The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals today suspended an injunction that prevented the Navy from employing advanced sonar. More

After 6 weeks of testimony, the prosecution in the trial of several executives of the Holy Land Foundation, an Islamic charity that the government says funds the terrorist group Hamas, has rested: More

As word leaks out about how much of the Dem Party has been underwritten by the mysterious Mr. Hsu , one must ask how it is that California Dem officials had no idea he was under an arrest warrant when they took his contributions More

The college football season begins tomorrow with a home game for UC Berkeley. Meanwhile, the tree hugging (literally) protestors outside have been fenced-in for their own protection. More

Liberals are salivating at the opportunity they see to portray the GOP as corrupt. More

Fred Thompson running for President is the worst kept secret in politics at this point. More

Famed tele-lawyer, Geoff Fieger has been charged with illegally reimbursing employees for $127,000 in contributions to former Sen. John Edwards' 2004 Democratic presidential campaign. More

According to a popular saying, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. However if the imitation is a twisted distortion of the original, the result is not flattery but perversion. More

Being handed his hat and asked not to let the door hit him on his way out. More

Inquiring minds and, no doubt, federal authorities want to know. More

Sometimes I have to pinch myself. Nikolas Sarkozy seems just too good to be true for a President of France. More

The mildness of the so-called "atrocities" (scary dogs, panties on a head) by American forces stands out as the true story of the behavior of French troops in Rwanda finally comes out More

We all have our foibles, I'm sure./ Some are more foibled than others,/ But need we parade them in public?/ My average sisters and brothers More

Chris Roberts at the El Paso Times has an excellent interview with National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell. More

Eureferendum has the horrifying story of more British Soldiers dying in exposed "dune buggies" being destroyed by IEDs in Afghanistan. More

The oh-so-brave artistic world, ever ready to be "transgressive", is insulting Christians and Christ again. More

The humiliation of Senator Larry Craig continues as party leaders in the Senate have stripped him of his status as ranking Republican on the Veterans Affairs Committee as well as an Appropriations subcommittee. More

The nascent law school designed to produce left wing lawyers (aka "public interest lawyers") is reported to be considering the perfect dean More

Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has signed off on a deal that will probably allow him to remain as President but in which he will be forced to resign as Chief of Staff of the Army: More

Barry Bonds, move over. The world of sports has a new bad boy, this time hailing from Japan, via Mongolia. More

Washington Democratic Congressman Brian Baird is being targeted by the George Soros-funded Moveon.Org following his statements that the surge in Iraq is working More

Today, the Clintonistas made me look like a soothsayer. More

It's "Morning in America" for Democrats on the Big Three network morning shows. More

America Coming Together (ACT), a group to which left wing financial powerhouses George Soros, Peter Lewis of Progressive Insurance and the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) are major donors, has been hit with a $775,000 fine More

What does Mookie al-Sadr have up his sleeve? More

This is one of those stories that could only happen to a Clinton. More

Mexico's President Calderon has delivered a slap in the face to the United States, and provided what amounts to an endorsement for his citizens violating the laws of the United States. More

The editor of an Arabic daily newspaper based in London would be more than happy if an Iranian nuclear weapon was detonated on Israeli soil: More

After six long years of pandering to the primates of Kos and Huffpo, the Democrats have suddenly discovered the War on Terror More

AP reports that Moody's Investors Services lowered it ratings outlook on the New York Times Company from "stable" to "negative." More

The number of people who live below the poverty line dropped significantly in 2006 according to the US Census Bureau: More

Mitt Romney made it clear in an interview on CNBC that what the Senator did in that Minneapolis airport restroom was wrong More

Dale Carpenter writing at the blog Volokh Conspiracy asks "What was Craig's Crime?" More

What? Give away my money? I think not!/ What you're suggesting is a Conservative plot More

Michell Malkin is outraged (rightly) that the Red Crescent is back on the Flight 93 memorial More

Retired CNN anchor Bernard Shaw made some peculiar remarks addressing National Association of Black Journalists at their convention in Las Vegas More

Two cable networks are refusing to run ads created by a pro-Iraq War group on the basis that they are too controversial. More

Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has a decision to make. More

Just when will the undeclared candidate stop being coy about his plans? More

Slowly, grudgingly, the mullahs in Tehran are giving in to UN demands for inspections of their nuclear facilities. More

