Rick Klein and Mike Chesney of ABC's The Note report that a New York Times Magazine story is coming on Barack Obama's foreign policy. More

Jim of Gateway Pundit catches another great under-reported story: Three former ACORN workers pled guilty to voter-registration fraud in Washington State. More

Ohio political blogger Matt Naugle is alleging that the management of the Columbus Dispatch has quashed a potentially damaging story about Columbus Mayor Mike Coleman just days before the election More

Parliamentary Majority Leader Saad Hariri disclosed that he and Prime Minister Siniora are targets of an assassination plot being planned by Syria: More

Every time they come out of hiding in force and attempt to engage the US military in a stand up fight, they die. More

Code Pink has become the Scott Beauchamp of fake news stories about Iraq, suckering in Politico.com and CBS News. More

You've heard of Blue Dog Democrats? Now we have Clinton-supporting Blue Dress Democrats More

After putting on relatively quiet and uneventful debates previously, Hillary Clinton's Democratic rivals ganged up on the New York Senator and criticized many of her policy positions as well as her perceived flip-flopping: More

For the first time in more than a decade, the federal government was forced to reveal how much the CIA and 15 other related agencies spend on intelligence work. More

Like the fabled New England farmer who told his neighbor that the whole world was going mad, "except for thee and me... and I'm not too sure 'bout thee," Dennis Kucinich is now accusing President Bush of being bezonkers. More

Originally scheduled for last week, AT consulting editor J.R. Dunn will be a guest on the Dennis Miller Show Wednesday, in the second hour of the broadcast, discussing his AT article "Buried Victory". More

The Bay Area earthquake last night got my attention, but it was not that big a deal. More

Richard Poe has a two part piece on how Hillary with Soros funding set up the left blogosphere. Read it all. Here's his arresting conclusion: More

The first reports of the raid at healthcare provider WellCare's offices in Tampa, with the FBI swarming into the Board of Directors meeting, seizing their mobile messaging machines and demanding their passwords, suggested that this was no ordinary case and apparently it isn't. More

The dotty ex-CIA analyst Scheuer (our CIA man on bin Laden) appears to have leaked details on our rendition program causing no end of trouble in Denmark. More

The other day French President Sarkozy walked out of a 60 Minutes interview by Leslie Stahl when she tried to ambush him into responding about his personal life. He keeps going up in my estimation. And he struck a blow for feminists everywhere in that act. More

Kudos to Charles Sykes, for his splendid essay exposing the stupidity of the liberals' zeal for "zero tolerance" of weapons. More

For what, you might ask? Think Progress ("When you Think Progress, Think 'Idiocy") has the answer via the New York Daily News: More

Should the US Senate ratify the UN Law of the Sea Treaty, called LOST? There is a heated argument, except in the mainstream media, where it is being smuggled under the radar. More

Perceiving a weakness in free societies, Lenin once remarked that capitalists will sell the very rope that Communists would use to hang them. More

Hezb'allah in a strategic move to insure their supply lines in the event of war with Israel. More

A new Zogby poll out today shows that 52% of likely voters would support a strike against Iran More

Apparently, at least some of the excitement generated for Ron Paul is the result of a sophisticated - and illegal - spam campaign: More

In a week which witnessed Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and CNN's Anderson Cooper blaming the California wildfires on global warming to promote their political agendas and doomsday documentary, respectively, one might not expect to uncover any dumber proclamations on the subject. More

Thomas Sowell is a national treasure. His column today is well worth reading. More

Recipients of this year's Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor that can be awarded by the government, have been named by the White House. More

Here is the item about SCIENCE Magazine which Rush mentioned today on the show. More

October 29th has been designated as the international day of Cyrus the Great, king of Persia, who declared the first charter of human rights in the world, also known as the Cyrus Cylinder. More

A new University of Iowa poll out today shows the Democratic and Republican frontrunners holding on to their leads. More

Coverage of the 2008 presidential election has been "biased and shallow," according to a study released today by the Project for Excellence in Journalism and Harvard University's Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy. More

French President Nicolas Sarkozy was introduced to "ambush" journalism the other day when 60 Minutes correspondent Leslie Stahl inquired about his recent divorce. More

The Senate is currently considering ratification of a new United Nations "Law of the Sea" treaty (LOST) that many believe would be a blow to our sovereignty as well as our ability to protect ourselves on the world's oceans. More

One man's hobby is another man's meal ticket. More

70,000 patients leaving the paradise of Britains NHS so that they can actually get treatment for their ailments. More

Some well chosen and needed words from a Holocaust survivor about the War on Terror. More

My Ron Paul post yesterday generated the usual coordinated, vicious attacks that we have come to expect from the unhinged, ignorant supporters of the candidate. More

The Cubs have reached a new low in a season in which they made the playoffs. More

A little French Canadian lesson in "The Terror" - at least as far as Bush is concerned. More

Democratic presidential candidate Bill Richardson has promised that if elected, he would re-open the famous case of aliens crashing at Roswell, New Mexico in 1947: More

In what the coalition military authorities are calling a "major engagement," US and Afghan forces battled the Taliban in southern Afghanistan, killing almost 80 of the enemy in an effort to win back the area: More

