Jack Cashill

Jack Cashill

  • 20 (or So) Obvious Questions about January 6

    December 14, 2024

    20 (or So) Obvious Questions about January 6

    Even before Donald Trump ascends to the presidency on January 20, his appointees should ask themselves the questions that follow — all of them simple and straightforward.  With Christopher Wray stepping down from the FBI directorship,...

  • Why Are Dems Appeasing the Cop Who Killed Ashli Babbitt?

    December 9, 2024

    Why Are Dems Appeasing the Cop Who Killed Ashli Babbitt?

    Incredibly, U.S. Capitol Police captain Michael Byrd, the cop who shot J6 protester Ashli Babbitt, appears to have been extorting the Democrats for favors, including a promotion.  Even more incredibly, leading House Democrats have obliged h...

  • Do We Still Have to Pretend the 2020 Election Was ‘Free and Fair’?

    November 27, 2024

    Do We Still Have to Pretend the 2020 Election Was ‘Free and Fair’?

    The 2020 Presidential election shared a problem with the 1998 MLB home run race: the winning candidate did too well. In 1998, steroid juicer Mark McGwire broke Roger Maris’s home run record by nine home runs or roughly 15 percent. In 2020, J...

  • The Obamas Get Their Comeuppance

    November 18, 2024

    The Obamas Get Their Comeuppance

    The one person who knew that the Joe Biden presidency was something other than “Obama’s third term” was Barack Obama.  If Obama had any illusions about his control over events, he was rudely disabused of them on July 21, 2...

  • Tales of a Family Reunion Five Days Post-Election

    November 12, 2024

    Tales of a Family Reunion Five Days Post-Election

    On Sunday morning, November 10, I attended the christening in New Jersey of a beautiful, newly-arrived great-niece. At the reception afterward, there were about 50 adults in attendance. If I had to guess, I would say all of them voted, half or a litt...

  • Is the Age of the Big Lie Over?

    November 4, 2024

    Is the Age of the Big Lie Over?

    “They forced us to lie about everything,” said Tucker Carlson in his speech at Madison Square Garden on Sunday night. The primary reason he supports Donald Trump, Carlson continued, is because Trump “liberated” the American pe...

  • Pointless Mike Pence

    October 29, 2024

    Pointless Mike Pence

    In his narrative poem The Divine Comedy, 14th-century Italian sage Dante Alighieri reserved the ninth and deepest circle of his Inferno for those scoundrels who betrayed their comrades and leaders — Brutus, Cassius, Judas Iscariot, Satan himsel...

  • How the Pentagon Betrayed President Trump on January 6

    September 25, 2024

    How the Pentagon Betrayed President Trump on January 6

    On January 6, 2021, nearly five hours passed between the breach of the Capitol perimeter and the arrival of a National Guard contingent ready and waiting to deploy just ten minutes away. Had the National Guard arrived within that first hour, “J...

  • How JD Vance Can Secure Trump’s Re-Election

    September 16, 2024

    How JD Vance Can Secure Trump’s Re-Election

    As last week’s debate made clear, Kamala Harris’s media enablers have given Harris the green light to lie in the most flagrant ways about the most significant of issues.  Even if Donald Trump were adept at giving concise answers...

  • AG Garland Refuses to ‘Quibble’ Over Ruined Lives

    September 11, 2024

    AG Garland Refuses to ‘Quibble’ Over Ruined Lives

    On Friday, August 30, I received an email from an entity known as Corrlnks. The email read, “This is a system generated message informing you that the above-named person is a federal person in custody who seeks to add you to his/her contact lis...

  • Evidence Mounts for Kamala Role in J6 Plot

    August 28, 2024

    Evidence Mounts for Kamala Role in J6 Plot

    For a criminal defense attorney, the scariest moment in any trial is when his client unwittingly opens the door to otherwise inadmissible evidence. On Thursday, during her acceptance speech, Vice-President Kamala Harris opened that door. The Trump...

  • The Many Lies of Jamie Raskin

    August 22, 2024

    The Many Lies of Jamie Raskin

    On the opening Monday of the Democratic National Convention, Rep. Jamie Raskin beguiled his audience with a litany of Donald Trump’s alleged crimes against the Constitution.  The Javert to Trump’s Jean Valjean, Raskin wore his o...

  • The ‘Crime’ Harris Was Toughest on was Journalism

    August 6, 2024

    The ‘Crime’ Harris Was Toughest on was Journalism

    Finally, Congress has taken an interest in the work done by investigative journalist David Daleiden and his colleague Sandra Merritt nearly a decade ago. A week ago, for instance, Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene released the full versions of sub...

  • Kamalagate: The Harris Deception That Doomed Dozens of J6ers

    July 30, 2024

    Kamalagate: The Harris Deception That Doomed Dozens of J6ers

    On March 19, 2021, UCLA student Christian Secor learned that the Department of Justice planned to keep him in jail.  A month earlier a federal judge had denied Secor bond after a D.C. grand jury indicted him on ten counts of nonviolent January 6...

  • The ‘Through Line’ from Ashli Babbitt to Donald Trump

    July 17, 2024

    The ‘Through Line’ from Ashli Babbitt to Donald Trump

    There is an old joke that the Irish tell on themselves. It goes, “Did you hear about the Irishman with Alzheimers: he forgot everything but the grudges.” In the case of President Joe Biden, as his dementia worsens, he will forget everythi...

  • Do the Plotters of the ‘51 Intel Experts’ Coup Deserve Prison?

    June 17, 2024

    Do the Plotters of the ‘51 Intel Experts’ Coup Deserve Prison?

    People of a certain age will remember the name “Donald Segretti.”  In the 1972 re-election campaign of President Richard Nixon, this youthful campaign aide made the phrase “dirty tricks” part of the American politica...

  • Sorry, Nancy, Trump had no role in inciting the J6 riot

    June 13, 2024

    Sorry, Nancy, Trump had no role in inciting the J6 riot

    “The president of the United States, the former president and his toadies, do not want to face the facts,” said an embarrassed Nancy Pelosi after a video surfaced of her saying, “We take responsibility” for the breakdown of or...

  • How We’ll Remember January 6

    June 7, 2024

    How We’ll Remember January 6

    I received a call on Monday from one of the women whose stories I tell in my new book, Ashli: The Untold Story of the Women of January 6.  Of the ten women profiled, two were killed on January 6, six were imprisoned, and two await sentencin...

  • What MSNBC Can Teach The Atlantic about January 6

    May 31, 2024

    What MSNBC Can Teach The Atlantic about January 6

    On Memorial Day, during the Annual Ashli Babbitt Freedom March in D.C., I had the chance to speak with Hanna Rosin, who was covering the march for the Atlantic magazine with fellow reporter Lauren Ober. As I tried to explain while we were walking,...

  • J6 Inquisitors Nail Their First Big Name

    May 20, 2024

    J6 Inquisitors Nail Their First Big Name

    The New York Times editors could barely contain their glee.  “Conservative Family Scion Sentenced to Nearly 4 Years for Jan. 6 Attack.”  The subhead spelled out the details: “Leo Brent Bozell, the son and grandso...

  • January 6, Covid Stir the Fascist Soul of the Educated Liberal Female

    May 17, 2024

    January 6, Covid Stir the Fascist Soul of the Educated Liberal Female

    In researching my new book, Ashli: The Untold Story of the Women of January 6, I discovered something unexpected: an alarming confirmation of my September 2022 article in which I argued that Educated Liberal Females (ELFs) are the single greatest thr...

  • Obama Gets Around to Commenting on Hamas at Columbia

    April 24, 2024

    Obama Gets Around to Commenting on Hamas at Columbia

    As Columbia University’s most prominent alum, former president Barack Obama would seem to have a moral obligation to speak about what is arguably the most visible outbreak of antisemitism on American soil in his lifetime. I refer here to the...

  • Trump Should Talk More About January 6, Not Less

    April 6, 2024

    Trump Should Talk More About January 6, Not Less

    The once relevant political consultant Karl Rove made a bid to gain attention Wednesday by scolding former President Donald Trump for his vow to pardon January 6 defendants. “One of the critical mistakes made in this campaign is that Donald Tru...

  • November 29, 2023

    Did Democrat ‘Bird-Doggers’ Disrupt Congress on January 6?

    Amid all the talk of undercover agents and informers from the various police services instigating violence at the Capitol on January 6, 2021, Democrat party operatives have managed to escape attention.  This is an oversight that needs correction...

  • November 15, 2023

    ‘In the Old America, This Would Provoke an Uprising’

    No stranger to hypocrisy, Hillary Clinton set a breathtaking new standard with her denunciation of convicted meme jokester Douglass Mackey.  The context was an April 2023 discussion with former House speaker Nancy Pelosi at the Columbia Uni...

  • November 9, 2023

    Michelle Obama: The Black Face of White Flight

    Last weekend, former Obama campaign adviser David Axelrod kicked the Democrat barn doors open, suggesting on X that it may be time “to change horses.”  If that horse just happens to be former first lady Michelle Obama, America w...

  • October 30, 2023

    The Rise of Jacobin Justice

    Earlier this week, I attended the theatrical debut of Dinesh D’Souza’s compelling new documentary Police State.  As much as I liked the movie, there was one subject left unexplored: the ironic fact that, today, among those most ...

  • October 18, 2023

    Not Everything That Looks Like a Conspiracy Is a Conspiracy

    The first sentence of my Wikipedia page reads as follows: “ Jack Cashill …is an American author, blogger and conspiracy theorist.” If I try to amend that description, some left-wing troll will flip it right back. As it happ...

  • October 12, 2023

    The War Against Italian Americans

    For the last sixty or so years the media-education complex has established a rule that only ethnic groups of color are permitted to have grievances. Indeed, since the emergence of Barack Obama, these groups have formed something of a grievance-indust...

  • October 3, 2023

    Kendi’s Troubles Threaten the Whole ‘Antiracist’ Biz

    As blue-collar philosopher Eric Hoffer reportedly observed some years back, “Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.” Ibram X. Kendi’s brand of antiracism skipped the fir...

  • September 26, 2023

    Media Malpractice and the Murder of Andreas Probst

    Two weeks ago, I had breakfast with George Zimmerman — yes, that George Zimmerman, the Florida man whose life was ruined by a national media eager, as always, to highlight the killing of a black person by a white man. Within a week or two of...

  • September 17, 2023

    One theory as to where Joe Biden got his fake names

    As the House Oversight Committee recently revealed, President Joe Biden used at least three aliases in his email correspondences.  The major media, probably out of ignorance, missed the likely code embedded in those names. In Time magazi...

  • September 17, 2023

    A disturbing killing, and the media won't touch it

    As I write this on September 16, the New York Times has yet to mention Andreas Probst, the retired 64-year-old California police chief brutally murdered on August 14 in Las Vegas.  The initial silence is understandable.  Probst wa...

  • September 12, 2023

    JFK Is Easy, Now Do TWA Flight 800

    On Saturday, the New York Times surprised many people, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. among them, with a lengthy article questioning the “single bullet theory” in the November 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy. The man who got the...

  • August 11, 2023

    Canceled by educated liberal women!

    Oh, cruel irony!  On September 9, 2022, American Thinker published an article of mine, headlined "Why 'Educated' Liberal Women Are the Real Threat to Our Republic."  The article began thusly: "When last Thur...

  • August 9, 2023

    What Biographer Garrow Missed in His Obama Takedown

    On August 2, two days before Barack Obama’s reported sixty-second birthday, the Jewish journal Tablet published an interview with Pulitzer Prize-winning civil rights historian David Garrow. Asking the questions and providing extensive commen...

  • August 3, 2023

    How Oppenheimer’s Persecution Mirrors Trump’s

    Just two days apart, I watched the movie Oppenheimer and read the most recent indictment of Donald Trump by the “United States of America.” In watching the film, even before reading the indictment, I sensed parallels in the hounding of bo...

  • July 25, 2023

    The Perils of Race Baiting a Kennedy

    Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is learning that, as an enemy of the state, everything he says can and will be held against him. Democrats are learning, however, that RFK Jr., unlike most of their targets, is no punching bag. He can and will punch back. Dur...

  • July 17, 2023

    What TWA 800 Had in Common with Hunter B’s Laptop

    On July 17, 1996, TWA Flight 800 left JFK airport in New York City heading east to Paris. Twelve minutes after its 8:19 departure the doomed 747 blew up off the south coast of Long Island, killing all 230 souls aboard. On August 23, 1996, the New ...

  • July 12, 2023

    '60s Denialism: Affirmative Action's Last Ditch Defense

    As with many semantic corruptions, the left started it.  They trivialized the term "denialism" by applying it not to the denial of a real tragedy, but to skepticism about an imagined climate doomsday.  I would like to re...

  • June 26, 2023

    Dems, Media Prove Anew Their ‘Flexibility’ on Russia

    Lacking either a moral compass or a consistent foreign policy, Democrats and their fellow travelers in the media have been guided in recent years by what they call “Rahm’s Rule” -- in brief, “never let a serious crisis go to w...

  • June 22, 2023

    Grab Your Wallets: The Reparations Game Is Rigged

    Two weeks ago, I participated in a debate on reparations hosted by the American Public Square and later televised by KCPT, the PBS station in Kansas City.  If I didn't know beforehand that the game was rigged, I did by the time the edit...

  • June 10, 2023

    The Devouring of a Christian Baseball Player

    In my 2015 book Scarlet Letters, I wrote of Harvard president Larry Summers, "Summers made the same mistake that virtually all newly branded letter bearers do.  He apologized."  If a Harvard president can make a mistake ...

  • May 26, 2023

    18 years for J6er, wrist slap for wannabe Nazi assassin

    Sai Vashti Kandula must know someone — or something.  On Monday evening, Kandula drove his rented U-Haul into a barrier a few hundred feet from the White House, backed up, and rammed the barrier again. Upon being apprehended, ...

  • May 23, 2023

    For Obama, the Cover-Up Was Worse than the Crime

    Two enduring aphorisms emerged from the Watergate affair, both directed at then-president Richard Nixon. The one at the outset of the investigation was delivered in the form of a question: “What did he know and when did he know it?” The s...

  • May 15, 2023

    How the Morlocks Seized New York

    If, in 1984, an inventive New Yorker set his time travel machine to the year 2023, the city in which he arrived would confound him.  Although the New York City of today looks much like that of 1984, our time traveler would have a hard time ...

  • May 8, 2023

    What RFK Jr. Needs to Do to Be Taken Seriously

    As much I respect Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s stand on Big Science and suppression of speech, I remember the RFK, Jr. of just nine years ago who championed both.  In September 2014, Kennedy joined the chaotic throngs marching through the st...

  • April 14, 2023

    DOJ-Media-Intel Election Interference Predates Trump

    Historians will have a hard time grappling with the enormity of the efforts by the media, the Department of Justice, and their allies in the intelligence community (IC) to stop Donald Trump. For a more manageable case study they would do well to look...

  • March 22, 2023

    Reflections on Watching Your #1 Seed Fall to a #16

    My wife Joan and I had our first date at a Purdue basketball game many moons ago, and we have watched just about every game we could in the years since.  Our respective approaches to a game are so different that we watch in separate rooms....

  • January 23, 2023

    Biden Lawyer Has History of Finding and Releasing Elusive Documents

    In his own discreet way, President Joe Biden’s “personal” attorney Bob Bauer is back in the news again. On Saturday, Bauer released a statement about a new discovery of documents chez Biden. According to Bauer, the Justice Depart...

  • January 20, 2023

    At Davos, the Rev. John Kerry Signals His Place Among the Elect

    In my 2015 book, Scarlet Letters, I spoke of the emergence of a Neo-Puritan movement in America. But not until Biden “climate envoy” John Kerry began pontificating at Davos did any prominent member of the Neo-Puritan elect speak specifica...

  • January 14, 2023

    What Would MLK Think of the Imprisonment of Thomas Lane?

    The reader cannot be faulted for asking, “Who is Thomas Lane?” For the record, Lane, who is white, is the most anonymous of the four lambs sacrificed to appease the bloodlust of the mobs incited by a video snippet of George Floyd’s ...

  • January 2, 2023

    The Euro Media Welcomed Benedict XVI the Way Ours Did Trump

    In January 1997, the Clinton White House issued an unintentionally comic 332-page report titled, "The Communication Stream of Conspiracy Commerce." Even before social media, the Democrat-media complex understood they were losing their grip ...

  • November 16, 2022

    Can Dave Chappelle Save Free Speech?

    With their control of all major educational and media institutions, progressives have had the ability to control the political language we use for a good half century now. Historically, they have used that control, in Orwell’s words, “to ...

  • November 7, 2022

    Yup, Trump to Blame for Salman Rushdie Attack, Too

    The one thing we all knew for sure upon hearing of the hammer attack on Paul Pelosi was that Donald Trump would be held to blame.  The Democrat-Media Complex (DMC) did not disappoint. Where the Complex really showed its stuff, however, w...

  • October 25, 2022

    The Real Reason Woman Who Killed Firefighter Went Uncharged

    I have to wonder how George Zimmerman felt upon reading about the shooting death of Kansas City firefighter Anthony Santi, 41. Ten years ago, after getting his head pounded into the concrete for a minute or more, Zimmerman famously shot and killed...

  • October 17, 2022

    Durham’s In-Your-Face Danchenko Gambit

    In the larger drama we’ll call “Russiagate” Igor Danchenko gets nowhere near top billing. Even today, after his week-long trial, not one American out of ten could identify this FBI informant by name. Fewer still could tell you word ...

  • October 3, 2022

    The Seth Rich Case: The FBI’s Other Laptop Scandal

    This is the tale of two laptops, one tale definitely damaging to the Democrats, one potentially so. What they have in common is that the FBI did its damnedest to bury both. For all the hubbub about the Hunter Biden laptop, there has been little ta...

  • September 30, 2022

    Could the TWA 800 Cover-Up Finally Come Undone?

    A month ago American Thinker published my article on whistleblower William Teele, the ten-year U.S. Navy vet who shared his own perspective on the TWA Flight 800, the 747 that blew up off the coast of Long Island in July 1996. In that Teele was not o...

  • September 27, 2022

    What we know about the man who got Mark Houck arrested

    On Friday, as half of America now knows, two-dozen FBI agents stormed the home of pro-life activist Mark Houck and arrested him in front of his horrified wife and seven children. The charge against him was shoving a man in front of a Planned Parentho...

  • September 26, 2022

    Did the FBI Finally Go Too Far?

    On reading about the Saturday arrest of pro-life activist Mark Houck, I thought the author at this alternative site had to be exaggerating. It struck me as beyond belief that two dozen or so armed FBI agents would swarm the house of a Catholic father...

  • September 22, 2022

    Can the GOP Accommodate Two Rock Stars?

    Fresh from his deft Martha’s Vineyard gambit, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis flew into Kansas on Sunday to rally support for Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt, now running for governor against incumbent Democrat Laura Kelly. Saul Alinsky, the...

  • September 15, 2022

    COVID Fascism Fizzles Out in New Zealand

    Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern (she/her) held such promise. In the spring of 2020, the then 39-year-old New Zealand prime minister emerged on the world stage as the COVID drama’s anti-Trump. Ardern was calm, we were told, where Trump was capr...

  • September 13, 2022

    Wow! Twitter Green Lights Anti-Trans Movement

    In the history of American social movements, September 11 may take on new significance. September 11, 2022, is the day the powers that be allowed LGBWithoutTheT to trend on Twitter. In broad daylight, lesbians and gays disassociated themselves from t...

  • September 9, 2022

    Why 'Educated' Liberal Women Are the Real Threat to Our Republic

    When last Thursday night Joe Biden told America, "Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans" threaten "the very foundations of our republic," he missed the mark.  The real threat comes from the unlikeliest of suspects: educa...

  • August 31, 2022

    Reiner, Klobuchar and the Big Lie of January 6

    “Is it okay to have a conspiracy to get rid of Trump?” host Bill Maher asked guests Rob Reiner and Sen. Amy Klobuchar on his HBO show on Friday. This exchange got considerable online attention. Most of that attention focused on Reiner...

  • August 20, 2022

    Has Wokism Scared Black Students Away from College?

    According to an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education, Black student enrollment in American colleges and universities has declined dramatically in the past ten years, 24 percent in fact, from 2.5 million students in 2010 to 1.9 million in 2020...

  • August 13, 2022

    The Tragic Irony of the Rushdie Stabbing at Chautauqua

    I started getting texts Friday morning from people on the scene at the Chautauqua Institution in Western New York, one from my sister-in-law, an ER nurse at a nearby hospital: “Salman Rushdie was stabbed at Chautauqua, flown to Erie, could not ...

  • August 9, 2022

    And Berger got a $50K fine for stealing classified intel?

    To understand how deep the corruption is at the Department of Justice, and not just at the top, all one needs to do is compare the treatment of former Clinton National Security Advisor Sandy Berger and former President Donald Trump. Whatever...

  • August 8, 2022

    The TWA 800 Whistleblower Is Legit

    In the past few weeks, I have received numerous inquiries about ten-year Navy veteran William Henry Teele III. After years of quietly providing information to me and other investigators into the July 1996 destruction of TWA Flight 800 off the coast o...

  • June 21, 2022

    Netflix, Ron Howard Do Seth Rich a Major Injustice

    “It should have been an open and closed case of a tragic robbing,” writes Gretchen Small in Bustle.com of the 2016 Seth Rich murder, “but what ensued was an alt-right conspiracy theory movement designed to take attention off of Dona...

  • June 13, 2022

    When Dem gun rhetoric gets downright dangerous

    The Democrats' plan to shift the blame for inner-city mayhem from their own self-destructive policies to guns in general, and the AR-15 in particular, reached something of a high-water mark on Saturday. At the Missouri variant of the so-called...

  • April 14, 2022

    Unapologetic Tony Dungy Smokes Out Obama’s Betrayal of Black America

    Tony Dungy, the first black coach ever to win a Super Bowl, might have escaped notice this week had he merely supported Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’s “Responsible Fatherhood Initiative.” His real sin was to explain why. Dungy, ...

  • March 12, 2022

    Squeezing a Trayvon 'correction' out of the New York Times

    Everyone in the media makes mistakes, and I am no exception.  Last week, American Thinker posted an article of mine titled "Why the Washington Post Cannot 'Correct' Its Trayvon Tribute."  The ...

  • February 28, 2022

    The New York Times Hasn’t Always Cared About Ukrainians

    At his CPAC speech on Saturday, former President Donald Trump could not have been clearer in his denunciation of Vladimir Putin. "The Russian attack on Ukraine is appalling,” said Trump. “it's an outrage and an atrocity that shou...

  • February 24, 2022

    A Decade of Deceit and Division: What Trayvon Wrought

    Although he certainly did not intend to, the drugged and despondent 17-year-old who wandered through a failing Florida subdivision on a rainy February night ten years ago Saturday launched a new phase in the American civil rights movement. This wa...

