I learned about sacrifice in Iraq. More

Senior Airman Bradley Smith was killed in southern Afghanistan supporting the 4th Infantry Division on January 3, 2010. Remember Brad on this Memorial Day. Bow your head in thanks for the terrible sacrifice his family has made for us. More

Exit the cowboy and enter the mama's boy. More

History demonstrates that destruction awaits those who attempt to placate their enemies by surrendering their weapons. More

Saved by an American soldier. More

When these men have fallen or when their young bodies have been maimed forever in defense of our safety, the poignant moment of thanks we give inevitably dissolves over the years into an empty, formalistic expression of gratitude. More

Splashing down in the refined waters of the liberal elite. More

Obama charms Jews at a gala White House event and takes an action that kicks them in the rear as they leave the premises. More

Ronald Reagan's memory is being defamed in an effort to defend a Democrat attorney general caught lying about his military service. The tactic has deep roots on the left. More

President Obama is exploiting the government-caused mortgage crisis to usher in councils of regulators to replace Congress in a host of key policy areas. More

...despite Ehud Barack's unforgivable betrayal. More

Pax Israeli may indeed be a relative peace, but it is the only version of peace we can hope for in the Middle East for the foreseeable future. More

For a blatant display of Jew-hatred on a public university campus, this month's award goes to Jumanah Imad Albahri of the Muslim Students' Association at UC San Diego. More

As a nightmare scenario of escalating anti-Semitism plays out, commentators struggle to cope with the indifference of so many Jews to the threat. More

They have run out of other people's money. More

The federal government appears to be becoming more a parasite than a protector to the several states that organized its creation. More

The individual's right to bear arms is explicit in the Constitution yet is unsettled in law, while a woman's right to privacy (to an abortion), not mentioned at all in the Constitution, is settled in law. More

The socialist policies implemented by the Obama administration and the Democrat leadership undermine America's economic prosperity and prolong the misery for millions More

And why it hurts the U.S. More

Who invited the thought police to the Tea Party? I am a traditional conservative, and I'll speak for myself, thank you very much. More

Louisianians will never know for sure, but the paradise may have been defensible had people who wanted to act swiftly been allowed to act swiftly. More

The trilemma is not a universal problem. It is only a liberal problem. More

Nothing in Barack Obama's background full of lectures and textbooks makes him fit for any job where getting things done is important. More

President Obama promised us we would make history. We certainly have. More

As a Southern Arizona Mexican-American, I'm sick of politicians calling for boycotts and intruders demanding that my tax dollars pay for their freebies. More

There are many explanations for why younger Jews do not feel the same way about Israel as earlier generations. More

The decline and fall of feminism. More

Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and fraud. More

Why it's Paul Krugman's fault. More

Obama has appointed a czar to oversee what he deems "excessive" pay. And according to President Obama, there is a point at which someone has "enough" money. More

Meet Terrie and Glen Stoller. Smugglers -- armed, numerous, and brazen -- have frightened them off their southeast Arizona property. More

The man whose job is to "diversify" conservative talk radio out of existence. More

The American Jobs and Closing Tax Loopholes Act of 2010 is an exercise in political cynicism. More

With all the excitement about Arizona's new immigration enforcement efforts, most do not realize that the state legislature also passed a number of other measures to protect its citizens. More

When evaluating in an honest way all factors that contributed to the current pollution of the Gulf, we must ask why BP was drilling in 5,000 feet of ocean when there are so many other accessible and safe alternatives. More

Early on in life, kids are taught the concepts of positive and negative in science. Unfortunately, few schools teach the concepts of positive and negative as they pertain to civics and government. More

Thanks in large part to Governor Jan Brewer's bold action in signing SB 1070, immigration is shaping up as the issue of the 2010 election. The left cannot win that match. More

Graduation Day comes, and America's finest are forced to respectfully endure oratory drivel, spoken by a left-wing radical loosely disguised as a president. More

