January 2, 2011

Big Rat Jumps Sinking Green Energy Ship (sort of)

The January edition of Scientific American contains an eye-popping interview with Vinod Khosla.  Khosla was a co-founder of Sun Microsystems.  He is a leading venture capitalist in “green” energies and an advisor to Scientific A...

August 2, 2010

Census insanity

Standing on my front porch Friday. I am recovering from surgery and I wasn't in a good mood. My cell phone -- not my home phone -- rang. Here was the conversation:"Hello," I answered the phone."Hello this is Sylvia Somethingorother ca...

April 9, 2010

It's all about the Oil

Reuters ran a story yesterday about Iran threatening to wipe out American troops stationed in the Middle East:After several warnings that it would hit back at Israel if attacked from there, Iran's military chief said Thursday he would target U.S. fo...

April 5, 2010

Wolves and more Wolves (With a Hint of Hypocrisy)

Sun Valley, Idaho has a population of about 2,000 people.  Most of them are rich.  Most of them are liberal.  Most of them loved the idea of “protecting” the wolves that were reintroduced into Idaho several years ago under ...

March 22, 2010

Coming to America?

The Hugo Chavez dictatorship in Venezuela is starting to cut off power to businesses in the country that don’t meet the state’s demand to reduce energy.  According to Reuters:Venezuela announced on Sunday 24-hour power cutoffs for do...

March 20, 2010

Taxpayer-Funded Abortion on Demand, Courtesy of a Catholic and a Mormon

It is beyond ironic that a Mormon, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, and a Catholic, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, are in charge of passing ObamaCare. If passed, the legislation will federally fund elective abortions in every state. Reid's and ...

February 12, 2010

Would Obama declare Colts winners of the Super Bowl?

What is happening in DC with the health care debate is no different than having the Colts declared the winners of the Super Bowl.Accusations abound that the Republicans in Congress are hypocrites for not accepting Obama’s call for a bipartisan...

February 4, 2010

Media Insiders Ousted by Citizens United v. FEC

The Supreme Court's decision in Citizens United stands with Brown v. Board of Education as a landmark refutation of discriminatory treatment. It is ironic that the President accused the members of the Supreme Court, who have upheld freedom of sp...

January 2, 2010

Polar Ice Caps Melting!

The Watts Up With That website has a scary story about our melting polar ice caps. John Lockwood from Washington D.C. found an interesting article from the Washington Post.  Here are some excerpts:The Arctic seems to be warming up.  Report...

November 26, 2009

What is really 'Unprecedented'

In an earlier blog today, frequent AT contributor Ethel C. Fenig pointed out Obama’s unprecedented use of the word “unprecedented.” There is one aspect of the first year of  the Obama administration that truly is “unprec...

November 23, 2009

Drink Coca Cola -- Save the Planet

More than 100 companies – including several huge multinational corporations – are joining together to support a worldwide climate treaty from the Copenhagen Conference next month.Coca Cola is one of the leaders of the effort. With SAP an...

November 19, 2009

$50,000 to clean up a 2 oz mercury spill (Updated)

George Orwell where are you? Here is the headline in my local newspaper today: "Mercury Removal from T.F. [Twin Falls, Idaho] Apartment complex results in $50,000 bill." That's right - fifty grand.Two ounces of mercury were found in the roa...

November 16, 2009

Crackdown on Protestors in China

Breitbart is reporting that China is rounding up people who might have something (other than the Communist Party line) to say during Obama’s visit:China has detained several dissidents and campaigners ahead of US President Barack Obama's much-...

November 15, 2009

Finnish Television ... Anyone? (Updated)

Andrew Bolt writing for the Courier Mail in Australia has introduced us to … television from Finland.  The Finns have produced a half hour documentary that debunks the computer models predicting global warming and the IPCC’s use of...

October 9, 2009

Faking the Housing Recovery

Here we go again.  The FHA housing recovery is being financed with taxpayer money. Official government “policy” is once again on the verge of bankruptcy -- and will undoubtedly need yet another bailout.According to MSNBC: Many of the...

October 1, 2009

If we don't want it -- Obama Delivers

The majority of the American people do not approve of Obama's health care plan.  Current Associate Press poll place the disapproval rate at 52%.  President Obama plans on making health care reform a reality, including taxing those who fai...

September 6, 2009

Quote of the Day

Thanks to AT reader Jodi Anderson (no relation) for sending in this humdinger from the "One":"The biggest problems that we're facing right now have to do with George Bush trying to bring more and more power into the executive branch a...

September 6, 2009

I have another Idea

I just saw that the Mayor of London (Boris Johnson):has recommended that non-Muslims take the opportunity of the month of Ramadan to fast, along with their Muslim neighbors, in order to promote "understanding between cultures."Here’s...

August 30, 2009

Giving the President Access to Your Computer

Democrat Senator Jay Rockefeller and liberal Republican Olympia Snowe are still working on that comprehensive cyber security bill that would give the president control over private portions of the Internet.  Rockefeller and Snowe first announced...

August 22, 2009

World Weary ... World Worried

This is almost too much for me to grasp.  This is not the kind of thing moral people can allow to happen and still believe that they can live in a world where there is decency, peace, respect, and, yes, hope.  Here is the story from Fox New...

August 21, 2009

Another Even Vaster Right Wing Conspiracy

Just when we thought no one could top Hillary Clinton’s vast right wing conspiracy concoction, along comes President Obama with an even bigger whopper.Guess what? The vast right wing conspiracy of 2009 has exactly the same purpose it had in 19...

