December 28, 2012

Chinese prison factories revealed

A Chinese prisoner's note, found in a box of Kmart Halloween decorations by an unsuspecting Oregonian, described the horrors of China's prison-factories. Despite that sort of thing not supposed to be happening, it is happening because China remains a...

October 31, 2012

Obama's Libya Fail Brings More Conflict

Right under the radar of news of Hurricane Sandy and the election itself, Hillary Clinton is in Algiers, trying to coax Algeria into a planned military action in Mali to hose out al Qaida's latest nest. The terrorists have taken over another country ...

October 5, 2012

Castro's Goons Arrest Cuban Blogger Yoani Sanchez

The communist Cuban regime has arrested Yoani Sanchez, Cuba's best-known blogger, whose evocative writing on the nature of the communist regime and the dreary life in Cuba have won her international awards. It was always a matter of curiosity as to w...

September 10, 2012

Hezb'allah Is Coming

With America's attention turned to elections, there have been some pretty creepy dealings in the hemisphere that haven't gotten much note.  Iran, which is trying to develop an illegal nuclear weapon and is openly threatening Israel, is not only ...

September 7, 2012

Bill and Barack

No one has shilled harder for Barack Obama than former president and onetime semi-rival Bill Clinton. The two are well known for their antipathy, yet Clinton's impassioned and windy speech on Obama's behalf on Wednesday, as well as his participation ...

August 28, 2012

Chavnobyl: Hugo Chavez's Chernobyl

As world attention diverts to other important stories - elections, Hurricane Isaac, Iran - a massive disaster is occurring just 1400 miles south of Miami, in Venezuela, under Hugo Chavez. Over the weekend, a massive refinery explosion occurred at the...

August 21, 2012

Chavez Attacked By His Proletariat

Hugo Chavez has got some Putin-type problems as his reelection approaches. and yesterday evening angry workers charged the stage during his nationally televised address and protested. This is the sort of thing that until now has only happened in Puti...

May 23, 2012

Occupy descends into terrorism

Occupy has proven itself to be a fast-forward Internet-age show of how a grievance group descends from public nuisance to flat out terrorist group. The recent busts in Chicago and Cleveland prove it, and worse can be expected whenever Occupy gathers....

May 8, 2012

Hillary's Hypocrisy Tour Of India

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton put India's oil-buying from Iran at the top of her agenda this week, but probably didn't bring much moral suasion to the table. Yes, the world needs to cut off the mullahs' cash stream from its huge oil earnings to ...

February 29, 2012

Will The Central Valley Be Saved Today?

Well, it's a little extreme to put it that way. But H.R. 1837, sponsored by Visalia House Republican Devin Nunes, is probably the best news to come to the battered agricultural regions of the southwest Central Valley since the Hoover Dam was built. T...

December 31, 2011

Canada Soars

As America's economy struggles, a funny thing happened on the way to the next-door neighbor nation that has up until now always been considered a dogleg off our economy. Canada's economy is soaring. It's that they did anything particularly unusual. A...

July 22, 2011

Leftist mythology debunked by new autopsy

Investor' Business Daily brings the news that yet another leftist historical lie has been shattered, and a hero-martyr revealed as a sham. For nearly 40 years the left has been dining out on the idea that Chilean Marxist dictator Salvador Allende was...

May 6, 2009

Free trade rebounds

Here's a buried news item: free trade has recovered its support with the American public. People now want it, and two big polls (from lefty pollsters CNN and CBS) show it. But I have yet to see anyone in the msm reporting on this. Most amazingly...

May 3, 2009

Jimmy Carter reported to accept coca invitation from Evo Morales

Globovision of Caracas reports news that we hope is inaccurate, and which will be denied by former President Carter. The Venezuelan television network states that he has accepted an invitation to participate in the cultivation of coca with left ...

