October 20, 2020

How to get a head start on preparing for post-election civil unrest

Only fourteen days until America's watershed election. Some of you may be concerned that your family has not made adequate preparations for the probable civil unrest ahead.  Not to worry: here are some bare-bones suggestion that will en...

December 25, 2019

2019 American Thinker Holiday Quiz

If you enjoy literature, history, movies and your cosmology includes Messier objects and Klingons, then this is your quiz. And this quiz is not just for guys. If you're a bright, sassy and sophisticated woman of any age, you will also like this q...

November 7, 2018

Secret ballots?

Contra Costa County has decided that secret ballots are relics of a bygone era. I vote at St. John Vianney Church, 1650 Ygnacio Valley Road in Walnut Creek, Ca. After I had filled out a six-page “fill-in the bubbles” ballot, I stood in...

October 31, 2018

Eavesdropping on Obama’s revolutionary guards (Organizing for Action)

There is nothing like the local coffee shop near my home to hear the unvarnished truth.  Tuesday morning, I was sitting with my morning brew reading how wonderful it was that the Dodgers got slam dunked, when a group of 12 folks, mostly in their...

October 19, 2018

San Francisco: Now so bad, it'll make you cry

Twentieth-century San Francisco, Herb Caen's beloved Baghdad by the Bay, has ceased to exist.  It has been replaced by a city where the sidewalks around Market Street are, in places, caked in feces, urine, and vomit.  The stin...

December 25, 2016

All-American holiday quiz

Welcome to the 2016 holiday edition of the American Thinker All American Family Quiz. After your holiday dinner, gather round the fire, break into two or three teams, each with a pencil and paper. Then designate a scorekeeper/umpire who can read t...

March 24, 2016

How to vote Republican in California

The pivotal California presidential primary election takes place on June 7, just 75 days from today.  What is not well known to most California voters is that California’s Republican primary is a closed primary election.  That means t...

October 17, 2015

In the worst event...

The word “prepper” carries with it a flavor of doomsday apocalyptic cultism, encouraged by the Doomsday Preppers cable television series. But disasters do happen in nature, from floods to earthquakes, and the possibility of technology-rel...

October 7, 2015

Second Amendment foes lying about gun control

The Second Amendment has nothing to do with hunting. The Second Amendment has nothing to do with personal self-defense. Firearms are our constitutionally mandated safeguard against tyranny by a powerful federal government. Only dictators, ty...

July 23, 2015

Five years, eight months since 'Allahu Akbar' rang out at Ft. Hood

Her name, hand-written on a yellow sticky note stuck on my computer, has become faded from years of late afternoon sunlight and can barely be read. “Pvt. Francheska Velez” Pvt. Francheska Velez, 21, an Army bomb disposal specialist ...

April 11, 2015

Thinking the unthinkable about Obama's Middle East Policy

I am not generally given to doomsday fantasies, but I'm starting to get unnerved by where I see President Obama’s Middle East diplomacy taking us.   Now that Israel’s Prime Minster Bibi Netanyahu has been re-elected, with Obam...

February 5, 2015

Physician, do no harm - except in Canada

The Modern Hippocratic Oath, written by Louis Lasagna in 1964, includes these words: Most especially I must tread with care in matters of life and death. If it is given to me to save a life, all thanks. But it may also be within my power to take...

January 17, 2015

A revolution in 3-D printing

Popular Mechanics’ Editor’s Choice Awards for CES 2015 include a “fit” watch, bike pedals with GPS plus anti-theft detection, underwater speakers, and a “smart” tennis racquet.  But the real game-changer, the ...

October 29, 2014

Obama and the baby-killers

I had thought that the dazzling vulgarity of B. H. Obama, his appointees, and their unremitting hatred for Israel and the Jewish people could no longer shock my soul. Sadly I was wrong. A three-month-old American citizen was murdered in her stroller ...

October 2, 2014

Fourteen questions about Ebola that will never be asked

Here are fourteen questions concerning the Ebola epidemic that will never be asked of the  President or the Administration’s talking heads. The MSM has evolved into a modern day Pretorian guard, surrounding and protecting B.H. Obama from a...

August 5, 2014

Where is Atticus Finch when you need him?

Atticus Finch, Harper Lee’s mythic Southern liberal, wisely shot the rabid dog before it could infect Jem, Scout, Calpurnia or the other town-folks of Maycomb with a lethal disease. To Kill a Mockingbird, set in the Jim Crow Alabama of the 1950...

July 25, 2014

The Devil's best trick is making people believe he doesn't exist

In the aftermath of the Allied liberation of Germany in 1945, American and British troops bussed ten of thousands of German citizens to the concentration camps, forcing them to view the vast piles of dead, emaciated bodies that were the result of the...

July 18, 2014

Ridiculous EPA rules make wildfires more dangerous

Occasionally a news story perfectly encapsulates the deceptive, double-dealing, dishonest, disingenuous, double-crossing, duplicitous, underhanded, and unscrupulous nature of B.H. Obama’s cynical contempt for the American people. From thehil...

July 15, 2014

A bio-terror threat at the border?

The Drudge Report posted two seemingly unrelated news items yesterday, which together could contain the seeds of death and global chaos. The first is a Reuter’s report on the deadly Ebola outbreak in West Africa. As stated in the article the...

July 4, 2014

A Detour on Independence Day

I have spent the last week in Likely, California (population 63, elevation 4,449), three hours north of Reno atop the Modoc Plateau, doing narrow-band and photographic imaging of the stars under some of the darkest night skies in the United States. ...

