At last, it appears our intelligence agencies have figured out how to better access and share critical information. More

Ethics cloud dooms Alfonso Jackson More

The Supreme Court refused to intervene in a case involving a Congressmen indicted for bribery whose offices were illegally searched by the FBI according to a lower court ruling: More

Hollywood and war have a checkered past together. AT writers debate the World War oeuvre. More

It appears that after initial results showing the opposition far ahead, the most recent tally has an "exciting race" developing between Mugabe's ruling party and the opposition MDC party: More

Barack Obama contradicts himself, trying to minimize his relationship to Pastor Wright. More

There's no other way to put this. It is extremely bad news More

More easy lies by the candidate of "change." More

Barack Obama was "almost certain" to win a coveted Supreme Court clerkship, we are told. That's a pretty remarkable prediction. More

They say that fish are not aware of water because it is all they ever know. The same with long time Clinton sycophants. More

It has been sixty years since 850,000 Jews were victims of "ethnic cleansing" in 10 Arab lands, where some Jewish communities had existed for 2,500 years. More

For an inkling of what American Muslims would like to gain from the upcoming presidential election or otherwise through our political processes, one only need look at the "issues" presented at the Muslims-For-Obama Web site More

Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel has become the first world leader to announce that she will boycott the Olympics in China. More

My jaw dropped when I read the latest example of strange political bedfellowship. More

Yeah, and it don't rain in Indianapolis in the summertime: More

When I think about this guy, Jeremiah Wright, and the so-called sermons he has preached, I wonder why anyone would refer to him as "Reverend." The dictionary defines reverence More

Hugo Chavez (and many on the left in this country who defend him) has denied in the past that he gives any support to the Colombian FARC rebels. More

So where his new 10,340 square foot, $1.6 million house being built? More

After disappearing in the wake of his hate videos making the nation's news broadcasts, Jeremiah Wright has re-surfaced and is back in the pulpit. Not the pulpit from which he recently retired More

The newspaper industry's attempt to put lipstick on a pig is sad. The pig is still a pig and the industry is collapsing before our eyes. More

Barack Obama's supporters are quick to level the cherry-picking charge in any discussion of Reverend Jeremiah Wright's video vitriol More

A new book by Lawrence Solomon about eminent "deniers" of Climate Alarmism demolishes any notions of consensus. More

Will they ever learn? More

Surprising thoughts from a surprising source. More

Hillary is collapsing under the weight of her Bosnia lie. Obama now leads her 48-42 in head-to-head. More

Chelsea Clinton took offense when questioned about her mother's reaction to the Monica Lewinsky affair, claiming it was a personal matter. Okay, let's ask Chelsea about Mom's cattle futures trading More

Despite being reinforced by 5 battalions, the Iraqi army is having a hard time dislodging Mehdi Army units from neighborhoods they control in Basra. More

As a followup to Andrew Walden's excellent piece in today's AT, here's some disturbing news about the internet video site Liveleak and actions they felt compelled to take after hosting the film for just a few hours. More

Raul Castro is going to allow ordinary Cubans to have cell phones! More

After first reducing the charges against him, the government has dropped all charges against Marine Lance Corporal Tatum. More

Undoubtedly hoping to tie Hillary in the fabulist category, Obama tells a whopper of his own and Tom Maguire captures it in amber (well online, anyway). More

A picture is worth a thousand words. Some perspective on casualties in Iraq. More

Dave Marash is not exactly Tokyo Rose, but one wonders at the portion of common sense doled out to him at his birth. More

People often ask ,"Where are the moderate Moslems?" Blogger M. Simon, recommends this site More

Fitna, the film short that Islamists and their western cheer-leaders worked so hard to hide, is now playing. Catch it while you can. More

Democratic Party Chairman Howard Dean says in an interview this morning on CBS that he has told the candidates that he wants to see the race over by July 1.: More

Don't ever even think about bullying a Marine, even an 84 year old veteran. A story that will bring a smile to your face. More

I've never seen anything like the reporting both on blogs and in the MSM about what is happening in Iraq. I am absolutely dizzy from the spin. More

The practiced ease with which Obama glibly tells untruths is becoming more noticeable as the campaign rolls along. More

Preaching hatred and bigotry while opposing middle classness has been very, very good for Senator Barack Obama's (D-IL) controversial preacher and mentor, Rev Jeremiah Wright Jr: More

After having discredited the US and UN with their respective leaderships, Jimmy Carter and Kofi Annan offered to spread their dysfunctional style and negotiate a Hamas-Israeli cease fire: More

Jack Risko of Dinocrat.com has identified an unspoken reason why the media like John McCain More

The American left continues to form a circular firing squad, and now a divisive personal fight has broken out in the labor union on which Democrats have pinned so many hopes More

Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, Congressman William Jefferson and now the Governor of Puerto Rico. More

A 66 pound stash of uranium belonging to the narco-terrorist group FARC has been captured by the Colombian military. More

When it comes to the Constitution and guns, even those who do not own a firearm come down on the side of a broad interpretation of the 2nd Amendment: More

Predator drones have attacked several targets within Pakistan recently and the military has stepped up the number of Predator missions: More

Following a lengthy Freedom of Information quest, NRO's Stanley Kurtz lists foreign countries' contributions to U.S. college and universities. More

In a funny aside to Hill's Bosnia fantasy, the Washington Post says Clinton shouldn't have relied on one of its articles about travel by First Ladies because the information was factually incorrect More

