December 6, 2019

Why the Democrats are so crazy to impeach

Surf the conservative websites, and you'll find endless articles and comments asking, "Why do the Democrats hate Trump so much?  Why are they so hell-bent on impeaching him?"  Until the past year, there really wasn...

November 21, 2019

Dems' self-destructive defense of Biden family corruption

You know those idealized, perfectly conical shapes small children draw to depict hills and mountain peaks?  Well, according to the Cambridge Hillwalking Club, the Gaelic term for such a hill or peak so shaped is bidean or bidein. ...

November 7, 2019

America should take a page from Israel's book on Mexico cartels

The United States of America has long recognized the right of Israel to defend its borders against terrorist incursions by deploying the Israeli Defense Force, one of the most lethal military forces in the world.  Even more significant is t...

October 22, 2019

Media faked out by 84-year-old phony Vietnam veteran army nurse

If journalism isn't dead, it must certainly be on life support when it can be knocked so easily on its collective butt by an 84-year-old Stolen Valor fraud, who flimflammed even Fox News with her tales of wartime heroics, faux medals, and a handf...

October 18, 2019

What it would take for Hunter Biden's story to check out

Try to imagine that you are the son of a prominent politician who will ultimately rise to the second highest executive office in the land, and your very first job out of law school, when ol' Dad's a mere United States senator, is with a major...

August 13, 2019

Let this FBI investigate Epstein's death? You gotta be joking

Pardon my cynicism, folks, but Attorney General Barr's declared determination to dig to the bottom of the purported Jeffrey Epstein suicide rings a bit hollow.  Had he said he was appointing an independent investigative team headed by a...

July 8, 2019

Trump outmaneuvers the media on the 4th

I got an email from my buddy Boomer out in Guam, a retired veteran of the Vietnam War, which contained the astute observation that the media had made July 4 all about Trump, while the president had made it all about America.  My reacti...

July 5, 2019

Batter-brained IHOP can kiss my bucks goodbye

I don't go out of my way to determine the political affinities of establishments where I spend my consumer dollars.  But they should understand that that doesn't mean I'll simply ignore their bad behaviors when they co...

July 2, 2019

Free health care for illegals? What about the elderly?

Last week, my wife and I visited her elderly, lifelong severely handicapped brother in the nursing home.  He was watching Fox News, and, during yet another on-air panel discussion of the Democrat debacle that passed for debates a few nights...

June 2, 2019

The Obama economic disaster revealed in one glance

The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis has produced a summary report showing key performance measurements of America’s economy during the eight years of Obama/Democrat malfeasance. It’s another trip through the looking glass where everythi...

May 28, 2019

Simply honor them the way they would have honored you

Fox News featured a special broadcast this past weekend honoring our veterans, both fallen and surviving, that really cut to the core of an issue that many Americans, including many veterans, especially combat veterans, find troubling: too many Ameri...

May 25, 2019

Got an embarrassing itch, MSM? Could be Avenatti-itis

In medical terminology, the suffix itis denotes an inflammatory condition, often accompanied by fretful itching.  If any single word in the English language could apply to creepy porn lawyer Michael Avenatti, it's inflammatory. ...

April 30, 2019

How can Democrat presidential candidates bow so deeply to Al Sharpton?

When you look up to Reverend Al, you are actually looking down — way down — assuredly if you include morality and human decency in your perspective.  Yet those who have chosen to make themselves the frontline lemmings in the Dem...

April 29, 2019

Judge Nap, the mendacious magistrate

I'm not a daytime watcher of Fox News, but as an always-on television is within earshot, I do tend to be a bit of a detached daytime listener.  As such, I have been mystified by the one-eighty-degree turn of Fox legal analyst Judge Andr...

April 23, 2019

Beto needs some gender-bending

Robert "Beto" O'Rourke, the phony Latino from El Paso, who Kerry-married the necessary money to finance his political aspirations, has a problem muy grande: His supposed rock star, Kennedyesque, Mexican-American persona has proved insuf...

April 3, 2019

Dems wrong on White House security clearances

Desperately grasping at any political or procedural nitpicks they can find to impede the progress of the Trump administration, the gadflies who make up the Democrat contingent in Congress have recently charged presidential interference in the issue o...

March 20, 2019

Incremental virtue-signaling at Dick's

The NRA's American Rifleman magazine has an article reporting that Dick's Sporting Goods, a national purveyor of all things outdoors, is doubling down on its year-old, virtue-signaling move to remove firearms from its reta...

March 15, 2019

Corrupt Chicago infected our nation's politics, with Obama as its agent

With every passing week, we're learning more about how the FBI and the Obama Justice Department did their best to ensure the election of Hillary Clinton by undermining Donald Trump.  Try as Democrats might to prevent it, the truth is sl...

February 25, 2019

'Let them eat Chef Boyardee'

Bill Maher makes his living by being an insulting, offensive jerk.  I wouldn't watch him with a gun to my head, but I do read the articles in conservative media where his name turns up because it usually involves more outrageous braying...

February 21, 2019

Goodness gracious, great walls of ire!

As if it weren't bad enough for the Democrats to be in solid opposition to constructing a wall on our southern border when they were enthusiastic supporters of the same wall under their own Democrat president, they're now taking their wall-hi...

February 14, 2019

Stacey Abrams, poster girl for Democrats' version of fiscal responsibility

Last week I wrote here questioning the Democrat leadership's political wisdom in picking Stacey Abrams, their recently defeated Georgia gubernatorial candidate, to deliver the party's rebuttal speech to Donald Trump's State of the Union a...

February 9, 2019

Was Stacey Abrams really the best the Dems could do?

The Democrat leadership's politically correct, virtue-signaling selection of failed Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams to be their mouthpiece to rebut President Donald Trump's State of the Union address Tuesday night seemed odd to ...

February 6, 2019

Donald Trump's SOTU: Shooting white-breasted ducks on a pond

Let me preface the following praise by saying I have a tough time listening to our president.  His style of speech and mannerisms tend to drive me up the wall in spite of the fact I am in near total agreement with his political agenda and a...

October 19, 2018

Great White Father skunks Pocahontas in Cherokee Chess

In a political maneuver that even her fellow Democrats are decrying as poorly timed, Sen. Elizabeth Warren announced this week that she has DNA proof to substantiate her claims to American Indian heritage.  Apparently, Donald Trump has been...

October 15, 2018

Bill and Hillary: Good at being bad

The American conservative community is rejoicing over the belated news that Hillary Clinton supposedly volunteered to surrender her high-level security clearance back in August at the same time the clearances of five of her staffers were li...

October 2, 2018

Meanwhile, Trump's economy births huge manufacturing contract

Like the Energizer Bunny, the Trump economy just keeps marching ahead and pounding that drum.  Last week, Boeing announced that it has been awarded a $9.2-billion contract from the DoD to produce the new T-X jet trainer and training program...

September 11, 2018

Nike and the NFL 'Just blew it...'

I've been a Dallas Cowboys fan for a half-century, even when my career took me long distances from Texas.  All that long time, I've stuck with them through good and bad, through the glory years of multiple Super Bowl victories and t...

September 3, 2018

Born to run: Beto's bad-boy bona fides

Texas Democrat Senate candidate Roberto (Beto) O’Rourke seemed to have been forthcoming about his criminal arrests for attempted burglary and DUI. Well, except that he hasn’t. In fact, it would seem that Beto’s mea cu...

August 21, 2018

Newsroom commando Ralph Peters cashiers self

Cashiering is a historical military ritual in which an officer who has betrayed his oath or failed in his duty is required to stand before the assembled troops and have all symbols of rank and service stripped from his uniform, to demonstrate most fo...

July 27, 2018

A 'walk away' movement might not be strong enough

When I consider the sad state of political and financial affairs of my natal state, I am reminded of the oft quoted lament by General Porfirio Díaz: "Poor Mexico!  So far from God, so close to the United States." ...

July 13, 2018

Ob-strzok-tion of justice

For eighteen months, Democrats and the liberal media have been hoping beyond hope that the Mueller investigation will result in Donald Trump being found guilty of colluding with Russia or obstruction of justice.  They would prefer the latte...

June 26, 2018

Give illegal immigration the Nork treatment

The liberal media were recently barking in concert that entering the United States illegally is not a criminal offense, but merely a civil violation punishable only with a fine.  As usual with that pack of jackals, they were passing off a h...

June 20, 2018

Straight shooters don't shoot so straight

Nothing coming out of Washington annoys me more than conservative Republicans in the Trump administration, in Congress, and in conservative media punditry falling all over themselves to show their own sense of fair play by attributing an unrealistic ...

June 11, 2018

Eagles were playing out of their league

The Philadelphia Eagles should stick to the NFL.  Last week, they tried to game an opponent who regularly plays in a really big league and got their showboating butts handed to them, much to the amusement of millions of Americans who are fe...

November 20, 2017

'Bill’s guilty' is really a Democrat Hillary ploy

Those conservatives and Republicans reading the cautious confessions of Democrat players that they may have actually been wrong about Bill Clinton's sexual crimes, could be forgiven if they wrongly believe the scales have fallen at last...

November 14, 2017

America's warrior-monk: Right man at the right place at the right time

The Daily Caller is reporting that Army veteran David Brown was visiting the graves of fallen friends in Arlington National Cemetery on Veterans' Day when he spotted a lone but familiar figure also visiting the graves in Section 60, which is wher...

November 9, 2017

Dems fooling themselves over Virginia election results

The Republican Party got its butt kicked Tuesday night in the Virginia governor's race.  To hear the Democrat media tell it, it was the bell tolling for thee, you disgusting, deplorable dullards who are supporters of that revolting MAGA magg...

October 19, 2017

Political correctness craziness: US Air Farce edition

For almost thirty years I called on military installations all over the United States as a health care marketer.  Something I learned in that time is that each of the services has its own culture, with the Army being the most relaxed and recepti...

October 17, 2017

The best reason yet for boycotting the NFL

As a fifty-year follower of the NFL with the Dallas Cowboys being my team, and someone who waits eagerly each year for the season to start, I really thought it would be like going cold turkey on a booze addiction to ever give up my favorite sport. ...

October 4, 2017

Israeli technology saving American lives and equipment

One of the huge problems in fighting asymmetric wars such as America has been doing now for decades is that the advantage a major power has in expensive, sophisticated weaponry can be negated in seconds with an inexpensive, primitive weapon, with the...

October 2, 2017

Hate crimes at the Air Force Academy?

The New York Times reported this weekend on another incident of racist graffiti at an unlikely venue: the United States Air Force Academy Prep School, located on the campus of the Academy itself, not exactly a hotbed of white supremaci...

September 25, 2017

Don't let media distort the NFL conflict

There's no question that President Trump tossed a live grenade into the NFL's locker room during his Alabama speech the other night that has set off countless secondary explosions throughout the league and across the media spectrum. Too ma...

September 19, 2017

Is Google attempting to cover up an inconvenient hurricane truth?

Since nobody else seems to want to stick their neck out, this old fool might as well do it and point out the obvious: those who have shouldered the heavy lifting in the disaster and rescue work in South Texas and South Florida during our hurricane ev...

September 14, 2017

Photo evidence: Media hyping hurricane damage to the Keys

Having lived right off the water in Pensacola for thirteen years and lived through several hurricanes, my wife and I have learned to be wary of the media when it comes to these storms.  First, they always exaggerate the deadly potential of appro...

September 11, 2017

What about these Buffalo Soldiers' statues?

My buddy, Boomer, who lives with a Nork bulls-eye on him since he's a retired Air Force master sergeant on Guam, eases his constant worries by sending out daily cartoons, one of which really got me pondering.  It's an image of a mounted ...

August 29, 2017

North Korean biplanes nothing to laugh at

Many of us have been following the usually comedic efforts of North Korea to successfully test a ballistic missile that her apparently deranged leader can get downrange far enough to make good on his threats to nuke America or her allies.  Most ...

August 27, 2017

Old Glory vs. Hurricane Harvey: Down but still waving

Having lived almost half my life in hurricane country, both in South Texas and the Florida Gulf Coast, and experienced firsthand the devastation and loss caused by these great storms, I have been following Hurricane Harvey with keen interest.  O...

August 22, 2017

Lightning bugs the NORKs

Was it the January introduction of Lightnings that perhaps bugged the blustery North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, to rein in his threats of nuclear annihilation for possible targets ranging from Seoul to San Francisco?  I refer to the deployment ...

August 17, 2017

Something stinks about Charlottesville

Evidence is turning up from, of all places, the Southern Poverty Law Center, as well as Breitbart and others, that this character, Jason Kessler, who organized the suspicious and supposed Alt-Right demonstration in Charlottesville, Va. that blew up i...

August 1, 2017

The silencing of Germany's lambs

Even in the worst days of WWII for Germany, when Allies and Soviets were closing in on Berlin, the men fought desperately to protect their women and children.  With the Americans, it was more a matter of preventing hungry frauleins from being lu...

July 30, 2017

F-35 Lightning gets foreign orders

Hidden in all the late-breaking political hoopla Friday afternoon, when the media was in another Trump feeding frenzy over White House musical chairs, was an announcement by the F-35 Joint Program Office that a $3.69-billion contract for the F-35 Lig...

July 28, 2017

Military robots: Who’s going to call the shots?

There’s a debate being waged within the upper echelons of our government as to whether or not and/or to what extent, America’s military forces should retain control on that ultimate aspect of waging war: taking human life. Through advance...

July 26, 2017

Democrats in disarray, disagreeing, with fundraising a mess

There is much dissension within the Democratic Party in this summer of 2017.  The surest proof of that is the huge drop-off in contributions, leaving the Democratic National Committee "broke" in June, according to multiple reports....

July 24, 2017

Gerald Ford gets the last laugh

The USS Gerald R. Ford, the lead ship in a new class of ten supercarriers, also called Ford Class, was conducted this week, presided over by President Donald Trump.  I was waiting for someone, perhaps an old political sailor, to point out b...

July 14, 2017

Mr. President, please just stop it!

This is an open appeal to our media-besieged and much beleaguered president to exercise the power he possesses as commander in chief of our armed forces to be the ultimate decider, as George W. Bush might have called him, in limiting matters of milit...

July 13, 2017

What does Swiftboating mean to you?

Want to know what a stranger's political leanings are?  There is a simple question that may yield that information: ask him what the term Swiftboating means. The stranger doesn't even have to provide a well formed, grammatic...

July 10, 2017

Two presidents and their Marine attendants

On Saturday. as the commander-in-chief was boarding Marine One, rotor turbulence blew off the headgear of an attending Marine.  President Trump stooped, grabbed the hat, and replaced it on the stunned young Marine's head, patting the embarra...

July 9, 2017

Mad Dog gets some Mad Money

In an unprecedented move, Congress has effectively given Sec/Def Jim Mattis $28.6 billion in Mad Money over and above the regular $658.1 billion defense budget, with few real strings attached. Theoretically, he’s required to give Congress a fif...

July 6, 2017

A patriotic portrait of liberal stupidity

Most of us shake our heads in wonder at the insistence of Hollywood in making movies and television series that are so relentlessly politically liberal as to alienate nearly half their potential customers.  In a business that rarely produces the...

July 3, 2017

Earned valor refused

Some of you regulars here at American Thinker may know that I also post at a combat veteran-operated military website called This Ain't Hell.  Its primary mission is exposing Stolen Valor fraud – that is, going after tho...

June 23, 2017

Do we really need a Space Corps?

The excellent defense reporting website Breaking Defense is reporting that the Air Force is engaged in political combat with the House Armed Services Committee, in particular the chairman of the Strategic Services Subcommittee, Republican Mike Rogers...

June 21, 2017

Georgia can't be bought: A sweet, sweet victory

The Democrats pulled out all the stops and threw in everything including the kitchen sink.  I'll wager that those clichés will be repeated incessantly all across America tomorrow to describe the huge effort the Democrats made to win t...

June 9, 2017

Excuse me...but isn't the president, in actual fact, the chief prosecutor?

In all the Comey brouhaha beating on our senses is an organizational issue that none of the pundits seems to have picked up on: the simple fact that Donald Trump was really and truly James Comey's boss. The media and the urban elites seem perfect...

June 6, 2017

All my rowdy friends are coming back Monday night

In what is surely to be seen on the right as a victory over political correctness, ESPN, the ever more left-leaning sports network, has announced that country boy Hank Williams, Jr., and his rowdy, booming anthem that welcomed viewers to Monday Night...

June 5, 2017

Phony campus racist claims cost hundreds jobs

Most of you have likely heard that the University of Missouri, whose administration completely caved in to demands from black student activists over largely disproved campus racism, has suffered declining enrollments as a consequence.  What most...

April 26, 2017

New sheriff won't allow Norks to rain fire

With Donald Trump's decision to call Kim Jong-un's bluff by sending the USS Carl Vinson task force steaming in the direction of the Hermit Kingdom, there have been multiple articles out there repeating the possible dire consequences of actual...

April 24, 2017

Your opportunity to smack Hollywood right in the kisser

Since the ordinary folks won in November, the crazies on the left have gotten crazier as they come to realize that we finally elected someone who keeps at least some of his campaign promises.  Of course, that has caught the Democrats totally by ...

April 21, 2017

A lesson in Democracy from Venezuela

The socialist government of Venezuela has just provided American gun owners with an excellent lesson in why it is of paramount importance never to let the government take our guns.  Back in 1998, after four decades of the Latin American variety ...

April 7, 2017

A new sheriff in town

The world now knows that when it comes to America, it is dealing no longer with an indecisive community organizer, but with a proved business leader who will not dither when bad guys act badly whither.  Our new president just put those bad guys ...

March 20, 2017

NFL teams taking a knee on Kaepernick

It was all so blatantly predictable that a blind referee could see it coming.  A young, dumb, idealistic professional football player decides to put his politics ahead of his game, and worse, ahead of his team, and then gets manipulated by the c...

March 11, 2017

You say boy or girl, Airman, we’re gonna rip off a stripe...

That's certainly the way it looks from this reported edict handed down by as some yet unnamed social justice warrior at high command level in the Air Force.  According to this report from Fox News, the high flyers apparently t...

February 27, 2017

The real message of Democrats’ anger and protests

While Donald Trump may be the ostensible target of all the maniacal Democrat political wrath and public protests, the reality of the matter is far more sinister.  Truth is, the real targets of all that insane anger and adolescent denial are folk...

February 20, 2017

Vietnam MoH awardees challenge Blumenthal

Fourteen Medal of Honor recipients from the Vietnam War have signed a letter challenging and rebuking Connecticut's pathetic Stolen Valor senator, Richard Blumenthal, for his hypocrisy on opposing Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch. ...

February 12, 2017

Lieutenant General Hal Moore, RIP

The absolute embodiment of an Airborne Ranger officer has passed at the age of 94. I say that with complete confidence even though the man made but a brief pass through my life long ago and far away. He literally whirled into my life on a quickly dep...

February 7, 2017

Doublethink Defense for the DNC

Several conservative news sources, including Breitbart, have recently reported a story that the liberal media is apparently ignoring because it clearly reflects negatively on the Democrats: a lawsuit that has been filed against the DNC by one of the ...

February 5, 2017

A little judicial overreach, anyone?

As most of you should know, a Seattle federal district judge, James Robart, has issued a stay against the Trump administration immigration ban on travel from seven countries that pose a threat of terrorist infiltration.  That this same judge rec...

January 30, 2017

A leak in the pension dam

For decades, I've watched unions, both private-sector and public-service, collude with the Democratic Party to boost salaries, benefits, and pensions to levels unattainable to the average non-union American worker, all the time wondering, ...

January 27, 2017

Smug libs getting plumb 'Tuckered'

The word tuckered is taking on a whole new meaning with the advent of the new FOX News prime-time (9:00pm ET) hit featuring Tucker Carlson as host and interrogator nonpareil.  The show should probably carry a viewers' warning that if you are...

January 24, 2017

We need more Airborne Rangers in Congress

We get so many pleas for money in our little retirement household from politicians that most never get a second look except during gubernatorial, senatorial, and presidential elections.  I confess, however, that there is a single word that, shou...

January 21, 2017

Guess who was left unpardoned!

Obama has left town, and guess whom he has left holding the proverbial bag for possible criminality occurring during his presidency?  If you guess Hillary Clinton – and, by extension, her husband, her aide Huma Abedin, and her lawyer Chery...

