AP reports: Sara Jane Moore, who took a shot at President Ford in a bizarre assassination attempt just 17 days after a disciple of Charles Manson tried to kill Ford, was paroled Monday More

The UN's Durban II Conference, all those votes in the United Nations, all those nations that have severed diplomatic relations with Israel. What does this alliance with extremist Arab nations gain? More

In case you were wondering what would happen if the Pakistani nuclear arsenal were to be threatened More

So, the Arabs in Gaza whine that the cruel Israelis won't allow vital medicines and goods through their border with Israel. More

Marine Sgt Mike McNulty, on activation orders to Iraq (his second tour), and leaving January 2nd, is about to suffer a grave injustice. More

Media-savvy Chelsea Clinton is campaigning for her mother in Iowa, and has obviously received guidance on handling the media: don't answer any questions. More

It is rare to see candidates in the same party being so disputatious about their opponent. More

A new video of the assassination that emerged yesterday appears to show former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto being hit by gunfire just prior to a suicide bomber blowing himself up. More

Barry Rubin, editor of the Middle East Review of International Affairs, asks Who killed Benazir Bhutto? More

Can you imagine what a death-knell it would have been to the so-called Global Warming chicken-littles if it had been Dan Quayle, instead of the somnabulent Al Gore, lecturing us with an insipid Power Point presentation all these years? More

Hugo Chavez, the oil-powered Castro wannabe of Venezuela, has picked up a few fans in Hollywood More

The party of assassinated former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto has announced that her son, 19-year-old Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, will carry on as his mother's successor More

A new tape from Osama Bin Laden is directed at Sunnis in Iraq, warnng them that unless they ally with al-Qaeda in Iraq, they will suffer the consequences More

While the numbers may be wildly different, two polls that came out today have shown Mitt Romney making a comeback and the Democratic race too close to call. More

AT contributor Ray Robison will be appearing Sunday night on Fox News Radio St. Louis, 97.1 FM with host Dana Loesch to discuss his book Both in One Trench. An internet feed of the broadcast is available More

While the world holds its breath to see if Pakistan will explode, Senator Hillary Clinton tossed a fragmentation grenade into the fireworks factory yesterday More

The Bhutto assassination is al-Qaeda's attempt to replicate its success of February 22, 2006 -- attacking the al-Askari golden dome mosque in Samarra, Iraq. More

Oh, the sad, bad old days/ When all a girl could obtain/ Was a degree from Wellesley/ And a Yale-enhanced brain. More

Al Gore is quick to level accusations of ulterior motives to anyone who challenges his claims for Anthropogenic Global Warming. Perhaps this is psychological projection More

The incomparable Bill Gertz at the Washington Times published very revealing anecdote in his regular column "Inside the Ring" yesterday More

More excellent statistics at year's end. More

Chalk it up to extreme "BDS" More

Sunlen Miller of ABC News reports that Barack Obama informed Iowa voters yesterday that his grandmother lives in a "tiny hut": More

A new video of the assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto clearly shows a man leaping on the back of Bhutto's car and firing at least 2 shots nearly point blank at her More

It was an opportunity to look "presidential" and score points with the voters. More

Controversy rages over the question, but now the government of Malaysia has weighed in with the opinion that Allah is unique to Islam. More

She's a victim, and that's why she has so much warmth and empathy for the less fortunate, doncha know. More

It's worse than I thought. According to the Daily Mail, 23 have already died in riots across the country as police shoot into crowds: More

A new Strategic Vision poll in Iowa shows three Democrats in a virtual dead heat while Mike Huckabee and Mitt Romney are also virtually tied for the lead: More

Roger Simon at Pajamas Media notes that within minutes of the assassination being confirmed "the electoral scavengers were out" - him included - gauging how the murder of Bhutto would play in Iowa and thus the campaign: More

In our rush to claim progress in the War on Terror, we sometimes forget that the enemy has the entire globe as a potential target and can strike at any time. More

This piece by McClatchey special correspondent Saeed Shah is what makes journalism "the first draft of history:" More

OK, playtime's over! Time for the adults to take charge. The Clinton Nineties were a decade of playing pretend More

Kyle-Anne Shiver, AT frequent contributor, will appear on the KSFO Morning Show with Melanie Morgan and Brian Sussman Friday morning at 8 AM PST/11AM EST. The show is available via an internet feed. More

Barack Obama has selected Richard Clarke as his foreign security adviser. More

The New York Times' Patrick Healy has busted Hillary Clinton's experience mantra. More

