April 15, 2018

Aren't Democrats Lucky? (For the Time Being, Anyway)

Why are Democrats lucky?  Well, first of all, they have their faithful minion, Robert Mueller, trying desperately to do what they were unable to do themselves, which would be to reverse the results of the last election.  Granted, th...

June 14, 2017

Thank you, Bernie!

Bernie Sanders, the septuagenarian senator from chilly Vermont, is once again rocking the political world. Of course, I mean that in a good way, at least if you're a Republican worried about the 2018 and 2020 elections.  Sanders has unint...

January 19, 2017

Trump’s inaugural speech and the empty chair Democrats

Now that Inauguration Day is upon us, what should President-Elect Donald Trump do or say in response to the nonsense exhibited by Congressman John Lewis and a third or more of the House Democrats? It would be beneath our new president to make acer...

November 19, 2016

Explaining Obama’s polling approval

It’s amazing how things we say and do every day can be traced way back in our history.  Some are simple things, such as almost automatically saying “God bless you” when someone you don’t even know sneezes.  That phra...

November 13, 2016

Anti-Trump Riots: I’ve Seen It Before – Twice!

The recent news that has flooded the media that our progressive/liberal/Democrat colleagues have responded to their disappointment that Hillary didn’t win Tuesday’s election as they usually do. They rioted. In some cases, only a few...

October 19, 2016

How a liberal defines words (and ignores the dictionary)

It sort of makes you wonder what kind of medication politicians are using these days.  Words don’t always mean what a dictionary says they mean, and this “alternative definition” appears to be used more and more by political fi...

October 14, 2016

Think it can't be worse? Really?

After nearly eight years under the "leadership" of Barack Obama, most Americans looked forward to the election of 2016.  Yet when the primaries were finally said and done, the candidates selected to represent the Republican and the Dem...

November 3, 2015

'Cui bono,' Mr. Trump?

For quite a while Donald Trump has been trying to dislocate his own shoulder patting himself on the back and telling us all what a great “dealmaker” he is.  Now, I have no question that many multimillion-dollar deals have been negoti...

January 16, 2015

Obama can ignore damn near anything

Barack Obama seems able to ignore anything (except maybe a really lousy golf lie in a sand trap) and functions as if only what he desires to have happen actually does happen. Separated by over four years in time and on two different continents, hi...

January 2, 2015

De Blasio and the Biggest Band of Brothers

Bill de Blasio, the mayor of New York City and political fellow traveler of our president, Barack Hussein Obama; our attorney general, Eric Himpton Holder, Jr.; and our (well, to be more accurate, somebody’s) Race-Hustler-in-Chief, the Reverend...

November 25, 2014

Obama's Claim of Kindness

Barack Obama claims that the deportations of “some” illegal immigrants might be avoided if they have children who are viewed as American citizens because their parents crossed the border before they were born.  Obama has implied that...

November 21, 2014

Just Why are Illegal Aliens not Criminal?

Listening to members of the Obama administration trying to explain President Obama’s plan for amnesty for illegal aliens offers evidence that they still think like very young children, particularly when they are trying to avoid being blamed for...

September 27, 2014

Will Obama Try to Put Holder on the Supreme Court?

There has been a lot of buzz around the blogosphere regarding the recent announcement that Attorney General Eric Holder will resign his position “as soon as a replacement can be found.” Rush Limbaugh opined that Holder may have resigne...

September 21, 2014

The Hidden Danger in Obama's ISIS Plan

Apparently, from press reports, Barack Obama intends to emulate Lyndon Johnson’s prosecution of the war in Vietnam.  Obama plans to micro-manage every bombing mission, every assault, and every attack in the same way that he currently micro...

August 11, 2014

Obama Is Responsible for the Deaths in Iraq

ISIS, ISIL, the Islamic State, or whatever it’s called today is a group of homicidal thugs, drunk on their own sense of power and bolstered by their military successes in Syria, Lebanon, and Iraq. Thousands have been murdered – and not...

August 9, 2014

Measure Twice, Cut Once

“Measure Twice, Cut Once” has been the mantra of knowledgeable woodworkers since time immemorial. I’d be willing to wager that phrase was one of the first things that Joseph taught Jesus when he was a boy. Obviously, our “s...

July 22, 2014

Diversity for Thee, but Not for Me

The Progressive mantra of “diversity is our strength” is one of the most honored catchphrases of the left.  Like all slogans, it is a test to see if common folk are “gun-toting, Bible-clinging” Neanderthals or are they...

June 20, 2014

I Am Offended by Your Compliment!

There are five (yep, count ‘em – only five) allegedly Native Americans who are so upset by the term “Redskins” that they have sought help from the government to help them suppress this oppressive abuse caused by the use of the...

June 5, 2014

<em>Ceteris Paribus</em> in Government Assumptions

Have you noticed that the word “unexpected” keeps cropping up in announcement after announcement coming out of the White House, the various agencies within the Executive Branch, and news reports concerning the unintended consequences asso...

June 2, 2014

Another Source for the Problems at the VA

There has been a great deal of blather in the blogosphere and a ludicrous amount of professional punditry in the MSM regarding the situation in the Veterans Administration’s ongoing health care fiasco. In the interests of full disclosure, le...

May 23, 2014

Obama Heard It Through the Grapevine

Our president’s response to the shameful treatment, or rather mistreatment, of our veterans in the VA Medical system made me realize that not only is the president a master of basketball trivia (witness his masterful preparation of his March Ma...

May 10, 2014

A Republican's Nightmare? Really?

As the 2014 mid-term elections move inexorably closer, political pundits are burning up their word processors.  They are trying to explain how (a) the political parties will fare in the battle for control of Congress and (b) who will be runni...

April 22, 2014

I Will Not 'Go Gentle into That Good Night'

Dylan Thomas, in his famous poem “Do Not Go Gentle Into that Good Night,” was referring to  how each individual will deal with death's onrushing approach.  Each person deals with the realization that he is mortal in his own ...