January 20, 2017

A telling tale for these transformative times

Eric Fanning, Obama's gay Secretary of the Army, a man with no active-duty uniformed service, is being replaced with Donald Trump's nominee, Vincent Viola, a West Point and Ranger School graduate who served several years with my beloved 101st...

January 19, 2017

What Trump rollbacks of Obama policies should come first?

The incoming Trump administration is being coy about which of the preceding administration's unpopular policies will lead off a widely anticipated period of presidential nullification of the many reviled Obama executive orders of the past eight y...

January 18, 2017

A 'mediocre negro' by any other name...

On Monday, the increasingly annoying Marc Lamont Hill, a frequent CNN commentator, charged that the blacks agreeing to work with the incoming Trump administration are a bunch of mediocre negroes being dragged in front of TV as a photo op. Now, as ...

January 17, 2017

Is Obamacare being scammed in Miami?

A recent article in the Miami Herald reports that if Obamacare is repealed, the Miami area will be one of the most highly impacted in the country due to the high number of enrollees there.  The article mentions five congressional districts and, ...

January 12, 2017

More liberal metrosexual self-emasculation

A New York Daily news reporter, aptly named Gersh Kuntzmann, some time ago castrated himself with a very dull keyboard while writing a largely fictional account of his misadventures with an AR-15 rifle, a tale he foolishly tried to pass off as an aut...

January 11, 2017

Breaking news: Dixie Chick still bird-brained

Remember those three good-lookin' chicks who sang in such perfect harmony and were at the top of the playlist for every country radio station across the South and much of the rest of the nation back a decade and more?  No?  Neither did ...

January 9, 2017

Dems caught in the act of 'just being themselves'

On Sean Hannity’s show recently, guest Larry Elder recalled an iconic American entertainer, Alan Funt, creator of the long-running hit television show Candid Camera.  Funt’s genius was in setting up situations in which unsu...

December 31, 2016

Did a Red Bear just poop in the Oval Office?

When someone asks a question for which the answer is glaringly obvious, there's a traditional sarcastic response: does a wild bear s--- in the woods?  My every consideration of the recent dealings between our inept president and the presiden...

December 29, 2016

A warrior's tale to make you feel good

I've been meaning to write about this for a couple of months after it first turned up in an emailed newsletter from a veterans' group, Together We Served, of which I'm a member, but all the election and political hoopla kept diverting my ...

December 26, 2016

Snowflake silliness

What with all the liberal insanity we’ve witnessed among Hillary fans following her inept campaign and the resulting calamity for the Democrats, we’ve become a bit jaded as example after example of liberal silliness makes us shake our hea...

December 25, 2016

A feel-good treat in AT's Christmas stocking

Like many of you, when I first heard of Donald Trump's choice for secretary of state, I was a bit uneasy.  I'm a capitalist, to be sure, but I've always tempered my enthusiasm for the principle with a strong sense of distrust of thos...

December 14, 2016

A new cereal killer unleashed

I do so wish I could lay claim to creating that moniker, folks, but in truth, it belongs to Spencer Jakab at the Wall Street Journal, who coined it for his report on the latest corporate crime against stockholders.  Among all the other liberal i...

December 11, 2016

Not a 'red tape' country, but a 'red carpet' country

At Donald Trump's recent victory tour through Michigan, one of the speakers was a powerful CEO from a major industrial power in the United States, Andrew Liveris of Dow Chemical.  Mr. Liveris, whom Trump has appointed to chair his American M...

November 18, 2016

Leslie Rutledge, Arkansas A.G.: Hillary's worst nightmare?

The blog for the Arkansas Times is reporting that our attorney general, Leslie Rutledge, is in New York meeting with Trump transition planners.  Rutledge, a diminutive fireball conservative elected two years ago, is quoted: "My interes...

November 16, 2016

Reversing Obama's social justice sailor's fundamental changes

Obama appointee Ray Mabus, über-liberal head of our Navy, has been a very busy lefty during his time in the Pentagon, much to the chagrin of almost all sailors, active and veterans, particularly old retired salts with twenty years or more. ...

November 10, 2016

The crumbling Clinton criminal enterprise

Sadness reigns in progressives' America – a grief so profound as to provoke outbreaks of acute liberal insanity.  But the grief, anxiety, and outright fear affecting progressive America for the moment must surely pale against those sam...

November 5, 2016

Did the NYPD force the FBI to act on Weiner?

According to a Breitbart article discussing the reasons for the FBI's renewed interest in the Clinton scandals, that move came at the insistence of the New York Police Department, who were the LEOs who claimed first possession and had first acces...

November 3, 2016

William Safire justified: Hillary Clinton is a congenital liar

In a notorious 1996 New York Times essay, pundit William Safire famously said this of Hillary Clinton: Americans of all political persuasions are coming to the sad realization that our First Lady – a woman of undoubted talents who was a ro...

November 2, 2016

Hillary's server no security threat, but Russians are altering emails?

Let's see if this old seasoned citizen can get his brain wrapped around this latest bit of liberal lying. Earlier this year, the Clinton campaign leaders were on every available news forum in the country assuring us that even if Hillary had us...

November 1, 2016

Brazile merely the tipster...Clinton the true cheater in debate

Donna Brazile is all over the news right now and the villain of the day on most conservative websites for her role in obtaining presidential debate questions in advance and then providing them to the Clinton campaign ahead of the actual televised eve...

October 26, 2016

Liberal in-sign-ity

The Washington Post just posted the confessional account of an über-lib voter who used the very favorable platform of that Trump-detesting cage-liner to fess up to her criminal behavior in stealing Trump yard signs in her very tony, upper-middle...

October 24, 2016

Obama’s legacy has sailed...

A week ago, Rick Moran wrote a piece here at American Thinker pointing out that the Obama administration was preparing to “send a message” to Russia and its geo-poker-playing leader, Vladimir Putin.  Following the Democratic Party...

October 13, 2016

The real story about that lack of Trump lawn signs

Jay Michaels wrote recently here at American Thinker of the lack of Trump yard signs this election compared to the number of Mitt Romney signs back in 2012.  Back then, in his solidly middle-class neighborhood of “cops, nurses, teachers, p...

October 5, 2016

Hey, Timmie, you really showed us deplorables...

...what a rude jerk you are. If the best casting director in Hollywood went in search of the perfect actor to play a typical know-it-all, smug, smarmy liberal to represent the Democratic Party on the vice presidential debate stage Tuesday night, h...

September 30, 2016

Hillary Clinton and Alicia Machado: Sisterhood of the travelling getaway car

Democrats have been high-fiving and deliriously jiving since their candidate introduced the voluptuous Venezuelan vigilante upon Donald Trump during Monday night’s debate.  The Dems would have you believe that this luscious Latina was used...

September 28, 2016

Nailing the networks

Political cartoonists are in a tough, very competitive business, having to be many more things than just gifted artistically.  They must be politically intuitive in an absolutely up to the minute manner so that their creative gifts can evoke at ...

September 19, 2016

Thank you, 60 Minutes...

Ask health care providers to describe what constitutes a serious health event, and you’re likely to get a bewildering assortment of medical definitions based on lengths and levels of experience of the opinionaters as well as the nature of ...

September 16, 2016

We Deplorables may have an anthem

A theme repeated every day here and all across the conservative web is that we ordinary Americans, the folks whom Hillary Clinton characterizes as irredeemables and deplorables, are fed up with her and everything she represents – the constant l...

September 13, 2016

The Democrats have one very sick candidate

Numerous conservative websites are reporting on the fact that prior to Hillary’s possible seizure and collapse at the 9/11 ceremony, she was wearing a pair of cobalt blue sunglasses.  They note that Z1 cobalt blue lenses manufactured by Ze...

September 8, 2016

Hillary's latest email excuse: Blame the headers!

Last night in the NBC Presidential Forum, Hillary unveiled her latest version of dindunuffin with the very lame claim that all classified information is transmitted with a header that clearly indicates that the contents of the following or underlying...

August 26, 2016

Where there’s smoke…

The political genius who contrived Hillary Clinton’s response to the revelations of Clinton Foundation and State Department corruption that there may be smoke but there’s no fire should be, and likely will be considering who he/she works ...

July 30, 2016

New York Post nails it on Hillary convention speech

The New York Post has absolutely nailed the Hillary coronation with this very funny cover: Whatta gracious gesture, waiving her usual speaking fee.  Trust me: if we let her get into the White House, she'll be raking that much in for h...

July 26, 2016

This Democrat Convention's gonna cost me…

I made it all the way through the Republican Convention without getting so enthused that I ran to this computer and made a contribution to the Trump campaign.  I usually wait until fairly late in presidential campaigns to donate because past exp...

July 14, 2016

A tarred admiral for Hillary’s VP?

The Hillary campaign has floated the possibility of retired admiral James G. Stavridis as a vice presidential pick, a man who appears to fit the mold of a Democrat military leader quite well.  He’s an intellectual, a military egg...

July 13, 2016

You think Google may be biased?

I decided to clean out my email trash, and after completing the task, I turned to my spam to do the same.  But upon clicking into that folder, I made the interesting discovery that almost all of the emails relegated to spam by Gmail's filter...

June 15, 2016

A seriously sissified shooting story

I'm an old guy who grew up playing rough-and-tumble from an early age, fighting when necessary to maintain my place in the upper-middle of the testosterone-fueled hierarchy in my small southern town, a kid who couldn't wait to get his first g...

June 14, 2016

Six magic words for Donald Trump

Whoever came up with Donald Trump's reverberating campaign theme about making America great again hit a nerve with mainstream Americans, and it has served the campaign well.  Mocked and ridiculed in the mainstream media, which is never to be...

June 7, 2016

Navy mass punishment: Unfair and ineffective

Once again, an off-base incident in Okinawa, caused by an off-duty intoxicated sailor, has led the admiral who commands all U.S. naval forces throughout the islands to go overboard and punish the entire force for the transgressions of one person. ...

May 26, 2016

Hanging Hillary with her own ugly words

Donald Trump would do himself and this country a huge favor if he would do to Hillary what the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth did to John Kerry in the 2004 election: bring together the people from her past who know the off-stage, off-camera, hard-focu...

May 20, 2016

The Wile E. Clinton campaign: a Roadrunner rerun?

You'd think the Clinton campaign would have the good sense to stay far, far away from the issue of Donald Trump being a misogynist, or even his merely being a misbehaving boor toward women.  It's becoming obvious that every time the Clin...

May 18, 2016

So it's time we had a woman in the White House, huh?

AT recently ran a blog piece about Hillary's pledging to a Kentucky audience that as president, she would put Bill in charge of revitalizing the economy.  My first reaction was, "Hey, wait a minute here – I thought it was time to ...

May 17, 2016

Trans insanity a powerful weapon

In an American Thinker article recounting the seriously negative effects the backlash boycott against Target's open bathroom policies is having, a commenter named Maggie said this: Let me get this right....a male CEO pretty much just told wo...

May 16, 2016

Trump should warn Obama admin bureaucrats against destroying records

As the Trump bandwagon rolls on and the parade grows behind it, there has to be a growing unease in many federal office buildings throughout the country that computers and file cabinets may contain emails and documents that could be used against them...

May 11, 2016

West Point responses: Obama's true legacy

My first reaction when I saw the photos of the black female West Point graduates in their seemingly defiant, fists-raised black power poses was probably similar to that of a large segment of conservative America: "What the hell is going on here?...

May 6, 2016

So Trump can't beat Hillary?

Those of you decreeing disaster for the Republican Party in November, Breitbart has compiled some interesting data from the Indiana primary that you may want to ponder before continuing your tirade against Trump.  Various sources have been repor...

May 3, 2016

Public employee union pensioners ducking income taxes

In a comment to a piece I wrote about New York state regulators nixing two badly needed natural gas pipelines, the writer noted a phenomenon that in my opinion should be brought to a quick and permanent halt.  That many New Yorkers, like denizen...

April 30, 2016

The best Trump commercial ever

For any politically informed person paying attention to the organized demonstrations against Donald Trump taking place in California, it is obvious that it is the hand of La Raza and other Mexican nationalist organizations like MEChA in all those soc...

April 29, 2016

Cuomo's righteous regulators send pipeliners packin'

If you haven't seen those laughable Start-Up New York television ads, then you must be one of those who has cut the cord.  New York, a blue state with an oppressive tax and regulatory business atmosphere typical of those states where liberal...

April 28, 2016

Will a Trump win grow a spine in Republican leaders?

Donald Trump appeals to a large segment of American conservatives because he is exploiting a weakness they have long recognized and grown increasingly angry over as the condition worsens.  Republican Party leadership, especially in Congress, are...

April 21, 2016

The Don-goose: Our Republican Rikki-Tikki-Tavi

Pundits all across the political spectrum have been unable to explain the Trump phenomenon, with most falling back on the condescending conclusion that it's just another one of those occasional populist movements with a base appeal to the great u...

April 15, 2016

When constitutional rights duel, which one wins?

A gay couple walks into a Christian deli/bakery in Texas wanting to order a wedding cake and associated catering services, and the owners refuse on the basis that their strongly held religious beliefs consider homosexuality an abomination and thus fo...

April 12, 2016

What gay-crusading corporations in North Carolina don't get

If you're tired, like me, of being bulldozed by political correctness, especially when it applies to gays and the transgendered, then you just have to cheer for North Carolina Governor, Pat McCrory, for standing up to the corporate extortion agai...

April 8, 2016

Seattle's Folly: Liberal Democrats weaponizing taxes

It would be no surprise at all if, even before the enactment of our nation's 16th Amendment, Democrats had been anticipating the value of a federal income tax as a club to smite their political enemies.  While their most vocal proponent of t...

April 6, 2016

Rainbow Ray and the Navy's highest priority

Not long ago, I jokingly pointed out that Obama's secretary of the Navy, Ray Mabus, who in his holy quest to give his liege lord, Barack, the rainbow-hued, unicorn-mounted force the narcissist-in-chief so desires, has, in naval jargon, run agroun...

March 28, 2016

So is this is an authentic view of Islam?

Earlier today I read that Ballroom Barry is doubling down on his demands that Americans open their hearts and homeland to 100,000 Syrian refugees.  In his brief Easter remarks, Obama said: "We have to wield another weapon alongside our...

March 24, 2016

Guess what, Hillary: Waterboarding works

  Carl Higbie, a former Navy SEAL, and Pete Hegseth, a former Army infantry platoon leader, two combat veterans I greatly admire who are now frequent contributors to FOX News, just squared off in the political ring, where Carl is a Trump suppor...

March 22, 2016

Did Bubba flub it?

Millions of Americans on both sides of the political spectrum are eagerly awaiting the results of the FBI investigation into Hillary Clinton's fairly obviously unlawful misdeeds regarding federal secure communications laws.  Democrats whistl...

March 17, 2016

Here's how Republicans in DC could have anticipated voter rage

The principal poobahs of the Republican Party and the pundits to whom they turn for the pulse of their party are perplexed that people they have so long believed to be passive are coming out of their primary voting places and informing exit pollsters...

March 16, 2016

National Review…the Trump Recruiting Office

Unable to stop the phenomenon that has become the Trump movement by attacking its leader, the pretentious princes of the Grand Old Party are now resorting to attacking their own rebellious base, and it is clear that some conservative journalists are ...

March 12, 2016

So will Bernie denounce La Raza?

Recently we were subjected to endless speculation from the media as to why Donald Trump wouldn't denounce the Ku Klux Klan because a former leader of that white supremacist group, David Duke, had supposedly endorsed Trump's presidential candi...

March 9, 2016

Is Democrat voting a vast criminal conspiracy?

Thomas Lifson posted a recent blog piece pointing to some voting statistics reported by the Huffington Post.  The gist of the H.P. piece was that Democrat voter turnout was down hugely in those states where voter ID legislation has been enacted ...

March 4, 2016

Trump may be a tool, but not whose you think

Against the long ago given advice of the editors here at American Thinker, I always read carefully the comments on my writings for the simple reason that I occasionally find a pearl of wisdom that can serve as the premise for a subsequent article....

March 3, 2016

Donald Trump has Jewish grandkids, loves the KKK. Makes sense.

Once again, much of the mainstream media that is too lazy and self-serving to investigate the very dubious associations of a Democrat presidential candidate like Barack Obama is hauling out its Roto-Rooters to go after the Republican frontrunner, Don...

February 28, 2016

Photogs can't film famed fanny?

Daniel Halper over at the Weekly Standard reported that an ABC news team was forbidden by Hillary Clinton’s campaign team from shooting news film of the candidate boarding her campaign plane.  Halper said an ABC reporter informed him that ...

February 26, 2016

The H-Factor in voter turnout

A look at the news analysis and punditry on heavy voter turnout thus far in the 2016 Republican campaign finds the word "anger" cropping up in many such discussions.  That refers mostly to voter anger broadly directed toward the federa...

February 24, 2016

Barack Obama's kamikaze justice

Washington Post columnist and Fox News pundit Marc Thiessen, speaking with Megan Kelly last night, raised an excellent point regarding the nomination of a Supreme Court justice.  Noting that the Republicans appear to be taking a firm stand again...

February 18, 2016

Climate warming computer models off by a tree-mendous factor

Yesterday Thomas Lifson wrote of a university study that demonstrates that the world's deserts are greening due to higher atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide – that same atmospheric carbon dioxide that has hysterical global warmists wringi...

February 11, 2016

Madame Hillary's protection not so effective

There's been endless speculation for years about whose bedpost Hillary hangs those pantsuits on, and if you even think to say Bill's, you'll likely get laughed outta the room.  But we're not going any farther in that vein; it...

February 9, 2016

Hoary old Bill making liberals sweat

Brit Hume, speaking on FOX News, noted that Bill Clinton is now an elderly man – a thought that I'll wager has been going through many American minds since last Monday night, when Hillary gave her post-caucus acceptance...er, victory speech...

February 8, 2016

There's a special place in hell...

There's a special place in hell for a secretary of state of the United States of America who would stoop to such a needlessly evil deception as to lie to the grieving families of three fallen warriors, as those family members were in the process ...

February 1, 2016

Did Hillary just offer Obama a bribe in front of the entire world?

Clinton campaign events are known for being highly scripted, and at least some questions from Hillary’s audiences most certainly are plants, providing the candidate a setup to respond in such a way as to make her look like a really nice, down-h...

January 27, 2016

Running from a girl's not a New York value

Donald Trump has announced he will not participate in the Fox News Iowa Republican presidential debate. Ostensibly, the Donald is upset because Fox News host Megyn Kelly asked him a question during an earlier debate that he deemed a low blow and unfa...

January 22, 2016

Hillary's word game

Judge Andrew Napolitano, being interviewed on The Kelly File, recently said something that caused my head to pop out of my nether regions – namely, that Hillary Clinton was playing a word game with the media when she denied that none of the ema...

January 20, 2016

Dang...I think I'm a Jacksonian!

Heard the one about the old Texas cowboy visiting the big city who strays into a lesbian bar?  He sits down on a bar stool next to a tough-looking woman in biker leathers; tips his hat politely; and says, "Howdy, ma'am."  She ...

January 18, 2016

Do the Benghazi families have absolute moral authority?

A commenter on my recent piece regarding Hillary Clinton’s calling the Benghazi families liars raised a very valid point when he asked whether or not the mothers of the fallen warriors at Benghazi had the same absolute moral authority the media...

January 15, 2016

Hillary the Benghazi Bimbo

Hillary Clinton and her allies furiously and famously defended her husband's sexual predations by targeting the women Bill victimized with media campaigns designed to portray Bill's victims as lying, conniving bimbos.  The best example o...

January 14, 2016

Trump and the Coal Miner's Daughter

Country music is the music for much of working-class America, and for many of those who make up that great mass of humanity, 83-year-old Loretta Lynn is the reigning Queen of Country Music now that the great Kitty Wells is no longer with us.  La...

January 7, 2016

A commander-in-chief's crying has consequences

I've never subscribed to that ancient admonition that real men don't cry.  I've witnessed men much harder and tougher than me shed tears under the stresses, frustrations, and personal losses of ground combat.  But when those men...

January 2, 2016

The Clinton Honor Roll: Those Bill and Hill call liars

Most folks who have at one time or another seen their name on an honor roll know the puff of pride that experience engenders.  That pride is nothing compared to that to be claimed by those American citizens whose names should be inscribed on a m...

