The New Republic's Martin Peretz today writes that Robert Malley is not an advisor to Barack Obama. It was just less than a month ago that Peretz wrote that Malley was an adviser. More

Fifty years ago today, the most important news in the world was that the United States had responded to the Soviet Union's launch of Sputnik 1, the first Earth Satellite, by launching Explorer 1 More

McCain is pouring it on, sprinting toward Super Tuesday. More

The People's Republic evidently have their own military. They don't need the Marines for anything, they say. More

An Associated Press report argues that the president was misleading about the resurgence of the Taliban in his State of the Union address. More

Astonishingly, Bill Clinton has conceded that global warming alarmism is aimed at policies that will make us poorer. More

The UK Sunday Times has run a series of articles detailing sensational charges that Marc Grossman, a key prosecution figure in the Scooter Libby case, was involved in espionage against the U.S More

Decriminalizing marijuana, that is. Jen Haberkorn of the Washington Times reports on his rather odd explanation of differeing views caught on video clips. More

Evidently, Ted Kennedy is very serious when it comes to the legacy of his family: More

No TV buys for Romney on Super Tuesday. More

John McCain and Mitt Romney sparred over several issues last night but neither landed a telling blow on the other and both emerged relatively unscathed. More

Self consciously reminiscing about her conversion from self described Goldwater girl to liberal Johnson supporter, she blames it all on her high school teacher. More

Sweetness & Light, which has a track record of discovering telling photos, has a new one here, and asks the important question More

Barack Obama told a French magazine that he would organize a summit of the Muslim world if he is elected. More

About to become the Harold Stassen of failed presidential bids, Ralph Nader is thinking of running for president. More

Calling Robert Malley, Calling Samantha Power, Calling Zbigniew Brzezenski: Iranian leader Ahmadinejad has resumed his threats to carry out a Holocaust. More

In his new blog, Explorations,Charles Martin explains why intelligence estimates are so useless to decision makers More

One of the most (superficially) persuasive arguments I keep reading for supporting McCain is that several seats on the Supreme Court will, almost surely, become vacant More

Were laws broken during the subprime mortgage bubble? The FBI wants to know: More

UN Ambassador in hot water with his boss, Secretary Rice. More

Which of his "two Americas" will Edwards go back to? More

Presidential candidate Barack Obama is giving nearly $70,000 raised by jailed financier and fundraiser Antoin Rezko to charity: More

Several sources are reporting that Mayor Rudy Giuliani will drop out of the race for the GOP presidential nomination today and endorse John McCain: More

Defying the expectations of the pundits, John McCain cruised to a relatively easy win in the GOP Florida primary last night More

Ali Abunimah, co-founder of the online publication Electronic Intifada, looks back, almost nostalgically, to the time before Obama "moved to try to appease AIPAC and pro-Israel movements." More

Oh how the Arabs love each other and are all eager to help establish a Palestinian state, out of Arab and Moslem solidarity. More

Laurie Mylroie critiques the 60 Minute interview with Saddam's interrogator Piro, reminds the memory challenged of facts which contradict Saddam's self-serving explanation of what happened to Iraq's WMDs More

The Asia Times is reporting that a new US military base near the Pakistan-Afghan border will be used to carry out lightening raids into Pakistan to take out al-Qaeda and Taliban targets More

Victor Davis Hanson offers a modest proposal for dealing with the problem of Israel and the Middle East -- one as bitingly satirical as Swift's on the Irish More

The always brilliant Noemie Emery reminds us how difficult it is to write a book about current events More

Electing General Suleiman president may now be a hopeless cause. More

In the president's final State of the Union address, Bush eschewed the large, grandiose plans to remake social security and other entitlements in favor of smaller, more achievable goals More

Huge turnout expected in this nail biter. More

AT political director Richard Baehr and associate editor Rick Moran will co-host an internet radio analysis of the early returns from Florida, from 7:30 - 9 PM Central Time. Joining them will be Ed Morrissey of Captain's Quarters and Kevin Sullivan of the Real Clear Politics blog. More

More than 80 attorneys representing the detainees still being held at Guantanamo have issued a statement supporting the candidacy of Barack Obama for president: More

Another media outlet in desperate need of fact checkers. More

As expected (and noted here on Saturday), another proxy fight has been launched against the management of the New York Times Company. More

President Bush's State of the Union speech signaled an important first step in the establishment of his legacy. In many respects, the speech reflected a transformation in the American Presidency from domestic protector to global idealist. More

Chris Hitchens reminds us of the many times in the past the Clintons have used racial politics for their own advancement, and concludes: More

