December 6, 2014

Here Congress Goes Again

The Affordable Care Act, aka ObamaCare, was "only" 906 pages long.  A subsequent version of ObamaCare, passed by the U.S. Senate on 24 Dec. 09, was 2,409 pages long.  Ain't it funny how a bill grows as it becomes a law?  ...

November 29, 2014

We Are Cursed Because We Think

One of the great things about the American Thinker website is that (most) readers are able to think!  But with that ability comes a curse.  The curse is the propensity of AT readers to examine all facets of a proposal or issue, to consider ...

November 6, 2014

What's Not Worked Still Isn't Working

Richard Baehr wrote an AT blog, "Pollsters join Democrats as big losers," on 5 Nov. 14: On average, GOP candidates beat polling average by 5 points in close Senate races, and by 3 in close governors' races[.] In another AT bl...

April 9, 2014

Sharpton, Blind to Obama's Economic Policies, Says America Is for Everybody

Last Wednesday (April 2, 2014), that highly credible and recognized economics expert, Rev. Al Sharpton, on his MSNBC show PoliticsNation, sharply criticized Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI)'s budget proposal, saying, "America is a place for everybody, ...

February 14, 2014

A Tale of Three Leadership Failures

Leadership Failure Number One: Dear Leader Barack Hussein Obama, on March 16, 2006, while a senator, said (emphasis mine): The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure.  It is a s...

December 21, 2013

The Minimum Wage Issue...Again

In his "State of the Union" show on February 12, 2013, Barack Hussein Obama said: Even with the tax relief we've put in place, a family with two kids that earns the minimum wage still lives below the poverty line.  That's wrong. For ...

September 28, 2013

Obama's Economy: The DJIA or Reality?

Dear Leader Barack Hussein Obama supporters proudly point to the increased Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) as an indicator of how his economic policies have succeeded.   It had a high value in 2008, of 13,044.  The 2012 DJIA high w...

September 18, 2013

What John Adams Foretold Has Come True

John Adams, in 1787, said: Property is surely a right of mankind as really as liberty. ... but the time would not be long before courage and enterprise would come, and pretexts be invented by degrees, ... in sharing it equally with its present pos...

September 6, 2013

Minimum Wage: Useful Knowledge Is All We Have To Sell

The minimum wage is once again in the news.  It seems that fast food industry workers in fifty U.S. cities went on strike for higher wages.  One particular paragraph in a NBC News article caught my attention: The strike comes as a growin...

August 12, 2013

Democrats Continue to Prove that It's All about Vote-Buying

Here's something I'll wager that we don't hear about from Al Sharpton, or Jesse Jackson, or Sheila Jackson Lee, or Jeremiah Wright, or Barack Hussein Obama, or the NAACP, or any Democrat for that matter.  Lyndon Baines Johnson (LBJ), a Democrat ...

July 14, 2013

Obama Using the EPA as His Weapon of Choice

On Tuesday, June 25, 2013, Dear Leader Barack Hussein Obama gave a speech (actually, he just read from a Teleprompter) at Georgetown University.  He spoke about climate change. Obama said: "So today, for the sake of our children, and the h...

July 6, 2013

Political Correctness Is Cultural Marxism

The excellent AT article "Conservatives Pushing Back" by Bruce Walker explored what we conservative thinkers (We are, after all, American Thinkers) have known for quite some time: political correctness (PC) is to culture what Marxism is to economics....

June 29, 2013

PC and Criminal Background Checks

Wow!  Talk about political correctness (PC) run amok.  This has to be the most outrageous antic by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) since last year's debacle against Pepsi, and the 2009 shakedown of Skilled Healthcare Grou...

June 22, 2013

'ObamaPhones started under Reagan!' Your point?

Established in 1985, the Lifeline Program for Low-Income Consumers was a noble thought.  It was designed to provide telephone service for qualifying low-income consumers -- to provide poor people with access to emergency services, families, and ...

June 8, 2013

Blaming Automation: A Leftist Playbook Retread

Economist Henry Hazlitt (1884-1993), in his book Economics In One Lesson (1946), wrote: "Among the most viable of all economic delusions is the belief that machines on net balance create unemployment.  Destroyed a thousand times, it has risen...

June 8, 2013

Jobs Training: Four Percent Effective

Dear Leader Barack Hussein Obama is quick to "invest" taxpayer money on his and cronies' pet projects.  One such investment is in jobs training.  Obama, at Lorain Community College in Elmira, OH, in April 2012, talked about his "job trainin...

June 5, 2013

Barack Obama Climbs through the Overton Window

Have you ever heard of the Overton Window?  It was named after its creator, Joseph P. Overton, a former vice president of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, who developed it in the mid-1990s.  The "Window" is simply the defining of a na...

May 28, 2013

Democrats Have Not 'Evolved' Since 1964

One of the central tenets of President Lyndon Baines Johnson (LBJ)'s "War on Poverty," declared on January 8, 1964 in his State of the Union speech, was that "[w]e must distribute more food to the needy through a broader food stamp program."  Sa...

