A. Jacksonian offers an extensive commentary on Ray Robison's article today on the signs of fracture with the johad in Afghanistan/Pakistan and Iraq. More

The near civil war in Venezuela as its brave citizens take to the streets protesting President Hugo Chavez's assault on their civil liberties evoked this mild response from the Carter Center More

Despite the approximately $95 billion increase in tax receipts to the last quarter of 2006, the government still managed to increase the annual budget deficit by almost $96 billion More

The decision of UK academic union to boycott Israel threw into sharp relief the difference between one's possession of an academic title and his or her ability for general reasoning. More

Mehdi Khalaji of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy has written a highly encouraging essay on the fragility of the mullahs' regime. More

Arafat's grave is supposed to be a holy site. So how do his followers honor it? Very appropriately. More

It would be very educational for the nation (and excellent politics, too) if Fred Thompson publicly challenged Ted Kennedy to a broadcast debate about the immigration bill pending in Congress. More

There they go again. British academics have joined the sullied ranks of British journalists, physicians, architects and whatever to vote to promote a boycott of Israeli academic institutions More

Several readers wrote in criticizing me when I called Lou Dobbs a "nutjob" recently. More

An alliance of Islamist and Leftist groups has finally managed to drive through a boycott resolution against Israel's universities in the British faculty union, the University and Colleges Union. More

She is a studied linguist, no matter where she goes. More

Malaysia's Supreme Court has held that a woman who converted from Islam to Christianity cannot be officially recognized as a Christian, despite a constitution which guarantees the freedom of worship. More

I'd like to draw attention to today's AP article entitled "Miss. Murder Cold Case Under Way." More

One of the major fault lines within the Democrats' constituency is the latent hostility between blacks and Hispanics. More

Often, many Christians who oppose this mass immigration bill are made to feel as thought they are not doing what Christ would have wanted them to do. More

Venezuela is on fire. Triggered by a media shutdown over the weekend, tens of thousands of students from virtually every university, ranging from trade schools to military colleges to the most prestigious universities, and now high schools, are protesting in the streets of Caracas. More

Following up on yesterday's entry, "Jihad-by-lawsuit fails in Boston", it is interesting to note the response by the Boston chapter of the Muslim American Society More

No, this is not an item about childhood obesity, it is about violence and terror. A demographic bulge of young males yields increased levels of violence More

The International Committee of the Red Cross is supposedly an independent, neutral organization More

Miss USA, Rachel Smith, legally visiting Mexico City as a Miss Universe contestant, was greeted with boos and catcalls. More

That shrill and sour apple has fallen from her tree, Cindy Sheehan's time has passed, the Lefties set her free. More

Dr. Tashbih Sayyed, an American Muslim hero, is no longer with us. More

The American system of litigation, allowing anyone to sue anyone for anything, thereby inflicting major costs (for legal counsel and time) on any enemy, is an open invitation to legal thuggery by the wealthy More

As we approach the official start of hurricane season on June 1st it appears that this will be the first one without "Acts of God." Since we have taken God out of the schools and the rest of American society, we can no longer blame these storms on Him. More

Now that Cindy Sheehan has 'resigned'as a protest leader, she has the leisure to travel to Venezuela and talk with her buddy Hugo Chavez about how protestors are dealt with in that country. More

Hugo Chavez of Venezuela descends further down the vortex of communist totalitarianism. More

Our frequent contributor Bob Weir will be interviewed today about his Sunday AT article "The Knoxville Horror." More

Barack Obama hs made a speciality of having it both wasy: actring cynically while denouncing cynicism. So far, his Teflon coating has shielded him from any accountability in the mainstream media. More

Going beyond the common functions of mathematics, certain numbers demand attention. Numbers have an immediate mental and emotional significance More

Hear Me! Oh hear Me! Greenists of the fold! More

As with past Memorial Day celebrations, patriotism and love of country were foremost in my mind. While participating in Lake Bluff's Memorial Day celebration held on its Village Green, tears welled up in my eyes More

Ari Kaufman's What Conservative Media? while spot on missed the point on why so may liberal leftists think the media is balanced or conservative.They know the political ‘stuff' is clearly biased in their liberal leftist direction, but they are railing against the news as a whole. I first... More

I was more than a bit surprised to read in Mr. Feldman's article that Palestinnians promised that Gaza would be peaceful if the Israelis withdrew. More

I have always held Linda Chavez in high regard. But this kind, rational, and (until now) honest commentator, has fallen in my estimation by resorting to scurrilous argument in favor of the deeply flawed immigration "compromise." More

The Democrats and the Mainstream Media have told us time and again that the Bush Administration has been neglecting the 'real' war-on-terror in Afghanistan by needlessly diverting scarce resources to the war in Iraq. More

