December 11, 2017

Time Flies When You're Torching Synagogues

Is it Stand-Next-To-A-Jew-At-Your-Own-Risk Day again already? Gosh, where does the time go?  Here's a brief synopsis of recent events: The United States Government officially recognizes Jerusalem as the capital of Israel; Muslim m...

December 8, 2017

Socialist Sanders Passes Moral Judgment on Donald Trump

Bernie Sanders is calling on President Trump to "think about resigning," citing past allegations of sexual misconduct against him, along with Trump's infamous Access Hollywood vulgarity. Anyone familiar with my writing knows I am not...

December 2, 2017

Feminists on the injustice of pregnancy

Korea's recently-elected progressive government has announced plans to begin "research" on the country's restrictive abortion laws, which, of course, is another way of saying they are going to get the ball rolling on legalizing abor...

November 11, 2017

What We Owe the War Dead

Back in the days before moral relativism and progressive historicism rendered all war (except communist revolutionary war) an unambiguous evil – that is, before "giving peace a chance," regardless of the conditions upon which that pea...

November 7, 2017

Trump’s Biggest Challenge in Seoul

Donald Trump is in South Korea today.  All focus, of course, is on whether Trump and recently-elected Korean president Moon Jae-in will present a unified position against North Korean aggression. Or let me restate that in words that make sense w...

October 30, 2017

George Washington, Un-American

When George Washington's memory has been deemed "unacceptable" to Americans, will America still exist? In the fundamental transformation of any nation, there will be a moment that stands as the symbolic termination of that nation as ...

October 27, 2017

The World Before Racial Hypersensitivity

Imagine a world in which one can actually describe the human species concretely, as one finds it, without measuring every utterance against the ever-changing barometer of political correctness. Imagine a language that actually communicates positively...

October 13, 2017

School Coach Branded Racist for Calling Thugs 'Thugs'

Imagine if behind every little thug, there were larger, stronger thugs ready to defend those little thugs against criticism or correction. In this situation, thuggery would always grow, and all defense against it would be futile, until at last most p...

October 10, 2017

Hysterical Christian-Haters for Property Rights

A homosexual coffee shop owner with an angry mind, a foul mouth, and at least a few screws loose, has done Christian conservatives the favor of a lifetime, making the case for a businessman's private property rights against the progressive oppres...

October 3, 2017

The Progressive Psychology of Exploiting a Crisis

Within hours of a man carrying out a horrifyingly successful mass shooting in Las Vegas, in which the death toll as of this writing is almost sixty, Democrats are out in public demanding gun control legislation.  As disgustingly cynical as this ...

September 22, 2017

Oops! Climate Cultist Destroys Own Position

Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson has been doing the leftist media interview circuit recently, pressing his peculiar thesis that professional (i.e., paid) scientists are a superior class of humans whose conclusions are intrinsically beyond reproach ...

August 26, 2017

Death Cultist Calls for Trump's Impeachment

Former Clinton Labor Secretary Robert Reich is calling for Donald Trump's impeachment "as soon as possible." His argument, in a nutshell: Trump is almost as deranged and mentally unstable as…Robert Reich. Here is his init...

August 14, 2017

How the US Trained Kim Jong-un into His Current Boldness

Is Kim Jong-un's level of rhetoric indicative of madness or a death wish? Though it is impossible to know the mind of such a protected figure, I would argue that his behavior is merely the reasonable result of lessons he has learned from past res...

August 1, 2017

Hysterical AT Writers Caused Charlie Gard to Suffer

A beneficial side effect of the horrible Charlie Gard case is that it is the kind of story that forces anyone who wishes to talk about it to define himself, whether openly or implicitly, on certain fundamental issues: self-ownership vs. socialism, th...

July 29, 2017

What the Charlie Gard Case Was Never About

In civilization's ongoing battle against the advance of progressive authoritarianism, the story of Charlie Gard – may he rest in peace – is an object lesson in the danger of unclear principles and the value of clear ones. ...

July 29, 2017

RIP, Charlie Gard, and thank you

Unfortunately, Charlie Gard has died. Normally, we lament the loss of a baby by saying things like, "It's so unfair that he never had the chance to accomplish anything or live a meaningful human life."  Not so in this case. ...

July 26, 2017

Charlie Gard's Parents Give Up – and You're Next

Charlie Gard's parents, stonewalled by their government and the Euro-socialist high command for five months, their child effectively kidnapped by the State, have finally been forced to accept that it is now too late to hope that their baby might ...

July 16, 2017

Tyranny Bares Its Teeth (to Protect Babies, of Course)

What can be more shamelessly, terrifyingly brutal than the righteous, benign mask of progressivism? After humiliating themselves before the universe as the tyrants that they are, the commissars at London's Great Ormond Street Hospital, unwil...

July 5, 2017

Parents vs. Paternalists: The Charlie Gard Case

Many important questions are raised by the case of ten-month-old Briton Charlie Gard, sentenced to death against the wishes of his parents who had raised money for a desperate last hope of life-saving treatment in America. For months, those parents f...

June 30, 2017

The True Meaning of Socialized Medicine

(Spoiler Alert: If you find slavery or infanticide disturbing, you may be too squeamish to read further.) A perfect crystallization of the full heart and soul of socialized or "single payer" health care is on display in the story of Char...

June 17, 2017

Canada criminalizes non-progressive thought

Do you think imposing so-called transgenderism on children as a sexual norm might be harmful to their moral development?  Do you question the legitimacy of using made up so-called gender-neutral pronouns as replacements for the standard English ...

June 15, 2017

Canada Goes Full Maoist

"Health Canada considers sweeping ban on junk food ads aimed at children and teens." So reads the headline at CBC News. And with that matter-of-fact announcement -- just a normal day's political news in the true north weak and socialist...

June 6, 2017

London mayor demands travel ban – against Donald Trump

Many readers on this site are probably aware that I am not a fan of Donald Trump.  On the other hand, I think I can say with certainty that if thousands of religious fanatics were planning, funding, or sympathizing with murderous attacks ag...

June 4, 2017

Britain surrenders to Islam

There has been a "potential act of terrorism" in London, in which potential terrorists potentially ran over potential infidels with a potential van, and apparently also stabbed potential victims and slashed some people's potential ...

May 25, 2017

The Non-War of Civilizations Erupts Again

Within two days of Donald Trump declaring, during his speech to the Muslim world, that the fight against "Islamic terror" is not a war of civilizations, the non-warriors representing the non-enemy civilization have struck again, killin...