August 10, 2009

Yeeha! Deficit up $181 Billion ... in ONE Month

Yeeha! Ride ‘em cowboys!  The federal budget continues to stampede out of control and the mainstream media continues to ignore it. Here is how Walter Alarkon writing for The Hill reported the Democrat’s spending spree:Bailouts for f...

July 26, 2009

Two Peas ... One Alien Pod

We can’t make this stuff up. Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. has announced that the incident at his home  (where he was arrested for disorderly conduct last week) is “not about me at all.”What is it with this new logic that i...

July 23, 2009

Message to Conservatives: Elections have Consequences

Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.) is going to vote for Sonia Sotomayor.  So, apparently are many other Republican senators.  (Sotomayor is reportedly meeting with other prominent “conservative” Republican senators today.)Graham has bac...

July 3, 2009

Oh to Be an Obama Czar!

Obama’s health Czar, Nancy-Ann DeParle, has spent the last eight years making a fortune working for medical companies that have been under federal investigation for violating Medicare laws. Once again, Obama has managed to place a fox in the fe...

June 21, 2009

A Sign of the Times?

Is this the new “justice” for America? A massive armed federal raid in Utah has resulted in two deaths, including the suicide of a popular small town doctor.  Those arrested have been accused of stealing American Indian artifacts fro...

June 8, 2009

Supreme Court Grants Delay

Not so fast. The US Supreme Court has decided to hear the claims of the secured debt holders in the Chrysler bailout. In a normal bailout their claims would take precedent over those parties with unsecured interests in the company. But the federal ...

June 3, 2009

I Think I'm Going Japanese

Brian Williams of NBC bows before the President. ...

May 31, 2009

When Pravda Calls Us Communists...

There was an embarrassing editorial (embarrassing for Americans, at least) on a recent online edition of Pravda – the Russian newspaper. When the leading publication of the former Soviet Union starts to editorialize the downfall of the United S...

May 26, 2009

California Supreme Court Upholds Gay Marriage Ban

The highest court of the state of California validated the people’s ability to change the state constitution through the initiative process. In a 6 to 1 ruling, the court upheld Proposition 8, passed last year, which added an amendment to the s...

May 24, 2009

Fiat Frets about Chrysler

What happens when the government intervenes in the delicate (and harsh) bankruptcy process?We are beginning to find out. The federal government’s “structured” bailout of Chrysler has prevented the market from performing the job that...

May 24, 2009

Double Speak and the Economy

Bloomberg is reporting that the federal government has closed two more banks (both in Illinois). This brings the total closure of banks by the fed to 36 this year.Banks are being closed at the fastest rate in fifteen years according to the report.Au...

May 13, 2009

Hey Hawaii: About 'Islam Day' (Updated)

As recently noted in American Thinker, Hawaii’s state legislature has passed a resolution declaring September 24, 2009 as “Islam Day.”The Hawaiian legislature has some explaining to do. According to the Pew Forum on Religion & ...

May 10, 2009

Sooner or Later the Price will be Paid

Great Britain’s political climate seems to always be just a couple of years ahead of America’s. Debacle after debacle from the Labour Party is finally catching up with it in the polls.The politicians in GB (like those in the US) are spend...

May 8, 2009

Strings Attached

California may lose $6.8 billion in stimulus funds if it does not toe the Obama administration line and restore cuts in wages to some union workers in the health care industry.Evan Harper of the L.A. Times is reporting: The Obama administration is th...

May 1, 2009

Notre Dame Pays for Picking Obama

The idea of choosing Barack Obama for graduation speaker, and for giving Obama an honorary degree, may cost the University more than just prestige. The decision may cost Notre Dame millions of dollars in contributions from alumni.As I have reported ...

April 27, 2009

Honor Sullied by Obama's Speech

Mary Ann Glendon, a Harvard Law professor and former US Ambassador to the Vatican, will not accept the highest honor given by Notre Dame.Notre Dame offered Ambassador Glendon the Laetare Medal and wanted to present it to her at this year’s grad...

April 27, 2009

Air Force One Photo-op Terrifies New Yorkers

The current administration has no shame … and no concern for New Yorkers. Air Force One, accompanied by an F-16 fighter plane, buzzed NYC and the Statue of Liberty because, the White House says, it wanted to update the photo file for Air Force...

April 26, 2009

Liz Cheney Gives A Debate Lesson

There is a video up on Powerline that should be of interest to readers of American Thinker. Dick Cheney’s daughter, Liz, gives MSNBC’s Norah O’Donnell a lesson in reporting and debating. Notice how Liz Cheney (who worked as an...

April 19, 2009

Global Warming Heretics Increase in Numbers

Science and politics are both all about numbers. In science numbers are used to track patterns, statistics, changes in variables etc. In politics numbers are used to count and buy votes.Science, at least we are told, uses numbers fairly. When the num...

April 18, 2009

Ethanol Schmethanol

The left (and some of our agricultural industries firmly ensconced on the tit of federal subsidies) just can’t let go of one of the worst ideas in decades: ethanol.The cup of evidence against ethanol has runneth over. The overspill is becoming,...

April 13, 2009

Musical Chairs: The Islamofascists' Version

Something’s going on between Great Britain and the United States. Maybe Gordon Brown thinks Barack Obama is the new whiz kid in how to deal with captured terrorists.Or maybe Britain’s Attorney General, Lady Scotland of Asthal, has manag...

