John Dale Dunn

John Dale Dunn


  • The disgraceful Daniel Penny case has gotten even worse and less lawful

    December 8, 2024

    The disgraceful Daniel Penny case has gotten even worse and less lawful

    The case in New York City against Daniel Penny is a shambolic and, arguably, unconstitutional mess. Based on the nexus of the facts and New York self-defense law, the case should never have been filed. The trial has been conducted along unconstitutio...

  • With Trump’s win, wokism is down, but it’s definitely not out

    November 14, 2024

    With Trump’s win, wokism is down, but it’s definitely not out

    Nathan Cofnas is a fellow in Philosophy at Cambridge and a blogger, who has written a detailed essay showing how Marxist socialist collectivist wokism, with all its racialist elements, is alive and well. Despite Trump’s victory, it’s not ...

  • Daniel Penny has been railroaded by the race hustlers

    October 31, 2024

    Daniel Penny has been railroaded by the race hustlers

    Shortly after Jordan Neely died on the F Train after Daniel Penny subdued him, I wrote that it was probable that his death resulted from a cardiac arrest, not a chokehold. In other words, Penny, the Good Samaritan citizen protecting the other riders ...

  • Dinesh D’Souza’s newest movie is another winner

    October 30, 2024

    Dinesh D’Souza’s newest movie is another winner

    Dinesh D’Souza is an outstanding conservative communicator in both books and movies. He’s done it again with his most recent movie, Vindicating Trump. In 2011, D’Souza wrote the best-selling The Roots of Obama’s Rage a...

  • America’s rising crime problem coincides with a war on cops

    October 29, 2024

    America’s rising crime problem coincides with a war on cops

    Last week, Alpha News of Minneapolis released the film documentary Minnesota v We the People, about four law enforcement officers and a paramedic/firefighter who were victims of ambush murders in the past 13 months. The film followed Alpha News...

  • Book Review: Jack Cashill explains how politicians destroyed American cities

    June 9, 2024

    Book Review: Jack Cashill explains how politicians destroyed American cities

    Jack Cashill is one of the first Baby Boomers. Born in 1947, the son of an Irish cop, he grew up in a largely Catholic Newark, New Jersey, neighborhood. It’s hard to believe in retrospect, but Cashill’s childhood in the 1950s and early 1960s was idyl...

  • Book Review: Jack Cashill’s illuminating look at the women of January 6

    June 2, 2024

    Book Review: Jack Cashill’s illuminating look at the women of January 6

    Jack Cashill’s Ashli: The Untold Story of the Women of January 6 could not be more timely. On the cover is a photo of Ms. Ashli Babbitt, a petite 14-year Air Force veteran with multiple deployments to war zones under her belt. Unarmed when she ...

  • The mean (and crazy) girls of the left

    May 17, 2024

    The mean (and crazy) girls of the left

    One of the things we’ve seen in videos of the anti-Israel protests is a parade of young, white women with jihadi wraps on their heads, screaming and chanting for the cause of Hamas, a Muslim terrorist sect that proudly tortures, rapes, and kill...

  • July 21, 2023

    Conservative failure and the Administrative State

    Conservatives have failed their fiduciary and political duty to stop and reverse the Administrative State growth and tyranny because they were tricked into believing that these things are necessary for a modern society.  Theo Wold, Trump po...

  • July 11, 2023

    The Bidens’ existential threats to the American rule of law

     Victor Davis Hanson, Hoover Institution Fellow, historian and iconic essayist, launches a condemnation of the Biden Administration’s abuse of power and weaponization of federal agencies to create a two-tier legal system in this American G...

  • July 2, 2023

    The implosion of the Rule of Law

    The erudite and insightful Roger Kimball, who is well known to the readers at American Thinker, discusses in his essay the disappearance of the American respect for and application of the rule of law: Instead of proper rule of law we are living ...

  • July 2, 2023

    The left's political damage is revolutionary

    Victor Davis Hanson provides a thorough summary of the events and developments of the past decade and more at the hands of Marxist socialist radicalized Democrat party.  It is sobering for sure. The hint of what was to come was seen in t...

