John Leonard

John Leonard


  • Newsweek humors a vicious murderer

    February 3, 2025

    Newsweek humors a vicious murderer

    Newsweek magazine recently published an article letting everyone know that Linda Mai Lee said, “For the first time in my life, I’m happy to be alive and do not want to die.” And who is Linda Mai Lee, you might ask? You might r...

  • The Legacy of Thomas Lifson

    November 15, 2024

    The Legacy of Thomas Lifson

    As an aspiring freelance writer, shortly after discovering I was a conservative, I became obsessed with the idea of writing an article worthy of publication by American Thinker. I knew Rush Limbaugh regularly read the website because he frequently qu...

  • The Media's Mammoth Thumb on the Electoral Scale

    November 1, 2024

    The Media's Mammoth Thumb on the Electoral Scale

    The problem isn’t that Democrats openly and habitually lie about Donald Trump on a regular basis. The problem is that the media uses subliminal messaging to reinforce those lies. They are not fair, neutral arbiters. The media are Democrats, ...

  • Fatherland: Nazi Germany in Biden’s America

    October 2, 2024

    Fatherland: Nazi Germany in Biden’s America

    There is a hot new play currently running off-Broadway in New York. From the website: “Fatherland is the true story of an 18-year-old son who turned in his father to the FBI for his militant role in the January 6th attack on the U.S. Ca...

  • What do Young Thug and Donald Trump Have in Common?

    June 18, 2024

    What do Young Thug and Donald Trump Have in Common?

    If you thought the soap opera known as the Donald Trump trial in Fulton County couldn’t be topped for best dramatic performance in a Greek tragedy after “special” prosecutor Nathan Wade sang the love song of D.A. Fani Willis, think ...

  • Beneath the Law!

    June 3, 2024

    Beneath the Law!

    “No one is above the law!” trumpet the progressive Democrat fanboys in the wake of the Donald Trump sham conviction in New York for alleged crimes on paper.  Joe Biden literally tweeted those exact words. Nobody is above the ...

  • What is a Christian Nationalist?

    February 25, 2024

    What is a Christian Nationalist?

    On MSNBC “award-winning investigative journalist” (from Politico) Heidi Przybyla said this recently: Remember when Trump ran in 2016?  A lot of the mainline evangelicals wanted nothing to do with the divorced real-estate mo...

  • The Crime of Donald Trump

    February 22, 2024

    The Crime of Donald Trump

    Technically speaking, Donald Trump is guilty of something -- he’s guilty of the crime of being Donald Trump. He hasn’t broken any laws, but laws have been modified to break him. As former NKVD (now the KGB) head Lavrentiy Beria once fa...

  • The Love Song of D.A. Fani Willis

    February 19, 2024

    The Love Song of D.A. Fani Willis

    “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by poet T.S. Eliot shares the story of a sexually frustrated middle-aged man who wants to express his true feelings but is afraid to speak his mind. “The Love Song of (Fulton County) D.A. Fan...

  • September 25, 2023

    Can Trump be Stopped?

    Reading the most recent Washington Post polls, I’ve got to admit that I’m having to fight the temptation to become optimistic about the 2024 election. Trump is ahead of Biden by 10 points. It’s so embarrassing that the Post had to p...

  • April 17, 2023

    Can you convict a ham sandwich?

    Pretty much everybody knows the old expression that says a prosecutor can even persuade a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich because the defendant hasn't been allowed his day in court and the testimony presented is all one-sided. Ironically, it ...

  • December 20, 2022

    Why Did the FBI Want Joe Biden to Become President?

    Just imagine for a moment that Donald Trump, Jr. (or Eric) sat on the board of directors for a foreign company and “earned” millions of dollars for literally doing nothing. He didn’t know the industry and didn’t speak the lang...

  • October 1, 2022

    Fay and Fluffy want to groom your children

    I recently received a desperate message from a visitor to my Facebook page.  The message read: Hey! I am a stay-at-home mom in Quebec, Canada. My three-year-old daughter and I accidentally saw this on Family Jr. TV today. Family TV?? T...

  • July 21, 2022

    Black Lives Matter: Black Supremacists

    On July 14, Minneapolis police shot and killed twenty-year-old Tekle Sundberg after a six-hour standoff that included multiple shots by the "victim" being fired into the apartment of a young woman and her two small children.  This was ...