Hillary Clinton may have just outdone Mitt Romney in the making-up self-serving stories department. More

It seems many Freshman Congressman have regularly been voting against approving the House Journal, which are essentially the minutes of the previous day's work in the House. More

Even with the carnage in Pakistan, the impact of former Prime Minister Bhutto's assassination on the race for the presidency is considered and weighed. More

Russia is playing a dangerous game as nuclear supplier to Iran. We cannot separate our Middle East policy from the ambitions of Vladimir Putin to restore Russia as a Great Power. More

Conventional wisdom would point the finger at Islamic extremists in Pakistan More

Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was the number one target of Islamic extremists in Pakistan and as expected, they struck again today - this time, successfully: More

AT editor and publisher Thomas Lifson will be a guest on the KSFO Morning Show at 7 AM PST/10 EST. More

It would certainly be a step forward toward reconcilation if Prime Minister Maliki could shepherd this "General Pardon" through the legislature: More

The nation's biggest urban road building project in history is finally - finally - coming to an end. More

As the New Hampshire Presidential Primary approaches, the increased focus on the candidates and the issues appears to be costing Mitt Romney vital support in his close fight with John McCain. More

Putin's hypocrisy knows no bounds More

StrategyPage.Com has a devastating analysis of the state of violence in Afghanistan and the factors driving it: More

More gentle diplomacy from the Assad crime family in Syria. More

Richard Baehr, AT political director and Thomas Lifson, editor, will appear on WHO radio in Des Moines Wednesday morning from 10 to 11 AM Central Standard Time. More

Because you are watching out for me, I am safe and warm today./ I embrace the joy of this special time because you are far away. More

I would hope that our entire government has just about had it with President Musharraf. More

Steve Gilbert of Sweetness & Light catches the Clintons being themselves: candidly sour, and then brightening up with the phony smiles when they see a photographer. More

Fatah, the supposedly moderate party that rules the West Bank, and which receives massive foreign aid (including American money), has a new poster to celebrate its 43rd anniversary. More

Since the Democratic candidates are in such a "Merry Christmas-Happy Holidays-Happy Hanukah-Happy Kwanza" mood and would love to shower us with gifts, I think we should return the favor. More

Dispatch from the people who live in glass houses front -- during his annual "let's laugh at this year's gaffes" fest, Chris Matthews ultimately managed to out-gaffe the competition. More

Caucus Cooler has uncovered some information which should erode substantially Huckabee's support, if the documents are genuine. More

This is true love. It's gotta be. What else could account for these adoring words from Dan Payne in the Boston Globe? More

The Republican party's richest gadfly may be changing his mind about an independent run for the Presidency of the United States. More

Read it and weep. More

On every Republican's Christmas gift list this year is a hope that somehow, someway, the various factions that make up the successful coalition that controlled Congress for more than a decade and has won the last two presidential elections can be put back together More

Most of the big conservative bloggers are staying neutral so far in the Republican presidential race so it is significant when many of them come out in praise of an ad run by a specific candidate: More

Yesterday, Ed Lasky commented on Iran's threat to Bahrain. It is a story with some history. More

So we want to do something to support Steyn's (and Maclean's) fight with the Canadian Humarn Rights Commission? Instapundit cites to this site which offers several suggestions More

Bad news for the few remaining communist regimes left in the world. More

Media pop quiz: what does it take to get a liberal newspaper like the San Francisco Chronicle to ignore the racial implications of ethic profiling seriously violating the rights of minorities? More

The numbers are starting to look grim for "America's Mayor. More

That seems to be the gist of the argument being presented by Franklin Raines, to explain his fall from grace More

There are only 25 convention delegates at stake in the January 19th Democratic Caucuses in Nevada. But a suddenly competitive race there could alter the entire campaign. More

We've seen it on display several times, the Guardian Unlimited's rank anti-American bias is so pronounced in this piece on the housing crisis, it defies belief. More

Liberal advocates of the "Fairness Doctrine" seem unconcerned that the Hollywood gossip TV show Entertainment Tonight has featured puff pieces every day this week on Hillary Clinton. More

Here are 12 good news items I found from the Department of Defense website for your mental refreshment this Christmas season. More

A group claiming to represent the Lakota (aka Teton, Tetonwan), part of the Sioux announces via press release their independence from the United States. More

Does Harry Reid think voters should read newspapers to know what's going on? It depends on the subject, aparently. More

The New York Times is preparing a massive hit piece on John McCain according to Drudge and the Senator from Arizona is not taking it lying down. More

