November 2 could see some big unpleasant surprises for incumbent Democrats in the House of Representatives. More

We've been hearing quite a bit lately about candidates being "not ready to govern." Here's what that really means. More

The left has ignored an important barrier to their environmental utopia. Americans don't like economic suffering, and they vote accordingly. More

Even during Watergate, the Energy Crisis of 1973, and the recession of the same period, Americans had more confidence in Richard Nixon to handle domestic affairs. More

Failure to act boldly might well doom CNN to be hammered here at home by FNC for the next decade. The Democrats face an even worse situation. More

Parents of the 216 schools in Washington, D.C. who have seen Mr. Obama's congressional cohorts gut the Opportunity Scholarship program must have found cold comfort from the president's soothing words on NBC. More

Greece's financial woes have gotten the publicity, but Ireland's looming debt crisis has more to teach us. More

Recently, the Obama Administration has put all terrorist detainee trials on hold. Are they choosing to follow the Bush Administration and hold the Guantanamo detainees as enemy combatants? More

Obama seems to still believe he is Moses, and therein lies the danger. More

It's enough to make grown journalists cry. More

Is this what we have become? The government is a wild card in the stock market? More

Who would ever have thought that New York might be the state that tips the U.S. Senate into Republican control? Start thinking it. More

Is the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)'s settlement of the Pigford class action suit about to become a 2010 election issue? More

Damocles, discovering too late the threatening sword hanging above his borrowed throne, prefigures Obama, presiding under the suspended impact of unrelenting unemployment. More

Some say the American Dream is dead. Nobody wants to work hard to achieve a goal only to have the fruits of success "spread around" by Obama. More

The sad fact is that nearly every major nation except the U.S. has in place a plan for energy independence. More

Our liberal friends are wondering where it all went wrong. More

The emphasis on America's national debt doesn't tell the entire story. More

President Obama's latest effort to promote a "two-state" plan, his September 23 speech at the U.N., avoids the real problem. More

With Israeli-Palestinian peace talks set to resume, the Palestinian delegation is center-stage. But who are these men who hold the fate of Middle-Eastern peace in their hands? More

With its few students and skimpy faculty, as well as its lack of all the usual features of a university -- such as a campus -- why should "Islamic University" Zaytuna have been so favored by American media attention? More

A successful parasite must keep its host alive, finding the point where it can maximize its intake without killing off source of sustenance. So, too, with governments taxing their citizenry. More

A combination of massive, Somali-driven voter fraud, stunning Election Board incompetence, and willful media blindness successfully stole an election in Kansas City. More

I always admired Thomas E. Dewey for publicly admitting that he had managed to "snatch defeat from the jaws of victory" in the 1948 election. Let us hope that we don't have to make the same confession this November. More

The Tea Party rejects the establishment of both the big political parties. There is no reason why it cannot storm and occupy positions in the Democratic Party. More

In the new year, we may notice that more than our taxes have increased. More

Liberals are so confused that destroying a child's innocence is considered a virtuous accomplishment, but allowing M&M's in the cafeteria is an abomination. More

The fight against Islamic indoctrination in the schools won a victory in Texas last week. But the fight to portray Islam realistically to our children faces a long road yet. More

Obama, Pelosi, and Reid shoved the hated ObamaCare legislation through the world's greatest deliberative body, and we are seeing the results. More

We live in a linguistic Wonderland. If we don't use words properly, or (as in a famous Monty Python skit) at least get "them in the right order," our statements become meaningless. More

The Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) has a unique structure among nations and human societies, and goals that should frighten lovers of liberty. More

Going Rogue is dedicated primarily to a different kind of underrepresented community. More

Last week, Obama signed a pact with Putin outlining America's military relationship with Russia. Be afraid. More

An indistinct war on terror can never be won. More

American Jews have become so integrated into American society that they care little for the survival of their Jewish homeland. More

A supporter of Obama's economic plan and a Keynesian disciple, Warren Buffett seems unable to decide if we are still in a recession. More