Michael Ledeen has created an online petition to attempt to save the life of Ayatollah Borujerdi, who has been arrested by the A'jad regime in Tehran. More

Following the revelation that the Ron Paul campaign refused to acknowledge and return a donation from a white supremacist, it has been revealed that the Paul campaign paid notorious conspiracy nut and 9/11 truther radio host Alex Jones $1300 in "services." More

Venezuela's President for life Hugo Chavez and his government have gotten in the drug business in a big way. More

Scattered showers and diminishing winds are helping the firefighters in California get control of most of the 20 wildfires still burning: More

Update on yesterday's post from a reader. More

The Siege of Mecca: The Forgotten Uprising in Islam's Holiest Shrine and the Birth of Al Qaeda is a superbly written book that, for the first time, tells the true story of the attack on Mecca's Great Mosque in 1979. More

In what is seen as a calculated gamble, the US military is handing responsibility for security in Karbala province over to the Iraqi government More

Political correctness run amok. More

The Anti-American European makes the case against Congress approving the War Crimes treaty. More

The State Department will order the diplomats to Baghdad if they can't fill the positions any other way. More

I guess the lives of American sailors isn't worth much in Yemen. More

We have similar problems in western North Carolina to those described yesterday by Bill Croke, with the anti logging activists and people building deep into the mountains. More

Open borders advocates and immigration amnesty enthusiasts long have argued that draconian raids and inhumane mass deportations are the only alternative. They are being proven very wrong. More

As if the electoral situation in Pakistan wasn't complicated enough, the India Express is reporting (via The Moderate Voice) that former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, who fled the country in exchange for charges of corruption, being dropped is set to try again to return to Pakistan: More

Stupid news isn't confined to Washington, D.C. today. More

Maybe they should change their name to Fake Emergency Media Actors More

The problem with James Lewis' argument (SCIENCE: Earth climate is too complex to predict) is that uncertainty (as deduced by Roe and Baker) scales with the predicted amount of warming. More

There will be lots going on in DC [emphases added]: More

The dramatic raid on WellCare, a large Tampa company once controlled and profitably taken public by a George Soros financial entity, is likely to result in a long and rigorous investigation. More

The spate of anti-war, anti-Iraq, anti Administration films flooding the theaters this fall feature Academy star power, top of the line production values, and big advertising budgets. But getting fannies in the seats seems to be a problem: More

There may be no more vile political cartoonist anywhere than Ted Rall. More

Do you remember the big news earlier this month when Ron Paul reported he raised $5 million in the 3rd quarter for his presidential campaign? I wonder where that money came from? More

Making political hay out of tragedy has now become part of the landscape of our dysfunctional system. More

Every day, the US pours 50,000 barrels of sweet crude oil into salt caverns in Texas and Louisiana. It's part of our Strategic Oil Reserve to be used in case of war or other emergencies. More

A little consistency from the left would be nice on this subject. More

SCIENCE magazine just published a critical review of climate models. As New Scientist puts it, "Climate is too complex for accurate predictions." More

Sales of new homes were up an unexpected 4.8% in September following near record low numbers in August. More

A patron at the Sandia Resort and Casino was playing a slot machine when it indicated a $1.6 million jackpot. He may never collect, and the courts may be powerless to help him. More

Police arrested one man and killed another who were seen setting fires north of San Diego: More

WellCare Health Plans of Tampa, a firm which has made scads of money administering government health care, and huge profits for George Soros, has been raided by the FBI and shuttered. More

This is one of those stories that those of us not in the news business point to when trying to explain why the press is held in such low regard. More

Counterterrorism Blog is reporting that the latest tape from Osama Bin Laden released by al-Jazeera has the terrorist organization seeing red about the way the terrorist mouthpiece handled and disseminated the message: More

It appears that the Administration is making all the preparations necessary to bomb Iran's nuclear infrastructure in the near future. More

France's famous bedrock of liberty, equality and fraternity just added DNA. More

The intrepid crew at Zombie Time recorded the hoopla surrounding a speech by Noni Darwish, during Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week activities at the University of California, Berkeley More

Jay Cost of the Real Clear Politics Horserace Blog looks at the disconnect about Fred Thompson's run. The pundits are critical of his strategy but the voters aren't. More

AT news editor Ed Lasky will appear on the nationally syndicated Fox News Radio program Fox Across America today (Thursday) at 4:08 PM Eastern time. More

Many of us have heard about the Santa Ana winds that are currently feeding and extending the destructive fires in southern California, and wondered why they appear and disappear. More

Matt Drudge claims to have obtained internal documents on the investigation of Scott Beauchamp, the soldier who wrote articles for The New Republic. More

More bad news on the housing front as sales of existing homes dropped a record 8% - the biggest drop since records started being kept in 1999: More

I am deeply concerned that some of the California fires might have been set intentionally by terrorists, or that terrorists may be planning to set such fires. More

The New York Times criticizes nepotism at Commentary but does not mention Pinch Sulzberger's reign at the Times. Is the newspaper actually trying to destroy its credibility? More

Got to give the Democrats credit. If they can't get amnesty for illegal aliens passed through the front door, why not try to sneak it in through the back door? More

Not that we needed any more evidence that Hillary Clinton is an elitist snob, but what she said when comparing to Iowa and Mississippi about neither state ever having a female governor, senator, or representative, proves that she doesn't deserve to be president: More