Atlantic blogger Andrew Sullivan recounts a travel nightmare of a Nordic visitor and bewails "Cheney's America" He is followed by fellow Atlantic blogger Matt Yglesias who piles on More

At least 50 people were killed in a suicide attack on a mosque in Pakistan today. More

Police in Belgium have broken up a plot to free a terrorist from prison who was convicted of planning a suicide car bomb attack at an American Air Force base: More

Unrest in the small Gulf statelet is being fueled by Iran. It plays a crucial role in the US military presence in the area. More

The UN bureaucracy has once again acted to insulate itself from punishment for engaging in fraud More

If the liberals think waterboarding is torture too evil to inflict on those who would slaughter innocent American citizens they ain't seen nothing yet. More

Separate out the older "core" members of the EU from the enlarged post-communist EU, and data on CO2 emissions change becomes even more interesting. More

The United States finally hits the replacement level birth rate. More

A Senate Report from the Minority on Committee on Environment and Public Works puts the lie to claims that a "scientific consensus" exists on the theory of anthropogenic global warming. Over 400 scientists are cited disputing various elements of the theory. More

Jack Zimmermann, an attorney for Lance Cpl. Stephen B. Tatum, one of the Marines accused in the death of 24 civilians in Haditha, is asking to depose Cong. John Murtha More

Speaking just for myself, I admire Romney, Giuliani and Thompson. I could vote for any of them. But Romney has just warmed my heart More

Now that the environmental lobby has coerced congress into mandating a six-fold increase in use of ethanol as motor-fuel, will they now decry the increase in acreage devoted to the corn-crop as well as the use of fertilizer and pesticides? More

A senior al-Qaeda theologian has changed his tune and is calling on al-Qaeda members to put down their arms: More

If he has, it may be the most significant development of all in the recent string of successes being enjoyed by the coalition and the Iraqi government. More

Congressman Tom Tancredo will bow out of the Republican race for President today according to the Associated Press: More

The man behind the empty suit. More

The more things change, the more they remain the same. Or as Yogi Berra so eloquently noted, deja vu all over again. More

American Thinker has extensively covered the troubling links between Ron Paul's campaign and neo-Nazis. Now there is a man appears to be a neo-Nazi spilling the beans. More

I forget what today's Hillary campaign theme is today, but whatever it is, her Christmas ad surely isn't advancing it: More

I just had to blog this one. More

The following photographs came in via email, obviously created by some of our finest (and funniest) members of the military. More

Steve Gilbert of Sweetness & Light catches Hill trying to pull another fast one -- a fake photo op with a former Sunday school teacher she just happened to run into a month before in Iowa . More

It isn't necessary to have been a Cubs fan, born and raised in Chicagoland, to mourn what performance enhancement drugs have done to major league baseball, but it helps. More

On the surface, it sounds implausible. How likely is a brokered convention? More

Rick Richman, editor of Jewish Current Issues and AT contributor, has a proposal for President Bush, when he makes his historic trip to Israel in January. More

An Argentine prosecutor investigating two bombings, including a Jewish Community Center and the Israeili Embassy, has determined that Iran is behind them: More

Not being able to find anyone in Iraq to surrender to, the Democrats have decided to throw up their arms and give up in Congress. Michelle Malkin has the details: More

Dana Milbank, covering the Iowa Democratic campaign, writes about Hillary trying to humanize herself on the campaign trail More

With little fanfare (and less publicty), the Senate passed a $70 billion war funding bill for Iraq and Afghanistan, handing President Bush another victory over the Democratic Congress: More

Coincidences abound in a story that has the potential to derail the Edwards campaign. More

Time for women to make their sex lives more eco-friendly: More

I confess that when I read that Castro was supposedly planning to relinquish the reins of power, my first thought was that there is a power struggle underway, and that he was probably dead. More

Why is Mike Huckabee such a mean-seeming guy? All my neck hairs are rising, like a growling puppy. More

The narcissistic stridency of partisan language in American politics today lacks the maturity to measure the full negative impact it can exact on America's worldwide image. More

When all is said in done in Iowa, many conservatives may be wondering if Fred Thompson had begun the campaign back in September the way he is relishing it now, would the story on his candidacy have turned out any differently? More

The United Nations is issuing a warning about the world's food stocks dwindling, but studiously ignoring its own role in the looming disaster it forecasts. More

Thanks to the breakdown of the sanctions regime as a result of the NIE findings on Iran, Russia eagerly made delivery of the nuclear fuel Iran is to use in its Russian built in Bushehr reactor: More