  • June 22, 2022

    Losing Our Democracy

    Hillary Clinton just became the most recent Democrat to claim we’re “standing on the precipice of losing our democracy” and of all people, Hillary ought to know. After all, it was her minions and her campaign that undertook the most...

  • June 16, 2022

    Who Decided David Hogg Is Newsworthy?

    David Hogg was trying to thrust himself into the media spotlight long before the infamous 2018 shooting at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. His first brush with fame came in 2017 when he recorded a friend having a minor con...

  • May 13, 2022

    Beating Pro-Abortion Arguments

    Most “pro-choice” arguments are infantile and easily refuted with scientific evidence. For example, the “fetus is nothing but a clump of cells” argument is effectively negated by the counterpoint that from the moment of concep...

  • March 29, 2022

    Will Smith could be prosecuted even if Chris Rock doesn't file a complaint

    Chris Rock almost made the Oscars worth watching.  Almost.  Rock declined to press charges, but that doesn't necessarily mean that the matter has been resolved. According to California law, prosecutors are responsible ...

  • March 17, 2022

    The 'T' Word

    Democrats in the media (but I repeat myself) have a new talking point that involves treason -- the “t” word. It is not a word that should be thrown around lightly. Treason is a word with a very special meaning. According to Merria...

  • October 13, 2021

    Politically Incorrect in Hollywood: Dave Chappelle Wins the TERF War

    Critics have been calling on Netflix to cancel Dave Chappelle’s new special titled The Closer. However, the Hollywood actor/comedian's show currently has a 96 percent audience score at Rotten Tomatoes, making it somewhat doubtful that the c...

  • March 7, 2021

    Meet the Rapper Who's Topping the Charts and Appearing on Fox News

    Tom MacDonald is a young Canadian rapper fearlessly coming to dominate that musical genre.  His recent single titled "Fake Woke" reached #1 on the All-Genre U.S. iTunes sales chart.  His accompanying video has been viewe...

  • December 25, 2020

    Equality vs. equity in Joe Biden's America

    Equality means treating everyone with fairness. In a society governed by the principles of equality, every citizen has the same, or an equal, opportunity to achieve success regardless of age, gender, race, religion, political affiliation, or any othe...

  • December 10, 2020

    Joe Biden, the Manchurian President

    In the political/Cold War thriller The Manchurian Candidate, a U.S. soldier being held as a prisoner-of-war is brainwashed by Chinese and Russian agents and becomes a traitorous “sleeper” agent hidden within the civilian population. The f...

  • October 1, 2020

    Emmet Sullivan’s Kangaroo Court

    A kangaroo court ignores recognized standards of law or justice and has no legitimate authority because due process is often ignored. The “court” often reaches a predetermined conclusion that makes the trial itself something of a farce. T...

  • September 25, 2020

    Celebrity Privilege

    According to radical liberals, white people enjoy certain advantages over black people only because of the color of their skin. In their world colored by political correctness and liberal beliefs, white people live in wealthy, exclusively white neigh...

  • September 11, 2020

    The Importance of Rules

    Last weekend a most extraordinary thing happened -- #1 seed Novak Djokovic was unceremoniously thrown out of the U.S. Open tennis tournament after hitting a ball in anger that accidentally struck a line judge in the throat. She wasn’t seriously...

  • August 26, 2020

    A Bulldog Nation Divided

    One of my least favorite responsibilities on social media is serving as an administrator for a large group of Georgia Bulldog football fans. It’s kind of like trying to herd cats or being a Sunday School teacher for a kindergarten class -- it...

  • July 23, 2020

    Democrats Project their own Character Flaws onto Republicans

    Has anyone else noticed that Democrats routinely accuse Republicans of being guilty of what they have been doing themselves? The term projection was first introduced into psychology by Sigmund Freud. The word is used to describe that most peculiar fo...

  • July 19, 2020

    Chris Hayes Explains it all for You

    MSNBC host Chris Hayes recently tweeted, “Liberals were right about George W Bush and they’re right about Donald Trump. The Republican Party is a political party incapable of governing the nation without ushering in death, devastatio...

  • May 29, 2020

    The New Internet Censorship

    Most Americans consider their freedom of speech to be sacrosanct because it has been codified into law in the Bill of Rights, in the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The famous exception everyone knows it that you can’t yell “Fir...