  • December 28, 2021

    The Left (Unwittingly?) Spoofs Itself in Don’t Look Up

    The rumor that the Netflix film, Don’t Look Up, is an allegory about climate change is true. Writer/director Adam McKay, a self-declared democratic socialist and Bernie fan, has admitted as much. In fact, McKay calls climate change “the b...

  • December 18, 2021

    What Spielberg Gets (Surprisingly) Right in West Side Story

    I had serious reservations about the Steven Spielberg version of the film classic West Side Story.  Rumors of wokeness haunted the new movie from the first casting call through to its dismal opening weekend.  I expected to wince t...

  • November 19, 2021

    From George Zimmerman to Kyle Rittenhouse: A Decade of Woke Misrule

    Ten years ago this coming February, George Zimmermann shot and killed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin on a rainy night in Sanford, Florida. Without intending, Zimmerman triggered a dark new phase in the history of progressive America. Beginning with th...

  • November 10, 2021

    My Ringside Seat on a Crooked New Jersey Election

    Watching the shenanigans in the still contested New Jersey gubernatorial election, I have to wonder whether there has ever been a truly honest election in state history. From my own experience, I would say probably not and, as I also learned, there a...

  • October 23, 2021

    Why Is No One Talking About FX’s 'Impeachment' Series?

    Now that I am seven episodes in, I feel confident saying that “Impeachment: American Crime Story,” airing Tuesday evenings on FX, is the fairest and arguably the best real-life political drama Hollywood has ever produced.  What mysti...

  • October 15, 2021

    Bill Ayers, a Familiar Face in the Birth of Critical Race Theory

    After Attorney General Merrick Garland sicced the FBI on unruly parents protesting Critical Race Theory (CRT) at school board meetings, it came to light that Garland had a dog in the fight. That dog is son-in-law Xan Tanner, co-founder of Panorama...

  • October 12, 2021

    School Shootings and Students of Color

    To paraphrase Jeff Foxworthy, if you feel a shiver of excitement when “school shooting” trends on Twitter, you just might be woke. Last Wednesday, Erica -- a nurse and “humanist” -- proved her wokeness in spades. “The...

  • October 5, 2021

    Sopranos Prequel Goes Squishy on the Sixties

    Last weekend, I went to the theater to see the Sopranos prequel, The Many Saints of Newark. I watched with the kind of critical eye an astrophysicist might have brought to Star Wars. At the time of the 1967 Newark riot, the foundational event of t...

  • September 27, 2021

    The Little Café That Almost Could

    A recent story out of Kansas City, the town in which I live, suggests just how eager the Left is to control our lives, right down to the food we eat. The story involves a friendly hole-in-the-wall café whose brave proprietor had had enough. ...

  • September 21, 2021

    How Durham Bombshell Made a ‘Birther’ Out of Me

    Upon reading special counsel John Durham’s 27-page indictment of attorney Michael Sussman, I found myself asking, “Is there anything Perkins Coie lawyers would not do to keep their Democrat clients in power?” Thanks to Durham, we kn...

  • September 18, 2021

    The racially perverse 'as a Texan' Twitter trend

    A student of the media looking for a textbook case of the perverse manipulation of the news by Big Tech and Big Media had to look no further than the coverage of a Thursday evening incident at Carmine’s restaurant in New York City. The head...

  • September 16, 2021

    The Unsung Death of ‘My Body, My Choice’

    As late as 3:43 p.m. on Thursday, September 9, the long-lived mantra of the pro-abortion movement, “My Body, My Choice,” was still showing signs of life. It was at that time, that the White House published the remarks made by Vice-Preside...

  • September 6, 2021

    American Education Is Rotten from Top to Bottom

    In reading the "overview" of Dr. Jill Biden's 2006 doctoral dissertation from the University of Delaware, I am reminded just how rotten, from top to bottom, are America's schools of graduate education.  That a doctor of an...

  • August 17, 2021

    Big Media belatedly catching on to Obama's phoniness

    New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd stirred up something of a tweet storm in leftist quarters last weekend with a hit piece on Barack Obama's super-spreader birthday bash, titled, without subtlety, "Behold Barack Antoinette." ...

  • August 7, 2021

    J'accuse! How Derek Chauvin became America's Dreyfus

    "How flimsy it is!" wrote Emile Zola in his public letter to French president Félix Faure.  "The fact that someone could have been convicted on this charge is the ultimate iniquity.  I defy decent men to read...

  • August 4, 2021

    Obama Birthday Bash to Smash All Known Woke Values

    Update: The New York Times reports: “Due to the new spread of the Delta variant over the past week, the President and Mrs. Obama have decided to significantly scale back the event to include only family and close friends,” Hannah ...

  • July 21, 2021

    Washington Post Gets the Leads for a Bombshell Story

    On July 16, Lori Aratani wrote a lengthy article for the Washington Post detailing the NTSB's decision to destroy the remains of TWA Flight 800, "the Paris-bound jetliner that crashed shortly after takeoff from New York's John F. Kennedy...

  • July 14, 2021

    TWA 800: 25 Years of Deep State Deception

    On July 17, 1996, TWA Flight 800, a Paris-bound 747 out of JFK, blew up off the coast of Long Island. It seemed somehow fitting that James Kallstrom, the public face of the FBI investigation into the plane's destruction, would die two weeks befor...

  • July 12, 2021

    When the Woke Eat Each Other Alive: ESPN Edition

    Back when ESPN was watchable, I confess to having a petite faiblesse for Rachel Nichols.  She was cute and congenial, and — unlike many females broadcasting male sports — she rarely pretended to know more than she did. ...

  • July 7, 2021

    How Barack Obama Begot Gwen Berry

    "I never said that I hated the country,” said Gwen Berry, the world’s most famous hammer thrower -- male, female or non-binary. “All I said was I respect my people enough to not stand or acknowledge something that disrespects t...

  • June 28, 2021

    If Joe Goes, What Next?

    Everywhere other than in Big Media newsrooms, Americans speak openly of President Joe Biden's cognitive decline and wonder whether he can last out his four-year term.  If he cannot last, there are certain things we can be confident will...

  • June 19, 2021

    The Utter Uselessness of Climate Change 'Science'

    As I have learned the hard way, the science behind climate change has no more predictive real-world value than the science behind COVID.  When put to the test, scientists cannot tell you what will happen next year, let alone next century, b...

  • June 12, 2021

    Why Did George W. Betray Team GOP?

    "In 2020 I boldly declared that Trump was the only thing standing between our country, the American people, and socialism.  I turned out to be correct," said George P. Bush in announcing his candidacy for Texas atto...

  • June 9, 2021

    Why Obama's So Defensive of Critical Race Theory

    In an interview with Anderson Cooper that aired Monday on CNN, Barack Obama showed once again how well he has mastered the art of sanctimony. "You would think with all the public policy debates that are taking place right now that the Republi...

  • June 1, 2021

    Barack Obama’s Parallel Russian Universe

    As an admittedly partisan writer, my bias shows up in the subjects I cover, not in the facts I report. I want to know what the other guys know. It is always helpful, often essential. Reporters in the political center and on the left seem to feel n...

  • May 28, 2021

    Just Who Made Obama's Birth Certificate an Issue?

    In his controversial new book on the 2020 election, Battle For The Soul: Inside the Democrats' Campaigns to Defeat Donald Trump. Edward-Isaac Dovere repeats a canard that has become something of a staple of Democratic mythology. According to D...

  • May 22, 2021

    So, Barry, Trump Is a 'Sexist Pig'?

    In his forthcoming book, Battle for the Soul: Inside the Democrats’ Campaigns to Defeat Donald Trump, Edward-Isaac Dovere reveals a few choice words that former president Barack Obama had for his successor, Donald Trump. As reported in the Guar...

  • May 18, 2021

    NY Times ‘Limited Hangout’ on Steele Dossier Spares Obama

    Former CIA agent Howard Hunt introduced a useful phrase into the political lexicon during the Watergate brouhaha -- “limited hangout.” Those two words well describe the recent New York Times article, “Secret Sharers: The Hidden Ties...

  • May 15, 2021

    Floyd Defendant Accuses State of 'Prosecutorial Misconduct'

    Tou Thao, one of the four Minneapolis police officers charged in the “murder” of George Floyd, filed a motion on Wednesday accusing the State of Minnesota of “prosecutorial misconduct stemming from witness coercion.” If Thao...

  • May 10, 2021

    Michelle Claims to 'Live in Fear,' Barack Actually Does

    On Friday’s broadcast of “CBS This Morning,” Michelle Obama made the delusional claim, one among several, that “many of us still live in fear as we go to the grocery store, or walking our dogs, or allowing our children to get ...

  • April 16, 2021

    Where Have You Gone, Atticus Finch?

    In the archives of legal fiction, two characters best embody historic liberal self-perception. One is attorney Atticus Finch of To Kill a Mockingbird fame. The other is Juror #8 in the 1957 film, 12 Angry Men. Today, each is an endangered species. ...

  • April 3, 2021

    Obama and Noah Green had Farrakhan in common

    For about an hour on Good Friday afternoon, 25-year-old Noah Green, the perpetrator of a lethal attack on the nation's Capitol, found himself the day's designated white supremacist. Once the truth emerged that Green was, in fact, not only ...

  • March 22, 2021

    Georgetown takes a knee for something or other

    On Saturday, the entire Georgetown basketball team took a very public knee before its game to Colorado, none of whose players took a knee.  On seeing this, I had to wonder what exactly it was that the team from Bill Clinton's alma mater...

  • February 4, 2021

    A San Francisco Murder Sets Leftists and Social Interest Groups at Odds

    On January 28, while attempting to take a photo of a suspicious vehicle cruising in front of his San Francisco home, 76-year-old private investigator Jack Palladino was grabbed by one of the two men in the car and dragged forty feet before falling ov...

  • January 12, 2021

    President Trump Takes a Hit for the Team

    “The Republican nominee for president will be that candidate who best learns that there is no future in apologizing,” I wrote in a June 10, 2015, column. Six days later Donald Trump descended the escalator at Trump Tower and, in so doing,...

  • December 7, 2020

    PEN America Mocks 1st Amendment with Obama Gala

    On Saturday, I received an email from Stephen Fee, the Communications Director for PEN America, alerting me to a virtual gala celebration on December 8 to honor Barack Obama with its 2020 Voice of Influence Award. Among other topics, Obama will sh...

  • November 30, 2020

    Obama Scolds Hispanic Trump Voters for Not Buying Liberal Lies

    One ungainly paragraph delivered during a Wednesday interview on the "Breakfast Club" encapsulates just about all one needs to know about Barack Obama. "People were surprised about a lot of Hispanic folks who voted for Trump," ...

  • November 18, 2020

    Hypocrisy Alert: Obama Won First Election By Challenging Voter Fraud

    The first question the fawning Scott Pelley of 60 Minutes asked former president Barack Obama during their interview this past Sunday was this: “What is your advice in this moment for President Trump?” Pelley was referring specifically...

  • November 16, 2020

    60 Minutes’ Scarily Ignorant Interview of Barack Obama

    Interviewer Scott Pelley of 60 Minutes supplied the ignorance. He appears to have no more knowledge of what transpired during the past four years than does, say, a Whoopi Goldberg or a Kathy Griffin. Barack Obama supplied the scare. His solution t...

  • November 14, 2020

    Obama Defames 'Millions of Americans' as Racists in New Memoir

    "For millions of Americans spooked by a Black man in the White House," writes Barack Obama in his new memoir, A Promised Land, "Donald Trump promised an elixir for their racial anxiety." Rather than speak for the millions of Am...

  • November 10, 2020

    Shocker: Biden-voting Missouri county preserves Andrew Jackson statues

    In a bit of unexpected good news, the voters of Jackson County, Missouri rejected the appeal of their county executive and sundry other right-thinking people and voted overwhelmingly to keep in place statues of a gallant Andrew Jackson on horseback....

  • November 6, 2020

    Milwaukee Officials Have Some Explaining to Do

    A rumor circulated widely that more people voted in Wisconsin than were registered.  Although not true, it strikes me as an honest mistake.  The originator of the rumor was looking at the registration numbers for 2018.  ...

  • November 5, 2020

    Trump improves Wisconsin vote total by 200,000 and loses?

    Despite four years of a relentless pounding by Big Tech and Big Media, President Trump increased his Wisconsin vote total by more than 200,000 votes over 2016, an increase of nearly 15 percent.  And still he managed to lose? Somethi...

  • November 4, 2020

    Obama Launches New Memoir Without Help of First Mate Ayers

    I know I should be writing about the election, but I think we  could all use some comic relief. The New Yorker has published an excerpt of Obama’s much delayed memoir, A Promised Land, and one particular passage cries out for deconstructio...

  • October 27, 2020

    Media Firemen Scramble to Save Biden Candidacy

    Watching the media scramble these last two weeks to save Joe Biden’s candidacy, I am reminded of a scene in Ray Bradbury’s 1953 dystopian sci-fi classic, Fahrenheit 451, 451 degrees Fahrenheit being the temperature at which paper burns. ...

  • October 22, 2020

    Amazon reverses course on censoring un-woke film What Killed Michael Brown

    "Unfortunately, we have found that your title doesn't meet Prime Video's content quality expectations and is not eligible for publishing on the service at the time," an Amazon spokesperson informed Hoover Institution senior fellow S...

  • October 19, 2020

    Philadelphia: The Perfect Spot for Obama to Resurface

    It makes altogether perfect sense for Barack Obama to make his first in-person campaign stop for Joe Biden in Philadelphia, PA. On at least three occasions, Philadelphia helped save Obama’s own political bacon. The first time came in March 2...

  • October 16, 2020

    Can the Democrats Sell Their Worst Candidate Ever?

    Even before anyone ever heard of Hunter Biden’s laptop, Democrats were facing a marketing challenge unknown in the era of moving images: selling a candidate that no one -- with the possible exception of Jill “Edith Wilson” Biden -- ...

  • October 13, 2020

    The Week Washington Went Third World

    Until early August 2016, the only coups that America experienced happened on movie screens. Without intending, an exhaustive Washington Post article from June 2017 suggests how America’s first serious coup attempt unfolded. The article detai...

  • October 7, 2020

    The Fascist America That Kamala Promises

    I do not use the term “fascist” lightly, but when even the liberal Los Angeles Times opens an article with a paragraph like the one that follows, I think fascist is apt: “California Atty. Gen. Kamala Harris is drawing fire from...

  • October 5, 2020

    Who Will Have Written Obama's New Book? (Not Obama)

    When the first half of Barack Obama's long overdue memoir, Promised Land, is published on November 17, I expect to receive calls like the one I received in the spring of 2011.  That call came from a fellow named Michael Cohen. ...

  • September 28, 2020

    Seth Rich: The Murder Washington Doesn't Want Solved

    On the face of things, the July 2016 murder of Seth Rich had intrigue enough for a full season of House of Cards. Unknown assailants gun down the young DNC data analyst at 4 A.M. on a Washington, D.C., street and take nothing.  Two weeks...

  • September 24, 2020

    What Trump's Nominee Can Expect from a Media 'Cancerous With Dishonor'

    Two years ago, Mark Judge was nearly crushed when the tumbril carrying high school pal Brett Kavanaugh to his intended execution ran him over.  I caught up with Mark this week, and I am happy to report he has recovered from his unhappy stin...

  • September 17, 2020

    How the Underground Press Will Thwart the Media and Re-Elect Donald Trump

    As the saying goes, the difference between the New York Times and the old Soviet Pravda is that Pravda readers knew they were being lied to. To circumvent the Soviet mainstream media, dissidents created what they called the "samizdat," t...

  • September 10, 2020

    Big Brother Bezos May Be Watching

    Let me apologize in advance for a lament that is more than a little self-serving, but as an author, I feel compelled to speak out. I just received an email from Susan Daniels, the Ohio private investigator who first broke the story that Barack Obama ...

  • September 7, 2020

    President Trump Makes One Sorry Fascist

    “Of course we’ll have fascism,” legendary Huey Long was reported to have said. “We’ll have it under the guise of anti-fascism.” Today, of course, we see the confirmation of Long’s prediction on America’...

  • September 3, 2020

    How Undercover Journalism Turned the Tide in 2016

    In mid-October 2016, while on business in New York, I swung over to New Jersey to visit with my relatives.  At dinner that evening, my brother, then in in the early stages of TDS — it has since metastasized; pray for him — was g...

  • August 28, 2020

    New York's Big Brother Has Gone Bananas

    In reading the New York State travel advisory, I am reminded of one of my favorite scenes from a Woody Allen movie, this one from Bananas.  Having ascended to power, the dictatorial rebel leader Esposito announces his new rules for San Marc...

  • August 24, 2020

    What many Catholics don't know about voting

    One of the more distressing sights in recent years has been to pull into a Catholic Church parking lot on a Sunday morning and see a bumper sticker for Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton or some local politician who also supports abortion or its euphemi...

  • August 21, 2020

    Dissecting Obama's Delusional DNC Speech

    Barack Obama's speech at the DNC's misbegotten cyber-convention worked only for those Americans, including most in the media, who paid no serious attention to the eight years of Obama's presidency.  As I document in my book Unma...

  • August 18, 2020

    Obama: 'I Make Love to Men Daily'

    In composing my new book, Unmasking Obama: The Fight to Tell the True Story of a Failed Presidency,  I thought hard about whether I should address the question of Barack Obama's sexuality. Two considerations persuaded me to pursue the iss...

  • August 17, 2020

    How to shock your woke kin out of Marxism

    In reading historian Paul Kengor's stunning new book on the demonic roots of the socialist movement — The Devil and Karl Marx — I came across one small section of the book that has the potential to deprogram the young Marxists in...

  • August 10, 2020

    Remember When Obama Scolded Cuomo Over Ebola?

    “More than anything, this pandemic has fully, finally torn back the curtain on the idea that so many of the folks in charge know what they’re doing,” said Barack Obama during an online commencement address to graduates of historical...

  • August 3, 2020

    Why the Media Chose Not to Hear When Trump Called Obama a Literary Fraud

    Barack Obama, the writer, is stumbling again.  Even the New York Times acknowledges that the former president is "anguishing over the publication date of his long-awaited memoir." Others are anguishing even more than he. "...

  • July 27, 2020

    Hanging with the Silenced Majority in Covid Country

    Having driven this past month from my home in Kansas City, Missouri, to my summer digs in Chautauqua County, New York, to my annual family reunion in my home state of New Jersey, I can confirm that this is easily the stupidest period in American hist...

  • July 17, 2020

    The New York Times Has Been Ridiculous for a Long Time

    The much discussed resignation letter from New York Times op-ed editor Bari Weiss was written in the metaphorical equivalent of Braille.  It allowed even the blind to see what the rest of us have known for years: the Times is a joke. Writes W...

  • July 14, 2020

    How Affirmative Action Screwed Up Michelle Obama

    In 1985, Michelle Obama presented her senior thesis in the sociology department of Princeton University.  Although Michelle drew no such conclusion, the thesis is a stunning indictment of affirmative action.  Those who benefited f...

  • July 6, 2020

    Bring Me the Head of Harry Truman

    Rarely does an author capture a truth as well as L.P. Hartley did in the immortal opening sentence of his novel, The Go-Between. Said Hartley for the ages: “The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.” This is a messa...

  • June 30, 2020

    Time to Expose the Fraud That Launched BLM

    On Black Lives Matter's website, the organization's radical founders trace the creation of their movement "to the acquittal of Trayvon Martin's murderer, George Zimmerman." Had those founders paid any attention to the trial, ...

  • June 21, 2020

    The Father’s Day Obama Betrayed Black America

    On Father’s Day 2008, candidate Barack Obama made his most honest speech on race, maybe his only halfway honest speech on race. The media barely noticed. The site was the Apostolic Church of God in Chicago. From the pulpit Obama spoke to the...

  • June 15, 2020

    The Floyd Riots Mark a Century of Communist Agitation

    On the evening of June 10, in the midst of an impromptu desecration festival in Portsmouth, Virginia, the statue of a Confederate soldier was yanked off its pedestal and crowned the unfortunate Chris Green, who stood underneath. Green, now in a me...

  • June 1, 2020

    I'm Not Watching the Minnesota Movie

    I have not watched any of the videos out of Minneapolis or listened to any of the commentary.  I have not watched because I resent having to watch only one genre over and over again.  This is the genre in which a white antagonist,...

  • May 25, 2020

    The GOP's Unholy Assault on Iowa's Steve King

    The headline of a recent Baltimore Jewish Times article reads as follows: "Jewish Republicans Tackle a Thorny Question: What To Do About Republicans Like Steve King?" A saner question might be, "Why should Jewish Republicans —...

  • May 11, 2020

    Seth Rich Refuses to Stay Buried

    “I am reliably informed that the NSA or its partners intercepted at least some of the communications between Mr. Rich and Wikileaks,” wrote attorney Ty Clevenger in a startling letter last week to Richard Grennell, Interim Director of Nat...

  • May 5, 2020

    How Michael Flynn Became Target Zero in Obama’s Russia Collusion Plot

    If there was any doubt that Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn was Target Zero in the Russia Collision conspiracy or that President Barack Obama was an active co-conspirator, presidential counselor Kellyanne Conway put those doubts to bed last week. “I ...

  • April 28, 2020

    1933 Film Shows Left’s Ageless Fondness for Fascism

    Like many Americans, I have watched too many movies during this seemingly unending stretch of glorified house arrest. Many of these films I have found on Turner Classic Movies. Even back in the good old days, when I was a free citizen of the Unite...

  • April 15, 2020

    Virtue signaling in the time of corona

    Last week, the Missouri University (MU) Faculty Council met -- one presumes via Internet -- and showed how little its race-obsessed members had learned in the five years since the campus’s 2015 multicultural meltdown. “MU Faculty Counc...

  • April 14, 2020

    Zimmerman Prosecutors Deny the Undeniable As Lawsuit Proceeds

    George Zimmerman's lawsuit saga is unfolding though the Florida court system in the form of depositions and a powerful but little known tool called "Requests for Admissions." Under Florida Law, a plaintiff can submit a list of up to ...

  • April 2, 2020

    March Madness 2020: Day-by-Day

    On Facebook, a more civil medium than Twitter, I chronicled the passage of this unusual month of March without any idea at the beginning how mad it would actually get towards the end. So much has happened so quickly I thought it might be worth a summ...

  • March 24, 2020

    Reflections on a Century of Junk Science

    On Saturday evening I drove to a local pizza joint to pick up a pizza. This was the only way to get pizza. In Kansas City, all bars and restaurants have been closed for a week. During the last few weeks, I had made a point of not watching or follo...