April 12, 2014

The Boy Who Cried Wolfism?

The dust-up between Attorney General Eric Holder and Congressman Louie Gohmert during a congressional hearing was the next day followed by Mr. Holder addressing Al Sharpton’s National Action Network’s (NAN) conference in Washington. It...

April 8, 2014

Cognitive Dissonance for the Masses

Cognitive dissonance is a psychological disorder that occurs when an individual has two diametrically opposed thoughts at the same time. Most people suffer this at one time or another, usually for only a short period until they make a choice between ...

April 5, 2014

Why Do 'Progressives' Love Moving Backward?

The news that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has used real, living human beings for testing that they themselves admit is potentially lethal is being greeted with a collective (and collectivist) shrug by the main stream media.  In ...

March 30, 2014

Is George Orwell Working in the White House?

You have to wonder sometimes if one of the multitude of “special advisors” to Barack Obama has a George Orwell fetish.  All of us have read hundreds of blog articles and thousands of comments made in passing by co-workers, family, fr...

March 25, 2014

Where is the Daddy?

In all the talk generated by Democratic Party candidates and Democrat incumbents about "women's health issues" regarding abortion, why is the responsibility of "daddy" never mentioned?  If "mommy" wants to have ...

March 21, 2014

Telling You Not to Use the Word 'Bossy' is, well, Kind of Bossy. Isnâ\冲 it?

I just love irony.  If you are that kind of person too, the nonsense coming out of the mouth of Michelle Obama and her unindicted co-conspirators should be one of those once-in-a-lifetime moments that we could savor for a long, long time. Sad...

March 17, 2014

The Future of the Internet

The blogosphere has erupted over the announced plans of the Obama administration to turn control of internet over to the United Nations.  Why they would do this at this time is not particularly clear, or at least their justification for it is ty...

March 13, 2014

Kerry's Right -- it's not the Nineteenth Century

Saying that Secretary of State John Kerry is right about anything grates on my nerves, but in looking at the situation in Crimea and the Ukraine, his assessment that Vladimir Putin should realize that we’re not living in the 19th century is abs...

March 7, 2014

Whatever is not Required is Prohibited

Jeffrey Lord has a terrific article at American Spectator titled ‘Hillary and The Cult of ‘Best and Brightest’.  It really is a must read, but a key component of the piece is a reference to the book by David Halberstam The Best...

March 3, 2014

Breaking: Investors Still Hate ObamaCare

President Obama is constantly trying to get people to "invest" their own money in enterprises that will provide well-paying jobs for the middle class, and he seems confounded by the unwillingness of entrepreneurs to do what he wants.  ...

March 2, 2014

The Two-Cent Rule

Like most conservatives and the vast majority of thinking Americans (or is that redundant?), I often wonder what in the world is our president thinking?  Can he really believe that anyone who doesn’t work for MSNBC actually takes his words...

February 6, 2014

The CBO Gets It Wrong

So much has been made of the Congressional Budget Office's (CBO) assessment of ObamaCare and its adverse impact on employment and the resulting "Hey! Look a bunny!" responses from the White House and other brain-impaired Democrats, that I fear that s...

January 9, 2014

Does the Constitution Force Bakers to Bake?

Several recent court cases have resulted in small business owners, who create the wares and services that they sell, being ordered by a judge to sell their custom-made products (e.g., wedding cakes and floral arrangements) or services (e.g., wedding ...

January 9, 2014

Change the Name to Change the Game

Democrat Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee of Texas gave a five-minute floor speech on Wednesday calling for the extension of unemployment. Fair enough. She was elected, she is a sworn member of the House, and she has an absolute right to say what she...

January 3, 2014

The Campaign Begins

All the "Aw, shucks, I really haven't made a decision about running" from the Hillary Clinton stealth campaign had a rude shock on New Year's Day when Michael Moore, the famous (for no particular reason) film director and Jabba-the-Hut impersonator, ...

December 16, 2013

Is a 'White Christmas' the Next Target?

Apparently it takes very little for some of the race hustlers in America to disconnect the mental speed governor between what they have for brains and their mouths. One of these individuals, Aisha Harris by name, wrote in Slate: Earlier this week, I...

November 28, 2013

Our Peek-a-Boo President

I know what our President was thankful for on the day before Thanksgiving.  He was thankful that in his administration, the world can be altered without regard to either the Constitution or reality.  He was thankful that Congress (after fi...

November 21, 2013

Fire the CEOs

With the "fumbled" rollout of Obamacare giving us all a 24/7 inundation of administration statements such as: "This is the law of the land, it was voted on by Congress, upheld by the Supreme Court and will be enforced by a rabid pack of gun-toting IR...

November 11, 2013

Hillary for President? Really?

There's a lot of blather going the rounds of the liberal echo chamber that goes something like "It's about time we had a woman president." Is it really? Five years ago the mantra went "It's about time we had a black president." Look how well that's ...

November 6, 2013

A Different View of Paternalism

The word "paternalism" has been bandied about concerning the various pathetic defenses of Barack Obama's now infamous claim that "If you like your health care, you can keep it. Period." Well, yes, you can actually keep the health care you had before ...

November 2, 2013

What Truly is Liberty?

When was the last time you thought about, wrote about, or talked about the concept of liberty? That's not a question that needs to be answered by the talking heads, mainstream media, or political pundits, but the ordinary folk known to each of us. It...

September 28, 2013

So Life is Unfair, Is It?

Unfair. Seems like a simple word and a simple concept, doesn't it? Care to define it, though? Synonyms abound, such as arbitrary, biased, cruel, discriminatory, dishonest, illegal, immoral, improper, inequitable, inexcusable, one-sided, partisan, pre...

September 26, 2013

Let's Drop the Hyphens

News from Nairobi, Kenya continues to be almost incomprehensible. Scores of dead. Men, women and children murdered by a gang of psychopaths trying to hide their innate evil behind the veil of the "Religion of Peace." Reports, particularly from Briti...