The Iraqi government continued its crackdown on extremists in Basra as the Iraqi Army is proving itself to be if not extremely competent, at least eager for battle: More

If we can't accuse them of being unpatriotic, can we at least accuse some Democrats of being monumentally dense? More

A new Wall Street Journal-NBC poll shows that Barack Obama has escaped serious damage as a result of his association with racist preacher Jeremiah Wright. More

A fervent Christian critic of Islam points out the folly of the dead legalism of portions of sharia and then contrasts it with the spiritual appeal of Christianity on satellite TV. He is having an effect. More

Thanks to the release of Barack Obama's income tax records, we are finally able to get some necessary perspective on the big favor Tony Rezko did for the Obamas More

The national organization, Vets for Freedom, is currently sponsoring a Heroes Tour of American cities. Protestors kept them out of a school in Minnesota/ More

Once again, Obama distances himself from the statements of one of his advisers -- this time retired General McPeak: More

The Thomas More Law Center has issued an extremely troubling release suggesting former SecDef Rumsfeld was involved in politically influencing the Haditha investigation: More

The man responsible for the bloodiest terrorist bombing of the Palestinian uprising was captured yesterday by Israeli soldiers: More

This is not really news but its fun to tweak the Democrats with it: More

Good news for McCain. More

Moderate Democratic Governor of Tennessee Phil Bredesen has come up with what sounds like a great idea; More

Today's U.S. Armed Services are almost unique -- all volunteers. How many other American war forces in history can we say that about? More

It would seem the Democrat frontrunners have forgotten about how easy it is to expose liars. More

Basra is the flashpoint for an effort by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to get control of the vital southern city and clean out the militias who have infested it. More

French President Nicholas Sarkozy is the first world leader to publicly suggest that he would boycott the opening ceremonies of the Olympic games More

Behind the American left's outrage over our supposed sexist, racist society, is a profound provincialism. They simply don't seem to have much experience with how the rest of the world lives and thinks. More

AT political director will be the guest on Lori Lowenthal Marcus' radio show on Philadelphia radio station WNWR, between noon and 1 PM today, Eastern Daylight Time. An internet stream is available. More

A big part of the Barack Obama philosophy is to bring more money into poor neighborhoods by a variation of a well established Cook County Illinois policy, which I will call Robin Hood Populism. More

Barack and Michelle Obama just released their tax returns. Interesting. More

With its consistent left of center bias, CNN is usually worthy of criticism. But there's an exception and I'd like to give credit where credit is due More

County registrars across the state were inundated with last minute Republicans and independents seeking to comply with the law in this closed primary state: More

In 2006, the New York Times published an article headlined "Frog Killer is linked to global warming". However it was not true. The Times now has a half-hearted retraction More

The downturn is actually much worse in some individual cities. More

Two demonstrators were arrested at the Olympic torch lighting ceremony in Greece: More

A bipartisan consensus on Iraq has seemed unattainable for several years now. Miraculously, the American Enterprise Institute's surge planner, Fred Kagan may have just done it More

In a further sign that President Musharraf's days in office are probably numbered, the Pakistani Prime Minister has released the judges Musharraf detained in order to keep them from ruling his re-election illegal: More

Funny how the memory is the first thing to go - or so the Clinton campaign would have us believe. More

General McPeak's surprising views on Israel and the influence of American Jews on American foreign policy. More

This rabid Palestinian anti-Israel letter was published in Obama's Church bulletin last June. How many sermons, church bulletins and other activities of his crazypants pastor has Obama overlooked? More

This isn't very surprising given all politicians like to make it appear that they play a bigger role in events than they actually do. But this is just outrageous and goes too far: More

In case you were thinking of sitting through 4 1/2 hours of Frontline's documentary "Bush's War," forget about it. More

Web hosting company Network Solutions has suspeneded the website for Geert Wilder's anti-Muslim film Fitna, citing possible violations of their Terms of Service: More

For NATO as an organization, this may be the most serious crisis in its entire existence More

Judith Apter Klinghofer compares the story Obama has been telling about his "typical white" grandmother with the stories he told in his book about his grandparents.. More

Cardinal's Easter Sunday sermon was on "tolerance." More

In an effort to head off suits from angry shareholders, JP Morgan is raising its bid for the belaugured investment house Bear Stearns by a factor of 5: More

Democrat Presidential candidate Barack Obama engages in more obfuscation to bolster his sinking poll numbers. More

It looks as though Trinity United Church of Christ signed up for President Bush's Faith-based Community Initiatives Program. From the HHS website: More

Americans apparently have to look to Australia for truthful accounts of climate research conducted by our own space agency. More

First there was Jeremiah Wright. Is Emil Jones next? More

This is like some kind of PC nightmare dreamed up by diversity fanatics who were given permission to experiment at the student's expense: More

Suicide bombers, rockets fired into the Green Zone, gunmen spraying automatic weapons fire at civilians, truck bombs - Iraq exploded in violence in the last 24 hours More

Haaretz reports that captured documents show Saddam was targeting Israel and providing early release to criminals who carried out attacks on Israeli targets More

The Washington Post's ombudsman has a meandering, puzzling piece on the paper's coverage of the Wright matter More

Voters in Taiwan slapped down the pro-independence movement and elected a realist who pledged to work with China More

The domain registry of Dutch politician Gert Wilders, who is set to release a new movie critical of Islam, Fitna, has been frozen More

