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October 29, 2024
Trump is on to something when he brainstorms ending flag-burningLast week, Donald Trump reiterated a proposal he had also suggested in late July, in response to the anti-Israel protests going on at that time. Trump called for a minimum one-year jail sentence for anyone convicted of willfully burning the American ...
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September 5, 2024
Should the attack on US Marines in Turkey bring back ‘dungaree liberty’?On Monday, Sept. 2, two U.S. Marines assigned to the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit on board the USS Wasp, while on liberty in the Turkish port of Izmir, were attacked by a mob of some 15 people. The attackers were identified as members of an anti-Am...
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July 17, 2024
The Secret Service Story is Starting to StinkIt’s beginning to look as if I was far too quick to give thanks that “the Secret Service is, apparently, not as corrupt as the FBI.” We’re now learning, among other things, that Trump’s Secret Service detail was made ...
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July 14, 2024
Given the Democrats’ rhetoric, there was a grim inevitability to yesterday’s shootingWe are publishing continuously today. To see more blog entries, please click here. Did I call it, or did I call it? I’m not saying I actually predicted the events of Saturday afternoon in Butler, PA, but let me repeat what I said Friday ri...
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July 12, 2024
Biden’s NATO speech should have been about a different nationPresident Biden addressed a summit meeting of NATO leaders on Tuesday, on the 75th anniversary of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. His entire speech was read from a teleprompter but, even so, I was still surprised that he spoke in such a stron...
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June 19, 2024
What ‘Sleepy Joe’ might’ve learned from ‘The Godfather of Soul’I’m sure that by now we’ve all seen the video, from Joe Biden’s recent Hollywood fundraising event, of the president being led offstage by Barack Obama, who in addition to taking him by the hand and guiding him, appears to be consol...
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June 6, 2024
The Hunter Biden trial has got me thinking...America has gone from one show trial with a predetermined outcome to another one, and I have thoughts. One of the most surprising things I learned from the coverage of the Hunter Biden trial is that Hunter Biden has a wife, who has been in attenda...
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May 4, 2024
A gruesome and cynical irony in the HeartlandAmerica’s heartland, the Great Plains, sometimes called “flyover country,” often lags behind the rest of the country when it comes to fashion trends. So it was news to me and, I surmise, to many in the Kansas City area to learn, Thu...
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February 15, 2024
I am shocked, shocked! about the shooting at the KC Chiefs Super Bowl victory rally!I am shocked, shocked! (which is to say I am not shocked at all, nor the least bit surprised) that gunfire broke out as Wednesday’s Super Bowl victory parade in Kansas City and rally was just winding down. Although, as of now, there has been no...
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January 30, 2024
Remembering one of America’s military greatsPresidential spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre is being deservedly pilloried by Conservative pundits for her stumbling, bumbling, patently disingenuous (all of which qualities she exhibits perhaps in emulation of her boss) remarks on the loss of three ...
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December 9, 2023
An old joke, updatedHere’s an old Jewish joke that I’ve been telling for years, and it goes back even further than that; I might’ve first heard a version of it told by Jackie Mason. It’s been repeated with various changes in the world leaders abo...
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December 3, 2023
English language skills fail when people eulogize Sandra Day O’ConnorI’m a compulsive nitpicker when it comes to accuracy in the written or spoken word; I have a keen eye and ear for errors in spelling, punctuation, grammar, syntax and even semantics. It’s a pretty thankless preoccupation; I’m routin...
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August 26, 2022
No, ‘Salesman’ is Not a Sexist TermNY Governor Kathy Hochul last week signed into law legislation that replaces the term “salesman” with “salesperson.” The bill was sponsored by (surprise!) two Democrats, and its intent is to remove "gendered," "...
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July 23, 2022
Is our justice system still capable of deterring killers?So a guy jumps on stage (on July 21) and attempts to stab Lee Zeldin, Republican challenger to N.Y. governor Kathy Hochul. And, because N.Y.'s laws are now deliberately soft on crime, the attacker is charged with "attempted a...