April 29, 2009

Russians sink Chavez's submarine fleet dreams

The Russians have gotten sick of Hugo Chavez's BS and have told him they aren't selling him any submarines at all. Venezuelan negotiators first wanted 9 subs, then they changed their mind and only wanted 6. Recently they were saying "only 3 or 4...

April 16, 2009

Obama re-designates FARC Marxist narcoterrorists as 'insurgents'

Who else can the Commander in chief be talking about but the FARC narcoterrorists in Colombia?"To combat lawlessness and violence, we don't need a debate about whether to blame right-wing paramilitaries or left-wing insurgents - we need practica...

November 15, 2008

The pettiness of an unrepentant terrorist

Bill Ayers is back in the news, pretending to be just an idealistic academic. This academic exchange at the link on Ayers' own blog below is hilarious -- proveing Henry Kissinger's dictum that academic fights are always most fiery precisely because t...

October 6, 2008

William Ayers and Hugo Chavez

Barack Obama's original political sponsor Wiliam Ayers has ties to the Hugo Chavez regime that apparently continue today. Here's how Hugo Chavez advertises Ayers as a member of the directorate of the Miranda International Center, a think tank funded ...

September 27, 2008

Watching the debate in deep blue territory

I saw something interesting a very blue beachfront LA community last night. I signed up for a debate-watching party with a Republican household -- if anything just to see what kind of Republicans would show up to such an event out in bluest Los Angel...

June 25, 2007

A new enemy patrolling our east coast?

Is Puerto Rico really a part of the United States? And if it is, is it worth defending from attack? That's the emerging issue right now because Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez has just made his first threat on the U.S . commonwealth as he seeks to...

June 25, 2007

Free trade for America's enemies?

To hear the international left excoriate free trade, you'd think it would be a no brainer for leftist states like Ecuador and Bolivia to reject any trade with the U.S. It's a core position of union hardliners, anti-globalization a...

June 5, 2007

Hugo Chavez's pirate TV

Hugo Chavez has been ripping off American television programming for the station he seized from its rightful owners. After shutting down Venezuela's most popular television network RCTV last May 27, Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez was ...

June 1, 2007

How Jimmy Carter Helped Trash Venezuela's Free Press

As American Thinker noted here yesterday, Jimmy Carter came out with some crocodile tears for the ongoing turmoil in Venezuela's democracy over the issue of free speech. Does anyone realize the extent to which Jimmy Carter created the conditions that...

May 30, 2007

Venezuelan Revolt

Venezuela is on fire. Triggered by a media shutdown over the weekend, tens of thousands of students from virtually every university, ranging from trade schools to military colleges to the most prestigious universities, and now high schools, are ...

April 17, 2007

Israeli kids and Holocaust worries

As Holocaust memorials were held earlier this week, a rueful news story emerged of an Israeli poll revealing that a huge 37% of young people there think a new Holocaust is possible. Think about t...

April 10, 2007

Los Angeles, City of Productions

2 A.M. Sleepless in Los Angeles. There are so many helicopters buzzing in this place it sounds like a war zone. Endlessly they are circling; I don't know what this is all about. I look out the window and hear police sirens and see flashing ...

March 19, 2007

Barbara Walters and Hugo Chavez

Last Friday, Barbara Walters embarrassed herself conducting a fawning interview with Hugo Chavez, Venezuela's Marxist budding dictator. This is a more serious mortification than Rosie O'Donnell spouting nonsense on ABC's The View, which Walters ...

January 10, 2007

Venezuela expropriates (updated)

Emerging markets were severely rocked yesterday by news of Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez's announced expropriation of the electrical and phone companies to advance his ‘revolution.' It's part of a long string of expropriations intended to des...

December 3, 2006

Will Venezuela boot Chavez today?

Venezuelans go to the polls today, to choose whether to give Hugo Chavez a third term, or elect his challenger, the democratic non-communist Zulia state governor, Manuel Rosales. No one knows how this will turn out.All indicators that might signal th...

