When the leadership opts out, when no one is in command, things just naturally fall to the level of least effort. More

The president's pants were smoldering during his State of the Union address. More

University of Florida quarterback Tim Tebow hasn't even made it to the NFL yet, but he is going to be a star of the Super Bowl. More

Iranian President Ahmadinejad must have had a good laugh when he read the scant foreign policy section of President Obama's State of the Union speech. More

The appearance of the president at the Republicans' retreat in Baltimore on Friday was yet another illustration of the indispensability of the Obama teleprompter. More

Aristotle considered the adjective "degenerate" redundant when coupled with "democracy," and America's founding fathers shared his disapprobation. More

Under the barbaric rule of the mullahcracy in Iran, sexual assaults have become instruments of policy for extracting false confessions. More

Most Americans, even many of those concerned with the problems of academic Middle East Studies, have probably never heard of the Model Arab League More

After forty years of preferential treatment in schools and the job market, many women are now better-educated and make more money than men. More

China sends out a trial balloon that it "mulls setting up military bases in Pakistan." More

The fatal flaw. More

Obama is targeting the wrong activities in his ban on proprietary trading. More

And not "Scamalittle," either. More

Many of us belonging to that collective known as the sixties generation have been overly reflective of late. More

An ugly reality is at the heart of what Obama means by a "really good" president. More

"It's the economy, stupid." Or is it? More

Much has been written and said recently about the Christmas Day would-be bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab being granted the same rights as ordinary American citizens. If only he were treated so poorly. More

President Obama's call for legislation that will ensure that payments on federal student loans are never more than ten percent of the borrower's discretionary income is an absolute charade. More

An important book for two groups: those who are conversant with the Constitution and those who are not. More

You don't pick brain surgeons by the color of their skin. You pick them by competence only. More

President Barack Obama is a lot like Linus Van Pelt. More

The President promised the moon, but he said nothing for which he could be held accountable. More

How a health care debacle destroys a presidency and jeopardizes a political party. More

The dissenting opinion in Citizens United written by Justice Stevens exposes the sometimes-camouflaged antipathy towards freedom held by liberal, big-government types. More

Self-righteousness and an unbridled lust for control over the lives of 307 million Americans are the hallmarks of environmental laws in America. More

What does America want? Leadership or looks and charisma? More

In January 2009, Obama's rising tide lifted all Democratic ships. Today, however, the President's agenda is an anchor around the necks of all who support it. More

Senator-elect Scott Brown offers such a perfect roadmap for Republicans in 2010, it is worth deconstructing his campaign to draw the key lessons for the next nine months. More

Every month will bring fresh anguish for President Obama and his supporters. More

The secret phrase is "back from the brink." More

The president's reactions to last week's Supreme Court decision betray a profound ignorance of campaign finance. More

The U.S. Defense Dept. "caused the Haiti earthquake with electromagnetic shock-wave bombs," reports the Castro regime. "Iran is Next." More

The bitter fruit of forty years of feminist domination in the United States. More

His sudden political fame will make him the newest target of liberal vitriol and vengeance. More

Newly-minted Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell will be presenting the "Republican response" to President Obama's State of the Union address Wednesday evening. More

Time for John McCain to go back to Arizona. More

There has been a clamor on the left for the elimination of the filibuster rule in the Senate. More

The Pentagon's bowdlerized "analysis" of the jihad-inspired mass murder committed by a pious Muslim officer at Fort Hood is a disgrace. More

There are just a few things I'm still fuzzy on, and no one else seems to be asking him about them. More

The huge labor unions use their cash to purchase the Democratic Party lock, stock and Obama. But the campaign rulebook just changed. More

If the Nobel Prize-winning IPCC scientists submitted their climate change research as a grade-school science fair project, it would fail miserably. More

Voters are looking for change, but will they find hope in Republicans? More

There are some important reasons why we cannot afford to bask in the glow of victory for too long. More