June 10, 2014

Violence against women on campus - or not?

Rampant reports of rape and violence against women on our college campuses continue to headline the national news.  While rape remains a horrific crime, my limited exposure to reports of violence against women on campus makes me seriously doubt ...

March 25, 2014

Administration to cancel Hellfire and Tomahawk missile programs

Let’s start with a simple question. What happens when a soldier runs out of ammunition during a firefight? First, he either retreats, or he quickly becomes killed, wounded or captured.  Second, his tactical position converts from active to...

March 2, 2014

Russia and China play the 'long game' while Obama dithers

Years ago, I had to walk through the Tenderloin district of San Francisco at 5:00 a.m. each morning to get to work.  From Wiki, “The Tenderloin is a high-crime neighborhood, particularly violent street crime such as robbery and aggravated ...

February 11, 2014

Another strange Obama admininstration arms purchase

On July 29, 2013, the Department of the Army in a Combined Synopsis/Solicitation, Solicitation Number W15QKN13T8513, asked the General Services Administration to procure "592,825 (approx) AK Rifle Magazines: 7.62x39mm Caliber, New Production, Steel, ...

February 6, 2014

Mulsim Brotherhood in the Oval Office

The Muslim Brotherhood, founded by virulent anti-Semites, subsidized by Adolf Hitler, and its stated goal for the MB in America includes the following: The Ikhwan [the MB] must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eli...

February 4, 2014

Susan Rice tweets 'support' for Israel

The President and his advisors habitually lie to the American people. After each new lie, the MSM spins and twists these lies into focus-tested pabulum that effectively camouflages government issued propaganda as legitimate news. Some of the more ...

December 25, 2013

2013 Christmas Quiz

This year's challenging quiz is designed for the entire family. Split everyone into two teams, the bigger the better. No fair using computers, iPhones, tablets, or any other digital devices. Hopefully these mental gymnastics will evoke some wonder...

November 15, 2013

Ethanol's growing cost to our food security

Ethanol profits are rapidly destroying the pristine grasslands of the Great Plains. Over 1.2 million acres, an area the size Rhode Island plus New York City and Los Angeles, have has been plowed open and seeded for ethanol corn crops in the past seve...

October 10, 2013

Name the names now!

We, the people, demand that our elected representatives compel the White House  to release the names of those who came up with the idea to withhold the military death benefit, and those in the White House who authorized this heinous act. In mili...

October 3, 2013

Feds' punitive shutdown in Western parks

The Feds are not only closing the Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, 1.2 million acres are being systematical depopulated. I am at ground zero, the Lake Powell resort at  the Wahweap Marina, five miles from the massive Glen Canyon dam. Yester...

October 1, 2013

Fed bureaucrats blaming GOP

We're at the Lake Powell Resort, which is on Federal property, but the Feds just collect a $15 per vehicle use fee for a seven day permit. Otherwise, Aramark is the resort operator, and they do great job. Monday, according to the staff, the Feds to...

August 24, 2013

Student who balked at wearing RFID chip returns to school

In the fall of 2012, the Northside Independent School District, in San Antonio, Texas required middle and high school students to wear a "tracking" chip while on campus. And not just a passive RFID (Radio-frequency identification) chip, these second ...

August 14, 2013

Obama's 21st century tyranny

Article 1, Section 1 of the United States Constitution states: All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives. There is nothing ambiguous i...

August 12, 2013

Iran's nuclear shot in the arm

The Obama Administration has actively pursued a Progressive crusade to shred the Constitution, disarm the general public, destroy the middle class though excessive taxation and deliberate over regulation, enroll and encourage millions of American to ...

August 10, 2013

California's anti-gun stupidity on steroids

The current California Assembly and Senate are the most moronic collection of corrupt  political whores since the Assemblée Législative help inaugurate the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution. These rue putes are gleefully planning to s...

July 26, 2013

Unions screwed by Obamacare

Why in heavens name did the public employee unions so aggressively support Obamacare? They ignored the basic fact that elected politicians, facing an avalanche of grossly underfunded health insurance retirement plans, quickly realized that Obamacare ...

June 28, 2013

How Not to Identify Terrorists

Welcome to Obamaland!  As a nation now drowning in federal regulation and executive orders, Obama and his ilk have grabbed us by the throat and are gleefully dragging our middle-class butts though the gilded gates of a totalitarian asylum....

June 3, 2013

Let Them Eat MREs

The FOB (Forward Operation Bases) in Afghanistan have stopped serving hot breakfasts for both the Marines and Army personnel. In there place, MREs (Meals Ready to Eat), are being substituted. At some Afghani FOBs and COPs (Combat Out Post) the 24 /7,...

May 31, 2013

Thank-you, Beyonce

Last night I watched the San Francisco Giants game at ATT Park, where they lost to their cross-bay rivals the Oakland Athletics, 9-6. A slow game, almost four hours long, led to a midnight wait for the last couple of BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) tra...

May 23, 2013

Could Iran become a nuclear superpower?

There is only one news story that you must read this morning. It's not the usual cirque de jour that our chattering political class so enjoys foisting upon the American public. The following 143 words should put into perspective the irrational folly ...

May 12, 2013

You, too?

This is how I look when I read about the IRS investigating conservative groups!     Photo used with permission of Paul Gustafson, DVM. Copyright 2013, all rights reserved...

April 30, 2013

Terror attack in San Jose?

