July 28, 2017

The Barchetta: A better vanished time

The year 2018 year will mark the 50th of a musical band that affected my growing up in more ways than I can count: Canadian rock band Rush.  When I was a teenager, I worshiped them.  Their rare combination of musicianship, storytelling lyri...

March 31, 2017

The left's dimensional shift

There is a great episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation called "The High Ground" (Season 3, Episode 12), in which the Enterprise is visiting the planet Rutia IV to deliver medical supplies to victims of a decades-long war of independence...

June 29, 2016

Turning the Bureaucracies

One of the frustrations among small government types has always been that the big government types always have a new crop of young voters. It’s hard to argue with it. Free stuff sounds great to a recent college grad, especially one with a mount...

July 7, 2015

How the Left Fails

Things sure seem to not be going our way lately. First the bad “Trade” deal, then the Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision to uphold the ObamaCare subsidies; Then the same-sex marriage decision, which I believe is more about opening th...

December 18, 2014

Not the First Time Dianne Feinstein Has Endangered Lives

Dianne Feinstein should never have been considered to chair the United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.  Anyone who knows anything about that woman would never take that kind of risk.  Her recent release of the CIA "tort...

October 25, 2014

Ebola Travel Ban: Be Careful What You Ask For

There is a lot of talk among conservatives about how Obama needs to impose a travel ban to and from Ebola-stricken countries.  It sounds logical enough – if they’ve been exposed, we should not allow them in here.  I agree, but l...

April 4, 2014

Macy's Falls Short on Their 'Commitment' to Veterans

I used to like Macy’s -- bought a couple of shirts there last month.  While admittedly my knowledge of fashion is virtually nonexistent (I am colorblind and work in IT, enough said), I always did feel like that company could be relied upon...

March 19, 2013

New Horizons in 'Sensitivity'

Not that it will come as any surprise to most American Thinker readers but, a couple of weeks ago, Yale hosted a week-long workshop to foster "sensitivity" to such upstanding behaviors as bestiality, incest, and prostitution. And assuming adult-child...

January 24, 2012

The statute of limitations has run out on political correctness

Tim Wise, captain of the race industry, recently wrote a polemic essay about what he calls "Patriotic Correctness."  What is ostensibly a piece about Arizona's Tuscon Unified School District having their ethnic studies program outlawed because i...

October 12, 2011

If you cannot measure it, it's baloney

Nancy Pelosi is back on the stump, once again claiming that the 2009 stimulus package "saved" jobs.  Evidently she and the other progressives have finally backed away from their fable that jobs were actually created.  She specifically state...