Scott Swett

Scott Swett


  • November 17, 2016

    Elections are war by other means

    The 2016 presidential campaign, we are told, was nasty and divisive to an unprecedented degree. As students of history are aware, this characterization is far from accurate.  But more importantly, we seem to have forgotten the very purpose of...

  • October 12, 2012

    Hating Breitbart - A Fitting Film Tribute to a Unique Political Warrior

    Andrew Breitbart, who died last March at just 43 years of age, was the hardest-hitting conservative activist of the Obama era.  If you share his conviction that the leftist-dominated media is a threat to open political debate, you will want to s...

  • September 17, 2012

    Enemies without, enemies within and the battle for free speech

    As the fires burn across the Middle East, Barack Obama and his surrogates loudly insist that the wave of Islamic attacks on American interests, including the brutal murder of U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens, has all been caused by a YouTube video. As ...

  • May 3, 2012

    Trayvon and Zimmerman: The Structure and Elements of a Disinformation Campaign

    "Trayvon," of course, is Trayvon Martin, the black 17-year-old who was killed two months ago in Florida.  "Zimmerman" is George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watch captain who shot him.  Referring to Martin by his first name and Zimmerman by ...

  • February 27, 2012

    Learning the Wrong Lessons From the Fort Hood Massacre

    Submission to Islam has been institutionalized by our national security apparatus. The official handling of the Fort Hood massacre proves the case. On November 5, 2009, Major Nidal Hasan, a U.S. Army psychiatrist who had previously served at the Wal...

  • August 19, 2011

    Did Kerry's Swift Boat Hatchet Man Fake His Own Silver Star?

    Last August, Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus revoked a Silver Star medal formerly held by retired Navy Captain Wade R. Sanders.  In a short, vague memorandum to the Chief of Naval Personnel, Mabus cited "subsequently determined facts and evidenc...

  • June 11, 2011

    Fanning Imaginary Flames: A Look Back At The Great Church Fire Propaganda Campaign

    Fifteen summers ago, America's news media informed us that black churches throughout the South were being torched by white racists.  The purported wave of arsons dominated the airwaves and generated thousands of newspaper articles.  Pundits...

  • October 19, 2010

    An Enemy Within -- Code Pink and Its Democrat Enablers

    Last week, American Thinker published evidence that Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and Congressmen Henry Waxman (D-CA), Raul Grijalva (D-AZ), and Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) made it possible in 2004 for Code Pink and other radical groups to deliver $600,000...

  • May 19, 2010

    Democrats and Vote Fraud: On the Road to Rigged Elections

    Lest we forget, Democrats were not given a mandate in 2008 to nationalize General Motors, the insurance industry, and health care. Most Americans want government to be less expensive, less intrusive, and more accountable. Yet despite the looming pros...

  • May 25, 2009

    Media still lying about the Swift Boat Veterans

    Five years ago, a group of Vietnam veterans came forward at the National Press Club in Washington to dispute the "war hero" stories that formed the basis of candidate John Kerry's presidential campaign, and to challenge the claims of rampan...