May 19, 2017

Major League Baseball tries to reduce balls

Toronto Blue Jays outfielder Kevin Pillar has been suspended for two games for shouting an "anti-gay slur" at Atlanta Braves pitcher Jason Motte during an angry outburst.  In other words, he used a word – which apparent...

May 9, 2017

South Korea Lurching Blindly Left

On Tuesday, May 9, the Republic of Korea will elect a new president. All signs indicate that the next president will be a socialist, after a decade of governance by the country's relatively conservative party --- a party which, in a desperate att...

April 16, 2017

Dateline South Korea: What's Trump's Endgame Here?

As I live and work in the Republic of Korea, I naturally have a certain immediate interest in the latest Donald Trump vs. Kim Jong Un saber-rattling -- as in, "Am I on the brink of being hustled to an airport with a one-way ticket out of Dodge?...

April 1, 2017

Bizarro world: Politician actually gets arrested for bad behavior

South Korea's ex-president Park Geun-hye was recently impeached and removed from office after a long investigation and widespread public outcry over allegations of extorting corporate donations in exchange for political favors, particularly invol...

February 17, 2017

Freedom or Football?

The National Football League has officially put the State of Texas on notice: if that state persists in denying men with peculiar sexual proclivities access to public rooms full of young girls with their pants down, then Texas may be denied the privi...

November 26, 2016

Fidel Castro dies (Okay, you may smile just a little!)

Fidel Castro – the pop icon of bloodthirsty killers, drowner of desperate would-be escapees from his panacea of socialized medicine, and all-around authoritarian power-mongering cigar aficionado – has finally gone to meet his...well, no o...

October 15, 2016

Public Education: Progressivism's Unbeatable Advantage

(The following is adapted from the introduction to the author's new book, The Case Against Public Education. More information below.) During an 1839 debate in Britain's House of Commons regarding the establishment of government schools, th...

October 14, 2016

Hillary and the fundamental legal premise of tyranny

We now know that the FBI's dereliction of duty regarding Hillary Clinton's e-mail malfeasance is complete.  Not only did Director James Comey have the gall to explain her guilt in the very statement in which he announced that he (against...

July 18, 2016

France vs. ‘The Prettiest Sound on Earth’

President Obama says the Muslim call to prayer is "one of the prettiest sounds on earth at sunset."  Meanwhile, millions of Muslims are eager to kill, rape, or enslave you at sunset in the name of their faith.  There is no contrad...

May 14, 2016

Is Trump the GOP's Obama Moment?

Many critics of Donald Trump's presidential run have likened it to that of his predecessor, America's historic first Fraud in Chief, Barack Obama.  The comparison is apt on various levels.  One of the defining peculiarities of Trump...

May 13, 2016

Escape from Obama's transgender school bathrooms

Barack Obama's transgender regime has officially carried its demands for your child's compliance with sexual deviancy to the level of an imperial directive: Public schools must permit transgender students to use bathrooms and locker room...

April 19, 2016

GOP Primary Process Rigged

One predictable element of the current Republican primaries is that each time Donald Trump's supposed inevitability is challenged, he will tell you it is because the process is unfair. He, his official spokesmen, his "unofficial" enforc...

March 25, 2016

Donald Trump: Alpha Male or Mean Girl?

As I have previously noted, one of the most common and most absurd defenses of Donald Trump is the claim that he is a so-called "alpha male." Critics (this one included) have noted that he resembles a junior high school bully more than he d...

March 19, 2016

The Jester Who Would Be King

Once upon a time, a funny court jester mocked his master, dancing around him and shouting, "I want to be king!"  The king and his subjects laughed.  "And how would you rule?" asked the king, playing along with his fav...

March 15, 2016

Trump and the Art of Sycophancy

Four years ago, Donald Trump's first year-long anti-establishment charade ended when, naturally, he settled his presidential endorsement on the GOP establishment's candidate.  I say "naturally," because flattering or carrying w...

March 3, 2016

Why I Trust Trump

"Trump will do what he says."  "Trump isn't a lying politician."  "Trump promised to do it, and he will." So say thousands of supporters of The Donald throughout the internet.  Old and young, male a...

February 28, 2016

Trump vs. Free Speech

One of the great dangers of Donald Trump's candidacy is his casual willingness to exploit legitimate American frustration and anger and stir them into something ugly for his own benefit.  But careless anger-baiting has consequences, one of w...

February 26, 2016

Three Simple Questions for Trump Supporters

One summer's evening, a skinny, not-particularly athletic boy, perhaps eleven years old, scored the most glorious touchdown of his life.  This was not a real game.  My friend and I, along with his older brother Phil, were just tossing a...

February 22, 2016

The Establishment's Path to Victory

The Republican primaries are once again a civil war between the so-called grassroots (those who seek genuine representation in a representative republic) and the party establishment (those who believe representation is their innate privilege, and tha...

February 18, 2016

Rubio's New American Century

Marco Rubio's closing statement at the February 13 debate in South Carolina ended with this: "I will unify this party, I will grow it, we will win this election, and we will make the twenty-first century a new American century."  I...

February 2, 2016

When Anger Trumps All

One of the most dangerous effects of Donald Trump's presidential campaign is the venomous anger his demagoguery has cultivated among his more engaged supporters, to be spewed at anyone who dares to express concern about any of their idol's (y...

January 21, 2016

Is Trump a McConnell-Rove Establishment Tool?

On January 19, Donald Trump, the loudest Republican claimant to the anti-establishment label, filled out his recent attacks on Ted Cruz in a very telling way, as revealed on Mark Levin's radio program (click here, select the 1/19/16 podcast, go t...

January 14, 2016

Polls and Mass Perception: Trump vs. Hillary

One of the critical illnesses caused by generations of compulsory schooling and progressive propaganda, with their relativism and their socialization of thought, is the decay of nature's intellectual immune system, common sense.  A debilitat...

January 8, 2016

Can Trump Restore America?

Aristotle teaches that while we must love our friends, we must love truth more.  Today, I am probably going to lose some good friends, which is painful.  Nevertheless, my admiration for everything America was, everything modern civilization...

December 18, 2015

Global Tyranny Just Getting Warmed Up

"What was once unthinkable is now unstoppable," boasted U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.  More ominous words were never spoken.  Ban was congratulating himself and nearly two hundred of his global elite cohorts on their achi...

