September 4, 2020

After unexpected defeat, Sheriff Joe Arpaio joins with Larry Klayman launch fund to help 'defunded' police

Arizona has turned a page on history.  Sheriff Joe Arpaio, 88, has run his last political race.  On August 4, 2020, voters in Maricopa County cast their vote in the Republican primary that saw the former six-term sheriff and natio...

November 3, 2012

The Obama Refrigerator Has No Power

Earlier this year, a friend who lives in Oceanside, New York, told me how the Long Island Power Authority came over and replaced his refrigerator with brand new one for free! It was a funny story at first, because they gave him a fridge that didn't f...

November 1, 2012

Missing Bush in Northeast Electrical Outage

The power outages states are encountering in the Northeast did not have to happen. During the Bush years, Democrats rejected plans to upgrade the electrical grid system in the country because they believed Bush and Cheney were just rewarding "cronies...

September 15, 2012

Samuel L. Jackson needs to tell the President to 'wake up'

Foul mouthed actor Samuel L. Jackson is asking Democrat voters to "Wake the F--- Up" and vote for Obama. Really, with our embassies under siege all over the world by militant Islamists, the Snakes on a Plane star Jackson should be telling the endless...

July 23, 2012

Liberal fish squirms in Michael's Bloomberg's liberal net

Businessman Seth Goldman, a self-proclaimed "entrepreneur with a public-service orientation," has a piece in the Wall Street Journal complaining about New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's social engineering of the NYC Health Code. Specifically, Go...

June 28, 2012

How do you say 'It's the economy, stupid' in Spanish?

The Obama economy has done more to stem the tide of illegal immigration than any fence could.   Because of the misguided notion that Hispanics vote as a group, many in the pundit class fall in line behind the Left's talking points that Obam...

June 12, 2012

Castro Endorses Obama

No, not Fidel. Not brother and military dictator Raul Castro. But Raul's daughter, Mariela. She is in America to deliver speeches, the Wall Street Journal points out, while Cuba holds American contractor Alan Gross in prison.  The State Departm...

February 10, 2012

Obama's doublespeak on Catholic healthcare compromise

President Obama today announced that he would back away from his directive that Catholic organizations provide contraceptive and reproductive products to their employee's in their healthcare coverage. Instead, this is the compromise, as reported at F...

January 10, 2012

Obama fundraiser letter says being President is disadvantage in election

Amazing, but true. Ever the campaigner (being president is a distraction from the Hope and Change mantra), President Obama's campaign for re-election calls his current occupation in the Oval Office a disadvantage while his yet to be named Republican ...

December 2, 2011

Did Bill Richardson, former Democrat presidential candidate, pay for alleged mistress' silence?

Among the many stripes being laid upon Herman Cain at the whipping post, one thing seems certain: he hasn't paid for anyone's silence. Perhaps long time Democrat office holder and politico Bill Richardson of New Mexico cannot say the same. He is curr...

November 17, 2011

$35.9 Billion = Obama's Investment of Your Money in 'Clean Energy'

President Obama is spending yours and your children's and their children's money on what is amounting to a sinkhole (can you say Solyndra?).  The total amount of "loans" made to the solar power and "clean energy economy" is an astounding $35.9 b...

November 14, 2011

Tax Increases Being Proposed by Republicans on Supercommittee?

The Boston Globe had the story last week, but it has yet to make more national headlines. The story?  Republicans on the Congressional Supercommittee have submitted a plan to raise taxes. The Supercommittee was conceived during the debt ceiling ...

October 26, 2011

Solar Winds Keep Blowing Taxpayer Money Away

It was reported by Forbes less than three weeks ago that Tempe, Arizona-based, solar panel maker First Solar was to receive $2.1 billion in partial loan guarantees from the U.S. Department of Energy, with the money to be used in building two new gene...

October 26, 2011

Where there's smoke there's (Herman Cain on) fire?

Yes, Herman Cain, leading in some polls for the Republican presidential nomination race, is taking some heat for his Internet ad that features his campaign manager taking a puff on a cigarette.  As Rush Limbaugh reported today, the liberal media...