December 30, 2015

Trump vs. Clinton...a dogfight I'd pay to see

The single factor driving Donald Trump’s popularity more than any other is his willingness to proclaim publicly those politically incorrect truths the public yearns to hear, yet which few other Republican candidates will utter for fear of media...

December 23, 2015

Media Down Playing Bergdahl Punishment

Since an Army general has finally demonstrated the backbone, rarely seen nowadays among his peers, to defy the White House and proceed with the prosecution of Pvt. Bowe Bergdahl for desertion and misbehavior before the enemy, the liberal media is doi...

November 25, 2015

A meaningful Thanksgiving poll

I'll wager that most readers here at American Thinker are just as fed up with meaningless polls as I am.  You probably hang up on the endless callers wanting just a few minutes of your time to conduct yet another survey, don't you? ...

November 17, 2015

One picture to sum up Obama's idiotic ISIS policy

Recently the Obama administration was crowing loudly about its success in vaporizing a single, notoriously vicious jihadist with a well-placed Hellfire missile.  Mohammed Emwazi was a British citizen who not only joined the jihadist movement, bu...

November 14, 2015

When seconds counted...

It was Friday evening, and I was listening to a survivor of the Bataclan Theater terrorist attack in Paris describe how it took place.  The attackers wisely seized the high ground, the balconies, where they were able to fire down into the masses...

November 12, 2015

No, of course AARP isn't biased...

During those years when I was coming to realize that all my television news and much of my print news were becoming increasingly biased toward the Democratic Party, I began to pay closer attention to all media that came my way to see if the trend enc...

November 5, 2015

Poking the Russian Bear

With increasing forensic evidence pointing to an in-air explosion as the cause of the crash of the Russian airliner over the Sinai, the taunting claim from ISIS that it is responsible for the disaster is becoming ever more convincing.  Coming ju...

September 23, 2015

Why cops stop blacks

Why cops stop blacks with greater frequency is a question that has been discussed for decades, and with greater frequency since our first black president took office and introduced the concept of injecting presidential opinions and influence into loc...

August 27, 2015

Maybe we need a new law...

Maybe we need a new law banning mixed-race, homosexual ex-reporters from owning guns.  Hey, a guy who’s pretty obviously mixed-race and openly homosexual, as well as a documented ex-reporter, killed two people in Virginia yesterday, and al...

August 25, 2015

A 'Classified' Voting Bloc?

Remember Leona Helmsley, the billionaire Queen of Mean, whose infamous attitude of, “We don’t pay taxes. Only the little people pay taxes,” presaged Hillary Clinton’s mocking attitude towards national security and classified d...

August 19, 2015

Why Platte River Networks?

Since the discovery that Hillary Clinton’s personal server has apparently been roaming some networks of its own, we now know that a small, Colorado-based company, Platte River Networks, was apparently the IT services company selected by Hillary...

July 31, 2015

Planned Parenthood's chop shops

One reason it is so difficult to recover stolen cars is that many, if not most, are stolen not to be sold intact, but rather to be taken to what are called chop shops, below-the-radar auto body shops that surreptitiously dismantle these vehicles, str...

July 24, 2015

No Teleprompter Trump

Say what you will about the Donald – the man is never at a loss to express what’s churning around in that poorly coiffed skull.  It simply flows, freely and naturally, unfearful of media consequences, in a manner that is quickly capt...

July 22, 2015

Sinking CNN refloats the swift boats

In the media kerfuffle regarding Donald Trump’s stupid remarks about John McCain’s Vietnam service, the ratings-sinking CNN noted that while Jeb Bush had condemned Trump’s boorishness, he had long ago defended the swift boat veteran...

July 18, 2015

How to formally arm our troops

The terrorist organization known as ISIS has made it clear that a part of its jihadist war plan against America is carrying out so-called "lone wolf" attacks aimed primarily against members of our military and possibly their families....

July 16, 2015

The new Israeli airspace

One outcome of the Iran nuclear agreement that I’ve not heard any of the pundits mention is the beneficial effect it will likely have on Israeli combat aircraft’s egress to those fat nuclear targets in Iran they have circled in bright red...

July 10, 2015

Forget guns, illegals kill with cars

We’re hearing a lot about the unfortunate murder in San Francisco of an innocent woman by an illegal Mexican thug who had been arrested and charged with numerous crimes, then deported multiple times only to return to cap his criminal career wit...

May 25, 2015

Our debt to our valiant few

We are a nation whose all-volunteer military constitutes less than one percent of our total population.  Yet those young men and women are called upon to fight continuing wars all around the globe to protect more than 300 million of the rest of ...

May 21, 2015

Why is Beau Biden at Walter Reed?

Why is Vice President Joe Biden’s son, Beau, being treated at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center? The younger Biden is not active duty military but in the past has served as a Delaware National Guard officer with a tour as an Army law...

May 19, 2015

Obama, Distrust, and the Armed Forces

I recently wrote a piece here about the Jade Helm military operations scheduled to be conducted across large areas of the U.S. this summer. A few irresponsible conservative web sites are using these routine military training activities to frighten ci...

May 7, 2015

Operation Jade Helm? Chill.

We’ve been getting concerned e-mails from friends in Texas as to whether or not the long-ago announced and now being staged large-scale military operation, called Jade Helm and taking place in several western states, is some sort of federal tes...

April 10, 2015

Rand Paul offended the liberal media? Oh, please...

The true enemy of American conservatives and the American Constitution is the liberal media.  The most powerful weapon the liberals/socialists/communists/Democrats have is a compliant media, which willingly carries their unchallenged message to ...

March 27, 2015

Grounding Bergdahl's escape turkey

Now that Bowe Bergdahl is facing the prospect of prosecution by the Army for deserting his post and for misbehavior, his liberal defenders, those who swallowed whole Susan Rice’s assertion that he served with honor and distinction, will be rais...

March 21, 2015

60 Minutes and Women in Combat Training

Last weekend, 60 Minutes managed to set aside its usual liberal camera and interviewing angles to film female Marine officers attempting to pass the historically secretive Combat Endurance Test, an entrance requirement to the Corps’s Infantry O...

March 17, 2015

Those unintended liberal consequences continue...

Conservatives have long maintained that when liberal social policies are implemented by organizations and governments, there are inevitable, unforeseen, negative consequences that end up hurting the very people such policies are designed to help. ...

March 15, 2015

God Bless Those Georgia Gate Guards

Media was reporting yesterday on an incident down at Robins AFB, Georgia, where base administration had come under fire because the contract civilian gate guards were, upon checking entrants’ identifications, waving them on with a cheerful, ...

March 9, 2015

Perhaps he'll see it on Al Jazeera

In what can only be truthfully described as a farce of a presidential administration, our truly lame chief executive has once again assured the American people that he knew nothing of Hillary Clinton’s overt and ongoing violations of national s...

March 4, 2015

A question for Hillary...

Why?  To make a determination upon entering a Cabinet-level government position that you will disregard, that you will in fact violate government policy, and possibly federal laws, by choosing to ignore the secure, encrypted federal e-mail syste...

February 26, 2015

Mc Haji's Navy

From reading comments on pieces I’ve posted here previously, I know that a significant number of the folks who read my stuff are old enough to remember the TV sitcom Mc Hale’s Navy.  I’d wager that when you think back to that s...

February 24, 2015

Thank you for your service...

That’s an expression that has now become as embedded in our culture as “Have a nice day,” whether or not we like it.  According to the New York Times, that unbiased authority on all things important in the heartland, there are ...

February 17, 2015

The Number One Defender of Our Second Amendment Rights

In a blog piece at American Thinker yesterday, Michael Filozof, warned readers that Obama is using executive agency powers to make an end-run on the 2nd Amendment by banning a form of ammunition that the government fears most, the 5.56x45mm, 62 grain...

February 13, 2015

Yes, Senator Ernst is a Combat Veteran...

The Huffington Post has run a hit piece on the military service claims of freshman Iowa Senator, Joni Ernst, claiming that she has repeatedly overstated her role as a combat veteran. That opinion emanates from an organization notable for a staff that...

February 6, 2015

Stolen Valor Writ Large

Within the American military and the veterans’ community there is no more despicable crime than that of Stolen Valor. It took years for us to convince Congress that representing oneself as a veteran or a military member when one is not, should ...

February 2, 2015

The left hijacks the Super Bowl

Don’t get me wrong: the game itself was very good, lost in the last minutes by horrendously stupid play-calling on the part of the Seahawks.  But as a Cowboys fan, I had no dog in the hunt, so I couldn't care less who won.  And it...

January 29, 2015

The real lesson from Juno

There are numerous articles and countless comments out there on the web in the aftermath of the blizzard that failed to live up to its billings in New York.  True, Juno did produce snowfall more in accordance with predictions in New England, but...

January 27, 2015

Sand-Kicker in Chief

A retired Army lieutenant colonel, Anthony Shaffer, whom FOX News uses frequently to determine goings-on in the Pentagon, revealed last night that the Army is not the culprit in the cover-up of the Bowe Bergdahl investigation.  According to the ...

January 22, 2015

Obama's Excessive Celebration in the Wrong End Zone

For Democrats, the best line in Obama’s SOTU speech was this one: “I have no more campaigns to run,” Obama said, and when a few scalliwags clapped, he added, “I know, because I won both of them.” That smirking ...

January 18, 2015

Feeling a bit outgunned, Liam?

Last week I wrote here about actor Liam Neesom’s incredible, yet typically liberal, hypocrisy in condemning widespread American gun ownership while he himself makes millions starring in movies depicting extreme gun violence, most of it wrought ...

January 13, 2015

Liam Neeson's Dixie Chick Moment

A few days ago, my wife saw an ad for Liam Neeson’s latest flick, Taken 3, another in a series featuring him as Bryan Mills, ex-intelligence operative who’s a one-man killing machine, against a boodle of bad guys.  This latest outing...

January 3, 2015

A careless and clueless call to arms

I know that it’s easy, if you watch television or surf the internet much, to assume that blacks constitute a much larger segment of American society than they actually do.  Foreigners with no knowledge of America’s demographics could...

December 25, 2014

Christmas Dinner in Combat

A retired Special Forces NCO I served with back in the early sixties in the 101st Airborne, as infantry grunts, sent this poignant reminder of Christmas and New Year’s dinners of the past. Even if you weren’t deployed, a holiday dinner in...

December 19, 2014

A foolproof degree plan

Once again a liberal academic has gone off the rails and made it clear to the world that she hates Republicans with this published pronouncement: I hate Republicans, I can’t stand the thought of having to spend the next two years watching ...

December 18, 2014

Racial Chips on Very Tall Shoulders

In spite of my being opposed to Obama for being our president from the very outset, an opposition based entirely on the young solon’s executive inexperience and his propensity to vote present on any legislative issue that might prove later to b...

December 14, 2014

Unrewarded Valor (Updated)

Update: President Trump has sigtned a bill awarding Alwyn Cashe the Medal of Honor. Via the Army Times: President Donald Trump late Friday signed legislation to allow Iraq War hero Alwyn Cashe to be awarded the Medal of H...

November 13, 2014

'Hail Mary' Landrieu

There’s simply no other way to call the desperate play of Mary Landrieu defending her long hold on the championship in a political playoff down in Louisiana, where it appears that the serving senator’s re-election prospects are headed the...

November 6, 2014

Hillary Clinton: Serving Out Obama's Third Term

On The Kelly File on Fox News, Ron Fournier, political pundit with National Journal, echoed an observation that should be the major theme of the entire 2016 presidential campaign: A vote for Hillary is a vote for Obama’s third term. Devas...

October 30, 2014

Why Not Send Mercy and Comfort?

With the Ebola crisis apparently far from being controlled in Africa, the Obama administration has committed a large contingent of American troops to the fight and now is reportedly weighing the possibility of bringing African victims to the U.S. for...

October 23, 2014

Getting It Exactly Wrong

FOX News is reporting that the Canadian government is responding to the terrorist attack in Ottawa by ordering all Canadian service members to avoid wearing their uniforms in public so that they do not present themselves as available targets.  T...

October 21, 2014

Wendy Smacks the Wrong Pinata

What a joy it is to sit over here in Arkansas and watch the Wendy Witch self-destruct in my former home of Texas. First, Wendy, whose personal past does not bear close examination without revealing her to be a self-serving gold digger, goes after her...

October 16, 2014

Operation Inherent Resolve?

The Obama High Command today issued a press release to inform the uninformed that it had now vanquished one of the major obstacles in the campaign to do something about ISIS: they found a name for the operation.  Inherent Resolve.  Could th...

September 23, 2014

Cruel Democrat Chestnuts Fall in Arkansas This Year

Three things I’ve learned about my former political party: they have no conscience, no shame, and no new ideas.  Confronted with serious competition from Republican candidates, they seldom show us any new, creative concepts in their televi...

September 22, 2014

So Why Are We Allowing ISIS to Export Oil?

I just fought down my natural revulsion to anything that comes from the major networks to watch "Sixty Minutes." Teased into it by the promise that former SecDef, Leon Panetta, was going to blow the whistle on his former boss, Obama, I allo...

September 13, 2014

Bromides about Bombing

A fact that every politician and news talking-head in the world seems to be certain of is that you can’t win a war by air power alone.  Even the media-hired retired generals throw it out as an absolute truth of warfare, as if it had fallen...

September 11, 2014

Obama's Looking Up...

At least he was in his speech about dealing with Middle Eastern terrorist organizations.  It was a bit disconcerting to those of us who have become accustomed to watching the usual puppet-like, swivel-necked delivery – left to right, then ...

September 6, 2014

Geraldo, You Had Me from 'Declaration'

Quick, someone at American Thinker tell the Devil to check his ponds for skim ice.  I know it’s gotta be starting to freeze over down there, because I just found myself nodding my head and agreeing with Geraldo Rivera in his appearance on ...

September 4, 2014

Obo Makes Joe Look Presidential

This has been a bad year for Barack Obama, and it’s getting continually worse.  It has become especially bad when he gets upstaged by the selfsame moron he selected to be his vice president as impeachment insurance.  At a time when ma...

September 2, 2014

In the End, This Turduck's Still a Damned Chicken

In a turbulent world – where we would hope that our commander-in-chief would show some strength in his dealings with the thugs around the world by boldly declaring some no-fly zones to those powers who are aggressively moving their troops to th...

August 30, 2014

Laying a Brave Officer to Rest

I’ve written multiple articles here at American Thinker questioning the militarization of our local police forces that have mostly met with agreement from those commenting. Something’s not quite right with the way America’s police d...

August 28, 2014

What a Hell of a Shame, America

The recent events in Ferguson, MO brought to the fore the increasing concerns among Americans regarding this ever-growing militarization of our local police forces. All those media images of large men geared up for full combat and wearing masks to co...

August 27, 2014

Why Those Damned Masks?

Among the many disturbing trends we are faced with in the introductory decades of this new century is one that leaves me, as a former proud warrior in service to the United States of America, cold to my core. What the hell is going on with the warrio...

August 25, 2014

Can't Bomb Them into Submission?

Says who? In 1965-66 I huddled at night inside my dug-in defensive perimeter and watched the flickering lightning of the explosions of Operation Arc Light, an aggressive use of American heavy bombing capabilities against the Viet Cong and North Vietn...

August 22, 2014

Don't Condemn Hostages Who Denounce America

I had an epiphany, an awakening moment today, regarding the issue of those hostages held by jihadist organizations as pawns in this expanding war of militant Islam versus the rest of the world.  Like millions of others, I was disgusted with the ...

August 21, 2014

Just What Is an Unarmed Man?

Much of black America and the liberal media are making a huge issue of the Ferguson shooting of an unarmed black man by a white police officer.  We are being treated to endless live reports of rioting and looting, some of them detailing inflows ...

August 19, 2014

Obese and 'oppressed'in Ferguson

One comfort America and the world can take away from the Ferguson, Missouri protests is that contrary to the alarms raised by the Left that the black underclasses are malnourished and downtrodden, the visual images of the protest marchers from Fergus...

August 18, 2014

A Democrat Wart Deep in the Heart of Texas

If ever there existed a better example of shooting one’s self in the foot than what Rosemary Lehmberg, the Democrat district attorney of Travis County, Texas, did over this weekend, I cannot recall it in my seven decades. We are aware that in f...

July 31, 2014

A Diaper Defense

First let me take a few paragraphs to clear the decks for those of you who will read the following and perhaps brand me an insensitive monster. I left Vietnam in 1966 with symptoms of PTSD even though at that time there was no such diagnosis; that en...

July 28, 2014

Another Dem War Hero

My reaction to the revelation that Democrat senator John Walsh, a retired brigadier general and one-time adjutant general (head) of Montana’s National Guard, had plagiarized much of his master’s thesis at the Army’s Command and Gene...

July 26, 2014

Another Creative Example of Conservative Recycling

I must confess that I once knocked newspaper advice columnist, Heloise, flat on her butt. There was no intent to do so but we happened to intersect with our shopping carts in a Sam’s Club in San Antonio at precisely the wrong moment for that lo...

July 25, 2014

Braley Showing Democrat Presidential Qualities

Iowa congressman Bruce Braley, a 2014 Senate candidate, is demonstrating that he may possess precisely those qualities Democrats seem to find so attractive in their presidents. We’ve known for a while that Braley holds fellow trial lawyers i...

July 21, 2014

Malice, Incompetence, or Malcompetence?

Every time American Thinker posts am article condemning the incompetence of the Obama administration (as one of mine did recently), the comments sections are rife with contempt for the authors for ascribing to incompetence what to those readers is a ...

July 18, 2014

He Raised Funds, Funds, Funds, Till the Baddies Took the Free World Away

This almost seems like the premise from some nutty left-wing television series about a devil may care president who exploits all the benefits of the office for himself and his family while blithely dodging and weaving from any and every presidential ...

July 16, 2014

Adding More Inches to the Welfare Beltline

Born in the early forties, my early life was formed around images of WWII.  Then, as an adolescent, it was the images from the Korean War that shaped my views of world conflict and its consequences.  In the mid-'60s it was my turn to be...

July 14, 2014

The Myth of the Posse Comitatus Act

I recently put forth a rudimentary plan for utilization of existing military resources in stanching the flow of illegal trespassers across our southern border with Mexico. Many were the commenters who were quick to tell me that such a thing is imposs...

July 13, 2014

Militarize Our Border? O'Reilly, Here's Your Plan

Bill O’Reilly almost nightly calls for the militarization of our southern border, but he never has any guests to explain how this could be done.  So, Bill, since I agree with you, here is a rudimentary plan worked out by someone with a wor...

July 10, 2014

The SEAL Who Knocked Ol' Jessie Down

Coming of age in the late 40’s and early 50’s, like so many I was a boy reared on the declining realities of WWII and the much more immediate Hollywood depictions of that cataclysmic event in Technicolor epics that could fire the sense of...

July 8, 2014

Why Not Costa Rica?

We are told that the children from Central America invading our southern border are seeking a life free of political persecution with opportunities to advance their educations. OK, I can understand that. What I can’t understand is why these chi...

June 22, 2014

White House Values Treason More Than Honor

Those are not my words, but those of a veteran working as a contractor with the same Army division from which Bowe Bergdahl deserted.  This young veteran could not possibly have stated the predominant view of our men and women in arms, still out...

June 21, 2014

Go west, young Dan, go west

Washington Redskin’s owner, Daniel Snyder, has been targeted by the speech police for his heresy in refusing to bow to their politically correct demands to rename his team. What a turn of events it has been to watch the Redskins circling their ...

June 16, 2014

Where Have White Male Doctors Gone?

Those of you who are concerned that our medical care decisions are being taken away from us more rapidly than we ever believed possible might consider how the advertising industry is eagerly, even slobberingly, doing the advance work of the...

June 8, 2014

Wrong Family in the Rose Garden

America was recently treated to a heart-warming display of presidential warmth, sympathy and concern when our commander in chief lent his magisterial presence in a particularly personal way to a Rose Garden photo opportunity. Barack Obama personally ...

June 7, 2014

A 'Black Heart' medal for Bergdahl's No-Show Officers

This Bergdahl swap is emitting a growing stench that is more apparent to those who are serving and those who have served. A huge question is why those who served in Bergdahl’s squad, platoon and company may have been intimidated into silence by...

June 5, 2014

A Dishonorable Discharge...Flowing from the White House

Barack Obama's best case yet for his own ineptitude comes in the form of the White House's attempt to dig itself out of the deepening hole of the Bergdahl swap.  This has become the public relations equivalent of a field latrine. As m...

