Some stories are more compelling than others. Some Latina females have compelling stories. So do some white males. More

The same-sex marriage battle now being fought can best be described by a twist on a Homer Simpson toast: Here's to power, the cause of -- and solution to--all life's problems! More

A California nonprofit dedicated to "teaching about Islam & Muslims" at U.S. high schools and college campuses features a board of advisors that is stacked with controversial activist professors. More

Israelis are not the only ones who build on the disputed land to accommodate for 'natural growth. More

What do Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama have in common? Visits to a concentration camp to soothe Jewish sensibilities. More

History is full of mega-egos, and they flourish today in America. More

What exactly is so rich about her experience? A cursory look at her biography and resume reveals a conceit that seems quite common to the elite left More

What President Obama fails to acknowledge is that Al-Qaeda would be more impressed with the closing of abortion clinics then voluntarily boarding up Gitmo More

Twenty years ago today, the dream of liberty was crushed in Tiananmen Square. More

New York Times columnist Bob Herbert, who never saw a convicted murderer who deserved execution, has found another dirt bag to save. More

The achievements of the feminist era may have delivered women to greater unhappiness than that supposedly found by Betty Friedan in the 1960s. More

In a democracy, when a large number of people, motivated by an ideology or a common goal, marry their wallets with their votes, then liberty can be subverted. More

Does Barack Obama believe Israel is a sovereign state? There are reasons to doubt it. More

If you believe the myth that Democrats are champions of equality for women, racial minorities, and folks with "compelling" life stories, maybe you've been spending more time tracking Big Foot than judicial nominations. More

Eighteen percent of Americans have been so "alarmed" by climate alarmists that they'd strongly support any and all policies that would reduce carbon emissions -- except one. More

What Obama, like his predecessors Clinton and Carter, does seem concerned with is his place in the history books even if it means selling Israel down the river. More

A speech the MSM don't want to publicize. For good reason. More

Obama's recovery plan has already failed to live up to his economic advisors' predictions. More

Daniel Hauser, 13, is being forced to endergo chemotherapy, despite his and his parents' desire. Do we really want government exercising this kind of control over our medical choices? More

Timothy Geithner was portrayed as the indispensable man, but now no matter how much the media continue to flack for him, he's still kissing the floor. More

Sonia Sotomayor, Latina Liberal; Lloyd Marcus, Black Conservative. More

The Left is shrinking honesty into an empty, ignored, and mocked virtue. It was not always so. More

Over the past couple of decades, the male-female ratio on campuses has been changing dramatically. Women outnumber men by a 4-3 ratio on college campuses. More

I am here to pay homage to the pendulum. More

Like it or not, we are being dragged into the Second Age of Nuclear Terror. Obama is the worst person to have in the White House at this time. More

There is room for much optimism if the ancient story of Narcissus and Echo plays itself out as Ovid recorded it, and Obama and the MSM are their contemporary counterparts. More

With the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor comes yet another democrat sleight of hand -- ignoring one reality and twisting another. More

It has become fashionable to condemn President Bush not only for violating "our values", but also for spawning anti-US terrorists. These thoughts only make sense if you ignore all US history through 2007. More

The President mentioned the Rule of Law in a speech last week. More

Obama supporters speak in a brand new poll. More

Cyberwar is now a fact of life in 21st Century wars. Actual and potential enemies of America already know the dimensions of Cyberwar and have moved into full combat. More

President Obama vowed to do a better job than George W. Bush by using diplomacy instead of wielding a big stick in dealing with hostile nations like Iran, North Korea and Syria. It hasn't worked. More

Many of us have friends, family and colleagues who still cling to liberalism, and worship at the Obama altar. Usually, they are not bad people. Persuading them to think otherwise requires extra care; facts alone won't do it. More

The liberal utopia has become the Forgotten Man's hell. But all that stands is the way of redemption is the Democrats' control of the state legislature. More

A sobering look at what happened last week, as Obama put the government to work on his agenda. More

Ever since 2004, the media has tried to correct its failure to turn public opinion against the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. More

Who is to blame for (1) our difficulties in Iraq, (2) the delayed Katrina response, (3) lousy relations between the US and Russia, and (4) Republicans losing the Senate? Donald Rumsfeld, of course. At least if you believe GQ. More

"No war is worth dying for"? More

They had no right to win. Yet they did, and in doing so they changed the course of a war More

Through the inevitable mismanagement of resources and goods at the disposal of the state, all forms of collectivism lead eventually to tyranny. More

A photo report from a member of the Panjshir Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) Engineers serving in Afghanistan More

