Here is a cry for help from French philosophy teacher Robert Redeker, now in hiding from Islamofascist death threats.  In a letter written to his friend philosopher André Glucksmann, Redeker writes: Dear André, I am now in a catastrophic personal situation. Many very precise death threats... More

We infidels are learning our place, bit by bit. The Jawa Report tells about a book we won't be reading. According to psychoanalyst Dr. Nancy Kobrin and noted feminist Phyllis Chesler, who wrote the introduction, Kobrin's new book, "The Sheikh's New Cloth: The Naked Truth about Islamic Suicide... More

MSNBC has put together a terrific video essay, narrated on Sergeant First Class Paul Ray Smith, winner of a posthumous Congressional Medal of Honor. Don't let the narrator put you off. If you haven't seen it, you must follow this link to YouTube. Hat tip: Alan Fraser Update: Readers... More

Tigerhawk has eyes like a hawk. He spotted an item about an explosion cutting the pipeline that takes Iranian gas to Turkey. An explosion on a natural gas pipeline outside an Iranian border city has halted the flow of gas to Turkey, Iranian authorities said Friday.  The governor of Maku, a... More

In "Al Gore's Crusade," American Thinker's Richard Baehr provides a very thorough review of Al Gore's global warming stump speech.  However, there are a few points in Mr. Baehr's analysis that call for a response. First, near the outset of his article, Mr. Baehr boldly states:  "We have... More

As reported this past Tuesday by the Daily Telegraph and reprinted  more recently by the New York Sun, China has been playing laser tag with American spy satellites: China has secretly fired powerful laser weapons designed to disable American spy satellites by "blinding" their sensitive... More

David Frum of NRO points us to the Financial Times coverage of the Greek Government's statistical policy changes understaken to lift Greece's GDP, by counting money laundering and prostitution as national wealth. This says a lot about honesty in the EU and bureaucrat mumbo—jumbo... More

After countless front page Washington Post stories overplaying  Sen. Allen's "Macaca" remark, and extensive coverage of charges against Allen, obviously orchestrated by Professor Sabato (who  seems to have retreated from claims suggesting he had personal knowledge of Allen's racism),... More

As I noted last week, Airbus is considering moving some manufacturing operations out of Europe, to countries where the dollar (not the euro) is is the currency, or linked to the currency. The Wall Street Journal reports that today's meeting of the board of directors of parent company EADS will... More

I confess that I am bewildered by the recent words of Charles Rangel, the veteran Democrat (in both senses: seniority and decorated service in the Army) set to become powerful chairman of the Ways and Means Committee if Nancy Pelosi becomes Speaker. Earlier, he announced that all the tax cuts would... More

Praise for a traitor. What's next from Pinch Sulzberger's paper? While one might argue that there should be qualms in considering her a "traitor" given the circumstances of being trapped in Japan at an inopportune time (and having to make a living there), can a paper honestly devote precious... More

Henry Mark Holzer, writing in Front Page Magazine, makes the very strong case that the New York Times will be indicted for violating the Espionage Act for publication of details helpful to the enemy in the story of wiretapping of internatrional phone calls involving an American end of the... More

Nursultan Nazarbayev, president of Kazakhstan, is meeting with President Bush today, and as the Los Angeles Times editorially notes, it's no joke. The huge oil—rich country (other strategic minerals abound, too — uranium, copper, tungsten, manganese, lead, iron, gold, and on and on) is... More

It's one way to cement ties. While Hamas turns synagogues in Gaza into party headquarters and arms depots, and Iraqi Sunnis blow up the Golden Dome mosque, killing hundreds, Israel helps Nigerian Muslims build a Mosque. From JTA: Yediot Achronot on Thursday quoted Israel's ambassador to... More

Softly it whispers, parting air, The edge so sharp, so glistening; And as it strikes beneath your hair, Is anyone still listening? The sword of Islam makes the slice, And your severed head just rolls; You've made the final sacrifice, Loyal to your Liberal goals.   When others warned of futures... More

The biggest reformist daily newspaper in Iran has just been closed for publishing a joke. This one isn't even a cartoon of Mohammed, just two chess pieces —— a white knight facing a black donkey. What's the joke? The donkey is surrounded by a halo of light, a clear reference to Mahmoud... More

The potential first Muslim (of Louis Farrakhan derivation) member of Congress gets support from Jewish Democrats who know where their own loyalties really lie. From The Jewish Week: ...the National Jewish Democratic Council (NJDC) has come to the aid of Keith Ellison, a Democratic House candidate... More

While the anti Israel, anti Jewish, anti American liberals decamp to Israel to protest the barrier that country is building to try to keep out murderous terrorists, while they deride  talk of building a fence along America's southern border to keep out illegal immigrants, Saudi Arabia ... More

In the book The First Heroes, Craig Nelson crafts a wonderful book about the Doolittle Raid on Tokyo shortly after the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. The book is a very spirited account regarding the bravery and the sacrifices made by the flyers who risked life and limb so soon after Pearl Harbor... More

A British correspondent brought to my attention to two distressing  reports from the U.K.'s Melanie Phillips. Quoting  this vapid remark from the "anorexic speech " by Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett, "No doubt there will be yet again those whose goal is to obstruct the... More

While third world types and lefties cheered Hugo Chavez's devilishly wild, book waving speech at the UN, many first world Americans calmly decided we don't need his oil.   These included the executives of 7—Eleven which decided to drop Venezuela—backed Citgo as its... More

In honor of the holy Muslim month of Ramadan here is some right news and some wrong news about the current and past Muslim genocides.  Muslims have been and are being killed, in fact, in large numbers. But if you think Israel, America and the Jews are the cause, you are mistaken. Thanks... More

According to an item in World Net Daily, at least one Pentagon report endoreses the notion that suicide bombing has Quranic support. The terrorists distort the idea of jihad into a call for violence and murder," the White House maintains in its recently released "National Strategy for Combating... More

Michelle Malkin takes a characteristically thorough look at Paul Pillar, the CIA's national intelligence officer for the Near East and South Asia until just a year ago. There is much speculation that he is the source of the recent NIE leak. This is far from the first time such suspicions have... More

Jules Crittenden, city editor of the Boston Herald, points out the sheer mendacity of the press acounts of the NIE, based, as they are, on cherry—picked leaks. First he properly notes In time of war, the nation's classified intelligence analysis of the enemy's capabilities is none of our,... More

Perhaps the Pulitizer, already demeaned by the fact it has been given to so many unworthies, ought to be replaced by a new award, the Chutzpah Prize for the press organ which demonstrates the most outlandish gall. Today's New York Times editorial is my nominee. It begins: It's hard to think... More

Another example of the strange bedfellows of politics will be on display in all it's glory today in London. Former US president Bill Clinton, will speak at the Labour Party conference in hopes of pulling off an act of political prestidigitation. The idea is to capitalize on the star power of the... More

MEMRI  provides the latest update on the International Zionist Conspiracy, as seen by Iranian National News. And guess what? It's Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, a production of the "Jewish Walt Disney Company." Why Jewish? Old Walt was no Jew. It's because the Disney board of... More

It seems that the Democrats are now claiming, via the vehicle of an article in Salon Magazine, that Sen. George Allen used the N—word in his college football playing days. In all "fairness," Salon contacted 19 of George Allen's former teammates and they stated that he did not use that word or... More

The Pope knew exactly what he was doing in his address at Regensburg. I am becoming more and more convinced that the pontiff is three or four steps ahead of the rest of us in his thinking about the way that public consciousness is shaped. I even wonder if His Holiness has surfed YouTube. Lest you... More

Sheik Safwat Higazi is one of the most well known people to appear on TV, according to the moderator who introduced him on an Arabic television channel. MEMRI translated his version of "I have a dream" — a dream that sounds like a nightmare to many of us. Little Green Footballs picked it up... More