April 13, 2009

Billy Beer The Sequel: Obama's Brother Denied Entry into UK

You remember Jimmy Carter’s embarrassment of a brother Billy? Well, Obama’s got a brother, Samson Obama, who makes Billy Carter look like Bob Hope.The BBC has the lowdown on Obama’s lowdown half-brother:Barack Obama's half-brother...

April 12, 2009

How to End Piracy in One Easy Lesson

John Keegan writing in the UK Telegraph has explained in simple English (hopefully using a delightful British accent) how to put an end to Somalian piracy.Here is his solution: The Gulf of Aden is the southern exit of the Suez Canal, and the ships on...

April 12, 2009

Our Energy Future: Oil Shale or Bloviating Bombast?

Ken Salazar, Obama’s new Secretary of the Interior, is so excited to help his boss build more than half a million unreliable wind mills to provide “green power” for America that he is lying about our available oil reserves.Barron...

April 11, 2009

Obama Administration's Deficit Aims for Guinness Book of Records

They can’t blame all of this one on Bush. According to Reuters the U.S. Treasury Department has announced a March 2009 deficit of $192.3 billion dollars.That’s right. The Obama Administration overspent almost a fifth of a trillion dollars...

April 11, 2009

President Obama: About those Windmills

The Obama administration needs to rethink its idea to build tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of windmills across the United States to provide “green” energy for America.Obama might want to talk (though not bow) to the Queen of England...

April 11, 2009

ALERT! Pirates Capture another Vessel

Reuters is reporting the seizure of yet another vessel.  It is not clear if an American citizen or business owns the ship. Though some reports claim that it is. The captured tugboat (which is flying under an Italian flag) apparently has enough f...

April 10, 2009

NASA: It's Not Just the CO2

Two years ago American Thinker reported NASA’s Drew Shindell saying this:"The melting of Greenland has been accelerating so incredibly rapidly that the I.P.C.C. report will already be out of date in predicting sea level rise, which will p...

April 9, 2009

Hugo Chavez Declares "New World Order"

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is spending a few days in China. He doesn’t think much of the US or our new policy of “smart power” diplomacy."We are creating a new world, a balanced world. A new world order, a multi-polar wor...

April 9, 2009

Can you cay "Hope and Change" in Spanish?

President Obama plans to move ahead with his promise to make illegal aliens … legal. Coming on the heels of millions of legal Americans loosing their jobs, this may not seem like a rational policy to pursue. But if logic were driving the Obama...

April 9, 2009

The Vatican Says 'No' to Obama's Ambassadors

According to James Morrison at The Washington Times, the Vatican has rejected three candidates to serve as US ambassador to the Vatican because of the nominees' support for abortion:The Vatican has quietly rejected at least three of President Obama'...

April 7, 2009

Just who are we at war with?

Not certain who our enemy, in what used to be called the “War on Terror,” is anymore? President Obama has made it clear whom we are not fighting.According to the UK Times: President Obama extended the hand of friendship to the Muslim wor...

April 6, 2009

Surviving Obama's Bipartisanship

President Obama has made an awful lot of promises -- none more often than his vows of bipartisanship.  He promised cross party compromise on foreign policy. He guaranteed bipartisanship on deficit spending and on the bailouts.In fact, right aft...

April 6, 2009

Obama to Korea: About that Nuclear Bomb Thingy

I have been reporting on American Thinker for weeks that North Korea was going to launch a rocket that could carry a nuclear warhead -- possibly as far as Alaska or Hawaii. President Obama seems to have just gotten that message. And his response to...

April 6, 2009

Geithner to Private Business Owners: 'You're Fired'

Secretary Timothy Geithner may not pay his own taxes. But he is willing to fire people in private business who don’t spend the taxes that the rest of us pay according to his wishes.Geithner was on “Meet the Press” yesterday and Bloo...

April 6, 2009

Democrats' Next Target: the Internet

Democrat Senator Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia has introduced two senate bills that may severely regulate traffic on the Internet.The Canadian Free Press explains it this way:The White House will have new powers to access private online data, regu...

April 5, 2009

Law Professor's Intifada

George Bisharat is a law professor at the University of California's Hastings Law School. Bisharat has been at the forefront of the efforts to implement an economic, cultural and academic boycott of Israel.  Bisharat also is leading the cha...

April 5, 2009

How Far can a Protestor/Teleprompter Swim?

It is just a little news article buried in the UK Times -- but I thought I should share it with American Thinker readers. This years G8 summit is being hosted by Italy.After all of the rioting, confusion, and Obama’s efforts to answer a questio...

April 5, 2009

North Korea Sends a Message and a Missile

North Korea launched a two-stage missile that flew over the mainland of Japan.  Japan didn’t shoot it down.  Neither did the US.Apparently Obama’s “smart power” diplomacy is to wait and see if the Korean missile act...

April 4, 2009

President Obama Brings Home A United Raspberry

Barack Obama went to Europe to unite the world and to bring the focus of the war on terrorism (or whatever it is called nowadays) to Afghanistan.  Well … it didn’t happen.Here is how the UK Times described his request for more mil...

April 4, 2009

Somebody's Making Money From the Bailouts, Guess who?

Lawrence Summers, Obama’s top economic advisor, has been making a lot of money from this recession.Here is part of a report from the NYT:The White House released hundreds of pages of financial disclosure forms, which are required of all West W...

April 3, 2009

Chavez: Capitalism is 'the Road to Hell'

Hugo Chavez, leader of the people’s paradise of Venezuela (which can’t keep groceries on the shelf), has called for the end of capitalism.BBC News put it this way:"Those who want to go directly to hell, they can follow capitalism,...