The Left has built a foundational myth around the genius of Barack Obama, a genius that can be located only in Dreams. More

Targeted censorship, attacks on religious freedom, and outrageous protections for pedophilia are headed for the law books, unless the public steps up protest. More

H.R. 1996, the bill to outlaw cyberbullying, opens Pandora's box. There's a much better way to solve the problem. More

Green energy solutions that don't really accomplish much. More

When Marie had to face the reality of her father's Alzheimer's she knew she was also facing a decision she likened to "choosing between jumping off a cliff or getting hit by a bus." More

World Politics, peace, and the Pope. More

To tout Obama as the poster child for blackness is a ridiculous notion. More

Limiting carbon emissions in the developed world is a fool's errand. More

We're expecting miracles from a technology which has truly reached its limits. More

In his eloquent plea for finding common ground on a deep moral issue, our president is following the lead of Henry Clay. More

Ours is one of the few civilizations in recorded history that not only ignores the aged but devalues them. More

Pain, torture, and morality. More

There is one vice, one small illegal indiscretion, that, if decriminalized would solve all our problems. The United States needs to legalize the victimless crime known as counterfeiting. More

With all the heavy thinking and breathing going on over "what it means to be Republican," let me provide some light thinking and breathing on the subject. More

The best name for what Obama is creating isn't socialism, communism, or even fascism. More

Linking US action against Iran with freezing settlement building, destroying Jewish communities and establishing a second Arab Palestinian state is a set-up for Israel's demonization and destruction. More

We who take Christianity and Judaism seriously, we who view America and Israel as blessed refuges of those hated for the sake of hate, will never persuade our foes to stop being our foes. More

The sick, slumbering American wakes up in his Obama tee shirt and boxers, rubs his swollen eyes, hungover from a night of hope, change, spending, debt, and government takeover. More

Barry Honey, you rode the love-train to victory. I have truly tried to give you the benefit of the doubt with regard to your intentions, hoping they were indeed fraught with goodwill. More

Many Obama voters now expect the President to pull utopia out of his magician's hat. What will they do when the hat turns out to be empty? More

The refusal of green ideologues to grasp the energy realities of our age gets curiouser and curiouser. More

What the religious authorities in Cairo are saying about the disease. More

Not endangered, and not rescued by Al Gore. More

some of us have called this left-right, liberal-conservative split a "culture war" or even a "second Civil War." The precise, technical word for what is happening in the United States today is revolution. More

Obama may earn millions from taxpayer-funded schools in his new book deal. More

Venezuela's "socialist satellite" is mostly a no-show when it comes to television broadcasts. Bad news for Hugo Chavez, and worse news for the Chinese, whose space program supplied it. More

The laws of my universe and the parallel (liberal) universe. More

Ever put your finger on a big tent? It leaks. Tent poles sag on soggy ground; rain and snow can make the roof sag and collapse. More

Homeland Security Chief Janet Napolitano is determined to beef up security along the rough and tumble Canadian border. That's right, Canada. More

Beneath the obvous difference, there are some disconcerting similarities between the last two Democrats in the White House. More

Carrie Prejean represents a modern day inkblot test of inestimable value to America's frustrated and exiled GOP. More

The ominous storm clouds of war are gathering once again over tiny, besieged Georgia have shed their first droplets of conflict. More

Here's the deal when you join the liberal side. More

The mass media has attempted to pass off Notre Dame protests as yet another example of marginalized right-wing hysteria, but a peek just a little deeper into this controversy suggests other things at work. More

One outcome is certain: the abortion debate was rescued, at least for the moment, from drifting into the marginal recesses of the political calculus More

After a year of incredible growth, it is time for American Thinker to go on to the next stage. We are asking our readers for help. More

Obama is Ready for his Grandest Gesture, his Peace Outreach to A Billion Muslims in Cairo. More

The real front in this battle is not the law or morality, but politics. More

Last week, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner admitted the Fed failed miserably during his tenure as New York Fed president, and contributed mightily to the financial calamity the world is digging out from under.  Geithner conceded massive policy errors in the U.S. and at central banks... More

European antitrust chief Neelie Kroes bragged that she was raising money to support the European taxpayer More

There is only one endangered species President Obama seems unconcerned about. In the modern-day world, the death of a species can be attributed to shrinking habitats, and out of control hunters and poachers. To what extremes wildlife protectionism should go, is open to debate.  For those who... More

The old Latin proverb nemo repente turpissimus can be translated as "nobody becomes very evil overnight." More

What's in store tomorrow for their first meeting. More

Why is it that so many people believe that the world works the way that they want it to work, rather than the way it actually works? More