September 12, 2013

Our President from Another Planet

I'll confess, I didn't watch Barack Obama's address to the nation on Tuesday night. Not that I wasn't interested, but I always prefer to read the transcript of a speech, rather than risk being distracted by the speaker's histrionics. So that's exactl...

September 10, 2013

Our 'Federal Family'?

A few days ago, Kathleen Sebelius, our Secretary of Health and Human Services issued a press release urging everyone to be mindful of potential terror attacks, natural disasters, and pandemics.  This was because Sebelius was recognizing that Sep...

August 30, 2013

Obama wants us to trust him on Syria

A rumor is going around Washington that the President is "consulting" with Congress about what he plans to do (or what he would like to do or what he will do in the near future) in response to what John Kerry has called the "moral obscenity" of the s...

August 24, 2013

Our President Plans to 'Rate' Colleges

When I glanced at the first story I read about President Obama's plans to "rate" colleges, my first thought was "Hey, what's he doing?  It isn't March.  The NCAA Tournament is months away!" As it turns out, the whole thing was just Obama ...

August 22, 2013

'Dance with the Girl Ya Brung'

Within the past few weeks, there have been barrels of ink and trillions of pixels consumed by both the political left and right decrying the murderous violence in Egypt since the ouster of the Morsi regime by the Egyptian military. News rep...

August 10, 2013

Is Obama 'Insuring' Softball Questions?

There is widespread acceptance of the proposition that the mainstream media is fully in the tank for Barack Obama, and all his vague but pleasant-sounding initiatives.  Even when you discount the fact that the president generally makes himself...

August 9, 2013

Just How Smart is a Peacock?

The recent dust-up among the National Broadcasting Company, CNN, and the Republican National Committee is an interesting exposé of the thought processes (or perhaps the lack of thought process) within one of the three major TV networks, and a leading...

August 4, 2013

Whom Are They Kidding?

The latest wrinkle in the "you have to pass it to find out what's in it" legislation referred to as ObamaCare is the reported fear among lawmakers that unless something is done to protect their precious staffs from being burdened with ever-increasing...

July 26, 2013

Green bullets?

The Daily Caller website just published a short article by Michael Bastasch titled "Getting the lead out, literally: US Army plans switch to 'green' bullets". Green bullets?  It appears that the Obama administration is once more pandering to ra...

July 25, 2013

A Follow-Up File is Needed

When Barack Obama was running for resident, we were told by his coterie of flaks, sycophants, spinners, and devout acolytes that he represented the ultimate intellectual strength that could be packed into a single human being. Like the Wizard of Oz,...

July 23, 2013

Obama 'Pivots' to Knox College

Our president is apparently making yet another "pivot" to jobs and the economy.  He is planning to make a series of speeches to cover his new ideas for resurrecting the U.S. economy from the doldrums which it has called home for the past five ye...

July 17, 2013

A Living Document? Well, that Depends

Our glorious President, and his almost equally glorious Attorney-General, miscellaneous members of his exalted cabinet as well as numerous members of the amazing Democrat politicians in the House and Senate are constantly reminding us that the Consti...

July 14, 2013

Well, If it Worked in Egypt...

There is a real uproar in Congress at the present time over whether we should continue providing foreign aid to Egypt following the recent changes in their government. Senators and representatives on both sides of the aisle are frothing at the mouth ...

July 11, 2013

Enabling Incompetence

Every one of us exhibits, shall we say, "odd" behavior. Nothing criminal, or dangerous, or perverse, mind you, but behavior that might appear odd to the average person. I blush to admit that I have been accused of this myself. When I am writing or do...

July 6, 2013

The NSA: What Exactly Are We Paying For, Again?

Beyond the intellectually insulting responses from representatives of the Obama administration regarding the NSA communication surveillance programs (including PRISM) which have even included statements from that paragon of truth, Barack Obama himsel...

June 22, 2013

It's a Question of Trust

Scandals, scandals, scandals!  Get 'em while they're hot! The stories are out there.  The rapidly rising cost projections for ObamaCare far beyond any promises made to get the bill passed, the Fast and Furious gun running debacle, the dea...

June 13, 2013

NSA's Real Targets?

The punditocracy, both Obama supporters on the left and the useful idiots on the right, in an effort to convince those who worry about the NSA's data mining efforts and its indiscriminate collection of trillions of bits of information to just sit dow...

June 10, 2013

So, Only Terrorists, huh?

The administration, senior members of Congress and members of the intelligence community are now trying to reassure the American people that the massive data collection programs in place which collect records of something like three million telephone...

May 27, 2013

Protecting the Rich?

One of the more enduring political fairy tales is the one about how Republicans are protecting the "rich."  Every time tax cuts are mentioned, in any context, or any congressional questioning of regulations that might reduce drilling for oil (...

May 25, 2013

Uncle Sam Wants You...Under His Thumb!

It's really difficult to keep track of the many ways that the Obama administration is chipping away at the freedoms and independence that were the foundations of our nation, bequeathed to us as a birthright. Let's just summarize the more egregious ...

May 19, 2013

Two Words

In the Benghazi talking points scandal, there seems to be no incredulity among the members of the press corps about the idea that was put forth by then Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta that: "This is not 9-1-1. You cannot just simply call and expec...

May 14, 2013

Scandals Here, There and Everywhere

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April 27, 2013

Gosnell's Defense: Admission of Defeat, or the Start of an Appeal?

Jack McMahon, the defense attorney for Dr. Kermit Gosnell, now on trial in Philadelphia and charged with multiple counts of homicide relating to the deaths of at least four infants and one mother in connection with his abortion factory, has shocked c...

April 26, 2013

The 'We're-Really-Not-Raising-Your-Taxes' Tax

The Senate of the United States is currently debating the so-called Marketplace Fairness Act. Doesn't that sound nice? I mean, who could possibly be against fairness in the marketplace. The essence of the bill is the repeal of the sales tax exemption...

