130,000 dead or missing and yet the Burmese government continues its iron grip on relief supplies. More

Followers of radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr have called for a referendum before any deal reached between the Iraqi government and the US military on maintaining troops in the country after 2008: More

Sam Stein of Huffington Post is reporting that two top level sources are saying that a compromise on seating the Florida delegation at the Democratic convention has been reached: More

A new report out today on the worldwide food shortage castigates the west and especially the United States for their biofuels policies More

This is actually pretty clever politically although come November not too many people are going to remember it. More

Pfleger may do for Obama what Reverend Wright could never do; destroy his candidacy. More

A mixed bag for the Arizona senator but he is helped tremendously by the weakness of Obama as a candidate. More

Senator Clinton enjoyed extraordinary success at raising money in and around the border town of McAllen. How has Obama done? More

If you want another proof that the Catholic Church has completely lost control of its ordained priests, consider another one of Obama's mentors, one Father Michael Pfleger More

CIA Chief Michael Hayden, in an interview with the Washington Post, updates us on the war against al-Qaeda and there was much to cheer about: More

Obama is outpacing McCain in all aspects of internet campaigning. More

GOP Presidential standard bearer from 1996 Bob Dole couldn't sit by a let Scott McClellan bask in the glow of media acceptance as a result of his book meeting with the approval of the anti-Bush crowd. More

Night and day? More like adult and child. More

Gallup is reporting today that Barack Obama's lead over Hillar Clinton for the Democratic nomination has surged into double digits again: More

Leave it to the Wall Street Journal's John Fund to give us the definitive article on the many and wonderful gaffes supplied by Barack Obama. More

It appears that Clinton will lose her bid to seat all the FL and MI delegates at the convention. More

Politico has a good story up today about Obama's problems with support among white women and how his favorability ratings with that group has tanked since February: More

A radical priest endorses "Minister" Farrakhan. More

Where does he get these "men of God?" More

The American people by a 2-1 margin believe we're in recession. But the economy refuses to cooperate More

The man Hezb'allah has called a "tool of America" and a "dictator" has been re-appointed Prime Minister by the majority March 14th party in Lebanon: More

Things are starting to get a little dicey for Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. More

Making it clear that she will not allow any convention challenges by the Clinton campaign, Speaker Nancy Pelosi says that the nomination race will be over before the middle of June: More

You've heard of Moveon.org and Code Pink - two radical leftist groups seeking to elect out and out socialists to public office and who are fierce opponents of the capitalist sysetm. More

This primary season has me feeling increasingly uneasy. As a Democrat, I initially attributed this to the mounting dread at the prospect of my (not for much longer) party nominating a neophyte for President of the United States. More

In one of the least surprising facts to come out of the publishing of Scott McClellan's hit job on President Bush is the knowledge that the book was edited and published by people with far left political leanings. More

I have been following politics for a while. Since 1952. I have never seen the conventional wisdom about an election more baseless. More

It is an absolute joy and a real kick to read the passionate, heart-warming, punchy reader responses to your AT articles and blogs. More

Analysts are claiming that foreign companies are buying more American factory goods and cushioning the blow for many. More

Barack Obama seems to have realized that he dug himself a hole when he promised meetings with no preconditions with Ahmedinejad and other tyrants. The media will provide plenty of cover for him. More

The powerful Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak issued a statement calling on Prime Minister Olmert to step aside: More

Scott McClellan's tell-all book is making big waves. The backstory is not. More

Two pundits on one of D.C.'s most enlightened programs, the All Star Panel on Fox's "Special Report," may have learned something yesterday. More

In what is sure to be a huge disappointment to the Clinton campaign, DNC lawyers are saying there is no way that the Rules and Bylaws Committee can restore full delegate representation to Florida and Michigan before the convention. More

The liberal recipe of higher taxes and more government as a cure for economic distress sparks a vicious cycle of diminished employment, higher demand for services, lower tax revenues and consequent deficits. Michigan provides the latest example. More

Is it that he doesn't want to know what's really going on? Or does Barack Obama feel no good purpose could be served by a joint visit to Iraq with John McCain? More

Czech President Vaclav Klaus has offered to debate Gore on global warming. More

A large part of the battle in any political contest is getting your supporters to the polls in order to vote for you. More

It is no longer out of the question that the Democrats could gain a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate. More

Among the more shameful political episodes in local American and British politics of the last few years, the accepting of subsidized oil from Marxist dictator-wannabe Hugo Chavez ranks among the most obvious. One man has the courage to stop. More

Author George Monbiot (original inspiration for the term "moonbat") has declared that this coming Wednesday, after former UN Ambassador John Bolton speaks, that he plans to arrest the American for "war crimes." More

The Democrats' genius front runner continued his non-stop gaffe parade yesterday. More

Note to Iran apologists: Even the United Nations nuclear watchdog - a notoriously anti-American group and obsessively non-confrontational - isn't satisfied with Iranian explanations about its nuclear enrichment activities: More

In today's Wall Street Journal, Doug Feith has an article further detailing what I had noted in my review of his book, War and Decision. More

Another month, another record drop in home prices and there appears to be no relief in sight: More

Barack Obama is the one American Marxists have been waiting for. Just look at his endorsements. So writes AT frequent contributor Kyle-Anne Shiver today at National Review Online. More