Alarm is now spreading about the Syrian facility that was bombed by Israel on September 5. More

AT frequent contributor Marc Sheppard will appear on the Steve Malzberg show between 4:05 and 4:30 PM Eastern on WOR radio in New York City. More

Concern at the highest levels of government over the resignation of Ali Larijani. More

US commercial sanctions on companies doing business in Iran have given one Russian oil company second thoughts about assisting the Iranians with developing their oil industry: More

Laura Bush is in Saudi Arabia raising awareness of breast cancer in the Arab world. More

Former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto's lawyer has confirmed that there has been another serious threat against her life while authorities revealed there were two suicide bombers at the scene of last week's attack that killed 136 people: More

Defendants and their supporters in the Holy Land Foundation trial might want to keep the non-alcoholic champagne on ice for the moment. More

The Lefties on Morning Joe are dogging NASA over their decision (NASA suppresses alarming survey on air safety) to withhold the information on airline safety. More

Iran's new nuclear negotiator is a disciple of a messianic Imam who believes in the coming of the Mahdi. More

Following remarks by President Bush during yesterday's posthumous Medal of Honor award ceremony for Navy SEAL LT Michael P. Murphy, his official citation for actions above & beyond the call of duty was read. More

Scroll down from the Obama banner ads on the Huffington Post and you find Sam Stein's 'Early Obama Comments Indicate Shift On Iran,' More

Can't be. We would have read about it in the New York Times, right? More

You know you're winning when your enemy starts to get desperate. More

The Nobel Committee that decides who gets their literature award has had an anti-American field day these last few years. More

The resurgence of nuclear power to cut dependence on Middle East oil has been predicted for a few years, but so far no public utility has taken the first step to actually construct a new commercial nuclear power reactor. Until now. More

The jury has been sent back for further deliberations in the Holy Land Foundation trial More

An editorial in the New York Times nakedly displays the paper's contempt for those who disagree with its worldview More

It's unclear whether this is a bluff or preparations for a massive incursion by Turkish forces into Iraq. More

Unable to achieve a consensus on which Christian politician should serve as president, both pro and anti-government forces agreed to delay the vote in Parliament to choose a successor to current pro-Syrian President Emile Lahoud: More

This latest slide anticipates a rate cut by the Fed that would further erode earnings for those who still hold dollars. More

One point being overlooked in the excitement surrounding Rush Limbaugh's thrashing of the Democrats is what might be termed the Imus factor. More

The refrain has been sung by our soldiers, by many politicians, and even by some journalists; the coverage of the war in the mainstream media has been abominable. More

In a blow to the Iraq War coalition, Polish Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski and his Law and Justice party were trounced by the pro-business Civic Platform party of Donald Tusk: More

The normally staid and genteel GOP debates were anything but last night as the candidates went after each other's scalps on issues from tort reform to trying to prove one of their rivals wasn't conservative enough to lead the party. More

I wondered how the mainstream media would attempt to extricate themselves from the dilemma posed for them by Rush Limbaugh's political jiu-jitsu. Yesterday we got our answer. More

The result of being at too great an altitude in one's ivory tower without reality support is editorial hypoxia. More

Carol Marin, a widely-respected columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times, cites AT political director Richard Baehr as an expert on the Jewish vote, in discussing the battle for a suburban Chicago seat in Congress. More

Things just got a little dicier along the Iraqi-Turkish border as Kurdish rebels ambushed a convoy of Turkish soldiers, raising fears that Turkey's army will carry out cross border raids on terrorist camps just inside Iraq: More

Burmese citizens still walk in fear more than a month after the crackdown by the ruling Military Junta on the pro-democracy movement. More

A four-year-old boy spit at a 10-year old boy during a game of chase, and the little one was accused of racism, presumably by the 10-year old child. So the school had a formal investigation. More

Senator Barack Obama, trailing Hillary Clinton badly in South Carolina among blacks, has scheduled a 3 day tour with gospel singers to try and gain support among the conservative black Christians in that state. More

Republican Representative Bobby Jindal has become the first non-white elected governor in Louisiana since reconstruction, easily beating 11 opponents to garner a majority in the state's open primary election: More

The Christian right, deeply divided in their presidential preference, gave Mitt Romney a technical victory in a straw poll conducted at the Value Voters Summit in Washington yesterday. More

Steve Gilbert of Sweetness & Light has done it again, exposing the New York Times shilling for the Clinton campaign. More

Part Time GOP Chairman Senator Mel Martinez will resign to try and save his seat. More

Speaker Nancy Pelosi tried to distance herself and other Democrats not ready for the rubber room at St. E's from the baseless smears of Representative Pete Stark: More

Senator Christpopher Dodd (D-CT), a candidate for President, heeded the siren call of the netroots yesterday when he placed a "hold" on the Intelligence Surveillance Bill approved by the Intelligence Committee in a compromise with the White House. More

The day after an apparent suicide bomber tried to kill her, former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto pointed the finger at the Taliban and al-Qaeda More

An investigation into the incident late last summer where B-52's flew from North Dakota to Louisiana with fully armed cruise missiles has resulted in disciplinary action taken against 70 airmen. More