George Soros is omnipresent at Obama fundraisers. The New York Times reports on the latest round of big bucks fundraisers in wealthy Greenwich, CT. More

If ever you think your life is so bad you can't possibly continue, think of Dr. Kellie Lim, who lost both legs and an arm as a child [and] is poised to become a doctor for children. More

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) is one of the smartest conservatives in the Senate. But on the dangerous immigration bill, he has been silent as the grave. More

Has John Edwards, the wealthy, smooth-talking-yet-one-of-the-guys former senator-but-wannabe-president, been following the example of his mentor John Kerry, the wealthy, smooth talking but one of the guys senator but wannabe president, by flip flopping? More

I just watched "Meet The Press" where the guest Bill Richardson, the Governor of New Mexico and Democrat Presidential candidate, told lie after lie and was shown to have flip-flopped on every issue he has ever talked about. More

All these years, come and gone, Too many since we lost Big John. No other gave so much to me, Or made me be what now I be. More

The Boston Globe "reports" today that any notions of Iraq being the central front for Al-Qaeda are just GOP talking points without any substance, "pointing out that Al-Qaeda in Iraq is not overseen by bin Laden." More

The Census Bureau reported this past week that in 2005 an average of $8701 was spent per student in government schools. More

Aren't we all a little bit afraid that Jimmy Carter has just announced that his number one goal now is eliminating malaria? More

Why are seemingly very intelligent people drinking the Barack Obama Kool-Aid? More

YouTube brings us an ad for Iberia.com, the website of Iberia Airlines of Spain, that has been pulled by the airline after criticism from feminist groups More

In a shameless effort to rewrite history: "The BBC News website is publishing a series of articles about the attempts to achieve peace in the Middle East ." More

The UN Development Program ships, at outrageous expense, anti-American books for North Korean neogiators to read. More

Bookworm catches ex-president Clinton shamelessly seeking a lavish taxpayer subsidy for his career as an ex-president. More

Raiders fans have a certain reputation for being rough-hewn, shall we say, but this guy is somehow amusing. I must be sick. More

As Byron York notes, Senator Bond finds four critical instances where Valerie Plame's testimony before Congressman Waxman's Committee was not in accord with the Senate Intelligence Committee's investigation. More

Just as Broadway can make money only by endless revivals of old favorites, Brian Ross seems to have an entourage of sources who can always be counted on to provide leaks of national security matters. More

The left wing UK Guardian reports that Iran's economy is facing severe difficulty, as President Ahmadinejad ham-handedly (oops! I mean mutton-handedly) intervenes in the economy, defying the law of supply and demand, in addition to sharia law. More

The simultaneous winner of both The Most Revealing and The Stupidest remark about the new Pew Research Center's poll of American Muslims is... More

How many Muslims are there in America? Try 2.3 million, not 5 to 12 million as the spokespeople for Muslim groups like to claim. More

Jimmy Carter is as crazy as Dean and as hateful as Hamas. Carter is saying that Jews should, in effect, hate the Christians who support them and Israel. More

White lynch mobs are back in the Deep South. At least according to the BBC More

No, not poison gas or tear gas, but actual useful, valuable natural gas. More

The time for taboos is over. We have to talk about the way in which immigration will change the United States and the world. More

Warming Man, Warming Man, spins disaster like no one can. More

There is no evidence for Global Warming in the Southern Hemisphere. This is something the Green Revivalists try desperately to avoid discussing because it illustrates that the Emperor has no clothes More

Carole Migden, the powerful head of the Democrat caucus in the California State Senate, has changed her story about the series of accidents she caused More

Investor's Business Daily runs a terrific commentary on Muslim population statistics for America, which seem to be as exaggerated as the actual size of CAIR. More

Dick Morris and wife Eileen McGann reveal highly questionable ties of Mr. and Mrs. Bill Clinton to a company which has knowingly profited from enabling scam artists to find their marks. More

How do you say, "Thank you, CBS!" in Farsi? More

A UN Agency (UNWRA) knew for months that terrorists were moving into the Lebanese camps occupied by descendants of those who left Israel almost 60 years ago More

This Website posting from Dr. R.A. Pielke Sr., a bona-fide climate scientist and author of a book on climate modeling, is just devastating to Global Warming alarmists. More

Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN) is not alarmed at the Pew Research data showing one in four young Muslim-Americans supports suicide attacks. More

The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) is engaged in a project to attempt controlled fusion. More

Our contributor Patrick Poole has taken a close look at CAIR's recently-published annual report and sees signs of an organization in steep decline. More

The International Atomic Energy Agency has released a updated report on Iran's efforts to enrich Uranium. More

A very disturbing story comes from NewsMax, by Phil Brennan. A heroic Marine Lt. Colonel called by his superiors "a superb leader, who knows his men, knows the enemy, knows his business," is facing charges sparked by specious TIME Magazine stories More