'Genius' actress on the Chinese quake. More

A foreign policy adviser of presidential candidate Barack Obama, Zbigniew Brzezinski, accused members of the American Jewish establishment of "McCarthyism" in its attitude towards critics of Israel More

Barack Obama's core campaign document is not just electioneering eyewash. It's conveys his intended presidential agenda. More

As a private corporation, Subway is free to include or exclude anyone from their essay contest. So why are homeschoolers so offended by this? More

In a move with unknown consequences for the presidential race, the Libertarian Party went ahead and selected former Georgia GOP Congressman Bob Barr as their nominee for president: More

A botched customs test at Narita Airport in Tokyo has bestowed an unusual welcome present on an unknown arriving passenger. More

In a jaw dropping feat of engineering and technical wizardry, NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander touched down on the surface of the Red Planet at 7:53 EDT last night More

Paul Lukasiak has made a compelling case that the more Democratic voters learn about Obama and the more likely it is that he will be the nominee, the less they are for him and the more they indicate a preference for Hillary. More

George F. Will has an outstanding column today about the very last surviving veteran of World War I: More

The former president is in a hole and can't stop digging More

According to the US military, attacks against coalition forces and Iraqi civilians dropped to just 300 last week compared to 1600 a week last June. This represents the lowest number of attacks in that country in 4 years: More

Subway sandwich shops have chosen to sponsor a story-writing contest for students. But why has the chain chosen to exclude home schoolers? More

Millions of Americans gathered as I did this Monday morning to celebrate a day that was originally called Decoration Day, first observed on May 30, 1868, as a day to remember the patriots who died in the Civil War. More

Memorial Day is also a day for remembering the hundreds of thousands of men and women who are even now risking their lives for us More

How are we supposed to take this man seriously for the position of commander in chief? Little Green Footballs snags Obama in a stunning error More

Why is it so hard for Americans to learn about the successes of our war on terror? More

After six months without a president, Lebanon's Parliament finally elected Army Chief Michel Suleiman as a successor to Emile Lahoud: More

Hillary has made a gaffe. But those who think she'll quit do not have long memories. More

Fausta Wertz has the story via the BBC of the death of Manuel "Sureshot" Marulanda, military leader of the Colombian Communist rebel group FARC: More

Historian and author Sean Wilientz has written a piece at Huffington Post that is a must read whether you are a Democrat or Republican. More

Willie Randolph is the manager who guided a baseball team, just last fall, that had the greatest collapse in the history of the sport. More

The New York Times politics blog The Caucus has a great post tracing the history of Hillary Clinton's "assassination" gaffe and folding it into a narrative that shows Hillary's campaign on the ropes More

This election season would not be the first time that the media which shares the leftist views of a candidate has airbrushed his image and missed his considerable deficits. More

"Is Mr. Obama suffering from early onset Alzheimer's? Or is he just not as smart as he imagines himself to be?" More

Perhaps the junior senator from New York can learn something from the history of the Yankees when it comes to late finishes. More

Somehow this seems supremely symbolic to me: More

Hillary Clinton using the "A" word in any context whatsoever relating to Obama has most observers in agreement that any chance she would have had with Superdelegates vanished the second the words came out of her mouth. More

In a sign that President George Bush may not be much help to John McCain in his fundraising efforts, the campaign has cancelled a gala event at the Phoenix Convention Center due at least partially to a lack of ticket sales: More

Professor Barry Rubin of The Gloria Center wrote a superior piece today on what the Doha Accords - the agreement giving Hezb'allah virtual control of the Lebanese government - mean to the west. More

Poor methodology is the bane of pollsters. More

While many conservatives (like me) are excited at the prospect of Bobby Jindal appearing on the ticket with John McCain, back home in Louisiana all politics is still local. Governor Jindal has just began his first term as governor, with a massive reform agenda to implement, and many Louisianans do... More

The election is on the offense./ The fascination is awfully intense./ With rumor rife,/ Amid real strife,/ Implications it seems are immense. More

Doing his best Joan Rivers imitation, presidential wannabe Barack Obama says "Let's talk." Ok, let's take him up on that. More

To the Left, America is irredeemably racist, and those who want our border protected are xenophobes. The insanity of these claims is evidenced by what real racism and xenophobia look like. In black-led South Africa More

This is getting to be a disturbing pattern for Barack Obama. More

It's no accident that the military leaders of Burma have finally acceeded to the humanitarian cries of the world to allow aid workers into the country - three weeks after a devastating cyclone hit. More

A disturbing piece in today's FrontPage.com by Christopher Carson that traces the efforts of al-Qaeda to acquire a nuclear weapon to hit the United States: More

"Appears" to be in good health is a common trope in media coverage. I never had such a statement made to me by my doctor. More

General David Petreus, Commander of American forces in Iraq, said yesterday that he expects to bhe able to recommend additional troop cuts in Iraq by September: More

It is clear at this point that Barack Obama's soothing words of support for Israel have little to do with the actions taken by the candidate in the past. More

The absurdities of radical feminism are being relegated to the ash heap of history, and not a moment too soon. You can't fight human nature forever. More

Some readers may recall that the New York Sun had one supportive editorial many months ago regarding Senator Obama. Today's editorial takes a different view. More

As if to verify today's article by James Lewis on how Marxism hasn't gone away, Maxine Waters let slip in a hearing yesterday her wish to "socialize" the oil industry. More