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has replaced long time nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani - a powerful, well connected conservative who is also Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council of Iran - with Saeed Jalili, an inexperienced deputy foreign minister for European and American Affairs. More

Two cases today illustrate the intolerance of the left for speech with which it disagrees. More

A short post on Global Warming, ice melting in the Arctic, floods in Germany due to warming. More

Is Russia trading its votes at the UN and promises of finishing the Iranian nuclear reactor for Iranian support for Russia controlling more Caspian oil? More

The "empty military building," which is what Syrian President Bashar Assad referred to as the target of an Israeii raid last month, is being dismantled - probably to hide its true nature say experts: More

Senator Sam Brownback (R-KS) will drop out of the race today according to sources close to his campaign. More

Leave it to Pete Stark to lower the level of debate in the House to the gutter: More

Democrats in the House vowed to bring a slightly modified S-CHIP bill to the floor in the next two weeks after failing to override the President's veto of the expanded children's health insurance program: More

It may have been a first for the city of Berkeley, California. A large group of protesters supporting the troops far outnumbered a rag-tag group of leftists who were agitating against a Marine recruitment office smack in the middle of downtown: More

Sharon Behn of the Washington Times reports that the Kurds demand U.S. defense from the attacks that may come their way from Turkey More

Pakistan's ex-prime minister Benazir Bhutto's triumphant return from exile ended in tragedy late Thursday night when 2 bombs detonated close to her motorcade. More

Investor's Business Daily shares our concern over the newly announced "charitable" investigative journalism project Pro Publica funded by left wing moneybags. More

It may be too early to pronounce the strategically important Indo-US nuclear deal as kaput. More

Critics of President Bush's leadership continue to maintain that the War on Terror is failing, despite accumulating evidence to the contrary. More

Is the GOP doomed among Hispanic voters? New data suggests the answer might be: not really. More

Does Harry Reid consider himself and 40 other Democrat Senators friends of Rush? More

Asia Times On-line is reporting some spectacular news; the Pakistani army is about to engage in full-scale war with the Taliban and al-Qaeda in North and South Waziristan aiming to take control of those provinces "once and for all:" More

David Ignatius' column today is a must read for anyone concerned about the ultimate terrorist threat; the detonation of a nuclear weapon on American soil: More

Today's pro-terrorist video op-ed posted on the New York Times website represents a new kind of low for the troubled newspaper. More

In what has to be seen as a victory for President Bush, the White House and the Senate have agreed on a version of a bill authorizing FISA oversight of the Terrorist Surveillance Program More

Responding to incessant attacks across the Iraqi-Turkish border by Kurdish terrorists, the parliament of Turkey gave the go ahead for cross border raids into Iraq by the Turkish military: More

Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto returned home from eight years in exile today and was met by thousands of enthusiastic supporters at the airport: More

A school committee in Portland, Maine voted to offer contraceptives to girls as young as 11 at a city middle school. More

George W. Bush just warned about World War III breaking out if Tehran gets the Bomb. Norman Podhoretz calls it World War IV. But who's counting? More

AT news editor Ed Lasky and editor Thomas Lifson were guests on the Rusty Humphries Show Wednesday. A podcast is available. More

Rick Moran seems to find virtue in the resolution on Armenian genocide. I do not. More

The Democrats are mobilizing all the talent agents they can get, mounting their campaign to override the President's veto of the SCHIP program, including a doctor with unusual apparent psychic powers. More

The decline of the New York Times as a reputable newspaper has been matched by the decline of its business management. More

You've probably heard the old joke, "World to end today. Women and Blacks hit hardest." More

This week Congress will attempt to override the President's veto of the Democrat's latest attempt to purchase votes. More

Suppose you're a billionare Republican and you want to build a museum honoring the 1969 Woodstock festival in upstate New York. Now suppose you don't want to spend your own money building it. What's a rich guy to do? More

Egads! The nightmare everyone feared may be coming to pass. More

While I agree with Chrisopher Chantrill's article "Fear is the Missing Ingredient in Government Schools" for the most part, I think that perhaps he's missing an important point More

Realizing that there are times when standing on principle has devastating real world consequences, many members of Congress who supported the resolution recognizing the Armenian genocide by the Turkish government in 1915 are now backing down. More

The spike in oil prices continued yesterday as November crude prices topped $88 bbl for a while yesterday, closing at a record $87.20 bbl: More

Fred Thompson's entry into the race for the GOP nomination, much anticipated as it was, appears not to have excited too many Republicans More

The nation's industrial sector saw modest gains for September as the credit crunch and sub-prime mortgage crisis appear not to have impacted manufacturing much at all. More

AT contributor Kyle-Anne Shiver will be a return guest on the Sandy Rios Show today. More

Israel exchanged 1 live Hezballah fighter and two dead ones yesterday for the body of an Israeli civilian who had drowned at sea and washed up on Lebanon's shore. More

The most recent batch of FEC filings by the Presidential candidates shows that Democrats are outraising their GOP rivals by more than 2-1. More

Thanks to a motely collection of opponents including communists and Hindu Nationalists, the much heralded nuclear cooperation deal with India appears to be stalled and chances for its revival appear slim. More

Japan has cancelled a multi-million dollar grant to Burma to protest the crackdown on demonstrators as well as the death of journalist Kenji Nagai who was shot execution style by a Burmese soldier during the protests: More