According to Nancy Pelosi, campaign promises have one purpose: getting a candidate elected. More

The shopping malls of America will be among the next major terrorist targets. It's not as if the jihadis haven't tried. More

What happens if the dollar becomes worthless? More

The Climategate emails reveal an orchestrated propaganda operation. More

An intriguing signal from Hamas in the Israeli-Palestinian talks. More

Tolerance is the pry bar by which the modern liberal moves boundaries. More

Major Hasan was not flagged because Washington has disarmed its own analysts. More

Some members of the media are in a snit about the Tea Party Movement's First Amendment freedom to peaceably assemble without them. More

First, don't make any sudden moves. More

Despite what civil rights dinosaurs (stuck in the past), race profiteers, and the Obama administration would have us believe, America's race relations have come a long way, baby. More

Sarah Palin's decision to campaign for John McCain's reelection bid is dismaying some of her staunchest allies and defenders on the web. More

Taking the Majority Leader's observation seriously. More

Its use is shunned in polite company. Is it time to rethink the question? More

Just months after the UK's Climategate scandal broke, a new study has uncovered compelling evidence that our government's principal climate centers have also been manipulating worldwide temperature data in order to fraudulently advance the global warming political agenda. More

The state of our union is, to use the word of the day, "unsustainable." More

Whenever the Establishment in Washington gets a Big Idea about the need to get beyond partisanship, reach for your wallet. More

The "progressive" is a creature who drags muddled thought to unexplored depths. More

The presidential modus operandi remains unchanged. More

Some contractual windfalls are better than others. More

Brown didn't just overcome an unworthy, machine-produced opponent, or even provide the crucial vote to prevent the further socialization of the United States. He destroyed a legend -- the legend of Obama the Omnipotent. More

In the coming weeks and months, the best political spectator sport around might not be Democrats versus Republicans or conservatives versus liberals, but Democrats of all stripes turning on one another. More

Imagine that you were Martha Coakley and you were a shoo-in for the United States Senate only a month ago. More

Scott Brown's historic Senate victory is a clear refutation of the liberal agenda in favor of the conservative position. More

The intensive campaign to force Israel into accepting the maximalist positions demanded by the Palestinians for their future state is failing. More

An e-mail sent from one of the officers aboard a USCG Cutter on scene the day of the massive earthquake. More

Coakley's campaign defines what the Democratic Party has become today: arrogant, boorish, incomprehensibly ignorant, and downright thuggish. More

Sure, Martha Coakley ran a horrible campaign. But Democrats win safe seats with horrible campaigns all the time. More

Oh, how the Left yearns for the thrilling days of yesteryear when, Barack Obama played his flute to the tune of Hope and Change! More

The only way to defeat the Left is to stop playing by their rules. More

Returning potential terrorists to a "meaningful life" through art therapy. Or not. More

Et tu quoque. More

The racist bias of the current administration cuts two ways. More

A glittering solution that fails to survive even the most rudimentary inspection. More

Some analysts are wondering about historical analogies to what seems to have happened in the Massachusetts special election. More

The name "liberalism" has now drifted so far from its moorings that it has turned into a lie. More

One thing we get with our mother's milk today is revulsion for what civil-rights lawyers call "invidious" discrimination. More

Forty years ago, violent radical groups wanted to destroy America, but they ended up destroying themselves...with a little help from the FBI. More

President Obama's recent (if only implicit) acknowledgment of the need to at least talk about terrorism in a less abstruse, more immediate manner is a small but welcome development. More

The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission was created by Congress "to examine the causes, domestic and global, of the current financial and economic crisis in the United States." But look at what is off-limits. More

On the holiday celebrating Martin Luther King's birthday, we celebrate also the first year of America's first black president, Barack Obama. More

Based on one full year's worth of observation, it is obvious Michelle Obama's pronouncements, advice, injunctions and edicts include a personal exemption for the occupants of the White House Executive Residence. More