A 'hudna' is a temporary peace entered into by an Islamic force when it is weaker than its enemy. Its purpose is to buy the Islamic side time to rearm and regroup. More

In a Tweeter feed read around the world of pubescent vampire novel bookworms, author Anne Rice -- who claims to have become a Christian a few years ago -- resolved once and for all to forswear the faith. More

Direct connections often exist between self-described peaceful activist groups and those that condone, support, or participate in various forms of terrorist violence. More

Netanyahu has made recognition of Israel's Jewish character a central demand, suggesting that the Palestinians' failure to do so means they have not come to terms with Israel's existence. More

Sigmund Freud might be proud to see what Obama has done to America. More

The Left, so-called champions of women's causes, have launched yet another campaign to destroy another conservative woman. More

The people we count on to protect our industry, preserve our environment, and manage our fisheries cannot even manage themselves. More

The fashionable and anti-capitalist "Fair Trade" movement is well intentioned, but by misdiagnosing the problem, it only hurts those whom it seeks to protect. More

How to defeat the "do as I say, not as I do" mentality of so many of our government officials. More

The Times scribe suffers from a bad case of authoritarianism envy. More

Liberals cling to Keynsianism despite the evidence. More

American politics has never seen anything quite like the Tea Parties, though few appreciate the revolutionary organizational principle powering the movement. More

Delaware GOP senatorial candidate Christine O'Donnell is under attack from two directions by otherwise competing interests that, against her, share a common goal -- to damage the Tea Party movement. More

There are two trade wars going on at the moment. One is between the mercantilist countries and the United States; the other is between the Democrats and the Republicans. More

For much of the last two years, those of us in the Tea Party have been denying the presumption that we are planning to form a new third party. More

What a long, strange trip it's been. More

Worriers about the Big Tent and social issues in the GOP should relax. The answer is federalism. More

Education is a low priority because teaching folks to think produces independent individuals. More

Harry Reid's sneak attack, attaching the "DREAM Act" to a Defense Authorization Bill, may have failed, but expect it to be reintroduced. More

How the "Lion of the Senate" sought to undercut Carter's appeasement policy with even greater appeasement of the Soviets. More

Fritz Mondale has weighed in. Jimmy Carter's vice president surely has not helped President Obama. More

Once again, the Left's tolerance and diversity mantra rings hollow, pillorying Christine O'Donnell as a "witch." More

Conservatives often have a tendency to misread cues drawn from popular culture. More

Will a Republican-controlled Congress repeal HR 3590 before it destroys U.S. health care and depresses the U.S. economy even further? More

Liberal elites are so blind to what really matters to us that they think they can derail the fervor to return to a constitutional republic with crude ridicule. More

Do we want just political power and 51 seats in the U.S. Senate? Or do we want to build a movement? More

If Islam were a religion of peace, then a Supreme Court justice would not have compared burning a Koran to shouting "fire" in a crowded theater. More

By wearing a familiar mask of convention, Barack Obama will continue to dupe the majority of Americans into believing that he is -- at worst -- a run-of-the-mill, far-left liberal. More

President Obama is showing signs that he, along with most of the rest of the country, is losing faith in liberal economic theory. More

As the current administration pushes for national education standards, federal control over education is about to expand considerably at the expense of state and local control. More

Why does the Left love jobs -- but hate employers? More

Average citizens cannot be trusted with economic decisions that require balancing immediate costs and long-term benefits, according to environmentalists. More

While Obama fiddles... More

Envy, not empathy, drives Barack Obama. More

The primary season is over, and it is time to move on and throw out the bums who are left -- and that means the party in power, the Democrats. More

Alaskan voters knew what they were doing when they rejected this incumbent senator. More

If you think it is good news, take a look at this. More

How many lost jobs is Obama really responsible for? More

The elites have spoken: You're dumb. And not just ordinary dumb -- you're Tea Party dumb. But relax: help is on the way. More

Government has become Leviathan, and Leviathan has misbehaved and failed miserably. Not since the Civil War has the political future been so tenuous. More

Food independence is just too widespread and embedded in the American psyche to succumb to food tyranny. More