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July 6, 2022
Lee Greenwood Is Still Popular Among Folks with Short MemoriesI woke up Tuesday morning to hear folks on a local (ostensibly conservative) radio show absolutely gushing over how “awesomely cool” it was that Lee Greenwood had made a surprise appearance at an Independence Day celebration Saturday, Jul...
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June 23, 2022
When It Comes To Guns, Joe Biden May Have Learned From His ‘Buddy’Biden’s administration (with help from Senate RINOs) is determined to strip Americans of their Second Amendment rights. To strengthen that position, Biden postures as someone who actually knows a little something about guns. I’ve thought ...
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June 20, 2022
The Tom Hanks standard: A new, 'woke' parlor gameTom Hanks announced that if the 1993 movie Philadelphia, for which he won an Oscar for playing a gay man dying of AIDS, were being made today, he would not be offered and would not accept the role, "and rightly so," because today ...
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June 11, 2022
There was only one real surprise in the January 6 TV show trialOK, I watched it. And if there's anything about the first of the so-called "hearings" on the alleged "insurrection" of January 6, 2021 that surprised me, it wasn't the predictably kangaroo-court nature of the af...
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June 4, 2022
Following Biden’s Gun Control Speech, An Inconvenient Story SurfacesThursday night’s news programs were dominated by the story of President Biden’s speech earlier in the evening, in which he pressed for more stringent gun control measures. If I were to pick apart his remarks—and, believe me, there i...
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May 10, 2022
Whoopi Goldberg inspires a teachable momentWhoopi Goldberg (whose real name is Caryn Elaine Johnson and who is paid some $8 million per year for hosting ABC's The View, a position she's occupied since 2007), made a numbingly stupid remark the other day. It was hardly a "S...
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May 1, 2022
The Fall of Common CultureJon Stewart (who, for sixteen years, hosted "The Daily Show" on TV's Comedy Central and is usually identified as a comedian) recently had something to say about the state of humor today. He said that "the real threat to humor...
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April 14, 2022
Subway shootings echo an earlier railway rampageI'm an old guy, but I still have a pretty good memory. And I'm a former New Yorker. So when I heard about the subway shootings in Brooklyn Tuesday morning, and that the suspect was Black, my first thought was to wonder i...
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April 12, 2022
Joe's toast, but he'll skate on the Hunter scandalThe handwriting is on the wall: Joe Biden has outlived his usefulness to the people who foisted him upon us and who pull his strings. He is on his way out. And although some envision him stepping down or being removed from office and be...
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April 10, 2022
Much Ado About ‘Brown’OK, you've probably heard by now that Amber Athey, an editor for The Spectator, was fired from her spot on a Washington D.C. morning radio talk show because of a remark she made -- supposedly about the outfit worn by Vice President Kamala Harris ...
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March 19, 2022
Another cop-killer fêted and fawned overIn the Throgs Neck section of the Bronx, there once was a Public Intermediate School that, sadly, was shut down because of poor performance. The school was officially called I.S. 192, but it was also known as the Piagentini-Jones School....
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March 11, 2022
Don't let the old stumblebum fool ya!Joe Biden may indeed be incompetent, stupid, and even demented. But he's a tool in implementing a malevolent and insidious agenda. This Biden regime is actually Obama's third term, and the agenda being implemented is to ...
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March 6, 2022
Playing both sides of a warBy first deliberately relinquishing and now refusing to re-establish the energy independence the U.S. enjoyed under Pres. Trump (and thereby perpetuating U.S. and world dependence on Russian oil), the U.S is, in effect, bankrolling Putin's milita...
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February 23, 2022
Cops, convoys, conservatives, and tyrannyThe mainstream media inform us that Canadian authorities have "cleared out" the truckers who had the temerity to think they could peacefully protest their government's COVID vaccination-and-quarantine mandates. Note the choic...