Tawfik Hamid would like to reform Islam, he writes in Opinion Journal. He is on the right path More

I was shocked and brought to tears when I saw flashed on a TV screen the news that one of the missing soldiers from the 10th Mountain Division who has been missing for almost two weeks may have been found dead, More

Senate Democrats intend to submit a resolution honoring Rachel Carson author of the controversial book Silent Spring. Senator Tom Coburn plans to place a hold on this resolution. More

The Governator, a.k.a Arnold Schwarzenegger, is now talking up "the hydrogen economy of the future," which will supposedly save us from our energy woes. More

Is there any other group than Muslims which would be surveyed for which the labels "moderate" and "assimilated" would be used when more than one quarter of those under age 30 support suicide bombing attacks? More

The media has been completely duped by Al Gore and his global warming cabal, but fear not America's often maligned school children see through it. More

Global warming alarmists love to point to Greenland and Europe, where ice covers and glaciers are receding, as evidence of their hypothesis. Nancy Pelosi is even making a showboating trip to Greenland. She ought instead to head south More

Carole Migden is one of the most powerful people in California, and she knows it. More

The New York Times has routinely published articles on relatively minor political scandals involving Republican politicians.* But the Times remains virtually silent on recent political scandals in the pivotal state of Illinois More

Last year we noted the hypocrisy of Michelle Obama serving on the board of Tree House Foods, whose major customer is Wal-Mart, while her husband pandered to unions in their campaign against the giant retailer More

I have been warning for years of the brittleness of the regime in China, despite (actually because of) its seemingly limitless autocratic power. More

I feel so sad for Leonardo di Caprio. His life will be short. He's been telling us so. More

I find it puzzling how the President has no problem taking on his own, but cannot take on the dementia of Jimmy Carter, Harry Reid, or any of their ilk. More

I find my self puzzled by the argument over immigration.  Everyone talks of "citizenship" and "a path to citizenship" for illegals (excuse me, "undocumented") now in the country. But I have nowhere seen a responsible study which makes clear that the great majority... More

For those of us in the business of highlighting the absurdities and outrages of the Left, Berkeley, California is the gift that keeps on giving. More

The Middle East Media Research Institute reports today that a Saudi sheikh has issued a fatwa (religious ruling) harshly condemning Hamas for defying the Palestinian Authority, and condemning Hamas More

Rachel Marsden, a Canadian journalist who appears on Fox News Channel quite often, makes an important point: it is time for American conservatives to revise their views of France (and Canada, too) and stop the bashing. More

Sabeel, a group trying to promote the view that Christians should not offer support to Israel, announces the opening of the Carter Center on the West Bank. More

Where are the African American Protests? Where are the outraged Black Leaders? Where is the Congressional Black Caucus? More

Former nuclear engineer Mohammad Alavi seems to have captured the spirit of Sandy Berger when caught red-handed. Admit nothing and stick to your story More

Gerald Steinberg, who publishes the NGO Monitor, has carefully reviewed the various activities and official activities by Amnesty International in the last year, and found that for Amnesty, Israel is a bigger human rights problem than Sudan. More

Once again John Edwards has ripped off the "other America" to feather his own nest. More

Business Week highlights a rather dubious practice of John Edwards: temporarily "parking" campaign staff in a non-profit organization set up for him at the University of North Carolina More

The San Francisco Chronicle is laying off a full one quarter of its newsroom staff, according to the Los Angeles Times. More

The transparent ploy of demanding apologies for slavery from people who weren't born, and many of whose ancestors weren't even Americans at the time of slavery, is merely a prelude to the demand for "reparations" More

Chris Hitchens has an honest evaluation of Jimmy Carter, who has the distinction of being both the worst President and worst Ex-President of my lifetime. More

The "global warming cabal" is mounting their aggressive campaign to ban affordable energy, impose big tax burdens on the least advantaged, and advance their "One World" agenda More

Apparently Islamberg, NY, where Moslems receive terrorist training in the good old USA, is one of several such compounds in North America. More

How could "A bloody and costly war" become "the backdrop for the most impressive economic success story of the modern Middle East."? More

I will take a back seat to no one in seeing cynicism in just about everything Obama does, including the degree to which he wants to push ethanol. More

Saudi missionaries have spread Wahhabi reactionary radicalism around the world, funded by oil money. More

The article "Democrats and Apologies" brought back memories of my own childhood in the South. More

Let us talk economics, just the facts, not the spin. I see your eyes glazing so I'll start again! More

Jerome Schmitt's recent critique of a New Tork Times Magazine article missed an astonishingly accurate analogy used therein. More