December 7, 2015

The Link Between Global Warming and Terrorists

Since the Islamist terrorist attacks in Paris on November 13, leading progressives, inspired by the coincidence of the attacks occurring in the host city for an upcoming climate change conference, have tried to exploit the anguish caused by terrorism...

November 25, 2015

Thought Terminated: Kafka at Kansas University

A Kansas University professor who used the n-word during a class discussion about race is on leave while the university investigates a discrimination complaint against her. Thus begins an article about one Andrea Quenette, a thirty-three year-...

November 22, 2015

ISIS Renamed 'Climate Change'

The recent ISIS-inspired attacks in Paris, which the naïve may have hoped would awaken the left to the seriousness of the global Islamic threat, have, predictably, had exactly the opposite effect. The West’s mainstream political estab...

November 14, 2015

Breaking: Idiot 'shocked' by Paris attacks

Who knew there were violent Muslims?  While online, watching the French news coverage of the multi-site terrorist attacks in Paris, I scrolled down to find a most telling update: "Profoundly shocked"?  Really?  Does th...

October 29, 2015

Whither Canada?

Picture a first-class leftist self-promoter: riding an incoherent wave of anti-establishment fever to the highest seat in the land through sheer chutzpah and “newness”; easily exposed as a Marxist-influenced, neo-Maoist rabble-rouser, but...

October 23, 2015

Arranging American Gun Confiscation

America's progressive chatter on guns has been shifting noticeably from the abstract language of "control" to the concrete language of "confiscation." Hillary Clinton is just the latest leading voice to serve notice that ...

March 10, 2015

Hillary's a doll!

Alert to American toy aficionados: if you have insatiable dependent children (i.e., Democrat voters) on your gift-giving list, perhaps your best buy is a great new toy from the people who brought you the Barack Obama action figure in 2008.  Natu...

July 8, 2014

Evidence of an Ominous American Climate Change

A new "nationally representative survey" has concluded that the number of Americans who still have free minds is now low enough to warrant intensifying the psychological warfare in order to finish them off for good.  In fact, if thi...

April 21, 2014

Captains Uncourageous

"The captain always goes down with the ship."  This old seafarer's adage, which has come to have the force of a moral principle, was violated in tragic fashion in South Korea this past week.  As investigators and divers try to...

April 9, 2014

Meet the 2016 Republican Nominee

How does the Republican Party establishment choose its presidential candidate?  Typically, constitutionalists accuse their establishment rivals of being moderate, risk-averse, stubborn old fools who lack faith in conservative principles.  T...

March 30, 2014

Progressivism vs. the Pursuit of Happiness

Self-interest is good -- not because it "raises the general standard of living" or "makes workers more productive."  If it did neither of these things, it would still be good for a more fundamental reason, namely that it is t...

February 23, 2014

Where are the Global Warmists for Freedom?

Global warming "admitters" -- to distinguish you from those of us you call "deniers" -- I have a question for you: Do any of you have an answer to the cataclysm your settled science has proven beyond any possible doubt is coming which does not requir...

January 10, 2014

Logic Gets Sucked into the Polar Vortex

There is a new bogeyman in town.  His name is Polar Vortex.  He has been around forever, and has hitherto lived in obscurity as just another natural phenomenon.  But against all odds, he has suddenly found satisfying new employment and...

January 5, 2014

The Denaturalization of America

In 2008, America elected a president from a broken home whose mother was sympathetic to communists; who as a youngster had formative relationships with a transgender nanny chosen by his mother and a bisexual communist pornographer "mentor" chosen by ...

December 22, 2013

Obama, the Pope, and the Faithful

The recent controversy stirred by Pope Francis' criticism of the free market has had one beneficial side effect: it indirectly demonstrates the extent to which Barack Obama's American apologists have more in common with a faithful flock than with ind...

December 3, 2013

Catholics and Communists

The Catholic Church's recent history of sympathizing with, and even supporting, Marxist progressivism is clear, sad, and indicative of a deeply irrational and anti-individual streak within the modern Church hierarchy. Catholics who care about the Chu...

November 26, 2013

If You Like Your Tyranny, You Can Keep It

2013 has been a banner year for damning self-portraits of American progressivism.  Just when you thought no one could top Hillary Clinton's agonized "What difference, at this point, does it make?" -- perhaps the most concise account of the lefti...

November 18, 2013

Might the Establishment Turn Against Obama?

A disturbing trend among American conservatives is the increasing sense of optimism about President Obama's slow fade in mainstream perceptions, and its ramifications for the future of American leftism.  Does Obama's decline entail the undo...

November 10, 2013

The Progressive Degradation of Freedom

There are Chinese towns near the border with North Korea that send rice across the Yalu River in exchange for girls to marry.  It makes sense.  North Korea needs rice, because communist farming is a failure.  China needs girls, after t...

October 25, 2013

When Frogs Jump

We have all heard the metaphor of the frog in the pot of water -- heard it to death, in fact. Some scientists disapprove, arguing that this metaphor is "untrue": at a certain stage in the gradual rise of the water's temperature, they claim, the frog'...

October 9, 2013

Parasitocracy

Tyranny, being as endemic to the human condition as other similar privations of the human good such as ignorance, vice, or sickness, is as old as mankind.  What may be new, however, is the uniquely intractable form of tyranny that is curren...

September 27, 2013

Obama's 'Fake' Twitter Followers Explained

Barack Obama has 36.9 million Twitter followers, 19.5 million of whom, it turns out, are fake. This is a very disturbing sign for Obama's opponents, as it demonstrates just how much appeal the president still has with his key support base, namely tho...

September 25, 2013

John McCain Appeases

After twenty-four hours of Ted Cruz acting like a man -- a man who sees his country on the brink of expiring -- the Democrats have pulled the Senate floor out from under him. And as has become the custom, they have been aided in their bullying by Sen...

September 18, 2013

Memo to Hillary Clinton: What a Difference, at this Point, a Year Makes

For a century, progressivism was evil's most successful modern mask.  On September 11, 2012, however, the movement's current international figureheads, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, tripped, fell, and in the process, smashed the illusion....

September 10, 2013

America: Not Shining but Burning

The human mind naturally protects itself from considerations that would interrupt the appealing flow of everyday life. This fact alone explains the continued unwillingness of many thinking people to wonder aloud whether there is still hope for the su...