There has been much back and forth in the media in the days since Obama gave his speech, but I had to wait for the opinion that matters to me: More

Perhaps Mr. Obama is not so eager now to make this into a campaign issue. More

Change! That is what the Democrats promised when they took over Congress in 2006. Sure enough they were right and that is what we got. Here are some of the outcomes of them being in control. More

Must be nice to have your very own newspaper if you're a government. More

The latest news from the Rasmussen Tracking Poll is very encouraging for McCain. Obama's favorable-unfavorable is 46 to 51, its all time low, demonstrating no ability yet to stanch the bleeding. More

Are we a democracy? Or a republic? More

Kyle-Anne Shiver, our frequent contributor, will be a guest on the radio program Loud and Clear, hosted by Keith Rasmussen on radio station WCTC-AM in New Jersey. The show begins at 6:05 PM Eastern Daylight Time, and can be heard on the internet More

It will be hard to spin this news as anything except a disaster for American policy: More

The Democratic Party continues to lurch toward a tragic denouement in Denver for its nomination process. A group called "Recreate 68" promises mischief. More

Bizzy Blog clues us in on Obama's two step on Hamas. More

AT political director Richard Baehr will be a guest on the Milt Rosenberg Show on Chicago's WGN radio tonight at 9 PM Central Daylight Time. An internet feed is available More

The day after an Arab gunman infiltrated the Mercaz Yeshiva in Jerusalem, murdered eight students and wounded eleven, the front page of the Chicago Tribune showed a mother prostrate in grief. The mother was not related to any of the eight victims More

Bookworm performs a thought experiment: what if we agree with Pastor Wright's diagnosis of America as irredeemably racist? What then do blacks want? More

The United Nations says it needs more money - lots more. More

Blogger Tim Blumer did the work the MSM wouldn't, and examined the back issues of the Trinity United Church of Christ's Bulletin. More

The highly respected Pew Research Cemter has published a new poll showing that Democrats own a decided advantage in party identification More

When Barack Obama uses an awkward expression in a scripted speech, it is deliberate; the text has been finely polished. More

Ed Morrissey of Hot Air points us to this incredible story of a domesteic terrorist released from prison after serving only 6 years of a 12 year sentence. More

This is such a disturbing story on a couple of levels that we have to be careful before all the facts are in before we start assessing blame. More

This isn't a huge surprise to campaign observers who saw Richardson's foreign policy stance much closer to Obama than Hillary. More

For all his gifts with words, Barack Obama is raising more questions as he speaks about his relationship with Pastor Wright without benefit of the careful scripting of a speech. More

Two employees under contract to the State Department have been let go and another disciplined for violating the privacy of Senator Barack Obama and snooping in his passport files: More

Barack Obama adjusts his vocal intonations to fit his audience. It makes us wonder, "what does his authentic voice sound like?" Like all of us, he only gets one true voice. More

Aside from giving federal tax deductions to donors to Reverend Wright's church, how many taxpayer's dollars found their way there and.... More

The headlines of the article written by Fox Butterfield that appeared in the February 6, 1990 issue of the New York Times read "First Black Elected to Head Harvard's Law Review." More

Hundreds of Chinese troops fanned out over the Tibetan capitol of Llahsa in a show of force designed to intimidate demonstrators who have been protesting the Chinese occupation: More

Britain's Gurkha soldiers, renowned for their bravery and strength, are being paid far lower pensions than their fellow soldiers of British citizenship More

The daily Rasmussen poll out today shows John McCain upping his national lead over Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama significantly: More

A disturbing pattern of double lives emerges in the Barack Obama camp. It turns out that his top adviser David Axelrod often credited with masterminding Barack Obama's campaign strategy has a double life More

Every time I read something like this, I want to reach out across the Atlantic Ocean and grab some stupid European lefitst and shake some sense into him: More

I guess when it comes to hate, we should "understand" the kind spouted by Reverend Wright but not the New Black Panther Party: More

I am sure that there is some importance attached to the release of 18,000 pages of Hillary's schedule while she was First Lady but for the life of me, I can't see it. More

Is Osama really still alive? More

Pastor Jeremiah Wright insulted, in a vile, sexist and racist manner, the Secretary of State. More

While Secretary of State Rice and her State Department and President Bush babble happily about Israeli-Arab "peace talks", reality violently intrudes. More

The Palm Beach County School Board is being sued by the ACLU (on behalf of parents and students, of course) for "failing to provide students with a high-quality education guaranteed under the state constitution". More

Kyle-Anne Shiver has some very personal reflections on the Obama speech. Our frequent contributor now her own blog More

The Pakistani parliament has been seated and their first order of business was the election of a female speaker - a first in Pakistan's history: More

Did they do nothing except partake in illicit sexual trysts in the Spitzer Administration? More

Unless some miracle formula can be found in the next few days, it appears that revote primaries in both Michigan and Florida will not happen. More

The Democrats say he did. So does the Washington Post which, we all know, is basically the same thing: More

"I said that dirty word again, Israel." This was one of the many disparaging remarks Obama's pastor Jeremiah Wright made about Israel More

Several court watchers believe that the Heller case which challenges the Washington, D.C. gun ban will make history: More

Barack Obama can't abandon his pastor? Really, it's that he won't. It's a conscious choice he's making because he knows full well that doing so would cost him most of his Black support More

For 20 years, Obama's kids sat in a pew and listened to Reverend Wright spew his poison. But Obama says that the next generation will be the healers of our racial divide. How? More