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August 25, 2020
PBS told RNC viewers what to thinkI had an experience Monday night that I am in no way eager to repeat. Because — by choice — I have access only to broadcast TV channels, and because I failed to realize, at least at first, that I could watch a live stream of the Republica...
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May 30, 2020
What the rioters, and their apologists, have squanderedFirst of all, a disclaimer: In stark, unmistakable contrast to the narrative being promulgated by the so-called news networks, I am not conflating rioting (with its subsets of looting, burning and pillaging) and protesting. If there was one posit...
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February 17, 2020
Jack Cashill's adventure novel, The HuntAce investigative reporter and frequent AT contributor Jack Cashill and co-author Mike McMullen have published a novel, The Hunt. Although it's billed as "a political thriller," it's really more about just...
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January 30, 2020
Schiff's very own showWatching Adam Schiff interminably and indefatigably flapping his yap on TV over the past week or so, I couldn't help but compare him to Citizens Band (C.B.) preachers. I think he's driven by the same desperate need for attention....
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August 9, 2019
‘Red flag laws’ just legitimize ‘swatting’Perhaps you've heard of the "prank" known as "swatting." Perhaps you're even aware of the "swatting" incident that turned deadly. It took place in Wichita, KS back in December of 2017. In a nutshell, a "p...
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May 22, 2019
Kris Kobach's 'List of Demands' Smacks of Fake NewsThe New York Times published an article on Monday about Kris Kobach, former Kansas secretary of state, failed candidate for governor of Kansas, and adviser to Donald Trump on immigration and voter fraud. The article purports to list the co...
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December 29, 2018
You may say I'm a cynic, but I'm not the only oneI've just heard it announced that one of the "highlights" of the New Year's Eve celebration in NYC's Times Square will be a performance of John Lennon's "Imagine," this time by one Bebe Rexha. I'll a...
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September 19, 2018
What we can expect from the Kavanaugh-Ford hearingI'm going to make two predictions about what we can expect to see and hear during the testimony of Brett Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford in the anticipated hearing dealing with the accusations brought against Judge Kavanaugh by "Doctor...
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August 31, 2018
McCain's treatment of the MIA issueAt Thursday's memorial service for John McCain, former vice president Joe Biden delivered a lengthy eulogy, one that is being praised for its heartfelt emotion and (like McCain himself) for its non-partisanship. I'm sorry, but just about a...
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August 6, 2018
Bob Dole puzzles Kansas conservatives prior to primaryIn the run-up to the Kansas Republican primary to take place Tuesday, there's been a radio commercial playing in Kansas City (and, presumably, throughout the state) that says, "Breaking News! Bob Dole has endorsed Jeff Colyer for ...
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July 28, 2018
How a country commits suicideI came across this quote (here) presented in the context of what is going on today in South Africa (about which our Lamestream Media are conspicuously silent), but see if it doesn't "resonate" even for those of us in countries that have...
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June 21, 2018
Spoiler Alert: Robert De Niro and Peter Fonda have ruined two favorite movies for meYou can call this a “spoiler alert.” The recent utterances of a couple of Hollywood actors have spoiled two of my favorite movies for me. First it was Robert De Niro (now known as “Punchy”) who robbed me of my enjoyment of ...
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January 1, 2018
Obama misses a chance to be heard fromIt seems that some mental giant in L.A., an "online gamer," thought it would be a great prank to have the SWAT team called out in Wichita, Kan. to surround the home of an acquaintance he knew only through online gaming and with whom he had ...
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September 15, 2017
Trump's Godfather-ly sitdown with Pelosi and SchumerFirst of all, far be it from me to wish to even set foot anywhere near the figurative territory inhabited by the likes of Maria Chappelle-Nadal, the Missouri state senator from suburban St. Louis who vociferously broadcast her desire to see President...