April 1, 2009

Can London Police Handle the Crowds? (updated)

The G20 conference, which started in London today, is off to a smashing start -- if windows, storefronts, cars, and banks are included in the smashing.According to the UK Times:Anti-capitalist protesters have broken into a branch of the Royal Bank of...

March 31, 2009

Uncle Sam: Psychiatrist

How’s the recession treating you? Stressed? Suicidal? Health at risk? No problem your government has the answers … online!The Department of Health and Human Services has a new online guide called “Getting Through Tough Economic Ti...

March 29, 2009

A Lot of Stimulus Goes a Little Way

Remember this speech from Daniel Hannan that American Thinker posted last week? The speech garnered worldwide acclaim. It may also have changed a few minds.According to the UK Times a lot of European leaders have suddenly rethought British Prime Mi...

March 29, 2009

Is Your Computer Safe from the Chinese?

According to an AP report the Chinese have broken into the computers of companies, individuals, and governments in at least 103 countries.We already know they have broken into our government’s computer on several occasions -- including those ...

March 28, 2009

Hawaii could be in range of North Korean Rocket

Here's some news that might get our Commander-in-Chief's attention: the rocket carrying that “satellite” that North Korea is going to launch any day could reach Hawaii. (It could also hit Alaska -- but we are positive Obama wasn’t b...

March 28, 2009

Notre Dame Alumni Opposed to Obama's Speech

The Observer, Notre Dame’s student newspaper, has been hearing from Notre Dame alumni on whether or not Obama should speak at the graduation. Most alumni agree: the University has made a mistake.Here is an excerpt from an editorial from The Obs...

March 28, 2009

Terrorists on Welfare?

Here’s how this works. Last Wednesday Attorney General Eric Holder announced that some Islamic terrorists now being held at Gitmo might have to be released. Trial balloon. We all know the drill.Reuters reported it this way on Wednesday:The adm...

March 27, 2009

U N: If you can't say something nice about Islam...

The United Nations thinks that the feelings of the followers of Mohammed are more important than religious freedom for those who are not big fans of the Prophet.Andrew Bolt reporting in the  Couriermail tells us what has been going on in the UN...

March 26, 2009

Every American a 'Volunteer'

The “Generations Invigorating Volunteerism and Education Act” (GIVE act). HR 1388 has already passed the House and is on its way to the Senate.You can read the final version of the House bill here. The legislation is a long string of amen...

March 25, 2009

Bishop to Skip Notre Dame Graduation

It hasn’t happened in a long time, but John D'Arcy the Catholic Bishop of Fort Wayne-South Bend, Indiana will not be attending Notre Dame’s graduation ceremony.In a statement released yesterday on the diocese's web site Bishop D'Arcy stat...

March 25, 2009

If Republicans Had Any Guts (Updated)

Listen carefully to this speech by Daniel Hannan. He is a Conservative Member of Parliament for South East England.Hannan takes on GB’s Obama, Prime Minister Gordon Brown, for Brown’s attempts to stimulate England out of a recession by de...

March 24, 2009

Same Seaside Sex

Peter and Hazelmary Bull own a small seaside hotel in Marazion near Penzance in Cornwall. They have owned the hotel since 1986.  In all of those years the Christian couple has had a policy of renting their double occupancy rooms only to married ...

March 23, 2009

Chavez Describes Obama as an 'Ignoramus'

Hugo Chavez, the Venezuelan president/dictator, called our President “a poor ignoramus.”Reuters reports:Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez said today his US counterpart Barack Obama was at best an "ignoramus" for saying th...

March 23, 2009

Third World: Get Your Chinese Condoms free from America!

The U.S. government in its wisdom has distributed some 10 billion condoms to Third World countries to help prevent AIDS.  Those condoms were made in the U.S.A. and distributed by U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID -- think about th...

March 22, 2009

AGW Ignorance Depresses Prince Charles

Last week Prince Charles said that our current financial crisis was “nothing ” compared to the horrors of global warming. This week he says it is “depressing” that his ravings about climate change have not been heeded. Prince ...

March 21, 2009

Journalist Held Hostage

Khadija Abdul Qahaar, formerly Beverly Giesbrecht, converted to Islam after 9/11. She is a 55-year-old journalist from Vancouver, Canada who is being held captive by Taliban forces somewhere in Pakistan. Taliban militants have threatened to kill her....

March 19, 2009

On Guns and Airline Pilots (Updated)

The Washington Times is reporting the Obama administration is ending the federal firearms program that trains airline pilots how to carry and use handguns on commercial flights:The Obama administration this past week diverted some $2 million from the...

March 19, 2009

When and What did Treasury Know about AIG Bonuses? (updated)

For those of us without a clue about those AIG bonuses, here is the answer: The butler did it in the library with the wrench.As Christopher Dodd has admitted, the Obama administration knew that the language allowing AIG to keep the executive bonuses ...

March 16, 2009

Dissing Obama ... Dismissing Hillary

Barack Obama promised no preconditions when negotiating with foreign leaders. Hillary Clinton touted the new administration’s  “smart power.” Put them together and, according to Breitbart , this is the response America is getti...

March 14, 2009

Go Japan Go!

The Japanese have threatened to shoot down the North Korean “satellite” if the “boosters” for the “satellite” come anywhere near Japan.Most analysts think that North Korea is launching a Taepodong-2 ballistic missi...

March 13, 2009

Prince Charles to Save the World!

God save the … er … prince.  Better yet, God grant him a modicum of sanity. Prince Charles has declared that the coming global economic meltdown will be nothing compared to the coming global warming meltdown.Only the uber rich and ...