A disturbing story of a failed poisoning at a local Starbucks leaves us with many unanswered questions.  It will be instructive to watch the follow-up reporting (or lack thereof) by the hyper politically correct MSM of the San Francisco Bay Area...

April 26, 2013

The Flu Tax

What to make of a headline that includes the following words: tax, $100 million, Congress, bipartisan, and flu? Are our Congressional invertebrates happily plotting to tax the flu? Why not sinus infections, shingles, or schistosomiasis? Perhaps the O...

April 6, 2013

California 'Lumber Products Assessment' a tax by any other name

The clowns who frequent Sacramento's seedy bars and whorehouses, otherwise known as the members of the California State Legislature, have pulled off another midnight raid deep into the pocketbooks of all Californians. At least street thugs and bank r...

April 3, 2013

Owen's Already Owin'

My niece just had her second child, a beautiful bundle of smiles and soft blond hair, Owen. My wife and I were, of course, elated, at the new arrival. Yet I harbored a deep, unspoken concern that this country has already set substantial obstacles in ...

April 1, 2013

We happy few

This weekend, The New York Times published an op-ed piece on the failing American economy by David Stockman, Ronald Reagan's budget director from 1981 to 1985. Please print it out, post the important paragraphs on your refrigerator door, and email th...

March 26, 2013

Lifestyles of the Rich and Unionized

The San Francisco Bay Area is home to some of most wealthy retirees in America. Joining their ranks this month is Alameda County Administrator Susan Muranishi, who will retire with an annual pension of $423,644 a year. That works out to a little over...

March 3, 2013

The feverish de-legitimization of personal self-defense

Three Florida high school students disarmed another student who was armed with a loaded pistol while riding home on a school bus. The school district then promptly suspended all three students for being involved in an "incident" with a weapon.  ...

January 11, 2013

Obama Provoking a Constitutional Crisis

Years ago in discussions with my writing friends, I proposed a novel about a President with an undiagnosed brain tumor who signed an Executive Order banning the civilian possession of all semi-automatic weapons. His diseased brain had become increasi...

January 6, 2013

A recipe for activism against efforts at gun control

"Obama Plans Broad Gun Control" screamed the Drudge Report headline. So what actions can a responsible gun owner take to stop this legislative insanity? There are, of course, the accepted channels of communications: email and phone calls to your two ...

December 21, 2012

Gun confiscation raised by rising star Democrat

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo publicly declared the death of the US Constitution yesterday, December 20, 2012. Cuomo, in few short sentences, has begun laying the essential groundwork for the possible mass deportation of undesirable civilians to gov...

December 4, 2012

Fiscal cliff negotiations the opportunity of a generation to stop further tax hikes

The GOP negotiates like clueless little girls. These one-dimensional thinkers don't realize that the "fiscal cliff" is the opportunity of a generation to stop further middle class tax increases.  The Democrats have bet the house on a modest tax ...

November 28, 2012

Here's how to really soak the rich

B. H. Obama may have opened the door to finding new monies for enhancing the revenue side of the fiscal cliff.  The fundamental problem for the Democrats and the Republicans is that they both want to raise revenue based on personal income rather...

November 25, 2012

Hurricane damages and the national debt

The headline from philly.com boldly proclaimed, "Christie pegs New Jersey's Sandy damage at $29.4 billion."  The article went on to explain: Gov. Christie estimates that Sandy cost New Jersey $29.4 billion in damage and economic losses, from ...

November 22, 2012

Another Thanksgiving Day Readers' Quiz

Most everyone should enjoy this family-oriented, cross-generational quiz.  There are twenty-one challenging questions, designed to entertain and recall our American past.  Choose teams and write down your answers.  No fair looking up t...

November 8, 2012

Scenes from Obama's America

Tuesday, our country split apart along the dangerous fault lines of class, race, gender, age and faith, and we can already glimpse the consequences.  Tipping points and inflections can be seen: here are two personal observations from Wednesday. ...

November 5, 2012

A National Security Hybrid

B.H. Obama has issued 139 executive orders since becoming president.  Some are fairly benign; many are deeply troubling, specifically as to the wholesale consolidation of emergency powers into the office of the presidency.  The newest execu...

October 27, 2012

Media Misleading May Prompt Post-Election Chaos

Within an hour of the polls closing in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Michigan, the news networks and the electorate will have a clear idea of who will win the presidency.  If Romney wins Ohio and either Pennsylvania or Michigan, he has won the electio...

October 23, 2012

Obama Gave Himself Away Last Night

Lit with the bright flash of summer lightening, three words showed America why B.H. Obama is so spectacularly unsuited to hold the office of the Presidency. It was late in the third debate and Romney and Obama were sparing about drones. Mitt had just...

October 18, 2012

Fort Hood and the Election

My liberal friends and family often ask what's the source of my passion to see Mitt Romney defeat Barack Obama. They never like the answer. Pvt. Francheska Velez. Pvt. Francheska Velez, 21, an Army bomb disposal specialist who served in Iraq was thre...

October 12, 2012

A captive audience watching Biden's boorishness

Quite a few of my fellow passengers were watching the Great Delaware Boor last night as we cruised at 34,000 feet above the Great Plains on a non-stop from Newark to San Francisco.  Here are some totally unscientific observations from the fight....

October 7, 2012

Texas school district to require students to wear RFID chip whil on campus

A school district in San Antonio, Texas is requiring middle and high school students to wear a "tracking" chip while on campus. And not just a passive RFID (Radio-frequency identification) chip, these second generation RFID chips include a battery th...

October 5, 2012

Obama's Debate Con?