  • March 24, 2020

    Finally, a Beltway insider who gets Trump

    For a Republican, it is hard to be more of a D.C. insider than James Rosebush.  Rosebush was a deputy assistant to President Reagan, the chief of staff to first lady Nancy Reagan, and a senior adviser at the White House.  As the C...

  • March 5, 2020

    There is Nothing ‘Loony’ About Bill Ayers as Obama’s Muse

    This past week several people called my attention to a post by Scott Johnson on his influential PowerLine blog that addressed the literary relationship between Barack Obama and his radical friend, Bill Ayers.       I...

  • February 7, 2020

    Buttigieg blames Trayvon death on 'white supremacy'

    Hoping to fan racial flames in his direction before the South Carolina primary, Pete Buttigieg tweeted out his support for Trayvon Martin on the occasion of what would have been Martin's 25th birthday, February 5. "Trayvon Martin wou...

  • February 4, 2020

    The Most Egregious Series of 'Corrupt Acts' Ever

    “The evidence points in the direction of the president inviting Ukraine to engage in the corrupt acts of investigating a US political opponent,” House manager Adam Schiff told the U.S. Senate about a thousand times last week. A master ...

  • February 4, 2020

    Remember when Obama confused Kansas City and St. Louis?

    The Twitter world is all atwitter.  In a tweet congratulating the Chiefs, President Trump wrote, "You represented the great state of Kansas and, in fact, the entire USA, so very well." In fact, the Chiefs do represent Kansas....

  • January 10, 2020

    Ukrainian 752 Shoot-Down Mirrors Fate of TWA 800

    Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau is saying out loud what others have been thinking since the news broke that Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 crashed soon after taking off from the airport in Tehran — namely, that "the plane...

  • January 6, 2020

    Hey, AT&T, Flagrant Racism and Sexism Are 'Not OK'

    One of the several downsides in watching too much football this past weekend was watching too many TV commercials. And although I had grown used to the “stupid white man” trope, now a staple of comic advertising, I was unprepared for AT...

  • December 24, 2019

    Isikoff, Hosenball and the Media-Deep State War on Truth

    As the media-deep state Russia Hoax unravels, two journalists deserve special attention: Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball. Isikoff, now chief investigative correspondent for Yahoo News, was the first to break the story that the FBI was investigatin...

  • December 18, 2019

    Obama 'Wingman' Holder Calls AG Barr 'Nakedly Partisan'

    In a Washington Post op-ed Barack Obama’s attorney general Eric Holder call Bill Barr “so nakedly partisan” he is “unfit” to serve as President Trump’s attorney general. As we’d say in New Jersey, ...

  • December 11, 2019

    Bruce Swartz, Textbook Swamp Dweller

    The Inspector General’s Report from the Department of Justice (DOJ) features a heretofore unheralded costar by the name of Bruce Swartz, the assistant attorney general in the Criminal Division. Swartz was also the supervisor of the feckless Bru...

  • December 4, 2019

    Why Your Sons Refuse to Read

    A few years back, my friend Mike McMullen and I were driving to Oklahoma for a seriously incorrect weekend of eating, drinking, and shooting, when Mike posed a question.  He asked if I had time to take a look at a novel he was working on. ...

  • November 14, 2019

    How Journalists Became Fahrenheit 451–Style 'Firemen'

    "The average reporter we talk to is 27 years old, and their only reporting experience consists of being around political campaigns. That's a sea change. They literally know nothing." –Barack Obama foreign policy adviser, Ben Rhode...

  • November 8, 2019

    How Fusion GPS Saved Planned Parenthood’s Bacon

    In a federal court in San Francisco, the Planned Parenthood Federation of America is currently suing the Center for Medical Progress (CMP) for illegally taping videos and racketeering, among other crimes. Founded by David Daledien, the CMP nearly bro...

  • October 26, 2019

    Will the Miami Herald Step Up and Save Mainstream Journalism?

    As intended, my October 23 article, “Why Did the Miami Herald Abandon Journalism,” caught the attention of the editors of that venerable newspaper. Now that I have their attention, I would like them to address a question that only they...

  • October 23, 2019

    Why Did the Miami Herald Abandon Journalism?

    For nearly a year now I have been consulting with filmmaker Joel Gilbert on his book and film project, each called The Trayvon Hoax: Unmasking the Witness Fraud that Divided America. From the beginning, I have been impressed by Gilbert’s dilige...

  • October 1, 2019

    No One Noticed When Clinton and Obama Abused Whistleblowers

    Here are two unfortunate realities: the first is that whistleblowing becomes virtuous only when a Republican is the one being whistled on; the second is that deep state Democrats have a habit of manipulating whistleblower laws when it suits their pur...

  • September 20, 2019

    The Great Oversight in the NY Times Kavanaugh Smear

    New York Times reporters Robin Pogrebin and Kate Kelly have had a deservedly rough week.  The summary of their new book, The Education of Brett Kavanaugh, published in the Times last Saturday, has not been well received, even on the le...

  • September 16, 2019

    An Interview with The Trayvon Hoax Director Joel Gilbert

    Hollywood film director Joel Gilbert will hold a press conference and film screening today, September 16, at 1 PM at the National Press Club in Washington, DC for his new film and book, The Trayvon Hoax: Unmasking the Witness Fraud that Divided Ameri...

  • September 9, 2019

    The Trayvon Hoax That Divided America Is About to Be Exposed

    On Monday. September 16, Joel Gilbert will preview his new documentary, “The Trayvon Hoax,” in the 500-seat Ballroom of the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. The screening begins at 1 p.m. Admission is free, and Gilbert is encouragi...

  • July 27, 2019

    Who wrote the Mueller Report?

    It was in the pages of the American Thinker in October 2008 that I made the first in-depth case for Bill Ayers's involvement in the writing of Barack Obama's Dreams from My Father.  Given...

  • June 11, 2019

    African-American Candidates Polling at 1 Percent in Iowa

    One day, black Democrats will wake up and say, "We've been had." For a half century, African Americans have been giving Democrats a huge majority of their votes in national elections--91 percent for Hillary in 2016, 90 percent in the 20...

  • May 22, 2019

    Why did Trump hold a rally in this small Pennsylvania town?

    If there was a reason President Donald Trump chose the small Pennsylvania town of Montoursville to hold a campaign rally, no one in the media is saying what it is.  In the absence of any answers, let me suggest one, admittedly more speculat...

  • May 16, 2019

    No Wonder the Post Hid Obama's Red Mentor

    In August 2008, back when it mattered, the Washington Post ran a 10,000-word article by its Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter David Maraniss titled, “Though Obama Had to Leave to Find Himself, It Is Hawaii That Made His Rise Possible.” For ...

  • April 30, 2019

    Son, It Was Obama We Journalists Had to Fear

    “I was driving my then 11-year-old son somewhere, probably soccer practice, when he burst into tears and asked me, ‘is Donald Trump going to put you in prison?'” So claimed the embarrassingly serious Oli...

  • April 15, 2019

    The Left Officially Loses its Mind

    This past Thursday night, Daily Wire writer Michael Knowles came to speak at the University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC). A mob of thirty or so students and hangers-on heckled him, and one sprayed him with what proved to be a nontoxic substance. Wh...

  • April 6, 2019

    On Joe McCarthy, Washington Post Gets It Embarrassingly Wrong

    The headline of Jonathan Zimmerman's article in the Washington Post, "How Trump finally turned Republicans against McCarthyism," alerted me to the possibility that Zimmerman has never spoken to a Republican in the wild. The subhead, ...

  • April 5, 2019

    Macron comes out swinging against French 'fake news,' blames Trump, Bannon

    The headline on France 24, as translated, reads, "French political parties organize to counter French fake news."  In reality, "party" would seem more accurate than "parties," since the truth squad in question ...

  • March 18, 2019

    Malia, Michelle, Barack and the College Admissions Scandal

    What shocked even the old timers in my hometown was that Mayor Hugh Addonizio, the man who gave me my Eagle Scout Award, would accept kickbacks in cash right across his desk. They were troubled less by his criminality -- that was expected in Newark -...

  • March 14, 2019

    Ilhan Omar's jaw-dropping doublethink on dual allegiances

    Somalia-born congresswoman Ilhan Omar has made more waves in two months than most members of Congress do in a lifetime.  Indeed, were it not for the equally telegenic congresswoman Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, Omar would be the clear frontrunne...

  • March 4, 2019

    Remembering Obama’s bogus Selma speech

    Along with some other presidential hopefuls, Hillary Clinton spoke in Selma, Alabama, on Sunday to commemorate the famed civil right march that put that city on the map. Hillary was not the first politician to conjure up an ersatz southern accent ...

  • February 18, 2019

    For the Record, Obama Made Mincemeat of the Constitution

    Good constitutional arguments can be made for and against President Trump's evocation of emergency powers to address the crisis at our southern border.  But the notion that such a declaration would encourage a future Democratic presiden...

  • February 6, 2019

    Gov. Northam and the Death of Irreverence

    Ralph Northam, governor, at least for the moment, of the Commonwealth of Virginia, should stop apologizing. To clarify, he should at least stop apologizing for the photo in his 1984 medical school yearbook photo showing one person in blackface standi...

  • January 22, 2019

    What the right should learn from Covington Catholic flap

    The first question any conservative should have asked himself about a picture of a high school kid supposedly harassing an old Indian guy beating a drum was, "Why is this image newsworthy?" The image was newsworthy because the left shape...

  • December 18, 2018

    The FBI Manufactured '302s' before Mueller

    The FBI calls its report of a given interview a “302.” This Luddite insistence on a written summary in the age of easy voice recording opens the door to all manner of misinterpretation. In the case of the 302 that recreated the initial...

  • December 4, 2018

    Jihadis, feminists rally against 'Baby, It's Cold Outside'

    An inveterate fan of Christmas music, I added to my Sirius presets the Hallmark Radio Channel – Channel 70, if you are looking – the day after Thanksgiving.  I have been rotating this channel, which plays standards from the Amer...

  • November 30, 2018

    The Nerve: Obama Takes Credit for America’s Energy Independence

    "Suddenly America is like the biggest oil producer, the biggest gas producer,” said Barack Obama in an impromptu remark at Rice University on Tuesday. “That was me, people." After a minute of additional economic boasts, Obama in...

  • November 26, 2018

    The Escalating Assault on Citizen Journalism

    In December 1997, after the FBI arrested independent journalist James Sanders for investigating the destruction of TWA Flight 800, not a single reporter at a post-arraignment press conference managed to frame even one First Amendment question. In ...

  • October 16, 2018

    Dr. Ford's Willfully Tangled Web

    It was not Shakespeare, but Sir Walter Scott who wrote, "O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive!"  During her testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee on September 27, Christine...

  • October 8, 2018

    The Left’s Dark Turn

    In October 1991, future Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano ushered in a bold new era in American political history. At the time a Democratic activist and an attorney in private practice, Napolitano was, for no good reason, monitoring the...

  • October 1, 2018

    Remembering My First Mugging

    The racial/ethnic language in this piece is precisely what was used at the time. My apologies in advance if it offends anyone, especially my Italian cousins and black nephews. In the aftermath of the Judge Brett Kavanaugh hearing on Thursday, ther...

  • September 7, 2018

    What Woodward Saw in the Clinton White House – and What He Missed

    "It's very depressing.  You want to read a depressing book, this is it," said one critic of a book by Bob Woodward.  "It's a sad, horrible story with all the sordid details that I guess people will just, you...

  • September 4, 2018

    Mueller, Comey, and the Deep State Rescue of Sandy Berger

    In April 2005, a Republican-led Department of Justice did something quite unusual. After catching a Democratic operative stealing and destroying highly relevant classified documents, the DoJ punished him as though he had stolen the Snickers bars from...

  • August 20, 2018

    First They Came for Alex Jones

    This past week, the nation’s newspapers took collective umbrage at being called “the enemy of the people” by President Trump. “That is what Nazis called Jews,” gasped the editors of the Kansas City Star.  “...

  • August 1, 2018

    Paramount Owes America an Apology for Jay-Z's Trayvon Series

    On Monday evening, the Paramount Networks aired the first part of a six-part documentary series on the death of Trayvon Martin called Rest in Power: The Trayvon Martin Story. If multimedia impresario Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter had chosen to te...

  • July 17, 2018

    Strzok Farce Shows Obstacles to Opening TWA 800 Case

    On July 17, 1996, 22 years ago today, a missile or missiles blew TWA Flight 800 out of the sky off the south coast of Long Island.  The plane out of JFK was on its way to Paris.  All 230 souls on board, 53 of them TWA employees, d...

  • July 9, 2018

    Is It Time to Revive the Epithet 'Baby-Killer'?

    For the raging left of America, it was just another day, another couple of incidents – one on CNN, one in a San Antonio Whataburger.  In both cases, the person attacked was put on the defensive.  Shocked by the intensity of ...

  • June 30, 2018

    Jay-Z puts fatwa on George Zimmerman's head, media mum

    In what may be the most reckless bit of leftist posturing yet, billionaire multimedia mogul Jay-Z has none too subtly asked his followers to kill George Zimmerman, the man acquitted in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin five years ago. Jay-Z app...

  • June 18, 2018

    The Anti-Profiling Movement Is Killing Black Pedestrians

    From time to time, the media tell the truth about issues that have a racial edge, usually by accident.  Such was the case in February of this year, when a local TV news crew visited a largely black St. Louis neighborhood to follow...

  • June 9, 2018

    Why President Trump Ought Not Pardon Muhammad Ali

    President Donald Trump, we are told, is thinking "very seriously" about pardoning the late boxing great Muhammad Ali.  While the move may have some useful public relations advantages, it further inflates a mythic balloon that shou...

  • May 29, 2018

    A Bloody New Stage in Ireland's Self-Mutilation

    "A nation that kills its own children has no future," said Pope John Paul II. If that be true, the Republic of Ireland signed away not only its future on Friday, but also the last vestiges of what had been the most distinctive and mora...

  • May 22, 2018

    How the FBI, CIA, and NYT Collaborated to Sway the 1996 Election

    The idea is floated frequently that the still nameless Russian collusion scandal is "worse than Watergate."  It may well be, but that comparison overlooks a more useful parallel. The gold standard of government conspiracy remai...

  • May 15, 2018

    Swedes lead Bethune Cookman to 'minority' golf title

    "The Bethune Cookman Men were led by medalist Marcus Sundlof, of Sweden (65-70-71 206), who bested his teammate Christian Hovstadius for the honor by seven strokes." So reads one of the more revealing sentences in a PGA website arti...

  • May 8, 2018

    Why the Media Are Mum About Comedy Central's 2011 Trump Roast

    In March 2011, the cable channel Comedy Central staged a celebrity roast of Donald Trump.  Hosted by Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane, the show featured a crew of B- and C-list entertainers mocking each other and, of course, Trump, the su...

  • April 20, 2018

    How I got Starbucked at a Hampton Inn

    Starbucked verb, past participle Asked to leave a commercial establishment because one is not paying for the services he or she is using. Ten years ago, I got Starbucked at a Hampton Inn in West Virginia.  I found the experience su...

  • April 4, 2018

    As the Knowledge Gap Grows, so Does the Civility Gap

    At the end of his excellent -- and lengthy -- article in the National Review, “The Real Collusion Story,” Michael Doran describes the dilemma that now faces Hillary Clinton supporters in high places.  If they are to honor the...

  • March 13, 2018

    Dems Once Thought It Cool to Call Out Journalists, Even Threaten Them

    The media, the Democrats, and a few NeverTrumps are in a tizzy these past few days because President Trump dared to call NBC's Chuck Todd "a sleeping son of a b‑‑‑‑" and The New York Times' Maggie Haberman a "Hillary flunky....

  • February 26, 2018

    Incompetence Wasn't the Problem in Broward County

    No one who follows the blogging collective known as the "Conservative Treehouse" will dispute my claim that its most prominent blogger, "Sundance" by name, is America's best reporter.  I got to know Sundance doing re...

  • February 20, 2018

    Did the Progressive 'Broward County Solution' Cost 17 Student Lives?

    "We're not compromising school safety.  We're really saving the lives of kids," boasted Michaelle Valbrun-Pope, executive director of Student Support Initiatives for Broward County Public Schools, in August 2017. Valbru...

  • February 18, 2018

    Mexican Nationals Meddled and Colluded in the 2016 Election

    Special Counsel Robert Mueller laid out the law clearly in his indictment of numerous Russian nationals and groups for their attempts to interfere in the 2016 election. As the indictment notes, the U.S. Department of Justice administers the Foreig...

  • February 3, 2018

    Jamie Gorelick Knew What Team She Was On

    One of the faux scandals to have emerged in this crazy past week was the revelation that in December, President Trump allegedly asked his deputy attorney general, Rod Rosenstein, “Are you on my team?” Opined a trio of reporters from CN...

  • January 15, 2018

    Obama, Trump, and the Silliness of Spielberg's The Post

    "The way they lied," says the Ben Bradlee character in Steven Spielberg's preposterous new film, The Post, "those days have to be over.  We have to be the check on their power.  If we don't hold them ac...

  • December 11, 2017

    No One Ever Drowned in Roy Moore's Car

    In 1990, when liberal journalists still had some sense of obligation to the truth, Michael Kelly wrote the following for GQ: As [Carla] Gaviglio enters the room, the six-foot-two, 225-plus-pound [Sen. Ted] Kennedy grabs the five-foot-three, 103-...

  • November 30, 2017

    Not All Stings Work: On the War James O'Keefe Is Winning

    In his compelling new book, Blue on Blue, Charles Campisi, chief of the NYPD's Internal Affairs Bureau, tells how he was able to dramatically reform the bureau and improve the quality of NYPD policing.  Campisi instituted what he called ...

  • November 20, 2017

    Don't Put Clarence Thomas In with the Bad Boys

    In the wake of the Harvey Weinstein revelations, Anita Hill's star is shining brighter than it has since the riveting Hill-Thomas hearings in 1991.  "Hill gave voice to the silent indignities endured by women," wrote Jonathan Capeh...

  • October 13, 2017

    No Documents in Obama Library? No Mystery There.

    The Fox News headline sums up the issue at hand: "No Obama documents in Obama library? Historians puzzled by Chicago center plans." The article continues, "The Obama Foundation is taking an unconventional approach to the presidenti...

  • October 9, 2017

    Harvey Weinstein and the Slow-Motion Theft of American Culture

    "I cannot be more remorseful about the people I hurt and I plan to do right by all of them,” wrote movie mogul Harvey Weinstein upon being busted for all manner of sexual predations, before adding this only-in-Hollywood non-sequitur, ...

  • August 28, 2017

    Want a Pass from the Media? Call Yourself 'Mohammed'

    Some crime stories the media relish. Others they resist covering. In February of this year, a drunken peckerwood named Adam Purinton shot and killed an Indian engineer in suburban Kansas City thinking the man was an Iranian. The media nationwide ran ...

  • July 12, 2017

    In Search of Nelson DeMille's TWA 800 Video

    Nelson DeMille’s bestselling novel. Nightfall, opens on July 17, 1996, with a steamy encounter on a Long Island beach. The man and women involved decide to videotape their coupling. In the process, they inadvertently capture the destruction of ...

  • June 22, 2017

    Progressives No Longer Burn Books; They 'Recycle' Them

    Mike Szydlowski, science coordinator for the Columbia, Missouri, Public Schools district, knew exactly what to do with a copy of an unwanted book he received in the mail. According to the Columbia Missourian, he “promptly recycled it.”...

  • May 18, 2017

    So When Exactly Did Bill Ayers and Barack Obama Meet?

    In his massive new biography about Barack Obama's pre-presidential years, Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama, Pulitzer Prize-winner David Garrow makes hash out of the lie that preserved Obama's candidacy in 2008.  That said, he...

  • May 15, 2017

    New Bio Scrambles to Protect Obama's Literary Rep

    "I've written two books," candidate Barack Obama told a crowd of teachers in Virginia in July of 2008.  The crowd applauded.  "I actually wrote them myself." In his massive new biography about Obama's pre-pres...

  • May 10, 2017

    New Obama Bio Is Not Just Exhausting; It’s Insulting

    “Dreams from My Father was not a memoir or an autobiography;” writes Pulitzer Prize-winner David Garrow, “it was instead, in multitudinous ways, without any question a work of historical fiction.” Garrow makes this claim, i...

  • April 23, 2017

    Remembering Earth Day Founding Father and Girlfriend-Composter Ira Einhorn

    With Earth Day come and gone, I could no evidence of public recognition for one of the holiday's founding fathers, the only slightly atypical Ira Einhorn, the soi-disant "Unicorn." In the way of background, the first formal Earth Day...

  • April 21, 2017

    A Stunning School Sex Scandal the Media Refuse to Notice

    On April 15, Jackson County, Missouri, prosecutors charged James R. Green Jr., 52, with six counts of second-degree statutory sodomy. Green was a teacher and coach at a middle school in the suburban North Kansas City School District. Green’s vi...

  • April 3, 2017

    Politico Absolves Gorelick for Instituting the Wall

    In something of a puff piece, Politico’s Annie Karni largely exonerates Democratic attorney Jamie Gorelick of the seemingly unpardonable sin of representing Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner as they work their way through federal ...

  • February 28, 2017

    The Day the New York Times Lost All Credibility

    “We strongly protest the exclusion of the New York Times and the other news organizations,” Times editor Dean Baquet said in a statement last Friday after his publication was excluded from a White House briefing. “Free med...

  • January 13, 2017

    Time for a Look Back at Buzzfeed Ben Smith’s Biggest Fail

    See also: Ben Smith and the Memory Hole Buzzfeed editor Ben Smith has had a rough week. As the man who decided to publish the “secret dossier” about Donald Trump’s alleged hijinks in Moscow, he has suffered the ultimate indignit...

  • January 11, 2017

    Jared Kushner, Beware of Jamie Gorelick

    More than a few of my Washington allies noticed a seemingly unremarkable bit of news in a Monday Washington Post article that they thought I ought to see. The article concerned Jared Kushner’s appointment as adviser to his father-in-law Donald ...

  • January 3, 2017

    Willie Horton: A Fake News Story That Refuses to Die

    In an otherwise observant Politico article, “The Death of Clintonism,” Todd Purdum unwittingly reminded conservative readers why they distrust the major media. For the article, Purdum interviewed Elaine Kamarck, a senior domestic polic...

  • December 8, 2016

    President Obama Should Free Officer Slager

    As a kid, when I got up in the morning, there was no more welcome a sight than a box of donuts on the kitchen table.  Of course, I liked to eat donuts, but that was not the reason I welcomed their arrival.  No, what the donuts told me was t...

  • December 2, 2016

    The ‘Fake News’ Con: A Case Study

    The media have found a creative new way to explain away Hillary’s Clinton’s crushing defeat and their own humiliation. They have dubbed the agent of their mutual undoing “fake news” and talk about the phenomenon as though it m...

