Tapped out contributors and a traditional downturn in donations during the summer months will apparently contribute to a lot less money being raised by Democratic frontrunners for President Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama: More

As the Myanmar government continues its brutal crackdown of pro-reform demonstrators, killing hundreds and arresting thousands, A United Nations envoy has arrived in that violence torn country More

Something happened on the way to bio-fuel heaven for farmers and producers of ethanol. More

John McCain: No JFK. More

For the first time since November of 1976, the Canadian dollar is more valuable in the currency markets than the American Greenback. More

The months long teasing by Newt Gingrich about his plans for the 2008 presidential campaign is over. More

Philadelphia doctors have developed a new treatment to bring life back to the dead More

Regime of Terror's publisher, Mark Eichenlaub, e-mails me the news that yet another Iraqi Baathist has been linked to Al Qaeda: More

Russia and China have agreed to extend sanctions against Iran but managed to wangle a concession from western powers who want to move more quickly; the sanctions will be delayed two months: More

Do you still have a television that hooks up to an outisde antenna or the ubiquitous "rabbit ears" that sit on top of the box? Read on. More

Hillary tries to out promise the rest of the Democratic presidential field. More

One of the major figures in the al-Qaeda in Iraq terrorist group has been killed according to the US military: More

The Pakistani Supreme Court has ruled that President Pervez Musharraf can run for re-election despite a constititional ban on an active duty military officer running for President: More

It appears that the pro-reform protestors in Myanmar are going to have to regroup to fight another day. More

How good is the new Russian air defense system purchased by Iran and Syria? More

One of the cardinal rules in politics is you don't allow your opponent to define you or your intentions. More

A Kuwaiti newspaper has pointed the finger at Syrian intelligence for the assassination earlier this month of March 14th Member of Parliament Antoine Ghanem: More

With the tripping and slipping of the Dominant Three,/ What will the Democrat answer be? More

Let's watch and see if any national media outlets jump on the story of Chelsea Clinton's employer and major Clinton fundraiser (an official "Hillraiser") Marc Lasry. More

An attempt to change the rules of the electoral college from a winner-take-all format to one where electors are apportioned by votes in individual Congressional districts has apparently died More

Flip Pidot, the go-to-guy on the Hsu scandal, notices that Winkle Paw seems to have vanished. Paw, as you may recall, is a close business associate of Norman Hsu and fellow big-bucks contributor to Democrats. More

The nuclear power industry may be poised for a comeback here in America. More

The latest from the Saffron Revolution is not good. More

Steve Gilbert of Sweetness & Light has been digging into Soros'Open Society Institute, backer of so much anti-Israeli and anti-US activities throughout the world More

Failing to prevail in the free and fair arena of ideas contested openly, Al Gore and the Democrats have resorted to atempting to silence global warming skeptics who defy their orthodoxy. More

Wednesday's Democrat debate no doubt bitterly disappointed many in the liberal base: None of their leading presidential candidates would pledge to withdraw from Iraq if elected. More

The new owners of the Minneapolis Star-Tribune have parted ways with veteran editorial page editor Susan Albright because she did not want to focus on local issues. More

The Senate has decided to temporarily drop plans to bring an amendment to the floor that would grant hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens "back door" amnesty More

There can really be only one option if you want to fight climate change and are a Democratic member of Congress; raise taxes, of course. Lots: More

Daniel Ellsberg must miss being in the spotlight. More

The military junta that has ruled Myanmar (formerly known as Burma) since 1988 continued its crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators today More

It appears that the party's presidential candidates are more realistic about the mission than their rhetoric would have you believe: More

In a development that some see as a victory for civil liberties and others view as a blow to homeland security, a federal judge in Oregon has voided two provisions of the Patriot Act More

Jay Cost, the brilliant young political scientist tells us why campaign polls at this point are little more than media echo chambers and not of value: More

Instead of attacking what I suspect was massive tax cheating on the sale of residential real estate in the lower to mid level price range, Congress is now proposing to penalize those who planned ahead and bought their retirement homes early. More

Reacting to the news that the immigration debate was manipulated by the Soros' funded demonstrations in which the massed crowds waved Mexican flags... More

America's liberal-dominated media are doing their best to ignore a story of a leftist official snubbing the Marines. More

From our "Well, that was quick" files, General Motors and the United Auto Workers have setttled their one day old strike by agreeing to an historic deal on retiree health benefits: More

By the time the races for both party's presidential nominations are over, it is estimated that total ad revenue from the candidates and interest groups who support them could top $100 million: More