May 25, 2013

Corruption Starts At The Top

To say that the Benghazi consulate attack on September 11, 2012, has blossomed into a full-blown scandal for Dear Leader Barack Obama and for former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton would be an understatement.  Much of the media attention has,...

May 21, 2013

Offensive...in More Ways Than One

Get on and stay on the offensive.  When your position is indefensible, don't defend it.  Rather than defend, go on offense.  Try to change the subject.  Deride anyone who questions your position.  Accuse the questioners of be...

May 3, 2013

Reid Wants More Money to Educate the Public about ObamaCare

Speaking about ObamaCare, Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) said: "Max [Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT)] said unless we implement this properly it's going to be a train wreck, and I agree with him."  Reid's "solution" to avoid the tr...

April 19, 2013

Justification for Benghazi Cover-Up Continues

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, testifying before the before the Senate Foreign Relations committee in January 2013, about the U.S. Consulate attack in Benghazi, Libya, angrily said: With all due respect, the fact is, we had four dead A...

April 12, 2013

Good Grief! Now the MSM Wants a Subsidy

Did you know that the Main Stream Media (MSM) held a conference in Denver, CO, on April 5-7, 2013?  The official conference name was "National Conference for Media Reform."  Sounds great, doesn't it?  Media reform and all. Well, not so...

April 7, 2013

Bible Verses Obama Seems to Have Missed

Dear Leader Barack Hussein Obama loves to quote (and misquote) the Bible in order to lend credence to what he is saying.  For example, he (actually, his speechwriter), in Newtown, Connecticut, quoted several Bible verses, including Matthew 19:...

April 7, 2013

Decisions, Decisions: That Sequestration Thing Is So Pesky!

First, White House tours had to be canceled because of sequestration.  Now the cancelations have selectively spread: To celebrate Saint Patrick's Day, there was enough money to dye green the water in the fountain on the White House south law...

March 20, 2013

Boehner Says He 'Absolutely' Trusts Obama - We Are in Trouble Now

Speaker of the House of Representatives John Boehner (R-OH), on March 17, 2013, on ABC's This Week, said that he "absolutely" trusts Obama.  Boehner also said that he and Obama have a good relationship, and that they are "open with each other .....

March 20, 2013

It's Interesting What Survives Sequestration

Isn't it interesting what has survived the budget cuts of sequestration?  Here are but two (of many) programs that have survived: food stamps and foreign education.  While two does not make a pattern, one has to wonder what the objectives a...

March 8, 2013

Huey P. Long Was Correct

Huey P. Long (1893-1935) (Kingfish), governor of Louisiana, senator, famous proponent of wealth redistribution, and presidential candidate, had many famous sayings.  One saying that is quite appropriate in today's political atmosphere is this...

February 15, 2013

The Jack Lew Appointment: Classic Obama Hypocrisy

Here is an example of Dear Leader Barack Hussein Obama's hypocrisy.  Obama said, in 2009, "I refuse to leave our children with a debt they cannot repay.   We cannot and will not sustain deficits like these without end. ... We cannot si...

January 15, 2013

Global Warming? Yeah, Right!

Uh-oh!  This revelation has to really hurt.  It seems that the anthropogenic global warming (AGW) crowd do some picking and choosing (otherwise known as "cherry-picking") of data in order to try to support their position(s).  At the sa...

January 14, 2013

Whether by Gun or Abortion, Murder Is Murder - Period

Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) plans to introduce (or has already introduced) gun-control legislation in the 113th Congress, ostensibly to protect the lives of children, and to curb mass murders, like the one that occurred in Newtown, CT.  At t...

December 1, 2012

Dems Say Social Security Doesn't Add to Deficit

Congressional Democrats say they aren't willing to consider changes in Social Security in order to avoid the "fiscal cliff."  On Sunday, November 25, 2012, Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL), on ABC's This Week, said, "Social Security does not add one p...

October 16, 2012

To Hell with the Law; Re-Election Is More Important

This is clearly a case of Obama placing himself above the law, then sending us taxpayers the bill. Congress passed, in 2011, the Budget Control Act (BCA), which established the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction (better known as the Super Co...

October 12, 2012

The Effect of Fairness on Tax Revenues

Vice President Joe Biden, speaking in Iowa on October 4, 2012, said: On top of the trillions of dollars of spending that we have already cut, we're gonna ask - yes - we're gonna ask the wealthy to pay more.  My heart breaks, come on man.  ...

September 18, 2012

Will Obama Become a Lame Duck?

George Washington, on April 30, 1789, in New York City, took his oath of office as the first president of the United States.  He was president until power was passed to John Adams, the second U.S. president.  The U.S. has seen an orderly, p...

September 7, 2012

Democrats and Swiss Bank Hypocrisy

Tuesday night at the Democrat National Convention (DNC), former Ohio (did I spell that correctly?) Governor Ted Strickland said, "In Matthew, chapter 6, verse 21, the scriptures teach us that where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."...

