November 11, 2024

Elon Musk's Kodak moment

Years ago, Kodak, a long-forgotten company that was once the superpower of photographic film, came up with a brilliant marketing phrase: “The Kodak Moment.” There are very few marketing phrases that withstand the test of time. “The ...

January 21, 2024

How mechanics saves us from overreaching government

There is widespread belief that many countries are on an irreversible path to arbitrary governmental power.  No single “can’t-miss save-the-country” magic bullet exists, people might think, to save us from this fate. Bu...

June 24, 2022

Global warmists lie, phantom people die

In a system of freedom, the government works for the people. A fundamental responsibility of government, the employee of the people, is to not lie to the public. In the private sector, an employee would not last long if he was found to be lying to hi...

April 16, 2022

The warmists' real agenda

In the Monty Python sketch "The Parrot," a customer returns a parrot he had bought just 30 minutes before.  Why?  Because it is dead.  The shopkeeper insists that the parrot is not dead, but resting. ...

February 8, 2022

Rules of law

The rule of law is a central feature in any constitutional republic.  It means that society is run by laws and not by whims or fads.  It means that all citizens are treated equally, without exception.  Rich or poor, blac...

January 29, 2022

Consent of the governed

Benjamin Franklin had this to say about the American Constitution: This is likely to be well administered for a number of years and can only end in despotism, as other forms have done before it, when the people shall become so corrupted as to ne...

October 12, 2020

Stopping the left from turning America into Venezuela

Roughly 40 percent of Americans have a favorable or somewhat favorable view of socialism.  In real numbers, that translates to 100 million voting-age citizens.  How can so many people want something that is in their own worst inte...

June 10, 2020

The rule of law

The Rule of Law has been a much discussed topic in the pandemic year of 2020.  During the attempted Trump impeachment, every Democrat ended his diatribe against the president with the words, "no one is above the law." Adam Schi...

March 7, 2019

Can America become socialist?

With the rise of socialists in the Democratic Party, the hot topic of discussion is, "Can America become socialist?"  Thomas Sowell, in a recent interview on Fox Business said: "I do have a great fear, that in ...

September 13, 2018

A zero-sum game

Over 250 years ago, Benjamin Franklin described our modern welfare system: In my youth I traveled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of ...

July 24, 2018

The battle lines are drawn: Limited vs. unlimited government

The divisions within the United States are growing. Simply stated, half the people want unlimited government, and half want limited government.  Almost all, on both sides of the divide, say our country is about freedom.  Both side...

March 2, 2018

How to destroy the United States: Ditch the rule of law

The United States is about freedom.  Central to any system of freedom is the "rule of law" – the principle under which all persons, institutions, and entities are accountable to laws that are: Publicly promulgated, E...

May 23, 2017

Obama's new biographer and me

David Garrow in his new book, Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama, mentions me and the website American Thinker in footnote 7 of chapter 2.  He writes, "[I]n a publication that always must be read with the greatest possible caution, [se...

August 11, 2014

Abercrombie gets his Comeuppance

As the first to expose the numerous prevarications Neal Abercrombie told about his relationship with our president’s mother and father,  I can’t help but feel a sense of schadenfreude after his loss in the Hawaiian Democrat primary f...

October 14, 2013

The Founders vs. ObamaCare

The Founding Fathers would not be condemning House Republicans for their effort to defund ObamaCare. They would be applauding them. On the subject of who authorizes spending, the Constitution could not be more clear. According to Article 1, Section. ...

July 25, 2013

How Detroit Almost Killed My Business

See also: Schadenfreude, Michigan, and Mitt's Big Fumble Of all the depressing facts about the once great City of Detroit, this to me is the most upsetting:  In 1950, there were about 296,000 manufacturing jobs in Detroit.  Today,...

February 1, 2013

Missing Bill and Hillary Footage

In Jack Cashill's recent article, "Hillary's First Big Lie," he asked, "...just when it was that public integrity ceased to matter." He pinned the date to an interview Bill and Hillary Clinton gave to 60 Minutes on January 26, 1992. This made me thin...

November 6, 2012

The Real Conspiracy

The Mother Jones website lists 45 conspiracy theories about Barack Obama.  The researchers, Asawin Suebsaeng and David Gilson, constructed a graphic titled "The Obama Conspiracy-o-rama."  They classified the theories as "bizarro, paranoid, ...

October 30, 2012

Just When Was Obama Born?

It is beyond any reasonable doubt that Neil Abercrombie, Governor of Hawaii, and Ann Dunham's girlfriends, Susan Blake and Maxine Box, have been telling falsehoods about the President's origins.  It is also beyond any reasonable doubt that there...

October 18, 2012

Obama can't bring himself to use the word 'terrorist'

During the second debate President Obama talked briefly about the debacle in Benghazi.  He used the term "folks" to refer to three different groups of people: "And I am ultimately responsible for what's taking place there because these are my f...

October 4, 2012

We Have Been Duped: The Story

The American people have been duped.  We are victims of an organized campaign to give legitimacy to a fable.  The fable concerns Barack Obama's origins -- the "improbable love" his parents shared.  This fable proved so captivating that...

July 16, 2012

Dreams from Governor Abercrombie

Ben Smith of Buzzfeed, when reviewing David Maraniss' new book Barack Obama: The Story, "counted 38 instances in which the biographer convincingly disputes significant elements of Obama's own story of his life and his family history." The corrected f...

July 11, 2012

What David Maraniss Left Out of The Story

In his book, Barack Obama: The Story, David Maraniss is remarkably detailed about things that have nothing to do with The Story (Betty Davis' opinion of a film, how a letter was handled in Kenya, what President Johnson said to Bill Moyers) but is ine...

June 16, 2012

It's Possible

When I discuss the anomalies surrounding the president's origins, my friends often counter with the standard reply "It's possible."  As in the last scene of the classic comedy Some Like It Hot, regardless of what Daphne (Jack Lemmon) says to Osg...

November 14, 2011

Obama Got it Wrong, Michelle Got it Right

After my article "The Case Against Barack Obama, Sr." appeared on American Thinker (Nov. 7th), I have been asked many times, "How is it possible that all of the researchers who have written about Obama, Sr., have gotten his date of birth wrong?"...

November 7, 2011

The Case Against Barack Obama, Sr.

It is widely held that Barack Obama, Sr., goat herder from Kenya, is the father of President Obama.  We now know that this contention is probably false. In Obama's autobiography, Dreams from My Father, he identifies Barack Obama, Sr. as his fath...

April 19, 2011

Why Obama Was Not Born in Kenya

With Donald Trump's headline-grabbing call for our President to release his birth certificate, more and more people are discussing the circumstances of Obama's birth.  Although it seems likely that Obama is hiding something -- the date of birth,...