In contrast to the hectoring lecture offered by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, President Bush pleaded with the United Nations to stand up for human rights where repressive governments were trampling on them: More

Some choice words from Ahmadinejad's speech before the General Assembly. More

Convicted terrorist supporting lawyer Lynne Stewart has been invited by Hofstra University to speak about legal ethics at an event on October 16. More

The ruling military junta in Myanmar has apparently begun shooting directly into the crowds of Buddhist monks who have been peacefully protesting against the government's repressive policies: More

AT political director Richard Baehr has just published an article in the quarterly journal inFOCUS, published by the Jewish Policy Center. He is joined by AT contributors Rachel Ehrenfeld and Alyssa Lappen. More

San Francisco turns a tolerant eye toward all sorts of behavior, all the while patting itself on the back for its virtue. It turns out that the United States Marine Corps is too hot for the city. More

A major media scandal may be in the process of unfolding on the world stage. More

The United Auto Workers, seeking to hold on to lucrative health benefits and job protections, has gone on strike against General Motors since 1970. More

Caroline Glick, deputy managing editor of the Jerusalem Post, has written the column of the day on the Ahmadinejad visit to Columbia: More

A smattering of views from liberals on Iranian President Ahmadinejad's appearance at Columbia University yesterday: More

Political woes continue in Lebanon as the parliament adjourned yesterday, failing to come to a consensus on who the next president should be. More

The more things change, the more they stay the same. More

The "Ahmadinejad at Columbia" show played very weill back home. More

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad scored just one laugh line at Columbia University -- when he denied that Iran had any Gays at all. More

Investors Business Daily continues its series investigating George Soros. The high standard set last week is exceeded today. More

The Iowa Independent blog reports: James Zogby, president of the Arab American Institute, praised the foreign policy skills of candidates Barack Obama and Bill Richardson More

Thomas Lifson writes: I was sorry that the invitation was extended, but once it was out there I restrained myself from calling on Columbia to withdraw it More

The Trustees of Columbia University hired and evaluate the performance of President Lee Bollinger. More

As if he didn't have enough legal troubles being under a cloud for his alleged intervention in the tender for the privatization of a bank, Prime Minister Olmert is now under investigation for a shady real estate deal from 2004: More

We don't usually encourage leftist idiocy on this site by linking to it but this diary at Daily Kos was so deliciously stupid and shockingly insensitive that for entertainment value alone, everyone should read it. More

The only way you could have avoided Hillary Clinton yesterday was if you turned off the TV. More

The state Democratic Party of Florida has decided to go ahead with their plans to hold their presidential primary on January 29 More

A transcript of the CBS 60 Minutes interview with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad reveals a man who is oblivious to what is going on in the world and how he and his government are perceived. More

Columbia Universty is placing rules and restrictions on free speech regarding Ahmadinajed opponents that gut Bollinger and Company's arguments regarding the goal of free speech and expression. More

The New York Times has been a driving force in the passage of the unfortunate Bi-partisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA) and as recently as two months ago decried the Supreme Court decision on issue ads. More

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says the U.N. will return to Iraq, after having closed its offices in 2003 when a bombing killed envoy Sergio Vieira and 21 others. More

Once again, the Watergate maxim that "the cover-up is worse than the crime" is proving valid. And Clark Hoyt, "public editor" (ombudsman) of the New York Times is playing the part of John Dean in what could be titled "All the Publisher's Men." More

What would Ike have said? More

As a documentarian, Ken Burns makes Michael Moore look like the amatuer he truly is. More

All the denials, all the defensive explanations, all the lies told by spokesmen for the New York Times have all been shown to be an effort to hide the truth from the American people. More

This analyst thinks he is: "The event would have not been possible without the tireless and focused efforts of the well known Tehran advocate Dr. Gary Sick, an influential figure in Columbia." More

From The UK Sunday Times: "ISRAELI commandos from the elite Sayeret Matkal unit - almost certainly dressed in Syrian uniforms - made their way stealthily towards a secret military compound near Dayr az-Zawr in northern Syria." More

Fawaz A. Gerges, writing in the International Herald-Tribune, notes that one of Osama bin Laden's most prominent Salafist mentors has turned against him. More

The National Rifle Association conference yesterday in Washington, D.C. drew lots of media attention because of the high powered presidential candidates invited to speak. But the best speaker, hands down, was a young army NCO. More

Beldar, the lawyer and blogger, has been most critical of the Rather complaint against CBS, but argues that this is a case where the adversary system is no way to get to the truth because neither side could bear that. More