Ray Robison does. "There are two prevailing theories. One theory is that a US scientist did it. The other is that the Saddam regime of Iraq or another rogue government with anthrax capability gave anthrax to al—Qaeda. Other theories abound but I will limit the argument to the two theories... More

We've known for a long time that one simple measure will wipe out dangers from e.coli and salmonella which as we are seeing with the contaminated spinach incidents are such a danger. That measure is irradiating food. Simple, safe, and inexpensive. So why don't we have it? Jay Ambrose makes it... More

Rick Moran of RightWing Nuthouse rises from his sickbed to take on Keith Olbermann, the sanctimonious unhinged commentator on MSNBC who has been drawing viewers to MSNBC and a lot of flak lately for the extremely abusive tone of his denunciations of President Bush. Olbermann is now charging that... More

I just spent a memorable hour (well, almost a full hour) on the telephone with Tony Blankley, in a blogger conference call organized by One Jerusalem. The entire call will be posted on the One Jerusalem website later today, and I heartily recommend listening to the whole thing, as an extremely... More

The latest shot in the climate wars was fired by the National Academy of Sciences in the form of a report authored primarily by James Hanson, NASA's chief crusader for truth, science and global warming. As reported on Monday by the Washington Post in an AP authored article: Global Temperature... More

Democrats love to demonize the rich, but a surprising number of Democrat pols find money cascading into their coffers as they rise in politics. Take Barack Obama, the freshman senator from Illinois, a man who excites intense public interest far beyond that accorded to other well—spoken and... More

The San Francisco Chronicle today points a finger at the hypocrisy of various state government opfficials and legislators who support the ridiculous "greenhouse gas" legislation that is sure to drive business out of California, but who personally use gas guzzlers. It is a classic "do as I say, not... More

The new president of Mexico Felipe Calderon does not approve of the United States building a fence along portions of the our mutual border. For him, apparently, we have no right to control who enters our country. Perhaps he feels it is an insult. "We are worried ... about the actions that the... More

The United States government has denied a visa to Tariq Ramadan, grandson of the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, the fount of modern Islamic terrorist groups, and a well—known scholar who has taught in Europe, most recently at Oxford University. AT has been following his case for over two... More

As in the Plame case, selective leaks of the NIE appear long after the distribution of the document —— in this case almost 6 months afterward —— with a clear intent of helping the Democrats in the upcoming election. As in that case, a complete refutation would require... More

Watching Bill Clinton on Fox News Sunday reminded me of the scene from The Caine Mutiny when Humphrey Bogart, playing Captain Queeg, was on the witness stand. The captain, after being relieved of command by his First Mate because he panicked during a storm at sea, began his testimony in a calm and... More

In Book III of Gulliver's Travels, there is a group of Projectors on the island of Laputa who are trying to decipher the secret thoughts and plans of diplomats from the color and composition of their turds. If The New York Times keeps on its present course, it too may find itself among that coterie... More

The good people at LexisNexis contacted us to note that their service is properly named LexisNexis, not Nexis—Lexis, as we originally had it in Noel Sheppard's article this morning. As editor I must take full responsibility for this mistake, and offer my apology to LexisNexis. My only excuse... More

That's the phraseology ofа Dr. BobаGodwin, clinical psychologist and blogger extraordinaire at One Cosmos. Clinton's pathetic performance with Chris Wallace this weekend was a wonderfully revealing moment. While the purpose of his humiliated fury was to try to destroy the eyes of the world, for... More

Irish academics have called for a boycott of Israel. Haviv Rettig of the Jerusalem Post notes,   "They don't demand a boycott of Sudan, or of China, which has tremendous academic ties to Europe. And they don't want to boycott the United States or Britain over Iraq. There is no... More

The Prowler at The American Spectator reports that some senior Democrats have grown increasingly alarmed about the growing anti—Semitic and racist tone of their party's base, say House and Senate Democrat leadership staff. The incidents cited are recent, but as Ed Lasky has reported here,... More

Barron Bodissey of The Gates of Vienna cites a report from AFP that Switzerland has voted heavily in favour of making it harder for asylum—seekers to gain entry to the rich Alpine state. Despite warnings of damage to Switzerland's humanitarian reputation, some two—thirds of voters... More

Democrat partisans are coming down from the summer—long sugar high they enjoyed with polling data supposedly revealing an excellent chance to take control of the House and maybe the Senate, too. Such hopes are falling faster than gasoline prices. The more polling is targeted at likely... More

What to do when onerous regulation threatens property rights? Get out the chainsaws. (This isn't Europe.) From the New York Times: Over the past six months, landowners here have been clear—cutting thousands of trees to keep them from becoming homes for the endangered red—cockaded... More

The Pew Global Attitudes Project is a unique, comprehensive, internationally comparable series of worldwide public opinion surveys. It aims to gauge attitudes in every region toward various issues of importance. Pew Global Attitudes Project Spring 2006 Survey comprised the following six nations:... More

It was a different kind of mission for some of the men from Weapons Company, 2/8th Marines, "America's Battalion," based at Camp Fallujah, Iraq.  But when the call came they were ready. The mission:  transfer a little Iraqi girl who had fallen from a 3 story building to the nearest... More

We occasionally receive email from Donnie Dobro, a faithful reader with a down—home sense of humor. Donnie thought he heard a challenge from John F. Kerry and issued a response of his own, accepting it. We reprint below the two latest chapters in the leadup to a forthcoming duel I only hope... More

An insidious movement to change the Electoral College provisions of the Constitution through a back door needs to be styopped in its tracks — terminated, as it were. And the man to do it is none other than the Terminator himself, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. The wonderful Betsy Newmark, of... More

I recently viewed an excerpt from President Clinton's tirade in response to Chris Wallace's question on whether he had done enough to get bin Laden.  His main emphasis was "I tried".  Now that seems to be the hallmark of the Democratic Party.  They tried to fix poverty with the... More

Jack Risko of Dinocrat has a secret source telling him about Karl Rove's super secret plan for destroying the Democratic Party. He's not too sure its real. But the powers attributed to Rove go beyond any ordinary mortal. I await Hugo Chavez's olfactory review, but in the meantime, go see what... More

He accepted the invitation, but the talk isn't going through, for what appears to be some combination of security concerns and concerns over bad publicity for Columbia. Who in a position of authority at Columbia would be daft enough to invite Holocaust denier/genocidal maniac/most notorious... More

The wonderfully creative Steve Gilbert of Sweetness & Light has come up with a terrific comparison. In a couple of months we'll be able to post graphics here at AT. But for now, you need to click this link. More

When the drums were beating along the Potomac for the heads of the Kilo company  (ginned up by TIME's McGirk, Murtha and Human Rights Watch), it would have been nice to have this information: LOS ANGELES (Reuters) — U.S. Marines were so locked in battle with Iraqi insurgents on the day... More

USA Today reported yesterdayа that it cost $185 million to repair the Superdome in New Orleans.а A paltry $15 million of this amount was provided by the NFL.а Apparently, neither the owners of the Saints football team nor the trustees of Tulane University, whose college football team also uses... More

During his visit to New York, Iran's President Ahmadinejad met behind closed doors with members of the Council on Foreign Relations. One of those present, Maurice Greenberg, offered an account of the session to National Interest editor Ximena Ortiz. There are some interesting anecdotes. For... More

There is something very incongruent about the Democrats' condemnations  of Hugo Chavez. Coming from the leftists they are, they make too much sense to be taken at face value. Their reaction is driven by the same motives that undergirded their posturing just after 9/11. They also spoke well... More

As I predicted over a week ago, the latest earnings news from the New York Times Company contains bad news. Via Reuters: The publisher of The New York Times newspaper and the Boston Globe forecast earnings of 8 cents to 10 cents per share, compared with 16 cents in the same quarter last... More

Hugo Chavez, president of Venezuela, has declared that George W. Bush, president of the United States, is Satan. This is not particularly original, the U.S., and the president by extension, has been considered the Great Satan for some time now. The title was famously bestowed  by Ayatollah... More