Democratic presidential candidate Christopher Dodd doesn't like the new FISA deal worked out between the White House and Democratic leaders. More

Not seen in public in 16 months, Fidel Castro still weilds considerable power through his brother Raul who replaced him as president in March of 2006. More

In still yet another shuddering preview of health under Hillarycare or whatever form of socialized medicine that the mainly Democratic candidates promise to impose on us, Britain's National Health Service has issued this truly Orwellian/Kafkaesque decree. More

Did former president Jimmy Carter advise Yasser Arafat to reject Israel's offer for peace at Camp David? More

After holding him for 20 months, the US military has detailed charges against the AP's prize winning photographer, Bilal Hussein. More

Seems like only yesterday we were told how much superior to our economy the Japanese economy was. And then it tanked. More

Paul Krugman continues to carry water for Hillary Clinton, with another hit piece on Barack Obama and his health care proposals in the New York Times. More

In a move widely seen as a huge plus for the Arizona Republican, Independent Senator Joe Lieberman, former Vice Presidential candidate for the Democratic party, will cross the aisle and endorse John McCain today: More

Merry Christmas! Have a celery stick, kid. More

In an interview on former Senator Bill Bradley's Sirius radio show, Barack Obama let it be known that if elected president, he would organize a meeting between Islamic leaders and Americans: More

Calling it "The Boston Tea Party," Ron Paul supporters staged another on line one day "money bomb that raised even more than the November fund raiser: More

Endless rocket attacks on Israeli civilians elicits a "shrieking silence" from the International community. More

Wonder of wonders, the New York Times on Monday December 17 published a lengthy -- and surprisingly positive -- feature article on controversial radio talk show host Michael Savage More

When you put two extreme liberals like Bill Moyers and Keith Olbermann together on tax-supported PBS, the consequences are likely to be ugly. More

The inimitable Dick Morris has an answer to that question and Hillary won't like it; she is basically an unattractive candidate: More

These days some people are trying to place dogs and cats on a vegetarian diet because they themselves have eschewed meat as part of the human diet. More

Celebrating its 20th anniversary, Hamas is vowing to continue fighting and never recognize Israel's right to exist: More

Prediction is hard, especially about the future, said Neils Bohr. So why not try to predict the past? A study in the Royal Metereological Society journal did just that, using global warming models. More

Four of the richest regions in Bolivia are set to declare their autonomy from the national government of President Evo Morales More

The Des Moines Register has released its party endorsements for the Iowa Caucuses and the winners of that coveted nod are Hillary Clinton and John McCain More

Steve Gilbert argues persuasively that Hillary's repeated, unfulfilled promises to the Middle Class and her constant appeals to it, are part and parcel of a radical agenda she learned at radical Saul Alinsky's knee. More

Today, the Washington Post has an article about where a lot of the money for Bill Clinton's Presidential Library originated. More

Better to have a diverse workforce that gets things wrong than an agency based on merit that might get things right every once and a while. More

What is happening with the race for the Republican nomination is much like the weather in San Francisco: If you are unhappy with it now, wait a few minutes and it will change: More

Attorney General Michael Mukasey has turned down a request from Congress that he tell them exactly what was on those destroyed CIA recordings depicting "severe interrogation techniques." More

An entertaining illustration of the difference between Brits and Americans is on view with reactions to a book entitled, Forbidden Lego: Build the Models Your Parents Warned You Against. More

The WSJ's James Taranto compares E. J. Dionne's statement on the filibuster now and then: More

The folly of relying on the "experts" who are responsible for the National Intelligence Estimate regarding Iran and its nuclear program is again on view. More

The so-called scandal that drove Paul Wolfowitz from his post as president of the World Bank has ended, not with a bang but a whimper. More

Steve Gilbert finds that that's what Hillary is now claiming, and notes how this self-serving nonsense undermines the election and democratic process More

Venezuelans seem to be feeling their oats after rejecting Hugo Chavez's attempt to install himself in the presidential palace for life. A YouTube video is causing a sensation there by exposing the hypocrisy of one of Hugo's top minions. More

Quoting the Washington Post's David Ignatius, the brilliant Gabriel Schoenfeld suggests it's time to end the experiment of Congressional oversight of our intelligence operations More

Almost too sad for words. More

Stars and Stripes is reporting a big drop in car bomb attacks in Baghdad this month: More

On the very day Al Gore arrived in Bali with a petition avowing "support for a visionary global treaty to end the climate crisis," another petition (of sorts) was released attesting that any such efforts would prove "ultimately futile." More