A campaign stunt by Democrat Dan Seals, a candidate for the 10th district U.S. House seat in Illinois, seems to have backfired in a most predictable fashion. More

Michael Yon's new book Moment of Truth in Iraq is being kept out of distribution channels on military bases in most states. More

The price of oil is not a mystery borne of conspiracies, it's simple supply and demand. In the late 70's we were in the same situation we are in now. More

Lt. Col Jeffrey Chessani has been on trial on trumped-up charges in the so-called Haditha incident. Very good news for him today. More

A Bulgarian who uses the nom du sumo Kootooshu is within reach of becoming the first European tournament winner in the history of the ancient sport. More

Senator Chuck Schumer claims that coercing Saudi Arabia to increase oil production by 1 million barrels a day would drop the per barrel price by $25. That wasn't always his tune. More

"Count every vote" is a very familiar war cry among Democrats. That cry is set to be heard this Saturday in Washington, DC, when the Democratic National Committee Rules Committee meets More

Guess who is reported to be defaulting on a home loan? More

Deadly rockets launched by terrorists across the border crash three, four, five times daily; residents have a maximum of 15 seconds to dash for safety in southern Israel. More

Barack Obama has a growing number of positions on how to deal with Iran. More

One of the ongoing scandals of the Democratic Party is the mutual support between the Party and the tort lawyers. More

The socialist realism school of Obama posters (mimicking the personality cult art of Che/Mao/Lenin, among other communist icons) has hit the fashion racks at Urban Outfitters More

After dismissing concerns about Obama and Israel policy, Jewish advocates of Barack Obama's candidacy are starting to be openly concerned. More

Another credible source is suggesting the Bear Stearns blowout was in fact a bailout of JP Morgan Chase. More

A report from the Associated Press of Pakistan states that agreement has been reached between the Pakistan government and Taliban forces near the Swat Valley of the North West Frontier Province. More

Every since the 1930s, the urban and academic left has championed the miners of rural Kentucky to show their solidarity with the working class. More

The unnoticed decline of funding for crop research programs in the bloated agriculture bill will have serious consequences. More

Amir Tehari says Obama is already creating a terrible impact with regard to Iran's nuclear program More

Rick Klein of ABC news has done a superior job of tracing Barack Obama's lies about what he said regarding meeting with the Iranians "without preconditions." More

It was Hillary huge in Kentucky while Obama rolled up an impressive win in Oregon. More

Fathers and children lose big in the UK, as single mothers and lesbian couples score a political victory. More

One of the Big Lies of the movement to destroy Israel is the contention that there was a Palestinian nation before land was allegedly stolen from them. Now, it appears that NYT columnist Thomas Friedman is buying into the fraud. More

There are reports coming in from France that a French Court has overturned a libel verdict against Philippe Karsenty who has courageously challenged the veracity of French journalist's Charles Enderlin's filmed account of a battle that occurred in the Gaza Strip between Israeli troops and Palestinian terrorists. More

Former Moslem Army chaplain, Captain James J. Yee, formerly stationed at Gunatanamo has recently joined the ranks of Obama delegates More

In a telling article, a black leftist intellectual Ivy League professor, Adolph Reed Jr., writing in far left magazine, The Progressive, slams Obama and explains why he is unfit for the presidency. More

According to Japanese blogger Masahiro Miyazaki, who blogs under the name 'China Watcher,' there have been two recent terrorist bombings in China which took civilian lives. More

Very grim news from Qatar where Hezb'allah has gotten pretty much everything it wanted in an agreement with the government to defuse the crisis that nearly led to civil war in Lebanon. More

Iraqi soldiers, without American assistance, are about to take on the worst of the worst in Iraq; the Mahdi Army in their Sadr City stronghold: More

52 seconds showing why this man would be a disaster as president. More

Senator Ted Kennedy, a 40 year veteran in the senate, has been diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor. More

When reading the following in a recent Haaretz article, I wondered what to be most amazed at. More

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Around 9:00 PM Eastern time when Barack Obama faces the cameras in Iowa, he will probably declare that he now has enough pledged delegates to claim the nomination of the Democratic party: More

Blame is being slung around for the anticipated GOP slaughter in November. But not everyone is giving up. More

Bret Stephens warns against American Jewry spurning outreach by Barack Obama More

Virtually all of the elite higher education institutions in the United States have fallen into the hands of the left, but among them Columbia University may have fallen farthest More

Politico says the GOP is heading into the 2008 election without a single minority candidate with a plausible chance of winning. Macsmind reminds us that's not true. More

After a year of falling temperatures, global warming fanatics grow more desperate. More

Barack Obama needs to issue a rule book for exactly what criticism opponents are allowed to make. More

Within the space of a day, the candidate has changed his position. More

Tom Maguire teaches International Relations major Barack Obama some lessons like why size matters and what the phrase "only Nixon could go to China" means. More

In this article for the UK Telegraph, David Modell is concerned that a "radical" and "hard-line" religious group has set up shop in Great Britain. More

"How many scientists does it take to establish that a consensus does not exist on global warming?" More

If one had to name Barack Obama's chief accomplishments in public life, his two books would outweigh anything he has done in politics. More

LTC Joseph Myers is a man whose name ought to be on the lips of all who care about victory in the Global War on Terror. More

