In Western North Carolina, the people who volunteer to run the county campaign offices, work the phone banks, who man the sign crews that spread the names of the candidates for local offices and who serve as election judges are not happy. More

Hillary’s coterie of anti-Semites is a unique group that provides a window on probable foreign policy vectors of another Clinton presidency. More

Proposed changes would allow a $25 billion-a-year enterprise to escape transparency and accountability mechanisms that have protected the public interest. More

Liberals are no longer simply good people who have a different idea on how to deal with poverty.  More

Thirty years ago, to the day, feminism began to die. More

Regulations are never wrong, unnecessary or stupid. Regulations are always prudent and based on the best information. In other words, it is all about political spin. More

Who will rescue the fate of the GOP? More

Mr. Will's outraged decision to walk out helps to clarify the real drama going in DC. More

What do you do when you know you are not being told the truth on Flight 800?  More

The national media is not interested in accuracy or truth, but in getting the story out first and supporting the designated narrative. More

Liberal mainstream media have done an excellent job keeping black conservatives off American's radar.  More

Monday's decision in Whole Woman's Health v. Texas demonstrates that the U.S. Supreme Court, as currently constituted, is committed to uphold the right to abortion, no matter what. More

The dream of a United Europe has forever been a historical pipedream. More

Boeing is eagerly cutting deals with the Iranian mullahs -- with the support of the Obama administration. More

Because Trump threatens to destabilize the GOP’s status quo position as the junior political party, he presents an existential threat to the livelihoods of party apparatchiks. More

The left forgets that two can play at street violence.  More

Polls make news. But should pollsters be making the news or simply performing the poll? More

Trump's wall will liberate Hispanics from exploitation, Democrats’ words support the exploitation.  More

No doubt about it, the deck is stacked this election season.  But perhaps the former colonies will take their cue from England's Queen Elizabeth, who quietly backed Brexit. More

Maryland state attorney Marilyn Mosby has lost two of three cases surrounding the death of Freddie Gray so far, with a hung jury in the last.  But she'll keep going. More

Blacks are expected to dismiss their natural, God-given right to protect themselves, while at the same time they are propagandized to disdain the police as irredeemably hateful and racist. More

A career pilot firmly believes that the truth about what really happened to TWA 800 has been deliberately concealed.  More

The Republican Party is hell-bent on turning its electoral good fortune into almost certain defeat – and not just defeat, but wipe-out. More

Federal entitlements like Medicare and Social Security are ripping off the X, Y and Z generation voters who re-elected Obama in 2012. More

Fort Hood, Boston, San Bernardino, Orlando... when will we learn? More

Gingrich versus Ryan – the best example out there of bold colors versus pale pastels. More

If the Libertarian Party actually believes in limited government, the faces of the party have made dubious comments by speaking so highly of Obama and Clinton. More

It would seem that today’s TV producers and writers -- including, or especially, the Jews among them -- prefer the most outrageous of Jews, especially if they have a connection with Israel. More

In the Muslim world, the unwashed and disaffected who are ever told that they are the most blessed of the earth, find that everywhere they look they are among its most wretched. More

If we are not to suffer the fate of past civilizations, we must expel the parasites who now control our economy. More

How the government forces you to financially support illegal immigrants in the U.S. is a real issue for November.  More

Hillary has learned a lot during her many years as a Washington DC insider.  More

It will be a tragic mistake to interpret the vote to leave EU by the British people as a populist and nationalist movement tinged with “white” bigotry.  More

The EU’s fate is far from clear. I certainly think it will fare worse than the UK, which will long outlive it.  More

Yet another former officer subordinates his prior honorable service in our armed forces to his party's official position on the Second Amendment. More

If you insist on tuning the radio before you turn it on, you'll waste a lot of time.  But this is the sort of method modern education specialists want to foist on America's children. More

The restoration of Christianity in Russia is recent and vulnerable to attacks of ideologues. More

What would using the label "radical Islam" change?  Well, everything. More

From Loretta Lynch censoring the Orlando jihad killer to Nazi underpants up for auction in Munich, things are weird the world over. More

Americans that benefit most from massive federal spending, those in government, and those they enable, do not want to fix this.  The dysfunction itself is driving the new, international, biggest industry, the post-9/11 U. S. Government. More