August 31, 2011

Unemployed Americans (by the millions) available to hear Obama 'jobs' speech in the afternoon

President Obama has asked to address a joint session of Congress on September 7th at 8 p.m. to give his latest "jobs" speech.  That happens to be the same day and time of the next scheduled GOP presidential debate -- and the first to include Ric...

August 19, 2011

Strange headline: Feds Bust Iraqi-Mexican Drug Ring

This news involves the Feds busting a drug and weapons trafficking ring in San Diego. The story also involves Detroit. The U.S. has fought a war in Iraq that included overthrowing its former brutal dictator, establishing a fledging democracy, protect...

July 27, 2011

John McCain Spikes Tea Party, Attacks Sharron Angle and Christine O'Donnell

Arizona Senator John McCain has dismissed the Tea Party's apparent concerns over Speaker John Boehner's latest debt ceiling proposal by attacking Sharron Angle and Christine O'Donnell by name during a Senate floor speech today.  McCain spiked th...

July 21, 2011

Arizona Republicans Launch Website to Raise Funds for Border Fence

Major League Baseball's Mid-Summer Classic, the All-Star Game, has come and gone, having been hosted by Phoenix last week.  No backlash occurred at the game as a result of last year's passing of SB 1070, Arizona's then tough new immigration law....

July 15, 2011

Fannie Mae defender trips himself

Robert Kuttner, the liberal co-founder and co-editor of The American Prospect, has written a piece for his periodical that attacks the findings in a new book on the mortgage meltdown, Reckless Endangerment.  The book's authors are a long time Ne...

July 8, 2011

Janet Napolitano's former chief-of-staff one of many at center of Fast and Furious scandal

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano was in Nogales, Arizona on Thursday to announce the Obama administration's intention to strengthen efforts to stem the flow of drugs, arms and drug money on the southern border.  This in the wake of t...

June 25, 2011

ACLU finds another reason to stop detaining border violators: gay and transgender abuse by fellow illegal aliens

A reporter at the Arizona Republic has detailed in a June 24th article a new assault from the Left on illegal immigration crackdowns occurring in Arizona and other states around the country.  It seems the ACLU is concerned with illegal gay and t...

June 21, 2011

John Huntsman is a lover not a fighter

When last we saw Donald Trump in Republican presidential politics, he was using the "F" word to describe how the Chinese were making a mockery of the U.S., especially when it came to international trade relations.  Now comes John Huntsman, Ambas...

June 13, 2011

AZ legislature lets Obama off the hook (updated)

What kind of heartless (and brainless) State legislature would cut off 15,000 unemployed workers from a measly $214 in weekly unemployment benefits?  The Republican controlled legislature in Arizona, that's who.  Heartless because we are a...

May 27, 2011

Covering for Obama's high unemployment results

Can President Obama be re-elected in 2012 with unemployment figures at record highs?  If the media and Democrat operatives have their way, it just may be possible.  Witness this article by Jeremy Greenfield headlined "Unemployment: The...

May 17, 2011

Carlos Santana wants to change our evil ways

Legendary guitarist Carlos Santana took to the field in Atlanta over the weekend to participate in Major League Baseball's Civil Rights Game, where he was being honored with a "Beacon of Change" award.  When he had the chance to step i...

May 4, 2011

Muslim-raised Jessica Mokdad Might Have Wished She Grew Up Like Katy Perry - In a Christian Home

20-year-old Jessica Mokdad is dead.  Her stepfather Rahim Alfetlawi shot Jessica in the head while she was at her grandmother's Michigan home.  Alfetlawi was upset that Jessica was not living by strict Muslim customs, according to a report ...

February 28, 2011

Hollywood Chilly to U.N. Plea for Global Warming Push

During Oscar weekend, the U.N.'s head honcho Ban Ki-moon, traveled to a very cold Los Angeles to find someone (anyone!) who would champion the now discredited global warming money grab.  The Los Angeles Times reported that the cold shoulder he r...