Is the following a start of the solution to the illegal alien problem? Is it a way for Republicans to be proactive on the issue and win based on priciple and also win over new immigrants? More

Ted Byfield, columnist for the Calgary Sun (probably my favorite newspaper in North America), points to a Canadian analogue for the selective sensitivity toward religions demonstrated in Lewiston, Maine. More

Liberals love apology, No matter the offense; The thread of a thin theology, It need not make good sense. More

Call me a cynic, but what word other than "hypocrite" is appropriate for a candidate who goes to Detroit to berate the car companies for selling gas guzzlers (incorrectly citing supposed average fuel economy in Japan), yet drives a V-8 hemi-powered Chrysler 300? Mark Phelan of the Detroit... More

A new (to me, at least) campaign is underway by a group called Bloggers United for Cuban Liberty, targeting Spain for its support of the Cuban regime More

Inspiration is a truly wonderful educational software package, which teaches kids how to use visual learning. But there is a slight flaw More

In a short press release dated May 15, the U.S. Embassy in Iraq announced the creation of the Iraq Transition Assistance Office by an Executive Order signed by the President on May 9. This Office replaces the Iraq Reconstruction Management Office. More

The Autonomist presents a post by anonymous author Orangeducks, who has worked as a contractor in both Iraq and Afghanistan, comparing his experiences in the two countries. More

What was Nancy Pelosi really doing in Damascus last month? Call me suspicious. But we know that Steny Hoyer, the House Democrat Whip, flew to Cairo at the same time. It's on the public record that Hoyer talked with Muslim Brotherhood honchos More

Moslems who escaped the war-ravaged Somalia and were given refuge in the US are not sure whether they should feel happy in their new home, according to the May 18th segment of the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. More

This sentence from James Traub's New York Times Magazine essay demonstrates a complete lack of knowledge on the part of the reporter and the editors: More

Saturday at 7 PM Eastern Time, the History Channel (as well as History Channel en Español) will be premiering a documentary on Sgt. Rafael Peralta, a hero of Battle of Fallujah in 2004. More

The proposed immigration deal will throw open our doors to increased immigration from Muslim lands, not just Mexico. More

In a powerful editorial the Wall Street Journal reviews the way the mandarinate at the World Bank forced Paul Wolfowitz out on ethics charges they now admit were false, More

Last year Barack and Michelle Obama earned almost a million dollars and donated $60,000 (6%) of their income to charity. More

More proof that Senator Barack Obama isn't quite ready for prime time--he can't get his self righteous stories straight. More

The recent release of census figures divided by race, with the eye-catching datum that 100 million Americans now are racial "minorities", has revealed a host of assumptions on the part of liberal journalists. More

Look at my life, what do you see? The cult of liberocracy I love your ignorance, you pay no heed, to each according to his need. More

American Thinker presents the full statements of the Executive Directors of the World Bank and Paul Wolfowitz regarding his service at and pending departure from the World Bank. More

This is priceless. A prototypical British interviewer for the BBC tries to jab John Bolton, and gets his empty head handed to him. More

The Wall Street Journal's Bret Stephens makes good on his promise to dog the World Bank for its hypocrisy. More

Hmmm, what could possibly be the worst form of terrorism? More

A quick calculation shows that the 5 mg of mercury in an energy-conserving CFL is enough to fill an average size room (100 cubic meters volume) with the 0.05 mg/cubic meter vapor concentration that is considered hazardous for long term chronic exposure. More

The Jerusalem Post reports: Hamas gunmen killed five of their own combatants in an ambush on a Fatah vehicle More

This is the official website of a compound made up of Muslims in upstate NY. But here is an exposé on the compound. Some troubling signs are emerging. More

On the face of it, there was little of interest in former Deputy Attorney General Comey's testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday. However, there is an aspect that deserves to be emphasized More

First the obligatory "I have been tortured" line, which the New York Times never points out is a strategy that Islamist extremist have been tought by their terror masterminds. Then his real complaints are aired. More

Investor's Business Daily makes an important point about Barack Obama's failure to stand up and be counted on an issue of obvious concern. More

The Illinois state legislature is poised to pass legislation moving the state's primary election to February 5th. Despite some rhetoric about enhancing Illinois' political influence, the real motive is obvious: helping Barack Obama secure the Democratic nomination. More

Nicolas Sarkozy's inauguration today may mark a turning point in French politics. The obstacles, however, are formidable. More

Forty years ago this week (on the Jewish lunar calendar - June 5 on the Gregorian calendar) Arab armies massed, vowing to "drive Israel into the sea." More

I'm just an old conservative crank Who last night saw Sean step on his shank. Whoever set the polling rules Had Sean's side pegged as silly fools. More

My analysis of the Fort Dix Six situation last week is entirely vindicated by John Schindler of the NSA and Navy War College More