The Tea Parties are a political phenomenon the like of which we have not seen in our lifetimes, one that occurs once every century or so. It is exhilarating to witness. More

As George Orwell said, "There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them." More

Indiana Congressman Mike Pence topped the presidential straw poll at the Values Voters Summit in Washington. Don't really know him? Ed Lasky does, and you should, too. More

So who's the wacky extremist running for the Senate in Delaware? More

It tolls, of course, for public employees and for Democrats, the party almost exclusively linked to big labor, big government, and big labor in big government. More

Thanks to ObamaCare, medical privacy will soon become a historical memory. More

Regardless of ideological pedigree, today's educational reforms all share a common theme: students themselves are not responsible for their dreadful academic performance. More

A voice from inside Chicago's Cook County Jail claims that the Save A Life Foundation (SALF) story implicates both Democrat and Republican pols in Illinois. More

Democrats are watching the guillotines being rolled up to the polling places... More

The 2010 election is not simply a campaign against Obama. It needs to be a campaign against liberalism as a whole. More

Was Christine O'Donnell's primary victory Pyrrhic? Compared to what? More

If the debate continues to be "I'm more conservative than you are" in every primary, the GOP will be handing the Democrats a victory. More

Back when Candidate Obama announced that he was only five days away from "fundamentally transforming the United States," most people didn't know what that meant any more than they knew who Obama was. More

Fifteen months ago, a moving van pulled in next door. More

"I think I have an ongoing conversation with God. I think throughout the day, I'm constantly asking myself questions about what I'm doing, why am I doing it." More

Undaunted by Climategate disclosures and the failure to pursue climate legislation in the Senate, the climate movement is stepping up the attack. More

There is a reason the middle class is disappearing in modern America. More

Solutions to the unemployment crisis must begin with removing the perverse obstacles to employment that have been erected. More

While liberals are constantly talking about government "investments" they neglect and even denigrate the single biggest investment of the American people: our children. More

Just don't ask them to accept conservatives. More

Christine O'Donnell is a game-changer in the first regularly scheduled federal elections of the Tea Party era in more ways than one. More

Now, sadly, Charles Krauthammer has joined Rove in essentially calling the Republican voters of Delaware stupid. More

"Take Back America" is the battle cry of the Tea Party Movement. More

We have been misled on two fronts when it comes to the dairy products we consume. More

Liberals are conceptually disabled critters who struggle to link cause to effect and place exclusive value on perception over reality. More

Thank God that B. Hussein Obama was elected to shake us from our complacency and apathy! More

Sometimes you just have to feel sorry for President Obama. Having recently appointed Austan Goolsbee to his economic team, feminists are outraged that Obama chose a man to replace Christina Romer. More

You'd really, really think half a century of Castro pronouncements might make the MSM a tad skeptical about them. More

It might be helpful to take a cue from the most notorious radical of all -- Saul Alinsky. More

There is no greater feeling of reward than working diligently and seeing the results of our efforts and the efforts of those who helped us in our journey. Success instills a desire to work even harder. More

Obama speaks like a dhimmi, acts like a dhimmi, and spends like a dhimmi. More

The day after Christine O'Donnell and the Tea Party won the Republican nomination for Joe Biden's old Senate seat, Battleground released its September 2010 poll. The timing is perfect. More

History is clear -- and so is the math. Conservatism works, every time it's tried. More

The difference between winning big on November 2 and winning really big could be decided by five Saturdays in October. More

The truth is that Islam does not value human life. More

"The most damning fiscal indictment to date of the Affordable Care Act." More

On Constitution Day, we should remember what the Constitution is and why it was created by the states. More

Dangerous for whom? More

Frightening as the image might be to ponder, "the architect" Karl Rove was stripped bare for all to see on Fox News' Hannity show Tuesday night. More

It is plain as day that this hustler, the renowned "moderate" Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf of the Park 51 Ground Zero mega-mosque initiative, is a lowlife. More

Democrat voters who are not down with the whole radical Socialist thing need to take a good look in the mirror and ask themselves if their party of choice still truly represents them. More