July 4, 2009

America - Good Things to Come

The Broad Street Bullies - the Philadelphia Flyers of the 1970's - had Kate Smith's "God Bless America," played at all of their home games.  And they won...a lot.  The team took back-to-back Stanley Cup trophies in the middle of t...

June 17, 2009

Obama firings gain no media criticism

Barack Obama, the first black President (discounting Bill Clinton), reportedly is getting ready to fire the first Native American ever to serve as a U.S. Attorney in the country's history.  Diane Humetewa, U.S. Attorney in Phoenix, was put in pl...

June 3, 2009

The death of Private William Long goes unnoted

William Long could have been my son.  Who is William Long?  If you don't read AT or watch Fox News, you probably don't know that Private William Long, 23, was killed on Monday as he worked at a military recruitment center in Arkansas. ...

May 21, 2009

Arpaio Gets The Money Napolitano Took From Him

When Homeland Security Director Janet Napolitano was still governor of Arizona, she stripped $1.6 million from Sheriff Joe Arpaio's budget.  That money was to be spent to enforce immigration laws in Maricopa County.   However, Napolita...

April 22, 2009

Napolitano: Illustrating Absurdity

Doesn't Janet Napolitano's Homeland Security Department run U.S. Custom and Border Protection? And who are they recruiting? These two stories illustrate absurdity. U.S. Army Reserve, Customs and Border Protection Launch Jobs Partnership The Army Rese...

April 17, 2009

Republican Leader Cites the Bogus 90% U.S. Weapons Flow to Mexico

On April 2, 2009, FoxNews reported that the actual percentage of weapons found in Mexico to have origins in the United States is 17% and not the 90% that is making headlines.  Those headlines are being used by the Obama administration to blame t...

December 25, 2008

The Hidden Christmas

And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying,   Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.   And it came to pass, as the angels were gone away from the...

October 9, 2008

The Forgotten Issue: Illegal Immigration and Crime

Two new studies have been released this month on the relationship between illegal immigrants -- more aptly called border violators -- and crime in the U.S.  The first released October 1, 2008, by the Center for Immigration Studies deals with gan...

May 16, 2008

Arizona Governor Fights Illegal Immigration Task Force

Manuel Espinoza-Vasquez lives in Gilbert, Arizona and is a student at Arizona State University.  He is an illegal immigrant and he is facing deportation.  Espinoza-Vasquez was stopped by Gilbert police for making an "improper right tur...

April 16, 2008

Left Wing Racism = Non-Coverage from MSM

Duane "Dog" Chapman, Don Imus, and Michael Richards have all made national news recently for making racist comments.  Each, having been fully and mercilessly covered by the mainstream media paid a price for his errors.  Some ...

November 22, 2007

Thankful to God for America

[An American Thinker Classic]From the Pilgrims' William Bradford to George Washington to George W. Bush, I am thankful that this nation is led by those who recognize the hand of God that both guides and provides.  May His blessings be abund...

October 4, 2007

Dobson's Mystery Candidate

Dr. James Dobson wrote an op-ed published in the New York Times, titled  "The Values Test." He describes how he and 49 other "pro-family leaders" met to discuss the presidential race of 2008.  It was decided "after ...

September 18, 2007

The Coming Film 'Kingdom' Calls Out Saudi-born Terrorists

Universal Pictures and Director Peter Berg are set to release "The Kingdom" nationwide on September 28th.    The action movie stares straight down the deep well of Saudi-born terrorism, including an opening sequence detailing a Wa...

September 13, 2007

Hillary and the House that Ruth Built

While she was impugning the reputation of General David Patraeus, who was testifying before her committee on Capitol Hill, Hillary Clinton said her day started at Ground Zero, for the 6th anniversary of the September 11th terrorist attacks.  Mrs...

August 21, 2007

President or Bust for McCain?

With his recent all-or-nothing gamble on the immigration reform bill, McCain now must deal with political reality in his home state.  A new poll shows John McCain losing in the next election to retain his U.S. Senate seat in Arizona.  ...

July 4, 2007

The American Spirit 1776-2007

July 4, 1776, the day in which not only a nation was born, but also a "spirit."  The American spirit is alive and well all these 231 years later.  It is a spirit that has carried us to the ends of the earth to promote freedom, lea...