A new book calling for conservatives' capitulation has garnered praise in venues including The New York Post and The Wall Street Journal. More

Seems the unconventional candidate isn’t meeting conventional standards for what and where his campaign should be. More

Foreign Policy magazine has unloaded both barrels at those of us who ask questions and raise concerns about Islam. More

One does not need to wear the prophet’s mantle in these latter days in order to decipher the writing on the wall concerning radical Islam.  More

It has nothing to do with the burden or lack thereof carried by the rich.  It is because we want to throw money at the problem – preferably money belonging to someone else. More

Sidwell Friends makes itself a cog in a politically correct, anti-Indian, anti-American machine. More

Every attempt to “open up” Iran to a friendlier stance toward the West in general and the United States in particular has been rebuffed.  More

No, Senator Murphy, the Republicans are not selling weapons to ISIS, nor did they sell anything to Omar Mateen. More

...beats the GOP every time. More

I’m that cool, sleek-looking black gun you’ve seen profiled by the press. More

Paul Manafort was not a mere foreign agent among a handful of groups and individuals. More

The truth is so easy, so simple. To lie is what’s difficult. More

So what exactly, besides her Democratic femaleness, is Hillary's candidacy based on? Hard to say.  More

Contra the Obama administration, Israel -- and the U.S. -- will need cooperative missile defense programs for the foreseeable future. More

The federal government does too much, and consequently does it badly. More

As the 20th anniversary of TWA Flight 800 nears, the media should reopen this case and demand that the government explain why it continues to cover up the facts. More

It is a common practice amongst liberals to demonize objects and attribute to them all sorts of magical powers over us.  More

When the Commission headed by Herr Juncker issues a Regulation it has the force of law for all 28 member States immediately. Let me repeat that one word – immediately. More

The Alabama senator and conservative hardliner commented exclusively to American Thinker on one of Donald Trump's hottest hot-button positions. More

Attitudes, images, and opinions about Trump now seem to be coalescing around two issues, race and immigration. More

Trump appears full of fight, and that’s why his supporters love him, but that will not be enough to beat Hillary. More

Americans may flatter themselves that they aren’t susceptible to putting such faith in a mere politician. But one sees a lot of emotion at our campaign rallies.  More

They no longer report the news, but they do shape a message.  More

Everything the Left does, including shamefully exploiting the slaughter of Americans in a nightclub, is to further their deception and power. More

Is the Republican Party anticipating a floor fight in Cleveland? That's how I read the Trump campaign's out of the blue firing of campaign manager Corey Lewandowski.  More

Like most ruling classes, our liberal friends have constructed their world view to paint a pretty picture of themselves as caring compassionate lords of the manor.  More

It is interesting to examine the interrelation between Trump and Russia from both a political and personal point of view.  More

Clinton could benefit from an all-woman ticket with Elizabeth Warren, the feisty socialist senator from Massachusetts.  But Hillary's ego may not be able to handle such an arrangement. More

Am I off base to consider the term "man cave" a micro-aggression? More

When I see former FBI New York honcho Jim Kallstrom appear on Fox News, I see a tortured soul. More

It is painfully clear that at this point, the #NeverTrump movement is aiding and abetting the left. More

My contention is that the Orlando shooter, Omar Mateen, had much in common with the Orlando alligator, acting out of instinct, each following his own obligatory course of action. More

This is not about how to handle crooks or angry exes.  Police waiting for other police just doesn't work here. More

As the Milo LGBTQ drama-fest endlessly goes on at Breitbart the presidential campaign of Donald Trump must avoid getting caught up in the jet wash of this gong show. More

The numbers are now in from the first election in North Carolina in which voters had to present one of several forms of government issued photo identification cards. It turns out it wasn't much of an issue.  More

The government is unable to offer us any significant protection no matter how many clues they are given. So what’s the answer? More

The next President of the United States must consider acting on the basis of what activists in Northern Ireland used to call “the politics of the last atrocity.” More

Squeezed between these two powerful entities, the Native people can't seem to catch a break.  (And no, neither of them is "Republicans.") More

The roots of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict run much deeper than a traditional conflict over land.  More

Looking for blame in all the wrong places More

There’s a reason we refer to the perfect society as Never-Never Land. We’ll never get there.  More

What becomes of a country with a Veterans Administration that takes a year, often longer, to process claims while people suffer and die?   More