June 4, 2014

Treason Trifecta: Bergdahl is a Deserter, Defector, and Collaborator

Forgive the cynicism of this old infantry sergeant when it comes to media depictions of anyone and anything associated with the military.  But they inevitably get it wrong: ranks, unit designations, and terminology.  And most of all, what t...

June 3, 2014

A Five-Sided Kennel of Cowardice

That lukewarm reception Barack Obama received at West Point last week was indicative of the widely held view among the troops that the man is a truly incompetent commander in chief, or as the language-mangling Al Sharpton might say, “the Comman...

June 2, 2014

Obama's Bad Trade

There’s an old joke here in Arkansas about President Clinton returning to his home state for a Razorbacks championship football game. While there, he’s given two cute little piglets by a wealthy agribusiness Razorback alumnus. As he later...

May 30, 2014

Mark Pryor: Another Democrat Liar

How do you know when a Democrat politician is running scared?  That’s easy; it’s when he trots out that old Democrat chestnut that his opponent is out to destroy Medicare and Social Security. Every election cycle, you can bet the ...

May 29, 2014

General Shinseki, Duty, Honor, Country

General officers in the Army have spent at minimum, two decades, observing the honor system that demands they accept responsibility for the failures that occur within their commands; the term for a superior officer accepting that responsibility is, ...

May 28, 2014

'Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste'

That statement by then White House Chief of Staff and now floundering (sorry I just couldn’t resist that) mayor of Chicago, Rahm Emmanuel, one of the true bully boys of the Democrat Left, is seldom quoted in its entirety and that’s a sham...

May 21, 2014

We'd Court-Martial the Lot of Them, Stand Some against the Wall

You want to shake up an entrenched bureaucracy in the Veterans Administration, folks?  Start sending your congressional representatives and senators letters, and tell them to demand the right leader from the Obama administration to investigate t...

May 17, 2014

Just Who's Getting Clipped Here?

A vet buddy out in Guam sent me this pearl: (CNSNews.com) – The United States Agency for International Development is planning to spend $24.5 million to circumcise an estimated 150,000 to 200,000 male infants and males aged 10 to 49 in the kingdom...

May 8, 2014

The swaggering bravado of Iran's 'Gunboat Admiral ' Ali Fadavi

Once again the world is being treated to an outburst of swaggering bravado by another Muslim military leader, this time an Iranian admiral who seems naïve in the extreme when it comes to the realities of modern combat. According to Military Time...

May 5, 2014

Here Comes the Judge...

I don’t believe there’s a conservative spokesperson in America whose commentary is any harder hitting than that of Judge Jeanine Pirro, legal analyst and show host at FOX News Channel’s Justice with Judge Jeanine. Watch this one vid...

April 29, 2014

Bungling Bundy

Through the past week we have witnessed events that should be viewed as our dead canary in the mine shaft. The bird who bit the dust was that not-quite-defensible old rancher out in Nevada, Cliven Bundy, who got chewed into a mess, not just by a demo...

April 24, 2014

No Pryor Service

Many are the citizen-soldiers who serve in the new, modernized military system, a behemoth that incorporates a fighting force made up of active-duty personnel augmented by individuals and units of the reserves and the National Guard.  Our modern...

April 8, 2014

Obama Sandwiches Himself

Last week our president chose the setting of Ann Arbor, Michigan and a youthful audience at the University of Michigan to defend his argument for increasing the minimum wage from the current $7.25 per hour to $10.10 by 2016.  In an obviously sta...

April 3, 2014

Biden, the buffoon

Yesterday there was comment around the Web regarding Joe Biden’s boorish buffoonery behind a president in desperate need of gravitas. Yet there he was, the man next in line to succeed our shamefully naked emperor, holder of the supposedly most ...

March 25, 2014

California Money Flooding into Arkansas

There’s a handful of incumbent Democrat senators facing some very tight races this coming November.  Keeping them in the national news is the political tap-dancing they are being required to perform to put distance between themselves and t...

March 23, 2014

Race and the Secret Service

Yesterday a blog post on Michelle Obama’s junket to China described her security detail as "An army of Asian-American Secret Service Men." Excuuuuse me, but isn't this exactly the kind of ethnic profiling that Libs get their p...

March 16, 2014

You Bought His Ticket; He Took You for a Ride

Perhaps there is some true justice in the revelation today that Barack Obama, apologist to the world for American greatness, has just given a huge part of that scientific and engineering eminence to a world body that has no legal claim to all that wh...

March 13, 2014

More Dim Dems

Remember last summer, when the Congressional Black Caucus was pushing Sheila Jackson Lee to be the new head of Homeland Security?  Aside from her previously disclosed problems with managing staff, one of the main criticisms was that the woman si...

March 11, 2014

Obama's Surgeon Corporal

You’d think that the Obama administration would, in a crucial election year, be a smidgen less confrontational when it comes to appointees requiring congressional approval.  Immediately on the heels of a failed Justice Department nominatio...

March 6, 2014

Two images: Obama and Putin

As the much of world eagerly awaits the results of the face-off between a pinkly-pectoraled Putin and our metrosexual commander in chief in this mother of all Mexican standoffs, there is much to ponder. While Putin’s ongoing media campaign to p...

March 1, 2014

Palin Predicts President's Putz-Poor Policy

What with Russian forces seizing all major control points in the Crimean Peninsula today, numerous sources are pointing to the prediction of Sarah Palin back in the 2008 campaign that just such a scenario was possible under a weak president like Bara...

February 27, 2014

You Lie! Says Lightweight Harry Reid

Remember the high dudgeon exhibited by the mainstream media when Congressman Wilson yelled out, “You Lie!” at Barack Obama during the State of the Union Address?  Most of their frothing went something like (I paraphrase), “How ...

February 10, 2014

Prostituting Science

Over at Forbes, Patrick Michaels, Director of the Center for the Study of Science at the Cato Institute and a senior fellow in research and economic development at George Mason University, has written a serious and thought-provoking piece regarding t...

February 6, 2014

Waving a Hero

I'd like to introduce a new term into the political lexicon: waving a hero.  For that is precisely what America's commander-in-chief, Barack Obama, did last week at the conclusion of his State of the Union speech.  As an old infan...

January 29, 2014

The TOTUS Who Can't Look America in the Eye

Not once -- not even once -- did the man who claims to be the legitimate leader of our nation ever look me, and all the other watching citizens of this nation, in the eye during his State of the Nation speech.  He was a dash-top bobble-head...

January 13, 2014

Holding Onto Hallowed Ground in Hawaii

An old paratrooper, with whom I once served, sent me a heads up on a situation from which I am geographically distanced, but as a one-time combat infantryman in the far-western Pacific, find close to my heart. On the Hawaiian island of Oahu is one of...

January 10, 2014

The Holder Effect

In spite of the best efforts of the liberal media to first suppress news reports about the Knockout Game phenomenon, and then, when that failed, to poo-poo the idea that any such thing as this violent and obviously race-based crime even existed, the ...

December 23, 2013

The Suddenly Competent Incompetents

All I can say is "Wow!" Just when we're all are thinking this Obama administration is corrosively corrupt and consummately incompetent, they go and do something that just has to make us all pause and rethink our strongly held beliefs that federal gov...

December 20, 2013

'On Behalf of a Grateful Nation, Please Accept This Flag...'

That's an abridged version of the words uttered by the officer or NCO in charge of the burial detail to the surviving spouse or next of kin of an American warrior killed in action as they are handed the carefully folded flag that had covered the coff...

December 17, 2013

Biblical Abuse in the Bible Belt

Dr. Samuel Johnson famously proclaimed that patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel. Here in the Bible Belt that refuge is all too often religion. As a recent immigrant to Arkansas, a truly beautiful place to live in the heart of America, I'm ...

December 12, 2013

America's New Millions of Uninsureds

As more and more Americans go online to report their experiences with Obamacare, there's an undeniable truth emerging: the Obama administration and the Democrat party have created a federal program to insure their famously promoted forty million unin...

December 11, 2013

You Shouldn't Keep AARP. Period.

Among the many businesses that ultimately may be harmed by the disastrous Unaffordable Care Act is one that couldn't be more deserving: AARP.  Founded more than half a century ago as a non-profit advocacy organization for senior Americans, ...

December 10, 2013

Could the Lure of a Pulitzer Trump Obama's Nobel?

There is growing speculation among conservatives that many Democrats may be looking to distance themselves from their once infallible leader. It appears that even some of Obama's former true believers are finding in this ObamaCare boondoggle that tha...

December 6, 2013

You Lie!

See also: Barack Obama Fesses Up on Uncle Omar When that charge was yelled out during Obama's address to Congress, the liberal media were in lockstep in their condemnation of the South Carolina congressman, Joe Wilson, who admittedly violated co...

November 23, 2013

What You Lose with NBC News

Via Newsbusters.org: After going 72 hours without even mentioning ObamaCare on its air waves, NBC's continued refusal to cover the disastrous policy on Thursday's Nightly News or Friday's Today brought that total up t...

November 17, 2013

If He's Lost Bowie State...

You probably can't find a better example of bedrock Obama support than on the campuses of America's traditionally black colleges. But now, with the introduction of Obamacare, the students at Bowie State University find themselves without health ins...

November 15, 2013

String 'Em Up by Their Ponytails

In a recent O'Reilly "Mad as Hell" segment, a student-viewer expressed his anger at being unable to voice his conservative views in the college classroom without fear of reprisal from his liberal professors. Think about that for a moment. ...

November 10, 2013

Another Runaway Roaring Down the ObamaCare Tunnel

If the Obama administration thinks it has its hands full trying to create an effective system for enrolling participants, as the saying goes, "They ain't seen nuthin' yet."  Anyone with experience in the health care market can tell you that a fa...

November 4, 2013

Obama Treads on Tradition

In yet another example of the spiteful pettiness of the woefully inept and totally inadequate commander-in-chief that low information voters have so unfortunately saddled upon our military, Navy SEALs and other naval warriors serving in combat are be...

October 17, 2013

The Affordable Care Act: Rosemary's Baby?

Talking heads all over the coastal blue belts and inside the Beltway are belting the Republicans as the big losers in the momentous political struggle over government funding and ObamaCare.  The media consensus, including too many at FOX, i...

October 10, 2013

Support the Vets March on Washington

Nothing seems to have angered the public quite so much as the Obama administration's needless closure of our national war monuments and the forcible denial of access to those sites to the warriors whom they were erected to honor. In an absolutely s...

October 2, 2013

Too Late Opened, Too Sacred to Be Closed

The news that a group of WWII veterans and their caring companions had defied a federal closure order and visited the National World War II memorial on the Mall in Washington warmed my and millions of other Americans' hearts.  While it is still ...

September 26, 2013

A Message for the Murderers

One of the seminal photographs of my war was this one of the young, naked Vietnamese girl fleeing the horrors of combat, taken in June 1972, five years after I decided to leave the Army and pursue a college degree under the newly-reinstated G.I. Bill...

September 18, 2013

SWAT: Time to Rein In Excessive Response

In my new home state of Arkansas -- a beautiful, reasonably inexpensive place to live, which I recommend to all retirees -- we recently had another unfortunate incident that should illustrate that the militarization of local police forces has gone fa...

September 12, 2013

Bear Drops Ditz in the Woods

In one of those eerie coincidences that leaves one looking around suspiciously while the music track from The Twilight Zone echoes in the brain at 2:00 am, I early this morning finished W.E.B. Griffin's novel, Covert Warriors.  What is so eerie ...

September 9, 2013

Obama's Arkansas Fellow Traveler

Last week I emailed my congressman, Tom Cotton, R-Arkansas, letting him know that like almost two-thirds of Americans, I am opposed to supporting Obama's foolish, face-saving gesture of an attack on Syria. I was taken aback when my congressman, an Ar...

September 6, 2013

Just Another Case of Workplace Violence

If you can believe it, the sycophantic, lickspittle New York Times has actually published a video that could be quite harmful to Obama's efforts to garner support for a strike on Syria.  This video shows a group of Obama's freedom-fighters commi...

September 5, 2013

John Fraud Kerry: Leading the Charge of the Lie Brigade

Obama's choice of John Kerry to lead the charge for war against Syria demonstrates once again just what a tin ear this administration has.  When you have a hard sell from the get-go, it helps to have a credible spokesman.  Has every member ...

September 4, 2013

Show Us the Evidence, Mr. President

As I stated in an earlier post, it is a sad state of affairs when we find the diplomatic reasoning of our old Cold War nemesis, Russia, to be more thought provoking and believable than the arguments for military action against Syria being advanced by...

September 3, 2013

A Sad State of Affairs

Indeed it is when I find myself lending more credence to Vladimir Putin than I do this dithering, incompetent cowbird the Democrats put in our White House. One charge you most certainly cannot lay on the serving President of Russia is incompetence an...

August 30, 2013

Harvard Gun Study Refutes Gun Grabber Claims

In an almost fifty-page study published in the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, authors Don Kates and Gary Mauser, demonstrate again and again that strict gun control laws do not correlate with lower murder rates, neither in the United State...

August 28, 2013

Peaceful George... Another Son of Obama

Here we go again with another unprovoked attack on a white senior citizen by a Son of Obama, this time in that bastion of entrenched conservatism, Connecticut. According to New Haven police, a 71-year-old white man who had just attended a mayoral cam...

August 9, 2013

The Holder-Hasan Disconnect

Recently, Attorney General Eric Holder, our nation's highest legal authority, failed to attend a conference of all the world's nations' highest authorities on terrorism.  Indeed, a list of the attendees includes everyone who is someone in the Wa...

August 6, 2013

Hold-out Holder

Yesterday Rick Moran posted a piece decrying the absence of our prez from a highest level gathering of all of America's top government experts on combatting terror. While all these top echelon executives, cabinet secretaries, departmental directors, ...

August 1, 2013

Profiling or Situational Awareness?

See also: After Zimmerman: Lessons for a Citizen Carrier Recently American Thinker ran a piece, "Profiling, a Darwinian Necessity," in which author, Richard Butrick, correctly identified the tendency to observe one's surroundings and perceive th...

July 24, 2013

The Green Sheen on This Weiner

Living many years as a bachelor, I learned early on that when taking the last couple of hotdogs from a package in the fridge, it was wise to scan them closely for any iridescent signs of spoilage, which usually presented as a tell-tale, greenish, and...

May 17, 2013

They're Marines, Mr. President, not Butlers...

Well Obama may have kept his makeup from running, but the public relations hole he's digging for himself just got deeper. Of course, someone else is sure to get the blame for the incomparable insolence demonstrated by this clueless commander-in-chief...

May 11, 2013

Politics Disguised as the Fog of War

That title is not mine; it's taken from an excellent article by Peggy Noonan at the Wall Street Journal titled The Inconvenient Truth About Benghazi. Noonan went a little wobbly back in the 2008 campaign when she, like so many others, let her emotion...

April 2, 2013

The President Who Can't Shoot Straight

Millions of us out here in flyover country have long been of the opinion that Barack Obama is not a straight shooter. This weekend he proved it. During the White House Easter Egg Roll, the handlers gathered the kids around the half-court to watch the...

April 1, 2013

A Tragic, Vicious Irony

Mark Kelly, retired Navy fighter pilot and former astronaut, husband of former Congresswoman, Gabby Giffords, is much in the news right now as he pushes for stricter gun control across the country. He's popping up on the tube everywhere and Internet ...

March 30, 2013

Captain Kelly's Hypocrisy

Recently, former astronaut Mark Kelly, husband of former congresswoman and shooting victim, Gabby Giffords, was seen making firearms purchases in an Arizona gun shop. That would not be a newsworthy event except for the fact that Giffords and Kelly ha...

March 29, 2013

The Silence of the Shams

We have an entire industry in this country that is nothing more than a sham, pretending to be one thing while in fact, being something utterly different. That industry is, of course, the liberal media, who daily vow to bring you all the news while in...

March 27, 2013

Jim Carrey, America's only Male Dixie Chick

An infrequently funny but toothy and foul-mouthed Hollywood moron shot his career right between the eyes this week. Rubber-faced Jim Carrey administered a video coup de grás to his already lagging film future, with a last gasping breath, all to promo...

March 26, 2013

Coulter to Bloomberg: Sodas? What about bathhouses?

Ann Coulter raised an excellent issue on Geraldo at Large when, in a debate with a liberal supporter of New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg's self-declared war on personal bad health habits, she asked in so many words, "Why doesn't he close down th...

March 22, 2013

Embracing the Viper

President Obama is on his Middle East tour and has thus far offered an arm of support to Israel that those who are ultimately responsible for the very survival of that nation and their people must surely be examining at arm's length. In spite of Obam...

March 21, 2013

The Losing Left is Beneath Contempt

The little, liberal, gun-grabbing weasels are running scared. Here's a copy of a MoveOn.org email a friend forwarded to me: Dear MoveOn member, This is the nightmare scenario: "Reid guts Senate gun control bill."1 "Tuesday's developments are a majo...

March 20, 2013

It Was Games More than Guns

The New York Daily News has an article up by reporter, Mike Lupica, which makes the case that it was an obsession with violent video gaming and past mass killings that drove Adam Lanza to commit the Newtown slaughter. Guns were just the means to an e...

March 13, 2013

Making the world safe from armed Mallards

Dianne Feinstein is the absolute, living demonstration in support of the concept of term limits for Congress. No pol has been more aggressive than Old Dame Feinstein in seizing on the recent school shooting tragedy in Connecticut to advance her über ...

March 5, 2013

End of life decisions should not be second guessed

All day yesterday the FOX news network went after the nurse in California who refused to perform CPR on an 87 year old woman at an assisted living facility, a nurse who had the misfortune to have her refusal broadcast nationwide endlessly by FOX News...

March 4, 2013

Obama's Politics Put our Navy in Harm's Way

The Obama administration has held up the deployment of the nuclear carrier, U.S.S. Harry Truman to the Persian Gulf as a result of the sequester. Rather than cut fat from elsewhere in the federal budget, Obama chooses to play brinksmanship on the bac...

February 26, 2013

When the Movie Moguls get the Message

To read most conservative websites you'd have to believe that Hollywood is the holy mecca of liberal hypocrisy, a swarming hive of limousine liberals, and the indulgence capital of the world. And I do happen to believe the truth of that, an assessmen...

February 23, 2013

An Unintended Consequence of Females in the Infantry?

There is a great deal of discussion going on right now concerning whether or not women should serve in designated ground combat roles.  Should women be infantry soldiers or not?  Articles such as that posted at American Thinker by Elise Coo...

February 21, 2013

Dems Clueless about Combat

Warfare has progressed geometrically since I was a young sergeant on the ground in Vietnam.  The huge advances in computers and electronics have given our American forces capabilities never before possessed in any of our previous wars.  Amo...

February 19, 2013

Lanza Sought Easiest Target

Difficult as it may be to believe, a major liberal media outlet is reporting that one of the reasons that the Newtown shooter, Adam Lanza, targeted the elementary school was because it was an easy target. CBS news reports law enforcement sources are ...

February 18, 2013

Downsizing Defense with a Trojan Elephant

Can anyone seriously doubt that when we have an anti-colonialist, anti-imperialist, Euro-socialist president serving as the commander-in-chief of our armed forces, that America's military, as currently constituted, is in serious trouble? While fundam...

February 15, 2013

Blue America does not Back the Blue

Oh, the irony. A few days after the Obama administration parades police officers sympathetic to their gun grab, we have the same liberals who support gun control effusively supporting a cop killer. From social media to mainstream we find those who su...

February 14, 2013

Rick Perry at ease, deep in the heart of Texas

When Rick Perry flubbed his presidential chances so badly on the national stage, there were many among his supporters who were bewildered at his seeming inability to transfer his many successes in Texas to the national stage. Although just as frustra...

February 13, 2013

A Case of Real Military Injustice

ABC, one of the of the usually lame-stream media networks, has a real story about denied military benefits that all the media should be following instead of the fabricated Esquire article that has garnered so much attention. Amazingly, ABC is actuall...

February 9, 2013

Ambush at Hilton Hollow

Wow! The commander-in-chief of the most powerful military force the world has ever seen walked right into an ambush with no cover, no concealment, and no security at the National Prayer Breakfast at the Washington Hilton. Forced to sit at the dais an...