  • June 18, 2023

    Heather Mac Donald on the scapegoating of Daniel Penny

    Heather Mac Donald is a phenomenon, a long-time essayist and author, senior writer at the Manhattan Institute, and a lot more.  She has always been an effective and eloquent advocate writer, debater and public speaker for the police and law enfo...

  • June 13, 2023

    The Nuclear Theory You Never Knew Was Nonsense

    Steve Milloy, long-time editor and founder of JunkScience.com, announced an explosive exposé this month in an extended article.  Government and private scientists in radiation safety have been attempting to cover up a pattern of misconduc...

  • June 13, 2023

    COVID-19: A 'biological 9/11'

    This June 3 remarkable essay by Brandon Weichert, former congressional staffer and essayist, author, and geopolitical analyst, is adapted from a book he wrote on Chinese ambitions and commitment to world dominance, Biohacked: China's Race to Cont...

  • June 12, 2023

    It's now or never

    David Solway, frequent essayist at PJ Media and American Thinker, has always been a realistic and conservative writer.  He says in this recent essay, "It has by now become starkly obvious that the leftist attack on the Judeo-Chris...

  • June 9, 2023

    Let's talk climate scares and wildfires

    The latest panic climate talk is amplified because of the smoke from Canadian fires that is drifting to the East, as all American weather does, to produce smoke in East Coast cities and create air quality advisories and pearl-clutching.  Ca...

  • June 4, 2023

    Regulatory capture is how fascism hits your doorstep

    Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has raised the issue of regulatory capture in the matter of pharmaceutical company "capture" of the Food and Drug Administration and the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...

  • June 4, 2023

    The bog of bureaucracy

    "Our institutions are failing the American people and will continue to do so until accountability is demanded by the public and restored by our political leaders."  So says David Bernhardt, former secretary of the Interior in the ...

  • May 28, 2023

    The rise of the despotocracy

    American Greatness regularly provides a long essay by an erudite writer whom the site describes as a "Weekend Read." The May 6 offering was by Kevin Slack, Ph.D., University of Dallas, now on the political science/philosophy faculty at Hill...

  • April 25, 2023

    Senator Joe McCarthy a Target of Commie Disinformation? Bet on it.

    I read Roger Kimball's essay in Epoch Times applauding an exhaustive, insightful study on the disinformation project of the left by Jacob Siegel in Tablet. My respect for Kimball at Epoch Times and many other sources, as well as my previous great...

  • March 30, 2023

    Julie Kelly exposes the secret activities of the DC District Court

    The outgoing DC Courts chief judge Beryl Howell has been involved in many secret activities and has closeted the trial court and grand jury proceedings as well as issuing secret opinions on many matters of Grand Jury activities and evidenti...

  • March 14, 2023

    A Handbook for Climate Change Skeptics

    Stephen Einhorn, a Cornell, Brooklyn Polytech, Wharton School–educated chemist and businessman, has published Climate Change: What They Rarely Teach in College (Kindle $9.99, paper $20.00) with the intention of providing a reader-frie...

  • March 11, 2023

    Writer/essayist/educator/poet David Solway discusses Doctor Jill's doctoral thesis and Michelle's Princeton senior thesis

    A couple of interesting bits to consider from David Solway: 1. Obama's administration persecuted Dinesh D'Souza, who made fun of Michelle's senior thesis, as did Christopher Hitchens, but we can't be critical of a self-se...

  • March 11, 2023

    Tucker pulled his punches

    I watched what I thought was a serious journalist blow the first night of the supposed big J6 tape release.  I couldn't help noticing that he picked stuff we already knew — and he was weak.  Where was the video of fed...

  • February 15, 2023

    Winter Games: A Climate Change Thriller that Skeptics Will Love

    Here we are in America with the aftermath of a snow and cold disaster recently that killed a lot of innocents.  But is that new?  Noooo, it isn’t and it will get worse if the climate change and anti-fossil fuel fanatics have their way...