Barack Obama has always been a fine actor and Wednesday night he deftly played the role of a debate loser with Oscar-worthy  brilliance.  I think it was a con. During my college days I hustled pool to make ends meet.  The "hustle" was ...

October 2, 2012

Obama waives child soldier sanctions - again

The Washington Post October 27, 2010 headline read, "Obama waiver allows U.S. aid to 4 countries using child soldiers." The ABC news October 5, 2011 headline read, "Obama waives child soldier ban in Yemen and Congo." The Cable, from Foreign Policy.co...

September 20, 2012

Why does Homeland Security need 1.4 billion rounds of ammunition?

The Department of Homeland Security has purchased 1.4 billion rounds of ammunition- that is not a typo -- during the last six months. This includes 450 million rounds of  .40 hollow point, 200 million rounds of .223 rifle ammunition, and 176,000...

September 13, 2012

Defenseless

Our worst fears concerning the safety our US Marines and our foreign diplomats have been confirmed.  Our Marines in Cairo were shouldering unloaded weapons. This coming after the bombing of the Marine Barracks in Lebanon in 1983, where 241 Ameri...

September 12, 2012

What's really going on in Cairo and Benghazi attacks?

Why didn't the US Marines use the necessary force to defend the Cairo and Benghazi diplomats? Something smells wrong about these narratives. Even after the Benghazi consulate came under "intense fire,"our Marines should have had the firepower and tra...

August 10, 2012

California town pioneers in fiscal irresponsibility

A loan shark wants to lend your town a hundred million dollars. And since this loan shark is such a swell guy he says, "Look folks, don't you worry about nuthin'. In fact you don't have to pay any interest or principal until the year 2033, almost 20 ...

July 30, 2012

Spot the male chauvinist pig

North Dakota Democrats have given evidence of their real attitudes toward women. The MSM still bombards us with the purported conservative "War on Women," the alleged glass ceilings that limit women's pay and promotion in corporate America, and the s...

July 23, 2012

High Spend Rail Needs Big New Taxes

The CHSRA (California High-Speed Rail Authority) thinks it's never too early to use its greasy paws to remove an additional wad of cash from every taxpayer's wallet. You might think that the taxpayers of California would eventually learn that they fu...

July 9, 2012

A Democrat consultant gets it

Celinda Lake, a Democratic pollster, said that "in this economy, [Republican presidential candidate Mitt] Romney has to be disqualified" in order for Obama to be reelected. She gets it...a very bright lady. I wish she worked for the GO...

July 7, 2012

California digs fiscal grave on high speed rail boondoggle

Yesterday the Democrats in the California State Senate approved on a straight party line vote the final funding authorization for building a high-speed rail through the Central Valley. Based on cost overruns for other government boondoggles like Bost...

July 6, 2012

Institutionalized graft in the Golden State

The Democrats in the California State Assembly really believe their constituents are fools, willing to ignore the institutionalized union graft that funds their re-election. How else to explain their party line vote to fund $8 billion for building hi...

July 4, 2012

Obama versus Romney on national debt and national security

The LA Times, Obama's reliable Left Coast bootlicker, has published an interesting Op-Ed on national security and the federal debt. The Op-Ed, penned by two "foreign policy scholars at the [liberal] Brookings Institution" requires a bit of digging to...

July 3, 2012

California madness

Here are two news articles that should be read side-by side.  This sort of "compare and contrast" rarely enters the public consciousness. From ABC news we have the national listing of those cities with the highest unemployment during May of 2012...

July 1, 2012

Spotted in a Bay Area Mall Parking Lot

  I saw this brand new bumper sticker in the parking lot of a local San Francisco Bay Area shopping mall. The car also had a Romney for President bumper sticker. ...

June 11, 2012

Ray Bradbury: Big talent on a small planet

There are a handful of books that I return to after another of life's transitions, and I've begun the path of a new journey. Ray Bradbury wrote two of these books, Dandelion Wine and The Martian Chronicles.  One lazily spins the tale of innocenc...

June 10, 2012

Hugo Chavez and Jerry Brown's shared delusion

The Democrats in the California Legislature, Governor Jerry Brown, and their co-enablers, the powerful labor unions, have been waterboarding the taxpayers of California with the insane notion of building a high-speed rail network in the Golden State....

June 6, 2012

Recall results show a deeply divided electorate

In Wisconsin, the preliminary gubernatorial recall results showed a deeply divided electorate in the Badger State. The deep blue (Democrat) counties went heavily against Walker, and the deep red (Republican) counties went strongly against Barrett. Ho...

May 26, 2012

The folly of low flow toilets

This sign was in discovered in our bathroom at a major chain hotel in Springdale, Utah, just outside Zion National Park. Why do we allow any government entity to mandare the use of ineffective products? ...

May 14, 2012

California Bullet Train Blues

The definition of insanity is to do the same thing over and over and expect different results. Not surprisingly, this thoguht first appeared in the Basic Text of Narcotics Anonymous, in 1981. Even less surprisingly, the hard left mandarins that rule ...

May 6, 2012

Justice for the victims of Maj. Hasan?

One thousand and fourteen days. One hundred and forty-five weeks. That how long the thirteen families who lost their sons, husbands and fathers will have waited until the court-martial of Maj. Nidal Hasan begins in late August. And that date could be...

May 3, 2012

California Assembly passes bill to ask vendors about their sexuality

California Assembly Bill 1960 continues the radical gay political machine's carefully planned assault on personal privacy. Here is the bill's summary as written by the Legislative Counsel's Digest. Existing  law requires the Department of Genera...