Never underestimate this guy. Never. He's not some fanatical bumpkin. He is shrewd, clever, and extremely dangerous. More

Today's New York Time runs an editorial that defies belief and makes clear that the paper lives in a different moral universe More

Andy McCarthy shows how "fluid" is the NYT's definition of a disqualifying conflict of interest: More

The fallout continues from the NIE on Iran. Russia, already a reluctant partner in sanctions, has negotiated an agreement with the Iranians that will allow them to complete construction of a nuclear reactor at Bushehr: More

Perhaps we should begin to question just which party is in the majority in Congress. More

The National Guard has been there to serve and to sacrifice for 19 generations since 1636. Today, they continue to protect us, nearby and far away. For that they deserve our thanks. More

Can it be true? Are the feds finally going to corner and capture that slippery fish of a political gadfly Al Sharpton? More

Thompson's stand against foolishness wins him praise. More

Watching helplessly as her once seemingly insurmountable leads in Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina have all dissipated, the Clinton campaign can't seem to right itself and instead, keeps shooting itself in the foot. More

A bottle of No-Doze wasn't required but would have come in handy. More

With the signing of the Lisbon Treaty on December 13, 450 million people are now under a new, single government, called the European Union, headquartered in Brussels. More

The Democrats are trying to stir up religious hatred among Republicans. But conservatives are responsible for their own behavior, if they take that poisoned bait. More

It seems everyone but the Mainstream Media is talking about the 16-year-old Canadian girl whose father strangled her for refusing to wear the traditional Muslim head scarf. More

Everyone knows that during December we are granted the caloric equivalent of universal carbon credits when it comes to fatty foods. Egg nog, latkes, butter cookies, roast duck, and prime rib: all are permitted with not a moment's hesitation and the merest twinge of guilt. More

Hugo Chavez beware: Brazil threatens to develop huge offshore oil deposits which will add to the hemisphere's supply of oil. More

In my mind, Edward Said is one of the most pernicious influences on the modern academy. More

That thud you just heard was the sound of Hillary Clinton's inevitability hitting the ground and starting to dig: More

Mr. Warshawsky's article asking about high-cost of health care hits the nail on the head for health care, but much, much more. More

Shameless pandering to bigotry by the Iowa frontrunner. More

Are GOP fortunes on the rebound? More

The Pope says : "Show me the science." More

The glorious mosaic strikes again. More

Bill Buckley makes his move. More

Author Kenneth Timmerman has provided us one more reason to doubt the validity and objectivity of the recently released National Intelligence Estimate. More

AT political director Richard Baehr will be a guest on the Milt Rosenberg show on Chicago's WGN radio Wednesday night, Dec. 12 from 9 to 11 PM Central time. More

It's interesting to notice the similar backgrounds of all three Florida Gator Heisman winners. The commonality is that they all have Protestant Christian ministers for fathers. More

AT contributor Ray Robison has an article with a partial synopsis of his new book, Both in One Trench, at Pajamas Media. More

AT political director Richard Baehr will join host (and AT associate editor) Rick Moran on his internet radio braodcast today, at 3:00 PM Central Standard Time. More

Animal rights was bad enough, with its implicit equation of animals and people, but now we have robot rights. More

If he is going to call it global warming, how can Al Gore ignore the Southern Hemisphere's refusal to go along? More

Two car bombs ripped through downtown Algiers apparently targeting a United Nations building and Algeria's Constitutional Court: More

Bill Roggio has the grimmest news of the day; an attack by an extremist on a Pakistani nuclear site: More

The Afghan Army and their NATO allies just kicked the Taliban out of their last major stronghold in Afghanistan: More

The New York Times is reporting that the destruction of the interrogation tapes showing CIA personnel using "severe" methods of questioning was authorized by attorneys for the clandestine Directorate of Operations: More

And this guy wants to be President of the United States? More

A shockingly dishonest Op-Ed in today's New York Times by Flynt and Hillary Mann Leverett. More

One would think that countries that sommitted to the Kyoto treaty are doing a better job of curtailing carbon emissions. One would be wrong. More

The International Islamophobia Conference of Muslim "thinkers and scientists," called for immediate national and international legislation to protect victims of Islamophobia. More

Jorge Castañeda, Mexico's former foreign minister, writes in Newsweek online that Hugo Chavez attrempted to overturn the vote on his dictator-for-life constitutional "reforms" in Venezuela. More