April 21, 2013

And How Many Bullets Do You Need?

Last night, I watched the amateur home video of the shootout between Boston and Watertown police and the person referred to as "Suspect #1." I learned that there were something on the order of 200 shots fired during that firefight. Think about th...

April 14, 2013

Truth in Fables: Why Progressives Hate Aesop

The fable "The Boy Who Cried Wolf" is more applicable than ever in describing the environment in which we live.  Each interest group, especially those interest groups on the left, is infected with the need to describe ever more frightening futur...

April 11, 2013

The Obama Budget: A Plan or a Train Wreck?

The president has released his budget, with the usual threats to refuse to negotiate with Republicans in the co-equal branch of government called Congress.  The proposal is monumental, with total spending in the budget totaling $3.778 trillion....

March 19, 2013

Are We Helping in Egypt, or Paying Tribute?

Our "smartest guy in the room" president and our brand-new secretary of state have determined that the best way to deal with the regime of President Morsi in Egypt is to provide "aid" in the sum of $250,000,000.  They will "loan" the Morsi gover...

March 2, 2013

Can Anyone be Only a 'Little Bit Pregnant?'

The claim to be "little bit pregnant" has always stood as the height of absurdity. But just as you can't be only a "little bit" pregnant, you can't lose only a "little bit" of your freedom. If you doubt this, just ask yourselves this question: Are yo...

February 23, 2013

Choosing Senators: How to Rein in Federal Spending

The phenomenal growth of spending by the federal government itself is matched (in rate of increase, if not in actual dollar amounts) by the spending level in each of the states that have been overburdened by mandated expenditures through legislation ...

February 2, 2013

A Second Bill of Rights, or just another Bill of Goods?

Cass Sunstein recently published an op-ed on January 28 at Bloomberg.com saying that President Obama "firmly rejects 'equality of result,' but is simultaneously committed to ensuring both fair opportunity and decent security for all." After that, O...

January 20, 2013

France stumbling badly in Mali

The recent French incursion into Mali, with insufficient troops, insufficient logistical support, insufficient intelligence and insufficient drone capabilities while targeting a determined insurgent Muslim terrorist organization reportedly affiliated...

December 29, 2012

We Can't Wait Until 2016

The early tremors of the 2016 presidential campaigns are already being felt.  Rubio, Jindal, and others are positioning themselves to try once again to take the White House in four years.  Republicans are basing their hopes on the fantasy o...

December 28, 2012

In Praise of Piers Morgan

I know, I know, the title is sort of unbelievable when it's found on a very conservative website, but please, read on. Apparently Piers Morgan, who has been the cause of the generation of petitions here in the United States to deport him, has also pr...

December 11, 2012

The Smartest People in the Room?

This past weekend my beautiful bride informed me that she wanted to explore a new indoor flea market that had been established in our neck of the woods. She also informed me that I was going to accompany her on said excursion. Now for the benefit of...

December 2, 2012

To Survive, Republicans Must Embrace School Vouchers

There is at least one major issue that Republicans can embrace to change their electoral future. School choice, the so-called school voucher system, is the perfect vehicle for Republicans to finally do something that might persuade blacks, Hispa...

November 25, 2012

On Respecting Muslim Culture

For at least the past decade, and perhaps longer, the nations of the West have treated jihadists and radical Islamists (which groups count for many more Muslims than most Americans care to admit) with an inordinate level of respect so as not to "offe...

November 24, 2012

Do We Need A Designated Hitter Rule in Politics?

Maybe we should pass a constitutional amendment similar to baseball's designated hitter rule.  The designated hitter rule allows a team to use a 10th player to replace the pitcher at the plate when it's the pitcher's turn to bat.  Lots of p...

November 18, 2012

Where Should We Go From Here?

There has been a lot of chatter, chock full of recriminations, in the short time since the elections, but in all of it there has been scant attention given to any sort of plan to move forward, and even less to trying to bring social and fiscal conser...

November 14, 2012

A Letter to Both Santas

Kids write letters to Santa Claus every year. It's a lovely tradition, but once you stop hoping for a pony to appear magically under the tree, it sort of dies. But with the same original, childlike hope, I thought a letter to the two biggest potentia...

November 9, 2012

Got Mandate?

It happens every four years, like clockwork.  It is arguably the most predictable thing that will ever come out of the mouths of newly elected, or freshly re-elected politicians of both parties regardless of whether their victory was a margin so...

October 13, 2012

Is Politics Important?

I was talking to my son the other day.  He's been under a lot of stress lately, and after listening to him vent for about 20 minutes, I thought a change of topic would help.  So in passing I asked him if he'd seen the Obama-Romney debate....

October 12, 2012

Be Vewy, Vewy Quiet. We're Hunting in Benghazi.

On the Fox News show Special Report with Bret Baier, Steve Hayes of the Weekly Standard reported that he had spoken with a senior State Department official who was responsible for security in Libya and for our consulate in Benghazi. This individual i...

October 5, 2012

Judging Polls by the Company They Keep

Rick Moran's recent post "Push calls in Ohio ask 'How can you support a 'Mormon' who does not believe in Jesus Christ'" is another in a series of pieces here at American Thinker, as well as nearly every other alternative media site that I've visited ...

September 28, 2012

Now Who's Interfering in Another Country's 'Internal Affairs?'

Now that President Morsi has made his first speech at the United Nations General Assembly, and has called for the United States to revise its adherence to the First Amendment, I find it particularly interesting how that call complements other stateme...

September 15, 2012

And You Wondered Where Your Taxes Went...

There was a report recently that the Chief Diversity Officer in the State Department, a Mr. John Robinson (who apparently doesn't have enough real work to occupy himself) warned his colleagues that a large number of common idioms, such as "hold down ...

September 9, 2012

So Obama Inherited a Mess, Did He? From Whom?