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August 22, 2017
Another pistolero prevailsBack in May of 2015, I wrote a piece for American Thinker titled "The Pistolero Prevailed." It dealt with the terrorist attack on the "Draw Muhammad" art competition in Garland, Texas and how that attack, by two me...
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June 15, 2017
About those two Capitol Police officers...Wednesday's case of ballpark violence (you and I know it was another form of domestic terrorism, but we can also be pretty sure that the Obama regime would have called it ballpark violence) would surely have been far, far worse but...
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June 1, 2017
Al Franken (the genius!) inadvertently speaks the truth – about Kathy Griffin's 'apology'Maybe it was a Freudian slip. Or perhaps the man was signaling that he's not quite so literate (or even nearly so smart) as he purports to be. Either way, the senator from Minnesota inadvertently spoke the truth when he chimed in on t...
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November 30, 2016
The war on cops, fast food divisionA funny thing happened the other day at a McDonald’s in Topeka, Kansas. It seems a Topeka cop ordered a Dr. Pepper™ at the drive-through, but when he started to drink it, he discovered that someone, presumably a McDonald’s employ...
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November 23, 2016
The case of the missing narrativeOver the past couple of days, we've seen several police officers shot in the line of duty. Two of those incidents, one in San Antonio (in which the officer was killed) and one in St. Louis (in which the officer survived), were clearly unpro...
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November 17, 2016
How about an octogenarian for SecState?While the Trump transition team is working on selections for various cabinet posts, and while the names of Rudy Giuliani and John Bolton have been bandied about as being on the short list for secretary of state, I'd like to make my own suggestion...
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November 11, 2016
Feeling ‘safe’ in the Trump eraThe other night, I watched a local newscast covering the crowds who took to the streets to “protest” the election of Donald Trump. Aside from the fact that the crowd resembled the crowds that had marched under the various “Occ...
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November 8, 2016
Not quite a panegyric for Janet SternoSo Janet Reno has shuffled off this mortal coil. She will always be known to me as Janet Sterno, ever since she presided over the immolation of all those people and kids in Waco. I won't be shedding any tears over Ms. Sterno'...
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November 3, 2016
Des Moines cop-killings will be a propaganda gold mineI think we can expect the latest assassinations of police officers, committed early Wednesday in the Des Moines area, to be a propaganda goldmine for the left. This incident will surely be exploited because, in this particular case, the alleged pe...
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October 22, 2016
While we watched the debate, the Philippines aligned with ChinaWhile we were all watching Hillary put on that phony-baloney grin as her way of dismissing Trump's assertion that every act of Obama-Clinton foreign policy has resulted in disaster, yet another Obama-Clinton foreign policy disaster was unfolding...
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October 19, 2016
Maybe Rev. Cleaver told the truth – sort of.One of the most infamous slanders of the Tea Party may have claimed a victim, a member in good standing of the Congressional Black Caucus. The most recent revelations by James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas have cast an old story in a ne...
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October 6, 2016
So that's who Tim Kaine reminds me ofWatching the V.P. debate, I kept thinking: Those eyes, that mouth – who is it that Tim Kaine reminds me of? Finally it hit me. His face reminds me of Teller, of Penn & Teller. Wi...
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October 4, 2016
Mass media’s total war on TrumpAs a practicing wordsmith, I’ve been a subscriber and a fan of Anu Garg’s A.Word.A.Day (AWAD) for quite a few years; I greet each day’s e-mail eager for an opportunity to enrich my vocabulary and gain etymological insights. But I...
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September 27, 2016
Trump at the debate: Too much on the defensiveSomebody evidently forgot to tell Donald Trump that a presidential debate is not unlike a championship boxing match. And that, whether he likes it or not, he is the challenger, and as such, he needed to take the fight to Hillary, instead of tim...
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August 4, 2016
A little perspective on Trump’s gaffes, pleaseOK, we all remember (those of us who have an attention span beyond today's news cycle) when Barack Obama pronounced "corpsman" as "corpse-man", or when, on Memorial Day 2008, he said he saw some of those being honored right th...
