December 31, 2022

What the death of a pope means for Americans

The pope has died...sort of. The passing of Joseph Ratzinger, once (and still, kind of) known as Pope (Emeritus?) Benedict XVI, has many commentators setting fingers to keyboards.  The abundance of parentheses in this paragraph can hint ...

May 28, 2022

The worst thing a child can learn about his mother

Yesterday, Olivia Murray covered a disturbing TikTok video in which a woman sings to her newborn, "I could have killed you, but I chose to let you live."  There are the obvious reasons to gag at a sentiment like that, and Olivia t...

April 4, 2021

Politicians can't stop you from celebrating Easter

It's a year ago now that Donald Trump, then president of the United States, mused about how wonderful it would be if the country opened up again by Easter.  It didn't. Although some states have taken a few steps in that direction...

December 16, 2020

Put all kids on puberty-blockers? Transgender activist challenges conservatives

There was an uproar online this week after a man who calls himself "Zinnia Jones" and demands that everyone consider him a female wrote a few tweets regarding minors taking drugs to make themselves somewhat ape the opposite sex. Jones wr...

October 12, 2019

Liberals fear for Poland's democracy if Poles don't vote gay enough Sunday

The AP is breathless over the upcoming Sunday elections in Poland, casting the event as "a choice between democracy and authoritarianism."  Authors Vanessa Gera and Monika Scislowska evince their terror of the popular Law and Just...

June 11, 2019

Vatican's new education guidelines condemn transgender propaganda for children

Call it the one social issue the Vatican is still willing to stand strong on. Crux reports that Rome released a new set of guidelines on June 10 regarding Catholic education, called "Male and Female He Created Them."  The big t...

June 1, 2019

Man places 390th in men's hurdles, calls himself female, snatches women's NCAA national title

When normal people thinking normal thoughts read that a man named Craig Tefler "took home the women's 400-meter hurdles national title" at the 2019 National Collegiate Athletic Association Division II Outdoor Track & Field Champions...

May 20, 2019

Jim Carrey: If only we could have murdered Kay Ivey when she was just a baby

Hollywood has-been Jim Carrey has moved from rabidly opposing guns, which kill guilty people at least sometimes, to rabidly supporting abortion, which kills only innocent people. His latest contribution to the national debate is a cartoon of an un...

May 16, 2019

Liberal stupidity on sex flares up again in abortion arguments

Nowhere are liberal self-absorption and cluelessness more apparent than in matters of sex.  Two recent examples prove the point. First, there's Hollywood actress Alyssa Milano, of #MeToo fifteen minutes of fame, who is so incensed by...

May 16, 2019

Nevada Democrats double down on death, shooting for 'abortion free-for-all' status

Nevada is the latest state to beat its chest defending people's right to kill their children.  The Legislature in the Sagebrush State is preparing to vote on S.B. 179, which would make abortion easier, more convenient, and less legally ...

May 15, 2019

PBS cartoon Arthur pushes homosexuality, redefines marriage for 8-year-olds

The Public Broadcasting System — the one American taxpayers fund, whether they like it or not — aired a new episode of the long-running kids' cartoon Arthur in which an elementary school teacher reveals himself as a homosexual by walk...

January 5, 2019

Trump: Heck, maybe I'll just call a national emergency to fund the wall

In a press conference yesterday, President Trump tossed out two tasty nuggets regarding the ongoing government kinda-sorta shutdown and the border wall. One: After a closed-door meeting between the president and Democrat higher-ups, Senate minorit...

December 27, 2018

Apple kills app for politely suggesting alternatives to homosexuality

As the saying goes, "there's an app for that" – unless you're trying to get away from abhorrent sins of the flesh. An organization called Living Hope Ministries ran afoul of Apple – or rather, ran afoul of about 350 s...

June 26, 2018

Remembering Charles Krauthammer right

Last week, I had occasion to be in the same room as a television showing various Fox News late-night hosts' reactions to the death of Charles Krauthammer.  I watched Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, and their associated guests praise the...

July 27, 2017

Trump: Certain insane people can no longer serve in the military

President Trump announced Wednesday that the "United States Government will not accept or allow [t]ransgender [sic] individuals to serve in any capacity in the U.S. Military."  The announcement came via Twitter (tweets available at the...

July 24, 2017

Transgenderism and the Reformation: How Martin Luther Blew It

It's not every day – ideally, it's not any day – that an American Thinker contributor argues in favor of transgenderism.  To my dismay, Ryan Walters did just that yesterday in an unfortunate article (here) lionizing Mart...

May 26, 2017

What the heck happened with Greg Gianforte and that 'body slam'?

Looks as though Greg Gianforte won his special election in Montana yesterday, and handily.  But what's overshadowing the Republican's victory is the story about him "body-slamming" a reporter who's alleged to have gotten in...