In some sense, Obama actually is a warrior -- not in any military context, but rather in the classic parlance of the progressive movement. More

According to my psychoanalyst, I have issues. More

Theory meets a fellow named Joe. More

Allusions to Hitler and the Nazis are incessantly and recklessly employed concerning the Arizona immigration law SB1070. More

How did a national shrine to the origins of the Executive Branch morph into racial propaganda? More

There has been a terrible development in the case of Rifqa Bary, the teenage girl who fled from her home in fear for her life after her devout Muslim father found out she had become a Christian. More

A nonpartisan report that accepts global warming theory as fact concedes that Cap-and-Trade will be a job-killer. More

Exactly which side of the political spectrum is dragging us toward the past? More

A dhimmicrat is a person who, while not Muslim himself, nonetheless clears the path for shariah law to be adopted and incorporated into otherwise free nations. More

I think if I had spent any time around Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal and heard him continually talk about his service in the Vietnam War, I would have figured he was a phony. More

In Saturday's special election, 67% of the vote went to candidates styling themselves as business- and taxpayer-friendly opponents of the Inouye machine. More

Over the past week we have witnessed Presidential and congressional disloyalty without precedent in American history. More

For Maureen Dowd, the reasons offered for opposing Kagan are patently absurd. There can be no principled opposition to this Ivy League woman of "appealing swagger" except...sex. More

What he said, however dull and clichéd, represents not just the sometimes-flighty emanations from his remarkable brain, but also United States policy at large. More

Socialism has failed everywhere it has been tried, and it will continue to do so despite the best efforts of the die-hard true believers in the Obama administration and the rest of the world. More

The failure of Obama's engagement policy is leading to a geopolitical catastrophe: a Russian-Turkish alliance stretching from the Baltic to the Black Sea. More

Should Democrat Joe Sestak be elected the next United States Senator from Pennsylvania, he will owe his seat to Sandy Berger. Who is behind this man? More

One oddity about the Arizona illegals controversy is how little fallout, positive or negative, has touched the politician who set it off: Governor Jan Brewer. More

What makes taking to the streets so alluring is its ease. As the Greeks can tell you, joining a rally far outshines paying taxes or any other personal remedy. More

The newest tactical weapon of this administration against our terrorist enemies appears to be one constructed of language. More

A certain form of profiling has effortlessly gained traction among many of today's most prominent media pundits, Hollywood elite, and left-wing politicians. More

The political elite in Washington, D.C. are determined to malign and destroy the Tea Party movement. More

"The population of Jews in the US is three percent ... but [their 'genius'] leads to their controlling so much power that even presidents are scared..." More

Richard Blumenthal did more than lie about his military service: He lied about lying. This is a special moral pathology of the left. More

According to the Pew Research Center, nearly 80% of Americans don't trust their own government. More

Could Newt Gingrich's time be coming? More

The American left embraces a romantic myth of the superiority of French socialism. More

Vietnam opera and Girls Gone Mild. More

Everywhere we turn, we stumble over Nancy Pelosi. Or rather, we stumble over the micro-regulations Nancy Pelosi adores. More

Woody Allen the artist: a Master of Meaninglessness. More

Rather than toss a graduation cap, Michelle Obama's commencement address at George Washington University was enough to make a graduate fall on the ground weeping. More

Elena Kagan is by all accounts a brilliant thinker. But is she a lawyer? More

Government management of the economy is clumsy at best, and it often backfires, harming those it is ostensibly helping. More

Obama's foreign policy bumblers are getting a lesson in realpolitik in an extradition standoff with Jamaica. More

The Obama administration has announced new criteria for awarding Department of Transportation grants. More

Where professors rule, life is cruel. This is an administration stuffed with academics. More

Obama and the highest form of manipulative obfuscation. More

As a professional architect, I wonder why the Planning Commission of lower Manhattan decided to keep its residents uninformed about a project in this sensitive location with such purpose and proportion. More