The article "The Democratic Party and the Jews" erroneously reported that The Church Council of Greater Seattle failed to offer sympathy for the victims of the attack on the Jewish Federation building in that city. In  fact, that group sponsored an interfaith service commemorating the victims,... More

It's the latest thing in fashion accessories for Third—World thugs with shriveling, um, self—esteem. With all his oil money —— which he is now dedicating to monuments to his nagging inferiority complex, like Venezuela's 24 new jet fighters from Russia —— it's... More

Does the New York Times' book review of Frank Rich's book about Bush "deceptions" contain its own deception? Here's an excerpt from the over—the—top laudatory review of Rich's Bush—bashing book: When he sets his jeweler's eye upon the so—called Swift—boating of the... More

Investors Business Daily notes that however much Democrats like Charles Rangel may try to distance themselves from Hugo Chavez, many have had a history of playing footsie with him. Democrats who've been cozying up to the Venezuelan dictator in the past few years are the ones who deserve the... More

Wal—Mart announced today that it will start selling some prescription drugs for $4 in a test program in Florida. This is a strong reply to the Democratic critics who are campaigning for office against Wal—Mart. The New York Times has stated that Democrats will run this November as... More

Maricopa, Arizona County Attorney Andrew Thomas is the 'The Man.' The men accused of being the Southeast Valley's serial shooters are in jail.  Upcoming is a decision on whether to ask for the death penalty if a guilty verdict is rendered at the conclusion of the trial.   This... More

David Paulin of the Big Carnival examines Hugo Chavez's performance yesterday at the United Nations in terms of Venezuela's contemporary culture, which he likens to that of many Middle Eastern nations, as opposed to its Latin American neighbors. To understand him, stop thinking of... More

A reader who prefers to be known as Blue Paul draws our attention to a Chomsky prose generator posted on the web. Try it. Update: More on Chomskybots. More

If there is a rally of 500 transvestites in New York, it gets coverage in the paper of record. Not a word, however,  abut 35,000 people demonstrating against Ahmadinejad yesterday. See the story on Powerline. There has been a near—total news blackout on this. Columbia University just... More

I've been following the debate on AT between J.R. Dunn and that moonbat 'professor.' One of the moonbat's central points is that no wreckage readily identifiable as having come from a passenger jet was found on the site of the Pentagon. Really? Look at the photos at the end of the presentation in... More

The New York Sun's blog It Shines for All takes note of the death of  Pham Xuan An. Ed Lasky wrote about Pham last year for American Thinker. Pham the spy worker for both Time Magazine and Reuters itself. Reuters notes his death and adds, The reporting jobs helped him collect... More

Nat Hentoff is arguably the most honest and consistantly fair liberal in America. In this week's Village Voice he writes an article about Iran's practice of stoning of women for adultery ("allowing" oneself to get raped qualifies for stoning) under President Ahmadinejad.  The article... More

Believe it or not, but Britain is about to surrender a critical piece of its sovereignty to the EU, without all the fuss and bother of a vote in Parliament. According to The Times,  BRITAIN is ready to surrender its veto over European Union decisions on police and judicial matters in a... More

The Pulitzer Prizes have become a joke. Of course, there is a long history of disgrace, such as the Pulitzer awarded to Walter Durranty of the New York Times, who assisted Stalin in supressing news of the slaughter—by—intentional—famine of millions in the Ukraine. The latest... More

Dan Riehl does some of the best investigative reporting to be found. Today he focuses on the AP photographer Bilal Hussein.   Read it and the answer to the question is simple:BS.   Clarice Feldman   9 20 06 More

Yesterday the former Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord Carey, gave a speech at a Newbold College, a 7th Day Adventist college and seminary.  The talk was entitled The Cross and the Crescent: The Clash of Faiths in an Age of Secularism.  Lord Carey seemed to take a play out of Pope Benedict's... More

So today Hugo Chavez has grabbed the headlines away from Ahmadinejad by calling George W. Bush "El Diablo," the Devil. It's the same meme as Ahmadinejad's Great Satan. Chavez is a clown with an inferiority complex. By himself he is no more than a one—day headline. His purchase of jet planes... More

Democrat Congressman and prominent Bush critic Jim McDermott had a travel junket paid for with money from a terror linked domestic group just raided by the Feds. The raid is described as troubling to Muslims according to an article in the Detroit Free Press. Counterterrorism agents of the FBI and... More

Discover the Network points to a statement CNN—founder Ted Turner said Tuesday. Turner called it a "joke" that Bush demanded that Iran abandon any ambitions for nuclear weapons while at the same time hoping to ban all such bombs. "They're a sovereign state," Turner said of Iran. "We have... More

This appears to be a genuine item from the BBC. Which means that there is fair chance that it might be true. A Sudanese man has been forced to take a goat as his "wife", after he was caught having sex with the animal. The goat's owner, Mr Alifi, said he surprised the man with his goat and... More

Andrew Walden, writing in Front Page Magazine, examines the deeply troubling candidacy of Keith Eillison, the Democrats' nominee for Congress in the Democrat—dominated district that includes the city of Minneapolis. Two blogs, Minnesota Democrats Exposed and Powerline did the job the local... More

It appears that a native Syrian living in Canada, Maher Arar, traveled to the U.S. where he was apprehended by the FBI and deported to his home country based on information provided to the FBI by the Canadian authorities.  During his four—year sojourn in Syria he was reportedly... More

We are accustomed to reading of outrageous behavior on the part of teachers in the government schools in this country. Often protected by tenure and assured of a healthy retirement income, they have a captive audience. But this news from Texas is particularly jarring. Parents Outraged Over... More

I think Rick Moran was too categorical in his remarks today when he said that "what is surprising about Benedict's challenge is that he had given no inkling up to now that he was interested in rocking the boat when it came to relations between Rome and the Muslim faith." Not exactly.  A year... More

One of my favorite writers has a response today in the New York Sun dealing with the twisted intel report the Senate Dems are trying to pawn off pre—election. Recently the Senate Intelligence Committee published the second phase of its investigation into Iraq. The document has an... More

The French media company Lagardere is one of the world's giants. In addition to extensive media holdings, it owns a significant share of Airbus' parent EADS, along with other holdings. Forbes reports that ...chief executive Arnaud Lagardere said in an interview with the newspaper Journal du... More

Readers of the metro edition of the print Gray Lady found tucked into their papers this morning an additional 24—page section, in broadsheet size, printed in full color, and devoted to promoting the proposition to readers that, 'These Times Demand The Times.' The object of this remarkable... More

Mohammed at Iraq the Model has a thoughtful commentary on violent reactions to the Pope's words titled "When Will We Be Able To Accept Criticism?" Here is an excerpt.  Read the rest here. Now after reading texts that are mentioned in our respected books I wonder why we always put... More

Other than his moving speeches after 9/11, George W. Bush has never spoken better than he just did to the UN General Assembly. Read it.  It will be seen as one of the historic documents of this age, the equivalent of Reagan's "Tear down this wall" speech at the Berlin Wall. Reagan's speech... More

Carol Gould describes a documentary shown on the BBC—owned, but commercial—supported UK Channel Four, the same wonderful people who brought us the pseudo—documentary Death of a President, digitally superimposing President Bush's face on an actor portraying a President... More

This short clip by  BBC's Peter Marshall about the 'Qana airstrike' in July, 2006 draws the conclusion that 'Hezbollah weren't around' on that Sunday. That is simply wrongwrong. gettyimages has an image (ID 71468986) shot by HASSAN AMMAR/Stringer on 18 Jul 2006, i.e. 12 days before the alleged... More

Strategy Page notes what I've been hearing: that tension between the JAG officers at the Pentagon and those tasked with the fighting is at the boiling point. September 19, 2006: Big brawl going on in the Pentagon between the JAGs (Judge Advocate General, the lawyers) and the operators (combat and... More

It is beginning to look like PC objections to sports teams being named after Indians tribes can be something of a shakedown. That, at least, is the implication of an article published in the Deseret News of Salt Lake City. One year ago, University of Utah President Michael Young noted the... More