Gunmen described by Pakistani authorities as "criminals" rather than extremists barged into a school after a botched kidnap plot involving a local health official and seized several dozen children and teachers as hostage. More

President Bush will deliver his seventh and last State of the Union message tonight emphasizing gains in Iraq and his initiatives for a slowing economy. More

What started as protests against a rigged presidential election has escalated into tribal warfare More

This is what Sheryl Stolberg writes today in the New York Times on page A1 in White House Memo: "Mr. Bush has spent years presiding over an economic climate that would be the envy of most presidents...." More

Did Mitt Romney call for a phased withdrawal of American troops last April? More

In a surprising break with his past practice of not getting involved in Democratic primaries, Ted Kennedy has endorsed Barack Obama for President: More

As always, marching to the sound of a different drummer. More

A new al Qaeda plot set in Spain and involving other European targets was recently disrupted, as reported by Reuters. The attack was set to occur shortly before a general election, much like the previous horrendous attack carried out in 2004. More

The UN Security Council twiddles its collective thumbs as it is deciding whether to impose new economic sanctions against Iran for refusing to roll back its nuclear activities More

The people Barack Obama appointed to advise him on foreign policy are the best clue we have to his thinking, given his lack of a foreign policy experience More

A terrorist cell apparently inspired by a Pakistani al-Qaeda member has been rolled up in Europe. More

My guess is if McCain wins the nomination it's going to be a McCain-Powell ticket, if Hillary is the nominee. From a conservative's perspective it would be painful. But, from a raw-politics perspective it would be brilliant. More

Much is being made out of very ambiguous poll which CNN (and many named pundits are citing with authority) suggesting Bill's campaigning hurt Hillary in South Carolina. More

In a devastating blow to the Giuliani campaign, Florida Governor Charlie Crist announced last night that he was throwing his support - and considerable weight and popularity - behind John McCain. More

Senator Barack Obama won a big victory over Hillary Clinton in South Carolina More

A truly evil person finally died. More

I thought Bill Clinton displayed a rare moment of truth on the campaign trail when he noted that his wife Hillary and John McCain are "very close". I have been saying that for some time now when it comes to the all-important question of character. More

I don't agree completely with Mr. Lawrence's reasoning. It seems that his argument centers on human interaction and intelligence being the product of input. Thus the "garbage in, garbage out" analysis. More

How can you tell the Dems do NOT want McCain to be the nominee of the Republican party? They smother him with kisses. More

AT political director Richard Baehr will be on the Rick Moran Show from 6 to 7 PM Central . You can listen in online. More

I just re-watched the flim Election the other night, and made the same connection between Hillary and the film's character Tracy Flick as did Slate V. Watch the entertaining video clip and see for yourself. More

There are no lack of suspects in the car bomb blast that killed one of the top anti-terrorist investigators in Lebanon, Captain Wissam Eid. More

Today, Noah Pollak writes about another member of Team Obama on the Contentions blog of Commentary Magazine. More

The New York Times and others are reporting that Alabama-based hedge fund gave notice Friday that it would try to elect directors to The New York Times Company board, the company said. More

South Carolina Democrats are going to the polls today and according to the latest Zogby-Rueters poll, Obama should win fairly comfortably: More

Clinton's "underhanded brilliance" in laying claim to proscribed delegates. More

Even Vanity Fair which can be reliably counted on the push the Dem agenda has had it with America's dynamic duo: More

A car bomb exploded in east Beirut today killing Lebanon's top anti-terror policeman More

It's nothing the Vatican hasn't been saying for years but Pope Benedict hammered the media perhaps more vigorously than any of his predecessors. More

Michelle Malkin's grade? ZZZZZZZ. More

Ed Lasky wonders if Dennis Kucinich will "ride off into the sunset on a flying saucer." More

Six years later, a true hero finally receives his well deserved reward. More

The New York Times edtorial board execises its vast influence of GOP primary voters in Florida and on Super Tuesday with an editorial endorsement of John McCain for the Republican nomination. More

"You filthy idiot. WE ARE HERE TO STAY hahahahahahhahah DROP DEAD." That's an email by a Dutch Labour Party politician to a constituent. More

A friend who is a proud Marine Dad sends me this stunningly evocative ad about our Marines. Give yourself a minute-plus of pride and watch it. More

Hillary Clinton's candidacy is splitting the left over more than race. No longer inevitable, and lacking her husband's natural political talents, the appalling behavior of the Clinton campaign is drawing left wing critics. More

A disturbing article in Naharnet, the English language translation of Lebanon's largest Arab daily An Nahar. More