Noel Sheppard of Newsbusters thinks Barack Obama blew his big chance with yesterday's speech, justifying instead of rejecting his Pastor's hateful rhetoric More

On Tuesday, CNN fully lived up to its reputation as left of center, on a day when Sen. Barack Obama was desperately trying to put the Rev. Jeremiah Wright scandal behind him. More

Science Fiction writer extraordinaire Sir Arthur C. Clarke died Tuesday at the age of 90. More

If in their close twenty year association Obama was not able to move Rev. Wright off his divisive hatred and correct his many historical errors, why are we to suppose he could unite a nation, millions of whom didn't and would never vote for him?Why should we believe his explanation for not... More

Rick Moran will be joined by Ed Lasky and Richard Baher tonight for political analysis carried on the internet at Blog Talk Radio. The fun starts at 7 PM Central Time. More

Politico notices a contradiction between Obama's speech today and an earlier statement. More

Commentators weigh in. Will be updated as the day goes along. More

The ever-alert Steve Gilbert of Sweetness & Light catches the Obama campaign website advertising the New Black Panther Party. More

Florida Democrats have given up all hope of holding another nominating contest that would allow them representation at the Convention in August: More

What Obama needs to do, he can't do. More

The top 100 political donors of the 2008 election cycle are listed in OpenSecrets.org . First, note how few of these big donors lean Republican: only 12 of the top 100. More

New York's new governor David Paterson has admitted he carried on extramarital affairs during a rocky period in his marriage. More

The most important 2nd Amendment case to make it to the Supreme Court in many years will be heard today as the Justices will be forced to address at least some gun control and gun rights issues: More

Judith A. Klinghofer cites a passage from Barack Obama's first autobiography to remember when listening to his speech today More

Violence that began last week in Tibet's capitol city of Lhasa has spread to neighboring provinces as sympathy demonstrations broke out in Sichuan and cities as far away as Beijing. More

In a crisis like the one facing Obama, one of the worst things you can do is send out spokesmen who give false statements or who contradict eachother. More

White America was jubilant to be "post racial." People were spellbound by Barack Obama, as were Rev. Wright's congregants. More

Barack Obama's church joins the Barack Obama campaign in deep-sixing embarrassing website postings. More

The New York Times today carries the news that, "The New York Times Company has struck a deal with a pair of hedge funds that want to shake up the company" More

A poll conducted by several western news agencies and polling groups surveyed more than 2200 Iraiqs and found a considerable improvement in their outlook compared to a similar poll taken last August: More

Well, so much for the "politics of hope and change:" More

Bruce Walker's article "The Lawyer's Party" makes good points. But he neglects a crucial factor giving lawyers influence on the Democratic Party: money. More

The iconoclastic Asia Times columnist Spengler explains black liberation theology for us and details why it is uniquely inconsistent with American Christian thought. More

The prospect of some kind of revote in Florida has hit another snag as it appears the idea for a mail in primary is dead: More

I suppose we shouldn't have expected an apology but the virulence with which Reverend Jeremiah Wright's old church goes after the media for reporting the truth of Wright's sermons is a little startling: More

Major media figures are beginning to notice that Barack isn't perfect. More

Can the candidate survive? More

Once again, genealogy sleuths have in investigated the Irish ancestry of the leading candidates for president and discovered that two out of three have Irish roots. More

Over the weekend, the Federal Reserve opened a $30 billion line of credit for the purchase of troubled investment bank Bear Sterns and promised an open ended lending program for the biggest investment firms on Wall Street: More

Steve Gilbert of Sweetness & Light notices that Pastor Jeremiah Wright, Jr. has become a non-person on the Barack Obama campaign website. More

Today's New York Times carries a puff piece on Robert Malley, a figure of some controversy because of his views on Israel. More

At least 7 missiles struck a house near the Afghan border identified by local tribesmen as a militant's home, killing a reported 20 people. More

Iowa Democrats convened their county conventions yesterday and thanks to the withdrawal of John Edwards, Barack Obama picked up 9 of the 14 delegates at stake: More

Barack Obama showed very poor judgment when he accepted $250,000 of campaign funds from indicted slumlord Tony Resko, who was Obama's first substantial contributor More

For old-timers like me, there's nothing new about women shrieking and swooning while an anemically thin, bony faced young man croons to them. More

Rioting spread to several other provinces in Tibet after demonstrations in Lhasa become violent: More

Richard Perle reminds us why we invaded, what we achieved, where and why we erred and the present situation More

While his Democratic rivals clobber each other back home, John McCain is in Iraq getting a feel for the situation on the ground and talking with military and diplomatic leaders about the future: More

Former Enron Chief Skilling's is making a very explosive charge, apparently with evidentiary warrant, that the prosecution in Enron improperly withheld exculpatory evidence in its possession More

Much has rightly been made of Wright's tirades, but somehow less of the agitated anger of his congregants. More

Barack Obama, the uniter across party lines, across religions, across racial divides, wasn't always Mr. Sunshine. More

It was just a year ago (March 6, 2007) when Bill Burton, Obama's campaign spokesperson, told the New York Times that "Senator Obama is proud of his pastor and his church..." More

This is a quiz.Question 1: Imagine that person A hears person B give sermons which are filled with hatred for the U.S.A..... More

After some online negotiations months ago The Iraq Veterans Against the War agreed to allow what can be called "opposition" milbloggers to attend the Winter Soldier Investigation now being held More

