No judge is going to question the Constitutional qualifications of an elected president. I'm sorry, but that's the practical reality. And yet the Obama "birther" debate is important. More

Remember the last election and all the rhetoric from the Democrats about making sure every vote counted? It turns out that the brave men and women of our military are the most disenfranchised group of voters today More

America has a tiger by the tail, and the ride is going to be awfully hazzardous. More

Now that Americans voted for hope and change, we can see the results daily. Just look at the Obama administration's Iran policy: It changes almost every week. More

The Democrats -- and the Republicans too -- may find the next stage of Sarah Palin's public career uncomfortable. True to form, Sarah Palin, her Governorship behind her, clearly and forthrightly declared her intent: to take up arms against the forces dedicated to tearing down our Constitution,... More

Haunting the comments sections of conservative websites, trolls come in several varieties. More

The stimulus shares one major element with every other program this administration has come up with: they have all been tried before, and they have all failed. More

The Left has long confused work, jobs, and worth. The Stimulus Package, the grand catastrophe, was intended to create and preserve jobs that could make America poorer, not richer More

President Obama's refusal to apologize to America's police sends a horrible message to black America. More

Some called it a confirmation conversion. At times during her confirmation hearings, Judge Sotomayor sounded as if she could have been Chief Justice John Roberts' sister. More

As the old saying goes, there's more than one way to skin a cat. By the same token, there is more than one way to lose liberty. Specifically, liberty can be taken away or given away. More

If Obama rushed to judgment without knowing all the facts about an arrest in Cambridge, what does this tell us about the basis for his foreign policy pronouncements? More

The U.S. Embassy in Tegucigalpa, Honduras continues to proclaim the legitimate government of Roberto Micheletti as golpistas -- which in Latin society means far more than coup plotters. More

Rather than propelling Republicans to power, the "Birther" theory is being used by Democrats and their media allies to isolate and undermine the opposition. More

Sarah Palin's Farewell Address as Governor of Alaska Sunday was no farewell address at all. It was just the beginning; it was a commencement address. More

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Once crucial flaw in the present Medicare system may be preventing the profession from taking a strong stand in opposition to a public plan option More

Be afraid. Be very afraid. More

On the surface, it has all the makings of a classic David vs. Goliath tale -- an ostensibly exploitative multinational oil company plundering the pristine rain forests of impoverished, indigenous inhabitants. More

Do you remember that 2007 U.S. National Intelligence Estimate which concluded -- to virtually everyone's astonishment -- that four years earlier Iran had suspended its nuclear weapons program? More

Obama has descended rapidly from the Magnificent to the Monotonous. More

While inconsolable family members bid farewell to a fallen New Jersey police hero, at a Washington DC press conference Barack Obama reminded Americans of law enforcement's history of racial injustice. More

Enabling tyrants is never wise. More

Ayn Rand's books are suddenly hot, and her ideas too, as the statist menace looms. More

Say what they will, "global warming" is neither a reality nor a religion. It is instead a "superstition." More

Could it be the President's love songs are no longer popular? More

Just how smart is the President? . I say: let's look at the evidence. More

Bigoted white cops picking on poor, innocent blacks, just like Selma, Ala. in 1963. Really? Perhaps Mr. Obama, who lives in a bubble, ought to get out into the real world and get his facts straight More

When I became a cop in 1964, the job was very different; racism was not only tolerated, it was often nurtured by veteran and superior officers. More

Mr. President, history and reality teach us that as racists go, we are, frankly, rank amateurs. And I am sick and tired of Ivy League elites like you and Professor Gates pretending otherwise. More

Obama's efforts to "help" the economy are focused almost solely on propping up giant corporations and vast labor unions. Republicans should be staking out the promotion of small business More

Professor Henry Louis Gates discovered he was about "50% white". He said that this was quote, "To my astonishment and horror...". More

A "Harper's Index" type of index of the progress made under President Obama so far. In some cases, data from other time periods are given to provide context. More

We have been taught to indulge craziness. It's supposed to show that we're "compassionate". Psychiatrists know this: If you let crazy folks set the rules, you have to get crazy right along with them. More

While Americans worry over government insurance plans, longer waits for treatment, and "healthcare rationing," a more sinister agenda lurks in the shadows of the healthcare bill now before the House of Representatives. More

Black or white, a citizen can greatly reduce his grief in a police encounter, by understanding the psychodynamics of the confrontation, and the rules that govern authoritarian interactions. More