Who was Emperor Manuel II Paleologos, the man whose quotation sparked so much rage all over the Muslim world? Blogger Vicki of the site Not Ready for My Burqua has done some research. With her kind permission, we reprint extensive excerpts from her post on the subject. Manuel II Paleologos... More

Here is a little more irony from our friends at the Washington Post.  Over the weekend I was at my local coffee shop and I picked a copy of the Washington Post metro section while waiting on my order. On page C7 a story about Virginia State Climatologist caught my attention. Headlined... More

Dear Mr. Dunn, Thank you very much for the systematic dismantling of 'Professor' Metzer's lunatic conspiracy theory.  It continually amazes me how this stuff persists...yet it does. Your rebuttal omits mention of eyewitness accounts of the aircraft flying into the Pentagon.  I was working... More

The old wisdom has been turned on its head. Would you volunteer terror information to the US Government if you knew it could be exposed in legal proceedings? Right.  Providing secret intelligence to terrorists' lawyers seems suicidal. The reason is purely practical: Crucial sources will dry... More

No question that Armitage deserves excoriation Jed Babbin delivers this morning, for maintaining his silence and allowing what can only be fairly described as an anti—Administration witch hunt to continue. But an important question remains: What did Chuck Schumer know and when did he know... More

Macsmind hints that the Jefferson case is proceeding and that not only may it bring down the Nigerian government, but as wwll, may drag into the net a number of prominent Democrats: Yesterday's NY Times, had an article by Christopher Drew showing that the well of Jefferson's troubles are a lot... More

The Los Angeles Times publishes an absolutely remarkable column written by died—in—the—wool liberal Sam Harris. His message is pinted and telling: his fellows liberals have become delusional and worse. ... liberalism has grown dangerously out of touch with the realities of our... More

The Boston Globe reports that the daughter of Rep. William Delahunt, Democrat incumbent whose race against Jack Bauer—like national security veteran Jeff Beatty is discussed today by Richard Baehr, is a registered lobbyist for a Saudi company. Kara Delahunt, the daughter of US Representative... More

The Maryland Senate race this year will be one of the most interesting in a long time. Black Republican Lr. Gov Michael Steele faces white Democrat Congressman Benjamin Cardin, winner of a contentious primary fight in which he deafeated black contenders. The New York Sun reports: Rep. Benjamin... More

How appropriate it is that America bashers should hold their rendezvous in the great country of Cuba. Nothing indeed could have revealed their true character better than their choice of venue. The best way to gauge a country is to see how many people try to get in as opposed to how many try to get... More

Donald Sensing, writing in One Hand Clapping, notes that prominent Democrat Congressman Harold Ford, now running for the Senate seat being vacated by Bill Frist, has filmed a television in a church. Now the first thing that might come to many minds is that the church violated the regulations... More

What matters now is not press reports about pieces of a German lecture by Benedict or the Musllim reaction. If we must answer "yes" to all, or any, of the following 23 questions about Islam, are we entitled, nay bound, to be very concerned indeed ? 1. Does Islam claim that every single word in the... More

It is no secret that in Europe the anti—American, anti—Israel propaganda machine is operating full tilt. How bad is it? Samizdata writes this report, concluding "I am not making this up." As I type these words, Britain's Channel 4 is airing a major piece of breath—taking... More

I am earnestly scanning the heavens for airborne swine. Hillary Clinton and Thomas Lifson agree! So what took her so long? Thomas Lifson  9 17 06 More

Apparently there may be some about this point in Iran. AFP summarizes Iranian press commentary: ...hardline daily Kayhan, whose editor—in—chief is appointed by supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said there were signs of Israeli inteference aimed at creating conflict between Islam... More

Sweetness & Light notices a fascinating congruence between the electoral maps we have become so familiar with and public opinion polling done by ESPN and the reggie Bush affair (The Heisman Trophy winner was discovered to have been paid during his college career — a clear rule... More

The Wall Street Journal offers a fascinating scenario ($link) for Pinch Sulzberger to pull the New York Times Company out of its tailspin: sell The Boston Globe (and presumably other New England media properties it bought when it acquired the Globe's parent company Affiliated Publications).... More

Michelle Malkin provides extensive coverage of new questions surrounding another Associated Press employee in the Middle East. Over the past five months, I have pestered the Associated Press for answers about one of its photographers, Iraq—based Bilal Hussein. As noted here in April,... More

Our friend and occasional contributor Stefania Lapenna, who blogs at Free Thoughts, reports from Italy that the latest polling shows that Italians are regarding the recently defeated Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi in a better light. Conservative Berlusconi was an outspoken ally of the... More

 Dore Gold, President of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs   (www.jcpa.org) and former Israeli Ambassador to the UN thinks theres a good chance that Iran can be expelled from the UN. While there's very little hope for such a campaign to succeed, Mr.Gold is right to — as... More

Bravo! to the government of Australia, led by Prime Minister John Howard. The Australian Herald Sun newspaper's Sunday edition reports on the response to the latest round of riots by the world's Muslims, in high dudgeon over the insensitivity of others. Finally, a government with the fortitude for... More

Robert Godwin of One Cosmos does a takedown of the fevered left's latest talking point: that "research" into fascism has developed 14 characteristics that define it, characteristics which Bush naturally matches. With a combination of wit and logic, he takes them down one by one, holding a mirror to... More

Response To My Critics: Last week, I argued  that President Bush has made a serious strategic and political miscalculation by committing the United States to establishing a stable, democratic, pro—western government in Iraq.  This article elaborated on my earlier argument  that... More

What stirred Muslim to riot this week was not just Pope Benedict's scholarly discussion of the historic argument between Christian Emperor Paleologus and his Muslim opponent. Rather, it is the exact fit between that dialogue and today's clash of cultures. The core issue —— constantly... More

This is a great post, and of course Ed Morrisey is absolutely correect in that no one but us abides by the Geneva Convention.  The Germans were pikers compared to our Asian enemies throughout history. Clearly, the fanatical application of the warrior code and other Eastern... More

As Muslim groups denounce the words of Pope Benedict XVI, two non—Catholic churches were attacked in the West Bank. I am no religious scholar, but from what I read, it appears that in Islam any skepticism or criticism by a non—believer, particularly one without the backing of a standing... More

The Pope made a perfectly reasonable argument against forced conversions and for dialogue and debate between those whose faiths differ, and the New York Times criticizes him: There is more than enough religious anger in the world. So it is particularly disturbing that Pope Benedict XVI has... More

Vital Perspective notices that former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir (who once paid for the services of Paul Krugman) is calling ofr Islamic nations to have nuclear weapons. Former Malaysian PM Mahathir Mohamad, who once said that Jews ruled the world by proxy, argued in Islamabad today that... More

The Pope expresses dismay that his remarks have been taken as offensive. I guess that the language of Muslim political, intellectual and religious leaders calling for death to America, death to the Jews, stoning the Christians, imposing Sharia Law, and wiping Israel off the map is not any... More

Steven Warshawsky's piece on public opposition to the Iraq War is silly if not windy.  Bush's drop in public opinion  [is] due to the public's disaffection with the President's much more grandiose vision of using American troops to spread freedom and democracy in the... More

Consider the following: President Bush warned defiant Republican senators yesterday that he will close down a CIA interrogation program that he credited with thwarting terrorist attacks if they pass a proposal regulating detention of enemy combatants, escalating a politically charged battle that... More

Commenter Bumperstickerist at Just One Minute has penned a hilarious response to the fevered ravings of soime of our friends on the left. Tom Maguire has kindly moved it onto the body of the site, where I urge you to read the whole thing. A fair use excerpt: I finally admitted to a liberal... More

Dana Milbank is in rare form today: House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, the woman who will become speaker of the House if Democrats get lucky in November, began her weekly news conference yesterday holding up a red—white—and—blue brochure. "I hope you all received 'A New... More