  • November 28, 2016

    Trump, the Times, and the Coming Eco-Apocalypse

    As quickly became clear in last week’s skittish interview do with Donald Trump, the top dogs at the New York Times worry more about rising sea levels than they do about shrinking circulation. The Times hysteric-in-chief, Thomas Friedman, sou...

  • October 26, 2016

    How ‘Convicted Criminal’ James O’Keefe Came to Be ‘Discredited’

    Investigative reporter James O’Keefe is admittedly a repeat offender. Over and over again he has committed old-fashioned gumshoe journalism. Worse, he has gone after targets grown fat, soft, and corrupt from years of media protection. In t...

  • October 24, 2016

    Think You Know How Bad the Clintons Are?

    "The White House is like a subway. You have to put in coins to open the gates." Such were the immortal words of one Johnny Chung, who admitted to a Senate committee in 1997 that he funneled $100,000 from the Chinese military to the Democ...

  • October 20, 2016

    Hillary’s big fat lie on late-term abortion

    Having reviewed the records of the late and unlamented George Tiller, I can assure readers that Hillary Clinton absolutely misrepresented the reality of late-term abortion.  In fact, roughly 95 percent of the late-term abortions performed by Til...

  • October 15, 2016

    TWA 800: Thank God for C-SPAN!

    This Saturday at 8:45 p.m. and Sunday at 10 p.m., on C-SPAN’s "Book-TV", a national TV audience will get to see, unedited, my take on the fate of TWA Flight 800.  In truth, the story should have been on every network. My book,...

  • October 12, 2016

    The Man Who Taught Hillary How to Shred Haunts Wikileaks Dump

    “Before I begin,” Hillary Clinton told an audience at the Brookings Institute in December 2015, “I want to acknowledge the loss of a beloved member of our foreign policy family, Sandy Berger.” In fact, Berger appears repeat...

  • September 30, 2016

    Hill on Bill’s Women: 'We Reached Out to Them'

    In a halfway honest front-page article Thursday, the Washington Post posed the following question in the headline, “Enabler or family defender? How Hillary Clinton responded to husband’s accusers.” I say “halfway” be...

  • September 28, 2016

    Uh, Hillary, Your Hubby Caused the 2008 Recession

    On the debate stage Monday night, Hillary Clinton smugly repeated the big lie that Democrats have been telling with something close to impunity since 2008. “We had the worst financial crisis, the Great Recession, the worst since the 1930s,...

  • September 23, 2016

    The Lie That Launched Black Lives Matter

    The Black Lives Matter movement began as a hashtag in July 2013 immediately after the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin. Although the movement would be reinforced along the way by any number of lies -- “Hands...

  • September 12, 2016

    I’m Deplorable and I’m Proud

    Friday night, Hillary Clinton said out loud what our progressive friends have long been thinking. It may cost her the election. Half of Donald Trump’s supporters, claimed Hillary, were merely anxious about the future. The other half belonged...

  • September 12, 2016

    Hillary’s Health Is a Media Scandal

    The Politico article on Hillary’s health scare begins with the line, "Hillary Clinton’s health -- long the obsession of conspiracy theorists -- emerged Sunday as a legitimate campaign issue." A Washington Post column by Chris...

  • September 6, 2016

    New York Times Can’t Stop Pushing the Myth of Obama’s Literary Genius

    In a Sunday New York Times article, oddly insensitive to the would-be socialists who comprise the Times readership, reporter Gardiner Harris fantasized about how much money Barack and Michelle might pocket from their post-White House memoirs. ...

  • August 29, 2016

    TWA 800: My Improbable Lunch with the Chairman of the NTSB

    If you had told me on the morning of July 7 that I would have lunch on July 8 with the chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board, I would have likely countered with tales of flying pigs or Hamlet-writing monkeys. I knew the odds.  ...

  • August 26, 2016

    ‘No fire’ this time, either, Hillary?

    On Wednesday evening, CNN’s Anderson Cooper actually asked Hillary Clinton a tough question. “Why was it okay for the Clinton Foundation to accept foreign donations when you were secretary of state,” said Cooper, “but it would...

  • August 22, 2016

    Hillary’s New and Improved ‘Communication Stream of Conspiracy Commerce’

    Last Wednesday, on MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow Show, Hillary Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook revived a weary '90s-era theme, namely that any attack on someone named Clinton is, by its very nature, a “conspiracy theory.” In the...

  • August 15, 2016

    One ‘Conspiracy Theory’ Trump Needs to Push

    Playing a coveted role in the most one-sided assault in the history of political journalism, NBC News ran an article last week that managed -- in the headline -- to insult both the candidate and his base, “Trump's Conspiracy Theories Aren...

  • August 8, 2016

    The Anti-Trump Right's Sad Quest for Respectability

    Today I received a fundraising letter from conservative comic writer P.J. O'Rourke.  On the envelope, above a caricature of O'Rourke, is one of his more celebrated quotes: "Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey...

  • August 3, 2016

    TWA 800: Calling Agent Bongardt, Your Nation Needs You

    It has been four weeks since my book, TWA 800: The Crash, The Cover-Up, The Conspiracy, debuted. Despite a two-week media hiatus due to the conventions, I continue to receive one or two new leads a day, many from inside the investigation. I would ...

  • July 24, 2016

    New info on TWA 800 disaster

    Since the publication of my book, TWA 800: The Crash, The Cover-Up, The Conspiracy, three weeks ago I have been receiving insights from people with new information on a daily basis. Those who wish to contact me can do though my website cashill.com. W...

  • July 21, 2016

    Did Someone Mention ‘Obama’ and ‘Plagiarism’?

    I have been on the road the last several days so I have not had the chance to watch the Republican national convention. From what I have read, however, I get the sense that the media are troubled that Melania Trump might have lifted a phrase or two f...

  • July 11, 2016

    The Extraordinary Perils of the Ordinary Cop

    Imagine you are an officer in a perceived threat environment with just seconds to make a decision. You pull the trigger, and an unarmed black man lies dead. Numerous “excellent” eyewitnesses, “mainly professional,” provide ...

  • July 5, 2016

    Hillary, Gorelick, and the Corruption of the TWA 800 Case

    As I was writing my new book on TWA Flight 800 --TWA 800: The Crash, The Cover-Up, The Conspiracy, now available wherever you buy books -- I wondered how Hillary Clinton’s success would affect the book’s. On the up side, if Hillary wer...

  • June 20, 2016

    TWA 800: Jim Kallstrom’s Road to Redemption

    When I see former FBI New York honcho Jim Kallstrom appear on Fox News, I see a tortured soul. As boldly honest as he has been on the subject of Islamic terrorism, this once honorable man has lived a lie for the last twenty years on the subject of TW...

  • June 14, 2016

    TWA 800: How the CIA Hijacked the FBI Investigation

    Within hours of the crash of TWA Flight 800 off the Long Island coast on July 17, 1996, the FBI seized control of the investigation from the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB). Although illegal, this was done in full view of an indifferent m...

  • June 13, 2016

    TWA 800: Breaking -- Air Traffic Controller Tells All

    As I hoped would happen, American Thinker’s series on TWA Flight 800 has prompted individuals with first hand knowledge to come forward. “Mark Johnson” is one. An air traffic controller (ATC), he worked the night of July 17, 1996 --...

  • June 7, 2016

    TWA 800: The Great Untold Story of Our Time

    On the pleasant summer evening of July 17, 1996, TWA Flight 800 left JFK Airport in New York bound for Paris. Twelve minutes after takeoff, about ten miles south of the popular south shore of Long Island, at least two surface-to-air missiles blew the...

  • May 20, 2016

    The ghost of TWA 800 haunts EgyptAir crash

    Jean-Paul Troadec, the former chief of the British European Airways national investigation unit, said the obvious about the destruction of EgyptAir flight MS804. “A technical problem, a fire, or a failed motor do not cause an instant acciden...

  • May 10, 2016

    Okay, #NeverTrump, Enough Already

    To be clear, I donated to the Cruz campaign, advised the campaign, and voted for Ted Cruz in the Missouri primary. That said, I never criticized Donald Trump in public. My reasoning was simple enough: I planned to vote for him if he won the nominatio...

  • April 11, 2016

    Embrace the Chaos, Excuse the Dust

    Today, the surest way to establish your respectability bona fides is to denounce this season’s Republican primary process. Better still, if you have children, claim you will not even let them watch the debates. The respective campaigns are v...

  • March 31, 2016

    An Up-close Look at the Liberal-Muslim Alliance

    I have read about the paradoxical alliance between Islam and the left for years. I have even written about it -- at some length, in fact, in my newest book Scarlet Letters. But it was only a few weeks go that I got to see up close the mechanisms that...

  • March 18, 2016

    The Blatant Cultural Appropriation on St. Patrick’s Day Is Not Cool

    Satire alert: This is a slightly modified version of a Huffington Post article from March 3 on Indian culture of the Asian variety. Changes are italicized. In another blatant example of cultural appropriation, thousands of years of rich history an...

  • March 17, 2016

    An Encouraging Look at Missouri’s Primary Numbers

    In the twentieth century, no state better predicted the outcome of a presidential election than Missouri. Only once -- oddly enough in 1956 -- did Missouri voters not vote for the man who would be elected president. Although the state has been drifti...

  • March 15, 2016

    Rush, Andrew, Donald, and the Republican Reconquista

    “Most of my friends were graduating that year,” writes Barack Obama in Dreams from My Father. “Hasan off to work with his family in London, Regina on her way to Andalusia to study Spanish Gypsies.” Ah yes, “Andalusia...

  • March 4, 2016

    Why I am Supporting Ted Cruz for President

    I managed to sneak into a Ted Cruz rally Wednesday night in suburban Kansas City. Upon leaving, I no longer counted myself among the uncommitted. I and thousands of others in this overflow crowd had to be thinking the same thought, “Why would a...

  • March 1, 2016

    The Mass Murders That Dare Not Speak Their Name

    Pity the late Cedric Ford. If he had understood the way the media worked, he might not have gone on the horrific shooting spree in central Kansas on Thursday that cost three people their lives and fourteen people their health. But alas, once the majo...

  • February 15, 2016

    My eerie Scalia premonition

    In the year 2000, my one and only novel was published, the then futuristic 2006: The Chautauqua Rising.  Set, as the reader might surmise, in 2006, this political action thriller tells the tale of a grassroots insurrection in Western New York th...

  • January 18, 2016

    Why the Media Don't Want You to See the Must-See 13 Hours

    The more naïve members of the Hillary Clinton campaign have long dreaded the release of Michael Bay's factual account of the Benghazi attack, 13 Hours.  The more sophisticated members of that campaign were less worried.  They were ...

  • January 4, 2016

    Time to Take Back State U

    What happened at the University of Missouri last fall could have happened at any major state university save perhaps one: Purdue.  In that I live in Missouri (and have a wife on the faculty) and in that I got my Ph.D. from Purdue, I have had a f...

  • December 28, 2015

    Time for Us Pharisees to Sober Up

    Okay, here are a few sentences I will not countenance in the election year of 2016: - The Republicans have no chance of beating Hillary Clinton. - Because Paul Ryan did or did not do X, I am leaving the Republican Party. - If Republican cand...

  • December 1, 2015

    The Real Scandal(s) Behind the Muslim MU Hair-Dragger

    On Wednesday, November 25, Youssif Z. Omar made international news. According to Columbia, Missouri, police, the 53-year-old Omar stopped by the local public high school, spotted a 14-year-old relative not wearing a hijab, grabbed the girl “ver...

  • November 16, 2015

    Why Even the Thinking Left Owns Paris

    In October last year, on his HBO show real time, Bill Maher got to see up-close how his buddies on the left have made this world a more dangerous place. What Maher still needs to appreciate is the role he himself has played in making it more dangerou...

  • November 11, 2015

    The Left Eats Its Own at MU

    A little background on how I ended up living in Missouri and writing about the ongoing spectacle of liberal self-destruction at the University of Missouri. In my final year of my Ph.D. program at Purdue in the mid-1970s, I attended a Modern Langu...

  • November 9, 2015

    25 Obama Whoppers for the Media to Chew On

    Now that the media have shown their eagerness to expose the “lies” of presidential candidate Ben Carson, they might want to review some of the nuggets they overlooked in the rise of Barack Obama. To be sure, there is no going back, but fu...

  • October 26, 2015

    Hillary's Worst Crime Was Against the 'Filmmaker'

    It would be as ethically bankrupt for the Democrats to nominate Hillary Clinton after Benghazi as it would have been for the Republicans to nominate Richard Nixon after the Watergate hearings. More bankrupt actually. No one died at Watergate, and ...

  • October 15, 2015

    Hillary's 'Genocide' Lie

    “Well, let's remember what was going on,” Hillary Clinton told Anderson Cooper Tuesday night in Las Vegas in response to his question about the bombing of Libya. “We had a murderous dictator, Qadaffi, who had American blood on h...

  • September 21, 2015

    So Is Barack Obama a Muslim or What?

    “The fallacy that President Obama is a Muslim has tripped up many a politician,” said NPR’s Jessica Taylor hopefully on Friday, “and on Thursday night, GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump was its latest victim.” ...

  • September 5, 2015

    Free Kim Davis

    "I'm glad the court sent a strong message that you have to follow the law," said Timothy Love of Kentucky, one of the plaintiffs in the Supreme Court case that legalized gay marriage. The strong message that U.S. District Court Judge Da...

  • September 1, 2015

    Hillary and Obama Own the Tragic Libyan Exodus

    Last week, in one incident, as many as 180 men, women and children drowned when the boat carrying them capsized off the Libyan coast. “Libya is a major transit route for migrants hoping to make it to Europe,” reported Reuters. “Smug...

  • August 22, 2015

    'Anchor Baby' Flap Shows Left Losing Grip

     “You said that you have a big heart, and that you’re not mean-spirited,” queried ABC reporter Tom Llamas. “Are you aware that the term ‘anchor baby,’ that’s an offensive term? People find that hurtful....

  • August 10, 2015

    The Republican Race So Far (With Straw Poll)

    To this point, I am feeling wise. I predicted the emergence of a Trump, the ascendancy of Cruz and Fiorina, the illusory nature of the Jeb Bush candidacy, and the general dynamism of the Republican field. In a June 10 article, a week before Trump ...

  • August 4, 2015

    An early (accurate) prediction about the Trump candidacy

    “Donald Trump is already doomed: Why his campaign is a bigger disaster than his hair,” screamed the headline of a July 6 Salon headline. The TV billionaire has only just announced his candidacy--yet he's already made enough mista...

  • July 31, 2015

    Would you let your 12-year-old daughter sleep in a tent with an 18-year-old boy?

    I was driving in to work earlier this week, listening to a local talk show, when I did something I almost never do. I called in. The subject was the decision by the governing board of the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) to allow openly gay adults to s...

  • July 27, 2015

    Redefining Virtue in the Bizarro World Order

    In 1958, writer Alvin Schwartz introduced a character named “Bizarro” to jazz up the Superman comic franchise. “I was striving, you might say,” Schwartz noted, “for that mirror-image, that opposite. And out of a machine ...

  • July 21, 2015

    Every Day, A New Way to Hate

    Last Thursday morning I turned on the TV to watch the British Open. Unfortunately, ESPN was broadcasting it. I say “unfortunately” because ESPN announcers insist on calling the British Open “the Open” as showily as they insist...

  • July 6, 2015

    The Donald's Scarlet X

    In her HBO documentary Fall to Grace, Alexandra Pelosi – yes, Nancy’s daughter – revealed, without intending, how the shifting progressive creed had become conflated with “sin.” The documentary tracks the career of fo...

  • June 29, 2015

    The Unlikely Turning Point in the Same Sex Marriage Battle

    This past weekend has been heady one for our friends on the soft-core left. Without ever attending a meeting, let alone a march, or even making a donation, they got to celebrate Obergefell v. Hodges as if it were V-J day. These are the same people...

  • June 23, 2015

    So Now <em>I</em> Am Responsible for the Charleston Shooting

    I had no intention of commenting on the recent shooting at a Charleston, South Carolina church.  There were two good reasons why.  One was that I have always found it unseemly to exploit a genuine tragedy, especially before the bodies are b...

  • May 26, 2015

    Like Don Draper, Barack Obama Can Never Go Home

    In watching the seventh season of AMC's inspired hit series Mad Men unfold, I found myself thinking of the Obama presidency, also in its seventh season.  (No spoilers until article's end). For those who may not have seen the series, t...

  • May 22, 2015

    How Stephanopolous Tried to Save Hillary in 2008

    Like Philip Carey, the protagonist of Somerset Maugham’s Of Human Bondage, Clinton aide and current ABC grandee, George Stephanopoulos, has repeatedly sought the love and approval of a woman who simply does not have love in her bag of tricks. ...

  • May 8, 2015

    Just Who Was the Man in Freddie Gray's Van?

    On Wednesday, April 29, Peter Hermann of the Washington Post published a well-sourced article, headlined, "Prisoner in van said Freddie Gray 'was intentionally trying to injure himself.'" Hermann based this story on an affidavit ...

  • May 4, 2015

    Free the Baltimore Six

    If anyone doubted before Friday that the postmodern lynch mob era is in full swing, Baltimore state’s attorney, Marilyn Mosby, put those doubts to rest. “To the youth of the city,” said Mosby, “I will seek justice on your b...

  • May 1, 2015

    So what race is April Pikes?

    On Tuesday of this week, April 28, an incident took place in a Houston Walmart that should have made national news.  It hasn’t.  In fact, the story has scarcely left Houston. The nature of the incident could not be more topical....

  • April 27, 2015

    The Clintons' Other, Truly Bodacious Mine Boondoggle

    The New York Times reported this week on the unseemly transfer of cash from parties interested in a major uranium deal to the Clintons.  The Canadian company selling Uranium One to the Russians donated $2.35 million to the Clinton Foundation. ...

  • April 17, 2015

    Further Thoughts on Obama's 1995 Video

    The passage from Dreams from My Father that Obama reads in his recently unearthed 1995 book presentation video contains the following lines, “I looked to corroborate this nightmare vision. I gathered up books from the library -- Baldwin, Elliso...

  • April 16, 2015

    What the Unearthed 1995 Video Tells Us about Obama

    A professionally shot video of Barack Obama from 1995 has recently surfaced.  Shot at the Cambridge, Mass. Public Library, the video captures a skinny, youthful Obama promoting his then newly released memoir, Dreams from My Father. In this ho...

  • April 13, 2015

    Hasn't Al Sharpton Heard of Waco?

    “There must be national policy and national law on policing,” Al Sharpton said at the kickoff of his National Action Network’s annual convention last week. “We can’t go from state to state, we’ve got to have nation...

  • April 7, 2015

    What Columbia Missed In Its Review of <em>Rolling Stone</em>

    In November, Rolling Stone magazine ran a story detailing the horrific account of an alleged gang rape at a fraternity on the University of Virginia campus. The story quickly proved to be rubbish, and Rolling Stone reached out to the Columb...

  • April 2, 2015

    Why No Riots for Ricky Shawatza Hall?

    Ah, you ask yourself. Just who is Ricky Shawatza Hall? Ricky is the driver of the SUV that NSA police killed as he drove wildly on the National Security Agency grounds at Fort Meade on Monday. What makes Hall worthy of a riot? Well, two things, no...

  • March 22, 2015

    Pro football is good for your health

    Those who follow sports today understand that the sports media are as sissified as the news media.  The result lately has been an unending stream of softcore Marxist articles about the dangers of pro football. I say “Marxist” beca...

  • March 9, 2015

    DOJ to Ferguson: Adopt Strategy That Killed Trayvon

    There are many flaws with the Department of Justice’s report on policing in Ferguson, Missouri. The most glaring is the report’s use of statistics, but the most egregious, as shall be seen, is the strategy the DOJ recommends to address st...

  • March 2, 2015

    What Whittaker Chambers Tells Us about the Age of Obama

    I mourned the untimely passing of actor Philip Seymour Hoffman for the very personal reason that I hoped he would one day get to play Whittaker Chambers in a film version of Chambers’ 1952 masterwork, Witness. Short, heavy set, permanently r...

  • February 26, 2015

    Finally Cleared, Zimmerman Should Sue the DOJ

    "In all criminal prosecutions," reads the Sixth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, "the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial."  In its dangling of George Zimmerman over the pit of judicial hell for the ...

  • February 23, 2015

    Was Giuliani the First to Use The F Word (as in 'Frank')?

    Thankfully, former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani shows no sign of backing down. To reinforce his claim that Obama did not “love this country,” Giuliani explained his thinking to the New York Daily News. “I don’t [see] this P...

  • February 16, 2015

    The Walker-Stupid, Obama-Genius Myth

    On Joe Scarborough’s MSNBC show this past week Yale-educated Howard Dean added a new word to the lexicon of Democratic condescension, “unknowledgeable.” “Scott Walker, were he to become president, would be the first preside...

  • February 9, 2015

    Da Noive! Maureen Dowd Swiftboats Brian Williams

    If the Iraqis never really took a shot at NBC anchor Brian Williams, the New York Times Pulitzer Prize-winning pundit Maureen Dowd most surely did, and there was nothing friendly about the fire. What made Williams vulnerable was his status as one...

  • January 26, 2015

    How Obama Glossed Over His Greatest Failure

    What amazed me is that Obama mentioned it all. Deep into his predictably Panglossian State of the Union speech on Tuesday, the president reminded the audience of the vision he shared at his breakout 2004 convention speech – namely, that ther...

  • December 8, 2014

    Sgt. Kizzy Adoni, Meet Sgt. Stacey Koon

    Although the major media remain mum on the subject, it appears that a black female sergeant by the name of Kizzy Adoni supervised the arrest of the 6’4,” 400 lb. Eric Garner in New York City on July 17, 2014. As NYPD Officer Daniel Pantal...

  • November 29, 2014

    Follow-Up on Ferguson Witness 40

    In an American Thinker article Friday, “The Strange Case of Ferguson Witness 40,” I speculated that the diary entries of this witness might well be fraudulent as she seems to have pulled key details on the case from the Conservative Treeh...

  • November 28, 2014

    The Strange Case of Ferguson Witness 40

    Easily the strangest of all the documents that have emerged from the Darren Wilson grand jury is the one attributed to Witness 40. These are the pages pulled from her -- I assume her based on writing style -- diary entries from the day Michael Brown ...

  • November 19, 2014

    Obama Channels Nixon in Denial Down Under

    At a on Sunday news conference in Brisbane, Australia, Fox News correspondent Ed Henry bluntly asked President Barack Obama whether, as Jonathan Gruber alleged, he misled the American people to get the Affordable Care Act passed. “No. I did...

  • November 17, 2014

    Joe Wilson Was Right

    On the night of September 9, 2009, a still highly popular President Barack Obama spoke spiritedly to a joint session of Congress.  He had summoned the members of both parties to introduce his plan to transform American health care. The promis...