The Associated Press is reporting that the Taliban have agreed to release all 19 South Koreans they have held hostage since July 19: More

Larry Craig could be just one more millstone around the neck of the GOP. More

Paul Clement looks to be a solid conservative legal mind with strong grounding in terrorism matters. More

Robert Stacy McCain, of the Washington Times' Insider Politics blog, cites counter-arguments to Andrew G. Bostom's AT article yesterday insisting that Congress must recognize the Armenian Holocaust More

Voice of America reports that Russia has cut a deal with Venezuela to sell the South American dictatorship 98 civilian Ilyushin passenger and cargo aircraft. More

DePaul University wants Norman Finkelstein gone in the wake of denial of tenure. The Professor refuses to go. More

A debate over 9/11 conspiracy theories. More

Another child custody case in Florida where a Cuban father is agitating for the return of his daughter. More

The housing slump shows no signs of abetting as sales of existing homes dropped for the 5th straight month: More

The kibbutz movement in Israel was founded on the rock of socialism, with communal ownership, dining, and even child-rearing arrangements expressing the unrealistic utopian egalitarian ideals rooted in 19th century Europe. More

One hand of DOJ not knowing what the other hand was doing? More

The government of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has announced a far reaching agreement that might start the process of political reconciliation. More

Gonzo gone. Cherty in? More

In the New York Times, Andrew Revkin weighs in today with his spin on NASA's temperature data errors, downplaying the whole affair. More

Saudi Arabia has announced the formation of a 35,000 man (surely there will be no burka-clad women in it, one supposes) new security force to guard critical facilities. More

Beldar notes that John F. Kerry let his opportunity to sue the Swift Vets for defamation close, despite Beldar's reminder. He's not surprised, nor should you be More

The New York Post carries an AP story today of two villages in Dyala driving off attacks by al-Qaeda with considerable bloodshed More

It appears that there are no grounds for a criminal proceeding against former Congressman Foley More

A leading scholar in the comparatively young academic field of popular culture studies told me years ago that people become nostalgic for something only after the object in question has lost its power and ceased to be threatening More

A happy ending to what looked like total disaster at the beginning. More

After bullying London's mayor into apologizing for his city's role in the transatlantic slave trade more than two centuries ago, Jesse Jackson did what he does best - demand money. More

America has long had a relatively low price of food, a factor that, while contributing to the obsesity crisis in America, has also helped low-income people keep their families nourished. More

Coalition forces detained a foreign fighter during an intelligence-driven operation in northern Arab Jabour Aug. 22. More

CAIR is relieved that the U.S. Department of State's efforts were successful in extricating two Islamic American families from the clutches of Hamas. But... More

What is it about being appointed to run a major university campus that causes the appointee to hire an expensive interior decorator? More

John J. Ray has written a stunning essay entitled "Hitler was a Socialist" that is the best treatment of the subject I have ever seen. More

Please don't miss Noemie Emery's brilliant article in the Weekly Standard on the paranoia of the left More

The Long Island Power Authority has cancelled plans to construct a 140 megawatt wind project 3 miles off the south shore of Long Island. More

Our thoughts and prayers are with AT associate editor Rick Moran, who has been ordered evacuated from his house near the Fox River in Illinois More

There appears to be a minor epidemic of greenies nabbed for topping 100 mph in their hybrid Toyota Priuses More

For the second time this month, a Marine Corps investigator looking into the killing of civilians in Haditha in 2005 urged the Marine Corps Commander to dismiss charges against one of the accused. More

Abu Dhabi has announced the acquisition of Pioneer Natural Resources' Canadian Unit, which makes it the fifth overseas acquisition since November by Abu Dhabi National Energy Co. More

Blame Bush. Blame democracy, says the Times. More

Two years ago scientists warned that the North Atlantic Ocean had become much less salty over the past 50 years due to global warming. This year, scientists warn that the North Atlantic Ocean has become more salty over the past 50 years due to -- guess what? More

According to a study by IBM out this week, Americans are spending almost as much time surfing the net as they are clicking the TV remote: More

We all wish it were easier. But in the Jihad War thus far, the most wishful thinkers have always been the most mistaken. More