  • January 11, 2023

    Female-to-male ‘trans’ swimmer hits a wall

    Iszac Henig is a woman who declared herself a man. She was also a champion Yale swimmer and, when she notified the Yale athletic department of her new “identity,” it made a place for her on the men’s team (meaning that it ousted a b...

  • January 9, 2023

    What if there was a real coup and nobody noticed?

    The Democrats were wrong that there was an insurrection on January 6. However, they are correct that there has been a government takeover in America. Typically, though, they’re pointing in the wrong direction. The coup came from the left, not t...

  • January 9, 2023

    Why does the GOP elite hate its own base?

    What's becoming undeniable is that core members of the GOP hate their base.  We first saw this trend emerge during the Tea Party era.  Heck, it even happened when Reagan, a populist, became president.  The big questi...

  • January 6, 2023

    The media gloss over the recession calamity America faces

    Joe Biden's media supporters keep assuring us that things are getting better with the economy.  However, Jim Hoft, founder of Gateway Pundit, wrote on New Year's Day of the reality: we are in a recession.  Stop d...

  • January 4, 2023

    Governor Kemp’s education problem

    Brian Kemp easily won reelection as Georgia’s governor. It’s rumored that he has his eye on the White House. However, when you consider the draft English language standards that his education department just issued, it’s apparent th...

  • January 2, 2023

    Scott Atlas calls Twitter’s COVID censorship “criminal”

    Elon Musk is steadily revealing how Twitter censored physicians who did not toe the Democrat party line on COVID treatments or vaccines. Scott Atlas was one of the physicians who tried to speak out and who was censored for doing so. In an interview w...

  • January 1, 2023

    George Soros has an enormous, dangerous reach in the American media

    George Soros, billionaire financier, leftist activist, and influencer, has extensive financial connections with global media, as shown in a Media Research Center study—with the unavoidable result that these outlets promote socialist ideological...

  • January 1, 2023

    Does woke corporate policy violate America's antitrust laws?

    Chris Talgo at The Heartland Institute asserts that environmental, social, and governance (ESG) metrics have become the bully boy project of the the big Wall Street investment firms and Fortune 500 companies, using trillions of dollars in assets unde...

  • December 28, 2022

    FTX had a back channel with the White House

    The Gateway Pundit reported a secret back channel between FTX and the Biden White House, shut down the day after FTX filed for bankruptcy.  In November, the Gateway Pundit also revealed that billions were sent to Ukraine from the U.S., and ...

  • December 19, 2022

    Ron DeSantis threatens to sue Big Pharma over the COVID shots

    Debra Heine writes that Florida governor Ron DeSantis has indicated he will sue pharmaceutical companies (Pfizer and Moderna come to mind) for allegedly making false claims and deceiving the public intentionally about the efficacy and safet...

  • December 14, 2022

    The New England Medical Journal Uses Denial To Advance Transgenderism

    America’s most prominent medical journal advocates accepting transgenderism, but Neil A. Kurtzman, MD, Emeritus Professor of Internal Medicine at Texas Tech, in "Science Deniers at the New England Journal of Medicine," blows a ho...

  • December 14, 2022

    Recognizing America’s deep problems allows radical change for the better

    Glenn Ellmers, a highly credentialed research fellow at the conservative Claremont Institute, is trying to move conservative intellectuals from constantly ruminating about the problems with the American system to being more proactive about pushing wo...

  • December 13, 2022

    'Conservativism' is no longer enough; it's time for something new

    Glenn Ellmers, a conservative scholar, has looked at the American political scene and concluded that myriad divisions have turned us into two separate nations, half of whom believe in a constitutional America, and the other half of whom subscribe to ...

  • December 12, 2022

    Dr. Huff exposes Fauci on the lab leak

    Former Eco Health vice president Andrew Huff, who worked with the Chicoms at the Wuhan Institute of Virology lab, has authored a new book,  The Truth about Wuhan, which exposes the conduct by Anthony Fauci and other American officials,...

  • December 11, 2022

    A Look at America's Crossroads Moment

    Roger Kimball is editor and publisher of The New Criterion, a periodical devoted to literature and the arts.  He is also publisher of Encounter Books and author of many books.  The latest is Where Next? Western Civilization at the...