  • November 11, 2014

    Sharyl Attkisson and the Transparency Lie

    I close my new book, You Lie!, with a list of President Barack Obama’s twenty-five most egregious deceptions. At the top of that list is the promise Obama made to the American people on his first full day in office, “Transparency and the ...

  • November 4, 2014

    Celebrating Six Years of Broken Promises

    “In this country,” said Barack Obama in his victory speech six years ago today, “we rise or fall as one nation, as one people. Let's resist the temptation to fall back on the same partisanship and pettiness and immaturity that h...

  • October 30, 2014

    Best Campaign Ad This Season

    During the sixth game of the World Series -- an 83 share on greater Kansas City TVs -- Congressman Kevin Yoder, a Republican from suburban KC on the Kansas side, added a new face to his “I’m a Yoder voter” ad. After half a dozen unk...

  • October 24, 2014

    When Checkers Ate Obama's Homework

    Jonathan Turley, the holder of the prestigious Shapiro Chair for Public Interest Law at George Washington University and an outspoken liberal, has said of our president, “Barack Obama is really the president Richard Nixon always wanted to be....

  • October 20, 2014

    Multiculturalism Kills

    On Anderson Cooper 360 last week CNN’s Ebola expert David Quammen -- Yale grad, Rhodes scholar -- struck the perfect multicultural note. With the fury of a Puritan divine, he scolded those who want to ban commercial travel to West Africa. ...

  • October 13, 2014

    Panetta Book Bombshell: Challenges to Obama's Legitimacy Affected His Presidency

    Largely lost in the hubbub over former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta’s new book Worthy Fights is one intriguing revelation. As reported in the New York Times, the accusations that Barack Obama was not what he appeared to be, perhaps not even a...

  • October 3, 2014

    Why We Cannot Trust the White House on Ebola

    On Thursday morning, I received my first well-produced Facebook message mocking those deluded souls, presumably on the right, who are worried about the spread of Ebola.  The only thing that surprised me about the message was that I had not seen ...

  • September 27, 2014

    Eric Holder's Original Sin

    In setting out to write my book “You Lie!” my initial goal was to chronicle Barack Obama’s major deceptions. In doing so, alas, I ended up writing the history of the presidency. Among the boldest of the deceptions was the canard that Obama’s would...

  • September 24, 2014

    The Unspoken Obama Lie That Led to Benghazi

    To make a difference going forward, Trey Gowdy and the House’s Benghazi select committee may want to ask how the U.S. got involved in Libya in the first place. What they will discover is that Barack Obama borrowed a page from the Clinton playbo...

  • September 17, 2014

    Don't Blame the NFL

    On the opening weekend of the 2014 NFL season, 1696 players suited up for game one. Of these, 1694 are in their twenties and thirties. Based on a survey I did of the AFC South division a few years ago, roughly 1170 of these players are African Americ...

  • August 24, 2014

    Fareed Zakaria Busted for Plagiarism Once More

    First, I will acknowledge up front that this is a revised version of an earlier American Thinker article, which in itself was a revised version of an earlier American Thinker article, which in itself was an update of the information contained in my b...

  • August 21, 2014

    Trayvon's Death Taught Liberals Nothing

    Much too quickly after the death of big Mike Brown in the streets of Ferguson, Missouri, the Trayvon Martin dream team -- ambulance chasers Benjamin Crump and Daryl Parks, media hound Al Sharpton -- descended on his still warm body like so many turke...

  • July 22, 2014

    Anderson Cooper: 'TWA Flight 800 Was Shot Down'

    Some truths CNN reveals only accidentally. One such truth Anderson Cooper shared on the night of July 17. In speaking about the shoot down of Malaysian airliner MH 17 earlier that day, Cooper referred back to “July 17, 1996, when TWA Flight 800...

  • July 7, 2014

    Why Congress Must Reopen the TWA 800 Investigation

    On July 2, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) announced that it would not reopen the investigation into the destruction of TWA 800.  This was the Boeing 747 that was blown out of the sky ten miles south of the Long Island coast on J...

  • July 2, 2014

    George Zimmerman, Media Malpractice, and NBC

    Life in modern America does not get more cruelly perverse than this: one major reason Judge Debra Nelson threw out George Zimmerman’s libel suit against NBC on Monday was because of Zimmerman’s public pursuit of racial justice. Yes, that ...

  • June 24, 2014

    How the Left Will Repay the Catholic Church on Immigration

    Boston Cardinal Sean O’Malley made the news recently when he compared those of us who think our immigration laws ought to be honored with the anti-Catholic “Know-Nothings” of the nineteenth century. In the process, he aligned himsel...

  • June 13, 2014

    Why O.J.'s Saga Lives and Trayvon's Died

    Twenty years ago this week, former football great O.J. Simpson savagely attacked and killed his ex-wife Nicole Brown and her friend Ron Goldman. The double murder and subsequent trial generated a small library of videos and books, the most recent of ...

  • May 26, 2014

    The 'Twisted World' of Elliot Rodger

    Were I to update my 2007 book, What’s the Matter with California, I would dedicate a chapter to Elliot Rodger, the sexually jealous young man who stabbed, shot, and ran over a score of victims, seven of them fatally, in his hate-filled Santa Ba...

  • May 12, 2014

    The First Amendment Also Died at Benghazi

    Among the unsung victims of the September 11, 2012, terrorist attack on the American consulate in Benghazi was the First Amendment. To protect its fragile narrative that an anti-Muslim video had agitated a Libyan crowd into attacking the consulate...

  • May 5, 2014

    What Obama Did on September 11, 2012

    Last week, former National Security Council spokesman Tommy Vietor admitted to Fox News’s Bret Baer that President Barack Obama was not in the White House situation room on the night of September 11, 2012. That was the night -- "Dude, this...

  • May 2, 2014

    The Suffocating Neo-Puritanism of 'Progressive' America

    Alexandra Pelosi’s HBO documentary Fall to Grace tracks the evolution of New Jersey’s disgraced, self-dubbed “gay-American,” former governor, Jim McGreevey. In one passing scene, McGreevey enters a church ostensibly more welco...

  • April 14, 2014

    The Dark Side of the Sebelius Legacy

    In the wake of Kathleen Sebelius’s ouster from her job as secretary of Health and Human Services, there has emerged a debate about what the Los Angeles Times calls “Obamacare and the Sebelius legacy.” From a moral perspective, th...

  • April 7, 2014

    What Mozilla Has Taught Us

    “Opposing gay marriage in America today is not akin to opposing tax hikes or even the war in Afghanistan,” wrote Will Oremus, Slate’s senior tech writer in an altogether typical op-ed applauding the sacking of the “bigoted...

  • March 31, 2014

    Ron Brown's House of Cards

    Former congressman Barney Frank does not much like the wickedly cynical series on Netflix, House of Cards. He has particular trouble believing that a charming Southern Democrat and his ice-queen wife could cheat and lie and murder their way to the Wh...

  • January 21, 2014

    Libs Like Those Executive Orders

    In the most recent issue of The New Yorker, which he edits, sycophantic Obama biographer David Remnick writes of his experience accompanying Obama on a west coast fund raising tour. At one stop, when Obama walked out on stage, Remnick reports, ...

  • January 13, 2014

    Obama's Apocryphal Kenya Trip

    In 1994 or early 1995 the still unknown Barack Obama sent his editor at Times Books, Henry Ferris, the first two-thirds of his memoir Dreams from My Father. He told Ferris that to complete the book, he had to return to Kenya to do some research. The ...

  • December 26, 2013

    Alexis de Tocqueville and the Walking Dead

    Sally Zelikovsky beat me to the subject of the TV series, The Walking Dead, with her excellent AT article on December 4. Given her spoiler alert, I had to postpone reading the article until I finished watching the fourth season on VuDu -- the first t...

  • December 17, 2013

    The Book that Trayvon's Parents Should Write

    "Trayvon Martin's Parents Are Planning a Book" -- so reads the headline of a gentle December 13 article in the New York Times.  The Times obviously found it newsworthy that the parents of the slain teen, Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin, met...

  • December 5, 2013

    Why is Obama Disowning His Relatives? (Update: he lied)

    The headline of the Boston Globe story reads, "Judge says Obama's uncle can stay in US." Although the uncle in question, Onyango Obama (Onyango going forward), is the second illegal alien in the Obama family to get his green card, there is a more int...

  • December 3, 2013

    How Author Obama Foreshadowed President Obama

    "I've written two books," Senator Barack Obama told a crowd of teachers in Virginia on the campaign trial in July of 2008. The teachers applauded. "I actually wrote them myself," he added with a wink and a nod, and now the teachers exploded in laught...

  • November 22, 2013

    How Trayvon's Knockout Game Went Bad

    If no one else, WND, the New York Post, and now Fox News have started paying serious attention to an urban pastime known as "the knockout game" or occasionally as "polar bear hunting," a phenomenon that has caused at least seven deaths and countless ...

  • November 20, 2013

    Hillary Clinton's Achilles Heel

    On the night of July 17, 1996, President Bill Clinton and his wife Hillary attended a gala for the Women's Leadership Forum of the Democratic National Committee at the Sheraton Washington Hotel. We know this from the 11,000 pages of Hillary's schedul...

  • November 15, 2013

    Don't Let Your Parents Join the AARP

    The American Association of Retired Persons purports to be a "a nonprofit, nonpartisan membership organization . . . dedicated to enhancing quality of life for all as we age." As people age, they tend to grow more conservative. In the 2012 presiden...

  • November 4, 2013

    Have Liberals Forsaken Due Process?

    In the archives of legal fiction, one character most consciously embodied liberal self-perception.  That was Juror #8, the character played by Henry Fonda in the 1957 movie, Twelve Angry Men. In his screenplay notes, Reginald Rose describ...

  • November 1, 2013

    Sanford Police Tell Neighborhood Watches to Stand Down

    Sanford, Florida's new chief of police, Cecil Smith, has some tough words to share with the residents of Sanford, Florida -- not the criminal residents of Sanford, but the good neighbors who care enough to watch the criminals. "In this program," said...

  • October 18, 2013

    Deconstructing Bill Ayers

    In early October 1969, during my first year as a grad student at Purdue, I attended an outdoor rally featuring prominent Weatherman Mark Rudd, the Beach Boy look-alike who achieved notoriety a year earlier during the takeover of Columbia University. ...

  • October 15, 2013

    Scrap Hate Crime Laws -- or Enforce Them

    Two events within one recent week confirm that, on the subject of hate crime, Lady Justice now routinely sheds her blindfold, checks out the race of the accused, and judges accordingly. In that George Zimmerman looks like the kind of person who mi...

  • October 8, 2013

    How Matthew Shepard Prefigured Trayvon Martin

    In reading The Book of Matt, the stunningly honest new book by Stephen Jimenez on the life and death of Matthew Shepard, I felt as if I were reading the book I had just written on the life and death of Trayvon Martin, If I Had A Son.  The p...

  • September 26, 2013

    Md. Prof on Trayvon verdict: 'Legal to Hunt Children'

    William Dorland, director of the University of Maryland's Honors Program, welcomed students to campus with an email saying, "This year, we learned that it is legal to hunt down and kill American children in Florida." Dorland, who is white, was ref...

  • September 23, 2013

    For Those Who Don't Believe in Election Fraud

    "Yes, the Rizzo-Royster race turned on vote fraud," admitted the Kansas City Star's Barbara Shelly in a crow-eating column nearly three years after it would do any good. For years the Star has routinely mocked anyone who dared suggest vote fraud was ...

  • September 20, 2013

    Does Aaron Alexis Represent A New Breed of Killer?

    In the search for parallels to explain Aaron Alexis's killing spree at the Washington Navy Yard on Monday, the media have turned reflexively to recent incidents in Aurora, Colorado, and Sandy Hook, Connecticut. Almost no one in the media, however, h...

  • September 16, 2013

    The Impostor President Gets Caught

    During the 2008 presidential campaign, the New York Times ran an article on what psychologists call the "impostor phenomenon." To measure it, they ask test subjects questions like, "At times, I feel my success has been due to some kind of luck" or "I...

  • September 6, 2013

    What I Learned from the Zimmerman Trial

    I learned many things attending the trial of George Zimmerman in Sanford, Florida, and watching it online, but one important thing I learned was fully unexpected, and it was this: the Republicans may never win a national election again. This observa...

  • August 23, 2013

    How Responsible Is Obama for the Oklahoma Killing?

    See also: The Hood Comes to Duncan, Oklahoma "Ayeee I knocked out 5 woods since Zimmerman court!" young James Edwards tweeted on July 15 in the wake of George Zimmerman's acquittal for the shooting death of Trayvon Martin. Edwards's tweets sur...

  • August 19, 2013

    How a Missouri Rodeo Became a Phony Scandal

    If an eccentric, liberal, nudist musician had not attended a rodeo at the Missouri State Fair a week ago Saturday, the world would be a slightly happier place. The State Fair would not have banned rodeo clown Tuffy Gessling for life. The NAACP would ...

  • August 16, 2013

    Reggie Love and the Birth Certificate

    See also: What Reggie Love Had to Say about the Obama Birth Certificate by Nick Chase Most of the talk about the recently released Reggie Love interview centers on Love's admission that he and President Obama played cards -- Sp***s to be pr...

  • August 5, 2013

    The Best Mob Story Ever

    The best mob story ever told does not involve Al Capone or Bugsy Segal or John Gotti. It involves a mobster few American have ever heard of, Greg Scarpa by name, and his not quite as lethal son, Greg Scarpa Jr., "Junior" going forward. One reason ...

  • July 28, 2013

    ABC Still Corrupting Zimmerman case

    In a perverse bit of post-trial agitprop, ABC News somehow recruited the one woman of color on George Zimmerman's "all white" jury and twisted her words to reflect the presumed editorial position of ABC News. In this clip from an exclusive Robin Robe...

  • July 12, 2013

    Why the Zimmerman Prosecutors Should Be Disbarred

    Toward the end of his closing statement on Thursday, Florida Assistant State Attorney Bernie de la Rionda posted a slide on a screen in a fifth-floor Seminole County courtroom. "Which Owner would be more inclined to yell for help?" read the banner ...

  • July 9, 2013

    Ten Aha! Moments in the Zimmerman Trial to Date

    In April 2012, the office of Florida State Attorney Angela Corey drew up an affidavit of probable cause against George Zimmerman for the second-degree murder of Trayvon Martin. The affidavit was loaded.  Martin was walking back to the townhous...

  • July 8, 2013

    Before James Rosen, There Was James O'Keefe

    "On the morning of January 25, 2010, I woke curled up in a fetal position, on a green mattress stained with seminal fluid, to the sound of my fellow prisoners chanting the Qu'ran."  So begins the bestselling new action-adventure memoir/battle pl...

  • July 8, 2013

    Case Against Zimmerman Collapsing

    On Monday afternoon, the State of Florida's case against George Zimmerman all but collapsed when the defense put a lie to the State's claim that Trayvon Martin was the one whose voice was heard on the 9-1-1 tapes. A critical part of the evidence to ...

  • June 27, 2013

    What CNN Cut Out of the TWA 800 Interview

    This past Saturday morning, I did a live remote from Kansas City for CNN's "New Day" program, hosted by Alison Kosik, on the subject of TWA Flight 800.  This Paris-bound 747 was destroyed in mid-air twelve minutes out of JFK, just off the coast ...

  • June 26, 2013

    CNN Edits Out Comparison of TWA 800 and Benghazi

    On this past Saturday morning, I did a live remote from Kansas City for CNN's "New Day" program on the subject of TWA Flight 800, hosted by Alison Kosik. What follows is the transcript as it appears on CNN.com. What does not appear I will explain lat...

  • June 24, 2013

    Zimmerman Prosecutors Go for the Big Lie

    Assistant State Attorney John Guy dropped the F-bomb in the very first word of his opening statement in the State of Florida v. George Zimmerman. "F***ing punks," Guy said dramatically, attempting to quote George Zimmerman's garbled comment to the po...

  • June 19, 2013

    Some Days You Just Feel Vindicated

    When I arrived home late last night after attending the George Zimmerman trial in Sanford, Florida, I watched the Miami Heat beat the San Antonio Spurs -- great game! -- just as I predicted they would, but it was not until I checked my email inbox th...

  • June 5, 2013

    On Car Seats and Abortion

    My first grandchild, Phoebe by name, arrived in Kansas City last week for her debut visit.  She is just north of two months old.  I was tasked with picking her and her parents up at the airport. To do this lawfully, I had to borrow a car ...

  • June 4, 2013

    Getting the Facts Straight in the Zimmerman Case

    As the late Senator Daniel Moynihan reportedly said, "[e]veryone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts."  The commentary on the George Zimmerman case, I've noticed, gets edgy when those who know the facts argue with those who ven...

  • May 31, 2013

    Trayvon, George, and the Homeless Man

    At a pre-trial hearing on May 28, the attorney for accused murderer George Zimmerman, Mark O'Mara, slipped a time bomb into the public record that no one in the major media seemed to notice.  It had to do with a homeless man, and the relationshi...

  • May 28, 2013

    New Evidence Shows Trayvon's Life Unraveling

    This past Thursday, George Zimmerman's attorneys released new evidence relevant to the upcoming trial of their client on a second-degree murder charge for the shooting of Trayvon Martin. The Martin family attorneys say the evidence is irrelevant. T...

  • May 22, 2013

    Trayvon Martin's Final Hour

    On the rainy night of February 26, 2012, neighborhood watch captain George Zimmerman shot and killed an unarmed seventeen-year-old named Trayvon Martin. Three months later, a regular at the Conservative Treehouse blog known as Diwataman discovered th...

  • May 17, 2013

    Benghazi Narrative Shift Was Perfectly Clintonian

    "We've seen rage and violence directed at American embassies over an awful Internet video that we had nothing do to with," said Hillary Clinton to the families of the four Americans killed at Benghazi and others gathered at a September 2012 memorial ...

  • May 13, 2013

    Team Trayvon's Big Lie

    While watching George Zimmerman's immunity hearing online in late April 2013, Chip Bennett took satisfaction seeing Florida prosecutor Bernie de la Rionda flail away at the one blog that has given him fits from the beginning. "BDLR alleges that The C...

  • May 10, 2013

    Free Nakoula!

    Rush Limbaugh casually mentioned the fact in the wake of the new Benghazi revelations that Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, the Christian producer of the much-discussed video, the Innocence of Muslims, was "somewhere in California." He is not. In its wisdom...

  • May 5, 2013

    Paul Anka on the 'Vile' Ted Kennedy

    In his spicy, seemingly-unedited new autobiography, My Way, Canadian-born entertainer Paul Anka tells of his many encounters with America's rich and famous over the course of his eventful 55-year career.  He has a good word to say about most of ...

  • April 21, 2013

    How Long Before Dzhokhar Starts Palling Around with Obama?

    With his capture Friday evening in Boston, terrorist bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev would seem to have abandoned all hope of ever amounting to anything useful.  He may, however, be selling his adopted country short.  In America, at least in certa...

  • April 15, 2013

    Before the Gosnell Blackout, There Was Tiller's

    If there was any real difference between what the late abortionist George Tiller did in Wichita over the course of his long career and what Kermit Gosnell did in Philadelphia, it was hygiene. Tiller had a largely white, middle-class clientele. ...

  • April 8, 2013

    Jesse Jackson: Neighborhood Watchman, Racial Profiler

    It had to pain the very reverend Jesse Jackson that when the Trayvon Martin story began to break nationally in mid-March 2012 he was on a pointless glad handing tour of Europe. The evening of March 19, the night rival Al Sharpton dedicated his own TV...

  • March 11, 2013

    Why Florida Persists in the Zimmerman Prosecution

    Prodded by a president with a weakness for racial agitation and enabled by a politically complicit media, the State of Florida persists in a prosecution that can come to no good end. The defendant is neighborhood watch captain George Zimmerman. The ...

  • February 12, 2013

    Pope Benedict XVI Still Unnerves the Media

    True to form, CNN, Reuters, and other media outlets used the announcement of Pope Benedict XVI's retirement to dwell on ancient sex scandals, opposition to gay marriage, and a host of other things the media have never liked about a Pope who would not...

  • February 8, 2013

    Christopher Dorner: When Moderates Go Bad

    Unlike so many killers who have tried to justify their murderous sprees with deranged manifestos, rogue LA cop Christopher Dorner is a picture of moderation.  Dorner proudly cites as sources not Marx or Mao but the likes of MSNBC's Chris Matthew...

  • February 4, 2013

    Western New Yorkers Stand Up for Gun Rights

    In my novel 2006: the Chautauqua Rising, which was published in the year 2000, New York State officials exploit a school shooting to strip state citizens of their constitutional rights.  This provokes a grass roots insurrection in Western New Yo...

  • February 1, 2013

    Eagle Scout to BSA: Are You Nuts?

    As a 14 year-old, and a freshly-minted Eagle Scout, I had a terrible crush on my 11 year-old cousin Mary, and she on me.  Although not a first cousin, Mary was close enough to the family that she spent a week or two down the New Jersey shore wit...

  • January 30, 2013

    Obama Flunks Archaeology 101 in Vegas

    "Unless you were one of the first Americans, a Native American, you came from someplace else, somebody brought you," President Barack Obama told the assembled throngs in Las Vegas on Tuesday. Perhaps to make sense of the empty phrase "Native America...

  • January 28, 2013

    Hillary's First Big Lie

    The congressional hearings on Benghazi last week led me to question just when it was that public integrity ceased to matter. After some research, I came to an unexpectedly specific answer -- January 26, 1992, the day America first met Hillary Clinton...

  • January 24, 2013

    It's Hillary's Turn to Cry

    "For me, this is not just a matter of policy. It's personal," said a verklempt Hillary Clinton choking back the tears at Wednesday's Benghazi hearing. "I stood next to President Obama as the Marines carried those flag-draped caskets off the plane at ...

  • January 24, 2013

    Digging the Benghazi Memory Hole

    With Wednesday's hearing, Hillary Clinton played her uniquely dramatic role in the one shovel-ready project in Obama's America -- the Benghazi memory hole. She spent the day burying the whole sordid Benghazi mess. Don't expect the media to exhume it....

  • January 21, 2013

    Debunking the Sandy Hook Debunkers

    During the age of Obama, the major media have gone fully AWOL. If they fear that their reporting will lead to inconvenient discoveries, they simply stop their advance, lay down their notebooks, and disappear. This trend began in the Clinton years and...

  • January 18, 2013

    Let's Ask Obama About His Made-Up Girlfriends

    In the last 24 hours, the media have scrutinized Notre Dame All-American linebacker Manti Te'o's life more completely than they did President Barack Obama's in the last eight years.  And that is shameful -- on both counts.  The crux of th...