In an attempt to duplicate the successful tactics of al-Qaeda against the Spanish government in 2004, Shia terrorists are trying to target Polish troops in Iraq ahead of elections next Sunday, according to Counterterrorism blog: More

Steve Gilbert was one of the first to note the revelations in a book released in June that Hillary eavesdropped on her husband's opponents More

Tom Maguire points out some striking differences between 'yesterday' and 'today' in former Enron advisor Paul Krugman's biweekly prattle in the New York Times More

Paul Krugman thinks he can explain why conservatives like me laugh at Al Gore's global warming theory campaign. More

Move over, MoveOn. Another well-funded propaganda organ of the Left is coming, operating under the guise of charitable public service. More

A bill that would shield a reporter's sources and protect the reporter from prosecution is moving to a vote today in the House: More

"Mechanism Design Theory" is honored for its real world applications. More

I have received a lot of email about my article on Ann Coulter. More

Growing up in Chicago and watching year after year the ever-reliable Cubs collapse, I grew accustomed to the grimly hopeful prayer of believing Cubs fans everywhere, "Wait til next year." More

Does national security trump all other considerations in this case? More

The nightmare for Republicans continues: More

More evidence accumulates that we are winning against al Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan. A report written by intelligence experts at the the United States Military Academy confirms the signs of a major success More

Agence France Presse is reporting that Israel and Hezb'allah may carry out a prisoner swap today with the speculation being that two missing IDF soldiers from the 2006 Israeli-Lebanese War will be part of the deal: More

It doesn't mean that much as far as Ron Paul is concerned but there is little doubt that Mitt Romney was embarrassed by the Texas Congressman's win in the Conservative Leadership Conference straw poll yesterday: More

With our most prestigious universities sitting on huge endowments which are growing ever fatter, Senator Grassley is proposing they be forced to spend this tax free income to lower tuition. More

You could almost hear the editorial teeth gnashing when the Washington Post acknowledged today that the latest figures are modestly encouraging, maybe More

"Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA," by Tim Weiner, already winner of a Pulitzer Prize, was named a finalist for the National Book Awards on October 10 More

Part of the magic of movies is the ability to recreate an era, usually to look at it with a distinctly modern perspective. This week, Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Harrison Ford, Shia LeBeouf and an entire production crew for the fourth Indiana Jones movie took over part of Chandler Airport... More

Eli Lake of the New York Sun has out-covered the rest of the media on the latest leak that damaged intelligence-gathering. More

Australia's embattled Prime Minister John Howard has been forced to call for elections in November where it is expected he will be in the fight of his political life to maintain his party's majority position in Parliament: More

Sometimes, irony is just not adequate to describe an event. A picture, being worth a thousands words or so, exceeds any attempt on my part to describe the situation in Burma. More

On Friday, Russian President Vladmir Putin kept the two top foreign policy officials of the United States waiting 40 minutes before appearing for the photo op and skewering his guests and their government More

We are seeing favorable trends in a variety of figures of importance from Iraq More

That's the verdict of some foreign intelligence and defense experts who reportedly have seen the reports: More

The reported $10 million in ransom paid to the Taliban kidnappers to secure the release of 21 South Korean Christian missionaries held hostage last summer is being used to buy weapons that are killing Americans in Afghanistan. More

AT contributor Randall Hoven, author of Media Dishonesty Matters, will be a guest on Boston talk radio powerhouse WRKO 680 AM, at 8 PM Eastern Time Sunday night More

Notorious Holocaust denier David Irving, who has been jailed in Austria for his despicable beliefs, has been approached by the famous Oxford Union debating society to address students at a future event: More

Deadline looms for choosing a candidate for president all sides can support. More

A superb piece in The Weekly Standard by James Ceaser, a professor of Politics at the University of Virginia, is your weekend reading assignment. More

Jim Holt, writing in the London Review of Books, argues that the Iraq war has put us in the catbird seat. More

Steve Hargreaves of CNN/Money writes of Al Gore's planned $100-200 million a year ad blitz for energy conservation. More

Silence from the Times on local boy's Medal of Honor. More

American Thinker's staff believes it should come as no suprise that a former Commander in Iraq, General Ricardo Sanchez, is trying to shift the blame for some of his own shortcomings on other shoulders: More

This is how TIME captions its story detailing the present status of the case: "TIME first brought the incident and its contradictions to light in March 2006," More

When all else fails -- look at the evidence. Vasko Kohlmayer put together a list of all the Democrats' statements and actions about the war. More

This amazing story should make headlines in all the newspapers. In an incredible feat of courage and skill, US Army personnel extracted an explosive RPG rocket from the body of Spc. Channing Moss in Afghanistan More

A day after a speaker spouted "death to Israel" while distorting and denying historical evidence regarding Jews, Columbia University's protesting students chanted "no diversity, no university" More

John Edwards finally made the tabloids for something besides his hair. More

No matter how bad we may have believed the crackdown by government forces on pro-reform demonstrators could have been, reports being smuggled out of Burma this week paint a picture of physical and psychological terror almost too traumatic to be true: More

A fitting reward for his alarmist propaganda and for engendering stupefying boredom. More