Publishers Weekly is reporting that ousted New Mexico U.S. Attorney David Inglesias has signed a book deal with John Wiley. More

There is a persistent theme played out by some liberals who think the Iranian regime is not as bad as we make it out to be that the mullahs are capable of reforming on their own. More

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Marine General Peter Pace will recommend to the President that the number of troops in Iraq be brought below 100,000 by the end of next year: More

Former Prime Minister Ayad Allawi has hired a powerful Washington D. C. public relations firm with close ties to the White House and has embarked on a campaign to undermine the legitimately elected government of Nori al-Maliki More

Steve Gilbert fisks the NYT report on the NIE report and finds it wanting, a twisted version designed to meet the paper's all-defeatist theme and attack Maliki. Ace of Spades does the same thing to ABC and the President's speech to the VFW. Read the original texts. You cannot rely on the MSM's... More

My friend Pat Curley of the excellent Brainster's Blog reports on a new Rasmussen Poll that asked voters who they defintely would never vote for. More

Judge Saundra B. Armstrong of the US District Court has ruled that the Bush Administration is required to issue two reports on global warming. More

The race for the Republican and Democratic nominations for President have entered a surreal stage with Michigan the latest to move its primary contest to the head of the line. More

Labor Unions played a key role in the past in defeating communism and supporting the American-Israel relationship. Now, the Teamsters step up to the plate. More

Socialist Congressman Bernie Sanders thinks that the American people are pretty stupid. More

Yesterday, AT relayed a report from AdnKronos International that Saddam's former deputy and current leader of the banned Baath Party, Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, has decided to quit Al-Qaeda and to join forces with Iraqi forces More

When it comes to Viet Nam, the New York Times has a curious sense of the historical record. More

A judge in Nicaragua has embargoed assets of Exxon in a tax dispute. More

If there is one thing that the Inspector General's report on CIA accountability regarding 9/11 has highlighted, it is the utter failure of the Clinton Administration to come up with a strategic plan to deal with Osama Bin Laden and al-Qaeda. More

UPI is reporting that unknown gunmen kidnapped Samir Salim al-Attar, the acting undersecretary of the Ministry of Science and Technology Monday. More

AT contributor Patrick Poole has been looking at the taxpayer-funded charter schools run by CAIR officials in Columbus, Ohio More

The National Journal's Danny Glover (not the Castrophile actor, one presumes) took exception to James Lewis' thoughts on the Media Mob More

The old, tired canard about conservatives being stupid is trotted out once again. More

The Telegraph of London has just published a letter from Prof. Phillip Stott, Professor Emeritus of Biogeography at the University of London. More

The Baathists who until recently had joined forces with Al Qaeda have now switched and offered to join the Coalition forces in Iraq to fight Al Qaeda More

Being a hometown newspaper - with the "hometown" around 90% Democratic - the Washington Post from time to time likes to be helpful to their favorite political party. More

President Bush has just cited the success of the occupation of Japan as demonstrating the need for persistence in our occupation of Iraq. I could not agree more. And I have a bit of background on the subject More

The ADL's odd stance on the Armenian genocide may reflect a broader controversy and odd behavior on the topic. More

The grievance mongers at CAIR have gone to court because their membership is down - and they're blaming the government of the United States: More

A policy pushed by liberal elites will end up harming the poor -- all for the sake of moral vanity and political correctness. More

I slogged through one episode of Christiane Amanpour's CNN series Warriors for God last night More

O'Sullivan's First Law ("All organizations that are not actually right-wing will over time become left-wing) has just received more empirical support from the very organization that first prompted his formulation: Amnesty International. More

Each Congressperson sucking a thumb,/ Hanging on an earlobe, playing dumb,/ Is an affront to our American pride. More

Now that the French have elected a new President and have a foreign minister, who can plainly see disaster descending on Iraq, perhaps the Brits should ask the French military to take over the defense of Basra? More

Tenet raked over the coals for his many failures. More

I wonder if he got time off for good behavior? More

San Francisco Supervisor Chris Daly last garnered a lot of press when he lauched a little vendetta against the Blue Angels More

Andrew Bostom and I both found it very strange that the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) could not bring itself to condemn the genocide against the Armenians More

On the occasion of the 39th anniversary of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, Russian General Yuri Baluyevsky told Czech deputy defense minister, Martin Bartak that it would be a "big mistake" to host elements of the US missile defense shield.  Not only that, but the General... More