  • January 17, 2013

    Kaepernick Shouldn't Be Playing in NFC Title Game

    San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick should not be playing in the National Football Conference title game on Sunday.  In fact, if anyone were taking book on these sorts of things back in 1987, they would have bet that a "Colin Kaeper...

  • January 14, 2013

    The Best Conservative Movies of 2012

    I admit to using the word "conservative" loosely -- we are talking about Hollywood, after all. It here refers to those films that are at least respectful of the American experience and generally supportive of faith, family, and/or country. A film can...

  • January 14, 2013

    Axelrods Don't Fall Far From the Tree

    While watching ESPN this morning, I did a quick little background research on its newly hired analyst, former NBA player Antonio Davis.  As I learned, Davis, then with the Knicks, achieved his greatest notoriety seven years ago this week when he...

  • January 4, 2013

    Should Your Children Pay for My Rollercoaster?

    On Wednesday I joined a Facebook conversation among my New Jersey relatives and friends voicing their outrage over the delay in the $60-billion Sandy relief package. Hoping to make people think, I wrote, "I want our roller coaster up and running by t...

  • December 23, 2012

    Obama Has to Fib Even at a Funeral

    Yes, everything is about Barack Obama.  From the beginning, he has built his career on his own personal story, and the funeral service of former Hawaiian Senator Daniel Inouye at the National Cathedral on Friday apparently struck him as an oppo...

  • December 20, 2012

    In Newtown Tragedy, Life Imitates Art

    In 1998 I started writing my first novel, 2006: The Chautauqua Rising, and the following year I shocked myself by finding a publisher.  Set in Western New York State in the year 2006, the book tells the story of a largely non-violent Tea Party-l...

  • December 6, 2012

    Ireland, Beware the 'Suicide' Exemption

    The death in an Irish hospital of Savita Halappanavar in October has galvanized pro-abortion activists in Ireland and around the world.  Their goal is to force Ireland, one of the few places in the Western world where abortion is illegal, t...

  • November 30, 2012

    Benghazi 'Narrative' Reads Like TWA 800's

    Earlier this week on The O'Reilly Factor, Bill O'Reilly and Charles Krauthammer came to the same -- and obvious -- conclusion as to why the Obama White House felt compelled to misrepresent the events at Benghazi on September 11.  As O'Reilly not...

  • November 27, 2012

    How Traditional Values Shape the NFL

    On the long Thanksgiving weekend, five regular starting NFL quarterbacks of at least partial African descent took the field for their respective teams.  Beyond their obvious talent, all five share a common background, one that is now rare in the...

  • November 20, 2012

    Tweets Reveal the Soul of Assault on Pro-Life AG

    Forget the sweet, bubbly Elle Woods character in Legally Blonde.  One suspects that the smug, vulgar Sarah Peterson Herr hews much closer to the norm of today's twenty-something female attorney. Before her termination on Monday, Herr clerked for...

  • November 16, 2012

    Obama's Jonestowns

    At first, the numbers seemed too absurd to be true: did Mitt Romney really receive zero votes in 59 Philadelphia voting districts?  Did Barack Obama really outpoll him by a combined 19,605 to 0 votes cast in these 59 districts. According to the ...

  • November 12, 2012

    The Real Lesson of the Election

    Also by Jack Cashill today: The Myth of the Missing Three Million Republicans Each year I drive across the eastern half of the country twice, including the states of Ohio and Indiana.  Without benefit of signage it would be hard to tell them apa...

  • November 12, 2012

    The Myth of the Missing Three Million Republicans

    Also by Jack Cashill today: The Real Lesson of the Election A score of people this past week have asked me about the three million Republicans allegedly "missing" at the polls this year.  For starters, if the Washington Post is to be believed, M...

  • November 7, 2012

    What Happened in Miami-Dade?

    Before we scrap the entire conservative agenda, it might pay to look at some numbers, starting with Florida.  In 2008, Obama beat McCain in Florida by nearly three percent In 2012, Romney outperformed McCain's 2008 numbers in virtually every Flo...

  • October 31, 2012

    Did Obama Write Anti-Semitic Poetry?

    As a 19-year-old sophomore, Barack Obama had two poems -- "Underground" and "Pop" -- published under his name in the spring 1981 edition of Occidental College's literary magazine, Feast.  If Obama wrote any other poems after that, they have not ...

  • October 31, 2012

    Case Strengthens That Obama Poem Is Anti-Semitic

    In an earlier speculative posting I made the case that "Underground," a poem written by Barack Obama and published in the Occidental College literary magazine in 1981, may well be an anti-Semitic allegory. The "apes" in the poem, I argued, may repre...

  • October 26, 2012

    Taking Back the University

    On November 1, 2012, I will give a talk at the Krannert School of Management on the Purdue University campus.  I say this not so much to promote the event as to promote the change the event represents. In the thirty years since I received my Ph....

  • October 24, 2012

    Why Obama Deserves Donald Trump

    In light of the rumors of an alleged divorce proceeding involving Barack and Michelle Obama, the records of which Donald Trump is said to have in his possession, it might be useful to revisit Obama's own history of exploiting opponents' divorces. Bef...

  • October 19, 2012

    How Much of a Set-Up Was Crowley's Libya Question?

    On Tuesday night's debate, the evening's most notorious exchange did not begin with moderator Candy Crowley's wildly inappropriate intervention on the "act of terror" question.  It almost assuredly began minutes earlier. The audience question...

  • October 15, 2012

    Would Spielberg Make A Movie About Claire McCaskill?

    A few weeks ago, I was asked to emcee a fund-raising dinner for Rep. Todd Akin, who is rather famously running for U.S. Senate in Missouri, the state in which I live.  Although I did not hesitate to accept the invite, I found myself resisting th...

  • October 9, 2012

    Old Interview Sheds New Light on Obama's Debate Flop

    In February 2001, Julieanna Richardson, as part of an oral history on black Americans called "History Makers," interviewed Barack Obama at length.  Although the 10,000-plus-word interview offers no Eureka moments, it does help demystify Obama's ...

  • October 2, 2012

    D'Souza Can't Quite Accept the Real Obama

    See also: Barack Obama: Anticolonialist or Neo-Communist? In 2016: Obama's America, the most successful and artful conservative documentary to date, author and producer Dinesh D'Souza takes a step closer to exposing the real Barack Obama.  To ge...

  • September 24, 2012

    Leave Romney Be

    The other day I received my weekly missive from Wall Street Journal columnist and former Reagan speechwriter Peggy Noonan, in which she informed me and the world that "the Romney campaign has to get turned around."  She added helpfully, "This we...

  • September 17, 2012

    Hillary Cheered Broadway's Book of Mormon, Condemns Innocence of Muslims

    On Thursday of last week, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called the video project Innocence of Muslims, the one that may or may not have provoked riots worldwide, "disgusting and reprehensible." Although Clinton could have seen no more than ...

  • September 14, 2012

    A Possible Explanation for Obama's Connecticut Social Security Number

    As I reported on Tuesday, Barack Obama has yet to provide an explanation for how he came to have a Social Security number that begins with the Connecticut prefix "042." Filmmaker Joel Gilbert read the piece.  He has been in Hawaii doing follow-u...

  • September 10, 2012

    Time to Ask Obama about His Social Security Number

    I have been communicating with the intrepid Ohio private investigator, Susan Daniels, for some time.  A few weeks ago, I got to meet Daniels.  She is smart and sincere, and she understands her subject matter thoroughly.  The left-wing ...

  • September 4, 2012

    From One Amateurish President to Another

    In his bestseller, The Amateur, Edward Klein reports Bill Clinton saying, "Obama doesn't know how to be president. He doesn't know how the world works. He's incompetent. He's an amateur!" Today's quick history remembers Bill Clinton as a successful p...

  • August 27, 2012

    If the Birther Issue Comes Up in Debate

    "No one has ever asked to see my birth certificate," said Mitt Romney at a rally last week in a Detroit suburb.  "They know this is the place that we were born and raised." This remark created a major stir on the left, a minor stir in the media,...

  • August 24, 2012

    Dems Better Put Some Ice on That 'Rape' Talk

    The other day I received an e-mail from the suddenly famous Sandra Fluke under the simple heading "Legitimate rape."  Presuming that the message was not exactly personal, I deleted it, but I could have guessed its tone and tenor.  Indeed, I...

  • August 14, 2012

    Zakaria and Harvard's Culture of Corruption: 3.0

    First, I will acknowledge up front that this is a revised version of an earlier American Thinker article, which in itself was an update of the information contained in my book, Deconstructing Obama.  But as still another Harvard worthy gets bust...

  • August 6, 2012

    What Would Che Think of Same-Sex Marriage?

    About thirty years ago, trying to scratch out a living as a free-lance photo-journalist, I took an assignment from the Kansas City Star Magazine to write about the city's gay church, the Metropolitan Community Church by name.  In the course of m...

  • August 6, 2012

    Do You Know Frank Marshall Davis?

    For the past four years, the media have chosen to keep the public in the dark about Barack Obama's Hawaii mentor, Frank Marshall Davis.  The fact that Davis was a card-carrying member of the Communist Party USA, a published pornographer, and the...

  • July 30, 2012

    Maraniss Gets Testy as New Obama Bio Tanks

    David Maraniss, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Barack Obama: The Story, is getting testy.  And it is not hard to understand why.  The Washington Post diva spent the last four years on his career book, released it in the heart of a heated ...

  • July 27, 2012

    How the Left Sabotages the Literary Right

    "My biggest complaint," writes "ebmlaw" in his Amazon review of Terry Lakin's new book Officer's Oath, "is about the parts where the author graphically describes being raped by a convicted child molester (or "ch'mo" as he calls them) while in prison....

  • July 24, 2012

    What the Media Won't Say about Frank Marshall Davis

    Salon contributor Eric McHenry will likely be surprised to find himself categorized as "the media," but his omissions and evasions about Obama mentor Frank Marshall Davis so impressively mirror the major media's that he deserves the honor. What drew ...

  • July 17, 2012

    TWA Flight 800: 16 Years and Still No Questions

    I got involved in one of the two great media scandals of our time -- the Obama ascendancy being the other -- fully by happenstance. In the year 2000, investigative reporter James Sanders came to Kansas City to talk about his research into the fate of...

  • July 10, 2012

    The Real Price of Obama's Prevarications

    Prevarication, noun: a statement that deviates from or perverts the truth. On July 5, Fox News ran a piece documenting the "fresh scrutiny" Barack Obama has faced since the June publication of David Maraniss's new book, Barack Obama: The Story....

  • July 5, 2012

    Why Did Barack Obama Let Terry Lakin Go to Jail?

    Former Lt. Col. Terry Lakin knows what despair feels like.  He felt it full-bore on a late December day in 2010.  Having been stripped of his rank, income, benefits, pension, and authority at court martial, this much-honored 17-year U.S. Ar...

  • June 27, 2012

    New Obama Bio Does Not Kill 'Birther' Theory

    In checking to see how David Maraniss's new biography, Barack Obama: The Story, was faring on Amazon's bestseller list, I came across an intriguing reader review, an excerpt of which follows: And as if to spike the ball while putting the final nail ...

  • June 26, 2012

    Time and Again, Maraniss Conceals Obama's Socialist Roots

    "I'm not writing it as a fact-checker.  I'm writing it as an historian," griped David Maraniss on CNN about the first volume of his new book, Barack Obama: The Story.  "Other people for ideological reasons are pouncing on that part of what ...

  • June 23, 2012

    Did Maraniss Commit Fraud to Protect Obama?

    I was sitting out at lunch the other day reading David Maraniss's new book, Barack Obama: The Story, when I came across a passage that gave me pause.  Maraniss excerpted the passage from an article, "Breaking the War Mentality," that Obama had w...

  • June 22, 2012

    Maraniss Bio Deepens Obama Birth Mystery

    David Maraniss has no use for "birthers."  In a recent interview, he dismissed their beliefs as "preposterous" and wonders why they cling to them, since "every fact and document leads in another direction." Yet the one core belief that has unite...

  • June 20, 2012

    Maraniss Comes Clean on Obama's Seattle Hegira

    Yes, finally, an Obama biographer admits what the right side of the blogosphere has known for the last four years, that there was no Obama family, that the president's mother and presumed father never lived together, and that mother and baby "were lo...

  • June 19, 2012

    What Maraniss Obviously Missed

    I read the lead in the review of David Maraniss's much discussed new book, Barack Obama, the Story, by Ben Smith of Buzzfeed of with at least one eyebrow arched. "David Maraniss's new biography of Barack Obama is the first sustained challen...

  • June 14, 2012

    One More Dubious Story in the Obama Family Saga

    The respectable media, left and right, are finally opening themselves up to the possibility that the story Barack Obama told in his 1995 memoir Dreams from My Father has been, in large part, manufactured. As a case in point, the Weekly Standard's And...

  • June 10, 2012

    Media Discover the Obvious in Obama's 'Dreams'

    Although I have not yet gotten a copy of David Maraniss's new Obama biography, Barack Obama: The Story, the advance reviews of it suggest that the media, at least the respectable conservative media, are awakening to the obvious about Barack Obama's 1...

  • June 7, 2012

    What the Media Choose Not to Know about Trayvon

    Unnerved by an unspoken mix of political bias and racial queasiness, the major media have chosen to know as little about Trayvon Martin as they know about Barack Obama.  As a case in point, consider this boy vs. man fable spun by the New York Ti...

  • May 29, 2012

    Warren, Obama, and Harvard's Culture of Corruption

    As Massachusetts Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren and her Harvard partners in crime are learning, academic fraud is not as easy to get away with as it used to be in the good old days before the emergence of a vigilant alternative media. Writing for ...

  • May 25, 2012

    Remember When Liberals Liked Tax Cuts?

    In the fourth volume of his masterful biography of Lyndon Johnson, The Passage of Power, Robert Caro makes an interesting observation about the congressional budget fight of 1963.  Caro, a liberal himself, notes approvingly, "Liberals wanted a l...

  • May 19, 2012

    Why Kenyan Birth Claim Was No 'Fact Checking Error'

    No sooner did the literary agency brochure in which Barack Obama was said to be Kenyan-born surface than the media went to work to deep-six it. "This was nothing more than a fact checking error by me - an agency assistant at the time," Miriam Goderic...

  • May 18, 2012

    The Hand of Clinton in Obama revelations? (updated and bumped)

    In the age of instant communication Brietbart.com's revelation that Barack Obama was listed on his agent, Jane Dystel's brochure, as having been "born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii" is already old news. This news, however, is simply too...

  • May 15, 2012

    Now about Obama's Teenage Years!

    Now that it has been established that a candidate's teenage years help define the man to come, it might be time to take a new look at the adolescent Obama and his then-mentor, the late Frank Marshall Davis. I would guess that not one Obama voter out ...

  • May 11, 2012

    Obama Only Says He Shoved A Little Girl

    In an amusingly appropriate response to the Washington Post's breathless revelation that Mitt Romney hazed a classmate while in high school, John Nolte of Big Hollywood fired back with, "DOES WAPO KNOW OBAMA SHOVED A LITTLE GIRL?" But did he really?...

  • May 6, 2012

    What Does 'Composite Girl' Tell Us About Obama?

    Within hours after Dylan Byers of Politico created a mini-firestorm on Wednesday with the article titled "Obama: 'New York girlfriend' was composite," David Graham of the Atlantic had all but smothered the flames with his article, "Obama's Composite ...

  • April 19, 2012

    Some More Obama Dog Observations

    In wake of the revelation that Barack Obama eats dogs, I thought it might be useful to re-interpret some other passages from the two books he is alleged to have written. In Dreams from My Father, Obama talks about having "a big yellow dog with a bale...

  • April 13, 2012

    Remember When Juror #3 Was the Villain?

    One forum on "great liberal films" lists the 1957 courthouse classic, 12 Angry Men, at the top of the list.  When the creator of the list is asked why this movie is liberal, he responds casually,  "Abandoning the easy and angry answer and s...

  • April 9, 2012

    Editgate, Spittlegate, and the Left's 'Race-Gating' Tradition

    The phrase "Editgate" established itself virtually overnight.  It fit so well.  This useful compound merges "edit," in reference to NBC's incendiary editing of George Zimmerman's 911 call, and "gate," the catch-all suffix used to describe a...

  • March 23, 2012

    Bill Ayers' Semi-Fictional Black Surrogates

    In this much ballyhooed season of "vetting," please allow me to zero in anew on Barack Obama's Achilles heel -- namely, his willingness to take credit for a book that he did not write in any meaningful way.  This would be the book on which his g...

  • March 21, 2012

    A Neo-Nazi Named 'Muhammed'?

    The major story in Europe these last few days has been the manhunt for the killer of four people at a Jewish school in Toulouse and three French paratroopers.  Since the paratroopers were all "of color," the open speculation by European talking ...

  • March 19, 2012

    What the Mailman Knows about Ayers and Obama

    A few days ago I got a call asking whether I knew anything about the Ayers family mailman.  I had heard of him, I said.  I remembered liberal blogger Steven Diamond having interviewed the fellow a few years back, but I paid it little mind, ...

  • March 5, 2012

    Time for New Look at 2008 Obama Passport Breach

    Among the unexpected findings of the Sheriff Arpaio cold case was this one: Records of Immigration and Naturalization Service cards filled out by airplane passengers arriving on international flights originating outside the United States in the mont...

  • March 4, 2012

    Andrew Breitbart: A Video Tribute

    It is one thing to read about culture warrior, Andrew Breitbart.  It is another thing to see him in action.  He had the unique ability to take his conservative philosophy into the streets, and he did not need a march or an occupy encampment...

  • March 1, 2012

    The Hate That Dare Not Speak Its Name

    In Kansas City on Wednesday, "two older teens" followed a "13-year old boy" walking home from school.  When the 13 year-old reached his front porch, the teens grabbed him, pinned his arms, poured gasoline on him, and set him on fire.  The b...

  • March 1, 2012

    Do What Breitbart Did

    Some years back, before anyone had really heard of Andrew Breitbart, I appeared live on a talk radio show he was guest-hosting in a Burbank studio.  "Am I doing OK?" he would ask nervously, knowing I had done years of talk radio myself. "Should ...

  • February 22, 2012

    Remember When Obama Championed Religious Liberty?

    Say what one will about vice-president Joe Biden, but in the internal debate over the White House's contraception mandate, he argued that the real issue in play was not contraceptives, sterilization, or abortion-inducing drugs, but religious liberty....

  • February 20, 2012

    Media Matters For America vs. An Ordinary American

    With the creepy mischief of Media Matters for America (MMFA) much in the news, I thought it might be useful to show how the Soros-funded MMFA conspires to keep even a semi-obscure, self-employed scribe like me in check. As far as I can tell, I first ...

  • February 4, 2012

    Dems Mobilize in Missouri for Santorum

    Through an odd sequence of decisions -- including a veto of a date change by Democratic governor Jay Nixon -- Missouri is stuck with a presidential preference primary on Tuesday that has very close to no meaning. We here in Missouri will actually pic...

  • February 2, 2012

    Underestimating Mitt and Newt

    For the first time in my life, and I have been following Republican primaries closely since before I was old enough to vote, I have found myself vacillating among candidates. Contrary to conventional wisdom, this is not from a lack of viable candid...

  • January 27, 2012

    Saving Private Fido

    One early morning not too long ago, I was walking along the concrete banks of Brush Creek, a channelized waterway that runs through the heart of Kansas City, when I saw something I had not seen before: a dog swimming in the creek. I had, of course, s...

  • January 23, 2012

    Kansas City Grovels To Get La Raza Biz

    In 2007, the then mayor Mark Funkhouser appointed to the Kansas City Parks Board a 73-year old grandmother, gardener, and neighborhood president named Frances Semler.  In a sane world, this appointment would have passed unnoticed.  But in t...

  • January 14, 2012

    Iron Lady Rocks

    Don't bother with the reviews.  The critics are finding any number of reasons to dislike the new film bio of Margaret Thatcher's life, Iron Lady, but few of them are sufficiently honest or self-aware to diagnose their own malaise.  In a typ...

  • January 13, 2012

    The Liveliest Campaign Season Since 1968

    Those who slight the Republican primary candidates and sneer at their campaigns are either innocently misinforming their audience or strategically disinforming them.  In fact, this is the all-around spunkiest campaign season I have witnessed sin...

  • January 6, 2012

    How Obama Lost His Postmodern Groove

    On December 9, President Barack Obama sat down for a lengthy interview with Steve Croft of 60 Minutes, unaided by speechwriters or teleprompters.  In the course of it, not surprisingly, he showed himself to be almost as vain and unreflective as ...

  • January 4, 2012

    About That Bishop With The Two Children

    In reading about Los Angeles Auxiliary Bishop Gabino Zavala, who resigned after acknowledging he had fathered two children, I recalled an encounter with that very same bishop a few years back that seems, in retrospect, all too predictive. In April 20...

  • January 2, 2012

    Witch Hunt in the Heartland

    The story that follows has taken place in and around Kansas City.  But it could have unfolded in any city in which a stealthily leftist publication has a near monopoly on the production and distribution of news -- in other words, just about ever...

  • December 25, 2011

    We Know More About Jesus's Birth Than Obama's

    A few years back, the Harvard-educated Paul Mirecki, then head of the Religious Studies Department at Kansas University, proposed a new class.   His goal, as he told his cohorts in an atheist and agnostic chat room, was to give "fundies" --...

  • December 22, 2011

    Obama's First Hawaiian Vacation Dilemma

    The Hill reported on Wednesday that President Barack Obama faces a "most difficult decision," namely whether to join his wife and children in Hawaii or to remain in Washington and, in the words of his dissembling press secretary, "to stay and work wi...

  • December 15, 2011

    Not All 'Protesters' Created Equal

    Yesterday, Time Magazine named the "Protester" its person of the year.  Lumped in this category were sundry Tunisians, Libyans, Greeks, Russians, and -- the without which not of Time's interest -- those Americans "who occupy public spaces to pro...

  • December 15, 2011

    What's wrong with this picture?

    In the photo accompanying the McClatchy Newspapers article deconstructing the heroics of Medal of Honor winner, Dakota Meyer, President Barack Obama is shown placing the medal around Meyer's neck. The photo is the only positive note in the article. A...

  • December 9, 2011

    Is Gallmann's Memoir the Source for Obama's?

    Sometime in 1994, as I have argued on these pages and in my book, Deconstructing Obama, one-time terrorist Bill Ayers took over the memoir that his struggling protégé, Barack Obama, proved unable to complete.  Although my evidence was textual or...

  • December 1, 2011

    Ayers Owns Up to Obama Fundraiser

    On October 15, 2008 MSNBC's Chris Matthews questioned Robert Gibbs, then senior advisor to Senator Barack Obama, about his relationship with terrorist emeritus Bill Ayers. These questions came immediately after the third presidential debate. Here is ...