April 7, 2006

Confronting Chavez Wins Voters in Mexico and Peru

This week, two amazing developments have begun to shift the electoral landscape in two Latin American countries in a conservative direction. We may have Hugo Chavez, the Castro—loving, petro—dollar fuelled president of Venezuela to t...

September 5, 2005

Katrina, left and right

Hurricane Katrina and its horrific aftermath has filled the media and blogosphere. As a wakeup call about the fragility of civilization, even in the world's most powerful country, it's a worthy story. And as a story, it's vastly beyond politics, too,...

July 3, 2005

Venezuelans protest police shootings of students

Demonstrations often look alike, and for that reason they are often given short shrift by the media. People gather on an issue, march to a plaza somewhere, and then disperse home. A point is made. Next story. But a large protest held in Car...

June 20, 2005

Argentina's tattered ties to Italy

Argentina, whose government defaulted on $100 billion in debt in late 2001, is astonished that Italy in particular remains angry at the South American state for running out on its tab and getting away with it. After all, the two nations have clo...

June 4, 2005

Venezuela's war message to the Caribbean

It was hard to not sense something was gravely wrong when Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez announced he would put his Caribbean oil headquarters in Havana, Cuba, a city of absolutely no economic significance, in fact, of no actual economy.  ...

April 22, 2005

Murders in Mexico

On the blogosphere, we often think of the risks bloggers face in countries like Iraq, Iran, and Venezuela, given the power of their words to fuel revolution. The danger is real, and for that, we pay closer attention. Bloggers encounter the force of t...

April 9, 2005

Cuba's pro-life heroine

Dr. Hilda Molina, a top neurosurgeon, had it all in Castro's Cuba. She was honored in the medical profession, wrote for international medical journals, got invited to a lot of conferences, took a seat in Cuban parliament, and was a confidant of Fidel...

April 4, 2005

Mexico on the brink

CIA director Porter Goss wasn't kidding when he put Mexico in with Venezuela, Haiti, Bolivia and Nicaragua as the most unstable countries in the hemisphere. Right now, the potentially dangerous development is political, and may affect us very tangibl...

March 5, 2005

A travesty in Jakarta

This week's Indonesian court verdict against Abu Bakar Bashir on 'evil conspiracy' charges meted out a pickpocket's punishment to a terrorist ringleader responsible for an atrocity second only to 9/11. Bashir's 2 ｽ year sentence for the October 2002 ...

February 15, 2005

The Fallujah treatment

The New York Times  and the Associated Press,  (two news agencies whose work in Andean Latin America is suspiciously similar) are at it again. They say that since our ally Colombia is fighting a terrorist war on a heated battlefield, the sk...

February 11, 2005

Argentina's dangerous direction

Buried deep in the appalling announcement of Cuba's new place on the UN's Human Rights Commission was the name of the country that nominated that outpost of tyranny for the honor: Argentina.   It's not the first time the southernmost countr...

January 10, 2005

Venezuela's Chavez: A Marxist who hates Spam

Venezuela's Marxist dictator, Hugo Chavez, has begun confiscating farms and ranches, a violent act worthy of Zimbabwe's ethinc cleansing, marauding socialist tyrant Robert Mugabe. Like Mugabe, his made his first target a wealthy British aristocrat. B...

December 31, 2004

Zapatero's provocative weakness

One would like to think of Spain's repulsive Prime Minister, Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, as just an unpleasant byproduct of last March's terrible terrorist attacks on Madrid commuter trains. Zapatero's only there because Spain's traumatized voters ...

December 14, 2004

A sweet landing

As hard as it may be for many Americans and Vietnamese Americans who have felt the battering hand of the Vietnam War for so many years, consider for a moment the small incandescence of last week's United Airlines Flight 869 from San Francisco to Ho C...

December 11, 2004

The Treasury Department's hidden treasure

When Sam Bodman's name appeared in the news as President Bush's choice to lead the Department of Energy, the dominant reaction the press was to treat him as 'unknown.' But he is a man of great accomplishment, as an engineer, a scholar, and businessma...