March 12, 2009

Australian Cardinal Speaks out on Intolerance

In a March 6 lecture titled "Varieties of Intolerance: Religious and Secular,” Cardinal Pell of Sydney, Australia pointed out the hypocrisy inherent in modern multiculturalism. The remarks were delivered last weekend at the Thomas More Lec...

March 12, 2009

Obama's Grades Revealed!

Most people know that President Obama has refused to release his college and law school transcripts. And we don’t know how well he did on his SATs. At least we now have a grade for his economic policies: he has received an “F” -- th...

March 11, 2009

How To Tell We Are In big Trouble

France, Germany, and Italy are warning other Western governments not to follow in US Democrats' economic footsteps. They are urging other countries NOT to run up huge debts in an effort to “stimulate” the Western economy.When France, Germ...

March 10, 2009

The Obama of Oz

Remember when Joe Biden said this?"It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. The world is looking. We're about to elect a brilliant 47-year-old senator president of the United States of America. Re...

March 10, 2009

Obama's War on Business

Kevin Hassett implies in a stunning commentary on Bloomberg today that Obama has declared a war on business.President Johnson gave us the War on Poverty. Nixon started the War on Drugs. And, according to Hassett:Now that we have seen President Barac...

March 9, 2009

Obama: Bush Made Me Do It (updated)

Even Obama’s socialism is Bush’s fault. Last Friday a reporter from the New York Times asked President Obama:  "Are you a socialist as some people have suggested?"Obama answered, “You know, let’s take a look at ...

March 9, 2009

Now Where Did We Put that $50 Trillion?

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has announced that around $50 trillion dollars in global financial assets disappeared last year. Fifty trillion dollars -- that’s just about the gross domestic product of the entire planet for one full year.Sham...

March 2, 2009

Another Obama Nominee Has Tax Troubles

The list gets longer.  Ron Kirk, Obama’s nominee for U.S. Trade Representative, owes some $10,000 in back taxes.  According to the Dallas/Fort Worth Fox News channel:Ron Kirk, nominated as U.S. Trade Representative in the Obama admini...

March 1, 2009

Let it Snow...

I fully realize that anecdotal evidence has nothing to do with the current debate on the existence (or not) of man made global warming … but this is just too rich. From Bloomberg news:March 1 -- The largest snowstorm of the season is on it wa...

February 28, 2009

Kudlow goes to War

One Larry has got it right. Larry Kudlow to be precise. Kudlow enters deep into the trenches in his latest CNBC blog entitled, “Obama Declares War on Investors, Entrepreneurs, Businesses, And More.” Here is a taste:[Obama] is declaring w...

February 28, 2009

Blaming Bush: Insanity or Lack of Integrity?

The media will blame this on Bush. But facts are facts. Here is a fact from the Wall Street Journal:The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 119.15 points, or 1.7%, to end at 7062.93. The blue-chip benchmark ended down 937.93 points, or 11.72% on the...

February 27, 2009

Atlas Readies Shrug?

Sales of Ayn Rand’s classic novel Atlas Shrugged have gone through the roof since the election of Barack Obama. The Ayn Rand Center for Individual Rights has announced:Sales of Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged have almost tripled over the first ...

February 26, 2009

Raids? ... We don't need no stinkin' Raids!

The Obama administration is falling all over itself apologizing for a raid by U.S. Immigration and Customs that targeted illegal aliens.According Stephen Dinan of the Washington Times:Immigrant rights groups blasted President Obama on Wednesday for ...

February 25, 2009

Giving Obama the Byrd?

Senator Robert Byrd apparently thinks President Obama has gone too far in extending the power of the executive branch.John Bresnahan writing for Politico states:Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.), the longest-serving Democratic senator, is criticizing Presi...

February 23, 2009

Bailing out AIG ... from the Bottom of the Ocean

AIG is asking for more bailout money.  But bailing out AIG is like bailing out the Titanic.  Both AIG and the Titanic have already sunk to the bottom.AIG has received over $150 billion in federal assistance so far. The government already ow...

February 22, 2009

Hillary to Chinese: Buy U.S. Debt!

Yes. It’s that bad. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is begging communist China to keep buying up our nation’s debt.In an interview on the Chinese talk show “One on One” Clinton said:I certainly do think that the Chi...

February 21, 2009

Catholics can't buy a Fairness Doctrine

Most American Thinker readers know that NBC rejected a TV add produced by CatholicVote.org for the Super Bowl.  CNN has also rejected the spot. Seems like Catholics can’t even buy a piece of the “Fairness Doctrine.”(The adverti...

February 16, 2009

Global Warming: Seriously Worse than Worse

An IPCC spokesman has now made it clear: Global warming is seriously worse than everything else anywhere and always that ever was bad. Worser than that.Chris Field is the IPCC panel member. Reuters quotes Field as saying, "The consequence of th...

February 15, 2009

How to Cash in on the Bailout Money

My wife and I fixed dinner for two friends last night -- both are prominent businessmen. The conversation turned to the bailouts and whether or not it was possible for ordinary Americans to cash in on the trillions of dollars being dished out by cong...

February 14, 2009

Giving Al Gore a run for his Carbon Credits

Prince Charles will use an Airbus A319 jet liner for his 16,000-mile “environmental” tour of South America.  The Prince of Whales and his staff of 14 will scoot around South America in a passenger jet specially refitted for his Roya...

February 10, 2009

Get Out of Jail ... and Get Free Health Care

A federal panel of three judges has ordered the State of California to release up to a third of the state’s prisoners. The prisoners have sued the state claiming that overcrowding in the prisons was preventing the inmates from receiving proper ...