For the past three and a half years, we have had to endure the nonstop whining of Barack Obama and his surrogates telling us over and over that he inherited the financial mess that required him to add trillions of dollars to the national debt, to run...

August 22, 2012

'Forward.' The Perfect Campaign Slogan for Obama?

"FORWARD." Is it the perfect slogan for the Obama campaign?  Of course it is!  The President wants voters to look forward, because if they all look backward, the first thing that they will see is how he exacerbated the 2007-2008 financial c...

August 19, 2012

Useful Work

Lately we've been hearing a lot of talk about how expensive a college education is, how hard it will be for the little darlings ensconced in the sheltered halls of academe to repay the loans that they've taken to "invest" in their educations, and how...

August 18, 2012

It's Really Up to You

All of my friends (and even the few trolls) who read American Thinker have to remember that all of us who contribute articles here are limited.  Keep in mind that we are "preaching to the choir."   It is really up to you, our readers t...

August 18, 2012

You Can Pick Only Two

There's an old adage in business that goes "Price! Quality! Delivery! -- Pick Two."  It should seem self-evident that when you have those three options, there is a self-limiting factor among them.  Can you have top quality at a low price?...

August 6, 2012

The Obama Syndrome?

Psychological disorders are nothing to laugh at.  People with phobias, for instance, truly suffer from them, whether they are Trypanophobia (the fear of injections), Pteromerhanophobia (the fear of flying), Ochlophobia (the fear of crowds or mob...

August 2, 2012

No Thanks, We'll Do It Our Way

The Founding Fathers are usually credited with designing the nation as a republic when they drafted the Constitution.  Some insist that the nation be described as a democratic republic. But it might be even more accurate to say that they created...

July 29, 2012

Picking the Wrong Opponent

In addition to the many, many, many mistakes that our president has made in the past three and a half years, taking on the Catholic Church over contraception mandates in his health care bill has to be one of the biggest "oops" moments in the District...

July 28, 2012

Only Teachers, Firemen, and Cops?

Every time any state or municipality moves to reduce the costs of operation by speaking out about headcount reductions, or layoffs, the public employee unions, the Democratic Party apparatchiks, and the main stream media (or is that being redundant?)...

July 27, 2012

Is Dick Durbin Stupid, Ignorant, or Just Lying to His Constituents?

Senator Dick Durbin is pushing for passage of a federal law allowing individual states to impose sales tax levies on any internet sales made to citizens of those respective states.  Those taxes would be identical to the taxes that would be paid ...

July 15, 2012

Rights and Consequences

Magically, seemingly every day, new "rights" are proclaimed by Liberal-Progressive-Democrats.  Generally Obama and Company will simultaneously announce that new "investments" will be needed to insure that these new rights can be exercised. Many ...

July 10, 2012

Mitt Can Lose, Even If He Wins

The polls regarding the presidential horse race in November show Mitt Romney and Barack Obama either tied taking into account the margin of error, or with Obama ahead in some critical battleground states.  How can that be?  Yes, Obama has t...

July 7, 2012

What Shall It Be? Us versus Them? Or Them versus Us?

Once again, as we do at least every other year, we see Democrats (aka "Progressives" or "liberals") using the electoral attack strategy of "Us versus Them."  According to the political left, US is defined by their mythology as the little guy, th...

July 4, 2012

Ever Wonder Why We Even Bothered?

When it comes to the concept of limited government, which is really at the heart of the recent imbroglio over Obamacare, the Constitution has been described as the law that controls the government.  The Constitution starts off with a preamble th...

July 1, 2012

Have We Reached the New Tipping Point?

To paraphrase Larry the Cable Guy, I don't care who you are -- you have to admit that Thomas Jefferson certainly had a way with words.  In this one short section from the Declaration of Independence, he not only describes the duty of citizens to...

June 15, 2012

Political Fallacies

There is a term that all of us have heard over and over in political speeches for at least the past 100 years.  The politician stands behind a (usually bullet-proof) podium and tells us that the government is going to empower us.  A rather ...

June 13, 2012

Who's Flying the New Syrian Choppers?

Reports surfaced Tuesday that Russia is supplying Bashar al-Assad's murderous regime in Syria with MI-17 attack helicopters.   Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton spoke to this issue publicly, and voiced concern that these attack heli...

June 10, 2012

American Exceptionalism: The Things Americans Don't Do Well

For the past few years, there has been an ongoing narrative put forth by our current president and his more rabid (and mindless) supporters among Progressive-Democrats that America is not an exceptional country.  It's a puzzling kind of claim on...

June 8, 2012

Do Republicans Really Have Only One Reason to Criticize the President?

Democrats and their fellow travelers (that would be Progressives for those of you taking notes) are reportedly unnerved by the performance of the Romney election machine in terms of its rapid and effective response to each Obama election gambit, from...

June 4, 2012

I Am Barack Obama's Worst Nightmare

I am a thinking, educated, intelligent, independent voter. I am fanatical in my support for the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. I believe that there is only one phrase that might be slightly more important than "We the People of the...

May 28, 2012

And Exactly What Is Your Job About, Mr. President?

At a press event while attending the NATO summit in Chicago, President Obama was asked about his campaign's negative ads about Bain Capital.  Bain Capital was the financial firm that helped Mitt Romney amass his wealth, and helped him become one...

May 28, 2012

A Thought for Memorial Day

This is one of the few phrases from Shakespeare that I remember, and one that is ideally suited for this, or any, Memorial Day, even if it was written over 400 years ago.  "We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; For he to-day that sheds his ...

May 18, 2012

Why the Obama Campaign Is Blowing the Election

(See also: The 'War on Women' Implodes) The great puzzle of President Obama's re-election campaign is why previously successful political pros are creating so many ineffective initiatives that blow up in their faces like exploding cigars. Take, for e...

May 17, 2012

Civil Service Through the Looking Glass

What we know today as Civil Service was created 129 years ago, in 1883, by the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act to provide continuity in essential government services (and there probably are a few) without the risk of the accumulated experience of ...