Via the excellent Q & O Blog comes more Obama lunacy - this time giving us a taste of what McQ calls "global class warfare:" More

This speech was a tremendous insult to the Saudis, in that it celebrated the anniversary of Israel's birth as though it were a great American holiday. More

Yesterday in front of 75,000 adoring fans, Obama really let his inner liberal take over and made one of the most outrageously stupid comment of the campaign to date. More

Horrific racial violence has immigrants seeking shelter. France? Arizona? Guess again. More

Barack Obama's connections once again present questions that the candidate has yet to answer sufficiently. More

Obama's whining is really getting to be annoying. The candidate takes any criticism levelled against him as unfair or dirty politics. More

In today's FrontPage.com, Joe Kaufman has an excellent piece detailing numerous violations by both local chapters and the national organization of CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations) of the tax code as it relates to political activities by non-profit groups. More

Clinton ahead big in Kentucky. Obama up in Oregon. More

People in high places seem to have a weakness for Barack Obama's friends Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn, as well as the candidate himself. More

What is it about Democrats that attracts them to retro-Communist posters? More

What if Barack Obama was making a promise when he spoke of 57 states? More

Have enough people in your group, and you earn a parade in New York City. More

Some grim words from Michael Totten on Lebanon. More

Or perhaps he thinks the country is bigger than it is. After all, just the other day he said there were 57 states More

It will be hard for Speaker Nancy Pelosi to go back to her Democratic colleagues and keep declaiming on the House floor about how the surge isn't working in Iraq now that she has been there and seen for herself. More

The Obama campaign protests too much about emails that are far from anonymous. More

Who is Robert L. Gibbs and what does he know about cowboys anyway? Gibbs is the communications director for Barack Obama. During the 2004 campaign he was John Kerry's press secretary, until fired. More

Something very scary happened in Holland last week. More

How on earth did Barack Obama merit the kind of treatment he got from the publishing world when he was still a law student? More

Barack Obama's very ambitious plan and it's not free health care as some believe. He plans to lower costs by spending more. More

In the media focus on the Great Satan (America) and the Lesser Satan (Israel), we often overlook the jihadist terror directed at India. More

Too bad Barack Obama does nto know the diplomatic history of the 1960s. He drew the wrong conclusion trying to rebut Presdient Bush. More

The Lion of the Senate suffering from "stroke like" symptoms. More

Certain dogs are not barking when it comes to the question of Barack Obama as apostate Muslim. More

What is the latest addition to the list of maladies supposedly on the rise thanks to supposed global warming? We bet you can't guess. More

From our "This must be a joke because it's too ridiculous to be true" files comes the news that the UN is going to send an investigator from its Human Rights Commission to investigate racism in America: More

Every High Priest needs a priestess to assist him in changing the world. More

"Political Dynamite" in the hands of the McCain campaign. More

Mark Twain resolved much uncertainty when he declared that "when in doubt, speak truth." Yet he offered no similarly authoritative advice on what to say when not in doubt More

Remember that old bromide "If life hands you lemons, make lemonade"? Double amputee sprinter Oscar Pistorius improved on this. More

What the "outraged" Democrats and mainstream media are completely ignoring in Bush's "appeasement" words used in yesterday's Knesset speech is that they addressed concerns originally raised by Ariel Sharon. More

We have been delighted with the quality of comments our readers are posting. Unfortunately, a glitch this morning prevented comments from being available on our blog pposts. The problem has now been corrected. More

Michelle Cottle's TNR piece exposes the campaign and the candidate in not very flattering terms. More

Barack Obama was asked about the statement he released regarding the situation in Lebanon in an interview with the Times David Brooks.  More

The politically correct Left has declared yet more of our natural language off limits to all except themselves. More

Yesterday's ruling by the California Supreme Court that lifts the ban on gay marraige in that state - a ban approved by 60 of voters in a referendum - will no doubt revive the same issues that were fought over in the 2004 election. More

Sweetheart deals with state pension boards for one of his best fundraisers? Welcome to the "new" new politics. More

Was President Bush launching an attack on Barack Obama. Or, was it a trap into which Obama, and other Democrat politicians, stepped? More

Just who was the target of President Bush's "appeaser" comments yesterday. More

Obama called a reporter sweetie. Gasp. Welcome to another national conversation. More

Here's the key to the California same-sex marriage decision: "Although all parties in this proceeding agree that the right to marry constitutes a fundamental right protected by the state Constitution...." More

What do Americans think about demands for Sharia courts, or Muslim taxi drivers who refuse to carry dogs or passengers carrying alcohol? A new poll has some answers. More

Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano decided this week to pull the funding designated by the State's legislature to Sheriff Joe Arpaio's illegal immigration task force. More

McCain is behaving like a wild mustang, untamed and unbridled, which gives support to his claim of maverick status. More

Not that I want to bring any attention to that loser on MSNBC, but the comments made recently by Keith Olbermann on his "Countdown" show should be addressed More

The claims for injuries allegedly caused by the painkiller Vioxx have seemed rather dubious to me. It always felt like another example of justice run amok More

The Obama campaign seems to know they have a problem -- their man is perceived as soft on terrorists, and way too accommodating to the world's worst thug regimes. More

What kind of political change is a major European energy company waiting for to avoid the issue of sanctions on Iran? More