Every once and a while when rumors of his death reach a frenzied peak, the Cuban government props up Fidel Castro and puts him in front of a camera to show that he's still alive: More

Fox News will host a special report on the life and times of General David Petraeus tonight at 9:00 PM. More

Times have certainly changed. France and the United States have agreed in general to pressure Iran to give up its nuclear enrichment program through the use of harsher UN sanctions More

The irrepresible Flip at Suitably Flip has hit paydirt on the Norman Hsu Democrat fundraising scandal. More

Yes, but how much is he really going to divulge? More

John McCain's campaign for president may be faltering but he was a huge hit at an NRA meeting earlier today. More

The New York Times television reviewer Alessandra Stanley has a history of injecting her own political views into her reviews More

GOP Senators gave their collegaues across the aisle the opportunity to denounce the Moveon.org smear ad of General Petraeus that appeared last week in the New York Times and 25 Democrats refused the offer: More

The onetime ultimate D.C insider, Dick Morris recently brandished the allegation that Fred Thompson is awkward in answering questions. What a hoot More

Giving true faith and allegiance to the Communists and the Mullahs, Representative "Baghdad" Jim McDermott (D-Wash) has gone on record calling for rejection of the strategically critical Indo-US nuclear and defense cooperation treaty. More

Investors Business Daily has an editorial today on George Soros well worth reading. More

The witty Texas Rainmaker notices Canada is expressing pain over a new influx of illegal immigrants: Mexicans, slipping over the border from the United States. More

In his final section of this morning's In The Loop column, WaPo's Al Kamen decided to have some fun with words he lifted from yesterday's presidential news conference. More

Apparently despairing of any other kind of workable offensive, Al Qaeda is busily engaged in a media one. Now there's another tape. More

I am all but speechless over the latest manifestation of San Francisco madness. More

AT editor Thomas Lifson and associate editor Rick Moran will each be making radio appearances in San Francisco Friday. Seperately, on two very different radio stations. More

Pundits keep saying Fred Thompson erred in entering the campaign late, but a poll of voters suggests otherwise. They are already bored with these "debates" and campaigns: More

It's like old times. OJ's cuffed and Greta and the crowd are back in Vegas. And in D.C. many of the old Clinton campaign funding scandals are revisited as news seeps out about Hsu and other Hillary Hillraisers. More

On the heels of the asssination yesterday of Phalange MP Antoine Ghanem, members of the March 14th parliamentary majority have gone into hiding in order to avoid the same fate. More

Now that Dan Rather is suing CBS for 70 million bucks, we are in for a lot of attention being paid to the man. Which is no doubt what he wants. More

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Democratic fundraiser Norman Hsu will be charged with several counts of fraud as well as violations of campaign finance law today: More

Someone needs to sit Dan Rather down and bring him back to reality. More

A tape purporting to be from Osama Bin Laden is being released today and in it, the terrorist calls for attacks on the regime of President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan: More

The Iranian mission to the United Nations has told the Secret Service that President Ahmadinejad has rejected the recommendation of the NY Police Department and will visit Ground Zero on Monday, at 10:00 AM: More

Well, you gotta hand it to the BBC -- they have high standards about telling the truth. The BBC has finally fired a producer for peddling lies on its august airwaves. More

The Associated Press reports: Yale Law School will end its policy of not working with military recruiters following a court ruling this week that jeopardized about $300 million in federal funding More

Bloggers have performed an invaluable function checking the accuracy of the media. Now the Washington Post joins the campaign More

The Lincoln Journal Star reports this morning that U.S. Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns will resign his position and return to Nebraska to run for the seat being vacated by Senator Chuck Hagel More

Another member of the government majority in Parliament has been assassinated. More

Jesse Jackson has accused Barack Obama of "acting like he's white" for what Jackson proclaims the presidential hopeful's inappropriate response to the Jena Six case. More

The Norman Hsu saga continues to amaze, annoy, and amuse people who are following it. More

In a column in today's RealClear Politics, John Stossel shows why "free" national health care systems are neither free nor an improvement over the system we basically have now: More

You have to hand it to the Open Borders Lobby in Washington. They are, if nothing else, persistent. Thwarted earlier in the year by a powerful coalition of on-line activists and radio talk show hosts, the "Shamnesty" bill is once again rearing its ugly head in the Senate. More

Trapped behind the Times Select Firewall at the "Paper of Record" for two years, the conservative blogosphere's favorite liberal loon has been released, free to spout his lunacies to anyone with a mouse and a modem. More