Christian Lowe, writing in the Weekly Standard, examines the politics and theatrics over the Air Force Tanker deal. It is well worth a read. More

Over the course of his intellectually and physically active life Arthur Conan Doyle somehow found the time to write many hundreds of letters, constituting a personal chronicle by the creator of Sherlock Holmes More

The reform of the Foreign Intelligence and Surveillance Act that would expand the government's ability to record some kinds of communications passed the House yesterday More

The behind the scene machinations of the national party and the respective campaigns of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are reaching a fever pitch as Michigan is moving toward a June primary while Florida remains hopelessly deadlocked. More

First, it was $60,000. Then the press discovered it was closer to $150,000. Now Obama himself admits that indicted Chicago fixer Tony Rezko raised $250,000 over the years for his campaigns More

Buddhist monks and Tibetan nationals battled police and burned cars and shops as the worst violence to break out in that occupied country since the late 1980's threatened to throw a monkey wrench into the Chinese government's Olympic plans: More

Barack Obama returned to his day job, Democratic senator from Illinois, for awhile Thursday practicing the same old, trying to send a cool million dollars to his wife's employer, and goodies to supporters More

Initial news stories about the Joint Forces Command report on the Saddam-Al Qaeda link featured headlines and gloating passage that no such link existed. The actual report disagrees with that verdict. More

For 25 years, I was the pastor of congregations in a mainline protestant denomination. It doesn't take a preacher long to understand why people join a church, why they stay, and why they leave. More

One candidate promises to unite us, but is personally close with people who are pretty angry. What's up with that? More

Don't miss this excellent article to the effect that Spitzer's big crimes were professional and his personal failings merely an extension of his sociopathic behavior in office. More

Take a deep breath folks. The next few months are liable to get very bumpy and very wild: More

Barack Obama exposes his daughters to the rants of Pastor Wright. How is that for judgment and responsibility? More

Incredible stupidity? Or rank bias? You decide. More

I don't know if this revelation will hurt Obama or not. More

Dr. Jeremiah Wright Jr. has been saying things like "God damn America" for a couple of decades to a congregation that has grown to the thousands, and his sermons only go out via webcast, podcast, telecast, broadcast, cable cast. More

Top commander in Iraq General David Petreaus is dissatisfied with the progress being made by the Iraqi government toward reconciliation: More

Sixty three years after the Holocaust, my mother, who is an eighty-year-old survivor does not know under what circumstances her parents, 2 brothers, and sister died. More

The American left likes to throw around the term "imperialism" and "hegemony" to describe our nation and its policies. More

Terrorists utilized contemporary technology to extend the perverted party celebration following the slaughter of eight unarmed teen aged students in Jerusalem last week. More

Neither the VVAW or the IVAW, discussed yesterday by Kyle-Anne Shiver, are the original Winter Soldiers. That honor goes to those who stood by George Washington through the winter of 1776-77. More

There is a certain type of business promoter who solicits money from wealthy overseas private investors, and proves his bona fides and influence in America by displaying access to powerful politicians. More

John Berlau of the Competitive Enterprise Institute identifies the best reason of all to be thankful Eliot Spitzer is gone, and it involves federalism. More

Another primary in Michigan, run by the state but financed by the state party, may be in the offing according to party sources: More

A day after Israel and Hamas agreed to an "unofficial truce," a barrage of 15 rockets targeted the western Negev: More

The State Dept. is in a hole and can't stop digging. More

Yeah, but you better not call them unpatriotic. More

A significant surge in public support for the war in Iraq threatens to upend expectations for the November election from president on down. More

When will Obama acknowledge his pastor's racism? More

The list of possible charges against Spitzer makes his predicament no laughing matter. More

When I was a child, a great American gave a speech which transformed the country and left an indelible impression on my soul. Today I think of the dream then and the dream now. More

No surprise although one wonders what went on behind the scenes that brought this about: More

Questioning liberal orthodoxy will land this brilliant writer in hot water with the left. More

The BBC shows that faking news stories isn't only confined to American and French news networks: More

Florida Democrats thought they had a plan that would allow for a mail in primary thus making it possible for their delegates to be seated at the convention in August. More

If there was any doubt about who calls the shots for Hezb'allah, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad made it clear for all to see: More

Vaclav Klaus, the President of the Czech Republic, has lived under Soviet tyranny so he knows first-hand the characteristics of totalitarians. Here's his latest essay: "Climate alarmists pose real threat to freedom". More

Obama wins Mississippi but Dems focus is on Pennsylvania. More

There just might be a way for Hillary and Bill to force Obama on the lower half of the ticket, More

Lost: One Super Delegate from the Hillary Clinton camp. Disgraced and humiliated Governor Eliot Spitzer is certain to be a casualty here More

Political analysis that puts everyone else to shame. More

Two seperate suicide bombers took a heavy toll on US servicemen in Iraq, pointing up the continuing danger of al-Qaeda in some parts of the country. More

It turns out that the "tragedy" includes the fact that his opponents on Wall Street and the GOP get to laugh at his hypocrisy. More

I took my troubles down to Madame X/ Hey, you know it's just a-bout sex/ She's got a pad painted puce and lime/ Sellin' little bimbos to Love Client Number Nine More

This has al-Qaeda written all over it: More

Eliot Spitzer's sordid saga also teaches the importance of the often underrated choice a leader makes in selecting his second in command More