Is there any way to doubt Barack Obama without being called a racist? More

The First Family will be vacationing on a 'sprawling gentleman's farm' on Martha's Vineyard in August. More

I rejoice as much as any American in Neil Armstrong's famous first step on our planet's great satellite, but I also know that there is much danger in gigantic communal triumphs. More

Christian Zionists from a multitude of denominations gathered last week in Washington, DC More

President Obama, from his bully pulpit, has created an angry mob against corporations, executives, Wall Street and the auto industry. Now supposedly racist cops. Who's next? More

Has a US Commander in Chief ever spoken this way in the middle of a war? More

Yes, I said it: Obama is a racist. As the white, conservative mother of black/Mexican/white children, I know a racist when I hear one. More

If it can happen to Professor Gates and to me ... it might happen to anyone. I am talking, of course, about being handcuffed by the police in Cambridge, Mass. More

Ever since I was a child, I have enjoyed watching aliens assault our planet Earth on both the small and large screens. More

Republicans can create a coalition of the Right and the Center. And they can do it without abandoning their principles. More

An apology it wasn't. Even worse, Obama took the opportunity to fire off a smaller caliber insult at Crowley and his fellow cops. More

The media elite hate Sarah Palin with a passion -- the same passion they have used for decades to rant about us. We are the "primitive strain," the "booboisie," or, as The New York Times put it, the "Philistines." More

From the moment a police officer dons that uniform, he/she becomes a symbol of authority, and it becomes obvious very quickly that most people in a free country resent authority. More

Dear Mr. President, I am the wife of a police officer and have worked as a law enforcement dispatcher for the past three years. More

It appears that, based on skin color, Obama leaves empathy at the door and makes snap judgments that are discriminatory, insensitive, emotionally charged and lacking full knowledge. More

I am a Latino, as you may be able to tell from my name. You know; one who is constantly being harassed by the police and frequently getting stopped for dubious traffic violations because of his race. More

A huge crack has surfaced in Obama's Jewish base in the person of Alan Solow, one of the president's closest Chicago friends and long-time supporters. More

A grave injustice is being committed against the Palestinian people. Thousands are being systematically robbed of their citizenship, made stateless once more by a hard-hearted government. And it isn't Israel. More

Guess who proposed a platform for change that contained all the points below? More

From the man who brought us the 'General Betray Us' ad comes a way to enrich radical environmental groups and tort lawyers. More

It is truly a sad day in America when the president of the United States fans the flames of racial hatred. More

The health care crisis in America is not about the quality of health care, but about sticker shock to people who believe in the free lunch. More

The awful truth about liberalism is its central delusion, the notion that life can be neatly organized into rational bureaucratic programs. More

If ObamaCare passes in the coming weeks, you can be sure that that question will be raised for you and me, and our loved ones. More

Secretary of State Clinton has gone to India and tried to persuade its leaders to adopt the Leftist dilettante position on carbon emissions. More

I am the guy who wrote A Conservative Case for Universal Health Coverage, in which I said, "I could live with universal health coverage in the US." One might think I would support Obamacare. The answer is not only "no", but "hell no". More

Here are some facts that refuse to be ignored... More

In one corner: Saul Alinsky. In the other corner: Martin Luther King. More

The next financial crisis the Democrats have created. Your taxes will have to go up again. And again. More

The Democrats' Health Care Bill contains explicit incentives for racial preferences. See the bill's lanuage (buried in 1018 pages) for yourself. More

For the life of me, I can't figure out why Africans are so head over heels for Obama. A week or so before Obama's trip to Ghana, Africans from all over the continent were abuzz More

Almost four decades ago, the 26th Amendment lowered the US voting age to 18. At the time, most neurologists believed that the human brain was fully developed by about age 12. Now we know better. More

How to shrink the economy and standard of living, brought to you by the Obama administration. More

Costa Rican President Oscar Arias is promoting a brazen "peace plan" for Honduras that is a betrayal of democracy. More

Soviet Russia and Nazi Germany both called those vague, undefined figures appointed by the Leader to carry out his intentions "commissars" More

The political marriage of convenience between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama is fraying seriously in the face of the changed political dynamic in the last few weeks. More

I once had a minor medical procedure done in Mexico. The doc wanted to be paid in cash, and I obliged. Then I asked for a receipt. More

Vote for cap and trade, and expect the GOP base to help elect him to the Senate? But the GOP elites are backing him. More