  • May 27, 2020

    Why the Left is Weaponizing Science

    According to some “experts,” science can sometimes be settled, meaning that in certain areas of study, the evidence has been deemed so overwhelming and indisputable that further debate is not only unnecessary, it is forbidden. Only one in...

  • May 20, 2020

    Obamagate Must Result in Criminal Prosecutions

    During an appearance with Lawrence O’Donnell on The Last Word a few days ago, a caller asked Joe Biden a very interesting and ironically appropriate question: “Would you be willing to commit to the ideal that no one is above the law?...

  • May 2, 2020

    Barack Obama’s Department of Injustice

    Nineteen-year-old Kendrick Johnson never came home from Lowndes High School in Valdosta, Georgia on January 10, 2013. His parents notified the local sheriff, and an investigation at the school the following morning led to the tragic discovery of John...

  • April 11, 2020

    I'm a High-Risk Person, and I Object to the Coronavirus Panic

    One of the most unforgettable moments in the movie Braveheart takes place after William Wallace has been betrayed, captured by his enemy Edward Longshanks, and condemned to death by torture.  His lover Princess Isabelle visits him in prison...

  • April 6, 2020

    Joe Biden’s #MeToo Problem

    Joe Biden has a YUGE political (and maybe criminal) problem that the Republicans should exploit, given that the mainstream media is something of a joke and has largely ignored this story. Let’s just say if Joe Biden were a Republican instead of...

  • April 2, 2020

    Who Believes WHO?

    Roughly ten years ago, I had the opportunity to meet an honest-to-goodness IPCC scientist who had been awarded what he called a “sliver” of the Nobel Prize, the same one for which Al Gore received most of the credit. This particular clima...

  • March 29, 2020

    Investor capitalizes on coronavirus panic, turns $27M into $2.6B

    Bill Ackman is the founder and CEO of Pershing Square Capital Management and a pretty smart guy.  The product of Harvard's Business School shrewdly turned an impressive profit on a $27M in investment into a $2.6B profit during the coron...

  • March 19, 2020

    Make America Hate Again

    Approximately twenty-five years ago, I had an intense personal experience that left me with a virtually unshakable belief in a supernatural God. The most unexpected consequence of that most remarkable experience was losing the ability to hate other h...

  • March 14, 2020

    What Is a Mainstream Democrat?

    What is the definition of a mainstream Democrat?  How does the average Democrat voter look and act?  What distinguishes the modern "mainstream" Democrat from an independent or a Republican?  These are not rheto...

  • February 24, 2020

    The Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy

    The phrase "right-wing extremist" has become part of the national lexicon, yet for some strange reason, we never hear "left-wing extremist" to describe the liberal crazies in Antifa and BAMN, just two examples of what li...

  • February 21, 2020

    Donald Trump Is America's Chief Law Enforcement Officer

    The poorly written click-bait headline at the Washington Post “Trump declares himself ‘chief law enforcement officer’” complete with the scare quotes, might create the impression among the woefully ignorant who depend...

  • February 18, 2020

    The Propaganda of Single-Payer Healthcare

    The attraction of universal healthcare (Medicare For All) should be obvious -- it is all about receiving care for little or no money and not the quality of healthcare one receives. If one simply scans the Internet long enough, an article with anecdot...

  • February 12, 2020

    The Deification of Kobe Bryant

    In the spirit of full disclosure, I should reveal to the reader that I haven’t been a big fan of professional basketball since the days of Bird, Magic, and Michael Jordan. But even then, I realized that my “heroes” often had feet of...

  • February 8, 2020

    Corrupt or Incompetent? No Good Answer for Democrats in Iowa

    Probably my favorite line in the movie Moneyball is uttered in the wonderful scene where Billy Bean (Brad Pitt) is trying to teach his protégé (Joshua Hill) how to cut a professional baseball player.  Bean explains that delive...

  • February 7, 2020

    Fact-checking Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on the Presidential Medal of Freedom

    Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-Cuba) couldn’t be bothered to attend the 2020 State of the Union address, but she somehow managed to find the time to record a short message harshly criticizing President Trump’s decision to awar...

  • February 3, 2020

    The Economic Education of Joe Scarborough

    I really don’t think it’s possible to believe that Joe Scarborough is stupid. The man has a law degree. Scarborough served four terms with distinction in the U.S. House of Representatives as a “New Federalist” Congressman from...