Eliot Spitzer's troubles offer an interesting unfolding case study in the way the media handles an embarrassment by a prominent Democrat. Clay Waters of Timeswatch monitored how the Gray Lady dithered yesterday More

Saddam documents used for the first time in studying intel on the road to war. More

Senior citizens across the country are cutting out coupons and sending them to military families based overseas so that they can redeem them at the military commissaries on bases: More

More than a prostitution sting is involved, according to LA prosecutor and blogger Patterico. More

Tom Maguire takes a good look at Bill and Hillary's role in the Rwanda massacre and concludes Samantha Power was right, Hillary is a monster More

I believe that the theory of man made global warming has it genesis in Thomas Malthus and his predecessors and successors like Paul Erlich. What these folks are really looking for is a replacement for original sin More

Those inhabitants of Gaza are supposed to be suffering because the nasty Israelis are supposedly denying them food, water, electricity and other essentials just because the Gazans are bombing Israel while vowing to eliminate the country and its citizens. Look a little deeper... More

On last night's local news my ABC affiliate WLOS ran a long piece on McCain that consisted entirely of what they called bloopers from the past week. More

James Lewis' piece on global warming epicycles is very well done. However, I must take exception to his use of the Galileo myth More

And here I thought Berkeley was bad.... More

Catholic Church adapting to the 21st century. More

In his press briefing yesterday, Multi-National Force Iraq spokesman Rear Adm. Greg Smith made it very clear that Iran continues to train people for terrorist operations within Iraq. More

Even a casual perusal of the paper by Miskolcki's discussed in James Lewis' article today gives a hint as to the overwhelming complexity of atmospheric science. More

Which way shall I turn?/ Oh, how I yearn/ To have this puzzle solved for me./ His adorable ears/ Or her heartfelt tears?/ Is it Barack or is it Hillary? More

The two parties who are forming a coalition government in Pakistan have agreed to reinstate the Supreme Court judges that President Musharraf removed more than 4 months ago and placed under house arrest. More

Race baiting preacher Al Sharpton is threatening a lawsuit if the Democratic party seats Florida's delegates at the convention based on the primary held last January: More

One of the cruelest and most telling barbarities of Hamas is its use of civilians (especially children) as human shields More

Carbon offsets got ya down? Worried about how we're going to reduce emissions to levels mandated by the Kyoto accords? More

There are few countries on earth where a government could get away with this: More

Muqtada al-Sadr, the firebrand anti-American Shia cleric whose Mahdi Militia has fought the US military almost constantly since the occupation began has up and gone missing. More

We all knew the race-gender-homophobe card would be played at some point in this election. Well, it just happened More

In 1971 the Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW) held their Winter Soldier Investigation (WSI) during which over one hundred members told often lurid stories of war crimes and atrocities. Get ready for the next round. More

Some distressing news: MI5 agents have identified FOUR London Met officers after searching for a cell of fanatics passing Scotland Yard's secrets More

Indicted Chicago fixer Antoin "Tony" Rezko and his cronies contributed at lesat three times more to Barack Obama over the years than the candidate has admitted: More

For those sci-fi fans among you who've been watching the Hillary-Obama slugfest, here's an interesting take from a Dune fan More

Ironically and sadly, Samatha Power's calling Hillary Clinton a "monster" undermines the important task to which she has been so consistently and effectively dedicated -- the prevention of genocide. More

Ha'aretz is reporting that according to Palestinian sources, the Lebanese terrorist group Hezb'allah cooperated in the attack in Jerusalem that killed 8 seminary students: More

There weren't that many delegates at stake in Wyoming but Hillary Clinton made a late effort any way to see if she could keep the momentum going from her victories last Tuesday: More

It's easy to read way too much into this result - so of course, the media and Democrats are doing so. More

Reporter Todd Spivak relates how Barack Obama screamed at him over the phone in 2004. Therein lies a tale few know of Obama's career in Illinois politics. More

The U.S. State Department Blog asks a shocking question. More

There is no chance that those two states would ever cooperate...right? More

In the past few days the literary world claims to be astonished at the latest news of outright fraud. More

What happens if, despite leading in the pledged delegate count, Barack Obama fails to gain the Democratic nomination for president? More

The leaders of 4 South American countries who seemed on the verge of war have pulled back from teh abyss More

The House Appropriations State-Foreign Operations Subcommittee hearing challenged Deputy Secretary of State John D. Negroponte's request for additional funding for the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' government More

The resignation of unpaid foriegn policy advisor Samantha Powers over what the Weekly Standard refers to as "what might have been the most ill-starred book tour since the invention of movable type" is still roiling the campaign More

CNN's Fionnuala Sweeney tries to get the Jerusalem Post's David Horowitz to agree to her typical moral relativistic slant on the Mercaz Harav massacre of eight unarmed teen aged students. However, this time she has the bad luck to have found an eloquent voice of reason. More

Unnoticed by the MSM, "Nine consecutive demonstrations at Shiraz University continued yesterday, with more than 3,000 students" More

Barack Obama has pledged work to "rebuild what I consider to be a historic relationship between the African-American community and the Jewish community." Now he has been presented with a prime opportunity for him to join actions with words. More

The 3 a.m. phone call ad by Hillary has inspired some interesting studies. More

Samantha Power, Barack Obama's top foreign policy advisor, has now compiled quite a record of statements that raise the question of Senator Obama's judgment in choosing her to be his foreign policy major domo. More