February 9, 2009

Governor Mark Sanford on 'The Savior Economy'

Governor Mark Sanford of South Carolina delivered a brilliant interview on the porkulus bill yesterday on CNN. You can see the video here . Sanford was blunt and honest in his assessment of the bailout legislation -- refreshing, and long overdue, can...

February 8, 2009

Mighty Porkulus Oinks Along

If you were looking for big cuts in the porkulus bill, you were wasting your time. Almost all of the reductions were cosmetic.CNN has listed some of the partial cuts this morning. The source was a “Democrat leadership aide." Read some of ...

February 8, 2009

Joe Biden to Dems: Ignore the Voters

Joe Biden has done it again ... again. He has told members of the Democrat House Caucus to ignore those pesky voters back home and to vote for the porkulus bill in spite of the desires of the American people.According to the WSJ:Vice President Joe Bi...

February 7, 2009

Britain to America: 'What have you done?'

Melanie Phillips, British writer and the author of Londonistan, has written a scathing piece on America's new President Obama. Titled "America -- What Have You Done?" the article appeared in Saturday's Spectator.Phillips is a no nonsense wr...

February 4, 2009

The Shot Heard Round New Hampshire

Four New Hampshire state legislators have introduced a resolution affirming Thomas Jefferson’s defense of states' rights. House Concurrent Resolution 6 was recently introduced into the New Hampshire’s State-Federal Relations and Veterans...

February 1, 2009

Cardinals Win Super Bowl in Overtime Upset!

Hey. Everyone loves an underdog. So for purely emotional, absolutely non-rational, motives -- here is my prediction for the winner of today's Super Bowl:Cardinals: 27 Steelers: 24In overtime.What's yours?Hat tip: K.C....

January 31, 2009

Solid Steele

Michael Steele was elected the new chairman of the RNC yesterday. You can see video of his acceptance speech here.Steele was one of five people seeking the party’s chairmanship. He won on the final ballot 91 to 77. (Katon Dawson, South Carolina...

January 22, 2009

So much for the Obama Masses

Already the tarnish is gathering on the crown. The Internet is ablaze with the story. The most lavish and expensive inauguration in America's history left tens of thousands of supporters with tickets to the inauguration denied access to the mall.The...

January 19, 2009

Playing the Treasury Department's Game

Our tax dollars are hard at play. The Department of the Treasury has a game (that's right a computer game) on its website called "The Bad Credit Hotel."Apparently, the government has no sense of shame. The game teaches us, the hoi polloi, h...

January 5, 2009

Global Warming is For Dummies

You know those yellow-jacketed Insert Subject Here for Dummies guides that are omnipresent in bookstores? Well, there is a new one coming out: Global Warming for Dummies. A well-established publishing franchise has staked its reputation on the w...

January 3, 2009

Look Who's Buying IndyMac

The FDIC has just announced that a consortium of private equity and hedge fund firms would be buying IndyMac. IndyMac was an independent "bridge bank" spun off of Countrywide Mortgage in the late 90s.  IndyMac acted as a "bridge b...

January 2, 2009

NASA's James Hansen to the Rescue!

NASA's James Hansen has written a personal letter to President-elect Obama outlining his plans for saving the planet from global warming. Hansen has been wrong so many times about the "inevitability" of global warming that most of us have l...

December 25, 2008

Genocide in Iraq

Critics of the war in Iraq should take a look at the latest edition (January/February 2009) of Archeology. "Witness to Genocide" by Heather Pringle offers harsh and scientific evidence for the utter cruelty of Saddam Hussein's Iraq.Her arti...

December 23, 2008

IPCC: We Don't Predict ... We Project!

Dr. Tim Ball, a former climatology professor at the University of Winnipeg, has written a stunning piece on the politics of global warming that have taken place in the IPCC's summaries and reports. His article appeared in yesterday's Canada Free Pres...

December 22, 2008

More Hot Air from Wind Farms

The UK Telegraph reported yesterday "the wind farm industry has been forced to admit that the environmental benefit of wind power in reducing carbon emissions is only half as big as it had previously claimed."The British Wind Energy Associa...

December 19, 2008

Obama's Poet

Our soon to be president has chosen Elizabeth Alexander to write and read a poem for the inauguration. Alexander is a professor of African American studies at Yale. Her poetry is as lightweight as her scholarship. Her poems fluctuate between maudlin ...

December 6, 2008

It's Not Just the Students who Lie, Cheat, and Steal

Many math teachers in our public schools ... don't know any math. And some states are hiding this fact.The study of mathematics is essential for learning how to think. Mathematics is as close to logic as any other science. If a person can't add and s...

December 4, 2008

The New American Ethic: Lie, Cheat, and Steal

A new survey of American high school students has just been released. 30 percent of young Americans admit to shoplifting and 60 per cent confess to cheating on tests.The percentage of students who lie is a much trickier to determine. (Question: Do yo...

December 2, 2008

Gun Control in India

The world watched in horror as the terrorists prowled and murdered for hours through the streets of a major city in India. The mayhem went all but unabated. No one tried to stop them -- because no one could stop them. None of the citizens were armed....

December 1, 2008

How Much is that Bailout in the Window?

The bailout is ballooning. Imagine that. Some estimates now put the total bill at over 8 trillion dollars.Those of you who thought that the money was going to the poor folks holding bad mortgages need to think again.According to Mike Sunnucks writing...