Lee Bollinger's curious ethical choices about what constitutes free speech. More

One of the conundrums of our age, is why the political left in Europe and North America have seemingly joined forces with radical Islam. More

Ann Coulter has put her foot in it again. More

AT Contributor (and Newsbusters writer) Noel Sheppard will be a guest in the first hour of the Dennis Miller Show Friday morning. More

Even though he may win the Nobel Peace Prize today, Al Gore was handed a humiliating set back yesterday in a British court which ruled that there were 9 instances in his film Inconvenient Truths that were not supported by evidence or scientific consensus: More

The call of conscience versus US national interest in the House. More

Former Congressman Lee Hamilton and James Baker chaired the Iraq Study Group Report that departed from its mandate and offered prescriptions to solve the Middle East crisis that suggested pressuring Israel. More

Counterterrorism blog is reporting that two suicide truck bombs that went off yesterday in northern Iraq targeted Sunni tribal leaders who have joined the "Awakening" and allied themselves with Americans: More

Pentagon officials have been looking at the drastically reduced violence in Anbar province and are contemplating redeploying the bulk of the 25,000 Marines to Afghanistan: More

The quote above is from Ahmed Mehdi, the Deir ez Zor director of the Arab Center for the Studies of Arid Zones and Dry Lands, a government agricultural research center and refers to the biggest non-event to ever occur in Syria; the Israeli raid on September 6 that targeted an unknown military installation near the research center. More

AT contributor Kyle-Anne Shiver will be a guest on the Sandy Rios Show, on WYLL AM 1160 in the Chicago area. An internet stream is available. More

Regime of Terror newsletter reports ,"Yet another member of Saddam Hussein's family has been implicated not only in terrorism but in leading a key al Qaeda in Iraq cell." More

"If we do Hillary care or socialized medicine, Canadians will have no place to go to get their health care." That line from former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani drew plenty of laughs at Tuesday's Republican debate. More

Under the media radar, as it turns out, British Soldiers will now get another 145 Mastiff vehicles, which are "mine resistant" More

As foolish as the Nobel prizes often are, the awards for scientific achievements remain credible. More

AT's news editor Ed Lasky joins a blue-ribbon panel of political journalists and broadcasting legend Milt Rosenberg for two hours of informed and intelligent discussion of the coming elections. More

Of all the silly things passing as art today, the giant crack in the floor of London's Tate Museum seems especially feckless. More

Blackwater, the private security company that protects State Department VIPs in Iraq, is now coming under political attack from the Left. More

He should be kicked off the team: More

Charlie Rose did a superb job interviewing David Kilcullen, the Australian colonel who was a senior advisor on counterinsurgency to General Petraeus for the first half of this year. More

Last week's groundbreaking agreement between the two largest Shia militias actually originated in Tehran according to a report published in Stratfor which was reprinted in full in the Kuwaiti Times: More

The Young Americans for Freedom chapter on the campus of George Washington University are being asked by the school administration to sign a statement condemning hate speech even though the incident that precipitated the request was not the result of anything the group did: More

Charges and countercharges are being hurled back and forth between conservative and liberal bloggers of the use of a 12 year old child by Democrats to try and skewer Republicans over SCHIP. More

A report that will detail Israeli mistakes and blunders made during the 2006 Hezb'allah War will not recommend that Prime Minister Olmert leave office. More

GOP Presidential hopefuls Mitt Romney and Rudy Giuliani traded charges over taxes and spending at the Republican debate yesterday afternoon in Dearborn, Michigan: More

First, they threw a monkey wrench into the US-European missile defense shield. Now, Congressional Democrats led by the expert global strategist, Ellen Tauscher (D-Calif.), have started a campaign to delay or stop the US and India nuclear and defense cooperation treaty More

The Confederate Yankee has been doggedly pursuing the questions raised by the Scott Beauchamp affair at The New Republic. Based on the evidence he has assembled, TNR has got a lot of explaining to do More

The always worth reading Jay Cost has a great article today which he uses to highlight the limits of party politics. More

The New York Times reports that there is no scientific proof that a diet high in fats affects mortality. In the course of that article, the author notes: "Dr. Koop was expressing the consensus" More

AT news editor Ed Lasky will be a guest on the "Let's Talk Frank" radio show with Terry Frank at 6 PM EDT today. More

The refusal of dual citizenship member of a German soccer team to play a match in Israel has sparked an outcry. More

Two peoples, two languages, two distinct cultures, and 177 years of relative harmony. That has been the country of Belgium as we know it. More

Is it do or die for Fred this afternoon at the Michigan debate? More

All of us here at AT have a special place in our hearts for that madcap socialist, hero to the masses and Hollywood nitwits, that Master of Disaster, President for Life Hugo Chavez of Venezuela. More

Bush Derangement Syndrome at the highest levels of the media. More

After spending the last several years wailing about how George Bush has been "tearing up the Constitution" by spying willy nilly on everyone from terrorists to your Auntie Midge, Democrats are preparing to announce to the American people "never mind:" More

Beware! Son of the Fairness Doctrine may be on the way. More

In what may be a preview of coming attractions in the newspaper business, Movie Gallery, the largest retail DVD rental operator has filed a prepackaged Chapter 11 bankruptcy petition. More