August 25, 2013

Maybe I Do Have Something to Hide

The single most common, and most annoying, argument offered in defense of the democratic totalitarian surveillance state must be, "If you haven't done anything wrong, you have nothing to hide." This rhetorical argument has been around for generations...

August 13, 2013

Benghazi and the Banality of Evil

Is it just me, or is the string of distractions that seem to pop up right on cue every time new light is about to be shed on the Benghazi story getting a little old? Months late, CNN has gotten around to "breaking" a story that might help to comple...

August 4, 2013

Are We Solving the Mystery of Atlantis?

Ancient Greek literature is replete with intimations of lost civilizations, great floods, and slow renewals of human knowledge beginning at some unspecified point in a misty past.  The most famous of these intimations is Plato's legend of Atlant...

July 26, 2013

Mann vs. Steyn: Heresy Shall Be Crushed

Remember when scientists and other truth-seekers used to get all riled up about the way the Catholic Church treated Galileo? The outcry was not over the fact that Galileo was a "peer-reviewed" researcher, and therefore beyond question. Quite the cont...

July 23, 2013

Irrational Animal

The progressive outcry and mob intimidation (a distinction without a difference) in the wake of the George Zimmerman not guilty verdict serves to demonstrate in microcosm the single most disastrous cumulative effect of contemporary psychology, public...

July 20, 2013

The Midnight Ride of Larry Grathwohl

Larry Grathwohl, the man who informed the world of the coldest truths about Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dorhn, and the Weather Underground, has died. When I say "informed the world," I mean that he made the truth available, although most people blithely ...

July 16, 2013

Honoring Trayvon Martin

Barack Obama's official response to the "not guilty" verdict in the trial of George Zimmerman was classic community organizer muckraking: present yourself as urging calm, but position yourself firmly on the side of the "victims of social injustice." ...

July 9, 2013

Obama Demands Peaceful Surrender to Brotherhood

Barack Obama's administration is the best American friend the global caliphate movement has ever had. Obama, a notorious backstabber of accomplices who have outlived their usefulness, is now demonstrating that he is capable of steadfast comradeship w...

July 3, 2013

The 'Privacy vs. Security' Canard

One of the standard claims of those who would defend "well-intentioned" police-state practices such as the NSA's universal secret monitoring of telephone and e-mail data is that the enhancement of "security" provided by these programs warrants the sa...

July 1, 2013

Obama's Court Marks Churches for Death

The American Catholic Church, along with any other religious institution that resists granting "equal status" to homosexuality, is about to be killed. If you doubt this, just wait and see. The death sentence has been issued and the U.S. Supreme Court...

June 21, 2013

The Perfect Progressive Candidate

You would think Britain's Guardian newspaper would be satisfied with having broken the NSA surveillance story, but apparently their ambitious editors have decided to keep up the pressure on their competitors.  Now comes this: It started as a ...

June 19, 2013

How Quaint: Big Brother Demands 'Privacy'

The other day, as usual, I began the day by checking for messages on the NSA notice board, aka my private e-mail account.  Imagine my delight when I discovered that I had received an official invite to Netroots Nation, the annual shindig for und...

June 18, 2013

How Democracies Perish, Deathbed Edition

This is the thirtieth anniversary of the publication of How Democracies Perish, an analysis of the spread of world communism by Jean-François Revel, one of freedom's most serious French defenders since Tocqueville. At the heart of this work, Revel de...

June 13, 2013

Barack Obama, Hell's Lightning Rod

The U.S. federal government now has the ability and the "legal authority" to collect electronic data regarding the daily activities and associations of every innocent person in the civilized world. This power, needless to say, is susceptible to total...

June 10, 2013

Guess Who's Coming to... Everything

The world is presently inundated with revelations or reminders of the U.S. federal government's various means of collecting information about everyone's private correspondence, of how bureaucratic offices sympathetic to the current administration are...

June 3, 2013

Kindergarten and the Kafkaesque

To follow up on the recent story about a five-year-old boy suspended for showing a cap gun to his friend on a school bus, Investor's Business Daily relates a charming collection of similar anecdotes regarding such child abuse at U.S. re-education cam...

May 30, 2013

Winning the Long War

Imagine trying to fight a war against an enemy led by ruthless tyrants, while granting that enemy authority to train your own military. After all, you reason, sending your soldiers to the enemy's training centers frees up your time and resources for ...

May 22, 2013

Dewey: Stalin's Propagandist, the World's Teacher

Joseph Stalin had been General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party for six years in 1928, when John Dewey, "the father of modern education," toured Russia with a group of educators. Later that year, The New Republic published Dewey's Impressions ...

May 15, 2013

Benghazi Reveals the Heart of Progressivism

In the first months after the Benghazi attack, the most urgent question, and one only rarely asked, was "What were Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton doing during the seven and a half hours between the initial emergency communications from Benghazi and...

May 7, 2013

The Soul Abstracted from Life

Modern civilization willingly consigns almost all of its children to the living hell of forced retardation. Everyone knows the educational establishment is beset with problems, corruptions, and the downward ratchet of lowest common denominator standa...

April 29, 2013

Reports of the Obama Presidency's Death Are Exaggerated

A tentative murmur of hopefulness among some American conservatives is threatening to explode into joyous optimism.  A few rough days for the Obama administration, combined with Obama's lame duck status, seem to have created an intoxicating elix...

April 22, 2013

The Great Surrender

Those who have been forcibly divested of their natural liberty by tyrants must be pitied. They have been coerced into accepting lies of security and state beneficence as paltry compensation for the loss of their birthright of a life worthy of human b...

April 12, 2013

Deifying the Dear Leader

For a clue as to what may be motivating the North Korean regime's recent provocations, one need look no further than Kim Jong-Un's American counterpart in the Dear Leader deification sweepstakes. Barack Obama is another man without meaningful accompl...

April 10, 2013

Where's the Progress in Progressivism?

As we know from the climate change farce, progressives are never deterred by reality's refusal to fall in line with the theories they use to justify their authoritarian advances.  This obstinacy reveals the extent to which, contrary to honest re...

April 3, 2013

Facing the Hardest Truth on Public Education

There are several major obstacles to overcome if there is to be any hope of saving civilization from the grip of the authoritarian pre-education camps we call "public schools."  The most stubborn obstacle of all, however, is perhaps the one embe...