February 6, 2017

DC post-Trump: Local woman goes nuts at memorial to aborted babies

More than a few commentators are noticing that lately, the left has been its own worst enemy.  Nowhere is this more apparent than in the abortion wars.  Here's a practical example playing out right now, in real time. The George Washi...

January 22, 2017

'Women's March' ladies: Lose the 'pussy hats,' try an apron instead

A few hundred thousand "pussy hats" descend on the Capitol, screaming, Pay for my birth control, and our liberal betters in the media can't get enough.  Pro-lifers in their hundreds of thousands attending the March for Life on Frid...

November 24, 2015

A note on equating the Crusades with ISIS: Don't.

Yesterday on these pages, Barry Shaw ruined a perfectly good treatment of Islamic terrorism with a dollop of vicious anti-Catholicism. Referring to Islam's campaign against the infidel, Shaw wrote: It is their version of the Christian/Cat...

February 23, 2015

Scott Walker a terrifying Christian, apparently

The New York Times has a bone to pick with Scott Walker's consistency on abortion: DES MOINES — It was a memorable political ad: Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin spoke directly into the camera in a 30-second spot last fall and calle...

February 5, 2015

Abortion versus the States

With the 2015 March for Life two weeks behind us, states across the country are debating and voting on bills related to life issues.  From "telemed" abortions to parental notification and consent, U.S. legislatures continue to defy the...

February 4, 2015

New scientific review: Plan B causes abortions

The authors of the review, featured in The Linacre Quarterly, put it lightly when they say in the abstract that "[t]here has been much debate" regarding whether so-called emergency contraceptives actually work by destroying a newly conceive...

February 3, 2015

Jindal executive order slams Common Core in Louisiana

Louisiana governor and assumed presidential hopeful Bobby Jindal dealt a blow to Common Core administrators in his state this past Friday. Jindal's executive order gives quarter to a wave of Louisiana parents opting their children out of the u...

January 29, 2015

AG nominee Lynch: pro-death penalty, anti-marijuana?

An interesting tidbit buried fourteen paragraphs into this New York Times story: On matters of policy, Ms. Lynch [pictured] called capital punishment "an effective penalty" and said she disagreed with Mr. Obama's statements that ma...

January 27, 2015

Fannie Mae to bulldoze the Washington Post

Fannie Mae, who along with Freddie Mac became infamous in conjunction with the subprime mortgage crisis in 2008, is seeking out a new home.  And what better place, the government-animated mortgage giant figures, than the headquarters of the Wash...

January 24, 2015

Dueling NY Times writers: Are whites racist, or really racist?

A New York Times writer has shown his dexterity at walking the "acceptable racism" tightrope.  Lesson learned (again): as long as you tar the right race, the NYT won't fire or even reprimand you. The Daily Caller notes some reve...

January 23, 2015

March for Life 2015: Love and Wrath Both Burning

The March for Life takes place as always on January 22, a Thursday in 2015.  I arrive around eleven, about an hour before the big rally begins, to check out the media tent and do some interviews.  The National Mall is already stuf...

January 22, 2015

House Republicans pull 20-week abortion ban vote over rape exception

Tuesday: "House leaders sticking with abortion bill despite defections."  Last night: "House pulls vote on 20-week abortion ban." Republicans had hoped to court conservative constituents with a strong pro-life showing toda...

January 14, 2015

Revealed: Md. government colluded with abortion lobbyist NARAL

A Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request reveals it: officials in Montgomery County (Mo Co), Maryland collaborated with activists from rabidly pro-abortion NARAL to shut down a pro-life pregnancy resource center in the county. Daniel Smyth cove...

January 13, 2015

Republican Congress moves to defund Planned Parenthood

America's biggest abortion corporation has so many tendrils in We the People's paychecks that it's hard to determine all the steps necessary to uproot it.  But that is not stopping the new Congress from moving to end public funding o...

January 12, 2015

AZ town to SCOTUS: We can regulate speech for 'aesthetics'

An Arizona pastor is looking to the U.S. Supreme Court for government impartiality between church and state. The case is Reed v. Town of Gilbert.  Pastor Clyde Reed contends that the local government is slamming his Good News Community Church...

January 9, 2015

Pro-life group unveils new healing initiative for victims of abortion fallout

It's not just a child and a mother who are devastated by abortion. Priests for Life and the Silent No More Awareness Campaign yesterday held a press conference at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. announcing the unveiling of "He...

January 8, 2015

Young Americans extra-miserable under Obama

Buyer's remorse among America's Obama-supporting youth?  One would hope so. Young America's Foundation released its latest Youth Misery Index – a compilation of what the organization considers the three most important statis...

January 3, 2015

Avoiding <em>America's Suicide</em>

One needs courage to take on the challenge of reviewing a book like Michael H. Davison's America's Suicide (Dapa Publishing, 2014).  Many such volumes fill bookstores every year, with a few remnants from each crop to gather dust for unto...