I am deeply grateful for the arrival of Columbus. But I am quite frankly perturbed that Columbus Day has become one of those holidays that government workers get at the expense of almost everyone else. More

Anyone with a pulse realizes that Hispanics are the fastest-growing voting bloc in American politics.I think that the GOP does have a shot at garnering strong support More

The University of California Irvine's new law school has just received a one million dollar gift from a revealing source: a member of the natural constituency of the new school, the tort bar. More

Hold on to your stomachs and grab your Pepto-Bismal; Al Gore may very well win the Nobel Peace Prize when it is announced on Friday: More

Politicians are interested in winning votes, not in snubbing potential voters and their ethnic groups. Perhaps that is why someone like Anisa Abd El Fattah receives an invitation to speak in the Ohio State Capitol. More

Some startling documents from military intelligence gathered for the prosecution of the Marines charged in the Haditha massacre reveal that we had gotten wind of an al-Qaeda operation in the weeks previous to the incident that threatened a massacre of civilians More

When Democrats do it, it's a sincere, heartfelt expression of faith. Republicans, on the other hand, are only being hypocrites when they talk about God. More

In what the Washington Post is reporting as a setback for US policy, several leading Iraqi politicians have given voice to the opinion that reconciliation between the factions should not be a goal of the government but rather happen naturally as a result of government policies: More

Do you remember 12 year old Graeme Frost from Maryland? He's the young man who gave the Democratic radio response to President Bush following the veto of the chidren's health care program SCHIP. More

A revealing interview on CNN's "Reliable Sources" shows that the MSM is totally clueless regarding their own bias. More

As it becomes increasingly apparent that a blood bath against innocents is taking place in Burma, the disingenuous nature of the human shields who flew to Iraq becomes even clearer. More

Flip Pidot of Suitably Flip reports that two FBI seizure warrants on Hsu's bank accounts show the existence of a hitherto unknown Hsu business: Side B which may give us even more evidence of his straw donor scheme and assets: More

Sweetness and Light has obtained Lt Col Ware's report on SSgt Frank D. Wuterich and you can read it here. More

Defend Our Marines notes something everyone else has missed. More

This disturbing report in the usually reliable Asia Times paints a picture of renewed activity of the Taliban along the border with Afghanistan with as many as 20,000 armed fighters - many of them suicide bombers - preparing to enter the country: More

Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan had no trouble cruising to victory in his bid for a second term. More

One of Hillary Clinton's most trusted advisors is CEO of a firm that handled public relations for the controversial security firm Blackwater. More

Fred Thompson may be a late comer to the presidential race but he is apparently making up for lost time in Iowa. More

The low level "civil war within a civil war" that has been simmering between the two largest Shia militias in Iraq may be over. More

Novak's problem has been that the Plame narrative, created by Democrats and the media, has little room for the truth. More

The world periodically condemns America for its supposed (and mythical) oppression of Muslims here in America. But now socialist-led Spain is literally rounding up political operatives of ETA, the Basque separatist group. More

For some time Code Pink has been demonstrating against the war outside Walter Reed Hospital, to the great distress of the wounded soldiers and their families. This is simply unconscionable. Who are these people? More

Congressional hearings on the Blackwater private security firm and various articles about it sustain a mostly negative image based on sensationalism and partisanship. More

ABC News is reporting that last month's raid on a Syrian military facility by Israel was actually delayed several months at the insistence of the United States: More

Here's a little comic interlude for your Saturday morning pleasure... More

Everyone agrees that the Republican party is in trouble. Now a group of Reagan-era officials are preparing to revive the Gipper's old political organization to try and fix it: More

Senator Larry Craig may want to remain a Senator for the remainder of his term next year but circumstances revealed yesterday may make that proposition a bit iffy: More

Good news on the jobs front over the summer has boosted the stock market and eased concerns that the economy was headed toward a recession. More

NASA chief Michael Griffin believes that the next footprints made in lunar dust will not be American but Chinese: More

Last week I spent some time being interviewed by a reporter for NPR. The news item aired on the national morning NPR show, Morning Edition today. More

Mitch McConnell needs to publicly promise that if Craig resigns, his replacement will be given seniority and committee assignments identical to Craig's. More

I remember being horrified as a child when I learned in the 1950s that under communism children were turned into informants against their parents. But it is beginning to happen in America. More

The Suitably Flip website has been on top of the Norman Hsu story since it broke with helpful charts and lists of donors that gives us some idea of who the people surrounding Mr. Hsu are and what connections they have to the Democratic party. More

Daniel Henninger of the Wall Street Journal has the column of the day on the naivete of the Burmese Buddhist monks who went into the streets of Yangon 100,000 strong to protest for democracy - only to discover that "democracy has been demoted:" More

This is really getting to be a bad joke. More

Mitt Romney's campaign has been a model of efficiency and professionalism. But this hasn't translated into the kind of support nationally that makes him a viable candidate. More

Everybody talks about the evil Neo-Cons, but nobody talks about the resurgent Neo-Commies. More

From our "Least Surprising Poll Result of the Year" files comes the news that about 1 in 5 Democrats believe the world would be better off if the US loses the Iraq War: More

Senator Barack Obama stopped wearing an American Flag lapel pin shortly after 9/11 because he says it has become a substitute for "true patriotism:" More