The assertion that academic freedom and free speech are cardinal principles in Palestinian culture is a novel, if not delusional, way of assessing the situation. More

Today, we have had 365 consecutive Graphs of the Day published in American Thinker. Here is what we have learned. More

An exercise in competitive analysis reveals the seriousness of the threat we face. More

There's only one ethnic group many conservatives feel free to insult. More

Tiny Delaware's voters ignored their party apparatus, actually held a true Republican primary, and chose the person who most closely represents what the Republican base voter believes in. More

A common premise of the American elites is that Americans are filled with hair-trigger anti-Muslim feelings that can be controlled only by wise and constant intervention from their betters. More

Yes, Obama does seem to espouse a certain inchoate anticolonialism, but the "dreams" do not come so much from his father as from his mother, and they have been given voice by Obama's muse, terrorist emeritus Bill Ayers. More

It is the groupthink of academia to which Obama is fully assimilated and loyally patriotic, not America. More

The media and political elites are upset at the wrong aspect of the Terry Jones Koran-burning affair. More

Warmist true believers bitterly cling their mantra that only the corrupting influence of big oil and big coal could possibly explain skepticism toward the theory they embrace as gospel truth. More

What we're seeing is the latest example of the left's habit of creating its own nightmares. More

It is the fools of history, and not just the knaves, who bring catastrophe in their wake. Obama sure looks like another one of them. More

Is the government making plans to confiscate your retirement money? The Obama administration is certainly exploring the idea. More

There is a sense of foreboding rising in this country. More

Democrats must be looking at each other in utter perplexity. This was supposed to be 1933 and FDR all over again. More

An imprudent remark on burning the Qu'ran. More

On a recent sunny morning, when I should have been at my desk doing income-producing work, I was aging prematurely in the Superior Court House in Hollywood. More

The U.S. Marine Corps' 14 Leadership Traits serve as a standard against which to compare President Obama's actions in his nineteen months in office. More

Obama's presidency and our national affairs are in a mess of historic proportions. And his once-celebrated rhetorical flourishes have turned strangely bland and flat, having gone from soar to bore in two years. More

Who is this Glenn Beck, this FOX News creation, this pudgy male Sarah Palin who talks about patriotism as if he believes Americans are exceptional, about God as if atheism were not a fact? More

Oops! Turns out that missing boilerplate could end ObamaCare. More

The horror, the horror. More

It's time for wealthy liberals to lead by example in making sure that the rich pay their "fair share." More

The unremitting degradation of women in most of the Mideast, Africa, and other parts of Asia where Islamic law plays a huge role is horrifying and appalling. More

Thanks to the Alice in Wonderland world of "green" energy policy, Illinois electricity customers are going to be paying more, while a reliable and inexpensive source of clean power will be destroyed. More

The past week began (for me) on a bright note and only got better. The New York Times announced that the Democrats have instituted internal death panels. More

Flight USA is on its way to the Land of the Lost. Lost decades. Lost growth. Lost freedom. Why? Because we already lost our minds. More

As a black man, I wish to share a few of my life experiences which crush these paradigms. More

The Obama administration has been itching for a way to control the flow of information. More

The truth is, we are indeed radical, because America's founding principles represent the most radical and revolutionary change in human governance in millennia. More

Without clarity, you are stuck with platitudes and generalizations and, worse, the ability of any elected official to use broad, meaningless nothings to grab power. More

No matter what happened, Elmer Fudd kept going after Bugs Bunny with his shotgun blazing away. Obama keeps throwing our money down the stimulus rabbit hole. More

The wellspring of so much of what is good and noble in the Western world gets little credit and much derision. The historical roots of this elitist attitude explained. More

The Christian Right is really the Judeo-Christian Right. More

I am worried because too many people, especially our youth, don't even have a clue as to what living under a totalitarian regime is like. More

It's been nine years since that horrific day. More

Consider how Jesus and Mohammed handled what was essentially the same problem: a woman who had committed adultery. More

In every single American city today, "diversity" trumps safety. More

Imam Rauf chose his words carefully, recalling how threats of Muslim violence bullied Yale University into submission. More