Since the beginning of 2008, the ISX is up 9%, a gain which essentially started in the middle of February. More

Senator Mark Kirk (R-IL) sent the following letter today to World Bank President Robert Zoellick regarding Bank disbursements to Iran. More

Are speculators about to get their comeuppance? More

Michelle Malkin has a terrific "Special Report" up on her blog today about the increasing number of attacks on military recruitment centers across the country. More

File this one under "Least Surprising Move in the Middle of a Presidential Campaign." More

That didn't take long. More

Samantha Power's "monster" reference to Hillary likely will see the unpaid advisor depart. More

Losing the presidency has been very, very good for Al Gore More

A classic gaffe -- telling the truth by mistake -- was committed by Susan Rice, the Barack Obama foreign policy advisor. More

Man, you knew this was coming: More

Today, the fifth anniversary of President Bush's press conference less than two weeks before the invasion of Iraq, Greg Mitchell, editor of Editor and Publisher reminisces about the questions asked by the media then. More

"From Ghoulies and Ghosties and long legged Global Warming Fanatics, Oh Lord, deliver us..." More

How much comfort can pro-Israel voters take in a candidate whose possible Secretary of State feels free to characterize legitimate concerns and questions as revolving around the issue of "is it good for the Jews"? More

Michelle Cottle at The New Republic has a spot on analysis of the sensitivity of the media towards Obama ever since that hilarious Saturday Night Live skit portraying famous media personalities all atwitter over getting to question the Illinois senator. More

A small bomb went off in front of the New York City Armed Forces Recruiting Center early this morning blowing out windows and shutting down traffic for several hours: More

A little history lesson from Ed. More

The grandson of "The Apostle of Non-Violence" proves himself a closet hater. More

Professional Cold War disinformation veterans could not have done a better job to bring a country to its knees than the mainstream media did for Kenya. More

McCain has his pick of running mates, but Rudy stands out. More

Previously, we reported the suspicious timing of Amgen executives making large donations to Speaker Pelosi's campaign just before she submitted a bill that would likely increase that company's bottom line. More

Senator Barack Obama's most senior military advisor, retired General Merrill McPeak, blames President George Bush for Iran's anti-Americanism. This is a shocking statement by any standard More

We all knew that the Russian plutocracy is becoming as authoritarian. Now the Russian government is going after bloggers. More

BBC radio recently featured Samantha Power, one of Barack Obama's top foreign policy advisers. She said something tht ought to raise eyebrows. More

This may be the silliest, the stupidest measure ever passed by any town in American history. More

With the prospect of a bloody convention fight now staring Democrats squarely in the face, talk has been revived of making the two front runners ticket mates More

Michelle Obama nugget at The New Yorker: More

OMG! You can't trust anyone anymore -- not even Oprah! More

Senator John McCain swept all four primaries last night and garnered enough delegates to put him over the top and allow him to clinch the Republican nomination for president: More

On the heels of Israel's incursion into Gaza to destroy launching sites for Kassam rockets, US Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice paid a visit to several Middle East capitols trying to jump start the peace process. More

Hillary Clinton won 3 of the 4 primaries at stake last night - including the vital Ohio and Texas contests - to extend her campaign another few weeks until at least the Pennsyvania primary of April 22: More

The childish retort taunt "It takes one to know one" came to mind reading Mr. Valerie Plame's (otherwise known as Joseph C. Wilson) denunciation of Saint Barak H. Obama More

As it pertains to his position on Iran, will the real Barack Obama please stand up! More

As if it weren't bad enough that liberals are always going around finding stuff in the Constitution that isn't there, Barack Obama is now embracing a "living Bible" to complement the "Living Constitution." More

Talking with reporters yesterday, Multi-National Force commander, Gen. David Petraeus previewed his generally optimistic assessment of the situation in Iraq. More

One of the claims of leftist critics of the war and occupation in Iraq is that we have supposedly alienated Iraqis and now Al Qaeda has a strong presence there. More

AT political director Richard Baehr will be the guest of syndicated talk show host Michael Medved in the first hour of his show today. (Update: the appearance was delayed one hour.) Tonight, he will join Rick Moran for election analysis on Blog Talk Radio. More

Some of the most important talk radio outlets in the country face a serious crisis, thanks to a botched buyout of the former ABC/Disney owned stations by Citadel Broadcasting. More

Sharpe James, former mayor of Newark, NJ, went on trial yesterday for fraud in a federal courthouse. It promises to be highly colorful. More

Once again, Michael Totten ventured into Iraq in order to give us a grunt's eye view of the war as well as some outstanding analysis of what is going on in that still war torn country. More

Today is the last day that New York Times newsroom employees have to accept buyouts or face the possibility of lay-offs. The newsroom is to be downsized by about 100. More

Poised to go to war against Colombia, Hugo Chavez can still count on many Democrats in Congress to support him despite his saber ratttling and anti-Semitic rants. More

Once again, Israel finds itself between a rock and a hard placeBut every move of self-defense is condemned by the "international community". Mortar shells and the inaccurate Qassam rockets from Gaza continue to rain down upon nearby Israeli cities. More

It was a very uncomfortable 15 minutes for the candidate. More

Has Hillary Clinton stopped the bleeding? More

Both Durban II - the next round of talks on "racism" - and the UN Human Rights Council have degenerated into anti-Israeli forums. Will a President Obama boycott them? More

Rezko, Tony Rezko how will your renown grow?/ It's a name not known to fame, but it soon may be found so. More