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July 26, 2016
What, me watch the Dem Convention?OK, I’m the first to admit that I'm a political kind of guy. I’ll even plead guilty to being preoccupied with politics. Whenever I can listen to the radio, it's tuned to a political talk show. I read American Thi...
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March 31, 2016
The one-way street of 'cultural appropriation'Have you heard this story? A black female student confronted a white male student who had his hair in dreadlocks, claiming he had "no right" to wear his hair that way because he was "appropriating her culture." Leaving...
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August 13, 2015
'What are you, some kind of constitutionalist crazy guy?'“What are you, some kind of constitutionalist crazy guy?” Have you seen this video? I hate to say it, but even for those of us who generally support the police this video is enough to make one wonder if the cops really are...
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July 16, 2015
Will Joan Baez (or anyone) ever sing 'The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down' again?Watching the relentless bandwagon of cultural cleansing of all things Southern has started me thinking about all the music that will have to be condemned if those who have vilified the Rebel Flag continue their bullying revisionism. One song that ...
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May 8, 2015
A Jihadist's Funeral in Kansas CityThe funeral for Nadir Soofi, one of the two jihadis shot dead Sunday in Texas, was held Thursday at a mosque and community center in Kansas City that calls itself the Islamic Society of Greater Kansas City. While Soofi didn’t live in the area, ...
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May 5, 2015
The pistolero prevailedReports on the terrorist attack on the "Draw Muhammed" art competition in Garland, Texas indicate that the two jihadis, armed with "assault rifles" and wearing "protective gear," were very quickly neutralized (within sec...
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March 16, 2015
The Ferguson sniper's taleIt was a mistake anybody could make, right? So Jeffrey Williams, the 20-year-old man under arrest in St. Louis and charged in the shooting of two police officers in Ferguson early last Thursday, is apparently claiming that he was aiming not at the...
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January 22, 2015
If I had been Sen. Joni Ernst's speechwriterI was pleased to see that it was Sen. Joni Ernst giving the Republican response to President Obama’s SOTU address Tuesday night. And I was pleased with what she said, at least in terms of its content. I was not pleased, however, with her ...
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January 21, 2015
A Gunfight in KansasOn Nieman Road in Shawnee, Kansas (a Kansas City suburb), in a small strip-mall about a block from Shawnee City Hall, and situated between a bilingual storefront church and an investment brokerage. stands a gunshop called “She’s a Pistol...
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October 5, 2014
Raising a generation of children dependent on the stateIn contemporary America, the notion has taken hold that the state, not parents, should be responsible for feeding children brought into this world. After all, “It takes a village,” doesn’t it, in the new America of liberalism? Ha...
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October 1, 2014
Guess who's Goddard College's Commencement Speaker?How sick is this? Monday evening I was a guest on Barry Farber’s internet radio program. We spoke about the “workplace beheading” in Oklahoma (which I also commented on in American Thinker on Tuesday). I told Barry it would...
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September 30, 2014
Revisionism in Reporting of OK Workplace BeheadingI awakened Monday morning to hear the Moore, OK “workplace beheading” story being reported in a slightly new and different way. (By the way, prior to a couple of days ago, what would have been the likelihood of encountering the words ...
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September 11, 2014
Obama's speech strategy: open with your biggest lieOver the past several weeks, there’s been a plethora of discussion over Obama’s “strategy” vis-à-vis ISIS (aka ISIL), whether he actually had a strategy and, if so, what it might be. Well, he certainly had a strategy...
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September 3, 2014
Does Obama even know how to use a can opener?So, yet another video is released showing yet another American being beheaded by the Islamic terrorists known as ISIS. And the president’s reaction? Exactly the same thing he said when Maj. Gen. Harold J. Green was murdered in Afghanis...