The Constitution's Supremacy Clause and non-enforcement. More

State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley "standing up to America." More

The first of the mini-Super Tuesdays has come and gone, and both parties can find things to cheer about. More

The U.S. dollar and good news for Democrats have a lot in common these days. No matter how much of either liberals print, the absolute value keeps declining. More

Among the radicals I have met -- or even among the average liberals, and even a few conservatives -- I have heard only scorn for the idea of the "American Dream." Not so with Saul Alinksy. More

Why the evident lack of concern over the unpopularity of Obama's policies? Perhaps they intend to cheat. More

Whatever you do, the elites tell us, don't profile! But is that even humanly possible? More

Recently, an Israeli think-tank launched simulated war games, gauging international reaction to a possible long-range missile attack on Tel Aviv. More

Sophisticated in its presentation, pedagogical in its outreach, and international in its acceptance. More

So we're facing another Supreme Court confirmation, and perhaps as a sign of the times, a brand new category of question has arisen: What is the nominee's sexual preference? More

Chief Justice John Roberts once said, "The job of a judge isn't to pitch or bat -- it's to call balls and strikes." Compare the qualifications for becoming an MLB ump with Kagan's qualifications for the Court More

Wanton destruction as economic policy. More

As a black Christian, I have struggled with whether or not to address this sensitive topic. More

Many Americans watch with alarm as their government attempts to lurch from servant to master of its citizenry. More

President Obama has compared himself to a lot of other presidents, including Lincoln, FDR, and Reagan. He is starting to sound a lot like Herbert Hoover. More

The civil investigation is making some people sweat. More

The president warns us that Americans must beware of "the craziest claims" and "arguments" in which "information becomes a distraction" that puts "pressures" on "our democracy." More

The left is utterly wedded to thought control. Like all sibling totalitarianisms, the left in America is addicted to power and repelled by truth. More

Elites on the coasts don't want to recognize what can be described only as combat operations conducted north of the U.S. - Mexican border. More

Maybe Barack Obama knew what he was doing when he criticized Xboxes and Playstations. More

A Salon writer wonders, "What's the conservative fetish with the Founding Fathers?" More

Are the US government, think-tanks, intellectuals and policy makers so inept that they cannot even learn from their repeated mistakes? More

Behind the social justice banner lurks an ugly choice. More

Since the early 1950s, people of self-denominating "scientific" attitude, including researchers engaged in active projects, have predicted that technicians will soon produce life in the laboratory. More

Is a revolution in science and religion underway? More

It sort of sounds good, until you think about it. More

Confusion about public debt. More

Detoxing America will cause social, political, and economic strife of a sort unimaginable, and yet it is a process we must endure. More

Homo homini lupus, goes an old Latin proverb: Man is wolf to man. More

At first glance, ObamaCare might seem a good deal for insurance companies by guaranteeing them a market for their services. More

Powerless parents of Highland Park High School's female athletes are still "outraged." More

It was with great anticipation that World War II fans tuned into the ten-part HBO docudrama "The Pacific." More

The hero of so many leftists was not really what they think him to be. More

I'm sure that like most right-thinking Americans, you had to uncross your eyes when Hamid Karzai and Barack Obama shared pleasantries in Washington last Wednesday. More

What the Democratic Party learned from the Ottoman Empire, and what it means for America. More

President Obama's disappointing performance has indisputably brought enormous buyer's remorse to many of his fans More

If money is the mother's milk of politics, Marijuana, Inc. is a wet nurse of the Democratic Party. Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer's suckling rise to stardom perfectly illustrates the point. More

Diabolical or doofus? More

We have become a hyphened nation, and much worse lies ahead. More

Why is Sarah Palin the liberal mainstream media's great white whale? More

When Barack Obama's two faculty mentors at Harvard Law got in trouble for plagiarism, they were rescued by Dean Elena Kagan. More