An Islamist group that advocates the overthrow of the U.S. government openly met in an American city yesterday. Critics of Islamists, meanwhile, find their free speech rights under assault. More

A modest proposal. More

Levin strikes back More

Hey kids. I know you're not all that interested in politics, but, God bless you, you vote. Before you vote again, please consider reading this. More

Race! Race! Race! As the kids say, "Gag me with Race!" I just read my Republican Senator Mel Martinez's statement on why he is voting to confirm Sonia Sotomator More

The taxpayer-funded bailout of the two companies and the UAW was no ordinary commercial investment, but a very generous gift from taxpayers. More

The F-22 is the ultimate deterrent aircraft. Two of our allies faced with mortal threats need it, but may be denied access, thanks to a foolish Obama administration decision. More

Some conspicuous blind spots in an activist denomination. More

You're Peggy Noonan and you're jealous. But it's not the normal kind of jealous, the kind reserved for girlfriends who can squeeze into size 2 jeans. No, it's the kind of jealous that hurts. More

From early 2008: reposting an assessment of the real historical impact of Walter Cronkite More

In Mexico, every registered voter has a an official ID card, complete with photograph, fingerprint and a holographic image. It's not just the existence of the card that's important, but how it is used. More

When President Obama visited Ghana last week, he went to teach. But what if Africa has something to teach the president about education? More

This present scourge of shameless bias in the MSM tends to rear its ugly head whenever there is a frenzied immersion into a particular story. More

It's a nightmarish paradox: To urgently need help and believe that ultimately there is none. More

When the action-thriller "Taken" emerged this past spring it wasn't difficult to understand why conservatives got so excited about it. More

This week's dust-up over a mere $700,000 Federal employees "group-hug" at the ritzy Biltmore Hotel in Phoenix made me chuckle. Ah, the memories that story brought back. More

Cap and trade runs smack into reality at a beloved St. Louis bakery. More

The push to separate faith and politics should be one that is all-inclusive and is not limited to merely the Abrahamic faiths. More

Obama lectures us on morality, while we have watched him turn a blind eye to real torture: the unspeakable brutality, beatings and murders that the Islamic Republic of Iran is committing against people peacefully marching for liberty More

"We need to ask not what we can do for climate change, but to ask what climate change can do for us." More

Benyamin (Bibi) Netanyahu has a fearful choice to make, like Sophie in William Styron's novel Sophie's Choice. More

Think what you want about George W. Bush, but he did do this: he saved us from a Gore Presidency. More

Progressive intellectuals like Obama and Sotomayor have helped to convince much of America to replace mutual respect with partisan solidarity. More

When our new President can appoint "Czars" to rule entire sections of American life without electoral accountability or even Congressional confirmation, we have entered the unholy realm of Dictatorship. More

The extreme bias of the black-oriented media serves to keep blacks on the liberal plantation. More

Obama has adopted the Palestinian narrative, which has resulted in uncompromising opposition on the part of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas towards any attempts by Israel in jumpstarting peace negotiations. More

Democrat Jan Schakowsky of Illinois proved last week why President Barack Obama was right to threaten to veto a bill that could give more politicians access to classified briefings about covert CIA operations. More

On the 6th of November last, I made a wager with some of my associates in London and Zurich that within a year they would be pining for the return of George W. Bush. My friends have collectively conceded and are forwarding payment. More

A black guy in his mid-20's named Mike called into a radio show the other day, and he commented that "black people don't hear things the same way whites do." We blacks apparently "hear black." More

Last week's G-8 meeting in Italy confirmed the West's course of economic suicide by glolbal warming regulation. More

It should be obvious that great effort is being exerted to protect the President from the embarrassing need to retract or postpone his presidential decision to swiftly close Gitmo More

Goldman Sachs, the Wall Street leviathan that is heavily invested in the cap-and-trade carbon market scam, has admitted it has developed and used software that can manipulate such financial markets. More

Sarah Palin added to Alaska's celebration of the Fourth with what is surely a political bombshell. More

Peace through strength, a tried and tested policy, has been replaced with the less potent "peace through lots and lots of talk." More

Some liberals are poised to bring back Jimmy Carter's "malaise." No kidding. More

Is nothing sacred to Team Obama? Does the most anti-American president in the country's history have to turn everything we true blooded Americans hold dear into The Obama Show 24/7? More

Michael Jackson is just the latest in a line of dead celebrities whose freakish or tragic lives are the stuff of hero worship. More