January 2, 2015

The Hill really wants a liberal pope

The Hill's Kevin Cirilli reported on Tuesday that "Pope Francis is increasingly driving a wedge between the GOP and the Catholic Church" – but has "sparked new enthusiasm around the world for the church [sic]."  It ...

December 24, 2014

New Liberal Christmas Tradition: Mary Was Raped

Valerie Tarico wrote an article at Alternet, republished at Salon, that should get her a lot of invites to ironically themed liberal Christmas parties.  The title: "Why rape is so intrinsic to religion." Tarico lays out a series of ...

December 20, 2014

Explosive 'I'll ride with you' hashtag based on a hoax

Ben Shapiro at Truth Revolt notes another liberal "lies are fine, as long as they start a conversation" moment, this time in Australia. As the story went, in the aftermath of the Muslim terror attack in Sydney, former political candidate...

December 18, 2014

Muslim terrorists kill 33, kidnap over 100 in Nigeria

The BBC reports that 33 people were killed and one hundred kidnapped in Gumsuri village, near the town of Maiduguri, in eastern Nigeria.  A survivor told the BBC that Boko Haram, a Muslim terrorist faction whose name translates to "Western ...

December 18, 2014

Pope Francis 'key' in U.S.-Cuba relations

Multiple news outlets are reporting that Pope Francis had a direct role in the United States' re-establishing diplomatic relations with Cuba. A statement from the Vatican, quoted here in full, elaborates: The Holy Father wishes to express...

December 15, 2014

Fetal surgery gives the lie to 'clump of cells' talking point

The Daily Signal has an in-depth article today on doctors' controversial efforts to perform successful surgeries on babies.  Of course, no one would ever find such a story controversial if it didn't center on babies who have not been bor...

December 13, 2014

Race-baiting mom quartet: Our sons would still be alive if they were white

Last night, CNN's Anderson Cooper interviewed the mothers of Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Trayvon Martin, and Tamir Rice – all black males killed by white police, or by a "white Hispanic" neighborhood watchman.  (Clips are ava...

December 12, 2014

Paul Revere's time capsule discovered in Boston

It may not be not dinosaur bones, but it's not bad. Boston construction workers yesterday discovered a time capsule under the Massachusetts State House's Golden Dome.  According to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, which took over liber...

December 12, 2014

PHOTOS: Live Nativity Scene (with Camels) Storms Supreme Court

There may be no room at the inn for the newborn Christ child, but is there room for free speech at the United States' highest court? Around noon on Thursday, an elaborate Nativity scene featuring live actors – the Holy Family, the Wise M...

December 10, 2014

Four Hours in Obamacare Hell: Gruber vs. Gowdy, and Other Highlights

American Thinker watched and live-tweeted Tuesday's House Oversight and Government Reform hearing – all four hours of it. Led by outgoing chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), the hearing featured MIT professor and Obamacare architect Jonath...

December 8, 2014

Gruesomely killing your children now an art form

No, this is not an abortion story; those tend to fall flat. Instead, renowned political endorser and bizarre sex tip promulgator Cosmopolitan elected last week (link here) to show us the true function of art: to serve as a vehicle for fantasizing ...

December 4, 2014

Crowder: Abortion of 'special needs' children 'a holocaust'

A touching video by Steven Crowder came out this week.  The comedian and Fox News contributor goes into his experiences volunteering at a center for the mentally handicapped. You may need a box of tissues, depending on how your day is going: ...

December 3, 2014

How to Argue 'Gay Rights' like an Idiot

Here's what Twitter has in common with the pools at the Jersey shore hotels I stayed at throughout my childhood: "Life guard off duty.  Swim at your own risk."  I got a hard lesson in this maxim yesterday, when I engaged with ...

November 29, 2014

Possible 'ammunition' against Obama's amnesty riles some Republicans

Republicans eager to see the "power of the purse" strategy go away on Obama's executive amnesty got a shock from the Congressional Research Service this week. Eric Pianin at the Fiscal Times lays out the background: according to Hous...

November 25, 2014

Media an unbridled disgrace on Ferguson decision

NBC News interrupted State of Affairs last night with an urgent update, featuring Brian Williams's very concerned-looking face.  The Grand Jury in Ferguson, Williams "reported," "has failed to come up with an indictment" ...

November 24, 2014

Libs aim to destroy the Duggars; America responds

Last week, transgender activists tried to get the popular TV show 19 Kids and Counting canned.  The movement, accustomed to capitulation, may not have expected a conservative counter-petition to overcome its Change.org push. The flap original...

November 21, 2014

In defense of government shutdowns

One of the resonant arguments in favor of capital punishment is actually a meta-argument: it's not so much the exercise of the death penalty that matters, but rather the option to exercise it.  People are less likely to behave in a way they ...