  • November 18, 2011

    Polanski, Paterno, and the Press

    If any one lesson was learned these past weeks from the Penn State scandal, it is that our progressive friends have not quite figured out what is right and what is wrong. On November 5 of this year, for instance, the Huffington Post broke the news to...

  • November 17, 2011

    Bill Maher's Race Problem

    Missed in the hubbub over Elizabeth Hasselbeck's deft putdown of HBO star Bill Maher on Tuesday's The View were Maher's comments about presidential candidate Herman Cain. Asked to comment on Cain, Maher glibly volunteered, "He is an idiot." Maher ela...

  • November 10, 2011

    Joe Paterno and Bishop Finn

    Legendary Penn State football coach Joe Paterno and Kansas City bishop Robert Finn share a fate they would not wish on their worst enemies: both stand accused of not reporting the sexual exploitation of children in their respective bailiwicks.  ...

  • November 10, 2011

    Further Observations on the Penn State Case

    In perusing the responses to my article, "Joe Paterno and Bishop Finn," I am intrigued by the readers who seem to have missed my point entirely.  Their sentiments are perhaps best summed by the respondent who commented, "Rationalizations for cow...

  • November 8, 2011

    Politically, Steve Jobs Was Pure Microsoft

    The recently deceased Apple honcho Steve Jobs had a Manichean take on the digital marketplace.  As he saw it, Apple -- with its closed systems; its elegant simplicity; and its organic, innovative thoroughly integrated hardware and software -- re...

  • November 5, 2011

    HBO to Celebrate Tiller's Life?

    Writer/producer Alan Ball is changing genres from vampires, but he is sticking to the ghoulish.  The producer of TV's True Blood and Six Feet Under is scheduled to serve as executive producer of a one-hour HBO drama, Wichita, about the life of t...

  • October 28, 2011

    How A Candidate Should Handle Birther Questions

    This past week, Texas Governor Rick Perry was hit with the "birther" question by Parade Magazine.  Here is how it went: Governor, do you believe that President Barack Obama was born in the United States? I have no reason to think otherwise. Tha...

  • October 26, 2011

    State Spreads Obama Book Plague Worldwide

    Now we learn that out State Department will be spending $70,000 we don't have to stock "key libraries" around the world with copies of Barack Obama's books, most notably his 1995 memoir, Dreams from My Father. There are problems with this scenario be...

  • October 11, 2011

    The Heartland Never 'Overrated' Obama

    Some years back, before I abandoned my senses and became a conspiracy theorist, I used to contribute the occasional article to the Weekly Standard. Launched in 1995 by Rupert Murdoch, and edited ever since by William Kristol and Fred Barnes, the We...

  • October 7, 2011

    Republican Debate Prep 101

    About twenty years ago, while working as the broadcast producer at an ad agency, I volunteered to do the media for a Republican candidate in a race a Republican had not won in anyone's memory.  My candidate lost by a hair, but the experience was...

  • October 1, 2011

    At least he was spared the horrors of Gitmo

    By direct order from President Barack Obama, alleged terrorist and American citizen, Anwar al Awlaki, has been spared the embarrassment of arrest, the nightmare of rendition, the horror of enhanced interrogation, the injustice of a military tribunal,...

  • September 19, 2011

    Kansas 'Rodeo Exception' Claimed Unborn's Life

    "Horses are my life and having kids would mess that up for barrel racing" -- so said a 15-year-old who hoped to abort the healthy, viable baby that she had already carried for more than six months. The year was 2003.  Our confused little cowgirl...

  • September 7, 2011

    As A Writer, Obama's No Lincoln

    The teleprompters at President Barack Obama's inaugural address were still powering down when British literary heavyweight Jonathan Raban deemed Obama "the best writer to occupy the White House since Lincoln." Raban was hardly alone in this enthusias...

  • August 29, 2011

    Early Obama Letter Confirms Inability to Write

    On November 16, 1990, Barack Obama, then president of the Harvard Law Review, published a letter in the Harvard Law Record, an independent Harvard Law School newspaper, championing affirmative action. Although a paragraph from this letter was excerpt...

  • August 3, 2011

    Were Lesbians Slighted in Norway Massacre?

    Today's Yahoo News line-up led off with a lamentation so wonderfully perverse that it alone could indict us before future generations.  Although the teaser headline used the world "lesbian" to lure the reader, the article in question read more s...

  • July 11, 2011

    A Way to Ease the President's Guilt about Book Millions

    On July 11 President Barack Obama argued that he most certainly should pay more taxes for the book royalty income that he does not need (and did not deserve).  This wonderfully absurd bit of movie-making suggests a legal way to separate Presiden...

  • July 9, 2011

    Obama Adoption Memo Smells of Collusion

    Someone at the Department of Homeland Security has some explaining to do. On July 7, Boston Globe reporter Sally Jacobs wrote an article for Boston.com whose headline teased the reader with bombshells to come, "Father spoke of having Obama adopted." ...

  • July 3, 2011

    Can Mormons Now Make Fun of Gays?

    On the Sirius Satellite radio in my car, when Rush is not on, I usually switch back and forth between the Sinatra station and the Broadway station. The primary host on the Broadway station is a fellow named Seth Rudetsky.  Openly gay, Rudetsky o...

  • June 25, 2011

    Critics Don't Get Tree of Life

    Critics know they are supposed to like Terrence Malick, the reclusive auteur who has made just five films over the course of his 40-year career.  His movies from the 1973 Badlands to the 2011 Tree of Life are all distinctive, bold, and beautiful...

  • June 17, 2011

    Obama's Father's Day Fraud

    Say what you will about President Barack Obama, but when he misrepresents the truth, no matter how much evidence surfaces to the contrary, he stands by his falsehoods.  Even Anthony Weiner had more sense than to do that. In the first paragraph o...

  • June 12, 2011

    Why UK's Daily Mail Got Cold Feet on 'Dreams' Fraud

    More than three months after the release of my book Deconstructing Obama, I am still waiting for the first serious review in a print publication of consequence, mainstream or conservative.  The United Kingdom's Daily Mail -- more specifically it...

  • June 7, 2011

    Misunderstanding Obama's Momma

    In his assessment of the life of Stanley Ann Dunham, New York Times columnist Roger Cohen unwittingly tells us more about himself and the genteel progressive world he inhabits than he does Barack Obama's mother. His jumping off place is A Singular Wo...

  • May 31, 2011

    Are Obama's Academic Defenders Vulnerable?

    In late October 2010, Harvard historian James T. Kloppenberg gave a standing room-only lecture at a New York City conference on intellectual history. There, the New York Times reported, Kloppenberg shared the insights gleaned in researching his book,...

  • May 30, 2011

    A Quick Look at Media Reaction to 'Deconstructing Obama'

    In the three months since the release of my book, Deconstructing Obama, I have learned more about the media than in the thirty years before.  In the video that follows producer Chris Kusnell does an excellent job of distilling my education into ...

  • May 21, 2011

    Media Shielded Voters from Obama's Israel Intentions

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  • May 18, 2011

    Corsi Book An Important One

    Jerome Corsi's much-anticipated book, Where's the Birth Certificate?, is important in ways that go beyond the eligibility of Barack Obama to be president of the United States.  That question the book addresses but cannot quite resolve.Perhaps mo...

  • May 10, 2011

    How the Media Falsify Obama's Origins Story

    In her new biography of Ann Dunham, A Singular Woman, New York Times reporter Janny Scott corrupts Barack Obama's nativity story even more than a cynic might have thought possible.  In so doing, Scott follows an ignoble media tradition that dese...

  • May 6, 2011

    Misreading Obama

    From the moment Barack Obama took center stage at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, the world has been busily trying to decipher the man.  No one has been more busy reading Obama in the years since than the chair of the Harvard History De...

  • May 1, 2011

    Barack Obama's Aborted Sibling?

    Say what you will about President Obama's mother, Ann Dunham, but at least she chose life.  Given the track record of her putative husband, Barack Obama Sr., this would surely not have been his idea.Although the media have taken some notice of B...

  • April 30, 2011

    Race, Fantasy, and the New Yorker's Editor

    A New Yorker article by editor David Remnick gives away the game in the headline, "Trump, Birtherism, And Race-Baiting."According to Remnick, the "irrepressible jackass" Trump has inspired idiot America to believe a series of fant...

  • April 29, 2011

    The Obama Lie That Drove the Birther Movement

    Newly released documents from Barack Obama Sr.'s immigration file,  obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, justify "birther" doubts about the nativity story on which Barack Obama based his presidential campaign.The documents ...

  • April 22, 2011

    MSNBC's Bashir Challenged by Breitbart

    After enduring Martin Bashir's thirteen minutes of shameless race-baiting on MSNBC Wednesday, Andrew Breitbart challenged Bashir to a lie-detector showdown with a $10,000 payoff.Breitbart would be tested on whether he told the truth about Shirley She...

  • April 20, 2011

    Will Book on Obama's Mom Shape Birther Debate?

    In 2008, Janny Scott a reporter for the New York Times, took leave to write what would become A Singular Woman: The Untold Story of Barack Obama's Mother, a book to be released on May 3.In the April 20 Times, Scott has a lengthy article largely excer...

  • April 20, 2011

    Al-Qaida Confirms Involvement in Libya

    The American media are reluctant to report what the French media have made clear: Al-Qaida has established a beachhead in Libya and fully intends to install Sharia law once government forces are overcome.An April 19th article in the prominent French ...

  • April 18, 2011

    If Mortensen is Fair Game, Why Not Obama?

    After months of investigation into mountain climber turned philanthropist turned best-selling author, Greg Mortenson, the 60 Minutes producers have come to a shocking conclusion: "Upon close examination, some of the most touching and harrowing t...

  • April 15, 2011

    Prez Pleased That 'Most People' Think Him Legit

    In an odd exchange on Thursday, Good Morning America's George Stephanopoulos betrayed his roots as a Democratic operative by greasing President Obama's slide around the birth certificate question."I mean all of us have been struck by Donald Trum...

  • April 11, 2011

    Ignorance is Bliss at the New York Times

    As of 9 AM Sunday morning, I am told, Gail Collins had the most popular item on the New York Times web site.  In the column titled "Donald Trump Strikes Back," Collins presumes to dissect the "disturbing spectacle" of Donald ...

  • April 8, 2011

    Time for the Conservative Media to Step Up

    On his radio program yesterday, Sean Hannity interviewed that irrepressible rogue elephant, Donald Trump.  At about the 10:30 mark of this interview, Hannity made the salient point that "journalism in America died in 2008." He then pro...

  • April 6, 2011

    Why Trump Is Surging in New Hampshire

    According to a most recent poll, the unlikely Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has surged into second place in New Hampshire.  His 21 percent support trails only Mitt Romney's 26 percent and easily tops the 12 percent registered by...

  • April 5, 2011

    Bachmann 'Lies' about Family History, Obama 'Invents'

    The media are all over potential presidential candidate Michelle Bachmann for the "lies" she told about her family history during an Iowa stump speech.Would that they had paid -- or will pay -- half as much attention to Dreams from My Fathe...

  • April 3, 2011

    Washington Post Misses Real Ron Brown Story

    "Ron Brown was on a mission to help connect U.S. businessmen to trade opportunities in the war-ravaged former Yugoslavia when he died in 1996," writes Lonnae O'Neal Parker in an embarrassing gush on the 15th anniversary of the death of Clin...

  • April 1, 2011

    Trump Claims Ayers Wrote Obama's 'Dreams'

    Wednesday on the Laura Ingraham Show, presumed Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump continued to rattle the media establishment.  As reported in the Daily Caller, Trump argued that former terrorist Bill Ayers was the real author of Bar...

  • March 30, 2011

    Deconstructing Obama Makes Fox & Friends

    It took a combination of Donald Trump's air war and a New Jersey-based grass roots guerilla war to open television news up to the possibility that Barack Obama is not the writer, let alone the man, that he says he is.  Into the breach went I on ...

  • March 28, 2011

    Ayers affirms he wrote Dreams from my Father

    Last Thursday evening at Montclair State University, with a video camera rolling, Bill Ayers volunteered that yes indeed he had written the acclaimed Barack Obama memoir, Dreams from My Father.Unprompted, Ayers also noted that while Dreams deserves i...

  • March 24, 2011

    On Birth Issue 'The Donald' Trumps Other Republicans

    If Donald Trump's goal is to differentiate himself from those jelly-kneed Republican candidates too timid to ask even the most basic questions about President Barack Obama's origins, he is doing a bang-up job of it.Wednesday morning on The View, Trum...

  • March 14, 2011

    If You Missed Deconstructing Obama on Book-TV

    The Saturday evening debut of my presentation of Deconstructing Obama was postponed to accommodate the passing of David Broder.  The show did air Sunday morning, but for those who missed it, the show is now available online: http://cs.pn/gu...

  • March 11, 2011

    Deconstructing Obama Book-TV debut

    Huge thanks to Herb Meyer for his swell review in yesterday's American Thinker and my deep appreciation for those readers who commented so favorably.  From the beginning the effort to get the truth about President Obama has been a collaborative ...

  • March 8, 2011

    George Will's Atrophied Intellectual Curiosity

    For all his contributions to the cause, and they have been many, conservative media personality George Will may well have exhausted his shelf life.In his much-discussed Sunday column, Will all too predictably excoriated those Republicans politicians ...

  • March 2, 2011

    Has Huckabee Gone Birther?

    Up until Monday of this week, perennial presidential candidate Mike Huckabee was the bane of the so-called bithers.A week ago on Good Morning America, Huckabee pandered to George Stephanopoulos's ABC audience with the now standard Republic disclaimer...

  • February 25, 2011

    Media Matters Reviews Deconstructing Obama

    In the post-Tucson spirit of civility, I think it only fair to balance Jack Kerwick's positive review of Deconstructing Obama in today's AT with a somewhat less than positive one from our aggressively progressive friends at Media Matters.Am I being o...

  • February 22, 2011

    Wisconsin Teachers, Don't Take Obama at His Word

    President Barack Obama has a habit of telling teachers what they want to hear, as he has done this past week in the Wisconsin teachers' strike.Sometimes what he says, however, is simply not true.  At the 40-second mark of this video clip, candid...

  • February 15, 2011

    Deconstructing Obama Hits Book Stores Today

    Two and a half years after I started my exploration of Barack Obama's life and letters, my book length treatment of the same goes on sale today, Deconstructing Obama: the Life, Loves, and Letters of America's First Postmodern President.  This jo...

  • February 11, 2011

    The Real 'Birther' Conspiracy Theory

    In the course of my inquiries into many of history's more recent controversies -- JFK, Waco, Vince Foster, Oklahoma City, Ron Brown, TWA Flight 800, 9/11, Obama's birth, the authorship of Obama's books -- I have come to see that when there are actual...

  • February 7, 2011

    Obama's Prayer Breakfast Knuckleball

    At the National Prayer Breakfast on February 3, President Obama threw a knuckleball down the middle, and the media whiffed.Most simply took Obama at his word that as a young man in Chicago, he "came to know Jesus Christ for myself and embrace hi...

  • February 3, 2011

    Bill Ayers's 'Crystal Chaos'

    In doing research for my book, "Deconstructing Obama," which will be in the bookstores next week, I came upon a passage from Bill Ayers's 2001 memoir "Fugitive Days" that bears reflection in light of the madness that has settled o...

  • February 1, 2011

    PBS Documentary Ignores Mosque Controversy

    The documentary, Chautauqua: An American Narrative, that premiered last night, January 31, on PBS nationwide missed the one drama that might have made the program interesting.As I noted on these pages last summer, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf -- he of Grou...

  • January 28, 2011

    Obama Stung by SOTU Plagiarism Rap

    Kudos to presidential historian Alvin Felzenberg for his tug on Obama's cape.  A Ph.D. from Princeton and the former spokesman for the 9/11 commission, Felzenberg is the first intellectual insider to suggest publicly that President Barack Obama ...

  • January 27, 2011

    Still More Prevaricating from Abercrombie Pal

    Denver radio host Peter Boyles of KHOW 630 AM has been making life miserable for Mike Evans, the celebrity journalist pal of Hawaii governor, Neil Abercrombie.Evans, the reader will recall, first stumbled into the news last week when he told the host...

  • January 25, 2011

    Friend says Abercrombie told him, 'There is no birth certificate!' (updated)

    During an interview on the KQRS morning radio show on January 20, Mike Evans, a long-time friend of Hawaii governor Neil Abercrombie, shared a conversation he had with the governor the day prior.  The reader is advised to judge for himself the c...

  • January 25, 2011

    More Prevaricating from Abercrombie

    On January 21, 2009, the day after Obama was inaugurated, talk radio host Mike Evans interviewed then Congressman Neil Abercrombie on his relationships with the Barack Obamas, senior and junior.During this little-seen, congenial, 7-minute interview o...

  • January 24, 2011

    Sarah Palin and the Legacy of Republican 'Idiocy'

    Sarah Palin may be the reigning Republican "idiot," but she shares in a proud legacy that dates back to at least Dwight David Eisenhower, if not earlier.The "idiot" talk began as soon as Palin was named McCain's running mate....

  • January 21, 2011

    Left wing climate of hate and assassination

    Successful propaganda is composed of equal parts deception and suppression, and the apparatchiks in the mainstream media are much better at the latter.They may have erred in pushing the Arizona assassination attempt beyond its ideological limits last...

  • January 19, 2011

    A Clue to the Author of 'O'?

    If I ever needed proof of the triviality of contemporary media, I find it in the ginned-up hubbub over the "anonymous" author of O, the much-discussed new novel about the Obama White House.About 15 minutes of literary detective work leads m...

  • January 17, 2011

    What Obama Has Said about His Own Birth

    While Democrat Congressman Frank Pallone read the "natural born Citizen" clause of the U.S. Constitution on the House floor last Thursday, a spirited female in the audience shouted out, "Except Obama!  Except Obama!  Help us,...

  • January 16, 2011

    30 year-old Chicagoan Wrote Tucson Speech

    In a Friday article I had speculated that chief Obama speechwriter Jon Favreau had penned Obama's over-praised Tucson oration, but it turns out that Obama elevated heretofore unknown Cody Keenan from the "eulogy and commencement beat" for h...

  • January 14, 2011

    Obama Does Best When He Says Nothing

    In Tucson, on Wednesday evening, we saw President Barack Obama in his full Chauncey Gardiner mode.  After the drubbing of November 2010, Obama's handlers have come to understand that Obama does best when, like Chauncey, he says nothing at all....

  • January 11, 2011

    Barry and Sarah Talk Violence

    In light of the professional left's cartoonish response to the shooting in Arizona, it would seem the most appropriate way to respond would be with a cartoon of our own.  Please share this with your friends of short attention span.  It sums...

  • January 8, 2011

    More Tea Party Violence?

    Before anyone had publicly identified the shooter of Arizona Congreswoman Gabrielle Giffords, the wire services were busily and shamelessly trying to establish a link between the violence and the Tea Party movement.The fact that Giffords is a Democra...

  • January 3, 2011

    Will Obama Silence Blundering Abercrombie?

    For reasons clear to no one just yet, Hawaii's new Democrat governor, Neil Abercrombie, has gone public with his desire to silence the so-called "birthers" with proof of Barack Obama's Hawaiian birth."Maybe I'm the only one in the coun...

  • December 29, 2010

    Early Obama Poem Shows Davis's Hand

    Many thanks to my correspondent, "Mr. Southwest," for surfacing an early and revealing Obama poem that I had heretofore not seen.  The unnamed poem, which I will call "Forgotten," was unearthed for a lengthy March 2008 articl...

  • December 27, 2010

    Palin's Authenticity Problem?

    For any number of reasons, some best dissected on a psychiatrist's couch, conservative pundits within the Beltway have as hard a time coping with Sarah Palin as their liberal counterparts.On Sunday, FOX News commentator and former White House Press s...

  • December 25, 2010

    Coldest Day Ever Recorded in Ireland

     On Tuesday this week, the high temperature in Ballyhaise, County Cavan, clocked in at 16 degrees Fahrenheit.  As Head forecaster Gerald Fleming told the Irish Times, "That's the lowest daily maximum ever recorded in Ireland, which mak...

  • December 23, 2010

    The Palin 'Glaring Gaffe' That Wasn't

    Word to Yahoo News: a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.  A "glaring gaffe" suggests an epic blunder like Joe Biden urging a wheelchair bound man to stand up.  More worrisome is the one national intelligence director James Cla...

  • December 16, 2010

    Rep. Cleaver's Wannabe Boondoggle

    Say what you will about Kansas City's Lamar Mickens-the 45 year-old honcho of a nonprofit listed as "Quality Day Campus Inc.," America's only corporation with a "Zodiac sign," Libra to be precise-but don't call him timid.Mickens h...

  • December 8, 2010

    Left Tied in Knots Over Assange Accusers

    Orwellian double-think sometimes leads to brain freeze.  And in its reaction to the imprisonment in London of WikiLeaks impresario, Julian Assange, the left wing blogosphere has descended into an ideological big chill.Radical feminism gave inevi...

  • November 30, 2010

    Scottsboro Boy

    In contemporary San Francisco, a heterosexual military male can no more expect justice than a black man could in Jim Crow Alabama.This December marks the fifteenth consecutive Christmas Steven Nary will have spent in the bowels of the California corr...

  • November 22, 2010

    Respectable Conservatives Still Don't Get Obama

    If United States Senator Al Franken -- it hurts to say that -- ever had a redeeming moment, it was in the role of Stuart Smalley, a character he created for "Saturday Night Live."In the most memorable of Smalley's "Daily Affirmations,...

  • November 16, 2010

    Dreams of Jimmy Choo Shoes

    I am often asked if I am writing a book on my research into Barack Obama.  The answer is yes, and Simon & Schuster will release Deconstructing Obama in February.  In the book, I answer the corollary questions:  Who wrote the books ...

  • November 13, 2010

    Soros Forgiven, Pope Not So Much

    The media are aghast at Glenn Beck's largely accurate account of George Soros' early years.  Reads the New York Daily News altogether typical headline: "Is Glenn Beck an anti-Semite? Fox host slammed by Anti-Defamation League for attack on ...

  • November 4, 2010

    Tuesday's Sweetest Victory

    Of all the sweet spots on Tuesday's electoral map, none was sweeter than Pennsylvania. There, Republican Pat Toomey held off hard-charging Democrat Joe Sestak to win the Senate seat previously held by the politically transgendered Arlen Specter.Had S...

  • November 1, 2010

    The NAACP's Red Smear Artist

    Last week, in a lame stab at an October surprise, the NAACP released a report by a pair of presumed authorities, Devin Burghart and Leonard Zeskind, on the alleged links between "certain Tea Party factions and acknowledged racist hate groups....