Patrick Ruffini has written a much commented-upon analysis suggesting that the number of visitors to the Daily Kos website may be overstated by 60% or thereabouts. More

In light of the ongoing discussion and debate over the Rush Limbaugh/"phony soldier" episode, Anne Morse's article in the Weekly Standard two years ago merits re-reading. More

Dr. James Dobson wrote an op-ed published in the New York Times, titled "The Values Test." More

A British truck driver who sought to stop the documentary An Inconvenient Truth from "brainwashing" his children appears to have won a partial victory. More

The latest AP-Ipsos poll is out and approval ratings for both President Bush and Congress received the lowest marks ever recorded by the poll: More

It looks as though France 2 Television will hand over the raw footage of the al Dura incident, subject of a complex lawsuit in France. More

In an era when a head of state openly threatens wipe Israel off the map it should come as no shock that Hitler is so popular that he is being used as an advertising icon. More

Counterterrorism Blog is reporting that the Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia - the leading Wahhabi cleric in the Kingdom - has issued a surprising edict that forbids Saudis from participating in Jihad outside the country: More

Anticipating the Labor Department's employment numbers due out tomorrow, a report on jobless claims today showed a rise of 16,000 to 317,000 for the month of September. More

The Florida Democratic party decided to defy the Democratic National Committee and hold their primary on January 29 of next year - a week before the national party's rules say they can. More

Republican prospects of retaking the Senate received another blow yesterday when sources close to the Senator told NBC News that he would not seek re-election in 2008: More

Ron who? And how much did he raise? More

US News and World Report has published a selected recent history of controversial campus speakers, complete with campus wide and audience reaction. And to no one's great surprise.... More

The Voice of America is reporting that an Iranian university has extended an invitation to President Bush to give a talk before students and faculty: More

Jena, LA is taking its place among towns notorious for racial polarization. In the context of America's vibrant race industry, there has been no shortage of prominent actors anxious to exploit the situation for their own ends. More

The Myanmar military junta isn't done with its systematic destruction of the pro-reform movement. More

Democrats on the Hill are trying to portray Blackwater Corporation, the security company hired by the State Department to protect its employees in Iraq, as a bunch of out of control cowboys who shoot first and do not differentiate between civilians and insurgents. More

From our "We'll believe it when we see it" files comes the news that President Bush has signed off on a draft agreement that would force the North Koreans to shut down its nuclear program and give a list of nuclear activities to the 6 nations that have taken part in the negotiations: More

The new Washington Post-ABC poll out today shows Senator Hillary Clinton increasing her lead among Democratic primary voters: More

President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan has spent much of the last 6 years since he was reluctantly enlisted in the War on Terror juggling several competing interests, trying to keep all of them in the air at the same time More

AT political director Richard Baehr will a guest on the syndicated Dennis Miller Show Wednesday. He will appear in the show's first hour. More

Yesterday, several Senate Democrats took to the Senate floor claiming that Rush Limbaugh called those among our troops who oppose the war 'phony soldiers.' More

A leading indicator of the health of the home buying industry - the Pending Home Sales Index - has reached a new low according to the National Association of Realtors: More

The protestors who have been sitting in trees to block new athletic facilities at the University of California, Berkeley football stadium have been ordered down by a judge. More

To no one's surprise, Russian President Vladmir Putin, banned from seeking a third term, will keep his hands on the levers of power after he leaves office by running for Parliament: More

If money is indeed the mother's milk of American politics, the top Democrats running for President can open their own dairy: More

The Israeli government has denied responsibility in the death of a young Palestinian boy, Al-Dura, whose shooting caught on tape by a Palestinian cameraman working for a French television station 7 years ago is largely credited with starting the "second intifada.:" More

It appears that Democratic hypocrisy knows no bounds. More

Like an elderly spinster selling off possessions to pay her bills, the New York Times Company is liquidating peripheral assets. Having moved into its brand new 52-story headquarters building, the New York Times Company is holding a yard sale of sorts More

For a while there I was getting concerned about the Democratic party. The way some of them were talking about being in Iraq until 2013, I was almost hearing something approaching sanity More

J. Peter Mulhern, author of Sunday's article "President Thompson", will be the guest on the KSFO Morning Show at 7 AM Pacific time. More

For sheer unmitigated sleaze I can't remember anything even approaching Democrat Senators Reid and Harkin this week. (Also, for sheer stupidity). More

On Just One Minute, the commenters have been having fun with Hillary's proposal that each child born in American be given a $5,000 bond at birth. More

Despite increased combat operations, the number of US troops killed in action in September dropped to the lowest level in almost a year: More

Perhaps if the media were to get serious and really start looking into Hillary's financial supporters, more of these Ponzi Scheme operators would be exposed. More

Central Asia, with its massive oil and gas wealth as well as its strategic placement as the "backdoor" to Iran and the Middle East has long been a source of competition between Russia and the west. More

The latest parliamentary voting in Ukraine appears to have brought victory to a newly energized, pro-western "Orange Revolution:" More

A high ranking defector from the ruling military junta who reached the border with Thailand yesterday says that the death toll from the recent crackdown on pro-reform protests is much worse than anyone can imagine: More

The dynamic editorial cartoon duo of Cox and Forkum have decided to amicably part ways: More