November 20, 2014

New York to launch taxpayer-funded 'shame campaign' against guys who sit wrong

Tell a woman to keep her legs closed, and you get a Slut Walk marching through your town.  Tell a man to keep his legs closed, and you're now a feminist hero in New York. Yesterday, TIME Magazine published an article bemoaning some men...

November 19, 2014

Can You Spare $250 for Raging Liberalism?

Monday night, I had just started my car to drive to evening Mass when my phone rang.  I saw the New York number, with its two-one-two area code, and grimaced.  Here was the New York University alumni department, whom I'd been assiduousl...

November 17, 2014

Noticing a woman's style now sexism...even if you're a woman

Hot on the high heels of the New York woman who got one hundred catcalls in ten hours, an Australian newscaster is doing his part to expose the rampant, evil, and also rampant sexism in the Western world. ...Maybe. Via the Sydney Morning Herald...

November 27, 2013

Obama to Vatican Embassy: Move In with Italy

The National Catholic Reporter has the story: according to senior correspondent John L. Allen, the United States intends to uproot its embassy to the Vatican and move it to the same compound that houses the U.S. embassy to Italy.   The embassy t...

November 26, 2013

White, Black, and Gold: The Future of Catholicism

British-Canadian author Michael Coren's book Why Catholics Are Right (Feb. 2012) had a white cover.  Heresy (Apr. 2012) had a black one.  Now, The Future of Catholicism -- arguably the third installment in a trilogy -- is gold....

May 14, 2013

Murdered Thousands, Convicted for Three: The Kermit Gosnell Verdict

Philadelphia abortionist Kermit Gosnell was convicted yesterday on three counts of first-degree murder, not to mention a slew of other charges, including involuntary manslaughter (for the death of 41-year-old Karnamaya Mongar), infanticide, and abort...

March 14, 2013

Pope Francis: A Disappointment for Catholics Who Don't Like Being Catholic

How can we tell that the conclave made a good decision in elevating Jorge Mario Bergoglio to the papacy?  Exhibit A (through at least D): liberals are annoyed.  But leftists' problems with Pope Francis, well-emblazoned as they were within h...

June 10, 2012

The Thankless Task of Defending Christianity

If you're considering reading Heresy: Ten Lies They Spread About Christianity by Michael Coren, you'll be well-suited to consider your personal biases.  If you're a conservative and a Christian (and particularly if you're a Catholic), this book ...

May 21, 2012

Newark Mayor Booker Has Utterly Shocking Change of Heart (UPDATE)

Newark Mayor Cory Booker (D), New Jersey's snow-plowing hero and sporadic comedic genius, has demonstrated his skills in a longstanding discipline among politicians: the walk-back. On Meet the Press yesterday, Booker derided President Obama's attacks...

May 21, 2012

A Different Kind of 'Learning Experience' at North Rowan High

Here's another example of the standard wagon-circling to occur when a lefty public schoolteacher goes off the rails. The article at the Salisbury Post refers to a recently uploaded YouTube video in which a teacher insists that speaking ill of the pre...

April 26, 2012

Greenwich Village Republicans: They Do Exist!

When I applied to be a poll worker for this past Tuesday's Republican primary in Manhattan, I never expected to be assigned to the East Village.  After all, four years living in the area as an NYU student had soundly convinced me that Homo sapie...

July 9, 2011

Videogame Victory: How SCOTUS Saved Us from Part-Time Parenthood

On Monday, June 27, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 7-2 that vendors in California (and everywhere else, it seems) can sell violent videogames to minors.  Contrary to most well-reported Supreme Court decisions, this one found the conservative justi...

February 5, 2011

A Guided Tour through the Museum of Communism

We hear a lot about "never forget."  Hot Air posted a tribute in October to the crew of the USS Cole using these words, and the Armenian genocide during and after World War I continues to spark memorials and controversy both in print a...

January 16, 2011

Book Review: Robert Morris: Financier of the American Revolution by Charles Rappleye

If you want one more biography of George Washington or Thomas Jefferson, you won't have to look far.  Go into any Borders or Barnes & Noble, and you'll have no trouble placing yourself between the stony gaze of the one and the mischievous sm...

January 11, 2011

The Disconnect in Arizona

"We need to end the rhetoric of hate in our country.  Period."  That's the caption a Facebook friend of mine straddled atop a link on her profile page to the New York Times.Here's how the Times article, an op-ed by Carl Hulse and ...

December 4, 2010

Young and Conservative in Manhattan

In the early 2000s, it was hard to be anything but a lefty coming out of New Jersey -- especially for a kid. No surprise, then, that I grew up liberal, spending my formative years as I did in a progressive Jersey private school. My science classes go...