You almost have to feel sorry for them, these Democrats. They've been running around Capitol Hill these last few weeks, their white flags waving majestically in the breeze, trying to drum up support among the GOP for their plans to surrender Iraq to the forces of death and destruction. More

Here is what we know, and what we can infer about the alarming implications of the September 6 Israeli raid on a claimed North Korean nuclear materials site in Syria. More

The Washington Post, reports that California lawyer William Lerach is pleading guilty to criminal conspiracy respecting the origins of plaintiffs' suits in which he made a fortune. What the story leaves out is the Lerach has a long history of contributing to Democrat candidates and played a significant role in Kerry's campaign. More

Now they have the murderer on tape committing an armed robbery. Maybe the system will work this time and they'll put this animal in a cage. More

Our contributor Patrick Poole blogs a report on the decision of CAIR to honor one of the men named as a co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation trial. More

Rudy Giuliani's response to the MoveOn ad and his attack on Hillary Clinton, may have helped both him and Hillary Clinton. More

On the heels of yesterday's announcement that the Iraqi government had banned US security contractor Blackwater from the country, there is now a review of all security contractors underway in Iraq: More

This story gets more bizarre by the hour. More

The Times has given in to reality and will now make their op-ed pages available free of charge once again: More

The latest Gallup poll released today reveals a Republican race for President that has tightened considerably. More

More bad news on the housing front as month over month forclosures jumped 36% in August and the year over year numbers almost doubled. More

Dan Rather is back and he has another "scandal" based on a source that is questionable. More

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez seems to have an unlimited appetite for power. More

Usually, members of the Senate have the wit to at least pretend they are responsibly carrying-out their constitutional duties. Not yesterday. More

Here's a "man bites dog" sort of story: California's notorious Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals handed down a wise decision yesterday. More

Democrats find themselves caught in something resembling the "monkey trap." More

Universal Pictures and Director Peter Berg are set to release "The Kingdom" nationwide on September 28th. More

A pleasant surprise in Canada. In Roberval Lac Ste. Jean , a seat most recently held by former Bloc Quebecois leader (Gauthier),seems to have been taken by Conservatives. More

No need to look over your shoulder just yet, Pacino. Last night's Emmy did not give Al Gore his second major entertainment award but only his first. More

California's glorious grape harvest is underway again. All signs indicate a great year for most varietals More

Hill's mendacity on immigration can't escape Mickey Kaus' jaundiced eye More

Michael O'Leary, CEO of low fare Irish airline Ryanair has turned Europe's airline business on its head. His comments on 'climate change' taxes are worth reading. More

In a victory for moderate secular forces in Pakistan, President Pervez Musharraf will reportedly resign from the army by November 15: More

The New York Times-which has along history of unalloyed support to the United Nations and to diplomats in general-has a surprisingly devastating portrait of ElBaredei on today's front page. More

Numerous controversies fester over the demands of many Muslims that the societies to which they emigrate accommodate their religious practices with special consideration. More

Iraq's Interior Ministry has yanked the license for Blackwater to operate in Iraq: More

It looks like O.J. is heading for prison. One can never be certain, of course, but the likelihood of finding a sympathetic jury in Las Vegas in 2007 is pretty low. So my question of the day is how long it will take someone to cry "racism"? More

"The former K.G.B officer accused in Britain of fatally poisoning a Kremlin foe in London with a radioactive isotope announced Sunday that he was seeking a seat in the Russian Parliament." More

Just when you thought it was safe to go back tp the doctor's office, presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is resurrecting her abominable national health care proposal: More

The internet was abuzz yesterday about an article in the Times Online whose headline blared "Alan Greenspan Claims Iraq War Was Really For Oil." More

In an interview with the Reno Gazette-Journal, Srnate Majority Leader Harry Reid claimed a million Iraqis have been killed since the beginning of the invasion. More

Very low indeed. More

One small step at a time, America is joining the umma, the global community of nations dominated by Islam. The latest example comes from Indianapolis More

The Left has historically co-opted science to benefit its political causes. Margaret Mead is a classic example, gaining enormous attention to promote the "Free Love" movement. More

A group of University of California faculty has succeeded in silencing a voice with which they disagree. That voice belongs to Lawrence Summers, former president of Harvard University More

AT contributor Herb Meyer knows a thing or two about analyzing information. He is, after all, credited with being the first United States official to forecast the Soviet Union's collapse More

William Kristol of the Weekly Standard is reporting that President Bush will name Michael B. Mukasey, a former federal judge regarded as an expert on national security issues as the next Attorney General: More

