigrants already here More

Rather than relieving racial tensions, might an Obama candidacy instead intensify them? More

Up until New Hampshire, perhaps it could be said that Hillary's style was definitely turning voters off in droves More

Do you believe in magic? I don't either, but there are few among us who wouldn't agree that Barack Obama's meteoric political rise this year has seemed downright magical. More

There is a difference between Mrs. Bill Clinton and Senator Barack Obama. That difference is not about political ideology. It is not about specific policies. The difference between Clinton and Obama is about ethics and character. More

The Pentagon has fired Stephen Coughlin, its most knowledgeable specialist on Islamic Law, and jihad terrorism More

When infatuation with Barak Obama transitions to examination of his positions, how will he reconcile the racial exclusiveness of his religious environment with the racial inclusiveness of his political speech? More

What adult would vote for a totally untested presidential candidate by falling in love? Maureen Dowd, Frank Rich, Senator Joe Biden, and a million other Democrats -- that's who. The New York Times stable of Leftie pundits is reliving the Decade of Love. More

I just don't understand American liberals and their attitude toward mathematical models. The left places inordinate amount of faith in untested models predicting man-made warming of the global climate, while ignoring time-tested mathematical models in another important field. More

As she copes with falling behind Barack Obama in every major poll, I suspect it must bother Hillary that he also appears to have mastered the playbook used by her own political teacher, the legendary amoral guru of left wing activism, Saul Alinksy. More

The one-two punch of McCain and Huckabee is aimed at the conservative base of the GOP. It is designed to wrest party leadership away from the conservative coalition that has more-or-less controlled it since Ronald Reagan. More

Over the weekend, democracy took another large step in a republic of the former Soviet Union. The Republic of Georgia, a key ally in the "coalition of the willing" in Iraq, had its first free and truly fair election in its history. More

I know John McCain does not go down easily among many conservatives. But with Barack Obama looking like the victor among Democrats, his party needs the Arizona Senator at the top of the ticket. More

Why are Republicans so depressed? They have nothing to fear but a discouraged Republican base. More

If Republicans, candidates and base alike, cannot pull themselves out of the funk in which they find themselves, it soon will be time to start making the best of a bad situation. More

A media and propaganda campaign has been under way since the Annapolis "peace" conference to legitimate the longstanding demands made on behalf of the Palestinian "Arab refugees" -- meaning in practice the grandchildren and great-grandchildren of refugees More

Those with the least amount of talent use vulgarity to shock their way to fame and fortune. More

Fresh off of disappointing finishes in Iowa, Mitt Romney and Fred Thompson are hoping to rebound on Saturday when Wyoming Republicans gather in county conventions across the state More

Those who know real oppression rarely seek answers from dictators even the mythical "benevolent" kind. In the US, it seems, there are far more communists in the bourgeois class than there ever was or will be in the proletariat. More

Billions of people now 'know' about global warming and how it threatens the planet. They 'know' that it is all the fault of decades of irresponsible, profligate industry and capitalism. And yet, what exactly do they really know? More

There were three winners in Iowa last night: Mike Huckabee, Barack Obama, and John McCain. The race in both parties has now changed, with the path to the nomination clearer on the Democratic side than the Republican. More

What is the lesson out of Iowa? It's the economy, stupid. More

Californians may lose ultimate control of their thermostats, if proposed revisions to state building regulations are approved. All in the name of the greater good, of course. More

Mike Huckabee is talking about using the coercive power of government to force other people to pay taxes and to comply with onerous and arbitrary laws to do what Mike thinks, as a Christian, he should be doing. More

Do we need another diminutive, entrepreneurial, big-ego billionaire promising us relief from partisan bickering? More

Pakistan and its nuclear arsenal catastrophically may fall into the hands of jihadists. But the South Asian version of jihad is a less familiar but no less fearsome variant of the war directed at the Great Satan, America and the Little Satan, Israel. More

Gitmo has suffered almost universal condemnation. So what are the people released from it up to? More

The war in Iraq is not over or waning. In many ways the false idea that the war is won is far more dangerous than the defeatist ideas of the last year ever were. More

Less than eleven months from now Americans will go to the voting booths to elect the next president. The "surge" provides a unique case study to judge each party's application and execution of policy. More

With the assassination of Benazir Bhutto last week, we in America are jolted back to the reality that we are a world at war with IslamoFascist armies. More

Barack Obama's new stump speech employs the homiletically lyrical style of his well-received Jefferson-Jackson Day delivery, while making oblique reference to the race card. More

In each of four major nations important to us, France, Germany, Canada, and Britain, elections and poll rersults are favorable to conservative political forces. More