With his recent all-or-nothing gamble on the immigration reform bill, McCain now must deal with political reality in his home state. More

Gusts topping 200 MPH but thankfully, people and property spared the worst of it. More

Hugo Chavez is moving the clock in Venezuela forward by 30 minutes, in the name of reshaping Venezuelans' metabolism. More

The current turmoil in credit markets could end up strengthening the hands of China and the oil-rich nations. More

Double talk on Iraq from the master. More

The New York Times wants you to believe that Americans are getting poorer, that our average incomes are below what they were in 2000 More

Barack Obama has made recently a series of foreign policy gaffes. Undeterred by harsh criticism and stalling if not flagging poll numbers, Obama weighs in on the Cuban trade embargo. More

Levin wants a non-sectarian prime minister. Who doesn't? More

Say it ain't so, Jack. More

One of the key factors that enabled Scott Beauchamp to spread his lies beyond the confines of his unit's area of operations is our service members' near-universal access to computers and cell phones in the theater of operations. More

Dr. Bob Carter, a research professor at James Cook University (Queensland, Australia), and Tom Harris, Executive Director of Canada's Natural Resources Stewardship Project, have laid it on the line about global warming alarmists More

A talk radio network launched last year by Jane Fond and Gloria Steinman that was supposed to appeal to women ended up appealing to no one. More

NPR's Morning Edition today included a lengthy report on the problems with New Orleans' main prison, ascribing them to Hurricane Katrina. More

Steve Gilbert of Sweetness & Light catches Reuters filing a news story that is almost a press release for a George Soros-funded effort to stalk Congress members supporting the war. More

The taxpayer-supported University of California is seeing off departing president Robert Dynes with a cushy severance package. More

Respected milblogger Austin Bay makes gives us some intelligent speculation on what might be in the report given by General Petreaus when he goes before Congress next month. More

Richard Miniter writes an astonishing account of the aftermath of the Scott Beauchamp scandal at The New Republic. The behavior of editor Franklin Foer and the magazine gets curioser and curioser... More

The autonomous Kurdish government of Iraq is reporting that the Iranians are shelling Kurdish villages in their continuing war against separatists in the remote region of Iran: More

Residents of Jamaica and the Cayman Islands are breathing a little easier today as Hurricane Dean sideswiped Jamaica and mostly missed the Caymans More

The estimable Jules Crittenden takes on the questions stay-at-home-dads and of having kids, as in more than one. More

The case of Elvira Arrellano, took an interesting turn yesterday. More

Recent history would suggest that if Hillary Clinton, as expected, wins the Democratic nomination for President, she would choose as her running mate her closest competitor in the field. More

"Those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it." More

The charge of Islamophobia rings out at home and from our sworn enemies abroad, too, almost constantly. Yet who is truly irrationally afraid of whom? More

In what appears to be tacit acknowledgement of recent embarrassing blunders, Barack Obama will be cutting back on his appearances in candidate forums. More

Inflation at 13,000% and it's going to get worse. More

Save the Earth! Eat some corn and plant a tree today. More

"A nation that doesn't automatically value its sons who fight to protect it more than the 'unarmed civilians' they encounter behind enemy lines is not only unlikely to win a war...." More

What do Iraqi investors know that the Democrats in this country don't? More

Texas bracing for the worst. More

Passengers and crew are safe. More

Police report studies the effects of radicalization on unassimilated Muslims. More

Good news from Petreaus might give Bush the whip hand in troop debate. More

Richard North of Eureferendum has conducted a persistent and thought-provoking campaign to get better armor for British troops facing IEDs in Iraq and Afghanistan More

Once again, computer-driven climate simulations have fallen short when measured against real-world scientific observations. More

The mind boggles. A student buying food in the student union at UMD wearing a shirt saying "I stand for Israel" is denied service by a clerk who says, "Your shirt offends me, I won't ring you up." More

We finally have good operating understanding of "universal" health care: somewhere in the universe there may be a place for you to get treatment. And if you are lucky enough to live near the United States, you may even get treated. More

Yeah...but when is Denmark going to apologize for the Vikings? More

Shades of the 1930's. More

Silky Pony getting a free ride from the press for his contradictory rhetoric. More