The Sunday Times has a story that the real target of last week's Israeli raid were bunkers filled with recently acquired nuclear materials and hardware from North Korea: More

Need more proof that the Big Green Scare Machine is spoon-feeding you cherry-picked non-science to further their AGW alarmist agenda? More

I thought Shiites and Sunnis were not supposed to be cooperating. More

A sign of the times from the San Diego Union-Tribune: More

Fallout from the ethanol scam continues to hit the economy. More

Former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto plans on returning to Pakistan in October in order to run in Parliamentary elections so that she would be eligible to return to office. More

Congress's most visible anti-semite strikes again. More

Hot on the heels of a full page ad the Giuliani campaign placed in the New York Times defending General Petraeus from the Moveon smear, the former New York City mayor has released an ad on the internet that savages Hillary Clinton. More

Shares in the New York Times Company fell below the psychologically important $20 mark today More

More shocking revelations today in the story of the former ABC News Consultant Alexis Debat who faked interviews for a French news magazines. More

Different target; same slime. More

How bad has it gotten in the United States? This bad. More

Say what you want to about New Gingrich. Brash, abrasive, brilliant, a genuine intellectual with practical political experience, he is easily one of the most fascinating men to have served in Congress over the last quarter century. More

Barack Obama may be smart, but he still hasn't figured out the rules of the league in which he is now playing. More

He says he wants to run a full page ad supporting General Petraeus in the New York Times. But he wants the same rate granted Moveon.org whose ad last Monday slimed the General: More

CAMERA presents a fascinating analysis of homicides by Palestinian militants and their correlation with the volume of international aid flowing to the Palestinian territories More

The New York Times didn't like it. The Washington Post was lukewarm. The netroots dismissed it. The right embraced it. More

The Analyst Blog makes a great point about the Democrats and their double standards More

New York has the Statue of Liberty in its harbor. San Francisco might well match it someday with a Statue of Infirmity. More

The dogged researcher Fedora, shows that Hillary is not the only one with a Hsu problem. Harry Reid is also intimately tied to the mysterious donor with no visible means of support. More

Things are not looking good for the pending and very important Indo-US nuclear and defense cooperation treaty. More

Legendary columnist Herb Caen used to call San Francisco "Baghdad by the Bay." The expression might be updated and applied today to the city of Richmond, California, across the Bay. More

The New York Yanks are poised for another October run. Will Mrs. Clinton show up there? Not a chance. More

In an apparent breakthrough in the political crisis that has paralyzed the Lebanese government for nearly a year, the ruling March 14th governing coalition has accepted a compromise proposal offered by Speaker of the Parliament Nabih Berri: More

One of the most influential and pro-American tribal leaders in Anbar province was assassinated today, killed by a roadside bomb: More

This is a bizarre story about an ABC News consultant who put his name to an interview with Senator Barack Obama, published in the French magazine Politique Internationale that was never conducted. More

Excellent piece in Frontpage Magazine today about the foiled terrorist attack on Ramstein Air Base. More

The Soros-funded group Human Rights Watch takes up sex offenders as latest victim class. More

One might think that the foreign policy disasters of the Jimmy Carter presidency would be enough to permanently retire his National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski from the league of presidential candidate gurus More

After Hsu pleaded guilty to the felony charge in San Mateo he twice jumped bond, but the prosecutor in Colorado is talking about seeking bond again More

Never let sound business principles get in the way of a good liberal smear. More

This story should raise some eyebrows inside the beltway. More

Reuters reports that parties opposing the Indo-US nuclear deal have closed down the Indian Parliament following "rowdy scenes" that disrupted both upper and lower houses of the legislature. More

Erwin Chemerinsky, on whose reported candidacy for the proposed new UC Irvine Law School I commented, has been hired and then fired before he even got to start the job More

The Wall Street Journal reports that a producer of the Woodstock festival, Mr. Joel Rosenman, claims he invested $40 million with Norman Hsu, who told him he'd produce products for Gucci and Prada in China More

What's missing in this New York Times article covering a $6.5 million jury award to two Detroit police officers More

Sweetness & Light presents stunning information suggesting Iran paid for the recent Zogby poll which claimed that 42% of Americans believe Bush either caused 9/11 or let it happen. More

The disgraceful full page General "Betray Us" ad published Monday was a new low for both MoveOn.org and the New York Times. More

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has resigned suddenly. More

The Wall Street Journal (Subscription required) has partially solved the mystery of where the mysterious Norman Hsu's funds for donating to Democratic candidates came from: More