Demcorats have done it to Bush enough times, I guess turnabout is fair play. More

Barack Obama could move to a position of being against our current race based affirmative action program, and support replacing it with a class-based affirmative action program. This would only make matters worse. More

That may be the death toll from the natural disaster but no one knows what the toll will be as a result of the Myanmar Junta not allowing foreign aid workers to help them assess damage and figure out how to feed, bring water, and give shelter to around 1.5 million people: More

The promise of free government health care from Obama and Hillary is a tempting proposal. But before we jump on board let's take a look at how our cousins across the pond are doing. More

This letter from Senator McCain to Senator Obama in 2006 is an historical reminder for past tension between the two men. More

How important is it when a hostile country attacks a small country with rockets as a US president visits? More

Beginning today, readers of American Thinker are enabled to submit comments for publication on our article and blog pages. More

In a move climate realists have dreaded for months, the polar bear was listed as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act yesterday More

McCain shows every sign of being able to stay with Barack Obama in the polls despite horrid prospects for Republicans in general in November. More

Joel Mowbray looks at a hack job on Pastor Hagee by Frank Rich and finds much to criticize. More

I don't think Hillary Clinton is too disappointed. More

Sweetness & Light notices what appears to be same p.o.c. appearing behind Hillary Clinton at the podium addressing campaign rallies in three states More

The government is reporting that 40,000 people are dead, missing, or still buried under rubble as a result of the earthquake that struck central China last week: More

Nothing about John McCain made me angrier than his recent statements about climate change. But he's a politician and I'm not. More

Housing foreclosures are up 65% compared to last year indicating that the housing slowdown and credit crunch show no signs of abating: More

Barack Obama is developing a credibility problem. Even with some members of the MSM. More

Not only was it not even close, Hillary Clinton's landslide over Obama by a 67-26 margin was a shocking rejection of the probable nominee More

Democrat Travis Childers won a solid victory over Republican Greg Davis in Mississippi's 1st Congressional district More

The carbon "cap and trade" policies advocated by Al Gore and John McCain are an immoral solution to a non-existent problem. More

I have to respond to the article from Mr Meyer regarding his support of biofuels. Mr Meyer neglects to mention a few things about biofuels. More

Aussie Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has announced he may take Iran's President Ahmadinejad to court in the Hague. More

She may be less known than Oskar Schindler, but Rena Sendler, who died two days ago at the age on 98, was at least his equal in saving would-be victims from the Holocaust. More

It appears that some Palestinians in Gaza share American Thinker's skepticism over Barack Obama's devotion to the cause of Israel. More

It is one of the most remarkable stories of the 20th century - a tale whose ending has yet to be written but continues to fascinate and enthrall More

Barack Obama may try to win over white working class voters by turning against race-based affirmative action programs in favor of class-based AA. More

According to India Abroad, a series of 6 bombs went off in the city of Jaipur killing 15 and injuring scores:Police sources said that 15 persons perished in the attack that triggered a stampede in the affected areas in the walled city which are frequented by foreign tourists. Six women were among... More

Kudos to Tom Blumer of BizzyBlog for obtaining and posting no less than three covers of Jeremiah Wright's Trumpet Magazine featuring Barack Obama as the cover subject, with photos. More

While oil and gasoline prices continue to rise, the rhetoric and actions of Democrats in Congress seem destined to push those costs even higher, contrary to the Dems' promise to voters. More

The tragedy in central China continues to grow as rescuers have given up hope of finding anyone else alive and continue to uncover more bodies: More

The crisis in Lebanon as seen by two of the most knowledgable experts on that part of the world; Prof. Barry Rubin and Dr. Walid Phares. More

With all polls showing her comfortably ahead, the only questions remaining in the West Virginia primary contest is how big will Hillary Clinton's victory be and will it change anything at all in the Democratic race for the presidency? More

Senator Obama's newest Middle East Advisor Daniel Kurtzer has recently telegraphed that an Obama Administration will place the fate of Jerusalem as part of the peace process that a future Obama Administration will push. More

A Saudi national identified by US intelligence as the "20th hijacker" involved in the 9/11 plot has had those charges against him dropped "without prejudice:" More

the New York Times and the rest of the drive-by press had determined in late March and early April that Basra was yet another Iraqi and U.S. failure. But it was the predictions which were failures. More

The candidate who says he understands the world better than Senator McCain or Senator Clinton needs a history lesson. More

Miley Cyrus has taken a lot of heat for her revealing photo. Perhaps the blame is misplaced. More

Barack Obama wants to talk away some serious doubts the pro-Israel community has about the candidate's support of a strong U.S.-Israel relationship. More

Here we have the man himself using the middle name that no evil conservative may speak: More

Obama's mask slips even further: More

Islam is a religion one can embrace but never leave. If one is born to a Muslim father, or becomes a Muslim by conversion, forced or otherwise, one is a Muslim for life More

It just doesn't get any more blatantly biased than this More

It won't make any difference but it will expose the future nominee's weakness. More

Business Week joins the New York Times in sneaking Bush-bashing into articles on unrelated topics: More

Question: How much do you think the average voter knows about Obama's ties to Machine politics in Chicago? More

Is he the GOP's worst nightmare? More

A leading foe of the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste disposal facility in Nevada has left a peculiarly-worded request for the disposal of his earthly remains. More