To learn more about the sorry saga of Duke Cunningham and the corruption-bait that is the congressional budget earmarks system, listen to an available podcast of Rick Moran interviewing the co-author of the book he reviews today for American Thinker. More

In a town hall meeting with the AFL-CIO in New Jersey, Obama seemingly goes against the typical liberal Wal-Mart hating More

The Democratic newsletter than publishes under the name "Newsweek" suggests the President is mentally ill, citing Dr, Kerry Sulkowicz, who offers up rather thin gruel as evidence More

A leading advocate for women's rights and a true force for peace has been imprisoned in Iran where she had returned to care for her 93 year old mother. Any word from NOW? More

Following Judge T.S. Ellis III's ruling which admonished the government for allegedly forcing AIPAC to cut legal funding for Weissman and Rosen, describing the policy as "unquestionably obnoxious," AIPAC has agreed to pay legal fees for a former staffer More

One of the several CFL light bulbs in my house stopped working last night. This is maybe the fourth or fifth CFL bulb in my house that has lasted less than a year, despite the claims of advocates that they have a longer life than incandescent bulbs More

Blogger Clemensando, who covers Hispanic media, is fairly confident that Haim Saban's investment in Univision will not influence its coverage of the election to favor Hillary, as I fear More

From her Column One in the Jerusalem Post: The World Bank published a report claiming that Palestinian poverty in Judea and Samaria is the direct result of IDF checkpoints and roadblocks. More

The Washington Times exposes Democrat opposition to offering whistleblower protection for citizens who report suspicious behavior that may be terror-related. More

Serge Schmemann writes something called an "editorial observer" piece for the New York Times, an essay obviously intended to portray new French president Nicolas Sarkozy in an unfavorable light. More

As a public service, American Thinker presents the World Bank Draft Report of the Ad Hoc Group, with Paul Wolfowitz's suggested amendments. More

Steve Gilbert of Sweetness & Light reports: ...[a] recently surfaced letter dated September 24, 2002 refers to a decision by the Iraqi Council of Ministers under Saddam authorizing the Ministry of Culture and Information to make a monthly payment of €50,000 to Al-Jazeera TV. More

Barack Obama plans to attend a fundraising reception at home of, and accept money from, a former Knicks player roundly criticized for anti-Semitism More

Senator Obama still isn't ready. Consider this exchange from the Stephanopoulos Sunday show More

Hillary faces an erosion of support from the black community due to the rise of Barack Obama. Perhaps, the ace up Senator Clinton's sleeve is the support that will come from her close ties to Univision More

Bambang Harymurti ,an Indonesian journalist sentenced to jail for his anti-corruption reporting, details how significant the Wolfowitz anti-corruption effort at the World Bank is More

In his recent speech on the rule of law, Fred Thompson discussed the treatment Chief Justice Roberts received during the nomination process, the Department of Justice's handling of the Berger case, and the injustice of the proceedings against Scooter Libby. More

The faux scandal at the World Bank has stirred up interest and debate about its operations. More

Normally we don't go in for celebrity gossip items here at American Thinker, but this alleged romantic pairing is a different order of rumor. More

The charming bicycling militants at Critical Mass have been involved in yet another traffic incident strikingly similar to one which took place last month. More

Riddle: why is the UN like a Marx Brothers comedy? More

Hardly a week has gone by since the publisher and editor of Der Spiegel magazine in Germany proclaimed their solemn intention to halt the torrent of neurotic anti-American hate propaganda. More

It's early days in the political season. Entries prance in the paddock without much reason. At the moment the Democrats are ashiver Over the candidates in their presidential quiver. More

With almost 18 months left until the general election, it is becoming painfully obvious to those who look through the media smokescreen that Barack Obama is not ready for prime time. More

Milblogger Pat Dollard offers another superb piece of reporting and analysis on the situation in Diyala Province, just south of Baghdad. More

It's not getting big coverage but new information information could lead the military court to believe, as we suggested earlier, that the Haditha incident was manufactured by an anti-American writer for Time magazine, some "human rights" groups and the enemy. More

According to current California State law, fluorescent bulbs (which contain mercury) over 4 feet in length need to be taken to a hazardous materials collection facility More

The Calgary Sun reports that Canadians would choose a root canal over a tax audit, if able to choose one and avoid the other More

Yesterday, America moved one baby step closer to apartheid, a society in which racial groups are officially considered unequal and consigned to their own separate spheres under the law. More

A more environmentally friendly alternative to compact flourescent lights(CFL) is likely to be one of several forms of solid state lighting, variations on the familiar light emitting diode (LED). More

Defying slightly embarrassed Arab authorities, as promised, Mickey Mouse's evil Arab twin returned to Arab children's television filling their young minds with glory for slaughter and hatred in honor of the Moslem Sabbath. More