As President Obama addresses Notre Dame, Our Lady's advice is worth recalling. More

Apply the principles urged on Israel to the United States, and you end up with a scenario something like this. More

The almost total inversion of reality to reportage on the Arab-Israeli conflict laid bare. More

The global warmists have yet another embarrassment on their hands. More

Imagine it's 1940, and picture Adolf Hitler speaking at a US university, receiving a polite reception, while Winston Churchill is barred from speaking More

Tea Party Americans can do something about it. More

It's all about surrender. More

Lessons for a president from a comedy classic. More

If you listen to liberals, they are the "reality-based" people. I offer here several pieces of evidence, large and small. You can be the judge More

I've been working for the past year on solid methods to defeat the politics of ridicule - the tactics advocated by Saul Alinsky to every 60s radical that ever burned a draft card or a bra. More

Capitalism is creative. Obama's America promises to be excruciatingly boring, among many other flaws. More

The other side of the coin labeled "free." More

Alittle history explains a lot. More

As Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu gets closer to next week's trip to Washington DC and his meetings with the Obama administration, alarms are being sounded all across the mainstream and blog media More

Putting together a conservative majority should not be rocket science. More

When a business is losing market share to a firm with a better selling product, it only has two true options. More

There may be political lessons for the GOP to be drawn from the world of superfluous bureaucracies. More

In the battle for the soul of the Republican Party the usual suspects want to make the brand more bland. More

Now that President Obama has opened the door, it is time to look again at a famous political murder. More

For ninety percent of the last million years, the normal state of the Earth's climate has been an ice age, punctuated by short periods of warm climate, or interglacials. More

Who would have thought that the key to battling the rising tide of anti-Semitism in Obama's United States lies in these words: "Jesus loves me! This I know, For the Bible tells me so." More

When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one Messiah to dissolve the historic bonds that have connected his subjects with the fundamental beliefs of a bunch of dead white guys.... More

A book by two economics professors has the attention of the White House. It implies we're irrational economic animals and the government is the wise zookeeper. More

A modest proposal. More

Follow the ideas. More

Sherman was right: War is Hell. The current war against the Judeo-Christian world waged by al-Qaida and other radical Moslems is no different. More

While Obama is correct that US tax policy discriminates against corporations that produce in the United States, his proposed solution should be called "The Outsource Corporate Headquarters Act of 2009." More

The American automotive industry will not be nationalized under the Obama administration; it will be politicized. More

When will the American public wake up? More

There might be more to these celebrity plugs for a tyrant who jailed more of his subjects than did Hitler or Stalin than the usual celebrity vacuity upstairs More

One image alone was released from the expensive photo op that terrified New Yorkers last month. It speaks powerfully to the American public -- in symbolic language. More

Eight years after war was declared on the US and the most heinous attack on the USA was launched on American soil, the war has been won (according to President Obama). More

If past is indeed prologue, the organized, concentrated and continuous assault by a small percentage of zealots will ultimately wear down the resistance of the larger, less focused, non-committed majority. More

Are social conservatives hurting or helping the cause of conservatism? More

Progressives divide the world into victims and exploiters, and see themselves as saviors of the underdogs. And that requires greater government power in their hands, to vanquish the exploiters. More

Free speech is in peril in America, as a longstanding goal of the left is within their grasp. More

First they came for Michael Savage.... More

If you like counting "firsts," here's one for you. It was just 30 years ago when the British first elected a grocer's daughter to be Prime Minister. More

Justice has become a matter of ideology not law. More

The paper's hopeless inability to offer readers real insights about Vladimir Putin's neo-Soviet regime becomes more and more obvious. More

Afraid to believe that there are people in the world who embrace evil over good and death over life, some journalists live in state of denial. More

It's difficult to have a reasonable discussion about inflicting pain and excruciating mental distress on other human beings in the pursuit of a noble cause. More

I don't see Westerns playing at the theaters these days. And I miss having a "cowboy" in the White House. More

Getting to know a beleagured community, 8 of whose young men were murdered by jihadists. More

If asked for a word to describe an Obama voter, there is only one that any sentient person could offer: SUCKER. More

Forget about building any new nuclear plants. More

In the minds of his believers, Barack Obama has only to utter words and they become so. It is a phenomenon somewhere on the border between politics and religion. More

Plato advanced the position that global warming occurs at regular intervals in Timaeus, and his famous pupil Aristotle (382-322 BC), referred to climate changes in Meteorologica. Too bad the warmists haven't studied ancient history. More