Truly, remarkable hatred for the president. More

Sometimes the vast gulf between elite opinion and popular opinion about the United States overseas comes into focus. Today is one such day. More

Bill and Hillary Clinton's primary campaign against Barack Obama has hit an all time low as far as cheap shots, deliberate misrepresentation of an opponent's position, and some would say outright lies. More

Leftist academic/activist Noam Chomsky is visiting Iran and has found an avid audience for his America-hating and Israel-hating rhetoric. More

The New York Times thinks it has the answer: More

Hugo Chavez continues his experiment in Petro-Socialism More

The Palestinians who blew up approximately 7 miles of a wall that seperates Egypt from Gaza are, in addition to being experts at killing innocent Israelis, pretty good at imitating P.T. Barnum as well. More

After warning us for years that global warming would increase hurricane activity, it turns out a study claims the opposite is true: global warming will decrease hurricane landings. More

Give the New York Times credit for running this article about Wal-Mart eadlined, "Wal-Mart Says More Than Half Its Workers Have Its Health Insurance" More

Masked gunmen blew up a large section of a wall seperating the border town of Rafah - a divided city with one half in Egypt and the other in impoverished Gaza. More

John Ellis, writing on Real Clear Markets, makes a strong case for the business logic of a Google takeover of the New York Times Company. And he lays out a plausible scenario leading to the Sulzberger clan deciding to sell out More

Good news from Iraq from the UN with the usual anti-American twist. More

It's an election year and there are fears of a recession. More

Was the Thompson for President campaign actually a trial balloon to float the senator's name for Vice President? More

Convicted terrorist Jose Padilla was sentenced to 17 years in prison yesterday for his role in helping Islamic extremists overseas: More

In a decision that has shocked the Missouri Republican party, Governor Matt Blunt has decided not to seek a second term: More

The autopsy on the Thompson campaign will find that it succumbed to a host of -ion diseases: equivocation; expectation; communication; and perception. More

The Chronicle of Philanthropy has uncovered a huge and apparently legal tax loophole that allows wealthy nonprofits like Harvard, Columbia and Stanford to pay no taxes on Unrelated Business Income. More

Hundreds of Taliban fighters attacked a fort in South Waziristan seeking to dislodge the para military units stationed there More

a key Iranian government official is warning the Dutch not to show a film about Islam and the Koran, More

Alan Reynolds of the Wall Street Journal doesn't think so. More

Following a meltdown of overseas stock markets, the Federal Reserve cut a key interest rate 3/4 of a percent in hopes of heading off a similar sell off here in America: More

In the most contentious debate to date, Democratic presidential candidates Senators Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton traded charges that the other one was not being entirely honest: More

Just imagine George Bush, Dick Cheney or, for that matter, any Republican nodding off on stage while Martin Luther King III paid tribute to his father. How would the media react? More

Needless to say, I'm not on Al Gore's publicist's speed dial. I guess that's why I never got the press release on the recent announcement that he's joined legendary Silicon Valley venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins. More

In Saudi Arabia, a small step forward in women's rights doesn't even begin to overcome the restricted reality of women's life in this oil rich backward kingdom. More

A woman, a Mormon and a War Hero/ A big city mayor in women's clothes/ A Space Cadet who has burned his hair/ An Ambulance Chaser who really cares... More

Truth once again turns out to be stranger than fiction. Even in Canada. Or is that especially in Canada? More

The oleaginous Bill Moyers takes to taxpayer-funded airways and cyberspace to celebrate Martin Luther King Day by celebrating his boss, President Lyndon Johnson More

The brilliant Ezra Levant summarizes his experience before Alberta's oddly named Human Rights Commission: "What a strange place Canada is in 2008, where the police care more about human rights than the human rights commissions do" More

Close friends of mine received the kind of phone call we all dread a couple of days ago: More

Bad news for Rudy Giuliani. More

The race to become the next Democratic nominee for President of the United States is getting heated, drawing figurative blood. More

If you've watched Hugo Chavez and ever wondered if he's on drugs, the Miami Herald reports that your suspicions are accurate: More

A few weeks ago the Washington Post published a vile opinion piece in its religion section titled "Jewish Identity Can't Depend on Violence." Now the paper has issued a limp apology. More

There's inflation...and then there's what's happening in Zimbabwe: More

Respect and admiration for rendering a national service to the American people. More

Welcome to politics - Clinton style. More

Bad news for history. More

You stay classy, Hassan. More

The Democratic race for president is starting to get ugly. More

John McCain's narrow but significant victory over Mike Huckabee in South Carolina yesterday has helped to clarify the GOP presidential race. More