I was watching on television, with justifiable pride,/ Gen. Patraeus with Ambassador Crocker at his side. More

Jazz pioneer Joe Zawinul died today at age 75. On the day we commemorate the horror that 19 savages unleashed upon our nation it may not seem so great a loss - but it is. More

Former Sen. Max Cleland (D-Ga.) has withdrawn from the board of directors of a charity with close ties to Rep. John Murtha, according a report from Roll Call. More

Buried in this article regarding Iran's use of banks and front companies to develop its nuclear weapons program (including European banks acquiescing in removing Iranian names from financial documents so as to escape detection by American authorities) is this nugget: More

What grade do you think the teacher would give him? More

In addition to the four excellent 9/11 retrospectives in today's American Thinker, there are several moving tributes and provacative columns I highly recommend you read today. More

With nearly 70% of the American people basically on their side of the Iraq War debate, Moveon.Org has done surge supporters the biggest favor possible by making perhaps one of the biggest political goofs in recent memory. More

Fred Thompson had been a putative candidate for so long, it seemed that his formal announcement to enter the GOP race for President was something of an after thought. More

Keith Olbermann is, to put it in technical terms, a nutball. More

Think sanctions are the way to bring change to Iran? Check out how they worked recently. More

September 11, a date memorialized in American history. An important date, a critical date. And we dare not misunderstand its lesson. More

Blogger George Maschke at Boomantribune.com has spotted an intriguing bit of cutting and splicing in the latest video purported to be from Osama Bin Laden More

John Nichols, who accused General David Petraeus of betraying the truth and the troops on Friday, today expanded his feral accusations More

Michael Barone shows some interesting anomalies in recent polls and, keeping in mind the shameful performance of the Congressional Dems at today's Petraeus-Crocker hearing, it appears they are digging themselves into a hole More

The text of Multi-National Force-Iraq commander, General David Petraeus, can be read via this link. More

The New York Observer provided a look into the background of Hillary's "traveling chief of staff" and Middle East advisor, Huma Abedin More

In a sure sign that the political forces in favor of continuing the surge are winning, the ultra-left Moveon.Org has purchased an ad that calls General Petreaus a traitor. More

Carol Gould writes about ethnic turf in London these days, and the wannabe Caliphate's new xenophobia More

An excellent editorial in The Examiner today highlights two recent decisions by the FEC that shine a spotlight on election fraud in 2004 by organizations who were largely funded by billionaire George Soros: More

The new Gallop Poll shows Senator Fred Thompson getting a nice little bump from his formal announcement last week while John McCain, whose candidacy was written off by some, has surged past Governor Romney into third place: More

General Petreaus is expected to ask Congress for 6 months before deliberations on troop withdrawals begin: More

Something strange about the first video. More

In the great Democratic state of Massachusetts, September 11 is just another campaign day for next year's election. More

A nice little story in StrategyPage today about humanitarian efforts to relieve the suffering of Nicaraguans and Hondurans as a result of Hurricane Felix by the US Navy: More

We Americans are a mix of birds,/ Some soarers, others grounders;/ And from their strong, enduring words,/ More Eagles were among our Founders. More

Weeks of franticly subverting the long-awaited Petraeus Iraq progress report have seen Democratic leaders demoting a four star General to Bush marionette and left-wing hacks attacking his very credibility More

The University of Tampa's College Newspaper, the Minaret was the victim of a cruel hoax. What the aftermath reveals about attitudes on campus toward the MSM is more interesting than the incident itself. More

One of the colossal failures of the Bush Administration is in the realm of grabbing credit for its accomplishments in Iraq. More

The New York Post rightly notes that the FTC has cleared "Big Oil" of manipulating oil prices More

James Taranto, writing in Opinion Journal yesterday, alerts us to a hopeful sign of a moral spine stiffening of the Louisiana electorate: More

ABC News has released the results of a poll from Iraq that shows the Iraqi people much more pessimistic and fearful than they were two years ago: More

Popular Science published a special issue in August. The lead article is a puff piece on climatologists Konrad Steffen who made a career on the ice pack of Greenland More

We've heard all the various takes on Osama Bin Laden's most recent pronouncements - how nutty he is, how he's still dangerous, even where he might be. But until now, we've heard nothing about the terrorist mastermind's fashion sense: More

"I support the troops, but not the war." This statement is easy to make. Some who make it may mean it, but many who use it have no interest in the troops at all More

In an article on Iran in today's New York Times, Michael Slackman portrays a picture of a society and culture that is sharply at variance with the views and testimony of others. More