  • December 6, 2022

    Democrat party and Sam Bankman-Fried make money laundering look like child's play

    Roger Simon is a writer and editor of great accomplishments, a screenwriter and novelist, but also a political commentator of great repute, founder of PJ Media, and now a regular columnist for Epoch Times.  His November 21, 2022 discussion of th...

  • December 5, 2022

    The federal government needs to do only ten things to destroy the US

    Victor Davis Hanson is one of the most deservedly admired conservative writers, authors, and commentators in America.  That's why his recent essay about what it will take to destroy America is worthy of your attention. Just to emphas...

  • August 27, 2022

    A Window on the Orwellian Dystopia of America

    The intensity of the leftist thought tyranny project has exploded in recent years, and continues to startle us. It has been explained quite well by a computer whiz named  David Rozado, now a professor of computer science in New Zealand, on the p...

  • July 26, 2022

    The National Association of Scholars Takes on the Marxists in Education

    I am not a professional academic but for many years I have been a member of the National Association of Scholars (NAS), a politically conservative academic professional group that has always opposed the Marxist socialist, collectivist invasion of edu...

  • July 9, 2022

    John C. Goodman, Invaluable Conservative Free Market Economist

    Last week I had the pleasure of attending a lecture on current health care economics and policy issues by economist Dr. John C. Goodman, (PhD Columbia), a legendary figure in conservative circles.  Dr. Goodman first impressed me 30 plus years ag...

  • July 4, 2022

    Angelo Codevilla, Our America First Champion

    Angelo Codevilla was a giant of the conservative movement, an author and commentator, expert on matters of political science, international relations and diplomacy, security and intelligent, political science and governance issues.  He wrote his...

  • June 21, 2022

    David Horowitz, Extraordinary Anti-Communist

    For decades, going back to the mid 1980s David Horowitz has been a leader of the anti-communist movement and for America.  In 2021 he released 2 more books to add to his oeuvre of more than 25, The Enemy Within: How a Totalitarian Movement is De...

  • June 2, 2022

    The return of reefer madness?

    Would you want your commercial airline pilot or neurosurgeon to smoke marijuana or eat a cannabis treat before grabbing the throttle of a 757 or picking up the bone saw to take out a piece of your skull? On April 31, Laura Ingraham's Ingraham ...

  • May 30, 2022

    A compelling book warns of the dangers of radical Islam

    Anna Mae D. Simmons, having devoted a lifetime of study of the culture and religious teachings of Islam and then turning her efforts to exposing the evil of Islam, has written a book that energetically and intensely studies the Islamic religious lite...

  • May 14, 2022

    Victor Davis Hanson’s Magnum Opus

    Victor Davis Hanson is one of the most respected historians/intellectuals of the conservative movement; I have been an enthusiast of his work going back to my first experience with his erudition and eloquence—The Western Way of War (1989, 2nd e...

  • April 16, 2022

    Charles Murray’s Wake Up Call on Race Problems

    Charles Murray just can’t help himself; he’s been a social scientist and prolific author for almost 40 years, writing books on the American experience and societal issues. Now he is back in the mix with a book, Facing Reality: Two Truths ...

  • April 7, 2022

    Stan Evans, Essential to Conservatism

    More than ten years ago I was gratified and impressed by the effort of M. Stanton (Stan) Evans to explain why the vilification of anti-communist Senator Joe McCarthy was unjustified and, in fact, covered up a widespread and effective effort of commie...

  • March 30, 2022

    Thomas Sowell, Monument to Intelligent Insight

    Maverick: A Biography of Thomas Sowell by Jason L Riley 304 pp, 18.69  Hardcover 16.69 Kindle, ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1541619684  (Basic Books 2021) Thomas Sowell is an American literary and philosophical icon -- a prolific genius who has...

  • March 13, 2022

    The Unsung White House Official Who Warned President Trump in 2017 that the Deep State Was Trying to Prematurely End his Presidency

    No President of The United States ever before faced anything comparable to the organized effort of officials within his administration to sabotage Donald J. Trump’s presidency and drive him from office.  The Memo by Rich Higgins [216 pp, K...