The US is once again rescuing Canada's citizens from its overwhelmed and underfunded socialist health care system More

The accumulated current account deficit is the result of our national trade and economic policies, whether explicit or implied, not their progenitor More

Dennis Sevakis' article today on the supposedly dire consequences of the nation's "trade deficit," while obviously well-intentioned, misses the mark in several respects. More

The CIA is reporting that computer hackers have shut down the power grids of several large foreign cities, showing the vulnerability of infrastructure to the hackers: More

The war in Iraq is out as the Democrats' cudgel. In a spirit of generosity, I have updated Harry Reid's talking points for him. More

Here's some lazy reading for your Saturday afternoon pleasure. More

It's abundantly clear and I charge without fear/ Nor the slightest degree of compunction,/ Proven night after night both on left and on right,/ Our media have electile dysfunction. More

In Nevada, it appears that Mitt Romney may be set for an easy win over John McCain with Hillary Clinton slightly ahead in the Democratic race. More

It's snowing all across the state in South Carolina today as Republican voters go to the polls and choose the man they wish to be the nominee of the party. More

If you're as angry as I am about the NYT's slandering our troops by falsely suggesting vets are homicidal maniacs, you'll enjoy Iowahawk's takedown of journalism, in which, using the same standards the NYT's did, he proves, that it is journalists who are the criminals. More

Liberal self-infatuation is in full bloom at the Baltimore Sun. More

The Winograd Report will not be overly tough on Olmert. More

The Number 2 general on the ground in Iraq has said that he believes it is very possible that all 18 provinces will be in the hands of Iraqi security forces by the end of the year: More

Leave it to Mike Huckabee, whose scorched earth candidacy for President may yet do more damage to the Republican party than anything in recent memory. More

Bill Clinton's former advisor and campaign director has parlayed his past affiliation with the Clinton's into a career in political punditry. He often has extremely valuable insights, but his predictions of late don't compare well with events. More

Fed Chair Bernanke has apparently given some kind of economic stimulus package his approval More

Not very neighbourly of them: More

A new Las Vegas Review-Journal poll on the eve of Saturday's caucuses shows Hillary Clinton and Mitt Romney besting their nearest rivals easily: More

In a New York Times editorial yesterday concerning the auto company Tata Motors, the following snide comment was made: More

Riots broke out in an opposition stronghold as police waded into crowds, firing their guns indiscriminately: More

Alicia Colon publishes an interesting case for Fred Thompson at Jewish World Review. More

A new, massive study of abortions in the United States has found that there are "ever-fewer pregnant women choosing abortion More

The New York Times has been on a multi-year campaign to restrict the executive powers of President Bush. Now the paper looks ahead to the next President (likely a Democrat) and calls upon that President to be given powers to unilaterally makes decisions regarding Iraq. More

The Pakistani army suffered a humiliating defeat yesterday when Taliban and al-Qaeda troops overran a fort on the Afghan frontier: More

The winner of the Michigan primary took one look at the lay of the land in South Carolina and decided to skip that state's Saturday primary in favor of campaigning in Nevada More

President Bush completed his 8 day, 6 country tour of the Middle East with a short visit to Egypt. More

American Thinker's consulting editor J.R Dunn has placed as semi-finalist in Amazon.com's "Breakthrough Novel" contest. An excerpt of Dunn's novel The Furies is available on Amazon. Here's a chance to discover another facet of one of AT's regular contributors. More

For all her fanfare as the first female Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi hasn't exactly taken the country by storm. More

Hard to guess what Obama's game is here but in an interview with the Reno-Gazette editorial board, the Democratic contender for the nomination praised Ronald Reagan More

The Baltimore Sun reports on the sermon delivered last Sunday by Reverend Jeremiah Wright, Jr., the man Barack Obama describes as his "spiritual mentor." More

The New York Sun is reporting that Barack Obama repudiated the views of Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan. This statement by Obama is a political maneuver that should be given little credence. More

David Schenker of Counterterrorism Blog highlights the barely reported car bomb attack on a US diplomoatic convoy that killed three Lebanese civilians and injured dozens more yesterday. More

In what must be the strangest endorsement of at least this campaign cycle, Nevada's largest circulating daily newspaper has just given the nod to Barack Obama as the Democratic candidate for president. More

AT is pleased to have played a small role in keeping Californians (and perhaps eventually all Americans) in charge of their thrmostat settings. For now, at least. More

Jeff Jacoby thinks so. More

There was a primary for Michigan Democrats - even though Hillary Clinton was the only major candidate on the ballot More