As a mother of four, I freely admit the implied extortion of Mother's Day, but I'm happy to cash in anyway. More

The far right of the liberals' imagination simply does not exist. The platform of the conservative wing of the conservative movement is something altogether different than the labels hurled by liberals. More

Who would have ever thought that we would seriously debate whether to prosecute those who have kept us safe since 9/11? More

The ducks are lining up. More

In addition to Obama's severely myopic understanding of the American legal tradition, the current president once again is demonstrating his breathtaking arrogance with respect to the Constitution More

Without an effective strategy against modern leftist political terrorism, America is doomed to a fate called France. Please, let's stop debating small issues. These are merely distractions. More

A campaign to halt military assistance to Israel runs into a backlash when it errects 10 billboards in Albuquerque demonizing Israel. More

Vice President Joe Biden's speech to AIPAC -- immediately dubbed by the media as the Obama administration's tough-love approach to Israel -- is both more and less than that. More

As the gullible of the world start to relax after being told that the swine flu may not become a pandemic, the rest of us marvel at the breadth of their naïveté. More

It would be naïve to think that we are not going to see Obama and his Democratic majorities impose a form of National Health Care (NHC) as early in this term as he can. More

Preparing the American economy for the next stage of our crisis: a collapse of the dollar. More

A cynical pol changes parties again, and demonstrates the power of party bosses over the citizens' ability to choose their representatives. More

Talking to liberals is very much like doing therapy. The first lesson any psychiatrist learns is that most clients don't listen. More

America has a former New York Times journalist, Steven Rattner, as our auto czar, a man with zero auto industry expertise. And it shows. More

Another misbegotten prosecution needs formal investigation, and the Department of Justice requires serious reform. More

The fear of a swine flu pandemic may be a crisis too good to for President Obama waste in his quest to take over national health care. More

The alliance between politicians, their supporters with agendas and the news media is an unholy union More

President Barack Obama has not gone far enough in his world apology tour. Here are few more items for which he should apologize. More

The data on public opinion surrounding abortion suggests that the Republican Party's pro-life stance is simply not the problem some imagine. More

Those who plot people and issues along the political spectrum of left, right, and in-between may be late to perceive a new wind blowing from outside their perspective. More

Sand-blasting "Equal Justice Under Law" from the Courthouse should commence if the Senate confirms a nominee who matches President Obama's criteria for judges. More

As the essence of Obamanomics is easy money and government aggrandizement, there are lots of reasons for pessimism. Here are ten of them. More

It's no longer funny. This is serious. What was initially a comedy of errors and gaffes is now becoming a serious threat to our security, our economy and our way of life. More

Hope, courage, and honor is contagious, and it does not always come from expected places. More

Unless European states and America suddenly adopt a hawkish foreign policy and strengthen their militaries, Europe will become a mere province of the Russian empire. More

Most middle-class Americans are fed up with illegal immigration. They get no sympathy from liberal elites, however More

The reactionaries of the Left are celebrating their own unique sense of jingoism that has come to dominate their political community since Vietnam. More

The term 'peer review' is often equated with 'gold standard'. Far from it. An astounding amount of misinformation is published under its rubric. More

Those who advocate for justice for the Palestinians must, to be just, also provide justice for the Jews. You can't have one without the other. More

Dr. Michael Oren is being touted as Israel's next ambassador to the U.S. I can tell you a bit about the man. I have served in two wars with him. More

The odds that the federal government will ever get its hooks out of Chrysler or General Motors are slim to none. Why? In one word, Amtrak. More

Outbreak! was the title of the movie released in 1995 about an Ebola epidemic, inspired by news reports of outbreaks of the deadly virus in Africa. Pandemics bring in audiences. More

Perhaps George W Bush's most significant failure as president was not convincing enough Americans that the war on terror was a real war. More

On May 2, 1949, sixty years ago, the State of Israel was admitted to the United Nations. These two creations of post-war mankind were, in many ways, intertwined. More

President Obama has horrifically botched his handling of Russia's efforts to subvert the U.S military base in Kyrgyzstan More

Totalitarian governments find the devoted support of some of the most talented minds and creative spirits of the West. More

There has been a whole lot of wishful thinking going on, from alternate energy to non-harsh interrogations. More

Richard Baehr, Kyle-Anne Shiver, Ed Lasky, Larrey Anderson, and Thomas Lifson argue over the big tent theory and the prospects for the future. More

What happens when a president with a winning smile starts deciding on how much medical care you get? More

Prior to the arrival of the horse in North America, certain Native American tribes had an interesting system for hunting buffalo. More

Killing our language, one word at a time More