  • February 5, 2022

    Schweizer Hits Another Home Run on Biden-China Corruption

    Red-Handed: How American Elites Get Rich Helping China Win by Peter Schweizer 352 pages, hardcover $18.25, Kindle $14.95 ISBN-10: 0063061147 Harper, 2022 Peter Schweizer is an Oxford graduate, former Hoover Institution Fellow, and co-found...

  • January 5, 2022

    Decoding the Tyranny of the Administrative State

    Purchasing Submission:  Conditions, Power, and Freedom, by Philip Hamburger, 336 pp Hardcover $35 Kindle $33.25,   ISBN-13 ‏‎ 978-0674258235, Harvard University Press, 2021. Professor of Law Philip Hamburger of Columbia Univ...

  • December 31, 2021

    The Truth You Never Learned about Watergate

    The Nixon Conspiracy:  Watergate and the Plot to Remove the President by Geoff Shepard 373 pages, hardcover $30.00, Kindle $14.99 ISBN-13: 978-1-64293-715-2 Bombardier Books, Post Hill Press, New York, 2021 In 2019, I wrote here ...

  • December 17, 2021

    Peter Navarro is Anthony Fauci's worst nightmare

    In Trump Time: A Journal of America's Plague Year by Peter Navarro, Ph.D. 326 pages, hardcover $22.99, Kindle $2.99 ISBN-13: 978-1737478508 All Seasons Press, 2021 Peter Navarro is uniquely qualified to provide an insider's account...

  • December 15, 2021

    Can anything good come from a Kennedy?

    The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health (Children's Health Defense) by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. 480 pages, hardcover $22.69, Kindle $2.99 ISBN13: 9781510766808 Skyhorse Publications ...

  • January 2, 2020

    Sebastian Gorka lays out the three great threats to America

    Sebastian Gorka, expert in matters of national security and recent national security adviser to President Trump, has written The War for America's Soul (2019), which provides a current and in-depth assessment of domestic and foreign threats to th...

  • December 22, 2019

    Thanks, Trump: We're lucky to have Justice Neil Gorsuch on the Supreme Court

    Recently, Supreme Court justice Neil Gorsuch has been making the rounds to promote this book.  This book review, I modestly proclaim, is proof that a higher power takes care of us conservatives when we need some help.  Justice Gor...

  • December 11, 2019

    Open Borders Inc.: Michelle Malkin exposes the problem

    Open Borders Inc.: Who's Funding America's Destruction? by Michelle Malkin 468 pages ISBN-10: 1621579719 hardcover $17.39; kindle $12.99 Regnery Publishing: NYC, 2019 Michelle Malkin is a public speaker, essayist, investigative journal...

  • November 30, 2019

    The Ukrainian Boogie-Woogie and Going on Offense

    George Parry, former DOJ/FBI and state prosecutor/attorney, is a well-regarded blogger, and writer at many newspapers, but also American Spectator and The Federalist.  He hit one out of the park recently with an article that starts with a descri...

  • November 29, 2019

    Can You Trust What Medical Journals Publish?

    I have repeatedly questioned the validity of medical journal claims in regards to politically charged issues like air pollution and climate change, as well as global warming here at AT.  More recently, I showed how a major medical journal v...

  • November 29, 2019

    The Stoic philosophy can fix this mess

    Vice Admiral James B Stockdale was a naval fighter pilot about to be redeployed to Viet Nam War when he took graduate studies at Stanford, and became immersed in the philosophy of Stoicism, that helped him deal with his hardships when he was shot dow...

  • November 24, 2019

    Trump Coup Pushes for Release of Grand Jury Testimony

    Geoff Shepard is a former Nixon defense team member and, for 20 years and more, the most learned and erudite source of information on the Nixon coup.  He has shown with impeccable research that a cabal of Massachusetts-based lawyers and D.C...

  • November 18, 2019

    Roger Scruton, a philosopher in full

    Sir Roger Scruton (knighted by the queen in 2016) is the greatest living English philosopher, and he's a conservative.  It almost makes me wanna cry. He is active and productive as author, essayist, and lecturer, and he is extre...