Steve Gilbert finds interviews of Obama in 2004, now scrubbed from the Chicago Tribune website and the internet, and discovers Obama was opposed to gay marriage and for preemptive airstrikes against Iran (and Pakistan should the jihadis succeed in ousting Musharraf there). More

With growing economic woes and a poor showing in recent national elections, maybe Hugo Chavez has found a different path to the government he wants? More

Martin Kramer takes on Samantha Power, the important Barack Obama foreign policy advisor, someone with a history of hostility toward Israel. More

Undoubtedly thrilled at Jay Rockefeller's endorsement of him in which he referred to Obama as "brilliant", Obama makes a major blunder. More

Does anyone remember how South Africa was shunned in the era of racial apartheid? It was simply unthinkable that a major university would enter into a deal with such a government. But when it comes to the gender apartheid of Saudi Arabia, it's a different story. More

The man who tantalizes the unhappy voter with promises of change may be discovering that this diplomacy stuff is a little more difficult than it looked. More

The United States bombed a house in Dobley, Somalia hitting a site where terrorists had been holed up: More

Still denying there might be a terrorist connection, authorities are searching the Utah home of a man lying in criticial condition in a hospital who stayed in a hotel room where a quantity of the deadly toxin Ricin was discovered: More

Threats of terrorist actions against Saudi citizens has prompted the government to urge non essential personnel to leave Lebanon in the next 48 hours. More

Hamas has declared "victory" after Israel has pulled its ground troops from Gaza following several days of intensive operations More

After months of mainly being a local story with occasional forays by the national media into the swampy mess of corruption in Illinois politics, the story of Barack Obama friend of 17 years and major fund raiser Antoin "Tony" Rezko appears to have finally penetrated the screen of good press around the canddate and may start to take a toll on his popularity. More

Gloria Steinem, considered by many to be the great great grandmother of the feminist movement, is stuck in a time warp of her glory days, now many years behind her. More

As Ben-Peter Terpstra says in his article "The First Congresswoman", Rankin's character traits are much preferred over Hillary's phony accomplishments. Ben does however, gloss over her "anti-WW I" views and her later "anti-WW II views," if one could call them... More

John McCain's straight talk about the possible length of U.S. presence in Iraq opened him up to a distorted quote by Barack Obama. More

In responding to Hillary Clinton's latest ad, the Obama campaign has once again slipped the name "Hussein" down the memory hole. Specifically Saddam Hussein. More

These days Obama cannot remind us enough that he voted against authorizing force in Iraq and Clinton authorized it More

The boys at Powerline, who played a big role in Rathergate, have once again shown 60 Minutes to be a partisan tool. More

File this one under "Least surprising electoral result in history." More

Following the death of a significant rebel leader at the hands of the Columbian military, Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez has ordered thousands of troops to the border and closed the Venezuelan embassy in Bogata: More

In response to a rain of Kassam rockets on Israeli towns, the IDF has entered Gaza in force and is cleaning out suspected launch sites as well as punishing Hamas: More

The National Intelligence Estimate that claimed Iran stopped their nuclear weapons program in 2003 received another blow to its credibility More

Holden Beck, a high school wrestler from High Point, NC, went from near death to wheelchair to crutches to repeating as state champion wrestler in 59 days. More

Seeking to end the campaign for the Democratic nomination on Tuesday, Senator Barack Obama is using his large money advantage to overwhelm the Clinton campaign in a blizzard of advertising and a huge get out the vote effort. More

Much has been made of the amateur hour quality of Obama's foreign policy pronouncements. We have a concrete example of what happened when one of his top foreign policy advisors got her way during the Clinton presidency. More

Hillary Clinton made a surprise appearance on SNL last night and by all accounts, came off more human and approachable than most thought her capable: More

Today the Navy christens the USS New York, an amphibious transport dock ship sporting a bow-stem forged from over 7 tons of steel salvaged from ground zero. More

After tarring and feathering and discriminating against the Duke lacrosse members at a critical juncture in their college careers and lives, the Duke Administration has gone to court trying to shut down the players' website More

The Weekly Standard notes the passing of William Buckley this past week by having 5 excellent writers eulogize the great conservative. More

While the New York Philharmonic fiddled in their cultural breakthrough concert in North Korea, 22 North Koreans were executed for being suspected of trying to leave the country. More

Women had never been used as suicide bombers in Iraq so when they started to show up in crowds, they killed hundreds of people. More

Here is my take on the Democratic rhetoric in all of this: did you know there is no pipeline going from west to east in Canada? Ontario, Quebec and the Maraitime provinces get most of their oil from foreign supplies. More

Antoin (Tony) Rezko is not the only troubling source of political funds for Barack Obama to come out of the milieu of Chicago Democrat politics More

Guess who Nancy Pelosi's biggest donor was last year. If you want to know why this matters, read this article about all the money involved. Of course, the major media does not think this is the least bit worthy of note. More

Antoin "Tony" Rezko goes on trial next Monday on bribery and extortion charges in a case that promises to reveal several shady characters with ties to Barack Obama: More

The case we reported on yesterday where a case full of the deadly toxin Ricin was found in a Las Vegas hotel room is taking on a surreal quality. More

Reaction to Hilalry Clinton's "nuclear" ad shows that the piece may be backfiring on the candidate. More

Some speculation on just what kind of Supreme Court Justices Obama would name based on what he has said in the past. More