  • October 29, 2010

    New Obama Bio Goes Comically Awry

    Said William Buckley for the ages, "I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University."In his forthcoming biography, Reading Oba...

  • October 22, 2010

    Why Jesse Skated and Juan Did Not

    The correspondents on left wing blogs have been rummaging through the dusty closets of their respective brains to find new justifications for NPR's self-destructive sacking of Juan Williams.One such correspondent on a Media Matters blog came up with ...

  • October 18, 2010

    Remember When Dems Fretted About Privacy?

    Was it just a few years ago when our progressive friends waxed hysterical about the invasions of privacy implicit in the Patriot Act?  Well, now those invasions are explicit, and they are coming to you courtesy of Barack Obama's Organizing for A...

  • October 17, 2010

    How Good Schools Go Bad

    I had the good fortune of attending what may have been America's best high school in the 1960s: Regis by name, a Jesuit high school located in New York City's upper east side.As the first kid in my Newark grade school to be accepted -- it is an all-s...

  • October 9, 2010

    The Critics' Odd Affection for Anti-Cloning Film

    Salon's Andrew O'Hehir describes the world created in the new anti-cloning film Never Let Me Go as "morally reprehensible."   In this world, "human beings are sacrificed so that others may live," and, as O'Hehir editoria...

  • October 7, 2010

    The Real Roots of Obama's Rage

    On Monday morning of this week, after reviewing my book proofs and shipping them off to Simon & Schuster, I picked up a copy of Dinesh D'Souza's new book, The Rage of Obama's Roots, and read it until I finished. Happily, it is a short book.In my ...

  • September 27, 2010

    Sneak Preview: The Hijacking of the 2010 Election

    Through a combination of massive, Somali-driven voter fraud, stunning Election Board incompetence, and the willful blindness of the Kansas City Star, machine Democrat J.J. Rizzo managed to beat conservative Democrat Will Royster by one vote in a Miss...

  • September 16, 2010

    Leftist Assassination Attempt Pushed Down Memory Hole

    "Missouri governor was intended target of stabbing at MCC-Penn Valley," reads the headline of today's Kansas City Star.  On Tuesday, mistaking the community college dean, Al Dimmitt, for Governor Jay Nixon, student Casey Brezik, 22, sl...

  • September 15, 2010

    What D'Souza Doesn't Get Quite Right

    Dinesh D'Souza has long been one of America's shrewdest and bravest political observers. His much discussed Forbes article "How Obama Thinks," a prelude to his forthcoming book, The Roots of Obama's Rage, burnishes that reputation. Indeed, ...

  • September 11, 2010

    What the NY Jets Can Do That the FDNY Cannot

    The simple answer is this: field its best team. The reasons why the New York Fire Department cannot do so are complex, but when understood, indefensible -- especially after September 11.Two good windows on this paradox are the HBO show "Hard Kno...

  • September 8, 2010

    Was Obama's Hendrix Reference Freudian?

    The headline story on my Yahoo News reads, "Obama channels Hendrix on critics: ‘They talk about me like a dog.'""Though Obama didn't acknowledge it," reads the article by Holly Bailey,  "the line was a verbatim quo...

  • September 3, 2010

    Human Rights through the Looking Glass

    The UPR stands for Universal Periodic Review, a human rights reporting process established by The U.N. General Assembly in 2006. As shall be seen, "Orwellian" does not do the UPR justice. "Bizarro World" comes closer to the mark.A...

  • August 25, 2010

    American Thinker makes news in Buffalo

    Citing an American Thinker article as its source, YNN News out of Buffalo sent a camera crew to the landmark Chautauqua Institution an hour south of the city to investigate claims that Ground Zero Imam, Feisal Abdul Rauf, was planning to build a mosq...

  • August 24, 2010

    Ground Zero Imam Eyes Another Landmark

    Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, chairman of the soi-disant Cordoba Initiative, has gotten all the attention he deserves for his astonishingly insensitive attempt to build a thirteen-story mosque and community center at the site of Ground Zero.Rauf has largel...

  • August 16, 2010

    If Timothy McVeigh had been a Christian

    In fact, Oklahoma City bomber, Timothy McVeigh, was a self-proclaimed atheist, whose mantra was "Science is my religion." That, of course, did not stop the media and the self-appointed liberal "watchdogs" from blaming the bombing ...

  • August 9, 2010

    Why Obama Does Not Address Connecticut Shootings

    A week ago, as is well enough known, Omar Thornton shot and killed eight of his coworkers while being escorted out of the building after having been terminated by his employer, a Connecticut beer distributor.  As I write this, President Barack O...

  • August 6, 2010

    Left Exposes Sherrod Hypocrisy

    An insightful article in the sophisticated leftwing site, Counterpunch, further strips Ms. Shirley Sherrod of the martyr's rags she has been wearing since first exposed and then un-exposed as a racist Ag official two weeks back.The author, Ron Wilkin...

  • July 31, 2010

    SnookiGate Threatens White House

    Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi, the 22-year old star of the impressively vulgar MTV reality TV show, Jersey Shore has a beef with President Obama that -- who knows? -- could lead to the repeal of ObamaCare.An inveterate tanner, Snooki expressed he...

  • July 30, 2010

    Real Sherrod Story Still Untold

    Had Andrew Breitbart dutifully written a column detailing how an obscure USDA official, Shirley Sherrod, and her husband, Charles Sherrod, had scammed the government out of millions, the story would have had the range and lifespan of a fruit fly.Inst...

  • July 8, 2010

    The Death of a Truly Distinctive Patriot

    I just received the sad news that the inimitable Terry Anderson, the beloved "Prisoner of South Central," has died of liver and pancreatic cancer.  There was no one quite like him.  I met Anderson a few years ago at a radio studio...

  • July 1, 2010

    Racial sensitivity police caught napping

    Where is Eric Holder's Justice Department?  Government Motors is running the wrong kind of commercials.In the way of background, Dude Perfect, a clever group of Texas A&M students, has been executing and recording some astonishing feats with...

  • June 2, 2010

    Ayers to the Rescue?

    The New York Times' Maureen Dowd turns on the man she helped elect president:  In "Dreams From My Father," Obama showed passion, lyricism, empathy and an exquisite understanding of character and psychological context - all the qualitie...

  • May 30, 2010

    How the Liberal Mind Works

    In April of this year, I wrote an article for American Thinker about David Remnick's new book, The Bridge, and titled it, "New Obama Bio Strengthens 
Case for Dreams Fraud."  "It surprised me to learn that David Remnick had dedi...

  • May 28, 2010

    Original Sestak Admission At Odds With White House Spin

    Larry Kane, known as the "dean of Philadelphia television news anchors," has been covering Pennsylvania politics for more than 40 years.  During a February 18th interview he asked Congressman Joe Sestak to clarify a rumor he had been h...

  • May 23, 2010

    The Senator from Sandy Berger

    In 1934, "Boss" Tom Pendergast handpicked a Jackson County administrative judge to be the next United States senator from Missouri, and for the next ten years Harry Truman wore the tag, "The Senator from Pendergast."Truman began t...

  • May 13, 2010

    Kagan, Obama, and the Harvard Legacy of Literary Fraud

    When Barack Obama’s two faculty mentors at Harvard Law got in trouble for plagiarism, they were rescued by Dean Elena Kagan.In 1989, Harvard Law professor Laurence Tribe hired first-year Harvard law student Barack Obama as his research assistan...

  • May 3, 2010

    How Obama Himself Made More Than 'Enough Money'

    In defending his administration's efforts at putative financial reform, President Obama suggested a ceiling, perhaps government-imposed, for Wall Street executives. Although he did not begrudge them income that is "fairly earned," he added ...

  • April 22, 2010

    Has anyone ever talked to the 'spitter'?

    Although "Spittlegate" has largely passed from the national news, it still has resonance in the Kansas City congressional district of Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, the "spittee" at the center of the Capitol Hill protest on March 20. ...

  • April 18, 2010

    Barack Obama's Missing Girlfriends

    The blogosphere abhors a vacuum. So when the mainstream media (MSM) leave holes in a given narrative -- in this case, the biography of the president -- bloggers individually, incrementally, and indefatigably strive to fill in the blanks -- sometimes ...

  • April 13, 2010

    Remnick Disses Andersen for Using Unnamed Sources

    A friend alerted me that David Remnick, the author of new Obama bio, The Bridge, was holding forth on WGN radio in Chicago.  Feeling mischievous, I phoned in, and they took my call. My central question to Remnick was this: why had he totally ign...

  • April 12, 2010

    Time for John Lewis To Man Up

    From the moment "Spittlegate" happened on March 20th, the media have depicted iconic civil rights leader Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) as its primary victim. He was the "congressman" in question in the incendiary McClatchy headline, ...

  • April 12, 2010

    New Obama Bio Strengthens Case for Dreams Fraud

    It surprised me to learn that David Remnick had dedicated three pages of his comprehensive new Obama biography, The Bridge, to my thesis that Bill Ayers helped Barack Obama write Obama's 1995 memoir, Dreams From My Father. It will surprise Remnick ev...

  • April 11, 2010

    'Spittlegate' and Its Consequences

    On Monday evening, April 5, my home phone rang. The caller ID said "Freedom, Inc.," the name of the black political club that ushered my congressman, Representative Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO), to power. Wondering whether the call might have som...

  • April 1, 2010

    How Quickly Spread the Tea Party Smear

    To make the racial smear of the Tea Party protestors at the Capitol clear to anyone with eyes to see, I have assembled this four-minute video. In composing it, I checked with my source on the scene, Greg Farrell, to get a timeline on the passage of t...

  • March 30, 2010

    A Closer Look at the Capitol Steps Conspiracy

    William Douglas, an African-American reporter for the liberal McClatchy Newspapers, seems to have broken the story at 4:51 PM on Saturday, March 20, just hours after the alleged incident took place. Douglas did so with the seriously inflammatory head...

  • March 25, 2010

    The Spit Heard Round The World

    Kansas City congressman Emanuel Cleaver finds himself at the center of a spit storm this week.  It appears that of all the members of the Black Caucus who parted a sea of protestors outside the Capitol on Saturday he was uniquely called an n-wor...

  • March 24, 2010

    Anatomy of a Racial Smear

    For the last year, the media have been desperately trying to hang the "racist" tag around the Tea Party movement as a way to discredit it. This past weekend, they would seem to have finally succeeded.The McClatchy newspaper chain, whose slo...

  • March 21, 2010

    Is BHO the New FDR?

    On the cover of its November 24, 2008 edition, Time Magazine photo-shopped Barack Obama into a classic image of a jaunty Franklin Delano Roosevelt, right down to the politically incorrect cigarette holder.The article is headlined, "The New New D...

  • March 14, 2010

    It's the Culture, Stupid

    Had the culture celebrated marriage and the government rewarded it, there would have been no subprime crisis, and all other tax-eating pathologies would have been contained. Allow me to explain.In my new book, Popes and Bankers: A Cultural History of...

  • March 7, 2010

    What I Learned from Obama's Pop

    "Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle!"  - Alice in WonderlandA little more than a month ago, I began my first descent into the rabbit hole of Barack Obama's origins, a place known to swallow reputations whole. What promp...

  • March 1, 2010

    ESPN Goes Red

    Sunday morning, ESPN's normally watchable and well-produced "Outside the Lines (OTL)" aired an uncritical feature on Lester Rodney, "a white sportswriter who crusaded for baseball integration."The OTL producers conceded that Rodne...

  • February 28, 2010

    Decrypting Obama's 'Pop'

    In 1988, the Center for Labor Education and Research (CLEAR) at the University of Hawaii-West Oahu produced a documentary about the life of Frank Marshall Davis. Best known today as the mentor of the young Barack Obama, Davis had died the year before...

  • February 14, 2010

    A Further Inquiry into Obama's Origins

    Last week I contributed an article to American Thinker on Obama's origins that evoked a good deal of informed response. In it, I argued that the failure of the mainstream media to document the first year of Barack Obama's life has rendered the media ...

  • February 7, 2010

    Another Look at Obama's Origins

    The murky circumstances of Obama's birth invite attempts to make the known facts fit together. This article was prompted by two e-mails. The first asked me why I had never weighed in on the birth certificate controversy surrounding President Barack O...

  • January 30, 2010

    Bin Laden: A hoax like the warming he champions

    A January 29 Associated Press headline shouts without apparent irony, "Bin Laden Blames U.S. for Global Warming in New Tape."  Under the headline is a photo of Osama bin Laden speaking into a microphone."Talk about climate change ...

  • January 23, 2010

    Impressive Media Malpractice at March For Life

    In January 2009 we brought a six-man camera crew to Washington to create a documentary on the subject of the annual March for Life called Thine Eyes.What motivated Steve Sanborn, the organizer of the project and a March veteran, was the media's histo...

  • January 17, 2010

    The Surprising Book of Eli

    The previews give little hint that the newly opened Book of Eli starring Denzel Washington and directed by the brothers Albert and Allen Hughes, is the most explicitly Christian action film since Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison.  On the surface, Book ...

  • January 10, 2010

    How The Media Have Mangled The Pro-Life Story

    This past year, I found myself chief chronicler of the two of the year's most important stories involving the pro-life movement.  One was the inspiring saga of the 2009 March For Life, the largest in its 36-year history. The second was the dispi...

  • December 29, 2009

    The Left's Blind Eye to the Obvious

    The approach of the new year might be an appropriate time to summarize what I have learned in researching the several books and articles that I have written this decade. That I came to own -- or even break -- many of the stories involved, although sa...

  • December 26, 2009

    Avatar's New and Improved Anthropology

    There has been much made about the politics of the new James Cameron film, Avatar- liberal, self-loathing, incoherent -- but little has been made about the film's strange anthropology.In many ways, the film's indigenous creatures, the Na'vi, resemble...

  • December 8, 2009

    Chris Matthews slams wrong author

    On Monday night, Hardball host Chris Matthews made the not unreasonable comment, "Don't you essentially disrespect somebody who walks in and puts a book on the table and said they wrote it, when you know somebody else did?"The problem is th...

  • December 8, 2009

    Obama's Afghan Pickle

    Barack Obama's outsized ambitions and his progressive politics have been on a crash course since that fateful day in October 2002 when the Chosen One truly began his public life.The occasion was an antiwar rally in Chicago's Federal Plaza. Although t...

  • December 3, 2009

    How far will Ayers turn against Obama?

    On two unprompted occasions in October of this year, Bill Ayers admitted to having written Barack Obama's acclaimed memoir, Dreams From My Father.At the time, I wrote of these admissions that "however ironic their delivery, [they] remind Obama w...

  • November 27, 2009

    The Competing Narratives of Barry and Sarah

    In the spring of 1964, Sarah Heath, then just three months old, flew into backwater Skagway, Alaska (population 650) aboard a 1930s-era Grumman Goose to start a new life with her parents, brother, and sister.At that same time, in America's other new ...

  • November 21, 2009

    'Climategate' Heats Up

    A press release from filmmaker and marine biologist, Randy Olson, suggests that the media may not be able to bury the brewing global warming collusion scandal.  Writes Olson:An enormous event took place this week in the issue of global warming....

  • November 18, 2009

    Fact-Check This, Associated Press!

    "I think Obama's in a league with TR," observes historian and presidential biographer Douglas Brinkley. "He created his political reputation through the written word."  To be sure, no one has ever accused Sarah Palin, a defea...

  • November 9, 2009

    The New York Times Helped Build the Wall

    As freedom-lovers throughout the world celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the freedom-lovers at the New York Times, if there are any, have to be reflecting on that paper's own role in the Wall's construction.As it hap...

  • November 8, 2009

    Not A Parody

    The following message was sent by the Rev. J. Paul Womack, pastor of the Hurlbut Memorial Community Church.  The church is located on the grounds of the famed Chautauqua Institution, an affluent summer cultural center in Western New York.  ...

  • November 4, 2009

    Obama Pal Edward Said Another Fraud

    Friend and foe alike have wondered how Barack Obama wangled a seat next to Edward Said (pronounced sigh-EED), at an Arab-American community dinner in Chicago in 1998 on the fiftieth anniversary of the Palestinian nakbah, or disaster.  At the tim...

  • November 1, 2009

    Before Dreams, There Was Roots

    "This is the first president that actually writes his own books since Teddy Roosevelt and arguably the first to write them really well since Lincoln," gushed Rocco Landesman, the new chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts. Landesma...

  • October 28, 2009

    What Bill Ayers Saw in Barack Obama

    In 1994, while Barack Obama's memoir Dreams From My Father was being polished off, Bill Ayers co-authored an essay whose title befits a former merchant seaman: "Navigating a restless sea: The continuing struggle to achieve a decent education for...

  • October 25, 2009

    Obama Comes To The Mainland

    For more than a year I have been making the case that Bill Ayers played a major role in the authorship of Barack Obama's acclaimed 1995 memoir, Dreams From My Father.And for more than a year the hundreds of literary and political critics in the major...

  • October 16, 2009

    The NFL's Diversity Problem

    "I, myself, couldn't even consider voting for him," said Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay of accused thought criminal Rush Limbaugh. "As a nation, and as a world, we've got to watch our words and our thoughts.""Divisive com...

  • October 11, 2009

    A Closer Look At Obama's Odyssey

    On January 18, 2009, Michiko Kakutani, the New York Times Pulitzer Prize-winning literary critic, described the structure of Barack Obama's 1995 memoir, Dreams From My Father, as "a quest in which [Obama] cast himself as both a Telemachus in sea...

  • October 9, 2009

    Rigoberta Menchu Won The Nobel Peace Prize Too

    The left's attraction to the obviously false is nothing new. For well nigh a century, in fact, the world's intellectual elite has been crafting and enabling fraud on a wide range of critical subjects and, when the mood strikes, awarding intellectual ...

  • October 7, 2009

    How The VRWC Really Works

    In 1997, the White House was sufficiently alarmed by the emergence of what Hillary Clinton would famously call the "vast right wing conspiracy" (VRWC) that it put out a 332-page report that detailed how the conspiracy worked. In its unapolo...

  • September 29, 2009

    Polanski Crime Worse Than People Know

    [Caution: contains explicit reference to sexual acts which may disturb some readers]The Hollywood left and their fellow travelers are, of course, appalled that director Roman Polanski has been arrested for his unpunished 1977 rape of a 13-year old....

  • September 29, 2009

    Andersen Claims'Two Sources' for Ayers' Role in Dreams

    On Monday morning, Mancow Muller arranged for me to question author Chris Andersen on The Mancow Show.Andersen's largely benign new book, Barack and Michelle: Portrait of an American Marriage, now tops the New York Times best seller list.Andersen cla...

  • September 28, 2009

    Literary Lion Obama Will Roar No More

    The major media will not likely tackle the emerging evidence of Obama's stunning literary fraud, but the days of Obama's boasting about his writing skills are just as likely over.The immediate cause of concern at the White House is Christopher Anders...

  • September 24, 2009

    Andersen Book Blows Ayers' Cover on 'Dreams' (updated)

    In his new book, "Barack and Michelle: Portrait of an American Marriage," Best-selling celebrity journalist, Christopher Andersen, has blown a huge hole in the Obama genius myth without intending to do so.Relying on inside sources, quite po...

  • September 20, 2009

    Did Ayers Help Obama Get Into Harvard?

    Although terrorist emeritus Bill Ayers claims not to have met Barack Obama until the mid-1990s, there is reason to believe that he not only knew Obama much earlier, but that he helped get him into Harvard Law School.The evidence, substantial if specu...

  • August 30, 2009

    An odd coincidence?

    Is it possible that Michiko Kakutani, the New York Times Pulitzer Prize-winning literary critic, purloined a critical sentence from yours truly in her gushing review of Barack Obama's 1995 memoir, Dreams From My Father. You be the judge. On December ...

  • August 16, 2009

    Obama, Ayers and the Knowledge 'Too Big' To Handle

    In sifting through the intellectual landfill upon which the American left has built its worldview, a researcher can find any number of artifacts to help decrypt the Obama presidency.Among the more illuminating is Weather Underground, a watchable 2002...

  • July 12, 2009

    Who Wrote Audacity of Hope?

    In previous articles on the subject of President Obama's writing skills, I have focused on his 1995 memoir, Dreams From My Father, not his 2006 book, Audacity of Hope for one reason: Dreams, according to esteemed British author Jonathan Raban and oth...

  • June 28, 2009

    Breakthrough on the Authorship of Obama's 'Dreams'

    Within days of my going public last September with the speculation that terrorist emeritus Bill Ayers helped Barack Obama write his acclaimed memoir, Dreams From My Father, I learned that I was not alone in that intuition.Since then, I have received ...

  • June 7, 2009

    Reopen the TWA Flight 800 Case

    Nearly thirteen years after the destruction of TWA Flight 800 off the coast of Long Island, I had begun to think that the case was a dead issue, but then two unexpected and unrelated events caused me to think otherwise.The first was a phone call from...

  • May 24, 2009

    Who Wrote Dreams and Why It Matters

    While waiting for America's publishers to find their nerve, I had put my research into the authorship of Barack Obama's 1995 memoir Dreams From My Father on the back shelf.  But then I heard Chris Matthews.The Hardball host was weighing in on th...

  • December 28, 2008

    The Improvised Odyssey of Barack Obama

    There is no science to validate the thesis that follows, no academy to adjudicate it, and little hope of convincing the Obama faithful even to consider it, let alone concede its validity.  That much said, the evidence is self-evident, accessible...

  • November 30, 2008

    The Odd Story of Romance in Dreams from my Father

    I have as much faith in the hypothesis that follows as astronomers do in the big bang or biologists do in evolution, so bear with me please as I, like they, present my evidence in the indicative.The hypothesis is simple enough, namely that Barack Oba...

  • November 14, 2008

    Newspapers Censor Their Way to Oblivion

    This campaign season The Kansas City Star passed on a parcel of the nation's most eye-popping stories.  Incredibly, at least five of those stories flared up in the Star's home state, Missouri.  As the reader might guess, all five stories re...

  • October 22, 2008

    Ohio State Prof: Obama Denies Writing Dreams From My Father

    Bruce Heiden, professor of Greek and Latin at The Ohio State University, makes the fascinating claim in his website "The Postliberal" that Barack Obama agrees with my assertion that he did not actually write his own memoir, Dreams From My F...

  • October 17, 2008

    Evidence Mounts: Ayers Co-Wrote Obama's Dreams

    See also:  Who Wrote Dreams from my Father?Evidence continues to mount that Barack Obama had substantial help from Bill Ayers in the creation of his 1995 book, Dreams From My Father, a book that Time Magazine has called "the best-written me...

  • October 9, 2008

    Who Wrote Dreams From My Father?

    Prior to 1990, when Barack Obama contracted to write Dreams From My Father, he had written very close to nothing.  Then, five years later, this untested 33 year-old produced what Time Magazine has called -- with a straight face -- "the bes...