April 27, 2012

The Thought Police Arrive in Sacramento

One of the finest conservative moments in cinema occurs in first few moments of Serenity, Joss Whedon's homage to personal freedom and liberty.  River Tam, a ten-year-old girl is being taught in a classroom about the "independents" -- armed rebe...

March 24, 2012

An armed citizenry and its enemies

Sturm, Ruger & Company, America's 4th largest gun manufacturer, announced that it has temporarily suspended the acceptance of new orders. Not too worry, though. This unusual problem stems from the fact that Sturm, Ruger booked over one million fi...

March 10, 2012

Berkeley's idea of 'free speech'

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March 9, 2012

Removing the Keystone (Pipeline)

The Keystone XL pipeline's demise tosses another shovel full of dirt onto the lid of this country's coffin.  Keystone's termination was not just a kickback to the urban dwelling, loony-left environmental voters, though that was a nice bonus. ...

March 9, 2012

Debt crisis? What debt crisis?

While the country was distracted by the MSM's carefully orchestrated faux contraception crisis, February's budget deficit added an additional $229 billon to out nation's debt.  Yes, you read that right. We are continuing to squander the wealth o...

February 25, 2012

California prying into bedroom sex activity

America's unique brand of identity politics is simply 21st century cultural Marxism.  Karl would be elated that race, ethnicity, and sexual orientation are leveraged in yet another struggle against the white bourgeoisie's relentless "accumulatio...

February 24, 2012

The Day I Became a Conservative

The oft-quoted phrase, "A conservative is a politically clueless country club Republican who got mugged" accurately describes my political conversion. Next week, I'm returning to the scene of my life-altering mugging. No, I'm not walking through the ...

February 21, 2012

What servicing our debt has really cost us

Monday morning and America cringes at another week of misdirection, distractions, lies, smears, half-truths, fibs, deception, fictions, slander, evasion and statistical fabrications emitted by the most transparent Administration in US history.  ...

February 18, 2012

CA says mobile food vending trucks a 'threat' to kids

The California legislature continues to act as the hard left's petri dish for testing totalitarian policies.  AB 1678, introduced last Tuesday, would ban mobile food and beverage trucks within 1,500 feet of elementary and secondary schools. From...

February 16, 2012

The Rising Fever of Despotism

Andrew McCarthy commands a well-deserved respect for his insightful and thought provoking discourse on American conservatism. And Saturday's' NRO column clearly delineates what many conservatives think about the despotic nature of this Administration...

February 9, 2012

How the MSM spins the HHS decision

How does the liberal press spin the Obama Administration's HHS ruling on contraceptive services? The MSM deliberately ignores the fundamental trampling of our Constitution and muddies the waters with a variety of distractions, half-truths and omissio...

January 31, 2012

Obey the feds or else

A single event can sometimes illuminate the expanding polarization engulfing our society. We have been presented today with a 21st century American morality play, complete with small dogs, the excessive use of force by a federal government agency, an...

January 29, 2012

America's worst regulatory agency outdoes itself

California continues its leading role as the national laughingstock of regulatory absurdity. This week, the California Air Resources Board (CARB), forged another link in its unbroken chain of disastrous environmental policies. New CARB regulations re...

January 25, 2012

The debt iceberg ahead

Our exploding federal debt looms out of the ocean mists like the iceberg that ripped open the hull of the Titanic. This nations fiscal insolvency and the Titanic's maiden voyage have too many uncomfortable parallels. Captain E. J. Smith ignored seven...

January 22, 2012

Department of the Interior's anti-science political correctness

Research science and physical anthropology has taken a giant leap backward under the stewardship of the hard left, politically correct, multiculturalists running the Department of Interior.  It is no surprise that the Obama Administration will n...

January 13, 2012

California overfishing wealthy taxpayers

The once golden State of California continues its inexorable decline.  The state motto still proclaims "Eureka..I have found it" while the decades long fiscal train wreck more accurately portrays California as the poster child for the entrenched...

January 6, 2012

Egypt's sword of Damocles

A friend returned from a trip to Egypt a couple of years ago. One of the oddest things he saw were five or six university students wearing T-shirts that showed the iconic Pyramids of Giza with these words written in English, "Kowabanga Dude, Surfs Up...

January 5, 2012

Iran building missile base in Venezuela

Iran and Venezuela are feverishly building ICBM bases on the Paraguana Peninsula, a thumbnail shaped spit of arid land around a thousand square miles in size, 250 miles northwest of Caracas. These bases are designed to house missiles with nuclear tip...

January 1, 2012

Obama administration turns to notorious Jew hater to mediate in Afghanistan

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December 26, 2011

DoD celebrating diversity with hijab

The Defense Department will now allow JROTC cadets to wear an Islamic headscarf (hijab) during training and parades formations. Yes, those patriotic folks at CAIR, BFF's with the virulent Muslim Brotherhood and a noted sponsor of the Occupy Miami mov...

December 25, 2011

The material and the spiritual

Too often we reflect on the material rather then the spiritual meaning of the Christmas season. One season I was forcefully reminded that character is molded by the actions we take when only the angels are looking over our shoulder. Astronomy continu...

December 4, 2011

The curious views of Howard Gutman on anti-Semitism

Who said, "A distinction should be made between traditional anti-Semitism, which should be condemned, and Muslim hatred for Jews, which stems from the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinians?"  Was it a spokesperson for Hamas or th...