  • November 18, 2019

    Justice Gorsuch condemns the death and suicide cult

    Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch has written The Future of Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia, a book that eloquently condemns assisted suicide and euthanasia as a violation of basic legal tenets of American law. In the process of his criticis...

  • November 13, 2019

    Raymond Ibrahim and the History the Army Refuses to Heed

    Sword and Scimitar: 14 Centuries of Conflict Between Islam and the West, by Raymond Ibrahim, Hardcover pp 481 $20.42  Kindle $16.99, ISBNs 978-0-306-82555-2,  (DeCapo Press NYC 2018). In the book Sword and Scimitar Raymond Ibrahim, an Eg...

  • November 4, 2019

    Another scientist challenges Darwin's theory

    Foresight: How the Chemistry of Life Reveals Planning and Purpose, by Marcos Eberlin 170 pp; softcover, $11.96; ISBN 13-978-1-936599-65-3 (Discovery Institute Press: Seattle); 2019 Dr. Marcos Eberlin, a physical chemist who specializes in spe...

  • November 3, 2019

    What is the fate of the American empire?

    Is America another doomed empire?  Can we avoid the decline and demise of empire that has been the pattern of the past?  John Bagot Glubb, English scholar and former soldier, provides a historical analysis of the life history of e...

  • October 26, 2019

    Walter Williams tackles the elephant in the room on crime

    Dr. Williams is a well known conservative economist and longtime John Olin Chair faculty at George Mason University in eastern Virginia, author of 12 books and syndicated columnist.  In the past, he has been substitute host on the Rush Limb...

  • August 13, 2019

    Green misanthropy: They want us dead

    I like to remind people that the enviros, top to bottom, side to side, are misanthropists; they consider the human race a cancer on the planet.  They hope to achieve a planetary wildlife park, where the only humans allowed are the park rang...

  • August 12, 2019

    Eugene Lyons, 1930s commie-hunter

    I was alerted to the incredible and impressive anti-communist journalistic career of Eugene Lyons only recently.  I was doing my usual trolling through the conservative websites when I came upon a review of an ancient (well, 78 ye...

  • August 4, 2019

    Michael Crichton: Famous novelist, physician, modern-day genius

    I am constantly reminded of brilliant and insightful genius in the past, like most of you.  We are amazed and thrilled to read the insights and commentaries of great historical personages — legends.  However, sometimes the s...

  • July 30, 2019

    The death of Obamacare?

    The socialist project to create government control of health care took a hit this year when Obamacare, the Affordable Care Act (an excellent example of misnomers that socialist use), was declared unconstitutional by Reed O'Connor, federal distric...

  • July 29, 2019

    Can Socialists Save Us from Surprise Medical Bills?

    "Surprise billing" is the latest health care crisis, and it has prompted the usual response: big government to the rescue. Balance billing — or a surprise medical bill — happens when you get a bill from a doctor, hospital, or...

  • July 28, 2019

    General Michael Flynn finally gets a break: Sidney Powell

    In early June, after 2-plus years of hell with the Mueller Special Counsel prosecution team and the Judge, Emmett Sullivan threatening jail time, General Michael Flynn  terminated his Covington and Burling lawyers (big DC firm) and hired Sidney ...

  • July 28, 2019

    Ted Cruz blows a hole in Google

    The hearing that exposed Google political machinations went very well for a top-notch lawyer and proven excellent debater Senator Ted Cruz. In fact, Cruz made it look easy, first taking on and bringing out the analysis of Dr. Robert Epst...

  • July 24, 2019

    Mark Levin has done it again!

    Rediscovering Americanism: And the Tyranny of Progressivism (2017) was Mark Levin's sixth New York Times bestseller.  I reviewed it and applauded his scholarship and conservative advocacy here at American Thinker.  Now I ...

  • July 16, 2019

    How Republicans can prepare to examine Robert Mueller

    We are all anxious to see how proper examination in a hearing could take down Special Counsel Mueller's pretenses and deceptions, maybe even reveal something of the nature of the Deep State swamp. House judiciary chairman Jerry Nadler and Hous...