Disarming the law-abiding to prevent killings is like trying to fight drunk driving by making it harder for sober drivers to get driver’s licenses.  More

It is a sign of desperation that Muslims need to go back  800 years in order to sell us the idea that Islam “is a religion of culture... and peace”. More

Trump's projects also show him to be in the first rank of risk-taking entrepreneurs. More

The gun-banning Democrats on the left are as wrong about limiting our 2d Amendment rights as Trump is about banning Muslim immigration.   More

Cal Newport fails to address the deeper problems of internet distraction. More

I worry that the United States in 2016 bears an uncomfortable similarity to the Soviet Union in 1986.  The list of nations that have been restored to greatness under a gerontocracy is short.  More

Rumors about Israel being isolated among the nations are unfounded. More

Radical Islam isn't radical to this president.  It's simply a means to an end. More

Mosques have been hotbeds of radicalization with links to some of the world’s worst terrorists.  More

The American people have suffered through seven and a half years of being lied to about everything. More

The struggle against Islamist jihadism has to be fought. The real task should be finding the most effective ways to wage that struggle.  More

I worry that the United States in 2016 bears an uncomfortable similarity to the Soviet Union in 1986.  The list of nations that have been restored to greatness under a gerontocracy is short.  More

Like every other constitutional guarantee, the individual right to keep and bear arms is a mainstay in our republican form of government.  More

A presidential recall option would serve as a powerful counterbalance to an office gradually morphing into the autocracy our founders warned against. More

If witness statements are correct, TWA Flight 800 must be investigated as a shoot-down. More

Conservatives and a significant part of the general voting public have tired of the polished, perfectly groomed candidate.  More

If Muslims were to limit their imitation of Muhammad to brushing their teeth the way he did, Islam might have a legitimate place in the non-Muslim world.  But Muslims cannot pick and choose.   More

In this postmodern world (some say it is a post-postmodern world), in which there are no absolutes and truth is relative, there is no larger framework of meaning to language or to our world. More

In addition to clear polling bias against GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump at the national level, we see the same pro-liberal bias within the state data.  It's all across the nation. More

Retired FBI agents and police commissioners step up to defend the Bureau. More

The emergence of Donald Trump as the Republican nominee for the presidential election in November could be the spur for a sufficient number of Muslims, if they have courage and imagination, to break from their past.  More

In the Arab world, homosexuality is viewed as a sin punishable by death. More

How many more refresher courses on the dangers of Islam are our media and political elites going to need? More

Here is what it's going to take. More

There is a gay advocacy establishment.  It is very powerful.  And the massacre in Orlando showed how overwhelmingly it has failed its constituents. More

Those ego-centrics that self-identify as progressives, leftists, fascists, socialists or Marxists, have one overwhelming trait in common: they are narcissists who believe they are pre-ordained to rule the masses too ignorant to govern themselves. More

Bret Stephens and the rest of the NeverTrumpians might consider whether America has the luxury of possessing the time to “learn” our lesson.  More

Why did the CIA illegally seize the TWA 800 investigation from both the NTSB and FBI?  More

The media still don't get that the Republican nominee is looking more and more presidential. More

Mitt Romney, after two unsuccessful bids for the US presidency in 2008 and 2012, is on the campaign trail again. This time not for himself, but instead for some hypothetical candidate to usurp the presumptive nominee More

Here I am, an Indian immigrant, a physician, and a lifelong Democrat to boot, who sees no other choice than Trump this election cycle. More

Judge Hehn’s ridiculous, destructive ruling should be overturned if possible, and she should be removed from the bench More

Democrats act as though citizens are a threat to them.  More

The Founding Fathers wisely provided for freedom of speech and of the press as a means of guaranteeing our freedom and our democracy. The Internet is the new free press and an outlet for free speech.  More

American Thinker’s series on TWA Flight 800 has prompted individuals with first hand knowledge to come forward. More

Now that an Islamic terrorist has killed 50 at a gay bar in Orlando, Florida, our rulers are calling it “terrorism”. More

What FBI director James Comey intends is perhaps the greatest conundrum in Washington these days.  Is he a careful policeman, or is he a political hack? More

Should radicals get the war that comes from social overload and collapse, the war they always appear to seek, it will be necessary to deal with them as coldly as they deal with us.  More