John Edwards, widely derided as "the Breck Girl" for his well—coifed hair, has a secret admirer. Well, secret from the voting public, anyway. And quite a generous secret admirer, too. The New York Sun reports: A mysterious $250,000 donation used to bankroll a political committee controlled... More

In the wake the announcement of the sale of its television station group, the New York Times Company announces the acquisition of another website to accompany its earlier purchase of About.com. From Crain's New York Business: The New York Times Co.'s About.com unit acquired... More

Re: "Why Americans Oppose the Iraq War" I am no political analyst nor do I have any unusual insights into the current situations in Iraq.  I am simply an ordinary Joe citizen observer.  However, I would like to strongly disagree with Mr.Warshawsky's article about why we oppose the... More

Marc Sheppard adapts a beloved song from The Sound of Music to discuss Sharia Law. But he missed one particularly apt element of that code of behavior. Sweetness & Light calls our attention to the prohibition of music itself, at least north of the border. Today's lesson comes from the Ifta... More

The Washington Times notes the persistent posting on the MoveOn site of viciously anti—Semitic posts, discounts  the defense offered by its political action director, Eric Pariser,  and notes that MoveOn cannot avoid responsibility for the often anti—Semitic tone of the... More

A poster at Free Republic posted this letter he received from Senator Hillary Clinton respecting her views on the Bolton confirmation: Thank you for sharing your thoughts regarding the President's nomination of John Bolton as United States Ambassador to the United Nations (U.N.). We need a... More

Daniel Ellsberg, in the new issue of Harper's coming out next week, calls on government officials to leak US war plans for the Middle East to the press. I will assume someone who thinks this is a decent idea would have no problem leaking Pentagon war plans for Europe, Asia and defending North... More

0ne Jerusalem convened a conference call today with Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum and a group of bloggers, primarily to discuss steps that can be taken against Iran, and on the need to win the war against Islamic fascism, (a wholly appropriate term Santorum was the first to use... More

The Kerry "Bush Lied" crowd is back onstage with their sequel: Bush Lied Part II. An attentive critic would fault them for lack of originality, for the plot line and characters are virtually unchanged. Most people do not realize it but the Republicans do not have an operational  majority on... More

Pinch Sulzberger, under whose management the New York Times Company has declined both editorially and financially, is offering a virtual mea culpa today, in the form of a regulatory disclosure and letter to employees revealing that he (and his cousin, Vice Chairman Michael Golden) will forgo stock... More

Yes, the wheels are coming off at the New York Times, but things aren't much better at the venerable Washington Post. One thing that is often overlooked in the decline of newspapers is fact that it is a heavily unionized industry with rigid workplace rules that are not in keeping with the... More

The day after I pointed out how the New York Times condemns layoffs and plant closings of blue collar workers, but then lays off and downsizes its own blue collarss, and how the editorial page praises scion Bill Ford for knowing when to step aside but is silent on the pressing need for scion Pinch... More

Finally,  a loud and clear statement from liberals that Harry Truman would have approved — and Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Hubert Humphrey, and yes, Robert Kennedy. The Euston Manifesto is a public statement by British liberals in support of the War on Terror. The New York Sun writes... More

John McWhorter is one of the most brilliant of the generation of conservative thinkers set for intellectual leadership in the years ahead. Being eloquent, insightful, and posessed of that curious immunity granted only to black writers, allowing them to write critically on certain aspects of race... More

Signs are accumulating that the Airbus A 380 superjumbo jet may face even further delays, a possibility that would have profound financial and market consequences for the airplane and for its manufacturer. AT  has been covering the competition between Boeing and Airbus closely. The most recent... More

Apparently his impending departure from the Prime Ministership is a liberating experience for Tony Blair. About European politicians, he just wrote, "The strain of, frankly, anti—American feeling in parts of European politics is madness when set against the long—term interests of the... More

J.R. Dunn wrote a very insightful article.  However it leaves out one aspect of the war on terror.  From a military perspective, the Jihadis have taken the innocent and used them as shields. It is a very difficult matter and no easy answer applies to all conditions.  However if... More

Sacha Baron Cohen, the creator of wildly funny comic characters like British rapper Ali G, Kazakhstan TV's American correspondent Borat, and Bruno, host of Funkyzeit carried on Austrian television's gay channel, is a troublemaker. By design. As Ali G he regularly snared interviews with the... More

Robert Godwin, a.k.a. Gagdad Bob, is proprietor of a thought—provoking (and I confess occasionally perplexing to me) website called One Cosmos. He is unfailingly literate and provocative, and offers perspectives informed by an extraordinary set of intellectual tools. Today, he takes on... More

A.J. Strata draws our attention to Robert Novak fighting back against the deceptions of Richard Armitage. (Via Drudge) Novak, attempting to set the record straight writes: 'First, Armitage did not, as he now indicates, merely pass on something he had heard and that he 'thought' might be so.... More

When other companies face turmoil under a family scion, the New York Times doesn't hesitate to stick in its nose and offer advice. Consider this item published less than a week ago, coming from the paper's editorial board: Have you driven a Durant lately? Few people outside of Detroit know or care... More

The great Harvey Mansfield, professor of politics at Harvard, sees universities, his own especially, as having learned nothing from 9/11. Writing an op—ed in the Boston Globe, he avers, FIVE YEARS have now passed since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, and what have our universities been... More

When he comes to New York City for the United Nations meeting, President Ahmadinejad is in for an example of American—style free speech. The New York Sun reports: President Ahmadinejad will also be met with a large rally on September 20 outside the U.N. at noon organized by the Conference of... More

After apparently mulling over the absurdity of not including Richard Armitage, apparently the first non—family member to disclose Plame's name to reporters, in their preposterous civil suit against Rove and Cheney and Libby, Ambassador Munchausen and his wife  have announced they will be... More

"How many divisions has the Pope?" sneered Stalin. A few decades later John Paul II answered him, and the Soviet empire crumbled. Even the Russians didn't believe their own propaganda any more. Three men led that fight: the Pope, Ronald Reagan, and Lech Walesa. So we have seen that the moral... More

The old saying "Be careful what you ask for" is proving once again sage advice. The New York Observer reports that the New York Times, subject of at least one federal leak investigation, is training its reporters to practice their art as if they were drug dealers, keeping no records, using disposal... More

Surely, given the ancient history of beautiful Arab art, this signifies how far Arab culture has descended. A provocative Arabic art exhibition organised in response to the conflict in Lebanon last month, includes a painting of Israel's Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, with a skewer through his... More

American Thinker has joined the debate about a possible Saddam spy in the Associated Press. There are pros and cons in the debate, based on the evidence we know. But let's back off a second. If you were running Chinese, Iranian, French, Russian, Saudi, Al Qaida, or for that matter British or... More

Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times supported Sami—Al Arian, the Florida professor who was found to have played a key role in funding the Palestinian Islamic Jihad — responsible for the murder and maiming of many Israelis and Americans, and which has as one of its principles genocide... More

Noel Sheppard is one of the best writers at The American Thinker, and that is saying a lot. Just as are his columns and comments that have appeared on AT since its inception, Mr. Sheppard's letter to MSNBC general manager Dan Abrams regarding the on—air diatribe of Keith Olbermann this... More

MEMRI www.memri.org , the Middle East Media Research Institute, has since 1998 essentially been a one—stop shopping center for obtaining translated media content originating in the Middle East, whether it's from the Arab states, Iran or Turkey. As their tag line says, they are 'Bridging the... More

Sweetness & Light notices that Al Jazeera publicizes the politically pornographic film Death of a President with the headline "Death Becomes Bush." Not precisely incitement, but perhaps close enough for partial credit. S&L dryly asks, "Have you noticed the howls of protest and the demands... More

Frequent AT contributor Noel Sheppard has penned a letter to MSNBC general manager Dan Abrams regarding Keith Olbermann's tirade last night accusing President Bush of assorted villany. MSNBC's parent company General Electric has well—publicized policy of being the number one or number two in... More