New Scientist, which revealed last year that obesity causes global warming, now tells us that global warming will make days longer More

in the end, many analysts say he will have no choice but to take her on as a running mate - especially if she plays her cards right. More

Hezb'allah makes an emphatic point about who is in control in Lebanon. More

Will someone, anyone, please do Jimmy Carter a favor and tell him to just shut up? More

A 7.8 magnitude earthquake rocked central China killing at least 5,000 and injuring another 10,000: More

A highly respected institution in the days when I was at college, Columbia University has fallen mightily. More

No longer must we conceal our allegiance to the collective. On this glorious anniversary, Comrade Chomsky reminds us of how far we've come these past forty years. More

The Obama campaign is lying, and the New York Times is helping advance the lie. Despite having earlier published documentation proving the lie. More

In his May 8th column, Dick Morris, who knows the Clintons well, has put forth reasons as to why Hillary won't quit the race. But he missed the most important one. More

Barack Obama talks the talk when addressing union audiences, hitting the notes they want to hear about NAFTA and the job losses he and they attribute to lowering trade barriers. But when it comes to supporting domestic industries, he tells American workers to take a walk More

The New York Times carries water again for Barack Obama, portraying him a s bridge-builder who brings together different groups More

For the third time I have gotten the same email from Rabbi Wolf supporting his neighbor Barack Obama. More

Imagine a concept for the perfect "green", safe, sustainable, zero-emissions, invisible (literally) energy technology with potential for limitless power. More

AT re-publishes a tribute to one mom, and to all moms this Mother's Day. More

Apparently Obama plans to annex 7 new states. So this is the change he's been talking about. More

In my effort to soak a penny or two out of Al Gore's "we can save the planet" Global Warming/Climate Change publicity machine, I clicked on a banner ad at a website I frequently visit. More

Our former president Jimmy Carter placed himself back in the news this week by authoring an article in the Guardian. More

Today's article on smoking restrictions and the "wellness" movement makes no mention of a politically incorrect truth: some people smoke because they find net positive benefits in it. More

For the last few months I have been wondering why Obama backer Martin Peretz of the New Republic would be addressing the mortgage meltdown crisis in America with particular attention and ire focused on one company, MBIA. More

A Chicago pol's wife gets a 200 grand salary bump (almost tripling her compensation) and a year later hubby seeks to channel a million bucks to the wife's employer. Good old time Chicago poltics, right? More

Amil Imani, AT contributor and activist in the cause of freedom for Iran, remembers a time when those who ruled Persia were wise and benevolent: More

Yet another advisor has been dumped overboard by the Obama campaign when embarrassing information has come to public notice. More

The arrival of excellent works in audio format is a cause for celebration for multi-taskers like me. More

NOAA's National Climate Data Center is reporting that March 2008 Southern Hemisphere sea ice extent was much above the 1979-2000 mean. More

Answering Kyle-Anne Shriver on her Hillary Clinton article yesterday. More

Barack Obama could lead America into disaster as president if he misunderstands history this badly. More

When Maine officials tried to warn residents of the dangers of this winter's near-record snowpack, Big Media slanted the story, hampering efforts to warn folks of the danger. More

During yesterday's installment of his Hillary Must Go Show, Chris Matthews smugly suggested that white people are just itching for any excuse not to vote for Barack Obama. More

It's a provocative question isn't it? Some might say we shouldn't even be discussing it. More

Whatever else one may think of his politics, only seriously deranged people fail to credit John McCain with heroism. Now we know more about his record. More

Two decades after the end of his presidency, some of the smarter intellectuals are starting to realize the greatness of Ronald Reagan. More

As the Clinton campaign ramps up for the battle in West Virginia it is amusing to see the chagrined liberal media questioning why. More

As the over 5000 year-old nation of Israel celebrates its 60th anniversary in its contemporary manifestation Israeli commentator Uri Orbach composed a not so tongue in cheek prayer More

AT editor Thomas Lifson will appear on the KSFO Morning Show with Lee Rodgers today at 7 AM PDT. More

An important debate is underway over the role of states in Islamic terror. More

While up to 100,000 rotting corpses pile up in Myanmar, western governments are begging the government to allow the massive relief supplies that are stockpiled in next door Thailand to be given to people More

Roger Simon of Politico sums up Hillary Clinton's strategy from here on out: More

In what is mostly good news for Republicans, a new Gallup poll shows support for Barack Obama very similar to what John Kerry experienced in 2004: More

Victor Davis Hanson asks the question why Republicans are depressed going into the 2008 campaign. More

Why May 20th? That's the day that Politico's David Kuhn is saying Barack Obama will declare himself the nominee of the Democratic party for president. More

Lebanon may be farther away from civil war than it appears. But Hezb'allah is taking a huge gamble by initiating open hostilities with the government that the violence will not get out of control and result in chaos. More

A wicked but accurate description of what is going on these days in academia is on offer from K.C. Johnson, who covered the Duke larosse scandal. More

Not very likely - especially since one of the jokes making the internet rounds is Obama better employ a food taster if he picks Hillary for Veep. More

McCain needs a Veep candidate with star quality. That's inherently unlikely for any president-sized ego. Nobody wants to be played off stage. But McCain will need somebody with voter sex appeal More

Iranian President Ahmadinejad calls for Israel to be wiped off the map and talks of the Jewish people's annihilation. America should send a message to the Iranian dictator More