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August 7, 2014
The things Obama <em>might</em> have saidIn Wednesday’s American Thinker, Silvio Canto, Jr. observed that Pres. Barack Obama’s failure to say anything at all about the killing of Maj. Gen. Harold J. Greene in Afghanistan “speaks volumes." Indeed it does! ...
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May 16, 2014
Have you Seen the Rallies?Have you seen those big rallies? Those big demonstrations, all over the country, where "moderate" Muslims have turned out to condemn the kidnapping of the Christian girls in Nigeria? Have you heard them raise their voices ...
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April 15, 2014
Kansas Jewish Center Gunman didn't just Appear out of NowhereHe’s not “unknown”, and he didn’t just pop up on the horizon. The alleged killer of three at the Overland Park (Kansas) Jewish Community Center and a nearby Jewish retirement home didn’t just “appear out of nowh...
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April 10, 2014
Self-Defense in the classroom is in your head and under your buttA multiple stabbing attack by a lone perpetrator in a Pennsylvania school, in which more than 20 were wounded, has everyone crying for more metal detectors in schools, and for more guns in the hands of teachers, other school personnel and even studen...
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February 13, 2014
When The Government Targets ConstitutionalistsA friend sent me a link to an article on MediaTrackers.org, "Ohio National Guard Training Envisions Right-Wing Terrorism." I have to say that I was outraged but not really surprised. That a state's National Guard training exercise would emp...
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January 15, 2014
Who's #1 on Hillary's Hit List?On the heels of accusations that NJ governor Chris Christie and his staff engaged in political retribution comes the not-so-surprising revelation that Queen Hillary and her staff kept a "hit list" of fellow pols who were felt to have betrayed Hi...
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December 11, 2013
Supreme Irony of Obama/Castro Handshake goes UnnoticedAmidst all the coverage of the handshake between President Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro, including the hue and cry raised by conservatives outraged by the unseemliness of it, the real significance of the act, fraught with supreme irony, appe...
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September 7, 2013
KC Mayor touts Gangsta Rapper as Role ModelAll summer long (and earlier) in Kansas City (and perhaps in your city also) the TV news has shown candlelight vigils and similar tributes for the victims of the latest "senseless killing" in the inner city (and the similar incidents which occasional...
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June 22, 2013
Hillary's Perfect Campaign SloganI was at my favorite cigar store, which is a bit like a gentlemen's club (although there is the occasional lady present), with leather chairs and couches, and card tables, a couple of big TVs (usually tuned to all-sports or all-news stations), and po...
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June 19, 2013
Why not Zimbabwe?When I heard about President Barack Obama's plans for a $100 million trip to Africa with his family and entourage, I was surprised that Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia) is not on the itinerary. I would think that Zimbabwe would be a place that President...
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March 19, 2013
Giving Hugo Chavez credit where credit is dueWithin a few days after the announcement of the death of Hugo Chavez, I ran into a friend who was born in Venezuela and had spent his early childhood there before coming to the U.S. He still has family and friends in Venezuela and has traveled there ...
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February 17, 2013
Who loves ya, Bloomberg?News item: "NYC's Mayor Bloomberg, already famous for banning soft drinks larger than 16 oz., now seeks to ban styrofoam cups." I've been watching late night re-runs of one of my all-time favorite New York cop shows: Telly Savalas as "Kojak," NYC's q...
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February 13, 2013
Obama blind to his own ironyPresident Obama's State of the Union address Tuesday night struck me as being rife with irony, even though Obama himself (and the throngs who cheered him) seemed blind to it. Here are some examples that seemed obvious to me: on the matter of energy...
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December 7, 2012
Two tales of pleas for help ignored, and two different reactionsIn New York City, a man thrown onto the subway tracks tries frantically to clamber back onto the platform. For 20 seconds or so (which surely seemed like an eternity) no one lifts a finger to help, as the train bears down on him and ultimately kills ...