Who trusts Republican leaders? Not serious conservatives, who have been burned so many times. The question, though, is what to do? More

The joke on the internet these days is "What do Tiger Woods and Phil Jones of East Anglia University in Britain have in common? They both got hit in the head by a model." More

Only raw and unrestrained liberalism could have destroyed the world's 8th-largest economy. More

The left has long accused the right of being compassionless hatemongers. More

It may surprise you to learn that national security could benefit from standard Quality Assurance (QA) measures and processes, widely in use today throughout the business and manufacturing worlds. More

April 4, 1968 is a day I'll never forget. More

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. More

The decision to jumpstart Palin's FOX News career with Bill O'Reilly and Glenn Beck bears comparison with the decision to start her media campaign with Katie Couric. More

Sarah Palin, the Wasilla woman often billed as the best hope of the GOP, certainly isn't one of those plain vanilla characters who inspire blasé reactions. More

A variety of moves being undertaken by Democrats are designed to ensure their permanent hold on power through engineering a new electorate. More

State-sanctioned same-sex marriage restructures the incentives for child-rearing arrangements, and much else. Few are thinking through how people will react. More

Abortion defenders find themselves arguing a difficult case when it comes to negligent homicide of the unborn. More

Egypt's beleaguered Coptic Christians continue to endure. More

Happiness statistics are rotten in the state of Denmark. More

This topic may infuriate many of my fellow blacks. More

Obama is a man for whom all other issues are marginal when compared to his own agenda. More

In a bizarre 1984 book, ex-KGB Major Anatoliy Golitsyn predicted liberalization of the Soviet Bloc and claimed that it would be a strategic deception. Let's examine the facts. More

I am a conservative, and I hope this review will surprise and encourage other conservatives who have not seen Avatar to give the movie another chance. More

We must demand that Wall Street provide us with the opportunity to invest in terror-free mutual funds. More

A tale from the future. More

This April 30, it will be 35 years since that last Huey hovered above the embassy roof in Saigon. For 35 years we've been told that that shameful image represents America's defeat. It does not. More

Many Democrat senators simply do not at all represent what the voters of their states believe or want. An ideological rationalization of the Senate may be on the way. More

The Visas Viper program is used by the Department of State and other national agencies to place on "watch lists" known or suspected international terrorists. More

Voting Democrat is associated with over 150,000 cancer deaths every year, according to the Hoven Institute for Studies Just as Valid as Studies Cited by Democrats. More

The Recovery Act does not seem to have worked very well in any measurable way. The good news is that our leaders are considering a Plan B. The bad news is that it looks a lot like Plan A More

Where they have gone, why, and what we can do about it. More

Individual Americans by the droves are experiencing their own political eureka moments and transforming into conservatives. More

Monday's report of near-freezing water beneath an Antarctic ice shelf strikes another serious blow to the sky-is-falling-because-oceans-are-rising prophecies of the climate-alarm crowd. More

The Climategate crowd successfully worked to obscure the connection between solar activity and climate. The leaked CRU e-mails reveal how. More

It turns out that the majority of Americans do want "hope and change." We just want it to start with the GOP. More

Forget about reform efforts, and even about throwing the bums out. To get corruption out of Washington, you have to go for the source. More

There seems to be something about Martha that is making a segment of Massachusetts voters who normally vote Democrat pause to consider whether that is such a good idea this time around. More

Mind the spinach, there, Mr. President. More

Simply put, the reason our intelligence service keeps failing to connect the dots is because the officials in charge don't know how. More

Last April, a senior Obama administration official almost let the cat out of the bag regarding the real impact of Obama-style health care "reform." More

Some like to claim that a lack of health insurance kills lots of people. More

Americans should pay attention to the Lisbon Treaty and the corresponding events in Europe. We're on the same road, and we're fast approaching a point of no return. More