Continuing his visit to the Middle East, President Bush promised to raise the issue of high oil prices with King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia: More

Speaking before a group of supporters on Monday night, Mike Huckabee said something rather shocking: More

Republicans made it three for three on Tuesday night; three major nominating contests, three different winning candidates. More

AT's political director Ruchard and associate editor Rick Moran will discuss the Michigan primary at 8 PM CST on the Rick Moran Show, heard on the internet, with a podcast now available More

If Romney wins Michigan, as appears to be happening, the big winner will be Rudy. More

The Heritage Foundation just released its latest Index of Economic Freedom. It provides ever more evidence that economic freedom yields "greater prosperity for the larger society." More

AT contributor Randall Hoven will be interviewed at 6 PM Jan. 15 (Tuesday) on Political Vindication Radio. An internet feed will be available on the website linked above. More

Bobby J. Jindal is the new governor of Louisiana, and that is excellent news for all of us. The adjective "impressive" does not even begin to describe his accomplishments at the age of 36. More

Given all the political baggage that comes with Hillary Clinton, many Democratic heavy hitters in states that historically go Republican in presidential elections have come out recently for Barack Obama. More

Barack Obama has been able to get away with a soft focus posture of "bringing us together" only because the major media have largely ignored his dedicated support for Pastor Jeremiah Wright, a pal of Louis Farrakhan. More

According to several intelligence officials, Pakistan has lost control of the militant and extremist networks they created in the 1980's: More

After a contentious 48 hours where both leading Democrats traded racially charged barbs, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have called for a truce when it comes to the subject of race: More

Two new polls out show just how far McCain has come since his New Hampshire win a week ago. More

I suppose we should be used to it by now. More

UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization), where are you when needed? More

The January 12 article in American Thinker by Abdirahman Warsame entitled "Problems in the VOA-Somali Service" contained a number of inaccuracies and false statements, to which the Voice of America offers the following response. More

It will probably come down to turnout in the Michigan Republican primary tomorrow. More

The Canadian being roasted by the Alberta HRC, Ezra Levant, has his own website where he's posted all the videos of the hearing and his comments. The guy is a brilliant hero. More

You knew it had to happen sooner or later. More

As the debate builds about state-controlled thermostats in your homes, you may notice that programmable communicating thermostats (PCTs) are now being referred to as "Smart" thermostats. More

An al-Qaeda terrorist plot against the Queen of England was foiled last year at the Commonwealth Summit in Uganda, according to the Ugandan government: More

This is a story that could only happen as a result of the internet. More

Being convicted of plagiarsm for a presidential candidate should be the death knell of his campaign. Will it be? More

President Bush urged Middle Eastern countries to reject the extremism represented by Iran and al-Qaeda and embrace democracy. More

American Thinker today offers helpful advice to three candidates we have criticized in the past. More

Today the Wall Street Journal details the corruption in five World Bank projects in India which former bank President Wolfowitz suspended and which anti-corruption chief Folsom has exposed to the Bank Board More

The Times (UK) has the best, most detailed picture of the Clinton attack strategy against Obama and definition of "swiftboating" you'll see anywhere More

For the last 10 days, crime scene investigators from Scotland Yard have been pouring over evidence in the death of Benazir Bhutto. More

Six Castro and Chavez-supporting Code Pink members protested in Miami and were run off by a crowd of Cuban-Americans objecting to the protest. Medea Benjamin let slip a startling admission More

President Bush is continuing his 8 day visit to the Middle East with a stop in Kuwait and a speech at Camp Arifjan to thousands of American military personnel: More

With the economy taking center stage in Michigan, a new Detroit Free Press poll shows Mitt Romney narrowly in front of John McCain 27%-22% with Mike Huckabee in third with 16%. More

Not surprising but shocking in the sense that Soros will apparently go to any lengths to discredit the war effort. More

A priceless archive of photographs of early Koran manuscripts was claimed to have been destroyed in bombing of the Bavarian Academy of Science. This was a lie perpetrated by "a powerful figure in postwar German scholarship" More

Christopher Hitchens has always been a puzzle and delight to me. He brings equal passion to being appalled by Bill Clinton and Mother Teresa, an odd coupling, and is always eloquent and funny, even when dead wrong. More

What are the top 10 existential risks to humanity? (HT: Instapundit) More

Speaking of left wing charges of American guilt over World War II, the well-known accusation that George W. Bush's family were somehow financing the rise of the Nazis in Germany is dealt with by Jonah Goldberg in his wonderful new bestseller Liberal Fascism. More