November 24, 2011

A Thanksgiving Day Readers Quiz

Thanksgiving gives Americans a day to spend time with family and friends.  We all reflect, at the magical moment when we first sit down at the holiday table, how God has blessed the United States of America for two hundred and thirty-five years ...

November 18, 2011

What does Occupy Wall Street Want?

What do they want? Here is a list of demands posted on the Occupy Wall Street website*. As a humorous exercise you can keep track of how many violations of the Constitution this list encompasses. Repeal the Taft-Hartley Act. Unionize ALL workers imm...

November 15, 2011

OWS plans escalation in New York

The gloves come off tomorrow. OWS has carefully planned a number of direct actions to create organized mayhem; riots, burnings, occupy the subways at rush hour, and the destruction of private property, all within the confines of New York City, the me...

November 7, 2011

The Occupiers have gone too far...

Those damn commie bastards, the OWS cattle have gone too far. No it's not the encampments overflowing with rapists, drug dealers, Democrats, feces, and rats.  No, it's not the rioting in the streets or even the creepy protest signs that have no ...

November 5, 2011

OWS set pieces driving away independent voters

OWS, Obama's personal stinking army, continues its assault on personal property.  A public figure in the Fort Collins Occupy movement has been arrested as a suspect in a $10 million fire. From the Denver Post: A Fort Collins man has been arres...

October 31, 2011

The Hard-Left OWS Plan

The hard progressive left in America has been unleashed into the streets by the community organizer in the White House.  The current crop of street pawns, the banal cattle of Occupy Wall Street movement, are fed, herded, and coldly led by the pr...

September 28, 2011

Dem Governor suggests suspending elections

When the mask slips and we can see the grotesque visage beneath, the tyrants' foul hatred of this Republic glowers at us. Of course it made Drudge. The headline in newsobserver.com already had tried to walk back the slipped mask. [North Carolina Gove...

September 22, 2011

Hi-speed train to financial ruin in California

Federal spending for high-speed rail is coming under close Congressional scrutiny.  Both political parties have begun to recognize the enormous capital costs required for another Solyndra style payoff; in this case the billions of Federal dollar...

September 16, 2011

Why everyone should pay income taxes

The oft-quoted statistic, that 47% of the households pay no federal income tax, informs us that income taxes are just another wedge issue used by cynical politicians to garner votes at the expense of our society. Our country needs all its citizens co...

September 7, 2011

Chilly dawn for America

It's damn cold at Bryce Canyon National Park before sunrise, since it's over 8,100 feet in elevation. The crisp fall air of southern Utah and the Colorado Plateau already foretells a hard winter. We were hoping to catch that magical moment when the s...

September 4, 2011

Strange times

We live in very strange times, when billons of taxpayer dollars quietly evaporate into thin air; when the IRS openly gives money from citizens to illegals; when massive debt is good for the government but bad for the taxpayers who have to pay the int...

September 2, 2011

The new rules

The presidential election on November 6th, 2012 will be critical to our survival as a free nation. Our national embrace of European-style socialism, our Chamberlain-esqe foreign policy and the avalanche of federal debt we have incurred enacting Keyne...

August 21, 2011

Behind the green curtain

Can this country survive the next 14 months of bureaucratic tyranny led by this Administration? We now have new fuel economy standards in place that will eventually add over $11,000 to the retail price of an average motor vehicle.  When we look ...

August 19, 2011

Why is MLK Memorial Made in China?

Sometimes you read about a fact so outside your Weltanschauung  (world view), that you just shake your head at the silliness of the fellow inmates with whom we happen to share the same planet.  On August 28, 2011 the Martin Luther King...

August 9, 2011

The Boondoggle Express

The largest construction boondoggle in recorded human history continues to unfold in the Central Valley of California. The initial segment of Obama's pet project, a high-speed rail line from Merced to Bakersfield, just had its first announced cost ov...

August 3, 2011

Russia honors Obama with postage stamp for 50th birthday

Vladimir Putin, Prime Minister of Russia, and former head of the KGB, rules as de facto czar of enormous empire that spans 11 time zones. A confirmed and dedicated Communist, Putin has decided that Russia should publicly honor another fellow socialis...

July 19, 2011

The jobs collapse

Another warm summer day in Obama's America; we can only grimace in pain at the ugly repetitive news that erodes our county's character and grimly reminds us how much real damage this Administration's failed economic policy has inflicted on the citize...

July 3, 2011

Are dogs self aware?

We have a sliding glass door that opens from our dinng room onto the patio. Next to the sliding door we also have a dog door for Sunny, so she can go outside whenever she wants.We have never said anything to Sunny when she uses the sliding door when ...

June 30, 2011

Our partners in peace, the Muslim Brotherhood?

While we were sleeping, literally and figuratively, this President decided that the leadership of the Muslim Brotherhood are actually swell folks who deserve our recognition.  Yes, the same Muslim Brotherhood who is among the most virulent Jew h...

June 29, 2011

TSA cancer danger coverup?

Getting cancer or having the private parts of their bodies unwillingly touched has become the impossible choice for people who have already been sexually abused or sexually assaulted. The TSA, with the blessing of this Administration, has now made th...

June 12, 2011

Obama and his Jewish supporters

Discussing the Obama's Administrations deceitful, deceptive, dishonest, double- dealing duplicitous betrayal of Israel with my Jewish friends has become increasingly hazardous to our friendships.  After we dogfight over the "real significance" o...

June 2, 2011

The bitter harvest of ethanol

  Food and energy prices are going to increase dramatically in the next 18 months; a serious setback for any president, regardless of how well their message is spun by the MSM. The re-election prospects of Barack Obama have become much more prob...