  • January 31, 2020

    The Right to a Fair Trial

    In theory, every citizen in the United States is equal under the law. In reality, far too often money has been able to buy rich people immunity from justice. We are all supposed to be considered innocent until proven guilty, but the way it usually wo...

  • January 30, 2020

    Rick Wilson jumps the shark

    Former Republican strategist Rick Wilson just jumped the shark during a recent interview segment with CNN's Don Lemon.  "Jumping the shark" is a term inspired by the infamous episode of Happy Days in which tough guy ...

  • January 30, 2020

    Impeachment hearings are congressional tee-ball

    True story: I almost burned my house down yesterday afternoon.  My nearly fatal mistake was to put on a pot of my favorite peas to warm on the stove before sitting down to watch a few minutes of the impeachment trial.  I woke up t...

  • January 28, 2020

    Greta's smile

    Did you notice Greta Thunberg smiling in her photo op with Prince Charles at the climate hysteria summit in Davos?  Or maybe she was laughing...after all, the Prince of Wales did have a smirk on his face.  Had he told yo...

  • January 26, 2020

    Cowardice in the Era of Trump

    In theory, I’m a professional writer. In reality, I’m a published author of three non-fiction books and several novels (only one is currently for sale) that have received some decent reviews and even won a few awards, but my writing cu...

  • January 22, 2020

    Jerry Nadler's fatal mistake on impeachment

    Congressman (and impeachment manager) Jerry Nadler made a fatal mistake by running his mouth only two days before President Trump's absurd trial was scheduled to begin.  He just couldn't keep quiet for two more days.  Now ...

  • January 2, 2020

    James Comey: The 21st Century's Benedict Arnold

    When I was a child, history was my favorite subject.  I even took enough elective history classes at the collegiate level to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree with a double major in history and political science (pre-law).  I changed...

  • December 31, 2019

    Bernie Sanders seizes opportunity to pretend he’s still Jewish

    Please forgive my cynicism, but Bernie Sanders’ “response” to the recent stabbing attack at a rabbi’s home in New York strikes me as political opportunism rather than sincere expression of a genuine emotion, considering his tr...

  • December 25, 2019

    The Christmas Truce of 1914

    On Christmas Day 2019 the next epic “war” movie titled 1917 is scheduled for release. If the film proves to be half as good as the trailer, it might prove difficult to think of adequate superlatives to describe it. The plot (allegedly ins...

  • November 17, 2019

    The Bidens and Burisma

    Mykola Zlochevsky is the (allegedly) corrupt owner of Burisma Holdings, a Ukrainian natural gas provider.  Hunter Biden accepted a position on the board of directors with Burisma in April of 2014.  By August of the same year, Vita...

  • October 9, 2019

    Being 'Woke' has a Price

    It’s important to always remember that our actions will have consequences. When I first became a writer, my wife strongly recommended that I refrain from publicly expressing any personal religious or political views because I am a Christian ...

  • October 6, 2019

    Media put a big thumb on the scale of 'fair and balanced' against Trump

    In a truly "fair and balanced" world, the re-election of Donald Trump would be a foregone conclusion.  By just about every measurable standard, his administration has been a roaring success despite relentless resistance from his p...

  • September 20, 2019

    Democratic hypocrisy on sex and murder

    Can you imagine the headlines we'd be reading if Ed Buck was a Republican?  You might even be wondering, who is Ed Buck?  Reporting on his crimes has been less than enthusiastic up to this point, but given the pattern of ...

  • September 18, 2019

    Stephen Merchant’s Failed Elevator Pitch

    In Hollywood lingo, an elevator pitch is an extremely short speech given to convince a potential investor to put money into a movie, in roughly the same amount of time it takes to ride in an elevator. In other words, the plot or theme of the movie mu...

  • April 13, 2019

    Worse than Watergate

    For most of my lifetime, “Watergate” has been used as the measuring stick for political corruption. What exactly was the Watergate scandal? On June 17, 1972, five men were arrested for burglarizing the headquarters of the Democratic Na...

  • April 6, 2019

    Can We Talk?

    Rodney King asked America an excellent question: “Why can’t we all just get along?” In the classic scene from the movie Cool Hand Luke, Strother Martin probably gave the most accurate possible response to that question when he fa...