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October 26, 2012
Bayonets and Battleships: Random ThoughtsMilitary expert Barack Obama certainly had a couple of zingers for Mitt Romney in the last debate. He certainly "schooled" Romney as he oh-so-smugly pointed out that our military doesn't use bayonets or horses anymore (even though, in point of...
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October 17, 2012
No knockoutsWhen I heard a particular question posed to Barack Obama Tuesday night, I thought I might see Mitt Romney throw a knockout punch, but if I were scoring the second presidential debate like a championship boxing match, I would have to award the decisio...
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September 8, 2012
Rep. Cleaver loves the Castro brothersMissouri Congressman, member of the Congressional Black Caucus and former Kansas City mayor Emanuel Cleaver certainly gave a rousing speech at the Democrat National Convention Wednesday night. A Methodist pastor, Rev. Cleaver, in his convention speec...
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September 3, 2012
Are We Smarter Than Our Cars?An SUV speeds out of control down the interstate highway; its accelerator stuck, the vehicle exceeds 100 mph as the woman behind the wheel swerves to avoid other traffic, even veering onto the grassy median to pass slower-moving vehicles. All the whi...
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August 14, 2012
A.Word.A.Day gets politicalI'm a big fan of "A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg", which arrives daily in my e-mail box. I've found it informative and entertaining, and I've had several of my comments published in AWADmail, the weekly compendium of feedback from the week's run of...
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August 8, 2012
Romney and the Chick-fil-A BattleConservative Talk Radio icon Barry Farber, in a column appearing Aug. 8 on World Net Daily, predicts a landslide victory for Romney, or rather a landslide against Obama. Barry bases his prediction on the massive nationwide turnout of some twenty-one ...
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August 7, 2012
The Sikh Temple Massacre and Gun ControlWhile the shootings at the Sikh temple will no doubt inspire more calls for "gun control," I very much doubt that the Sikhs themselves will be among those calling for the citizenry to be disarmed. I'm hardly an expert on Sikhism, but I am a dilettant...
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February 4, 2012
Sins of the (Grand)FathersIn an interview on the Spanish-speaking cable network Univision, Mitt Romney good-naturedly declined to label himself a "Mexican-American" on the grounds that, although his father, George Romney, had indeed been born in Mexico, Mitt's grandparents we...
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November 19, 2011
Cain steps into Letterman's lion's den and gets devouredOn Friday night, Herman Cain was a fly and David Letterman was the spider cordially inviting Cain to "step into my parlor." Didn't Cain or any of his advisors see the potential for disaster in Cain appearing on Letterman's show? Didn't anybody ...
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November 16, 2011
Barack Obama has a boyhood friend!Tuesday's American Thinker featured a blog Item by Rick Moran in which the writer commented on the "unseemliness" of the president golfing with Robert "Bobby" Titcomb, "a boyhood friend" who had recently pleaded No Contest to a charge of Soliciting a...
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November 10, 2011
Happy Birthday, Marines!Today, Nov. 10, is the 236th birthday of the Marine Corps, one year older than the United States itself. By the way, that's "United States Marine Corps", pronounced "core", not "corpse" like Barack Obama pronounces it. Some Marines will lightheartedl...
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October 21, 2011
Mr. Obama, if we're gonna start quoting The Beatles...President Obama, in his remarks following the announcement of the death of Muammar Gaddafi, said, "Libya will travel a long and winding road to democracy." To many of us "of a certain age", that phrase evokes the Beatles tune "The Long and Winding Ro...
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August 11, 2011
Michael Nutter Must Be CondemnedI wondered how long it would take for Philly's mayor to be branded an Uncle Tom. Ever since hearing Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter read the riot act to the mobs of Black youths who have run wild in his city, I've wondered how long it would take fo...
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August 3, 2011
The Secret of SocialismThe world of socialism is built on a deep secret. I learned of this founding secret from an old friend. Now it can be told. I'd like to take this opportunity to introduce American Thinker readers to an old schoolmate of mine; one with wh...