April 1, 2013

Korea: A Case Study in Normalcy Bias

North Korea has nuclear weapons and leadership as ruthless, unpredictable, and unreasonable as any on Earth, and the bulk of her primary enemy's civilian population lives in a high concentration within spitting distance of the most militarized border...

March 27, 2013

Larry Grathwohl's Bringing Down America Re-Released

Larry Grathwohl, the FBI informer who spent a year with the Weathermen terrorist group, has remained a powerful witness to the subversive intentions of the communist radicals who sought to destroy America from within -- and who continue to work towar...

March 24, 2013

Does Progressivism Exist?

Can you prove that progressivism exists? We can all name some famous progressives. We know that progressivism is on the ascendancy, and that our response to the current push for a final progressive victory will largely determine the fate of humanity ...

March 22, 2013

Please Do Not Adjust Your Child

Of all the arguments public-school advocates have used to hoodwink generations of parents into condemning their own children to years of state-controlled subservience training, one of the most successful is that without public schools, children canno...

March 5, 2013

Dennis Rodman, Obama's Madeleine Albright

My Minnesota pals Guy Green and Tony Bauer recently included me in an e-mail exchange regarding Dennis Rodman's edition of the Jane Fonda Communist Workout featuring North Korea's new favorite son (of god), Kim Jong-Un.   This little incide...

March 4, 2013

Progressivism's Revenge

If the closest confidante and advisor to an extremely consequential American president had written a fantasy novel about a heroic social agitator with a plan to bring about a "benevolent" progressive dictatorship by instigating a brutal civil war, mi...

February 27, 2013

One Hundred Reasons to Abandon Public Education Now

In a recent article, I noted in passing that "there are a hundred compelling reasons for removing your children and grandchildren from the public schools, regardless of any practical or financial inconveniences this may cause you."  My choice of...

February 25, 2013

The Tyrant in Your Television

Like most of you, I was too busy looking for something else to do to listen to Barack Obama's State of the Union address.  I figured I could check out the president's unofficial blog, www.peoplesworld.org, for anything I had missed.  As it ...

February 21, 2013

The Endgame for the Destruction of the United States

See also Part One:  Total Destruction of the U.S.: An Interview with Larry Grathwohl and Part Two: American Education: Rotting the Country from the Inside In Part 1 of this interview with former FBI operative Larry Grathwohl, we addres...

February 20, 2013

American Education: Rotting the Country from the Inside

The day after Barack Obama's re-election, unrepentant terrorist-turned-"education reformer" Bill Ayers posted an open letter to the president on his blog, focused on educational matters.  Specifically, it was a straw man-filled plea to resist pr...

February 19, 2013

Total Destruction of the U.S.: An Interview with Larry Grathwohl

If your church's new pastor had a long and well-known history of atheism, contradicting church doctrine, or fire-bombing churches, would you trust him to serve the church community in good faith, and to do everything in his power to uphold the church...

February 12, 2013

Swallow Your Pride, Save Your Child

It is high time for parents who care about the future of their children, their community, and their civilization to stop telling themselves comforting lies about their power to combat the degradations of public education.  Believing that reason ...

February 9, 2013

Freedom of the Press (to Incite Murder)

Would you loudly accuse someone of being an anti-blue extremist if you knew there were deranged young men in the room with a history of killing people who criticize the color blue? Progressive media types around the world have spent years branding...

February 8, 2013

The Twisted Truth on Obama's Benghazi Response

According to Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, as reported at The Weekly Standard, President Obama was completely aloof from the events in Libya on September 11.  He neither asked nor ordered anything.  He did not respond to information sent ...

February 7, 2013

A Sleepy Compliance with Tyranny

The subversion of modern education, and hence of modern civilization, is grounded in carefully designed manipulations of language, a kind of conceptual hypnotism designed to lull an incautious population into sleepy compliance with tyranny. One of th...

February 1, 2013

Officer, Arrest That President!

President Obama has cast the widest possible net for criminality in the financial realm, a net that he might come to regret, as he himself falls easily within its coverage.  Indeed, according to the reasoning offered by this most famous presiden...

January 28, 2013

Hillary Gives Away the Game

Hillary Clinton's angry flip-out at Senator Ron Johnson during her Benghazi testimony was a charmed moment.  All at once, before the whole world, one of the highest ranking progressive authoritarians on the planet spilled the beans -- all of the...

January 25, 2013

The Logic of the Progressive Healthcare Death Cult

Let us not waste another breath responding to the mock outrage with which progressives react to accusations such as Sarah Palin's "death panel" remark. Whether ObamaCare's Independent Payment Advisory Board should correctly be described as a "death p...

January 22, 2013

Killing Conservative Talk Radio, One Market at a Time

"First they came for the local radio hosts...."  If you want a glimpse into the real, practical mechanisms whereby unprincipled political power diminishes and silences opposing voices, look not to the nationally-publicized attacks on Rush Limbau...

January 18, 2013

Obama Playing Chicken with American Men

The Obama administration's current warpath against so-called "gun violence" -- which is Newspeak for non-violence committed by non-criminals with their non-illegal private property -- is a brazen challenge to America's manhood. The progressives have ...

January 10, 2013

Tearing Down Public Education

On the subject of public schools, some conservatives and libertarians are inclined to speak as though they cannot wait another moment to spring into action -- and then act as though they need the hand of God to point the way ahead before they do what...

January 8, 2013

Good News: You May Be Spared Execution

Back in those quaint days when KGB-supported communist subversives planning to overthrow a republic had to meet in secret to discuss their operations, William Ayers and his chums reportedly opined that during the post-revolutionary period of normaliz...

January 7, 2013

Obama's Disarming Haste

According to the Washington Post's Philip Rucker, President Obama is committed to moving quickly on gun violence legislation. Reported as good news, in truth this carefully projected haste and urgency ought to be regarded -- and would be reported, by...

December 26, 2012

The Case Against Public Education

If public education is allowed to survive, all efforts to resuscitate the inert husk of modern civilization will fail.  It is time to unravel the most wasteful and destructive entitlement program of all.  Cancer cells do not divide into hea...

December 25, 2012

In Praise of the Carpenter's Son, a Teacher

One of the most remarkable episodes in the Gospels is John 20:11-16: But Mary was standing without at the tomb weeping: so, as she wept, she stooped and looked into the tomb; and she beholdeth two angels in white sitting, one at the head, and one at...