  • June 26, 2019

    Geoff Shepard, Buttoned Down Watergate Demolition

    Don’t trust the Government Administrative State bureaucracy -- and particularly the prosecutors, who too often are governed by ambition, and not careful with their often abusive and aggressive use of their tremendous power and resources.  ...

  • June 16, 2019

    Robert Mueller: A Scary and Mendacious Man

    Robert Mueller's troublesome, unethical, and corrupt FBI career prior to his appointment as the special counsel on the Trump-Russia Collusion investigation deserves a serious vetting.  I provide here two points of reference: a monograph...

  • June 11, 2019

    The Real Lesson of Watergate Ignored in John Dean's Testimony and Media Commentary

    With the return of John Dean to the witness’s chair in a congressional hearing room yesterday, false analogies between that incident and the current day Russia Hoax are everywhere in the mainstream media. But the one real lesson of that era is ...

  • January 13, 2019

    1,400 Years of Jihad and Islamic Terror, Well Told by Robert Spencer

    Robert Spencer is the man, the best prepared person to write a comprehensive history of the horrors of Islam.  And he has. Spencer's The History of Jihad: From Muhammad to ISIS is an amazing book, extraordinary in i...

  • January 9, 2019

    Mark Levin on Our Desperate State

    I read and agree with Mark Levin, lawyer, former Reagan DOJ official, now radio conservative commentator and author, that his most recent book, Rediscovering Americanism: And the Tyranny of Progressivism (2017) is probably his best....

  • October 26, 2018

    Some piercing insights into the inestimable Winston Churchill

    Richard M. Langworth has spent the better part of his lifetime studying, documenting, interpreting, and promoting the true words, deeds, and legacy of Sir Winston Churchill.  The corpus of Langworth's efforts is manifest in the lectures...

  • September 4, 2018

    New Schweizer-recommended book exposes extent of corruption at FBI and DOJ

    The FBI and the DOJ have gone to the Dark Side.  Amazing, considering their longstanding promotion of their status and  posture for decades as the defenders of freedom and the American way – but times change, and the deep De...

  • August 19, 2018

    O'Scannlain: A Judge to Measure Judges

    On July 24, 2018, federal 9th Circuit (Circus) Court judge Diarmuid O'Scannlain published his opinion for the 2-1 majority of a three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit Court in the case of Young v. State of Hawaii, United States Ninth Circuit United...

  • March 27, 2018

    Dr. Jordan Peterson, full speed: A new book

    Jordan Peterson, a clear-eyed traditionalist advocate on political and social issues, has inspired and compelled sensible people to support his efforts.  I predicted back in January that he would be subjected to the intolerant thugs of Cana...

  • March 20, 2018

    The Great Victor Davis Hanson Takes On World War II

    Victor Davis Hanson is a conservative icon, well known and respected; a prolific author of twenty-plus books and current occupant of a chair of historical, military, and agrarian classical studies; a Ph.D. from Stanford; and the founder of classical ...

  • March 2, 2018

    'Personality disorders' and mass murder

    Suzanne Venker points out that of CNN's list of the "27 Deadliest Mass Shootings In U.S. History," only one was raised by his biological father since childhood.  The importance of a father is often overlooked. Mar...

  • February 24, 2018

    Doctor Hamburger Diagnoses a Malignant Administrative State

    Any regular reader at American Thinker is aware of the rising concern about government overreach and amplified, expanded executive branch abuses and multi-agency multifarious misconduct.  The ominous nature of the administrative state (thin...

  • February 22, 2018

    Mental illness and misconduct

    Misconduct of any serious degree, violent or not, is often perpetrated by people who are labeled mentally ill – on the assumption that only the mentally ill would commit crimes or be criminally assaultive or even lethal.  Nonsense!...

  • February 15, 2018

    Dezinformatsiya: Russian Interference Is Real

    In a recent AT essay, I wrote of the warnings of Ion Mihai Pacepa, a former high-level Romanian intelligence officer who defected to the U.S. in 1978.  He warned about the potent Russian, communist intelligence, disinformation, and espionag...