Just as he has done with health care suppliers, Obama is putting the squeeze on domestic energy producers More

Two domestic terrorist strikes already on Obama's watch. Three strikes and he's out. Unfortunately, he's not even in the game. More

An unusual opportunity now presents itself in the special election for U.S. Senator in Massachusetts. More

David Brooks does what comes naturally to those who regard themselves as born and educated to lead the rest of us. More

With all the Marxists dug out from the very public -- yet very opaque -- story of President Barack Obama's life, could there be room for one more? More

The elephant in the living room of the controversy that everyone seems to be ignoring is Reid's horrific slap in the face of white America More

In the past weeks, the most sacred symbols of Iran's '79 Revolution -- namely its flag and founding father, Ayatollah Khomeini -- have come under direct attack. More

Thank goodness the mainstream media has not made invidious comparisons to the Bush recession of 2001-02. Back then, only 2 million jobs were lost. More

Yale political scientist Andrew F. March argues that fears of an inherent conflict between Western and Islamic political norms are overblown. More

The challenge which Republican Scott Brown is making in Massachusetts to win the special Senate election against Democrat Martha Coakley ought not to be a huge surprise. More

The truth is that Harry Reid and his liberal cohorts are the very definition of racists. They do not see "minorities" as individuals, but as part of a faceless group of victims. More

Obama has opened to our mortal enemies a veritable treasure trove of intelligence. More

The profound stupidity and prejudice reflected in a double-standard that denies only Christians (and perhaps a few other groups) the right to advocate their beliefs. More

It could not be more ironic that all the efforts of the world's sophisticates to build Obama up have been brought to naught by Mother Nature, who exposed him for the chump he is. More

Remember "Blood for Oil?" Of course you do. More

Flight 253 was far from the only Christmas attack on Christians. More

Since he appointed himself arbiter of cowardice relating to race in America, Eric Holder should immediately resign his position and facilitate what is obviously a desperately needed dialogue about race among Democrats. More

The word "intelligence" seems somehow out of place in proximity to this group. More

Polar Bear extinction forecasts betray the wondrous land of imagination climate alarmists have journeyed to...and provide a fabulous opportunity to offer our children an indoctrination inoculation. More

The Euro-Mediterranean "Partnership" is more like a suicide pact. More

Health insurance as we know it (think home/auto/life) will no longer exist following ObamaCare's implementation. More

Consciously and completely mistold by the major media. More

There appears to be a battle raging within Barack Obama. How this war is resolved will decide how we fight the war on terror and determine if we win it at all. More

Environmental radicals are urging the consumption of man's best friend. Seriously. More

Peter Orszag, the Obama White House Budget Director -- a very senior job on anyone's economic team -- does not appear to have been focused like a laser on his job this year. More

It is time to think the unthinkable and speak the ineffable. More

Scott Brown is driving the Democrats mad with his campaign. More

After a refreshing respite, we're now being subjected to a new round of presidential speeches, this time related to the Christmas bomber. The lectures are long on verbal bravado, stern gazes, and the now-clichéd "let me be clear." More

There is indeed nothing new under the sun. The answer to the federal government's current expansion far beyond the limits set by the Constitution lies in Thomas Jefferson's response to the Alien and Sedition Acts in 1798. More

Game the system and rig future elections. That is how things are done in the streets of Chicago. Signs are emerging that the Chicago Boys -- the triumvirate of Obama, Emanuel, and Axlerod -- are up to their old tricks. More

One thing you've got to say for MS-NBC: They stand by their man. But even Tammy Wynette would cringe at the senseless devotion to Barack Obama they displayed this week. More

The logic of B. More

Politicians like Barack Obama try to make you believe that someone else will pay the tax he wants to impose. More

The regime is tottering. More

As the Iranian uprising enters its seventh month and spurs the ruling regime's disintegration, the Iranian community in the U.S. is witnessing a peculiar sideshow. More