December 17, 2012

Hillary in Hiding

For once, I am inclined to believe Hillary Clinton. The U.S. Secretary of State, suffering from a sick stomach, has reportedly fainted and bumped her head. As a result, her spokespeople have already announced that she will be unable to testify at the...

December 14, 2012

Ending Progressive Public Education

See also: Educating Ignorance If Barack and Michelle Obama feel comfortable allowing Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn to babysit their children, that is their problem. The question is, would you allow them to babysit yours? Let's take that a step fart...

December 10, 2012

Obama and Slavery

Thomas Jefferson owned about six hundred slaves over the course of his life. That is to say, he was involved in denying individual sovereignty to six hundred people. Barack Obama, by comparison, wishes to deny individual sovereignty to over three hun...

December 3, 2012

Global Governance Begins on December 14

The International Telecommunications Union (ITU), an imprint of the UN, is holding its World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT) from December 3-14, 2012. The stated purpose of the WCIT is to update the UN's "global treaty" on telec...

November 30, 2012

Facing Up to the Enormity of Our Problem

There will be no short term solution to the problem now facing Western civilization in general, and America in particular.  Modern leftist authoritarians and their intellectual progenitors have created a special historical circumstance from whic...

November 26, 2012

'Shut Up, Grandpa'

Collectivists of the Washington establishment, representing both major parties, have analyzed the 2012 election results and come to a lovely conclusion: old white men are the problem. The only difference of opinion between the two factions regards ho...

November 19, 2012

GOP Establishment Seeks Its Inner Neville Chamberlain

We normally use the term "appeasement" to describe the sort of weakness in the face of despotic aggression that crosses a line separating mere ineptitude from the kind of eager passivity that is tantamount to surrender. Today's Republican Party estab...

November 18, 2012

Obama Appoints Class Warfare Czar to Save New York

Rahm Emanuel may have gone back to Chicago to manage the leftist thuggery farm team, but his spirit lives on in the Obama administration. Emanuel's famous dictum, "You never want a serious crisis to go to waste," is apparently informing Obama's handl...

November 12, 2012

America Votes to End Modern Civilization

Did you happen to catch the end of civilization on TV last week? The 2012 U.S. election will likely be judged by men thousands of years hence as a world historical event, on a par with the Peloponnesian War, the assassination of Julius Caesar, the C...

November 8, 2012

A Few Things I Never Want to Hear Again

Tired.  That is my overriding sensation as I write this.  How to bang one's first impressions of hell out on a keyboard?  Let us begin a new day, in a new world, with a first principle of sorts -- in this case, a negative principle....

November 6, 2012

The U.S. Election is a Referendum on Civilization

That the election of November 6, 2012, has the potential to be a definitive moment in American history is now almost a truism.   This conception may sound overblown to the ignorant and disengaged, but in fact it is a great understatement....

November 5, 2012

Obama: A Man Without a Conscience

For a long time, intrepid critics of Barack Obama have described him, accurately, as a pathological liar.  The Benghazi affair must force even the most circumspect among us to recognize that the problem is even more serious: the president of the...

October 31, 2012

Obama's Communist Cooperation Campaign Proceeds Apace

America's most prominent, dedicated communists support Barack Obama and are actively campaigning on his behalf.  If that sentence makes you uncomfortable, then you have two choices: continue reading and face your fear, or stop reading and get ba...

October 29, 2012

Would Obama Incite Civil Unrest to Win?

Is President Obama willing to incite civil unrest to win re-election?  As we have all been encouraged to wear our dog-whistle decoders these days, one can hardly be blamed for wondering.  Worse yet, we know the answer.  He is already d...

October 22, 2012

In Obama's World, There Is No You

President Obama inadvertently reveals his true post-Marxist colors at every turn, but perhaps nowhere more starkly than in his irresistible impulse to look Americans in the eye and say, "This isn't about you." What is sometimes (correctly) described ...

October 22, 2012

'Get the transcript'? Okay -- let's get it

In the second presidential debate, Barack Obama set a rhetorical trap for Mitt Romney regarding the Benghazi consulate attack. Romney, caught off-guard, stepped into the trap. Luckily, getting out of this trap will be as easy as calling Obama's bluff...

October 22, 2012

Here's the truth about Romney on GM: Obama lied

President Obama's attack, during the final debate, on Mitt Romney's critique of the auto industry bailout was 100% false, i.e., a bald-faced lie. When Romney said, during the debate, that in 2008 he favored a managed bankruptcy for Detroit's auto mak...

October 18, 2012

Benghazi: Emperor Obama's Waterloo?

It is now obvious that the U.S. government's original story about the Benghazi consulate attack, delivered by its two heaviest hitters, the president and secretary of state, was false, and, more importantly, that it was intended to deceive.  How...

October 16, 2012

Obama Declared Winner of Second Debate (No Matter What)

President Obama will "win" tonight's debate, completely obliterating the memory of the first debate.  And this will be true even if President Obama is completely humiliated in tonight's debate. President Obama was so thoroughly trounced in the f...

October 13, 2012

No More 'Reaching across the Aisle,' Please

About two thirds of the way through the vice presidential debate, I turned it off in disgust and walked away.  My blood pressure just wasn't worth it anymore. My anger was two-sided.  One side, naturally, was revulsion at the Biden-Raddatz ...

October 12, 2012

Should Obama Win if He Creates Jobs?

One unintended danger of the Romney campaign's focus on the worthy goal of job-creation is that such a focus can obscure more fundamental matters of principle. Specifically, it permits the detachment of job numbers from underlying moral issues to the...

October 9, 2012

Time to Demythologize the Authoritarian Impulse

The will to dominate others is as old as history, and as endless.  When the Berlin Wall came down, many in the West deluded themselves to the effect that history had reached its conclusion.  A kind of Berlin Wall of the psyche went up, conf...

September 25, 2012

The Persuasive Force of an Avalanche

Preaching to the choir, which has spiritual value as an expression of camaraderie, must temporarily take a back seat to the urgent task of persuading the hitherto disengaged.  For while there is a large portion of the American electorate that se...

September 23, 2012

Reefer Madness (Climate Change Edition)

A new study by climate researchers from Germany, Australia, and Canada seems to prove beyond any doubt that -- hold on to your hat -- if global temperatures reach levels at which coral reefs are damaged, then coral reefs will be damaged.  Terrif...