Wall Street gets what it wants from Bernanke. But will it stabilize the markets? More

About what you'd expect from a newspaper that has consistently fought against any measures the Administration has taken to protect the country. More

Padilla guilty but debate continues. More

The British military have a long and glorious history of having the wrong weapons, incompetent generals and stupid political leaders. More

Yassir Arafat's old military uniforms should be worth quite a lot of money, considering how beloved he was by the Palestinian people (or so we were told), and considering his stature as a Nobel Peace Prize laureate. More

Crisis Summit may determine Iraq's Political Future. More

Your jaw-dropper for the day. More

The media has been largely silent on the revisions to NASA's widely reported temperature data. But when the WaPo covered the story, it made excuses and distorted official reports. More

Fred's circumstances are different but should he have announced earlier? More

Andrew G. Bostom examines the imbroglio over the curious unwillingness of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) to condemn the genocide perpetrated against Armenians by the Turks in the early part of the last century More

The reported impending naming of Iran's Revolutionary Guards as terrorists has elicited much commentary in the media. Most outlets recognize the danger of the IRG More

Seymour Hersh should probably start most of his articles with the words "Once upon a time..." More

Narrator: In 1999 Suha Arafat, Yasser Arafat's wife, said, "Our [Palestinian] people have been submitted to the daily and intensive use of poisonous gas by the Israeli forces...." More

Rocco DiPippo spotted enemy propaganda in the press, as delivered by the incompetent information warriors at French news agency AFP More

Heinz reported good earnings today, but warns that future profits will be impacted by "unprecedented" commodity price increases More

Do not read this unless you have taken your blood pressure meds this morning. More

The Los Angeles Times is reporting that General Petreaus may recommend a pullback of American troops in Iraq when he makes his report to Congress next month. More

If you want to read an utterly typical assortment of the U.S. media's reporting of the "news" to a nation that is engaged in a war that it desperately needs to win click here for MSNBC's collection of stories. More

Shades of Fidel Castro in Venezuela. More

The Washington Post reports this morning that the Iranian Revolutionary Guards - a key component of Iran's internal and external security forces - are to be designated a "terrorist group:" More

AP takes us on a trip down the rabbit hole. More

Hillary's out with her first ad in Iowa: that the average American is invisible to the current president but will not be to her. There is one very small group of Americans totally, completely invisible to Hillary Clinton: More

Hear that trumpet call? It's New Scientist magazine sounding "Retreat!" on global warming More

The news blackout on the erroneous NASA temperature data has been partially lifted by the Toronto Star. More

Karl Rove has gone, but not for long./ He shall pay. Though he did no wrong. More

Last week the Republic of Georgia charged that two military Russian aircraft, possibly of the SU type, violated Georgian airspace and had loosed some sort of precision guided bomb More

AT contributor Patrick Poole exposed a troubling situation in his home town of Columbus, Ohio: a terror apologist sitting on the Franklin County (Columbus) Homeland Security oversight board. More

The New York Times today carried three news stories and an editorial on Karl Rove's decision to leave the White House. More

Academia generally takes great pleasure in moral exhibitionism, the conspicuous display of righteous indignation toward the world's supposed malefactors. More

The media has been in a feeding frenzy over the last 24 hours, ever since Karl Rove announced that he was leaving the White House at the end of the month. More

One of the most anti-American publications in the world, Germany's Der Spiegel , seems to have discovered that progress is being made in Iraq: More

Is Pakistan ready to accept US help in fighting the Taliban? More

Time Magazine follows the New York Times down the tubes. According to Forbes: Time's total paid and verified weekly circulation during the six months ended June 30 stood at 3.4 million, down 17.1% from 4.1 million during the same period last year More

In his national comedy tour disguised as a presidential campaign, John Edwards has added a new joke to his act. More

Palestinian Media Watch today has photos of a white kitten being swung around by its tail on Hamas-TV. "The latest episode of a popular Hamas children's TV show features its main character cruelly swinging cats by their tails and throwing stones at caged lions...." More

China is enacting a high-tech plan to control people, reports the New York Times. More

Don Surber shows how the New York Times made a 180 degree turn on its editorial page, first demanding we pull out now in the face of certain genocide and then backtracking. More