May 12, 2012

A Speech I Would Like to Hear from a Politician...Any Politician!

My fellow Americans: I'm standing here before you this evening because I need the vote of each and every one of you to become the next president of the United States.  I'm going to say something that you may never have heard before coming out of...

April 28, 2012

Sixty-three is a Lonely Number

John McLaughlin's blog, Congressmen Complain as IRS Harasses Tea Party published here at American Thinker yesterday, described a letter written to the IRS Commissioner, Douglas H. Shulman, regarding the harassment of embryonic Tea Party groups trying...

April 21, 2012

A Very Simple Job Description

President Obama complains constantly that his job is made harder because of the negative slant of the Constitution.  The job description of the president of the United States, as described in the Constitution, consists of only 322 words (Article...

April 18, 2012

Can the President Lower Gas Prices?

President Obama has claimed that there is no "silver bullet" to reduce gasoline prices.  I beg to differ.  Any rational business, upon being told that a new competitor is planning to enter into competition with them, will first reduce p...

April 3, 2012

America Flexing Its Muscles

I am very encouraged by the current debate in the Supreme Court over Obamacare.  Ordinary citizens, all over the nation, are beginning to feel comfortable discussing the Constitution of the United States, and that strikes me as a remarkable step...

April 1, 2012

Have a Little Faith, Just Trust Me!

I was watching Congressman Henry Waxman going on about the dangers of the Keystone XL pipeline and how it would spew carbon into the air and make global warming even worse.  It would appear that the distinguished congressman didn't get the memo ...

March 17, 2012

National Energy Policy? Got One Handy?

There has been a lot of talk (because it's an election year, and that's what politicians do) about a national energy policy.  I hate to report this, but there has never been a coherent energy policy at any time in the history of the country. We ...

March 8, 2012

Compensating for Coattails in 2012

Although Super Tuesday has come and gone, there is still a long haul before the choice of Republican nominee is finalized.  And anecdotal evidence seems to show a surprisingly weak level of enthusiasm for any of the four remaining candidates....

March 3, 2012

Can a Balanced Budget Be Achieved without a Plan?

In the past few weeks, the candidates for the Republican nomination have spoken of the need for a "balanced budget."  Conservative media outlets have editorialized about the need for a balanced budget.  Neighbors speak of the need for balan...

February 18, 2012

TANSTAAFL

No, TANSTAAFL isn't a new type of Swedish meatball.  Nor is it the name of a solar powered sauna.  Robert A. Heinlein, the science fiction writer, created the acronym TANSTAAFL for his novel The Moon is a Harsh Mistress.  It stands for...

February 17, 2012

Unions and Government: A Suicide Pact for Everyone

The U.S. Department of Labor and the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) are taking action to make it easier for union bosses to force non-union plants to organize.  This flies in the face of economic reality, although it does fit nicely with ...

February 13, 2012

Can We Rely on the Executive Branch for Unsullied Data?

Some things just never seem to change from year to year, from decade to decade, or even from century to century.  The great novelist Mark Twain, an unremitting source for timeless observations of the human condition, once summed up the problem t...

February 11, 2012

Has the Constitution Lost Its Sex Appeal?

A recent editorial in Investor's Business Daily (IBD) spoke to the lack of appeal among other nations, and among certain elements within our own nation, for our Constitution. Our Constitution is no longer respected as it once was. Nations writing ...

February 9, 2012

First Global Warming - Now Global Sweetening!

From the same sort of academic busybodies who gave us the ever-popular global warming panic comes a new prediction of catastrophe.  This newest ginned up rationale for enabling Liberal-Progressive-Democrats (L-P-Ds) to have more control over the...

January 31, 2012

Obama's Assault on Religious Conscience

The Catholic Church has taken a rather strong stand in opposing the Obama administration's requirement that the church provide contraceptive medicine and treatments as a required component of Obamacare.  Apparently the administration is in accor...

January 28, 2012

And Just How Do You Define 'Fair'?

President Obama said during the Democratic Party primary debates that preceded the 2008 election that he would raise capital gains rates -- not because it would increase revenue, but because it was "fair."  During his recent State of the Union s...

January 27, 2012

Once Again, Our Government Finds Itself Clueless

The Washington Times has reported that the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has issued an "informal discussion letter" stating that businesses that require a high school diploma in a help wanted advertisement might be in violation of th...

January 22, 2012

Look at Me Pretending to Care, Mr. President

In speech after speech, at fund-raiser after fund-raiser, in press conference after press conference and in countless radio, TV and print media interviews, Barack Obama has whined and complained about how tough his job is.  He constantly bemoans...

January 21, 2012

How Can Obama and the Democrats Deflect Blame? Let Me Count the Ways.

How many ways can Obama and the Democrats deflect blame away from their own ineptitude, utter incompetence and blatant corruption and cronyism?  Well, let's look at a few of the Top 40 Democratic hits of the past three years. "Republicans are on...

January 16, 2012

Obama and the Constitution: How Inconvenient!

My daughter has given me a delightful five-year old grandson.  He's exceptionally bright (and that's not just a doting grandfather's opinion) and almost every day he gives me new ways to look at the world, unencumbered by the dead weight of prec...

January 14, 2012

Team Obama and the Voters

Does anyone actually think that the president of the United States is master of every detail related to every department in the executive branch?  The obvious answer is "Of course not."  We expect the president, upon assuming office, to hir...

January 7, 2012

The Price of Obama's Peace Dividend Is an Increased Risk of War

President Obama went to the Pentagon Thursday to announce cuts in defense spending that will, according to his estimates, reduce the nation's defense budget by just under $490 billion over the next ten years. The president made the case that with the...

January 5, 2012

Will Obama Go to War?

As we enter 2012, the question of whether our president is planning to go to war might seem far-fetched.  After all, all reports indicate that Obama doesn't feel comfortable with the military.  Going to war would fly in the face of his clai...

November 8, 2011

What Can Herman Cain Do, What Must He Do, What Should He Do?