Should the U.S. taxpayer pay for an organization whose school headmaster is a rocket maker for the Islamic Jihad? More

A poet's look at this website. More

AT news editor Ed Lasky will join Peter Kaliner tonight on WBT radio in Charlotte, North Carolina to discuss Barack Obama's database as a political tool useful in persuading superdelegates to support him. More

The well documented post world war white flight from America's cities seeking the greener spaces of the suburbs to raise their ever contracting families has been gradually subsiding in the last 5 to 10 years More

John Podhoretz has some sage advice for those of us certain that the voters will never elect such a far left candidate with no real resume and a cast of unsavory associates More

Via the Jeruselem Post comes the disturbing assessment by Israeli intelligence that Iran will be able to begin enriching uranium on a "military scale" by next year: More

Thomas Defrank of the New York Daily News nails the reason that Hillary is still in the race; the discomfort - whether racially motivated or otherwise - with Obama by white, working class males: More

New Gingrich sent a letter to his former colleagues in the House on Monday that said in no uncertain terms that unless the party is willing to embrace change, sharpen its message, and unite, the Democrats will sweep the table this fall: More

She is the biggest loose cannon in either campaign. She's got a chip on her shoulder the size of a redwood and an overweening sense of entitlement that makes her one of the more unattractive advocates for Barack Obama - despite the fact that she's his wife. More

The city council of Vallejo, California voted last night to declare bankruptcy. Will the state of California follow? It may be far-fetched now, but thinking the unthinkable occasionally has value. More

The race was fundamentally altered last night. More

Despite a large field of presidential cadidates initially, the Democrats never had anything better than a Hobson's Choice. To wit: which lousy horse do you want ride? More

Taru Taylor's piece today is a completely false analogy. Obama and Wright are two sides of the same coin, whereas Washington and DuBois were on entirely different coins in manifestly different currencies. More

Al Gore shamelessly portrayed Saturday's Myanmar cyclone catastrophe as a 'consequence' of global warming. His timing is terrible. More

Watching the coverage of the Indiana primary tonight, everyone is wondering why the votes from Lake County, where Gary is located, are delayed. A cynic might assume... More

Does it really matter which it is? Either way we don't feel like we are the biggest kid on the block anymore. It's not that we grew smaller it's that the other kids got bigger. More

Laurie Mylroie and Andrew McCarthy have been involved in a dispute centered on his book, Willful Blindness. More

Yesterday we saw the first round of donations sent by mail to our fundraiser. Many readers sent thoughtful notes, expressing their appreciation for American Thinker. More

Obama will win by a bigger percentage margin in North Carolina than Clinton will in Indiana. His campaign will spin this as a big victory. More

The European left hates Israel. Fortunately, newly elected Italian president Silvio Berlusconi is not afraid to stand up to them More

It will get little press because it goes against the narrative of the United States being a heartless, imperial power bent on world domination. More

One thing that Republicans have always disliked about John McCain is that, well, he rarely acts like a Republican. More

Why do we refer to Americans who maintain their traditional beliefs in God and country as Mainstream Americans while at the same time using the same adjective to describe the liberal American media? More

With residents of North Carolina and Indiana heading to the polls today, most voter surveys disagree on how close - nor not - today's primaries will be. More

Why is Barack Obama so comfortable with so many Marxists? The question has long intrigued me. More

One of the top ten conservative political talk shows on Blog Talk Radio. More

Citing the "indiscriminate bombardment of Iraqi residential areas by the U.S. occupying forces," Iran has suspended talks with the United States on helping with the security situation in Iraq: More

I don't pretend to fully understand the workings of the government's big housing lenders Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. But when many experts start to worry about their future solvency, I find that extremely troubling: More

60 Minutes reported on the tragic injustice perpetrated in Dallas on James Woodard, who was recently proved innocent by DNA evidence for a crime for which he was convicted and imprisoned for 27 years. More

Barack Obama wants to go easy on Iran and its nuclear program, and does not like Hillary Clinton's strident rhetoric on the subject More

The Brevard County Commissioners and several of Florida's congressional representatives recently met to discuss the end of the Shuttle program and the impact NASA's uncertain future may have More

AT news editor Ed Lasky will be a guest on WGN radio in Chicago tonight, from 9-11 PM CDT, on the Milt Rosenberg Show. More

A huge thank-you to the hundreds of readers who have already contributed to our first-ever fundraiser. Your donations have enabled us to begin implementing the first project on our agenda More

An attack using the party's Rules Committee may be in the offing if Clinton keeps winning. More

Anatole Kaletsky of the Times of London heralds a recession in predictions of a recession in the US economy. More

Polling may not appear to be relaible at times but it is, in fact, a science using both statistical analysis and social science to try and determine what the electorate is thinking at any given moment. More

The Lebanese terrorist group Hezb'allah is training Iraqi militia members in Tehran according to American sources in Iraq. More

Does the consitutional law lecturer and Harvard Law graduate (let alone President of the Harvard Law Review) know that the Constituiton states that the President has the duty "to take care that the laws be faithfully executed"? More

Presidential candidates make all sorts of deals to get coveted endorsements More

Perhaps the press could have begun to scrutinize Obama before he became the prohibitive favorite to win the nomination. More

We are finally getting some of the real facts about Barack Obama, and the American people can be depended upon to draw the right conclusions. More