November 27, 2004

Berlusconi victorious

He's won. Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has succeeded in cutting taxes. In Italy. The captain of his nation's ship, who had gripped the helm and vowed to hurl his entire balking government over the side if they refused to stand w...

November 26, 2004

Putin's voodoo doll

Amid monstrous electoral turmoil in Ukraine, Vladimir Putin decided to hold a press conference today in Moscow, with none other than Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez. The purpose was to, uhhh, congratulate him on recall referendum victory. And no le...

November 20, 2004

Italy's Reagan

Italy's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has always been deeply valued as a friend to the us in the U.S. for his unwavering support in the war on terror. He's also Europe's staunchest defender of Israel, and seeks to help Israel not on...

November 14, 2004

The CIA's new banana republic

In its heyday, the CIA was famous for mucking around in the affairs of banana republics, manipulating this, toppling that, and in best cases, achieving the political aims (usually leaders, actually) that the President of the U.S. sought. Iran, Philip...

November 12, 2004

Engineers and terrorists

A quiet terrorist victory, one which has completely escaped the notice of the mainstream press, is affecting your life. It has significance in both practical and symbolic terms. In the short run there is little we can do about it. But in the long run...

October 28, 2004

The Sandalistas return

Remember the Sandalistas? These were the malodorous, leftwing, U.S. and European peace creeps who descended down like locusts on the Marxist Sandinista Nicaragua regime to "help" with the "revolution." Armed with Mom's credit card and brand new Birke...

October 26, 2004

Assassination games

Like many dictators, President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela sees assassination plots all around him. Every month or so he comes out with a newly discovered one that was foiled just in time.  As with other strongmen, it's a useful tool for shori...

October 17, 2004

What the burkas say

European friends send me news photographs of women  in Afghanistan voting for the first time, emphasizing they are wearing traditional blue burkas. And these photos supposedly prove that Afghanistan's women at the polls are hardly 'liberated,' a...

October 13, 2004

Desecrating Columbus Day

Given the global significance of Columbus Day, it is astonishing how many ways there are to corrupt it. The great linking of West with East, through the bridge of the newly—discovered Americas, is truly the world's coming of age story. But...

October 12, 2004

A gift horse for New Jersey

Hugo Chavez's left wing, Castroite Venezuelan government has proposed to give  to New Jersey an island, formerly used by the Venezuelan state oil company, for use as a bald eagle preserve. What red—blooded American would turn down a bald ...

October 10, 2004

Australia's breathtaking victory

In states that export terrorists, tyrants in moribund certainty know there's no need to be accountable to citizens so long as they hold power. But not so in the West, where leaders are put to the electoral test. It's particularly poignant for the Coa...

October 6, 2004

Soros plays games with the factcheck website

George Soros seems to have pulled a pretty interesting fast one, following Tuesday's vice—presidential debate. At that event, Vice President Dick Cheney recommended that viewers go to www.factcheck.org to authenticate p...

October 6, 2004

French government bribes in our backyard

The French have been up to their old tricks, all around the world these days. Anyone who thinks their UN Oil for Food bribery scandal involving its corporations is the beginning and end of it is a hopeless naif. French corruption, particularly throug...

September 30, 2004

Carter, observed

American Thinker Exclusive Jimmy Carter has been acting like a grumpy old man this week, casting somewhat shocking aspersions on the fairness and legitimacy of the forthcoming Presidential election in Florida. Maybe his nasty streak has something to ...

September 28, 2004

A new and disturbing alignment

On the surface, Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero's plan to make common cause with the Islamic world looks mostly naive and maybe a little odd. Spain's history is a fierce crucible in the clash of Islam and the West, after all....

September 25, 2004

Kerry's Castrophile counsel

On Cuba, John Kerry has flipped and flopped like a wet marlin on a Key Largo yacht, in a desperate bid to win the Miami Cuban exile vote without alienating his Castrophile voter base. Ironically, it was Castro ally Hugo Chavez of Venezuela who first...