November 26, 2008

Mormons Under Fire in California

California's Fair Political Practices Commission (FPPC) has agreed to investigate a complaint against the Mormon Church. A group called "Californians Against Hate" (CAH) filed the complaint about the church's support of Proposition 8 -- the...

November 20, 2008

Obama is Hitler? Hold on a Second

There is an observable pattern  to discussions on the Internet. It is called "Godwin's Law."  The rule states:"As an Internet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one....

November 12, 2008

The Seven Aphorisms

This one is almost too weird to write about. A cult has sued to force a small city in Utah to post the cult's "Seven Aphorisms," next to the Ten Commandments, in the city park. SCOTUS will hear the case next week.The International Herald Tr...

November 8, 2008

'Office of President Elect of the United States'

A couple of friends emailed or called me about Obama's first press conference as president-elect. They went on and on about his stumbling and inept responses. (I didn't see the press conference -- just heard the sound bites on the radio news.)Fi...

November 6, 2008

Once Upon a (Republican) Time

How does the Republican Party pick its candidates? Settle back my dear friends, I'll tell you a true story.Once open a time, three Republicans were finalists for a judgeship in a rural area of a rural state. One had applied for the judgeship six time...

November 6, 2008

Russia to Obama: Move to the Back of the Bus

Whether or not we should reach across party lines, we are still one country. We are like a dysfunctional family. While we may or may not like each other -- and may only endure holidays together -- our American family comprises the core of how we firs...

November 5, 2008

How much change?

Tonight the majority of American's have voted for "change." And change is what America is going to have.We must face the fact that it is our responsibility, as conservatives and as patriots, to see that this "change" does not dest...

November 4, 2008

Which Way Are Those Record Numbers Of Democrats Voting?

Last week I talked with an aunt who has been a stalwart Democrat and has even held public office. She told me that she had voted early, had to hold her breath, but voted for McCain. The granddaughter of a union organizer, she had nothing positive to ...

November 4, 2008

How stupid is Senator Menendez?

Either he is stupid or he is intentionally confusing the difference between the income tax and capital gains taxes.Watch this interview of Senator Robert Menendez, a New Jersey Democrat, by Neil Cavuto on FOX news.Menendez does not know, or pretends ...

November 3, 2008

Obama Supporter Calls for Joe the Plumber's Death

Left wing radio show host, and Obama supporter, Karel has stated live and on the air, "I want mother****ing Joe the Plumber dead." Karel is the morning host on KGO AM Radio 810, San Francisco.This was no off mike accident. Karel begins his ...

November 2, 2008

Gloves Come off in Idaho (It's About Time!)

Two days ago American Thinker reported that Idaho Democrats had illegally distributed the Social Security numbers of conservative Republican Congressman Bill Sali, and his wife Terry, in campaign literature supporting Sali's Democrat opponent.The Rep...

November 2, 2008

Is Sarah Palin Qualified? PBS Wants to Know

Your tax dollars are hard at work. PBS is conducting a survey asking its audience if Sarah Palin is qualified to be vice-president.That's right. Just Sarah Palin. Joe Biden? No question regarding his qualifications.You can see and vote on the PBS ...

October 30, 2008

Democrats Play Dirty ... In Idaho!

There isn't a redder state in America than Idaho. All of the major elected officials in the state are Republicans. Republicans control both legislative houses. That hasn't stopped the Democrats from breaking the law.According to the Idaho GOP:Idaho R...

October 29, 2008

It's the Courts, Stupid

In the long term, the damage done by an Obama administration and a Democrat controlled congress would not be economic. It will be constitutional damage, judicial damage, moral damage.America faces a future federal judiciary packed with lawyers bent o...

October 27, 2008

Bailout for the Needy?

It was the Federal Reserves' 1998 bailout of long-term capital investments that served to inflate the dot-com market. The 1998 bailout ultimately led to the dot-com bubble burst in 2000 and to the following recession.  Do you remember the insura...

October 24, 2008

The Supreme Court and the Ohio Voting case

Why didn't the US Supreme Court uphold the order directing the Ohio Secretary of State to check for voter fraud? Conservative Justices are holding fast to the application of the doctrine of separation of powers. The decision issued by the U.S. Suprem...

October 21, 2008

Catholics Fight Back

Disgusted and perhaps outraged at the false and misleading statements made by apostate Catholics Nancy Pelosi and Joseph Biden, Catholics (but not the Church itself) have responded with a request to the devout to email and circulate a video that capt...

October 21, 2008

One Small Step for Sanity

Maybe all of the news about the recently passed bailout bill isn't bad. Senator Jim DeMint (R., S.C.) was able to sneak wording into prior legislation that will make it difficult for the Democrats to smuggle the bailout money to groups like ACORN. Pr...

October 21, 2008

Something Wrong with this Picture

The mainstream media has been nagging Sarah Palin to apologize for stating that people in North Carolina are patriotic. But they have said little about Democrat Congressman John Murtha calling the people of western Pennsylvania "racists" an...

October 20, 2008

Obama Campaign: Carbon Kills

Just this weekend American Thinker published Lord Monckton's massive plea to John McCain that urged the Republican candidate to rethink his position on global warming. Today, the Wall Street Journal reports that Barack Obama intends to immediately im...

October 17, 2008

Taking Acorn at Its Word

The New York Times has a predictable editorial in this morning's edition. According to NYT, Acorn is nothing but the voter registration branch of the Salvation Army. And John McCain is doing his damndest to keep poor people from voting:In recent week...