We hear a lot about voting blocs by race or sex or age.  But what about the voting blocs of bird-watchers and library-goers? More

Prediction: Trump is going to win by appealing to American common sense.  And driving the leftist media insane. More

Getting out of the European Union is the right thing to do.  The British seem to be catching on. More

Our bureaucratic elite, just as enamored of its own right to rule as the EU bureaucracy, is no more transparent or accountable to us than the EU is to Britons. More

A true representative of a generation that really had what it takes. More

Sex identification is the earliest, deepest and strongest mental connection in human psychology. More

A look at some of the marvels of this world that science can address only in a shallow and mechanistic manner.  More

The measures being discussed in Israel in the wake of the horrific attack in Tel Aviv where 4 Israeli civilians were murdered by Arab terrorists will do little. A better approach is needed.   More

Congress can perform its due diligence meaningfully only after it freezes the Iran Nuke Deal by enjoining the Obama Administration from helping Iran engage in world commerce More

Whatever the lament from the GOP’s gray flannel suits, the Trump-Hillary square-off is where voters want to be, skin in the game, money down.  More

How to solve a major irritation for millions. More

There is no easy way out of Puerto Rico's current impasse.  More

We have come a long way from the view of gray wolves as varmints to be killed for bounty wherever they were encountered. More

Israeli actions may be justifiably criticized, but they are in almost all cases a dramatic contrast to the violence and murders by Palestinians.  More

Are Republicans deliberately undermining this nominee because they truly believe 4-8 years of Hillary is better than 4-8 years of Trump?  More

One of the United States' most liberal courts just ruled that you don't have a right to protect yourself with a concealed weapon.  Here's everything you need to know. More

Headlines about Hillary being the first woman presidential nominee, or possibly the first woman president, are nothing more or less than public relations and electioneering hype. More

An increasingly competitive world has messed things up for thousands of college graduates.  More

Regular Joes and Marys lack the conceit to assert they are faithful practitioners of civic virtue, although they possess far more honesty, and far less corruptibility than the current dominant political class.  More

This year, the People and “the system” have given America the two nominees with highest negatives of any major party candidates in modern history. We can’t very well swap out the People, but maybe we could find a better system. More

Donald Trump ought to be the first choice of conservatives, but what if Trump continues to make unforced errors and raise genuine questions about his emotional maturity? More

Mike Wire was one of the 258 FBI witnesses of the TWA Flight 800 catastrophe who reported an apparent missile strike. The FBI, the CIA, and the media ignored him.  More

Our K-12 system can usually guarantee that students don't become fluent readers.  Here's how. More

The transgender sham, rather than remediating nature’s “perceived” cruelty, has revictimized a group that few would have ever expected: women of the two x chromosome vintage. More

The upcoming NATO summit in Warsaw will complete the transatlantic alliance's transformation back to what it was built for: deterring Moscow. More

Russia is now back on the international scene, a significant geopolitical player.  NATO's priorities lie elsewhere...or at least they should. More

If he wins, Trump will likely damage the body politic less than another Clinton presidency because the culture of the nation is set up as a check on him. More

In 2016, for the first time in modern American history, a presidential election will be won chiefly because most people voted against someone rather than for someone.  More

Taking responsibility.  Apologizing.  The "Never blame parents for anything" camp will never experience either, because they decline to take responsibility for their actions.  More

Used for most of his career; first by fight hucksters, then by anti-war activists, then by a Nation of Islam cult, and finally by any special pleader that could get him to sit and sell his persona or signature for a $100 dollars a pop.    More

The Ali-Frazier rivalry was a conflict for the ages.  More

Fetal research has proven to be not only a fruitless line of research but also, arguably, a fraudulent one. More

There is no reason that a mere fragment of the general population that are identified as some subspecies of homosexuality should be the veritable tail that wags the dog. More

No dispassionate observer who reads TWA 800: The Crash, The Cover-Up, The Conspiracy will be able to deny the unsettling truth of TWA 800’s final flight. More

When is “activism” justified? When is intimidation necessary?  More

Donald Trump is, in fact, the strongest candidate to stand for the rights of real Mideast-Americans.  More

Trump is one of few politicians willing to stand up to and call out those who place politics above the law. More

This week we celebrate the victory of the Six Day War in which Israel miraculously defeated the combined armies of all the Arab nations that surrounded her. More