With this statement from his counsel, Ted Wells, Lewis Libby has discontinued his appeal: More

AT contributor Rachel Ehrenfeld is a victim of libel tourism, ie, the Saudis have sued her for libel in England because of their favorable libel laws, although her book exposing Saudi funding for terrorism was published in the US. More

Laurie Mylroie sees a potential silver lining in the NIE flap. With the CIA being increasingly discredited as a source of creditable intelligence, perhaps someone will review earlier NIE reports which missed that Iraq was behind 9/11 and other attacks More

In something of a victory for President Pervez Musharraf (and American diplomats who had been working furiously behind the scenes) the two major opposition parties have agreed to participate in next month's parliamentary elections: More

Alberta's tar sands are already known to contain the world's second largest proven reserves of petroleum. Naturally, the greenies don't want to see it tapped for secure oil supplies. More

It appears that British Intelligence officials are more skeptical of Iranian intentions with regard to their nuclear program than the CIA: More

Chanting "Live free or die," Iranian students tore down the gate in front of Tehran University and rallied against President Ahmadinejad and the regime's treatment of women: More

The hysteria over allegedly man-made global warming increasingly reveals its true nature: founded in a sense of guilt and self-hatred More

Yet another Soros associate explains himself in court. It's hard to know what to make of this case in Britain. More

The GOP debate on the Spanish channel Univision (candidate answers were translated into Spanish), was pretty much of a passionless affair: More

Authorities in Colorado are looking into the probability that the two shooting incidents at two different churches 65 miles and 12 hours apart are related: More

The audience at the University of South Carolina football stadium was estimated at 29,000 - easily the largest crowd of this campaign and one of the largest for a non-incumbent president in American political history. More

The Episcopal Church of the United States has lost its first diocese over its rejection of Scripture and embrace of politically correct positions. In California's fast-growing Central Valley. More

If I were a coal-mining manager in China, I'd sure be looking for a new job. More

We need to achieve a critical diplomatic objective in Iraq - some workable reconciliation between the Shia government and the Sunnis. There may be lessons from the past. More

More and more people seem to notice that Al Gore is making huge amounts of money while peddling fear of global warming. And he's just getting started. More

"Bait and Switch" on economic news from the Times. More

A secret campaign was launched two years ago to undermine Tehran's nuclear program. It has persuaded a 'handful' of key officials to leave: More

Proving once again that the United Nations is disinterested in allowing for a free and open debate on global warming, the climate change conference being held in Bali, Indonesia has refused to give credentials to a prominent group that dissents from the view that global warming is a huge problem and is caused by the works of man: More

19 year old Makwan Moloudzadeh, accused of homosexual rape when he was age 13 by accusers who have since recanted, was executed without warning last week after a stay of execution in response to international pressures had been granted. More

One of the Iraq War's harshest military critics, retired General John Batiste, has changed his mind and come out in support of the new counterinsurgency strategy. More

Evan Sayet is a funny guy. Make that hilarious. Don't miss his two-part YouTube comedy monologue. More

Why was Lawrence Summers in effect ousted as Harvard's president? New evidence has emerged. More

At a regional security meeting in Bahrain today, Defense Secretary Gates made it clear that, despite NIE key findings, Iran still poses a threat More

The Washington Post's military correspondent Thomas Ricks has been an excellent source on the realities of the Iraq War. More

France and Germany have indicated that despite the findings of the NIE that Iran stopped building nuclear weapons in 2003, they wish to maintain and increase sanctions to get the mullahs to halt their enrichment program: More

Much has been made about the box office poison that the slew of recent anti-war movies proved to be. Have the American people lost their taste for war films? Not by a long shot: More

A new poll just released by Newsweek shows former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee with a startling surge in Iowa, now leading Mitt Romney by a 2-1 margin: More

The Democrats in Congress have all but surrendered on the issue of Iraq War funding: More

Intrepid AT contributor Jack Kemp (not the politican) took to the streets of midtown Manhattan, camera in hand, to survey the season's decorations at major media outlets More

Why does the Secretary of Defense say naval forces operations in the Persian Gulf are "not about Iran?" More

The NIE report may have been a political move by Bush opponents in the State Department, as many now speculate. Or it could be disinformation. But what if it is something else entirely? More

It was certainly the most dramatic moment of the campaign to date for either party. More

The New York Times is reporting that the CIA destroyed two videotapes showing the interrogation of a high value al-Qaeda suspect where "severe interrogation methods" were used: More