February 8, 2013

This Time it's One of Theirs

A rogue cop in California has gone on a killing streak, publishing a manifesto declaring himself a supporter of virtually everything liberal in America but outside the law. This renegade officer used a firearm to kill two innocent humans because of t...

February 2, 2013

The Target Explains It

Folks from all over the net are commenting about the just-released White House photo of the president supposedly skeet shooting at Camp David back in August. My first impression of the photo was that he couldn't possibly be shooting launched clay pig...

January 31, 2013

Are Dems the 21st Century Samurais?

This Internet is such a wonderful teaching device. Everyday my knowledge expands thanks to things I uncover on my own but even more so from that small band of military brothers who daily drop tidbits into my mailbox. Such is how I first learned of th...

January 30, 2013

Molon Labe, the Code of Those Born Fighting

If you are a reader of comments here at American Thinker then you have probably noticed an increasing use of the term molon labe. For those of you unfamiliar with the term and too busy (or too lazy) to look it up, I've done it for you. It is a Greek...

January 29, 2013

Will Our Rights Be Preserved by Our Sheriffs?

The Land of Enchantment is a physically beautiful land indeed, yet one with the misfortune to be so traditionally misgoverned by our liberal Democrat majority as to be relegated too frequently to the very lowest rankings of the states when it comes t...

January 27, 2013

Who Gets to Call the Shots?

As liberals have so callously exploited the recent school shooting tragedy to further their mission to disarm Americans, one of their most frequent arguments is, "Who needs ten bullets to shoot Bambi, or a burglar in your bedroom for that matter?" We...

January 26, 2013

Panetta's Box

Both written and unwritten rules of land warfare in modern times have long provided a demarcation between combatants and innocents. American troops have traditionally been more observant of that line than some of the forces aligned against us. For th...

January 25, 2013

What Difference it Makes...

"What difference does it make?" Someone on that Senate panel should have responded, Madam Secretary, what a foolish question for a lawyer to ask." And never forget that Hillary Clinton is a lawyer because you can bet the farm she never has. And as su...

January 19, 2013

Should the Second Amendment Have Been the First?

No honest debate of any issue can be conducted without both parties agreeing to some basic definitions of terms.  And that is precisely what is wrong in the currently heated debate on the matter of gun control.  Those who wish to limit the ...

January 12, 2013

The Hard Black Line of the 2d Amendment

Crass, heartless liberals, heeding Rahm Emmanuel's admonition to let no crisis go to waste, have seized upon the Sandy Hook killings to ram through as much gun-restricting legislation as they can. Doing their very best to channel public emotions into...

December 28, 2012

Was Liberal Idiocy Legal Insanity?

One can only wonder if the fool at The Westchester Journal News who made the decision to publish the names and addresses of New York gun owners has ever heard the legal term, proximate cause? I'm sure the newspaper's legal counsel has as well as the ...

December 20, 2012

A 'Ready Reserve' to Protect our Children

I get weekly emails from old Army buddies about jobs available to former military personnel, primarily in the Middle East, jobs offering excellent salaries. Most ads are seeking the crème de la crème, the special operators, or at least those with the...

December 17, 2012

Critical for Thee, but Not For...

Like everyone else with the tube on this Sunday evening, we just watched the president's speech in Newtown.  Obama handled it well, but I was admittedly amazed at the overtly religious tone of his address and his many references to God -- more t...

December 15, 2012

Good Guns Can Kill Bad People

The progressives hadn't let the blood dry on the classroom floor in Newton, CT before they were using the deaths of all those children to leverage their cause of gun control. Had conservative broadcasters attempted to exploit such human suffering, th...

December 12, 2012

The Bourne Stupidity

We hear that this, that, or the other Hollywood actor is supposedly quite intelligent, situationally and socially aware, and we are forced to wonder, based on some of a particular actor's questionable on and off screen activities and behaviors, if th...

December 9, 2012

PSY-Wars

Quick now, what do you get when you cross a potty-mouthed, semi-talented, little weasel with an Asian lounge lizard? Ah, correcto, amigo, such a mixto (just trying to maintain my diversity bonafides here, brothers and sisters) yields an opportunistic...

December 6, 2012

Costas: The Worm Squirms

Bob Costas, is demonstrating more feints and jukes than the NFL's best running backs and probably wishing he could have a replay of his Sunday night miss-step. In commenting on the murder/suicide of Kansas City player, Jovan Belcher, Costas, who appe...

November 19, 2012

A New NTSB Candidate Arises from among the Democrats

By Democrat standards, this Massachusetts pol should be a shoo-in if the head job opens up at the National Transportation and Safety Board. According to the Boston Globe, state highway safety director Sheila Burgess is being reassigned by the Deval P...

November 16, 2012

This Warrior Wasn't Left Behind

An internet buddy -- a former USAF E-8, master sergeant, and refueling boom operator, who naturally goes by the handle "Boomer" -- sent me a link to a video with the comment that our recently re-elected commander-in-chief could learn a lesson in lead...

November 3, 2012

They Deserved a Commander-in-Chief...

Liz Cheney, speaking on the Sean Hannity show, nailed the essence of the Libya scandal when she said that those warriors who died there deserved a commander-in-chief with standards as high as their own. And therein lies the truth of this whole mess. ...

October 30, 2012

While Others Seek Shelter...

While Washington is closed down by Hurricane Sandy and the country is left to wonder why there was no attempt by our military to save our brave SEALs at Benghazi, one small group of Americans stands tall in the face of nature's adversity. I'd be will...

October 29, 2012

You Weren't so 'FAST' at 3:00 am, Obama...

One of my first thoughts when I heard that our consulate in Benghazi had been overrun with four Americans being killed was, where was FAST (Fleet Anti-terrorist Security Team)? While I read news reports that special operations units in Europe had be...

October 20, 2012

The Perfect Candidate

I just spoke with my thirty-something niece -- a very intelligent young woman, an Army wife stationed in Alaska, and a mother of four -- who has been pondering whether to vote for the libertarian candidate in the coming election because Mitt Romney j...

October 20, 2012

An Old War Horse Passes

America lost one of her great old war horses last week when Command Sergeant Major (CSM) Basil L. Plumley passed away at 92 in Columbus, Georgia.  CSM Plumley was probably the country's best-known sergeant major, thanks to Sam Elliott's memorabl...

October 17, 2012

Who in the U.S. Most Deserves In-State Tuition?

In recent times, the term outrage has become so overused as to have been rendered meaningless for the most part.  However, there occasionally does arise a situation that still qualifies as a genuine outrage, and FOX News is reporting this one wh...

October 13, 2012

Biden's Bully Pulpit

The conventional post-debate wisdom has been that Joe Biden's boorish behavior during the VP debate was intentional, at least in part, as a means of firing up the demoralized Democrat base. That the left would even admit that it is demoralized is tel...

September 27, 2012

Their Idealism Was Squandered on a Charlatan

The conventional wisdom is that no one, having made a demonstrably colossal misjudgment, likes to be told, "I told you so." Considering that millions of usually thoughtful voters cast caution to the winds in 2008 and voted for a presidential candidat...

September 25, 2012

We Didn't Leave AARP...AARP Left Us

The report of the AARP convention booing Paul Ryan the other day made me just shake my head and smile wryly.  These are the kind of fools who'd boo the man trying to save their bacon while they remain content to blindly follow a leftist leadersh...

September 12, 2012

DNC used backdrop of Russian ships

Navy Times is reporting that while retired Admiral John Nathman, a rare liberal among the retired, multistar-wearing military, spoke to the delegates in Charlotte, the Democrat campaign operatives showed their true colors by providing him a backdrop ...

September 4, 2012

Narcissist in Chief Selfishly Shortens Soldiers' Holiday

The Commander in Chief got a decidedly cool reception from the troops on a whistle stop at Fort Bliss in El Paso Friday. While this president already is not widely popular with our military, the attitude demonstrated by the shanghaied soldiers in tha...

August 23, 2012

Their Lives, Their Fortunes, and Their Sacred Honor: Spec Ops Warriors Stand Tall

In yet another instance of what is becoming a steady series of incredibly stupid misfires, the clueless Obama campaign has decided to adopt the tactics of that memorably successful Kerry campaign in dealing with criticism from the nation's military. ...

August 21, 2012

How stupid does the Obama campaign think Americans are?

Transparency? Here's some Real Transparency Good grief! How stupid does the Obama campaign think Americans are? How much contempt do those Chicago elitists have for those of us out here clinging to our guns, our religion and because of them and thei...

August 20, 2012

Famous Democrat War Hero Attacks Fellow Warriors. Again

John Kerry is up to his old tricks, doing what he's done all his sorry, sleazy  Democrat life, attempting to discredit American warriors. This time around, John Fraud Kerry is smearing our special operations forces on behalf of probably the only...

August 17, 2012

The Gold Standard of Racism

I watched a Sean Hannity interview last night with Congressman Allen West which elicited a gleaming nugget of liberal Democrat racism of which I was unaware. Most of AT's readers are probably familiar with the viciously racist political ad issued by ...

August 3, 2012

You drop fifteen tons an' whaddaya get?

In a move surely designed to give Iran's militant mullahs pause for thought, the Obama Administration has released information that America's biggest bunker-busting bomb is ready to use. Last week, Air Force Secretary, Michael Donley, told Defense Ne...

July 26, 2012

A President is Known by the Weapons He Chooses...

Talk about a gaffe and a tell, "AK-47s belong in the hands of soldiers, not in the hands of criminals." said President Obama. To the millions of American veterans who have faced multiple enemies around the globe who were armed with the AK 47, this is...

July 24, 2012

Holmes' Firearms Inexperience May Have Saved Lives

It's being reported in the mainstream media that the casualty count in the Aurora shooting could have been much higher but for the fact that the shooter's semi-auto rifle jammed. The Washington Post says authorities found a 100 round capacity drum ma...

July 19, 2012

The Russian Bear in the Geopolitical Woods

Has anyone bothered to consider that perhaps the Russians have several good reasons for standing solid as an ally to Syrian strongman, Hafez Assad? Certainly they must have a strong interest in keeping the lid on their key role in assisting the movem...

July 14, 2012

The Bob Hope of our time

With the exceptions of Bob Hope and Martha Raye, there may be no other American entertainer who has served our armed forces more. That person is Gary Sinise, actor, director, producer writer, musician, a bit of a down home, foot-shuffling, aw-shucks ...

July 5, 2012

Iranian General's Hare-brained Chutzpah

What do you suppose is it about the leaders, particularly the generals and admirals, of so many Middle Eastern nations, that leads them to be so boastful? Is it a cultural thing? Or is their psychological indoctrination as young officers so intense a...

June 23, 2012

The Roles of the Races

I suppose it's truly silly of white victims of black criminals to expect equal treatment by the mainstream media. But still, it's aggravating when we keep getting smacked in the face repeatedly with examples like this. Here we have a spontaneous act ...

June 22, 2012

Why Does Obama Bow?

This is a topic rife with psychological and political implications, most of which will not be welcomed in the liberal world of Obama supporters. This supposedly most confident man we elected to lead our country to greatness back in 2008 seems to have...

June 21, 2012

Fast and Furious Falling Apart

When BATF agents first blew the whistle on what is now known as Operation Fast and Furious, the rationale offered by DoJ for such an evidently foolish operation was that it was designed to allow BATF to track and prosecute the leaders of the Mexi...

June 15, 2012

Special Operations Speaks

The Obama campaign is twisting the truth into political pretzels in attempting to make its candidate appear to be a tough guy in the terror wars. Trying to remake the public image of a pol famous for voting present into that of a steely-eyed, cold-bl...

June 14, 2012

Top Gun's Tough on Lizards Too

When the issue of the dunes sagebrush lizard first became a hot topic last year, it was widely believed in the oil industry that the environmental movement had such a strong and sympathetic ally in the anti-fossil fuels Obama administration, that the...

June 11, 2012

A New Book of Esther

Living in a state politically dominated by Hispanic Democrats, I tend to pay attention to what their spokesmen have to say on political issues, events and outcomes. Aware of their intrinsic conservative instincts on most social, cultural and especial...

June 2, 2012

Phony Halo is no Helmet

As if their candidate needed to further alienate the veteran voting bloc, Obama's clueless handlers have done it again. There were emails circulating on Memorial Day that the presidential security detail had locked down the Vietnam Memorial site earl...

June 2, 2012

Stunning Democrat Hypocrisy

Once again the hypocrisy of the Democratic Party is stunning in its display. Over at Breitbart, Mike Flynn is reporting that the party that is horrified at the prospect of American voters being required to show photo identification has included this ...

May 4, 2012

City of lights

Tonight my wife and I are in the City of Lights: not Paris, but Odessa, Texas, the West Texas oil town made famous by the book movie, and TV series, Friday Night Lights, about its powerhouse, Permian High School championship football teams. What we a...

May 2, 2012

Wielding the Big Stick

The man who made history with his priapic presidency is now on the air letting everyone know that when it comes to cojónes, Obama's are bigger than his. Yep, the Arkansas State Stud is out there going about what a hoss Barry is for hiding in a corner...

May 1, 2012

A Command Level Case of Stolen Valor

Anyone who checks in at the This Ain't Hell command post on a regular basis is all too aware that the first sergeant there suffers neither fools nor phonies gladly. Well I have a guy who qualifies as both that I think is deserving of the first sarge'...

April 30, 2012

Will EPA Crucify Consumers, Too?

EPA regional administrator, Al Armendariz, was in hot water this past week for his embarrassing Romanic/Soviet slip about how he really feels about petro-capitalism. We lumpen-proletariat of New Mexico are quickly learning that he pretty much feels t...

April 29, 2012

There's Saber Rattling and Then There's...

Daily Caller has a report that Iran is boasting that it can place a naval vessel within a threatening distance of New York. According to an article at an Iranian student news agency blog, Rear Admiral, Ali Fadavi told a student audience at the Univer...

April 26, 2012

The Mind of George Zimmerman

Reuters is certainly not known for presenting an unbiased report on American political issues which makes this particular report exceedingly interesting. It is difficult to read through this background of events transpiring in the neighborhood where ...

April 17, 2012

A Fish Rots from the Head Down

We all know the meaning of the proverb: poor leadership leads to poor performance throughout the descendant structure. Subordinate organizations and agencies don't just suddenly take it upon themselves to behave badly. Each of them takes their guidan...

April 16, 2012

Prosecutorial Profiling?

Reading Andrew McCarthy's dissection at NRO of the charging affidavit used in the  indictment of George Zimmerman inspired me to do a bit of legal research. McCarthy, an accomplished prosecutor described the Florida special prosecutor's affidavi...

March 28, 2012

Will Florida Prosecute Holder's People?

For those of you who have been wondering, yes, it is probably illegal for the New Black Panthers to offer a 'dead or alive" reward for George Zimmerman. Over at Pajamas Media, J. Christian Adams, the former justice department lawyer who resigned in p...

March 23, 2012

Obama's Wasteful, Phony Photo Ops Busted

Like many others, The Daily Oklahoman is not amused.  An editorial there questioned why in a time of out-of-control federal spending, is our opportunistic president burning up thousands of gallons of jet fuel and spending millions of taxpayer do...

March 22, 2012

Was Keystone Blocked to Benefit Buffet?

While our anti-petroleum president is visiting oil and pipeline country in a Potemkin photo op attempt to imply that he is what he clearly is not, here's something to ponder. Are you one of those who've wondered why billionaire, Warren Buffet, i...

March 21, 2012

Operation Vast & Obvious Grows Ominous

When Operation Fast & Furious first broke into the news, many of us immediately questioned the DoJ's irrational rationale. The proffered assertion that the program was designed to track firearms purchased in America to  leaders of the Mexica...

March 19, 2012

Operation Vast & Obvious

Breitbart has another one of those vetting videos up today and this time it's Eric Holder's turn in the limelight. In it, Holder, who wields vast power as head of the nation's chief law enforcement agency, explains his attitude towards guns and gun c...

March 17, 2012

Al Qaeda's Least Favorite Network

Writing at the Washington Post, David Ignatius, reveals some telling truths about Al Qaeda and their perceptions of America. Given an early, exclusive look at some of the intelligence derived from the Osama bin Ladin mission and its aftermath, Ignati...

March 11, 2012

More Boycott Boomeranging

The liberals' threatened boycotting of Rush Limbaugh advertisers continues to boomerang back and smack 'em in the mouth. First we had word that some of the threatened advertisers who knee-jerked and  dropped Limbaugh are now trying to get back o...

March 9, 2012

Boycott Boomerang

Liberal moonbats have been howling at their blood-red moon in joyful glee and salivating at the prospect of Rush Limbaugh being a red-meat victim of the Democrats' latest political sucker punch. That sucker punch came in the form of a winsome Trojan ...

March 7, 2012

Obama - The #1 gun salesman in history

It's been noted here before that Barack Obama and his anti-gun Chicago cronies are the firearms industry's best friends. From his election onward, Obama has been the top firearms and ammunition salesman in America. Despite what liberals like to belie...

March 6, 2012

Shovel-Ready Jobs in the Central Valley

I was temporarily heartened to read that a Republican congressman from California had introduced legislation to return badly needed irrigation to that state's Central Valley.  Investor's Business daily, in an editorial noted that Representative ...

March 3, 2012

Will Obama Have to Buy a Used Volt?

Barack Obama recently told an audience of auto workers that he would personally buy a Chevy Volt when he leaves office five years from now. Based on the information coming out of Detroit today, he may have to buy a used one. The Detroit Free Press is...

February 20, 2012

George Stephanopoulos: Stalking Horse or Duck Decoy?

I suppose you could label George Stephanopoulos a stalking horse: A stalking horse is a person who tests a concept with someone or mounts a challenge against them on behalf of an anonymous third party. If the idea proves viable and/or popular, the a...

February 18, 2012

Project Gunrunner Wasn't Fast and Furious by Any Means

For those of you who have the unenviable task of debating liberals in your family or workplace, let me render some aid. Liberals are jumping all over the falsehood that Fast & Furious was conceived and put into play during the Bush Administration...

February 14, 2012

Getting Clipped in (and by) Congress

This article about the Congressional Barber Shop caught my eye because I have actually seen the place, although just in passing, en route to another perk. And true to my personal experience of decades ago, our congressional elite continue to benefit ...

February 14, 2012

Missing Californians

The Sacramento Bee website is reporting that the number of top-income taxpayers in California has declined by a third. In an article in its Capitol Alert section, the Bee says that those Californians with $500,000 and up taxable incomes have declined...

February 8, 2012

Operation F&F...Three Critical Questions

One blog author who has been persistent in pursuing the truth about Operation Fast & Furious is Bob Owen who is a frequent contributor to PJMedia. Today he has a piece there wherein he posits three questions that badly need to be asked by those i...

February 8, 2012

Fast and Furious: The silence of Latino Leaders

If you don't peruse the readers' comments when reading posts here at American Thinker, you're making a mistake. I pay particular attention to the comments posted to my own pieces because they frequently contain insights on issues which I had not prev...

February 6, 2012

Border Patrol Overtime is Taxpayers' Bargain

I read with both interest and perplexity an Associated Press article in Sunday's Albuquerque Journal regarding the issue of Border Patrol overtime. AP reporter, Alicia Caldwell,* while not outright calling the situation abusive, certainly hinted at t...

February 3, 2012

Covering Up Fast & Furiously

The Fast and Furious investigation in Congress is becoming even more fast and furious with Congressional Chairman Issa threatening a contempt citation against Attorney General Eric Holder. Last week's Friday document dump by the DoJ once again added ...

February 2, 2012

De-Nuking Iran (continued)

A few months back I wrote a piece for AT speculating that Israel was behind the many mysterious explosions at Iranian nuclear facilities. Because of the laughable attempts by the Iranians to explain away every one of these baffling blasts as accident...

January 30, 2012

Most. Polarizing. President. Ever.

The Washington Post is reporting that Barack Obama, whose campaign touted him as a great unifier, is the most polarizing president ever. Comparing Obama's approval/disapproval ratings, the Post's Chris Cilliza, finds that in his third year in office,...

January 29, 2012

An Historical Precedent of Peace through Superior American Firepower

There is a YouTube video containing a bit of American history that should probably interest the many gun-owning readers of American Thinker. The video has to do with the little known Girandoni Air Rifle, a unique, repeating, .46 caliber rifle capable...

January 24, 2012

A Fifth Purple Heart?