We don't generally make a habit of doing a roundup of reaction on a particular story. But the news of Karl Rove's resignation is a special case. More

For better or worse, Republican presidential candidates will appear at a rescheduled YouTube debate to be held November 28th. More

Liberal professors give more to politics than the oil companies. More

StrategyPage.com is reporting on some fierce fighting occurring on two islands in the southern Philippines involving two Muslim separatist organizations: More

The results of the Ames straw poll last Saturday have led to one of the candidates throwing in the towel. More

The left's favorite punching bag is headed off into the sunset. More

The mainstreaming of Markos Moulitsas Zúniga ("Kos") continued apace as the blogger/political activist showed up on the grand old dame of Sunday morning news shows, Meet the Press. More

The Taliban may be set to release two of the 21 South Korean hostages they are holding. More

From our "Least Surprising Revelation of the Year" files comes the story of a former BBC executive who comes clean about the incredible liberal bias that has colored BBC programming for years. More

Mitt Romney won the Ames Straw Poll. How important was it? More

Here's a way to fill that space/ That is yourself, from not for nothing/ To something really something,/ Like that and suddenly smart,/ Twice you were than ever before. More

The Mainstream Media have fallen all over themselves oohing and aahing about the 1,200 or so nutroots who turned out for the Yearly Kos convention in Chicago. More

Only in New York could the powers-that-be yield so broadly to the concept of pandering to ethnic minority groups More

Details are sketchy. But the city has taken some extra precautions against a radiological device being detonated by setting up checkpoints and employing sensors: More

Not a good idea. More

The New York Times has some convenient memory lapses about the Islamic School principal who sold T-shirts at the school that read "Intifada - NYC." More

There are few better examples today of special interest pork than the government's ethanol policies. More

In today's Weekly Standard, Reuel Marc Gerecht has an article showing Senator Obama to be something of an empty suit when it comes to foreign policy: More

Professor Freeman Dyson enjoys an awesome reputation in theoretical physics. It is therefore a landmark event when Dyson fiercely denounces the Global Warming mess. Freeman Dyson takes no prisoners. More

Founder Julius Reuter cannot be resting easy in his London grave. More

The stupidities keep accumulating. Barack Obama isn't even ready for the midnight to five AM graveyard shift, much less prime time. More

The US is, for all practical purposes, at war with Iran. More

KPFA FM in Berkeley, California is the first "public" radio station in the country, predecessor of NPR, PBS and all the other various entities providing non-commercial broadcasting. Except that KPFA is even more left wing. More

Leave it to Thomas Sowell, the brilliant economist and conservative thinker, to show us why the housing market is collapsing and why the sub-prime mortgage industry is in crisis: More

Bill Kristol has a must read piece in Time Magazine about his trip to Iraq and his impressions of what is happening on the ground there: More

In yet another sign of Russia's prickly stance toward the west, an icon of the Cold War, the Tu 95 "Bear" bomber, has returned to the skies, running long haul sorties into areas patrolled by the United States and NATO. More

Sign of the times in our neighbor to the north. A simple notice of a conference from the Orilla Packet & Times in Ontario More

With remarkably little publicity, all charges have been dropped against two more of the 8 Marines charged in the prosecution of alleged crimes in the Haditha incident, a case which made headlines around the world More

Do we need another 9/11 to come together as a nation? More

Charles Krauthammer has a terrific column today regarding Scott Beauchamp. More

1998 was not the hottest US year ever. Had you checked NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) website just days ago, you would have thought so, but not today. More

Ed Morrissey found that someone set up a website similar to Fred Thompson's, inviting participation by the KKK and other racist operations and linking to their sites. More

Remember the 21 South Korean hostages who were taken by the Taliban 21 days ago? More

Representative Ed Royce (R-CA) is calling on Congress to investigate the ties between Islamic terrorists and Mexican drug gangs revealed in a report by the Drug Enforcement Agency in yesterday's Washington Times. More

Kos ally and leading netroots blogger Jerome Armstrong has finally settled with the SEC over his illegal activities. More

Much has been made of the fact that the lawmakers of the Iraq parliament are taking a one-month vacation in August. More

Apparently, Kofi Annan, former UN Secretary General, has a lot in common with John Edwards as far as practicing the fine art of "doing as I say, not as I do:" More