James Meigs, editor of Popular Mechanics, pens a delicious slap in the face of the conspiracy theorists who insist that 9/11 was an "inside job." It is a measure of the degeneracy of the leftist media that a notable fraction of the American public buys into this absurd fantasy. AT received one of... More

What have the graduate schools of education ever contirbuted to the learning of America's children? Do we really need "innovative" or "cutting edge" techniques to teach that which has been successfully passed from generation to generation for millenia? Why has per capita spending on public... More

The New York Times, always eager to obscure the Muslim heritage of many terrorists, does not have a problem "outing"  the father of the director of the mini—series Path to 9/11 for his Christianity. Mr. Cunningham too has drawn attention for his links to a nondenominational... More

Regular readers of this site will be aware of one particular contributor [ahem] who insists that the Iranians, with their neverending weapons tests, military exercises, and Ahmadinejad as frontman, are running a colossal bluff aimed at holding off international action until they can produce a... More

In the hot debates that surrounded the Schiavo case, many ferociously attacked the religious defenders of her right to life, arguing that everyone knew there was no possibility of recovery. But the Guardian now reports miraculous results in patients in a persistent vegetative state who were given a... More

Boomkworm reports on a 9/11 ceremony conducted by a federally—funded organization which seems to have taken an anti—America or anti—Bush cast. It may be borderline, but it is highly inappropriate, if the second—hand report is true. More

John Zogby has released a new set of his Internet polls on the Senate races. Zogby once had a pretty decent reputation, but lost it* with many miscalls in the most recent national elections, and extreme partisanship: he is clearly a Bush hater. To be sure, there is no pro—GOP bias in his... More

Mahathir Mohamad, who ran Malaysia for over two decades, and who was once regarded as something like a paragon of Moderate Islamic rule (if you ignored the anti—Semitic stuff), became more and more intemperate when out of office. He has now been officially rejected by his own (race and... More

One can almost hear the captive jihadists at Abu Ghraib crying very, very hard for the Americans to come back. A little hazing now must seem like an innocent fraternity picnic, enduring as they are an excrement diet (literally) and other indignities. And there is always a real possibility of a... More

The Washington Post reports today: CIA counterterrorism officers have signed up in growing numbers for a government—reimbursed, private insurance plan that would pay their civil judgments and legal expenses if they are sued or charged with criminal wrongdoing, according to current and former... More

Just when it seemed the Democrats have lost their collective mind, Chicago Mayor Richard Daley steps up and does something sensible. From the Chicago Sun—Times: Infuriating organized labor and delighting business leaders, Mayor Daley today vetoed an ordinance that would have required... More

On September eleventh, two thousand and one I stood on a pier in the late morning sun. Across the Potomac I expected to see The United States Capital cease to be.   With the smoke from the Pentagon dark at my back, I waited with friends for the likely attack. For just at that moment, it was... More

Gateway Pundit highlights a landmark in the decline of television news: a Democrat candidate for the Senate, Claire McCaskill, has purchased coverage from a St. Louis television station. The local STLMedia website this week reported that Democratic Senatorial Candidate Claire McCaskill made... More

Military intelligence has determined that Iran faked video of sub—to—surface missile, according to the website Vital Perspective.  Military Intelligence Determines Iran Faked Video of Sub—to—Surface Missile U.S. military intelligence has determined that a video... More

The villainous Americans, so brutal and racist, have given over control of Abu Ghraib Prison to the Iraqis, who are able to provide appropriate and culturally sensitive care to the charges who inhabit its cells. The UK Telegraph reports: An independent witness who went into Abu Ghraib this week... More

Martin Peretz, publisher of the New Republic and mentor to Al Gore at Harvard (and beyond), takes a hard look at faux victims Joe and Val Wilson, and Richard Armitage's behavior in the case. His Democrat background and ties do not fog his lens. Joe and Valerie have been Washington celebrities for... More

Disturbing evidence accumulates that overt expressions of Jew—hatred are beoming normal and accepted in not only the Muslim world, but in Europe, Latin America, and elsewhere. The latest example comes from Scotland, where the Edinburgh Fringe Festival has featured "comedians" spewing vile... More

Lee Hamilton, vice—chair of the 9/11 Commission, and longtime former Democrat Member of Congress, sits on the advisory board of Sandy Burglar's (i.e., Berger) company, Stonebridge International. Oddly, the company's logo shows a bridge apparently constructed of reinforced concrete. Hat tip:... More

Tony Blair is now on the ropes at Number 10 Downing Street, and nobody knows whether a Prime Minister from the apoplectic Left wing of Labour will take over the British government. If the hard Left takes over, look for the Brits to walk away from the Anglo—American alliance that has kept... More

Business Week cites reports that Russia's Vneshtorgbank (VTB) has laid out $1 billion for nearly 5% of the European Aeronautic Defence & Space Co. (EADS), which owns Airbus. Neither VTB nor EADS would comment. This news comes directly on the heels of news that British Aerospace's (BAE)... More

This link takes you a four minute video demonstrating the ease of faking photos. It also includes a bonus clip of an AP representative averring that there was only one faked photo out of the Lebanon war, and it was done by a free—lancer. Nothing to concern yourselves with, move on. Just an... More

Business Week writes about the emerging practice of offshoring some legal services to low wage countries: On the seventh floor of an old office building on the outskirts of Manila, 30 Filipino attorneys, including three who have passed U.S. bar exams, are seated elbow—to—elbow with 50... More

A terror suspect was arrested with a knife "artfully concealed" in a book was stopped at Detroit Metropolitcan Airport trying to get on a one—way flight to Yemen. The man's name? Mohammed Ghanem. "Someone had carved out the inside of the book and placed the knife inside it, said Ghanem's... More

Senator Jay Rockefeller is in full propaganda mode again and the mask slipped, "Rockefeller went a step further. He says the world would be better off today if the United States had never invaded Iraq' even if it means Saddam Hussein would still be running Iraq.He said he sees that as a better... More

This may be a first: Former TWA flight attendants picketed their own union Friday, protesting what they say is the labor group's unwillingness to help them get back their jobs, which were lost after the 2001 terror attacks. Beginning next month, the first of about 2,900 former TWA flight... More

Women have long complained about a man's inability to commit——ie, reluctance to marry.  And oh, the excuses. "I don't have enough money."  "In this crazy world marriage doesn't mean anything."  And of course that all time favorite "You're too good for me." But now actor... More

Ah, what is wrong with this younger generation?  Seduced by new technology, absorbed in MySpace and Facebook, texting and communicating anytime, anywhere via mobile phones, addicted to their iPod music,why they just don't know how to have fun the old fashioned way——getting high on... More

The ranks of federal courthouses may soon number among them the Rush H. Limbaugh, Sr. United States Courhouse. The SE Missourian, of Cape Girardeau, MO reports: A Senate bill has been introduced to name the new building after Rush H. Limbaugh Sr. Naming the new Cape Girardeau federal courthouse... More

A friend who serves as President of one of the nation's top liberal arts colleges, told me a few years back that the three most overrated schools in the country were Duke, Georgetown (now becoming known as Wahhabi U), and Middlebury. The President's daughter had passed up Harvard to attend the... More

Document ISGQ—2005—00026108.pdf  (link) dated July 25 2000 is a report from an Iraqi Intelligence officer to different Iraqi Intelligence Directorates talking about information provided to them from a trusted source that works in the Associated Press (AP). The information is... More

All Jews and those Christians who practice their religion, democracy and free speech activists and now dogs and cats! All banned by our friends in Saudi Arabia. The Washington Times reports: JIDDA, Saudi Arabia —— Saudi Arabia's religious police, normally tasked with chiding women... More

If you miss Ronald Reagan's warmth, clarity and simplicity ——— not to mention his sense of humor ——— listen to former Prime Minister Netanyahu's speech at NYU today. Americans have no say in who gets elected to lead other democratic countries, but any Israeli... More