A chance encounter with Al Gore and a lesson on intellectual dishonesty. More

We are now experiencing a disconnect between national political leaders and the citizenry. Congress is out of control and needs adult supervision. Here's how to give it to them. More

One of the more enlightening e-mails to spill out of the Climategate scandal is a report on the progress of Siberian fossilized tree ring work. More

What makes a city a good place to do business? More

"There is not a Black America and a White America and Latino America and Asian America,'' declared candidate Barack Obama. His policies say otherwise. More

Democrats ramming through unpopular legislation need not fear the electorate once universal voter registration becomes law. More

A recurring theme of the Obama White House is "sacrifice." The president has repeatedly stressed the need for us to tighten our belts. What about the Obamas themselves? More

Sooner or later, the American people must rise up and do more than complain about the latest wizard wheeze of the progressive educated class. More

Like a Roman imperator, Obama watches a toothless Senate do his will... More

The 1960s saw a second Civil War rage in the culture -- one whose final outcome has not yet been determined. More

American Thinker turns six today. Like six-year-old human beings, we're still growing and learning rapidly, with lots more eventful life ahead. A report to readers. More

It's 6:00 a.m. Bleary-eyed and groggy, the AT moderator drags herself out of bed with a pounding heart and the urgency of an astronaut headed for a space launch. More

There must be a reason why so many red flags were ignored. More

This is what Republicans should do to win in 2010 More

In one of the supreme acts of Chutzpah of our new decade, Saudi Arabia has just accused Israel of behaving like a "spoilt child." More

According to data gathered by the Centers for Disease Control, the five happiest states in the nation are Louisiana, Hawaii, Florida, Tennessee, and Arizona. More

The racial madness that has left-wing America in its thrall finds its apogee in the Berkeley, California public schools. More

Who is his real enemy? More

As a restaurateur, I've been following the heath care debate especially attentively. More

In the real world, there are a lot of things that have to happen between seeing a "Help Wanted" ad and actually getting a paycheck. More

The ongoing project. More

The tea party movement is bigger than any one person. More

Advice on keeping peace for another Nobel laureate. More

That steam-puffing locomotive of history is heading our way. At some point you can no longer be president and run from it. More

As we look back on the past ten years, it is clear that we are now entering a post-American decade. How did it all go so wrong so quickly? More

In the fullness of time, John McCain's losing presidential campaign of 2008 may turn out to have been to the 21st century what Barry Goldwater's 1964 campaign was to the 20th. More

A basic dividing line in the world. More

The Obama administration has blamed the media for misrepresenting its overall policy and strategic approach to the "peace process." More

Is it equitable or honorable to force faculty and staff to contribute to political causes that they find highly objectionable? More

Under President We're So Sorry!!!, the United States doesn't scare anybody. More

The real question is whether the homeland was ever or could ever be safe with Janet at the rudder. More

Part of the solution to the quixotic health care bill being proposed by the enlightened public servants in Washington can be found in a reflective consideration of dental floss. More

Leftist supporters of government health care do not seem to understand or are hostile to the concept of the individual's right to life and liberty. More

The Nobel Peace Prize for 2010 should be shared by an Iranian doctor and a Venezuelan judge. More

My dad told me many years ago that you can't fix a problem unless you know what caused it. More

The year 2010 is likely to be the pivotal year where pundits stop referring to the recession and begin openly talking about a depression. More

We no longer seem to be living in a Constitutional republic. How could we be when the votes of our public officials are easily bought off with bribes, threats, and subversion of our Constitution? More

Let's get one thing straight right up front: Profiling is an effective tool. More

Not things to do before dying, but things to do to keep her from dying. More

To date, there's been some good and a lot of bad news for Tiger. The good news is that our hero seems to have come out of the scrape on the sunny side of Valhalla. More

A "libertarian and progressive" scholar offers unexpected ammo to conservatives. More

The most important three-year period in the history of the United States will start on January 1, 2010. More