Today the Washington Post reports that the hedge fund which employed Edwards and which bundled contributions to him is engaged in the subprime mortgage market More

Bookworm has been doing some research on what happens when you break one of those curly compact fluorescent bulbs. The ones with about 5 mg of highly poisonous mercury in them, the ones that we all may be forced to bring into our homes. More

The other day Barack Obama, gave a major policy speech before the Detroit Economic Club, making the case against "the age of oil" More

Noting George Tenet's "sloppy analysis and imprecision with evidence," Richard Perle observes that the failure of Tenet and the CIA are costly and will be even more costly in the days to come. More

Are there any sane Democrats left on missile defense? Is there a Daniel Patrick Moynihan ready to protect the United States, anywhere in Congress? More

Thanks to Iran's support, Hezb'allah's poisonous tentacles are spreading around the world including our distant backyard, South America. More

Today I finished my third year of college. This time next year I will graduate with a degree in history in secondary education. What have I learned over the past 3 years? Well, I'll tell you. More

Oh, I'm happy and bouncy! Why shouldn't I be? I live in the land of the safe and the free. I want everyone to be as jolly as I. You shouldn't worry. Let the clouds roll by. More

Does the name Jim Gant ring a bell? If not, you have lots of company, and that is a shame. Major Jim Gant is a hero and a half, a model of bravery and compassion for everyone, military or civilian More

FAS.org, from the Federation of American Scientists, is reporting a new development in the prosecution of two former officials of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). More

News that John Edwards made an undisclosed sum as a "consultant" to a hedge fund, the very sort of investment vehicle designed only for the very rich, elicited this preposterous defense More

A.M. Mora y Leon, who contributes to both AT and Publius Pundit, has a wonderful post at Publius with photos of beautiful French women celebrating the victory of Nicolas Sarkozy More

Tom Gross of the National Review Media Blog makes an excellent point about an over-the-top editorial masquerading as a photo caption. But we have a much less serious point to make. More

Kevin Lunny thought he was doing the right thing when he bought the Drakes Bay Oyster Company off the Marin County coastline in Northern California. More

Putin seems to be taking tips in oratory from the Democrats. The New York Times reports: President Vladimir V. Putin seemed to obliquely compare the foreign policy of the United States to the Third Reich More

It appears that Disney has succeeded where the might of the United States has not: forcing Hamas, the terror organization/majority Palestinian party sworn to destroy Israel, to back down. More

Dean Barnett has coined a useful new word: "Obamanations," to describe the trouble with gaffes that Barack Obama seems to be experiencing with increasing frequency. More

The arrest of the Ft. Dix Six has prompted a vigorous debate on America's Balkan policies, the war with Serbia over Kosovo independence, and the role of Albanians in global jihad. More

Former President Jimmy Carter recently has stepped up his efforts to split the bonds between Evangelical voters and Israel. More

Removing whatever doubt that may have remained that Iran controls Hezb'allah, Sheikah Naim Qassem, the chief deputy of Hezb' allah's leader Hassan Nasrallah, confirmed that Hezbollah does not pursue its own policy but rather submits to the authority of the Iranian leadership More

E Equals One T Square, an equation of Einstein, is science aware? More

Pehaps no American city can match Detroit when it comes to losing population, destroying neighborhoods and creating an environment conducive to crime. More

Barack Obama has been effectively coated with Teflon® by a liberal media anxious that no flaws ever become apparent in the image fashioned of a man running against cynicism, the presumptive Republican nominee. More

By fear their hearts are rent In their mansions opulent The world's about to end Because of cows flatulent More

In case you missed it. Al Sharpton threw some more verbal spears (his forte really) -- this time at the Mormons and Mitt Romney. Now that the initial shock of Al's jab has worn off -- I have to revisit his words again and try to decipher the logic therein. More

The Israeli historian Michael Oren is on a tour to promote his new book Power, Faith and Fantasy which is about American involvement in the Middle East over the last 300 years. As part of his narrative, he tells the story of the spiritual intertwinement between the founding Puritans and the Land of Israel: More

The New York Times is not exactly thrilled with the victory of Nicolas Sarkozy. There is no opportunity to carp about a narrow electoral margin, so the Times must make do with snarkiness. More

"April Revenue Shower" - The Wall Street Journal reports: "Here's the "surge" you aren't reading about: the continuing flood of tax revenue into the federal Treasury." More

TEHRAN, May. 08 (ISNA)-An informed official in Iran's foreign ministry regarding the arrest of 12 Iranian divers by Emirates coast guards stated that this arrest was completely illegal. More

George Soros may be launching yet another effort to try to influence the course of policy regarding Israel. More

An employee of the organization that former Representative Lee Hamilton heads, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, has been kidnapped and is being held hostage by Iran. More