President Bush toured Israel's Yad Vashem memorial to the Holocaust yesterday and made an emotional remark that the US should have bombed Auschwitz. Maybe so, but if guilt is to be assigned, how about the USSR? More

A United States appeals court has dismissed a suit brought by 4 former inmates of the Guantanomo prison that alleged torture, abuse and violations of their religious rights: More

I am in Las Vegas and it is heaven for a political junkie. One major media theme: unions endorsed Obama without polling members. Another: women and Hispanics like her better. More

Two new reports on last month's asssassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto have only added to the mystery and confusion surrounding that event: More

A measure designed to allow thousands of Sunni Muslims who served under Saddam Hussein to regain their employment in the Iraqi government has passed the parliament today: More

John McCain has parlayed his big win in New Hampshire into a double digit lead in the Republican race for president. More

From the Daily Times of Pakistan: Stratfor says Qaeda deflecting attention from Pakistan, despite major successes, to protect its leadership More

One of Ron Paul's staunchest defenders, Matt Welch of Reason Magazine, has dug deeply and discovered evidence that Ron Paul has written racist material. More

A poem inspired by Jonah Goldberg's important new book, Liberal Fascism. More

Joseph Somsel broke the story of California's plan to eventually control the temperature set on thermostats of state residents on American Thinker a week ago. Big media are catching on that there is a story in this issue. More

Dennis Kucinich, a candidate for president who claims to have seen a UFO when at Shirely McLain's house, is demanding that there be a recount of votes in New Hampshire: More

The report yesterday of Iraqi soldiers sacrificing their lives by throwing themselves at a terror bomber and saving lives of their colleagues and civilians reminded me of an event last year More

Scott Johnson of Powerline offers two outstanding commentaries on Israel-related matters. More

The race moves to Nevada where union endorsements may tell the tale. More

For lack of a nail a kingdom was lost. Hopefully for lack of promptly paying telephone bills our country won't be lost. More

The National Rifle Association has won a court victory in California, as a state appeals court upheld a lower court decision overturning a sweeping San Francisco law penalizing gun ownership More

Open tribal warfare in remote areas of Pakistan has the potential of scoring a major success in the War on Terror. More

That's the question asked by Ed Morrissey and many Republicans following last night's GOP debate in South Carolina. More

Much of what is wrong with Western Civilization today can be summed up in two words---Oprah Winfrey. With Oprah, facts, reality and logic mean nothing, it is only how you feel about a matter that is important. More

An article in the New York Times by John Tierney reports on the discrepancy between various measurements to the Global Mean Temperature in 2007 from four credible scientific groups. More

Our preoccupation with the current political scene caused many of us to overlook a tragic and noble event that took place in Iraq on January 7. More

Violence continues apace in Pakistan as al-Qaeda attempts to keep the pot boiling with its signature suicide bombers wreaking havoc with civilians and military alike. More

A must-read from Michael Yon: "By 2007, the Iraqis were doing most of the fighting. And . . . this is very important . . . they see our Army and Marines as serious allies, and in many cases as friends." More

Coalition forces in Pakistan have been splitting Al Qaeda from local tribes, much as AQ has been isolated from its local support in Iraq, with tribal leaders turning against it. Now it appears that this move is bearing publicly-visible fruit. More

Senator John Kerry will endorse Barack Obama sources close to the Senator have told numerous media outlets. More

It seems that Hillary Clinton Campaign's recently use of the racially charged term "spadework" on the Today Show in referring to Sen. Obama was not a one time event. More

Michigan's January 15th Democratic primary is meaningless at the moment thanks to sanctions put in place by the Democratic National Committee that denies any delegates to the state because they violated party rules More

Philip Agee, former CIA case officer and traitor to America died yesterday in Havana. More

Continuing his 8 day tour of the Middle East, the President was in Ramallah today for talks with PA President Mahmoud Abbas. More

If they're so smart with all their fancy degrees then why do they act so stupid? More

The New York Times today ran an editorial on the Voter ID issue, which holds that the Supreme Court should not serve the "electoral purposes of a political party" when it decides whether to uphold an Indiana Voter ID law. More

Some conservatives are prematurely celebrating the death of the Big Media. Well, the BM just won the first and biggest PR battle of the election campaign, Iowa and New Hampshire. More

Kyle-Anne Shiver will be a guest on teh Brian Sussman Show on San Francisco's KSFO radio at 6:15 PM PST tonight. An internet feed is available here. More

She had a bad finish out west a little ways;/ To socialist Utopians, it was the end of days. More

That's the first question President George Bush will ask PA President Mahmoud Abbas at their meeting on Thursday. More