Remember when Obama slyly gave Hillary the single digit salute in a campaign speech, and his fans in the audience laughed their heads off? More

United States net foreign debt hit 24.3% of our GDP, at the end of 2008, according to a report issued on June 26 by the Bureau of Economic Analysis, and the media have collectively yawned. More

Sarah Palin, by virtue of her resignation and remarks, has now positioned herself to disrupt the status quo and send much needed shock waves through the entire American political system. More

Ricci v. DeStefano, a lawsuit brought by New Haven, Connecticut firefighters after the city scrapped promotion exams they had passed, says disturbing things about Judge Sotomayor -- and President Obama. More

More than likely, hot button issues like abortion, affirmative action and gun control will be avoided. Instead the Senators will be pressing her about her judicial philosophy and the major court decisions she's made. More

In his visit to Moscow late last week, President Obama tried to satisfy all sides, and accomplished nothing other than sounding good in the moment and feeling good about himself More

In the predawn darkness of July 13, 1994, 72 desperate Cubans sneaked aboard a decrepit but seaworthy tugboat in Havana harbor and set off for the U.S. and the prospect of freedom, only to be massacred by Castro's forces. More

Sarah Palin loves God. God loves Sarah Palin. And that is why they hate her...and Him. More

The press, true to form, is hailing Obama's trip to Russia as statesmanlike. Reality, as usual, is different. More

Not the same person who wrote Dreams from my Father. More

How to drive business away. A lesson from the Tar Heel State. More

Nightmare by newspaper in Texas More

At a critical juncture in the formation of this country's Mideast policy, Alan Dershowitz has taken a public stand portraying Obama as a friend of Israel. More

Americans have been voting with their feet against Democrat rule in corrupt and dysfunctional cities for half a century. Whole states can seem to empty out when things get too bad. More

In 1978, stunning passivity and ambiguity by Jimmy Carter set off an earthquake in Iran that echoes eerily today. More

President Obama's visit to Russia was unwise at best. More

Justice Ginsburg turns out to play softball well -- in the New York Times. More

When, in the course of the Clinton presidency, it became necessary to normalize sexual misbehavior among presidents, the memory of Thomas Jefferson was soiled, with the compliance of academic and journalistic liberal elites. More

There is, at least at the social level, a tacit realization, even by those on the left, that racism is not prevalent. More

The myth of the sweet, idealistic, young woman who ruthlessly died at the hand of the Israeli Defense Forces spread by an unexpected source. More

Intelligent idiots, smart fools, multi-degreed morons - lots of monikers could describe a category of individuals dismayingly prominent in the ruling elites of the West. More

Life sometimes imitates art, even in the Obama presidency. More

Why do we have Freedom of the Press? Although this is usually combined with freedom of speech, the two are not the same at all. More

The lofty rhetoric from the international organizations on Honduras masks an agenda favoring despotism. More

The Obama administration, in a precedent-setting move, has approved resettlement in the U.S. for 1,350 Palestinian refugees from Iraq More

Will 2000 of the power elite be talking about what Obama is doing to the economy when they get together in the Bohemian Grove? More

The credit the media and the left will never give the 43rd president. More

Democrats are playing the race card with Sonia Sotomayor's nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court in more ways than one. More

As a communication professional I have largely been at a loss to explain the judgments being drawn about Governor Palin by allegedly expert pundits. More

No responsible energy policy can go forward that is rooted in the belief that man-made carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions significantly contribute to global warming More

Who is Roozbeh Farahanipour, and what is so striking about his apparent return to Iran? More

Elements of revolution have already started to come together and have yet to reach their full stature. Not one act but a process, revolution never develops in a straight line. More

Mark Sanford and Sarah Palin are both conspicuously religious, both defenders of states' rights, both unabashed conservatives, and both relatively young and attractive More

Obama and his campaign unabashedly and tenaciously used race to goad Americans into believing that voting for him would right the wrongs of America's racial history. More

When will white America be off the hook for sins of the past? When will Democrat pitchmen and women, such as Janeane Garofalo, cease selling the myth that America is a racist country? More

Prime Minister Netanyahu has spent more time in the U.S. than any of the previous twelve prime ministers in Israel's history. Because of this, his perception of the world has clearly been affected. More

It often seems as though we've been thrust into a universe dominated by the hallucinatory influence of LSD. More

I'm all for cap 'n trade; it's a nifty idea. Simply splendid. Positively stupendous. Brilliant beyond brilliant. I just have a different take on the whole notion. More