Vietnam Vets Can Only Hope that it was one of them, seeking long-overdue justice for the rest of us, that John Kerry finally encountered. The pompous pol, who famously ran on his dubious combat record and who also famously vilified his fellow warrior...

January 16, 2012

Not so fast, Secretary Panetta

In the matter of the micturating Marines, Defense Secretary, Leon Panetta, is making a major election year mistake by letting his actions be guided by hysterical liberals. Following a by-now- to-be-expected, politically-correct protocol, Panetta and ...

January 14, 2012

The Santa Fe De-Tent

Apparently even politically-correct liberals have limits to their tolerance. After initially issuing a warm welcome to the vanguard of the Occupy Santa Fe protestors back in October, Mayor David Coss, a liberal Democrat and former public employee uni...

January 13, 2012

Americans don't share liberal outrage over urinategate

The liberal media and administration officials are seething with shocked outrage at the release of a video depicting the desecration by urination of three Taliban corpses by four U.S. Marines. Interestingly, the American public is neither a...

January 12, 2012

Mystery: Angry Black Woman Angry at Her Angry Black Woman Image...

Michelle Obama is in the news loyally defending her husband's dubious record of political accomplishments while denying her own record as an angry, difficult first lady who has disrupted White House operations. In an interview with CBS the feisty fi...

January 1, 2012

Arson is the poor man's WMD

Arson is the poor man's weapon of mass destruction. A box of matches, even a single match, can ignite a conflagration that consumes untold lives and results in unimaginable property loss. Nothing else is required other than the grudge driving the act...

December 30, 2011

Occupy Santa Fe. Seriously?

Not to be outdone by their counterparts on Wall Street and Washington, a few dozen bored rich kids launched Occupy Santa Fe a couple of months back. No Valley Forge types these, though, not when it's snowing in Santa Fe and heaven forbid, they find t...

December 15, 2011

'Carrying The Mexican's Water'

Here in New Mexico, we may be on the cutting edge of a major political phenomenon that is inevitably going to expand nationwide.  Last night, via TV news, we were treated to a dustup between a black female state legislator, a double-dipping prod...

December 9, 2011

Drone wars

US government responses to the reporting this past week about the downed US military drone  in Iran leave me wondering if we and some third-world thugs aren't being snookered. Purportedly one of our most technologically advanced unmanned aerial ...

November 29, 2011

De-Nuking Iran One Baghdadbobbian Blast at a Time

News sources are reporting another major explosion from a city in Iran very near a nuclear weapons development site. This comes only two weeks after another such explosion. In both cases the Iranian government, in full baghdadbobbian* mode, denies th...

November 28, 2011

On the Playing Fields of Eton...

I spent the waning hours of Thanksgiving weekend in true American fashion, watching NFL football. Doing so, I was reminded of how we seem to be ignoring the key enzyme which enables the muscle function of the Great American Success Story: competition...

November 2, 2011

The experience needed to run the government

A sergeant major is running for Congress. That's something special and important. If you don't understand why, read on. Today I got an email that made immediately grabbed my attention. It said, "CVFC Endorses SgtMaj Kuiken for Texas-15. CVFC is Comb...

September 26, 2011

Fighting Fire with Ire

In preparation for a drive out to Yosemite, I took the convertible in for an oil change the other day. As usual, I grabbed a magazine to pass the time. Instead of the typical automotive-themed periodical I picked up Fire Fighter a mag published by th...

September 24, 2011

Do we want another smooth talker? Or a doer?

Watching the debate, I'm admittedly taken in a bit by the smooth delivery of Mitt Romney and a bit disappointed in the rather halting, clumsy responses of Rick Perry to the inevitable attacks on the front runner. Romney is the better debater as he wa...

September 20, 2011

Formulating Policy on Fairy Tales

The Obama Administration may have thought itself quite clever to label its call for a huge tax hike, the Buffet Rule. However, even some in their usual media hallelujah chorus are choking on the phony premise behind the label. With his admonition tha...

September 17, 2011

Huntsman's doubletalk on creating jobs

Why is no one among the Republican candidates raising the issue with Jon Huntsman about his family's corporation moving jobs to China?  I remember reading years ago in the Albuquerque Journal about the Huntsman Corporation closing down a facilit...

September 13, 2011

Obama's Big Game and the Band's a No-Show...

Washington Post columnist, Dana Milbank, may have revealed more than he realized with his recent column on the Obama speech. Aptly entitled,  "The irrelevancy of the Obama presidency," Milbank describes the general air of unconcern and overt Rep...

September 1, 2011

How Do You Say Sayonara in Farsi?

I searched for the Web for the proper translation but to no avail. All I want to do is bid Sayonara to the Iranian Navy's Fifteenth Fleet as it sails into harm's way. And, boy, do I ever mean harm's way. As the Israeli Navy begins a buildup of warshi...

September 1, 2011

A Day that will live in Idiocy

They really should know better than to spout stuff like this. Last night, a Democrat mouthpiece on Hannity compared the Speaker's refusal of Obama's address to Congress on the same night as the Republican debates as comparable to denying FDR the oppo...

August 31, 2011

Hypocrisy hiding behind a Hurricane

Last week Captain Leonard Egland, an eighteen year Army veteran, shot and killed four people in a brief murder rampage.  CPT Egland was the first military officer involved in the taking of so many lives since the Fort Hood shooting almost two ye...

August 29, 2011

And just who are the Morons?

Rick Perry made bad grades at Texas A&M and is therefore a moron according to the media liberals now attacking him. Remember how the Democrats and their yipping media dogs knipped at George Bush's ankles in similar fashion because of his poor gra...

August 26, 2011

Texas Tames the Dogs of Tort

Rick Perry is a trial lawyer's worst nightmare.  Tort reform in Texas has paid off in job growth ,and the lessons for the nation are too clear.  Back in June, I predicted in a piece here at American Thinker that if Perry entered the pr...

August 19, 2011

Charles Rangel, R.I.P.

Charles Rangel, long-serving congressperson from New York City was buried this past evening. Presiding over his interment was guest host of the Bill O'Reilly show, Laura Ingraham. The proceedings were an unceremonious and unfortunate end to the caree...

August 17, 2011

Deep Fried Messiah

That cocky new Republican rooster strutting around the barnyard has chicken liberals throwing hissy fits all over the hen house. Since that big ol' Red State Rick announced he wants to rule the roost from that comfortable white coop in Washington, li...

August 8, 2011

Huffpo leading Dems into the swamp

Rick Perry was a lousy student. So says the Huffington Post and has posted Perry's Texas A&M transcript to back their claim. Imagine the gleeful chortling among their liberal readership as they envision this revelation to be a fearful blow to Per...

August 3, 2011

Much More than a Third Rate Burglary

To believe that no top administration officials were involved in Operation Fast and Furious is not only disingenuous, it's dumb.  Of course some top Obama administration officials were involved, if for no other reason than contemporary bureaucra...

July 31, 2011

Perry's Practical Point

Writing at Real Clear Politics in an article entitled Rick Perry's Roots: A World of Difference From Washington, Erin McPike includes some quotes from Perry's book, Fed Up! which we all should take to heart. Perry, an adamant states' rights/small fed...

July 29, 2011

McCain, the Republican Joe Lieberman

I'm no psychiatrist, psychologist or mental therapist of any stripe but I do have the normal range of observations of human behavior and I gotta tell you this McCain is operating on different wavelengths from the rest of us conservative Republicans. ...

July 27, 2011

Through the Looking Glass: the Injustice Department

Regarding M. Catharine Evans blog article on the recently issued Executive Order, Blocking Property of Transnational Criminal Organizations, I find a number of things to be rather curious.  For instance, of the four listed target organizations, ...

July 24, 2011

Dissecting Democrats

James Taranto, writing at WaltStreetJournal.com has just made me spew coffee on the keyboard.  Commenting on a fawning Obama piece in the Boston Globe by Joshua Green, wherein Green compares Obama's character traits to those of Dr. Spock of Star...

July 22, 2011

Chicken Liberals

I don't listen to Michael Savage much, just as I don't listen to much talk radio at all because I live in an area where clear broadcasts of such are not readily available. That being said, one rare occasion when I was listening to the good Dr. Savage...

July 16, 2011

Throwin' Br'er Perry in the Briarpatch

Ah those clever atheists-attacking Rick Perry so publicly with a lawsuit to protest his participation in The Response, a gathering of Christians in Houston's Reliant Stadium on August 6th for a day of prayer. While tending to admire freethinkers, hav...

July 15, 2011

The Real 'Under the Radar' Target of Operation Fast and Furious

In previous articles here at American Thinker dealing with the ATF gun smuggling scandal there has been mention made of the suspicions of many Americans (as evidenced by comments from AT readers) that Operation Fast and Furious was a politically moti...

July 15, 2011

Is The First Dude Still Toking?

Obama famously admitted using marijuana and cocaine and the media gave him a pass unlike their skewering of his predecessor for similar youthful indiscretions. The question in my mind today is this, "Is this guy still toking?" That could explain the ...

July 11, 2011

The Silence of the Fawns

Here in New Mexico we've had almost 650,000 acres devastated by wildfires this year. That's more than a thousand square miles. 120,000 of those acres have burned very close, far too close to the home where my wife and I lately have been living in con...

July 7, 2011

Too Hot for Holder

The Attorney General has more than the Fast and Furious scandal to worry about.  Eric Holder dropped the Justice Department's investigation into the Bill Richardson pay-to-play scandals, but thanks to a civil lawsuit, dots may get connected on t...

July 5, 2011

Another liberal pundit opens his eyes

An op-ed written in the L.A. Times by confessed left-leaner Rick Wartzman, may well be the first crack in the dam of case-hardened, liberal doctrine.  Entitled Texas, the Jobs Engine, the article is just chock full of delicious quotes, several o...

July 1, 2011

A Dangerous Point of View...Indeed

Congressman John Conyers, Democrat from Michigan, has just served up the money quote regarding his party's true position on doing something about our nation's budget woes: "This is the first time that I can remember being confronted by members of th...

June 27, 2011

Texas...the Very Best of the 57 States

One of the most powerful arguments that could be mounted in the upcoming presidential election could come from only one of the potential challengers: Rick Perry. The economic engine driving the Texas economy isn't going full pedal to the medal but, e...

June 25, 2011

Flying Follies

My tolerance for trousers riding low on the hips of young men trying to be hip is low; and if six inches or so of underwear is showing it drops even lower. When an intergluteal cleft (that's butt crack to you, Bubba) is visible that tolerance vanishe...

June 24, 2011

A Clueless, Callous Commander-in-Chief

Obama's bumbling, bungled delivery at Fort Drum yesterday represents far more than mere confusion; it clearly demonstrates a lack of care, an inattention to detail in matters very important to his audience, an insensitivity to the families of dead wa...

June 23, 2011

The Trojan Elephant

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June 22, 2011

Not another Texan? How about not another Ivy League Lawyer?

The liberal media are already tipping their hands as to whom they fear most as a Republican presidential candidate and it should come as no surprise that it's Texas Governor, Rick Perry. And just as they did with John McCain back in 2008, they are sh...

June 18, 2011

Taking the Longer, Unsettled, View...

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June 17, 2011

Imported from Detroit...Misguided Marketing

With what I consider one of the dumbest advertising campaigns ever, Chrysler kicked off 2011 with a Super Bowl ad employing the truly irritating slogan: Imported from Detroit, and a white rapper, all paid for by the way with taxpayers' bail-out money...

June 16, 2011

Wasserman-Schultz: Democrats 'Own the Economy'

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June 16, 2011

The Most Shovel-Ready Job in America

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June 15, 2011

Perry will be targeted by Ambulance Chasers

In his appearance with Neil Cavuto on FOX News today, Rick Perry telegraphed which issue may separate him from the herd of Republican candidates if he enters the presidential race: tort reform. He mentioned it at least four times-I wasn't counting an...

June 14, 2011

WikiLeaks? How about WeinerLeaks?

An astute commenter on one of my previous blog posts at American Thinker posited an aspect of the Weiner scandal which, quite frankly, I hadn't previously considered nor have I seen mentioned elsewhere in all the media coverage. Anthony Weiner is a c...

June 13, 2011

Weiner's 'Official' Problem

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June 12, 2011

Rick Perry's Conservative Credentials

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June 11, 2011

America's Poochatroopers

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June 11, 2011

Why Weiner can't quit

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June 10, 2011

Weiner is no Tiger Woods

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June 7, 2011

Democrats are right...it's not about Sex...

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June 6, 2011

Sarah Rides Roughshod over Media Mutts

I don't think Sarah Palin could possibly have picked a better way to attract the attention and the admiration of millions of Americans than by the tactic she's employing: making total fools of the liberal media that has done its very damnedest to des...

May 30, 2011

Allen West, All the Way, Someday?

It's not often this old Airborne line doggie (that's a paratrooper infantryman for those of you unfamiliar with military lingo) gets a thrill up his leg, to borrow a phrase from someone I'm sure knows absolutely nothing about military lingo.  Bu...

May 26, 2011

The Dark Horse Who Could Win It All

If you were to compile a list of attributes that could make a dark horse Republican candidate the next President of the United States it might look something like this: Raised on a ranch in a 60's family of politically active, conservative Democrats ...

May 25, 2011

Ich bin ein Israeli

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May 19, 2011

Where's Reverend Sharpton?

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May 19, 2011

Dems Unleash the Dogs of Fear

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May 16, 2011

Hits Keep on Coming for Bill Richardson

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May 12, 2011

Lost in Translation

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May 11, 2011

OBL: deadly yes; sophisticated, not even close

What is the inarguable truth coming out of the video and still photography coverage of the bin Laden raid is that this saint of radical Islam, Osama bin Laden, must have taken vows of poverty and denial.  C'mon, the shots of that so-called milli...

May 9, 2011

CSI Santa Fe...Closing in on Big Bill?

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May 5, 2011

Not a Paper Tiger...but maybe a Cardboard Cowboy?

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May 3, 2011

Whiskey for our SEALs, Beer for their Horses...

While we must indeed praise the bravery and efficiency of the Navy SEALS in killing Osama bin Laden, we should not forget that this was a multi-service operation. In particular, we should also be celebrating the bravery and incredible aviator skills ...

April 23, 2011

Can a Lizard Raise Your Gas Prices?

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April 16, 2011

More Obama Administration Whatever...

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April 15, 2011

Medicaid, Medicare, whatever...

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April 6, 2011

Formed in the fire

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April 4, 2011

Liberals proved spectacularly wrong about traffic deaths

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March 23, 2011

Drill, Bebê, Drill...

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March 17, 2011

Ray Nagin clone in the White House

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March 15, 2011

Dayton's disgrace

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March 15, 2011

An Abominable Discrepancy

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March 1, 2011

The Ideal Liberal Car...

There's an independent report out today on General Motor's much-vaunted Chevy Volt and it's rather enlightening. According to the Detroit News, Consumer Report's April annual vehicle survey issue isn't chorusing the Obama Administrations loud hosanna...

February 21, 2011

Awakening another sleeping giant

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February 11, 2011

The 'youth' revolution in Egypt has a lot of grizzled faces

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February 9, 2011

It's all about perceptions when it comes to racial issues

The St. Petersburg Times is reporting on its tampabay.com that former St. Petersburg police chief, Goliath Davis, who is now the city's senior administrator of community enrichment, with a current salary of $152,735 and a police pension of $68,317, c...

February 4, 2011

It ain't peanuts, Jimmy

Several news sources were reporting yesterday that on top of the tens of thousands of dollars he receives in pension benefits, ($199,000) and more hundreds of thousands in Secret Service protective services and office/personal staffing expenses, Jimm...

February 3, 2011

A simple question for Al Gore

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February 3, 2011

Which is the party of 'No?'

I've been giving some thought to this business of Democrats and their paper-trained media pets referring to Republicans as the Party of No primarily because of Republican refusal to roll over and play dead on ObamaCare. The following are some issues ...

February 2, 2011

Does gun control work? Look south, you fools

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January 15, 2011

Liberal Schizophrenia?

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January 14, 2011

Hypocrisy, the Liberal God

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January 12, 2011

'A commonplace ritual of democracy'

Normally you would never find me quoting the Chicago Tribune but in the aftermath of the Tucson shooting that newspaper published an editorial with, for them, some uncommon good sense. It was a scene out of a Norman Rockwell painting. On a sunny Satu...

January 11, 2011

Of Loose Lips and Deadly Quips...

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January 10, 2011

Would you run to the sound of the guns?

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January 7, 2011

Terminally Clueless

You don't know whether to laugh at their seeming idiocy or pity their deafness and blindness, but it appears that the Democratic leadership has a contest going to see who can make the dumbest public statements. In the last few days they've been tramp...

January 5, 2011

Foolish Fooling with the Filibuster

It's not surprising to anyone with a lick of sense that now that the Democrats are losing power in Congress and are reduced to a small majority in the Senate, that they would seek to change the rules to do away with the filibuster. With the House bei...

December 30, 2010

Not so Fast There, Bill

Before the liberal media get too far along in the consecration of lame duck New Mexico governor Bill Richardson as Hillary Clinton's successor at the State Department, they'd best take a look at this letter which appeared in a photo as part of a fron...

December 25, 2010

A bit of Christmas whimsy

For AT readers, may I offer just a bit of human whimsy for the Christmas holidays? I just spoke with an old friend in Florida, himself now in his eighties, and when my wife and I complained about the seemingly never-ending process of cleaning out her...

December 20, 2010

Not so Fast There, Bill...

San Francisco Chronicle columnist, Debra Saunders' article, The Democrats' New Pork: Trains to Nowhere, at Real Clear Politics, points out how newly elected Republican governors in Ohio and Wisconsin are rejecting high speed rail projects the feds ar...

December 19, 2010

No-Labels or Enabling Labeling?

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December 18, 2010

Profiling: American as Apple Pie...

Profiling is an essential part of organized life, and it is accepted as normal in most circumstances.  It all depends on who is being profiled and who is protesting. Selwyn Duke recently discussed demographic profiling in an AT article where he ...

December 12, 2010

The Man without a Constituency

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December 9, 2010

State Property isn't Public Property?

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December 8, 2010

The Third War on Terror

In the same period during which almost 1,400 U.S. troops have been killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, nearly 7,000 Mexican citizens have been killed by drug violence.  And that Mexican toll goes up every week in far larger increments than the one f...

December 8, 2010

The Savior of Conservatism

As the first decade of the 21st Century approaches its close, I have been giving considerable consideration to the subject of what politician has best served the cause of conservatism in the first ten years of the new century. Try as I might, I canno...

December 5, 2010

Too Fishy for Words

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December 3, 2010

Michael Vick is undeserving of our admiration

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November 30, 2010

What if the Somali bomber in Portland had succeeded?

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November 22, 2010

START Treaty: More teeny-bopper legislating

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November 20, 2010

It's the Political Correctness, Stupid!

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November 18, 2010

Our Next Black President?

When it rains it pours; or such would appear to be the case from this latest, rather startling, political announcement. America limps along for a couple of centuries without a single black president and now here we are less than half way through the ...

November 16, 2010

End of the Beginning and Beginning of the End

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November 15, 2010

What's Wrong with This Picture?

What does it say about the state of American justice when death row inmates are dying of natural causes? That's right, Bubba, the El Paso Times reports that a Texas inmate who had been on death row for 35 years has succumbed to the natural rigors of,...

November 6, 2010

In Texas, Hispanic Republicans show the way (Updated)

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October 31, 2010

A real 'Yellow Dog' Congressman

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October 30, 2010

Meek goes under the bus; whither black America?

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October 26, 2010

Is New Mexico turning purple?

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October 12, 2010

Carville may be regretting his most famous phrase

You can file this one either in the, "Just Too Rich for Words," or the, "How Do You Spell Irony?"categories. James Carville, who famously created the Bill Clinton campaign catch phrase,       ...

October 11, 2010

More Egg on Dem Faces

Almost a month ago AT posted my piece on the ineptitude of the Dems when they attacked New Mexico Republican gubernatorial candidate, Susan Martinez, with an NEA funded television ad featuring schoolteacher, Freda Trujillo, speaking out against Ma...

October 9, 2010

Our Gangsta Rapper in Chief

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October 7, 2010

Slaughtering Cosmetically Correct Pigs

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October 3, 2010

Sloppy Shooting

The more we learn about this business of Meg Whitman, Republican gubernatorial candidate in California, supposedly hiring an undocumented worker as a domestic the more we have to ask ourselves, how on earth did Gloria Allred ever become known as a ho...