Clint Hill's Five Presidents illuminates the realtionship between the Secret Service and the men they protect. More

America's newest voting generation can flirt with Bernie Sanders for a little while, but these special snowflakes are going to have to grow up very soon. More

You don't have to feel bad about opposing a policy that directly endangers your wife and daughters. More

Those at State who have told the most blatant lies have not been reprimanded.  They have been promoted. More

Young Yamato Tanooka's forest ordeal may mean more than at first meets the eye. More

The rationale for allowing transgender students to use any bathroom they like is almost identical to the theory and practice of the ADA. Yet the LGBT movement adamantly denies that transgenderism is a mental illness or disability. More

Trump is right that there is no California drought, although there has been a hot spell and a man-made water shortage from failure of government to plan for “normal” drought.   More

What gives Obama the legal authority to ban institutions of higher education from refusing to admit troublemakers, including convicted felons?  More

The right’s commentariat failed over the past eight years to convince voters of their positions and are now doubling down with no real economic consequences to themselves. More

The left has pushed us farther and farther away from science and toward scientism. More

When progressives see Christians’ religious liberty as that kind of threat, someone’s religious rights are going to burn.  More

If using Scripture to justify commanding schools to allow male perverts into girls' bathrooms does not qualify as madness, nothing does.   More

Bernard Lewis challenges the political world to provide an adequate response to Islamic terrorism.  More

As a nation, we have arrived at the crossroads.   More

Peace plans are busting out all over More

Ignorance of history is a very dangerous thing. More

You should think of "regressives" in the way that you would think of a natural disaster.  More

The Vermont senator (and Hillary Clinton, while we're at it) should be asked about the one-percenter salaries Democrats are so keen on giving to socialist bureaucrats at taxpayer expense. More

At its core, Europe has abandoned its Christian heritage in favor of the Canaanite side of the family tree.  More

The way the two handle political correctness and rabid liberal activism is eerily similar.  And it's not a bad thing, either.   More

If mental illness and hormone therapy were really all that’s necessary to level the playing field, why are no “transgender males” beating (real) men, at any type of elite level, in any sport? More

Enough with the Left's relentless efforts to fill black heads with victimhoodism, constantly rehashing how America did us wrong.  More

Politicians on both sides of the aisle promise to do good and end up doing right well, for themselves.  More

Anti-capitalist views permeate the Democratic Party, and in their purist form are represented by the radical Marxist misanthrope Bernie Sanders. More

What we have are Washington Party (A) and Washington Party (B).  What we need is a system that actually represents voters' (and states') interests. More

Since the '70s the nation-based comparative advantage theory of international trade has been supplanted by the view that the mission of corporate America is to make profits for its shareholders. More

While there is much to applaud about Brown, we would be disingenuous to deny that the wrong lessons have been drawn from the decision. More

The relentless concentration of effort and energy against the Jewish State has meant neglecting almost entirely one of the world’s real great evils -- slavery. More

With Trump University grabbing headlnes, few people know about Bill Clinton's lucrative role promoting a much larger for-profit education scheme that has been accused of the same sort of high pressure sales practices. More

Naval commanders are worried that our ability to respond has been severely compromised by an Obama administration more concerned about rising sea levels than rising threats on those seas.  More

In the real world, personal assistant and administrative assistant positions provide cushy employment for many people, mostly women.  More

Illegal immigration drives down wages at the bottom of the income scale, aggravating the wage gap and social divisions, providing fodder for left wing demonization of the prosperous and successful. More

The Ploughshares Fund, in its obeisance to White House spin, has neglected the reality that Iran is a dangerous power.  More

Today, some believe the three pillars of Reaganism are either outdated or untenable.  More

If the problem in America is the loss of bottom-up mediating institutions of family, community, and faith, then the solution is the restoration of that middle layer that fosters social bonds. More

Some very familiar names of Department of Justice officials are on the short list. More

Hillary's legal problems may be a lot more devastating than anyone has yet guessed. More

Slavery is not everybody’s story -- it must remain exclusively a story for the United States and its people.   More

Citizens of the West have become so silly and feeble that one questions whether they’re any longer truly capable of self-government.  More

The politics of irony and cynicism appear to have had their day, and have opened the door to Sanders and Trump. More

Experience does count. This experience counts against her. More