Hi, my name is Tim Schieferecke and I'm a native western Kansas farmboy. No, I don't know anyone from Greensburg as I'm from northwest Kansas, but I do know what rural folks from anywhere in Kansas are like More

Bernard Goldberg, renowned author and commentator on media bias (based on his 20 years as a journalist) once wrote: "Bias in the media isn't just about what they cover; it's also about what they don't cover." More

Louis Rene Beres is a nuclear strategist and professor of International Law. In today's Christian Science Monitor Beres calls for preemptive action against Iranian nuclear weapons development: More

Political Animal Kevin Drum has a blog post up at the Washington Monthly site titled, "SIX MONTHS....No more Friedmans after September?" Citing today's Tom Ricks and Jonathan Weisman article at the Washington Post, Mr. Drum's post discusses the "Plan B" scenario in Iraq should the surge falter More

Hamas has now enlisted Mickey Mouse in the War on Terror - as an advocate of Terror against America and Israel, attacking Pres. Bush, Sec. of State Rice and Prime Minister Olmert in a children's television program. More

I listened to this barrage from Chris Matthews at the health club yesterday. It was nauseating. Matthews just kept peddling the line that Wolfowitz, Feith, Libby and Perle are the ones who pushed America to war. More

The Governor of Kansas, Kathleen Sebelius, is blaming the lack of some military equipment that is deployed to Iraq as hampering the Greensburg Kansas disaster recovery effort. More

Segolene Royal corrrectly predicted that if she lost and Nicolas Sarkozy won, rioting by those euphemistic French "youths" would follow. More

Today heralds a new dawn for Northern Ireland, with the inauguration of an historic power-sharing government. It is hoped the move will finally bring peace, prosperity and stability to this once troubled province. More

Michael Barone has written a careful analysis of the present demographic shifts and their political implications. More

The Wall Street Journal's Bret Stephens gives us a glimpse of what has been going on inside the corruption-riddled World Bank. More

The Chirac presidency has taken an enormous toll on Franco-American relations. France is now actively despised by a substantial segment of the American public More

Desperate for votes, any votes, Segolene Royal, the now French presidential loser candidate, appealed to women voters. That didn't work. More

Today Brussels Journal publishes the comment first posted at Gates of Vienna which is worth a read: More

The next Ambassador at Large, should Mrs. Clinton become president, has gone on record in the belief that the main victims of a nuclear strike that destroys Israel would be Muslims, suffering from fallout. More

James Lileks is an enormously talented and prolific newspaper columnist, blogger, and author, whose day job has been as a columnist for the Star-Tribune, the largest newspaper in Minnesota. More

George Soros has infamously criticized American foreign policy and has been particularly harsh in faulting America's support for Israel. Now he appears to be taking his Road Show to Europe More

Public Radio's Marketplace is ostensibly a daily program on business and financial news, but its reporting on "climate change" is becoming increasingly exaggerated to the point of absurdity. More

On the first day of our journey, we lamented at all the life. There were Muslim wackos crashing planes to fulfill fatwas insane. The first thing we did was to cry out and pray, asking why, gathered round. More

I was amused last week when my community newspaper contained remarks from my Congressman Heath Shuler about how extremely hard he been working to solve the nation's problems when compared to the corrupt Republican Congress in 2005. More

Iowahawk brilliantly satirizes the last half century of the American newspaper industry. Multiple follies on the part of the newspapering class are ridiculed. More

Newsweek is out with a new poll new poll esidential race, with head to head ratings among leading Democrats and Republican candidates. More

The Washington Post notes that the Dems are out of gas and running on fumes More

I bet most haven't seen this good news for the war effort reported in the major media; but it seems that someone forgot to tell the National Guard that we have lost the War. More

Graciously helping another financially struggling student get through school without breaking her parents' bank account or causing Dad to miss any haircuts. More

Barack Obama has been caught in a lie (see my earlier blog Home of the Whopper), and the MSM is giving the liar a free pass. More

Cinco de Mayo is one of the oddest of unofficial but important American holidays, commemorating a Mexican victory over French troops on Mexican soil. More

US Army Major James Gant will be receiving the Silver Star for selfless, truly heroic actions in Iraq. He will join a group I have named the "Anonymous Heroes" because so few Americans know about their valorous actions. More

Bruce Bawer is an expatriate American who has now lived in Europe for years. He takes note in the New York Sun of one upcoming anniversary this Sunday: the murder of a Dutch politician, Pim Fortuyn, who recognized the perils ahead. More

Time waits for no man, and I'm done with TIME. They pushed forth a puffed list of leftists and slime. More

A New York Times report criticizing Iraq reconstruction relied on a man now under investigation for bad work habits and other problems. More