The son of Benazir Bhutto, the designated heir to the leadership of the Pakistani People's Party, has slowly begun to raise his profile internationally More

Yesterday's big winner was ... American democracy. Often, we forget the strength and vigor of our democracy. Let's get some perspective. More

I am truly disappointed. By now, I expected Ron Paul to be on his way to the White House, measuring curtains for the Lincoln bedroom. More

Following his big comeback win in New Hampshire, John McCain is headed to Michigan were he hopes to deal a blow to the chances of Mitt Romney next Tuesday. More

Is it ever going to be possible to have an election in this country where some idiot lefty doesn't believe that voting machines were hacked and the results tampered with? More

There are a lot of people who are eating some crow this morning. More

Remember James B. Stockdale? Maybe you remember him as Admiral Stockdale. He was Ross Perot's running mate in 1992 More

Yet another media embarrassment, as the unstoppable wave of support for Obama turned out to be quite stoppable. More

Rumors abound that the Hillary campaign is turning to veterans of Bill's 1990s campaigns James Carville amd Paul Begala for help. More

Incredible turnabout by the former governor of Arkansas. More

Do you know where Iran is on a map? More

Terrorists on the run in Iraq. More

Fred Siegel writes insightfully about the Obama phenomenon and the longing for racial absolution among Democrats in Commentary's blog. More

Bloomberg's hopes fade for 3rd party try. More

The question of why Hillary Clinton's candidacy is in freefall at the moment was answered at a forum featuring her husband Bill at Dartmouth College: More

The whole world was watching. More

AT's honchos will be on the air tonight disucssing the election and much else. Ed Lasky will be a guest on Chicago legend Milt Rosenberg's Extension 720 program on WGN radio More

Six months ago, last July 8, the New York Times published an editorial entitled "The Road Home" and called for the U.S. to exit from Iraq and abandon a lost cause. How has it withstood the test of time? More

If I hear the word change again from any candidate during this election cycle I will scream. More

I had been puzzled by the touting of a homeschoolers endorsement for Mike Huckabee, given that the candidate also received an endorsement from the New Hampshire NEA. More

In today's article, Only McCain can beat Obama, Richard Baehr made a case for Senator McCain as the GOP nomination for the President of the United States in 2008, but this writer disagrees. More

Hey feminists, don't be misled by their subservience. Those shrouded head-to-toe Moslem women have joined their brothers as terrorist suicide murderers More

The prospect of a ringing defeat in New Hampshire has led to speculation that Hillary Clinton soon will fold up her tent and abandon the quest that has animated most of her adult life. I don't buy it. Not now. More

You can judge a man (or a political movement) by his enemies. Tom Maguire notes an interesting thing about the left: More

Are these guys suicidal or what? More

For those who were able to keep awake through it all, I congratulate you. More

Jay Cost points out the important differences between Bill Clinton in the 1992 primaries and Hillary today, when it comes to being a comeback kid. More

President Pervez Musharraf said in an interview broadcast last night on "60 Minutes" that Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was to blame for her own assassination: More

What do you do if you're Mitt Romney, a candidate who at one time led New Hampshire by double digits and suddenly find yourself trailing the day before the votes are cast? More

A candidate winning Iowa usually gets a "bump" in support that shows up in New Hampshire. This is more like an earthquake: More

While certain segments of the American media and their readers/viewers have been obsessively following the public meltdown of some celebrity types over in France, the media have focused on President Nicolas Sarkozy's recent divorce and new female significant other More

To paraphrase Joe Welch; "Have you finally, sirs, no shame?" More

Just as Edwards and Obama ganged up on Hillary Clinton in their debate on ABC last night, so too did GOP rivals of candidate Mitt Romney in their portion of the evening's proceedings. More

Last night's ABC debate among Democratic candidates featured a double barrelled attack on Hillary Clinton from Barack Obama and John Edwards: More

Dick Morris, former Clinton campaign guru, on some scenarios coming out of New Hampshire for the Democrats: More

Neil MacFarquahar of the New York Times artfully navigates politically sensitive waters with an article on the problem of wife-beating among Muslims in the United States. More

George Tenet has engaged counsel to represent him in the investigation of the destruction of the CIA's interrogation tapes of top Al Qaeda figures. According to Newsweek, he's engaged Howard M. Shapiro. If Mr. Shapiro's name rings a bell, it should. He was criticized for his role in Clinton's... More

The incomparable Noemie Emery reviews Sally Bedell Smith's book on the Clinton's in this week's Weekly Standard More

There have been interesting signs of change at the New York Times, and some of their hard core consttutents are not happy. More