It would seem that the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has some explaining to do. More

You know things are going better in Iraq when even Democrats begin to acknowledge it. More

The latest victims of cutbacks at the New York Times Company are employees of the company's subsidiary newspaper in Sarasota, FL, the Herald-Tribune. More

The Washington Post had a front page story on how global warming is drawing the faithful in into the fold. And by faithful, they don't mean global warming believers, they're talking about that oldtime religion, Christianity. More

Forbes Magazine offers an analysis of the impact on the New York Times Company of Rupert Murdoch's acquisition of the Wall Street Journal. I am delighted that their approach is consistent with my own analysis More

Gen. Ion Mihai Pacepa is the highest-ranking intelligence official ever to have defected from the Soviet bloc. Someone who knows first hand the ins and outs of fighting the propaganda war against America. More

According to The Hill, the CIA is ready to declassify an internal report on the agency's performance in the months leading up to 9/11. More

Is New Republic Editor Franklin Foer on the chopping block? More

The first New York Charter School for Arab girls is selling T-shirts emblazoned with the words "Intifada - New York." More

Samantha Power, Obama's Foreign Policy Guru, is something of a hypocrite. More

Is Barack Obama ever going to tire of defending all criticism regarding his foreign policy views by pointing out that he did not support the Iraq War More

A new report out by Anthony Cordesman calls for "strategic patience" in Iraq. More

1. The left says that the president has shredded the Constitution and that it is is a living document. More

Russian President Vladmir Putin must indeed be in a very bad mood. More

A story of horrendous child abuse in Arizona was mentioned by Rush Limbaugh, and it got me thinking. More

What happens to the MSM when there's good economic news to report? More

American Thinker has hosted some debate about the Balkans, especially our Kosovo mission. The Balkans are a region that could fairly be described as rancorous More

Will Hillary fire a valued staffer for his anti-union affiliations? More

Today will see three of our writers on air, and accessible via audio streaming on the web More

On the Fred Thompson front, ABC's Tapper explores his time on the Watergate committee, and finds that "the reality is far more complicated than conventional wisdom and campaign puffery would have it." More

Wow! Democrats voting for warrantless wiretapping? More

The ACLU twists itself into a pretzel shape, trying to justify opposing all state funding for religious purposes, except when it comes to Muslims More

Thus ends another sad tale in the history of one of the more august opinion magazines in American history. More

As someone who attended the YearlyKos conference here in Chicago last weekend, I made the observation this morning that the event seemed a little "white" to me: More

Another Muslim writer has been targeted by radical Islamists for his writings. More

Human rights are under assault in Iran. What does the New York Times have to say about it? Not much. More

As one of the critics quoted in Allan Nadel's shallow and badly skewed article "Art or Propaganda? Postwar American Photography," I feel a corrective is in order. More

The arrests by British police in the "Doctor's Plot" has yeilded some interesting - and alarming - intelligence about al Qaeda in America. More

Michael Barone believes that the Op-Ed in last week's New York Times by Michael O'Hanlon and Ken Pollack may have begun to alter the perception of what is going on in Iraq among Washington decision makers: More

Newsweek is reporting an interesting development in the FISA leak investigation More

The left-dominated movie industry will not take on the Jihadis. But that does not mean an independent movie cannot be made. More

It runs like a flood beneath their skins,/ In the veins of these left-leaning actors;/ From Leo to Sean it seems that all Penns/ Can't help but be shrill malefactors. More

An appalling front page headline story appears in a Bosnian Muslim newspaper, Novi Horizonti. More

Christopher J. Alleva's article, Global Warming Propaganda Factory, reminded me of an interesting experience my daughter had recently. More

An old saying states that, "You're entitled to your own opinion, but not to your own facts." This concept seems to be lost on the editorial page writers of The New York Times More

The New York Times Magazine gives space to a Canadian essayist, formerly on the faculty at Harvard, to explain why he has turned against the Iraq War. More

A memo from one of Senator Barak Obama's foreign policy advisor claims that the Illinois Senator is a true agent of change for American foreign policy and that "conventional wisdom" on the part of the Washington establishment is at fault for many of our overseas problems: More

A good barometer of Bush Derangement Syndrome is the increasing frequency in which our elected Representatives and various media outlets call for radical changes in our "ways and means" of government in order to derail the policies George Bush. More