May 30, 2011

They Who Serve

My father lives in a wonderful retirement community where the lawns are all neatly mowed, the roses pruned, and the trees trimmed every fall.  When I come by each week Dad usually has three or four requests from his friends lined up for me: move...

May 20, 2011

Obama's anti-Israel speech should surpise no one

The citizens of the United States elected a President who attended a strict Muslim madrassa (parochial school) for two years. Our current Commander-in Chief, while an impressionable young boy between 6 and 10 years old, bowed down toward Mecca five t...

May 10, 2011

A hijacking dry run?

As details emerge about the incident on an American Airlines flight to San Francisco, it looks increasingly like a dry run.The term "dry run" goes back to Prohibition. Moonshiners paid drivers to made practice runs during the day to identif...

May 3, 2011

Conservation catch 22

We hear the same incessant bleating from the hard left environmental autocrats in the media, in our legislatures and in our schools. They force-feed us their unrelenting message that Americans must conserve, recycle, and protect the environment....

May 1, 2011

Nonunion civil servants restore the civility

When a news editor runs an item that is strikingly odd or outside the normal realm of our daily experiences, while also turning the ordinary into the extraordinary, the article is often labeled as a man bites dog story. In Lafayette, California, a qu...

April 24, 2011

Who is running Boeing?

Imagine you own a company that just introduced a newly designed widget that sells for $150 million dollars each. This improved widget is designed and manufactured in America. Even better your company has already booked 835 confirmed orders for your n...

April 13, 2011

Feed people, not machines

What are you doing next weekend?  If planting a vegetable garden is not on your "honey-do" list, a few unsettling facts may change your plans. Simply stated, we are running low on food in this country. Not surprisingly, the USDA report...

April 11, 2011

Inflating Our Way to a Government-Controlled Economy

Spiraling food prices, record energy costs and federally mandated health insurance reflect this Administration's slavish ideological devotion to the centralized planning of key sectors of the American economy. So, what are the current results of Obam...

March 29, 2011

How big is the federal budget disaster?

The devastating images from Japan are seared into our collective memory. With 10, 901 dead and another 17, 038 still missing, the human toll is almost beyond comprehension. The 9.0 magnitude earthquake and resulting tsunami that ravaged Japan has bec...

March 25, 2011

It gets even uglier in Wisconsin

Disturbing news continues to trickle out from Norte de Venezuela, the state formally known as Wisconsin. Despite the best efforts of the MSM to embargo information concerning the shockingly bad behavior of thousands of public employee union members, ...

March 17, 2011

The neighborhood mosque

My son tore an ACL skiing six days before winter term classes began at an East Coast university. Since missing a semester was not an option and he could not climb the 45 steps up to his apartment, we flew back to school and checked into a residence h...

March 17, 2011

Wisconsin or Venezuela?

When sworn law enforcement officials willingly step aside to allow union hooligans to tear up recall petitions, we, as a nation of laws, have come to the edge of a dark precipice. So what do honorable citizens do when they cannot exercise their First...

March 12, 2011

The union bullies in Wisconsin target businesses (updated)

Wisconsin's public employee unions are now hell-bent on punishing selected Badger State taxpayers for the transgressions of electing Scott Walker and sending too many Republicans to the legislature.Warning:  If you are an independent conservativ...

March 3, 2011

Obama's own 'hero project'

While gas prices accelerated towards $4.00 a gallon, sales of the Chevy Volt, GM's highly touted hybrid electric car, declined in February.  Nationwide sales for the 2011 Volt were 281 vehicles. This is drop from December 2010 sales of 326 units...

February 23, 2011

The inflation disaster is near

Five dollar a gallon gas will shatter the Federal Reserve's tightly constrained lid on inflation and accelerate the other half our long anticipated "double dip" recession. Gas and diesel powers America's 141 million cars, 100 million pickup...

January 29, 2011

Middle East Riots and the Choke Point

Why are these orchestrated riots, instigated by the Muslim Brotherhood, breaking out simultaneously in both Egypt and Yemen? A quick look at the map reinforces Napoleon's maxim, "Geography is destiny." The Suez Canal begins in Egypt and end...

January 18, 2011

The dangerous internet passport proposal

The hysterical bleating that passes as legitimate journalism since the tragedy in Tucson, is a stark reminder of how the tightly controlled prison of the Soros /Obama media complex views Americans and their Constitutional rights. It took less then fi...

January 8, 2011

The Changing Military Balance

Where do we get the word juxtapose? Originally a French verb, juxtapose combines the Latin root, jucta, meaning next to, and poser, to place. In current English juxtapose means "to place side by side, especially for comparison or contrast."...

December 31, 2010

Auschwitz and Hamas

History tells the story of men and women who make difficult choices, for both good and evil, which directly affects the lives of those around them. Often history repeats the same story, and yet we fail to recognize the patterns except after the harsh...

December 24, 2010

Middle East Bloody Endgame

Describing the barbarity of a Civil War prison, Benson Lossing wrote in 1868, "Seventeen feet from the inner stockade was the 'dead-line,' over which no man could pass and live."  Lossing could well be describing the inevitable bloody ...

December 13, 2010

A government jobs program, San Francisco style

Ya gotta love bureaucrats, what other sub-species of homo sapiens can feather bed their offspring's nest with such extravagant devotion. Matier and Ross's column in today's online San Francisco Chronicle illuminates for us suckers.... er... us taxpay...