  • February 9, 2018

    Disinformation: Russian Espionage, Infiltration, Influence Peddling, and Sabotage

    If we had paid more attention to Ion Mihai Pacepa when he defected from the Rumanian Intelligence Service as the highest ranking communist intelligence defector we have ever had, we wouldn’t be asking dumb questions about Russian manipulation o...

  • February 6, 2018

    When Federal Prosecutors Go Bad

    Life can become a nightmare for those targeted by federal prosecutors in search of scalps. Ask General Michael Flynn.  After reading two excellent books on federal prosecutors who have been willing to cross the line into misbehavior, I am having...

  • January 26, 2018

    Why the Academic Left Fears and Loathes Dr. Jordan Peterson

    Who is this man, this Jordan Peterson, academic clinical psychologist, tenured at the University of Toronto with hundreds of thousands of YouTube followers, who has made a splash recently as a voice of reason, battling the political correctness elite...

  • March 15, 2016

    A word from a toxicologist who defected from the federal junk science army

    Last week, I discovered Frank Schnell when he wrote a comment on formaldehyde and said it was not a cancer-causing agent and that the EPA had lied about it.  His comment was on an American Council on Science and Health posting by Josh Bloom, Ph....

  • February 26, 2016

    Senator Cornyn and the Inmates

    Senator John Cornyn is proposing introducing a poorly informed  legislative proposal  that appears to be in response mental health and criminal science advocacy groups that insist that a high percentage of the inmate population incarcerated...

  • January 26, 2015

    The EPA Uses Children (and Adults) as Guinea Pigs

    The United States Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA) has been involved in a scandalous, unethical, and illegal human exposure experimental research program for two decades.  The Agency has sponsored, encouraged and funded research that ...

  • October 27, 2014

    Mr. President, You Lie

    This month Harper Collins published the latest book by investigative journalist, essayist, novelist, frequent American Thinker contributor Jack Cashill, You Lie! The Evasions, Omissions, Fabrications, Frauds, and Outright Falsehoods of Barack Obama, ...

  • June 3, 2012

    EPA's Unethical Air Pollution Experiments

    See also: Obama Administration Combats Racist Air United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lisa Jackson testified before Congress in September of 2011 that small-particle (2.5 microns or less) air pollution is lethal.  ...

  • August 19, 2010

    Race War A'Comin'?

    I was stunned a few weeks ago when a black professional colleague told me there were all-black cruises that featured speakers such as Louis Farrakhan. Mr. Farrakhan is a Muslim black nationalist, formerly a security officer, now successor to Elijah M...

  • April 11, 2010

    The Myths of Managing Health Care

    I learned the hard way that human nature is the biggest obstacle to cutting health care costs. President Obama is not the first chief executive to foist onto us an unrealistic medical reform.I left Nebraska to become Medical Director of a Health Main...

  • March 10, 2010

    California's Toxic Air Scare Machine

    The California Air Resources Board (CARB) of the California Environmental Protection Agency (Cal EPA) sponsored a full-day scientific discussion and debate on February 26, 2010 at the California EPA hearing room in Sacramento. The unprecedented publi...

  • March 2, 2010

    Science and the Toxic Scare Machine

    See also Science's Big Problem - editorUnited States Federal Agency-sponsored research in public health toxicology is as irresponsible and misleading as the IPCC misconduct. Can't imagine anything as bad as the IPCC? How about thirty-plus years ...

  • November 6, 2009

    Medical Response to the Fort Hood Massacre

    Yesterday a beautiful, warm, blue-blue-make-you-happy-sky day in Texas. I was scheduled to work a shift at Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center at Fort Hood, Texas, the busiest emergency department in the Army, at a base with always more than fifty th...

  • July 23, 2009

    Healthcare Policy, Social Justice and Thugs

    Policy Makers say the only way to achieve social justice is to deliver an equal and adequate amount of health care, directed by a well motivated government central plan. No more crude private system, flawed, uneven, and unfair.  I have a day job...