Noah Feldman has a lot of explaining to do. The Harvard Law School professor published an article in the New York Times Magazine slamming Orthodox Judaism. Now it turns out that there is a bit of a scandal underlying the article More

In a remarkable column in the Washington Post yesterday, E.J. Dionne defends Daily Kos and by extension the Yearly Kos convention this weekend to which the Democratic presidential candidates, with the noble exception of Joe Biden, are progressing to pledge solidarity. More

Over the last few days, there has been a lot of attention given to the fact that the FISA courts have prevented our nation from investigating communications between terrorism suspects who are overseas but whose communications travel through American owned communication networks More

There will be seven Democratic Presidential candidates at a Leadership Forum today sponsored by YearlyKos. I wonder how many of them are aware of the vile, anti-Israeli, anti-Jewish invective that regularly appears on the organizer's personal website? More

Are there two John Edwards? One who engages in precisely the type of behavior the other John Edwards condemns? More

AT contributor and blogger Rocco DiPippo has posted some videos from his recent time in Iraq working on a reconstruction project More

Christopher Alleva didn't mention one of the most amusing things about the SEJ conference - the presence of the esteemed Paul Ehrlich, who has made a career out of being dead wrong More

Two columns in today's papers illuminate the great divide in how our media views our troops. More

A federal judge has sustained the CIA's refusal to allow Plame to disclose her dates of employment with the agency More

In what just might be the dirtiest trick ever played in the House of Representatives, last night Democrats tried first to reverse the outcome of an unfavorable vote, then made it disappear altogether. More

The New York Times is a vehicle of the Left Wing of the Democratic Party??? More

Some people think we have been unduly harsh on Barack Obama. More

Environmental journalists meeting in San Francisco are preparing their hearts to bleed over 'environmental injustice'. Take a look at what they should see. More

AT consulting editor and frequent contributor J.R. Dunn will be a guest on the Bob Davis show on AM 1500 KSTP in Minneapolis/St. Paul Friday. More

The high price of corn taking its toll. More

Jacques Chirac certainly received a lot of front-page coverage when he was criticizing George Bush. But his his own serious scandal is being almost completely ignored in the American press. More

The New York Times is worried about Rupert Murdoch slanting news coverage in the Wall Street Journal! More

Fred Thompson has come out four square in favor of confirming Judge Leslie Southwick to the Court of Appeals 5th Circuit. More

When I heard the news about the Interstate 35W bridge collapse, after the initial shock and sadness for the victims, one of my first thoughts was that the Left would try to score points and blame the tragedy on President Bush More

How does once reconcile Obama's newest foreign policy statements with ones he made just a few days ago regarding genocide? More

The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act has crippled a key part of our anti-terror program More

AT editor and publisher Thomas Lifson will be a guest on Dennis Miller's syndicated radio talk show Thursday, August 2nd More

Clay Waters of Timeswatch catches the New York Times being itself. More

The Department of Justice has concluded that, while its emphasis is on prosecuting leakers of classified information, the Espionage Act does permit the prosecution of journalists who publish such information without authorization More

Will Santa Claus be forced to learn Russian? More

You may notice that the Democrats aren't talking much about the economy these days. I wonder why? More

Nothing is more dangerous than a naïve appeaser, other than a naïve appeaser who erratically takes rash steps in order to look tougher than he really is. More

The Senate Appropriations Committee has gutted a $3 billion request by the Bush Administration to fund one of the few foreign aid programs worth investing in: More

The New York Times, it appears, is on a crusade to change the composition of the Supreme Court. More

Democratic leaders who spurned an invitation to speak at the moderate Democratic Leadership Council last weekend who cozy up to the likes of Kos and other denizens of the netroots should take note of just who it is they are legitimizing by their support: More

Ostensibly, Marketplace is Public Radio's broadcast that concerns business and commerce. More

The Bush-haters include alleged use of torture on detainees among their reasons why Amerika is already a fascist state headed toward dictatorship. They should read the accounts coming out from the 5 Bulgarian nurses and one Palestinian doctor recently released by Libya More

Senator John Kyl has put our choices on Iran succinctly. More

AT contributor Frederick Chiaventone appears tonight on the Dakota Talk podcast, at 7 PM Central More