As former Vice Chairman of the National Intelligence Council and AT contributor Herbert E. Meyer suggested, Congressional conservatives are demanding an investigation of the NIE report. More

The latest AP-Ipsos Poll on the Republican nomination for President shows former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee vaulting into second place and closing in on GOP front runner Rudy Giuliani: More

Today brings news of one gigantic earmark designed to benefit one company and one company only: More

For those who lived through the attack on Pearl Harbor 66 years ago today, the memories are still fresh, the terror constantly relived as they recall lost comrades and shipmates. More

210 years ago, in the early years of our country George Washington confronted that issue and dismissed it in writing: More

David Ashenfelter of the Detroit Free Press has some new information on Ms Prouty and it makes the FBI and CIA look even worse if that's possible. More

The media has been reporting this credit crunch as the "sub-prime" mortgage meltdown. This is really a misnomer More

If the controversial new National Intelligence Estimate is not true, it would increase the danger of a nuclear war in the Middle East. More

It's the speech pundits, opponents, and even his own advisors has been telling him for months he must give More

StrategyPage.Com points us to a poll taken in Afghanistan that shows widespread support for the presence of US troops but disappointment in the performance of NATO forces overall: More

As each day passes and it becomes clearer that the improving situation in Iraq may very well lead to success, one is struck by how quiet it's gotten on Capitol Hill on the Democrat's side of the aisle. More

More terrible news for Hillary. She may be tossing lamps and china at hapless staffers soon. More

As you may recall, at the American Spectator dinner, T. Boone Pickens offered a million dollars to anyone who could prove anything the Swift Veterans said was wrong. That "anyone" could include a journalist. More

There are many things to celebrate as a result of the razor thin referendum victory for the Venezuelan opposition last Sunday. Too bad Roger Cohen didn't see them. More

Given that the Iranians knew we were trying to uncover as much information as we could regarding their nuclear program, is it to be believed that they were incapable of planting written notes and engaging in over the air conversations that would mislead America? More

Some disturbing news with equally disturbing implications for society is the just released Center for Disease Control report on teen births More

You can't make this stuff up. It's almost like the punchline to a joke: "How much does it cost to get the BBC to tell the truth?" More

"Abou Omar Al Baghdadi the supposed leader of the Islamic State in Iraq which is Al Qaeda in Iraq said that only two hundered Mohajeroon are left in Iraq." More

Hillary Clinton fundraiser and major league con man Norman Hsu has been indicted in New York: More

In News of the Terminally Weird, the Times of London reports that the tax-funded BBC paid one Mohammed Hamid and two other radical Islamists, "... to go on a paintballing trip at the Delta Force centre...." More

Sometimes, you just have to grin and bear it: More

Senator Obama will reportedly introduce a raft of new policy proposals that will play upon the theme of asking people to engage in national service More

The most recent LA Times poll has former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee moving into second place nationally, More

Surprisingly, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) sounds more realistic about the Iranian regime than the Bush hating lefties who have all but given the mullahs in Tehran a clean bill of health: More

The Wall Street Journal editorial that ran this morning echoes and expands upon suspicions first articulated by the NY Sun that the National Intelligence Estimate was cooked up by bureacrats eager to embarrass George Bush More

Fresh off his risible claim that he always opposed the war in Iraq is this from Bill Clinton More

What caused the NIE to reverse its conclusions on Iran's nuclear program? Speculation abounds. More

A new report says divorce is bad for the environment. AT contributors weigh in. More

Right on the heels of widespread complaints from various members of the national press that they cannot get near Hillary Clinton, along comes hubby Bill to publicly gripe that reporters refuse to cover her. More

I think other things are going on with the NIE report More

Suppose you're a cop, and you have to stop a well-known Mafia hit man on a dark night, driving his Cadillac. More

Ps-s-st! Need a job? Here is a good one. In a frank job posting for an environmental reporter CBS totally revealed its lack of objectivity, where form definitely trumps substance. More

There's stupidity and then there is metaphysical witlessness. More

Today's Islamic Republic News Agency website is carrying the following response to yesterday's release of the National Intelligence Estimate report on Iran's nuclear capabilities and intentions. More

At a meeting of judiciary leaders from Islamic countries in Tehran, Iranian President Amedinejhad proposed formation of an international Islamic court. More

This morning the Associated Press and I have a major difference of opinion. More

Anyone familiar with CNN's Jack Cafferty knows he's no stranger to foot in mouth disease. More

Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif - Pakistan's two major opposition leaders - are threatening to boycott next month's parliamentary elections unless President Pervez Musharraf offers some "guarantees" regarding the vote: More