A new accusation of sexual impropriety was raised against Herman Cain yesterday.  Not by yet another anonymous source, but by a Ms. Sharon Bialek, who is represented by attorney Gloria Allred, a liberal stalwart who seems to have a penchant for ...

October 20, 2011

Mr. President, Do You Recall What Your Job Is?

Listening to President Obama speak at event after event, the question that continues to come to mind is this: does this guy understand what his job actually is? The president continually sounds very much like a fire marshal.  He sounds like that...

October 6, 2011

School District Shenanigans: Seeking a Better Education Means Jail Time for Parents

It's truly amazing how often we can read news reports or see stories on the televised news and not be stunned by the apparent inability of the media to recognize irony when it walks up and calmly smacks them in the face. As a case in point, the Wall ...

September 19, 2011

School Vouchers, as Seen by the Opposition

Paul Cooper has just written an interesting article for Pajamas Media about Indiana's expansion of the use of school vouchers.  As Mr. Cooper points out, school vouchers should appeal to both liberals and conservatives...but they don't.  ...

June 8, 2011

GOP Contenders: Please Put Your Egos On Hold

While most of the non-LPD (Liberal-Progressive-Democrat) world is alternately fascinated and amused by the political rope-a-dope activities of the various presidential contenders, it is critical that they not lose sight of one simple fact.  Reg...

May 15, 2011

The Ultimate Oxymoron

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April 30, 2011

Chris Christie has an Obligation to Run

The recent decision by Standard & Poor's to reduce the forecast of their rating of U.S. debt has forced a reevaluation of all the candidates for President now jockeying for position in the Republican field.I am well aware that Governor Chris Chri...

April 18, 2011

Hope and Change? Yes, But Not in that Order

Those were the days, weren't they?  The airwaves, the internet, billboards all touting a little known Senator's mantra of "Hope and Change."  It was enough to send a tingle up your leg, or at least start you obsessing over creases...

April 16, 2011

Hope and Change? Yes, But Not in that Order

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April 1, 2011

It Only Took Two Years

The Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid refers to the Tea Partiers in the House as a cohesive group who are thwarting his legislative desires.  Just what those desires might be is still a little unclear, since Reid seems unable to articulate them ...

March 28, 2011

Is That a Cry for Democracy in the Middle East?

The White House and their media flunkies have been spinning the not-exactly-a-war in Libya, the a-lot-more-than-ordinary-protests in Egypt, Yemen, Bahrain and Syria and the general unrest in other Muslim nations in the Middle East as the embodiment o...

March 26, 2011

Staying Focused

In a bit less than 20 months the nation will have another election.  We will have to decide whether to keep our current Congressman or send them packing.  We will have to choose (if your state is "lucky" enough to have one of the ...

March 23, 2011

President Sorta, Kinda, Maybe

Listening to our President, a man who wants to avoid ambivalence, wants to be perfectly clear, and who does not want to be misconstrued, we now know that, in the issue of Libya, we are sorta, kinda, maybe going to get rid of Gaddafi.  Or not.We ...

March 17, 2011

A Teachable Moment for Barack Obama

The crisis in Libya offers a truly teachable moment for our 44th president.  With Gaddafi's thugs closing in to slaughter, or as was reported yesterday, "cleanse" the city of Benghazi of all opposition, the rebels are crying out for he...

February 27, 2011

The Smartest Guy in the Room has No Sense of History

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February 20, 2011

The Battle of Wisconsin

The evolving legislative crisis in Wisconsin has illuminated the political symbiosis of the Democrat Party and Big Labor.  Not just the public sector unions, but all unions acting in concert to dominate the political fortunes of Democrats....

February 13, 2011

The Right Way to 'Spread the Wealth Around'

When he was still just a candidate for the Presidency, Barack Obama was confronted by Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher during a campaign stop in a residential area of Ohio.  Mr. Wurzelbacher (who was almost instantly renamed "Joe the Plumber...

February 10, 2011

Why Should Republicans Be Embarrassed about Chris Lee's resignation?

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January 28, 2011

Honey, Do You Mind Leftovers Tonight?

With the presidential campaign for 2012 starting up with the traditional and time-honored (as well as time-worn) clichés about "examining my options" and "consulting with those leaders of the Republican party that have certainly...

January 18, 2011

More Obama White House Propaganda

When my son was in high school and editor of his school newspaper, he developed a fascination with the National Enquirer.  I asked him, in my gentle, supportive way, "Have you lost your mind?  Why are you reading that drivel?"His ...

January 15, 2011

And Now for Something Completely Different...

When one views the actions of FCC Chair Julius Genachowski and the FCC's Chief Diversity Officer (or would that be internet czar?), Mark Lloyd, one might think that the FCC is following a movie script from the 1930s, or perhaps the works of John Clee...

January 15, 2011

The left and fables

For the past week the professional left, including their propaganda arm, the main stream media, has demonstrated conclusively by their rapid, rabid response that they were denied access to age appropriate literature as children.About a year ago I wro...

December 1, 2010

Change Tea Party Goals?

In the past week, there has been a call for the Tea Parties to introduce social issues into their "platform."  Same-sex marriage, abortion, repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," the teaching of abstinence over contraception, and...

November 13, 2010

Selective Democracy

The word "democracy" has its roots in ancient Greek. "Demo-" comes from the Greek word meaning "people," and "-cracy" comes from the Greek word for "ruling." It appears that certain politicians, appoi...

October 9, 2010

What Is Congress Establishing?

Everyone is at least somewhat familiar with the so-called establishment clause of the First Amendment, the one that reads "Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of a religion ... " But what if Congress established a religi...

September 21, 2010

Bloomberg believes tea party a 'fad'

The mayor of New York City has once again inserted himself as the arbiter of what is good and proper in the world.Not satisfied with outlawing salt from every table, banning smoking in the confined spaces of Central Park, Mickey has weighed in on the...