The press has been doing a first class job of ferreting out details of Hsu's life and business dealings to the point that it seems inevitable that we will eventually get to the bottom of this whole rotten mess. More

Chicago Congressman Rahm Emanuel seems to be channeling the pork-grabbing spirit of his predecessor in the district, Dan "Rosty" Rostenkowski. More

A new book, The Truth About Syria. comes highly recommended by contributor Andrew Bostom. More

Several Wall Street Journal reporters have dug deeply into the past of former fugitive Democratic fundraiser Norman Hsu and found some fascinating information about his life More

The great Gabriel Schoenfeld reviews the CIA's critique of its performance re 9/11 and zeroes in on Michael Scheuer More

As the Western European public awakens to the very real problems caused by high levels of immigration, little things like skyrocketing crime rates and riots in France, Denmark, Swden, and elsewhere, adherents of multiculturalism's dogmas are panicking and lashing out. More

Makes "The Bridge to Nowhere" look sane by comparison. More

American Thinker Political Director Rich Baehr took a look into his crystal ball and saw the editorial the New York Times almost ran today on the Osama tape: More

It seems unreal, almost ridiculous that Osama Bin Laden would use the exact same criticisms used by Democrats against George Bush. More

Our thanks go to Chris Muir of the outstanding "Day by Day" comic strip for featuring J.R. Dunn's article yesterday in his strip for today More

Former Democrat United States Senator James Abourezk appeared on Hezb'allah's al Manar TV (which is banned in the US) More

Normally I am skeptical of big ticket lawsuits, but I am making an exception for the three Duke students unjustly prosecuted by Mike Nifong More

The headline reads "11 N.J. Officials Arrested on Corruption" but the Associated Press apparently didn't think it was relevant but every one of this band of thieves is a progressive thinking Democrat More

Bill Roggio is reporting from Iraq that we have captured a senior member of the Revolutionary Guards Qods Force in a sweep against Shia terror groups backed by Tehran: More

Honey bees pollinate billions of dollars worth of food crops while also supplying the US with honey - a key ingredient in hundreds of processed foods. But something was killing them off at alarming rates - entire colonies being extinguished for no apparent reason. More

Osama Bin Laden is still alive, according to intel experts who have gotten hold of a video where he urges suicide bombers to carry out their missions against the west. More

With the sword of Mohammed poised above their heads, the British, it appears, are not willing to do anything to keep the blade from falling: More

Philip Nolan Schumer/ Is the name I'd give/ To the vicious New York Senator. / Should he not choose to live/ On board a ship/ Way out at sea/ And never again know/ This democracy? More

No way to cover a war, that's for sure: More

Like a Playboy photo editor airbrushing out the not so delectable bits, Chuck Schumer has airbrushed out what he could of his contemptible speech attacking our troops More

It's no longer a question of "Where is Hsu." The fugitive Democratic party fat cat fund raiser was arrested in Grand Junction, Colorado after being taken off a train after complaining of feeling ill: More

It appears that the very methods of phone call monitoring the Democrats have made their life's mission to impede have once again saved the day More

Jeff Goldstein of Protein Wisdom documents the Muslim Student Association at the University of Texas-San Antonio harrassing women and Jews More

Norman Hsu has skipped, following the path of so many Clinton donors with apparent foreign sources of money who are under investigation. More

President Sarkozy just keeps getting better and better. I rub my eyes in disbelief as I read of the latest in a series of extraordinarily sensible acts in his young presidency. More

Former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani has been elected head of the powerful Assembly of Experts in Iran in what many experts see as a repudiation of the hard line faction headed up by current President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. More

As a political party, the Democrats sure make lousy psychics. More

The coming month is expected to be pivotal in determining the course of the war, owing to the impending briefing before Congress More

Guess who the group Human Rights Watch finds at fault for civilian casualties during the Israeli-Hezb'allah war? More

From the official website of the San Diego Feminist Film Festival: More

Whether you love the opera or hate it, there is no doubt that Italian tenor Luciano Pavarotti transcended the genre and made a huge impact on the music world during his lifetime. More

To no one's surprise, former Tennessee Senator Fred Thompson formally entered the race for the Republican presidential nomination last night. More

We're used to reporters making up scare stories about global warming, but when scientists start to make up "drop dead" headlines, things must really be getting desperate in the climate game. More

Muslims have been strangely silent when one Muslim group banned another from outdoor prayer. More

Up to now, the New York Times seems to have focused its hagiographic biographical treatments more on Barack Obama than on Hillary More