October 1, 2010

Animal Farm 2010: Horsing Around with Porkulus

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September 30, 2010

The Invisible Militia

America's liberal media routinely demonstrate a formulaic knee-jerk response to the threat of white militias no matter what disorganized, shapeless form any such rag-tag organizations may take. Any white lunatic who perpetrates a violent event is imm...

September 28, 2010

Mexico building fence to keep out...illegal aliens

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September 27, 2010

Kerry proved a phony once again

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September 17, 2010

From Both Sides of Their Mouths

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September 15, 2010

Sloppy Democrats in New Mexico

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September 12, 2010

An Airborne Salute to MOH recipient Staff Sergeant Salvatore Giunta

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September 10, 2010

The Municipal Maw of America's Abyss

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September 5, 2010

Flirting with the Teens (updated)

Do you suppose anyone in the White House or the state-controlled media organ has run the latest presidential approval numbers where the daily Rasmussen tracking poll has Obama's strongly approve rating at 24% to calculate what that actually means? Le...

September 2, 2010

Of bedbugs and Muslim slumlords

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September 1, 2010

It's Not Just a New York Issue

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August 30, 2010

Obama makes the case for helmetless cyclists

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August 28, 2010

Ground Zero hypocrites

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August 26, 2010

Karl Rove: cerebral media star

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August 25, 2010

'Merely uninformed'

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August 23, 2010

What the Obama administration isn't telling you about the troops who are left in Iraq

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August 17, 2010

What If It Were the Westboro Initiative?

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August 15, 2010

Could Jews Be the Saviors of America?

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August 11, 2010

Harry vs. Hispanics

Harry Reid must by now be acquiring an epicurean appreciation for the flavor of footwear, considering how often he manages to wedge his wingtips firmly in that mealy mouth. If Harry ever gets athletes foot he'll have to get it treated by a dentist. O...

August 11, 2010

Rub a Dub Dub, a Really Dumb Snub

Excuse me? The president refuses to take a letter from the chief executive of a geopolitical entity with an economy equal to or greater than that of Canada or India? And it's critical state in the president's very own country, a state with the potent...

August 11, 2010

Here's one union that gets it

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August 6, 2010

For the children?

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August 5, 2010

A 'prairie fire' sweeping the nation

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July 29, 2010

What we need in this country is Obama ShamHow!

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July 26, 2010

Big Bill Richardson to pardon Bill the Kid?

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July 13, 2010

Department of 'Just Us'

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July 10, 2010

Leaving Las Vegas - if they re-elect Reid

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July 9, 2010

When Good Trees Go Bad

Alas for the poor trees of the world! Those who had previously embraced them without qualification have now suddenly seemed to develop an aversion similar to that of the lied-to lover. In its attempt to put the best possible spin on the latest whitew...

July 7, 2010

Why isn't the media covering the paramilitary aspect of the Black Panther case?

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July 5, 2010

'Oilbama'

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July 5, 2010

Republicans Must Govern Responsibly

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July 4, 2010

Fiddling While the Oil Churns

For those interested, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has a fascinating animated, day-by-day accounting of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill available at its Environmental Visualization Laboratory website. Someone should make a cont...

July 1, 2010

Every right can be misused

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June 27, 2010

Steyn on lefty hypocrisy

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June 27, 2010

Don't forget the media, Dr. Hanson

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June 24, 2010

Another Man-caused Disaster

The Obama administration and its public affairs department, the liberal media, go to ridiculous extremes to convince the American people that we are not at war with Muslims but rather with only a tiny minority segment of cave-dwelling, Middle Eastern...

June 22, 2010

Where's the tape, Mr. President?

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June 19, 2010

Tilting at windmills

For those readers at American Thinker who agree with the leftist environmentalists that America should become less dependent on fossil fuels and expand our support of alternative methods of energy generation such as wind power, I have a bit of advice...

June 18, 2010

Ship of state? Or ship of fools?

The State Ship (S.S.) Obama, which has been taking on water continuously since its launch in January 2009, and was most recently torpedoed by the sub-marine mishaps of a callous British offshore insurgency into the Gulf of Mexico, is now listing seve...

June 17, 2010

GOP women: Some tough mothers

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June 15, 2010

Are Dem donkeys guarding Dem hen houses?

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June 13, 2010

Drug cartels attacking rehab centers

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May 20, 2010

Dem governor cracks down on illegal children

As everyone knows the only people in America who are so heartless as to report illegal immigrants to the immigration cops are evil conservative Republicans like those profiling fascists in Arizona, right?Right?Well not so fast there, Bubba. Left wing...

May 20, 2010

New Mexico to begin reporting illegal children to ICE

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May 18, 2010

Another Phony Democrat War Veteran

No one is more abhorrent to us veterans than the jerk who never served but dons a uniform, adorns it with badges and patches, usually of some special operations organization like Army Special Forces, Rangers or Navy SEALS, and awards himself multiple...

May 18, 2010

Papers please, old timer

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May 17, 2010

Creating a national hairball

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May 16, 2010

The most trusted man in America?

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May 14, 2010

Sloppy Jihadists

Think about something for a minute: Are these Islamic, jihadist terrorists who have captured the attention and imagination of the world as truly diabolical and fearsome as our media has blown them up to be? Sorry, just couldn't resist that. So, exami...

May 11, 2010

Chris Van Winkle

Did Chris Matthews just wake up from a thirty-plus year snooze in the Catskills? This video of his interview with Jim Cramer is surreal at best and bizarre at worst. Where the hell has this spokesman for the Left been for the past thirty or forty yea...

May 11, 2010

What's the difference if it's for security reasons?

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May 9, 2010

Dripping with Irony; 'Los Suns'

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May 9, 2010

Do liberals really want to talk about 'racial profiling?'

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May 7, 2010

'When will they ever learn?'

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May 4, 2010

Saving the Toadies from a Frog-Strangler

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April 30, 2010

Go West Old Man...

The liberal establishment is in high dudgeon over the courageous action taken by the people of Arizona to deal with a federal government problem that Washington is both unwilling and unprepared to handle. Abetted as always by their media mouthpieces,...

April 30, 2010

Into the Volcano; Gov. Bill Richardson named one of America's worst

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April 15, 2010

Subverting the Subversives

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April 10, 2010

Steyn on Thought Police

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April 1, 2010

Well, we know our virtue is intact

Well, we know our vrtue is intactThis is just too priceless. In an interview with Boston Globe writers, Gayle Fee and Laura Raposa, actress Dana Delaney recounts a date she had with then bachelor, John Kerry:The Phillips Andover alum met Kerry, then ...

March 31, 2010

A handy guide to who is a racist in America

In an article entitled, "What's the Matter with White People?", Salon.com continues the leftist meme that all the political discord in this country is the fault of the racist white majority, which represents, as of 2008, some two-thirds of ...

March 26, 2010

Out-dumbing the dumb left

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March 15, 2010

They Fought for You now You Fight for Them

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March 13, 2010

Embarrassing and envious screed by former Times executive editor

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March 12, 2010

Democrats running away from Obama

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March 11, 2010

America Swings Like a Pendulum Do...

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March 5, 2010

A new battle cry for fed up Americans

Grover Norquist, head of Americans for Tax Reform, used an expression yesterday that should become the battle cry of all Americans fed up with Washington politicians who arrogantly refuse to listen to the wishes of those who elected them to office....

February 27, 2010

Cowardly Rangel seeks to blame his staff for ethical lapses

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February 25, 2010

Bill Richardson, Albatross

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February 23, 2010

Sail on, Oh Newsweek...

Wow, when even the diehard lefties manning the bridge at Newsweek begin to worry that there may be icebergs ahead in those swiftly rising seas, you have to wonder if the global ardor for global warming isn't cooling more than just a bit. But in what ...

February 20, 2010

Blue on blue: Moveon targeting Blanche Lincoln in primary?

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February 17, 2010

Laughter is the best weapon against AGW believers

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February 16, 2010

Tea Party truths

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February 15, 2010

Who is it that believes in science, Dr. Dean?

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February 14, 2010

DHS and its trouble with enemy identification

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February 12, 2010

'Uppity is' as 'uppity does'

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February 10, 2010

The Goracle deserves a Nobel for humor

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February 7, 2010

IPCC circles the wagons

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February 2, 2010

NM Governor RIchardson's aide indicted

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January 31, 2010

A practical lesson in populism for Obama

President Obama has finally listened to the American people and rightly decided that New York City is an inappropriate venue for trying 9/11 terrorists. Well and good. May this humble citizen make a suggestion, Mr. President?Let's try ‘em in Te...

January 30, 2010

Our narrow escape in 2004

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January 22, 2010

Map lessons

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January 21, 2010

Not quite a lame duck

It may be a trifle audacious to label Obama a lame duck this early in his administration but he has certainly earned another ornithological epithet, albatross.There's an old joke about the scariest words a citizen can hear, "Hello. I'm from the ...

January 15, 2010

Big Bad Bill and Dem FOB's

Corruption by Democrats in New Mexico so commonplace that it is becoming an expectation that state newspapers will have a front-page scandal story du jour. Readers are seldom disappointed. Our globetrotting, celebrity fan governor, Bill Richardson, w...

January 13, 2010

UN out of the US! Try Dubai

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January 11, 2010

What would Mama and Papa do?

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January 9, 2010

The National Championship that wasn't

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January 1, 2010

Wanted: Adult Supervision for White House

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December 28, 2009

If the terrorist had been a Christian

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December 18, 2009

'Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow'

Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow...Oh the weather in Denmark's frightful,But the irony's so delightful,That everywhere Al Gore goes,It just snows and it snows and it snows.When will Al ever see the light?Will he ever go out in the storm?Or does ...

December 18, 2009

An Escalading trend

I am a strong believer in the long-term growth of energy stocks and this announcement from the Chinese during the Copenhagen farce just reinforces the validity of that strategy for me. As the Chinese wisely recognize, it is the nature of man and the ...

December 10, 2009

Climate science in Flyover Country

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December 9, 2009

'I'm a Believer'

I'm a Believer(With apologies to The Monkees and dedicated to Senator Barbara Boxer - Ma'am)I bought into Al Gore's climate fairy tales,Meant for tin-hat lemmings just like me;Al was out to get me,With his scary themes,Disappearing icecaps haunted my...

December 2, 2009

Is there an endless supply of oil?

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September 22, 2009

A Liar for Sure

The debate will continue as to the legitimacy of Congressman Wilson's charge against the president, "You lie!" But one thing we know for sure now is that a leading contender for the Democratic nomination, a man Barack Obama could have selec...

September 15, 2009

Taking American Jobs

Engage any liberal in conversation about illegal immigration and it won't be long before you hear this Democrat talking point, "Well, they're only filling jobs that Americans refuse to take anyway." That claim has become holy writ among the...

September 8, 2009

GOP missing a big issue

What on earth is the Republican Party thinking? Or rather, what is it foolishly ignoring? The Obama administration has handed Republicans and conservatives a huge club with which to pound their Democrat opponents and to my knowledge, it has been igno...

August 13, 2009

Dem Rep shuns town hall for party dinner

The hottest topic in this small mountain resort community in southern New Mexico, is, just as it is everywhere across the nation, health care reform. Being in a remote area with no congressional office closer than 100 miles, it’s not often we g...

July 15, 2009

Single-payer health care in action

I'm no big fan of the Associated Press as I consider them soapbox hawkers for world socialism in general, and more specifically, anything anti-American that will support that goal. However, as the overused cliché goes, even a stopped clock is ...

July 12, 2009

Ecopalypse Now! (a poem)

*With thanks to Mark Steyn*It's cold, raining non-stop in northeastern states,Other places are freezing on really strange dates;Dry places are drowning in precipitation,"Aha! Global Warming!" cries a fool federationWarm air holds more water...

March 6, 2009

The Straw That Broke... (a poem)

A plodding camel all these years,I strode, I served like all my peers.Conserving what I knew I'd need,I paid no heed to others' greed.My thirst for excess I suppressed,Believing so of all the rest;Just trekking on to greener dreams,Of green oases wit...

November 20, 2008

Drug testing for employment, not welfare (a poem)

We work, we toil through every day,Seeking somehow to make our way.We pay our taxes as we should,To contribute to the greater good.We honestly try to observe the rules,Even the rules bad made by fools.But why in the world should it ever be,That we...

September 27, 2008

Willful Suspension of...

Let's see if I have this straight: Obama just said in last night's debate that Al Qaeda is in sixty countries, sixty countries, folks, count ‘em. But, as he said earlier, not in Iraq. Think about that for a minute. Remember Hillary's "Will...

September 25, 2008

Campaign's Over?

Did anyone else happen to find it strange that Bill Clinton twice the other night in his interview with Greta Van Susteren made reference to the campaign being over? VAN SUSTEREN: How much time are you spending on the road doing this? I mean, ho...

September 10, 2008

Ms. Underestimated (a poem)

Snidely Whiplashes, whiskers a twirl, Villainous mobs of media hacks,Frantically seek to tie down our girl,To their snobby elite railroad tracks;But to her rescue blog heroes flock,Dudley Do-Rights undoing her knots,While Sarah faces the down-ticking...

September 7, 2008

The Loony Left Hemisphere

James Lewis in his September 6th posting, ‘The End of Boomer Weirdness," sent me scrambling to Wikipedia to find the meaning of the term hebephrenic. What I found there led me to this:A form of schizophrenia in which affective changes are ...

September 5, 2008

Democrats and Community Disorganizing

In response to Rudy Giuliani's and Sarah Palin's convention jibes at The O's experiences as a community organizer, the Obama campaign is issuing statements of outrage, reminding us all that Barack Obama was ministering to South Chicago residents whos...

September 5, 2008

Chains We Can Believe In

Okommissars dour crave total power,An iron hand to rule this nation,Not to debate but incarcerateThose guilty of deviation.You'll have no role in thought control,No matter whom you do know.They'll ship your butt to an icy hut,In a camp far north of J...

September 2, 2008

She's Running Against... (a poem)

She's running against old Scranton Joe,Whose blue-collar pedigree we all know,Because mainstream media says it's true,Though facts don't quite support that view.Joe says himself he's middle class,But the MSM considers that crass;Middle Class? That's ...

August 21, 2008

Obama's Swift Boat?

A week ago an old Marine buddy sent me a link to a You tube video that after viewing it, caused me to sit momentarily stunned by the horror of what I had just seen and heard. The video was that of nurse, Jill Stanek, who had in a completely straightf...

August 17, 2008

The Clueless White Guy Vote

Contrary to their politically correct aims, the advertising industry in this country has created a voting bloc that I am positively sure they never intended. I refer to all us Clueless White Guys, that resentful constituency that for years has endure...

August 13, 2008

First Secretary of Celebrity (a poem)

Hey there’s little Georgie boy,Barack’s new pretty campaign toy.Sure they’re nuts, a little loony, Gotta be to pick George Clooney,As counselor of foreign affairs;Forget this flick, folks, find the stairs.Liaisons, sure he’s e...

August 9, 2008

That Paternity Test

John Edwards may be a fool for love but he's no fool as a lawyer. Faced with the ongoing disclosures by the National Enquirer of his long-standing affair with campaign worker, Rielle Hunter, and the imminent threat that Enquirer was about to publish ...

August 1, 2008

Obamanomics: Lesson One, The Solution to Inflation (a poem)

A well researched and thoughtful approach to solving the problem of high gas prices postulated below by the future savior of mankind.You think I don't know about economics?You fools thinkin' all I read is comics?You sayin' I don't know ‘bout in...

August 1, 2008

Madame Savior of the Planet (a poem)

I'll suffer no challenge from any Republican fool,For I'm Madame Speaker with divine right to rule.It was by liberal colleagues that I was appointed;But it was by God, Himself, that I was anointed.So scoff all you want at my frozen-faced smile,And ey...

July 30, 2008

While in Landstuhl the Wounded Still Lay... (a poem)

As a vet I know how these visits go;They are contrived for the politicians,Who posture, pose for network shows,In controlled choreographed conditions.Obama wants troops in his video loops,To serve as his backdrop to glory;But if the Army says no to a...

July 27, 2008

When Barry Comes Flyin' Home Again...

Best appreciated when humming the tune of the popular Civil War song, "When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again," or the Irish folk classic, "Johnny We Hardly Knew Ye."Also, with sincere apologies to my Hibernian forbears whose folk ...

July 25, 2008

Mine Eyes Have Seen... (a poem)

(With apologies to Julia Ward Howe and her revered Battle Hymn of the Republic)Mine eyes have seen the stories from Obama's media horde;They are trampling out what sanity their liberal brains once stored.How he's using them is frightening, he's becom...

July 13, 2008

Tony, We're Proud We Knew Ye (a poem)

You're on the road to eternity, huroo, huroo,Your spirit's flown your soul is free, huroo, huroo,With wringin' hands and tearful eyes,We pray you hear our mournful cries,And we all feel so sad today,But, Tony, we're proud we knew Ye.Where is that voi...

July 11, 2008

We're Oh So... (a poem)

We’re hip, we’re cool and oh so arty;We’re Democrats, the smarter party.We’re sophisticated unlike you;We understand merci beaucoup.We’re urbane while you’re provincial;We’re worldly-wise, so existential.We...

July 6, 2008

Show Your Gratitude

You're standing in line waiting for your flight to begin boarding as the arriving passengers debark. Suddenly one, two or perhaps a dozen or more military personnel come out off the plane and pass by you. You want to jump over there and shake their h...

June 29, 2008

So Tell Us, Sen. Obama, 'Who Else Sent You?'

It was, of course, inevitable. How could any politician rise so quickly on the legendarily corrupt Chicago political scene and be as pure as Obama's devoted followers were purporting him to be? The question in the minds of skeptics was, "Who sen...

June 25, 2008

But Can He Find Iran on a Map?

In a CQ Politics column, David Korn snidely asks, "Can a Guy (McCain) Who Doesn't Know How To Use a Computer Become President?" Reading the column my first thought was, "Can A Harvard Educated Lawyer Who Doesn't Know Elementary School ...

June 23, 2008

The Real Command Influence

In dismissing the very dubious war crimes charges against Marine LTC Jeffrey Chessani, his trial judge, COL Steven Folsom, said this:"Unlawful command influence is the mortal enemy of military justice,"COL Folsom was referring to influence ...

June 3, 2008

Malignant McClellanonoma

George W. Bush has been accused of almost every transgression attributable to an American president. But one of his most glaring mistakes, as demonstrated by the current cancerous lesion on his backside, Scott McClellan, is Dubya's character flaw of ...

June 2, 2008

Get Me from the Church on Time

[Thanks to Scott Johnson at Powerline for the inspiration and apologies to Lerner & Loewe]I'm gettin' elected in November;Ding, dong the polls are gonna chime.So plug in some stoppers,I'll tell some more whoppers,To get me from this church on tim...

May 18, 2008

The New Geography

It is good, very good indeed to see Barack Obama making good on his promises for meaningful change, even though we're still several months shy of the chief justice actually placing the golden crown upon his handsome, entitled head. No, this is a poli...

May 16, 2008

A**easing the A**easers

The politically correct Left has declared yet more of our natural language off limits to all except themselves.Conservatives, it appears, may no longer under any circumstances apply the terms appease or appeasement to members of the Democratic Party ...

May 13, 2008

Who may use the middle name?

Here we have the man himself using the middle name that no evil conservative may speak: “This is a guy who spent some time in the Muslim world, has a middle name of Hussein, and appears more worldly and has called for talks with people, and so ...

May 11, 2008

With Hillary, follow the money, Dick

In his May 8th column, Dick Morris, who knows the Clintons well, has put forth reasons as to why Hillary won't quit the race. One is the Clintons' sense of entitlement, fueled by an overweening arrogance and disregard for the rules of fair play. Anot...

May 6, 2008

Who is 'Mainstream'?

Why do we refer to those flyover country Americans who maintain their traditional beliefs in God and country as Mainstream Americans while at the same time using the same adjective in a pejorative sense to describe the liberal American media that gle...

May 1, 2008

No Honor Among Sleaze?

Is it possible that the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, despicable hate-mongering racist that he is, may be the one who emerges from this campaign conflict with his integrity intact? In all his smarmy, romancing-the-podium posturing in his tribal dashikis,...