Zimbabwe is about to become head of UN's Commission on Sustainable Development. This goes beyond Orwell; it is Kafkaesque. More

There is pressure building on Israel to start "removing roadblocks and opening passages in the territories and upgrading the Palestinian forces loyal to PA chairman Mahmoud Abbas." More

And now a pause to remember Wally Schirra, one of the original Mercury astronauts and the third person to orbit earth, who died yesterday. May he rest in peace. More

Paul Wolfowitz noted the inconsistency in the application of the World Bank's conflict of interest position. It had permitted the wife of former Bank Managing Director Zheng to remain in her position, but required that Shaha Riza, his significant other, leave the Bank. More

Last night's televised debate between Nicolas Sarkozy and Ségolène Royal, held prior to Sunday's run-off election for President of France, may have produced a decisive moment, as the socialist Royal apparently lost her temper and was called on it by Sarkozy. More

Barack Obama has been caught in a whopper over his statement, "Nobody's suffering more than the Palestinian people." More

Noting that Sarkozy's polling lead over Royal in France is considered a "large margin", the blog (new to me) Dr. Charlemagne's Woes posits an intriguing theory: "The 50/50 rule." More

Shmuel Rosner of Haartez notes that in his new book Tenet claims he is responsible for stopping the release of Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard. More

While Hillary and the other Democratic presidential candidates duke it out over who has the best socialized medicine health plan, read about some maternity "horror stories" in that socialized medicine haven, England More

May 3 marks the National Day of Prayer. It could not come at a better time. Under assault from without and within, America needs God more than ever before. It is a great tragedy that this once overwhelmingly Christian nation has been turning away from God. Needless to say, we are paying a steep... More

I don't often recommend readers go to another site and read a discussion thread about an AT article. But sometimes one comes along that provides a fascinating perspective More

Soros-funded Media Matters is in essence a briefing organization, supplying left wing journalists and opinion leaders with talking points to discredit conservative media More

In 2003 they came to the Ball, For some merry martial dancing; Girlishly giggling in the Capitol hall, Finding chords of war music entrancing. More

The Times (UK) Online last week reported that the Republic of Georgia will increase its troop commitment to Iraq from 850 to 2,000 troops. More

Yes, yes it is guilt by association, guilt by non-admission, guilt by fighting to keep secrets but the impartiality and reliability of the BBC suffered another blow when they won their hard fought right to keep secret an internal report into its Middle East coverage More

Dems claim to love whistelblowers, leakers, and defend as free speech flag burning, Serrano's Piss Christ, etc. But how about defending airline passengers who fear hijackers and don't want to face lawsuits? More

Since the chief antagonist of Paul Wolfowitz on the matter of the settlement is Ad Melkert then head of the World Bank's Ethics Committee, readers might be interested in knowing what he is up to now. More

Marty Peretz, writing in The Spine blog at The New Republic, makes an illuminating contrast of the Kurds with the Palestinians (and Israelis, too). More

On this day in 1963, police in Birmingham, Alabama -- under the command of the Democrat sheriff, Eugene "Bull" Connor -- attacked several thousand African-American schoolchildren who were demonstrating peacefully for their civil rights. More

Monday Shaha Riza and Paul Wolfowitz made their clearest most detailed and powerful statements to the World Bank. I was fortunate enough to be able to obtain in pdf format copies of their statements to share with American Thinker readers. More

Rep. Jim McDermott lost his last appeal below the Supreme Court for his convinction in distributing the notorious Waffle House telephone tap tapes of Republican Congressional leaders. More

The Hill details Senator Feinstein's patent conflict of interest and wonders why it has escaped the media attention it deserves More

Senator Frist was hounded by charges that he had engaged in insider trading when he sold shares of the company his family founded, Hospital Corporation of America. Media outlets slandered him with abandon. More

In accord with the revelations in Bret Stephens piece today, I see the Wolfowitz/Riza response yesterday moving from a defensive to an offensive posture More

The Audit Bureau of Circulation (ABC) has released the latest circulation numbers for big city dailies, and the news is almost uniformly bad for big newspaper publishers. More

While the UN huffs and puffs about Iran going nuclear, threatening to throw a fit if it continues, Iran, oh so very frightened of all this, placed the following ad in the International Herald Tribune More

What is Soros-funded Human Rights Watch worried about? More

Senator Barack Obama has apparently failed to host a fundraiser or otherwise generate funds to support the PAC run by the Congressional Black Caucus. More

The Wall Street Journal's Bret Stephens offers us a look at the World Bank's critics of Wolfowitz, suggesting that should he be removed, it's time for a closer look into the Bank's operations More

Just one year ago, the English Department at Virginia Tech was a warm environment filled with professors who encouraged me to take a four-month humanitarian trip to Peru More