Anyone who believes in the mission of the media ——— simply to tell the truth  ——— had to be bitterly disillusioned by the Clinton years, when the national media were finger puppets of a wildly irresponsible White House. This year, ABC therefore grasped for a... More

The website Dummie Funnies offers an amusing and rather accurate (in my view) account of what awaits Joseph Wilson IV and his wife Valerie Plame, now that they have been utterly discredited. Worse than being scroned, they will be shunned as non—persons by those whose adulation has become a... More

Thursday, former Iranian president Khatami spoke at the National Cathedral in Washington. Yesterday, the Washington Times reported, "Some leading Episcopal bishops have sharply criticized the decision to invite former Iranian President Mohammed Khatami to speak at the Washington National... More

Jack Risko of Dinocrat.com looks ahead (one of his specialties) to what might happen if ABC caves in to Democrat censors, and sees the likely growth of an American samizdat movement, via the internet. The most peculiar thing about this attempt at censorship, coercion, and prior restraint is that... More

Pardon my tongue—in—cheek headline, Sweetness & Light has noticed that in the latest a Qaeda tape running on Al Jazeera, the 9/11 hijackers mention that their actions were inspired by an urge to avenge the suffering of Muslims in Bosnia and Chechnya. Bosnia, as in the former... More

Bush Derangement Syndrome is striking more and more Democrats. Missouri state Auditor Claire McCaskill commented to a group of St. Louis Democratic elected officials this week that "George Bush let people die on rooftops in New Orleans because they were poor and because they were black." A... More

Democrats have dropped their earlier efforts to tag the GOP with the a "corruption" label. Representative Jefferson's $90k in cold cash from his freezer certainly didn't help. But now, a Senate Democrat in a tight race has been shown to have given the appearance of corruption. The AP... More

Senate Democrats are now making not—so—veiled threats against ABC if it goes ahead and runs The Path to 9/11. National Review Online's Media Blog reports: Sens. Reid, Durbin, Stabenow, Schumer, and Dorgan sent a letter to Disney today containing the following... More

The Media Researh Center reports that CNN has given air time to a conspiracy theory on oil prices: USA Today reported that gasoline prices could be closer to $2 a gallon by Thanksgiving. The paper cited the end of the summer driving season and decreased demand as causes for this predicted decline.... More

Reports that ABC is considering yanking from the airwaves its dopcu—drama The Path to 9/11 show that free speech and opposition to censorship are not exactly principles, but rather expedients as far as key Democrats are concerned. Docu—dramas, by their very nature, do not accurately... More

Front Page Magazine interviewed Road To 9/11 writer—producer Cyrus Nowrateh on Augst 16th.  It is informative and enlightening, and  I believe, worthy of reading. Nothing better than getting the info from the horse's mouth. John B. Dwyer   9 07... More

The San Francisco Chronicle assigns a male (I assume), Wyatt Buchanan, to write an article on the missing lesbian marketplace, as least as compared to male homosexuals. Maybe it is just me, but I sense a whiff of regret that female homosexuals do not seem to separate themselves from the... More

Clintonistas are upset about the upcoming Path to 9/11 on ABC because of its alleged lopsided portrayal of their failure to act against bin Laden and terrorists. I did not hear them condemn Michael Moore and Farenheit 9/11, so one must wonder if they are sincere or only covering their butts. Ed... More

Matt Brooks, the head of the Republican Jewish Coalition assembles the sad evidence that the Democrats are increasingly abandoning their traditional support for Israel. Harry Truman led the United States to become the first nation to recognize Israel, and until recently, his support was reflected... More

Sweetness & Light measures the rate of decay of Speaker of the House wannabe, and potential third in line for presidential succession Nancy Pelosi's non—partisanship. And posts a mighty scary picture to boot here. More

Noel Sheppard, who covered the controversy over The Path to 9/11 for us and for NewsBusters, heard from Michael Scheuer, former head of the CIA's bin Laden Unit. His post at Newsbusters on the exchange provides some new information. More

In an article ambitiously called "How to keep the Bomb from Iran: Preventing the unthinkable," Scott Sagan writes with stunning ignorance in the journal Foreign Affairs: Governments typically pursue nuclear power for one of three reasons: to protect themselves against an external security threat,... More

Mohammad, posting at Iraq the Model, has a superb commentary which should be read by Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, and every voter. With his kind permission, we publish an excerpt beyond the fair use copyright limitations. What we need is a united vision. The war with terror is still on and... More

Former New York Mayor Ed Koch has an op—ed in the New York Press which demands to be read. A sample: Why do so many Americans refuse to face the fact that our country is at war with international terrorism? [....] One Congressional Democrat, John Conyers of Michigan, announced his intention... More

On the anniversary of the September 11 WTC attacks a year ago, MEMRI published a number of translations of Muslims threats to damage and conquer Western nations. MEMRI, as most readers know, is the Middle East Media Research Institute, which translates from Arabic, Farsi, and other languages the... More

The New York Times today calls on Fitzgerald to make public what he's found or fold. The Armitage story is mainly a reminder that this investigation has gone on too long. While this page opposed calls for reviving the special prosecutor law for this case, we did say that someone outside the White... More

Senators Feinstein, Leahy aim to restrict the use of cluster bombs, and are motivated by the recent Lebanon War. U.S. Senators Dianne Feinstein (D—Calif.) and Patrick Leahy (D—Vt.) today introduced an amendment to the FY 2007 Department of Defense Appropriations bill aimed at... More

A New York Times article on the decline of Zoroastrians completely omits their widespread oppression in Iran, where the religion was founded! The article  discusses the dwindling number of Zoroastrians —one of the oldest faiths in the world and one that provided the theological... More

Kofi Annan knows no shame. His point man to deal with Hezb'allah has an anti—Semitic and anti—Israel history. The Jerusalem Post writes: UN Secretary—General Kofi Annan has decided to appoint his former special adviser Lakhdar Brahimi to mediate a possible agreement for swapping... More

The citizens of deep blue Massachusetts should be especially proud of their governor Mitt Romney for publicly  proclaiming that former Iranian president Mohammed Khatami will not receive state police protection. 'State taxpayers should not be providing special treatment to an individual who... More

Recently, I wrote about Iraqi Vice President Adel Abdul Mahdi "private visit" with senior American officials, including the President, VP and Secretary of Defense, as well as key Senators and Congressmen.  This visit took place Friday, August 25, 2006. Contemporaneous accounts only disclose... More

Strong? Then You're Wrong!   It's an unchallenged truth among liberal youth, Media pundits and professors sagacious, That those who are strong are inherently wrong; Having clout always makes one mendacious. To moonbats so dour mere possession of power Makes all who possess it just meanies, A... More

I wonder if the European academics who boycot Israel will object to Iranian expulsion of liberalism from its Universities. Khatami is still scheduled to speak at Harvard. From The Jerusalem Post: Iran to rid universities of liberalism Iran's hard—line president urged students Tuesday to push... More

Peace activist (more like non—resistance to Islamofascism activist), anti—Bush journalist and London—to—Washington flight disrupter Catherine Mayo (she urinated on the floor, hinted she was connected with Al Qaeda) had her defense attorney state in court she had a long... More

Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid are dead last in the first 20. From ABC News: Quinnipiac University is out with its updated national thermometer poll today showing Rudy Giuliani and John McCain at the top of the heap when people are asked about the warmth of their feelings toward 20 political... More

I live in NC 11, AT's election analyst Richard Baehr doesn't. The lefties based in Asheville have been trying to unseat Taylor for years because he is a wealthy businessman and large landowner.  They haven't yet succeeded. Taylor's opponent last time was favored by many outsider... More

The very first "public" radio station in the United States was KPFA—FM in Berkeley. From it sprang the national network of noncommercial stations carrying almost exclusively liberal and left wing programming. Such broadcast outlets supposedly eschew market mechanisms, but most stations... More