The signs are not encouraging. More

Are liberals actually maneuvering to increase gas prices at the pump? More

Elena Kagan seems a pleasant sort. But she is not in the company of giants. More

AT's chief political correspondent on key stories of the day. More

How the British Conservative Party lost its conservatism and the election it should have won. More

Elena Kagan and the hypocrisy of Harvard Law School. More

What do women, Tim Tebow, and evangelical Christians have in common? They are all largely despised by the sports journalism division of our media elite. More

The American left is celebrating its hope to racially transform America. More

Obama is proving to be as indecisive on energy policy as he is on so many other things. He is a leader as indecisive as Hamlet. More

For Americans, there is something shocking about a sovereign debt crisis, when a government reneges on its debt. But nothing could be more ordinary. More

J Street, the controversial Jewish pressure group that was created to lobby for a Palestinian state, is back in the news. More

If it sometimes seems that the nation is governed by an elite liberal clique of college fraternity and sorority pals who are out of touch with average Americans, that's because it's largely true. More

If you had believed in the 72-Year Rule, you would have seen this coming. More

In an unwanted "first," Israel turns out to be the first country in history to face a massed attack by intermediate-range ballistic missiles (IRBMs). More

Can't happen here? More

Is that all they've got? More

Card check -- the scheme that violates the traditional American freedom of the secret ballot in labor union organizing elections -- has just captured a beachhead in New York State general election law. More

On Wednesday Senators John Kerry (D-MA) and Joe Lieberman (I-CT) plan to introduce legislation designed to inflate the cost of energy, strain family budgets, and decimate America's manufacturing sector More

Get used to it, Tea Partiers: You are going to be called racists. More

Planting a mosque just two blocks from where Muslims murdered Americans on 9/11 in the name of Islam is a huge slap in the face. More

Seventy years ago, on May 10, 1940, Winston Churchill became Prime Minister of Great Britain. More

Peace will come only when the Palestinian leadership accepts Israel's right to exist. More

To my shock, I find myself wholeheartedly supporting the Obama administration's approach to manned space flight. More

Al Gore may not know what he's talking about, but he's not alone. More

Our national debt problem has become so obvious that even liberals are noticing it. More

How did America get here? More

The military is under pressure to remove the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy. But to understand what our troops stand to lose if this policy changes, one must first understand sexualized zones, nonsexual zones, and the benefits of taboos. More

Why has political correctness run amok in so many fields? British journalist Melanie Phillips has a good theory. More

Prior to the early twentieth century, immigrants to America were typically poor when they arrived here. But they sought no unearned handouts. More

Will we wake up and face the enemy head-on before it is too late and all is lost? More

Appeasers and those who welcome them. More

Much of what we know about the event popularly referred to as the Kent State Massacre has come down to us only in history's shorthand. More

If you ever wonder why politics in the State of Illinois is such a bucket of worms, you need look no farther than this. More

Having no substance of its own, the left is inherently parasitic; like a cancer cell or virus, it survives by posing as a healthy member of the same host it attacks and ultimately destroys. More

Imagine the surprise in Rossano, Italy when a babe believed to be successfully aborted astounded both mother and medical personnel by doing the unthinkable and refusing to die. More

An entire way of life has died on the Arizona border. More

An eyewitness account of a car bombing in which two propane tanks were detonated -- as was planned for Times Square. More

Those in Arizona find it baffling that elitists on the east coast, west coast, and in other large cities like Chicago don't want us to protect ourselves. More

The elite media's inflated view of the president's intelligence may damage the president's image in the long run. More

Under our federal system, state governments and their political subdivisions may not impose undue burdens on interstate commerce. More

The explosion of the Gulf oil platform this past week is a useful crisis for those advocates who hope to further restrict and prevent the extraction of fossil fuels in the United States. More

Why are so many blacks willing to believe that the AIDS virus was invented by whites to exterminate them? More

The key to faster technological progress is the more widespread use of free software. Free versus proprietary (or non-free) software bears comparison to the divide between science and alchemy. More