June 29, 2007

Arizona Democrat Napolitano Cannot Now Slink Away From Her Own Immigration Reform Bill

Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano, with the defeat of the Bush-Kennedy immigration reform bill, is now in a very tenuous position.  On her desk is a bill passed by the Arizona Legislature that calls for tough employer sanctions for any business foun...

June 6, 2007

The Last American and the Immigration Debate

Why is it a crime for America to secure her borders?  Why is it (seemingly) not a crime for foreigners to ignore our laws and come to this country illegally? There must be a might peculiar philosophy at work.   Fine, let's be philosoph...

March 29, 2007

Evolutionary Rumblings: The Theory has a Fever

Evolutionists are constantly trying to prove Darwin's theory correct.  (This is not to be confused with Barack Obama's assertion that President Bush is perpetrating societal Darwinism on unsuspecting poor people).  The latest study, which c...

February 14, 2007

Room at the Top for the U.N.

Mayor Bloomberg is looking for office space for the United Nations.  Why?  Foreign diplomats and their financial contribution to local businesses "would not be there if the United Nations wasn't in New York City, and to lose the United...

February 14, 2007

Breaking News? Not Quite Because an Illegal is the Perpetrator

If an Army Ranger, a veteran of the Iraq war, was stabbed in his own front yard by an illegal alien, don't you think that that story would garner some press coverage?   In Arizona, the answer is no.  The incident occurred on February 2nd in...

February 6, 2007

The Bush Economy: Luck?

Today I called my local newspaper to ask why they are running an editorial on the front page.  The headline reads: "Bush budget rides on economic luck"Here are the opening sentences: One major unmentioned entry in President Bush's new ...

January 31, 2007

Give Peace a Chance: Support the War!

Thirty or so Gilbert, Arizona teens were out marching for peace on the same day of the national rally for peace in Washington, D.C.  As reported in the Arizona Republic, the teens didn't even know that the national rally was taking place on the ...

December 20, 2006

Santa and "The Nativity"

Dear Santa:  I just saw a motion picture called The Nativity Story.  I did not see you in the movie.  I did not see any reindeer.  I did see some other animals like sheep, donkeys and camels.  Furthermore, I did not see any C...

December 17, 2006

Sheriff Joe Arpaio

American Thinker had the honor of talking with a man who is a law enforcement legend in his own time:  Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County (Phoenix), Arizona, the fourth most populous county in the nation.The Sheriff is in the Christmas Spirit...

November 29, 2006

Target bans Salvation Army again

Once again this year, Target Stores has banned the Salvation Army bell-ringers from their stores.  Instead the company is donating one million dollars to the charity, and other changes on offer by the company promise to make up much of the nine ...

April 1, 2006

Mexico, USA

[In the spirit of April Fool's Day satire, it is time to examine some new policy options — editor] The problem with the Mexican border is Mexico itself.  We're just as close to Mexico as Mexico is to us, right?  But you don't see a lo...

November 23, 2005

Thankful to God for America

From the Pilgrim's William Bradford to George Washington to George W. Bush, I am thankful that this nation is led by those who recognize the hand of God that both guides and provides.  May His blessings be abundant in your homes and communi...

September 27, 2005

Hillary Clinton's minority report: she thinks we're stupid

'I'm a minority!'  If you've ever said this, you've lost more than half the battle.  You've lost it all.  Where once we were taught that 'all men are created equal' and that we were indeed made in 'the image and likeness of God', it is...

June 11, 2005

Ronald Reagan, remembered

One year ago today, June 11th, 2004,  Ron Reagan, Jr. spoke these words at his father's memorial service in California: 'Dad never wore his religion on his sleeve, and never felt he had a mandate from God, unlike some other politicians.' If a...

April 16, 2005

Meeting Tiger Woods: A father and son tale

Before Tiger Woods turned pro, I met him.  Met him?  I got his autograph.  It was the spring of 1996 and Tiger was playing college golf for Stanford.  He had just played for the second time as an amateur at The Masters and would s...