December 11, 2010

Palestinian Patterns

Patterns derive from repetition and periodicity. Pattern matching finds the constituents of a pattern, whereas pattern recognition searches for underlying patterns that are similar but not an exact match. Let's take two recent news stories and see if...

December 5, 2010

Obama admin shutting barn door after horses are stolen

Mr. Mansfield taught us more then just speech at San Ramon High School, he gave us life lessons that still ring true today.  On the first day of class, he suddenly excused himself from the room, and just before walking out the classroom door, he...

November 25, 2010

Captain Bob

The Grill is our local breakfast cafe. You know, the one in every American town; complete has with a long counter, brown rotating stools, a couple dozens booths with wooden benches, and a mirrored rotating pie display case.  They serve tangy bar...

November 23, 2010

Replace the TSA with the Louisville Option

TSA has elegantly proven that a well-funded government bureaucracy can spend 19 million dollars a day while trashing our Constitution and simultaneously molesting three-year-old children. Current TSA policies nicely mirror Obama's own ongoing nationa...

November 20, 2010

The degradation must stop

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November 9, 2010

Biden's Opaque Meeting on Transparency

This Administration continues to spread its unique brand of tone deafness toward the electorate. Andrew Malcolm of the LA Times succinctly sums of the issue.Joe Biden update: The VP meets on government transparency today. But that meeting is closed.J...

October 31, 2010

Last gasp for the California economy

Proposition 23, the California ballot initiative, would suspend AB 32, the cap and trade regulations for reducing carbon dioxide emission to 1990 levels until unemployment in California drops to 5.5% or below for four consecutive quarters. So how muc...

October 28, 2010

Transfat tyranny

Camels are relentlessly stupid creatures, great for desert travel, beastly if they manage to stick their noses into your tent. So too are the bureaucratic camels that tell us they are coming to help. Hide your wallets and hold on to your tent poles.A...

August 27, 2010

Journalistic malpractice

ABC News, in committing a naked act of journalistic malpractice, is unlikely to be harshly rebuked by their fellow journalists, happily imprisoned in the Soros/Obama media complex.Andrea S. Lafferty, a speaker at the August 22nd rally to prevent the ...

August 25, 2010

US taxpayers funding mosques

My American Thinker blog of August 8th asked how extensively American taxpayers are funding mosque construction around the globe, as revealed by Newsweek columnist Fareed Zakaria. Some disturbing answers have now come from Caroline May's well researc...

August 8, 2010

Newsweek columnist says US funding mosque construction

Truth, even in the tightly controlled prison of the Obama media complex, occasionally bursts forth like a swordfish cavorting on the waves of a golden August afternoon.Newsweek, the Washington Post's former progressive stepchild, published an op-ed b...

June 20, 2010

Where's the Navy?

The Arthur Conan Doyle story, " The Adventure of Silver Blaze" has a famous verbal exchange between Sherlock Holmes and Inspector Gregory, the Scotland Yard detective.Inspector Gregory: "Is there any other point to which you would wish...

March 10, 2010

Show me your papers

All United States citizens may be required to carry a biometric I.D. card! That's not Orwell's Big Brother speaking. Rather Democrat Chuck Schumer (D- New York), and Republican Lindsay Graham (R- South Carolina) have devised new legislation to mandat...

February 16, 2010

Targeting Middle America

The porous southern border has admitted not just hard-working seekers of a better life anxious to join the American middle class, but also vicious drug gangs pushing heroin on middle America. All of this revealed in an exceptional piece of investigat...

February 10, 2010

Price gouging in space

The Obama's Administration decision to gut America's "heavy lift" space programs prior to the retirement of the aging shuttle fleet has brought a swift and not unexpected reaction from Russia.    Russia, which is set to hold ...

February 4, 2010

The War on America's Greatness

Forty years ago Americans walked on the moon. Forty years from today, when Americans can objectively look back at the failures of the Obama Administration that crippled this country, perhaps the most glaring loss will be the missed opportunities infl...

January 28, 2010

Arrogance in the Air

Self-righteousness and an unbridled lust for control over the lives of 307 million Americans are the hallmarks of environmental laws in America. If the environmental activists and the Washington bureaucrats who write these regulations are wrong on su...

January 19, 2010

California Hubris

The height of governmental hubris and arrogance was on full display in California this morning. According to the LA Times, new health care service standards were released by the California Department of Managed Health Care after seven years of protra...

January 14, 2010

Stimulus flop

The ARRA (The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009) has become one of the spectacular failures of the Obama Administration and the Democratic Congress.  The following are all direct quotes from the CBO (Congressional Budget Office) Dir...

December 14, 2009

The Debt Spiral

Our current federal deficit is accelerating like an avalanche. There are consequences for this policy.For just the first two months of fiscal 2010 (Oct/Nov '09), this river of red ink exceeded $292 billion dollars. The CBO (Congressional Budget Offic...

November 23, 2009

Word fun in the senate health care bill

H.R. 3590, the Senate's version of the ObamaCare Bill, is a whopping 2,075 pages of turgid prose and bureaucratic hieroglyphics. It is purposely indecipherable to nearly every American including the Senators who will vote on its passage. So what are...

November 22, 2009

Our national debt: How much would 12 trillion eggs weigh?

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November 14, 2009

Fun with Deficit Numbers

The Federal deficit for October is reported to top $176.4 billion dollars. The weight of this many one-dollar bills equals the weight of two aircraft carriers. Laid end-to-end, this many bills would reach almost half way to Mars.Each second in Octob...