If the writer of this piece in Politico today, Roger Simon, got any gushier about how marvelous Bill Clinton is, he would have to be registered as an offshore oil well: More

On the eve of his announcement for President, former Senator Fred Thompson has lost another staffer - one of nearly a dozen to leave the campaign since July. More

Three terrorist attacks on targets in 3 different European countries that were still in the planning stages have been foiled by authorities. More

Further evidence that global warming enthusiasts have jumped the shark comes with the box office disaster experienced by Leonardo DiCaprio's film 11th Hour. More

If there was ever any doubt about the power wielded by the Clintonistas in this country, here's a story that should disabuse anyone of the notion that not even the biggest corporations can beat them once they put their minds to something: More

Will he or won't he? More

Somehow the NYT believes that sanctions and other economic pressures against Iran are strengthening the tyrants of Tehran. More

A column last week in Editor and Publisher called on newspapers to abandon the posture of objectivity and become active advocates for the cause of anthropogenic global warming alarmism. More

With apologies to the Andrews Sisters, Phil Moore and Universal Pictures (unless they're all Democrats) More

AT editor Thomas Lifson was a guest on the Dennis Miller radio talk show Tuesday. More

There used to be lines that just weren't crossed regardless of the provocation. Not anymore. More

Los Angeles County purchased 2.5 acre El Sol Beach in Malibu for public use in 1976. More than 30 years later the public is unable to get access because of neighboring Hollywood figures. More

Ed Morrissey of Captains Quartersblog reports on the arrest of 8 men in Denmark with alledged ties to al-Qaeda: More

It is if you believe Fred Kagan, one of the architects of the current surge: More

The British army is pulling out of Basra, abandoning the last base they have occupied since the war began: More

Jonah Goldberg has a great column in the Los Angeles Times in which he takes the media to task for their selective memory in replaying what happened in New Orleans 2 years ago this week when Hurricane Katrina hit that unfortunate city. More

Steps are being taken by French President Sarkozy to counter Putin's resource nationalism by pushing the merger of two of France's utility giants. More

Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards said on Sunday that his universal health care proposal would require that Americans go to the doctor for preventive care. More

If there has been one clear instance of mutual support in the War on Terror, it's the alliance of the left and the Jihadis to bring down the US and the Bush Administration. More

From Bangladesh comes a story of criminal irresponsibility on the part of UNICEF, the United Nations Agency for whom I used to collect pennies, nickels and dimes as a child on Halloween More

Arthur Miller was gray./ There's no better way/ To describe this bitter/ Low ball hitter/ Who had so little to say. More

Jack Risko of Dinocrat.com finds the appropriate literary referent for Mahmoud Ahmedinejad, More

Following his appearance before a group advocating the murder of Jews, Rep. Keith Ellison has joined the bi-partisan Congressional Task Force on Anti-Semitism More

A piece of good news this Labor Day comes from Lebanon where the army has finally crushed the terrorist group Fatah al-Islam and killed their leader in the process: More

There is much discussion and debate about Iraq meeting its congressionally mandated benchmarks. Our own history contains its own roster of milestones. More

And where there is an utterly depraved nincompoop, there is the President of Mexico: More

If there has been one clear instance of mutual support in the War on Terror, it's the alliance of the left and the Jihadis to bring down the US and the Bush Administration. More

The Los Angeles Times devotes an editorial to supporting a new Israeli initiative with the Palestinians -- reaching out to them through a pornographic web site More

For those who believe violent leftist movements are relics of the past, here is a reminder that revolutionaries avidly supported by the European Left are still perpetrating violence More

The late playwright Arthur Miller was a scoundrel to his Down Syndrome son, and even worse a pawn (at best) of communists. More

It's all over the news this morning; we are going to hit Iran. The Times of London gives us the details: More

Although Larry Craig's 'bathroom gate" non-political sensational story took up the news cycle the last week, I suggest a sober look at the next media cycle sensationalistic senate story; the announced retirement of John Warner More

Now retired and writing under the diminutive "Dave Kilcullen" Australian Lt. Colonel David Kilcullen, an expert on insurgency has posted a most interesting dispatch on Small Wars Journal. More

Your article on August 31 filled me with disgust. Your author already has "Nifonged" Craig. More

With 8 movies coming out in the next few months about the War in Iraq, I guess we better get used to this: More

With inflation unofficially at 15,000% (the official rate of 7,600% is bad enough), Robert Mugabe continues to plunder what's left of the Zimbabwean economy. More

The story of Norman Hsu, one of the top Democratic fundraisers in the country, has gotten even more bizarre and interesting. More