Tom Maguire of Just One Minute notes how the media, and the NYT in particular, are making this election contest -- what Obama hasn't -- a referendum on affirmative action. More

In a unique format, ABC will host two debates tonight starting at 7:00 PM EDT More

The latest Rasmussen tracking poll is out and it's a shocker. More

I wonder when he'll walk on water? More

The blogosphere lost one of its finest on Thursday when Major Andrew Olmsted was killed in action in Iraq. More

We took a trip to the National Gallery of Art in the lull between Christmas and New Years to see the Edward Hopper exhibit which continues until January 21 More

Rejecting his novel defense that the government acted too long in finding him after he absconded, Norman Hsu, Hillary's mysterious donor and fugitive, was sentenced to three years in jail . More

In the midst of all the media gushing over Obama's Iowa upset Thursday night, allusions to Bobby Kennedy's 1968 "united country" campaign were bound to resurface. More

FrontPage.Com has an editorial up this morning pointing out the deficiencies of both of the Iowa winners last night; Barack Obama and Mike Huckabee: More

Today is our fourth birthday as a daily publication, so we are well out of the toddler stage. More

An influential policy outfit, the International Crisis Group, has called on President Musharraf to step down. More

Goodbye Iowa for 4 more years. But the Hawkeye State may have crowned the new President this time: Barack Obama. More

Based on the last week of coverage, culminating in hours of talk about the Iowa caucuses last night, one might think that much was decided in the contest. More

A smattering of opinion from Punditland. More

The unerring eye of Steve Gilbert has found the picture which best sums up Hillary's disaster last night. You can read it on her face and enjoy a dose of schadenfreude. More

I am one of those Iowa caucus skeptics, regarding it as a media-driven show. But even I can see that the momentum generated last night for Obama extends beyond mere media event dimensions. More

*Over Guiliani, anyway. More

Libs who prattle on about "soft power" need to think a little harder. Investor's Business Daily provides a tutorial. More

After the hype in Iowa, no one is paying attention to Saturday's Wyoming Caucuses More

American Thinker's political director Richard Baehr will be interviewed tonight scheduled bewtween 9:30 and 10 10 PM EST, on BBC radio's Five Live program, discussing the Iowa Caucus results. A web feed is available More

Nothing like some mass hangings to get the New Year off on the right foot. More

After a week of false statements, lies, and dismissive apologies, Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf now says that he is disatisfied with the probe into former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto's death More

I honestly don't know how either party's caucus results will play out tonight. More

While we stand in awe of the willingness of our troops in Iraq to sacrifice themselves for the Nation, the fewer that are required to do so, the better. More

For the remainder of this century, it will be global cooling we'll have to worry about, according to Russian scientist, Dr. Oleg Sorokhtin. More

A US report shows how the enemy controlled the information on the battlefield in Fallujah and used this to force the US and Iraqi forces out, in the first battle there. The Belmont Club points out UPI coverage of the report by Shaun Waterman. Here is how the enemy worked: First they kidnapped... More

A lot of people like Huckabee in person, but he looks like a basically angry man to me. More

Conservative blogger John Hawkins has compiled a list of "The 40 Most Obnoxious Quotes of 2007" and there are some real doozies in the mix. More

According to pollster Rasmussen, the number of Americans who identify themselves as Republican has risen to a two year high: More

Despite calls for the January 8 vote to go forward as scheduled by both major opposition parties, the Pakistani electoral commission has postponed parliamentary elections until next month: More

Post election violence in Kenya continues to escalate as tribal warfare has now broken out in the slums of major cities and a church where dozens of people were hiding to escape the violence was torched: More

The government of Pakistan has done an about face and now says that former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was not killed when she hit her head on a sun roof lever: More

There is little doubt that telling his supporters to caucus for Obama as a second choice will give the Illinois senator a boost on Thursday night: More

Happy New Year. And just for another thing to celebrate, Dr. David Whitehouse, the British astronomer and former science editor of the BBC, tells us: "'The fact is that the global temperature of 2007 is statistically the same as 2006 and every year since 2001" More

A US diplomat working for the Agency for International Development was shot and killed along with his driver in the Sudanese capitol of Khartoum: More

With all the turmoil in Pakistan, another electoral crisis taking place, this one in Kenya More

Frequent American Thinker contributor and noted terrorism expert Walid Phares has a sharp analysis of the reasons behind Benazir Bhutto's assassination More

Barack Obama has moved out to a solid lead over Hillary Clinton and John Edwards while Mike Huckabee and Mitt Romney have distanced themselves from the rest of the GOP field More