Please forgive the Senator. He has been "indisposed" these last few months... More

That's the question currently being asked by senior American commanders in Iraq. More

Why does a Seattle newspaper call it "local news" when a Democrat is arrested in Washington, DC? More

AT political director Richard Baehr will be appearing as a panelist for a two hour in-depth discussion of the coming election on the Milt Rosenberg Show. More

Sunday's Washington Post had a story about the rise of TV evangelism in the Middle East. More

The Telegraph has an interesting, completely anecdotal article today suggesting that new immigrants are not necessarily voting Democrat and that they oppose amnesty for illegals. More

Mitt Romney on Thursday will do something he has been saying for months isn't necessary; tackle the issue of his Mormonism head on. More

In a victory for American diplomacy, China has agreed to another round of sanctions to be placed on the Iranian regime for their failure to halt uranium enrichment: More

The New York Times has perfected the art of remaining strictly factual while conveying a misleading impression. More

Chavez humiliated by the defeat of his referendum. More

AT contributor Ray Robison is co-author of a new book on Saddam's terror documents, Both in One Trench, now available on Amazon.com. More

The fallout from the case of Mohammed, the Sudanese teddy bear continues with chilling after effects and ironic implications. More

The Daily Mail reports that girls as young as 12 years old are being given morning-after contraceptive pills at public expense, without informing their parents More

Last week the American delegation to the United Nations sought to have a Security Council endorsement of talks between Israel and the Palestinians. This was not run by the Israelis-a departure from tradition and diplomatic protocol. More

File this one under "Least surprising news of the month." More

The New York Times has an article on what it asserts is the latest NIE report on Iran's nuclear program. More

The NYT having apparently run through its bag of Iraq themes -- quagmire, Abu Ghraib, cholera, mass exodus and civil war -- is now reporting with shock that there's corruption there More

That's what the New York Times, via an article today by theater critic Charles Isherwood, calls the various plaques and signs honoring philanthropists' donations to cultural venues, schools, hospitals, charities, libraries, parks, museums, etc. More

U.S. military fatalities in Iraq were 37, virtually the same as October's 38, and substantially below May's peak for this year of 126. More

Did public officials' acceptance of erroneous global warming hype about hurricanes delay imposition of water rationing in the South? More

A new fad appears to be aborning among liberal commentators: likening Republicans to various beasts. More

Our published interview "The Politically Incorrect Guide to Hunting" and Barbara Metzler's response to it continue to generate interesting email, so we present another collection of commentary on hunting More

Thanks to almost total control of the media along with restrictions on opposition parties that are considered most undemocratic, Vladmir Putin's United Russia Party is widely expected to trounce the opposition and gain a landslide victory More

With a little more than a month to go before the Iowa Caucuses, both parties have seen their front runners tumble from the lead. More

It took four months of dodging, ducking, bobbing, and weaving, but bloggers have finally pinned Franklin Foer and The New Republic to the mat. More

Senator John McCain's campaign for President got a big boost today when the influential New Hampshire Union-Leader endorsed him for president: More

Will no one rid us of this meddlesome Senator? More

A recent study by the Pew Hispanic Research Center showed some surprising trends in English speaking ability among Hispanics. More

The efforts by AP, Larry Sabato and others to suggest that Hillary's role in Friday's hostage crisis reveals she is a leader debase real leadership. More

J. Lorand Matory is a professor at Harvard, in anthropology and African and African-American studies, and he is feeling mighty oppressed today More

The drumbeat of questions are increasing over allegations that while Mayor, Rudy Giuliani used his protection service to shuttle his then mistress, now wife Judith Nathan around town More

Iran has banned the use of the word "women" from public television, insisting that it be replaced with "family". More

Vladimir Putin, in advance of parliamentary elections where he has virtually guaranteed himself an overwhelming victory, has withdrawn Russia from one of the cornerstones of post-cold war diplomacy; More

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is getting more hysterical in his condemnation of those who would deny him his "constitutional coup" in a referendum scheduled for early next week. More

The hurricane season ended today, December 1. Whew! More

The FARC narco-terrorists operating in Colombia were dealt a blow by government forces, which raided one of their camps and captured documents and videotapes offering "proof of life" for 16 hostages More

Have you heard about the nationwide child care program? You know about the Peace Corps, AmeriCorps, VISTA and other programs. Now there is a national volunteer program for quality day care! More

When I read the article by Jamie Glazov resulting from the interview with Frank Miniter, I felt compelled to respond. More