September 1, 2012

The Rich: Taxes Paid, Polls, and Reality

We have all heard from President Barack Hussein "kill list" Obama that "the rich don't pay their fair share."  While polling data reaffirms that view with the U.S. population, there are polls, and then there is reality. On August 28, 2012, at Io...

August 25, 2012

Islam a Religion of Peace? Actions Say Otherwise.

At the 3:40 point of this AT video entitled "Obama Promoting Islam," President Barack Hussein "kill list" Obama says, "Islam is not part of the problem in combating violent extremism; it is an important part of promoting peace." Saying "that Islam em...

August 16, 2012

The Ghost of Solyndra: Still Haunting Taxpayers

Will President Barack Hussein "kill list" Obama never learn?  Or does he know precisely what he is doing and now want to throw more tax dollars to his contributors? Obama will expedite seven "clean energy" projects as a part of his "We Can't Wai...

August 4, 2012

Shirking Responsibility

I got an e-mail the other day from my oldest daughter, who is pushing forty.  She and her husband bought a house in the Florida Keys a few years ago.  Soon after buying it, they moved to the British Virgin Islands (BVI) for two years. ...

July 30, 2012

All the Dependency Pieces Are Falling into Place

Does the phrase "Kicking the can down the road" sound familiar?  It should.  It means, "Borrowing (running a deficit) to avoid payment for present spending."  The problem with that strategy is that the payment for all the borrowing wil...

July 28, 2012

Obama Says His Economic Policies Worked!

Here is a hot news item from U.S. Treasury Department Secretary Tim "Tax Cheat" Geithner as he was testifying to Congress on July 24, 2012: "The economy is not growing fast enough.  Unemployment is very high."  No kidding!  As if we Am...

July 21, 2012

EPA: Thou Shalt Purchase Fuel That Doesn't Exist

"Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten me into!" said Oliver Hardy to Stan Laurel in The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case, a 28-minute movie made in 1930.  The phrase is usually misquoted as "Here's another fine mess you've gotten me into." ...

July 1, 2012

Obama Not the Only One Playing the Blame Game

We are all quite familiar with the "blame game" played by President Barack Hussein Obama.  Nothing is ever his fault.  His blaming of everyone (especially George W. Bush) and/or everything for his problems has become quite comical.  Be...

June 30, 2012

Will American Liberals Ever Wake Up?

America is in the throes of a presidential campaign that presents real hope for the future of America (Romney) versus the same-old, same-old (Obama).  While it appears right now that Obama and his socialist policies will lose in November, Americ...

June 16, 2012

Socialism, Obama, and America's Future

Stanley Kurtz documented something we have all known: President Barack Hussein Obama is a socialist!  Contrary to claims made in 2008 by Obama, his staff, and supporters, he was a member of the socialist New Party in Chicago. Kurtz wrote: In 20...

June 13, 2012

Austerity - It's Coming whether We Like It or Not

The result of the Greek parliamentary elections in May is a repudiation of the policies and politics of austerity.  The Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA), which experienced Greece's greatest political gain, campaigned on an anti-austerity p...

June 8, 2012

Race Troubles?

No, not the human classification kind, but the Formula One Grand Prix (GP) Automobile kind.  But I did capture your interest, didn't I? The Canadian GP is scheduled for June 8, 9, and 10, 2012.  The race, held on Montreal's Isle Notre Dame,...

April 28, 2012

Fairness, Taxes, GPA, and Redistribution

If ever three articles capture the essence of what we, as a country, are currently experiencing, these three do it.  First, there is "Devious Taxation" by Dr. Walter E. Williams, an economist and one of my personal heroes.  Second, there is...

April 15, 2012

The Religion of Global Warming

It is no coincidence that man-made global warming, or climate change, or whatever it's called this week, got very popular as an issue just as the Soviet Union fell.  It is the top-down centralized government's last best hope of controlling the m...

April 13, 2012

The Ironic War on Women

Isn't it rather ironic that President Barack Hussein Obama and the Democrats say that Republicans are waging a war on women, while at the same time he, his administration, and Democrats embrace/support Islamic law, or sharia? Just in time for his re-...

April 9, 2012

Obama Will Say and Do Anything

Lying.  Dissembling.  Peddling half-truths.  Redefining words.  Taking credit for something in which he had no part.  Those words/phrases describe what President Barack Hussein Obama has said or done and is now saying or doin...

April 5, 2012

Obama Misquotes Bible on Wealth Redistribution

Liberals/Progressives/Democrats say the Bible is off-limits when it addresses the subject of homosexuality, homosexual marriage, abortion, or any issue liberals favor but the Bible condemns.  But it's permitted to be used when wealth-redistribut...

February 3, 2012

Obama on Energy: An Exercise in Nuance

Once upon a time, Al Gore invented the internet.  Now, it seems, Barack Obama is the one who invented hydraulic fracking. To be specific, President Obama is channeling our old VP by taking credit for things he did not invent or create.  Wha...