Two weeks ago it was the Urdu poets. This week it's Obama's love for Pushkin's poetry. The week before it was probably the Bhadavad-Gita in Sanskrit. More

Democrats are honest enough to be ashamed of what they are doing. Why else would they pass their trillion dollar stimulus bill without serious hearings or even a copy of the bill available to read. More

Government funded health care has been debated in nearly every session of Congress since 1939. More

Things are getting very hot in Vladimir Putin's kitchenski. Visiting Russia July 6-8, Barack Obama should make sure the precious energy being created doesn't go to waste. More

Feminism is most easily understood - at least in my mind - with the acronym for its informal organization, LAME (Ladies Auxiliary of Marxist Envy.) More

The response to Sarah Palin's surprise resignation last Friday clearly reveals the limitations of the American political class, right, left, or what have you. More

Enough already with carbon cap and trade. I say let's cap oxygen, and get down to root causes. Can't have CO2 without the O. More

Our president keeps the world, and a huge number of Americans, enthralled by his superb oratorical skills. But are Obama's pronouncements indeed solid pieces of political wisdom, or just tricks of a glib tongue? More

The Healthy Americans Private Insurance plan, which incidentally goes by the acronym "HAPI," is the new plan the federal government has devised to force us to pay more in taxes and take a handout whether we want it or not. More

The frail elderly stand to be the biggest loser under president Obama's health care reforms. More

Taxes are the price we pay for civilization" ... Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. But making taxes fairer is not as simple as it might seem. More

There is a point in tournament poker where one player doesn't have the chips to play out the next raise, but they have great cards, so they call "all in." More

Here is the distinct design triad President Obama is using to forward his agenda More

Palin v. the pundits demonstrates a profound disconnect that is a decent microcosm of the bigger political debate going on in this country More

Some people are screwed up. Broken. They choose to hate and nothing will change their minds. More

"Them Jews" around Obama have put a lot on the line for their president. Even some liberal American Jews are getting it. More

A charismatic young leader, supported by a coalition of intellectual elitists on the one hand and a dependent underclass on the other, has gained control of the country. More

Just as we conservatives get ready to celebrate our patriotism on the Fourth of July, a liberal from a prominent family has been accused of spying for Cuba. It's not as if this is the first time. More

When readers come to American Thinker, every article and blog invites them to "Join the Discussion." Today, some frequent AT commenters share their Fourth of July thoughts. More

The tree of liberty has strong roots in American soil. More

Much more is at stake than simply the welfare of the Iranian people. More

One thing that Obama will probably do when he leaves office is start to write his memoirs. He may probably even have started already. More

Her critics are already calling her "erratic" but she is consistent in one respect: she cares little for the established ways of doing things when she thinks she has a better course of action. More

Sometimes we appreciate what the Declaration of Independence was, but perhaps we need even more to appreciate what it was not. More

The real story behind the chaos in Honduras is a huge story that needs to be exposed to the world. And the bottom line is that Obama got it wrong, again. More

Examining the alternative universe in which this is good for America. More

Masquerading as an instrument of environmental salvation, the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade bill will result in one of the largest seizures of wealth in human history. More

There is probably nothing that pleases our libertine left more than a social conservative's fall from grace. More

Even journalists are beginning to revolt at tactics the government is now using to spin the Global Warming myth. More

The President of these United States recently expressed his love for "the Urdu poets," a piece of inspired BS that nobody in their right minds believed for a second. More

Does the Honduran government have the right to enforce its own Constitution? Isn't it a sovereign nation? More

Carbon dioxide is not a pollutant, it's a fertilizer More

American Muslims gather by the tens of thousands in our nation's capital this weekend, as our nation celebrates its birthday. More

Tax hikes aren't the only answer. More

Is it true that we are passing up on a gold mine of renewable energy in favor of unnecessary and harmful fossil and nuclear fuels? More

When your political opponents are more energized and upset than your political allies, that is a very bad sign. More

Obama has sided with a thug in Honduras, a man who -- for completely self-serving reasons -- sought to subvert his nation's constitution. More

Obama's response to the Honduran military removing a dictator-wannabe from office tells us who he is. More

Proprty rights alone do not explain this sabotage. More

Islam swept out of the Arabian desert to conquer the world for Allah. An early victim of these marauding conquerors was Persia. More

Women's liberation is not a one-way street. Iran's women once before were freed from theocratic repression. More