September 20, 2010

Are social cons really being left behind by the tea party?

David Boaz has written a relatively short piece for the Cato Institute, Social Conservatives Left Behind? It examines the disappointment of many social conservatives with the Tea Party movement because of its concentration on only three things: li...

September 8, 2010

We Don't Like Either of You

Numerous opinion polls show that after the November elections, the Republican Party will have regained enough seats in the House to take back the majority position and the Speakership. Results for the Senate are less amenable to forecast, but even so...

August 28, 2010

Prime the Pump, or Fill the Tank?

As the electoral silly season heats up, it's always interesting to listen to Liberals/Progressives/Democrats argue with their Republican opponents about how to fix the limping economy. Republicans try to sell the idea that a reduction of government s...

August 18, 2010

This election season, let's get candidates to promise what they won't do

The mid-term elections coming in November are crucial to the future and survival of the United States as a limited constitutional republic. Wouldn't it be wonderful if we could choose between candidates who were able to speak knowledgeably about thei...

August 17, 2010

Election Promises

The mid-term elections coming in November are crucial to the future and survival of the United States as a limited constitutional republic.  Wouldn't it be wonderful if we could choose between candidates who were able to speak knowledgeably abou...

July 22, 2010

The Sherrod matter a boon for Obama

Congratulations, President Obama. It looks like you've won. Any meaningful questions about your performance in office, or the agenda you, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid have been pushing are no longer part of the national discussion.The dust-up over Shi...

July 14, 2010

Obama's Deficit Commission: What's the point?

Back in mid-February, President Obama signed an executive order creating the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform. The Commission is headed by Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson, both of whom are recognized as serious, thoughtful men...

July 10, 2010

Just trying to be a good neighbor

On Thursday, July 8th, Geoffrey P. Hunt wrote an arresting piece for American Thinker titled What Is Your Breaking Point? Thinking about the essence of what Mr. Hunt had to say, the inescapable conclusion appears to be that those manufacturers and pr...

June 25, 2010

Democrat 'Suicide Bombers'

It appears that the Democrats in Congress are having a complete breakdown. I don't know the appropriate medical terms, but in layman's terms, they've lost their minds!Cap-and-Trade, a bill which claims to respond to the questionable climate change cr...

May 22, 2010

In God We Trust... In Government? Not So Much

According to the Pew Research Center, nearly 80% of Americans don't trust their own government. Could it really be that Americans actually do trust their government...to do the wrong thing with remarkable consistency? Trust is based on an assumption ...

May 21, 2010

Deporting Arizona's Illegals

John Morton, Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said in an interview with the editorial board of the Chicago Tribune that his agency will not necessarily process illegal immigrants referred to them ...

May 13, 2010

How about a lottery to decide the first primary state?

Every four years the citizens of Iowa and New Hampshire win the electoral lottery. They have (respectively) the first caucus and the first primary in the country, and set the electoral trend for the rest of us.There is a little problem with those tw...

April 30, 2010

Sticks and stones

Even though the Liberal/Progressive/Democrats don't seem to be able to formulate any rational explanation that the majority of Americans can accept for the surge of enormous legislative initiatives that they are ramming through on what is largely par...

April 20, 2010

Mark Twain scores again

I heard on the news that we haven't all submitted our census forms yet. What a shock! I mean, come on people, how is the government supposed to know how many of us there are, and where we live? Unless we all fill out the ten questions that the gov...

February 26, 2010

We Are Being Governed by the Elite? Oh, Really?

According to all I hear from the media, both the dinosaur media types, and the conservative talk-radio/TV types, the "elites" are running the country.Now I'm not always the smartest kid in class, so I asked myself, just who are the "el...

February 23, 2010

Debunking climate change doesn't mean the climate isn't changing

After the release of all those emails from the Climate Research Unit of East Anglia University, the Al Gore cheerleaders rushed to the barricades to defend what appears to be flawed science being used in the service of money - and power - grabbing po...

February 8, 2010

Did You Feel the Earth Move?

The earth is shifting under our feet, and the political class, both in elected officialdom and in the unelected punditocracy, appear to be oblivious. They still believe that there are only Democrats and Republicans, and anything else is a "fring...

February 5, 2010

Obama channeling P.T. Barnum

Many critics feel that the Obama administration is trying to recreate the Progressive policies of Woodrow Wilson, or Franklin Delano Roosevelt. I can see how they might jump to that conclusion, but I feel I have to disagree. Mr. Obama is channeling...

January 5, 2010

A new recruiting tool

The Obama administration is evidently obsessed with their goal of closing the Guantanamo detention facility because the radical left hates the idea that it was created under the Bush administration, and anything connected with the man who stole the 2...

January 4, 2010

Whom Are We Hiring?

Welcome to 2010! A new year of politics, with the bonus of midterm elections. Just what you were hoping Santa would tuck into your stocking this Christmas, wasn't it?All over the nation, political campaigns are underway. But why do we call them campa...

November 22, 2009

Praising Saul Alinsky and Cloward-Piven

That title may sound odd coming from the mouth of a hardened Libertarian/Conservative, but it is not meant as praise for their objectives, only their methods. The health care juggernaut working its way through Congress is, to any political realist, v...

November 2, 2009

Keeping Corporations Honest

A penny. Almost annoying when you get one as change, isn't it? What can you really do with it?How about use that penny to fundamentally change the financial markets? Would that be a pretty good use of a penny? I think so.For thirty years I was the fi...

October 27, 2009

Stimulate What is Needed

Economic growth is like any other type of growth, it operates in fits and starts.  But recent efforts to stimulate the economy, at least as it's seen in Washington and the 50 state capitals, appears to be viewed as simply adding or protecting go...

August 29, 2009

Bi-Polar Liberals?

I have to ask myself, are the Liberal/Progressive/Democrats, or LPDs, among us, aware of how crazy they sound?  I'm sure a lot of them are kind to children and puppies, and very few are hard-core crazy but they certainly sound like there is a se...