The conventional wisdom about Islam, or more precisely its status as a morally equivalent religious culture, is starting to shift. More

President Obama's recent proposals for $50 billion in new infrastructure spending and $100 billion in business investment write-offs are little more than election-eve theatrics. More

The fiscal years 2007 and 2009 reveal how federal finances have changed. More

The president of the Islamic Society of Central Florida, Imam Muhammad Musri, has some lessons for Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf of the Cordoba Initiative. More

"A gang of thieves writ large." More

"Gazwa" is an Arab term used to indicate a successful attack upon the enemy or an invasion of enemy territory. More

Often overlooked in the debate over tax policy is the success of the Clinton-era tax reductions -- reductions that, though fairly recent, are unknown to most Americans. More

Where did Barack Obama acquire the self-evident disdain he has for major corporations, especially oil companies, and for the striving classes who have made America prosperous and strong? More

The signs are clear; the pieces are in place. Hillary is getting ready to make her move. More

Attacking "the rich" is a direct assault on the people who invest and employ. Hate the rich if you must, but don't force them into poverty or off-shore solutions. More

The Obama administration is roundly denouncing plans to burn copies of the Quran. So why the silence when Bibles were burned? More

The unilateral seizure of the student loan program by the Obama administration carries extremely serious implications for the future of higher education in America. More

Is it just me, or does Islam's repeated threats of violence and mayhem at every provocation -- real or imagined -- strike anybody else as the actions of a spoiled child's tantrums? More

I expect at least three quarters of the remedial mathematics students that I will teach this fall to flunk. More

The big question of our era is: Can Islam become a religion of peace? More

Thomas Edison's most famous legacy is coming to an end, the victim of green special interest politics. More

The good old days were those when fiscal year budgets were written and passed by a majority-Republican House and Senate and signed by Republican President George W. Bush. More

The survival of a great nation is contingent on its ability to remain master of its destiny. For the United States, that capability is now in question. More

It is time for so-called intellectuals to get down to the basics of judging Islam by its actual doctrine, not making lame analogies. More

Let's call him Sam. More

A prominent Democrat has unwittingly provided an in-depth view of all that is misguided, incorrect, and vacuous regarding the ultra-liberal perspective on the economy, business, and the global market. More

It will come as news to no one that conservatism has long had a PR problem. The political question of 2010 is this: do America's voters finally "get" conservatism? More

Judged by all the billions of dollars now flowing into "education reform," it appears that Washington, and especially the Obama administration, is obsessed with improving academic achievement. That's a cruel joke. More

It's a pretty dismal picture. You could call it the crime of the century. More

If any of you techies out there want to get rich quick and Save the Republic to boot, here's your chance. This idea is all yours, free. All you have to do is write a tiny program. More

Liberals have staged a gaudy performance over the Ground Zero mosque, but the elitist brand of naïveté of Mayor Michael Bloomberg defines the genre of liberal preachiness. More

The balance of power in Washington is an endless ebb and flow of disgust for both parties, since each seems to react to the delusion that accompanies election to office. More

Glenn Beck's Restoring Honor rally in our capital city was an attempt to address both the material and spiritual issues on what is essentially a political level. Can that really work? More

Statistically, the most zealous believers in hope and change are the most profound victims of the Obama Hoax -- poor, young, unemployed blacks. More

Governor David Patterson famously taunted Rush Limbaugh as Rush sold his New York City apartment and left the state. It is time for second thoughts. More

America is under attack from within at the highest levels of power. More

There are highly paid minds on the political left who, having to believe in something for the coming election, consider it smart to paint the GOP as "the party of no." Boy, are they wrong! More

Ethnic cleansing? Not in our name! More

The Colonel has a way with words. More

The August employment figures are dismal. Not to worry -- President Obama has detected a "silver lining." More

Not only is the left looking at a big defeat in America in two months, but it has been getting slobber-knocked all over the modern industrialized world. More

American spending on public education, adjusted for inflation, has more than doubled over the last three decades. What did taxpayers get for their money? Twice the money. Zero progress. More