September 22, 2012

Watch That Last Step, It's a Doozy

As any mature radical will tell you, the great advantage of a gradual unraveling, as opposed to the more colorful sudden insurrection, is that in the latter case, everyone knows what is happening and, if so inclined, may resist, whereas the former me...

September 20, 2012

A Tale of Two Secret Videos

The media's extensive and exaggerated coverage of the "secret video" of Mitt Romney speaking to supporters about the culture of dependency ought to remind us of another "secret video" that was not so widely covered.  This other video is not secr...

September 16, 2012

Obama Continues Pleading for 'Mursi'

Barack Obama, delivering a carefully designed message, has said of Egypt's new government under President Mohamed Mursi that, "I don't think that we would consider them an ally, but we don't consider them an enemy."  Matching this pseudo-tough g...

September 15, 2012

Romney Gets It Right: It Was 'Disgraceful'

The accusation, delivered forcefully by the Obama campaign and gently by John Sununu., that Mitt Romney was being untowardly political when he stepped forward to call the Obama administration's response to the Libyan embassy attack "disgraceful" perf...

September 10, 2012

Obama's Communist Party Endorsement

Painful as it may be, please take two minutes out of your life to peruse the following list of "accomplishments" touted by an Obama campaign website making its case for his re-election. The huge voter surge in 2008 elected Barack Obama, the first Af...

September 7, 2012

The Democrats' Dog Whistle Slogan

Given the left's propensity for calculated projection, and amid all their talk of conservative code words and "dog whistles," perhaps we ought to take a good look at the use of coded language at the Democratic National Convention.  For while the...

September 7, 2012

God, Jerusalem, and the Daffy Dems

So the Democrats have, against the clear vote of their convention delegates, reinserted language related to God and Jerusalem into their platform.  As Governor Strickland, who brought this fraudulent motion, informs us, this about face was insti...

August 31, 2012

Evil Right-Wingers Turn to Family, Not Government

Campaigning at Capital University in Columbus, Ohio last week, President Obama raised quite eloquently -- okay, succinctly -- the question of where one should turn for help in pursuing one's happiness.  The answer: government, "applause"; family...

August 30, 2012

The Last Line of Defense: Property

"Property is theft."  Proudhon's classic anarchist paradox is more than a catchy slogan for international leftism.  It encapsulates a complete and comprehensively absurd view of humanity -- one which finds its contemporary apotheosis in Pre...

August 24, 2012

Debate Questions Obama Won't Be Asked

If you could submit just one question to be asked of President Obama during a televised presidential debate, what would it be?  Once you have formulated your best idea, ask yourself this: do you think any of this year's line-up of debate hosts a...

August 16, 2012

Obama's Shared Prosperity: A Euphemism Wrapped in a Lie

(See also: "From the Giving Pledge to Totalitarianism") Those who believed, in 2008, that Obama's off-the-cuff "spread the wealth around" line was indicative of his real, socialistic intentions, rather than simply a poor word choice, can now relax....

August 13, 2012

Paul Ryan Naysayers: Whom Were They Hoping For?

The GOP has so damaged its reputation with conservatives that even a rare reasonable decision is met with a measure of cynicism from some quarters.  Beneath the inevitable immediate wave of enthusiasm for the choice of Paul Ryan as Mitt Romney's...

August 3, 2012

Conservatives Have a Secret

Can conservatives be revolutionaries?  Given the level of crisis into which civilization has fallen, and that the unfolding disaster is the result of what is now called "liberalism," it behoves us to ask whether the only serious countervailing f...

July 23, 2012

'Gentlemen's Club' Gangs Up on Bachmann

The latest skirmish in the growing war within the GOP began when John McCain took to the Senate floor last week to lecture Michele Bachmann and other GOP Representatives about their letters to various federal officials regarding Muslim Brotherhood in...

July 22, 2012

Using the Brian Ross Method of Investigative Reporting

In a brlliant example of hard-nosed journalistic method (mainstream media version), ABC's Brian Ross, in the early moments of coverage of the mass murder in a Colorado movie theater, found clear evidence that the gunman was a member of a local Tea Pa...

July 19, 2012

Infantilizing Leftist Morality

Among the various ways that modern leftism benefits from its systematic promotion of infantilism is that perpetual children lack the basic courage that is essential to the maintenance of liberty.  A courageous adult will not trade his freedom, l...

July 9, 2012

The Gathering Storm within the GOP

Though all conservative hands must be on deck for Mitt Romney between now and November 6, there is little doubt that from that day forward, America will witness the final foundation-shaking battle in a long war -- namely, a fight for the heart of the...

July 1, 2012

Still Struggling with the Roberts-as-Hero Theory

I've tried -- I really have tried -- to accept the kindest reading of Chief Justice Roberts' decision and opinion on ObamaCare.  But, so far at least, I just can't bring myself to see the positive here, let alone evidence that Roberts has outsma...

June 29, 2012

America Fades, the World Gets Darker

The Supreme Court's outrageous activism in reframing the government's defense of ObamaCare in order to save it dimmed a little further the flame that has long stood as the world's only original source of illumination.  While the loudest voices f...

June 27, 2012

Time to Start the Real Health Care Debate

Supreme Court subtleties notwithstanding, conservatives must find a way to refocus the health care debate on two questions that constitute the true rock-bottom essence of the issue: (1) Do you own your own body? and (2) Do you own your neighbor's sou...

June 26, 2012

Prediction: Global Warming Will Cause Everything

The following news headline appeared on the internet last week: "Scientists warn global warming will fuel spread of ticks that carry Lyme disease." The corresponding article begins this way: Another effect of climate change may be crawling up your l...

June 22, 2012

The Unknown Ayers and Obama Convergence

Like a master criminal irresistibly drawn to the scene of his crime, it appears that Bill Ayers -- Marxist, terrorist, educator -- was in attendance when Barack Obama cast his "historic" vote in the 2008 presidential election.  Not only was he p...

June 15, 2012

Perpetual Peace: Accepting the Yoke Without a Struggle

The Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP) has released its 2012 Global Peace Index (GPI), and Americans can breathe a sigh of relief: the U.S. has once again avoided dropping below China in "peacefulness."  To be precise, America is now the 88...

June 7, 2012

America: The Home of the...Compliant?

If you want a quick measure of the state of American society, you might consider the federal government's use of unmanned aerial drones to monitor U.S. citizens, and in particular the EPA's matter-of-fact defense of its use of drones over the Midwest...