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May 24, 2011
Obama's Pledge to JoplinRegarding the devastation caused by the tornado that hit Joplin, Missouri, President Obama pledged that "every home will be rebuilt, every business will be restored."Encouraging, inspiring words; what you would expect of an American preside...
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March 7, 2011
Before the name 'Sheen' was dragged through the mudSince the name "Sheen" has become so notorious of late, perhaps we can restore some of its respect by quoting the late Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen (1895-1979), on a matter of far more importance today than the scandalous exhibitionist escapa...
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February 24, 2011
Outrage FatigueRecent news has included the report that four Americans, on a round-the-world mission to distribute bibles, were murdered by Somali pirates who had seized the Americans' yacht. A U.S. Navy vessel which had been trailing the yacht heard gunfire, and s...
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January 14, 2011
Just who is being 'insensitive' to Jews?There are numerous aspects of the memorial pep rally in Tucson that bother me, but, at the risk of sounding like a hypersensitive minority member (I'm Jewish), I'm going to focus on one little thing that others might not have noticed.Sarah Palin is t...
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September 8, 2010
Why burn the entire Koran?It seems to me that the church in Gainesville planning to burn Korans on 9/11 is making a big mistake. They have been denounced as stupid, insensitive, and crude, and these criticisms are correct. But if one accepts that it is OK to destroy holy text...
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September 3, 2010
A faulty comparisonDaniel Gordis has an article in Friday's Jerusalem Post entitled "The Ground Zero mosque - what US could learn from Israel. He makes some excellent points, and I heartily recommend everyone read the article. The lesson, that Gordis tells us Isra...
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July 14, 2010
MSNBC online 'poll' is a trap!I received an e-mail from a good, well-intentioned Conservative friend, urging me to participate in an online poll conducted by MSNBC. Here is my friend's message."O.K. Everyone!! Here is your chance to, at least silently, vent. Hope...
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July 10, 2010
What happened to the guns belonging to Bibi's guards?Is anyone else as skeptical about this story as I am?We're being told that guns belonging to Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu's SHABAK executive protection detail turned up missing after the PM's party had to change planes at JFK on the way to ...
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June 16, 2010
Poster child for the champs of illegal immigrationThe latest poster child for the champions of illegal immigration is Eric Balderas, 19, who came to the U.S. at age 4 and is currently a sophomore at Harvard, where he has a scholarship to study cellular and molecular biology. He now faces deportation...
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June 2, 2010
Don't be fooled by Obama's 'incompetence'It is a tremendous mistake to think that the disaster in the Gulf of Mexico will help convince Americans of Barack Obama's incompetence. Obama's true agenda is so insidious that even his inability to handle a crisis serves his greater strategy.And th...
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May 28, 2010
Sympathy for Obama?Listening to President Obama's press conference about the Gulf oil spill, I found myself actually relating to what he was saying, seeing things through his eyes and feeling some real sympathy for him. The more I thought about it, the more I wanted to...
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May 21, 2010
Blumenthal's 'apology' falls shortFolks reading or hearing the news about Connecticut Att'y General (and candidate for Senator) Dick Blumenthal (he repeatedly lied about and mischaracterized his service during the Vietnam war) might have been reminded of this story from 1996. In Ma...
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May 13, 2010
Obama - it's all about himWhen asked, during his joint news conference with Afghan President Hamid Karzai, about civilian casualties, President Obama stated:"We have an interest in reducing civilian casualties not because it's a problem for President Karzai. We have an i...
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May 3, 2010
Oil spill Obama's Katrina?Ooh! So the New York Times, Bill Maher and others on the Left are calling the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico "Obama's Katrina". But, in its way, this supposed criticism of Obama by some of his staunchest boosters still manages to perpetuat...
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April 28, 2010
Refried Bean SwastikaFirst of all, before this week, what would have been the likelihood of encountering the terms "swastika" and "refried beans" in the same sentence?The painting of a swastika in refried beans on the Arizona State Capitol building st...