A tired collection of divisive class warfare attacks. More

Our Constitution is almost dead. It is being killed by judges who ignore the actual text of the document but find heretofore unknown devices in its "penumbras and emanations." More

The Postal Service must be immortal; it's a government program that has outlived its usefulness. More

President Obama should be saying, "My economic stimulus plan has preserved or created three million jobs -- in China." More

Why would anyone want to enter into negotiations for a settlement of anything, where he had to beg the other party to participate? More

Summer began on such a hopeful note... More

Given a chance to sign a petition on the treatment of gays, lesbians, and women in the Middle East, how many of those condemning Israel were willing to sign on? More

The Islamic terror attacks of September 11, 2001 did not come as a bolt out of the blue. For close to thirty years, America's record of dealing with the hydra of Islamic terror was at best abysmal. More

A major upset in Arizona's 8th Congressional District GOP primary has given Marine Corps sergeant Jesse Kelly, who led a squad of infantry Marines during the initial invasion of Iraq, a real shot at a seat in the House of Representatives. More

The myth of a golden age of rational Islam plays a critical role in maintaining the somnolence of America's establishment in grasping the implacability of political jihad. More

English antisemitism has had its ups and downs. It even existed for four centuries with no real-life Jews in England. More

A perfect metaphor for the Obama presidency, encapsulating the shallowness of Barack Obama's intellect. More

Socialists have the intellectual seriousness of the Flat Earth Society. We treat these enemies as if they believed in something. More

Obama can take credit. More

Obama's biggest success to date has come by not doing anything. More

Obama Care will be the largest transfer of legislative power from the Congress to the Executive Branch regulators in our history. More

When the mainstream media dedicated themselves to providing equal coverage to Glenn Beck's and Al Sharpton's rallies last weekend, they did the left no favor. More

Meaningless phrases used repeatedly by those who have no plan for their implementation make me sick. More

The media has some very deep-seated stereotypes that it just can't seem to excise from its coverage. More

I wish I were making this up, but our official 2010 UPR submission to the United Nation argues that discrimination against minorities in the housing market somehow caused the economic crisis. More

Another round of peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians began yesterday at the White House. More

With the prospect of a GOP takeover in the House, many Republicans are quietly asking, is this necessarily a good thing? More

Expelling Christians who do not adhere to the gay agenda. More

This is not rocket science. You don't need a Nobel Prize in economics to figure it out. More

The American people will rise to the challenge of overcoming what this administration, Congress, and the left-wing establishment have done to this country. More

Sadly, yesterday's gunman at the Discovery Channel was not the first incident of someone going berserk after taking in Gore's work. More

An image, as any PR pro can tell you, has a life of its own. This is as true of presidents as anyone else. More

LA Times columnist Tim Rutten has dug himself into a pit of theological quicksand with his harsh criticism of Glenn Beck. More

On the cusp of what is trending toward a significant Republican victory in November, the current GOP congressional leadership has yet to make a compelling case that they're ready to lead a majority party. More

Black civil rights dinosaurs and their liberal white guilt-ridden sycophants campaign to "Keep Hate Alive." More

Though never a fan, I used to feel sorry for Hillary Clinton. More

After seven years of war, it is important to remember the good accomplished by these efforts. More

Today, Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian dictator, will arrive in Washington, D.C. for the purpose of participating in the Middle East Peace Summit. More

Last night, President Obama cited the "patriots who opposed" the war. Well, given the president's tribute, I thought I'd pause to offer a summary of the loyal opposition. More

Other presidents have been wrong. Other presidents have been misguided. Other presidents have been weak and pusillanimous and pathetic. Only one truly disdains America. More

Consider an education-related endeavor that abhors mediocrity, deception, and lame excuses: football. More

The notion of a Palestinian people and Palestinian identity, although taken for granted today, has neither a long nor a distinguished history. More

Pardon my schadenfreude, but I was pleased to read an article in Sunday's Washington Post that questions the long-term viability of the European Union More

C-SPAN has given the lunatic fringe an establishment address. More