June 3, 2012

Obama Administration Combats Racist Air

See also: EPA's Unethical Air Pollution Experiments The Obama Administration has identified the latest front in its tireless war against America's systemic injustice: asthma.  A new report, succinctly titled the "Coordinated Federal Action Pla...

May 31, 2012

Academic Tenure, or Trickle-Down Entitlement Theory

Those who wonder how the modern university could have become so fundamentally disdainful of political liberty should consider that the entitlement mentality that is destroying Western civilization began in academia.  Academic tenure is the origi...

May 28, 2012

Obama's Sons: They Are Real for Him

Much has been said, here at American Thinker and elsewhere, about Barack Obama's recent pair of teleprompted references to his (presumably) non-existent sons.  Thomas Lifson toys with the notion that Obama might in fact have secret sons, as a wa...

May 19, 2012

The Vanishing Feeling of Freedom

The primary reason why it is so difficult to defend political liberty today is because freedom is a rational construct, and thus cannot be understood by the irrational.  Children, or adults whose moral reasoning skills are stalled at childish le...

May 19, 2012

Obama Was Born in Hawaii Before He Was Born in Kenya

Thomas Lifson has already made the definitive statement (here) as to the absurdity of the claim that a literary agent's brochure listed Barack Obama's birthplace as Kenya -- for sixteen years -- due to a "fact checking error" by bio editor Miriam God...

May 16, 2012

Globally Warmed Over: Hatred Unmasked at Last

Aspiring apparatchiks of the coming world dictatorship, tiring of the hopeless race against facts in their anti-industrial carbon dioxide hoax, have finally given up the pretense of science in favor of pure, old-fashioned doomsday preaching.  Ha...

May 4, 2012

America's Historic Cokehead President

Does it bother you that the most powerful man on the planet was a longtime drug user?  Does it bother you that he has attempted to use his drug abuse to gain credibility with young Americans?  Does it bother you that his acknowledgment of h...

April 29, 2012

Conservative Third-Party Dreams and Realities

Tea Partiers and other constitutionally minded Americans for whom "Anyone but Obama" rings hollow, and who still harbor hopes of a third-party challenge to the GOP establishment, may find food for thought in a living example of such a conservative ch...

April 25, 2012

The Death Panel's Loving Embrace

The House Republicans' vote to repeal ObamaCare's Independent Payment Advisory Board played nicely into the Democrats' health care shell game by implying that the law's "death panel" provision is a detachable appendage, when in truth death panels are...

April 21, 2012

Allan Bloom: Remembering the Teacher

Allan Bloom was a great teacher.  A great teacher is a man whose manner of framing the important questions continues to inform his students' thoughts long after they have left the teacher behind.  A great teacher's lasting impression is not...

April 12, 2012

Race, IQ, and Derbyshire's Kids

The recent hornet's nest disturbed by John Derbyshire's article, "The Talk: Nonblack Version," has occasioned a flurry of commentary.  Little of it, however, is related to the one part of the article that ought to be controversial among conserva...

April 9, 2012

U.N. Report: Happiness Is...World Socialism

According to the United Nations' new "World Happiness Report," European socialism is the road to well-being, and it ought to be imposed on all mankind.  The 150-page report uses that special brand of question-begging statistical analysis that le...

March 31, 2012

On Restoring American Individualism

Much of the political crisis facing America today stems from a disintegration of the ethical basis of the free society.  That is why the core of the 2012 election fight is not tax rates, job growth, or the national debt.  These issues, thou...

March 30, 2012

Don't Get Drunk at the Individual Mandate Victory Party

The individual mandate is merely the left's latest instrument in the effort to undermine liberty through health care; it is not the primary target.  The Supreme Court's decision regarding ObamaCare's individual mandate will be extraordinari...

March 22, 2012

Revisiting the Guy in Obama's Neighborhood

The relationship between William Ayers and President Obama is back in the news again.  American conservatives are toying with the idea of renewing their quixotic mission of shattering the dream world of the sixty percent of the population that r...

January 9, 2012

Where There's a Will...

George Will greeted 2012 with an upbeat look into the future of American conservatism.  The heart of his thesis, namely that if American conservatives would just overcome their obsession with the presidency, they would see plenty of reasons for ...

December 29, 2011

How to Break a Camel's Back

Desirable as defeating President Obama is, the calamity awaiting America just a few paces further along its current path makes mere electoral victory inadequate.  It is necessary that such victory be coupled with a greater triumph over an oppone...

December 24, 2011

How Polls Poison the Well of Citizenship

George Washington, in his farewell address, pleads with Americans to pay heed to the indispensability of what he calls "enlightened public opinion" to the survival of a free republic.  The enlightenment in question is explicitly moral in nature....

December 19, 2011

Ron Paul's Foreign Policy Exposed

Much has been said against Ron Paul's foreign policy.  He has been accused of anti-Semitism, of living in a pre-technological past, and of using moral equivalency arguments to critique America's unwillingness to "mind its own business," in effec...

December 16, 2011

How Bachmann Can Defeat Obama

In a perfect instantiation of green conservatism, the Gingrich campaign has been fuelling a bandwagon entirely on Newt's hot air.  It is nearly midnight, however, and therefore almost time for that bandwagon to turn back into a pumpkin (or rathe...

December 12, 2011

Gingrich's Citizenship Problem

After the November 22 Republican debate in Washington, D.C., many conservatives took issue with Newt Gingrich's proposal to establish a system of local boards of review to assess the cases of illegal immigrants who have lived in the United States for...

December 10, 2011

Turning Off Reality TV Politics

When Donald Trump pretended he was going to run for President last spring, conservatives who understand what the 2012 election means rightly chose either to ignore him or to deride him as a publicity-seeking distraction.  Now, at this pivotal mo...

December 5, 2011

Newt Gains Two More 'Endorsements'

Newt Gingrich's "incredible surge" in the Republican primaries continues to gather new backers, as two more influential Washington insiders throw their weight behind the former speaker: Newt Gingrich and Mr. Perfect. On the evening of December 1, the...

December 2, 2011

Ron Paul: Why Not?

How can Ron Paul, who counts among his supporters a sizable group of people who hope that his first act as president will be to reveal that the 9/11 attacks were an inside job, continue to draw significant poll numbers among Republican primary voters...