Sky News reports that UK Prime Minister Tony Blair is planning to seek forcible state intervention into pregnant mothers carrying children. Tony Blair said teenage mothers could be forced to accept state help even before their children were born as part of a clampdown on anti—social... More

Patrick Poole, who recently wrote about CAIR for AT, caught AFP this weekend floating fake hate crime numbers from a CAIR report debunked by Daniel Pipes more than a year ago. He writes on his blog Existential Space: ... an article by Mira Oberman of Agence France Presse, "US Muslims plagued by... More

Stephen Pollard is a prominent British writer, and a long time leftist. However, the war with Islamic fascism and the behavior of the left in response has led him to change his mind in at least some major regards. In response to the Euston Manifesto (recently discussed on AT here), he has... More

A poster at Free Republic has translated and posted two stories from South Korea: One says that China has prevented N. Korea from shipping its missiles abroad. MBC (SKor TV) ^ | 09/04/06 | Shin Kyung—min N. Korean Missile Export... Blocked by China [MBC TV 2006—09—04... More

There is ususally not much to be said about two former presidents of countries getting together. Retirees often like to talk about their glory days back at work. But the meeting of Jimmy Carter and Mohammad Khatami is something else. As Amil Imani just wrote in these pages, we live in an... More

Today, columnist Jackson Diehl of the Washington Post reports important leaders in the new  Iraqi democracy want assurances that the U.S.will not cut and run. Given the gravity of this request, of course the Post reported this on the front page above the fold. Oh, my mistake, it ran on the... More

Here's what we know. The Bush administration was framed by Valerie Plame, the upper CIA, and the mainstream media, with the active connivance of Richard Armitage, who is well known as Colin Powell's best friend. Armitage has now been outed, after three years of Wilson—Plame smears against the... More

For a man who is known for his nasty sarcasm, Sid Blumenthal seems unusually blind to obvious sarcasm from the President and Karl Rove. Or maybe he is just feigning outrage. The New York Daily News reports, President Bush once daydreamed about blasting Bill Clinton's presidential library to... More

Judging by al—Qaida's latest proselytizing drive, the group is fully convinced that their peculiar form of religion can be made attractive to infidels like us. And in a way they are right, since — depending on your personality type — militant Islam has indeed much to offer. No... More

Now Reuters is covering up for taking instructions from Hizbollah! Check what I found on the internet. On August 17, Reuters put out the article below in which it said,  'There was no sign of Hizbollah guerrillas as the Lebanese troops moved south. Even unarmed members of the group... More

As I read The Nature of Prejudice and Thank the Beeb for Jew hatred Sunday I was reminded of a paragraph in The Euston Manifesto, a political proclamation which I first read in the left—of—center/radical—liberal British weekly the New Statesman, back in April. It's written by a... More

Those who contended there was no Al Qaeda presence in Iraq may eventually become right, but that's because  they are being killed and captured at a rapid clip: Iraqi security forces killed 14 "terrorists" and arrested almost 200 suspects, the government said Monday, in a spectacular... More

The San Francisco Chronicle publishes another in a series of "poor me" whines about the terrible discrimination experienced by Muslims in America, one in a long chain of Muslim whines since 9/11. We live in times of media wonders and miracles, when a group of people that has not been at the... More

This video takes 38 minutes to watch. It will wrench your guts out, if you have any humanity. Watch it and ponder the prospects for peace. Hat tip: N.S. Rajaram  More

Recently, at the Army's annual Force Protection Conference, I had the honor of speaking with a soldier who earned my immediate respect and admiration for the unique way in which he is continuing to serve his nation's needs long after retiring from active duty. This soldier, COL Michael J. Wagner,... More

The Council on Islamic American Relations (CAIR) apparently thinks it is need of a better image, so it announces a "new brand identity" on its website this month. The rebranding also includes a new logo. Hmm, sounds like they've been talking to expensive marketing consultants. Here's what they say... More

So tells us Rick Moran, writing on RightWing NutHouse. And he credits the New York Times!: ...the government released two separate reports debunking several major claims of the 9/11 fantasists in an effort to keep the record of that horrible day from being hijacked by crazies. And as a bonus, in... More

How did Israel go from being the plucky underdog kid that most in the US and Europe admired, to a country so widely (if inaccurately) reviled as an oppressor and the source of all that is wrong in the Middle East? The answer I think is the belief system at the heart of "liberalism".  The core... More

Ayman al—Zawahiri has extended the hand of Muslim compassion to the entire population of the United States and invited us all to convert to Islam as seen in this story among many others. Apparently, if we accept his invitation, we will be spared the Wrath of God. I would like to... More

"Patients... Consume [Heavy Water] Daily to Heal Their Diseases...." From an interview with the deputy director of the Iranian Atomic Energy Organization, Mohammad Sa'idi. (Iranian News Channel (IRINN) on August 27, 2006. Translated by MEMRI Mohammad Sa'idi: "There is no connection whatsoever... More

The dire warnings of global warming of five years ago are now admitted to be exaggerated, by the very people who issued the warning. The Australian reports: In 2001, the scientists predicted temperature rises of between 1.4C and 5.8C on current levels by 2100, but better science has led them to... More

If that has a familiar ring to it, wait till you hear the rest of Ayman al—Zawahiri's latest "infidels, you can't win, give—up now" diatribe released on the web today. It so closely echoes the Dems' talking points, it's almost as if al—Zawahiri was reading directly from a Karl... More

Nothing would change Islam more than freeing its women from pre—medieval oppression. Hirsi Ali is famous as a woman brought up in Islamic Somalia who fled to Holland and came of age there. Now the Dutch have turned tail and expelled her (then changed their minds), and she has been hired by... More

My friend Peter Glover has just published a substantive article in the British Journalism Review debunking the notion that there is anything like a scientific consensus on climate change. I give the BJR credit for running it, and wish that Columbia Journalism Review would be equally responsible in... More

One of the great perks of academic life is travel. Conferences, exchange visits, research, and the like, often pleasant in and of themselves, and never requiring anything so crass as the signing of a sales agreement. And when you get to exalted administrative positions, the travel comes with... More

An important article on Iran's record of broken promises is available on the AEI website. Written by AEI resident scholar Michael Rubin, it details what should be obvious, that the Mullahs simply delight in deceiving the infidels, and trick us whenever they get a chance. In the coming months the... More

One of the more frightening aspects of the decline in civility we are seeing is the willingness of ordinary, not just moonbat, publications to publish anti—Semitic images and screeds. We saw where this leads 70 years ago in Germany. The latest example is the free bi—weekly newspaper... More

The New York Times ran this short piece from Reuters about a plane fire in Iran on a Russian—built civilian airliner. Note the last sentence:   "U.S. sanctions on the Islamic state have prevented it from buying new aircraft or spares from the West, forcing it to supplement its aging... More

The New York Sun reports, The John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, fresh from having established itself as a headwater of anti—Israel agitation, is choosing to mark the fifth anniversary of the terrorist attacks in an astounding way — by hosting Mohammed... More

Looking at today's Washington Post editorial and seeing that David Corn, who invented and promoted the cock and bull story that Wilson was a whistleblower whose wife was outed in revenge for Wilson's truth telling, now denies he had anything to do with the conspiracy to out meme. I think we... More

A Hezb'allah apologist and supporter wins Los AngelesCounty's  Human Relations ("tolerance") Award. In October 2000, Maher Hathout attended a rally in Lafayette Park across from the White House. His speech was captured on video for posterity by the Investigative Project on Terrorism. He told... More

A friend who shall remain nameless sent me this link to a YouTube video showing "how we drive in Detroit." He writes, For your viewing pleasure and adrenalin fix be sure to watch this cruise down Detroit freeways video taped from a Z06 Vettetrailing a Ford GT. Just your average day in... More

'This film is based on meticulous research and interviews with FBI agents and people on the other side of the war on terror. (emphasis mine)...(it) is a serious, sensitive film.  There is no way it would encourage anyone to assassinate Bush and usher in Cheney's America.'  Thus spake... More