  • March 6, 2019

    Democrats Need Stupid Voters

    Remember Jonathan Gruber, the chief architect of ObamaCare? The economics professor from MIT had bragged the law was deliberately written in tortured and confusing language in order to fool the American voter and famously said, “lack of tran...

  • February 25, 2019

    Crowder Beats Anybody in the Legacy Media -- Change My Mind

    Steven Crowder might be my favorite internet personality. He's hilarious, intelligent, extremely articulate, and expresses a conservative point of view in a very entertaining fashion. Louder with Crowder is absolutely hilarious, but it's a...

  • April 26, 2015

    Valdosta, Georgia -- a racial powder keg?

    What could be worse than having infamous Hollywood filmmaker Michael Moore target you with one of his faux documentaries? How about becoming the target of a surreal, unending federal investigation conducted by U. S. attorney for the Middle ...

  • June 30, 2013

    The Attempted Extortion of Paula Deen

    The real story behind the Paula Deen scandal can be summed up in a single word: greed. The American judicial system and the media are being used as formidable weapons in a brazen attempt to extort money from Ms. Deen, in my opinion. This isn't a stor...

  • September 4, 2012

    The Undocubus rolls into Atlanta, and on to Charlotte

    A little more a week ago, a small group of illegal aliens from California calling themselves No Papers, No Fear stopped in Atlanta to protest GA HB87, Georgia's tougher new law on illegal immigration.  The small group protesters were joined...

  • September 1, 2010

    The Latest Terrorist Test Run

    The arrest in Amsterdam of two Yemeni Americans raises many uncomforatble questions about airport security here.It is worth mentioning that after my first article published December 11th, 2009 for American Thinker reporting a terrorist test run on Ai...

  • April 25, 2010

    Evil at Westboro Baptist Church

    In the odd chance that there might a dozen or so people still unfamiliar with the Westboro Baptist church, it might be useful to know the church is probably the only one of its size that has its own Wikipedia page. Recently the church has received a ...

  • March 6, 2010

    (Honorary) Dr. Al Gore

    The University of Tennessee announced that former Vice President Al Gore will receive an honorary doctorate of Laws and Humane Letters in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology on May 14 at graduation ceremonies, where he will be the featured commencement ...

  • February 19, 2010

    Barack's Bi-Polar Nuclear Policy

    President Barack Obama recently took drastic steps forward to carry through on his campaign promise to close the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste facility before it ever opens for business. His Department of Energy (DOE) successfully petitioned judges he...

  • January 29, 2010

    Treating Terrorists Like Ordinary Americans

    Much has been written and said recently about the Christmas Day would-be bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab being granted the same rights as ordinary American citizens. If only he were treated so poorly.Before he could be thoroughly interrogated by spe...

  • December 30, 2009

    The Yemeni Front in the War on Terror

    It is difficult to decide which thought is more disturbing regarding the recent terror attack on Northwest Flight 253: that terrorist Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab nearly succeeded, or the reaction by U.S. officials in the aftermath of the attempted bomb...

  • December 25, 2009

    The Real Santa Claus

    Santa Claus was a real person -- well, sort of, at least in the sense that the legendary character was inspired by a real person. St. Nicholas was born late in the third century, supposedly in the year 270, in the village of Patara in Lycia. At the t...

  • December 20, 2009

    Terror Test-Runs on Airlines?

    After my article on the biazarre incident on AirTran Flight 297 was published, one reader going by the initials VHG said something that immediately caught my attention. The comment referred to an apparently similar occurrence that happened on United ...

  • December 11, 2009

    Was AirTran Flight #297 a Terrorist Dry Run?

    Like Climategate, there is another story the national mainstream media has either missed or largely ignored, and that is the story of what really happened on November 17th on AirTran's Flight 297 from Atlanta to Houston.  Much confusion remains ...

  • November 21, 2009

    Pirate Politics

    The movie Pirate Radio is loosely based on the true story of a collection of renegade disc-jockeys that broadcast rock and roll from a ship on the open seas after that music was banned from the airwaves by a repressive British government during the m...

  • November 13, 2009

    Race, Violence, and the Columbia Professor

    Columbia University architecture professor Lionel McIntyre was arrested for assaulting university employee Camille Davis during a heated debate in a Harlem bar, according to an article in the New York Post. Reportedly, the professor grew increasingly...