In what must be a sign of the coming Apocalypse, the public editors of both PBS (Michael Getler) and the New York Times (Clark Hoyt) issued rather scathing reviews of their respective coverage of Reverend Jeremiah Wright and Barack Obama. More

The death throes of the daily newspaper industry continue in an entirely predictable manner More

I'm not so sure [as Joseph Myers] that this change in lexicon constitutes a collapse of strategy. More

"He seemingly appeared out of nowhere, inspired awe with the intensity of his talent, blazed through a single term in the Senate, then disappeared from the radar almost entirely." More

Just in case you missed it - and if you blinked, you did More

At least some of the Muslim advisors consulted by Homeland Security dispute the new lexicon adopted avoiding the terms "jihad", "jihadist", and "mujahedeen" to describe Islamic terrorists. More

That seems to tbe the thrust of the theory being put forward that the increase in fatal shark attacks is a direct result of climate change: More

It began on a Sunday morning, April 20, when, as is our usual habit, my wife and I settled back in bed to read the Sunday New York Times which had been delivered to our door. More

It's Sunday and time for the longed for iChat. Something always fouls it up, but we all love it just the same. More

Is the NATO alliance falling apart? More

Frank Rich on the New York Times attempts to link John McCain to Pastor John Hagee, as a means of lessening the impact of Jeremiah Wright's hatred of America on the Obama campaign More

I hate pledge drives. The reason is simple More

Time Magazine makes an absurd charge of racism. More

The filly Eight bells, enthusiastically backed by Hillary Clinton, came in second in the Kentucky Derby. More

Rasmussen's daily survey out today shows an amazing split between Democrats for Obama and Democrats for Clinton with regard to the Reverend Wright controversy. More

Tony Rezko may try to cut a deal with prosecutors in his ongoing corruption trial. This could spell trouble for Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich and possibly even Barack Obama More

WFLD television, the Fox affiliate in Chicago, has posted a new tool for those who simply can't get enough news. Live feeds from dozens of television news sources are presented More

Hillary-Obama and Russert-Stephanopolous - a dilemma for political junkies tomorrow morning. More

Hillary Clinton is desperate for delegates. But does she have to abase herself and the Democratic party so shamelessly? More

As a CPA I find the Franken tax situation an amusing lesson. More

Day three of our fundraising appeal and we have been overwhelmed by the support we have received from our readers and our friends on the internet. More

The "Mr. Wizard" of politics, Michael Barone, weighs in with some devastating news for Obama regarding his belated denunciation of his former pastor. More

The UK Times reports that a major upset appears to be underway in today's mayoral election in London. Will mayor Red Ken" Livingstone be seeking other employment? Perhaps something in Venezuela? More

Former Clinton era Trade Representative and political wiz Mickey Kantor is in trouble. We think. More

Certainly one of the primary considerations for Superdelegates as they ponder the choice between Hillary and Obama has to be the mood and attitude of Black voters More

Where do you suppose Jeremiah Wright got the idea that US government intentionally crerated the AIDS virus to wipe out blacks? More

Congressional ethanol mandates have had dire unintended consequences. here are lessons for health care and pharmaceuticals. More

Guess who counseled Obama and Wright after the National Press Club speech Monday? More

Congress has been looking at the incredible growth in college endowments, an event that seems to have resulted in several institutions loosening the purse strings on tuition aid, among other things More

Alleged comedian and failed talk show host Al Franken hoped to move back to Minnesota and grab himself a seat in the Senate. Thanks to a local blogger, that probably won't happen More

Pity poor Markos Moulitsas, founder of the Daily Kos empire and liberal blogdoms most celebrated and recognizable face. More

Associate Editor Rick Moran will make an hour long appearance on The Kathleen Dunne Show on Wisconsin Public Radio More

Defying expectations of big job losses, the just-released April jobs report from the Department of Labor shows that only 20,000 jobs were lost last month More

A conservative student group has swept to power in the student government at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. More

What do you suppose would happen if a women's group allied with Hillary decided to suppress the Black vote in North Carolina and got caught in the act? More

Day two of our fundraising appeal to American Thinker readers and I have some thoughts on why it is important that you give generously. More

Is it just my imagination or is the global warming theory starting to unravel? More

At Michelle Obama's suggestion, Tom Maguire leaves the Wright story and moves on to Obama's track record on education More

You can expect more of this as the health nazis gain more and more power. More

Did a divorce spark the takeover of the only (former) royal palace in the United States? And you thought the House of Windsor's marital troubles were wacky? More

Some of these Clinton-era Obama supporters better hope that Hillary doesn't get to the White House More

John McCain may not be the candidate to light up conservative hearts, but he has been a consistent foe of pork barrel spending. But he sometimes makes a mistake. More

A couple of new polls out show Barack Obama's once considerable lead in North Carolina melting away. More

Why did American Thinker choose May 1st, the intrenational socialist holiday, to ask for funds? More

Welcome news from a troubled part of the world. More

Is it possible that the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, despicable hate-mongering racist that he is, may be the one who emerges from this campaign conflict with his integrity intact? More

David Bernstein of the Volokh Conspiracy caught the implications buried in Jimmy Carter's interview on Charlie Rose. More

Ego preservation pales when compared to Rev. Wright's real purpose in speaking out and embarrassing Obama. More