April 4, 2008

Cluck, Cluck, Cluck...

A few weeks ago when Geraldine Ferraro was dumped from the Clinton campaign for speaking the simple, recognized truth by anyone except completely brain-dead Liberals, that Obama would not be where he is today were he white, I said to myself, "Th...

March 29, 2008

A Decades Deep Treasure Trove

Barack Obama's supporters are quick to level the cherry-picking charge in any discussion of Reverend Jeremiah Wright's video vitriol, claiming that Obama's critics are selectively condemning the pastor with but a few exceptional sermons out of twenty...

March 23, 2008

So What Happened to, For the Children?

There has been much back and forth in the media in the days since Obama gave his speech, but I had to wait for the opinion that matters to me:Charles Krauthammer's physical impairment's lend him a rather rigid physical posture in his frequent televis...

February 18, 2008

Chronic Warrior Syndrome

One of the things I've come to love about writing for the Internet is the new friends I make whose perception sometimes make me smack my forehead in wonder that in all my years some insight they easily offer up had so completely eluded me until now. ...

January 19, 2008

Electile Dysfunction (a poem)

It's abundantly clear and I charge without fearNor the slightest degree of compunction,Proven night after night both on left and on right,Our media have electile dysfunction.While hoping to score they've become such a boreWith their overdone, nonstop...

November 12, 2007

Confessions of a Little BIGOIL Baron

As retirees with limited incomes, my wife and I were feeling the pinch of rising energy prices like everyone else. A couple of years ago, following my Capitalist Pig instincts, of which Rush Limbaugh has made me proud, I decided to heed an age-old tr...

November 8, 2007

Re-sinking John Kerry

When I saw this report that John Kerry is finally ready to take on the Swift Boat Veterans, my muse could not be held in check:Re-sinking John KerryFrom Davy Jones' locker a zombie emerges,A Purple Heart phony with political urges;Assuring the press ...

September 10, 2007

Of Eagles and Chickens (a poem)

We Americans are a mix of birds,Some soarers, others grounders;And from their strong, enduring words,More Eagles were among our Founders.But different birds this domain share,Some soaring, some just clucking;While Eagles soar, patrol the air;Penned C...

September 5, 2007

Shoo, Hsu, Baby (a poem)

With apologies to the Andrews Sisters, Phil Moore and Universal Pictures (unless they're all Democrats) Editor's Note: "Hsu" is pronounced "shoo"Shoo, Hsu*, shoo, Baby,Shoo, Hsu, shoo, Baby,Bye, bye, bye, Baby,Do-dah do-day,Big Do...

August 15, 2007

The truly invisible (updated)

Hillary's out with her first ad in Iowa: that the average American is invisible to the current president but will not be to her when she's president. She drives her point home with several examples of specific demographic groups that she maintains ar...

August 14, 2007

Time Out!

Time Magazine follows the New York Times down the tubes. According to Forbes:Time's total paid and verified weekly circulation during the six months ended June 30 stood at 3.4 million, down 17.1% from 4.1 million during the same period last year...

August 11, 2007

Kos Kounting?

The Mainstream Media have fallen all over themselves oohing and aahing about the 1,200 or so nutroots who turned out for the Yearly Kos convention in Chicago. I don't seem to recall such fawning coverage when 30,000 Americans of a more conservative o...

August 6, 2007

Poisoned Penns (a poem)

It runs like a flood beneath their skins,In the veins of these left-leaning actors;From Leo to Sean it seems that all PennsCan’t help but be shrill malefactors.Leo loved Stalin’s world socialist dreams;Sean too has this love for dictators...

July 28, 2007

Not Even a Contest

I'm a soldier; haven't been in uniform in forty years but the six years of active duty I did serve and the ensuing thirty-plus years I've spent working with the U.S. military, instilled in me certain qualities and beliefs that have grown and persiste...

July 22, 2007

TIME shows its military expertise

Accompanying TIME/CNN's current online article by Michael Duffy entitled, "How to leave Iraq," and reportedly on the cover of the TIME print edition, is an illustration graphically demonstrating how limited these so-called news organiz...

July 17, 2007

The Involunteers (a poem)

One thing to me rings loud and clearThrough mainstream media sources:Libs don't understand, Volunteer,When it comes to our fighting forces.Their memories hark to former days,Dubious deferments due to classes,Craven cowering in cynical ways,Just to co...

July 11, 2007

Gobal warming I fear (a poem)

Global warming I fear,As well you should too;You poor misinformed dear,Before your planet's all through.I think that my fearsAre the absolute worst;We'll all melt in just years,If we don't freeze to death first....

July 5, 2007

Speedy Al (a poem)

A thing we all contend withAs a decidedly un-green nation,Is Al Gore's global warming mythAnd his gaseous pontification.But little Al's a different breed,Not so pure nor quite so pious,Showed us how Greens still love speed,By doing a hundred in a Pri...

June 19, 2007

Gaza Multiculturalism

Gaza Multiculturalism, as practiced by the Islamofascists, on display. From the Jerusalem Post:Father Manuel Musalam, leader of the small Latin community in the Gaza Strip, said masked gunmen torched and looted the Rosary Sisters School and the Latin...

June 16, 2007

Mike Nifong's Crime

Check out the networks and the web on the Mike Nifong trial and what you're likely to hear is that he committed a grave offense against three upstanding young men, falsely accusing them and imposing huge financial burdens on their families in th...

May 30, 2007

Get Along Home, Cindy, Cindy (a poem)

With a tip of the hat to the memory of the Man in Black, Mr. Johnny CashThat shrill and sour apple has fallen from her tree, Cindy Sheehan's time has passed, the Lefties set her free.Get along, home, Cindy, Cindy, get along home. Get along home, Cind...

May 27, 2007

Happy 100th, Big John (a poem)

All these years, come and gone,Too many since we lost Big John.No other gave so much to me,Or made me be what now I be.A sense of honor, sense of right,Sense to know you sometimes fight,To face the odds, accept the pain,Lessons I learned from John Wa...

May 20, 2007

Adolph's Apology (a poem)

Liberals love apology, No matter the offense;The thread of a thin theology, It need not make good sense.No matter that the misdeeds, Were done far back in time,It satisfies their liberal needsTo confess to any crime.What happens in their childhoods? ...

May 16, 2007

Debatable Polling (a poem)

I'm just an old conservative crankWho last night saw Sean step on his shank.Whoever set the polling rulesHad Sean's side pegged as silly fools.Text messaging as the way to vote?Hey, Mick, you just fall off the boat?How many conser...

May 2, 2007

Debutantes of Defeat (a poem)

In 2003 they came to the Ball,For some merry martial dancing;Girlishly giggling in the Capitol hall,Finding chords of war music entrancing.Filled with excitement, throwing care to the wind,DebiDems wanted Bush to be tough,So the ladies signed on for ...

April 20, 2007

Thin as a Reid (a poem)

I’ve wondered who’d do the evil deed;Not surprisingly, it’s Harry Reid.It was Cronkite stabbed us in the back;This time it’s a pol not a media hack.Uncle Walter used his powerful podiumTo betray me and mine with nightly odium;...

April 3, 2007

Wild Irish Rose (a poem)

What is that stench wafts 'neath the nose?Is it ABC's Wild Irish Rose?Must we endure this big broad's ranting,That has the liberal loon's all chanting?Dubya brought those towers down,Claims this crazy corpulent clown.Is our rotund Rose blatantly batt...

March 26, 2007

Sheez! (a poem)

 With apologies to Joyce Kilmer (and America on behalf of Charlie Sheen)  I think perhaps I’ve never seenA fool as big as Charlie Sheen.This fool’s career is sorely prestTo accept this role far from the best.A fool who drinks an...

March 22, 2007

Hipocralypse Now! (a poem)

The Oscar's burnish slowly wanes, That which bathed those tinsel clowns,As cleaners tease the Kool-Aid stainsFrom tuxedos and designer gowns;Sullied in salute to Hipocralypse,A liberal religion newly forming,Fired with fervor from messianic lips,Big ...

March 20, 2007

A Gathering of Eagles (a poem)

The commies came, the commies saw, The commies skulked away,A Gathering of Eagles Just spoiled their Big Red Day. The Answer Coalition, Led by Head Red Brian Becker,Declined to find out if these birds, Might have a bigger pecker.Our eagles gathered b...

February 22, 2007

Fly High you Eagles, soar (a poem)

[Editor's note: In response to the announced intention of Jane Fonda and Cindy Sheehan to lead a Washington protest originating at the Vietnam Memorial, the group Gathering of Eagles was formed. Our Poet Laureate Russ Vaughn offers his thoughts.]Fly ...

February 1, 2007

WaPo Warriors (a poem)

Want to slam our soldiers, Arkin?Well here is one to slam.I got used to Lefty slammingWhen I came back from Vietnam.So you want to put a muzzle On our brave fighting men?Well try muzzling me you jerk, Just tell me where and when.Your profession needs...

January 11, 2007

Old War Dogs teach new tricks

This past year I came up with an idea that, strangely enough, bore fruit: I knew that there had to be lots of other old vets out there like me who had overcome their fear of computers and the Internet to discover that these are tools which can be use...

December 27, 2006

Pressious Planning (a poem)

In cool, dark, early morning air,Their growls betray that they are there.Then come their baying blood lust sounds,No prey will live survive their grounds.They seek their sacrificial goat,A victim they can seize by throat,They're in full cry, the Amer...

December 24, 2006

To Our Sheepdogs (a poem)

It's so easy to forget them there, As we warm beside the fire,Those spread so far out everywhere,Those sent to man the wire.Patrolling on the front line,As peacefully here we bask,Protecting what is yours and mine,That's their hard, dreary task.Like ...

December 16, 2006

Good Enough to Die For

I have just read a mea culpa by Vietnam War protestor, novelist and poet, Pat Conroy, who possesses the literary skills to express what I am willing to bet many other older American males, his former brothers at the barricades, also feel, b...

October 25, 2006

Don't Vote?

Like so many Americans grudgingly facing the inevitability of my fifth decade, some years ago I opened the envelope from AARP, informing me that I was entitled to membership in their organization, with much less than enthusiasm. Over the ensuing year...

July 12, 2006

Fasting Like They Fight

It is almost comic, nah, hell, it's hilarious, to watch the Moonbats, led by their batty high priestess, Cindy Sheehan, undertake a new attempt to garner media attention. When I first heard about their planned Troops Home Fast, my immediate reaction ...

May 31, 2006

Kerry's Catch-22

[Catch—22: A situation in which a desired outcome or solution is impossible to attain because of a set of inherently illogical rules or conditions.] John Kerry may fancy himself a war hero and an old hand at armed combat but somehow, in spite o...

May 27, 2006

Just One Old Ernie Pyle

As a boy of four in '44 I missed out on his style; But at thirty—six in '76 I learned more of Ernie Pyle. To read his tributes to our troops always brought the question why, That my own war's correspondents didn't hold our troops as high. I'd w...

April 8, 2006

Higher Education (a poem)

Inspired by the Sean Hannity interview with Ward Churchill   We send our kids to college, To get an education; We send them there for knowledge, Not to learn to hate their nation. The billions that we pay, These high priced institutions, Should...

February 5, 2006

Going to the Dogs

In response to the Toles' cartoon published by the Washington Post, depicting a grievously wounded, quadruple amputee soldier being designated by a 'Dr. Rumsfeld' as 'battle—hardened' and fit for return to duty, I wrote a poem, venting my anger...

December 3, 2005

The Hastert Protocol

At last someone has heard our call We, left behind, we left to fall. Our views no longer meet the test Of what is true and right and best. Was good enough for our father founders, But not for multicultural bounders, Who snidely slide us to the side, ...

November 28, 2005

Bastante!

[Spanish to English, bastante adj.: 1. enough  adj.]   We're with you, George, through thick and thin We support you still in the mess you're in, But enough's enough and as they say Bastante! down old Mexico way. We're sick of our laws bein...

November 13, 2005

Chump City

An armed citizenry is the worst nightmare of those who circulate among us with felonious intent, especially violent, injurious intent; for crooks operating within an armed public must consider that violence, once instigated, may be returned upon them...

November 12, 2005

Paristine

Jacques and his frères are surely weeping Les pauvres immigrès have caught them sleeping, Paysans revolt, their emotions churning, What's that odeur? Is Paris burning? Within the banlieues there's no joy Among les jeunes who are sans emplois. What, t...

August 13, 2005

A Useful Death

A mother's anguish turns to ire, Her liquid tears to spears of fire, A useful fool for the liberal Left, All hatred now, no more bereft. The honor which her son embraced, Is now dishonored, now disgraced, As his mother stands atop his grave, From the...

August 6, 2005

Why Was It My Son Had to Die? - a poem

To the families of the brave Ohio Marines Why was it my son had to die,To preserve some truth? To hide a lie?Why did my country ask of me,To sacrifice my hopes so totally?Why must one home give up so much,Among the few to feel death's touch?Why ...

July 30, 2005

Handmaidens of Terror? (a poem)

Michelle Malkin notes, I believe with some error, The politically correct are handmaidens of terror. But handmaiden may be a too—mild appellation For the worms at the core of the threat to our nation, Who are far more concerned with our sociali...

July 23, 2005

The Battered-Left Syndrome - a poem

 Much like a victim of spousal abuse,The Left always seems to have an excuseFor barbarous behavior by terrorist thugs,Their violence dismissed with self—blaming shrugs.Oh, they just can't help it, they just get so mad,When we get them upse...

July 2, 2005

Fightin' side of me (a poem)

It's now clear there can be no ambivalence About the Liberals' moral equivalence; Where they now have lost all perspective, Or any desire to be truly objective. Their comparisons began to be troubling When 'Fats' Moore got their fuzzy heads bubbling,...

May 22, 2005

The Eagle and the Serpents

Such discord now 'tween you and us,Mainstream Media and populace:You envenom all that we hold dear,And revel in those things we fear. You denigrate our national prideTaking always now the others' side.A Media mamba, a poisonous pestThat lurks within ...

May 15, 2005

Two birdsÚne stone

While driving through El Paso recently, I heard a caller to a talk—radio program laughingly suggest that we should embed Army recruiters within the frontline ranks of the Border Patrol so that they could sign up illegal immigrants and thus elim...

April 8, 2005

Hi Soldier

Hi soldier, let me sign my book,And I'll personalize it too.Well pardon me, why that hard look?That stare that goes clear through.My word you'd think I'd done some wrong,To merit such disfavor,Oh come now, that's all gone so long,It's future fame I s...

April 6, 2005

Forever green

Jane Fonda seeks exoneration,Forgiveness from her traitored nation.What say you warriors fought that war?Is forgiveness due that wartime whore?So rich, so smart, she thought she knewMuch more than us, we bloodied few.So smug, self—serving, seek...

April 5, 2005

The Berger briefs

OK, so I lied, in a manner of sorts,About what I'd stuffed down inside my shorts.I should think you're now quite satisfied That the Berger briefs are declassified.From jockey shorts down to my socks,Was a virtual vault for secret docs.It's a style my...

April 2, 2005

Liberal Experts

The things most LiberalsThink they're experts on,Are usually the things, They've never done.While their rhetoric's raucous, Their record is poorIn suiting up for the game, Or volunteering for war.It's so easy to think You're calling it right,When you...

March 27, 2005

The 'No Right Answer' Game

(Inspired by 'The Wrong Army,' by Jeff Edwards, USN, Ret., warrior and novelist) America's forces have won all their wars,From Revolution to war in Iraq;And Lefties don't point to the Vietnam War,Where you stabbed winning troops in the back.No, the t...

March 19, 2005

Naught's Solved by War?

A flickering dawn lights Islam's hillsA faint emerging light.Can the torch of Lady LibertyFlare away Medieval night?How fitting our bold symbol Of all that's good and rightEyewitness to the Jihad's wrath,Stands forefront in this fight. Her torch...

March 1, 2005

Food for thought

I am so sick of the liberal left, both domestic and foreign, constantly berating America as being morally bankrupt and a plague upon mankind. To them, we are quite singularly responsible for all the evil in the world through our crass, greedy, capita...

February 19, 2005

Old Sarge gets a care package

Sergeant Vaughn got a care package today. It's been almost forty years since I got my last one, a case of twenty—four #2ｽ cans of sliced peaches from my father. Memory fails me now, but I don't believe I ever asked before he died what it cost t...

January 29, 2005

The gang that won't shoot straight

It began when ol' Dubya gave Al Gore the boot,Those gun—hating Dems really started to shoot.Their weapons of choice though leave much to desireFor they're usually off—target and so often misfire. In his blustering barrages, as everyo...

January 22, 2005

Don't just sit there

It's so easy to say you support the troops, regardless of which side you come down on in the issue of the War in Iraq itself. Yeah, you can send care packages and put yellow ribbon magnets on your car to make you feel all warm and fuzzy that you're d...

January 21, 2005

How many Liberals does it take to win a war?

How many of you Liberals does it take to win a war?Well how the hell can we tell? You won't fight one anymore.You say that you support the troops, but the truth's plain as your face,You'd pull us from the battle,  march us home in full disgrace....

January 4, 2005

When the world dials 911 - a poem

When the World Dials 911 Disaster strikes a world awayWe get the call, what do we say?We move at once, to ease their plight,To aid them through their darkest night.But come shrill cries from carping press,"That's not enough to fix this mess."We ...

December 16, 2004

Rough men - a poem

'Good people sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.'   —George Orwell (with a nod to the Mudville Gazette) There's a character trait that's decided by fateComes (sadl...

December 7, 2004

Out-Dumbed, by George! (a poem)

Did you really believe we're too stupid to see,How you tried to deceive us with smug sophistry?Did you actually think we'd accept without thinking,That our ship of state's hulled, our economy's sinking?We saw how with help from your media tools,You p...

December 1, 2004

Scout's Honor

Scout's Honor When I was a boy, yep, I was a Scout,And whole time I was, no Scoutmasters came out.Nope, they stayed in the closet, if any were there,And no parents protested our Scout meeting prayer.We believed in our creed, truly honored our oa...

November 29, 2004

So you support the troops?

Since writing the widely—published poem "Fightin' Words,"  I've had some emails and posted comments indicating the belief that I'm just another rightwing, media—hating nutcase with an ax to grind. Actually, I'm more of a moderately c...

November 13, 2004

The Last Battle of Vietnam

The Last Battle of Vietnam It never occurred to me, ever before,That our Navy would win the Vietnam War.When they took to their boats in this year of elections,With the mission of making some major correctionsI shared their belief, John should not be...

November 8, 2004

Those liberal geniuses

Fingers are pointing, recriminations flying, and intellectual elitism is in full flood within their party and among their yapping media lapdogs, as Democrats try to determine what went wrong.Listening to and reading the liberal pundits quickly reveal...

November 6, 2004

Swift Justice

Swift Justice Bold John sailed forth in his faux scow,Till the Swiftees fired across his bow;And legions of irate attorneys,Could not defend Cambodian journeys,Nor stories of his fabled hat,So voters sensed they smelled a rat.And while the networks d...

October 25, 2004

No mourning for mainstream

No mourning for mainstream Ah, once so grand you owned this land, With your wisdom you did ply us, Until old dears this election year, You at last unmasked your bias. Yes, once were you our only view, No challenge did you face. You had your say and ...

October 17, 2004

Chicken John

Chicken John Yes now we know how low they'll go,These Johns who want to lead us.Desiring to pander, they slickly slanderWhile contrived compassion they feed us.She is 'Fair Game' that Cheney dame;Yes, that's Miz Cahill's call.So why feel shock a...

September 18, 2004

The Road Less Graveled

[A down home message for Dan Rather in the colorful Texas idiom he so loves] Y'all know what we all been thinkin' out here in Texas, Dan, since you started all this foolishness? We think y'all been whizzin' down our necks an' tellin' us it's rai...

August 30, 2004

Johnny

(With apologies to Rudyard Kipling and the British Army) Johnny went public with 'is boasts, an' 'ero without fear, 'Til sudden like the Swifties say, 'We got a turncoat 'ere.' The Libs they just ignored 'em, sayin' 'Ah, it's all a lie!' Then Jo...

July 14, 2004

Dear John letter

Dear John, After all you've been through in the past year, losing in the primaries and being unable to win reelection to your own Senate seat, I do hate to bring more uncertainty into your life; but I've noticed that since being named John Kerry...