September 16, 2008

Media Spin on Palin Becomes a Vortex

They are all doing it now. I saw a piece on Fox today questioning whether or not Gibson's ABC interviews of Obama and Palin were "fair or sexist." Fair? Dealing with the devil fair. Did you see both interviews? The question ("Were thes...

September 15, 2008

Treeing Sarah Palin

They are like a pack of slathering hounds ... aren't they? ... the mainstream media in its pursuit to tree Sarah Palin on some obscure issue. The MSM thinks it is hot on the heels of an Alaskan snow bunny; but it may be cornering a cougar.First, it w...

September 9, 2008

Objectivity at NBC and MSNBC? Don't Hold Your Breath

Ed Lasky, American Thinker's news editor, recently speculated on the ramifications of the demotions of Chris Matthews and Keith Olbermann as MSNBC's political anchors:"MSNBC seems to have retreated from hyper-partisans as anchors. Could we be se...

September 5, 2008

Taking a Cold Shower

The party's over. The balloons have fallen. I spoke on Al Jazeera. And the anarchists are all safely home in bed (after a good week of mayhem) curled up with a copy of Das Kapital.After a slow start on Monday, the Republicans have put on quite a show...

September 4, 2008

Hi Mom! I'm on Al Jazeera

Thomas Lifson, publisher and editor of American Thinker, emailed me Wednesday morning and asked me if I wanted to appear on Al Jazeera (world-wide Arab TV in English a nd Arabic). I thought about emailing him back and telling him, "I got this br...

September 3, 2008

It's a Start

House Republican Leader John Boehner opened Tuesday's session of the RNC with a clumsy speech that confirmed my mother's warning: Republicans talk a lot about reform in these conventions -- but never get around to it. In fact, he almost admitted it.B...

September 3, 2008

Anarchists grab dominance of Twin Cities freeway

Anarchists have set the terms for transportation of delegates and media at the Republican National Convention. The buses carrying the RNC delegates to and from the Xcel Energy Center are being rerouted off of the freeways "for security reasons....

September 2, 2008

The Left Gets Center Stage ... Again

One thing seems certain: the far-left has been pandered to and pampered by the local authorities at both the  political conventions. As I wrote from Denver and the DNC, the protestors there were claiming, from the Capitol steps -- and through a ...

September 2, 2008

To Pray ... or Not to Pray

Next to the far-left protestors' stage (located conveniently in front of the state capitol in St. Paul) is an anti-war memorial. Pairs of boots have been carefully arranged on the grass. Each of the pair of boots represents a brave soldier who has be...

September 1, 2008

Hurricane Guilty! ... er ... Gustav

While loyal Republicans roam the streets of St. Paul looking for something to do, John McCain is.... I can't figure out exactly what he is doing.Republicans are acting as if everything that went wrong in Louisiana when Katrina hit is their entire fau...

September 1, 2008

Streets Turn Nasty in St. Paul

The far-left is making its presence known here at the RNC in St. Paul. Smoke bombs thrown, protestors linking themselves together with "sleeping dragons" to block traffic, bus tires slashed, and at least one bus carrying passengers attacked...

August 31, 2008

Promises from the RNC: The Same Old Song?

I spoke with my mother, just before I left for Minneapolis to cover the Republican National Convention for American Thinker. My mother has been to a bunch of RNC conventions. She told me that they were all the same. "It was always the same old s...

August 28, 2008

Stopping for the Little People

We almost saw Joe Biden. His security-laden entourage drove by us. Brett (my photographer) and I were shopping for souvenirs on Denver's 16th Street Mall for our wives. We didn't get any pictures. But we did see and hear the crowd. When the police mo...

August 27, 2008

Where is Al Gore?

I know. I know. He is speaking Thursday night at the DNC. What I mean is, where are his troops? Where are the protestors to stop Man Made Global Warming? Where are the posters? They are not on the streets of Denver.On my second day in Denver it occur...

August 27, 2008

The party's over for Hillary and the Pumas

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August 26, 2008

Voices for the Unborn on the Streets of Denver

The most visible and vocal protestors demonstrating at the Democratic National Convention are the advocates for the unborn. Virtually ignored by the media, they are everywhere and in the faces of delegates. Undaunted by the heat, the ridicule, and th...

August 26, 2008

Welcome to the 'Official Obama Store'

"Official Obama stores" dot the sidewalks in Denver. They are joined by a variety of free-lance vendors.Are you buying?Larrey Anderson is reporting this week from the streets of Denver on the DNC for American Thinker. Photos by Larrey Ander...

August 26, 2008

Hillary Supporters Unite! (Sort of)

They scurried across the lawn at Denver's Civic Center. Most carried signs. Some banged on drums. Most of them were women ... and a lot of them were angry. They were gathering together to express their support for Hillary Clinton.I spent over an hour...

August 25, 2008

Direct from Denver and the DNC: Sunday, Recreate zzzzz 68

The Democratic National Convention started Sunday not with a bang, but a whimper. The radical left-wing group Recreate 68 "commandeered" the steps of the Colorado State Capitol to protest the war in Iraq. (They had a permit.) The speakers s...

August 25, 2008

Picture This: Racism at the Democratic Convention

This man is a delegate to the Democratic National Convention being interviewed by a TV newsman for a local Denver station.  See the credential dangling from his neck. There issomething very wrong with this picture. It's a bit hard to read. ...

May 28, 2008

Cycle of Abuse: The FLDS Raid

The raid on the West Texas compound of the renegade Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints (FLDS) had a precursor.[i] The McMartin daycare abuse tragedy  blazed a trail.In 1983, Judy Johnson, an alcoholic paranoid schizophrenic, told police that a day...