If you are reading this, you most likely have broken the law. More

Now that Barack Obama is well into his presidency, it's clear that he is keeping at least one promise he made. More

I have a confession to make. I came to the United States as an undocumented alien. More

Would even one Evangelical wind up on President Obama's short list for nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court? Don't bet on it. More

Folks, our country is in big trouble. What kind of man do we have in the White House? More

If American Jews do not wake up to the reality that there really is a right and a wrong, and stop talking about two sides to every issue, they will find themselves reliving a second Holocaust. More

This new Arizona law "opens the door to intolerance, hate, discrimination and abuse in law enforcement," sputters the Mexican president. More

The financial-regulatory reform bill currently under consideration in Congress is an exercise in deception. More

You can say anything, including complete nonsense, and "intellectuals" will accept it, embrace it, and praise it, as long as it flatters their preconceived ideology. More

In an unprecedented victory for free people everywhere, a monster mosque costing $27 million that had been planned for the English town of Dudley despite overwhelming opposition from the townspeople has been scrapped. More

As President Obama continues his drive to push the Middle East Peace Process toward some movement, he is falling into a trap. More

The British voters are voting tomorrow in a general election after thirteen years of "New Labour" rule. They're in a foul mood. More

There is only one conclusion that reasonably can be drawn on the basis of the figures. More

The fury directed against Palin by leftists is so overwrought, and at times maniacal, precisely because her frightening clarity and innate common sense are so powerful and effective. More

I had cleared buildings before, but that was in Iraq. It was very, very disturbing to have to clear my own house, checking bedrooms and closets, armed and ready to kill, right here in Arizona. More

"You never want a serious crisis to go to waste," Rahm Emanuel famously said. And why should we think this administration isn't letting the Gulf of Mexico oil crisis go to waste? More

Our American Declaration of Independence is the supreme, unamendable moral law of the United States. Declarational law preceded and trumps our supreme, amendable secular law, the Constitution. More

We often think our only foe is too much government, but that is a mistake. More

The president may be projecting guilt from his own excellent adventures in greed. More

Since resigning from her governorship last July, Sarah Palin hasn't made a false move. More

The current regime in Washington, D.C. does not seem to understand or care that the policies they are pursuing will leave no margin for error in the event of an apocalyptic natural or man-made calamity. More

"Are you a Ukrainian-American?" More

Just suppose that Quebec had to deal with hordes of undocumented English-only Americans filling prisons, carrying American flags through the streets, and demanding affirmative action. More

On Friday of last week, much of the establishment media reminded us about the awful 35th Anniversary of the so-called "End of the Vietnam War" and perpetuated myths about the lessons. More

What happens when a messiah turns out to be a fraud? More

The European Union was supposed to change all that, but it is a hard-boiled geopolitical maxim that nationalism trumps transnationalism whenever national interest is at stake. More

Those of us who are taking Nancy Pelosi's advice to "find out" what's in the health care bill are coming to realize that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is badly misnamed More

Having colonized every other branch of academics decades ago, postmodernism has now come for science. More

Here is the essence of the problem with progressives and their movement, which is a gigantic problem for all of America. More

In Manchester, England lives a seven-year-old schoolboy, and he is not so different from other children...except that this child survived three attempts on his life before he took his first breath. More

Who really destroyed the great storehouse of classical learning? More

Being an avid AT reader, and living on the Arizona border in Cochise County, I thought I would provide those who wish to be informed some insight into the truth about the state of the U.S.-Mexican border. More

Dude, what's with California? More

Finally, officials are owning up to what most Americans already knew. ObamaCare means higher costs and lower quality. More

What lies ahead for health care when the government is in charge. More

Declaring the Vietnam War a just and necessary American war these days is about the equivalent of suggesting that Adolf Hitler and the Nazis were humanitarians. More

We need people who desire to attain national power so they can wield less power than their predecessors. This runs counter to human nature More

The process began almost half a century ago. More